Zhao Dagui thought at first that the Chen family wanted to buy this secret recipe, but he didn't expect that Chen's father shook his head like a rattle when asked, saying that this secret recipe must be very valuable, and the Chen family's background must not be able to afford it, he was actually entrusted by a very rich friend, so he wanted to know if this secret recipe could be sold.

Chen Zihao's family is also a solid family, but with the addition of all the shops, cash and houses at home, the assets are only about five or six hundred taels, which is countless times stronger than the original Zhao family, but it is not enough to buy this secret recipe for refining sugar.

If it was in any other era, Zhao Dagui might keep this secret recipe and not sell it, but in the twenty-third year of this Daoguang, that is, in 1843 of the Western Yuan calendar, when the five ports were traded and the magic capital was opened, Zhao Dagui really did not take this money in his eyes, but hoped to get cash quickly and invest it in the bigger business in the future.

If Zhao Dagui had planned to refine white sugar in snow, when the Chen family bought sugar for the first time, he would not directly tell the Chen family that he had a secret method for refining white sugar, but would adopt a more secretive method.

"Uncle, you know the situation on my side, in just one month, I have earned forty or fifty taels of silver by relying on secret methods.

If I continue to sell sugar on my own, it will be very easy to earn five or six hundred taels a year in the future, and if I hire someone to expand the scale, it is also possible to double the profit on this basis.

Besides, some time ago, people from Ping Ji and Zhangjia Commercial Bank came to me and wanted to buy this secret recipe from me, and you didn't know it. Zhao Dagui said with a deep sigh.

"Ping Ji and the Zhang family actually want to buy a secret recipe from you, there is such a thing?" Father Chen was stunned, very surprised.

"Oh, I mentioned it to Brother Zihao last time, and it seems that he didn't tell you. Zhao Dagui said, but scolded Chen Zihao in his heart.

The last time he met Chen Zihao, Zhao Dagui deliberately mentioned that several big commercial houses wanted to buy the secret recipe for sugar production, and the original intention was to let Zihao spread the word to Chen's father's ears, but he didn't expect that this Chen Zihao brother has always regarded himself as a scholar and disdained business matters, and such important information was never mentioned to his family.

"I didn't expect such a thing, I don't know how much money these two families came up with?" Father Chen asked unwillingly.

"These two are very sincere, and they offer a lot of prices. Zhao Dagui didn't report the real number, but said ambiguously.

Father Chen asked a few more questions, Zhao Dagui looked very embarrassed, but he just didn't explain the matter thoroughly, and he looked very embarrassed, Father Chen knew that the relationship between the two families was not really deep, and Zhao Dagui would never reveal such a key figure, so he could only give up in the end.

In this way, Father Chen wanted to help people ask about buying secret recipes, but he was a little bottomless, and in the end, he could only tell Zhao Dagui the bottom thoroughly.

It turns out that the Chen family is a big family here in the magic capital, and Chen Zihao's family is only considered to be well-off, but there is also a real big family in the clan, with hundreds of people in the family, and the business is also very large, and thousands or even tens of thousands of loads of soil sugar are poured every year.

Chen's father and the person in charge of the big family are not only relatives, but also a small family since childhood, and have a good relationship, and they usually have to be taken care of by others when they do business.

This time, it was also the Fa Xiao who knew about the Zhao family's white snow candy, and felt that he wanted to get the secret recipe, and with his family's big business, he could earn tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, so he was a little tempted, and asked Chen's father to ask if the Zhao family was willing to transfer this secret recipe.

"I don't know how much money your family came up with to buy this secret recipe?" Zhao Dagui thought for a while and asked carefully.

Father Chen saw that Zhao Dagui did not hide the idea of not selling the secret recipe, and he was very happy in his heart, and only said that his family had strong financial resources, and he did things righteously and fairly, but he did not say the specific price, only said that Zhao Dagui would meet with this family and set the price in person.

Zhao Dagui thought that this was also right, so he agreed to come down and make an appointment to meet someone.

In the end, Chen's father, as a Chinese, invited his relatives and Zhao Dagui to a restaurant, and let the two discuss the secret recipe in person.

Zhao Dagui met with the rich Chen family relative, and learned that the person's surname was Chen Minghao, who had been doing business in the magic capital for several generations, and had some power.

However, this person is a traditional businessman, with a kind face, and politely talks about buying secret recipes, and there should be no mess in this as a serious business deal.

Zhao Dagui nodded secretly, and complained in his heart, Uncle Chen, Uncle Chen, you have a friend named Chen Hao, but your son is named Chen Zihao, which is easy to cause ambiguity.

Zhao Dagui knew that the businessman surnamed Chen was indeed very rich in his family, and he could only buy raw sugar at a price of 40 wen a catty in the market, and the Chen family could buy local sugar at a price of 20 wen when he went to the sugar producing area, and the total amount was definitely enough;

Moreover, Zhao Dagui has just entered the sugar industry, holding the top white sugar in his hand, and he will sell twenty or thirty taels a month, but with the connections of the Chen family, it is possible to sell tens of thousands of taels of white sugar a year and obtain tens of thousands of yuan in profits.

However, that is also someone else's ability, and Zhao Dagui has no intention of coveting it.

After negotiating for a while, the two sides finally reached an agreement, and Zhao Dagui agreed to sell the secret recipe to Chen Hao and Master Chen at a price of five hundred taels.

At the same time, Zhao Dagui also agreed not to disclose the secret recipe to a third party after transferring the secret recipe, and he and the Zhao family would not make white sugar for sale within ten years.

