From a distance, the village warriors watched as the procession of these men continued to walk westward, and then suddenly turned north at the T-junction to the south gate of Anyun City, and then walked straight in the direction of the city gate. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info[燃^文^书库]|Novel Ranking m|

At first, the villagers and the soldiers guarding the city were still stunned, not thinking about what this was for, but after a while, the leading people had already walked through the city gate, and they suddenly came to their senses, "The people have entered the city!" ”

I don't know who was the first to shout such a voice, which immediately made everyone panic, and the people at the head of the wall suddenly ran around, and the people who watched the excitement at the city gate also retreated in panic.

Before the crowd could disperse, more than a dozen children suddenly ran up, gathered around the example, stretched out their hands and jumped happily and shouted, "Sugar!" Uncle, sugar! The example was stunned for a moment, he didn't understand what was going on for a while, and the naturalized people working in the counterintelligence department on the side quietly whispered in his ear: "Chief, generally when other leaders go to the countryside to work, they have to bring some food to send to their children." ”

This is a method used by the Senate to win over the indigenous people, and its predecessor is that the Japanese devils entered China to get some "goodwill" measures, and giving children candy is the simplest and most effective means. You must know that there are few children who can resist the sweetness, and it is difficult for adults to really look at the children around them who are overly curious, when the children are around these unclear intentions and are not hurt or even get some small sweetness, then the adults who see this situation will be much less vigilant. You must know that in the old time and space, the Japanese relied on these goodwills, and even left a lot of "good names" in some parts of the country. Of course, the false goodwill and real plundering of the Japanese must not be compared with the Senate.

Sure enough, seeing the children bouncing around and getting the candy in the hands of the militia and the senators, they almost immediately peeled off the candy wrappers wrapped in the wax paper and stuffed the snow-white candy balls into their mouths. The smiles on the children's faces were certainly not fake, which slowed down the pace of the onlookers in Anyun County to flee a little, and gradually became less afraid, after all, after the team of people walked into the city gate, they did not commit any crimes, neither killed nor robbed pedestrians, and even gave candy to the children. Sugar is an absolute luxury in this time and space, whether it is An Yun or Wu Dynasty, not to mention the hobby of Yaning people who like to drink sugar tea. Although Guangdong and Annam are both places where sugarcane is grown, the efficiency of sugarcane juice extraction is very low, and the juice yield is often less than 50%. Most of the sugar is wasted in bagasse, so sugar is considered a luxury wherever it is, and when the patriarchs first came into contact with the local wealthy households, the wealthy merchants made sugar water or sugar tea for the patriarchs to drink. At first, the patriarchs were unimpressed, but later learned that only rich people can afford to eat sugar......

At this moment, several women rushed up from the crowd in a rage, dragged the child aside, and slapped the child on the ass a few times, while counting the child, "Is the sugar so delicious?" I ate it in one bite, and I don't know how to put it away for home? ”

The example couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, and the naturalized worker on the side had quite good eyesight, knowing what the example was thinking, and quietly leaned over and explained: "Chief, it's not surprising, local sugar has always been very expensive, and a candy ball you just gave to the child can be worth three cents." "This example really can't close his mouth, this sugar is so expensive? As for it?

This batch of sugar is a non-staple food made by the Dongfang Port Food Factory, at the beginning, the sugar from the Dongfang Port was transported by Medeno and Wu Chaohai, the quality is not high, the quantity is not much, and the price is not cheap. This made Gu Qingqian, who reviewed the order of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, extremely annoyed, you must know that in the old time and space, although sugar was not as cheap as if it didn't need money, it would not be enough to compete with the price of almost the same weight of silver, right? Therefore, the Ministry of Commerce and Trade stopped importing finished sugar, and instead directly imported bagasse.

At this time, the sugar extraction season in Guangdong has long ended, and the sugarcane bagasse left over from sugar extraction is useless, and the locals use it to feed the pigs or throw it away. Since someone wanted it, soon a fleet of Medeno ships brought in a whole fleet of bagasse. In fact, these people don't believe that the Senate will really want bagasse at all, but they signed a procurement contract with the Senate, and the freight is not low.

