When Li Chao received the edict to rename the King of Zhao, he had already arrived in Jiaozhou.

The Hong River was called Xidao River at this time, and the Zhoucheng of Jiaozhou was located in the northwest of the Hong River Delta. The Hong River slowly flowed through the edge of the city.

This is also the largest inland port in Jiaozhou. Whether from the south to the north, or from the mainland to the coast, it is a must-pass place, and its geographical location is very important.

It is close to the ocean, with a pleasant climate, all seasons like spring, abundant rainfall, prosperous flowers and trees, and blooming flowers. It is known as the Spring City of Flowers.

Emperor Wu of Han established Jiaozhi County, and Jiaozhou City was included. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Song Ping County was established here, which was governed by Changguo County. During the Sui Dynasty, it was changed to Song Ping County and became the capital of Jiaozhi County.

The Tang Dynasty was reorganized into Jiaozhou and its capital was moved to Songping County. A few years ago, Li Chao joined forces with many noble families in the court to come to Jiaozhou and develop here.

Songping City has also become an emerging river port city. After several expansions, the scale has increased a lot, also known as Zicheng. The Red River Delta where Jiaozhou is located has the most fertile fields, making it a rich granary. Guangnan Province, centered on Jiaozhou, has produced a lot of grain and sugar in recent years, and the shipyards and wood here are also very famous.

Many big families such as the Li family have already made a lot of money in Jiaozhou, and Jiaozhou sugar is even more famous all over the world and has become a top-quality product in domestic sales and maritime trade.

In the last agreement, Li Chengqian represented the royal family and obtained the Beihai Port next to Qinzhou, and another port, namely Haifang Port at the Honghekou. This important port at the mouth of the Honghekou was named Haimen Port by Chengqian. It can be foreseeable that this port will be very prosperous.

Haimen Port and Jiaozhou Port, a seaport and a river port, will inevitably complement each other.

The most common things in Jiaozhou city are sugar and rice, followed by wood. Most of the merchants here come to buy sugar and rice, or they buy wood. There are also sugar and rice streets here, and the ones sold are sugar and rice.

Li Chao and Chengqian stroll on the streets of Zicheng.

Chengqian was surprised to find that there were merchants speaking Chinese everywhere, and even those shops and even the vendors on the street were speaking Chinese. This place was even more like the Central Plains than many places in Lingnan.

"Jiaozhou is a large inland port with abundant resources here. The imperial court still has strong control over it. It was similar to Guangzhou in the past. Especially in recent years, a large number of Central Plains merchants have come to grow grain and sugarcane, set up sugar shops, and the rise of sea trade has also made Jiaozhou even more lively."

Many places in Jiaozhou are similar to Guangzhou. Guangzhou has the Pearl River Delta and Jiaozhou has the Red River Delta. They all have vast alluvial plains and the benefits of rivers and seas, giving these two places excellent room for development.

Even during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Southern Dynasties never gave up on this extremely distant piece of Jiaozhou. The food in Jiaozhou has always been very important.

Now, this place has become the largest sugar production and sugar trading place in the Tang Dynasty, and it has also become the largest seaport in the south of the Tang Dynasty.

"Sugar has become the largest industry in Jiaozhou and a local pillar industry."

Cheng Qian was surprised, "Can sugar be so big?"

"Your Highness, don't underestimate sugar. The sugar industry is profitable. The demand for sugar in the Central Plains is increasing day by day, especially for high-end sugars such as rock sugar and white sugar. The demand for milk candies and fructose we produce increases every year. In addition, sugar has become an important hot-selling product in our exported products. Like porcelain and silk, white sugar and black tea are currently our flagship export products."

These are monopoly commodities and there is no outside.

The Indians can only refine yellow sugar. In the past, they have already shamelessly claimed to be white sugar. I don’t know how many Persians and Romans have cheated money. When Li Chao’s rock sugar and white sugar appeared in the Persian Gulf, they were immediately amazed by them as rock sugar and frosting sugar. No one cares about the white sugar of the Indians. Now even the Indians are rushing to buy rock sugar and frosting sugar from the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, sugar production is not difficult, so you can plant sugar cane and then refine and decolorize. But sometimes, some not-so-difficult processes, as long as they are kept confidential, others will never break the layer of paper.

The climate in Jiaozhou is very suitable for growing sugar cane, and the sugar cane here is also very high in sugar content. Li Chao also changed many traditional sugar-pressing techniques and invented many new sugar-making machines, which increased the juice rate. The sugar production is greatly increased, and the most important thing is the decolorization technology. Once brown sugar is decolorized, it becomes white sugar, and its value immediately surges.

The refining of sugar into rock sugar also adds a lot of value. The processing of sugar and milk into milk candy, and the processing of fruit into fructose and other new products is extremely profitable.

Guangnan is now full of sugarcane plantations and sugar pressing workshops everywhere. Whenever the sugar harvest season comes, countless ships from Jiaozhou River Port come in and out, transporting a load of sugar. Then countless sugar merchants arrive to purchase sugar.

The Li family’s sugar factory in Jiaozhou City also processes the purchased sugar day and night.

In the entire sugar industry, the Li family controls the most critical sugar processing and wholesale. Other sugarcane planting, sugar extraction, transportation, distribution, etc. have been given to others, and countless people are sharing the rich benefits brought by the sugar industry.

