Chapter 60: Sugar
More and more people are joining in consciously.
Most of the two workshops were quickly built.
Although the people of Zhenhaiwei don't know what these two buildings are for.
But they knew what Zhang Luo was capable of.
Zhang Bing is an honest man who never talks about anything.
He did not announce Zhang Luo's sale of refined salt.
But Grandpa Zhang told the people in Weili.
Last time, it all depended on Zhang Luo's money from selling salt.
The guards just paid the fine for fighting with weapons.
People who have read books are very capable!
Now every household in Zhenhaiwei has one.
Everyone wants to send their children to school to become Zhang Luo's students.
I don’t have any children, but I also want to have a relationship with Zhang Luo.
A capable person like Zhang Luo.
One day it will be great.
And Zhang Liansheng also ordered his soldiers.
A small harbor was built on the shore.
It is used by Zhang Luori and Wang Yan for business purposes.
Zhang Liansheng sent dozens more people.
Following Zhang Luo and Zhu Xiaoer's group, they went to Dingyan Island.
Bring all the salt-making tools Zhu Xiaoer left on the island back to the guard station.
Before I go to the county school to study.
Zhang Luo finally built the sugar house completely.
On a dark and silent night.
A wooden boat appeared on the sea not far from Zhenhaiwei.
Walking towards the shore without stopping or slowly.
Zhu Xiaoer stood next to Zhang Luo.
Seven or eight Zhenhai Guards soldiers were wearing civilian clothes.
Standing behind Zhang Luo with a wooden stick in hand.
The wooden boat slowly approached the shore.
Pi Fa San walked out of the wooden boat with her hair disheveled.
After bowing to Zhu Xiaoer.
Two soldiers got on the boat and carried the two wooden boxes out of the boat.
There is no unnecessary nonsense from both sides.
After lifting the Luocheng brown sugar.
Pifa San immediately ordered his subordinates to prepare to leave the shore.
Zhang Luo opened the wooden box with his own hands.
When I saw the dark inside, it turned out to be the brown sugar from Luocheng.
After receiving brown sugar.
Zhang Luo was going to try to make sugar the next day.
Been busy for a while.
Zhang Luo looked at the puddle of yellow muddy water in the pot.
Still he couldn't help but uttered a few curse words.
"Fuck..."
Sugar production went smoothly at first.
Zhang Luo melted the Luocheng brown sugar with hot water.
Then yellow mud was added.
After one day.
The yellow mud did absorb some of the color in the brown sugar.
Clumped together at the bottom.
But the color of the sugar water did not turn white after absorption.
Instead, it turned into a faint yellow color like yellow mud.
It seems that there is still a difference between what the book says and reality.
This method of making sugar can even produce sugar.
There is also no pure white sugar.
Zhang Luo poured out the dim sugar water.
Then pour it into the pot.
After burning for a while, what you get is still dark sugar pills.
On the surface, it looks worse than Luocheng brown sugar before processing.
Zhang Luo held back his anger.
Calm down and think.
The essence of the sugar pouring method is to filter out the color substances in the brown sugar.
Logically speaking, the steps should be correct.
But I want only the white substance to remain.
Yellow mud water alone may not be enough.
The sugar making method that I memorized in my mind before traveling through time was definitely not complete.
In fact, that's right, making sugar is such a secret thing.
How can it be so easy to get?
Zhang Luo started to enter the system.
Turn on the "Sugar Industry" skill.
Try to find some useful knowledge from it.
The most important step in making sugar is forming crystals.
Fuzhou rock sugar generally uses protein-containing liquid as the primer.
After heating, let the sugar form crystals with the primer.
But eggs are a small luxury in Zhenhaiwei.
Zhang Luojue would like to try using soy liquid first.
All contain protein.
The difference shouldn't be huge, right?
Zhang Luo put the filtered yellow sugar water into the pot.
Then I put some soy milk into the pot.
Start heating, hoping that crystals will form this time.
As a result, the large pot of sugar water burned as expected.
Looking at the sugar water in the pot getting darker and darker.
Zhang Luo's heart was bleeding.
After cleaning up the pot, Zhang Luo sat on the ground.
Thinking about the failure of this sugar production.
There are already some broken crystals under the sugar water.
It stands to reason that there is no problem in adding water containing protein for crystallization.
But why did the white crystals not form?
The color of the sugar water is getting darker and darker.
One possibility is that the heating temperature is not well controlled.
Let the sugar water deepen too much.
Another point is if the temperature is too high.
causing the sugar water to boil.
Crystals cannot be formed.
Zhang Luo remembers when he was cooking.
Put the sugar into the pot.
As the cooking temperature gets higher and higher.
The color of the sugar will gradually deepen.
The fundamental reason for the failure of sugar production this time.
It may be that the temperature of the boiling water was not controlled too high.
The reason is initially locked.
If you want to control the temperature.
You have to use water heating method.
Zhang Luo poured some sugar water into his cup.
Pour the sugar water into a small pot.
Then place the small pot on a large pot filled with water.
Let’s start making sugar again.
Sure enough, through water heating.
Light yellow crystals slowly appeared in the sugar water.
It really worked!
Zhang Luo happily looked at the crystals formed in front of his eyes.
The color is a bit light yellow though.
But compared to the previous failures, it is already a great success.
[Sugar making task completed, sugar industry skill lv increased, experience 8/10]
The experience in the system has increased.
It means that the system also thinks that it has really made sugar!
Then another message popped up in the system.
[The sugar house location has been unlocked and chemical engineering skills can be learned. Do you want to receive the knowledge? 】
It turns out to be a chemical engineering skill!
Hurry up and take it in.
This is a very critical skill.
Zhang Luo wanted to make an igniter.
To improve the gun, chemical engineering is a necessary skill.
I’m curious why it wasn’t unlocked when I made refined salt before?
Could it be that the last time the salt was extracted, it was done in the kitchen.
The conditions for skill unlocking are not met.
This damn system really has no rules at all.
It all depends on your own luck.
Some basic chemical engineering knowledge entered Zhang Luo's mind.
Zhang Luo recalled the method he used to make sugar just now.
There is indeed a shadow of modern industry.
Rely on the yellow mud water to filter some color substances.
Then use protein water and water heating method to form crystals.
The resulting sugar crystals are not pure white.
Or it's because the temperature of the water is a bit higher.
In the 21st century sugar manufacturing process.
While using the water isolation heating method.
Also by lowering the boiling point.
Then lower the temperature to get perfect sugar crystals.
Take Zhang Luo now to get some equipment.
It is difficult to lower the pressure and boiling point.
Can come up with this yellowish crystal.
It's very good and most of the level.
Wait until there are more and more sugar crystals.
Zhang Luo took out a pot of crystals.
Then control the force and break the crystal into pieces.
You will get slightly yellowish white sugar.
Zhang Luo has never seen what white sugar in the Ming Dynasty looked like.
But I raised the sugar myself.
In terms of appearance, it is already much better than brown sugar.
It will definitely sell for a high price.
The procedure was clarified.
After that, it’s just a matter of repeating the steps.
With Zhang Luo's strength exceeding that of ordinary people.
Zhang Luo has been busy all day.
Fifty pounds of Luocheng brown sugar was extracted into twenty-five pounds of slightly yellowish white sugar.
The sugar yield is about 50%.
Two pounds of brown sugar equals one pound of white sugar.
This chapter has been completed!