In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 138

It is incredible to turn the original liquid sugar into real sugar, let alone white sugar in one step.

He came back to his senses after asking, this is King Wei's secret, the secret to making money, how could he tell it, all the secrets are in the tank and the last pouring water.

But he was sure that the most important secret was in the tank.

"This matter must be kept extremely confidential." Zhao Yurui said at this time: "Our sugar will be divided into three grades and four types in the future, snow sugar, inferior white sugar, rock sugar, and black sugar (also known as red sugar)."

Because this method of drenching with yellow mud and water will not make the whole tank of brown sugar as white as snow, and the bottom part will be a little yellowish brown, so Zhao Yurui classifies him as inferior.

And the things are rare and expensive, so snow sugar will be made as much as possible, but the supply is limited in Lin'an and Zhejiang, and it is mainly sold to Japan, Koryo and Fujian and Guangdong.

Zhao Yurui's reason for publicizing to the outside world is that the output of the things in the tank is not high, and the yellow muddy water is also difficult to prepare, so white sugar must be supplied to the outside in limited quantities, resulting in extremely high prices.

Now that sandy sugar appears, it will definitely impact the original frost sugar (rock sugar) market.

Then Zhao Yurui took out the white sand sugar with a little yellowish brown at the bottom of the tank, and let the craftsman continue to boil it. After boiling, he clarified it with eggs to remove the floating residue, and then broke the new green bamboo into one-inch-long strips and sprinkled it in syrup.

After one night, it will turn into rock sugar like natural ice cubes.

This is the method of making rock sugar in Tiangong Kaiwu in the Ming Dynasty. Compared with the method of making rock sugar in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was covered with a bamboo cover and waited for the cane pulp to crystallize and adhere to the bamboo sticks and the wall of the vat. If the crystallization time is given, rock sugar can be formed overnight without carbonization failure.

Gu Tian was even more astonished when he saw the yellow-white rock sugar formed overnight.

Think about Suining, the largest producer of rock sugar in the Southern Song Dynasty at that time, where the royal tribute was located. It was only three or four thousand catties a year.

Like Wei Wang's current method and success rate, it can be hundreds of thousands of catties or millions of catties every year, as long as there is enough sugar juice.

In order to keep it secret, Zhao Yurui asked to prepare egg whites and new green bamboo in advance, and the new green bamboo was cut into strips early.

Egg whites are packed in sealed tin cans, and when the rock sugar is made on site, they are unsealed and poured in, and there are soldiers from the royal family patrolling the site.

Ordinary people may not know that the egg white is poured out of it, and even if they know it is egg white, they certainly don't know to use new green bamboo.

If other bamboo chips are used, the crystallization rate will be greatly reduced.

But the most important thing is that when their white sugar comes out, it has been filtered with lime in the tank, which is an important step to eliminate carbonization.

Without this step, if other sugar households want to do this, it is still easy to carbonize.

Zhao Yurui kept the secrecy to the extreme. According to his current method, as long as there are not a few people colluding together and quietly opening the tank, he can at least be ahead for decades.

Finally, when Zhao and Rui left, they set goals for Jintang Island this year.

Every year they produce white sugar that is as white as snow. They named it "Qingyuan brand snow white sugar" after they went on the market. In addition to providing [-] catties to the palace, the market claims to release [-] catties, but in reality it is more than that.

The price per catty is consistent.

This price directly shocked Gu Tian and all of them.

But Zhao Yurui believes that this kind of high-end market is consumed by people, because the most expensive 'butterbread' in Lin'an City will sell for [-] yuan a piece, and the supply is still in short supply, which makes him very shocked by Da Song's spending power .

Then, besides five thousand catties of white sugar is supplied to the palace every year, the market claims that the supply is [-] catties, but the actual amount must be far more than that.

Rock sugar and inferior white sugar are priced at [-] and [-] Wen per catty.

The last is red sand sugar, which is not provided to the imperial palace, and there are few people who treat it. The price on the market is [-] yuan per catty, and it is mainly recommended to the people who have conditions.

Zhao Yurui also asked to look more at the demand in the early stage, look at Japan's Koryo, Fuguang Jiangnan, and even Mengjin in the north, where the demand is high and the bids are high.

He not only wants to sell, but also raises the price.

But there is also a problem now. They have just grown sugarcane themselves, and there is no sugar juice, so they need to buy it from the market.

Therefore, Zhao Yurui demanded to buy in large quantities this year, raising the price of sugar juice near Zhejiang, and spread rumors that Dinghai County would purchase in large quantities, encouraging farmers to sow seeds one after another.

After one or two years, white sugar and rock sugar will come out, and the price of sugar juice will be raised.

At that time, he will not accept from Zhejiang, and let Feng Deshan's navy ships go to Fujian and Guangdong to purchase, and lower the price of sugar juice in Zhejiang. If the people can't survive, or they will be forced to sell sugarcane fields, and Zhao Yurui will take advantage of the situation to buy them. , or sign a fixed sales contract with Zhao Yurui, and can only provide sales to Zhao Yurui at a fixed price. Zhao Yurui guarantees the profits of the farmers and controls the price at the same time.

At that time, if all goes well, he will own a large number of sugarcane fields in Zhejiang and control the price of sugar juice.
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On the fifth day of April, Zhao Yurui led a group of people including Qin Chen to Changshan.

After he came to Qingyuan Mansion, he was gradually doing things in the local area according to his own ideas. Apart from temporarily ignoring local affairs, he first controlled Dinghai County, Cixi County, and the navy, then made sugar, opened a shop, and then began to rectify the Shibo Department.

