A few days later, Xiao Moke chose an auspicious day and held a recognition ceremony for Xiao Yao, but there was no extravagance, only a few tables were set up at home, and some family relatives were invited to witness.

Xiao Moke didn't want to publicize it, but Chen Shuling took the lead in sending a lot of congratulatory gifts, which caused the officials in the Xingwang camp to also give gifts.

Since Xiao Yao lived in Xiao's house, he was taken out by Xiao Wuhua every day for various reasons, going to buy rouge today, buying gouache tomorrow, all of which were girl's things, and going to shop all day, making Xiao Yao fall apart every time he came home.

On this day, Xiao Wuhua dragged Xiao Yao out again, saying that he was going to buy a new dress and prepare to attend a girlfriend's banquet. I'll chase it and go home when it's dark! Then he turned and ran.

Xiao Wuhua, who reacted, saw Xiao Yao, who had already run away without a trace, and was so angry that he stomped his feet and scolded: "Little pervert, stinky pervert, you look good when you come back!" ”

It was also a while when he came to Jinling, and Xiao Yao had long been familiar with the environment here, so he went straight to the outside of the city, because the general sugar mill was built here.

Xiao Yao uses waterway transportation outside the city to facilitate the transportation of raw materials; The proximity to the river facilitates the construction of hydro-powered vehicles; It is easy to expand the scale after the area is vast; The sparse population and the ease of preventing people from stealing the secret recipe for sugar production persuaded Chen Shuling to agree to build such an important sugar mill outside the city.

Then Xiao Yao used the name of protecting the sugar mill to ask Chen Shuling to use his connections to get Jinling Jing Zhaoyin to agree that in addition to the workers, the general sugar mill could also garrison hundreds of nursing thugs.

In fact, these hundreds of nursing homes are all the elite of the original Jiangzhou defenders who were transferred by Xiao Yao from Jiangzhou and have received lofty military training and Xiao Yao's brainwashing.

In less than a month, the general outline of the general sugar mill has been erected, a large chimney three feet high, which can be seen several miles away; On the boiler, several iron pots with a diameter of two meters are emitting white smoke, of course, this is also the iron pot specially built by Zhou Chao for the sugar mill.

When Zu Yuan heard his subordinates report that Xiao Gongzi was coming, he immediately greeted him, and saluted Xiao Yao with a smile and said, "Why did Gongzi come over alone, Miss Xiao?" ”

Xiao Yao waved his hand and said, "Don't mention it, I escaped, and it is a pain to go shopping with women!" What's the matter, grinning, what's the good news? ”

"I know that I can't hide anything from Childe's eyes, haha, come, Childe, show you something!" Zu Yuan pretended to be mysterious and brought Xiao Yao into the inner room.

Zu Yuan first spread a piece of white cloth on the table, then put a piece of red paper on it, then took out a paper bag from the clay pot, opened it carefully, and finally slowly poured the contents on the red paper!

Sugar! Although it was still a little dark and yellow compared to modern white sugar, it had already made Zu Yuan extremely excited, but he deliberately lowered his voice and whispered: "Childe, although the sugar mill has not yet been built, Master Zhou has already sent craftsmen over, so as soon as the sugarcane purchased from the south arrives a few days ago, I will immediately let them start experimenting with the method taught by Childe!" And then, hee-hee! ”

"This, so soon?" Xiao Yao was also taken aback, although he knew these theoretical methods of sugar making, but he had not actually operated them, but now it seems that he has succeeded.

"Yes, these are the sugar made according to Childe's method, which is dozens of times better than the one shipped from Tianzhu! It's white, it's translucent, and it's even sweeter! Zu Yuan was already laughing so much that he couldn't see his eyes.

Xiao Yao tasted it a little, nodded and said, "So what's going on now, can it be mass-produced?" ”

Zu Yuan was slightly disappointed, shook his head and said: "Not yet, the sugar mill is still under construction, many tools have not been installed, in order to rush the work, I live here, it is estimated that it will not be officially started until the beginning of spring!" ”

"Well, good! Hurry up, by the way, how much of this sugar has been made now? Xiao Yao asked.

