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Chapter 27 0026 [Prodigal]

Han Zhen looked at Zhu Zhengze: "Do you remember what I asked just now?"

Zhu Zhengze was chewing on the pancakes, and he was stunned for a few seconds as usual before nodding.

"Today you will be on duty in the lobby. If any villagers bring escaped households, deal with them according to the method I just mentioned. I will give you information on the abandoned fields in the village. For money and rice, just find my sister-in-law."

As Han Zhen said, he handed over the information he wrote just now, and ordered: "After eating, make a new copy of this household registration information."

This job is very simple, and Zhu Zhengze's dull temperament is just suitable for this boring job.

As for Han Zhen, of course there are more important things to do.

make money!

Relying on the hundreds of acres of land in Xiaowang Village to collect taxes alone cannot support a regular army.

What's more, Han Zhen has to rely on tax exemption to win people's hearts, so at least within a year, don't think about land tax.

The only way is to develop industries and use business to make money.

After breakfast, Ma Sangou took the simple knife and led the other four people out to patrol.

Last night, Han Zhen had informed them of their work content, patrolling the village, maintaining law and order, and arresting criminals.

Of course, there are no criminals at this moment, and the villagers are busy farming and going up the mountain to find escapees.

And Han Zhen went back to the backyard, took out the key and went into the small warehouse.

Soon, he came out with two pots in his hands.

When he checked the small storeroom the day before yesterday, he thought at first that the two jars contained wine, but when he opened it, he found out that the jars contained sugar.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the sugar and salt industries developed unprecedentedly. In southern Fujian alone, tens of thousands of jars of sucrose were produced every year.

Note that the altar is used here.

Why not bags, because most areas in the Northern Song Dynasty could only produce liquid sugar with relatively primitive technology, that is, granulated sugar.

Many people know the "Sugar Icing Spectrum" and mistakenly think that the icing in the Northern Song Dynasty is solid sugar, but it is not at all.

Wang Pizhi's "Mian Shui Yan Tan Lu" recorded a joke, which said:
[There are those who are in charge of the government, and they are deeply dependent, and they can do everything they say.One day at the imperial banquet, Jiaofang Zaju was a small merchant, who claimed to be surnamed Zhao Mingshi, and sold granulated sugar with tiles on his shoulders.When you meet an old friend, you are happy to worship him.Stretching out his foot and stepping on the ampoule by mistake, the sugar flowed to the ground, Xiaoshang snapped his fingers and sighed, "Sweet picking, you slip away, what can you do!" Both sides laughed. 】

It can be seen from this joke that the granulated sugar sold in the market in the Northern Song Dynasty is the same as that in the Tang Dynasty, in a thick liquid state.

Although the Song Dynasty mastered the production process of solid sugar, it was limited to a few areas such as Suining.

Therefore, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the production of solid rock sugar was not much, and it was exclusively used for the royal family and high-ranking officials, and very little was sold to the market.

Especially in the first year of Xuanhe, Song Huizong ordered Suining and other places to pay thousands of catties of rock sugar every year.

This heavy decree caused nearly half of the sugar merchants to go bankrupt, and many sugarcane farmers abandoned their fields and hid in the mountains as fugitives.

As a result, rock sugar production plummeted, resulting in the scarcity of rock sugar today.

Carrying two cans of sugar to the kitchen, Han Zhen ordered: "Boil these two cans of sugar."

"Ah Lang wants to make preserved fruit?"

Chef Shen took the clay pot and explained: "Half a pot of sugar is enough to make preserved fruit, and you don't need so much."

"Don't worry about it, just let it go."

After leaving this sentence, Han Zhen left in a hurry.

Although Chef Shen was puzzled, she still followed the instructions honestly, poured two cans of sugar into the pot, and boiled it over low heat.

Not long after, Han Zhen came back with a bucket of loess and two reed pipes in his hand.

"What is Aaron doing?"

Fang Sansan stepped forward with curiosity written all over his round face.

Han Zhen didn't answer, and ordered: "Go and help me find a screen."

"Oh."

Although Fang Sansan talked a lot, he had one advantage, that is, he was obedient.

Do whatever you want.