The Shibosi Yamen is located between Cixi County and Dinghai County, east of Yinjiang.

At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was one division and two envoys, and later it was changed to one division and one envoy. In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was basically the local magistrate, the prefecture and the city ship division. In the second year of Chongning (1103), a full-time promotion was set up. Some are called Tibo, some are called Tiju, and others are called "Quanshi" like Quanzhou.

Before Zhao and Rui left Beijing this time, please re-establish the Liangzhe Road Municipal Bureau of Shipping, and Wei Liaoweng to promote the Municipal Bureau of Shipping. Rui was greedy for money again, so he naturally allowed it.

At three o'clock in the morning, Zhao and Rui and their party entered the Shibo Department's location. This was where the Shibo Department was located during Xiaozong's time. Now it has resumed. Since Wei Liaoweng came, he recruited people and rebuilt the house. It is not yet fully recovered. But it can be seen that the area is relatively large, and the east gate is only more than 100 steps away from Yinjiang East Wharf, so it is quite convenient to collect money.

Wei Liaoweng had long ago gathered a group of officials and waited in the yamen. There were also Wei Liaoweng's two sons, Wei Jinsi and Wei Jinyu, a 20-year-old and a 19-year-old. Become an official.

This meeting just happened to follow Ding Shaojing. When Zhao Yurui sold their officials last time, he helped them get a ninth-rank civil servant, and they planned to reuse them in the future. So far, Wei Liaoweng has completely followed Zhao Yurui.

After Zhao Yurui entered, everyone, led by Wei Liaoweng, came forward to meet King Wei one after another.

Zhao Yurui smiled and nodded in response. Looking around, there were quite a lot of people, five or sixty people.

He didn't have time to take a closer look, so he called Wei Liaoweng, and Wei Liaoweng brought several important officials into the house with him.

There is a second-in-command in the important officials of the Shibo Department, the Shibo Judge (also known as the Ship Supervisor), who is usually a general judge and concurrently, and now he is an official of Hu Qi.

Hu Qi used to be the general judge of the Qingyuan Mansion, and the Southern Song Dynasty could have one or two general judges. After Nie Zishu came over, Hu Qi used the general judge and supervised the shipping affairs, and actually only cared about the affairs here, not the Qingyuan Mansion.

Then there are office errands, there are three to five clerks, and Zhao Yurui has four people.

Zhao Yurui sold three of them at one go, each received 15 guan, reported to the court for 16 guan, privately swallowed [-] guan, and two cadres made [-] guan, but one was bought for Qin Chen , actually had to pay [-] yuan to the imperial court, so they only made [-] yuan in the end. This made Zhao Yurui realize that it is really easy to sell officials to make money. No wonder all dynasties have done this.

The other two buyers were local tycoons Yu Dafu and Yan Kang, but it can be said that they are also their own people, because these two people have business contacts with Qin Zhuo and have a good relationship, and Qin Zhuo introduced them.

Yu Dafu is a local tycoon who has been engaged in sea trade. However, in the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a large population loss in coastal areas. Many Song people often emigrated overseas.

Part of the Yu family has immigrated overseas, living in Champa, and doing business back and forth between Champa and Dinghai, and the business is getting bigger and bigger.

This time, I heard that there is a city shipping company that can be bought as a dry official (Zhengbapin), so I immediately paid a lot of money and bought a dry official.

Among them, [-] guan are the official price, and another [-] guan are in the name of sponsorship fees to support Wei Wang to grow grain and build water conservancy.

Yan Kang and Yu Dafu are in the same situation, but they mainly travel to Japan and Korea.

Another clerk was transferred from other provinces in Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces. His name is Lu Song. His wife is from the Qin family and has a good relationship with Qin Zhuo. He used to be the head of a certain county. , he is also quite happy.

Several cadres were introduced by Qin Zhuo, there is no way, Zhao Yurui is short of people now, and the Qin family is currently his biggest reliance.

When everyone saw Zhao and Rui, all of them looked respectful, among them, Yu Dafu and Yan Kang were still expressing flattery on their faces.

They met the King of Wei before, and the King of Wei promised them that you can be an official and run a business at the same time. Yu Dafu and the two were overjoyed. They didn't expect such a good thing, which is equivalent to being an official and doing business.

Otherwise, the two of them wouldn't have happily spent 10,000+ points.

Of course, the Yu family doesn't need him to go to sea now, mainly because his eldest son and second son are running. He is still willing to be an official in Qingyuan Mansion, so he can take care of the Yu family's sea trade by the way.

Only these five people are officials in the entire Shibo Department, and the rest are all officials.

Officials are divided into Kongmu, Shoufen, Tiesi, Shubiao, Duguan, Special Treasury, Special Scale, Kesi, Qianxing, Houxing, etc. There are dozens of people, large and small, and the officials are basically locals.

In view of the fact that after King Wei came, he greatly rectified the officials in Dinghai, so today when King Wei came to Shibosi, all the officials in the entire yamen were trembling.

This is different from the yamen, this is a rich and fat department.

Wei Liaoweng took over from the beginning of February, and began recruiting local officials according to Zhao Yurui's requirements. Eight people were transferred, and the Qin family transferred four people, a total of 40 people were employed as servants. It can be said that the Secretary of Shibo is now Zhao Yurui's own people from top to bottom.

"Everyone sit down." Zhao Yurui sat down after entering, and then motioned all the officials to sit down.

Everyone followed Wei Liaoweng carefully and sat down.

(End of this chapter)