People don't lack food at all.
Using more land to grow sugarcane will not shake the fundamentals.
So what if we waver?
They were just lowly commoners; their deaths were no big deal.
However, powerful families were able to amass enormous wealth as a result.
The wealthy and powerful naturally preferred to produce sugar.
However, the Prince of Yue's palace did not allow it and issued a decree to strictly enforce the imperial court's ban on sugar.
Soldiers were also dispatched to patrol the area, and any cases of seizing farmland or planting sugarcane on a large scale would be severely punished.
The Yue King's Mansion directly raided a powerful clan that had disregarded the ban and was producing sugar recklessly. This act of killing one to scare the others successfully deterred the powerful clans who thought they had "reconciled" with the Yue King's Mansion by building a new city.
It wasn't until they saw that the powerful clan had been ruined and its members killed that the other powerful clans finally woke up to the truth.
They have not reconciled with the Yue King's Palace!
King Yue was not like Cui Boyong; he was not easily fooled!
Moreover, apart from the matter of building the new city, they never had another opportunity to "cooperate" with the Yue King's Mansion.
Even if they wanted to continue currying favor, they had no way to do so.
Just then, the Yue King's Palace sent an invitation.
"No matter what Princess Xie auctions this time, even if it's just a pebble, our Chen family will spare no expense to buy it!"
Chen Guang stared intently into Huang's eyes, explaining each word slowly and deliberately.
"Husband, this, this—" Huang Shi was reluctant to part with it.
Isn't this blatant extortion?
"What do you mean, 'what'? Let me tell you, we'll just consider this a New Year's gift for the Prince of Yue's residence!"
Chen Guang was more than willing to spend money to buy peace of mind!
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