Chapter 155 Creating a Good Business Environment

A few Li men came and carried the sugarcane away.

After the sugarcane is washed, it is crushed with a stone mill to squeeze out the juice.

The turbid juice flows into the barrel along the grinding groove, and the residue is filtered out with filter cloth.

Pour into a large iron pot and boil over high heat.

After boiling, foam will float on the water surface. Remove the foam.

The water slowly boiled away by half and turned into brown-red color.

Turn to low heat and stir the pot constantly with a spatula to prevent it from getting scorched.

When the water has been boiled away for a lot, use a spatula to scoop up the sugar liquid. The sugar liquid will drip down and become sticky and stringy. Then turn off the heat.

Pour the sugar liquid into the mold and roll it flat, let it cool, and cut it into many small cubes vertically and horizontally with a knife.

It can also be put into a bowl to make a bowl of candy.

Solid brown sugar is precious, and it would be too extravagant to make it into such a big piece, so Su Ying chose to make it into cubes.

"Okay! The brown sugar is done!" Su Ying cut the sugar, picked up a small piece and looked at it, and said with satisfaction.

"Let me take a look!" The chief hurriedly took the candy. Under the dim light, the brown-red sugar exuded the fragrance of sugarcane.

The chief broke off some candy crumbs with his hands and put them in his mouth.

Crunchy and sweet! Not as sticky as brown sugar paste.

"How is it? Delicious, right?" Su Ying looked at the leader with a smile.

"Good, good, good!" The leader's nose suddenly felt sore. He never thought that their Jinfeng Village could produce such a treasure!

How much brown sugar can be produced from that large sugarcane field? The leader calculated rapidly in his mind.

"Come! Try it too!" Su Ying picked up another piece and gave it to Hu Erlang and Fu Zhong, father and son.

Fu Zhong broke off some crumbs and put them in his mouth, then froze as if struck by lightning.

I was lucky enough to receive rewards when I was rich and powerful, and I tasted the sugar paste once or twice, but how could it be as good as this brown sugar?

It was completely extracted from the essence of sugarcane. The special taste was beyond his description. He only felt an indescribable sense of happiness filling his heart.

Everyone was silent for a long time. Needless to say, this thing was precious.

"Grandpa! Grandpa! Let me try it!" Aniu, who had been waiting for a whole day, was very greedy.

Those who had been guarding the stove didn't notice it, but the sweet smell drifted with the wind and spread throughout the village, making it impossible to sleep.

"Try it!" The leader broke off some crumbs and gave them to his grandson.

Ah Niu put it in his mouth and his eyes widened.

Diexiu and the others who had been busy from beginning to end watched eagerly, but were too embarrassed to speak.

"Come, try it!" Su Ying shared the candy with everyone.

Suddenly, a lot of heads popped up at the door, including children and adults.

"Take it and try it!" Su Ying didn't divide it anymore and gave the candy to one of them.

The people outside the house immediately huddled together, "Let me try it, let me try it!"

"I want all these candies. Name your price!" Fu Zhong, who didn't say much, stared at the leader.

"This, this..." The leader looked at Su Ying in confusion.

They had only sold sugar paste and had never sold solid brown sugar. The buyer was brought by Su Ying, and the leader wanted to sell it at a high price and make a lot of money, but he was embarrassed to do so.

"Grandpa, why don't you sell the sugar paste at half the price?" How could Su Ying not understand?

This brown sugar is worth twice or three times the price of sugar paste, but Hu Erlang is a partner and has helped me a lot, so how can I kill him?

"Okay!" The leader said without hesitation, "Mr. Hu, Mr. Fu, you were brought here by Aying, so you are the only ones who can enjoy this price!"

"Thank you!" Fu Zhong hurriedly thanked him, changing his previous distant and polite attitude.

"Grandpa, if you want to sell this brown sugar at a high price, the sugar-making method must not be revealed to outsiders.

From now on, this brown sugar will no longer be sold in pharmacies, but will be circulated as a luxury product," Su Ying warned.

