Suddenly, I found that it was about to exceed 100,000 words. The support given by everyone has always been kept in mind. So what, go on! If today's clicks and recommendations are as violent as yesterday's wind and rain, I will do my best to add more.

"Congratulations, sir!" The master who boiled the sugar was proud, holding a huge cyan sea bowl in both hands, which was full of freshly processed brown sugar. "The villain thinks that he has been engaged in this industry for decades, and he has never seen such a convenient and fast way to extract sugar, and the sugar can be produced on the same day as the juice is squeezed, and the amount of sugar produced has never been seen before."

Shouhan twisted a pinch of brown sugar with his fingers and put it in his mouth to taste it carefully, and saw that several stewards of the Han Yuan firm were also tasting the sweetness of the freshly squeezed sugar. He motioned to Mo Yu, a soldier beside him, to bring the candy to the group of children, so that they could also taste the taste of the freshly boiled sugar.

"Oh! Eat candy! The children ran and screamed with big bowls, gathered together to experience the sweetness of sugar.

"But, my lord, there's something wrong with it." As a technician, the sugar boiling master questioned Shouhan's sugar extraction and sugar boiling production line from another angle.

"Oh? Speak quickly! "Shouhan seems to be back to when he was a technical director, and he is very excited when someone has different opinions about his design.

"Your Excellency, this thing," the sugar boiler pointed to the reel in the hut, "quick is fast, but the villain made a rough estimate, and with the sugar cane that you brought back from the Ryukyus, plus the production on our ground, it can barely support the consumption of the rest of the month." If we want to open the mill, I am afraid that our existing sugarcane will not be enough to support a crushing season. The mill that the adults spent a lot of money to build is afraid that it will take several years to recover the capital. ”

I encountered the problem of insufficient raw materials again!

However, Shouhan has also experienced many similar things, and he has become less surprised, "Master Huang, what do you think?" ”

Master Huang is also a bold person, "My lord, since you asked about the villain, the villain is presumptuous, across the sea is Qinzhou, Lianzhou, and a little farther away, Leizhou, Qiongzhou." These state capitals all have sugarcane production, especially Xuwen County, the capital of Leizhou, which is well-known far and near. My lord, you might as well send someone to buy some and come back. I've heard that there is also a poor harvest this year. Master Huang's eyes were full of cunning.

Shouhan heard that this person was also a person, and he wanted me to take advantage of the summer wind disaster, which caused a reduction in grain production in the nearby area, to buy sugarcane on a large scale. However, how to acquire and how much to acquire is appropriate, but it is necessary to calculate it.

It has just been calculated that after 100 catties of sugarcane are squeezed, there is about 88 catties of residue left, which means that the sugar yield of this production line is between 12% and 13%. Although it is still a little less than the 15% sugar yield rate in later generations, this figure is already appalling in the era when wood presses are used everywhere.

Before the advent of steam sugar mills in the 19th century, mechanical sugar mills generally produced 100 bales of sugar per year, and according to the current international standard, 1 bale is 100 kilograms. To produce 100 kg of sugar, at least 1 ton of sugarcane is needed, and the yield of sugarcane (sugar cane) per mu is not too high. The average yield per mu of Guangxi's Guitang No. 11 sugar cane is only about 5.8 tons, and the yield per mu in this era is estimated to be a little more than half, and it is only 3 tons. If you want to meet the standard of producing 10,000 kilograms in a crushing season, that is, ten tons of sugar, you need at least 100 tons of sugarcane, that is, at least three or four hundred acres of total output, and you have to bear the transportation.

"You stewards, go back and discuss your livelihood, come up with a charter, I want you to ensure that this mill will not be idle for a season."

Shouhan's words were very calm, and his tone was very gentle, but they could not be changed.

A few stewards couldn't help but feel a pang in their hearts, "The subordinates are under the orders of the adults!" ”

No wonder Shouhan is in a hurry, his sea salt processing and purification process can be changed slightly, and it can be turned into a white sugar processing technology, which can be used to increase the added value of the product. You know, brown sugar in this era is much cheaper than white sugar.

