"Holy! It's a new car, isn't it? "It is estimated that I received a message from Bo Jiao, Luo Youde and Luo Dacai with two guys are already waiting on the dock. Unlike before, there were two horses standing behind them, and Hong Tao confirmed that they were horses, not mules or donkeys. There was a shortage of horses in the Southern Song Dynasty, so horses were very expensive in the Southern Song Dynasty, especially in the south, and even more expensive.

"Lao Luo, how much does this horse cost? Don't say send me, I just ask the price! "How much were horses in the Southern Song Dynasty worth? Hong Tao really hasn't inquired, so why don't you just ask now?

"This is Guangsi, four feet and one inch, not worth a few silver coins, eighty ears!" Luo Youde patted the horse behind him, although his mouth was not valuable, the expression on his face was obviously quite expensive.

"Eighty guan, it's quite expensive, but does Guangnan East Road still produce horses?" Hong Tao felt that eighty horses were really not cheap, mainly because these two horses were not too tall, four feet and one inch, less than one meter and three meters high, and they were about the same as the horses for tourists to ride in the amusement park, and they were a little far from military horses.

"It is produced by Guangnan West Road, if it is a Dali horse, the condition will be better, and the price will be much higher." Luo Youde handed the reins of one of the horses to Hong Tao, meaning to talk as he walked.

"Forget it, I rode on my legs and still drooped on the ground, still walking around and feeling comfortable. Lao Luo, how much do you think I can sell a 5-foot-tall horse if I can get it? Hong Tao was not quite used to riding a horse and letting an old person like Luo Dacai follow behind, so he excused himself that the horse was too short and did not ride, but walked side by side with Luo Youde in the direction of his small courtyard, chatting as he walked.

"5 feet! That...... Isn't that a miracle horse! This kind of horse is rare even in the Northland, and you have it in your hometown? "Although Luo Youde talked to Hong Tao, he took the quick-acting heart-saving pill in advance. But I was still scared.

The kind of horse he bought should be a Guangxi horse. It belongs to small horses. The height is only one meter, two or three high, and it cannot be used as a war horse at all, which is more suitable for mountain transportation. Mongolian horses are actually not very tall, more than one meter three, at most one meter four, but Mongolian horses have good endurance, do not pick feed too much, and are easy to feed. It is a good breed of war horses. Dali horses should be regarded as plateau horses, stronger than Guangxi horses, and similar to Mongolian horses, but the number is obviously not as much as Mongolian horses. It is estimated that most people of this era have seen such a variety of horses, such as Arabian horses, Andalusian horses, and English horses. Among those horse breeds, a height of 1.5 meters is considered short, and a 3-year-old mouth with a height of less than 1.6 meters is considered semi-disabled. There is also a kind of big horse in Europe, which weighs more than 900 kilograms, almost a ton, and is more than 1.7 meters tall. Most people have to work hard to ride it.

"Hey, hey, I don't have it in my hometown. But I know where it is, right in his hometown, Carl, tell Boss Luo, how tall are the horses in your hometown? "Hong Tao didn't use his ethereal hometown to fool people this time, he didn't have to fool this time, there are witnesses and truths!

"Fifteen palms! This horse is a maximum of eleven palms, which is too short. Carl's method of calculating a horse's height is unique, he uses the horse's forefoot as a unit.

"Goo-dong...... It's a pity, it's a pity, it's too far away......" Although the street was very noisy, Hong Tao still clearly heard Luo Youde's saliva.

"Actually, it's not very far, do you see my two big ships? Two months is enough, you can run two round-trips a year, don't talk about a boat, ten horses are no problem, how much can one horse be sold for? Hong Tao originally didn't plan to sell horses, but listening to Luo Youde say this, it seems that it is a very awesome thing to be able to get back the high-headed horses, a bit like the high-end sports cars imported from abroad in later generations, one can earn 100,000 yuan, which is a business that is not open for half a year and eats for half a year. This thing is most suitable for sea freight, because the sea freight time span is large, and the more expensive the shipping thing, the higher the profit.

"This, this...... It's not easy, isn't it...... Brother Wei didn't know how to sell it...... "Luo Youde didn't expect Hong Tao to really get the magic horse back, and he didn't know how to answer for a while. If you ask a person who drives a Santana to suddenly tell you who to sell dozens of Lamborghini and how much they should sell, he will definitely not be able to answer.

"Brother Luo, you said that if you dedicate those gods and horses to the official family, will the official family reward you with an official child?" Seeing Luo Youde's expression, Hong Tao suddenly had another thought in his heart. He has been thinking about how to talk to the Southern Song Dynasty court, originally expected Luo Youde to be able to act as this intermediary after he developed up, but now it seems that it is a bit difficult, or that it has been too long, if he can provide a steady stream of high-quality horses to the Southern Song Dynasty court, will it be a good opportunity?

