The emperor is gone, Yanan's two princes are also gone, and Yannan City is back to tranquility.

The long-lost tranquility allows Gao Li to temporarily disconnect from all potential threats and concentrate on the next business arrangements.

Sugarcane can already be harvested, and the harvested sugarcane is processed into a variety of sweets, which will greatly enrich the diet of the broad masses of the people. For this kind of sugar, Gao Li did not plan to set a very expensive price, but the early production was limited and the price was high, once Yanan followed up and started large-scale planting, the output would immediately increase a lot. When the time comes, the price of sugary foods will quickly drop to a point where the average person can afford it.

Sweets should not and cannot be reserved for the rich. So after converting various costs, Gao Li initially set the price of sugar at a slightly cheaper price than honey. Once sugar enters the stage of mass production, industrial mass production will quickly replace honey, making white sugar the only source of sugar in the world.

Until then. Yannan City, which monopolizes the entire sugar industry, will become the sugar capital of the world!

In order for that moment to come, Gao Li needed the rapid popularization of sugar, a food, so that everyone knew that there was a more convenient and easier source of solid sweets in this world than honey!

It is roughly estimated that there are about 3,000 acres of land outside Yannan City, except for 1,000 acres used to grow grain, the fields outside Yannan City are basically planted with sugarcane by Gaoli. The yield of sugarcane per mu is about six tons, and one ton of sugarcane is larger than 120 kilograms of raw sugar, and after being processed into white sugar, it is larger than 100 kilograms left. Two thousand acres of land can provide Gaoli with more than 100 tons of sugar reserves.

It sounds like a lot, but once it's shipped around the world, there's not much left. No, not to mention the rest of the world, this mere 100 tons is not enough for a Pingyang city to eat.

Back then, Gao Li listened to his friends in the gym talk about the dangers of sugar, saying that the world's per capita sugar consumption can reach 25 kilograms, which is quite scary. Sugar, a cheap and delicious food, can be added to everything you eat every day, inadvertently consuming too much sugar.

The population of Binh Duong is less than one million, of which the main consumer group of sugar accounts for one-third, and if 100 tons of sugar are distributed to these 300,000 people, the average person can only get six yuan, which is enough to show the huge gap in sugar.

Once a person's sweet tooth habit is formed, it is difficult to quit, especially once the cheap sweetener of white sugar enters the market, it will trigger a large-scale rush to buy in a short period of time.

Therefore, from the very beginning, Gao Li did not plan to put all the white sugar on the market.

Gao Li planned to put his soda on the market, but he didn't just say it to the emperor, but he really planned to do it.

Soda bottles will use glass bottles, and Lizhuang's glass development has been close to perfection, but at this time, because there is not much market support, it can only be purchased in-house. With a classic and uncopyrighted cinched bottle and a latex gasket cap, this otherworldly version of Coke was born.

If you have sugar, you can caramel, and if you have caramel, you can get an attractive reddish-brown caramel water. Part caramel and part brown sugar are compounded into sugar water, plus black dates, cloves, ginger, angelica, and sand kernels, this simplest ingredient can immediately make the charming Laoshan cola flavor in memory. Now, of course, its name is Yannan Cola.

According to the results of internal tests, this kind of Yannan cola covers the crowd from the elderly to the children, and everyone has said that they are refreshed and comfortable after drinking, especially after drinking a sip of soda, how to exhale a breath elegantly, and even become the content of people's competition.

With a mass base, Gao Li will naturally not let go of this means of making money. According to Gaoli's drawings, the Lizhuang plant produces and processes equipment for filling cola, which will be distributed to bars where they use fresh dry ice to make carbonated drinks.

And all these actions were actually prepared long before the emperor came to Yannan City. At that time, the only thing that Gao Li lacked was sugar.

But now, with a large amount of sugar in reserve, Gao Li's plan can also be put into practice.

The coke syrup will be delivered from here to Binh Duong City, and from Binh Duong City to flagship stores around the country. The concentration of these stock sugars is so high that it is impossible to breed bacteria, and any bacteria that fall into them will die of dehydration due to the extremely high osmotic pressure difference, so there is no need to worry about spoilage. When the syrup arrives at the flagship store, the staff can mix water and dry ice according to the recipe given by Gao Li, and press the cap with a machine to make a perfect bottle of Yannan Cola.

As for the fact that no one will buy this thing, Gao Li doesn't have to worry at all, this time the ministers who followed the emperor to the meeting have already expressed their praise for the soda, and at that time they were only drinking sugar soda. Now, with the launch of Coke, no one can refuse the demand for this drink.

