Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 213 Sweet Candy Syrup
The Lin family's mansion in Zhou City, Yuhang, is located on the ground facing the long street and facing the big river. At this time, it was already under the control of the Shen family.Shen Zhezi came here with the excited princess, and after getting off the ox cart, he pointed to the gate of the mansion and said to the princess with a smile: "There are many products here, rare and exotic goods in southern Xinjiang, what do you like? Take it!"

"Really?"

There was still some hesitation on the princess's face, it was because she had never done such a lawless thing.

Shen Zhezi took the princess into the mansion, patted her on the back and said: "His family is so bold that he caused you to fall, and now I have captured them all. It's no big deal to take some of his goods to pay for the crime! I need you to worry about it."

When the princess heard this, she felt a dull pain in her arm, and seeing Shen Zhezi working so hard to vent her anger, she was so happy that she didn't know how to express it. She took Shen Zhezi's arm and shook it, and then rushed towards the dazzling array of eyes with cheers. pile of goods.

Jin'an is the Fuzhou of the later generations. It is located in the southern border of the sea. There are many local specialties such as camphor, agarwood and other spices.The Lin family has a favorable location and controls the supply of goods, so it can be seen that the profits are extremely rich.

This mansion is not very eye-catching from the outside, it is just an ordinary pavement, but once you walk inside, you will know that there is something special.Or because the Lin family was captured in a hurry earlier, the goods in the room were piled up in disorder, and many precious goods were scattered on the ground.There are many expensive luxury goods that are more expensive than gold and silver, which are very common in this mansion.

Not far from where Shen Zhezi stood, there was a broken bamboo basket filled with unprocessed tortoiseshell shells, which looked like dirt, and there was no trace of the brilliance of rare seafood.Looking around and making a rough estimate, the goods piled up in front of this mansion alone are probably worth hundreds of thousands of dollars!And behind the mansion, there are several rather large warehouses.It's just that I don't know if someone took advantage of the chaos to pick up some bargains during the previous chaos.

Perhaps the Lin family couldn't have imagined that someone in Yuhangzhou City would dare to act so boldly and directly raided his shop!
In this attack against the Lin family, apart from avenging the princess, dispelling the Lin family's arrogance is the most important thing.Sitting on a hu bed, Shen Zhezi ordered Liu Chang to collect all the accounts of the Lin family's recent financial transactions.

Being used to his own family's well-structured and well-organized accounts, Shen Zhezi felt a little uncomfortable with Lin's chaotic bookkeeping.But soon, he was attracted by the details of the accounts.Not to mention those transactions with astonishing amounts, the number of people involved in these transactions alone is surprising.

The families that appear in this account alone are from both the north and the south, and the delivery locations are not only limited to Wuzhong and Jiankang, but also have contacts in Xuancheng, Yuzhang, Wuchang, Jiangxia and even Changsha. Almost half of Jiangdong was covered!Even if he doesn't know how much profit is involved, Shen Zhezi can imagine such a large business transaction, and the huge profit contained in it!
No wonder the people in Yuhang still bowed their heads to the Lin family even though they had the advantage of a convenient location.They have such a large customer base and are full of confidence, how can they be compromised by just a few companies.If you can't stand this anger, then don't make this money, there are a lot of people waiting in line to do it.

Just seeing the family recorded on this bill, Shen Zhezi realized that the resistance to the Lin family this time is really not small.But this did not shake Shen Zhezi's mind. Nanhuo is a profit point that the business alliance cannot miss, and the current interests of the Shen family have already been integrated with the entire Wuzhong.Even if all parties are dissatisfied, there is nothing they can do.

The Lin family's geographical advantage is to control the supply of goods, while the Shen family's geographical advantage is to firmly restrain his family.The Lin family occupied Jin'an for less than ten years. Even though they had a lot of momentum at the moment, they did not have the strength to fight the Shen family to the death.If you don't want to be depressed for a long time, you can only bow your head and cooperate!
When Shen Zhezi was thinking, the princess had already finished picking things and came back.Seeing what this girl was holding in her hand, Shen Zhezi couldn't help feeling cold, and regretted bringing her here.

Holding the small white and yellowed bow made of ivory, the princess said in an excited tone, "I want to see who can break my bow in the future!"

In addition to the bow, the little girl also had a quiver wrapped around her waist, which contained more than a dozen bone arrows. The arrow clusters were all polished tortoise shell, obviously more decorative than practical.

"Could you change it to something else?" Shen Zhezi sighed and persuaded, "You are a lady who always plays with bows and arrows. It's really..."

The little girl took out a rhinoceros horn dagger from her bosom again, and said to Shen Zhezi with a smile, "I took the others too, so I won't be polite, my arm still hurts!"

As she spoke, she shook out many of the items she had selected, most of which were such bone weapon accessories, or decorated gemstones and pearls, almost all of these items in the mansion were picked out by her.Seeing these more than ten kinds of weapons, Shen Zhezi opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

"These two are for He'er, these are for A Liu when I return to Jiankang, and..."

