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Chapter 29 0028 [County Yamen Come]

After telling Fang Sansan to stare at the salt water, Han Zhen stepped into the hall, "How is today?"

Zhu Zhengze pondered for a moment, then replied: "A total of 61 households have escaped today, a total of [-] people, all of whom were once escaped from Xiaowang Village."

Seventeen households?
Wow, the efficiency of these villagers is really high enough.

There are escapees on the mountain, but it is not easy to find, after all, a mountain is so big, and in order to avoid arrest by the government, the escapees will definitely try to hide in the mountains as much as possible.

Not all escaped households believed what the villagers said, and were always vigilant in their hearts.

The escapees who are willing to go down the mountain either have just gone up the mountain not long ago, or they really can't survive, so they will take a risk.

Han Zhen asked again: "Are there blacksmiths and scholars?"

These two groups of people are crucial, and they are related to the development speed of Xiaowang Village.

"No."

Zhu Zheng shook his head.

Hearing this, Han Zhen was not disappointed. After all, it was only the first day, and there were so many escaped households in the mountains, so if you search slowly, you can always find them.

Night falls.

It was a bit stuffy tonight. After dinner, everyone gathered in the yard to cool off.

There are really no recreational activities in the countryside, and we can only chat about trivial matters to pass the time.

They didn't disperse until the moon was in the middle of the sky.

……

The next day.

Han Zhen got up early.

Amidst Fang Sansan's chatter, he finished washing.

"Ah Lang, do you want breakfast?"

"Not urgent."

Han Zhen waved his hand, took out the key and entered the small warehouse.

Soon, he moved out the two sugar urns he made yesterday.

After a day and a night, the yellow mud sealed between the clay pots has completely dried out.

After opening, some thick liquid accumulated in the clay pot below.

These liquids are a mixture of yellow muddy water and molasses, which are normal losses and there is currently no way to avoid them.

After smashing the yellow mud that sealed the pot, and taking out the straw, Han Zhen was pleasantly surprised to find that the outermost layer of the originally dark brown granulated sugar had become as white as frost.

Although the interior is still reddish brown, it only needs to be replaced with yellow mud glue and continue to absorb.

There is no cost for yellow mud, and there are as many as you want.

Fang Sansan's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.

In just one day, the sugar turned white.

As expected, Ah Lang knew how to master Taoism!

At this time, Han Zhen ordered: "Don't be stupid, go find bamboo rafts and bowls."

"oh oh!"

Fang Sansan nodded quickly, and walked out of the backyard on short legs.

After a while, she brought bamboo strips and bowls.

Taking the bamboo raft, Han Zhen gently scraped off all the outer layer of white sugar.

Two sugar urns scraped out a bowl full of white sugar.

It's just that the scraped particles are uneven, big and small, not very beautiful.

If you want to sell it at a good price, you need to grind it into icing powder.

Han Zhen twisted a pinch into his mouth and tasted it carefully.

Sweet, with a faint fragrance of sugar cane and an indescribable taste.

However, this taste is not produced during purification, but comes from the granulated sugar.

To be honest, the taste of white sugar is not different from that of granulated sugar. The core selling point is its white as frost color.

The atmosphere of the Northern Song Dynasty was extravagant. In addition to the common people, landlords, businessmen and officials were very rich and willing to spend a lot of money to pursue such luxuries.

Seeing Fang Sansan staring at the white sugar in the bowl and drooling, Han Zhen passed the bowl over and motioned her to try it too.

"I...can I try it too?"

In an instant, the grievances in my heart yesterday disappeared in an instant, and I only felt that A Lang was too kind to me.

"Ah."

Han Zhen nodded.

Received his affirmative answer, Fang Sansan stretched out his fingers tremblingly, carefully dipped his fingertips in a little sugar, and then quickly put them into his mouth.

Han Zhen asked, "Is it delicious?"

Fang Sansan nodded repeatedly, reluctant to take his fingers out of his mouth.

