Since lobsters can be obtained in large quantities, Lao Zhu has recently been studying the production of shrimp paste with Sun Lao.

But I heard that the progress is not very smooth, the reason is that the spices are too scarce, so Lao Zhu said that if Lao Wang can provide a large number of spices in the future, he will definitely sell this shrimp paste to the world, and at that time, the Dutch spice business may be affected by this shrimp sauce is unknown.

However, Lao Wang was not interested in this, he told Lao Zhu, you can eat the shrimp paste by yourself in the future, at most sell it in a small area, and when I can grow spices on a large scale, I will make something that subverts the world spice market.

Lao Zhu asked what it was, and Lao Wang smiled and only said three words - "five-spice powder......

As a result, as soon as these three words came out, he immediately let Sun Lao next to him pat his thigh and said, Lao Wang is really ruthless, once this thing is high, we will definitely easily replace the Dutch and become the boss of the world spice market......

Well, the time is still back to the middle of April in 1657, after all, everyone is still sweating and busy on various construction sites, and the goal of dominating the world with five-spice powder is not far from the ordinary.

In these days, Wang Zhanwu and his wiring team are probably the hardest group of people, and he now takes a dozen people with him and is busy in the field every day.

In order to save transmission line materials, Wang Zhanwu had to give up the plan of erecting transmission lines along the road, but try to make the transmission line go straight, so this group of people suffered.

Because the brothers have to drill grass, and dig pits, but also erect poles to climb poles, erect wires and have no mechanized tools, all by hand, so this project is not only tired, the erection progress is also relatively slow, until the last few days, seeing that the construction period is getting tighter and tighter, under Wang Zhanwu's strong request, the Supreme Executive Committee finally assigned him additional manpower, and also allocated him a truck crane, an excavator and a shovel loader.

After the installation of the equipment of the sugar factory is completed, the preparation for trial production begins in full swing, the equipment commissioning of the sugar factory is basically complete, and the remaining sugarcane in the field can also be cut.

Early in the morning of April 21, Li Sanduo took more than a dozen sailing students to climb onto the trailer of a tractor, Gu Jin drove, and Lao Wang sat in the co-pilot seat, and today's destination was the 20 acres of sugarcane fields after the harvest.

The sugarcane in the sugar cane fields is still growing vigorously, and these are left over from the last harvest, because the storage conditions require these sugarcane to be left in the field for a few days until the sugar mill is ready for production.

Now, the sugarcane in the field is growing in the east and west, most of them are curved and thin, or very short, and those sugarcanes that grow thick and straight have already been harvested and cut into sugarcane knots and laid in the newly cultivated land as seedlings, so what grows in the field now are the remaining crooked melons and cracked dates.

The sugarcane was already ripe, and it took everyone one morning to cut the sugarcane, leaving only the roots, and then the busy work of releasing water and weeding until the afternoon, and finally it was done.

Lao Wang said that the sugarcane varieties that Anna gave us are quite good, although the sugarcane left in the ground grows crooked melons and cracked dates, but the sugar content is not lower than the bottom of the sugarcane that grows tall and handsome, and even higher, so as long as the root system is left, new high-quality sugarcane forests will grow in this land in the second half of the year.

At this time, Cheng Fangfang came with the children, but obviously not to help, the children's goal was to cut down the sugar cane that had just been piled up in the field.

It has to be said that the children are having a good time these days, and the reason is that the children have an extra place to eat and play---- sugar cane fields.

Although these leftover sugarcanes grow crooked melons and cracked dates, as Lao Wang said, the sugar content is not lower than those thick and straight sugarcanes, and even stronger than those thick and straight sugarcanes.

The ladies and children have experienced this firsthand.

So in the past few days, Cheng Fangfang and Xia Xiaoou have taken their children to run to the sugarcane field---- the time is usually in the afternoon, the ladies and Taotao Haidong two older children pushed four tricycles, and Hainan and twelve young children sat on the car, walking along the bamboo forest cement road to the sugarcane forest on the edge of the river.

When they arrived at their destination, the happy children jumped off the tricycle and rushed to the ground without waiting for the car to stop, cut down the sugar cane, washed it by the canal, carefully scraped off the skin with a knife, cut it into sections, and then began to chew it.

