Chapter 855: Sugar (Page 1/1)

In fact, as early as the pre-Qin period, sugarcane was cultivated in southern China, and the common way to eat it was to squeeze the juice and drink it directly, or eat it as a fruit. Later, people also tried to rough process the cane pulp, that is, to remove part of the water in the cane pulp by decoction in the sun, and make a higher concentration of "cane syrup".

There is such a story in the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", Sun Liang of Wu State found rat feces in the sugarcane dumplings offered by Jiaozhou, and after breaking them, only the surface was wet, and the inside was dry but not wet, so it was concluded that the rat feces were only put into the dumplings not long ago.

It can be seen that cane syrup at that time was a thick syrup. If it is further condensed, this viscous cane can also be consolidated into russet sugar cubes, because its shape is like a stone, and the taste is as sweet as honey, so it is named "stone honey".

However, traditional methods can remove limited water, so this sugar cube is large in water, easily dissolvable, and looks strong like a stone, but in fact melts in the mouth.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, in the north, where sugar cane was not produced, people wanted to taste the taste of stone honey, and they had to rely on foreign missions and Hu merchants from the Western Regions who came from afar along the Silk Road.

The "West Pole Stone Honey" they brought was produced in the Western Regions, and was dried in the form of cakes due to superb dehydration treatment, which was not only easy to carry and store, but also superior in taste and quality to the crude cane in the south.

Basically, most of the sugar eaten in the palace is such stone honey, of course, this belongs to the highest grade of sugar, and the lower grade is ordinary maltose.

The so-called sweet is like syrup, that is, sweet like sugar, and the syrup here is the finished product of maltose. In ancient times, there was a dumpling, and there was a dumpling, and "饧" refers to a slightly harder "dumpling".

When plant seeds germinate, maltose is produced, but this maltose is not easy to crystallize and can only be made into a gelatinous substance. Even so, not everyone can eat it.

Although I have mastered the technology of making sugar, the sugar here needs to be made from grain seeds, and I can't even eat enough, so why talk about eating sugar? So although sugar is a condiment, it is an out-and-out luxury for the upper class.

"Teasing the grandson" is the life ideal of Queen Ma during the period of Emperor Zhang of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Even the queen's ideal is to tease her grandson with sugar, let alone the common people who live so hard?

It wasn't until the Song Dynasty that sugar really became a widely consumed food.

"Lang Jun? Pimp? After Cui Yue finished eating Zhang Nan's cream cake, Zhang Nan was still immersed in his money-making plan and did not wake up.

Cui Yue shouted Zhang Nan while dangling his hand in front of Zhang Nan's eyes.

"Huh? What's wrong? Zhang Nan was shaken by Cui Yue like this, and it was only then that he reacted.

"No, what do you think, Lang Jun." Cui Yue asked curiously, although Cui Yue had seen Zhang Nan in a daze, but every time Zhang Nan was in a daze, some novel ideas would pop up, so what Cui Yue was curious about was not Zhang Nan's daze, but why Zhang Nan was in a daze.

"I thought of another money-making plan, how about it, is Yue'er interested?" Zhang Nan asked with a smile.

Although Zhang Nan can also operate these things personally, Zhang Nan's current goal is no longer on these, if there is any business that Zhang Nan can operate personally, it is only national or even foreign trade.

Of course, relatively speaking, Zhang Nan is really not eye-catching, but no matter how small the mosquito leg is, it is still meat, not to mention that before sugar became a mass food, it was still a very thick mosquito leg.

So Zhang Nan wanted to hand over this business to Cui Yue, so he thought it was to earn pocket money for Cui Yue to play.

Unexpectedly, after Cui Yue listened to Zhang Nan's words, he clearly rejected Zhang Nan's proposal.

"No, I'm too busy with Yue Liman's business, right, Saint Man, Lizhen." Cui Yue said.

"That's it, Yue Liman is ready to launch a new one recently, and a few of us are ready to stare at the new thing." Kim Saint-Man said as he picked up a strawberry with a plastic fork and put it in his mouth.

"Aren't you happy?" Zhang Nan scratched his head, in fact, if this sugar business is done, it is not less than Yue Liman's income, and even more than Yue Liman, after all, Yue Liman takes the boutique route, but sugar is a popular food.

"This, An Guogong, can you let me try this thing?" Seeing that the three women were unwilling to do this business, Li Chengxia asked a little timidly.

"Oh? Is the princess interested? Okay, I want to think about it, if the princess wants to do it, then vote for it first. When Zhang Nan said this, he pinched his fingers and counted.

"It will take about seven or eight hundred yuan to start this sugar business, and I guarantee that as long as the first batch of sugar is produced, after the reputation is spread, the sugar supply will be in short supply every month." Zhang Nan said.

As soon as she heard Zhang Nan say that she wanted seven or eight hundred yuan, Li Chengxia immediately lowered her head and began to seriously eat the cream cake that was not much left in front of her.

Where would Li Chengxia have so many seven or eight hundred? Li Chengxia's monthly money for a month is only a dozen yuan, and it is definitely impossible to take out seven or eight hundred yuan at this time.

Seeing Li Chengxia like this, Zhang Nan also understood what was going on.

"It's okay, if you don't have any money, just take it from me first, I'll provide an interest-free loan." Zhang Nan said with a smile.

"Interest-free loans, what's that?" Li Chengxia asked a little strangely.

"Interest-free loans are ...... Princess, you wouldn't have even been to the bank. Zhang Nan scratched his head, Zhang Nan now felt that Li Chengxia had lost touch with society.

Li Chengxia shook her head very honestly.

"Hey, the interest-free loan is, how much money you lack, take it from me, and when you make money, just pay me back the money." Zhang Nan said helplessly.

"Really? That's great! Li Chengxia said happily.

"So you agree?" Zhang Nan is also a little happy, after all, Zhang Nan is thinking about technology as a shareholder, and now someone is finally willing to do this business.

"Hmm." Li Chengxia nodded seriously.

"Okay, then it's decided, how much money do you have left, I'll give it to you."

"Eight hundred strokes are still missing."

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"Hmm...... To put it this way, there is no money. Zhang Nan scratched his head.

"yes, no money." What Li Chengxia said was called a straightforward one, which almost made Zhang Nan think that this business was done by her.

"Hey, okay, I'll give you a thousand, you can use it to do business, who made me Zhang Dashan?" Zhang Nan shook his head and said that Zhang Nan himself was moved by his kindness.

"By the way, An Guogong, I have never done business, nor have I dealt with people I don't know, can you help me with this business?" Li Chengxia looked at Zhang Nan with a serious face and asked.

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