Chapter Ninety-Four: Sugar
Although theoretically the method of making white sugar is not very complicated, boil the brown sugar into a paste, and then pour it all into the funnel that has sealed the leak in advance, wait for it to cool and solidify to a suitable hardness, then open the leak, slowly pour the yellow mud water on the sugar paste, idle for a period of time, and wait for all the yellow mud water in the funnel to run out, and the rest is white and crystalline, white sugar like sand and snow.
However, we must understand that theory and practice are often unequal, and the theory is simple, but many new problems will be encountered in practical operation.
For example, how big the heat should be when boiling brown sugar water, how viscous paste should be, what kind of hardness should be coagulated after boiling to pour yellow muddy water, and what is the proportion of yellow muddy water, etc., these books will not tell you in detail, you must rely on your own experiments again and again, summarize the experience of every failure, and then finally succeed.
Fortunately, Zeng Hao is not short of money now, and he still controls two restaurants in his hands, and there is a steady stream of brown sugar and funds for him to keep trying, which ordinary people will definitely not afford.
Back in these days in Yanggu County, Zeng Hao spent almost all of his time making sugar.
Zeng Hao didn't dare to let too many people know about this kind of thing, only a few people with good character and familiar feelings such as Ling Chenhui knew.
And these people have their own things to be busy on weekdays, so this week, it can almost be said that Zeng Hao is busy alone from beginning to end.
After countless failures, when Zeng Hao finally saw the bucket full of white things appear in the funnel, Zeng Hao screamed and jumped like a child excitedly!
After calming down his excitement, Zeng Hao dipped his hand in some and put it in his mouth, and then squinted his eyes with satisfaction.
After such a long time, he finally tasted a trace of the "taste" of the afterlife.
These white sugars are much better than the brown sugar and sand sugar on the market now, both in appearance and taste.
Bringing a porcelain bowl, Zeng Hao poured all the sugar in the funnel into the bowl.
As for the white sugar at the bottom of the funnel with some yellow-brown color, in fact, the taste is not much different from the ones above, but it is just a little different from the sale, but Zeng Hao still threw it all away without hesitation.
Because Zeng Hao's initial positioning of white sugar in the market is to take the high-quality route, only sell it to groups such as dignitaries and royal relatives, first make them a lot of money, and then mass produce it, lower the price, so that ordinary people can afford it.
Doing so will definitely cause dissatisfaction among those dignitaries and nobles - you can obviously mass-produce, why did you sell me so expensive in the first place?
But Zeng Hao doesn't care, anyway, in this era of traitorous ministers and social turmoil, there are few good officials who ask for the people's lives, and they can be disgusted, Zeng Hao said that he was very enjoyable.
And he is not afraid of retaliation, he has the support of Zhao Shiyu, the emperor, and the entire Liangshan Group behind him, and the whole Liangshan Group as the confidence, the big deal is to counter violence with violence, who is afraid of whom.
Zeng Hao took out a small part of the sugar from the bowl and put it into a small bottle, and then took the small bottle to Li Zhixian's house next door as a guest.
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"Li Zhixian, guess what kind of valuable thing is in this bottle?" Zeng Hao asked Li Zhixian with a mocking face.
Li Zhixian looked at this small porcelain bottle, which looked like a bottle containing pills, and said, "Could it be some kind of panacea?" ”
Zeng Hao smiled and shook his head.
Li Zhixian said several things that could be put into this porcelain vase and were valuable.
But Zeng Hao still shook his head.
"Ouch, Da Lang, just say it, don't tease me anymore, I can't guess." Li Zhixian smiled bitterly.
"I'll give you a hint, just guess in the direction where there is no market." Zeng Hao urged the narrow road.
Li Zhixian was stunned, and said funny: "Could it be that you want to tell me that you have frosting in this bottle?" ”
After speaking, Li Zhixian himself was amused by these words.
"It's not frosting."
"Haha, of course I know it can't be, frosting is a total of that little a year."
"I call it sugar." Zeng Hao said and poured out some in the palm of his hand.
Looking at the white frost-like thing in Zeng Hao's hand, Li Zhixian was stunned, and his lips squirmed slightly: "This, how is this possible?" Can I taste it? ”
"Whatever." Zeng Hao directly poured a small half bottle into Li Zhixian's hand, and Li Zhixian hurriedly shouted to stop in distress.
Li Zhixian gently dipped his fingers in more than a dozen grains of white sugar and put them in his mouth, and his eyes widened suddenly, Zeng Hao's white sugar is not only better than frosting, but also has a better taste and higher sweetness.
"Great, Dalang, where did you get this?" Li Zhixian looked at Zeng Hao as if he had seen a ghost during the day.
"Do it yourself."
"Da Lang, you're going to send ......"
Leaving Li Zhixian's house, Zeng Hao prepared to return home to continue making sugar, and then took it to Tokyo to find Zhao Shiyu to help him sell it.
When he walked to the door of the house, Zeng Hao heard someone whistling next to him.
He turned his head curiously, and saw a man wearing a hat covering half of his face.
"This good man, were you calling me just now?" Zeng Hao asked politely.
The man lifted the lowered hat, revealing his face, it was actually the red-haired ghost Liu Tang!
In order to avoid being seen, Zeng Hao hurriedly let him into the house.
"Brother Liu ventured down the mountain to find me, is there something happening in the village?" Zeng Hao asked.
Liu Tang waved his hand: "Don't worry, the owner of the village, everything is fine on the mountain, the government has sent several waves of officers and soldiers to attack our Liangshan, all of them have been repelled by us, and as our Liangshan becomes more and more famous, there are more and more heroes to defect to our Liangshan, and the development of our Liangshan is changing with each passing day." ”
"Okay!" Zeng Hao clapped his hands excitedly, the stronger Liang Shan was, the more confident he was, "You guys are doing a good job!" ”
"I went down the mountain this time on the order of King Chao Tian, and I came to invite you to go up the mountain. Because many of the new brothers who joined in were quite prestigious in the rivers and lakes, they needed the owner of the village to go back and re-rank everyone. ”
"This kind of trivial matter, you can ask Chao Tianwang to arrange it himself, and I will authorize him."
Zeng Hao is now fully focused on making sugar to make a fortune, and he has no time to worry about Liangshan's affairs for the time being.
And he also believes that Chao Gai, in the Water Margin, Chao Gai is a good leader, loyal, affectionate and righteous, the most important thing is to listen to persuasion, unlike Song Jiang's birdman, in order to be recruited by the imperial court, he insisted on going his own way, and did not listen to anyone.
If Chao Gai hadn't been shot by Shi Wengong's poisoned arrow, the ending of the heroes of Liangshan would definitely not be so tragic.
"No, village master, in addition to the second ranking, we have another thing to discuss with you...... Lin Jiaotou went down the mountain to find his wife a few days ago, and he has not returned until now. We need you to come back and get an idea of what to do. ”