Han Zhen looked at Zhu Zhengze: "Do you remember what I asked just now?" ”

Zhu Zhengze chewed the cookcake and was stunned for a few seconds as usual before nodding.

"Today, you will be on duty in the hall, if any villagers bring escapes, deal with them according to our method, and I will give you the information about the barren fields in the village. Reward money and rice grain, just look for my sister-in-law. ”

Han Zhen said, handed over the information he had just written, and instructed: "After eating, copy this household registration information again." ”

This work is very simple, and Zhu Zhengze's temperament is just suitable for this boring errand.

As for Han Zhen, of course, there are more important things to do.

Make hay!

Relying on the hundreds of acres of land in Xiaowang Village to collect taxes could not support a regular army at all.

What's more, Han Zhen still has to rely on tax exemption to win people's hearts, so at least within a year, don't think about the idea of land tax.

The only way to do business is to develop the industry and make money.

After breakfast, Ma Sangou carried the Pu knife and led the other four people out on patrol.

Last night, Han Zhen had already informed them of their work, inspecting the village, maintaining law and order, and arresting criminals.

Of course, there were no criminals at this time, and the villagers were busy farming and going up the mountains to find escapees.

Han Zhen returned to the backyard and took out the key and entered the small warehouse.

Soon, he came out with two clay pots in his hand.

When he inspected the small storeroom the day before yesterday, he at first thought that the two jars were filled with wine, but when he opened them, he found that they were actually filled with sugar.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the sugar industry and salt industry have achieved unprecedented development, and only southern Fujian can produce tens of thousands of jars of cane sugar every year.

Note that the altar is used here.

Why not bags, because during the Northern Song Dynasty, most areas could only make liquid sugar, that is, sand sugar, which was relatively primitive.

Many people know the "Frosting Spectrum", and mistakenly think that the frosting in the Northern Song Dynasty is solid sugar, but in fact it is not at all.

Wang Pizhi's "Records of the Conversation of the Swallow" recorded a joke, which said:

[There are those who uphold the government, who are deeply relied on, and they obey everything they say. One day of the royal banquet, the teaching workshop miscellaneous drama is a small businessman, claiming to be surnamed Zhao Ming, bearing a clay pot, selling sugar. When you meet the old people, you will worship them with joy. Stretching out his feet and stepping on the jar by mistake, the sugar flowed to the ground, and the small merchant snapped his fingers and sighed: "Sweet picking, you can slip away, what can I do!" Both left and right laughed. 】

From this joke, it can be seen that the sand sugar sold in the wells of the Northern Song Dynasty was the same as in the Tang Dynasty, which was thick and liquid.

Although the Song Dynasty mastered the process of making solid sugar, it was limited to a few regions such as Suining.

Therefore, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the production of solid rock sugar was not much, and it was exclusively for the royal family and dignitaries, and very few of them were on the market.

Especially in the first year of Xuanhe, Song Huizong ordered Suining and other places to pay tribute to thousands of catties of rock sugar every year.

This heavy decree bankrupted nearly half of the sugar merchants, and many sugarcane farmers abandoned their fields and took refuge in the mountains.

As a result, the production of rock sugar plummeted, resulting in the current scarcity of rock sugar.

Carrying two cans of sugar to the kitchen, Han Zhen instructed: "Boil these two cans of sugar." ”

"Ah Lang wants to make preserved fruits?"

Chef Shen took the clay pot and explained: "Half a jar of sugar is enough to make preserved fruits, and you don't need so much." ”

"You don't care, just boil it."

Dropping this sentence, Han Zhen left in a hurry.

Although Chef Shen was puzzled, she still honestly followed the instructions, poured two cans of sand sugar into the pot, and heated them over low heat.

It didn't take long for Han Zhen to return, carrying a bucket of loess and two reed pipes in his hands.

"What is Lang doing?"

Fang Sansan stepped forward, a round face full of curiosity.

Han Zhen didn't answer, and ordered, "Go and help me find a screen." ”

"Oh."

Although Fang Sansan talks a lot, he has an advantage, that is, he is obedient.

Let me do whatever I want.

Taking advantage of Fang Sansan's efforts to get the sieve, Han Zhen poured the loess on the ground and carefully smashed it with a wooden stick.

