As evening approached, Li Jie finally bought all the things and rushed home. This purchase almost cost him all his money. Fortunately, the original owner still had some martial arts skills, otherwise the nine-year-old would have to bear the weight of dozens of kilograms of things alone.
The young man really couldn't bear it.
This trip to Furong Town also made him understand what night tonight is.
In the first year of Jiaxi (1237), three years had passed since the war to destroy the Jin Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty joined forces with Meng to destroy the Jin Dynasty.
It's not that the imperial court didn't understand the principle of lips dying and teeth cold, but at this time, the strength of the Jin Kingdom couldn't even fulfill the role of lips.
Moreover, the original initiator of the alliance with Mongolia to destroy the Jin Dynasty was Mongolia. For this reason, Mongolia did not hesitate to intimidate the Southern Song Dynasty court several times, and even made a move to forcefully borrow the road. How could there be all blind people in such a huge court? They all understood the truth, but
How could the imperial court dare to reject the Mongolian threats again and again?
The two evils are relatively minor. On the one hand, it is to annoy the powerful Mongolia, and on the other hand, it is to follow Mongolia to drink soup, and incidentally avenge the humiliation of Jingkang. Moreover, even if the Southern Song Dynasty court does not agree, the Mongols are not incapable of destroying the Jin Dynasty alone.
They roped in Song Ting, firstly to get Song Ting to provide them with food and grass, and secondly to reduce their own losses.
Anyway, in the eyes of the Mongols, the Southern Song Dynasty was just the next lamb to be slaughtered. Giving Song Ting a little sweetness at this time was nothing. When they reorganized the internal affairs, Song Ting would definitely spit it out ten times and a hundred times.
The Song Dynasty also understood that once the Jin Kingdom was destroyed, they would have a war with Mongolia, and Mongolia agreed to share the Jin Kingdom's territory with them. On the one hand, the court hoped to gain more territory and improve strategic depth.
I also hope that through this cooperation, the honeymoon period with Mongolia will be extended, giving them more time to prepare for the next war. Revenge is really just a matter of course.
In addition, many officials within the imperial court could not resist the temptation to expand their territory. During this period, the rulers of the Jin Kingdom also made incredible moves several times, directly pushing potential allies to the enemy's side.
Under the combined effect of various factors, the Southern Song Dynasty finally had no choice but to join forces with northern and southern Mongolia to attack the Jin Kingdom, ending the more than 100-year-old dispute between the Song and Jin Dynasties.
After returning home and unloading the heavy things, Li Jie first went to the room to check that Mu Nianci was safe. She must have been very anxious. After all, in her impression, little Yang Guo had never gone out alone.
Before Li Jie opened the door, Mu Nianci's somewhat hasty words came from inside.
"Ahem...yes...are you coming back later?"
Li Jie opened the door and saw that Mu Nianci was about to struggle to get up. He quickly stepped forward and lifted her up.
"Mom, wait a minute, look, isn't Guo'er back safely?"
Mu Nianci glanced at Li Jie with some distress: "It's my mother, otherwise my son wouldn't have to go out alone in this cold weather."
As she spoke, there were two lines of tears in her eyes. Li Jie sighed slightly in his heart, and finally stopped the tears after comforting her. Then he racked his brains and tried his best to make his trip to Furong Town the best.
It was more interesting, but of course it omitted a lot of things about preparing to make money. It wasn't until Mu Nianci burst into tears that he returned to the kitchen and started cooking medicine.
As of now, the most satisfying thing about Li Jie is that he has a big iron pot at home. For foodies, the iron pot is indispensable for frying, frying and frying. A pot made of clay cannot make all kinds of delicious food.
A full range of delicacies.
Based on the traces of use of the iron pot, Li Jie speculated that this pot should have been bought by Mu Nianci when she first settled in Niujia Village. She must have had money to buy an iron pot at that time.
In these days, ordinary rural families really can't afford an iron pot. It's not that they can't afford it. Who can really grit their teeth and cannot afford an iron pot? To be precise, they can't afford it, or they can't afford it.
necessary.
The oil and various seasonings consumed for frying and frying are far beyond the affordability of ordinary families. The seasonings of most rural families only include a little coarse salt and homemade soy sauce, and other spices are rarely used. After all,
expensive.
Iron pots have gradually become popular at this time. Even small restaurants in the town use iron pots, and no one knows how delicious cooking is. However, due to the cost of use, most farmers still use primitive pottery pots.
kettle.
Therefore, the most common cooking utensils in the countryside are not iron pots, but clay cauldrons or clay tripods. If a family eats stir-fry every day, they are definitely rich in the village. The blacksmith in the blacksmith shop eats it every day.
It's about cooking.
When Li Jie made dinner, he tempered his cooking skills, and the food tasted like a first-time cook. Although the taste was average, Mu Nianci still ate with gusto. After drinking the medicine, Mu Nianci had a good meal.
Ci couldn't help feeling sleepy and fell asleep again.
After everything was cleaned up, Li Jie began to officially make sugar. The sugar making method recorded in "Tiangong Kaiwu" used sugar cane, but sugar cane is not available at the moment. It is actually the same to use brown sugar cubes instead.
First, put the purchased sugar cubes into a vat and boil it over fire to make dark brown syrup. Then prepare another vat with a ceramic funnel on top. Use straw to block the leak of the tile funnel and pour the boiled brown sugar into it.
Put it into a tile funnel, wait for the black sand to solidify, remove the straw, and pour out the brown sugar in the funnel with yellow mud water. The black residue flows from the funnel into the tank below. The white frost left in the funnel is white sugar, commonly known as sugar frost.
Although the white sugar made by this method is not comparable to the white sugar made by modern technology, it is definitely considered top-notch icing in this era.
Li Jie had already experimented in the main world before entering the dungeon. Now making sugar is just a matter of familiarity. There was no problem in the process. Except for the first deliberate failure, he became more and more proficient in the subsequent times.
In the end, Li Jie made two and a half kilograms (one pound and sixteen taels) of icing sugar. Since Li Jie used the cheapest brown sugar, the quality of the icing produced was slightly inferior to that sold on the market, but even so
, you can also sell it for one tael of silver or one tael of sugar.
In his eyes, this is no longer candy, but white money.
Forty taels of silver!
It's just such a small pile of sugar, and how much does it cost? It's only five taels of silver.
A full six times profit!
Huge profits!
Absolute huge profits!
Of the two and a half kilograms of icing sugar, Li Jie kept only half a kilogram for household use, and he planned to sell the rest. However, even two kilograms cannot be sold in Furong Town because it is too conspicuous. It can only be sold in Lin'an.
Only in a big city like Fufu can we sell this batch of candy without leaving any trace.
‘Tsk tsk, where did this kid come up with all these tricks? If I’m not mistaken, that thing should be icing sugar, right?’