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Lijiazhuang was full of joy, more than 100 stones of grain were transported back, looking at the bags of corn moving house, and even rice and wheat, everyone laughed and cried.

With so much food, there is no need to worry about starvation this winter.

Xue Wu saw everything in his eyes, and he found that although this Zhuangzi was small and poor, his hearts were very united. Especially when he knew that these villagers were originally tenants of the Li family, and now these villagers actually ate with Li San, he was surprised.

It is not uncommon for landlords to treat their tenants well. The relationship between landlords and tenants is not always incompatible, in fact, in most cases, the relationship between landlords and tenants is relatively good. Tenants cultivate the landlord's land, and this relationship is often passed down from generation to generation, with generations of landlords and grandfathers of tenants.

The tenants had to live on the landlord's land, and the landlord had to rely on the tenants' labor to cultivate, and the relationship between the two sides was mutually reinforcing. After a long time, even the relationship will bring a bit of friendship. During the New Year's holidays, the landlord often gave gifts to the tenants to thank them for their hard work in the past year.

As for the tenants, they usually help the landlord to do something at home. Whatever is harvested in the field, a copy will also be handed over to the landlord's family.

In times of disaster and famine, landlords also have the obligation to help tenants, although it is not free of charge, and often requires interest.

The relationship is strong and strong, and we all do our part.

Those evil landlords will be unpopular, and there are very few such people.

But if you say, like Li San, who treats the tenants as his own family and takes out the grain he buys to eat with the tenants, it is rare. The tenants are short of grain, and the landlord can lend them money, and the good ones will not charge interest at most, how can they eat in a big pot like this.

When Xue Wu saw that Yang Dayan was writing a thousand-character text with newly bought paper and ink, and a group of children in the village were watching carefully around the side, Yang Dayan was also writing and explaining the meaning of the words, he was even more surprised.

Such a poor Zhuangzi actually has a teaching gentleman, and listening to the meaning of everyone's words, this Li Sanlang actually wants to let this own bookkeeper teach tenant children to read for free, and even reward him for reading well.

"I've never seen a Zhuangzi like this." Xue Wu sighed, his family is also a landlord, or a big landlord, owns a lot of granges, and there are many tenants who rent his land, and his family is very good to the tenants, but it is by no means so good.

"Master, how can anyone treat tenants like this, there are no rules. Aren't you afraid of Shengmi En's fight against Mi Hatred, such a mess, isn't there no master and slave? ”

An attendant said unaccustomed to it.

"It's not that simple, I think this Li Jiazhuang is not simple everywhere, and this Li San is even more not simple, interesting, more and more interesting."

Li Xiao let Xue Wu sway around in Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi is such a big place, and there are such a few people, he can't stop Xue Wu when he comes, and he can't stop him if he wants to go around now.

"Xianggong, who are these people?"

"Friends you meet on the road, don't worry about them, just do as they please."

Li Xiao was carrying a bag of frosting candy in his hand, thinking about whether to refine a whiter frosting candy. That person had to bet with himself that Li Xiao was confident that he could refine frosting candy that was whiter than the one on the market now, but he was a little unsure of the true identity of this Xue Wu.

Sand sugar is a condiment and a luxury.

The price is very high, especially the whiter the frost, the more expensive, if Li Xiao comes up with a whiter frost than the current market, he doesn't know whether this is a blessing or a curse.

If this Xue Wu is not well-intentioned, then he has mastered this advanced sugar refining and decolorization process, but he is guilty.

If Li Xiao just took out some whiter frosting candy, but only said that he bought it from a Yangzhou merchant, he could prevaricate this Xue Wu, but I am afraid that he may not believe it.

After all, if people inquire casually, there will be no such good sugar in Li Xiao's hands anywhere, and this matter will be exposed.

It's a dilemma.

The Li family is still burdened with huge debts, and Li Xiao originally had a way to make money, but he didn't dare to take out many methods, just like some technical means such as papermaking, sugar making and even refining salt, which can make a lot of money by taking it out and playing with it casually.

But you can't protect yourself without identity and power, which is like a doll a few years old holding a gold brick to swagger through the market.

Without status, even if you want to cooperate with others, it is difficult to cooperate, who can guarantee that others will not swallow you and not even leave your bones.

Sighing, Li Xiao finally planned to test the decolorization technology of the frosted sugar first, no matter what, this is also a way to make money.

A large clay pot, a basket of charcoal, a bucket of yellow mud, a bag of lime, and then ten catties of frosted sugar, in the bedroom, Li Xiao bolted the door, and then entered the space.

I came to the space to refine sugar, because I didn't want to be known.

If you want to make the frosted sugar whiter, the key is to improve the decolorization process, but when Li Xiao bought the sugar, he found that the frosting he bought was the second, not only the color was very black and white, but also impurities.

If you want to refine this sugar into snow-white sugar, it is not enough to refine and decolorize, you have to purify it again.

A stove was dug in the ground, a clay pot was erected, and some spring water was scooped from the spiritual spring and put it in, and the fire was burned.

The water boiled, and the black frosting sugar he bought, the first time, Li Xiao only added one catty, this sugar is too expensive, in case of failure, he can come back several times.

After re-melting the black inferior frosting sugar into a syrup in a jar, Li Xiao first filtered the slurry with charcoal.

Although this is just ordinary charcoal, not activated charcoal, charcoal itself also has strong adsorption, which can filter and adsorb impurities in many syrup, so that a purer syrup can be obtained.

After the filtration was completed, Li Xiao added lime to the much clearer syrup, which was a very important step.

The acidity in the syrup is neutralized by the alkali, which is an extremely important step before the crystallization of frosting sugar.

According to the summary of later generations, it is because in addition to sucrose and water in cane juice, there are some organic acids that are not very large, but are extremely unfavorable to sucrose crystallization. They promote the hydrolysis of sucrose to produce reducing sugars, which not only fail to crystallize themselves during the shelving process, but also produce molasses, which the ancients called sugar oil, which will hinder the crystallization of sucrose.

Therefore, the ancients also concluded that it is necessary to use plant ash or lime to neutralize or precipitate those free acids, so that those organic non-sugar, inorganic salts, and sediment suspensions can be precipitated, which can not only improve the taste of sucrose, but also make the viscosity of cane juice smaller and the color brighter.

Li Xiao watched that after adding lime, the syrup slowly became clearer, and he was very excited, it seems that this step is very good, and it is a success.

A clearer syrup also means purer sugars and better decolorization.

At this time, the syrup has changed from black to red, and there is almost no need to decolorize, and after crystallization, this is brown sugar.