With manpower, Fang Xiaoyu was much more convenient, he asked Zhang Tong to follow him, and asked Liu Junxi to take a few house slaves to his shop to scavenge brown sugar and brown sugar, and then transport them to Lanting Villa. This time in the carriage, the speed of travel has increased a lot.

Half an hour later, Fang Xiaoyu, who was with the guards, had already arrived outside the gate of Lanting Villa. Hearing that the young master was back, Sun Huaizong and Lin Feng both came out with a lot of people, Fang Xiaoyu got out of the carriage and asked Sun Huaizong with a smile: "Did the Xia family send something over yesterday?" Sun Huaizong nodded: "It was sent over yesterday afternoon, but I don't know what it is, I didn't dare to move, and it was received in the warehouse." ”

Fang Xiaoyu ordered: "Very good, you can find ten smart and clever house slaves in a while, I will be useful." Sun Huaizong immediately went to find someone. Fang Xiaoyu turned around, looked at Lin Feng and smiled, "How is it?" Lin Feng, he hasn't been lazy in the past few days. ”

Lin Feng straightened his chest and said, "How is it possible, we all completed the training on time and in quantity." Now I don't have to worry about eating and drinking, I have a warm house to live in, I have new clothes to wear, everyone is very enthusiastic, and even the literate little brothers and sisters are very hard, and they all say that they must learn their skills and contribute to the young master. Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "That's good, but it's almost the New Year, so you can take a few days off." I'll have someone bring you some delicious food and fun when I get back. ”

Listening to Fang Xiaoyu's words, Lin Feng trembled a little excitedly: "The young master loves and cares about us so much, I really don't know how to repay the young master." Fang Xiaoyu said: "I said that you are my brothers, since you are brothers, of course you have to care about them." As for repayment, as long as you learn your skills well, it will be the best reward for me if you can help me in the future. Fang Xiaoyu sighed and continued: "Speaking of which, it is the responsibility of the empire that you have become orphans, and I, as a nobleman of the empire, cannot ignore it. ”

Lin Feng was a little speechless and stopped: "If the nobles of the entire empire thought like the young master, there would not be so many orphans living on the streets. Fang Xiaoyu noticed Lin Feng's abnormality and asked, "Lin Feng, do you have something on your mind?" Or is there something to say to me? Lin Feng said with some embarrassment: "Actually, it's because the weather is very cold these days, which makes me think that there are some orphans I know who are begging in the city, and I really want to collect them too." ”

After Lin Feng finished speaking, seeing Fang Xiaoyu thoughtfully, he thought that he disagreed and continued: "Actually, I know that this proposal is a bit excessive, if there is no young master's help and we are like them, especially when it is cold, we can't get much food, and there is no charcoal for heating, everyone can only huddle together in the City God Temple where the roof has collapsed in half, and keep each other warm." It's even worse if he's sick, and there's nothing we can do to help the sick person except to warm him with our own bodies, and last winter, we died six. The more Lin Feng spoke, the more excited he became, and he was already a little choked up at the end.

Seeing Lin Feng, whose eyes were red and he couldn't cry anymore, Fang Xiaoyu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Okay, I didn't say I didn't want them." Tomorrow you take a few men and look for them in the city, and take them back to the poor orphans. "Really?" Lin Feng looked at Fang Xiaoyu in disbelief. Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "Yes, I will take it all, but you have to take care of it, those who are really pitiful and kind-hearted will take as many as they want." I don't want any of those who've become hooligans, gangsters, and thieves. If something goes wrong, I'm the only one to ask. Lin Feng patted his chest and said: "There is no problem, I am very familiar with the orphans in the capital, and I promise that there will be no problem with those who are brought in." At this time, Sun Huaizong had already walked over with a few house slaves, and he saluted Fang Xiaoyu and said, "Young master, the person has already been selected." Fang Xiaoyu agreed, and led people into the barn where the things were placed.

Under Fang Xiaoyu's command, everything was assembled. There are four sets of brewing equipment, five sets of equipment for making sugar, and more than 30 wooden barrels for storing wine. Seeing these things, Xiao Yu nodded, and he asked one of the brewing equipment to be loaded into the carriage, and the rest was installed by the commander. The brewing equipment requires a tray stove, which is more time-consuming, so he first instructed a few people to assemble the sugar making tools first.

Liu Junxi hasn't brought the sugar back yet, but there is some brown sugar in the villa, I heard that Fang Xiaoyu wanted to use it, Sun Huaizong took it all, Fang Xiaoyu took a look at it and there were more than a dozen catties, it should be enough to do experiments.

Due to the influence of his mother in his previous life, Fang Xiaoyu read many ancient books, and Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creation" is even more familiar. In the sixth volume of the book, "Sweet Addiction", the method of making white sugar and rock sugar is described in detail. To make white sugar, you need to squeeze the cane juice from the sugarcane that has matured in winter, put it into a tank, boil it into a yellow-black syrup with fire, and pour it into another tank to condense into black sugar; Prepare another cylinder, place a tile funnel on it, plug the leak of the tile slip with straw, pour the black sugar into the tile funnel, wait for the black sand to settle, remove the straw, pour down the black sugar in the funnel with yellow mud water, the black slag flows into the tank below from the funnel, and the hoarfrost is left in the funnel, the top layer is about five inches or more, very white, called Western sugar. Rock sugar is to fry the white sugar, and into the egg to remove impurities, when the heat is suitable, the new green bamboo is broken into slices, cut into an inch long, put into the melted white sugar, after a night to condense into rock sugar.

