At this time, there was jubilation in the banquet hall, everyone's mood was high, and many people began to care about the value of these white sugars.

Zhu Beiguo immediately took out a small notebook from his arms, turned one of the pages, and said aloud to everyone, according to historical data, our quality of white sugar is the first in the world in terms of quality, so before it is put into the market, it is reasonable to estimate the accurate market price.

But you can find some reference values to compare.

First of all, according to the price information of this historical period, the sucrose in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties was usually measured in dans, but how to convert the weight of this danload into the kilograms we understand is actually quite complicated, so here can only give an approximate result: a dantal is equivalent to about 70 kilograms.

According to the analysis of commercial data of this period, it is often conservatively estimated that the wholesale price of 30 taels of silver per quintal of white sugar is normal, and its quality is significantly lower than that of our white sugar.

So, assuming that according to this price, ten tons of white sugar, worth at least four thousand taels of silver, note that the silver here is level-level silver, if you add fire consumption or something, it should be higher.

After listening to Zhu Beiguo's analysis, everyone nodded for a while, but they were still at a loss, because everyone had no concept of the value of silver in the new world.

So Dr. Zhu began to analyze further, saying that if silver is converted into a currency that everyone is familiar with, you will have a concept of value.

Zhu Beiguo also said that because this involves the concept of calculating the historical value of silver and purchasing power parity, it is also necessary to use the prices of the main goods of this era to estimate the purchasing power of silver at that time, and then compare the prices of different eras---- such as ironware, cloth and rice, etc., which are important references.

Therefore, Zhu Beiguo said, let's temporarily omit those complicated research explanations, and go straight to the conclusion - according to historical data, in this era, the purchasing power of one tael of silver is about equivalent to two hundred to three hundred yuan of soft sister coins, so the purchasing power of four thousand taels of silver is about equivalent to the purchasing power of the old world of eight to one hundred and twenty thousand.

Obviously, everyone didn't care about the complicated calculation and verification process behind this conclusion, and when they heard this, everyone finally nodded frequently and said, now there is a concept, it turns out that ten tons of white sugar can buy a two-bedroom apartment in a second-tier city.

Obviously, in this era, as we continue to produce sugar in large quantities, this commodity will gradually enter thousands of households, and eventually return to its original value, the key is, how long will this time be?

Obviously, this question is important because it involves a cycle of ups and downs in the market value of a commodity.

Zhu Beiguo believes that without the joint efforts of all parts of the world, it will be quite a long time for sugar to return to its original value with our production capacity alone.

After all, in this day and age, people's demand for sugar is almost a bottomless pit.

As a result, it will also stimulate a longer industrial chain associated with white sugar, so when the price of white sugar really enters the homes of ordinary people, the market price will only rise, at least not fall - this is the result of the expansion of the industrial chain.

Seeing that the audience was confused, Zhu Beiguo finally said, forget it, don't say much, anyway, let's know after we ship the goods out to buy and sell, rest assured! This has already been calculated, it will not go wrong, and the price I just talked about is only a lot more!

Dr. Zhu patted his chest and assured everyone.

Ten tons of sugar has millions of soft girl coins!

Then let's fill a boatload of sugar on a trip in the future, well, even if it's 400 tons, how much will it cost?

It's been posted! How much money can each of us share? At this time, many people in the venue have already begun to count the money with their fingers......

Since April 24, the sugar factory has been processing sugar beets, and in order to obtain as much process data as possible, all the relevant science and engineering personnel have been working in the sugar factory for five consecutive days, they have processed these beets in batches little by little, and the processing process of each batch has been carefully tested, so that it took 70 tons of sugar beets five days to be processed.

On April 30, Mr. Zhao and his team finally finished processing all the beetroots, and the results were encouraging: the previous estimate seemed to be a little conservative, 70 tons of sugar beets were processed into 8 tons of sugar, plus sugar cane extraction, a total of nearly 11 tons of cotton sugar.

