Win the Ding 1617

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"Congratulations, my lord!" The sugar cooker looked proud, holding a huge blue sea bowl with both hands, which was full of freshly processed brown sugar. "The villain thinks he has been in this business for decades, and he has never seen such a convenient and quick method of squeezing sugar. The sugar can be produced within a day of squeezing the juice, and the amount of sugar produced has never been seen before."

Shou Han picked up a pinch of brown sugar with his fingers and put it in his mouth to taste carefully. He saw several stewards of the Han Yuan Company also tasting the sweetness of the freshly squeezed sugar.Then he signaled Mo Yu, a soldier beside him, to bring the candy to the group of children, so that they could also taste the taste of the newly boiled candy.

"Oh! Eat candy!" The children ran with big bowls, cheered and gathered together to experience the sweetness of candy.

"However, my lord, there is something wrong with this thing." The sugar cooker, as a technician, questioned Shouhan's production line of squeezing and boiling sugar from another angle.

"Oh? Tell me!" Shouhan seemed to be back when he was the technical director. Someone raised different opinions on his design, which made him very excited.

"My lord, this thing," the sugar cooker pointed to the reel in the thatched hut, "quick is quick, but the villain made a rough estimate, based on the sugar cane brought back from Ryukyu by you adults, plus our What is produced on the ground can barely support the consumption of more than a month. If the Lord wants to open the mill, I am afraid that our existing sugar cane will not be enough to support a season. The mill that the Lord spent a lot of money to build Fang, I am afraid it will take several years to recover the capital."

Encountered the problem of insufficient raw materials again!

However, Shou Han also experienced many similar things, and became calm, "Master Huang, what do you think?"

Master Huang is also a bold person, "My lord, since I asked about the villain, the villain will be presumptuous. Across the sea are Qinzhou, Lianzhou, and a little further away, Leizhou and Qiongzhou. These state capitals have sugar cane Its production, especially Xuwen County, Leizhou Prefecture, is well-known far and wide. My lord, you might as well send someone to buy some. I heard that there is also a bad harvest this year." Master Huang's eyes were full of cunning.

From what Shou Han heard, this person is also a character, and he wanted me to take advantage of the summer monsoon disaster and reduce the grain production in the nearby area to buy sugar cane wantonly.However, how to purchase and how much is appropriate to purchase, but it is difficult to calculate.

It has just been estimated that after one hundred catties of sugarcane are squeezed, about 88 catties of residue are left, which means that the sugar yield of this production line is between 12% and 13%.Although compared with the 15.00% sugar yield rate of later generations, it is still slightly insufficient, but in the era when wooden presses are used everywhere, this figure is already appalling.

Before the advent of steam sugar mills in the 19th century, the annual output of mechanical sugar factories was generally 100 bags of white sugar. According to the current international standard, 1 bag is 100 kilograms.To produce 100 kilograms of sugar, at least 1 ton of sugar cane is needed, but the yield per mu of sugar cane (sugar cane) is not too high.The average yield per mu of Guitang No. 11 sugar cane in Guangxi is only about 5.8 tons per mu. It is estimated that the yield per mu in this era is only a little more than half, which is less than 3 tons.If we want to produce 100 kilograms of sugar in one season, that is, ten tons of sugar, we need at least [-] tons of sugar cane, which is at least three to four hundred acres of total production, and we have to bear the transportation.

"You guys who are in charge, go back and discuss your livelihood and come up with a charter. I want you to ensure that this mill will not be idle for a season."

Shou Han's words were very calm and his tone was very gentle, but he could not change it.

The stewards couldn't help but tremble in their hearts, "The subordinates are following your orders!"

No wonder Shou Han is anxious. His sea salt processing and purification process can be slightly changed to become a white sugar processing process, and the added value of the product can be increased through activated carbon.You know, brown sugar in this era is much cheaper than white sugar.

