The sugar water is placed into the filtration device, which is a set of components. The sugar water is filtered while flowing, and the filtered sugar water flows directly into the distillation device.
This design is brilliant. They quickly understood the principle behind it, which not only saves time and effort but also improves efficiency.
They were eager to know how this big guy boiled the sugar water to get the sugar cubes.
The bottom of the device is like a furnace, where firewood can be placed and burned.
The firewood in the furnace was quickly lit, and the internal air immediately began to circulate, producing a long tongue of flame that entered the furnace of the next device to heat the sugar water above.
As the temperature of the sugar water rises, it flows through several connected devices, causing the water to evaporate rapidly and the resulting steam to be ejected from an outlet.
Looking at the steam coming out of the outlet, Zhao Xian was delighted. If this device were used to distill alcohol, the steam could be collected and cooled with cold water to obtain a high-purity liquor.
The device continued to heat up, and the moisture decreased. Zhao Xian paid attention to the changes in the steam at the outlet. When very little steam was released, it meant that the syrup was almost ready and could be poured out to cool.
Zhao Xian operated the device while explaining its operation, ensuring everyone was familiar with how to use it.
"Master, there's not much steam coming out of this vent anymore. Can we take the syrup out of the pot now?" Qin Shiyu asked.
Zhao Xian looked at it, felt the air vent with his hand, and nodded.
"There's really not much water left in the syrup, it's ready to be taken out of the pot."
Everyone was unsure of what to do next and stared at Zhao Xian.
Zhao Xian opened the valve at the bottom of the device, and the syrup inside flowed out, all of it flowing into an iron trough next to it.
Zhao Xian made three iron troughs, each capable of holding over 100 jin of syrup, meaning that the device could produce 300 jin of white sugar at a time.
The syrup that entered the iron trough quickly crystallized. Zhao Xian took out the crystallized sugar blocks and put them into a crushing device to crush them.
This device involves manually turning a crank, which causes the iron blades inside to spin rapidly, quickly crushing the crystallized sugar into powder. The resulting white sugar is finer, whiter, and of much better quality than white sugar produced in a kitchen.
They succeeded! The whole family was overjoyed. They produced so much sugar in just over an hour. If they were to produce 300 jin of sugar at once, it wouldn't take much longer.
The group packaged the sugar and placed it in a room in the workshop, which became a warehouse for storing goods.
Seeing that there was still time, the family wanted to make white sugar one more time.
Zhao Xian nodded, indicating that he wanted others to make it themselves to further familiarize themselves with using the device to make white sugar.
This time, another 100 jin of sugar was used for the production. Zhao Xian did not lift a finger but watched them operate the whole time.
They were clever enough that they didn't need Zhao Xian's guidance at all, and the white sugar was produced again after a little over an hour.
Everyone was very happy. This device is so useful that even producing 1,000 kilograms of white sugar a day is not a problem.
Zhao Xian calculated the days; tomorrow was the last day of the month, and there were several important things that needed to be done tomorrow.
These past few days, my family has been making white sugar. Including the nearly 200 jin of white sugar produced today, we now have more than 300 jin.
Tomorrow I can go to the county town to deliver some goods. There's also an important matter to attend to: prepare twenty taels of silver for Zhang the landlord to retrieve the house deed and IOU.
Although there was no money at home, there was a three-hundred-tael silver note, so he didn't have to worry about money at all.
The next morning, just after Zhao Xiaosheng and Zhao Xiaoshan left to deliver the goods, two young girls came looking for Zhao Xian.
Zhao Xian knew the two girls very well. He had traded a steamed bun for a pound of ground mushrooms from one of them, and sold them for thirty copper coins in the system. He had started his business with those thirty copper coins and worked his way up to where he was today.
Almost ten days later, he saw the two little girls again and seemed very happy.
The two little girls had clearly lost weight, which was understandable, as many families had started running out of food recently, and life was becoming increasingly difficult for the villagers.
"What are you doing here so early in the morning?" Zhao Xian looked at the two girls with a touch of heartache.
"Scholar, didn't you say you'd bring dried mushrooms to exchange for steamed buns at the end of the month? We've brought the dried mushrooms, so please give us some steamed buns quickly. We have nothing left to eat, and my mother is starving." The little girl looked at Zhao Xian with pleading eyes after she finished speaking.
Zhao Xian remembered that it was true. That day, on the grass by the embankment, he traded steamed buns for wild mushrooms. At that time, the wild mushrooms that the villagers had picked were mostly dried.
He told the villagers to dry the wild mushrooms and come to his house at the end of the month to exchange them; one pound of wild mushrooms could be exchanged for ten steamed buns.
Today is the end of the month, and more people will be coming to exchange mushrooms for steamed buns later, so I need to make some preparations in advance.
The system's purchase price for dried ground mushrooms is 120 wen per jin. Now many families in the village are running out of food, so he plans to not make a profit from this purchase of ground mushrooms and instead give the profits to the villagers.
Thinking of this, he said to the little girl, "Of course I know that, but the price for exchanging ground mushrooms for steamed buns has changed."
The little girls were a little disappointed when they heard Zhao Xian's words. They thought that a pound of ground mushrooms might not be enough to buy ten steamed buns.
"Right now, a pound of dried mushrooms can be exchanged for twenty steamed buns or one hundred and twenty coins. How do you plan to exchange them?" Zhao Xian asked.
The two girls were pleasantly surprised. They hadn't expected that dried mushrooms could not only be exchanged for steamed buns, but also for money. The girls quickly calculated and decided that it was more worthwhile to use money. One hundred and twenty coins could buy ten catties of brown rice, which was more cost-effective than twenty steamed buns.
"We need money. Here are three catties of ground mushrooms, which can be exchanged for three hundred and sixty coins." The little girl was excited and quickly calculated the price.
"Okay, then give me the dried mushrooms and wait for me outside. I'll go get the money for you." After saying that, Zhao Xian carried the dried mushrooms into his room, sold them in the system, put the copper coins he got into a money bag, and went out.
"Here's the money from selling the ground mushrooms, a total of three hundred and sixty coins. Take it and don't lose it. Use it to buy some food for your mother when you get back."
The little girl took the money bag, opened it, and looked inside. Her face lit up with joy. This was money that could save her life. With money, she could buy food and wouldn't starve.
"Thank you, scholar. My mother will be very happy to see so much money." The two girls said and quickly left.
At this moment, Qin Shiyu and her sister came out of the house and saw the two little girls running away quickly, not knowing what had happened.
"Master, what were those two children doing? Why did they run away?"
“A friend of mine wants to buy dried ground mushrooms, and I made an appointment with some people in the village a while ago to have them help me pick them.”
"Today is the agreed purchase date. I estimate someone will deliver the dried mushrooms soon. The two girls came to inquire about the price." Zhao Xian had no choice but to explain this way, fearing his secret would be exposed.
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