Infrastructure masters in the red building

The sugar in Hongxiang Sugar Factory is brown sugar that is boiled after extracting sugar juice from sugarcane.When Jia Fang was there, Tian Youming had already packed a small package of samples in his sleeve, and he handed it to Jia Fang first.

Jia Fang looked at it and confirmed that it was very high-quality ancient brown sugar. He tasted a little bit in his mouth. In addition to the sweet taste, there was also a faint burnt aroma, which proved that the cooking process of brown sugar was very hot. His "ancient method" is indeed very good.

He was led by Tian Youming again, and watched the process of making brown sugar.Jiantianjia Workshop uses animal power-driven juicing equipment to squeeze out all the sucrose juice in the sugarcane, and then pour the sugarcane juice into a large pot to heat it. When the temperature reaches a certain level, the impurities in the sugarcane juice will naturally disappear. Foam is formed and floats to the surface, and then the impurities are filtered out with tools such as a strainer, and the rest is pure sugar cane juice.

The sugar juice in this big pot will be sent to two rows of "quadruple pots" arranged in parallel, and the sugar will start to boil.

Boiling sugar is actually the process of removing the water in the sugar juice and making the sugar juice into an extremely thick syrup.The sugar workshop places four large pots on the stove, and there is a fire under the pots to keep heating.The sugar maker constantly moves the sugar juice from one pot to another, promoting the continuous evaporation of water in the process.

When the syrup is very viscous, the syrup in the pot will be scooped into a huge wooden barrel, stirred constantly, and allowed to cool and condense naturally.Before the syrup coagulates, the syrup in the wooden barrel will be poured into a pre-prepared container to allow the syrup to coagulate and form, and then cut into pieces, which is the ancient black sugar that Jia puts in his hand.

According to what Tian Youming said, it is his father who cooks sugar in the Tian family now, and Tian's father has enough experience in boiling sugar and judgment on the heat.But Tian's father is getting old, and this is physical work, Tian Youming will take over this work sooner or later.

Tian Youming was quite puzzled when he heard Jia Fang say that "it seems possible to change it". After all, this set of ancient methods has been passed down for hundreds of years. I am afraid that when his grandfather was born, this sugar production method was already like this. No one has ever thought about it. Actually want to "change it".

Fortunately, he has a virtuous wife. Under Ju Sanniang's reminder, Tian Youming hurriedly saluted Jia Fang solemnly and asked him to speak clearly.

Jia Fang smiled and said, "It doesn't matter whether it is successful or not, I will say it first, and we will discuss it slowly."

"The first thing is to squeeze the juice." Jia Fang pointed to the juicer machine, "I suggest that you consider soaking the bagasse after the juice is squeezed, and adding the soaked water to the sugar juice to boil together. system. This can increase your sugar yield.”

Tian Youming blushed and retorted: "Our ancient law is that this water can't be added at all."

Looking at Tian Youming's face, Jia Fang felt that this young man was really stubborn and cute.Jia Fang made this judgment based on the fact that sucrose is soluble in water, and anyway, the water will evaporate later.

But Tian Youming put on a conscientious face, saying that for the sake of quality, he must insist on the ancient law without compromise, even when facing Jia Fang, who has such a high status in the stockade, this guy would not give in at all—very good !

Jia Fang knew that he met a young man who was extremely demanding of himself and refused to relax at all.

He smiled and said, unwilling to give up the other party's persistence and enthusiasm at all: "I'm just saying this, whether it can increase the sugar production rate or affect the quality of sugar production, you can actually give it a try." Try to draw conclusions."

"For example, you can use the same weight of sugar cane, use two different methods to make sugar, one is pure juice, the other is added to the water soaked in bagasse, after boiling, compare the weight and quality of the brown sugar, and then draw Your own conclusions."

Jia Fang induced Tian Youming to try the fun of "experiment".Tian Youming thinks this is acceptable, anyway, he wants to stick to the ancient method, but if the new method is better than the ancient method...at least it is not unfounded to change it!