The reason for this is that the average sugar content of sugar beets is a bit higher than expected, reaching 12 percent.

The sugar is carefully sealed in clay pots and transported to a cave for preservation, where it is dry and cool.

Because the sugar factory does not require many people, from April 23, the main labor has been invested in the construction of the glass factory, the erection of grid-connected transmission lines and the relocation of the Sydney Island pasture.

In order to be able to put in time for all the construction machinery and labor to carry out the interception operation when the water level of the Moon River drops to a low point in May, it is necessary to complete the two construction projects before then.

To this end, Sun Lao announced at the plenary meeting that in addition to cooking and adults who take shifts with children that day, they should once again extend their working hours appropriately.

Everyone is required to gather at the construction site at seven o'clock after dinner every morning, and there is only one hour to eat at noon, and then they will work until half past seven in the evening when the sun sets before they can go back to the Red House for dinner.

The relevant equipment installation professionals have to work overtime as needed, and even work at night to debug the equipment, and even work until 11 o'clock in the middle of the night before taking the train back to the Red Mansion.

After a long number of busy days, the time was low in April, and the progress of the infrastructure works of the glass factory, which had been supported by manpower, was accelerated, and by May 1, the factory building, roads, stockpile, storeroom and water supply and drainage system were fully completed.

At this point, most of the labor force went to support Wang Zhanwu's wiring team, and in the glass factory, in addition to some infrastructure projects, some people also joined the chemical team to help professionals, they had to do the installation and commissioning of glass factory equipment, the biggest highlight of which was the installation of electric melting furnace.

It is said that it is a kiln, in fact, it is a larger furnace, a total of more than one person high, the width of the two people, of course, the electric melting furnace is relatively the largest and most cumbersome equipment in the miniature glass factory, it is more troublesome to carry this equipment to the site, Boss Luo first led a science and engineering man in the cave to split the furnace into three major pieces, this process is very smooth, a while ago everyone engaged in scientific research in the cave, did not do such a thing.

The dismantling of the glass melting kiln was quickly completed, and then it was hoisted by trucks into the wagons on the cave railway, and then transported by rail to the side of the glass factory yard located on the west bank of the mouth of the lower reaches of the Xiliu River.

There was also a truck crane waiting to be hoisted and unloaded, and although everything went well, it took two full days to reassemble the big guy in an orderly manner by the mechanical team and the chemical team.

The height of this hot melt furnace is two meters, and because the insulation material is very thick, the hot melt chamber of the furnace is not very large.

It is a miniature kiln that can electrically melt 100 kilograms of quartz sand per hour.

Therefore, it is more accurate to say that it is a kiln, rather than a larger electric crucible furnace.

In fact, it is indeed a larger crucible furnace, and it is a furnace heated by electric induction, which relies on the induction of vortex currents generated by the semi-melted glass liquid that flows into the kiln in advance.

As for the primary heating of quartz sand to make it semi-melt, then it cannot be done with a crucible, otherwise it will be too electricity-intensive.

So in the upper part of this melting furnace, there will also be a flame furnace, which is the preheating furnace, and obviously, this strange design can only be imagined by an unruly person like Engineer Anna.

Therefore, this set of equipment is as high as three meters five, in order to facilitate the operation, the upper and lower two combined furnaces are semi-buried in the ground, although this greatly increases the amount of infrastructure engineering, but these professionals engaged in mechanical and chemical smelting believe that this furnace is very suitable for the current situation, easy to operate, not to mention, because the preheating is a flame furnace, so not only save electricity, but also save electrode materials.

Electrodes are consumables that are not easy to make in the new world, at least in the early days, so the crucible furnace plus the flame furnace is a very good design.

The flame furnace is coal-burning, and the quartz sand is preliminarily heated to more than 800 degrees, and then the semi-melted raw materials are sent into the crucible ---- the electric furnace by gravity.