Everyone was silent, and Gao Ruone also held his breath and listened to Zheng Lang's arrangement.

For this ration, no matter how much turmoil is caused by tea, wine, and salt. If it's not arranged properly, something will happen.

However, it was very simple for Zheng Lang, and said: "You have also seen that sugarcane has begun to be stored in the warehouse, but it is only the product of one state, and you dare not delay the production of grain, the amount is very small, only a few hundred hectares, far from enough for your ration. ”

It is definitely not enough, once it is mass-produced, its sales will exceed the sales of tea, only 800 hectares of cane fields, 200 stones per hectare, 160,000 stones, don't go abroad, the Song Dynasty can only barely ten people spread a catty. Unless it is sold at a sky-high price, as long as a few tens of Wen a catty, I am afraid that even the people of Taiping Prefecture, at least 80 out of 100 households will taste the freshness.

Heads of men.

Zheng Lang said: "I still need your help, the local cane production will be dealt with later, as for your ration, based on the amount of cane you supply, every thousand stones is a bunch, and the sugarcane produced will be supplied as much sugar as you want, and you can choose between two kinds of sugar." Regardless of whether it is local or foreign, whether there is a deed share or not, it is subject to this method. You can also send someone to supervise the sugar production. But you should also remember that when choosing cane, you must choose good cane, because the sugar that is rationed is the new cane produced by the cane chosen by the kings. ”

Isn't it simple?

If you want 10,000 catties of sugar, you can transport 200,000 catties of sugarcane over, but the sugarcane is not good, you can only 8,000 catties, and the good cane can be 12,000 catties. Whether it's sweet or not is also determined by the sugar cane you choose.

What a big family is strong, what a bully in a place, I can't see it!

If you give cane, you will have sugar, and if you don't give cane, it won't work for Lu Yijian's family.

"That's a good ......," Gao Rona muttered.

Zheng Lang smiled and said, "There is also a rationing plan for locally produced cane. I don't know how much cane will come, but many local households have properties in the city, and some of them have warehouses, and I discussed this matter this spring. When you come to the cane, you store it in their homes, keep it in their homes, keep it in your hand, mark it, and transport it to the workshop when you make it, and load it on the ship and leave as soon as it is made. In order to compensate, the local cane sugar is calculated and distributed based on the amount of cane stored by each household. ”

Everyone was stunned again.

In this way, wouldn't the sugar workshop even save a lot of money for building a warehouse? The local households did not complain, not only were they rationed, but they themselves had their own deed shares in it.

Even the cost of sugarcane is saved, and the sugarcane from other places are all transported from each household, and if you don't make sugar, you can pay immediately when you make sugar, and the workshop has nothing to do, and the sugar is ready, and you are waiting to collect the money.

Wang Zhaoming meditated on this section and smiled dumbly.

There is no way for everyone to do it, who will tell others to do their own business? But after thinking about it carefully, it's really fair.

With cane with sugar, there is no oppression, or on the other side, there are only a few places where good cane is produced, it is impossible to go to Bashu, and it is impossible to go to Lingnan, that is, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, to see if you can squeeze out a part of Fujian, there will inevitably be some injustice. However, it has nothing to do with this side.

Even the local rations are only obtained by people who have made contributions.

I didn't say that the local warehouse consumption, this has, but the cane skin is thick and the meat is thick, the time is short, and the loss of one thousandth is not normal, and the person who can build the warehouse is also a faceless person, who is guilty of doing bad things for a stone of sugarcane? Is it a hundred, or a hundred and fifty? Worth.

A skinny middle-aged man asked, "So what do you do?" ”

Zheng Lang said just now that the price of sugar will be discussed, but it is impossible to send sugarcane, and it will be processed for himself, and the price of cane must be calculated, so a new problem comes, if he spends a penny to buy ten stones, but it becomes a hundred yuan in Wuhu, wouldn't it be a big loss?

Zheng Lang said: "You can also see the production cost, in addition to the normal production of brown sugar, some ingredients are also used, otherwise there would not be so much sugar residue in the tank." However, the cost and labor are basically fixed, but the price of cane will fluctuate, with more prices falling and fewer rising. The price of cane is determined by the cost of your cane price, and some more loss earned in the workshop. The higher the price of cane you give, the higher the price of sugar. Conversely, the lower the price offered, the lower the price offered. As me, I still hope that the price is slightly lower, and the lower the price, the better it will sell. It just so happens that you are all in the areas where sugarcane is produced, and you know the price of sugarcane. You negotiate the price of sugarcane, and then the workshop will pay the price of sugar. This move is also a precedent, and everyone negotiates and bargains together every year. ”

Let them make their own decisions?

