The soil of Yongxing Military Road is suitable for growing sugar beets, and only some areas of sugarcane are suitable for planting. Huazhou is one of them. Coupled with the adjacent Qinfeng Road, Chengdu Fu Road and other places are rich in purple sugarcane, which is crisp and sweet. The distance is close.

It is these two prerequisites. Wang Jin thought of white sugar and wine, and invested out of his own pocket to build an industry for Shaohuashan. The distillation unit fell behind, and began to prepare other things. Such as setting up stoves and large iron pots, as well as the indispensable quicklime......

Chen Da, the jumping tiger, and Yang Chun, the white snake, are very efficient. From the second day after they left the cottage, they successively transported sugarcane, beetroot, sake lees, raw wine, cloth and other materials to Shaohua Mountain.

Brown sugar, which is made from sugarcane, has flourished since the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, there were many people who knew that there were a few people in the cottage who knew this craft.

Wang Jin personally commanded, with several old men who could boil brown sugar as foremen, each led a team to process the sugarcane, clean, chop, and then press the mixture repeatedly with a stone mill, and pour the collected sugarcane juice into the lime for stirring and filtering the non-sugar parts, and finally, put the filtered sugarcane juice into a large pot for distillation.

This process is mainly to distill the water of sugarcane juice, and after coagulation, it is brown sugar. It is rich in nutrients, nourishes the body, and boiled ginger soup can ward off the cold.

Wang Jin, as the new leader, did not continue to process the brown sugar. Instead, it was generously distributed and collected door-to-door, which can be regarded as a meeting gift.

This move made the whole cottage praise the new leader generously.

Those purchased beets are made into brown syrup in the same way that sugar cane is processed. Finally, add syrup to it for stirring and neutralization, and then use soil to throw out the water, and wait for the syrup to solidify into white sugar.

Characteristics, crystal like snow, sweet as honey.

Zhu Wu, Chen Da, and Yang Chun exclaimed again and again, calling it incredible.

Zhu Wu, who has a brain, blocks the manufacturing process and raises the level of personnel methods. As one of the specialties of the cottage, white sugar is stored next to the Juyi Hall.

White granulated sugar came out ahead of schedule, but distilled spirits encountered problems.

On the third day, the simple distillation unit was made possible by the efforts of everyone. Successfully forged, a half-human-high container, the size of two barrels sleeved, with a thick spout, exactly like what Wang Jin drew on the drawing.

It's just that after trying, I didn't achieve the expected goal.

Wang Jin had considered this kind of result, and he had never thought that it would be successfully forged at one time. After the on-site investigation, the masters were convened to discuss. Invite the carpenter to join in and try to improve the lid and funnel of the container.

Zhu Wu, the Divine Machine Military Master, followed behind Wang Jin, looking at the burly back for a long time before he came back to his senses, and excitement quietly crept up on his white face: "Oh, my brother actually knows carpentry and forging." Winemaking, the younger brother admires. ”

"Less sycophants, just see more, not worth mentioning." Wang Jin scolded with a smile, and then asked: "In three days, the team has gained something?" ”

Zhu Wu's expression was grim: "I have found two secluded places, and the collection of information is still in progress, and I can't give back, my brother wants to ......."

Wang Jin saw that this brother wanted to stop talking, smiled, and did not hide it: "In addition to picking a place to open a village store to serve as the eyes and ears of my cottage." In addition, legitimate business is only a long-term plan, and I want to quickly solve the dilemma of copycats. I can only get money quickly, what should I do? It's still going to be a business without capital. ”

After Wang Jin finished speaking, he shut up, and Zhu Wu didn't ask more. He saw the fierce light in this brother's eyes, and understood that he was going down the mountain to borrow food.

Wang Jin really thinks the same way, only to rob the house, but he is particular about who to beat. Those who are of bad character and unkind to the rich are the targets of plunder. Not only can you get a lot of money and food, but also promote the prestige of the cottage.

The more the two chatted, the more speculative they became, and they prepared to go back to the Justice Hall to discuss the plan. But as soon as I came to the hall, I found a group of people gathering together to make a noise.

"Why is there ...... noise here?" didn't wait for Zhu Wu to come forward to understand the situation.

A black-faced man with a shabby leather jacket and bruises on his face shouted to see the leader, and despite the guards' obstruction, he rushed over and fell to his knees on the snow, bowing his head and crying: "Two... Two leaders, please call the shots for your little brother! ”

"Stand down." Zhu Wu hurriedly drank back a few strong minions who were ready to take people. He vaguely had an impression of this man who blocked the way, he defected half a month ago, but he had a headache for food recently, and he didn't know much about it.

"This brother, hurry up, I'm not an official master." Wang Jin stepped forward quickly to help the man up, and gently patted the snow on his body: "Brother, I see that you are not very old, I don't know where you are from?" ”

The young man didn't expect Wang Jin to be so kind, and he was a little restrained all of a sudden: "Leader, the villain is called Zhou Ming, the second in the family, and a native of Shuanghengling, Huayin County." ”

Wang Jin looked the young man up and down, looked at the minions gathered around him, and asked with a smile: "Brother, what happened to such a crowd?" ”

Zhu Wu pointed at Wang Jin, and then threw an encouraging look at the young man: "Zhou Ming, if you have difficulties, just say that my brother will make the decision for you." ”

Zhou Ming thanked him for his kindness, sang a big song again, and then said quickly: The two leaders, before the brothers went up the mountain, there were originally dozens of acres of fertile land at home, and their parents were alive, and they begged their mother-in-law last year, and they had a good life. ”

Speaking of this, the man's eyes were red, and his voice became choked: "However, the evil people in the market town who are rich and young people are molesting my Hun family first, and I hold a grudge after being chased and beaten by me." Since then, people will come to the house every day to cause trouble for no reason, spoil the crops in the field, and rely on Baozheng to forcibly occupy my family's field. If it weren't for the neighbors pouring out to help, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to get to Shaohua Mountain. ”

"The two leaders, a few villains are also from Shuanghengling, and they went up the mountain together half a month ago." A few dark-looking men next to him couldn't suppress their angry roars: "This Shuanghengling money is the most important thing. As far as we know, at least a dozen families have been killed. ”

"What? Is there such a thing?? Wang Jin was furious. Before this, I was thinking about fighting local tyrants, and a money dealer who didn't know whether to live or die jumped out. I don't have to say that Shaohuashan was the first to take this guy and make a fortune in the city.

(Shanghu, is a collective name for rich families and squires)

Zhu Wu saw Wang Jin frowning and cursing damned, and hurriedly explained: "Brother, there are five counties under the jurisdiction of our Huazhou, namely Zheng County, Huayin, Xiatai, Weinan, and Pucheng. There are many villages and market towns scattered outside Huayin County, and most of the Baozheng are served by wealthy households, organizing Zhuang soldiers, which is very arrogant......"

Wang Jin nodded hurriedly, very satisfied with Zhu Wu's timely addition. I probably learned about the situation in Huazhou, and mourned in silence for thousands of poor people. In the last years of the dynasty, there were many bloody cases similar to this kind of land annexation.

Especially in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, even the imperial court implemented the law of bracketing fields to harm the people. Corrupt officials and corrupt officials were rampant, and even he was ruined by traitors in Tokyo. And the people who live far away from Kyoto are bullied.