"It should be true. Many sugar industry books say so." Wen Tong was also very nervous. Not to mention himself, even the elders in his family who had always been engaged in the sugar industry had only worked in modern sugar factories and had never seen this kind of country.
French sugar.
However, the effect that appeared next was indeed like magic. After pouring the yellow mud water, after waiting for a while, I looked at the sugar in the tile. Sure enough, it had become snow-white - of course, this whiteness is relative, compared to the sugar in another time and space.
The color of refined white sugar is slightly dull and yellow. It cannot reach the level of "abnormal whiteness" mentioned in the book.
The top of the tile is the whitest sugar, while the bottom is slightly yellowish brown. Both of these can be considered white sugar, but the former is more expensive.
Wen Tong shook his head. He knew very well why the sugar soaked in yellow mud water was not particularly white: the sugar liquid had not been processed by a centrifuge, and there was still a lot of molasses left. He wondered if the machinery factory could make a centrifuge.
The output efficiency of this process is not high. The sugar in the tile is actually layered. The top is the whitest, and the color becomes darker as you go down. The sugar at the bottom of the tile is quite dark. He weighed it.
Look, of the ten kilograms of sugar produced from a clay pot, only about 60% can be considered "white sugar", and the rest is brown sugar and brown sugar. The process is cumbersome and the yield is low. That is to say, in ancient times, such a process could still make money.
As soon as modern sugar companies appeared, Tutangliao went bankrupt one after another due to cost.
What is produced in this way is just large pieces of loose sugar. To truly make white sugar as fine powder as "icing sugar", a "recrystallization" process must be added. Melt the white sugar again, and then slowly simmer it over low heat.
The fine powdered sugar will condense layer by layer on the surface of the pot. At this time, you need to scrape it off in time with a bamboo scraper to avoid being burned and discolored. This process is similar to boiling salt. In the factory
It was made with a special evaporation-crystallization tank. Wen Tong had to test it by himself. Chang Shide helped light the fire, and Wenxiu and Wenqing helped. In order not to hinder the normal production of the sugar factory, Wen Tong had someone build another one in the sugar cane farm.
A small sugar hut was used as a sugar making laboratory. Four people were crowded into this temporary building in Zhuangzi. It was very smoky. Wen Tong looked at the fire and then looked at the pot. He felt dizzy for a while and almost fell into the sugar pot.
It led to tragedy.
Facts have proved that people who are good at theory may not be good at actual operations. Especially in such a primitive and simple environment, the stove burning sugar cane leaves and bagasse is not at all a fire that can be controlled by a manual knob on a gas stove.
As a person can grasp, after adding fuel once, the flames will be strong, and the sugar on the surface of the pot will immediately burn and change color.
"No, this stove has no temperature control. It's too difficult to adjust the heat." Wen Tong said frustrated. The salary of the fire master in the Tutang House is second only to the sugar boiler, and he does not get the money for nothing.
To adjust the heat evenly, you cannot use such a dry wood stove. You must use materials with stable fire and uniform heating. Various gases, charcoal, and briquettes can achieve this effect, or use steam for heating like in the factory, but
Xu Wen doesn’t have any of them here.
Wen Tong pondered hard for a long time, and finally came up with the idea of a water bath. Heating the vessel holding the sugar liquid through the water, so that the heating temperature became even and there was no problem of burning or discoloration. After several days of experiments, he finally got the result.
Bought the first batch of 5 kilograms of fine sugar.
With white sugar, it is easy to make rock sugar. The traditional rock sugar process requires boiling the white sugar and then adding chicken and duck egg whites for clarification. Wen Tong feels that the cost is too high. The so-called chicken and duck egg whites are actually just protein.
.He decided to use soy milk instead. Wen Tong simply built a mill in the village and asked the immigrants who used to make tofu to make tofu every day, which not only met the needs of the workers in the village, but also made soy milk available at any time.
After adding soy milk for clarification, break the newly harvested bamboo into bamboo pieces of different sizes and place them in the sugar solution. The sugar solution will use the bamboo pieces as the coagulation core and slowly condense large pieces of rock sugar.
When collecting, you only need to smash the rock candy and pull out the bamboo pieces. This method was first used in the Song Dynasty.
"It looks pretty good -" Although this kind of rock candy is not as good as the single crystal rock candy of later generations, its purity is also very good, so it should be a hot commodity when taken out.
