After Zhao Dagui woke up, he felt that this family was extremely dilapidated, and there was nothing about money in the memory of the original owner, and he had to lie in bed all the time to recuperate, so he didn't bother to ask about money.

Just now I heard Huo Daya asking for debts, and Zhao Dagui knew that the Zhao family had recently borrowed twenty taels of silver from Huo Daya, thinking that it was because the original owner invited Lang Zhong to see a doctor and grab medicine.

Twenty taels of silver is a lot of money in this era, Huo Daya was willing to borrow so much money, there should be the shadow of the rich family behind him, and he wanted to use Huo Daya's hand to completely step on the original owner, so that he had no possibility of turning over.

However, twenty taels of silver can buy two cows or two or three acres of land, just to recuperate and catch medicine, it must not cost too much, and there must be a lot left.

"Brother, it was not good for me at the beginning, so I borrowed twenty taels of silver from Huo Daya in a hurry, and now I have to affect the family. Zhao Xiaohu lowered his head, seemingly very uncomfortable.

Zhao Dagui nodded secretly, at that time, the original owner was beaten fifty boards, and he was unconscious for a long time, it must be Zhao Xiaohu who came forward to do a lot of things, and the money should have been borrowed by Zhao Xiaohu, maybe the original owner was not very clear.

But that's not the point, it's all about the money, which is a valuable start-up capital.

"How much money is left now?" asked Zhao Dagui.

Zhao Xiaohu rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, and found the cloth bag that was tightly hidden from the boxes in the house.

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When you were carried back from the yamen, covered in blood and unconscious, Huo Daya specially came to me and said that he could lend money to my family, so I borrowed him twenty taels of silver.

Later, it cost a little more than five taels to see a doctor and catch medicine in Langzhong, and during this period of time, the family spent some money, so now there are thirteen taels of silver and eight hundred and twenty wen left. Zhao Xiaohu counted the money and handed it to Zhao Dagui.

Zhao Dagui picked up the cloth bag and looked inside, there were broken silver and copper coins in it, it was a big stack, but he himself lacked experience and couldn't calculate how much these things should be worth.

Pretending to count it, Zhao Dagui rewrapped the money, put it away, and groaned in his heart.

With Zhao Dagui's self-confidence, he didn't take the debt of fifty taels too seriously, even if he didn't have the big killing weapon he obtained before he crossed over, it would not be difficult to earn it just by relying on his knowledge as a modern person.

The problem now is that it is not a coincidence at this point in time, it is the beginning of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the consul of the magic capital, Bafur, arrived by boat, and it must be around the 17th day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and then on the 26th of September, that is, the 17th day of the 11th month of the AD calendar, the opening of the port was announced.

If it was after the arrival of the British, it would be easy for Zhao Dagui to make money and support the usury, but the problem was that the usury only expired in early September, and there was a gap of about half a month between the arrival of the British.

With Huo Daya's actions, it seems that he is determined to force debts, and when the time comes, let him snatch Zhao Xiaomei away and forcibly send it to the money and grain households, which will be very bad.

If that's the case, even if Zhao Dagui can make a lot of money in the future, he will feel guilty for the rest of his life.

In this way, Zhao Dagui will have to make a sum of money within this month, at least to repay Huo Daya's usury.

Zhao Dagui has many ways to make money, but in the case of almost being poor and white, in the poor and backward Qing Dynasty, there don't seem to be many ways to earn fifty taels of silver in just one month.

Weighing the more than thirteen taels of money in his hand, Zhao Dagui had some calculations in his heart: just take this as the final test in the novice village before starting the big plot.

"Brother, you can't sell me, I won't be a maid. At this time, Zhao Xiaomei cried and said, her face was pitiful.

Zhao Dagui was in a good mood at this time, and originally wanted to make a joke about Zhao Xiaomei, but seeing that she was crying pitifully, he suppressed the joke, turned to Zhao Xiaohu, who was nervous next to him, and asked:

"Xiaohu, you borrowed this money, and when Huo Daya comes to arrest your sister, what will you do?"

"I, I don't know how to do it, it's a big deal to fight with him, I can't let him take my sister away. Zhao Xiaohu said with a small fist.

"Hehe, it's still our little tiger who is brave, with your words, no one dares to bully our sister. Zhao Dagui smiled and praised Zhao Xiaohu.

During this period of the Qing Dynasty, it was common for poor people to buy land and sell their children in wheat fields, even during the Republic of China, but anyone who has watched the TV series version of "Red Sorghum" will understand how valuable Zhao Xiaohu's statement is.

