206. Ten Questions on the Book of Documents and Commentary on the Book of Songs! (Part 1) (Page 1/2)

Cui family.

After hearing what Brother Xian said, the whole family was shocked and realized——

According to this development, Cui Xian may actually be able to ban the "Mao Shi Xu" from the Henan imperial examination next year!

Oh my god.

It is hard to imagine how big a sensation this incident will cause in the whole Daliang!

No, you don’t have to wait until next year’s imperial examination.

The series of industrial chains triggered by white sugar alone can immediately start from Kaifeng and ignite a fire of "light industrial innovation" that will spread throughout Daliang!

Ideological innovation and industrial innovation go hand in hand.

Scholars, farmers, workers, and businessmen, all must participate!

If you're going to do something, make it a big one!

But the most basic premise is that frosting can be extracted smoothly.

So for the next two days, Old Cui and others carefully followed Cui Xian's instructions and watered the funnel filled with syrup with yellow mud water.

Until the morning of the third day.

Below the funnel, large chunks of grayish-white sugar condensed!

Although these candies are not pure white, they sparkle beautifully in the sun.

Old Cui's muddy hands kept shaking. She looked at the gray-white sugar block, and then looked at the bag of brown sugar next to it. Only then did she dare to confirm that the brown sugar had really all turned into white sugar!

Cui Yu, Cui Boshan and Cui Zhongyuan excitedly collected all the white sugar cubes and weighed them.

Then Cui Boshan exclaimed: "1300 jin? How is that possible?"

This exclamation made the already shocked old Cui tremble even more.

One thousand kilograms of brown sugar can be boiled down to produce one thousand three hundred kilograms of white sugar?

Even robbing money is not so fierce!

Facing the excited gazes of the whole family, Cui Xian smiled helplessly and said, "What are you thinking about? There is still a lot of water in these candies, so they need to be dried in the sun for seven days."

“Once the moisture is dried out, the gray-white sugar will turn into icing sugar.”

"But after drying, the weight will definitely shrink. From one thousand kilograms of brown sugar, it's considered good if we can produce seven hundred kilograms of icing sugar."

Seven hundred kilograms?

Based on five taels of silver per pound of icing sugar...

Old Cui covered her chest and said, "Oh, no, I can't even think about it. Brother Yu, you have to settle the accounts with grandma."

Cui Yu swallowed his saliva and said, "It's three thousand five hundred taels."

And Cui Xian only spent... eighty taels to buy brown sugar!

"This is just small change. We need to work towards bigger goals."

Cui Xian grinned and said, "Grandmother, I will stop debating for the next month and a half. You should focus on refining the icing sugar and accumulating the first batch of start-up capital."

"Then we started recruiting workers, lots of them! We built sugar workshops, candied fruit workshops, and fruit wine workshops."

"It is initially estimated that we will recruit 3,000 people first."

"So grandma, aunt, mother, and sister. From now on, it's up to you!"

Recruiting three thousand people at once?

Good job!

Then the people of the entire Kaifeng Prefecture will be plunged into a carnival.

The women of the Cui family looked at each other and understood the high fighting spirit in each other's eyes!

Old Cui had another question that was more troubling: "Xian'er, you said earlier on the debate platform that you would debate once every three days."

"Now you suddenly want to suspend the debate for a month and a half, what does that mean?"

Cui Xian's expression was a little sly when he heard this: "Of course, give those old scholars some time so that they can come from all over Daliang."

"When the time comes, let them come together, and I will take care of them all!"

"We built the debate platform ourselves. In addition to debate, we can also use it for advertising! If you want to advertise, the louder the noise, the better the effect."

"In a month and a half, our family's official newspaper will start to be published throughout Henan! It will publish the news of recruiting 3,000 workers, selling thousands of kilograms of icing sugar, and hiring 30 ships to purchase sugarcane in southern Fujian."

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"But if it's just advertising, it doesn't seem like the gimmick is big enough? After all, our main purpose is to debate the scriptures."

Hearing this, the Cui family looked strange.

Isn’t this a big gimmick?

Do you want to turn Kaifeng upside down?

Cui Xian stroked his chin and thought for a moment, his eyes lit up: "Grandmother, let's go hire a caravan of escorts..."

In fact, the Cui family has an escort agency.

However, at present, the workers of the escort agency have rushed to various places in Daliang with the Bianliang official report.

Hearing this, Old Cui asked in confusion, "Hiring an escort agency?"

Cui Xian blinked and said a few words.

The Cui family was dumbfounded.

What you said about creating a gimmick is too arrogant!

When Cui Xian and his family were working diligently to refine white sugar.

Kaifeng Prefecture.

The entire literary community was in an uproar over Cui Xian.

After all, the statement that all twenty sutras have loopholes is really shocking!

Therefore, the debate platform at Kaifeng Prefecture School was filled with various challenge letters.

Cui Xianjing, you thief, come and debate with me!

After waiting for a long time until the third day, many old scholars rolled up their sleeves to watch the battle.

But I found out that Cui Xian was not coming!

The debate will be suspended for another month and a half!

This is simply outrageous!

Just when everyone was angrily cursing "Cui Xian was cowardly and surrendered."

Cui Xian's new personal bodyguard Dashan rushed to the debate platform with a group of carriages from the escort agency.

Amid uproar and shock.

Dashan stiffened his neck and said loudly, "Our young master, Mr. Cui Xian said that he stopped debating for a month and a half, not because he was afraid of the stage."

"Rather, he knows that many great scholars are on their way to Kaifeng."

"In order to avoid winning unfairly, he decided to wait for these people for a month and a half!"

"Of course, in the next month and a half, if you want to invite any famous scholar to come out, we, the escorts, will help you do it for free!"

"At that time, as long as you pass the preliminary test of our Mr. Cui Xian, you will be qualified to participate in the debate."

"Mr. Cui Xian is on guard alone."

"And all the famous scholars who came from all over Daliang, regardless of the number, can come on stage and debate together!"

"The only condition is to debate the Book of Shangshu."

Wow!

After hearing these words, the faces of the old scholars present were distorted with anger.

Some young students also had red faces due to excitement.

One person challenges the world's famous scholars?

So cool!

As expected, this news quickly shocked the entire city of Kaifeng.

What is even more shocking is.

The escort agency hired by the Cui family even took the initiative to ask which famous scholars were ready to come to Kaifeng to "teach Cui Xian a lesson". They went to invite them in person!

Those famous scholars who rushed to Kaifeng in a rage, met someone to pick them up on the way, and they felt that they were famous and known to the world.

The person who came to pick you up said, "Excuse me, sir, are you going to Kaifeng to teach Cui Xian a lesson? We are here to pick you up on Cui Xian's orders."

The old Confucians who heard this: ???

With the support of the escort agency, a large number of famous literary scholars were taken to Kaifeng in carts.

The outside world was in turmoil.

Cui Xian wrote down ten questions on the Book of Documents in his study, and annotated the first official textbook for the imperial examination, The Book of Songs.

That’s right, he was going to teach these old-fashioned and pedantic Confucian scholars a lesson!