Three Kingdoms: Jiuyuan Tiger

Chapter 33 Liaodong Granulated Sugar
On this day, Lu Bu brought Dian Wei and Di Renjie to the sugar workshop.

Brewing wine takes time, and Lu Bu has already arranged for his confidants to start brewing wine, so Lu Bu chose to boil sugar first.

Within a few days, Di Renjie had already purchased all the brown sugar in the surrounding counties, and the warehouse was full of countless brown sugars.

Although the quality of the broken brown sugar is not good, the price is not low. It cost Lu Bu a lot of money to buy these brown sugar.

The heartache is all heartache, but Lu Bu still secretly comforted himself that the white sugar is produced, and the benefits will be ten times and a hundred times.

In the big sugar house, all the required utensils have been prepared, and the craftsmen's eyes are shining, waiting for Lu Bu's next instruction.

Lu Bu ordered Gong Shuyin to make sugar-making utensils, none other than Waliu!
Wa Liu is a kind of pottery used for making sugar. It uses the gravity of massecuite itself to separate molasses and obtain sugar.

"Tiangong Kaiwu·Making White Sugar": "[Cane juice] is still yellow and black, store it in a barrel, condense it into black sand, and then put it on the vat with a tile slip. Plug it with grass, put the black sand in the barrel, then fill the hole with grass, pour it with yellow muddy water, the black dregs will go into the tank, and the inside will turn into hoarfrost."

Lu Bu traveled through the library of his former school, and he went there a lot. Once, Lu Bu happened to see the book "Heavenly Creation", and after reading it, he was very interested in it, so Lu Bu read it again. The method of making sugar , which is exactly what Lu Bu learned from it.

Closer to home, following Lu Bu's order, the craftsmen started to boil sugar.

Since Lu Bu had never boiled sugar, and the craftsmen knew nothing about it, the fire was set to slow fire, so the time it took for the first cooking was longer.

After nearly an hour, the purified sugar water has begun to condense. Although the color is generally white, there are still some impurities, and some of them are yellowish brown.

Even so, Di Renjie, Dian Wei, and the craftsmen who boiled the sugar were all stunned. They never thought that such a simple utensil could really successfully boil white sugar!

At this moment, Dian Wei scratched his head and said to Lu Bu, "My lord, can I have a taste?"

Lu Bu laughed and said, "Taste whatever you want, it doesn't matter if you eat it all!"

Dian Wei chuckled: "Hey, my subordinates won't be polite!"

Although Di Renjie didn't speak, the look of hope in his eyes had exposed his psychological activities.

Knowing the reservedness of their literati, Lu Bu smiled and said to Di Renjie, "Renjie, you should try it too and see how it tastes!"

After Di Renjie thanked Lu Bu, he rolled up his sleeves and joined Dian Wei in the candy eating team.

Lu Bu didn't go up to taste it. From Lu Bu's point of view, it was just a semi-finished product. Finished sugar was not a rare thing in his previous life. Even though Lu Bu was poor, he had eaten a lot.

Lu Bu did not eat persimmons mixed with sugar in the cafeteria in his previous life!
The semi-finished product in front of him, how does Lu Bu look at it, it looks like a bubble sprinkled on the snow in winter...

Let's not talk, let's talk about it, how can Dian Wei and the others eat it?
Dian Wei stuffed his mouth full of sugar, and exclaimed, "It's delicious, it's delicious! It's so sweet!"

Di Renjie did not eat a mouthful of sugar like Dian Wei did, but only tasted a little.

But Di Renjie also exclaimed: "It's so delicious, it's really rare!"

Lu Bu secretly smiled and said: "This is so good, it will be purified once or twice later, and it will be regarded as the real finished product!"

Then, under Lu Bu's instruction, the craftsmen lit a fire again to boil and purify the semi-finished products, filtering out the impurities.

After further purification three times, the finished white sugar with almost no impurities can be obtained in the end.

After tasting it, Lu Bu nodded in satisfaction: "That's true. This batch of brown sugar has been purified five times. In addition, this sugar is named Liaodong Granated Sugar!"

"No!" The craftsmen replied in unison.

Lv Bu said with a smile, "Let's have a taste too!"

After the words fell, the craftsmen saluted Lu Bu very movedly, and then moved their index fingers and began to taste the finished sugar.

"To be able to eat such sweets, I have no regrets in this life!"

A gray-haired sugar craftsman said with tears in his eyes.

Seeing this, Lu Bu stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder: "You don't need to do this, make sugar for me well, and you can have as much sugar as you want in the future!"

Then Lu Bu took Di Renjie and Dian Wei out of the sugar workshop. On the way to leave, Lu Bu confessed to Di Renjie: "You should handle this matter yourself, and don't let the sugar-making process be leaked. In addition, the addresses of the families of these craftsmen have been registered. Book, let Yuanfang lead people to pay more attention, once there is any abnormality, the whole family will be punished, beheaded first and then played! In the face of huge profits, you must be on guard against others!"

Naturally, Di Renjie could understand the truth, and he cupped his hands at Lu Bu and said, "No! This subordinate understands."

Three days later, Lu Bu called Li Yuanfang to the study to discuss matters.

Lu Bu handed Zhang Rang's token to Li Yuanfang, and issued a business document to Li Yuanfang, and then ordered him to go to Luoyang with a batch of finished sugar, some gold and silver jewelry, and a letter from Lu Bu, and sent it to Chang Shi Enter Zhang Rang's house.

Although Li Yuanfang didn't understand why her lord had contact with the eunuch, but Li Yuanfang was a smart person, he knew what to ask and what not to ask.

Li Yuanfang didn't ask any more questions. After Lu Bu finished explaining, Li Yuanfang bowed his hands and took the order to leave.

Seeing Li Yuanfang's leaving back, Lu Bu nodded with a smile, Yuanfang is a smart person!
After returning, Li Yuanfang handed over the work of Jin Yiwei, and then packed up and rushed to Luoyang.

It is said to be a handover, but Jinyiwei has just been established not long ago, not even a prototype, and there is not much work to be handed over, otherwise Lu Bu would not have let Li Yuanfang go to Luoyang in person.

There is no way, the talents under his hands are still not enough!
Except for Di Renjie who can handle this matter well, Lu Bu can rest assured that Zhang Liao will visit him.

But Zhang Liao was in charge of the defense of Xiangping City, and he couldn't get away, so Lu Bu could only send Li Yuanfang, the commander of Jinyiwei, to go there in person.

Let's say that Li Yuanfang went to Di Renjie to pay for the expenses needed for the journey, and then took a few Jin Yiwei brothers and hurried to Luoyang.

Along the way, Li Yuanfang and his party changed horses but did not change people. They traveled day and night, with Lu Bu's documents in hand, and none of the county or county checkpoints they passed made things difficult for Li Yuanfang.

Occasionally, there were a few small thieves who didn't open their eyes, but they were all dealt with by Li Yuanfang's chain knife.

After arriving in Luoyang, Li Yuanfang came to Zhang Rang's mansion smoothly. After showing the token, the gatekeeper respectfully invited Li Yuanfang in.

The servants of Zhang Rang's mansion saluted and said: "My lord, please rest here for a while, and the prince will come to see you in a while."

Why is it called Zhang Rang Junhou?Because Zhang Rang was named Liehou by Emperor Ling, Zhang Rang liked the title Junhou very much, so most of the servants in the mansion called Zhang Rang Junhou in order to please Zhang Rang.

　One more!Thanks to all the brothers who voted for the old man every day, I hug my old buddies!Thank you Brother Fanchen Zhishang for your reward!
　　
　
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