"It's not much, because it's a test, so I don't dare to do more, I only got less than 5 catties of sugar, does Childe want to continue to produce it in small quantities like this?" Important matters, Zu Yuan did not dare to decide without authorization.

"No, just know the correct method, and wait for the sugar mill to be built and then mass production, and then it will be a blockbuster! Also, be careful to keep it secret and don't leak it out! Xiao Yao commanded.

"Childe, rest assured, now as long as I and those craftsmen know about this, the craftsmen are all sent by Master Zhou, absolutely loyal, and I also deliberately found two Tianzhu people, and when the time comes, the external publicity is the Tianzhu technician we specially hired, hehe, it will definitely be able to hide people's eyes and ears!" Zu Yuan said with a smile.

"Boss Zu is really amazing! I know how to put on a maze array! Okay, just do what you're doing! Xiao Yao exclaimed.

"Gongzi Xie praised, Gongzi is resourceful, and he has followed Gongzi more, so he naturally learned some tricks." Zu Yuan patted his ass and said.

"Haha, by the way, King Xing is going back to Jiangzhou in the next two days, take some of these sugars and send them to him, so that he can also see our results! Then we took the opportunity to get him to agree to build another iron mill next to the sugar mill! Xiao Yao commanded.

"Ironshop? Although King Xing presented the golden dragon wine pot, and the emperor also agreed that our general iron workshop officially entered Jinling, but now the sugar mill has not been built, and I am afraid that the funds will be 。。。。。。 Zu Yuan said worriedly.

"The ironworks don't need to produce iron tools on a large scale, it's just a front for us to produce gunpowder here! And the sugar mill can only produce in large quantities during the season when the cane is ripe, and the place cannot be left empty in other seasons! And if we build an iron mill, it will be more convenient for us to transfer people from Jiangzhou at that time! Xiao Yao said.

"What Childe said is extremely true! Okay, I'll personally send the sugar over, maybe I can even cheat some money at King Xing's! Zu Yuan said with a smile.

"Rip some money?" Xiao Yao asked curiously.

"I offered sugar, and then complained to him that the funds were not enough, and the sugar mill could not be built on schedule, so it could not be produced in large quantities, and with his impatient character, he would definitely give us money to speed up the construction!" Zu Yuan squinted and said.

"Sure enough, it's a profiteer! High! It's really high! Xiao Yao gave Zu Yuan a thumbs up.

Xiao Yao stayed in the sugar mill all day, in addition to instructing Zu Yuan on how to build the sugar mill and arranging future work, he also asked him to find glutinous rice and prepare something to appease the angry Xiao Wuhua.

The steamed glutinous rice is beaten into a paste, and then the fried soybean flour, sesame powder and sugar are wrapped inside, and these exquisite granulated sugar are sprinkled on the surface, which is a snack that no girl can resist - glutinous rice balls!

When Zu Yuan personally escorted Xiao Yao back to Xiao Mansion, Xiao Wuhua was already holding a wooden stick in his hand and was angry at the door: "Yo, Xiao Shilang, Xiao Dagongzi, I'm very busy saving the world, I haven't seen you all day, I'm afraid that the whole monster family has been wiped out by you, right?" I'd like to help you! Xiao Wuhua shook the wooden stick in his hand.

When Zu Yuan saw this pair of little enemies, he laughed, and after saying goodbye to Xiao Yao, he turned around and slipped away.

Xiao Yao admired Xiao Wuhua's cute appearance, held the food box, and said with a smile: "Oh, Wuhua, dissipate your anger!" It took me all day to destroy this monster and make it delicious! Come on, try it, I made it for you. ”

Xiao Wuhua was really attracted by the white glutinous rice dumplings, which were sprinkled with something like salt, and asked suspiciously, "What is this?" Why sprinkle so much salt on it, isn't it salty? ”

"It's called glutinous rice balls! The ones above are sugar, sweet, you can taste them! A harmless smile on his face.

Xiao Wuhua first sniffed it, it was a little fragrant, and then stretched out her little tongue and licked the sugar, huh? Sweet, not salt!

And then take a bite down, huh! There is no grudge!