Infrastructure masters in the red building

Tian Youming and his son appeared in front of Jia Fang, Jia Fang was not surprised at all.

Now there is a bag of white sugar in his big gift bag.Coupled with the fact that Shuixian himself has a huge sales network, it is not surprising that this white granulated sugar can be sold directly from the north to the origin of sugar in the south in a very short period of time.

The staff of the Investment Promotion Office were very enthusiastic and greeted the Tian family father and son to sit down. They only said that Tian Youming wanted to ask Jia Fang some questions, and then they withdrew.

Facing Jia Fang, Tian's father was very embarrassed, Tian Youming had to be more prudent, and asked straight to the point: "Jia Sanye, have you ever heard that the North sells a pure white sugar that looks pure white without any impurities?"

Jia Fang opened his big gift bag, took out the bag of white sugar that Shui Xian gave, and asked, "Is this what you mean?"

Tian Youming and his son had heard about pure white sugar, but hadn't seen it with their own eyes. They were all dumbfounded when they saw Jia Fang push the sugar in front of them.

Really white, really pure... As the rumors said, there is no impurity at all.You can clearly see the white sugar crystals, like the snowdrops that often fall in Yujiang in winter, they are small and clear, extremely beautiful.

The father and son stared blankly for a while. Finally, Tian Youming mustered up his courage and said to Jia Fang, "Master Jia, we would like to ask you how to make such candies."

"The principle is very simple," Jia Fang handed Tian Youming a pair of paper and pen, encouraging him to take notes while listening.

"The first is the principle of adsorption. You go to Teacher Gui of the Faculty of Science, ask for some bone charcoal, put it in your syrup when boiling sugar, and see what happens."

Bone charcoal is a high-performance adsorbent fired from animal bones, which was the common adsorbent before activated carbon was widely used.

Tian Youming quickly wrote down, "Adsorption principle, bone charcoal."

"Then it's the principle of centrifugation. It's still Teacher Gui, you go to him to listen to him explain the basic structure of the centrifuge, and then go to Misandao in the bee farm to borrow a centrifuge and process the sugar you make through the centrifuge , and see what results you can get."

Tian Youming followed suit: "The centrifuge—"

He knew that Jia Fang told him this based on the principle of "investigating things to gain knowledge" and encouraged him to try it himself.But the actual result should be leading to this pure white sugar.

He solemnly thanked Jia Fang, and reached out to help his father get up.Unexpectedly, Jia Fang said to them: "Just do the experiment, I really hope you can understand the way of white sugar, know yourself and the enemy! But—"

"I don't want you to follow suit and make this white sugar too."

"You can't compete with each other." Jia Fang said without the slightest sympathy.

Tian Youming was young and energetic, and immediately asked: "Mr. Jia, what do you say?" Tian's father was so frightened that he shook his son's arm vigorously.

"What is the cost of a bucket of sugar for you now? Can it be lowered to less than [-] Wen?" Jia Fang didn't care about Tian Youming's rhetorical question at all. What he is most used to is this kind of straightforwardness, without hiding anything. way of speaking.

The Tian family father and son sat back on the chair together.Tian Youming asked with an expression of disbelief: "One bucket of sugar, two hundred Wen... this..."

Seeing that he frightened the father and son, Jia Fang felt a little sorry: "Yes, it is 120 Wen now, and it may be lower in the future. The net price is below [-] Wen. Consider packaging, distribution, transportation, etc. , it will increase to about [-] texts."

Tian's father and son were really embarrassed to tell Jia Fang how high the cost of their family's sugar was.

"Who can make such cheap sugar?" Tian's father murmured, "We... one day in the future, can we do it too?"

Jia Fang said honestly, "It's hard."

Industrialized large-scale sugar production, using machines to sort beet, slice the beet, and then leach the sugar juice by osmosis method, use multi-effect evaporation boiler to evaporate the water, and finally use high-efficiency centrifuge to separate sugar crystals and molasses. Driven by a steam engine, only a small amount of manpower is required for the whole process.

