"It should be true. () A lot of sugar books say that. Wen Tong was also quite nervous. Not to mention himself, even the elders of the family who have always been engaged in the sugar industry have only worked in modern sugar factories and have never seen this local method of making sugar.

However, the effect that appeared next was indeed like magic, after pouring the yellow mud water, waiting for a while and looking at the sugar in the tile, it had indeed become snow-white - of course, this snow-white was relatively speaking, compared to the refined white sugar in another time and space, its color was still slightly dull and yellow. It does not reach the level of "white abnormality" as stated in the book.

The top of the tile is the whitest sugar, and the bottom is slightly yellowish-brown. Both of these can be considered white sugar, but the former is more expensive.

Wen Tong shook his head, he knew very well that the sugar in the yellow muddy water was not particularly white: the sugar solution had not been processed by the centrifuge, and there was still a lot of sugar residue. I don't know if the machine factory can make a centrifuge out.

The output efficiency of this process is also not high, and the sugar in the tile is actually layered, the top hundred, and the lower the color, the darker. The sugar at the bottom of the tile is quite dark. He weighed it, and out of the ten kilograms of sugar made from a tile, only about sixty percent could be regarded as "white sugar", and the rest was brown sugar and brown sugar. The process is cumbersome and the yield is low. That is, in ancient times, such a process could still make money, and as soon as the modern sugar enterprises appeared, the local sugar liao collapsed successively because of the cost.

The result is just a large chunk of loose sugar. In order to really make white sugar as fine powder as "frosting", it is necessary to add a process of "recrystallization". Melt the sugar again, and then slowly boil it over low heat, and the delicate powdered sugar will condense layer by layer on the surface of the pot. This process is similar to boiling salt. In the factory it is manufactured with specialized evaporation-crystallization tanks. Wen Tong had no choice but to come to shiyan by himself. Chang Shide helped to light the fire, and Wen Xiu and Wen Qing helped. In order not to hinder the normal production of the sugar squat. Wen Tong asked people to build a small sugar house in the sugar cane farm as a sugar laboratory. The four of them were huddled in this temporary building in Zhuangzi, smoky and burning, Wen Tong would look at the fire and the pot for a while, dizzy for a while, and almost didn't plant it in the sugar pot to cause a tragedy.

Facts have proved that people who are clever in theory may not be good at actual operation, especially in such a primitive and simple environment, the stove burning sugarcane leaves and bagasse is not at all too accustomed to the manual knob of the gas stove can control the fire of the person can master, once after adding fuel, the flame is sheng, and the sugar on the pot surface will immediately burn and change color.

"No, this stove can't be temperature controlled. The heat is too hard to adjust. Wen Tong said in frustration. The salary of the fire master in the earth sugar house is second only to the sugar cook, and he does not take this money for nothing.

If you want to evenly adjust the heat, you can't use such a dry wood stove, you must use a stable fire, evenly heated materials, all kinds of gas, charcoal, briquettes can achieve this effect, or like in the factory, use steam to heat, but Xu Wen does not have it here.

Wen Tong pondered for a long time. Zuihou came up with the idea of a water bath. The utensils containing the sugar solution are heated through the water, so that the heating temperature becomes even and there is no problem of scorching and discoloration. After a few days of shiyan, the first batch of 5 kilograms of fine white sugar was finally harvested.

With white sugar, making rock candy is also at hand. The traditional rock sugar process, to boil the white sugar and then add chicken and duck egg whites to clarify, Wen Tong feels that the cost is too big, the so-called chicken and duck egg whites, in fact, is just protein. He decided to use soy milk instead. Wen Tong simply built a mill in Zhuangzi, and asked the immigrants who used to make tofu to make tofu every day, which not only met the needs of the workers in the village, but also had access to soy milk at any time.

After the soybean milk is clarified, the newly harvested bamboo will be broken into bamboo slices of different sizes, and placed in the sugar solution, the sugar solution will take the bamboo slices as the coagulation core, and slowly condense the large pieces of rock sugar. This method was first used in the Song Dynasty.

"It looks pretty good-" Although this rock candy is not as good as the monocrystalline rock candy of later generations, the purity is also very good, and it should be a sought-after commodity when taken out.

Next. It is to expand the scale of sugar production. Wen Tong ordered pots and utensils for baths, and hired craftsmen to build a new sugar workshop by the river to make sugar. In order to ensure the cleanliness of the sugar and improve the quality, high standards were implemented when building the plant.

