The more sensible Gu Zheng collected good words to comfort Mrs. Tai, the more Mrs. Tai felt guilty and distressed about her: "Wanwan, it's all grandmother's fault, she has already said that she wants to promise you to Pingguo Gong, but the three girls have made things worse!" Wait until I decide to wronged you and tell the time for the three girls, but let the five girls make a mess and cause the three girls to be concubines! Grandmother not only broke her promise to you, but also made the three girls suffer for the rest of their lives in the future, grandmother is really useless! ”

"Grandmother, you don't want to do this about the third sister, you can only say that everything is providential......"

Gu Zheng was very worried that Mrs. Tai's condition would worsen if she blamed herself too much, but she didn't know how to let Mrs. Tai let go of these things, after all, Cen Sanniang was a concubine and it was a fact that could not be changed...... Gu Zheng couldn't think of any good way to come up with it, so he could only go to Rongshoutang every day to talk to Mrs. Tai, hoping to relax her heart a lot and let her slowly unload the burden in her heart.

It's a pity that Mrs. Tai has always been obsessed with Cen Sanniang's concubine, and her heart knot is getting heavier and heavier, resulting in her condition not only not getting better, but also gradually worsening.

The doctors who came to treat Mrs. Tai before and after said that Mrs. Tai's illness was caused by heart disease, although there is no major problem now, but she needs to use good sugar to drink every day, and then think of ways to let her old man relax more, so that her illness can slowly heal......

Gu Zheng was overjoyed when he first heard that as long as he used white sugar to drink every day, Mrs. Tai's illness would be cured, and when he asked Mama Yu to prepare sugar, Gu Zheng knew that the white sugar that can be seen everywhere in modern times is a very precious and rare thing in the Dafeng Dynasty!

It turns out that in Dafeng, a dynasty that has never existed in history, the people of this dynasty do not understand the technology of 'refining' white sugar, and only know how to extract brown sugar from sugarcane, and the white sugar eaten by the people of this dynasty has been imported from Dashi. Later, with the influx of Hui people into Dafeng, the imperial court set up "sugar bureaus" in some places rich in sugarcane, and the sugar bureau was responsible for the production of sugar, and the people responsible for managing the sugar bureau were all Hui people.

Why was the sugar bureau run by the Hui people?

It turned out that the people who were good at refining white sugar were all Hui people who poured into the Central Plains from the Western Regions, and they also became Hui rich merchants by virtue of this technology that the people of the Dafeng Dynasty did not understand...... That is to say, white sugar with high purity and can be used in 'medicine' is not only a tribute in the Dafeng Dynasty, but also hard to find!

Gu Zheng was taken aback when he learned these news, and reluctantly accepted the strange fact that white sugar, which was extremely common in modern times, had become a rarity in the Dafeng Dynasty, and couldn't help but ask Master Cen for advice with a little puzzlement: "Father, although the white sugar used for 'medicine' that the doctor said is hard to find, didn't the imperial court set up a special 'door' to supply the palace, nobles and bureaucrats with sugar?" With our family's family background, it should not be difficult to 'get' sugar! Why does my father keep frowning? ”

When Master Cen heard this, he said with a wry smile: "Luzhou, which is adjacent to Tongzhou, is rich in sugarcane, but there is a sugar bureau set up by the imperial court, and the Hui merchants and Musavil who manage the sugar bureau also have ready-made white sugar in their hands...... It's just that in the early years, I had some holidays with Mousaver, and this time we needed a bit more sugar, and he was afraid that he would not give it to me easily. ”

Originally, although the sugar bureau was nominally set up by the imperial court, because all the Hui people who mastered the 'refining' sugar refining technology were Huihui, so to put it bluntly, it was actually only authorized by the imperial court to make sugar and sell sugar to Huihui merchants——— and the imperial court did not buy and sell, but only collected tribute and tax silver.

In other words, in addition to giving a large amount of silver, the aristocratic bureaucrats had to see whether the Hui merchants who managed the sugar bureau were willing to sell to each other, and the Hui merchants were unwilling to sell them, and the imperial court could not force people.