"As for the principle behind this, you can ask Teacher Gui Xia Xuegui from the 'Science College' after finishing the experiment."

Jia Fang said with a smile, and then threw out a heavy bait: "The other thing is to ask you, do you want to make rock candy?"

Before Tian Youming could answer, another voice said, "Bingtang? You mean Bingtang?"

Father Tian walked in with big strides, and with a face full of disbelief, he asked Jia Fang loudly, "Master Jia, did I hear you right? Are you talking about making rock candy?"

Jia Fang nodded: "Yes, Bingtang!"

Sugar can exist in various forms in nature, among which rock sugar exists in the form of large particle crystals.

Jia Fang could well understand Tian's father's excitement. After all, in this time and space, industrial sugar production has not yet started. The most common sugars in the world are brown sugar and brown sugar, and rock sugar can be used as medicine.As a medicinal material, one can imagine how valuable this rock sugar is.

When Jia Fang's bait was thrown out, Tian Youming didn't care much, and blasted Tian's father out first.

"Master Jia," Tian's father greeted Jia Fang solemnly first, "I never thought you would be proficient in sugar making."

Jia Fang hurriedly humbled himself, saying that he had only read some idle books, which mentioned this technique, but he had never tried it himself.

Tian's father was silent for a moment, and said: "Xiaomin still remembers that when he was young, his grandfather did mention that our workshop made rock candy."

Jia Fang nodded: the method of making rock sugar has been spread for a long time, otherwise rock sugar would not be used as a medicine.However, a small sugar workshop like Tian’s is limited in scale and materials. In addition, the method of sugar production is passed down from father to son by word of mouth, and this practice is lost.

Tian Youming looked at his father, hurriedly rushed to Jia Fang and bowed down, excitedly said loudly: "Please enlighten me, Mr. Jia."

The profits of Bingtang make one's heart warm just thinking about it - as long as their sugar workshop can get this technology back.

Jia Fang solemnly reminded: "My ugly words are in front of me. I can find the rock sugar sugar production method described in the text, but how to realize this sugar production method in Taoyuan Village still needs your family to work together, study hard, and keep trying. It may even take hundreds of thousands of failures to achieve a set of solutions that can be used in actual production."

"The risk here is very high, and there may even be a long period of time. You have invested a lot, but the return is not as rich as expected. You may wait season after season, but the result may not be satisfactory... In this way, you are still willing to try ?"

Tian's father turned his head immediately, and looked at each other with Tian Youming.Both father and son were a little hesitant.

Seeing this, Jia Fang expressed his understanding: "Everyone can discuss it and wait until we have a conclusion. If I am not in the village by then, you can go to the researcher Gui Xiaxue."

Jia Fang said goodbye and wanted to leave, but Tian's father stopped Jia Fang, then quickly discussed with Tian Youming and Ju Sanniang, turned around and nodded at Jia Fang: "Mr. Jia, We are willing to try."

"Really willing? No matter how big the risk is?" Jia Fang asked, feeling a little hypocritical.

"Don't be afraid!" Tian's father said from the bottom of his heart, "When our family came from Yujiang, we never thought that we would be able to reopen the sugar factory in this life. Now we shouldn't be timid, afraid of this and that."

"Besides, in addition to the trial production of this rock sugar, our family will still make brown sugar according to the ancient method. We will still keep our own business, and there will be some production. At least we should be able to make ends meet."

Tian's father had already secretly calculated the cost of investing in the sugar factory just now. After all, the interest on the business loan Jia Fang gave was extremely low, so they didn't have to worry about the interest rate, and the loan would be repaid sooner or later.

Besides, he also calculated that besides the sugar mill, his own family and the family of his younger sister who is about to marry can make money by growing peppers, tomatoes, and various vegetables in front of and behind the house, and he will not worry about not being able to survive the initial stage. A few years without much money.