Jia Fang fully believed in Shuixian's strength, and the sugar industry, a light industry, was probably just the first candy he ate when he started.

The power of industrialization makes small handicraft workshops like Tianjia Sugar Factory far behind.Just as Jia Fang imagined, the father and son of the Tian family, after hearing about the cost that the other could do, glanced at each other and shook their heads.

However, Jia Fang felt that handicraft workshops such as Hongxiang Tangfang also have the meaning of survival, and have the ability to develop and continue.

The terrain and water system in the south are complex, and it is not convenient to build a large-scale sugar factory. On the contrary, it is very convenient to make sugar by hand.The brown sugar made by Tian's father and son according to the ancient method, although the appearance and color is not as good as white sugar, but it tastes like a sweet and sweet aroma of sugar cane - this is actually a part of the impurities that have not been absorbed by the adsorbent such as bone charcoal, Stay in the brown sugar, thus retaining the nutrients.

Because of this, handmade sugar has a soul that industrial sugar cannot.Even in the time and space where Jia Fang lived, many people believe that brown sugar is more nourishing and nutritious than ordinary industrial white sugar.

In addition, Hongxiang Tangfang has another advantage, they can make rock sugar that Chinese pharmacies buy everywhere.Bingtang is a product with a very high profit margin, and the extra workload for the Tian family and his son is also small.

The two products of handmade brown sugar and rock sugar are completely able to allow Tianjia's sugar workshop to still firmly occupy a piece of the local market under the invasion of industrial sugar production.

Jia Fang smiled: "My suggestion is that you two try to do what you are good at. For areas that you are not good at, you can fully understand and try, but don't let the other party have so many advantages at first glance. , and gave up his strengths."

The Tian family father and son may not understand all of Jia Fang's words, but they all stand up at this moment, expressing respectful acceptance, and at the same time they will go to Gui Xiaxue to ask for advice.

"By the way, Tian Youming, I heard that you had a baby the day before yesterday. It's a great joy. I haven't congratulated you yet."

Ten days ago, Ju Sanniang of Tian Youming's family gave birth, adding a fat boy to Tian's family.But Jia Fang was very busy at that time, so he didn't send a congratulation until now.Tian Youming quickly thanked him.

"By the way, Mrs. Zun and your son, have you been discharged from the hospital now?" Jia Fang asked.

When he said "discharged from the hospital", he pointed out that the "Mother and Child Health Hospital" in Taoyuan Village was a place specially built to improve childbirth safety and reduce neonatal mortality.The initiator is Zhang Youshi, a researcher at the School of Medicine of Xiaoxiang Academy.

Originally, there were only two midwives in Taoyuan Village, and they always delivered at home.Who would have thought that Taoyuan Village would usher in a baby boom after the blind date meeting and group wedding.

The baby boom is a good thing for the development of the village, but after that, the midwives are too busy. Besides, these two deliver babies according to the old calendar, and they are always cautious, lest something will happen.

Under Zhang Youshi's initiative and Jia Fang's strong support, Taoyuan Village built a new maternal and child health care center, which specializes in delivering women and treating some common gynecological and pediatric diseases, which is quite similar to the later maternal and child health care centers.

There were quite a few female students in Zhang Youshi's medical school, and these people gradually became partial to specialties, specializing in obstetrics, gynecology, and pediatrics.

Originally, for the natives of Taoyuan Village and the immigrants from Yujiang, the old customs were that the mothers gave birth at home, and they could not see the wind for a month after giving birth.But Taoyuan Village has always been famous for "changing customs and customs", and there is no custom that cannot be changed.

Once the Maternal and Child Health Hospital successfully delivered one, two, three... newborns, the reputation began to spread.I don't know how the people in the village spread the word, but they actually said that it is "safety" to produce there.

