The domestic guard is a little sweet

In ancient times, due to the poor sugar making process, sugar was an extremely precious thing.

In the lives of people in the Daqi Dynasty at this time, the main sweetness was honey and caramel.

But honey is difficult to harvest, and caramel costs are high, so if sugar can be squeezed out from sugarcane, it will be of great help to the income of the entire Donglin City.

Sugarcane, as an item with a very high sugar content, gets brown sugar when it is initially processed, and then it can get snow-white soft white sugar after fine processing.

Zhao Jin selected the best part of the batch of sugarcane on the mountain as seeds, found a group of old farmers, and signed an agreement to plant them.

And some of them were taken back to the other courtyard by Zhao Jin, commanding the servants and maidservants in the courtyard to participate in the work of boiling sugar.

A few hours later, when the brown sugar was boiled out, everyone stared wide-eyed and stretched their necks to see.

Zhao Jin took the newly prepared brown sugar, took a sip with a small spoon, it was sweet in the mouth, Zhao Jin raised his eyebrows at An Shier, and nodded in satisfaction.

"It's done, everyone can have a taste. The next step is to try making white sugar."

An Shier took the tray in Zhao Jin's hand, tasted it carefully, and was instantly stunned by the sweetness, which was even better and sweeter than the best pastry shop in Donglin City.

"Master, this brown sugar is blood red and very sweet. It must be an excellent tonic."

Zhao Jin distributed the rest of the candy to his subordinates, and nodded with a smile: "This is brown sugar. It nourishes qi and blood. It is really good for women who lose too much blood or use some of it."

The servants and maids scrambled one after another, tasting the brown sugar, and the sweet taste in their mouths conquered them.

They admired their master more and more, and Mr. Liu was holding a bag of brown sugar, smiling even more.

After everyone tasted the delicacy of brown sugar, they became more and more motivated. They chopped and boiled the remaining sugar cane to make brown sugar, and the whole courtyard was full of heat.

Zhao Jin shook his head and laughed, raised his voice two minutes, and said to Manager Liu in the crowd: "After cooking these sugarcane today, I will order the kitchen to add two meat dishes for everyone to eat."

Everyone's eyes lit up one after another, and they hurried forward to offer their favor.

"Thank you, master."

The food and clothing expenses of these servants and maids in the palace are limited. Although Zhao Jin treats his servants generously, they cannot often eat meat and vegetables.

Now that the master has spoken, these two meat dishes are not simple shredded pork, but big meat dishes, which are naturally extremely exciting.

Taking advantage of the cheers of the crowd, Zhao Jin returned to the main courtyard with a bag of brown sugar, and then sat down at the table to rest.

"I'll write you a process later. You instruct a few people to set up another site to try to decolorize the brown sugar and see if you can cure the white sugar."

"Yes."

Dark Twelve looked at these brown sugars, and the more he looked at them, the more he admired them. Naturally, his master said something and promised something, and Zhao Jin held the brown sugar, and one and another about eating brown sugar appeared in his head.

"As soon as I turned around, I ordered that the kitchen grind the glutinous rice into a fine paste, cut it into small pieces and fry it to make juice, then boil the brown sugar into a slurry and pour it on top, and serve it to the grandfather."

An Twelve nodded with a smile on his face, the master's health is getting better, and his appetite is naturally improving.

And the servants and maids in the inner courtyard of the palace took action one after another, and the process of boiling brown sugar and white sugar was straightened out in about seven days, and everyone was amazed to see the white sugar sand.

I can't wait for those people with this name to grow tall without looking too big to boil sugar.

At this time, due to the production process, although it is white sugar, it is slightly yellow and beige, but the taste is the same as that of a stall, and it is considered a rare top grade.

Zhao Jin wanted to find out more about the sugar production process, so he dragged An Twelve to work in the study for three days in a row, sorting out a complete set of procedures for opening a sugar factory.

Zhao Jin has a lot of fertile land near Donglin City, and he happens to hire people to grow sugar cane.

Sugar factories can also hire local workers.

Zhao Jin is an upright and rigorous person. He deliberately wrote the method of making sugar from sugarcane as the author, and sent it to Beijing.

After the plan was completed, Zhao Jin summoned the parents' officials in Donglin City to discuss the matter.

The magistrate here in Donglin City is a middle-aged uncle, he is slightly fat, and he has heard about all the big and small things in the local area.

Zhao Jin cut down sugar cane from the mountain with such a big fanfare, and went to the other courtyard to make sugar without hiding it from others, so he naturally knew about it.

Originally thought that such a powerful thing, Lord Rui must hold it in his own hands.

Unexpectedly, King Rui would not only open up sucrose in Donglin, but not use the local people as his buddies, but also willing to give up [-]% of the profits. Regarding the annual tax of Donglin City, he would build a Yoyingtang and Laozi in the local area, so that the people in Donglin City Young children who have lost their parents and the elderly who have nowhere to depend can have a home.

And from the [-]% of the profits, it can also subsidize local scholars who go to Beijing to take the exam.

You must know that this gift is a great achievement. The more Zhou Zhifu thought about it, the more elated he became, as if he was hit by a big pie in the sky. It was Zhao Jin who said what he said, and he nodded in response, which was very cute.

Autumn turns to spring, one year during the Spring Festival, Zhao Jin and An Twelve pretended to have a lively New Year together making dumplings, setting off firecrackers, and watching the New Year with his lover. It was extraordinarily solid and warm.

At the beginning of spring, Zhao Jin also deliberately distributed the two kinds of overseas left over from the previous season to various places for the common people to plant.

With the construction of the Yoying Hall and the Pension Department, the people near Donglin City have heard about King Rui, and they are extremely grateful to him.

Some villages even set up living shrines for Zhao Jin, where people offered sacrifices and incense was kept burning.

Although it feels a little embarrassing, Zhao Jin also understands that the ancient people wanted to find a psychological sustenance. Although they didn't support this kind of approach very much, they didn't forcefully stop him. They just wanted to keep Donglin City well managed.

Zhao Jin is a modern person, so he naturally knows the importance of food. Although he wants to plant sugarcane on a large scale in exchange for more beverages, the local food tax is still very important. Zhao Jin simply spends money to hire people to reclaim wasteland.Plant sugar cane.

The Wujie and men recruited by the sugar factory also recruited some women, but because of the ancient customs, Zhao Jin deliberately separated the men's and women's factories for easy management.

Not only did it give women some means of earning a living, allowing them to earn money to supplement their families, but it also opened up another way for them.