"Very good!" Jia Fang was very satisfied with Tian's father's courage, and made an appointment with Tian's father, son and daughter-in-law to discuss the technology of making rock sugar, then found Mi Sandao, went to get what he wanted, and hurried back Grand View Garden went.

On the way back, Jia Fang became more and more satisfied as he thought about it: at the end of the Grand View Garden, the Hongxiang Garden has basically been completed, except that the open hall has been completely restored, and the peonies in the garden are about to bloom; and in Taoyuan Village, the bee farm He and Hongxiangtangfang also gradually had a clue.

The arrangement of the Hongxiang Sugar Factory is mainly derived from the previous investigation of the sugar market.

In the early days, sugar from the south was continuously transported by water, which even caused the price of sugar in Beijing to drop.Jia Fang paid attention to the types of sugar on the market, and found that it was mainly brown sugar, and there was another kind called "Snowflake Foreign Sugar", which was imported from the name.

Jia Fang earlier thought that the positioning of Hongxiang Sugar Factory should be based on Taoyuan Village. He was determined to let the children in Taoyuan Village have the opportunity to taste honey and sugar. One day he will need to compete with other sugar mills. He should have planned this kind of competition early on, instead of waiting until the last moment to think about what strategy he should have.

At present, the strength of sugar mills is not enough to support industrial sugar production. I am afraid that the long-term approach will still be the workshop-style semi-manual sugar production method.Therefore, the development path he chose for Hongxiang Sugar Factory is to make handmade sugar and high-grade sugar, that is, ancient brown sugar and rock sugar in the future.

Tian Youming insisted on ancient methods and quality, which made Jia Fang very satisfied.In this way, Tianjia Sugar Factory only needs to go further on the current basis and explore the production process of rock sugar.

Thinking of this, Jia Fang has already returned to Daoxiang Village.

He asked Shuangwen: "How, from yesterday to today, nothing happened, right?"

He didn't come home last night because he agreed with Shuangwen, but Shuangwen thought of another excuse to hide it from Sun and Fuya.At this moment, Shuangwen shook his head and said, "It's okay, it's just that the master said that many people sent invitations over—"

Since Jia Fang became an "official", he immediately became popular, and there were many invitations to come every day, and many people were waiting to see him.

Jia Fang was sighing, but he heard Shuangwen continue: "But the master has already refused for you."

Jia Fang immediately understood: Jia Daishan was already helping to cover up, and he probably told the outside world that he had gone out to the south for business. As long as he acted cautiously in Beijing and kept his head down, he shouldn't cause any trouble. .

But after thinking about it, he decided to write a letter to Shui Xian. In the letter, he explained why it was inconvenient for him to go out and see him. After thinking about it, he felt that the letter could not be written like this, so he could only crumpled the letter paper. He took another one and rewritten it as saying that it is inconvenient for him to see each other recently, if there is anything, Shuang Wen or Li Qingsong can send a message - I believe Shui Xian can understand.

To be honest, he didn't know why he had to tell Shui Xian his whereabouts, but he simply felt that it might not be good for others to be unable to find him.

He wrote this note and asked Li Qingsong to send it to Baigongfang, and the shopkeeper Ren passed it on without mentioning it.

Then it was Jia Fang's turn to check the repairs of the Jin Building.

During this period of time, the general structure of the Zhuijin Building has been repaired, the waters near Zilingzhou have also been cleaned up, and various aquatic plants have been planted. Perhaps in the summer, they can have their own "water eight immortals" to eat .

Jia Fang inspected the basic structure of the Zhuijin Building. His strategy of "stealing the beam and changing the pillar" was quite successful before.The decayed structures in the Zhuijin Building have been replaced, but the building as a whole has not been completely demolished and rebuilt, which is quite a "money-saving" project.

Jia Fang commended several main craftsmen, and stepped back to watch the two-story building facing the water.What he was thinking in his heart was: What kind of infrastructure does this Zhuijin Building correspond to?

