There was a large pile of sugar cane in the front yard, like a hill, and a group of people had already gathered around the sugar cane pile, one by one curious.

I have to say that many people in this era have never seen sugarcane, especially the women in this group of deep mansion compounds, when they first saw it, they thought it was a pile of bamboo or a pile of wood.

Southerners can still see occasionally, but northerners don't see much, after all, sugarcane has not been cultivated on a large scale in this era.

"That's it?" Cheng Chubi couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, he originally thought that he could get a lot back, but he didn't expect that there were only a few tons.

You've been working for months to get a few tons, what a waste of time.

"Kokyo Saburo knows that this sugarcane is produced in the south, but not much is planted, and it is not yet time for the sugarcane to be harvested, so these boats of sugarcane are still selected from the Jiaozhi area." Cheng Zhong stood up and said that the person who went to find sugar cane this time was Cheng Zhong's son.

Cheng Zhong, one of the stewards of the Lu Guogong Mansion, is a distant relative of the Cheng family.

"Forget it, it's just a little bit, and it is estimated that it will be able to produce more than 500 catties of sugar." Cheng Chubi shook his head helplessly, don't look at this as many as seven or eight tons, but with the technology of this era, it is not bad to be able to produce more than five hundred catties.

No way, the technology is not good, it is not mechanized at all, it is impossible to squeeze out the sugar water in the sugarcane, even if it is modern production, one ton can produce more than 200 catties of sugar, as for Datang's technology, it is estimated that it will have to be greatly discounted.

"If you can produce sugar, even a hundred catties is good." Cheng Zhong said with a smile.

"Yes, surely." Cheng Chubi smiled slightly and said, "The tool I asked you to build, can you build it?" ”

"It's been built a long time ago, Saburo ordered it in prison, and we will start building it the next day." Cheng Zhong said.

Cheng Chubi nodded, it seems that the old Cheng family still attaches great importance to it, and then took a Pu knife from the hand of the attendant next to him, walked forward, pulled out a thicker sugarcane, and then cut a large section, quickly peeled the skin, and handed it to Xiao Er.

"Come, give it a try, sweet or not." Cheng Chubi said with a slight smile.

Xiao Yu'er happily took it and took a bite, and the sweet sugarcane water entered and filled her mouth, which was really not ordinary sweetness. The people around looked at each other, drooling one by one.

"Want to eat? Take a few sticks and share them with everyone, and start boiling sugar for the rest, remember to wash the skin, hey. Cheng Chubi said helplessly, seeing your longing eyes, I was really helpless in my heart.

Isn't it just a few sugar canes? Need to be so hungry?

Everyone couldn't help but be extremely happy, and hurriedly pulled out a dozen or so sugarcanes forward, and then divided them, Cheng Zhong watched from the side, it was really distressing.

Money, money, that's all money!

"Don't take so much, don't take so much, hey, don't take so much, you bunch of losers, losers." Cheng Zhong stood next to him, he was really in a hurry.

Princess Gaoyang and Li Zhi stood beside them, watching their children gnaw on the sugar cane, they actually wanted to eat it, but as a princess and prince, they couldn't rob these slaves.

Walking to Cheng Chubi's side, the slender jade pulled the corner of Cheng Chubi's clothes, Cheng Chubi couldn't help but feel a little puzzled, and asked, "What's the matter with you?" ”

"You...... Can you ...... Can you ......" Princess Gao Yang pointed to the sugar cane in her hand, and then pointed to the large pile of sugar cane.

"If you want to eat it, take it yourself." Cheng Chubi said.

"I want you to cut it for me." Princess Gaoyang looked like a matter of course.

"I want it too." Li Zhi said weakly.

"Okay, okay, okay, I really admire you two brothers and sisters." Cheng Chubi had no choice but to swing a knife and cut two more for the sister and brother. It's true that the princess has been a prince for a long time, and she even has to be helped to cut a sugar cane.

When night fell, six large iron pots were lined up, and the fire was fierce, and the squeezed sugar water was poured into the pot, stirring it with a spoon.

When the syrup is ready to hang sugar, you can pour the syrup into a container that has already been prepared and wait for it to be formed.

The sugar obtained in this way is brown sugar, and the history of sugar making in China can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, but a large amount of sugar production was made in large quantities after Tang Taizong ordered people to go to Tianzhu to learn the method of sugar making in 21 years. Rock sugar began to appear in the Song Dynasty.

The brown sugar that has just been boiled contains more impurities, so it appears a little browned, and the white sugar is made after absorbing the impurities in the brown sugar with carbon.

Stayed up until the middle of the night, the sugar was boiled, at this time Li Zhi and Er'er had already rested, especially Xiao Er'er, her body was not good, so she naturally couldn't sleep too late, as for Princess Gaoyang, this girl, she was energetic, and she didn't like to sleep in the middle of the night.

Accompanying Cheng Chubi waiting for the candy to be made, he felt a little bored, looking east and west, and he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart.

"Isn't this charcoal? What to do with this charcoal? Burn? Seeing some baskets containing some broken charcoal, I couldn't help but ask.

"It's made from bamboo, which is used to absorb pigment." Cheng Chubi said.

"Pigments? What's that? ”

"That's it...... It is...... Forget it, even if I explain it to you, I don't understand it with your IQ. Cheng Chubi couldn't help but shake his head and said.

"What about this gauze? What is it used for? ”

"For filtration, you need to make sugar."

"Isn't the sugar just boiled?"

"What is boiled is brown sugar, and after processing, it is white sugar." Cheng Chubi said: "In deep processing, you can get rock sugar. ”

"It's so complicated." Princess Gao Yang couldn't help but shake her head.

"Tell me, what the hell do you want me to do? If you don't go to bed and chat with me here at night, I don't believe you if you have nothing to do with me. ”

"You can see it, well, in that case, then I'll say it." Princess Gaoyang couldn't help showing a hint of cunning on her face, and said in a low voice: "It's approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, my father is going to hold a banquet in the palace, and I must recite poems and lyrics at that time, you hurry up and give me a good poem." ”

"Five thousand taels of gold."

"Why is it so expensive this time?"

"Because as soon as this poem comes out, the poetry of the world will be dull." Cheng Chubi smiled slightly, Princess Gaoyang's recent Wencheng fan shop should have made a lot of money, wouldn't it be cheaper to love that guy in the future?

"Good!" Princess Gao Yang thought about it, but still agreed, anyway, she had already made so many IOUs, and it didn't matter if she had a few thousand taels of gold.

As for whether it is repaid or not, it depends on whether Princess Ben has money or not.

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