"However, this matter can't be found by Huo Daya.

In this way, I will go to the county town in a while and find a way for one of my classmates to buy some rice and meat at home, and we will eat something good in the evening. Zhao Dagui thought about it and decided to go to Modu County to find someone to help, and left two hundred yuan for his younger brothers and sisters to buy something to eat.

Zhao Dagui has always been the backbone of the two children, and when he saw that his brother was going out for a walk, the two children were relieved, so they said yes in unison.

Zhao Dagui took all the money, went back to his room, closed the door, and sat on his bed.

Looking for a way to make money in the county town of Modu was something that Zhao Dagui had thought about before, and it can be said that he has been planning this matter since he woke up.

Originally, Zhao Dagui still wanted to sell his field or house, or find someone to borrow money to prepare for start-up funds, but since he had cash at home, he saved a layer of trouble.

Until then, though, there's one more thing to confirm.

"Enter the library of the Lord God. Zhao Dagui sat on the bed, silently thinking in his heart, and felt a reversal of his mind, and descended directly from the house he was sitting in to a mysterious space.

He went to Mount Tai to play in the 21st century, but strayed into a mysterious space, arrived at a five-color altar, and finally traveled to this world after obtaining a metal ball on the altar.

This golden ball is not a mortal thing, but the last relic left behind by a powerful main god after the fall, or a fragment of its godhead, after being taken by Zhao Dagui, it will be integrated into its body, and it will reach its home in the sea of knowledge, becoming a space of its own.

When Zhao Dagui's mind descended on this space, he saw that it was a land block of about ten acres, and a black stone house stood on it, with the five big characters "Lord God Library" written on it.

Above the land and the stone house, there was a gray mist, sometimes conjuring up the images of cows, horses, dragons, tigers, and unknown strange beasts.

Speaking of this "main god library", it is actually the only divine building left after the fall of the main god, and it is also the largest inheritance that Zhao Dagui obtained from his predecessor.

Of course, the current Zhao Dagui is still very weak, even the "Lord God Library" is also in the lowest level of the "Reckless Era", and the so-called identity of the Lord God is not of much significance.

Zhao Dagui descended on this land, but it was a first-person perspective like CS, and as soon as he arrived at the library, the door would automatically open, allowing the main god to enter directly.

In this "library of the main god", from the wall to the center of the house, there are a large number of bookshelves, according to its size, at least hundreds of thousands of books can be placed, but only tens of thousands of books are currently on the shelves.

Zhao Dagui took two books from the bookshelf at random, namely "Advanced Mathematics" and "Mysterious Island", but they were advanced mathematics textbooks and science fiction novels that made Zhao Dagui and other students want to die when they were in college.

It turns out that one of the functions of this main god library is to embody all the mortal books that Zhao Dagui has seen since he was a child, and project them on the bookshelf in the form of books, and even many books that Zhao Dagui has only seen once or twice, and now he has forgotten about the books can be seen clearly.

The number of books that a modern person has seen in his life is extremely huge, and the number of textbooks from primary school to university alone has reached hundreds, and all of them have extremely high practical value, which is one of the foundations of Zhao Dagui's foothold in the Qing Dynasty.

In addition, Zhao Dagui especially likes to read online novels, and has also written millions of words of Qing wear novels, for which he has read a huge amount of information, although he has not made any names, but these materials are now also on the shelves in the form of books, which is of great benefit to his business development in this era.

In the center of the library is a golden-looking bookshelf with a book and twelve blueprints, perhaps the most valuable items in the entire library.

It turns out that the book is called "The Code of the Lord God", which describes the use of the Lord God Library and the way to upgrade, etc., which is the user manual that comes with the Lord God Library;

The twelve blueprints are very remarkable, they are the plans of the twelve divine buildings owned by the main god back then, namely the Hall of Reincarnation, the Exchange, the Bar, the Blacksmith's Workshop, the Pool of the Gods, the Temple of Faith, the Invincible Castle and the Five Elements Palace (the Five Elements Palace is five buildings).

The various divine buildings owned by the previous main god back then were all damaged during its fall, and only the most critical main god library survived, but as long as he had these design drawings and the appropriate resources, Zhao Dagui was able to build these divine buildings in turn, obtain their different functions, and reproduce the glory of the previous main god.

Zhao Dagui glanced around the library, went to a bookshelf by the wall, picked up a book called "The History of the Development of the Sugar Industry in the Qing Dynasty", and then flipped through it carefully.