Just like Tian Youming's wife, Ju Sanniang, she said that something was wrong when she was admitted to the hospital. After giving birth, she stayed in the health center for seven or eight days before Tian's family took Ju Sanniang out.

Tian Youming replied at this time: "Thank you, Mr. Jia, for your concern. Zhuo Jing has been discharged from the hospital." He remembered the situation of his wife giving birth, and couldn't help but bowed to Jia Fang again, saying, "Thank you, Mr. Jia, for helping the whole village. It is a great merit to think about the common people and every household in the village.”

Jia Fang couldn't help shaking his hands: "No, you're welcome. If you want to thank, just thank Mr. Zhang and the midwives. Don't thank me. I didn't do anything."

Even though he said so, Tian Youming decided that only Jia Fang could come up with the name "Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital", so he insisted on thanking Jia Fang and inviting him to his house for a drink another day.

It was so hard for Tian's father and son to leave, Jia Fang finally had the time to lower his head and take a good look at what Shui Xian said to him in the letter.

It's strange to say that he and Shui Xian haven't seen each other for a while, but he always has the illusion that the two are still sticking together all the time, just like when Shui Xian was recuperating.Maybe it was the exchange of greeting letters that made him have this illusion—he and Shui Xian are now each other's best pen pals, bar none.

In the letter, the two of them usually report the progress on their own side and the various events happening around them.

Jia Fang wrote about Zhao Cheng to Shui Xian, with a bit of regret in his tone—maybe because Zhao Cheng was "older" than him, he thought Zhao Cheng was a mature adult with the ability to distinguish right from wrong.Therefore, Jia Fang never cared about the young man's thoughts, and he was also responsible for causing Zhao Cheng to go astray.

Shui Xian's reaction was colder. He wrote that everyone is a servant of the world, and one generation will be more greedy than the next. The previous generation was greedy.

Unless the bad habit of having children in a servant's family is abolished and changed into an ordinary employment system, the long-standing abuses of the servants in the big family will never be changed.

Jia Fang thought so deeply, and considered starting reforms in a place like Wuyuan County - Wuyuan County didn't have such a big family with hundreds of servants like the Ningrong Second Mansion, which made it impossible for him to change for a while.

Shui Xian replied to him about those "Menghuo oil": It is not difficult to find Menghuo oil, and it is not difficult to collect Menghuo oil.He knew that there were many places where fierce fire oil was produced.Therefore, it cannot be concluded that the person who ordered Zhao Cheng was in the same group as the killers with firearms.But he thinks the odds are high.

"But now, what Wuzhu Youju owns is no longer 'fire oil', but has been fractionated into gasoline, diesel oil, paraffin, asphalt and other useful things. The other party only knows how to easily release the fire oil and pour it into water It will float on the water, which is no different from the ancestors thousands of years ago. After a thousand years, there has been no progress at all, such murderers are not to be feared..."

Jia thought at ease: It makes sense.

Whenever Shui Xian has any questions, he will try his best to answer them.

At the end of the letter, Shui Xian often drops a book bag and writes a sentence such as "I don't want to talk about hairpins and wats, I want to enjoy the sea" ① "Dawn comes to dream of the king, it should be the king's remembrance" ② and so on.

Jia Fang: ...I may only write earthy love stories.It's not fair!

Why is Du Fu able to write fifteen poems for Li Bai in a row? Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi wish they had a dream and dreamed that each other would write them in their poems, but he couldn't write anything?

Jia Fang was very depressed, so he wrote all these thoughts in the letter, and sent it to Shui Xian all at once.

Unexpectedly, when Shui Xian replied, he awarded him the grand prize of being "selected" in the first pen pal competition in the past and present, and said that Jia Fang far surpassed Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi and others.The reason for Jia Fang's selection is "answer all questions", because even if Jia Fang can't answer, he can always find the answer.Who said that pen pals have to be eloquent and affectionate?It is also a strength to answer every question concisely and to the point.

