This day passed in all kinds of preparations and busyness, although there was not much sugar refined on this day, but the firewood was ready, and as for the water, several tanks were prepared, which was enough in a short time.

In the evening, the owner of the tofu shop really found many old people in the village as witnesses, and then asked Zhao Dagui to write a marriage letter in front of them, and the marriage was happily withdrawn.

Zhao Dagui took back the dowry gift that the Zhao family sent to the Qian family (the owner of the tofu workshop was surnamed Qian), that is, a silver bracelet and two pieces of cloth, worth about five taels of silver.

The old people in the village kept shaking their heads, looking at Zhao Dagui's eyes full of sympathy and contempt, and some people muttered that the Zhao family was in complete decline, but Zhao Dagui himself did it himself and didn't think so.

There are countless protagonists in a certain novel who have been divorced, but I am afraid that I am the only one who can make money through divorce, in his free time, Zhao Dagui thought shamelessly.

It's just that the three classic plots of expulsion from the county school, usury forced debts, and father-in-law's divorce are all there, and this start is a bit sadistic.

The money and grain farmer also came over to watch coldly, and finally left with a sneer.

The so-called sharpening knife does not mistake the woodcutter, Zhao Dagui sold the returned dowry at the price of four taels of silver, plus the extra two taels of silver given by the owner of the money workshop, and there was a surplus of six taels of silver in his hand, so he decided to expand the scale of the sugar workshop.

Zhao Dagui spent one or two or five dollars of silver to buy a large iron pot with a diameter of four feet, got bricks, and invited the capable people in the village to set up a big stove in his yard.

Because he was worried about the rain, Zhao Dagui also asked someone to set up a thatched shed supported by four wooden sticks above the stove, and then in order to keep it secret, he got a lot of straw mats and surrounded the grass shed.

In this way, there is an additional simple sugar workshop in the courtyard of the Zhao family.

With this simple workshop, it is much faster than boiling sugar in a small iron pot in the kitchen, Zhao Dagui and his younger brother and sister can boil 80 catties to 120 catties of white sugar a day, and within a few days, all the 500 catties of crude brown sugar bought will be refined into white refined sugar.

It's a pity that Zhao Dagui burned a lot of sugar because he didn't grasp the heat well, and there was no loss in the refining process, so in the end all he got was 450 catties of sugar.

Zhao Dagui looked at these sugars, but a sense of accomplishment, the magic capital is really the most important cargo distribution center at the mouth of the Yangtze River, how much 50 million catties of local sugar are imported into the mainland every year, and he has such a secret recipe to turn local brown sugar into white sugar, whether it is raw materials or the market, there is no shortage.

These white sugars were naturally to be sold, so Zhao Dagui found a ferry boat to transport all the 450 catties of white sugar to the other side, and hired someone to pick them up to the Chen family's store.

Chen's father originally had no hope for Zhao Dagui, and felt that his son's cheap classmate must have been sold and helped him count the money, but he didn't expect Zhao Dagui to come over with four hundred and fifty catties of sugar, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

Although Chen's father has some prejudices against Zhao Dagui, and even told his son not to play with him, he is still very serious about business.

After carefully inspecting the white sugar brought by Zhao Dagui, Chen's father couldn't help but nod, these white sugars are not only in excellent condition, but also taste very sweet, and there is no faint mud and sand taste that ordinary white sugar brings, which seems to be much higher than the white sugar sold by himself.

Zhao Dagui bargained with Chen's father, and sold all the sugar to Chen's father at a price of 70 wen per catty.

In this way, Zhao Dagui spent 19,200 wen to buy jaggery candy, and after making white sugar and selling it, he got 31,500 wen, which is equivalent to investing 12 taels of silver, and finally got 19 taels and 66 cents and 8 cents, of which excluding freight, firewood, water, etc. (a little more than one or two), the profit was about 6 taels.

If you count the six taels of silver spent on buying a pot and a stove, Zhao Dagui not only didn't make any money this trip, but may have to fold some in.

However, that's not how the accounts are calculated.

The quality of soil sugar is uneven, the most important thing is the poor quality of brown sugar, Zhao Dagui used the 31,500 copper coins he got to buy nearly 800 catties of cheap crude brown sugar, and then brought it back to Sanlipu to continue refining.

This time, the experience is much richer than the last one, and the necessary equipment is basically complete, and there is no need to spend money to buy outside, as long as the firewood and water are properly replenished.

After working for eight or nine days, he converted nearly 800 catties of raw sugar into white sugar, and then went to Chen's store to ask if he could buy all the white sugar.