The next step is to expand the scale of sugar production. Wen Tong asked people to order pots and utensils for water baths, and hired craftsmen to build a new sugar workshop by the river specifically for boiling sugar. In order to ensure the quality of the sugar
Clean, improve quality, and implement high standards when building the factory.
The sugar workshop is built according to the model of a modern factory. Although wooden beams and columns are used, the entire house is made of bricks and tiles, and there is no need to cover the roof with things like thatch or sugar cane leaves. The windows are large for easy lighting - in order to avoid excessive
Shockingly, the windows were only covered with window paper instead of the planned glass. The floor of the workshop was paved with square bricks, and there were also drainage ditches covered with grates to facilitate flushing the floor. Fifteen stoves for cooking sugar were lined up.
It saves space and is easy to operate. The heating and ventilation openings are located under the verandah outside the house, which not only can be operated on rainy days, but also avoids the risk of polluting the air and ground by opening air vents inside the house.
All the equipment was newly made. Wen Tong also had several wells dug by the river so as not to directly use the more polluted river water. He also spent a lot of money to build a warehouse with the same brick structure, specially used for stacking.
Sugar products. In addition to white sugar, brown sugar, there is also a lot of molasses. Liao Dahua ordered many large vats in the local pottery workshop specifically to store these things - I don't know what the shopkeeper is planning to use them for.
The workers in the new sugar factory were all selected from immigrants. Wen Tong personally trained them in various operating procedures and formulated a complete set of production rules and regulations.
"Wen Qing!" Wen Tong said, "From now on, the management of the South China Sugar Factory will be yours!"
In fact, both Wen Tong and Chang Shide were worried about entrusting such a job to child servants, but they had to do it. Apart from these two child servants, there were very few immigrants who could read.
"Yes, thank you for your cultivation, Master!" Wen Qing beat him one thousand times, "Young ones should do their best!"
"I have a complete set of production regulations and processes here. You have to supervise them to strictly follow the system. No private changes are allowed. If the workers have any ideas, you can tell them on your behalf and I will naturally consider them."
"Yes, sir!"
"Even if I walk into the workshop and see a little candy scattered on the ground, I will ask you the question!" Wen Tong put on the air of a master.
Wen Qing glanced at him uneasily. Why did the always kind-hearted master suddenly become so severe?
"Yes, I understand, little one. Don't dare to break any rules."
"Go ahead. Take your workers to learn the rules and memorize them all within three days. If you can't memorize them, you won't be given meat on the weekends."
"Then they will have to recite it at all costs." Wen Qing said with a smile.
"Huh," a smile appeared on Wen Tong's face. Among the two servants, he still liked Wen Qing better. Although he was not good at figuring out the master's needs, he seemed to be more reliable. "You should also study hard. , have you read the book I gave you every day?"
The book Wen Tong gave him was the "Training Textbook for Aboriginal Business Administration Cadres" jointly compiled by Wu De's Civil Affairs Committee and the Intelligence and Materials Committee. It was based on the experience accumulated by the Civil Affairs Committee over the past few months and combined with ancient and modern industrial and commercial management systems. It is compiled. It introduces the basic management model, how to calculate workload, salary calculation method, welfare standards, guidance on handling accidents and emergencies, etc. This book is the same as the "Civil Affairs Management and Organization Manual". They are all part of the "Aboriginal Work Series", which is still in the "soliciting version" stage.
"My little one studies hard every night. If I don't understand anything, I have to ask my master for advice."
"If you don't understand anything, you can come and ask at any time in the evening." Wen Tong said earnestly, "You were born as a child servant. Although you know a few words, how can those workers be willing to obey you easily? Only by possessing skills can you have prestige, not just relying on it. Use the master’s power to subdue him.”
"Yes! Thank you for your teaching, little one."
After sending Wen Qing away, Wen Xiu brought a tea tray and brought tea:
"Thank you for your hard work, sir, please have some tea." Ever since he learned that the two shopkeepers were not interested in "male sex," Wen Qing, who seemed to be relatively honest, had been very favored recently, so he knew that he had to change his ways and hide the coquettishness that had been flowing out from time to time in the past. He stood up and looked more dignified.
"Well, where is Master Chang?"
"Went to Hai'an Street."
