""     Chapter 269: Special Zone? City of Miracle (Part 1)

More than a hundred ships arrived in Wuhu.

Almost one-tenth of top businessmen and big merchants in Jiangdong and Zhejiang were concentrated on the ship.

Hundreds of households, slaves and maids, as well as all the local wealthy families, are shining with stars.

The more money it makes, it has little to do with status.

A Yangzhou businessman stood at the bow of the boat and rubbed his eyes desperately, asking, "Is this Wuhu?"

It seemed to be very status, and many people asked him: "Zhang Dalang, what's wrong?"

"Is it Wuhu?"

"yes."

"How is it possible? I came here once a year ago." Zhao Tong and other officials in Taipingzhou laughed together. This was a miracle, mainly created by the magistrate, but they also participated in it and produced important strength.

However, when people heard Zhang Dalang's questions, they still felt a little moved. The place was unsatisfactory the year before yesterday. It started to be built in winter. Last year, there were many houses, but it was almost a dead city. In the blink of an eye, it seemed like the spring breeze was blowing, and vitality came. Look at the Qingyi River today, with boats coming and going, and refugees came to find a way out, but they were still shouting that there were shortage of people everywhere.

Everything is so nervous, so busy, and full of hope.

Zheng Lang just smiled.

Sugarcane is a technical problem. Once the technology spreads, Wuhu will not have an advantage, and even the planting technology keeps up, Sichuan Suining will not have an advantage. It will gradually move to eastern Zhejiang and Lingnan. This is the general trend. Letting it appear in advance will cause false prosperity in Wuhu, which will not be a long-term solution.

In history, Songjiang was the most prosperous in the world. Many regions will benefit from planting and looming. The most benefit is the coastal and canal areas. If the sea transportation is developed, it will sooner or later be transferred to Xiuzhou and Suzhou.

Two things are just catalysts for Wuhu's development, not its, sooner or later, but Wuhu has developed and is what it needs most before it is damaged. Therefore, the warehouse only accounts for more than 100 acres, otherwise it will require more area.

The best thing about textiles is in Suzhou, and there will be something else in Wuhu. This is irrelevant and must be moved to Suzhou sooner or later, or a catalyst.

The polder fields and the Lianggang, and the rice market, without themselves, they would have appeared in the Song Dynasty.

Of course, after one's own reversal, the nature will be different.

Take this huge team to the workshop.

This is the strict sense of sugar. In later generations, sugar is more advanced in industrial use. Juice precipitation removes fixed impurities, add a small amount of lime water to neutralize the acid in it, and removes impurities at the same time. The lime is removed with carbon dioxide, and then evaporates into a vacuum distiller. After concentration, red-brown crystals precipitate. This is brown sugar. Adsorption and decolorization are used with activated carbon, and then evaporates, which becomes white sugar. Rock sugar is a large crystal slowly formed by the concentrated sugar solution, which is the purest sucrose.

This method was impossible to achieve in the Song Dynasty.

So I used the method of decolorizing yellow mud water in Ming Dynasty, and the experiment was repeatedly failed. Finally, a small amount of lime water was added to make it successful. The acid in the sugar was not removed and the decolorization was not recorded in "The Kaiwu of Heaven".

He is also picky about mud. It is possible that the mud from Dangtu contains a lot of iron. Zheng Lang doesn't want to move, although he knows that once he looks for iron ore in Dangtu, it will bring a greater economic leap, which is not worth it! You can't do this!

Therefore, the decolorization effect is not good, so I finally chose Fanchang's yellow mud, which seems to be the best. It is not possible to believe in evil. Each mud contains different chemical components, so the effect must be different.

Other procedures are similar to those recorded in "The Creation of Things in Heaven".

I roughly calculated the yield. The quality of sugar cane varieties is still very poor. In addition, the large amount of sugar produced is only about 5% to 6%. However, other impurities can also make some by-products, which is not a complete waste.

The yield of one acre of land is already being harvested, and the harvest is only about 4,000 kilograms. It is far from the ten thousand kilograms of land in later generations.

In other words, one acre of land can produce about 200 kilograms of high-quality white sugar, which is eight times the difference from later generations.

Next, it depends on how the merchants do it. If the price of black sugar is sold as the original price, it will be miserable. It is similar to the harvest of rice planting. If the price of frosting is sold as icing, it will be 500 to 1,000 times the harvest of rice planting.

Both are impossible.

After walking in, the previous process was the same. Roll it into sugar juice, boil it into black and yellow syrup on fire, and condense it into black sugar. This sugar cannot be described as black sugar. It should be black paste sugar. When the day is damp, it will condense together.

But before a better sugar product appears, it's still good.

Although the frosting is good, it is too expensive to bear.

Before they came, in order to save time, they had already started to condense into a pile of black sugar. The only difference was that they added a very small amount of lime water. From then on, everyone looked at it one by one, and then let everyone go out, and the technology must be kept confidential.

