With such a treasure in their hands, Wang Jing and others certainly wouldn't be used to it, so they were decisive.
Back and forth...
In the blink of an eye, several orders of business were done like this, and before I knew it, it was almost autumn.
At this time, the first batch of wine brewed by Wang Jing and others had already left the factory.
Originally they had a monopoly on the candy business, and all the maritime merchants who wanted to get a share of the pie only had to think of the words Wu Xing Qi Wang, and when they saw the seemingly casual glances from Wang Jing and others, they retreated in minutes.
Such huge profits are at hand.
And now, with the addition of wine making, the future is... if not limitless, no one knows what words to use to describe it.
This time when we went to sea, the size of the fleet was even more extraordinary...huge.
Wang Jing and others are also full of confidence.
And... at this time, it is also time for the children in the family to go out for "hunting" again.
Faced with such a magnificent career, disciples such as Zheng Ling and Lu Wen also transformed themselves into Ban Chao, with great ambitions.
I have five surnames and seven hopes, and I am invincible this time.
but……
In the midst of this wonderful, wonderful situation.
No, it’s outside.
Somewhere in the Tianzhu subcontinent, a young girl was excitedly looking at something in her hand... equally excited.
Equally excited, equally... ambitious.
This is an important task that Li Sheng entrusted to Asmin, and it is also another gift, which is equivalent to a free contribution.
And Asmin was naturally very excited about this.
Li Sheng thinks so highly of herself that even though she was so busy in the scorching Mangbaicheng that her heels hit the back of her head, she still couldn't help but think that she was not familiar with the allusions of the Three Kingdoms, such as thatched cottage.
The things and tasks Li Sheng handed over this time can all be clearly described in the same word.
sugar cane!
Sugar cane is what Li Sheng gave to Asmin this time, and the target...
Of course, what Li Sheng wanted to do most at the beginning was to give Asmin the task of growing rubber. After all, the Tang Dynasty was now running the world, and the country must have enough grain production. The grain production capacity cannot decrease and must increase every year.
Then the corresponding cash crops will have to be moved abroad, and in Li Sheng's opinion, the most important cash crop is of course rubber.
However, the problem is that the Forbidden Army currently out to sea has done a good job in the southeastern coast. Both the Forbidden Army and the local natives are living a more prosperous and comfortable life. They have found a lot of minerals, but they have never found wild rubber.
This also makes Li Sheng a little disappointed. It seems that wild ones are hard to find... Maybe we can only bring some with us when the fleet that explores America comes back.
In this case, of course, other economic crops must be considered - Li Sheng really didn't think about it so much at first, but now Li Sheng's mind is naturally on improving various engines...
The engine is the soul and crown of industry!
However, recently, Li Er has discovered that ordinary people and landowners are becoming more and more interested in planting various cash crops. Because of the profits from sea trade, the planting scope of mulberry trees, medicinal materials and other crops is obviously much larger than in the past.
Li Er could not sit idly by and ignore such a situation, so he also issued a decree to restrict private farming.
So Li Sheng naturally thought of sugar cane, which had been introduced to China at that time, but was still quite unpopular and no one paid much attention to it.
Then, the sugar cane was sent to Asmin.
The task Li Sheng gave Asmin was, of course, to plant sugar cane, and after harvesting, make it according to the booklet he gave...
That's right, that's cane sugar and sugarcane liquor. After distillation of sugarcane liquor, it becomes the world-famous rum!
Li Sheng didn't bother to calculate the value of these two things. Anyway, if time went back and he didn't get a bunch of official positions for no reason, he would probably engage in these two businesses to make money... Although it may not be much, the effect should be good.
This income is not bad, and it is not bad from Li Sheng's point of view.
In Li Sheng's eyes, it was considered a good deal, so you can imagine how shocked Asmin and the many Tang craftsmen around her were.
Even if she just "tried to operate" according to Li Sheng's plan, what came out this time completely shocked Asmin.
Pure white sugar like the snow in Lingzhou!
And the strange wine that is still sweet in the cold...
Absolutely amazing!
These four words of exclamation came to mind as soon as Asmin and her team members tasted these things.
And this idea didn't come out of thin air, because they... all came to this place from the Tang Dynasty.
In other words, they have experienced the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty and the long and prosperous food culture of the Tang Dynasty...
And even with such a high-standard reference, the quality and taste of this sugar and this wine are still amazingly outstanding!
And this is not even the final stage of completion, because this sugarcane wine still needs a "distillation" process before it can become the final product. Li Sheng did not name it, but Asmin has already thought of it, this wine should be properly called
Holy wine.
The two contradictory tastes of sweetness and sharpness are perfectly harmonious. Apart from my own master, what other name could be worthy of such a thing?
Excited, Asmin quickly organized people to carry out the next stage of experiments, distillation.
It can be said that Mangbaicheng was very busy during this period - even the soldiers of the Forbidden Army who came out to colonize the feudal areas were also involved, including Ouyang Tong, the son of Ouyang Xun!
Ouyang Tong was very speechless during the whole process, because... even though he couldn't stand those gangsters, these forbidden soldiers were too lawless, and they had no respect for them after leaving the Tang Dynasty.
The settlements are all "enclaves" outside the original "fiefdom". In other words... they are all the private property of these people... They are just leaving their homeland to miss their country and go to this wild land.
Of course Ouyang Tong can't blame anyone harshly. Besides...
Now Ouyang Tong also wants to understand that since he has been sent out to do such a job in the underworld - to serve a bunch of dudes, he might as well just do good and do good... Could it be that he still expects these boys to take him to fight with the Romans and make meritorious deeds?
No.
And since she wanted to manage the private land in her hands, of course she had to make money... So Asmin took up the business of growing sugar cane and processing by-products, and even Ouyang Tong, who had always been a strict gentleman, got involved.
Fortunately, the climate of the subcontinent is hot and the rainfall is extremely abundant. The cultivation of sugarcane is not only successful, but also the yield is astonishing.
Both the growth rate and sweetness of sugarcane are completely unparalleled.
And, just here in Mangbaicheng, while Asmin started distilling sugar cane wine, the Hangzhou fleet also quietly set sail...