Hai'an Street is the sugar export port of Leizhou. Although it is not a county town, it is a bit more prosperous than Haikang, the capital county. There are more than 30 sugar shops on the street alone. Wen Tong was really attracted by it when he first went there. I was shocked by the momentum - I had seen enough shabby and poverty-stricken scenes in Lingao, and when I first arrived in such a prosperous place of Ming commerce, the impact was no less impactful than the feeling of Lingao villagers coming to Dongmen City.
The small Hai'an Street is so lively and prosperous. If it were a large commercial city like Suzhou, Yangzhou, or Guangzhou, I don't know how much more prosperous it would be.
Wen Tong was a little surprised. Although Hai'an Street was only ten kilometers away from here, they had to inform each other in advance whenever they traveled far away. If they went out secretly, wouldn't they be looking for women? Wen Tong immediately thought: there are many merchants on Hai'an Street.
, places with prosperous markets have always been good places for brothels to do business.
"Sure enough, we went to look for wild food!" Wen Tong gritted his teeth: Lao Chang, you are really not a brother. If you want to go to such a good thing, you should tell me, it would be great to go and have fun together. Now that he and Liao Dahua are gone, he does not dare to go out casually.
. I had no choice but to go to a worker training class sulking: I taught them 300 basic simplified characters, simple mathematics and statistical methods. In the future, when the scale of the sugar factory expands, these workers will be promoted to managers.
While Wen Tong was gnashing his teeth at the loss of being abandoned and scolding a relatively clumsy worker student, Chang Shide was walking along Hai'an Street, accompanied by Liao Dahua, with the goal: the human market.
Chang Shide originally wanted to go directly to a brothel to solve the problem. As for the threat of sexually transmitted diseases, he was already prepared-several boxes of Durex were stuffed in his luggage. However, after being introduced by Liao Dahua, he went to several so-called high-end brothels and inquired about the market.
I'm not happy about it. The facilities in these brothels are good, and the women are average-looking even by modern standards. However, there are too many fake procedures, including having a tea party, listening to music and drinking, and this set of procedures
You can't start work immediately after you finish it. You have to come two or three times in a row to touch the bedside - this is too troublesome. Even a "high-end club" in another time and space does not have such a cumbersome process.
Chang Shide didn't know that high-end brothels in this time and space also functioned as social places. The main purpose of dignitaries, wealthy businessmen and wealthy customers was to socialize and meet the needs of cultural life. The more advanced the prostitutes were, the more they sat and talked with people instead of going to bed and practicing skills.
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Seeing that Mr. Chang was not very interested in this, Liao Dahua guessed what he was thinking. These merchants had been wandering in the maritime business for a long time, and naturally they couldn't wait to make these arrangements, so they led him to the streets behind - there were some more practical things there.
"Private door head".
However, after Chang Shide observed the make-up of the women soliciting customers at the door and the smell wafting from afar, he once again felt that if you want to attract women in this world, it is best to cultivate them yourself. Although Liao Dahua specifically recommended several companies that are said to have particularly good women.
Chang Shide still refused Jie Fengyue, saying that it would be better to keep a few of them himself.
Liao Dahua knew that none of these women were of interest to him. He thought that Australians seemed to have mysophobia, and they probably thought prostitutes were unclean. When he heard that he wanted to raise them himself, he lured him to the human market.
The so-called human market is just an open space with a few people sitting in a nearby hut drinking tea and chatting. These are all selling relatively high-end goods. Someone is interested and leads the customer to the nearby house to see the people - most of the time
They are young women, and there are also teenagers who can be used as pedophiles, so the price is naturally high. Some people really sell themselves with a straw tag on their head, and the price is low.
Chang Shide walked around and looked at a lot of Renya's products or self-sold products, but felt that none of them were to his liking. Renya's products were naturally neatly dressed and looked decent, but
The price charged is a bit too high, it costs fifty taels for a girl aged eleven or twelve. Chang Shide doesn’t want to raise lolita by himself, and he’s not interested in lolita itself. Besides, he doesn’t have that much money--
I have accumulated tens of thousands of coupons.
Seeing Master Chang's unwillingness, Liao Dahua even looked down on him. He couldn't understand what he was thinking, so he had to continue to follow.
After walking around again, I suddenly saw an additional stall. There were also several government servants standing there, and five or six women of different ages were kneeling or sitting on the ground. The older one was more than thirty, and the younger one was only twelve or thirteen.
Years old. Although he was unkempt and had a dark complexion, his nutritional status seemed to be pretty good. It was strange that no one came to ask. So he asked Liao Dahua to go over and ask.