When Lu Wen went to the grain store to order food, Lu Xiaoning began to move the camera around the market.
Anyway, for "it", as long as it does not leave the range of 100 meters from Lu Wen, there are no restrictions. There are no restrictions on walking through walls. It can even push the camera into the secret rooms of various businesses to find out.
While walking through the secret rooms, I actually saw some restricted scenes that were not suitable for children.
However, Lu Xiaoning didn't look too closely. Firstly, he didn't have a habit of prying into other people's privacy. Secondly, his girlfriend was still in his hometown, and he could easily get angry after watching too many goblin fights.
Lu Xiaoning mainly wanted to find a shop that sold sugar.
And it has to be a large business, not a small business, because small businesses cannot afford high prices.
Granulated sugar is not maltose. Maltose is the kind of candy that melts in the mouth and easily sticks to the teeth. Rural children born in the 1970s and 1980s often exchanged waste plastics and palm flakes for maltose from peddlers.
For ancient China, maltose was a great invention.
Because of the emergence of caramel, ordinary people can also afford to eat candy.
Before the advent of caramel, sucrose was an extremely expensive luxury product in China.
Because sugar cane and other raw materials for sugar production have origin restrictions, transportation is inconvenient and the price is expensive.
However, maltose can use rice, barley, wheat and corn as raw materials, which greatly reduces its price.
Although malt sugar has been popularized in the Tang Dynasty, it can still be sold at a sky-high price when sold to Dashi and Fulin countries. Therefore, there are many Sogdian Hu merchants who rely on trafficking malt sugar to make profits.
But what Lu Xiaoning is looking for today is granulated sugar, also known as sucrose.
Lu Xiaoning quickly found a suitable business name, Daqin Company.
This Daqin company was not only large enough, but also encountered a difficult problem.
At that time, the owner of Daqin Company was discussing with the shop owner to prepare a birthday gift for Gao Lishi.
"Dong Weng, something bad happened. Something happened to the ten stones of black pepper prepared for Grandpa Gao's seventieth birthday."
"I already know about this. The ten stones of black pepper have gone into Yang Jiucao's private treasury. Although Li Shijun arrested Yang Jiucao and his steward, he did not recover the goods stolen by the Yang family. .”
"As expected, Mr. Li did not dare to quarrel with the Right Prime Minister."
"But Dong Weng, among the birthday gifts we prepared for Grandpa Gao, the rest are ordinary things, that is, how much are these ten stones of black pepper worth? Now that there is no black pepper, this birthday gift is a bit unseemly. "
"In a few days, you will go to Shiguo and see if you can buy a few sese."
"The Kingdom of Shi was plundered by Gao Jieshuai's army three years ago. I'm afraid there isn't much left."
"It's better for you to go out and buy as much as you can. In addition to the agates, rhinoceros horns and gold and silver utensils from before, I can barely cope with it."
While he was talking, the sound of cheerful footsteps suddenly came over.
Immediately, a sound like a silver bell came into Lu Xiaoning's earphones.
"Grandpa, today is the seventh day of the first lunar month, and in seven days it will be the Lantern Festival. Will we also cancel the curfew and hold a lantern festival in Khotan City this year?"
Lu Xiaoning subconsciously turned the camera over.
Then Lu Xiaoning felt shaken.
The first impression is that it is beautiful, so beautiful.
The second time I looked at it, I saw it was not only beautiful, but also gorgeous, so bright and dazzling.
It was the kind of bright beauty that radiated all over her body, so that no man had the courage to look at her.
Fortunately, Lu Xiaoning is outside the computer screen, so he can look at it without restraint. This girl is so beautiful, visible beauty, but it's a pity that she is a Persian Orchid!
Only then did Lu Xiaoning discover that Alos, the owner of Da Qin Company, was a Persian.
This guy wore a futou, a Sichuan brocade round collar robe, and no beard. At first glance, I couldn't tell that he was a Persian, but you can still tell if you look closely.
It can be seen that Alos dotes on this daughter very much. Just now, his face was full of sadness, but as soon as his daughter came in, she immediately smiled so hard that her teeth could not be seen.
"Liya, I have already asked the governor that there will be no curfew in Khotan for the three days before and after the Lantern Festival this year. Every household will hang lanterns. There will also be Aoshan lanterns in front of the palace. I will take you to see the lanterns then."
"Really? That's great." The girl clapped her hands and danced with joy.
