The emperor left, Yanan's two princes also left, and Yannan City returned to peace.

The long-lost tranquility can temporarily free Gao Li from various potential threats and concentrate on making the next business arrangements.

Sugar cane can already be harvested, and the harvested sugar cane is processed into various sweets, which will greatly enrich the diet of the general public. Gao Li did not intend to set a very expensive price for white sugar, but the early output was limited and the price was relatively high. Once Yanan followed up and started large-scale planting, the yield would immediately increase by a large amount. At that time, the price of sugar foods would quickly lower to a point that ordinary people could accept.

Sweets should not and cannot be just the exclusive enjoyment of the rich. So after converting various costs, Gao Li initially sets the price of sugar slightly cheaper than honey. Once sugar enters the stage of large-scale production, industrial production will quickly replace honey, making sugar the only source of sugar in the world.

By then, Yannan City, which monopolizes the entire sugar production industry, will become the sugar capital of the world!

In order to arrive at that moment, Gao Li needed the rapid popularization of white sugar, so that everyone knew that there was a source of solid sweets in this world that was more convenient and easier to use than honey!

It is roughly estimated that there are about 3,000 acres of land outside Yannan City. In addition to 1,000 acres of grain used to grow, the fields outside Yannan City are currently basically planted with sugarcane by Gaoli. The yield per mu of sugarcane is about six tons, and one ton of sugar can produce more than 120 kilograms of sugar cane. After processing it into white sugar, it is more than 100 kilograms of land. Two thousand acres of land can provide Gaoli with more than 100 tons of sugar reserves.

It sounds quite a lot, but once it is transported to all parts of the world, there is not much left. No, let alone all over the world, this one hundred tons is not enough for a Pingyang City to eat.

When Gao Li heard a friend in the gym talk about the harm of sugar, he said that the per capita consumption of sugar in the world can reach 25 kilograms, which is quite scary. Cheap and delicious foods like sugar will be put into anything you eat every day, and people will inadvertently eat excessive sugar.

The population of Pingyang City is less than one million, and the main consumer group of sugar accounts for one third. If one hundred tons of sugar is given to these 300,000 people, one person can only get six cents on average, which is enough to show the size of sugar gap.

Once people develop the habit of sweets, it is difficult to quit, especially once the cheap sweetener, white sugar, enters the market, it will trigger a large-scale buying boom in a short period of time.

Therefore, from the beginning, Gao Li did not intend to put all the sugar into the market.

Gao Li planned to put his soda on the market, but he was not just talking to the emperor casually, but really planned to do this.

Soda bottles will be made of glass bottles. Lizhuang's glass development is approaching perfect, but at this time, because there is no large market support, it can only be purchased in-house. The classic waist-retaining bottle body will never be pursued, plus a bottle cap with a latex sealing gasket. This other version of Coke was born.

If you have sugar, caramel. If you have caramel, you can get the charming reddish-brown caramel water. Some caramel and some brown sugar are combined into sugar water, plus black dates, cloves, ginger, angel, and amomum villoss. This simplest ingredients can immediately make the charming Laoshan Coke flavor in memory. Of course, its name is Yannan Coke now.

According to internal test results, everyone likes this Yannan Coke, from the elderly to the children. Everyone said that after drinking it, they are refreshed and comfortable, especially after taking a sip of soda, how to exhale in one breath, even becomes a content that people compete to communicate.

With a mass base, Gao Li naturally would not miss this kind of money-making method. According to Gao Li's drawings, the Lizhuang factory produces and processes equipment for filling cola, and these equipment will be distributed to various drinks, where they will use fresh dry ice to make carbonated drinks.

All these actions were actually ready long before the emperor came to Yannan City. At that time, the only thing Gao Li lacked was sugar.

But now, with the large amount of sugar reserves, Gao Li’s plan can be put into practice.

The prepared cola syrup stock solution will be delivered from here to Pingyang City, and then from Pingyang City to flagship stores in various places. The sugar concentration of these stocks is extremely high, so high that it cannot breed bacteria at all. Once any bacteria fall into it, it will dehydrate and die due to the extremely high osmotic pressure difference, so there is no need to worry about deterioration. When the syrup is delivered to the flagship store, the clerks can blend water and dry ice according to the formula given by Gao Li, and press the bottle cap with a machine to make a perfect bottle of Yannan Cola.

As for this thing, no one would buy it, Gao Li didn't have to worry at all. The ministers who followed the emperor to attend the meeting this time have expressed their praise for soda. At that time, they were just drinking sugar soda. Now, with the launch of Coke, no one can refuse the demand for a cup.