This scene attracted everyone's attention, and even Zhu Zhengze, who was sitting on the difference in the hall, couldn't help poking his head out.

Soon, Fang Sansan brought the screen.

After taking the screen, Han Zhen carefully filtered the loess that had just been broken, and sifted out the grassroots, stones and other debris in the loess.

Then, little by little add the water to start and the mud.

Yellow mud water drenching sugar method?

Han Zhen can answer with certainty that this thing is wrong, or that Song Yingxing made a clerical error when writing "Heavenly Creation".

Why is he so sure?

Because in his previous life, Han Zhen had a quarrel with a netizen on the Internet.

He thought that the yellow mud water drenching method was fine, but the netizen said no.

In order to make the other party speechless, Han Zhen deliberately searched for the video.

As a result, I searched the whole network, but I didn't find a successful video of replicating the yellow mud water drenching sugar method.

Those remastered videos, without exception, all failed.

Han Zhen was not convinced, he bought sugarcane and came back to squeeze the juice, and made it step by step according to the steps in "Heavenly Creation".

After several attempts, he finally came to the conclusion that this method really didn't work.

A basin of yellow mud water was poured down, and most of the brown sugar was directly dissolved, and only a small piece of crystal was obtained in the end.

The key sugar crystals are still reddish-brown......

Later, he discussed with the netizen many times, consulted ancient books, and finally found the real method, and also gave this method a name.

Yellow clay glue sealing sugar method!

Compared with the yellow mud water drenching sugar method, only two words have changed, but this glue and a seal are the key to purifying white sugar.

The yellow clay glue should not be too dry, otherwise it will soon become a hard clod, and it will lose its ability to adsorb impurities.

It can't be too thin, otherwise it will become yellow muddy water.

It's about the same level as plasticine, it's about the same.

When the yellow mud is almost ready, the sugar in the pot has been boiled and has become extremely viscous.

"Come over and help."

At this time, Han Zhen greeted and asked Fang Sansan to hold on to a clay pot containing sand sugar, while he pinched up a ball of yellow mud and carefully glued it to the inside of the clay pot.

When the entire inside of the clay pot was thickly glued with yellow clay, Han Zhen said, "Quick, pour the sugar in." ”

"Huh?"

Chef Shen was stunned for a moment, thinking that she had misheard.

Han Zhen urged: "What are you doing in a daze, fall quickly." ”

Hearing this, Chef Shen's face was embarrassed: "Ah Lang, this ......"

This clay pot is coated with yellow mud, and if you pour sugar into it, can you still eat it?

Even though the sugar industry developed rapidly during the Northern Song Dynasty, for the vast majority of the people, sand sugar was still a precious luxury.

At present, the price of sand sugar is 30 wen a tael, 16 taels a catty, and these two cans of sand sugar are more than a dozen yuan.

Fang Sansan on the side cried with a sad face and persuaded: "Ah Lang, can you not fall?" ”

Rather than let so much sand sugar be poured into the yellow clay jar and wasted, it is better to let her eat it.

Seeing the two grinding and chirping, Han Zhen frowned and said, "If you are poured, you will fall, what so much nonsense." ”

Chef Shen sighed and carefully poured the sugar from the pot into the clay pot.

Seeing the reddish-brown sand sugar entering the clay pot stained with yellow mud, Fang Sansan and Shen Chuniang only felt that their hearts were dripping blood.

"Stop!"

When the clay pot was about to be filled, Han Zhen immediately stopped, then filled in a layer of dry straw, and then quickly picked up the reed pipe with the length of his index finger and inserted it, revealing a piece left outside.

Finally, use yellow clay glue to firmly seal the mouth of the can.

After doing this, Han Zhen placed the clay pot upside down on top of another empty clay pot.

Over time, the pigment in the sand sugar will be absorbed by the yellow mud in the jar and slowly condense into white sugar, while the remaining molasses will flow down the reed tube into the empty clay pot.

Han Zhen found two more clay pots and concocted the remaining sugar in the pot in the same way.

Fang Sansan and Chef Shen couldn't understand what he was doing, they only knew that in just a short period of time, their own Ah Lang had wasted more than a dozen pieces of sand sugar.

Even if it's a loser, it's not such a defeat.