"Sugar and tea also have a complementary effect. In the past, we exported tea, but the sales volume was not large. It was mainly because the French were not used to our tea, and only a few people liked the tea cakes in the past. Later, we had fried tea, and the French liked our black tea the most."

Black tea is fermented tea. This kind of tea does not have the bitterness of green tea and has a more mellow taste, which is more in line with their taste. When the Tang Dynasty sugar was transported to the West in large quantities, black tea and white sugar became their favorite. This strange taste was not passed down by the Tang Dynasty.

But in Thai, it is very popular. They even add some milk in addition to black tea and sugar.

Therefore, the milk candy launched by Li Ji has also been unanimously loved by them. The favorite thing for those Persian and Roman nobles is to make a cup of black tea from the Tang Dynasty and then add a piece of milk candy. This is a very tasteful and extremely pretentious style.

"Drink black tea, sugar and milk?" Cheng Qian couldn't help but shivered when he thought of the scene. He couldn't help but think of some people who like to drink glutinous tea, the old-fashioned way to drink glutinous tea. He made a small piece of glutinous tea, crushed it into powder, then fry it, and added salt and ginger and other seasonings.

He didn't want to try that kind of tea drinking method after drinking it twice. He didn't expect that those Westerners have a more unique taste.

"In addition to sugar, Jiaozhou also produces extremely abundant grains. In particular, in recent years, a large number of Central Plains people have come to build plantations, introduce new technologies, and promote new agricultural tools, which has greatly increased the grain output of this rich plain. Nowadays, a large amount of grain is transported to Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, and even Dengzhou every year."

In addition to Tang and Mi, there were many Han people here. Especially in Zicheng, the streets were full of Han people who spoke Chinese, so many of them thought they were in an inland city in the Central Plains.

"Actually, there are indeed many Han people here, but not all Han people, and there are many Jiaozhi people. However, these people are more powerful in the Chinese world. If you only look at their appearance and their words, you can't tell them at all."

After walking around the street, the two of them returned home.

They are temporarily living in the Li family's manor. Although this is the first time Li Chao has come to Jiaozhou, the Li family has already purchased many industries here and has a huge manor covering a wide area.

"King Yue, an envoy from Hanjing arrived and brought His Majesty's edict."

Set up incense tables and welcome the imperial edict.

The person who came to pass the order was an official who Li Chao didn't know and was very polite to Li Chao.

After the edict was read, the official handed over the edict to Li Chao, smiling and congratulating, "Congratulations to King Zhao for his promotion!"

King Yue and King Zhao are both princes, but according to the current system, the kings and titles are of course in order of high and low order. Qin, Jin, Qi and Chu are the best among all kings, followed by Zhou, Lu, Zhao and Wei.

Li Chao was originally the King of Yue, but now he has been renamed King of Zhao. This is actually a number of names that have been promoted in sequence.

Before Li Chao was named King of Yue, he was named Prince Zhao, and then further forward was Duke Zhao. Now he was replaced by King of Yue, and not only was he ranked in the front row, but he also regained the title of Zhao before.

However, Li Chao did not respond much to his re-entitlement to King Zhao. What was surprised was King Jin Li Zhi.

In history, Li Zhi was the ninth son of the emperor, but before that, Li Shimin accepted the princess of Qi, Yang, into the palace. Yang gave birth to Li Ming a few years in advance, and Li Ming became the ninth son of the emperor. Then the Hanjing Rebellion was killed again. After the Hanjing Rebellion, King Tai of Wei changed the title of King of Jin.

Li Chao originally thought that Li Zhi should be gone in this time and space.

Unexpectedly, Empress Changsun gave birth to the third son, although she gave birth to Li Zhi three years earlier than in history. At this time, Li Zhi was no longer ninth, but thirteenth.

But even so, Li Shimin actually gave him the nickname of Zhinu, named him Li Zhi, and also named Li Zhi the title of King of Jin.

What does this mean?

Li Chao was even a little confused.

Is this something destined by God in the dark?

Now that Li Zhi appears again, he has become King of Jin again. Could it be that Li Zhi can still become emperor in history?

This is impossible and should not be.

No, it's not back to the historical trajectory.

At least, there is no King of Zhao Li Chao in history, and Li Tai in history has not been named King of Qin. Cheng Qian in history is not the smart and precocious prince now.

So is there something wrong with this world or is it just a coincidence?

"King Zhao?" The man called Li Chao in a daze and called him.

Li Chao came to his senses.

"Thank you, Mr. Wang." Li Chao smiled at him, and the Li family came over there to send a thank-you gift.

Cheng Qian also came over to congratulate Li Chao, "Congratulations to the teacher!"

King Zhao Li Chao, Li Chao just smiled. His ban state has not yet been defeated, and he has changed from Yue to Zhao. The Zhao State located west of Jiaozhou feels a little strange.

"It seems that Your Majesty really likes His Highness's Thirteenth Brother. He was named King of Jin just after he was born for a month."

The general practice of the royal family is to have to wait until the prince is at least three years old before he can get a title. However, when Li Zhi was just one month old, Li Shimin was awarded the title of Prince, and in one step, he was directly awarded the title of Prince.
Chapter completed!