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Is there a "sweetness" that can be eaten as you go?

By chewing on sugar cane, the people of India discovered that the sweetness came from the extruded liquid, which was an obvious problem, but it had not been discovered by humans for thousands of years!

Ah Sanren already knows a truth in their daily cooking - collecting juice over high heat, so will boiling sugarcane juice be able to get a concentrated "sweetness"?

They did what they said, collected the squeezed sugar cane juice, then heated it in a container, and as the juice gradually thickened, it was cooled, and the first piece of cane sugar in human history was born.

God knows what kind of impact this sweet taste seems to have only in heaven has brought to the world.

The appearance of white sugar seems to be the first time that human beings have felt the existence of happiness.

And this kind of happiness is naturally not something that the people of Asan can enjoy alone.

During the Zhou Dynasty of China, merchants who traded sugar cane began to set foot in this magical ancient land.

When the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty first tasted the sweetness of sugar cane, they became intrigued by this taste that they had never tasted before.

At the suggestion of the Son of Heaven, the Liangguang region began to introduce sugarcane for planting, and developed a new way to eat it - no longer gnawing and eating sugarcane, directly crushing sugarcane with heavy objects to collect juice and hold it in containers.

This is estimated to be the first "drink" in human history, sweet sugar cane juice, but the impact of coke on mankind is far greater.

Since the Zhou Dynasty began to grow sugarcane, the clever Chinese people have carried out research on the topic of "how to eat sugarcane better", and the results have been fruitful.

Ah San's sucrose is made by boiling, while Huaxia's sucrose is made by exposure to the sun.

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian brought back a secret recipe for Indian sugar making from the long Silk Road, and people began to concoct it after reading it.

I felt that the boiled sucrose was not firm and even a little sticky, so people began to find a way to solve this problem.

By chance, the people of the Han Dynasty discovered that cane sugar, which could also be made into lumps under the exposure of the sun, began to "further study" in this area.

Through in-depth research into the angle of sunlight and the amount of sugar cane, they were able to create a sugar cube with a better taste.

Although the sugar cubes dried in Huaxia are a little different from those in India, many royal families and nobles still feel that Ah San is delicious.

The people of the Chinese dynasties never gave up the study of "sugar", and it was not until the Tang Dynasty that the sugar made by the Chinese people was recognized as more delicious than India.

At that time, Tang Xuanzong spent a lot of thought in order to develop the latest practice of "sugar", and even told Xuanzang to go to India to seek scriptures and bring back the latest secret recipe of Asan sugar by the way, it seems that people are very crazy about "sugar".

The taste of the sugar is delicious, but the color looks like it is not so good.

As a result, the change of "sugar" in ancient China once again appeared on the stage of history.

Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty was good at war, and the war once spread to Europe, he found that the sugar here was whiter than the domestic sugar, so he brought the Barombian people who made sugar back to China for "technical exchanges".

The Barlumbians taught the people of the Yuan Dynasty to add ash to the sugar, claiming that this would whiten the sugar.

People did it in disbelief, but they didn't expect it to be the case, not to mention that the sugar was white, but there was another flavor in the taste, so it was given a very down-to-earth name - white sugar.

During this period, China was unparalleled in the sugar industry and was favored by European countries.

There is also a small misunderstanding about white sugar.

In 1981, Mr. Ji received a Dunhuang fragment with the Ahsan Sutra printed on the front and their sugar-making technology on the back, but the term "white sugar" was represented by "cini", which was very wonderful.

In Ah San, "cini = Huaxia", which shows that the Chinese people think that white sugar was first invented in Huaxia, but this is a big misunderstanding.

Although the white sugar in China is delicious, the method of making it is still learned from the Babylonians, and strictly speaking, the inventors of white sugar should be the Babylonians.

What happened in the middle of this, so that Ah Sanren mistakenly thought that white sugar was invented by Huaxia?

This dates back to the Ming Dynasty in China.