It wasn't until the children ate their mouths and hands that they were glued to each other that they were stopped by the girls.

Of course, sugar cane is also indispensable to the people in the Red Mansion, and when the women and children have eaten enough, they cut a bundle of sugar cane and bring it back, so these days there is often a section of sugar cane on the table in a large basin in the corner of the restaurant, for others to eat.

Sure enough, everyone praised it and said it was sweet, and at this time, Lao Wang would tell everyone with a smile that because the temperature difference between day and night in the dry season here is relatively large, and the sugarcane varieties are very good, it can be expected that the sugar yield of our sugar factory should be higher than that of ordinary sugarcane in the old world.

Sun Lao and Lao Ba also occasionally joined this happy team of eating sugarcane, Sun Lao also told the children his childhood story while eating, saying that he remembered that he was like this when he was a child, asked for a dime from his mother, and then went to the suburban countryside sugarcane fields to buy sugarcane, where the sugarcane farmers cut and sold the sugarcane in their own fields to subsidize the family, Sun Lao was very emotional, sighing that it was his lost childhood, but looking back, it was as far away as a lifetime.

Since today is the day of cutting sugarcane in the sugarcane field, it means that after today, all the sugarcane in the field will be sent to the sugar factory to extract sugar, and if you want to eat fresh sugarcane, you will have to wait until the end of the next crop.

So the children who heard the news began to chew on the ground again.

Naturally, everyone will not stop it, because the main raw material for the trial production of the sugar factory is the seventy tons of sugar beets, and as for the remaining sugarcane in the field, it is only about twenty tons when it is full, and it doesn't matter if they eat it all, let alone where they can eat it all.

So later, many foodies also joined the ranks of munching and chewing, and finally brought back a few large bundles to the other two teams of partners in the Red Mansion.

Tomorrow is Sunday, but everyone is not resting, because it is the last day of preparation for the first official production of sugar in New World.

After all, this is the first time that everyone has produced foreign trade goods since they crossed into the New World, so in addition to the people who cut the sugar cane, the people involved are doing all kinds of quasi-intense preparations.

In the afternoon, everyone loaded the sugarcane that had just been cut from the ground onto the wagons of the train outside the gate of the cave, Chengdong and Huang Hai wore heavy overalls and went up to the locomotive, greeted the back, whistled, whistled, the locomotive spewed out heavy smoke, dragged two wagons full of sugarcane and one wagon carrying people, all the way to the east, in the evening, more than 20 tons of sugarcane were transported to the stockpile of the sugar factory at the mouth of the Xiliu River.

At this moment, the chemical team led by Mr. Zhao was still nervously debugging the equipment at the production site, and everyone was busy and sweating.

After unloading the sugarcane, the locomotive dragged the empty wagons and personnel straight in the direction of the cement factory, even in the evening, to do some work.

The chemical industry group finally discussed and decided that the carbonic acid process will be used to produce white sugar.

Therefore, a large amount of lime also needs to be prepared, so the group of people is going to transport lime.

The carbonic acid process can not only improve the sugar yield, but also improve the quality of the sugar.

For this purpose, the sugar mill has also installed a set of industrial equipment in the cave – a miniature lime calcining kiln and a carbon dioxide generator.

These facilities will be used to prepare lime milk and carbon dioxide gas, so this is the most advanced sugar production process in the new world.

Limestone was originally the raw material of the cement plant, so it also prepared a lot for the sugar factory, and carbon dioxide gas is a by-product of calcined limestone, which was originally in the cement plant, but because it could not be collected and emitted into the atmosphere, now this supporting miniature calcining kiln plus gas generator is only an expedient measure, and the sugar factory will make comprehensive use of various chemical raw materials with the joint alkali chemical industry, of course, this is a later story.

Monday, April 22, 1657, sunny and breezy.

This day is a very memorable day, at least in Zhu Beiguo's diary, it is a big book, and the entire process of the sugar making process is recorded in detail.

Yes, the Australian three whites, which were later famous all over the world: white flour, refined salt, and white sugar, one of the white sugars, were successfully trial-produced on this day.

Since then, white sugar has become one of the pillar industries of the Australian Federation, and its leading products, white sugar and various foods derived from it, are well-known all over the world and will be sold to all corners of the world.