Wang Defa also came this time to be more concerned about their sugar beet cultivation on the Shandong Peninsula. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

He found that sugar beets were indeed more suitable for growing in the north, and that they were growing much better than on Liuqiu Island.

After they vigorously planted the so-called chili pepper and pepper, they wanted to open the door to sugar.

Sugarcane was a crop that appeared as early as the Warring States Period, and in the Western Han Dynasty, the solid condensed from sugarcane juice could become a tribute product, which showed that it was still relatively precious.

In the Tang and Song dynasties, they finally learned to use stone mills to extract juice, and decoction to make sugar, and finally did not use the sun drying method.

During the Great Song Dynasty, the so-called frosting, combined sugar, and granulated sugar appeared, but the quality was quite poor.

During this era, sugar was widely manufactured in various places, and even in Sichuan and other places, there was also the manufacture of frosting.

Although the details of the production of sugar in each place are unknown, in general, the local production of fine sugar is the largest, such as Sichuan, Fujian, Guangdong and other places are the places where the most sugar is produced, and there are not a few places where sugarcane cultivation and sugar production are used as a sideline business for farmers.

In places rich in sugar, sugar making has become a specialized occupation, and in Suining and other places, there are hundreds of frosting households engaged in making frosting.

In this era, the so-called "drama candy" has appeared, with names such as pampering, sugar and swinging.

In Lin'an City, there have been hawkers selling all kinds of children's food along the street, earning children's money, selling things such as hemp candy, hammer candy, drum dumplings, etc., and even Liuqiu Badaohe City has such hawkers.

Yang Youxing often buys it for Shen Qianqian to eat, the reason is very simple, Shen Qianqian thinks that he earns more than himself, he doesn't buy it, who buys it?

In fact, there were many kinds of condiments in the Great Song Dynasty, including even some medicines, except for soy sauce and monosodium glutamate, which were not much different from later generations.

For example, in the areas of Jiangnan and Fujian, they eat red dregs, vegetables and fish, and mix them with the rate, and do not eat vinegar, which is the same as the flavor of southern cuisine such as Fujian cuisine in later generations.

But the soy sauce and MSG have now been easily handled by Jing Jing and Zhang Guoan.

A simple fermentation, a simple natural monosodium glutamate, are not worth mentioning.

After they came out, they were quickly learned by those who were interested, and now they are being promoted, and whether they can earn money can only depend on the level of personal management.

Of course, purely in terms of profits, these two items are far less big than tobacco and sugar.

Quiet really hates tobacco, but her friends, including her husband, are smokers, and she can't help it.

The owner of Zhang Guoan Island also comforted her, saying: "Cash crops, earn money from the rich, and the poor have to calculate even for food, where will they smoke it?" ”

Indeed, they set the price of tobacco very high from the beginning------ which made people like Liu Qian Xingshou look very good with pipes in their mouths, and the people who followed them were also rich people.

Plus it's really addictive, so both the growers and the processors make money.

In the Liuqiu area alone, the tobacco industry feeds nearly 5,000 people!

Judging from the past few years, tobacco accounted for a large part of the goods smuggled by the people of the Great Song Dynasty to the north, which shows that the Tatars also slowly began to smoke.

They are now eyeing white sugar, because until now, sugar prices have been high due to production and processing capacity.

Bringing down the price of sugar is another way for them to promote the flow of coins.

In the end, they decided to go the normal way and restore the common sense of growing sugar beet in the north and sugar cane in the south.

It is not impossible to grow sugar beets in the Liuqiu area, but it is easy to rot the roots, and because the temperature difference between day and night is not large, the sugar content of sugar beets is not high.

The Shandong Peninsula is a good place to grow sugar beets.

The sugar yield of sugar beet is one percentage point lower than that of sugarcane, and it should only be more than 11 percent, but sugar beet planting has fewer requirements for climatic conditions, fast growth, low additional input in the process, and saves manpower, and more importantly, because there is only one process to make sugar from sugar beet, and two processes are required to make sugar from sugarcane, and the cost is relatively high.

So is there a difference between beet sugar and sucrose? No.

The chemical composition of beet sugar and sucrose is exactly the same, there is no difference.

Indeed, it is difficult for ordinary people to eat the difference between the two, but Wang Defa can easily taste the difference between the two, the taste of beet sugar is not as good as sucrose, the key here is that 0.05% of the impurities determine the difference in taste, which is very similar to the dispute between mineral salt and sea salt, purely after the sugar resources are sufficient.

The yield of sugar beet per mu is high, it can easily reach the level of two tons, and the leaves can also be eaten as vegetables.

Wang Defa brought the equipment for squeezing sugar, two small and medium-sized beet exudators, which are actually two large tin-plated iron cans, which are used to hold sliced beet slices.

He brought a ten-horsepower pot camel machine and used a low-pressure steam boiler.

After Wang Defa came back, under his vigorous promotion, they didn't even need to make refined salt, and directly launched low-pressure steam equipment, which would increase the output of refined salt and improve the quality.

It's the same with sugar production.

Over the years, they have increased the number of seeds through trial planting, and now they can easily reach the level of 10,000 acres.

Everything was waiting for the beets to ripen------ Wang Defa, accompanied by Captain Bao Wei, also went to several mining areas on the Shandong Peninsula.

He saw that the captives were working very well, and understood that they had not been mistreated.

Captain Bowie smiled and said, "These guys can really eat, more than the soldiers." ”

Wang Defa nodded and said, "Of course, the heat consumption of miners is very large, and there is no problem with our supply, right?" ”

"No problem! There is whale meat in every meal------ occasionally like us, you can also eat pork! Cornmeal flatbread, it's okay to have a full meal! ”

Wang Defa looked around, and it was not bad.

Captain Bowie said: "They basically resigned themselves to their fate, they can eat enough here, there is still a salary, and if they exceed the meter, they will get bonuses.

Now, even those troops from the Great Song Dynasty seem to be reluctant to do farm work, but we all take the lead, and they are embarrassed not to help------"

The more than 10,000 soldiers from the Great Song Dynasty are indeed elite soldiers, which can be seen from their physical condition.

Moreover, people did not wear anything except military uniforms, and all the other armaments were brought with them, and they did not need to take care of the food, and even the baggage was provided by the Great Song Dynasty, which belonged to volunteers who brought their own dry food and weapons.

They are led by a commander, and it is the Zhao family who has cooperated with Captain Huang Zu before, whose name is Zhao An.

Since Da Song secretly sent troops, this is an informal promotion, but this is also a good opportunity, as long as he makes military merits on the battlefield, it is possible that he will become positive, because he is the Zhao family after all.

Wang Defa was happy that the Great Song Dynasty did not send civilian officials who did not understand military affairs to supervise the army, and this Zhao An still cooperated with Captain Huang Zu after all.

Now, they had all changed into the attire of the Wandering Guards, and even if they looked closely, they couldn't tell the difference. (To be continued.) )