The sugar workshop was built on the model of a modern factory, with wooden beams and columns, but the entire house was made of bricks, and the roof was not covered with anything like thatch or sugarcane leaves. The windows are large and allow for light - to avoid being too sensational, the windows are just pasted with window paper, not the glass in jihua. The floor of the workshop is paved with square bricks, and there is also a drainage ditch covered with a partition grid to facilitate the washing of the floor. The fifteen stoves for boiling sugar are lined up, saving space and easy to operate. The fire and vents are located under the corridor outside the house, which can not only be operated in rainy days, but also avoid the easy pollution of the air and ground by opening the fire vent in the house.

All the equipment was new, and Wen Tong had a few wells dug along the river instead of using polluting water. A large amount of money was also spent on the construction of an also all-brick warehouse, which was used to store sugar products. In addition to white sugar and brown sugar, there are also a lot of sugar, and Liao Dahua ordered many large vats in the local pottery workshop to store this thing - I don't know what the shopkeeper is going to use it for.

The workers in the new sugar factory were all selected from immigrants, and Wen Tong personally trained them in various operating procedures, and also formulated a set of production rules and regulations.

"Wenqing!" Wen Tong said, "In the future, the management of the South China Sugar Factory will all belong to you!" ”

In fact, both the scholar and the teacher were worried about entrusting such work to the servants, but they had to do so, except for these two servants. Very few of the immigrants are literate.

"Yes, Master Xie cultivates!" Wen Qing went down with a thousand fights, "The little one should do his best!" ”

"I have a full set of production regulations and processes here, and you have to supervise them to do everything according to the system. It is not allowed to be flexible in private, if the worker has any ideas, you can convey it on your behalf, and I will naturally consider it. ”

"Yes, sir!"

"Even if I walk into the workshop and see a little sugar scattered on the ground, you are the only one who asks!" Wen Tong put on the master's shelf.

Wen Qing glanced at him uneasily, how could this always kind old man of the family suddenly become so stern?

"Yes, little one understands. Don't dare to break the rules. ”

"Go ahead. Take your workers to learn the rules and regulations, and memorize them to me in three days. I don't eat meat on weekends when I can't memorize it. ”

"Then they're going to have to carry it out with all their might." Wen Qing said with a smile.

"Hmph," Wen Tong smiled a little on his face, among the two servants, he still liked Wen Qing more, although he was a little worse at figuring out the needs of the master, but the person looked more kyo, "You have to study hard yourself, have you ever read the book I gave you every day?" ”

The book Wen Tong gave him was the "Training Materials for Indigenous Business Administration Cadres" jointly compiled by Wu De's Civil Affairs Committee and the Intelligence and Information Committee, which was compiled by the Civil Affairs Committee on the basis of the experience accumulated over the past few months and in combination with the ancient and modern business management systems. It introduces the basic management model, how to calculate the workload, the calculation method of wages and benefits, the welfare standard, the guidance for dealing with accidents and emergencies, and so on. The book is the same as the Handbook of Civil Administration and Organization. They are part of the Indigenous Work Series, which is still in the Consultation Version.

"The little one reads hard every night. If you don't understand something, you have to ask the master for advice. ”

"If you don't understand something, you can always come and ask at night." Wen Tong said earnestly, "You are a servant, although you know a few words, how can those workers easily obey you?" You have to have skills in order to have prestige, not blindly kao the master's shili to suppress it. ”

"Yes! Little Master Xie taught. ”

sent Wen Qing away, Wen Xiu came over with a tea tray and brought tea:

"I've worked hard, sir. Please use tea. Since knowing that these two shopkeepers are not interested in "male sex", Wen Qing, who seems to be more honest, has been very favored recently, and knows that he must change his ways, and hides the charm that flowed out from time to time in the past, which looks much more dignified.

"Well, what about Master Chang?"

"I went to Hai'an Street."

Hai'an Street is Leizhou's sugar export port. Although it is not a county seat, the degree of prosperity is a few points better than that of Haikang, the first county. There are more than 30 sugar shops on the street, and Wen Tong was really shocked by its momentum when he first went - he had seen enough of the tattered and poor scenes in Lingao, and when he first arrived in such a prosperous place of commerce in the Ming Dynasty, the impact was not inferior to the feeling of Lingao villagers going to Dongmen City.