Gao Ruone couldn't help but be suspicious, not afraid that they would say that they would kill one stone and one penny?

Suddenly I woke up, high, really high!

In fact, it doesn't matter what the price of cane is, ten cents a stone, five catties of sugar are made, and a pound of sugar costs ten cents, and it becomes twelve cents if it is added up. One hundred wen and one stone, and the previous one, one hundred and ten wen per catty.

There is still a difference, if the cane is poor, the amount of sugar produced is low, and the workshop will earn less. Do you dare to do that, and take some small cheap sugar from the workshop, which can be rationed, is exactly the sugar you transported to the sugar cane, and the sugar content will be low if the sucrose is less, and the sucrose is not sweet to sell to? Therefore, knowing that the better the cane, the more the workshop earns, and the more it is necessary to choose the good cane.

It's an unsolvable problem!

The businessmen also came to their senses, and the thin middle-aged man muttered, "Sure enough, he is the best talent." ”

It's not a business, it's an official, otherwise there would still be us? Sooner or later, dominate the rivers and lakes and dominate the business forest!

It's everyone's psychology that only knows how to reap benefits for themselves and exploit loopholes, but they ignore one thing, the simplicity of the proposal!

Begin to negotiate the price of cane.

Some people are in the area itself produces cane, but cane also has good and bad, before coming someone deliberately investigated, poor cane money can buy more than fifteen stones, this is not considered, the price of good cane is in eleven or twelve stones, four Ming cane is only ten stones, as well as freight, loss on the road, and the risk of rivers and lakes, everyone competing to buy must make the price further rise, and so on, and finally set the price, eight stone cane a penny.

Good cane must still lose a little, but under everyone's coaxing, the poor cane dare not be used, and it will inevitably be replaced by a little less cane, and it is impossible to be all Siming cane, and there is not so much yield. This is also a relatively fair cane price.

Zheng Lang smiled, and then brought all the deed shareholders into the workshop, and if there was a cane price, the price would be negotiated.

After a while, Zheng Lang came out and said: "We discussed it, sucrose can be divided into snow sugar, crystal white, white, light yellow, medium yellow, dark yellow, light brown, dark brown eight kinds, but considering the subdivision, there will inevitably be disputes, so the price is only divided into three kinds, white, yellow, brown, as for the proportion, although Taiping Prefecture is not a good land for cane production, but from the time of planting, a large amount of cake fertilizer is used, and the cane seeds are also transported from Siming, and its yield, sweetness, and sugar yield are not much inferior to Siming cane. ”

As he spoke, he clapped his hands, and then took out the sugarcane one by one, let everyone see its length and thickness, cut off the skin with a cane knife, and handed it to everyone for everyone to taste.

Doing so will make it easier for everyone to understand.

He continued: "The approximate sugar yield is less than 5.5 percent, and in view of the uneven quality of the cane varieties you provide, the official has set it at 5 percent. Snow sugar and crystal white sugar account for about three-thirds of five, the proportion of good cane will be larger, and the proportion of sucpine difference will be smaller. ”

It is these two types of sucrose that are more transparent, but the most profitable.

"White sugar will account for about two and a half, brown sugar will account for about two and a half, and brown sugar will account for about one percent. According to the sugar supply provided by you, it will be delivered one by one in eight equal parts after it is prepared, but only three equal prices are calculated when calculating, 45 wen per catty of white sugar, 30 wen of brown sugar, and 15 wen of brown sugar. ”

After repeated calculations in it, it can not be calculated according to the local sugarcane, the standard requirements are too high, slightly lower the grade, the source of sugarcane is eight stones, the original sugar price is twenty wen per catty, and the upper sugar residue will make wine, this has nothing to do with the merchants, it is handed over to the imperial court at two hundred wen per stone, and the lower sugar residue is sold to the peasants at twenty wen per stone with free bagasse to make fertilizer, which can basically keep the tax, labor and other costs about three yuan. Every catty of sucrose comes out, there is about 12 wen profit.

It is already considerable, and the local area alone can bring more than 200,000 yuan in income, and there is also a surge of sugar cane from all over the country, the more it comes, the lower the cost, and the higher the profit.

You can also increase the price, after all, this is the only one.

