"This is your sugar?"

"Yes, this is a specialty of Ryukyu Island. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

In front of the workshop, Xiao Ming showed a surprised look, while Claire was proud.

They are proud that this white sugar process is the most advanced sugar production process in Europe today.

Xiao Ming's brows furrowed, he grabbed a handful of white sugar at this time, generally speaking, these sugars have reached the standard of white sugar, these particles are as delicate as sand, the only drawback is that the color is not pure enough, and there are some brown impurities in the particles.

One or two may not be recognizable, but a lot of them look a little heavier.

"The quality of this white sugar is inevitably a little worse." Xiao Ming rubbed the white sugar and said, his hopes were dashed, he thought he could eat ready-made, but he didn't expect to have to be busy himself.

"Poor?" Claire looked at Xiao Ming with a shocked look, and he emphasized, "Your Highness, this white sugar is the most advanced sugar making process in our Netherlands, and these sugars are very popular in the Wa Kingdom, which is a hundred times stronger than the bitter brown sugar in your Dayu Kingdom." ”

Xiao Ming said disdainfully: "It's already very poor, but the white sugar that this king wants is crystal clear, and it looks like snow-white sugar from a distance." ”

"How is this possible, there is no such sugar." Claire was categorical, "Your Highness, forgive me for being rude, even if there is no such sugar in the Yu Kingdom, the process of refining white sugar is not something that anyone can master." ”

Xiao Ming sneered, he looked at the other pile of white powder piled up next to the workshop and said, "Count Claire, if I'm not mistaken, the method you use is the lime purification method." ”

As soon as these words came out, Claire was immediately shocked and dumbfounded.

Xiao Ming continued: "In fact, the manufacture of white sugar is very simple, nothing more than cutting and tearing the sugarcane, so that the sugarcane is fully broken, and then multiple pressing, multiple infiltration to extract sugar, after the sugarcane is pressed, the juice and bagasse should be transported away, at this time the sugarcane mixed juice is a dark green turbid liquid, and the next step is to boil and purify, in which the purification process will determine whether the white sugar is pure enough. ”

When Xiao Ming finished saying these words, Claire could no longer describe her mood at this time with shock.

In his opinion, the magnates of the Great Yu Kingdom are only proficient in some tricks of power and scheming, and they don't care about these crafts at all, but now Xiao Ming is able to do it as a vassal king

Explain the process of sugar production in detail.

The most important thing is that the sugar making process is also a process with strict secrecy measures in Europe, and this one has mastered it, which makes him think that he wanted to sell the sugar process for money.

However, he sensed from Xiao Ming's tone that Xiao Ming seemed to have mastered a more advanced refining process, and he asked seemingly unintentionally, "Your Highness, can you make these white sugars as white as snow?" ”

"Absolutely." Xiao Ming made no secret of it, although the white sugar in the workshop did not meet Xiao Ming's requirements, but for Xiao Ming, the workshop had already mastered part of the sugar production process.

Moreover, the Dutch also produced sugar making equipment for the workshop, which would have saved him a lot of trouble.

"So what is this solution?" Claire smiled and looked very amiable.

Xiao Ming laughed and said, "Count Claire, this is a secret, but this king can promise you to let you sell white sugar to Europe." ”

Claire looked disappointed, if he could master the process, he was confident that he could make a fortune in Europe, where white sugar is in high demand.

Because they need white sugar to make bread, desserts, etc.

Ignoring Claire anymore, Xiao Ming went straight to the workshop, where Xiao Ming observed the manufacturing process of white sugar, because Xiao Ming had already understood the manufacturing process of white sugar, Claire had no reason to stop it, so she could only follow Xiao Ming with a frustrated face.

"It's so sweet."

When Xiao Ming was observing, Lu Fei grabbed a handful of sugar and stuffed it into his mouth, eating it tasted, "Your Highness, this is much sweeter than maltose, if it is trafficked to Dayu to sell, it will make a lot of money." ”

Lu Fei's words were exactly what Xiao Ming thought, he also invested a lot in order to seize the Ryukyus this time, and he had to let this war bring him actual profits.

Now he has to find a way to make a profit at sea.

"We have to sell, but we're going to sell better sugar." Xiao Ming said confidently.

In the contemporary sugar method, there are three main categories: lime method, sulfurous acid method and carbonic acid method, and the effect of lime and carbonic acid method is unsatisfactory, and only the sulfurous acid method can directly obtain the white sugar that is now eaten.

This sugar is called sulfide sugar, Xiao Ming had already produced sulfuric acid two years ago, although the production of sulfuric acid is not large-scale, but small-scale production is always available.

There is basically not much difference between the process of preparing sulfurous acid and sulfuric acid, so this time Xiao Ming went back and asked Lu Tong to get sulfurous acid out to establish a sugar industry, and the 50,000 acres of sugarcane on the main island of Ryukyu can be fully utilized.

After visiting the white sugar workshop, Xiao Ming went to the island to visit the granaries, but there was not much grain in these granaries, and most of them were sold.

Officially taking over the Dutch property on the island of the Ryukyus, Xiao Ming and Claire returned to Michira Castle.

Now Claire is looking forward to the cooperation with Xiao Ming more and more, because in his opinion, this King of Qi is very willing to bring him miracles, and as for the current loss, they will definitely be able to recover it.

Back at the castle, Claire suddenly sounded something and reminded: "Your Highness, the Japanese have been defeated this time, and many Japanese pirates have fled to the north of Ryukyu Island. ”

Xiao Ming nodded, the Dutch said that they occupied only a small area in the south of Ryukyu Island, and most of the place was still an area for reclamation.

For Xiao Ming, he plans to establish two bases in the Ryukyus, one is the current Michira Castle, and the second is the north, after all, there is a world-class deep-water port in the north of the modern Ryukyus, which is an excellent location for establishing a military port.

In this way, he was able to not only control the northern part of the Ryukyus, but also prevent the Japanese from moving south along the route to the east of the Ryukyus.

"Thank you for the Earl's reminder, I'm thinking about it, but before we do that, let's talk about the next trade issues." Xiao Ming showed a look like a big bad wolf.

The time to monopolize maritime trade finally came, and he wanted to convert the goods in Dayu into large quantities of silver, after all, Europe had received huge amounts of silver from the Americas at this time.