The last time Zhao Dagui sold the sugar was of high quality, it was higher than any white sugar on the market, and Chen's father sold 300 catties of white sugar at a retail price of 90 wen per catty in just a few days, earning about 600 wen, but there were still 200 catties of sugar in his hand, and then he was a little embarrassed to buy the newly refined 750 catties of white sugar.

Zhao Dagui didn't care, took the white sugar to other grocery stores and grain and oil stores in Modu County, and asked one by one, most of the merchants were very optimistic about the quality of the white sugar, and the price of 70 wen per catty was about the same as the wholesale price of ordinary white refined sugar, and everyone was willing to buy it to sell in the store, and even some big merchants proposed to package all the white sugar made by Zhao Dagui.

To tell the truth, Zhao Dagui used all the sugar for a month, and he almost only produced twenty to thirty quintals of white sugar, which was not even a wave in terms of the annual trade of 500,000 quintals in the magic capital.

In the end, selling these sugars, Zhao Dagui got more than 52,000 yuan, which is 32 taels of silver.

What's more, the reputation of Zhao's white snow candy (the trade name given by Dagui to his own goods) has begun, and there are several more cooperative shops willing to provide raw sugar sources and white sugar sales, which is very beneficial to future development.

Zhao Dagui took advantage of the good sales, actively made sugar and sold, and produced a total of 25 quintals of white sugar for sale in August, according to the purchase price of 4,000 wen per quintal of raw sugar (40 wen per catty), and the selling price of the white sugar produced was 7,000 wen per quintal (30 wen per catty), and Zhao Dagui could earn about 3,000 wen per quintal of white sugar.

However, counting the cost of transportation, bone char, firewood and water, plus the loss of sugar in the refining process, Zhao Dagui earned about 2,400 yuan per load of sugar, that is, one or two or five dollars of silver.

In this way, Zhao Dagui's income this month is about 37 taels and 5 yuan; if he continues to do it in the future, it is not difficult to produce 25 to 30 taels of sugar every month without hiring people to take his younger brothers and sisters alone, and earn 37 taels to 45 taels of silver a month.

According to the income level of this era, earning one tael of silver a month is already a good income, and in this era, the big landlords hired farmers to open up wasteland, and they gave nine taels to twelve taels of silver a year, which was much better than ordinary farmers working at home;

The annual income of the shopkeeper of a large commercial bank with an average annual turnover of tens of thousands of yuan is about 100 taels, and the annual rewife of the master of the Liupin prefect is also about 200 taels of silver.

All in all, Zhao Dagui's income level is already very good, although it is still a lot worse to repay Huo Daya's usury within a month, but with his connections among the merchants of the Demon Capital Sugar Industry, it is not difficult to borrow thirty or forty taels of silver to turnover, and then make money to exchange it.

These businessmen also have an account in their hearts, and they can calculate that Zhao Dagui can earn at least dozens of taels of silver every month, and there is actually no risk in borrowing money, and they can still leave a good relationship.

It's just that at this time, the bottleneck of the sugar business has gradually appeared.

Zhao Dagui refines white sugar, and there are many merchants who are willing to provide crude brown sugar, which is almost endless, but the white sugar that is sold well, no matter how good the goods are, it will take time to sell it slowly.

According to Zhao Dagui's estimate, in the short term, the Zhao family's white snow candy will only sell 25 to 30 taels a month, and if there are more, it is possible to press the goods.

If you want to solve this problem, you can either find a big merchant to cooperate with and borrow other people's sales channels, or you can do it yourself slowly and establish sales channels.

Zhao Dagui knew in his heart, after all, he was alone in the Demon Capital, and earning thirty-seven taels to forty-five taels of silver every month was already the limit, and if there were more, I was afraid that there would be countless troubles.

During this period, in the sugar merchant circle of the magic capital, rumors about the white snow candy of the Zhao family gradually spread, saying that the people of the Zhao family went to Nanyang and met the immortals, and only learned the immortal magic.

Of course, there are those who say that sugar can be refined directly from water, and there are those who say that salt can be turned into sugar, and so on.

There is suddenly a top-notch white sugar on the market, and the business opportunities in it are self-evident, and some businessmen with a keen sense of smell, especially large merchants with sufficient capital, have begun to move.

On this day, Zhao Dagui pulled the sugar to the magic capital to sell, and Chen's father pulled him aside and asked him if he was willing to sell the secret method of refining white sugar from raw sugar.