The girl's light body was spinning like a butterfly, and her black braids were floating.
Lu Xiaoning was instantly infected by the girl and became happy inexplicably.
But a man is a man after all, and he will never forget his true nature no matter what the circumstances.
Lu Xiaoning decisively pushed the camera towards the girl's face, wanting to get a close-up of the girl's flowery smile.
It is said that European and American women have enlarged pores, rough skin, and their faces are covered with freckles, so they should only be viewed from a distance but not up close. I wonder if Persian women are like this too?
However, before the camera could advance to the girl, the field of view on the screen suddenly retreated, and it retreated very quickly, and the surrounding scenery was a rustling retreat.
In the blink of an eye, the camera returned to Lu Wen.
I saw Lu Wen standing outside the gate of a grain store, crossing his hands and calling softly: "Is the Immortal Lord here?"
Seeing this, Lu Xiaoning understood that Ganqing's surveillance camera also had an automatic reset function. As long as Lu Wen wanted to find him, it would instantly retract to Lu Wen.
This made Lu Xiaoning feel a little unhappy.
Then he didn't really become Lu Wen's summoned beast?
"I'm here." Lu Xiaoning said angrily, "Has the food been ordered?"
"Well, it's been decided, a total of five hundred stones of grain." After a pause, Lu Wen asked cautiously, "But has the money to buy grain been prepared?"
"Don't worry, money is not a problem. You can do as I say now."
Lu Xiaoning asked Lu Wen to go to Ma Market to buy iron pots, sugar, charcoal, saltpeter, fine gauze and other supplies for later use. He also asked Lu Wen to rent an independent yard in the post house.
Lu Xiaoning does not plan to make rock candy directly.
Instead, prepare to make relatively simple white sugar first.
There are records of sugar cane production in China since the pre-Qin period, but it was not called sugar at that time, it was called glutinous rice.
Moreover, the glutinous rice made from sugar cane is not only dark in color, but also extremely expensive. Only nobles can afford it, while common people can only eat sweets.
The sugar-making process that Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty sent back from Tianzhu was also a method of boiling brown sugar.
To this day, India still retains the craft of boiling brown sugar with sugarcane that has been passed down for thousands of years.
In other words, until the Tianbao period, granular white sugar had not appeared in the Tang Dynasty or even in the entire world, so it was completely possible to make the first pot of gold with white sugar.
As for rock sugar, firstly, it takes too long to process rock sugar, and secondly, the process is a bit complicated, so I’ll leave it to the future. Now I just need to change some food, and the white sugar production process is enough.
After Lu Wen had everything ready, Lu Xiaoning began to teach him step by step.
The process of making white sugar is actually very simple. It uses the adsorption function of activated carbon to remove the pigment in the brown sugar solution, then uses fine gauze to filter the impurities, and then cools and crystallizes to turn into white sugar.
In order to shorten the cooling and precipitation time, saltpeter was also used.
I was busy until 7 o'clock in the evening, when the first packet of white sugar finally came out.
"Is this the rare treasure that the Immortal Lord said?" Lu Wen looked stunned.
"Don't underestimate this white sugar." Lu Xiaoning said, "You don't think it's strange because you know the process and you know that you can make white sugar by simply processing it, but people who don't know can only I think white sugar is precious because it is not only very sweet, but also as white as frost and very beautiful.”
Lu Wen was still a little hesitant, wondering how much this thing was worth?
Lu Xiaoning did not explain, and said: "You take the white sugar to Daqin Company, tell the shopkeeper of Daqin Company, and ask them to prepare five hundred shi of grain and two hundred barrels of grease, and hire a camel team to send it to Selüburg. You I will share the white sugar production process with them, and the profits from the future will be equally divided."
Lu Wen could barely understand the words craft and sharing.
But Lu Wen felt that Da Qin Company could not be so stupid.
Just this way, is it like asking someone to exchange 500 shi of grain and 200 barrels of sludge?
Moreover, people have to pay for a camel team to be sent to Selüburg. Unless the shopkeeper of Daqin Company is crazy, he will definitely not agree. There is no doubt about this.
"Do as I say and go now." Lu Xiaoning added, "It's almost time for curfew."
"Here." Although Lu Wen was suspicious, he still followed the order of the Immortal Lord and left the post house with freshly baked white sugar and went to the horse market. He quickly found Daqin Trading Company.