The sugar workers of the Ming Dynasty were still working hard to improve the sugar production technology, but they did not make a breakthrough, so they absorbed the technology of the Babylonians, and on this basis, independently developed the yellow mud water drenching method.

This technology has made a qualitative leap in the quality of "sugar", and the sugar made is particularly sweet and white, so it is named "white sugar".

After this technology was transmitted to Asan, it was very popular, and the people of Asan looked at the sugar workers in China with admiration, so they named this sugar "cini" to express their high admiration.

The history of sugar has been so tortuous, but the wars and oppression caused by sugar are even more incredible.

Arabs are the disseminators of science and technology, culture, etc. in human history.

In the 5th century AD, they brought Asan's sugar-making technology from the Ganges River to Spain, but the surrounding European countries did not get this technology, and they did not even know that there was such a magical thing as "sugar" in the world.

While countries such as Huaxia, Asan, and Spain are enjoying the taste impact of "sugar", European countries are still eating Western food with no sweetness.

In the 11th century, European countries began to wage large-scale wars of aggression in order to compete for more colonies and wealth.

The Catholic pope of Western Europe led his troops to attack the best countries in Asia and launched the famous Crusades in history.

This battle directly knocked the system of slavery caused by "sugar" into the history of mankind.

By the time Europe opened the doors of India, there would be nothing but blood and possessions, as well as sugar cane and sugar.

This unique "sweet" taste quickly conquered the hearts of Europeans, and at the same time, they saw greater benefits in the "sugar".

If the royal relatives of China are addicted to sugar, then the European royal family has a pathological pursuit of sugar, because "sugar" symbolizes status and power, and this phenomenon is more obvious in Europe.

In the 18th century, with the plundering of Asan by Europe, the sugar made by Asan could no longer meet the needs of Europe, so Columbus made a major decision - to open up the New World of America.

And Columbus's purpose was not only to plunder gold, but also to grab land to build sugar cane plantations, and the natives of the New World.

Thus began a 300-year oppression, and the world's commercial order revolved around sweet sugar cane plantations, even affecting other countries across the continent for a time.

In those days, sugar cane plantations represented slavery.

In the middle of the 17th century, the slavery of sugar cane plantations reached its peak, and even derived the "slave trade trilogy", which completely exposed the ugliness of human beings and the violence of capital.

The United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and other countries, in order to seek the maximum benefit from this "sugar" industry chain, they have launched a four-step strategy:

The first step was to open sugar cane plantations on the American continent.

In the second part, African slaves were sold to the Americas to grow sugar cane with rum.

The third step is to ship the sugar back to Europe and sell it at a high price.

The fourth step was to use the money from the sale of sugar to buy Chinese tea and silk, guns and African slaves.

These capitalists profit from this process, but they cast a veil of cruelty and hypocrisy over the sweet "sugar".

When a thing is scarce, only the rich and nobles can enjoy it, and once the thing is universalized, basically everyone has the right to enjoy it. After 1850, the largest consumer group of sugar was the poor, and 100 years ago, the aristocracy was the pursuer of "sugar".

The British colonists saw very well that sugar, as a condiment that awakened people's desires, would generate incredible profits, and they simply called sugar white gold.

Because sugar is a purified product squeezed from sugar cane, to complete this process, it needs to be planted, pressed, packaged and other links, in the era before the emergence of machines, every industry related to agricultural products, need a large number of workers.

The New World discovered by the Great Voyage was ideal for sugar cane cultivation, but the area had a fatal weakness - the population was insufficient, the population was already underpopulated, and the indigenous people died in large numbers due to war and disease.

In other words, the fledgling sugar industry is either struggling to survive with a shortage of labor, or finding another way to increase its workforce.

The European colonizers set their sights on Africa, and the large-scale slave trade began.

Beginning in the early 16th century, millions of Africans were captured by slave traders, thrown into the hold of ships, and drifted across the seas into the Americas.