In order to popularize the market, Gao Li priced soda very cheaply, and the price of a bottle of soda was only 100 yuan. Of course, this price is still a lot more expensive than wine, but after all, this thing tastes better than wine.

However, if you want to take the bottle with you, then you need to deposit a hundred taels of silver, which is the price of the soda bottle, and return it with the cap and bottle, and return you one hundred taels.

With Gao Li's arrangement, the first batch of Yannan Coke was soon sold at the Lizhuang flagship store in Pingyang City. There is no need to advertise, just give a few bottles to the rich people who come here to consume, and let these rich ladies and wives drink soda from the crystal clear glass bottle with wheat straw in an elegant posture in front of people.

It only took one day for everyone in the entire Binh Duong City to know about this thing. At the beginning, the public's opinion of this thing scoffed - produced by Li Zhuang, it must be a high-quality product, you can only look at it, and you can't afford it.

And it's just this one day, everyone in the entire Pingyang City knows that this thing is very likely to be the only Li Zhuang goods they can afford to sell in their lives!

What does it mean to have a bottle of 100 wen? In Pingyang City, a craftsman earns 300 wen a day, which means that his income in a day can buy three bottles!

What are you waiting for!Buy it!

As a result, the influx of customers instantly surrounded the entire flagship store, and the store staff had to use a fence to make customers queue. And the people in the back of the shop are desperately trying to make new sodas.

Desperately making money from the rich is a means, and making small profits but selling quickly is also a means. Gao Li can set a frighteningly high price for chocolate and make it exclusive to the rich. But Coke is not good, the so-called fat house happy water, if everyone wants to be happy together, it is the real happiness.

Such a scene began to be replicated continuously, and every big city, every Lizhuang flagship store, was happening. No one knows how this thing is made, but everyone knows that this drink with gas in it can bring them happiness!

Of course, these are all later words, after Gao Li sent the emperor away, there was a big event waiting for him.

In Pingyang City, those fields in Gaoli have entered the harvest period.

Li Zhuang, who has already achieved mechanized production, naturally has to carry out mechanized harvesting without exception, and Gao Li is always paying attention to the process of mechanization, because mechanization is his primary productive force, and it is also the key to his long-term development.

The large-scale use of tractors has increased the efficiency hundreds or thousands of times, and a simple combine harvester can harvest a tractor's grain after just one trip. Immediately, a second tractor followed.

At this moment, the harvest scene of Li Zhuang has also become a tourist project, and many people in Pingyang City come to watch these big iron guys harvest the fields in a terrifying way every day.

Many people are greedy and are about to cry.

Gao Li's own Zhuangzi, plus the emperor's reward for the imperial village, made Gao Li an undoubted landowner. The use of mechanization has allowed the boar demons to contract more plots of land and turn all of what was once wasteland into arable land. Excellent irrigation methods make the fields no longer dependent on the weather for food, and excellent urban sewer pipe design also makes farm fertilizer the key to the fertility of the land.

All of this added up to a bumper harvest for Lizhuang, and several Zhuangzi's granaries were filled for the first time, and more grain was constantly being delivered!

And at this time, some businessmen from the surrounding counties went to Lizhuang to discuss the purchase of grain.

This sounds a bit incredible, because the surrounding counties are all grain-producing counties, and there is no disaster this year, so why is there a shortage of grain? As a result, when I inquired, I found out that those peasant households had actually grown cotton! Everyone thought that it was not a big deal for me to grow cotton myself, and that other people would grow grain anyway. As a result, everyone thought so, and in the end, it led to a shortage of food in those counties!

In this era of no land planning, this is how food shortages are caused.

Li Zhuang quickly sent a message, asking Gao Li whether he would sell it or not? The prices offered by the grain merchants in those county towns were already much higher than the market price.

Gao Li asked Nonoka to quickly calculate the grain that Li Zhuang needed to reserve, and then waved his hand: "Sell, must sell." In addition to reservations, we sell as much as they want. ”

Soon, Li Zhuang wrote back, asking Gao Li if he didn't want to transport some of this grain to Yannan? After all, Yannan is a city that is highly dependent on imports for grain.

Gao Li's answer was, of course, no. Yannan is backed by Yanan, which has a very high grain output and cheap grain prices. At this time, the economic relations between the two sides are closely dependent, and they naturally do not dare to arbitrarily adjust grain prices. Moreover, transporting grain from Pingyang to Yannan is far away from the mountains and roads, which is very uneconomical.

And selling Lizhuang grain, you can make money, and you can sell personal favors, why not?

The most important thing is to give them a reassurance, you can rest assured that you can produce cotton, and I will do the food thing!

Therefore, Gao Li decisively decided to sell!