But let Zheng Lang veto, if the bid is low, the price will be low, and the sales will be considerable, that's it, the first-class snow-white sugar can sell the merchant at least 100 Wen, and in Taiping Prefecture can buy two buckets of rice, two catties of Hangzhou tea, ten catties of pork, or sixty or seventy large buns that are extremely affordable, and the two of them have a big meal in the tavern, a decent new dress, or silk clothing.

Sooner or later, the truth about profits will come out, and other businessmen will not accept it. This is not the imperial court, or the imperial court is a monopoly, and it does not dare to increase the net profit to more than 100%.

At least now the businessmen are more impressed, I don't know why the brown sugar has changed in such a short period of time, some ingredients must have been used, and in their hearts, the profit of the workshop has dropped a little, about seven or eight cents per catty.

It's definitely going to be earned, and this profit is already very low. It's just to add another ten cents, and they dare to say no words?

Another middle-aged man said, "What about the price of the latter?" ”

It's also what they care about, I don't know how much it will cost, with it, it can have a direct impact on the frosting.

How much does the frosting weigh, and a good frosting is calculated per catty.

Zheng Lang smiled again and said, "I call that kind of candy rock candy." ”

Everyone thought about what it looked like, pondered for a moment, and said, "Good name." ”

"It will make everyone a little reluctant, if you want to make it, you have to make it with snow sugar and crystal white sugar, and it has to be filtered again and mixed with egg white, which is what you just saw, the speed is slow, the efficiency is low, but it doesn't take long, it's just a night of cold night. But considering the cost of snow sugar, the cost of chickens is not taken into account. ”

Everyone laughed together.

Chickens are expensive, and only the egg whites in them are picked, which is even more expensive. But this kind of sugar is close to 100 wen per catty, and chickens are really nothing.

"Each catty of rock candy costs four to five taels of chickens, everyone, there are not so many chickens in Taipingzhou, if you want to make it, you also need to bring it from all over the country, but after volatilization, there will only be about half a tael of proportions, and its price is 90 wen per catty. Or change to another method, with the first two grades of white sugar produced by themselves, one catty of three taels of high-grade snow sugar and half a catty of chicken, and the cost of ten cents of tax, in exchange for a catty of rock sugar. "Because of the slow speed, no matter which way of changing, there is a profit of more than 20 yuan per catty.

But compared to the terrible price of frosting, the price and profit of this rock sugar are negligible.

The impact on sugar households in Suining and other places is also inevitable, and the advanced productive forces will sooner or later replace the backward productive forces.

However, the technology came out, and because of the good cane, Suining will also catch up and surpass Wuhu and become a new cane sugar base.

Everyone applauded.

No matter what kind of sugar it is, they are too satisfied.

Zheng Lang said again: "It's not early, let's rest for the night, tomorrow the rock candy will be a part, although it is not as sweet as two months later, but you can bring some comfort to your family." ”

"Whoa." In fact, they were in a hurry and wanted to go back to buy sugarcane, but they didn't care about the night.

continued: "Tomorrow the official will take you to see a good thing. ”

"What's that?"

"We'll find out tomorrow." As he spoke, he stood up and was about to move.

A merchant was bold enough to say, "Zhizhou, can you take us to see the Monogate?" ”

I can see it myself, but after all, those things were invented by this champion Zhizhou, and he has a different surname.

"Okay, you guys come with me."

Brought to the Wuge Academy, Wei Siniang watched it several times, never got tired of looking at it, blinked her eyes and asked, "Zheng Zhizhou, that sugar is also a physicism?" ”

"Yes, Gewu Zhizhi."

"The Master is amazing, but I have also read the book, and the Master only talks about learning about things, and does not say anything else."

He said it, it makes us think, life is like a dream, it is fleeting in the blink of an eye, and the master has time to think about so carefully about learning. He is pointing the way for future generations to follow. ”

Gao Ruone disagreed, and thought to himself, what does your way of enriching the country have to do with the master? He likes Guan Shen, but this path has nothing to do with Guan Zhong.

These people are also investors in Wuhu, Zheng Lang patiently explained the principle, but even if he did, no one understood. After turning around, the huge group of people scattered one by one with surprised and satisfied faces.

At that time, I was in the crazy enclosure, building houses violently, and I didn't know what to do, until autumn came, the prosperity appeared, and some people gradually had ideas, some from Zheng Lang brought the weaver girl to learn experience, invited craftsmen from other places, iron, pharmaceutical and tanning, some specialized in grain and silk, some made inns, some made food shops, and there were also Ji Yuan. Someone even dug up some pretty heads from other places to support the façade.

