Chapter 57: Inspection

Selling white sugar in large quantities will pull down the price of white sugar, which is also something that cannot be done, but if Suren sells it in limited quantities every month, the price of white sugar will not fluctuate too much.

After all, according to the consumption rate of the nobles, hundreds of nobles in Carthusian City can almost consume hundreds of catties of sugar, and in the past, this nobleman only used white sugar when entertaining guests, and more often used brown sugar and honey instead. If there is white sugar, it will definitely not be replaced by brown sugar.

In the entire Northland, there are more than a dozen big cities, hundreds of small cities, and hundreds of them, among which there are hundreds of towns, and Su Lun does not know how many nobles there are, but in terms of the output of his sugar factory, even these markets in the Northland cannot be satisfied.

If the sugar trade develops, Su Lun's territory will definitely get huge profits, and there will definitely be many people who want to get a piece of the sugar trade at that time, but fortunately, his territory is located in the wilderness, and it is also three hundred miles away from the nearest city, which makes many of those nobles unable to use many means.

Of course, it will be difficult to get them to give up, unless the Suren territory is strong enough, such as having a strong army with a large number of people. Only strong strength can deter those who have evil intentions. Suren is powerful, but not invincible.

With the completion of the establishment of the sugar factory, the sugar production also officially began, and Suren transferred twenty serfs from among the serfs to work in the sugar factory.

Truckloads of beetroot are cleaned and transported here, then cut into small pieces and poured into a juicer, where the purple-red beet juice is squeezed out and flowed into the barrels through special pipes.

Soon a bucket of beet juice was filled, and then the beet juice was sent to another room for operation, and when the operation was completed, the purple-red beet juice became transparent. Watching the orderly work of the workshop, it didn't take long for the sugar to be made.

The quality of the white sugar produced this time was very good, and the white sugar looked crystal clear, which was a little better than the previous batch of quality, and Su Lun understood that this was the unique effect of this workshop. The sugar is weighed, and the sugar yield is also higher.

After seeing the normal operation of the sugar workshop, Su Lun breathed a sigh of relief.

In addition to the production of sugar, the sugar mill also produces a lot of waste, the most of which is the beet residue, which is left after the beet is pressed, and these beet residues can be used to make feed after processing, and it happens that there are also many livestock raised in the territory, and these beet residues are just used as feed for these livestock.

As for the waste honey left over from boiling sugar, these things were intended to be used to make wine, and the price of wine was very high, and if it was successfully used to make wine, it would be a stable income for Suren's territory.

It's just that there are no talents in the territory who can make wine, so Su Lun has to store these waste honey first. The next time you go to Carthus, ask Jean to buy a few slaves who can make wine.

After all, beetroot is not artificially planted, and after a period of excavation, the number of wild beetroot began to decrease significantly, and Su Lun drew three hundred acres of land for planting beet, not that he did not want to plant a large area. Instead, sugar beets have limited seeds, and even if he wants to expand the planting area, he needs enough seeds.

Therefore, it is only after the first sugar beet harvest in the territory that more beet seeds are obtained before they can be planted on a large scale.

In the following time, in addition to patrolling the territory, Suren also had one more thing, which was to look for beets. It didn't take long for the beets around the territory to be collected, and if you want to collect more beets, you need to go to places outside the territory.

Exploring outside the territory, which requires Suren to lead the team, after having the strategic map provided by the system, he can automatically record the places he has visited, so as long as he walks through it, the corresponding map will be generated on his strategic map.

Suren and a team of barbarian warriors searched the wasteland, which was already close to the Lotus Mountains, and not long ago they had found a small patch of beet on the nearby fast soil slope. After digging out these beets, Suren and the others continued to move forward.

After approaching the mountain range, Su Lun planned to reconnoiter here again, and then take the people away, after all, this place was already very close to the Ice Pterodactyl, and after passing through a forest, a hidden valley suddenly appeared in front of him.

The valley is not big, the surrounding trees are lush and green, a stream flows out of the valley, the noon sun is still very hot, the metal armor on the barbarians is a little hot, Suren is ready to take them to the valley to take shelter.

Approaching the valley along the stream, the group soon came to the valley, which was much darker with the shelter of the peaks on both sides, and the group came to the stream to freshen up, and the barbarian warrior took off his armor and jumped into the stream to wash.

Su Lun came to the upper reaches of the stream, took the water in both hands and rinsed it, the water quality of the stream formed by the melting of ice and snow on the mountain was cold, and the heat on the body was driven away at once, and after the rinsing was completed, the water bladder was filled with clean water, and Su Lun began to pour a large number of this valley.

At this moment, his eyes suddenly froze, and he saw a stone sculpture on the blue-gray rock wall at the bottom of the valley. The surface of the statue has become blurred due to years of wind and rain, and from the outside, the statue is at least a few hundred years old.

Suren is not a historian and cannot tell the style of the statue, but since there is a statue here, there must have been people living here. Looking up at the valley, Suren found that there was only one exit from the valley, and the exit was narrow, but the space in the valley was large.

As long as you guard the mouth of the valley, the valley is very safe, the land in the valley is flat, and the soil quality is also good, which is very suitable for farming, Su Lun roughly calculated, the entire valley can be reclaimed at least five thousand acres of land, plus this stream inside, there is no problem at all to raise a few thousand people.

Suren came to the stone statue to find out if there were any other clues, and soon he found a gate on the rock wall behind the stone statue that had long been blocked by vines.

The gate was made of metal, it looked heavy, but it was rusty, Su Lun knocked with his hand, and there was no empty sound, it was obvious that this metal gate was very thick.

Such a heavy gate should be controlled by a mechanism, otherwise such a heavy gate will not be pushed by a few people, Su Lun called those barbarians over to look for it together, he is now very curious about what is behind this iron gate.