Putting away the white sugar, Han Zhen ordered her to get some yellow mud, and re-smeared it in the clay pot according to yesterday's method.

It's a pity that I don't have activated carbon on hand at the moment, otherwise the combination of activated carbon can make the efficiency of sugar purification many times faster.

After washing the dirt off his hands, Han Zhen stepped to the front yard.

Under the eaves, after a night of standing still, the three barrels of salt water reacted with the carbon dioxide in the air, and sediment appeared at the bottom again.

Strain off the sediment, pour it into a pot and start to boil.

As the water gradually evaporated, white salt crystals began to precipitate at the bottom of the pot.

Three barrels of salt water are boiled three times, and finally three bowls of refined salt are obtained.

Chef Shen looked puzzled, not understanding the meaning of doing so.

When she boiled salt water yesterday, she used 5 catties of salt, but after going around and going around with such a lot of effort, she finally got salt, with less of the key amount.

Seeing this, Han Zhen said in a mysterious tone: "Try it."

Hearing this, Chef Shen dubiously dipped her finger into one of the bowls and put it in her mouth.

As soon as she entered, her expression suddenly changed.

So salty!

But it is a pure salty taste, and the bitter taste in the past has disappeared without a trace.

Shen Chef's face was horrified and said: "Mr. Xiao Lang knows the magic of immortals?"

Han Zhen was overjoyed, it was done!

In a good mood, he explained with a smile: "Where is the fairy method, it's just an ancestral handicraft."

However, Chef Shen didn't believe it. Thinking of the deeds of Han Zhen's battle against wild boars a few days ago, the awe in her eyes became stronger.

Han Zhen ordered: "Try the other two."

After tasting the other two bowls of salt one by one, Shen Chef commented: "Ah Lang, this bowl still has a bit of bitterness, but the bitterness is very light. Although the other bowl is not bitter, it has a strange smell."

In the bowl with very light bitterness, the ratio of salt water to lime milk is 3:1.

The other bowl is 1:1. It seems that there is too much lime milk, so there is a lime flavor.

Looking at it this way, the appropriate ratio is 2:1.

"Save these two bowls for us to eat."

After Han Zhen finished speaking, he took the bowl of refined salt back to the backyard.

Sitting in his study, he carefully ground white sugar and refined salt into a uniform powder, and packed them into two exquisite wooden boxes.

With the product, now it's time to consider the sales channel.

He is now a bandit who killed officials and rebelled. He was on the government's blacklist, so naturally he couldn't come forward to do business.

Need to find someone to cooperate.

Not only must this person be reliable, but the circle of contacts should preferably involve officials and wealthy businessmen.

After all, white sugar and refined salt are high-end products, so customers are destined to be ordinary people.

While he was thinking, there was a rush of footsteps in the courtyard.

Immediately afterwards, Gu Song's voice came from outside the door: "Second brother Han, we found a government servant outside the village!"

Yamen?

A gleam flashed in Han Zhen's eyes.

This Changzhi County has some tricks, and in just a few days, he took control of the county government.

Otherwise, he would not have the energy to send people to Xiaowang Village to investigate.

Standing up and opening the door, he asked, "Who is here?"

There are only a few yamen servants in the county government, and they all know each other.

Gu Song shook his head and said, "It's too far away to see clearly, and we don't dare to get too close, for fear of scaring the snake, Brother Sangou asked me to come back and ask you for advice."

Han Zhen murmured, "Go and tell the yamen servant that I want to see him."

Hearing this, Gu Song looked surprised and said: "Second brother Han, isn't this exposing us?"

Han Zhen shook his head and laughed, "If they didn't know, they wouldn't have sent someone here."

Regarding their occupation of Xiaowang Village, it is impossible to hide it from those who are interested.

"Then I'll go."

Gu Song thought it made sense, nodded, and quickly walked out of the backyard.

(End of this chapter)