The 50-tonne bagasse was quickly transported from the docks to the food production plant, where three large juicers were placed, which were the products of the heavy industry laboratory and were used to extract the juice by three rollers. Originally, it was designed to desugarize the sugarcane, but the sugar content of the bagasse was still very high, so it was transported directly to the feeding port for secondary juicing.

After production, the 50 tons of bagasse actually squeezed out more than 20 tons of cane juice, and then after refining by the food factory, more than 3 tons of white sugar were finally produced. This immediately caused a sensation in the port of Vost.

In sugar production on this plane, the cane juice is initially precipitated, and then the impurities floating on it are removed. The cane juice is then boiled over a fire until it is a slurry and is about to boil, and then a small amount of lime is poured in to clarify the sugar solution. Even in the old days, lime was used as a fining agent in the production of blank sugar factories, and lime was always better than sulfur dioxide, superphosphate and other clarifying agents. In some places, plant ash is used when making sugar, and the principle is the same. After adding lime, the syrup will turn yellow, then change the pot and continue to boil the sugar, slowly evaporating the water. When the moisture content is already low, pour in oil or egg whites to decolorize, then boil the cane juice into a thin paste and pour it into a funnel-like tile. The lower end of the tile is plugged with grass and then rested on the large clay jar, and the sugar solution containing impurities slowly drip into the clay jar below, and only the crystals of sugar are left in the tile. In this way of sugar production, there will be a waste of sugar juice when removing floating impurities at the beginning, and the quality is very low, and the main thing produced is very dark red sugar.

However, the practice in the food factory of Dongfang Port is almost a modern production process without waste, although it has not been able to produce it for the time being because of the lack of production equipment, but the sugar production rate has even exceeded that of the sugar workshop of the Wu Dynasty, and the quality is higher, directly white sugar or rock sugar.

The people of Maidno immediately felt that their brains were insufficient, and these strange Orientals were too powerful, although they did not know how these people made sugar from bagasse, but these sugars were obviously much better than the sugar they could buy from the Wu Dynasty. As a result, there were immediately Maideno merchant ships that began to buy sugarcane directly from the Wu Dynasty and transport it to Dongfang Port, even if they paid for the freight and processing fees, the cost was still lower than the price of buying sugar bricks directly from the Wu Dynasty. The only consequence of this behavior is that the price of sugarcane in Guangdong and Guangxi in the Wu Dynasty suddenly soared, and almost no one cared about sugar bricks. The local sugar merchants lost their pants almost this year, and some rich and powerful sugar merchants joined forces at this time to demand that the price of sugar cane be controlled and that the Meideno merchants were not allowed to purchase sugar cane directly from the Wu Dynasty.

However, the sugar merchant of the Wu Dynasty doesn't have to worry about what example he wants, the main thing he is worried about is whether there will be an ambush on both sides of the knife and axe, and he will rush out and kill when he is given an order, although he now has a Glock, but it is certain that he can't get much good in this kind of close range, and his identity is still a thief at the moment, and he can't predict what these Wu Dynasty officials and officials will do.

But in fact, the example was too worried, since they had just walked through the gate of An Yun City, there were already officials who ran to Zhou Jinfeng's study to report to him the news that the thief had entered the city.

Zhou Jinfeng, who heard the news, couldn't help but sit down on the chair with cold hands and feet, since the fall of the Donghaiwei Beacon Tower, the existence of this group of thieves has pressed on his heart like a huge stone, making him feel restless all the time. Since the first time he went out to beg for thieves, the guards and village warriors were defeated in front of the battle, he knew that this group of pirates was not something that his people could deal with, and the only choice was to close the city gate and defend the city in peace, and wait for the thieves to go. The problem is that this group of thieves not only did not go by themselves, but built a city near the beacon tower with great fanfare, and now this barren mountain and wild mountain a few months ago has now become the largest city in the Nanwu Dynasty, Dongfang Port, and every day I don't know how many people go to Dongfang Port to buy and sell things. Some time ago, he went to the port of the East in disguise to take a look, but what he saw was a long queue of ships waiting outside the port to load and unload goods. God knows that there is a great force in this eastern port now, if it is going to attack the city...... He had no doubt that his village warriors would surrender to the thieves at the first opportunity.