These slaves were sold to various countries in the Caribbean, most of South America, and the southern United States.

In a strange land, black slaves tended to plants they had never seen before, and they could not eat the products they produced for the rest of their lives.

It is in response to the ancient Chinese saying: Those who are all over Luo Qi are not silkworm breeders.

Every piece of history has a cause and a consequence.

The European superpowers, hoping to reap the huge profits, built one sugar cane plantation after another.

But they didn't expect that those sugarcane plantations full of stories eventually became uncontrollable, formed their own way of life and value system, and finally broke away from the European suzerainty and created a new America.

Among them, the one thing that has the greatest impact on the world may be that because of the profit contradiction of the sugar industry, the ugly country escaped the control of Britain and liberated itself.

Today, Brazil produces more sugar than any other place in the world, but it's interesting to note that sugarcane is not native to the Americas.

Sugar cane is native to Southeast Asia, and since the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the amazing plants of the East have gradually settled in the Caribbean. Central America is similar to the tropical environment of Southeast Asia, and sugarcane is not unadaptable, and it is particularly abundant in the New World.

Sugar cane served as an income cow for new settlements in the Americas, and Europeans were overwhelmed by the enormous wealth that sugar brings.

The Spanish monopoly on sugar did not last long, and by the mid-16th century, the Portuguese brought sugar cane to Brazil.

Soon after, the sweet sugar cane swept through British, Dutch and French colonies such as Barbados, Aruba and Haiti like a tornado.

As soon as sugar produces more profits than expected, any problem that prevents Europeans from making further profits will be smashed with an incomparably strong will.

The ancient slave trade became hot when the early colonists realized they lacked enough manpower to plant, harvest, and process the endless sugar cane forests.

The first slave ships arrived in the Americas in 1505, and then a steady stream of slave ships sailed the Atlantic for more than 300 years.

Most of the slaves came from West Africa, where the Portuguese established outposts for the trading of ivory, pepper and other goods.

For most European merchants, a slave was just a tool that could turn sugar cane into real money, no different from the pepper and ivory placed in the hold of a ship.

Because of sugar, a busy trade triangle emerged in the Atlantic:

Transports transported slaves to plantations in the New World, then brought sugar back to Europe, and the shipowners sailed to Africa with the money from the sale of sugar to buy more slaves.

And so on and on, and so on, and the human quest for efficiency is admirable, but unfortunately no one notices the tears of the slaves in the cabin.

By the middle of the 19th century, more than 10 million Africans had been forcibly brought to the New World, and they had to spend a miserable life on sugar cane plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean.

Beginning in the 16th century, the sugar trade dominated the world economy for three centuries, with sugar and its derivatives accounting for one-third of the wealth generated by the European economy.

As sugar production techniques became more efficient and diversified, plantation owners developed sugar cane syrup and rum.

As a result, sugar giants from St. Kitts to Jamaica have become so rich that no one can ignore the rich people on these islands.

Because the wealth of sugar was so tempting, the European powers engaged in all kinds of open and secret battles here, hoping to turn other people's islands into their own ATMs.

Britain and France, in particular, had a major impact on the American landscape in the 18th century.

Many historians believe that Britain lost 13 North American colonies and allowed the Ugly Kingdom to become a state, in large part because its military was busy protecting Sugar Island.

Unlike the slaves who worked on the large estates in the southern part of the ugly country, the black slaves far outnumbered the local European colonists on sugar cane plantations in the Caribbean.

The British colonists, who had always lived in fear of revolt, turned to London for help, asking for protection from soldiers.

At the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, the British were so devastated that London could not afford to lose the sugar tax, so they stationed a large number of troops in the West Indies to protect the small sugar depot.

From this, an obvious conclusion can be drawn:

If Britain had not been consumed by the large number of sugar islands and could have invested more mobile forces in the American Revolutionary War, several decisive battles on the 13 colonies would certainly have been in Britain's favor.