Zhao Dagui himself calculated that if he continued to make sugar, it was estimated that he would earn five hundred taels of silver in a year or two, and this secret recipe was actually very simple and very easy to leak, so it was better to get the money first and cash out.

He has a lot of better ways to make money than this, and he doesn't pay much attention to this so-called secret recipe.

After getting the two hundred taels of silver as a deposit, Zhao Dagui also went to Chen's house with Chen Hao to demonstrate the method of producing white sugar from local sugar.

"It's so easy to make white sugar from brown sugar, just stir it with bone charcoal?" Chen Hao said incredulously.

"It's not too difficult. Besides, pouring brown sugar into white sugar with yellow mud water can turn brown sugar into white sugar, and bone char is at least much higher grade than yellow muddy water.

Besides, the simpler this thing is, the lower the cost, and the more profit you make, isn't it better?" Zhao Dagui said with a slight smile.

"That's the reason. However, where is the reason for making white sugar in this way, does Brother Zhao know?" Chen Hao thought for a while and felt that this method was extremely simple, but it was actually more beneficial to making money.

Just for such a little trick, I paid five hundred taels of silver, which seemed to be a little unwilling.

"You're asking someone, I'm afraid no one else can answer this question except me. Zhao Dagui was scratched all of a sudden, and the problem of being a teacher immediately attacked, so the color of the brown sugar was red, but there were impurities in it, and after melting it into the water, it was put into the bone char and stirred, and the principle that the impurities could be adsorbed out was explained.

"Therefore, after the brown sugar is integrated into the water, it is necessary to remove the impurities in it, and it is not necessary to use bone charcoal, that is, to use charcoal or bamboo charcoal, or even yellow mud water to stir, which has a similar effect.

It's just that bone char has the best effect and the price is not expensive.

It is said that I have been in China for 5,000 years, until the end of the Ming Dynasty, and I have not mastered a good way to produce white sugar, that is, the method of making white sugar poured with yellow mud water, which I only began to learn in the early Qing Dynasty, and after two hundred years of popularization, it became well-known.

Therefore, don't think this method is simple, if I don't get this method from Nanyang, it is estimated that in another hundred years, I will have to use the old method of drenching sugar with yellow mud water. ”

"Brother Zhao is worthy of being a scholar and knows more than us.

However, in this way, this method can not only be used to convert raw sugar into white sugar, but also does not need to be drizzled with yellow mud water when boiling sugarcane juice, and directly uses bone charcoal and then boils to directly obtain white sugar?" Chen Hao is very clever and very keenly grasps another great use of this method.

"However, because there are no impurities, the white sugar obtained in this way must be better and tastier than the sugar made of yellow muddy water, and at the same time, there will be no blackening of the sugar at the bottom of the tile and can only be sold at a low price. Zhao Dagui nodded, there are really smart people in this world, as long as they point out the principle, they can think things through.

In this way, it really works. Chen Hao nodded, his face changed, as if he had thought of something very important.

Then, Chen Hao bowed his hand to Zhao Dagui and said sincerely: "Brother Zhao's words are really valuable, and Chen has been taught.

The five hundred taels of silver, I will take it for you, and I hope that Brother Zhao will abide by the agreement and not reveal this secret recipe to others. ”

"That's for sure. Zhao Dagui nodded and said solemnly.

After a while, Chen Hao really asked someone to take five hundred taels of silver, handed it to Zhao Dagui, and asked him to stay for dinner at night.

However, Zhao Dagui was like an arrow at this time, and he was used to seeing the landlord's old wealth get the secret recipe in the movies and television of modern society, so he poisoned the wine and food, killing people and killing people, so he insisted on going home under the pretext that his younger siblings were young and needed to be taken care of.

After a while, Zhao Dagui left Chen Hao's house, and went to Chen's shop, and gave ten taels of silver as a thank you gift.

In ancient times, the county town had to close the city gate after nightfall, not allowing people to pass, at this time it was already the time when the sun was setting in the west, Zhao Dagui immediately went out of the city gate, arrived at the East Gate Wharf, and found a ferry boat to row to the opposite bank.

When he arrived at the east bank of the Huangpu River, paid the boat fare, and set foot on the land on the east bank of the Pujiang River, Zhao Dagui's heart was steady, although he felt that the five hundred taels of silver on his back were quite heavy, almost forty catties, but his heart was hot.

With this money, Zhao Dagui can do a lot of things, and he doesn't need to work hard for the minimum level of food and clothing.

When he returned home, he took out five hundred taels of silver and showed his younger brothers and sisters, the two children had never seen so much money, and they were a little blinded, and then they began to cheer again.

The three members of the Zhao family have been working hard for a month, boiling sugar hard, and such efforts have finally reaped successful results, at least Huo Daya's loan sharks don't have to worry anymore, and Zhao Xiaomei's heart that has been worried about this time can also be put down.

It's just that Zhao Xiaohu is a year older after all, he has gone to school, he knows a little about things, and he knows that he can't sell sugar anymore after the secret recipe is sold, so he pouts a little.

"It's a pleasure to sell secret recipes like this, but it's still a lot worse than selling sugar at home.

If we keep the secret recipe and don't sell it, we can earn three or four hundred taels of silver a year, and in a few years we can earn thousands of taels of silver, which is not better than this mere five hundred taels of silver. ”

Normally, Zhao Xiaohu's words are right, but Zhao Dagui just smiled and shook his head.

"This method of refining sugar is so simple, we can't keep this secret recipe, it is estimated that in less than three months, everyone in this village can estimate it.

Besides, there are so many ways to make money, and we don't have to hang ourselves from a tree. ”

Zhao Xiaohu nodded, but his expression was still a little disapproving.