It won't be kept secret for long, but some tricks, such as the yellow mud transported, must be melted by dilute water, sink all impurities, and dry them again. Take these fine melted mud to make yellow mud water, otherwise it may cause sugar to swell your teeth.

There is also lime water. You can take some yellow mud and make some small tricks, and then mix them together. The craftsmen will think that it is a medicinal material. This procedure has always been maintained in the hands of every magistrate. There is no need to worry too much, but with this layer of mystery, the technology will not be lost.

The others are very simple. Install a tiled bucket on the large tank, also called tiled bucket. Use straw to block the leak and pour the black sugar on the tiled slip. At this time, the black sugar is still hot, and the paste sugar quickly settles down. Only then can the straw be removed and the black sugar in the tiled slip are poured with yellow mud water.

This decolorization method is similar to activated carbon decolorization principle, and this smear also pours the impurities that react with lime water and sugar acid and black residue together, and flows into the tank below. A layer of white frost is left in the funnel. The whiter the color, the sweeter the color, and the sweeter it is, and it really forms a crystalline material. The middle layer is yellow sugar, and the lower layer is brown sugar, which is also the second most sugar. Whether it is sweet or the color is beautiful, it can only be similar to the original black sugar.

But brown sugar can also be sold as sugar, and the price is not high.

Things in the large jar will not be wasted. After sedimentation, the black residue on the upper layer can be used to make wine. After mixing it with 60% of the rice wine, it is a good molasses wine.

The things below are a little messy, including mud and water, products that neutralize lime and sugar acid, and some heavy sugar crystals, but it is the best fertilizer. The squeezed bagasse can also be used as compost.

Standing outside, Zheng Lang asked the yamen runners to hand over a pack of things, which was black sugar, and said, "It has not been crispy and winter, and the sugar has not condensed and is not sweet. You can try it and compare it with another sugar immediately."

Everyone tasted the candy.

Lu Erlang said: "It's still the sweetness of spring, which still makes me remember it fresh."

Zheng Lang smiled slightly and said, "At that time, the sugarcane was frozen and the sugar was condensed, and the new sugar was made immediately, and it was not as sweet as that time. So I said that construction would start at the end of the year at the earliest, but the best season was in the first lunar month. After February, the weather warmed up, and the sugarcane was not easy to preserve and was not good again."

Eating candy, everyone was discussing together. Zhang Dalang from Yangzhou just now asked anxiously: "How long will it take to wait?"

It was invited by his friend, and he said he would not come again and miss the opportunity to get rich, so don’t blame him.

"Soon," Zheng Lang said, walked in and looked for a while and said, "You can come in."

Let's walk in again together. The crystals have been produced and are still inside the dou. Zheng Lang took out the uppermost layer of white sugar from the dou, held it with lotus leaves, took it out, and put it in the sun for everyone to see.

No need to eat, the color alone has fascinated everyone. The small particles, like white snow, are more crystal clear than white snow, like salt, and more pure than salt, like white jade, and more broken than white jade.

"Everyone, try it again."

Everyone carefully pinched a cluster into their mouths and said one by one: "So sweet, so sweet!"

"In another two months, the sugarcane frozen slurry will be sweeter."

"Good things." They all stared at it, with a greedy look in their eyes, and they were all out of control. Frosting is a good thing, but it is too slow to take effect. So there is such a speed! Speed ​​is efficiency. With efficiency, yield can be greatly increased, which also means that rolling copper coins are coming.

They were breathing, motionless, but many thoughts were flashing in their minds.

Everyone thinks of two words: ration!

This is an idea created by the strange franchise in the Song Dynasty.

For example, tea was first sold in the state, divided into six goods for Jingnan Prefecture, Hanyang Army, Wuwei Army, Qikou, Zhenzhou, and Haizhou, which were sold to the park households for capital, and then sold to the court when it was mature, and then sold to the whole country from six goods. The loose tea in Hangzhou was thirteen cents per catty, but the price was thirty cents. Fujian Jianzhou tea was the best in the Song Dynasty and was expensive, with a gold price of 135 cents, but the price was 500 cents. There were some freight and losses in the middle, but the difference was also amazing.

But it was abnormal to the government. For political achievements, the officials below tried their best to force the garden households to pick tea. Even the old yellow leaves in Qiu came over. They couldn't sell them, so they forced them to send them to merchants. Can these merchants offend? Not only merchants, but a few were all major wealthy families who were merchants and merchants. If they could offend them, Wang Anshi's market law in history would not cause controversy. Once they were forced, they had to change. They lost money to the capital, and the capital gave coupons, and went to the tea garden to buy tea by themselves. Later, they used troops in the northwest, and it was inconvenient to transfer corn, so they asked the merchants to transport corn by themselves, and planned corn by the northwest to give them a guide.