After listening to Master Cen's words, Gu Zheng suddenly felt incredulous, and asked in disbelief: "Father, could it be that you can't find the best white sugar for your grandmother to use as 'medicine'?" ”

Gu Zheng's words made Master Cen feel embarrassed, and after coughing a few times, he said with some confidence: "I'm going to Luzhou to find Mu Saville, who manages the Luzhou Sugar Bureau, and I have to ask him for white sugar for your grandmother's 'medicine' no matter what!" ”

After Mr. Cen finished speaking, he immediately took a lot of money and set off to Luzhou, and after arriving at the sugar bureau in Luzhou, he put down his body and asked to see Mousavier, put aside his old grudges, and offered a lot of money to ask Musaver for white sugar...... It's a pity that Master Cen had too deep a grudge with Mousaver, a wealthy merchant back in his early years, and Musaver really rejected Master Cen very arrogantly as Master Cen expected, no matter how kind Mr. Cen begged, he refused to sell the white sugar to Master Cen no matter how kind he begged.

In a fit of rage, Master Cen no longer begged Musavil, and decided to hurry up and go to Beijing to face the saint in person, intending to ask the saint for tribute to treat Mrs. Tai...... Seeing that Mrs. Cen's physical condition is getting worse day by day, Gu Zheng is very worried that Mrs. Cen will not be able to wait for Master Cen to return from the white sugar given by the emperor!

Gu Zheng can't just do nothing and wait helplessly, in order to love her wife, she must fight hard! Gu Zheng knew that the people of later generations no longer had to rely on the technology of the Hui people, and had long studied the method of refining white sugar ——— the yellow mud refining method by the Han people themselves.

This method is actually very simple after knowing the principle, and it will not be too difficult to 'operate', so Gu Zheng decided to try it himself...... But how do you test it?

In order to save Mrs. Tai, Gu Zheng's little head turned quickly, and she quickly sorted out her thoughts——— now she has a rough idea of the method of refining high-purity white sugar in later generations, what she lacks is the tools, places and people who help her do the experiment...... This early neighbor Zhang Dahu's family should be able to help her!

Because Tongzhou is also rich in sugarcane, so there are a lot of large and small sugar liao in Tongzhou, these sugar liao special 'door' to refine the pure brown sugar to sell to all over the place, it just so happened that Gu Zheng's former neighbor Zhang's family has a small sugar liao, to solve Gu Zheng's urgent need——— Gu Zheng decided to immediately set off back to Aotou Village, borrowing Zhang's sugar liao to refine white sugar!

Before that, Gu Zheng had to draw the set of simple tools used to refine white sugar in his mind, and then find someone to fire the tools!

Thinking about this, Gu Zheng immediately picked up the pen and drawn, and after repeated revisions, he finally drew the set of sugar-making tools in his mind———— the so-called tools are actually very simple, just a set of funnel-shaped pottery, with clay pots and some other simple small facilities.

After drawing the drawings of the required tools, Gu Zheng immediately brought Gu Feng to discuss and told Gu Feng about his plans. Although Gu Feng didn't believe that Gu Zheng could refine the white sugar that only Huihui people could refine, he had the mentality of being a dead horse as a live horse doctor and giving it a try, so he quickly sent the drawings to the pottery kiln and burned the set of tools according to Gu Zheng's requirements.

Although the tool was a little different from what Gu Zheng expected after it was burned, it did not affect its use, so after preparing the other things needed one by one, Gu Feng arranged an opportunity for Gu Zheng to return to Aotou Village——— Gu Feng proposed to go with Gu Zheng to worship Gu Liniang, and begged Gu Liniang to bless Mrs. Tai with a speedy recovery.

Now that Master Cen is not in the mansion, Mrs. Tai and Mrs. Luo are bedridden, and Aunt Zhao, who helps the housekeeper, is not qualified to take care of Gu Zheng and Gu Feng's affairs, so Gu Zheng and Gu Feng were able to easily go out of the house and return to Aotou Village.

As soon as the Gu Zheng brothers and sisters finished worshipping Gu Liniang, they found an opportunity, left the maid and went to Zhang's house, and opened the 'door' to explain the meaning: "Aunt Liu, can you lend me your sugar house?" ”

On the way, Gu Zheng did not forget to ask Brother Zhang Dahu for some things related to sugar making, and wanted to first make the methods and steps of sugar making clear to see if the methods and steps of making sugar were beneficial to her: "Brother Big Tiger, how do you make sugar in your family?" Can you simply tell me about it? ”

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Xiaoyun checked the information, during the Yuan Dynasty, white sugar was really a rarity, and a minister was sick and couldn't ask for white sugar, and it was really the emperor's gift to cure the disease~

This article is empty, everyone should be in the era before the Yuan Dynasty, when white sugar was very rare,(*^_^*) hehe......

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