A few bullock carts loaded with sugar cane bagasse slowly headed towards the nearby winemaking workshop. Amidst the sound of cow bells, Shou Han and his party walked slowly towards the Garrison Mansion as if they were carts. Among the crowd, several stewards were excited Discussing how to transport the purchased rice to various places in exchange for the sugar cane that the mill urgently needs.But among the crowd, there are exceptions.

A young steward, his lips kept moving, seemed to be silently calculating something, suddenly, his face was fixed, his teeth bit his thin lips, as if he had made up his mind, he walked quickly to the queue Zhong Yang, with a plop, knelt down in front of Shou Han.

"Students implore Dong Weng to take back his order, don't let the boats carry rice to various places in exchange for sugar cane!"

A few people were still happily discussing how to purchase sugarcane, how to transport the produced sugar to the luxurious lands of Guangzhou and Xiangshan County, and sell it to the Hongmaoyi people from all over the place, but this stunned young man jumped out Is it okay to hinder the interest of the boss? !

"Huo Jian, don't talk nonsense!"

"My lord, this man is a new scholar, he is a bit stubborn, please forgive me."

Shou Han signaled Mo Jin to help Huo Jian up, "Your name is Huo Jian? How do you call it?"

"Back to Dongweng, the student's name is Zhongqiang."

"Zhongqiang, let me ask you, when did you join Han Yuan to work?"

"My lord, Zhong Qiang is a native of Qinzhou, Guangxi. He is also a scholar who has been educated. He doesn't want to have no money to take care of during the annual examination. He is found out by others. He is in literature and administration and has won fame."

"I didn't want my family's several acres of Susukida to be hit by a hurricane. In desperation, I had to come across the sea to make a living under Topi Dongweng's family and take care of my mother." Although Huo Jian made a living under the guard, he still had the character of a scholar. He is neither humble nor overbearing, even a little arrogant, which makes Shou Han very fond of him.

Shouhan's character and temper, apart from what he formed when he was the technical director of Xinsheng Company, are also passed down through his family.His grandfather often said that those flatterers and flatterers should be dismissed as soon as possible. Today he can flatter you because you are useful to him. Tomorrow you are useless to him, and he will immediately go to kiss others. Ass.

"Brother Zhongqiang, what advice do you have?"

"Dong Weng, do you know the extent of a typhoon disaster in summer?"

"speak!"

"Qinzhou, Lianzhou, and Wuzhou in the west of Guangdong, and Leizhou, Gaozhou, Qiongzhou in the east of Guangdong, and other prefectures were all affected. In some prefectures and counties, the rice crops were completely wiped out. The students received letters from their classmates a few days ago, and the price of rice has skyrocketed. On the contrary, sugarcane farmers complained a lot. This year happened to be a bumper harvest of sugarcane. However, the owners of mills suppressed the price aggressively. Now rice is expensive and sugarcane is cheap. If Dongweng sells rice to Leizhou and other places, he can naturally make huge profits, but if he sells sugar with rice, Afraid of losing money."

"Speak your truth!"

"My lord, in order to prevent the low price of grain from hurting the farmers, you have made various businesses increase the price of rice purchases. After the people everywhere sell rice, they are all grateful for your lord's benevolent government. However, in terms of business, our capital has been suppressed. Now we To transport rice across the sea, there must be some transportation losses, and these will also be included in the cost. In exchange for sugar cane, and the sugar is squeezed out, the water feet and money for this round trip will also be included in the principal of sugar extraction. My lord Although this set of furniture uses less people, less cows, and quick sugar production, it is made of pure steel after all, and it costs a lot of money. According to the rough calculation of the students, the cost of a bag of brown sugar is already around one tael of silver. Such a price , and then trafficked to Haojing, Guangzhou, etc., there is no profit."

"So, the students implore Dong Weng to take it back."

After listening to Huo Jian's words, Shou Han was very happy.