Now that there is ready-made brown sugar, the previous steps can be omitted, Fang Xiaoyu directly asked Sun Huaizong to prepare some yellow mud water and pour brown sugar, and wait until the water volatilizes clean, and the white sugar really appears in the funnel. Seeing that after Fang Xiaoyu's command for a while, the black-purple brown sugar actually turned into white sugar as white as snow, which made Sun Huaizong, Lin Feng and the others watching on the side a little dumbfounded.

Fang Xiaoyu grabbed a handful of white sugar and licked it a little with the tip of his tongue, yes, the taste was exactly the same, Fang Xiaoyu nodded with satisfaction. Then Fang Xiaoyu held the white sugar in front of Sun Huaizong's eyes and said, "How much do you see how much this white sugar can be sold for?" Sun Huaizong's eyes lit up and said: "The market price of brown sugar is 20 yuan a kilogram, brown sugar is 35 yuan a kilogram, and I think this white sugar can be sold for 50 yuan." ”

Fang Xiaoyu shook his head: "No, this white sugar can only be produced by our family, so I think if it is sold for 100 yuan a kilogram, this is called a monopoly, understand?" Sun Huaizong was stunned and said, "Young Master, what is a monopoly." Fang Xiaoyu explained: "Monopoly is that only we can make it, others can only buy it from us, and they must accept our price if they want it, no matter how high the price is."

Besides, we mainly supply this white sugar to the nobles, and if the price is low, they will think that the price will be reduced, and they may not be willing to buy it. When we make enough money, we are slowly lowering the price. Sun Huaizong shook his head: "Young master, I still don't understand." Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "You will understand in the future." In the future, this place must be strictly guarded, and people and things will be kept an eye on me, and I must not leak out of the way of knowing the Tao? Sun Huaizong nodded: "I understand this, I must be optimistic." ”

A few of the house slaves found by Sun Huaizong were really ingenious, and the method of making sugar from yellow mud water was very simple, and they learned it in just a while. More than a dozen catties of brown sugar soon turned into white sugar, which Liu Junxi also brought over with brown sugar and brown sugar collected from his own store, and several house slaves quickly became busy again. Seeing that the stove used for wine-making couldn't be finished for a while, Fang Xiaoyu decided to go back first, and wait for the wine-making to have time, these sugars alone were enough to make a fortune for himself.

Before leaving, Fang Xiaoyu said to Sun Huaizong: "Manager Sun, tomorrow I will bring people to build some more houses, I'm afraid there will be some orphans coming over, you have to take care of it." Sun Huaizong said: "I'm afraid the young master can't build a house, now it's cold, and there is no way to build bricks with mud, I'm afraid I have to wait until spring." Otherwise, let the newcomers make do with the winter in the granary now. ”

Fang Xiaoyu knew that it was not possible to build a house, so he had to agree: "Okay, then let them sleep in the granary first." Remember to make up the granary, make a few more braziers, and don't freeze them. Then Fang Xiaoyu muttered in a low voice: "It seems that it is necessary to get the furnace out, it seems that tomorrow I will go to the Xia family to find two blacksmiths to think of a way." Sun Huaizong interjected: "Young master, in fact, we also have blacksmiths in our own family. ”

"We have a blacksmith too?" Fang Xiaoyu was a little surprised. Sun Huaizong said with a smile: "Those handicraft workshops are not unique to the Xia family, we naturally have them, but the scale is much smaller." Fang Xiaoyu sighed and said, "I see, wait until I go to our Fang family's workshop one day to have a look." ”

"And." Fang Xiaoyu instructed again: "Let those younger house slaves have time to learn literacy, just let Lin Feng teach them, and they are not allowed to learn very well, at least they must know some words." Just now, Fang Xiaoyu took out a copy of the operation steps for brewing wine and sugar making that he had written, but these house slaves were illiterate, and he had to hand it over to Lin Feng after the end, so that he had time to read it to them.

Sun Huaizong and others sent Fang Xiaoyu to the door of the villa, and when he left, Fang Xiaoyu took away the first batch of three kilograms of sugar that had just been produced. As soon as he returned home, a maid rushed up and said, "Little master, you are back." The eldest lord told you to hurry to the main hall. Fang Xiaoyu was a little surprised: "Is there anything wrong?" The maid whispered, "I heard from the eldest young master that the uncle was very angry when he heard that you had transferred all the sugar from the shop." Hearing the maid's words, the corners of Fang Xiaoyu's mouth curled slightly and said, "Then let's go." He turned around and said, "Lao Tong, take the sugar with me." ”

When he came to the main hall, Fang Xiaoyu raised his eyes and found that the three grandfathers, uncles and his father were all there. Uncle Fang Weiming was sitting on the chair with a flushed face, and his father was whispering something to the uncle on the side. As soon as Fang Xiaoyu walked into the main hall, Fang Weiming stood up and said angrily: "Xiaoyu, let me ask you, what do you mean by transferring all the cane sugar from my shop." Do you know how much that sugar is worth? ”

Fang Xiaoyu nodded with a smile and said, "I know that there are a total of five hundred and thirty kilograms of brown sugar and one thousand two hundred and eighteen kilograms of brown sugar. A kilogram of brown sugar is 35 yuan, and a kilogram of brown sugar is 20 yuan, a total of 42,910 yuan. ”

The uncle was a little surprised when he heard Fang Xiaoyu's quick calculation, but he was still very angry and said: "Do you know Lu Dao, now that the Chinese New Year is approaching, it is the best time to sell cane sugar, what am I selling if you transfer all the sugar?" Even if the goods are transferred from the nearest place, it will take more than ten days. ”

Fang Weihong also felt that his son had gone too far this time, and he also said: "Xiaoyu, where did you get all that sugar, come back and apologize to your uncle." ”