In the Tang Dynasty, the "New Tang Dynasty Book" recorded that Tang Taizong in the twenty-first year of Zhenguan (647 years) left an envoy to the "Mojie country" to obtain the sugar boiling method, and then issued an edict to Yangzhou Shanggong local planted sugarcane for trial production, the color and taste of the finished product are far better than that of the Mojie country, at that time people called it "sand sugar", also known as "frost sugar".

Magadha was a slave city-state in ancient India, in the southern part of present-day Bihar, India, which once unified the whole of India, and was the most powerful during the Mauryan Empire, and was still a powerful country in India during the Gupta Dynasty in the fourth century AD. Chinese Jin and Tang monks Fa Xian and Xuanzang have all been here. The production method of Magita sucrose is relatively advanced, it uses the heat energy of fire as an evaporation method to produce, so it has a faster production cycle.

It can be seen that Tang Taizong did not hesitate to send people to be tens of thousands of miles away, which is even more practical than Xuanzang going to Tianzhu to seek Buddhist scriptures in terms of promoting social and economic development.

At this time, although there are self-produced and self-sold sand sugar in the Great Song Dynasty, the quality is still far less than the sand sugar produced in India, in the salt tea shop in Huangzhou City, a pound of imported Hu sugar can be sold for almost two more money, which is almost 30 times more expensive than forty or fifty pounds of local brown sugar.

So when he heard the scalper say this, Yao Zheng was immediately stunned, so he grabbed it all and took a closer look, and found that although the shape of the jabered candy brought by the scalper was not very good-looking compared to Hu sugar, the color was whiter and the taste was better...... Did you really make it? ”

"How can Saburo speak, but he doesn't believe his own family?" Yao Erniang scolded, and then stepped forward to grab it: "If you don't believe in the cow, don't eat it!" ”

"Hey! Sister, don't worry, I'm also shocked! Yao Zheng hurriedly protected the jaggery in his hand, thought about it, and simply stuffed it into Yu'er's hand, and then said: "It seems that what Niu Er said is true, this is also ...... It's too unbelievable, some! ”

Yao Erniang reached out and touched Yu'er's head, and said with a smile: "What does San Lang know?" Niu Er has been a Taoist boy with the old fairy for six years, what is so strange about learning some immortal spells, and this jaggery is nothing, do you remember what Yu told you this morning? ”

Yao Zheng said with a wry smile on his face: "There are different vegetable markets in the field, how can there be a decision, but today I still probed the tone of Shangguan, and now the one-year-old tax in Huangzhou is only more than 600,000 yuan, and it is a happy thing to be able to open the market." ”

Yao Erniang smiled and handed over a cloth bag and said, "What do you think of this thing?" It is not the first time that there is a market. ”

Yao Zheng opened it and looked at it, then frowned and said, "This is ...... Green salt? ”

Yao Erniang looked at her son with a smile, and said, "Take a closer look!" ”

Yao Zheng could only reach out and grab a handful, and looked carefully in the sunset, and found that the salt was surprisingly white, much better than the green salt he had used...... Could it be that it is also made of cows? ”

"Not bad!" Yao Erniang patted her son and said with a smile: "This afternoon, fifty catties of official salt made forty-two catties of this white salt, what does San Lang think?" ”

Yao Zheng was dumbfounded when he heard this, and only after half a sound did he shout: "Okay! Good! ”

After finishing speaking, the thoughts in Yao Zheng's mind turned like lightning, this sister and her own family are not to mention, the scalper wants to go to her own children, and she is even more close to each other, so isn't this Huang family's salt recipe equivalent to the Yao family?

Not to mention that Yao Erniang just mentioned the matter of the field to Yao Zheng this morning, as the main manager of Huangzhou, he still has some control over market prices. In the past, the unified wholesale salt price of the six southeast roads was about the lowest 20 wen per catty and the highest 45 wen, and the salt profits were all owned by the imperial court.

Today's salt affairs are calculated according to the unified regulations of the imperial court "five catties for the bucket", the price of salt in Huangzhou is now 200 wen and one bucket of official salt, but the private salt sold by Langlizi from Jiangnan is only 100 wen and one bucket, as for the high-quality end salt, well salt and green salt fluctuate up and down according to the difference in quality.

Yao Zheng knew that in the Qianqing Salt Farm in Xiaoshan County, Yuezhou, the price of salt purchased by the government at this time was extremely low, only four or five wen per catty, which caused many unprofitable pavilion households to die, and they were willing to serve when they were hunted down and detained.

Moreover, in the fourth year of Chongning (1105), Cai Jing changed the salt law on the basis of "calculating the price of salt, and set the price of salt on six roads, and the old price of more than 20 yuan was increased by 10 yuan, and 45 yuan was the same as before; Please ask for salt at the end of the southeast, and those who are willing to exchange it for gold, silver, and goods are at their convenience."

In the last year, that is, in the first year of Zhenghe (1111), Zhang Cha, a member of the left division, said: According to the holy decree, the price of salt on the east and west six roads has been determined. Since the ancestors, the southeast six roads sell salt, but Shao Sheng is the most envious, the minister is now determined, Bi Shao Sheng's price per catty increased by two Wen, to nine Wen, to consider the new calculation, each year to increase and more than 180,000 yuan. If the transfer division will arrive, it will be a road of interest and disagreement, and the ministers will be connected to the geographical distance of the road, and the state and county traffic will be different from the interests. Fu begging to the ministers to set the precedent promulgated first, such as or road by road more increase and waste place, only begging to transfer the division than attached to the close field service price heard.

The imperial court listened to his advice, but felt dissatisfied, and then issued an edict: "The salt of the six roads in the southeast is priced at Zhang Cha, and each catty is added to the price." ”

That is to say, Zhang Cha, a member of the Zuo Division, said that the price of salt today has increased a lot compared with the Shaosheng period of Song Zhezong, but it is still far from enough, so it is recommended to increase the salt tax by two to nine wen per catty, so that the salt tax can be increased by more than 1.8 million yuan per year, and the imperial court approved his plan at first, and then felt that it was not enough, and then increased by one wen, that is, an increase of three to ten wen per catty.

Huangzhou originally belonged to Huainan Road, now changed to Huainan West Road, because it is not a salt production area, the official salt needs to be transported up the river, so this catty is sold for 40 Wen, and the smuggled salt from the Langli Zi is only sold for 20 Wen a catty, and the quality is better than the official salt, and the market is naturally very huge. It's just that the state has national laws, and ordinary people outside Huangzhou City and county towns can buy private salt, but the residents in the city can only take the salt calculated by the government according to the population of each household to buy official salt from the official warehouse.

There are many things to think about, and it is a long story, just a short moment, Yao Zheng's mind needs at least tens of thousands of words to describe, but the conclusion is also simple, that is, although the sugar profit is rich, but the salt profit is even greater, with the scalper's salt making recipe, as long as the operation is good, the Yao family and the Huang family will be developed!