Several ox carts loaded with bagasse slowly walked towards the nearby brewing workshop, and in the sound of cowbells, Shouhan and his party walked slowly towards the direction of the garrison as well as the carts, and in the crowd, several stewards excitedly discussed how to transport the purchased rice to various places in exchange for the sugarcane that the mill urgently needed. But there are exceptions in the crowd.

A young steward, his lips kept moving, as if he was silently calculating something, and suddenly, with a certain look on his face, his teeth biting his thin lips, as if he had made up his mind, walked quickly to the center of the queue, poofed, and knelt down in front of Shouhan.

"The student implored Dong Weng to take back his fate, and not let the boat carry rice everywhere in exchange for sugar cane!"

A few people were still discussing how to buy sugarcane, how to transport the sugar produced to the Haojing of Guangzhou and Xiangshan County, and sell it to the Hongmaoyi people from all over the country, but this stunned young man jumped out to block the interest of the owner, which is worth it?!

"Huo Jian, don't talk nonsense!"

"My lord, this person is a newcomer to the school, and he is inevitably a little stubborn, but I hope to understand."

Shouhan motioned to Mo Jin to help Huo Jian up, "Your name is Huo Jian?" What is the name of the table? ”

"Back to Dong Weng, the student's expression is Zhong Qiang."

"Zhong Qiang, let me ask you, when did you join Han Yuan to do things?"

"My lord, Zhong Qiang is a native of Qinzhou, Guangxi, and he is also a talent who has gone to school, and he doesn't want to have no money to do it during the annual exam, so he was found to be wrong, practiced literature and politics, and won fame."

"I didn't want a few acres of thin fields at home to be hit by a hurricane, so I had no choice but to cross the sea to make a living under the Dongweng family and support my old mother." Although Huo Jian made a living under Shouhan, he still had the style of a scholar, neither humble nor arrogant, and even a little arrogant, which made Shouhan feel good.

Shouhan's personality and temper, in addition to the formation when he was the technical director of Xinsheng Company, are family heirlooms. His grandfather often said that those who pat sycophants and flatter, send them away as soon as possible, and today he can pat you on the ass, it is because you are useful to him, and tomorrow you are useless to him, he will immediately run to pat other people's ass.

"Brother Zhongqiang, I don't know what to teach?"

"Dong Weng, do you know the scope of a typhoon disaster in summer?"

"Speak!"

"Qinzhou, Lianzhou, and Wuzhou in western Guangdong, and Leizhou, Gaozhou, and Qiongzhou in eastern Guangdong have all been violated, and some prefectures and counties have lost their rice harvests. The day before yesterday, the students received letters from their classmates at home, and the price of rice had skyrocketed, and the rice was worth thousands of dollars. On the contrary, sugarcane farmers are complaining that this year happens to be a bumper harvest of sugarcane, but the owners of the mills have aggressively lowered prices, and now rice is expensive and cane is cheap. If Dong Weng sells rice to Leizhou and other places, he can naturally make huge profits, but if he sells cane sugar with rice, he is afraid that he will lose money. ”

"Tell me your reasoning!"

"My lord, in order to prevent the grain from hurting the farmers, you have caused the shops everywhere to increase the purchase price of rice, and after the people everywhere have made rice, they all feel grateful for the virtue and politics of the adults, but in business, our capital has been suppressed. Nowadays, when we cross the sea to the sea, there must be some handling losses, which must also be counted in the cost. In exchange for sugar cane, the sugar is squeezed, and the money of the water foot is also to be included in the principal of the sugar extraction. Although the adults use less people and less cattle, the sugar is also fast; However, after all, it is made of pure steel, which costs a lot of money. According to the rough calculations of the students, the cost of a packet of brown sugar is already around one tael of silver. At such a price, it is no longer profitable to be trafficked to Haojing, Guangzhou and other places. ”

"Therefore, the student implored Dong Weng to take back his life."

