Datang first village

Fifty thousand pounds!

The last time I heard about tremella, Qin Wangzhuang had stored [-] catties of dry goods, which scared Cui Junsu. It was worth [-] to [-] jin.But it was obvious that Qin Wangzhuang was disgusted with things that were troublesome in production process.

What Li Yuanxing likes is to calculate in millions of catties. If the output is less than one million catties, he will take it as a trouble.

In fact, because Li Yuanxing came from a later generation, the unit of calculation is tons, and the calculation data of how many tons of annual production is already in the news has cleared everyone's concept of production.

Datang's [-] jin, only [-] tons, was pulled down by a truck.

It sounds like the quantity is huge, and it's only a small amount in the warehouse, so Li Yuanxing naturally didn't take it seriously.

"Goro said it's cheap, I'm interested to hear it!" Li Jing asked.

Li Yuanxing pointed to Yuanchun: "From the beginning of the trial production, Yuanchun has observed the progress several times and tried it himself, so let Yuanchun talk about it. What I said is a feeling, and the feeling that Yuanchun said should be easier for everyone to understand! "

Yuan Chun gave a salute, and opened the cabinet on the small table next to Li Yuanxing's desk in the small living room.

There is a secret code box in the cabinet. Yuan Chun turns the code disk on it, opens it and takes out a small book.

"The raw materials for this kind of sugar are wheat, corn, and sweet potatoes. Seven kinds of ingredients were tested in Zhuangzi, and the final ingredient list is..." Before Yuan Chun could speak, Li Yuanxing stopped her: "Stop, this ingredient is probably , one cent of wheat, three cents of corn, seven cents of sweet potato.” After speaking, Li Yuanxing signaled to Yuanchun: “Continue talking!””

Everyone was stunned for a moment, Li Jing laughed and scolded: "Wulang is hiding something!"

"No, it is actually a great secret to be able to tell the ingredients. There is also a reason why Zhuangzi's experiment is not allowed to reveal the detailed ingredients."

"Then Goro, tell me the reason!"

Li Yuanxing signaled Yuanchun to step aside, and then said: "The rain of wheat every year, the harvest is different, and the wheat itself will be different. The starch content and sugar content of corn and sweet potatoes are also different due to different fertilizers. The king is letting the Taoists Research, how to accurately test the difference between each batch of grain."

"It seems that Goro's reason is reasonable. Goro doesn't want to use one ingredient to mislead. In fact, some of this ingredient can be slightly adjusted. If it were put in the past, it would be troublesome. But in Goro's industrial mass production In theory, Goro's reason is very reasonable!"

As a representative, Fang Xuanling praised Li Yuanxing's caution.

Li Yuanxing nodded, signaling Yuanchun to continue.

"Next, wash the wheat and put it in a special large water tank with water cannons. Use cold water in summer and warm water in winter. After soaking for twelve hours, put it on bamboo betels and wait for it to germinate. Pour warm water every day, The temperature of the water should be slightly warm to the touch. After three or four days, the two-leaf core will sprout, and then the wheat will be crushed. Set aside!"

It sounds simple, but as Li Yuanxing said, it is a labor-intensive job.

"The third step is to steam the crushed corn and crushed sweet potatoes separately. Corn is more difficult to steam than sweet potatoes, so steam them separately. Steam it well and let it cool down. It feels a little hot when it's cold, but when it's not hot, mix it with the crushed wheat and put it in the In the burlap bag, squeeze out the juice after three hours!"

It seems that it is really not difficult, and the production time is not long, it is really a labor-intensive job.

"The last step, the juice is actually sugar. But His Royal Highness asked to boil it again, and finally it will become pure sugar cubes of raw sugar. His Highness said that this will also spoil, but the whole process is clean, and it can be stored for a year after cooking. , or eighteen months. All kinds of candies are also made from this raw sugar."

It sounds really not complicated. After listening to it, Fang Xuanling tasted a piece and said: "This is like caramel. It's just that the ingredients are different. Caramel is not so sweet. It's just slightly sweet. , presumably Goro improved the raw materials and production methods,

The history of mixed materials, especially maltose, which uses high-starch and high-sugar corn and sweet potatoes as raw materials, is not long. Li Yuanxing knows that the historical materials that can be found are only available in the [-]th century.

Because these two crops were introduced to China not long ago.

Because of this, the ancient caramel almost disappeared in the Han Dynasty, because caramel consumes food.In the dynasties with insufficient food, it was impossible to make these not-so-sweet candies with a large amount of food.

According to historical records, China had cane sugar in 300 BC and the Warring States Period, and the raw material came from Jiaozhou, which is now Guangxi and Guangdong.The method used at first was drying sugar. In the 26th year of Zhenguan, refined frosting sugar was produced.In the first year of Zhenguan, when there is not enough food to eat, it is good to have a sweet taste.

Caramel, which is not considered sweet, can be said to have been temporarily lost, and there are only some ancient records in some books.

"Has Goro calculated the price?" Li Jing asked again.

"The labor is too high. How about 25 Wen a catty?" Li Yuanxing asked with a smile.

Li Jing picked up the raw sugar: "Wu Lang is talking about this?"

"Naturally, I'm talking about this. If you add walnuts or other nuts, I'll lose 25 cents. Recently, walnuts are very expensive. Chang'an City sells them for [-] cents a catty of walnut kernels." Li Yuanxing complained. .

