There are all kinds of workshops on both sides of the Yu River, and all kinds of fruit trees are within a hundred meters of the river. Now is the season when oranges are ripe, and there are so many fruits on the trees that they need a tripod made of bamboo poles to support the branches.

If they didn't know that this was the steward's territory and the rules were strict, these Tibetans would even have wanted to snatch the fruits. The three fruits each person got after dinner last night were not enough at all.

Many Tibetans have never eaten anything so sweet in their lives.

A little further away are various terraced fields that follow the terrain. Now is the sugarcane harvest season. The sugarcanes are cut one by one, and the big ones are picked out, tied into neat small bundles, loaded onto ships and shipped down the river to be sold in major cities.

Small-rooted sugarcane would be placed on a wheelbarrow and transported to the nearest sugar factory to be squeezed into syrup and then boiled into brown sugar. When the Tibetans passed by the sugar factory, they could smell the sweet aroma. Mm, it smelled very fragrant.

Every time they passed by a sugar factory, the Tibetans would sniff hard. Even though they couldn't eat it, it was good to smell the fragrance.

The sugarcane output is huge, so basically a sugar factory must be built within a radius of five miles.

Oranges are much more expensive, about one penny for two to one jin. The kind you ate yesterday was one penny for one jin, the inferior ones were two pennies for three jin, and the small ones were one penny for two jin."

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The commanders even said in a pretentious tone: "This is not good. It's a bit embarrassing to eat and drink for free here."

After all, the bulk of the profits earned from these businesses went into Li Zhi's inner treasury. Without the cooperation of imperial power, the so-called boycott would have no effect at all.

After all, these 100,000 troops went to Chang'an just to set up camp, and there was nothing urgent. In this case, it didn't matter where they were stationed, and it would be fine to stay in Yuzhou for a month.

Li Jingye thought about it and said, "Yes, if that's the case, then you can go to the farms to help out. If you help out, not only will you have a place to eat and the horses will have food, but you can also earn some money for yourself.

The Tubo leader, with a bloody mouth, asked in confusion: "Is that so? But sugarcane peel does have some sugar water."

Li Jingye thought for a moment and said, "It depends on what you do, but at least thirty or fifty wen is always available. If you do heavy work in a sugar factory, for example, if you are diligent enough, it is not uncommon to earn seventy or eighty wen a day."

After listening to Li Jingye's explanation, the Tibetan leaders looked at each other in surprise. Someone murmured, "So the wages here are so high, but the goods are so cheap? Then the people living here must be very comfortable, right? It's worthy of being the place of the chief steward."

It is naturally impossible to make a bridge with four lanes like a road, so Wang Zheng had to think of many ways to make two lanes.

"Sugarcane is sold at the sugar factory for 10 catties for 1 penny. The kind you eat is at most 5 catties for 1 penny. If it's a little worse, you can buy 6 or 7 catties for 1 penny. Well, the piece of sugarcane you eat today is 1 catty.

At this time, not only were there many ships in the Yushui River, but even the four-lane road along the river was busy with traffic. That would have been fine, but the key point is that Yuzhou has many hills and streams, and bridges need to be built from time to time.

The Tubo leader then asked, "How much is a pound of sugar cane and oranges? The kind we have eaten these two days."

Now was the busiest time on the Yu Shui front. Li Jingye and the Tibetan army had just arrived at Yu Shui when they could no longer move.

The wages in Yushui are the highest in the whole Tang Dynasty. Every year, there are always many outsiders who come here in droves to find work. If they work for two or three months around the end of the year, it will be enough to cover their expenses for the whole year. "

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As a result, people have to queue up to cross the bridge. If the Tibetan army is allowed to pass through, the traffic will be completely paralyzed.

Fortunately, Yuzhou is full of hills and countless streams. After building dams in the deep mountains and valleys, water was released at the same time to drive the sugar factory's waterwheels and stone rollers for pressing, turning so much sugarcane into brown sugar. Otherwise, even if the sugarcane was grown, pressing it would be a hassle.

The output of Yuzhou is very abundant. With the help of advanced farming methods and various equipment, the price is relatively low. Transportation relies on the Yangtze River. Going upstream can reach Yizhou, and going downstream can reach most parts of the Tang Dynasty through the canal.

The Tibetan leader, with a bloody mouth, retorted: "Today I saw a Ba man sitting on the side of the road eating sugar cane. He was chewing the sugar cane skin. Wasting is not a good habit."

But even so, these Tibetans were still reluctant to throw away sugarcane. After all, all sweet things were once a luxury for them.

The Tibetans didn't care. They had no worries about food and drink here, and they had sweets every day. They just wanted to stay and were happy to do so.

After discussing with the local farm manager, Li Jingye decided to let the army stop and wait. After all, it would take too much time for an army of 100,000 to travel hundreds of miles.

The Tubo commander thought for a moment and asked, "How much does it cost to do a day's work?"

Li Jingye's mouth twitched as he watched, and he said to a Tibetan commander with a bloody mouth beside him, "You don't need to chew the sugarcane skin after tearing it off, just throw it away. The sugarcane flesh inside is more juicy."

Li Jingye sighed and explained, "He must have taken a big bite when tearing the sugarcane skin, and brought down a little more sugarcane flesh, so he just chewed it a little."

So over the years, the products of Yu Shui have been sold all over the world. In the beginning, the wealthy and powerful families resisted a little, but the power of capital lies in the fact that the more you resist, the higher the price will be. As long as it is profitable, it is impossible to resist.

After dinner today, each person was given a piece of sugarcane. The green-skinned sugarcane was not very hard, but the Tibetans still had blisters in their mouths after eating it, and many of them even had bloody cuts on their lips.

Some people even asked Li Jingye directly: "Why don't we just stay here?"

"I don't want to go to Chang'an either."

"Yes, let's stay here and work as a helper. Maybe we can live a better life than before. On the way, I saw those Ba people. Both adults and children are strong. Some of them are so strong that they can hardly walk."

Most of those fat guys actually come from ordinary families, at least they are not rich people in Yu Shui. The reason they have so much weight is that they ate too much meat when pork was cheap in the past.

Some people lost weight, but some people's physique changed and they continued to gain weight.