The first legitimate son of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 39 The Way to Make Money
Frogs kept croaking at night. Li An hugged Li Duoduo and went to bed directly after dinner, because you had nothing else to do if you didn't sleep at night. For dinner, you had mutton and pancakes.

The mutton is water basin mutton, and the Hu biscuits are meat Hu biscuits.

Of course, this is the best food that the Liuxiatian family can bring out at this time. The quantity is not very large and is only for Li An and Li Duoduo. Li An did not eat much, but Li Duoduo ate a lot.

Because this was the first time that Li Duoduo had a big appetite. To be honest, Li Duoduo couldn't eat anything and didn't dare to eat anything, because as long as he ate even a little bit, he would feel stomachache. That was because of Li Duoduo's Intestinal complications due to leukemia.

After the stomachache, she would vomit. If she wanted to absorb some nutrients, she could only rely on nutritional injections. In fact, what the director of the hospital said was absolutely correct. It was very painful for Li Duoduo to live like this.

Li Duoduo herself didn't want to live, but she gritted her teeth and persisted in living for Li An.

Li An watched Li Duoduo eat so deliciously at dinner. He ate a basin of mutton and two meat pancakes. His belly was so full that he wanted to continue eating. Li An Stop it immediately. You can't continue to eat this. Don't burst your stomach.

Then Li Duoduo shouted to continue eating, which made Liu Xiatian and others show happy expressions, because this young lady, like Mr. Li, had no barriers to them. In fact, they were also afraid of Li Duo. Duo Gaogui is unsociable. If Li Duoduo says it's not good here and doesn't want to stay here, then they may not be able to keep Li An.

However, all worries are gone now. Li Duoduo likes it here. Even though there is nothing here at this time, Li Duoduo doesn't dislike it at all. Li Duoduo can play crazily with the children in the village. He ate the food in the village and fell asleep on the simple floor.

It shows that Li Duoduo agrees with this, this is the best situation.

Li An looked at Li Duoduo who was sleeping sweetly in his arms, and gently touched his daughter's little face with his hand. Today, it can really be described as ups and downs. Originally, Li An heard that Zhao Kai said that without imported drugs, Li An's world would collapse, and he wanted to die with his daughter.

Fortunately, before Li An died, he still wanted to fulfill his daughter Li Duoduo's last wish, which was to see the lavender field. If he had not persisted, then Li An and Li Duoduo would have died in modern times. It was a big fall, but fortunately there was a big rise behind it. Li An took Li Duoduo into the cave of the time tunnel, and he did not expect that his daughter's illness would be cured like this.

Her hair has grown back and her body has no symptoms at all. It seems that as long as her daughter stays in Datang, she will be fine. That will be great. If Li Duoduo will be fine if she stays in Datang, then she can stay in Datang. .

Li An is very simple. He has no difference between modern times and the Tang Dynasty, and he has no nostalgia for modern life. The most worthy of Li An's nostalgia is Li Duoduo, because the place where Li Duoduo is is Li An's home.

It's that simple.

And now that he has decided to stay here, Li An has to start preparing to find a business to make money. This little guy Li Duoduo is so good at eating, it will be impossible if he has no money.

An Li did not give Li Duoduo a good living environment in modern times. He suffered a lot with Li An. Now that he has come to Datang, Li An believes that he can give Li Duoduo a good living environment.

After all, Tang Li An still has some tricks up his sleeve.

Now the first way Ang Lee thinks of to get money is sugar. Some people may be surprised that sugar can also make money. Yes, sugar can make money, and it can make a lot of money.At this time, people in the Tang Dynasty could roughly obtain sugar in three ways.

One is sucrose extracted from sugar cane, one is caramel, and the other is directly using honey as a sweetener.Among these three methods, the first kind of icing sugar extracted from sucrose is particularly precious, while malt sugar is popular among the people because it is easy to make and low in price.

Because sucrose was very popular, the central Sichuan region, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Guangzhou, Wenzhou and other places were the main sugarcane producing areas in the Tang Dynasty.

Even the planting area of ​​sugarcane in these areas has exceeded the planting area of ​​wheat at that time.Fortunately, there were basically no large-scale famines in the Tang Dynasty. Sugarcane was a cash crop at the time, which also increased the income of local people to a certain extent.

Not only could income be obtained through planting, but due to the limitations of transportation conditions at the time, cane sugar production could only be carried out in the area of ​​origin.

This allowed sugarcane farmers in the Tang Dynasty to plant sugar cane during busy farming periods and boil the sugar cane into sucrose during slack periods. Such an operation would increase their income by more than three times compared to growing grain in the same area. This is just entry-level sucrose. If you make higher grade cane sugar, your income will be much higher.

However, the sugar produced from sucrose is granulated sugar and is yellowish or even black in color. Therefore, in the ninth year of Zhenguan, a piece of sugar called stone honey flowed from ancient Tianzhu to Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty. The so-called stone honey is actually a kind of sugar. A modified version of sucrose that tastes "sweet as honey" but "hard as a rock".

In this way, I believe everyone is very familiar with it. It is similar to the rock candy we often eat now.Because stone honey can be stored for a long time due to its "hard as stone" properties, it is very convenient in terms of circulation and transportation.

At that time, the sugar-making technology of ancient Tianzhu (today's India) was world-famous at that time, and the stone honey produced in Tianzhu was spread all over the world, and was especially loved by Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty.

It is recorded in "Cefu Yuangui" that during the period of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, when all the nations came to court, they saw the stone honey that was paid tribute by the "Western Kingdoms" at that time. Li Shimin praised it after tasting it.In this way, Shi Mi also became a "resident guest" at the banquets of the Tang Dynasty nobles.

As a result, the price of stone honey has skyrocketed, because it is not only an imported product, but also an imported product that the emperor liked.

At that time, during the Zhenguan period, the price of ordinary sugar (sucrose) in Chang'an was around 10 cents per tael, while the imported stone honey from ancient Tianzhu was priced at 1 cents per tael. In this way, you may not be very clear about the difference between them. Let's just say Take eggs as a comparison. At that time, 100 penny could buy an egg.And [-] eggs can buy one or two "stone honey", which is also clear at a glance.

This stone honey is yellowish. If it were placed in modern times, basically no one would eat it. Everyone would eat rock sugar. If Li An showed the method of making rock sugar in Chang'an City, could rock sugar be used to replace this ancient Tianzhu one? Stone honey.

Such a large amount of money was earned by those in ancient Tianzhu, so it would be better to earn it by yourself. Of course, the most important thing is that the method of making rock sugar is very simple. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a method of pouring sugar with yellow mud. , can turn black sucrose into crystal clear rock sugar.

Li An believes that as long as Bingtang appears, Shi Mi will have no place in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)