Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 451, Snow Candy

As the sugar cane began to harvest, Li Yuanshan, the person in charge of Ryukyu City, became extremely busy.

He first came to the sugar cane juice area here.

Because the commercial crops here in Ryukyu City are mainly sugar cane, at least in the next few years, Liu Jin does not intend to change this.

Therefore, a large-scale juicing area and sugar boiling area were specially built here in Ryukyu City to squeeze juice and boil sugar.

In the juicing area, all the juicing machines have only been transported from Tianjin this month. These machines were designed by Liu Jin with his golden fingers, and all of them are manual juicing machines.

The sugar cane is stretched in from one end, and then the gear is continuously rotated. With the rotation of the gear, the sugar cane will be squeezed by the machine, and the juice can be squeezed naturally.

This gear juicer is naturally not comparable to the various advanced juicers of later generations, but it is a very advanced machine in this era.

The ability to manufacture these machines, in addition to the Golden Finger, is actually the most important thing to benefit from the fact that Miyun Iron Works has been able to produce high-quality gears.

Using the rotation of this wheel of the machine, coupled with the linkage between the large and small gears, this new type of juicer is not only very labor-saving, but more importantly, it can squeeze out the juice in the sugarcane.

Here in the juicing area, hundreds of juicers are working continuously. With the rotation of the machines, each sugarcane is crushed very quickly, and the sugarcane juice inside is also squeezed out.

The juicers are connected to each other, and the squeezed sugarcane juice is also collected into a pool through the sink.

"It's still too slow~"

Li Yuanshan watched hundreds of juicers constantly busy. One juicer is operated by two people, one is responsible for conveying the sugarcane, and the other is responsible for turning the machine. Naturally, the efficiency is far behind that of cutting sugarcane outside. The speed, so the juicing area is already full of sugar cane like a mountain.

"It seems that two shifts will be implemented, and people will be arranged to work overtime at night. The recovered sugar cane must be squeezed into juice as soon as possible and boiled into sugar."

"In addition, it is not enough to rely on these juicers alone. We must use soil juicers. We must make some soil juicers as soon as possible."

Li Yuanshan looked at the busy scene and thought quickly in his mind.

As the person in charge of Ryukyu City, although he doesn't need to do these physical tasks, it is not an easy task to manage such a huge Ryukyu City.

More importantly, he is very clear that the value of this Ryukyu City is mainly reflected in the sucrose. How much sugar can be boiled out is very important.

It is not only related to the investment returns of many shareholders of Ryukyu City, but also related to the year-end bonuses for Li Yuanshan and many Ryukyu City managers. Whether everyone can have a good year depends on the harvest of these sugarcanes.

At present, sugarcane is a bumper harvest. The [-] mu of sugarcane field is very good, and the sugarcane is very sweet. Planting sugarcane can be regarded as a big success.

Now let's look at the last step, squeezing the juice and boiling the sugar, I'll be busy for the next month or so.

Soon, Li Yuanshan also started to make arrangements. People who know carpentry here in Ryukyu City began to make soil juicers. The traditional juicer is very simple. It is a stool with a movable wooden root on it, and the wooden pole is used to squeeze the sugarcane for juice. .

Naturally, this kind of soil juicer cannot be compared with a gear juicer, but it is simple to manufacture. The key is that now, the sugarcane harvest here is bumper, and the harvested sugarcane must be boiled as soon as possible. Time is tight, so I don’t care about the soil. The question of whether the juicer can squeeze clean.

With the rotation of the machine, the sugarcane is continuously crushed, and the sugarcane juice flows into the pool below. Next to the pool, someone is carrying buckets of sugarcane juice to the sugar boiling area.

After Li Yuanshan inspected the juicing area, he also came to the sugar boiling area. Compared with the bustling juicer area, the sugar boiling area seemed much deserted.

For the sake of technical confidentiality, all the people working in the sugar cooking area are managers, and they have signed a confidentiality agreement, and the technology of boiling sugar cannot be leaked out.

Here in the sugar cooking area, a big pot is steaming with steam, and at the same time, beside the big pot, the steward who cooks sugar is constantly stirring.

Boiling sugar is a laborious task, and the whole process requires constant stirring to prevent the sugar from sticking.