Literally, embellishment and brocade are related to textiles. He guessed that there might be a building related to textiles in Taoyuan Village.

When it comes to food, clothing, housing and transportation in Taoyuan Village, it was quite troublesome in the early days.

I still remember that when Jia Fang came to Taoyuan Village for the first time, he met Lai Da who withheld the copper coins sent to Taoyuan Village.It can be seen that most of the textiles in Taoyuanzhai depend on external supply.

Later, after Jia Fang brought copper coins to Taoyuan Village, everyone had enough money to buy cloth.

Before the immigrants from Xinyu villages came, the villagers of Taoyuan village depended on shopping for their clothes.When the new immigrants moved in, because someone brought the tools for spinning and weaving, some people began to try to weave by themselves and cut clothes from the woven cloth.However, most of the raw materials for textiles, such as cotton, linen, and silk, are purchased from outsiders. These commodities are in short supply in every collection.

Jia Fangang saw villagers buying large baskets of tightly pressed lint cotton in the Taoyuan Ji, and then went back to spin the thread by themselves; he also saw villagers find ramie and flax from the forest to make linen clothes. It is scalded with water, soaked, pressed...retting hemp, after some tossing, the hemp fiber is taken out, and then slowly woven into hemp cloth.

However, instead of spending such a lot of effort, the villagers of Taoyuan Village can do other things to make a living, such as serving canteens, opening snack shops, growing peppers and tomatoes, etc. The money they earn is better than buying linen from outside. The money may be more.Therefore, among the new immigrants from Xinyu, even though many of them registered "spinning" and "weaving" when they first registered their basic skills, not many of them are actually engaged in this industry now.

When Jia Fang went to Taoyuan Village the next day, he went to the Investment Promotion Office, but found that Gui Xiaxue was there, and besides him, there were also a large group of women there.Everyone sat together in the transparent office on all sides, staring at each other.

When Gui Xiaxue saw Jia Fang, he got up happily and said hello, "Master Jia, you are finally here!"

Looking at this guy's expression, Jia Fang already guessed that he must be feeling overwhelmed.Jia Fang once told the people in the Investment Promotion Office to contact the researchers of Xiaoxiang Academy if the villagers of Taoyuan Village had any special technical transformation requirements.As for Xiaoxiang Academy, both Lao Shao and Zhang Youshi kept their ears to the outside world and devoted themselves to their own research and teaching. Most of the time, the investment promotion office could only go to the youngest Gui Xiaxue. Anyway, he was from the School of Science. Naturally everything has to be reasonable.

Sitting opposite Gui Xiaxue was a group of women, all new immigrants from Yu Jiang.When they saw Jia Fang coming, they immediately became agitated and showed a little excitement.

"That's it, Mr. Jia, we've been thinking about this for a long time, and we want to do it!" The leading woman's maiden name is Qiu, and others call her Sister Qiu.

Sister Qiu should have already discussed with the people from the Investment Promotion Office and Gui Xiaxue, and directly raised the request: "We see that everyone in the village has to wear clothes, but no one spins and weaves, no one does this. Making a living. The few of us are familiar hands, after much deliberation, we think there is something for us, so we want to borrow some money from the village, and want to get a piece of land, build a workshop, spin yarn, weave cloth, and supply cloth to the people in the village .”

This sister Qiu is obviously a straightforward person, she speaks straight to the point without any detours.She said: "But we heard that we can invite people from the investment promotion office to take a look at the workshop and come up with some novel methods. The workshop can be run quickly and well, and the profit will not be lost."

"We asked this 'Xiaogui' from Wuyuan County, but he couldn't say anything, so we had no choice but to ask you, Mr. Jia."

This is to build a workshop to start a business, but before doing it, let's directly ask how to build a workshop and do a good job in business.

Jia Fang smiled secretly in his heart: Hehe, isn't this the Zhujin Tower...

What else can he say? ——Thanks to this woman who seems to be quite courageous, she made the request straightforward and did a good job!