The small Hai'an Street is so lively and prosperous, if it is Suzhou, Yangzhou, Guangzhou and other trade Daqi, I don't know how many steps will be there to go up the prosperity.

Wen Tong was a little surprised. Although Hai'an Street is only ten kilometers away from here, they must inform each other in advance as long as they go far away. Sneaking out won't it be to find a woman, right? Wen Tong immediately thought of it: Hai'an Street is full of merchants and the place where the market is prosperous has always been a good place for brothels to do business.

"Sure enough, I went to find wild food!" Wen Tong gritted his teeth: Chang, you are really not enough brothers. If you want to go to this kind of good thing, tell me how good it is to go HAPPY together. Now that he and Liao Dahua are leaving, he doesn't dare to go out casually. I had to sulk and go to the workers' training class: I taught them 300 basic simplified words, simple mathematics and statistics. In the future, when the sugar mill grows, these workers will be promoted to managers.

When Wen Tong was gritting his teeth because of the loss of being abandoned, and reprimanding a certain clumsy worker student, Chang Shide was accompanied by Liao Dahua and strolling around Hai'an Street, targeting: the human market.

Chang Shide originally wanted to go directly to the brothel to solve it. As for the threat of venereal diseases, he had been prepared for it - he had several boxes of Durex stuffed in his carry-on luggage. But after being recommended by Liao Dahua, he went to a few so-called high-end brothels and inquired a little about the market, and he was not happy. The facilities of these brothels are good, and the women are so-so even if they look so good by modern standards, but there are too many processes for fake appearances, and they have to play tea circles, listen to tunes and drink, and they can't start work immediately after this set of procedures are completed, and they have to come two or three times in a row to touch the side of the bed - this is too troublesome, even if it is a "high-level club" in another time and space, there is no such cumbersome process.

Chang Shide didn't know that high-end brothels also played the role of social places in this time and space, and the main purpose of dignitaries and wealthy businessmen came here was to socialize and meet the needs of cultural life. The more advanced the prostitute, the more likely they are to sit and talk with people instead of going to bed to do tricks.

Seeing that Master Chang was not very interested in this, Liao Dahua guessed his thoughts, these maritime merchants have been wandering in the maritime merchants for a long time, so naturally they can't wait to engage in these adjustments. So he led him to the back alleys - there were some more practical "private doors".

However, after observing the makeup of the women who solicited customers at the door and the smell wafting from afar, Chang Shide once again felt that if this shijie wanted to engage women, it was best to cultivate it himself. Although Liao Dahua specially recommended several women who are said to be particularly good at understanding Fengyue, Chang Shide still refused, saying that it was better to keep a few by himself.

Liao Dahua knew that these women were not in his eyes, and thought that Australians seemed to have a habit of cleanliness, probably because prostitutes were unclean, and heard that he wanted to raise them by himself, so he led him to the human market.

The so-called people's market is nothing more than an open space, a few people sit in the nearby grass hut drinking tea and chatting, these are selling relatively high-end goods, some people are interested, lead customers to the next room to see the people - most of them are young women, there are also teenagers who can be used as prostitutes, naturally the price is not small. Others are really selling themselves with a straw label on their heads, and the price is low.

Chang Shide turned around, and he saw a lot of the goods of human teeth or self-sold, and felt that none of them were to his liking. The goods of human teeth are naturally dressed and cleaned up, and the appearance is quite passable, but the price is too high, and eleven or twelve-year-old girls also need fifty taels. Chang Shide doesn't want to raise Lori by himself, and he is not interested in Lori itself. Besides, he didn't have that much silver - he had accumulated tens of thousands of bonds.

Liao Dahua saw that Master Chang was reluctant, and knew that he couldn't see it. He couldn't grasp his thoughts, so he had to keep following.

After turning around again, I suddenly saw an additional stall. There were also several servants, and on the ground kneeling or sitting five or six women of various ages. The eldest one was in his thirties, and the youngest one was only twelve or thirteen years old. Although he is unkempt and has a dark complexion, he seems to have a good nutritional status. It's strange that no one asked. asked Liao Dahua to ask.

Note (this paragraph is outside of 4000 words and is not billed):

Correction: Hai'an Street, which is now Hai'an Town, is subordinate to Xuwen County, not Haikang County as mentioned above.