This guy has used his brain quite a bit, and he has done a lot of calculations.However, he did not calculate two accounts correctly, so he artificially overestimated the cost.

First, the three steel reels weighing a thousand kilograms are not the steel in people's minds, and the natural cost is much lower.

Second, Shouhan never wanted to use brown sugar, a low-grade product with low added value, to make money.

In addition, selling rice to Qinlian Wugao Leiqiong and other places, in addition to exchanging raw materials for mills, Shouhan also wanted to attract a group of laborers for himself through cheap and high-quality rice.Ha Tinh still has a large shortage of labor force.In order to make up for the shortage of labor force, as a last resort, he implemented a labor pooling system, separating the skilled workers and artisans from those who are purely selling coolies. According to the needs, a regular meeting was held every five days, and the needs of strong workers were reported everywhere. , by him to coordinate these coolies.

"To prevent idle work, this is also the method of optimization and overall planning!" Shou Han smiled wryly.

Signaling to let the trembling officers go first, Shou Han turned his head, "Brother Zhong Qiang, are you interested in visiting a certain family?"

"Students are willing to follow suit."

"My lord, is this what you want the students to see?"

Huo Jian couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded as he looked at the brown sugar in the pool water that was constantly being stirred by several servants with thick wooden sticks in their hands.

The pool was six or seven feet high, and the walls inside the pool were covered with copper skin. There might not be a few thousand catties of water in the pool, and the clear water in the pool gradually turned maroon under the agitation of the officials and slaves.

There are also a few official slaves, two by two, holding a huge filter, put the filter into the pool, touch the bottom of the pool, carefully pull the filter through the wooden stick in their hands and sneak, from the end of the pool to the bottom of the pool. that end.After several times, lift the strainer and report to the foreman, "This pool of sugar has been completely melted."

Shou Han himself did not know the solubility of brown sugar, so in order to prevent incomplete dissolution, he had to use such a stupid method.

"Open the gate! Release the water!"

Accompanied by the foreman's order, several official slaves slowly lifted the gate of the pool, allowing the fully dissolved sugar water to pass through the ceramic pipe filled with charcoal bags.

This is the activated carbon filtration method proposed by Lei Mingsheng under the inspiration of Shou Han's original filtration method.This technique has earned Shou Han a lot of money in the production of fine salt, and now, it has a new application.

Seeing the white granulated sugar as clean as snow neatly stacked on the shelf according to the standard of a pack of twenty catties, Huo Jian couldn't help but turned around and bowed deeply to the guard, "Students are dull, don't know Dong Weng's foresight, recklessness Yes! I hope Dong Weng will make amends."

"Hey! Where did Brother Zhongqiang come from! You are also thinking of the company, lest the company will lose. It is a certain family that wants to borrow from Brother Zhongqiang."

Five days later, Huo Jian, as the head of the Hanyuan firm, escorted two thousand packs of white sugar to Haojing.

A few years later, Huo Jian's name was cursed by countless mill owners and sugar cookers.There are two reasons: [-]. The assembly-line sugar extraction with steel reels and the white sugar processing technology of activated charcoal have caused countless small mills to go out of business and go bankrupt.[-]. Based on his own experience, he proposed a production process standard for white granulated sugar and brown sugar. This standard made those sugar cooks who relied on years of experience lose their jobs.

This is something to say later and will be omitted.

In the twelfth lunar month, Hongji Port under the Shouhan rule became extremely busy. Large and small sea-going ships were loaded with rice and set off for Qinzhou Lianzhou, Leizhou Peninsula, Qiongzhou Prefecture, and even more distant Ryukyu to trade sugarcane. and jaggery.

"I want to replace the two whites of fine salt and sugar with one white! That is the silver in front of you!"

At a regular meeting of the Han Yuan Company, Shou Han said this confidently in front of many managers and shareholders.

However, what people did not expect was that the business of exchanging rice for sugar cane to Ryukyu almost triggered a war.