Sure enough, she is a smart woman, Ye Kai praised in his heart, what is with the righteous army, only Ye Kai's foresight, what is grateful for Ye Kai's great kindness, this is all nonsense!

If these people of the Li family can really control the orphans of the righteous army, why should they be climbed on the head by Li Yuncai, a domestic slave!

This is just Li and Wei pulling the tiger skin and pulling the banner, there are only two sentences that are really useful in her words, one is to let Li Ashui worship Ye Kai as a master, and the other is that she herself wants to serve by Ye Kai's side, and makes a middle bridge for Ye Kai's control and the orphans of the rebels.

At the same time, the master-apprentice relationship at this time is not the relationship between teachers and students in later generations, and the master-apprentice relationship at this time is similar to the relationship between father and son.

The so-called master is half a father, especially for a young child like Li Ashui who has a dead father, worshipping a master is almost the same as finding a stepfather.

If Ye Kai agrees, Li Ashui will be guaranteed in the future, because the rebel army is armed by Li Cai no matter what, although Ruan Fuying gave them to Ye Kai, they are only Ye Kai's subordinates, not Ye Kai's slaves, according to the law Ruan Fuying is their real lord.

Therefore, Li Youwei did not dare to guarantee that Ye Kai would not look at Li Ashui unpleasantly in the future, or felt that Li Ashui would affect his control and the orphans of the righteous army, so he secretly acted on it.

This very smart woman understands very well how much the temptation of thousands of Chinese women is for the Nanyang family like the Ye family, no matter what aspect it is, the Ye Hou Ye in front of him has every motive to pinch the orphans of the righteous army in his own hands.

And wanting to follow Ye Kai's side is a wonderful move that Li Youwei thinks of for herself, not to mention that Ye Hou Ye is young, he still has such power, he is definitely a very suitable golden thigh, and he is her most ideal refuge object!

"Master Hou can't look down on me? Although Li Yuncai dared to bully the main crime, he didn't dare to touch me, and if the Hou Ye needed to arrange these thousands of people properly, the little woman could still help a little! Li Youwei couldn't help but be a little anxious when they saw that Ye Kai hadn't said anything.

Ye Kai pondered for a moment, he really needed someone who could help him firmly control the orphans of the Righteous Army.

Because most of the orphans of the rebels were women, it was inconvenient for him to be a man to control it personally, and even if he wanted to go in person, there was always a layer apart.

Therefore, it is necessary to have a female helper, and this helper must have a certain prestige among the orphans of the rebels, and Li Youwei is the only choice.

And Ye Kai observed it, this woman's eyes looked at herself, like a little milk dog who had not grown up looking at the eyes of her owner, a little scared, but more eager to try, Ye Kai touched his wrist, thought about it, there was no other way, just take this woman with him!

The reason why he attaches so much importance to these orphans is because Ye Kai is ready to use his first golden finger on these people, or he needs these people to help him keep the secret of this golden finger, which is the decolorization method of white sugar and rock sugar.

Sugar is said to be the most pleasant taste, compared to the Chinese, European white skin can not resist the temptation of sweetness, later generations of foreign desserts that are so sweet that people doubt life, is the evidence.

It is said that in addition to the gold and silver of the New World, a large part of the Spanish Empire was used to buy sugar.

At the end of the eighteenth century, all sugars came from sugar cane, and although sugar beets were discovered by the Germans more than forty years ago, they were still being artificially selected.

The world's first sugar beet mill will not appear in Germany until almost 30 years later, and it will take half a century or more for large-scale operation.

Brazil, once a major sugar producer, has switched to coffee and mining due to a severe lack of labor, while Europe's local sugar industry is basically none, because there are not many places in Europe where sugar cane can be grown, and they have to wait until the beet sugar production process is mature before they can start making their own sugar and sell it back to China.

The development of sugar in China has gone through several stages, and the most important thing in sugarcane sugar production is purification, and the Chinese initially used the expensive egg white purification method.

Because this thing is too expensive and time-consuming, and later invented the yellow mud decolorization sugar method, which is to use special yellow mud to achieve the purpose of decolorization, this method is relatively simple and cheap, and has become the mainstream method of sugar production.

But it also has a lot of drawbacks, that is, although the sugar produced is already called white sugar, the color is still light brown, and the color and taste are still far from real white sugar.

The golden finger that Ye Kai is going to open now is the sulfurous acid sugar method that has been used in later generations, which is simply to heat sulfur into sulfur dioxide, and then let sulfur dioxide be integrated into water to decolorize sucrose, and finally supplemented with lime for the final step of clarification.

This kind of sugar production method that is still commonly used in later generations can quickly obtain high-quality white sugar, its color is much lower than the white sugar made by decolorization of yellow mud, the color is much lower, the sugar content is higher, and the sugar is more, once it is launched, it can definitely beat all the sucrose producers in the world.

And its disadvantages, such as the large sulfur content in sugar is not good for the body, the production requires a lot of labor and high labor costs, and the need to manually heat sulfur has a certain risk, etc., in this era, it is not a thing.

Ye Kai now does not lack manpower, the cheapest is also manpower, and the orphans of the rebel army are thousands, just give three full meals and a beggar-like salary, he still has more than 2,000 Thai slaves, and even the wages can be waived!

As for the sulfur content of this kind of soil method, which is not good for the body, it is not a problem, and who cares about whether it is harmful to the body if you can't eat enough!

In this era, the smoke rushing to the sky, the pollution all over the ground, the sewage all over the river, inhaling is the periodic table, that is the sign of real strength, only industrialized strong countries, can be fortunate to be polluted, agricultural countries don't even think about it.

Therefore, Ye Kai can foresee that the white sugar he makes with soil sulfurous acid will definitely be the best-selling product in the world, and it will definitely become a steady source of wealth for him, so the production method must be kept secret in a small area, at least for about fifteen to twenty years.

In this way, the group of people he can rely on has become smaller, at least for the time being, the Ye family is absolutely not able to rely on, the Ye family has a big business, and with his consistent performance before, there must not be many people in the clan who obey him, and there must be a lot of people who want to betray him in exchange for some benefits!

Needless to say, there must be a lot of spies sent by Rama I, so he can completely control it, and he can also endure this hardship, only these thousands and orphans of the rebels!

"Get up!" After figuring it out, Ye Kai personally walked over and pulled Old Man Li and Li Ashui up, "I'm just a shallow learner, I'm afraid I can't be your teacher." ”

Yes! Li and Wei, who got up happily, were dumbfounded, she saw Ye Kai come over in person to pull Li Ashui up, thinking that she had agreed, but Ye Kai actually said so.

Ye Kai smiled, "If you want to worship, you can simply worship me as your father-in-law!" Master, I can find you a lot in the future, but there is only one father-in-law, Li Ashui, are you willing? ”

Li Ashui's eyes lit up at once, and he immediately knelt down with a puff, "Child Li Ashui, I've seen my father!" ”

The smile on Ye Kai's face also became stronger, as Li Ashui's father-in-law, he had a better grasp of the legal principles of the orphans of the righteous army.

"Ah Shui, your father is also a hero on the sea, my father-in-law will revolt for you today, I hope you can revive your father's ambition!

Since you are Ah Shui's aunt, you are also my sister Ye, so follow me in the future! ”

Li Youwei also nodded happily, and her eyes flashed brightly!