Jia breathed a sigh of relief: Fortunately, he wasn't too disgusted.

In short, even if the two are not in the same place, the frequency of correspondence between them can make the two people live in two places and have a heart-to-heart.

In Beijing, in the Rongguo Mansion, Jia Amnesty has gradually become familiar with various affairs in the mansion.Jia Daishan originally said that Mrs. Zhang would take over Zhongfu in the inner courtyard, but because Mrs. Zhang was inconvenient, the matter was delayed, and most of the general affairs of the inner courtyard were still in the hands of Mrs. Shi and had not been handed over.

Jia Amnesty had just received a letter from the south that day, and Jia Zheng wrote to ask about the situation at home.After all, Jia Daishan made it very clear at the beginning that after Lin Ruhai and Jia Min got married, Jia Zheng asked his wife to live in Yue's house for more than half a year.

But now the South has received news that Jia Daishan's injuries are gradually recovering. Although his physical condition is not as good as before, he is fine after all.The news that Jia Fang and the King of Beijing were attacked together also spread, and the third prince was arresting people vigorously in the capital... Jia Zheng and Jia Min had already hoped to see through Jinling and Gusu, and they wished to fly back to Beijing immediately with their wings on their bodies. .

Jia Amnesty was very proud at this time, thinking that you all left the capital at the most difficult time, leaving the capital to me alone to support you, how much suffering you have suffered for no reason, but now I am the one who is in charge of the house and reaps the benefits .

In fact, it's just that he didn't bother to use such scheming before, if he had thought carefully earlier, the position of son of the world would have fallen to him long ago.

Jia Amnesty felt complacent for a moment, but then he thought in reverse: How many of his siblings are willing to compete with him?The second child is pedantic and upright, ignorant of world affairs; the third child has other circumstances, which are different from others; the younger sister is a girl... The only person who dislikes him is the mother who is supposed to be the closest in the world.Thinking of this, Jia Amnesty was unavoidably frustrated, feeling that he had no reason to be complacent just now, and was really stupid.

After sitting like this for a long while, Jia Amnesty let out a sigh of relief, and ordered someone to go to the backyard to invite Lao Xia's mother to come over for questioning.

"How is grandma?"

"If you go back to my aunt, everything is fine, miss." Old Xia Ma swore, "Don't worry, aunt, you don't need to be too nervous, this is not your first child."

Because Mrs. Zhang was about to give birth, such conversations happened at least twice a day.

The price for taking over all the affairs of the Rong Mansion was that Jia Amnesty couldn't stay with his daughter-in-law in the backyard all the time, and couldn't get away from the outer study, so he could only ask someone to ask about his daughter-in-law.

"That's good—"

Jia Amnesty continued to bury his head in his affairs, and when he looked up again, the sun was already setting on the mountain, and the sky was full of red clouds.

Suddenly I heard hurried footsteps outside the courtyard, and then someone exclaimed: "Madam, why are you here?" For a moment, the servants and servants in Jia She's study outside ran away.Jia Amnesty looked up and saw Mrs. Shi rushing over with a few maids.

Jia Amnesty was surprised and rushed to meet him.But seeing Mrs. Shi blushing and looking full of anger, as soon as they saw the eldest son, the two had just met each other when Mrs. Shi punched his son's chest with a small and exquisite fist.

"I told you to hide!" Mrs. Shi beat her son's chest with small fists, while jumping her feet angrily, "Such a big incident happened at home, and I didn't pay any attention to it. Just hide in the front yard. What are you hiding? Are you playing a game of cards, or are you hanging out with some maid?"

Jia Shen's ignorant anger rushed into his heart immediately: He had already washed his hands of the leaf card and stopped playing it, and as for hanging out with the maids—what if he was Jia Zheng?

Jia Amnesty and Mrs. Shi were two, one only cared about the old grievances, the other only remembered the stereotypes of the past.