The method seemed to be very good, but over time, it changed again. The northwest military also had to be greedy and ink, and the defense was inadequate. The one that originally required one stone of rice, but the amount of exchange and tea was very different. After that, Lin Te and others changed the seven methods of trading and drawing. The more they changed, the more complicated they became, the more they were, and there was no good thing to happen. Therefore, Zheng Lang said that it was simple but not arrogant.

But at that time, the profit was 730,000 guan before the change was made, and 7 million guan after the change was made. According to the theory of oil pan, part of the vegetable oil was consumed due to heat after being put into the pot, part of the pot, bowl, and basin was lost, and even some of the rags were stained with oil. Part of the remaining vegetables wasted, and only half of the real vegetable oil entered people's stomachs. The same was true for the imperial court. It could get 7 million guan. The layers of greed below were actually at least more than 10 million guan. Miracle!

This method of communication not only does not control the spread of communication, but makes it more and less profitable. In the end, it only has 230,000 guan, but the more expensive the tea is. What about profit? Profits are gradually controlled by a few big tea merchants, such as Chen's father, Chen tea merchants.

If it is not in line with the interests of the country, it will be changed to six articles of the Trade Law in the first year of Tiansheng. The theme is that the court does not give the principal to the garden households, and allows merchants to trade with the garden households themselves, and the court will collect commercial taxes. However, as soon as the new law was released, all the court and the people opposed it. In this way, all merchants had equal opportunities to run tea business, and the former monopoly status of the powerful was gone. In particular, Zhao Zhen's teacher Sun Shi took the lead in opposing it.

In the third year of Tiansheng, under the leadership of Sun Shi, all the disadvantages reappeared one by one. In the first five years of Jingyou alone, the military expenses of the sixteen prefectures in Hebei reached 5.68 million yuan. Zhao Zhen had to ask Li Zi to use the sticking method to replace the three theory again this year. However, Li Zi suffered enough in the early years of Tiansheng and wrote a letter before he changed his mind, for fear that the wealthy businessmen would be inconvenient to rely on the powerful and powerful to move the court. Your Majesty must issue an edict.

You made me a good idea, but the ugly words were mentioned before. What are the bad consequences? Your Majesty, you have to bear it for me. This reform lasted for several years, and finally, three more statements were restored while the powerful grind their teeth.

Not only tea, salt, wine, alum, fragrance and other specialty transactions have various disadvantages.

Zheng Lang once deliberately gave an example and made an analysis with several students. He also had to consider it. He really wanted to go to Hangzhou. Once he went there, he would have tea, salt, wine, alum, and fragrance!

Looking at the white sugar particles on the green lotus leaves, each of them had a greedy look in their eyes, and they were thinking about their ideas.

It is said that it is specialized by the imperial court, but 60% of it is private shares. This is no longer a secret.

It is said that it is private, but 40% of the shares of the imperial court are behind it.

First of all, this system is wrong, what is it?

It is probably not easy to use the power of the court to oppress private people. After all, the court still has 40% of the profits, and Zheng Lang dares to confront several prime ministers in the court. Or bribes and private shares are related to their own interests. Who would abide by some small bribes and release their own interests and suffer losses?

No matter what, they have seen their money, and as much money as they have, they can see how much ratio is.

Just as he was thinking about it, the yamen runner brought several large baskets of chickens, knocked the chickens into a small hole, and injected the egg white into the basin.

"What is this for?" Zhang Dalang asked.

"Another more expensive sugar will not be seen tomorrow."

Can it not be expensive? At this time, chickens are expensive, and they only need to take the clear and even yellow. There is no need to think about how expensive it is.

The yamen runners took out the egg whites, took them in, and took them away, which just comforted the migrant workers.

By next year, there will be no need for migrant workers and can be sold at a low price.

Zheng Lang clapped his hands, and the yamen runners brought a bench again and asked everyone to sit down. The yamen runners brought tea again. There were many people coming and they could not be placed in the teahouse, so they had to sit in the open space of the workshop to continue the talks.

But everyone's eyes were still staring inside.

At this time, you can care about your interests and let them sit underground.

Zheng Lang had no choice but to say a few words to a minor official. The minor official said hello, went to the warehouse next door to take out two brocade boxes, opened the brocade box, and the first box was still white sugar, but in addition to white sugar, there were also yellow sugar and brown sugar, which were separated by three layers.

Zheng Lang said: "This is the first month of this year, so everyone can try it again."

Before, everyone was surprised. It has been more than ten months since then, and it is still the case. If it were the black sugar used to be together, it would have been too late.

After taking a bite, it turns out that after winter, the crispy jelly is sweeter than the white sugar I made just now.

Open another box again, squeezed over one by one, and looked inside. After reading it, the air conditioner sounded sizzling and didn't say anything. Light green candy strips were quietly lying in the brocade box, and there was a layer of snow-white candy silk outside, just like jade pillars, crystal clear and extremely cute.
To be continued...