Chapter 57 Inspection
Selling large quantities of sugar will lower the price of sugar, which is also impossible. However, if Sulun sells it in limited quantities every month, the price of sugar will not fluctuate too much.
After all, according to the consumption rate of the nobles, hundreds of nobles in Carter City can consume almost a few hundred kilograms of sugar. In the past, this noble only used sugar when entertaining guests, and more often used brown sugar and honey instead. If there was sugar, brown sugar would definitely not be used instead.
There are more than a dozen big cities in the entire northern region and hundreds of small cities, including hundreds of towns. Su Lun doesn’t know how many nobles there are, but as far as his sugar workshops are produced, even the markets in the northern region cannot meet.
If the sugar trade develops, Sulun's territory will definitely make huge profits. At that time, there will definitely be many people who want to get a share of the sugar trade. Fortunately, his territory is located in the wilderness and is 300 miles away from the nearest city, which makes many of the aristocrats useless.
Of course, it is difficult to get them to give up, unless the strength of Sulun territory is strong enough, such as having a powerful army with a large number of people. Only strong strength can shock those guys with ulterior motives. Although Sulun is powerful, he is not invincible.
With the establishment of the sugar-making workshop, sugar-making began. Sulun dispatched twenty serfs from among the serfs to let them work in the sugar-making workshop.
Trucks of beetroots were cleaned and transported here, then cut into small pieces, poured into a juicer. With the operation of the workers, the purple-red beet juice was squeezed out and flowed into the wooden barrel through special pipes.
Soon a bucket of beet juice was filled, and the beet juice was sent to another room for operation. When the operation was completed, the purple-red beet juice became transparent. Seeing the workshop working in an orderly manner, the sugar was made before long.
The sugar produced this time is of good quality. The sugar grains look crystal clear and better than the batch made before. Su Lun understands that this is a unique effect in this workshop. Weighing these sugars, the sugar yield rate is also higher.
After seeing the sugar-making workshop running normally, Su Lun breathed a sigh of relief.
In addition to producing sugar, the sugar-making workshop also produces a lot of waste, the most of which is beet residue, which is left after the beet is squeezed. After these beet residues are processed, they can be made into feed. It just so happens that a lot of livestock are raised in the territory, and these beet residues are just used as feed for these animals.
As for the waste honey left over from boiling sugar, Sulun is prepared to make wine. The wine is expensive. If it is successfully brewed with wine, it will be a stable income for Sulun's territory.
However, there are no talents in the territory who can make wine, so Sulun had to store the waste honey first. When he went to Carter City next time, he asked Gene to buy several slaves who could make wine.
After all, beetroots are not artificially grown. After a period of excavation, the number of wild beetroots began to decrease significantly. Su Lun drew 300 acres of land to plant beets. It was not that he did not want to plant them on a large scale. The seeds of beets were limited. Even if he wanted to expand the planting area, he needed enough seeds.
Therefore, we can only wait until the first batch of beets in the territory are harvested and more beet seeds are obtained before we can plant them on a large scale.
In the next time, in addition to inspecting the territory, Sulun also had another thing, which was to find beets. Not long after, the beets around the territory were collected. If you want to collect more beets, you need to go to places outside the territory.
Exploring outside the territory requires Su Lun to lead the team. After having the strategic map provided by the system, he can automatically record the places he has been to, so as long as he walks through it, the corresponding map will be generated on his strategic map.
Sulun and a team of barbarian soldiers searched the wasteland. It was close to the Lotas Mountains. Not long ago, they found a small piece of beet on the nearby fast soil slope. After digging out the beets, Sulun and others continued to move forward.
After approaching the mountains, Su Lun planned to investigate here again and then took his people away. After all, it was very close to the Ice Winged Dragon. After passing through a forest, a hidden valley suddenly appeared in front of him.
The valley was not big, with lush trees around it and lush. A stream flowed out of the valley. The sun was still very vicious at noon. The metal armor on the barbarians was a little hot. Sulun was about to take them to the valley to avoid it.
Following the stream to the valley, the group soon arrived in the valley. With the obstruction of two peaks, the light in the valley was much darker. The group came to the stream to wash, and the barbarian warrior took off his armor and jumped into the stream to rinse.
Su Lun came to the upper reaches of the stream, held the water with both hands and washed it. The water quality of the stream formed by the melting and snow on the mountain was cold, and it drove away the heat from the body. After the rinsing, the water bag was filled with clear water, and Su Lun began to fill the valley with a large amount.
At this moment, his eyes suddenly paused, and there was a stone sculpture on the blue-gray rock wall at the bottom of the valley. After years of erosion of wind and rain, the surface of the statue has become blurred. From the appearance, the statue has been at least several hundred years old.
Sulun is not a historian, and he can't tell the style of this statue. However, since there are statues here, there must have been someone here who lived here. Looking up at the valley, Sulun found that there was only one exit in the valley, and the exit was small, and the space in the valley was very large.
As long as you keep the valley mouth, the valley will be very safe. The land in the valley is flat and the soil is good, which is very suitable for cultivation. Sulun roughly calculated that at least 5,000 acres of land can be reclaimed in the entire valley. In addition, the stream inside will have no problem raising thousands of people.
Su Lun came to the stone statue and wanted to find out if there were any other clues. Soon he found a gate on the rock wall behind the stone statue that had long been blocked by vines.
The door was cast in metal and looked very thick, but it was already rusty. Su Lun knocked with his hand, and there was no empty sound. It was obvious that the metal door was very thick.
Such a heavy gate should be controlled by an organ, otherwise few people could push such a heavy gate. Su Lun called the barbarians to search together. He is now very curious about what is behind the iron gate.
Chapter completed!