The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 34 Snowflake Sugar
In the capital, Li Zhao came back from the Yamen of the Ministry of War. He heard that one of his confidantes, Mr. Ji Xiaogong, was coming from the south, and he would have time to take a bath in the future, so he summoned him immediately.

He used to be a personal servant, so he didn't shy away from letting Eunuch Ji directly into the clean room to talk about things.Through a screen, Eunuch Ji bowed and reported some things that happened in Lingnan officialdom and what he saw and heard all the way from south to north.

There was nothing serious about Lingnan. After all, as a place of exile, Song Si went to serve as an official for more than ten years, and there was some improvement. However, these movements were dismissed in the eyes of the officials in the capital.

Some people wanted to reach out to Lingnan to steal the achievements of Song Si's hard work over the years, but they were suppressed by Su Wangfu's ideas.

If they can't even keep Lingnan and Su Wang's mansion, then don't mess around as soon as possible, and Xiao doesn't have to think about that position.

However, the prosperous places in the south of the Yangtze River and Zhejiang Province are still so restless.

Everyone wants to get a share of everything that is released to the outside world. Various forces are intertwined, and various officialdom struggles and conflicts continue.

The main reason was the half-dead East Palace.

Although the crown prince was abolished, it seems that he has gradually gained the emperor's heart recently. Not only was the imprisoned abandoned prince released, but the eldest son of the abandoned prince, His Royal Highness, the eldest grandson, also got an errand from Zuo Shaoqing of Dali Temple. After the retrial, the old cases were overturned.

Pull out the radish with mud, piles of piles, and dig out the shit that was not wiped clean by the second prince Ning Wang and the fifth prince Xin Wang, shake their arms and show it to the emperor, making the emperor very angry. He kicked the second son, King Ning, on the shoulder, and kicked him so hard that his head was smashed!

The East Palace, which survived in name only, gained the upper hand, but although the people of King Ning and King Xin were pulled down, it would not be so easy for the grandson of the emperor if he wanted to put his own people there.

What Li Zhao and his father are best at is fishing in troubled waters.

They tried their best to muddy the water, how could it be so easy for His Royal Highness the eldest grandson to take advantage of it?

"Okay, I know everything." Li Zhao was thinking about his next plan, and suddenly remembered Song Qingyue's little glutinous rice dumpling, and asked, "What's the matter with the Song envoy's mansion?"

Xiaoji's father-in-law immediately understood, His Royal Highness is asking Miss Song San!
He immediately told Li Zhao about Mrs. Qin's becoming a nun, and then added: "Miss Song San is a friendly person. After Aunt Qin went to the nunnery, she often sent people to send some vegetarian oil cakes to Qin. What about my aunt?"

Li Zhao nodded, hiding the smile on his lips. He told Eunuch Ji to go down to rest, and he leaned against the steaming wooden barrel with his eyes closed to rest, thinking about what happened when he was a child.

I haven't seen that girl for a few years, but she has more and more eyes, and I don't know what she looks like now.

Sending food to Mrs. Qin because of friendship?
Hehe, what kind of affection does Song Qingyue have for Mrs. Qin for the woman who almost took Mrs. Song's soul away?
She was nothing more than afraid of the poverty of the nunnery, Mrs. Qin stayed for a long time, and the cold temperament on her body was brought back to the nunnery, and the old love with Mr. Song rekindled!

That girl is fine.

A few days later, Li Zhao and Ning Yuan, the young master of the Zhenbeihou Mansion, went to the Yichun Building for a drink. They actually ate creamy chicken cakes and egg tarts with canned fruits!

"This..." Li Zhao looked at the butter egg cake and fruit tart with a strange expression. Isn't this the food that girl made up?

How could it be sold in the capital?
Ning Yuan thought he hadn't seen it before, so he said happily: "Hey, haven't you seen it? To be honest, it was passed down from your Lingnan, and I specially invited a master from Lingnan to make it. The taste is average, but it looks good. We Eat fresh."

Li Zhao snorted, and said to the Huangmen Xiaolin who was waiting beside him, "Go and call the cook who makes egg cakes and egg tarts."

The cook was quickly called over, and after asking, he found out that these two recipes were bought from the cook at Guangyuelou in Guangzhou Mansion for 50 taels of silver.

Guangyue Building was opened by Song Qingyue, the Liang family and several aunts, and Song Qingyue's shares accounted for the majority.

Ning Yuan became curious: "With the recipe for fresh food, it's too late to hide it, how can someone teach it to others for 50 taels of silver?"

The chef smiled, and said: "The owner of Guangyue Tower is Mr. Song, the chief minister. Mr. Song has always been like this. He never hides any good things. In the past, Mr. Song taught everyone how to raise chickens. It is not surprising that he can teach these recipes to everyone now."

It seems that Song Si is going to show his face in front of the emperor again. This Yichun Building is said to be a government-run brothel, but it is a stronghold of Jinyiwei.
Li Zhao took another bite of the egg tart, and asked, "Maybe this prince has a look at making the recipe?"

The chef agreed without hesitation, and immediately sent someone to serve the pen and ink, and wrote out the required ingredients on the spot.

Li Zhao glanced at it, pointed to one of the items and asked, "Snowflake White Sugar?"

The chef immediately laughed, and said to Li Zhaogong, "Your Majesty, you have good eyesight! If you want to make these meals delicious, the snowflake white sugar from Lingnan is the key. It's not bad to replace ordinary brown sugar and brown sugar." No, it’s just that the taste and color are worse.”

Li Zhao understood and let the chef go down.

He knows it!The father and daughter of the Song family will never do business at a loss.

The method of how to make white sugar is in the hands of Song Qingyue, because the process is a bit complicated, and the price is higher than that of brown sugar and brown sugar.

In actual history, white icing sugar produced by the "yellow mud water drenching method" appeared in the late Ming Dynasty, but Song Qingyue didn't know that. She used the chemical bleaching method used in modern sugar making technology, and used the sulfurous acid method. Clarifying technology, fast speed and large output.Sulfur mines in the Nanyang area are very rich and the price is low, and sulfurous acid is easy to produce, so the production cost of white sugar is not particularly high, and the profit is very considerable.

Teaching these dim sum recipes to everyone at a low price not only helped Mr. Song gain a good official reputation, but also broadened the sales of sugar, killing two birds with one stone.

Li Zhao raised his head and saw Ning Yuan staring at him with big curious eyes. He pursed his lips tightly and refused to say a word. It was a secret belonging to his future daughter-in-law!
Ning Yuan was tortured for several nights without sleep.

(End of this chapter)