In Qian Yuan's mind, it was just an ordinary recipe, and the reason was very simple, in the next ten or decades, this secret recipe could be published!

But in this day and age, a secret recipe is a family heirloom that can be passed down in the minds of merchants.

Speaking of Songjiang Qian's origins, Qian Yuan's great-ancestor is Qian Fu, the champion of Hongzhi for three years, and his uncle Qian Zheng is also a two-list jinshi, but Qian Yuan doesn't think that these are enough to stop the other party's snooping eyes and eager hands.

It is clearly written in the history books that the accumulation of capital is often accompanied by blood and tears, and now the sea trade in the southeast coastal area is booming, and there are already signs of capitalist germination, and those businessmen dare to do anything for the sake of profit, as evidenced by Zhu Kun's death a few years ago.

However, Qian Yuan did not plan to cry or bleed.

In the next five days, the suspicion of Jin Hong, the target person, became more and more serious, the reason is very simple, in the past five days, except for the Jin family sent people to keep an eye on this house, there were no other secret agents.

My father's friend before his death, the two families had a close relationship and business dealings, but he privately sent someone to watch Qian Yuan's every move, what does this mean?

It can only show that Jin Hong has a ghost in his heart.

But Qian Yuan knew that there was another reason, that is, Jin Hong had not yet succeeded.

On the tenth day of coming to Hangzhou, a large cauldron was set up in the backyard, and the pot was red with slurry water, and Zhang San and the others looked at Qian Yuan who was casual with awe.

Although he had watched it several times, Zhang San still couldn't understand how Young Master Yuan did it.

After operating it a few times by himself, Qian Yuan was too lazy to do it again, Nunu gestured to Zhang San to take out some fine charcoal-like things from the package under his feet and throw them into the pot, and soon the red slurry quickly clarified and became transparent.

"Add fire, add fire!" Zhang San shouted a few words, and after a while, the transparent slurry water was boiled dry, and a layer of snow-white powder precipitated out on the top.

Qian Yuan picked up the copper spoon and picked a little, hesitated and turned his head into Zhang San's mouth, "How about it?" ”

"Sweet, so sweet!" Zhang San smacked his lips, "I ate candy once a few years ago, and it was sweeter than the best candy. ”

Qian Yuan was not very satisfied, frowning and muttering, "It's not white enough, after all, it's homemade activated carbon, and it can't be mass-produced...... It's not as fast as the yellow mud water decolorizes. ”

As early as two months ago, Qian Yuan tried and tested, using the ordinary brown sugar he bought as a raw material, using activated carbon or yellow mud water to decolorize, the two methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, the former purification speed is fast, but the purity is not high enough, and the process of making activated carbon is also very cumbersome, or the latter is more concise and fast, easy to spread, but at the same time it is easy to be stolen.

Well, Qian Yuan has already inquired, I don't know if Song Yingxing was born, but at least the book "Tiangong Kaiwu" has not come out, and the yellow mud water sugar pouring method should only be a secret of some workshops, and now the Ming Dynasty generally uses tree ash to purify white sugar, and only brown sugar and brown sugar are sold in ordinary stores.

Looking down at the account book and checking the records, Qian Yuan confirmed that Jin Hong did not succeed, because in the past three months, the prices of foreign sugar and brown sugar in Hangzhou City have basically not fluctuated.

You must know that the area around Susonghang is not an intensive planting area for sugarcane, if Jin Hong succeeds, considering the cost and capital flow speed, it is impossible for him to make brown sugar and then decolorize it himself, and he should be the same as Qian Yuan, directly buy brown sugar to decolorize, then it is impossible to have no impact on the price of brown sugar.

The next day, the shop reopened, but instead of selling cotton cloth, it sold candy, and in just two days, the stock of foreign sugar was sold out.

The price of foreign sugar in China is very high, and it is in short supply, only in Guangzhou there is a certain amount of export, but the price of brown sugar is low, the net profit of the shop is more than 600 percent, and for a time it was spread to half of Hangzhou City.

The tree will naturally attract the wind, and there will soon be a lot of eyes and ears near the shop, but Qian Yuan unexpectedly learned that the spies sent by the Jin family have disappeared.

Also, sending spies should be to confirm whether Qian Yuan has the secret recipe in his hand, and now that he knows it, of course, he doesn't need to work hard.

Qian Yuan pondered in his heart that his father and brother were killed on the way back to Ningbo from the Zhoushan Islands, which also shows one thing, Jin Hong is not capable of killing people and setting fire to rob the secret recipe in Hangzhou, so what will he do?

In addition, before leaving, my father had solemnly instructed his family to keep it strictly and never leak it to outsiders, and when it was shipped, it was sold in small quantities, which was not large, and it was distributed in Jiaxing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, and Ningbo, which had little impact on the price of sugar.

So how did Jin Hong know about the existence of this secret recipe?

Although I don't know how Jin Hong knew, I can be sure that he knew, but how would this guy take advantage of it?

Qian Yuan frowned and thought about it, he was the head of the Songjiang Mansion Trial Case, and the second uncle was the general judge of the two Jinshi Huizhou, as long as he didn't go out of Hangzhou City and didn't fall alone, what could Jin Hong do with himself?

However, what you want to do, you need to ...... as soon as possible Qian Yuan sighed faintly, Lao Tzu is very short of money now.

It is not a small amount of money to buy a house in Hangzhou, and the house I live in now is still rented, and there are only two entrances before and after, which is too narrow, and the surrounding merchants also affect my future study.

Although he was timid and didn't dare to take the township test last year, Qian Yuan knew very well that no matter what he wanted to do in the future, the identity of a person or even a jinshi would get twice the result with half the effort.

Fortunately, I didn't empty the memory of the original owner when I crossed over, and then slowly recovered when I was recuperating...... Qian Yuan was also secretly sighing while rejoicing, and he was also affected by the emotions of the original owner, otherwise he, a cost-conscious profiteer, would never have a trip to Hangzhou.

In the final analysis, it is his responsibility and obligation to get along in just a few months, coupled with more than ten years of memories, that Qian Yuan regards his family as a real family, avenges his father and brother, and fights for his mother and sister in the upcoming chaos.

In the study, Qian Yuan leaned on the back of his chair and stared at the candle flame that jumped from time to time, thinking about it repeatedly in his mind...... Is it possible to accomplish the battle?

Qian Yuan has never been a person who is afraid of difficulties, but his habit is that he needs to consider all aspects before making a move, and try not to give his opponent any chance to turn the tables.