With the manpower, Fang Xiaoyu was much more convenient. He asked Zhang Tong to follow him, and asked Liu Junxi to take a few slaves to search for brown sugar and brown sugar in his own shop, and then transport them to Lanting Villa. This time he took the
With the carriage in hand, the traveling speed increased a lot.
Half an hour later, Fang Xiaoyu with his guards had arrived at the gate of Lanting Villa. Hearing that the young master was back, Sun Huaizong and Lin Feng came out with many people. Fang Xiaoyu got off the carriage and asked Sun Huaizong with a smile: "
Did the Xia family send anything over yesterday?" Sun Huaizong nodded: "It was delivered yesterday afternoon, but I don't know what it is, so I didn't dare to touch it. It's all in the warehouse."
Fang Xiaoyu ordered: "Very good, you will find ten smart slaves later, I will be of use." Sun Huaizong immediately went to find someone. Fang Xiaoyu turned around, looked at Lin Feng and smiled and said, "How about it? Lin Feng
, you haven’t been lazy in the past few days.”
Lin Feng puffed up his chest and said: "How is it possible? We all completed the training on time and according to the amount. Now we don't have to worry about food and drink, we have a warm house to live in, and new clothes to wear. Everyone is very enthusiastic, even the younger siblings who are literate.
We all work very hard, and they all say that they must learn their skills and contribute to the young master." Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "That's good, but it's almost the Chinese New Year, so I can give you a few days off. I'll have someone give it to you later.
Come over with some delicious food and fun.”
After listening to Fang Xiaoyu's words, Lin Feng was trembling with excitement and said: "Young Master loves and cares about us so much, I really don't know how to repay Young Master." Fang Xiaoyu said: "I said you are my brothers, since you are brothers, of course you must care and love us.
As for repaying you, as long as you study hard now and you can help me in the future, it will be the best reward for me." Fang Xiaoyu sighed and continued: "Speaking of which, it is the empire's responsibility for you to become orphans. As the empire, I
The nobles cannot ignore them."
Lin Feng was hesitant to speak and said: "If all the nobles in the empire thought like this, young master, there wouldn't be so many orphans living on the streets." Fang Xiaoyu noticed Lin Feng's abnormality and asked: "Lin Feng, you
Are you worried? Or do you have something to say to me?" Lin Feng said with some embarrassment: "Actually, it's because the weather has been very cold these days, which reminded me that there are some orphans I know who are begging in the city. I really want to
Gather them too."
After Lin Feng finished speaking, he saw Fang Xiaoyu thinking deeply, so he thought he disagreed and continued: "Actually, I know this proposal is a bit excessive. Without the help of the young master, we would be the same as them, especially when it is cold and freezing.
There wasn't much food to eat, and there was no charcoal for heating. Everyone could only huddle together in the City God's Temple, whose roof was half collapsed, to keep each other warm. It would be even worse if someone got sick. In addition to using our bodies to help the patients,
Apart from keeping him warm, there is nothing we can do to help him. Last winter, six of us died." Lin Feng became more and more excited as he spoke, and in the end he was choked with sobs.
Seeing Lin Feng, whose eyes were red and crying, Fang Xiaoyu patted him on the shoulder and said: "Okay, I didn't say I don't want them. Tomorrow you take a few people to look for them in the city, and collect all those poor orphans."
Come back." "Really?" Lin Feng looked at Fang Xiaoyu in disbelief. Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "Yes, I will take them all, but you have to keep a close eye on them. How many of those are truly pitiful and kind-hearted?
How much do you charge? I don't want any of those who have become gangsters and thieves. If there is any problem, you are the only one I can ask." Lin Feng patted his chest and said: "No problem, I am familiar with all the orphans in the capital.
I guarantee that there will be no problem with the people we take in." At this time, Sun Huaizong had already walked over with several domestic slaves. He saluted Fang Xiaoyu and said, "Master, the people have been selected." Fang Xiaoyu agreed and led the people in.
A barn for storing things.
Under the command of Fang Xiaoyu, everything was assembled. There were four sets of brewing equipment, five sets of sugar-making equipment, and more than thirty wooden barrels for storing wine. Seeing these things, Xiaoyu points out
Nodding, he asked someone to load one set of brewing equipment onto the carriage, and directed others to install the rest. The brewing equipment required a stove, which was relatively time-consuming, so he first directed a few people to assemble the sugar-making tools.
Liu Junxi hasn't brought the sugar back yet, but there is some brown sugar in the villa. Hearing that Fang Xiaoyu wanted to use it, Sun Huaizong took it all. Fang Xiaoyu looked at it and it weighed more than ten kilograms. It should be enough for experiments.
Due to the influence of his mother in his previous life, Fang Xiaoyu has read many ancient books, and Song Yingxing's "Tiangong Kaiwu" is even more familiar. In the sixth volume of this book, "Ganxi", the method of making white sugar and rock sugar is described in detail. Making white sugar requires
Squeeze the sugarcane juice that has matured over the winter with a pulping truck, put it into a vat, boil it over fire to make a yellow-black syrup, pour it into another vat and condense it into brown sugar; prepare another vat with a tile on it
Use a funnel to block the leak of the tile slide, pour the brown sugar into the tile funnel, wait for the black sand to solidify, remove the straw, use yellow mud water to drain off the brown sugar in the funnel, and the black residue flows from the funnel into the tank below.
There is white frost left in the funnel. The top layer is about five inches long. It is very white and is called Western sugar. Rock sugar is made by frying and melting white sugar, adding eggs to remove impurities. When the heat is right, break the new green bamboo into strips and chop it into one-inch pieces.
Put it into the melted sugar and it will solidify into rock sugar overnight.
