Chapter 559: Brown Sugar is also a treasure
Marlin didn't take the sugar seriously, but Angela was distressed - it was her sugar!
Half a shipload of cane sugar is almost 50 tons, or 110,000 pounds. Marin actually wanted to give them all away, but she was distressed by the housekeeper's mother-in-law. So, that night, Marin was pinched by her with a few bruises......
Marin also thought that Angela liked to eat sugar, so he quickly popularized science, saying that if she eats too much sugar, she will lose her teeth, and the goddess will also become a toothless female monster. In addition, it is easy to lead to diabetes or something......
Angela was so frightened that she didn't dare to eat candy. But Marin told her that if she really wanted sweets, she could eat honey. Honey is a simple sugar that, like glucose, is easily absorbed by the body and converted into energy without deposition. So, even diabetics can eat some honey in moderation. Authentic honey, of course. In later generations, because of food safety problems, the honey in many supermarkets was actually passed off as caramel sugar. Therefore, diabetics are not suitable for eating, and if they eat it, they will have problems. If it's authentic pure honey, there's nothing wrong with that. Of course, you can't eat too much.
However, sugar is still a rare commodity for Europeans today. Don't talk about the amount, even if you are a nobleman, you haven't eaten enough. Today's Europe is very similar to China before the reform and opening up, most of the people are yellow and thin, and their nutrition is insufficient. When you see fatty meat, everyone will like to eat it very much, just because of the oil and water of fatty meat......
Even, in Europe in this era, materials were poorer than before China's reform and opening up. At least, at that time, Chinese people could buy white sugar with tickets, although the amount was smaller, but it was much more than that of European nobles in this era. Even, the European aristocracy has never seen white sugar, only brown sugar. Brown sugar is considered a high-end product from India.
During this period, the sugar production technology of the Europeans was still very backward, and the brown sugar technology was not proficient, let alone white sugar. At this time, in Huaxia, Nan'an, Fujian, it seems that the yellow mud method has appeared to produce sugar. In addition, there is rock sugar technology.
Therefore, the European aristocracy during this period was also very hard, and little Caesar, who was the son of the Grand Duke, couldn't help but face brown sugar, let alone ordinary people.
So, Marlin tried to give some brown sugar to his guards. As a result, the guards treated brown sugar like a treasure. When someone eats brown sugar, there are sugar grains stuck to their fingers, and they even want to put their fingers in their mouths and suck like little Caesar. Moreover, the expression on his face is very ****, as if he wants to smoke some kind of poison......
Marin was shocked for a moment, and he also knew the weight of sucrose in the eyes of ordinary Europeans in this era. You must know that most of his guards are from the knight family, and they are quite rich. The children of these little rich families love sugar so much, let alone those commoners.
As a result, Marin decisively ordered the cane sugar packaging bags to be made smaller. From the previous standard of 20 pounds per bag, it was changed to a pound bag similar to the size of later salt packaging bags. Of course, it is also designed with a beautiful appearance that looks very tall.
Moreover, Marin also learned from the leaders of later generations and personally inscribed - delicious cane sugar......
In fact, when I opened the oil paper bag, it was only black black sugar, which looked like Nima gunpowder powder......
If the girls of later generations unpack and see the things inside, it is estimated that they will throw it directly on the face of Marin with the inscription. But now, this one is high-end goods......
When Marin met Jerry, the fat grandson of Jeffrey, he smiled and gave him a bag of brown sugar. Then, the little fat Jerry suddenly hugged him in his arms and didn't let go, and he didn't listen to his grandfather's reprimand, for fear that others would rob him.
If the parents of later generations saw Marin's move, they might slap their fists and teach Marin a lesson-just use this thing to fool my baby?
Here, however, Jeffrey expressed his gratitude to Marlin for his reward. It's genuine gratitude, not false gratitude......
Then, this delicious cane sugar quickly became a high-end commodity in the upper echelons of Aurich, and it was priceless.
When they heard that Marin was going to take out 110,000 pounds of delicious cane sugar to reward the meritorious soldiers, the soldiers were very happy, but the nobles were not very happy.
However, Jeffrey told the nobles that you could wait until the reward was over and buy it from the rewarded soldiers...... As long as the price is high, those ordinary soldiers who are bitter will definitely sell it......
In fact, this is only version 1.0 of Marlin Cane Sugar Sales. This kind of brown sugar is naturally the lowest grade sugar. And when Marin sent someone to contact the Ming Dynasty, he could hire highly skilled sugar craftsmen from Fujian to instruct his subordinates in Cuba and Grenada to produce more advanced brown and white sugar.
Moreover, Marin had already planned it - in the future, brown sugar would be sold to ordinary people; Brown sugar was sold to the petty nobles and wealthy families; White sugar, on the other hand, is a secret thing, which is a high-end product, which is specially used to sell to middle and high-ranking nobles and even the royal family, and is listed as a luxury product......
Of course, the packaging will be different. For example, the oil-paper bag that wraps brown sugar has the words "delicious cane sugar" written on it. In addition to the words on the bag of brown sugar, the bag will also be printed with exquisite patterns to show the difference.
As for white sugar, it's even more powerful. Not only is it packed in the most exquisite oil-paper bag, but the outside of the oil-paper bag will also be packed in a beautiful wooden box. Then, sell him 100 million ...... No, it's a very high price...... At least, it's more than the price of pepper......
In fact, Marlin didn't know that activated charcoal made better sugar. Moreover, Marlin also knows some ways to make activated charcoal - that is, to use a high-temperature steam of 500 degrees to hit the charcoal on the metal mesh, thinking that it creates pores and causes adsorption.
However, it is troublesome to come up with such a device. Moreover, the cost of production is also high. In this era, the sucrose produced by the yellow mud method is white enough and can be regarded as a high-end product. So Marlin didn't bother to get activated carbon. The most important thing is that the yellow mud method has a low cost and can be mass-produced.
This kind of black sugar can be bought for 3 shillings a pound, and if you make brown sugar, the price will definitely be higher. As for the white sugar, Marlin had already planned that the price would have to be more than 10 shillings per pound. Moreover, it is necessary to control sales and create the illusion of "nobility" in order to maintain high prices.
At this time, Marin also reacted - it turned out that the housekeeper Angela did not feel sorry for the cane sugar, but because the cane sugar was also money! According to the calculation of 3 shillings per pound, the 110,000 pounds of black sugar are worth 330,000 shillings, which is equivalent to 66,000 gold coins......
But Marin still insisted on giving this batch of black sugar to the soldiers as a prize, why? If you give out gold coins, no soldier will receive one or two gold coins, and you won't feel anything.
However, I received one or two bags of oily paper bags, as well as brown sugar inscribed by myself. This rarity, as a prize, is more attractive than giving money directly. This black sugar, which is worth 66,000 gold coins, may have a more shocking effect than the cash of 150,000 gold coins......
Moreover, this black sugar, which was produced by Marin on his sugar cane plantation in Grenada, had little cost except for the need to provide food and clothing for the serfs. Coupled with the use of advanced agricultural technology and fertilizers, sugarcane yields are quite high, resulting in lower production costs.
In fact, the production cost of this brown sugar, which is worth 66,000 gold coins, is estimated to be only five or six thousand gold coins, even if the freight is included. Even if it is not a prize to be given to the soldiers, it must be sold. It's better to use it as a prize and forcibly sell it directly to the soldiers. In this way, not only can so much cane sugar be sold at once, but also make the soldiers grateful to Dade - you see, the domestic nobles have not been able to enjoy this cane sugar, we have it, and the nobles will ask us to buy it, I am proud......