"Ahh I sacrifice my horse! This...... This...... Brother Hong, you are really embarrassed to be a brother...... "Luo Youde still spreads his hands, it is better than letting him sell horses, I don't know!"

"Well, this matter will be discussed later, let's talk about the issue of sugar squeezing first, you go and prepare ten catties of sugar for me, I'll let you see my ability, and then let's talk about the following." If Luo Youde said that he would definitely be promoted and asked Hong Tao to hurry up and get a big horse, then Hong Tao really didn't dare to continue to cooperate with him, it was too dishonest. The more he said he didn't know, the more Hong Tao believed him, because at his level, although his family had a bit of an official background, he himself had never been in contact with official things, and it was impossible for him to know what the emperor would reward him, and not knowing was the most correct answer. The lucrative business of squeezing sugar is rewarded to him as a prize, rewarding him for his honesty to his partners, this quality Hong Tao feels more precious than how much money it is, and must be rewarded, rewarded!

If you want a small businessman like Luo Youde to do business with him, you have to give him some confidence, what is confidence? It is to turn brown sugar into snowflake-like white sugar and rock sugar in front of him. It is too troublesome to start making white sugar from sugarcane juice, it is better to skip the intermediate links and start directly from brown sugar, Hong Tao believes that Luo Youde's brain can understand his own meaning, and it is not a new thing to use sugarcane juice to make brown sugar in the Southern Song Dynasty.

So, in Luo Youde's small courtyard, Hong Tao started his trick in front of Luo Youde and Luo Dacai. First dissolve the brown sugar with water, stir it into sugar water, pour a small packet of bone char into it, and stir again. Then, the magic appeared! The original yellow brown sugar water became clearer and clearer, and when Hong Tao stopped stirring, a layer of yellow soft mud slowly accumulated at the bottom of the water, which was the precipitation of pigments and impurities in bone char and sugar water.

Now you just need to pour out the sugar water, slowly heat it, evaporate it, and wait for it to crystallize again. The crystallization is incomplete and contains water, and the crystallization is not watery is rock sugar. However, if the white sugar made by Hong Tao is sold in later generations, it is still worthless, because it is not very white, and if you want to achieve the purity of white sugar in later generations, it is impossible to rely on this simple process alone.

"Brother Hong, although he arranges, he will obey it!" The white sugar just came out, and he couldn't wait for the rock sugar to form, and after Luo Youde tasted it, he couldn't afford it, and he took it, this time he was really convinced! In his opinion, this white sugar is already very white, and in the mouths of the literati, it is as white as frost and snow, and they can even call the lighter brown sugar frosting, and their imagination and exaggeration ability are not generally strong. Ten catties of brown sugar melted into water, and the white sugar that came out was not much less, even if it lost one-tenth, but the price of this snowflake-like beautiful white sugar is definitely not comparable to brown sugar, even if it is the remaining half, it is also a huge profit!

Luo Youde doesn't need to think carefully about this to figure it out, what does Hong Tao mean when he comes to himself to do this experiment? It shows that he wants to do this lucrative business with himself. What is this? This is love! Relying on this craft, Hong Tao is a VIP wherever he goes, and he has to be offered every day. If he was still in a hurry to talk to Hong Tao about share distribution at this time, he would really not be worthy of being a businessman. People come to you to cooperate, it is equivalent to giving you a great wealth for nothing, you still suspect that others don't give enough, pick and choose, this kind of person deserves to be poor, it is a poor life!

"Hey, hey, don't come to this set with me, it's useless to just do it, I still have a few conditions to discuss with you, and it's all discussed, let's start making sugar tomorrow." If you don't discuss it, I'll give you a month to think slowly, I will definitely not go to anyone else in this month, how about it? Righteous enough! "Hong Tao didn't eat Luo Youde's set, businessman, if you give him enough benefits, he can immediately kneel down and call you father, but when he needs to take responsibility, he immediately turns his face and doesn't recognize people, and he calls you grandson when he turns his face. When dealing with a businessman, you don't need to look at what he says, how he calls it, how he calls it, just how he writes and does it in black and white, the more straightforward the better.

"Listen to my brother!" Luo Youde saw that his self-sacrifice technique did not work, and he also put away the expression of gratitude on his face, and sat down honestly to listen to Hong Tao, at this time, he would definitely not say anything like letting Brother Hong call the shots, and his mouth was tight. (To be continued.) )