Now that there is ready-made brown sugar, the previous steps can be omitted. Fang Xiaoyu directly asked Sun Huaizong to mix some brown sugar with yellow mud water. When the water evaporated completely, white sugar appeared in the funnel. After seeing Fang Xiaoyu's instructions, the black and purple brown sugar turned out to be
It turned into white sugar as white as snow, leaving Sun Huaizong and Lin Feng waiting to watch in shock.
Fang Xiaoyu grabbed a handful of sugar and licked a little with the tip of his tongue. Yes, the taste was exactly the same. Fang Xiaoyu nodded with satisfaction. Then Fang Xiaoyu raised the sugar to Sun Huaizong and said, "How much do you think this sugar can sell for?" Sun Huaizong's eyes flashed.
Liang said: "The market price of brown sugar is 20 yuan per kilogram, and brown sugar is 35 yuan per kilogram. I think this white sugar can be sold for 50 yuan."
Fang Xiaoyu shook his head: "No, we are the only one who can produce this sugar, so I think if it sells for one hundred yuan per kilogram, it is called a monopoly. Do you understand?" Sun Huaizong was stunned and said: "Master, what is a monopoly?" Fang Xiaoyu
Explained: "Monopoly means that only we can make it, and others can only buy from us. If they want it, they must accept our price, no matter how high the price is.
Besides, we will mainly supply this white sugar to the nobles first. If the price is low, they will think the price has dropped and they may not be willing to buy it. When we make enough money, we will slowly lower the price." Sun Huaizong shook his head: "Master, I still don't want to buy it.
I understand." Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "You will understand in the future. From now on, we must strictly guard this place, keep an eye on people and things, and never let it out, you know?" Sun Huaizong nodded: "I understand this, I will definitely do it.
Take a good look."
Several domestic slaves hired by Sun Huaizong were indeed ingenious. In addition, the method of making sugar from yellow mud water was very simple, and they learned it in just a short time. More than ten kilograms of brown sugar quickly turned into white sugar. This is what Liu Junxi also brought from his own shop.
The brown sugar and brown sugar collected in the middle of the day came over, and several house slaves quickly got busy again. Seeing that the stove for making wine could not be finished for a while, Fang Xiaoyu decided to go back first and wait until he had time to make wine. Just these sugars would be enough
Enough to make a fortune by myself.
Before leaving, Fang Xiaoyu said to Sun Huaizong: "Mr. Sun, you will lead people to build more houses tomorrow. I'm afraid some orphans will come over. You have to take good care of them." Sun Huaizong said: "I'm afraid it's not possible for the young master to build a house. It's cold now.
It’s freezing, so we can’t lay bricks with mud. I’m afraid we have to wait until spring. Otherwise, let the new arrivals live in the granary for the rest of the winter.”
Fang Xiaoyu knew that building a house was not feasible, so he had no choice but to agree: "Okay, let them sleep in the granary first. Remember to repair the granary and make more braziers so as not to freeze them." Then Fang Xiaoyu whispered: "Look.
It's necessary to get the stove out. It seems that tomorrow we have to go to Xia's house to find two blacksmiths to find a solution." Sun Huaizong interjected: "Master, actually we also have a blacksmith at home."
"We also have a blacksmith in our family?" Fang Xiaoyu was a little surprised. Sun Huaizong said with a smile: "Those handicraft workshops are not unique to the Xia family. Of course we have them too, but the scale is much smaller." Fang Xiaoyu said with an oh, "That's it.
, wait for me to visit our Fang family’s workshop one day.”
"Also." Fang Xiaoyu asked again: "Let the younger domestic slaves learn to read when they have time. Just let Lin Feng and the others teach them. It doesn't have to be very good at learning. At least they need to know some words." Just now.
, Fang Xiaoyu took out a copy of the operating procedures for brewing and sugar making that he had written, but none of the slaves could read, so in the end he had to give it to Lin Feng so that he could have time to read it to them.
Sun Huaizong and others sent Fang Xiaoyu to the gate of the villa. Before leaving, Fang Xiaoyu took away the first batch of three kilograms of white sugar that had just been produced. As soon as he returned home, a maid hurriedly came up to him and said: "Little
Young Master, you are back. The eldest master asked you to go to the main hall quickly." Fang Xiaoyu was a little surprised: "What's the matter?" The maid whispered: "I heard from the eldest master that you took all the cane sugar in the shop.
I was very angry that I was transferred away." Hearing what the maid said, Fang Xiaoyu raised the corner of his mouth slightly and said, "Then let's go." He turned back and said, "Lao Tong, take the sugar and go with me."
When he came to the main hall, Fang Xiaoyu looked up and found that the three grandfathers, uncle and his father were all there. The uncle Fang Weiming was sitting on a chair with a flushed face, and his father whispered something to the uncle beside him. Fang Xiaoyu said something to the uncle.
Entering the main hall, Fang Weiming stood up and said angrily: "Xiaoyu, let me ask you, what do you mean by taking away all the sucrose in my shop? Do you know how much that sugar is worth?"
Fang Xiaoyu smiled and nodded: "I know, the total is 530 kilograms of brown sugar and 1,218 kilograms of brown sugar. One kilogram of brown sugar is 35 yuan, and one kilogram of brown sugar is 20 yuan. A total of four
Twenty-nine hundred and nine hundred yuan."
The uncle was a little surprised when he heard that Fang Xiaoyu had calculated quickly, but he was still very angry and said: "Do you know that the Chinese New Year is approaching, and it is the best time to sell sucrose. If you take away all the sugar, what will I sell? Even if
It will take more than ten days to get the goods from the nearest place."
Fang Weihong also felt that his son had gone too far this time, so he also smoothed things over and said: "Xiaoyu, where did you get all those candies? Come back soon and apologize to your uncle."