A few people chatted for a while, Feng Daiwen asked someone to set up a banquet to entertain a few people, in fact, Cheng Yanjin and others mainly came to discuss porcelain with Feng Daiwen, of course, weapons are also the main thing.

Everyone sat down, and Cheng Yanjin asked first: "The old man and the others are mainly here to ask, what is the specific charter of the new porcelain of the virtuous nephew, and what is needed. ”

Feng Daiwen knew that this was Cheng Biting Jin and the two of them were not good at eating this big business, so he brought Zhang Gongjin and Li Ji and others, Zhang Gongjin was born in Jiangnan, there was a Jiangnan clan behind him, Li Ji guarded the border pass, and returned to Chang'an at the end of this year, which was of great help to both of them in porcelain sales.

In these years, businessmen have no official backers, they are easy to be occupied by others, and different places need different identities to work, even if Li Shimin's face is now, it is impossible to walk with the world, the biggest power of the Feng family is only in the Lingnan area, and the role of leaving Lingnan is not great, and the local petty officials may not sell it, but they are important ministers of the court, and they care more about the Feng family.

Feng Daiwen arched his hand and introduced: "This new porcelain nephew is thirty percent, Princess Qin is thirty percent, and the remaining four layers will be handed over to your uncles to divide, but this can only be sold abroad at present, and it is not too late to sell more exquisite ones in the Central Plains."

As for those sold, they were mainly exchanged for horses, cattle and sheep, and other treasures were gold and silver, which were secondary. ”

Li Ji and the others understood after a little thought, what Datang lacks now is horses, cattle are also important, and sheep are the most important meat.

"The virtuous nephew said very much, so this matter will be arranged by a certain family, and it happens that there are one or two stewards in the family, and they are familiar with all places." Cheng Yanjin said with a happy smile.

This is a fair and honest benefit, and everyone is naturally very satisfied, although everyone is to share, after all, it doesn't take much effort.

Poverty in ancient times, this is what Feng Daiwen feels the most, materials are more important than gold and silver, cattle are ploughing cattle and killing is a crime, and less, not to mention whether they can be killed, they are reluctant to kill, sheep is the main meat, pigs are also called pigs (shi), also known as 彘 (zhi) Now there is still no castration, the taste is very heavy, generally only the poor eat, and the farmers themselves are not full, where the surplus grain raises chickens and ducks, as for the fish is even more difficult to catch, because there are no material conditions, they are all caught by hand, and occasionally shallow water can get a little, But there is no way to do it in the long run.

Zhujiazhuang learned the bamboo basket method from Feng Daiwen, and recently in the vicinity of Wannian County, basically every family will put a few baskets, which has greatly improved their lives.

"It just so happens that Uncle Zhang is here today, and my little nephew still has a business to share with you." Feng Daiwen asked people to take white sugar, sugar is a luxury in this era, the royal family only has bee candy picked by luck in the wild, and the folk only have maltose, but maltose is not very sweet, sucrose, is also brown sugar, and only a small amount of production, there are a lot of impurities, and the color is also black, which is the reason for incomplete filtration, and it is controlled in the hands of the family.

The white sugar is boiled and filtered by Feng Daiwen with sucrose, and the "drip method" is used to decolorize the sucrose. The method is to boil the cane juice to a certain concentration, pour it into a funnel-shaped pottery called "tile", and pour yellow mud from the top, which is used as an adsorption decolorizing agent to make white sugar from the point of view of modern technology.

Lingnan sugarcane was required to be planted in large quantities by Feng Daiwen the year before last, and it has only become a scale now. (Of course, the current rock candy is in large pieces, and it is impossible to have a large number of particles in modern society, and older people should have seen rock candy piece by piece when they were young).

Li Ji and the others looked at the refined salt in the plate and the white rock sugar piece by piece, and asked, "Is this sugar?" They all tentatively threw a piece into their mouths.

"Well, it's so sweet!" Cheng Biting Jin bit a piece of rock candy, his bearded face leaked a satisfied smile, and after speaking, he swallowed it a few times, and then picked up a large piece and threw it in his big mouth.

Li Ji, Zhang Gongjin has a lot of Sven, taste it slowly, Zhang Gongjin nodded and asked: "Good thing, this white sugar can also be produced in large quantities?" ”

"Not now, this is made of sucrose, there is more sunshine in the south, sugarcane is more sugar, Uncle Zhang can let the south plant a large number of plants, I will wait for the money to buy, and then everyone will set up a workshop, the benefits are still distributed like porcelain, I don't know what everyone thinks." Feng Daiwen shook his head and said.

"However, a large amount of planting in Jiangnan will inevitably affect grain income, and I am afraid it will be difficult." Zhang Gongjin explained embarrassedly.

"This matter is not difficult, Uncle Zhang should not have paid attention to this aspect in recent years, the Xiao family learned two crops of rice in Lingnan, and now a large number of two crops of rice are planted in Jiangnan, even if they pay taxes from next year, there will be no shortage of grain, and the income of sugarcane is higher than that of grain, which is even more of a problem." Feng Daiwen analyzed.

"This is very good, since this is the case, I will send a message to all the families in Jiangnan to start planting a large number next year." Zhang Gongjin's eyes lit up, and he said happily, because if it affects food income, it will inevitably be stopped by the government.

In fact, Feng Daiwen makes white sugar, mainly because he misses the back pot meat, as a Sichuan person in his previous life, the days of not returning to the pot meat for a long time are really sad, and the back pot meat lacks that taste without white sugar, as for the pork fishy problem is even simpler, you only need to cook it with white water and wild ginger first, and the taste is woody, and now the pigs in Lingnan and Zhujiazhuang have been castrated since childhood, and the castrated pigs not only do not smell, but also do not love to move, and the meat grows quickly.

The next few people can be said to be very happy to talk about each other, Cheng Yanjin and others even ate more than 10 minutes back to the pot meat, sighing that the pork is so delicious, I don't know that Feng Daiwen's family is now using an iron wok, carefully built with fine iron, and other people are boiled, burned, roasted, stewed, Wei, and so on, Wei Chigong and others said before leaving that they would arrange for the family cook to learn to cook, Feng Daiwen took the opportunity to ask a few people to help collect iron ore and blacksmiths. Such a trivial matter, with a gesture of effort, several people also agreed one by one.