Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 58 You still have to hide your strength and bide your time.
This time it is the sugar manufacturing method sold in system stores, except that the unreliable yellow mud water-drench sugar method does not appear, and the sulfurous acid decolorization technology.

Carbonized sugar also appears in the white sugar technical formula provided by the system.

This is a method of clarifying sugarcane juice using lime and carbon dioxide as clarifiers, also known as the carbonation method.

It's just that this technology requires a lot of equipment and modern technology. If these can be produced, Zhu Zhen may not have to open a modern factory in ancient times.

There is a saying that ever since Zhu Ming thought about using sugar and glass to collect money and prepare funds, he has been troubled by the sugar issue.

Now, relying on the powerful capabilities of the system, even at the expense of directly purchasing raw materials, we have finally succeeded in burning real glass.

Next, he only needs to study the technical formula in his hand, and then arrange for some people to proceed step by step, extracting various required materials and opening a furnace to refine the glass.

But with this white sugar, he has made no progress.

By the way, he can't buy a centrifuge, right?
"Wait a minute, this method seems a bit reliable?" Zhu Zhen suddenly felt something in his heart, and saw a sugar-making technology called the soil sealing method appearing on the technical formula.

The so-called soil sealing method is also called the mud sealing method. It is said that this old-fashioned sugar making technology is still spread in some places to this day.

This method does not use yellow mud water to drizzle sugar. Instead, after boiling the syrup, pour it into a specially prepared sugar drain, and then seal it with mud.

Wait until the syrup has cooled down after a day, take out the sugar funnel, remove the sealing grass under the funnel, insert bamboo strips into the syrup from below to form a conduit, and then the 'sugar' will slowly flow out with impurities.

After a full month, when the sugar drips dry, there will be crystallized sugar on the inner wall of the sugar dripping. The sugar at the top and closest to the sealing mud will appear the whitest.

But this technology doesn’t consider authenticity or fake. Isn’t it too slow?How many can be produced in one month?There is no way to sell it as a mature product.

"Eh? Is there any activated carbon decolorization method?" Zhu Chu noticed another technology.

This time it was a little more reliable. It said that after boiling the syrup, it was first dried into brown sugar, then soaked in water to turn the sugar into sugar water, and then put in activated carbon for adsorption and decolorization.

After decolorizing once, filter it, and then boil the sugar water for a second time to make syrup. If the color is still not ideal, perform activated carbon decolorization again.

Repeat this until it finally becomes a truly white crystallized candy.

This may be the only method that Zhu Xi has discovered so far that feels reliable, is not troublesome to test, and can see results quickly.

Zhu Zhen secretly noted it down.

At the same time, speaking of activated carbon, this is Yunnan, and Yunnan is rich in bamboo. As long as bamboo charcoal activated carbon is produced, won't the sugar production method be back on track?
Zhu Zhen finally breathed a sigh of relief, as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his heart.

It can be seen that this matter has become a psychological burden for him.

In addition, Zhu Chu also came up with the technical formula of soap.

Compared with making sugar and glass, soap is much simpler.

Soap is usually based on grease, wax, rosin or fat, and works through saponification or neutralization reaction with alkali.

Zhu Ji had already obtained the technical formula for making alkali, and now he bought the technical drawings of soap in order to complete the technical experiment of soap in one fell swoop.

Zhu Chu discovered that in the process of making soap, not only must grease or vegetable oil be heated and impurities filtered, but in addition to the necessary alkali solution, edible salt water can also be appropriately added for salting out.

If he wants to build soap into a high-end product, he must produce exquisite soap, and will also launch scented soap and other products in the future.

So this is a technology that cannot be taken carelessly. "But let's do that for the time being. As for perfume and distillation technology, let's wait until later. Especially the development of weapons such as gunpowder and firearms. That is not something that can be done now. What if we are beaten by that old boy Wang Fu? Small report, I may want nothing."

Zhu Chu leaned back on the chair, his face relaxed a lot.

(Author: Actually, I don’t want to write so many things that have nothing to do with the main plot. I mainly want everyone to feel as reasonable as possible. I also thought about using the system to explain everything, but that would be too sloppy and lack a sense of substitution. Yes. Even if the system is omnipotent, there still has to be a process, right? And if you don’t like such a complicated plot, you can raise it and I will change it later.)
"Speaking of which," Zhu Zhen suddenly sat up straight again, opened the store again, and then looked at something and fell into deep thought.

After a while, Zhu Mingcai murmured: "How about developing agriculture? Crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, and even the hybrid rice technology invented by Grandpa Yuan."

In fact, the main food in the Ming Dynasty was rice, especially the rice from Zhefang Town in Yunnan, which was canonized as tribute rice during the Ming Xizong period.

But the rice yield at this time is definitely not as good as hybrid rice.

There are also corn, sweet potatoes, peanuts, peppers, tobacco, potatoes, papayas, and tomatoes. These are also the eight major crops introduced around the middle of the Ming Dynasty. At least in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Chu has not seen them.

But for Zhu Xi, who has the system at his side, whether it is various technological development technologies or crop seeds, he can bring them to the world in advance.

They even directly took out the varieties that were developed and cultivated by countless people in later generations.

In fact, the original corn was not suitable for the northern environment at all, so until the end of the Qing Dynasty, corn was only planted near the Great Wall.

Many of today's (modern) crops have been cultivated countless times.

Of course, it may also be related to the miserable environment of the Little Ice Age in the Ming Dynasty, that is, it was too cold.

In short, Zhu Chu was thinking at this time whether to start planting corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes in advance?
These are all 'dry field' crops, and places that are not suitable for growing rice are very suitable for growing these high-yielding crops.

Once a natural or man-made disaster occurs, this is life-saving food.

Even for the entire country, this is a huge impact, and even great benefits and good news.

There is also hybrid rice.

Even tobacco.

Zhu Ming subconsciously rubbed his nose with his hand. In his previous life, he could take a puff, but now he really wants to buy a Huazi and have one to enjoy.

But in the end he held back.

Zhu Ming thought for a while, took out a notebook and a writing brush, put them on the case, and started writing.

He is writing his next plan.

The first and most important thing is naturally glass and those raw materials that need to be refined and extracted to obtain.

Then there is white sugar. He also wrote about bamboo charcoal activated charcoal, and plans to have someone cut down a bunch of bamboo tomorrow to prepare activated charcoal.

The last thing of course is soap.

"I have to write down all these things so as not to forget them. But I can't write too much. If someone finds out or is sent to Lao Zhu, I will suffer."

"As for those crops, let's put them aside for now. We still have to hide our capabilities and bide our time."

(End of this chapter)