Yuan Chun muttered softly beside him: "If His Highness hadn't bought up all the walnut kernels in Chang'an City, a catty would only cost thirty Wen at most!"

Yuan Chun's voice was not loud, but everyone heard it, but none of them laughed.

"25 Wen a catty!" Li Jing asked again very seriously.

In later generations, unpackaged maltose was extremely expensive at 15 yuan per catty. If it was exchanged for Datang's money, it should be three Wen per catty.However, Datang did not have the energy for industrial mass production, and the complicated machines could not be made at all, so it still had to be made by hand.

However, the cost of Li Yuanxing's maltose is really not high.

In fact, it is more than three catties of sugar out of ten catties of materials.The remaining seven catties of waste are not useless.

According to the current price of grain in the Tang Dynasty, ten catties is less than a bucket, and a bucket of Chang'an City is only ten Wen.What's more, Li Yuanxing used the grain from his own warehouse, which can definitely be calculated at five cents a bucket. Adding the cost of water, coal, tools, labor, etc., Li Yuanxing's actual cost of a catty of grain is two cents.

What's more, the waste from his maltose production is also valuable.

(Note: The Western Zhou Dynasty in China is the original maltose, but the raw material is not wheat. Wheat was introduced to China in the Han Dynasty, but it took hundreds of years to become the main grain. Corn was later, and sweet potatoes and other crops were not introduced until the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the ancient maltose is not only not sweet, but also consumes a huge amount of food. It is only eaten by the nobles, and it is difficult for the common people to see it. The sugar in the Tang Dynasty is still sucrose, and beet sugar was introduced in the seventeenth century. was discovered!)

"Goro knows, what is the price of sugar in Chang'an?"

"140 renminbi a catty, maybe 260 renminbi!" Li Yuanxing knew the prices.

Sugar cane was shipped from Guangxi, but Guangxi has no ability to process sugar, and it is relatively primitive there.

With the addition of freight, labor, and Tang's craftsmanship, a catty of sugar cane can't produce a catty of sugar. Sugar was definitely a luxury in food in the Tang Dynasty, and it was a top-notch luxury.

Li Jing suddenly had a thought, turned his head and asked Yuan Chun: "Yuan Chun, what do you think the candy is made of?"

After speaking to Yuan Chun, Li Jing looked at Li Yuanxing with a smile: "Goro, you are not allowed to speak or wink this time."

Li Yuanxing shrugged helplessly, expressing that he would definitely keep silent.

Yuan Chun knew that the people sitting here were all big shots, and she hadn't learned how to tell lies, so she had to say truthfully: "One catty of wheat, three catties of corn, seven catties of sweet potatoes, three catties of sugar! and seven catties of leftovers, Your Highness said that it can be discarded, or fed to the pigs, but we tried it, and the pancakes are very delicious. They are fluffy and soft!"

"So loose and soft?" Li Jing smiled.

Everyone laughed too.

Li Jing said to Yuan Chun again: "Go and make us some pancakes, and use that."

Li Yuanxing nodded, and Yuanchun immediately trotted out to give orders.However, Li Yuanxing knew that in modern times, it would be used as fodder and would never be eaten by others.

Because most of the nutrients have gone.

To say that it is soft, after fermentation, the starch and sugar are removed, and the baked ones are naturally soft.But when he ate it in his mouth, it was dry, and he would never like it.

But the peasants and soldiers in Qinwangzhuang have experienced hunger countless times, and he thinks it is a good thing.

Li Jing asked Lu Maofeng again: "Have you eaten it, how do you feel?"

"Returning to you, General, those things are naturally not as delicious as pure noodle pancakes. But if you add a little oil and some chopped green onion to make pancakes, it is very delicious. In the past, if you can eat this stuff during the war You can wake up with a smile from your dreams, Your Highness said that these can only be fed to pigs, so someone dares to say, Your Highness is wrong."

"Is it okay to feed the horse?" Li Yuanxing asked back with a cold face.

"Hey horse, Your Highness is wise!" Lu Maofeng quickly replied.

In the hearts of soldiers, horses are treasures, and they can feed them with good beans. Of course, there is no problem with this.

Li Jing waved his hand to signal Lu Maofeng to step aside, and then said to Li Yuanxing: "Someone knows Goro well, if Goro dares to offer 25 Wen a catty, then he dares to earn half and half. Now that I think about it, Goro is really too greedy this time." Now, in Chang'an these days wheat costs ten fen a bucket, and flour only fourteen fen."

Cui Junsu is from the Ministry of Household Affairs, and he immediately said: "The price of corn is higher. A bucket of dry corn kernels is twelve yuan, and corn flour is only eighteen yuan. Sweet potatoes cost tens of thousands of catties per mu, and they are sold in Chang'an. It’s really expensive, it’s only two pennies. But His Royal Highness Qin Wang has never sold it as grain, and there is no market price in Chang’an City!”

Cui Junsu took an abacus on Li Yuanxing's desk.

Clap a dozen.

"His Royal Highness, is it too much to make one hundred catties of sugar in three days?" Cui Junsu asked again.

"Okay, stop talking here. Do you believe in the cost of two pennies?"

"I don't believe it!" Everyone replied in unison.

Li Yuanxing just shook his head and smiled wryly: "Then the cost of King Qin's money per catty, do you believe it?"

Believe it, if you don't believe it for a penny, you won't give Prince Qin any face. (To be continued.)