To make rock sugar gourd, if there is no rock sugar, use sucrose, sucrose is processed by Li De's orders, and there is no one on the market, and the snow-white blue pond is boiled with water in the pot.

When the syrup has small bubbles, Li De turns the skewered hawthorn in the pot, so that the syrup is in full contact with the hawthorn on the bamboo skewer, and then quickly takes it out and pats it directly on the clean wooden board next to it.

He skewered one skewer after another, and in a few moments, dozens of skewers of sugar gourds were made.

"Let's try it, sugar gourd, sweet and sour, but you can't eat too much." Li De instructed.

Who cares how much they can eat if they have food, and directly ignored Li De's words.

"It tastes good, I'm going to give some to my father." Pei Qingxuan said.

"I'll take some for my father and mother." Princess Lanling meant to send it to Li De's parents.

"Husband, I'm doing more, I'm just going to see the people." Li Xiuning continued.

Li De could only work as a small worker, and most of the hawthorn prepared at home was used up at once, and hundreds of strings of sugar gourds were made.

These ladies of the Li family gave Tang neglect to many people to taste, Lanling sent some to the lord of Yujun, and Zhang Chuchen sent some to Li Jing, which was instructed by Li De, in fact, not only Li Jing but also other lieutenants had a share.

Hundreds of strings of Tang ignored Li De's novices, even if he made too many simple things, he would be tired, and now he didn't want to see sugar gourds again.

However, the next day, a large group of people all came to the Governor's Mansion, all wanting to continue tasting the sugar gourd.

Li De had to teach everyone how to make it, so he didn't bother to do it.

In this way, a group of military generals came to be interested, and there was nothing to do in winter, so they began to make sugar gourds with iron pots on the stove in the house.

Their actions caused the price of hawthorn in Youzhou to rise again and again, and the cane sugar did not go to the governor's mansion to ask for sugar.

Seeing this, Wei Li directly took the sugar gourd to open a shop, and there were many people who bought it, and there were merchants who wanted to buy a batch of sugar gourds and sell them back.

Surprisingly, business did just that.

The commercial houses of Weili have opened sugar gourd shops to make sugar gourds for sale, and the shelf life of sugar gourds in winter is also very long, and merchants in nearby state capitals have worked tirelessly to take these goods away for sale.

These things are not small profits and quick turnover, they are all affordable for the rich, and the scarcity is expensive, this is the market situation, and the merchants will transport these sugar gourds back to the rich and sell them to the rich people, making several times the money.

Even in the middle of winter, merchants were willing to endure the cold for business.

The sugar gourd business operated by Weili's commercial house is selling well, and the price of hawthorn in the sixteen states of the thistle has risen continuously, if Li De hadn't ordered to reserve some earlier, I'm afraid this business would really not be able to do it.

Sugar gourd is sweet and sour is delicious, but it is not suitable for eating more, and eating too much hawthorn will lead to malnutrition, so even if the people of the Li family decide to eat it, it is restricted.

What's more, most of the sugar gourds were sold, and the Weili business made money, and the Li family made money from cane sugar and some hawthorn.

In this winter, the sugar gourd business directly drove the cane sugar business.

How could Li De miss such a lucrative business, the prices of sugar and salt are very expensive, and the snow-white cane sugar does not even have the palace food bureau, so the business of sucrose is unique.

Now the fine salt still comes from the salt mines in the suburbs of Chang'an, and the transportation is very secret, and the large amount of fine salt stored by the Li family is for the vanguard, and the annual account income is not much.

Because Li De did not intend to make a profit by selling salt to the vanguard, let alone doing so, the current fine salt reserves are not too much, and they cannot be sold in the market.

Once the news of fine salt is known, it will definitely attract a flock of merchants, and the price will definitely rise again and again.

In this way, Li De can't guarantee that there will be no one who uses his power for personal gain, the vanguard is now 300,000 people, and it is still very easy for people with a heart to want to operate super, and it is impossible to prevent it.

The situation with cane sugar is the same, the business is good, but once it is really done, the situation may be different, but Li De, as the governor in charge of the sixteen states of Youji, already has the strength, and as long as he doesn't want to do the sugar business, no one can distribute the profits from it.

Li De had already answered that after the beginning of spring, he would expand the workshop to make cane sugar, and the materials needed would have to be provided in the south, and a large number of horse-drawn carriages would be needed at that time.

"Husband, Wei Li is here again." Pei Qingxuan found Li De in the study and said.

"It's because of the sugar again?" Li De asked.

Pei Qingxuan nodded and continued: "There is not much sugar in the Governor's Mansion in reserve, and according to the procurement method of the Governor of Wei, it is estimated that it will be emptied in less than half a month. ”

Li De can understand that sucrose is now indispensable in the Li family's diet, just like his mother has to drink a bowl of sugar water every day.

When making braised pork, it is also essential to put cane sugar, as well as to make pastries, and even the gynecology clinic in Lanling has sugar water in the diet of women who have just given birth.

Li De wants to sell more, but the problem is that there are not many of them, and the sugar gourd business done by Wei Li can also earn him a lot of money, which can be directly used to subsidize the expenses of the gynecological clinic, which can be regarded as the pressure of the city lord's mansion.

"I'll take a look."

After Li De finished speaking, he went directly to the combat conference room, where the captains usually came to look for him.

"Weili, the recent Tang neglect has sold very well, let's buy cane sugar again today, but you have to take it leisurely, the reserve of cane sugar is limited, and you may not have so much next time, you have to be mentally prepared." Li Dedao.

"I understand, when I go back, the price of this batch will be raised." Wei Li said with a smile.

The more Li De looked at him, the more he had the potential to be a profiteer, and that smile was exactly what a businessman looked like, so there was no need to argue, as a lieutenant, he really couldn't do this.

For business, in the eyes of others, how much you can't think about it will do business, but on the other hand, Wei Li really likes to do these things.

"I'll take the cane sugar back this time, and the price will double again." Wei Li said.

What else could Li De say, he regarded himself as a businessman's lieutenant, and he was a little puzzled if he didn't necessarily let Wei Li do these things in the first place.

Now that Wei Li is really invested, he shows that he looks like a general who leads troops to fight, and he is full of mercenary faces.

"You can do it yourself." Li De said lightly.

After loading the cane sugar into the car and letting Wei Li take it away, it has been explained that the next supply of cane sugar will be reduced to eighty percent, and it may take another half a month and the sugar gourd will not be able to be produced.

Wei Li knew very well, but he didn't mind, all he wanted was to maximize the benefits of the sugar gourd and earn more money for the vanguard.

After a few days, the price of sugar gourd increased again and again, and the unlucky merchants felt a lot of pressure, and the price rose several times, even so, there were still merchants who made purchases, but the number was reduced by half.