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12. Cantonese Cane Sugar Pills

In the Pupu area of ​​Zhangzhou, there were tens of thousands of people from Baishuilang who came to work in the local area and Quanzhou. They were tied with red foreheads and beat drums like thunder. They began to circumnavigate the Five-Tooth Tower Boat where Gao Yue was, cheering at it.

They were originally marginal people in Fujian, and because of the narrow area and limited arable land, they could only make a living at sea. Most of the officials in the past discriminated against them, almost regarded them as inferior people, sometimes as pirates, and only allowed them to live on the ship. Thanks to the previous observation that Zheng Yu was able to ease his scrupulous land, Gao Yue now agreed to incorporate them, and everyone was excited.

On the ship of the Five Teeth Building, Gao Yue lived there, raised the Yunfu Sword and shouted at them: "From now on, you will no longer be Baishuilang, but Baishui Army... Yangzhou and Chuzhou each set up a district for you to wait for the garrison. When the imperial court recruits, you must all move forward with all your loyalty."

The Baishuimen all bowed to Gao Yue on their own boats, and then shouted in unison:

“To the boundless sea east,

Ten thousand acres of fields come from the west.

Songshan sand pathways,

The purple purple comes out of it!”

There are more than 300 grass-skimmed boats in Baishuilang and the yacht. Most of their boats are narrow and long, tall and steep, and can be rolled up, and everyone paddled. In this way, they can be used to go up and down with oars against the wind, which can be said to be free to advance and retreat, just like a cavalry in the sea.

From Quanzhou to Guangzhou, it is a thousand miles away.

Gao Yue asked Zhang Xi and Bai Liangqi to make a marching plan. The final route was to first go from Quanzhou to Chaozhou, and then jump from Chaozhou to Haifeng. Then, he took advantage of the rising tide of Lingdingyang (now the Pearl River Estuary) to enter Panyu City and meet Du You.

When he arrived in Chaozhou, Gao Yue saw the huge sea crocodile floating on the bay on the deck, and couldn't help but sigh, "People say that Chaozhou has two harms, one is miasma, and the other is crocodile. Now it is in late autumn, and miasma is flat, but crocodile is still arrogant."

Bai Liangqi said to Gao Yue: "I am in Jiangdong and I have heard that the crocodile in Chaozhou is powerful. An adult man was bitten by it and his body broke in a moment. Therefore, smaller fishing boats or rafts dare not go to sea at all."

"Shoot with a musket to disperse me to strengthen the army's might and eliminate hatred." Gao Yue was about to find the bad luck of the crocodile, so he waved and shouted.

On the Haihu warship, soldiers of the Zhenhai Army set up divine thunder guns, and bamboo windows were extended from the muzzle. The bullets hit the sea water surface and stirred up water columns. Many huge crocodiles were hit, and blood was seeping out of the sea water. They struggled to swim up the shore. Some of them were ignorant and attacked the sea hover in anger. As a result, the soldiers were condemned by the high spear and stabbed to death with a long spear. They dragged the white-bellied corpse with a radius hook and cut off the waves.

When the people and soldiers of Chaozhou City saw this scene, they all cheered and worshiped Duke Wei like a god.

Gao Yue asked the craftsmen in the boat to peel off the skin of the crocodile's corpse and use it to make armor. The bloody body was hanging on the bow of the 5th floor of the boat. The crocodiles all avoided retreating along the way, and the fleet continued to advance.

After arriving in Haifeng for mooring and rest, the fleet set off again and began to enter the Lingding Ocean.

On the east side of the ocean, there is a long island. Looking from afar, Gao Yue knew that this was the place where the hongkong of later generations was located, and further north was a circle drawn by the old man Tianzun.

In the vast Lingding Ocean, the fleet began to turn, and finally at the foot of Hutou Mountain in Dongguan County, which is not far from Panyu City, where Guangzhou Prefecture is located. Gao Yue and the three yamen, the staff climbed Hutou Mountain and looked east. They saw that there were sugarcane fields, and there were also houses of the evil cage services that were scattered in the middle of the evil cage (mostly Qiang people, Li people, and Li Liao) in the area, and the forests further away, as well as fireworks for deforestation and destruction. "Who thought that this place would have been the entertainment capital of the whole world more than a thousand years later?" Gao Yue couldn't help but fall into the myth of history.

