50,000 catties!

The last time I heard about white fungus, Qin Wangzhuang saved 70,000 catties of dry goods and scared Cui Junsu, which was worth 20,000 or 30,000 yuan. But it is obvious that Qin Wangzhuang is disgusted with things that have troublesome production processes.

What Li Yuanxing likes is calculated in one million catties, and if the output is less than one million catties, he should be troublesome.

In fact, because Li Yuanxing came from later generations, the unit of calculation is tons, and the calculation data of how many tons of tons per year has been cleaned in the news of everyone's concept of output.

Datang's 50,000 catties are only more than 30 tons, and a truck will pull it down.

Listening to the huge amount, it is only a little bit in the warehouse, Li Yuanxing naturally does not take it seriously.

"Gorou said it's cheap, I'm interested in listening!" Li Jing asked.

Li Yuanxing pointed at Yuanchun: "From the beginning of the trial production, Yuanchun went to observe the progress several times, and tried it himself, so let Yuanchun talk about it." This king talks about a feeling, and the feeling that Yuan Chun talks about should be easier for you to understand! ”

Yuan Chun gave a salute and opened the cabinet on the small table next to Li Yuanxing's desk in the living room.

There was a secret code box in the cabinet, and Yuan Chun turned the password disk on it, opened it and took out a small book.

"The raw materials used for this sugar are wheat, corn, and sweet potatoes. Zhuangzi shiyan seven kinds of ingredients, and the final list was ......" Yuan Chun hadn't said yet, Li Yuanxing stopped her: "Stop, this ingredient is about, one point wheat, three points corn, seven red potatoes." After speaking, Li Yuanxing signaled to Yuan Chun: "Keep talking!" ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and Li Jing scolded with a smile: "Wulang hides his secrets!" ”

"It's not. Being able to tell the ingredients is actually a huge secret. There is also a reason why I don't want to say the detailed ingredients of Zhuangzi Shiyan. ”

"Tell me about that!"

Li Yuanxing motioned for Yuanchun to step aside, and then said: "Every year's wheat rain, the harvest is different, and the wheat itself will be different. Corn and sweet potatoes have different starch content and sugar content due to different fertilizers. This king is asking the Taoist priests to study how to accurately test the difference between each batch of grain. ”

It seems that Gorou's reason is reasonable, and Gorou doesn't want to mislead with one ingredient. In fact, there are some subtle adjustments to this ingredient. If it had been placed in the past, I am afraid that this would have been a lot of events. But in the theory of Goro's industrial mass production. Gorou's reason is very reasonable! ”

Fang Xuanling, as a representative, praised Li Yuanxing's prudence.

Li Yuanxing nodded. Motioned for Yuan Chun to continue.

Next, the wheat is washed and placed in a large special water tank with a water cannon. Use cool water in the summer and warm water in the winter. After soaking for twelve hours. Place it on the bamboo and wait for it to sprout. Rinse with warm water every day. The water temperature is slightly warm to the touch. Three or four days later. Sprout two leaves and wrap the core, and then crush the wheat. Spare! ”

It sounds simple, but as Li Yuanxing said. It's a labor-intensive job.

"The third step is to steam the crushed corn separately from the crushed sweet potato, which is more difficult to steam than the sweet potato, so it should be steamed separately. It is steamed and cool, so cold that it feels a little hot to the hand, but when it is not hot, it is mixed with the crushed wheat and put it in a burlap bag, and after three hours, the juice is pressed out! ”

It seems that it is really not difficult, and the production time is not long, it is really a manpower-consuming job.

"Zuihou step, this juice is actually sugar. But His Highness asked to cook it again, and Zuihou would become a pure sugar cube of raw sugar, and His Highness said that this would also be bad, but the whole process was clean, and it could be kept for a year, or eighteen months, when cooked. All kinds of confectionery are also made from this raw sugar. ”

It sounds really not complicated, after Fang Xuanling listened, he tasted a piece and said, "This seems to be caramel candy." It's just that the ingredients are different, and the caramel is not so sweet. It's just a little sweet, presumably Gorou has improved the raw materials and the way of making it.

The history of mixed materials, especially maltose, which uses corn and sweet potatoes with high starch and sugar content, is not very long, and Li Yuanxing knows that the historical materials that can be found are only available in the 17th century.

Because these two crops were not introduced to China for a long time.

Because of this, the ancient caramel almost disappeared in the Han Dynasty, because the caramel consumes grain. In a dynasty where food was scarce, it was impossible to produce large quantities of grain for these sugars, which were not sweet.

According to historical records, in 300 B.C., China had sugarcane sugar in the Warring States Period, and the raw materials came from Jiaozhou, which is now Guangxi and Guangdong. The original method used was to dry sugar, and in the twenty-sixth year of Zhenguan, there was refined frosted sugar. In the first year of Zhenguan, when the food is not enough to eat, it is good to have a sweet taste.

Caramel sugar, which is not sweet, can be said to have been lost temporarily, and there are only some ancient records in some books.

"Has Gorou calculated the price?" Li Jing asked again.

"The labor is too high. How about a pound of twenty-five wen? Li Yuanxing asked with a smile.

Li Jing picked up the raw sugar: "Gorou is talking about this?" ”

"Naturally, I said this, plus walnuts or other nuts, I will lose twenty-five yuan, recently walnuts are very expensive, Chang'an City has sold a pound of walnut kernels for eighty yuan." Li Yuanxing complained.

Yuan Chun muttered in a low voice beside him: "If it weren't for His Highness buying all the walnut kernels in Chang'an City, a pound would only be thirty yuan at most!" ”

Yuan Chun's voice was not loud, but everyone heard it, but none of them laughed.