"I saved it, I saved it!" The leader nodded repeatedly, agreeing deeply.

"If we plant this throughout the county, you'll have an endless supply of materials for making brown sugar!

However, your Jinfeng Village is in the mountains, and it is inconvenient to transport raw materials. Why don’t you cooperate with the county government and set up a sugar factory in the county town.

Each township will send sugarcane to the county town, and you can produce brown sugar for at least four or five months a year, and then pay a certain amount of taxes to the county government.

The county government will ensure that all the raw materials in the county are supplied to your family. What do you think?"

Brown sugar is a new thing and a luxury product, so the technology behind it cannot be announced all at once. Its high price can promote large-scale sugarcane planting and boost the economy of the entire Wu County.

As for the gradual leakage of technology later, by then Jinfengzhai and Wuxian had already become prosperous, and the people were well fed and well-fed.

Later, the sugar factory will split into many small family workshops, and the sugar industry will become a major feature of Lingnan, which is also good.

"Great, great!" The leader was so happy that he was going crazy! "Our Golden Wind Village's brown sugar will be sold first to Hu Langjun and Fu Dongjia!"

It really is a mutually beneficial situation! Paying taxes to the county government will provide sufficient raw materials. The profit of brown sugar is amazing, and the county government also gets a share of the profits!

How great it is that several parties benefit!

"Listen up, people of Jinfeng Village! Mr. Aying is our great benefactor of Jinfeng Village. He taught us how to make sugar. Everyone, keep your mouths shut and don't spread it outside!

Anyone who betrays Jinfeng Village will not be forgiven! Do you hear me? "The leader came out and said sternly to the people in the courtyard.

"Yes! Chief!" the Li people said in unison.

This is their secret to getting rich. Whoever leaks it will become the enemy of everyone in Jinfengzhai!

All the freshly made brown sugar was taken away by Fu Zhong, and the shopkeeper will come to pay tomorrow.

"These sugarcane residues are good things. They can be used as fertilizer and as raw materials for papermaking. Mr. Hu, if the county has excess labor, you can consider building a paper mill."

Seeing the sugarcane residue discarded on the roadside, Su Ying came up with another idea.

Hu Erlang glanced at Su Ying. How much did this girl have in her head? She could look at a pile of useless things and come up with a golden idea, turning waste into treasure.

"What? You don't want it? With so many raw materials, others want them but don't have them yet, so you are the first to get them since you are so close to them!

"Sugarcane residue is a better choice for papermaking than retting bark or bamboo, and the paper is white and tough!" Su Ying advised.

"Yes! Why not!" Hu Erlang said with a smile.

"I'll go to the state capital to find some papermaking masters. Ah Ying, I feel so busy and have so many things to do. I feel like I'm in a state of panic.

If sugar and paper making were to be developed in the county town, and vermicelli, tea oil and honey were to be added, merchants would flock to the area.

It will boost the business of inns, restaurants, restaurants, and carriages. You can imagine how prosperous it will be! "

"Haha, don't just think about good things! If you want to attract merchants to Wu County, the county magistrate has a few things to do well!" Su Ying thought more long-term.

"Which things?" Hu Erlang asked humbly.

"First, repair all the roads leading to Wu County! Honey and tea oil are liquids, and transportation is most sensitive to bumps and difficult roads, which will greatly affect the sales of these two products.

Second, with the booming business of inns, restaurants, carriages and horses, it is inevitable that some people will cheat and defraud. If one person does it, all colleagues in the entire county will be implicated. Therefore, not only the guilds should be regulated, but the government should also supervise them.

Third, we need to strengthen local public security. Merchants gather here in large numbers, and they inevitably carry large amounts of money. Lingnan is a mountainous area with dense forests, so our county government should at least strengthen patrols within its jurisdiction to ensure the safety of the merchants' lives and property.

If we want long-term and stable development, the government cannot sit idly by and wait.

We must actively create a favorable business environment to attract more merchants and ensure the long-term and sustainable sales of agricultural products.”