In the end, the entire fleet was moored under Lantai in Xinnan City, Panyu. Du You came to welcome him and invited Duke Wei to enter the military mansion.

The Wuyi Army, Zhenhai Army, and Baishui Army all stayed in Liutun camp outside the Xicheng Moat, and inside was Fanbaofang in Guangzhou. There were many Hu merchants in it, with high noses and deep eyes, which made the soldiers very curious.

Du You was very generous and had nothing to say about the reinforcements. Not only did they have rice and fruit wine, but they also gave each reinforcement a specialty banana cloth and two sugar pills.

Wu Yi soldiers like sugar pills the most. They all say that after eating, they will get half a fight and they will become energetic.

"Zhi Niang, is it really so effective?" Ming Huaiyi didn't believe it, so he ate it. After eating, he shouted that he was so refreshed and said that he was like a spring rushing around his body. He had the strength to ride a horse with a long spear and break through the enemy's formation three times. It would be a waste of my journey of three thousand miles to come here.

The military officer of Guangzhou Prefecture smiled and said to Ming Huaiyi, even in Chang'an, he had to take a fifth-rank nobleman to eat it. However, when you go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, Du Gong will supply two before the battle.

Ming Huaiyi was greedy and asked my father when he could let us eat these sweet and delicious pills in Huaiyang?

The military officer replied that as long as Pingman succeeds, the sucrose in Lingnan can be sold in northern China, and there will definitely be ones sold in Yangzhou.

In the main hall of the military palace, Du You was attentive to entertain Gao Yue at the banquet, "The wine dish in Lingnan is unique." Gao Yue exclaimed and played with the colorful wine glasses in his hand.

In fact, he knew, but he was still waiting for the owner to know it well.

Sure enough, Du You introduced with smugness: "This is the 材lin cup sold by the Great Shi Kingdom from the west of the Juediterranean region, also called the Yaoyu Cup."

Gao Yue thought that our Chinese name sounds nice, and Yulin and Yaoyu are much more stylish than any glass.

In fact, in addition to porcelain, I can also make glass in Huainan... He can also make it by myself in Guangzhou.

However, in order to make Yangzhou's first-mover advantage, Gao Yue praised the fine wine at the dinner. "I have long heard that the Boluo Gui Wine in Lingnan has become famous!" As he said that, he filled the unique osmanthus wine in Lingnan with a cup of 未分类, which was as gentle as jade. After drinking it, he left a fragrance on his lips and teeth, and the deliciousness was transcendent.

Then several servants presented several Shouyang bowls.

The inside is full of roasted sea red crabs, and also "瓣田", which is the shuttle crab.

"Dad, what is this?" Ming Huaiyi, who accompanied him to the banquet, asked.

Gao Yue said this is a crab, and you have few people in the north.

Then Gao Yue gracefully used various silver utensils on the table to analyze the crab strips in strands and peel them off. Sure enough, the crabs were yellow and red, like the egg yolk of chickens and ducks, while the crabs were white and tender like pig paste. Gao Yue used silver chopsticks to pick them out and eat them all, then sucked the crab claws, and then ate the shells and ate the meat.

Cai Fengyuan, Ming Huaiyi, Guo Zaizhen and others who accompanied him had never eaten this food like this. Seeing Duke Wei's demeanor, he was so envious that he imitated him to eat crabs. As a result, he was so anxious that Ming Huaiyi's face turned red in the end, and he started to chew on his crooked mouth. His teeth and crab shells made the servants and singers laughed secretly during the meal.

"Duke Wei, this is our famous dish in Cantonese, "selling wicks." As Du You spoke, the servants carried a big pot and placed it in the middle of the banquet. When they opened the cover of the pot, the snow-white mist came out with a fragrance, but when Gao Yue looked at the pot, he couldn't help but feel frightened.
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