In order to popularize the market, Gao Li priced soda very cheaply, and the price of a bottle of soda is only 100 cents. Of course, this price is much more expensive than wine, but after all, this thing is better than wine.

However, if you want to take the bottle away, you will need a deposit of 100 taels of silver. This is the price of the soda bottle. If you return the bottle cap and the bottle, you will be given a hundred taels.

With Gao Li's arrangement, the first batch of Yannan Cokes was soon sold at the Lizhuang flagship store in Pingyang City. There was no need to advertise, and just gave a few bottles to the rich people who came here to consume, so that these rich ladies and wives could drink soda from the crystal clear glass bottle in an elegant posture in front of others.

It took only one day for everyone in Pingyang City to know about this thing. At the beginning, the public sneered at the opinion of this thing and produced by Lizhuang. It must be a fine product. You can only check it out and you can never afford it.

And just this day, everyone in Pingyang City knew that this thing was most likely the only Lizhuang goods they could afford in their lives!

One hundred cigarettes per bottle, what does this mean? A craftsman in Pingyang City earns 300 cigarettes a day, which means that he can buy three bottles a day!

What are you waiting for! Buy!

So, the influx of customers instantly surrounded the entire flagship store, and the clerks had to use fences to make customers line up. The people behind the store were desperately making new soda.

Fighting hard to make money for the rich is a means; small profits but quick turnover is also a means. Gao Li can set a terrifying high price for chocolate to make it exclusive to the rich. But Coke is not good. The so-called happy water for a fat man, asking everyone to be happy together is the real happiness.

Such a scene began to be replicated continuously, and every big city and every Lizhuang flagship store were happening. No one knew how this thing was made, but everyone knew that this kind of drink with breath inside could bring them happiness!

Of course, these are all later stories. After Gao Li sent the emperor away, there was still something big waiting for him.

In Pingyang City, the fields in Gaoli have entered the harvesting period.

Lizhuang, which has long achieved mechanized production, naturally needs to carry out mechanized harvesting. Gao Li is always paying attention to the mechanization process, because mechanization is his primary productivity and the key to his ability to go long-term.

The large-scale use of tractors has improved efficiency by hundreds or thousands of times. A simple combine harvester can fill the grain of a tractor by just one trip. Next to it, a second tractor will immediately follow.

At this moment, the harvest scene in Lizhuang has become a tourism project. Every day, many people from Pingyang City come to see these large iron guys harvesting the fields in a terrifying way.

Many people are greedy and are almost crying.

Gao Li’s own farms, plus the imperial farms rewarded by the emperor, made Gao Li an unquestionable landlord. Mechanized use allowed the wild boar demons to contract more land and turn all the wastelands into cultivated land. Excellent irrigation methods made the fields no longer rely on the weather for their lives, and excellent urban sewer pipeline design also made farm fertilizer the key to the fertility of the land.

All this combined, Lizhuang won a great harvest, and the granaries of several villages were filled for the first time, and more grain was continuously transported!

At this moment, some businessmen from the surrounding county towns ran to Lizhuang to discuss the purchase of grain.

This sounds a bit incredible. The surrounding counties are also grain-producing counties, and there are no disasters this year. Why are there food shortages? As a result, after inquiring, I found out that all the farmers have grown cotton! Everyone thought that it’s no big deal to grow cotton by myself, but others can grow food anyway. As a result, everyone thinks so, which eventually leads to food shortages in those counties!

In this era without land planning, this is how food shortages are caused.

Lizhuang quickly sent a message asking if Gaoli would sell it? The prices offered by grain merchants in the county towns were already much higher than the market price.

Gao Li asked Nonoka to quickly calculate the food that Lizhuang needs to reserve, and then waved his hand: "Sell, you must sell. In addition to reserve, how much they want, how much we sell."

Soon, Lizhuang replied and asked Gao Li not to transport some of this grain to Yannan? After all, Yannan is a city that is highly dependent on imports of grain.

Gao Li's answer was of course no. Yannan was backed by Yannan, which had extremely high grain output and cheap grain prices. At this time, the economic relations between the two sides were closely dependent, so they naturally did not dare to adjust the grain prices randomly. Moreover, the transportation of grain from Pingyang to Yannan was high and the road was far away, which was very unprofitable.

If you sell Lizhuang’s grain, you can make money and sell personal favors, why not do it?

The most important thing is to give them a reassurance, so you can make cotton with peace of mind. I am the one who makes food!
Chapter completed!