After listening to Huo Jian's words, Shouhan was very happy in his heart.

This guy has quite a lot of brains, and the accounts are very detailed. However, he did not get two accounts right, so he artificially overestimated the cost.

First, the three steel reels weighing thousands of catties are not the steel that people have in their impression, and the natural cost is much lower.

Second, Shouhan didn't want to use brown sugar, a low-grade product, a low-value-added commodity, to make money at all.

In addition, in addition to exchanging the raw materials needed by the mill, Shouhan also tried to find cheap and high-quality rice to attract a group of laborers for himself. Today, there is still a big shortage of labor in Ha Tinh. In order to make up for the shortage of labor, he had no choice but to implement the labor pooling system, which separated the skilled workers everywhere, those craftsmen and those who were purely selling coolies, and held regular meetings every five days according to demand, and reported the needs of strong workers everywhere, and he coordinated these coolies.

"To prevent nest workers, I also have the preferred method and the overall planning method!" Shouhan smiled smugly.

Motioning to let a few honest and frightened managers go in advance, Shouhan turned his head, "Brother Zhongqiang, are you interested in traveling with a certain family?" ”

"The students are willing to follow the tail."

"My lord, you let your students see this as this?"

Looking at the brown sugar in the pool that was constantly stirred by several officials and slaves with thick wooden sticks in their hands, Huo Jian couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded.

The pool is six or seven feet high, and the walls of the pool are wrapped in copper skin, and there are not thousands of catties of water in the pool, and the clear water in the pool gradually turns into a maroon red under the agitation of the officials and slaves.

There were also a few officials and slaves, in groups of two and two, holding huge strainers, putting them in the pool, touching the bottom of the pool, and carefully pulling the strainer with the wooden stick in their hands, from one end of the pool to the other. After a few times, he lifted the strainer and reported to the foreman, "This pool of sugar has been completely melted." ”

Shouhan himself didn't know the solubility of brown sugar, so in order to prevent incomplete dissolution, he had to use such a stupid method.

"Open the gates! Water! ”

With the foreman's order, several officials and slaves slowly lifted the gate of the pool, allowing the fully dissolved sugar water to pass through the ceramic pipes filled with charcoal packets.

This is the activated carbon filtration method proposed by Lei Mingsheng inspired by Shouhan's original filtration method. This process, in the production of refined salt, has earned a lot of money for Shouhan, and now, it has a new use.

Seeing that the white sugar, which was as clean as snow, was neatly stacked on the shelves according to the standard of a pack of twenty catties, Huo Jian couldn't help but turn around and salute Shouhan deeply, "The student is stupid, I don't know that Dong Weng is far-sighted and reckless!" I also hope that Dong Weng will atone for his sins. ”

"Huh! Where did Brother Zhongqiang come from! You are also thinking about the business, lest the business be lost. It's a certain family that wants to borrow Brother Zhongqiang. ”

Five days later, Huo Jian, as the head of the Han Yuan firm, escorted 2,000 bags of white sugar to the entrenchment.

A few years later, Huo Jian's name was cursed by countless millers and sugar boilers. There are two reasons: First, the assembly line sugar extraction of steel press wheels and the sugar processing technology of activated carbon have made countless small mills close down and bankrupt. Second, based on his own experience, he put forward a production process standard for white granulated sugar and brown sugar, which made those sugar boiling masters who relied on years of experience lose their jobs.

This is a later story, omitted from the table.

In Layue, the port of Hongji under the rule of Shouhan became extremely busy, and large and small sea ships loaded with rice set off for Qinzhou Lianzhou, Leizhou Peninsula, Qiongzhou Prefecture, and further afield Ryukyu to trade sugar cane and jaggery.

"I'm going to replace the two whites of refined salt and sugar with one white! That is, the silver in front of the ranks! ”

At a regular meeting of the Han Yuan firm, Shouhan said with confidence in the face of many managers and shareholders.

However, what people did not expect was that the trade of rice for sugar cane in the Ryukyus almost led to a war.

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