Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 295
In the voice of Kazkaz, the beetroots that looked like big radishes were pressed down by the hired workers on the wavy sawtooth steel radish scraps produced by Rizhao, and the beetroots quickly turned into shredded vegetables. , After finishing the shreds, workers come to put these shredded vegetables into a sugar trough specially used for soaking. Put the big stones on the teeth and soak them in hot water. The sugar in the beetroot is just like making tea. soaked in sugar solution.

There is no need to throw away the shredded beets that have run out of sugar. When they are stuffed, they are picked up and turned around. They are sent to the pig farm at the east end of the town, where they are fed as wheat bran to the pigs. The pig manure and the excrement from the city are fermented and sent to the fields again. They are used as fertilizer to nourish the crops, grow vigorously into food, and then enter the population.

Out of awe of this natural cycle, Wang Hou’s Qingdao city 2000 years ago, no matter whether the citizens were rich or poor, high or low, when they met and greeted each other, they would definitely ask each other kindly.To express not forgetting the source of food!
After the waste vegetables are processed, the honey water soaked from the other end has to go through multiple procedures, such as adding lime milk to clean it, reacting with the acid in the sugar solution to remove the gum, and then put it in a large pot for steaming Concentrate, heat and crystallize in a sugar bowl, and finally shake off the nectar, and a handful of brown sugar is made.

After all this tossing, a stone of beets can barely make a bucket of sugar, but this bucket of sugar is enough to sell five or six stones of grain according to the market price at that time, and the sugar is not worrying about selling. The sweetness of this era is absolutely amazing. Luxury goods are sold to Xuzhou, Wujun, and Jingzhou in the south, Guanzhong in the Central Plains in the west, and Youzhou in Jizhou in the north.

The yield of beets is still higher than that of grain, and I don’t want Wang Hou to be so fertilized to grow. In this era, an acre of land can get three stones, which is considered a high yield. Five or six stones of beet is not a problem, and now 12 mu of beet fields have been developed, and one bucket is one box. In mid-July, Qingdao’s million beet fields produced more than [-] boxes of sucrose. Wang Hou funded the establishment, and only one sugar mill belonged to the Tian family.

The exiled local tyrant who traded sugar beet for grain is still laughing at Wang Hou for his loss-making business, and exchanged the worthless "big radish" for Wang Zhoumu's precious grain, while the merchant who watched the boats go south and north Don't want Qian to stuff food, cloth, paint and other valuable commodities into Wang Hou's warehouse like that, everyone is dumbfounded again.

Not only is sugar making money, Wang Hou used the waste honey left over from sugar extraction to make wine. The famous high-alcohol rum in later generations was brewed from waste molasses. Wan Shi's wine money!
Along with the prosperity of the sugar industry, there is also the Qingdao shipbuilding industry that Wang Hou originally planned to revive!
If you think of a bay with sunshine and flatness, this moon-shaped bay shelter in Qingdao is simply a natural treasure for shipbuilding. I remember that this is one of the centers of the entire northern shipbuilding industry in later generations. Building a [-]-ton giant ship is like playing. The tidal flats up to several kilometers were all approved by Wang Hou to the shipyard.

And not only the territory, but also a large inflow of funds.

The most widely circulated story in the port area recently is the Golden Valley of the Japanese Kingdom. The story is divided into several versions, but the general meaning is that there is a golden valley on the eastern island thousands of miles out of the sea. The floating soil is slightly peeled off in the valley. The inner layer is full of golden gold ore, with a gold content of more than [-]%. There, the Guwo tribe forged a large number of gold objects. This time, the gold used by Wang Zhoumu to build the golden carriage was found by the Yamatai Kingdom from the Golden Valley.

Another important point is that Wang Hou has not found where the Golden Valley is!
Jewels dazzle the eye, gold touches the heart!Although the land is still the largest source of income for the aristocratic families, the income of the farm has dropped by half after Wang Hou's tossing. The market price is lower, and he sells nearly half of the harvested grain, so that the pricing power of the grain market is gone, and many unwilling clans have begun to look for new sources of income.

With this story behind it, who wouldn't envy the interests of the sea?

After repeated "difficult" compromises, the Qingzhou shipyard received orders for 57 galleons in one quarter, and a large number of high-quality Taishan wood arrived in Qingzhou from the west. More than 8000 refugees were shirtless and buzzing with big saw blades. Planing the planks has imperceptibly boosted the development of Taishan's economy, and created a lot of jobs by the way.
The abundance of sugar, the first to benefit, is Wang Hou's mouth.

In the backyard of the State Shepherd's Mansion, a big steamer was steaming, next to the stove, her white forehead was covered with sweat, and Lu Ji was still virtuous, holding a knife and cutting the freshly steamed The black pork is mixed with soy sauce from the south of the Yangtze River, rice wine from Jimo, local sugar, onion, ginger, garlic, taro and yam, all chopped into a pot, and then covered with a casserole and boiled.

Half an hour later, when Wang Hou's saliva was about to flow out, Lu Ji took Taiyu with her, but she took out a big casserole with great difficulty, and when she opened the lid, the hot air filled the sky and covered the earth. The scent hit my face viciously.

The first-class black pork braised pork is served with rice from the south of the Yangtze River. Even if there are no other side dishes, it is no problem for one person to cook three bowls. The aroma is so seductive that Zhang Liao, who came to rub the rice, could hardly resist picking it up with his chopsticks. In the past, but before it was delivered to his mouth, he remembered the etiquette again, and delivered it to Wang Hou's bowl with a mournful face.

"Zhou Mu, you... eat meat..."

It's really called fighting beast chess, one level beats one level, if Jia Xu, a narrow-minded old ghost, is annoyed, he is a real pig who throws a rake and doesn't wait for a monkey!The braised pork was not warmed up on his own rice, Wang Hou sadly picked it up and sent it to Jia Xu's bowl.

"Mr. Wenhe, eat meat!"

"Zhou Mu, don't think that you can use this meat to buy... Gulu..."

Swallowing heavily, Jia Xu continued to correct without blushing, "Like Zhou Mu, who spends gold and silver indiscriminately, extravagant! Jia should remonstrate once and for all!"

"Mr. Wen He taught you a lesson! Wang Hou has been taught! Come, drink!"

In the sound of gurgling, the fine rice wine was poured into the cup again, a mouthful of crunchy braised pork belly was eaten, and another sip of fine wine was sipped. Those days were incomparable to gods!Seeing that Dushi Jia ate deliciously, Wang Hou finally shook his chopsticks: "Eat!"

In an instant, seven or eight pairs of chopsticks stretched out together, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Zang Hong, Wang Congge, all of them shook their cheeks in front of the delicious food, even Zhuge Ying couldn't care about her image as a young lady, and couldn't stop Picking up the rice bowl.

But looking at this scene, Tai Yu swallowed his saliva and was about to cry, his little hands were twisted together, and he looked at the side with his big eyes in aggrieved way.

"Do I still have to invite you? Bring me a stool myself!"

Although I still can't understand Wang Hou's words, but the bowl of white rice that Gu Lulu turned over can understand everything better. In an instant, the image of Wang Hou in this girl's heart has changed from a devil to an angel, and the girl's heart is bursting, and this girl is also happily copying Pick up the chopsticks!
The charm of sugar is undoubtedly revealed!
(End of this chapter)