When night comes, the lights are all turned on, and many shops hang red lanterns to attract business.

A few people have been to Wuhu before, and they feel even more amazing after seeing it.

Gao Ruone sat in a restaurant with Wang Zhaoming, Lu Erlang, Shi Congguang and Wang Xianling, facing the window and looking outside, Wang Zhaoming said: "The change is really big. ”

"Next year will be even more lively," Wang Zhixian said proudly.

Gao Ruone was concerned about another matter, and asked, "Zheng Zhizhou, how much profit can that sugar workshop make?" ”

Zheng Lang lightly calculated the account and said: "Local sugarcane will bring more than 200,000 yuan in benefits, and the rest depends on how much sugarcane these merchants transport." ”

"If it's five times, won't there be more than a million?"

"No, the good cane fields have already been circled by some deed households, and I surprised that there may not be so much sugar cane in various places. It will be about three to four times as much. If there is more, it will be a secondary cane, even if it is beneficial, the sugar yield is low, the proportion of white sugar is small, and the profit is also very thin, and the second cane can be lost. ”

"Why don't you sell it all together?"

"No, I am only divided into three classes, in order to avoid disputes, but the sugar comes out well, one is the cane, which is the responsibility of the businessman, and there are two procedures for boiling and drenching, and the quality of these two procedures also determines the quality of the cane sugar. If the total sugar content is calculated, the supervisors and craftsmen will not have a sense of responsibility, which will eventually affect the quality of the sucrose. With risk, due diligence will be done. "It is a surname with Zhuwei last winter, why is it very bad when things are in the hands of the imperial court, the big pot of rice was terrible in the previous life, and it is equally terrible in this life. But Zheng Lang didn't say anything deeply.

"The imperial court ratio is too small."

"It's a lot, take a look at the monopoly of tea, salt, wine, alum, etc., how much real profit does the imperial court get? Most of them are in the pockets of big families. In this way, symbiosis and coexistence with businessmen, the court is only responsible for supervision, and all the operations are carried out by businessmen, who are also the most expert people, and they are responsible for collecting their profits, and even at the beginning of the creation, not only did not have the capital, but also got a lot of capital to do practical things, why not? It is man who is to be content. Just when I don't hand over this technology and make my own profit. ”

Shi Congguang lowered his head and snickered with Lu Erlang.

Zheng Lang can do that.

is that the bigwigs in the court are so red that they want to kill, and they are all right.

"I'm very troubled by the disaster victims, and I can't arrange it without throwing out this measure. If you want to blame, blame it on those who proposed it in the first place, and it has nothing to do with me. I didn't even want to implement this plan, but let it be, with a little bit of allocation, Yanchen couldn't find trouble, and I took it step by step and didn't take any risks. Taiping Prefecture moved, I stepped too fast. Speaking of this, Zheng Lang looked unhappy.

All this was caused by the 7,000 families of the disaster.

Gao Rune was speechless.

Zheng Lang said: "It will be better next year." ”

Wang Zhixian and the others snickered again. Under the huge profits, these businessmen will inevitably trick the people into planting sugarcane, so the officials of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other states will have a headache. But that has nothing to do with Taiping Prefecture.

This Gao Ruo Ne, he doesn't care, the court needs money. Question: "In the future, can we have ten times the profit of dozens of times?" ”

"No, the amount is more and the profit is less, and the merchants will inevitably lower the price at that time. Also, it won't last long. ”

"Why?"

"Will there be merchants transporting sugarcane from Panyu and Suining?"

"No, it's too far to be worth it."

"So can I be the enemy of the world?"

"What does it matter......

"I'm in Wuhu, maybe no one dares to touch it. Technology was something I came up with, an expedient measure to settle the victims, and to create wealth for the country, and it wanted to oppress me to bow my head. Hmph, except for Your Majesty, I'm afraid there are not many people in this world. ”

Gao Ruone and Wang Zhaoming smiled bitterly.

Zheng Lang said again: "But there is another degree, they will not and dare not find themselves boring and oppress me." But can I stay in Taiping for the rest of my life? ”

"I see."

"It's ugly, isn't it?"

Although Gao Rone shouted to understand, he didn't dare to answer.

"But if I leave Taiping Prefecture, if I force myself to come forward again, it will become an enemy of the world. Not the people of the world, but they are the people of the world. ”

Wei Siniang was a little confused and asked, "What did you say?" ”