Taking advantage of Fang Sansan's time to get the sieve, Han Zhen poured the loess on the ground and smashed it carefully with a wooden stick.

This scene attracted everyone's attention, even Zhu Zhengze, who was sitting in the lobby on duty, couldn't help poking his head out.

Soon, Fang Sansan brought the screen.

After receiving the sieve, Han Zhen carefully filtered the loess that had just been crushed to remove grass roots, stones and other debris in the loess.

Then, add water little by little to start muddying.

Yellow mud water icing sugar method?

Han Zhen can answer with certainty that this thing is wrong, or that Song Yingxing made a clerical error when writing "Heavenly Creation".

Why is he so sure?
Because in the previous life, Han Zhen once quarreled with a netizen on the Internet.

He felt that the method of pouring sugar with yellow mud water was no problem, but the netizen said no.

In order to make the other party speechless, Han Zhen went to search for the video.

As a result, I searched all over the Internet, but I didn't find a video that reproduced the successful method of pouring sugar with yellow mud water.

Those reproduced videos, without exception, all failed.

Unconvinced, Han Zhen bought sugar cane and came back to squeeze the juice, and made it step by step according to the steps in "Tiangong Kaiwu".

After several attempts, he finally came to the conclusion that this method really didn't work.

When a pot of yellow mud water was poured down, most of the brown sugar was directly dissolved, and only a small crystal was obtained in the end.

The key piece of sugar crystals is still reddish brown...

Later, he discussed with that netizen many times, consulted ancient books and materials, and finally found the real method, and even gave this method a serious name.

Yellow mud glue sealing sugar method!

Compared with the method of pouring sugar with yellow mud water, only two words have been changed, but this one glue and one seal are the key to purifying sugar.

The yellow mud glue should not be too dry, otherwise it will soon become a hard clod and lose the ability to absorb impurities.

It can't be too thin, or it will become yellow muddy water.

It's about the same level as plasticine, that's it.

When the yellow mud was almost mixed, the sugar in the pot had boiled and became extremely viscous.

"Come and help."

At this time, Han Zhen called out and asked Fang Sansan to hold a clay pot containing granulated sugar, while he picked up a ball of yellow mud and carefully stuck it inside the pot.

When the whole clay pot was covered with a thick layer of yellow mud, Han Zhen said, "Quickly, pour the sugar in."

"what?"

Chef Shen was taken aback, thinking she had heard wrong.

Han Zhen urged: "What are you doing in a daze, come down quickly."

Hearing this, Chef Shen looked embarrassed: "Ah Lang, this..."

This earthen pot is covered with yellow mud, pour sugar into it, can it still be eaten?

Even though the sugar industry developed rapidly during the Northern Song Dynasty, for the vast majority of people, granulated sugar was still a precious luxury.

The current price of granulated sugar is 30 taels a tael, 16 taels a catty. These two cans of granulated sugar cost more than ten guan.

Fang Sansan on the side cried and persuaded, "Ah Lang, can you not fall down?"

Rather than letting so much sugar be poured into the yellow mud jar to waste, it is better to let her eat it.

Seeing the two of them chattering, Han Zhen frowned and said, "If you tell me to fall, you will fall, so much nonsense."

Chef Shen sighed, and carefully poured the sugar in the pot into the clay pot.

Seeing the reddish-brown granulated sugar entering the clay pot covered with yellow mud, Fang Sansan and Shen Chef felt blood dripping from their hearts.

"stop!"

When the clay pot was about to be full, Han Zhen stopped immediately, then filled it with a layer of dry straw, and then quickly picked up the reed tube with the length of his index finger and inserted it, leaving a section outside.

Finally, seal the mouth of the jar firmly with yellow mud glue.

After finishing this, Han Zhen put the pot upside down and put it on another empty pot.

As time goes by, the pigment in the sugar will be absorbed by the yellow mud in the pot and slowly condense into white sugar, while the remaining molasses will flow down the reed pipe into the empty clay pot.

Han Zhen found two more earthenware pots and cooked the remaining sugar in the pot in the same way.

Fang Sansan and Shen Chef couldn't understand what he was doing, they only knew that in this short period of time, Alang had wasted more than a dozen sticks of sugar.

Even if you are a prodigal, you are not so defeated.

(End of this chapter)