"Everyone, don't forget to keep stirring. The sugar in this pot is worth a lot of money. Once it gets mushy, it will be a big loss."

Li Yuanshan kept looking at the cauldron. At this time, it was filled with the scent of new sugar, sweet but not greasy, making people want to feast on it.

Regarding boiling sugar, Li Yuanshan focused on learning. When Liu Jin was here in Tianjin, he trained the stewards who came to Ryukyu City, and compiled a special teaching material for boiling sugar.

There is no way, sugar is really expensive in this era, and only the truly rich can afford it.

Ryukyu City has a huge investment here, not only Liu Jin's shares, but also the shares of Emperor Hongzhi, Prince Zhu Houzhao, Zhang Mao and others.

Liu Jin also boasted beforehand that this kind of sugar cane boiled candy will definitely make money, so he also attaches great importance to this candy.

Li Yuanshan knew this very well, so he couldn't help telling everyone who was making sugar.

"Don't worry~ we all know~"

The many stewards who boiled the sugar nodded again and again.

It's the last moment, they are not sloppy, this is related to their year-end bonus.

"Lao Li, take a look at our newly brewed brown sugar, it's really good, sweet but not greasy, it's definitely the best brown sugar~"

The manager in charge of boiling sugar is Zhang En. He used to be a master sugar cooker, but he was recruited by Liu Jin with a high salary to be responsible for boiling sugar.

At this time, he took a few pieces of newly boiled brown sugar, smiled and handed it to Li Yuanshan and said.

"Hmm~ It's really good~"

Li Yuanshan took the brown sugar and tasted it carefully. It tasted quite good, with a high degree of sweetness. The quality of sugarcane here in Ryukyu is really good, with sufficient sunlight and rain, which is very suitable for the growth of sugarcane.

Coupled with proper management, these sugar canes are of high quality, and the brown sugar produced from this is naturally very good.

"Is the snow sugar boiled?"

Li Yuanshan thought for a while and asked.

Although brown sugar is very good, there are still a lot of impurities in brown sugar, which is far inferior to white sugar. Brown sugar is only the most elementary product. On the basis of brown sugar, white sugar can also be boiled.

The price of white sugar is many times higher than that of brown sugar. Liu Jin, who pursues economic value, naturally will not miss it.

Moreover, it is extremely inconvenient to travel between Ryukyu and Tianjin. Naturally, the value must be maximized. Transporting sugarcane is not as good as transporting brown sugar, and transporting brown sugar is not as good as transporting white sugar. Naturally, the sugarcane juice must be boiled to produce white sugar and then shipped back to the Beijing-Tianjin area for sale.

"It's come out, I'll take you to see~"

Zhang En nodded, and then led Li Yuanshan to the back of the sugar-boiling area with a little mystery. The sugar-boiling area is originally the core area, and ordinary people can't get in. The back is specially used to boil white sugar, which is snow. The sugar area, the core area among the core areas, only a few people can go here.

Soon, under Zhang En's leadership, Li Yuanshan came to the snow sugar cooking area behind.

Brown sugar still has impurities, and after the impurities are removed, white sugar with a sugar content of more than 95% can be refined. This method did not appear for the first time until the late Ming Dynasty.

Liu Jin, who has a golden finger, naturally knows this method. Using the lime method, using lime milk to remove impurities in sugarcane juice, he can naturally boil white sugar with a high sugar content.

"Look~look, these snow sugars are so beautiful, the particles are fine and crystal clear, the key is that the sweetness is very high, and the taste is very pure. I have boiled the sugar all my life, and this is definitely the best sugar I have ever seen ~"

Zhang En held out a handful of snow sugar, and he couldn't help but admire.

"It's really good~"

Li Yuanshan picked it up and observed it carefully, tasted it carefully, and was instantly conquered by the sweetness.

"How much do you think this kind of snow sugar can sell for a catty?"

After thinking about it, Li Yuanshan asked.

"This kind of snow sugar is definitely the best sugar on the market. I guess it will be no problem at all even if it sells for five taels of silver per catty."

Zhang En not only boils sugar, but also is very clear about the prices of various sugars. Such high-quality snow sugar is not something ordinary people can afford. It is definitely a luxury, and it costs several taels of silver per catty.

(End of this chapter)