During this period of time, the thieves have carried out the work of suppressing bandits in the whole territory of Anyun with great fanfare, which made Zhou Jinfeng feel that his brain was suddenly insufficient. The matter of suppressing thieves has been a matter of the government since ancient times, and the conflict between thieves and thieves is called fire, and if a group of thieves suddenly say that they are suppressing thieves, it will inevitably be too funny. But Zhou Jinfeng couldn't laugh, at present, there are soldiers marching west along the avenue almost every day, and at the same time, there are bandits who are strung with ropes and escorted to Dongfang Port every day, and there are even some people dressed as officers and soldiers during the period. He has long known the rumors that there are officials and soldiers among the bandits, and even he has heard of several of the bandits directly raised by Ruan Shimin, but Ruan Shimin has the only army capable of fighting in An Yun's territory, and he has no way to do it. Since the advent of the Oriental Port, a large number of merchants have gone to the Oriental Port by land and sea to purchase goods, and the bandits are like flies that smell fishy smells, and they quickly gather on the side of the Oriental Port.

As An Yun's parent official, he also worried a lot about the bandits, not to mention the ambitions when he first came to An Yun, but he, a lonely parent official, was powerful and powerless, and the government decree could not leave An Yun City. Therefore, several orders to suppress thieves can only be posted at the gate of the city, which can be regarded as a huge victory. In the past, An Yun Xiangyong could go out to occasionally suppress bandits, but since the failure of the attack on the thieves, An Yun Xiangyong has suffered heavy losses, and after accepting the displaced people in Dongfang Port, he can't even recruit Xiang Yong. As for counting on Ruan Shimin's thousand households to send troops to suppress the thieves - that is even more of a joke, if he does not come out to rob the people, he is already a cultivator.

But suddenly, the thieves played the banner of protecting the territory and the people, and really began to suppress the bandits, and on the first day, they uprooted the stockade of Liuluyan, the largest force in Anyun. This made Zhou Jinfeng almost unable to keep his mouth shut, as An Yun's parents, how could he not know the power of the Six Paths? There are more than a thousand bandits under his command, and there is a stockade that is absolutely easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is known to the outside world as impregnable, and often shouts that 100,000 officers and soldiers should not want to take down this stockade. As a result, it was captured by thieves within a day, what if such a terrifying force was used to attack An Yun City? He didn't dare to think about it at all, he was afraid that the whole city would fall in just half an hour.

However, what made him a little relieved was that these thieves, who claimed to protect the territory and the people, really did the work of protecting the territory and the people, and there were common people and wealthy businessmen who spontaneously set up stalls on the roadside to offer tea and food to the soldiers along the way, and there were even many hot-blooded young people who blocked the road and asked to join the soldiers to suppress the bandits -- the bandits' attacks on the people were so outrageous that the bandits who were escorted back to Dongfang Port did not know how far they would be chased by the common people with stones and farm tools along the way, and many militiamen in charge of escorting them suffered a lot. Despite the militia's constant obstruction, more than a dozen unlucky bandits died under the chaos of the people during this time.

Thinking of this, Zhou Jinfeng hurriedly asked the official who reported the news, "How many soldiers are there in the thief?" How many weapons are carried? Where did you get into the city from? ”

"South...... At the south gate, there were about 100 people, all of whom had weapons, all spears. It's just ......," the official said suddenly, with a look of wanting to speak and stopping.

This made Zhou Jinfeng sweat in a hurry, "You said it!" Just what? ”

"It's just that they seem to have escorted a group of bandits, not to attack the city."

"Nonsense, do they still need to attack this An Yun City?" Zhou Jinfeng couldn't help blurting out. Since Dongfang Port began to gain a foothold, he sent an urgent document to Beihai every day, hoping that the imperial court and heavenly army would come to expel the thieves, who knew that the ports of Dongfang Port had been repaired, and Beihai sent back a document saying that the matter had been known and was being reported to the imperial court. Later, he sent a monthly letter to the Beihai Coastal Defense General Office, detailing the number of thieves' troops, the number of ships, and the request to suppress the thieves. After the Chinese New Year, I got a reply from General Liu Chuanzhi, saying that he was holding the walled city, not going out in vain, and waiting for the thief to go by himself. After doing so much, Zhou Jinfeng was also dead-hearted, and he didn't even bother to send urgent documents, so he nested in this county office every day and didn't go out, waiting for the day when the thieves attacked the city, he would directly coexist with the city.