The princess didn't know how Shen Zhezi was feeling, but she was very interested in classifying the things she had finally picked out, and she was thoughtful, even Shen Mu was lucky enough to get one.However, her thoughtfulness made Shen Zhezi deeply moved. His mother was always willing to leave Shen Jin to this girl to take care of him. Looking at this situation, one can know what kind of temperament the little brother will be taught when he grows up, and his mother will regret it sooner or later.

"You don't want to choose anything else?"

Shen Zhezi pointed to a bright tortoiseshell piano board next to him and asked, he hoped that the girl would give up the murder weapons she had chosen.

"No need, enough is enough!"

Princess Xingnan was very contented, she waved her hands and said.

"Forget it, as long as you like it."

Shen Zhezi asked the servants to come over and register all the things the princess chose. He didn't intend to pay, but when the dispute with the Lin family was resolved in the future, he had to show his intentions and show that he was not greedy for his property. The Lin family doesn't care about these details either.

Glancing at the mansion that was tossed into a mess by the princess, Shen Zhezi gave another order: "Clean it up, keep this place safe, and don't let people come in and out at will."

Just as he was about to leave, a large bag wrapped in banana leaves in the corner caught Shen Zhezi's attention.The big package has been poked a hole by a blunt instrument, exposing the dark red, mud-like thing inside. With a thought in mind, I went over and squeezed out a piece, put it in my hand to observe for a while, sniffed it, and then picked out a little powder and put it in the bag. After tasting it in the mouth, it was finally confirmed that it was brown sugar!

Looking around again, there are no less than dozens of packages tightly wrapped with banana leaves. Even if each package is only a few dozen kilograms, it is still a few thousand kilograms in weight!Earlier, Shen Zhezi saw that there was an item of sweets in the account, but he still didn't understand, but now it seems that it should refer to these red sugars!

"Wrap these banana leaves, pick up a few and move them back to the village!"

Shen Zhezi threw away the hardened candy in his hand, clapped his hands and stood up immediately, and told his servants, his expression was full of excitement.

The princess walked over, and seeing the ordinary things exposed in the damaged packaging, she couldn't help frowning and said, "You don't choose so many jewelry items, why do you want to move these sands and dirt?"

Hearing this, Shen Zhezi smiled more cheerfully, cast a sideways glance at the princess, and disdained her style of judging her likes by her appearance.By the way, this girl is also very happy to drink the ice drink made from the frosty clay scraped in the toilet.Compared with other luxuries in the mansion, these clay-like red sugar are the real priceless treasures in his eyes!

It is not surprising that the princess does not know the value of these brown sugars. Even Shen Zhezi only learned about the current sugar-making skills when he was developing his own side business recently.

This kind of brown sugar, which is made of sugarcane juice and then sun-dried, is still different from the brown sugar products of later generations. At present, it is just a compromise method taken because sugarcane is inconvenient to transport. The crude product that is simply processed has too many impurities. It is bitter and sour and cannot be eaten directly.It needs to be dissolved in water, and then sieved with silk layer by layer to filter out clean sugar water, which can be used to make snacks and various caramel drinks.

But even so, when Shen Zhezi looked at the accounts just now, the price of this product called "Sweet Yee" was still more than a few hundred dollars a catty.This is only the wholesale price, and the price will definitely soar several times when it reaches the real sales place!
At the beginning of the attack on the Lin family, Shen Zhezi already had ideas related to sucrose.But in this mansion, I didn't see the fruit cane that people are used to squeeze juice at present, and I didn't see the word sugarcane in the account, so I thought it should be stored in other mansions, but I didn't expect it to be right in front of me!

"Go, go home!"

With this unexpected discovery, Shen Zhezi couldn't wait to try out many ideas in his heart, and he was no longer in the mood to hang out with the princess.Seeing the servants put all those banana leaf parcels into the cart, they dragged the princess out.

On the way, Shen Zhezi began to think about all kinds of decolorization of sugar and boiling white sugar, and repeatedly ordered his servants to go to Zhoushi to find the tools and materials needed.The Shen family made such a big commotion in the boat market, it was impossible to avoid people's eyes and ears, so he asked people to purchase a lot of goods, but only a few of them could be used in order to confuse the public.

Back at Yuhang Manor, Shen Zhezi first called Shen Mu and told him to go to Kuaiji first, and asked his father to send a army of county soldiers to guard the place in Zhoushi.There is no shortage of powerful clans in the Jing and Jiang regions for business dealings with the Lin family, or there are people who deliberately make friends with the Lin family and gather trilogy to rob people. This has to be guarded against.

As for him, he planned to stay in Yuhang for a few days. On the one hand, he would deal with follow-up matters nearby, and on the other hand, he wanted to see if he could make white sugar.The low-quality brown sugar produced by the local method has already made such a big profit, so the value of the more refined white sugar can be imagined!

After sending Shen Mu away, Shen Zhezi invited his clan uncle Shen Yi to concentrate all the manpower of his family's trilogy in Yuhang in the manor, and at the same time sent a dozen trusted craftsmen from shady households to the manor to listen to them.When all the people arrived one after another, he ordered people to set up a cauldron and prepare to start cooking!
(End of this chapter)