This is actually a miscellaneous book that Zhao Dagui read to write a novel, which records the development of the sugar industry in the Qing Dynasty and the problems encountered.

Zhao Dagui is now in September of the 23rd year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, and Europe at this time has developed quite perfect sugar technology, which is no different from the products sold in supermarkets in later generations in terms of product quality, and even the technology of squeezing sugar from sugar beets and other plants is also very mature.

In contrast, the white sugar of the Qing Dynasty could only be produced from sugar cane, using a rather primitive production method of drenching with yellow mud water, and the final product quality was quite questionable.

Specifically, the method of producing white sugar in the Qing Dynasty was to erect two stone mills side by side, and then put the uncut sugar cane whole into the middle of the stone mill for juicing;

Then the squeezed sugarcane juice is clarified with lime, etc., and then boiled in a large pot to make the sugar in the sugarcane juice become crystals and precipitate, so that the black or red sand sugar is obtained, that is, soil sugar;

To make white sugar, it is necessary to put in a large funnel-shaped pottery that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, that is, pottery called tile slip, and then sprinkle yellow mud water on it;

In the process of yellow muddy water flowing from top to bottom, it will take away the impurities in the black and red soil sugar, making the soil sugar turn into white sugar, and the price will increase a lot.

This kind of sugar production method, the process, the process to the utensils involved are so simple that it is outrageous, and there is no need to have a deep understanding of the sugar making process, as long as the modern people who have received junior high school or even primary school education can point out many of the problems and find ways to increase its output and quality several times.

If nothing else, juicing the whole cane into a stone mill, but cutting it into palm-sized pieces and juicing it can significantly reduce the difficulty of pushing the stone mill and increase the yield from sugar cane to sugar by a factor of five or six.

According to records, according to the above-mentioned production methods, 100 catties of sugarcane can only produce about 3 catties of sugar, and the precipitation rate is only 3 percent, which is too low; by cutting it into slices and squeezing juice, it is possible to obtain more than 15 catties of sugar, and the precipitation rate reaches about 15 percent, and its advantages are very considerable.

However, 15 percent is actually very low, in the current sugar factory, the precipitation rate of sugar is generally more than 70 percent of the weight of sugarcane, if you are willing to spend more costs, let the iron roller turn a few more times, the precipitation rate can be increased even more.

Considering that from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, a wooden mill made of lychee wood was used to press sugarcane, and it was not until the Qing Dynasty that it switched to stone milling, but it did not evolve to iron milling until the forties of the nineteenth century; and considering that the Chinese sugar industry had not yet learned the method of drenching sugar with yellow mud water until the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it was not until the Qing Dynasty that it learned to produce white sugar in large quantities, the slow progress of production technology can be seen.

Moreover, the black and red soil sugar is poured with yellow mud water to produce white sugar, which is also very backward, and the white sugar produced in this way is only the top part of the funnel-shaped tile slip is considered white sugar, and it is not the pure white crystal white sugar in the modern supermarket, but the sugar with a slightly yellowish color, and the so-called white is only compared with the black and red sugar.

The yellow mud is drenched, and it is strange that there is no yellow left.

What's more, what's worse is that when you pour yellow muddy water like this, the sugar above the funnel tile is relatively white, but the sugar below will become darker and look worse quality because all the impurities are gathered here.

Speaking of the economic pattern of this era, although later generations like to compare the magic capital before the opening of the port to a deserted small fishing village, in fact, the magic capital at this time is not deserted, there are more than 7,000 river boats and more than 5,000 sea ships every year, respectively from the inland and the sea to visit the magic capital, in fact, the Yangtze River basin cargo transportation transit point.

In the thirties, the British evaluated the Magic Capital, saying that it was the largest trading port in northern China (relative to Guangzhou), and its trade volume was only above Guangzhou, not below Guangzhou, and the annual trade volume reached more than 50 million taels of silver, and its commercial value to the British was immeasurable.

This is also the background when the Jiangning Treaty was signed, and the magic capital became one of the five trade ports.

Among them, the amount of earth sugar transported and distributed through the magic capital every year is extremely considerable, with an average of more than 50 million catties per year, that is, about 500,000 quintals, and a value of about 1.5 million silver dollars to 2 million silver dollars.

Zhao Dagui flipped through the books and read these contents several times, how to make money in the shortest possible time and solve the crisis of the Zhao family, and gradually understood it.