"Twenty-five pounds!" Li Jing asked again very seriously.

In later generations, unpackaged maltose was sold for fifteen yuan a catty, which was extremely expensive, and it should be three dollars a catty when exchanged for Datang's money. But Datang does not have the energy for industrial mass production, and the complex machine can't be made at all, so it still has to be made by hand.

However, the cost of Li Yuanxing's maltose is really not high.

In fact, it is more than ten catties of three catties of sugar. The remaining seven pounds of scrap are not useless.

According to the current grain price of Datang, ten catties are less than a bucket, and a bucket of Chang'an City is only ten cents. What's more, Li Yuanxing uses the grain in his own warehouse, which can definitely be calculated according to five cents per bucket. Coupled with the cost of water, coal, tools, labor, etc., the actual cost of a pound of grain Li Yuanxing is two pennies.

What's more, the waste material from which he finished making maltose was also worth a fortune.

(Note: The Western Zhou Dynasty of China is the original maltose, but the raw material is not wheat.) Wheat was introduced to China during the Han Dynasty, but it took hundreds of years for wheat to become the main food. Corn was even later, and crops such as sweet potatoes were introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty. So the ancient caramel of antiquity. That is, ancient maltose is not only sweet, but also consumes a huge amount of grain. It was only eaten by the nobles, and it was difficult for the common people to see it. The sugar of the Tang Dynasty is still sucrose, and beet sugar was only discovered in the 17th century! ）

"Gorou knows. What is the price of sugar in Chang'an? ”

"One pound and one hundred and forty wen. It's better to have 260 texts! "Li Yuanxing knows the price.

Sugarcane was transported from Guangxi. Guangxi does not yet have the capacity to process sugar, and it is still relatively primitive there.

Plus freight, labor. As well as the craftsmanship of the Tang Dynasty, a hundred catties of sugarcane cane can't produce a pound of sugar, sugar is definitely a luxury in food in the Tang Dynasty, and it is a top luxury.

Li Jing's heart suddenly moved, and he turned his head and asked Yuan Chun: "Yuan Chun, what do you say is the material for this sugar." ”

After saying to Yuanchun, Li Jing looked at Li Yuanxing with a smile: "Wulang, this time you are not allowed to speak, and you are not allowed to look at you." ”

Li Yuanxing shrugged his shoulders helplessly, saying that he would definitely remain silent.

Yuan Chun knew that the people sitting here were all big people, and she hadn't learned to tell lies yet, so she had to say truthfully: "One pound of wheat, three pounds of corn, and seven pounds of sweet potatoes." Out of three pounds of sugar! There are also seven catties of leftovers, and His Royal Highness said that you can do without that thing, or go and feed the pigs, but we have tried, and the cake is very delicious. It's fluffy and soft! ”

"Loose and soft?" Li Jing smiled.

And everyone laughed.

Li Jing said to Yuan Chun again: "Go and make some cakes for us, and use that to make them." ”

Li Yuanxing nodded, and Yuanchun immediately trotted out and ordered. Li Yuanxing knows that in modern times, it is something that is used as feed, and it will never be eaten again.

Because most of the nutrients have been removed.

If you want to say that it is soft, after fermentation, the starch and sugar are removed, and the baked one is naturally soft. But when you eat it, it's dry, and you will never like it.

But the peasants of Qinwangzhuang, the sergeants have experienced countless times of hunger, and he thinks that it is a good thing.

Li Jing asked Lu Maofeng again: "Have you eaten it, how do you feel?" ”

"Back to you, General, that thing is naturally not as delicious as pure bread. But if you add a little oil, it is very delicious to make a cake with some chopped green onions. In the past, when I was fighting, if I could eat this thing, I was afraid that I would be able to wake up with a smile from a dream, and His Highness said that these can only be fed to pigs, and he dared to say that His Highness was wrong. ”

"Can you feed the horses?" Li Yuanxing asked with a cold face.

"Hey Ma Xing, Your Highness is wise!" Lu Maofeng hurriedly replied.

In the heart of a soldier, a horse is a treasure, and you can take haode beans to feed the horse, which is naturally no problem.

Li Jing waved his hand to signal Lu Maofeng to step aside, and then said to Li Yuanxing: "I still know Wulang, Wulang dares to offer a price of twenty-five wen a catty, then he dares to earn half of the profits." Now that I think about it, Gorou is really too greedy this time, wheat in Chang'an has been ten yuan a bucket recently, and flour is only fourteen yuan. ”

Cui Junsu is from the household department, and he immediately said: "The price of corn is higher, a bucket of dried corn kernels is 12 wen, and corn flour is only 18 wen." Sweet potatoes cost tens of thousands of catties per acre, and the thing sold in Chang'an is really expensive, only two pennies. But His Royal Highness King Qin has never sold it as grain, and Chang'an City has no market price! ”

Cui Junsu took an abacus on Li Yuanxing's table.

Bang a dozen.

"His Royal Highness King Qin, is it too much for one person to make a hundred catties of sugar in three days?" Cui Junsu asked again.

"Alright, don't talk here. The cost of two pennies, do you believe it? ”

"Don't believe it!" Everyone replied in unison.

Li Yuanxing just shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Then the cost of Qin Wang's money is a penny and a pound, do you believe it?" ”

If you believe it, if you don't believe it again, you won't give it to His Royal Highness King Qin. (To be continued......)

PS: The fifth update,

Will there be any surprises?

Go to eat and ......