The eldest prince, the second prince and the fourth prince got off the carriage.
"I've met three royal brothers!" Li Zhao saluted.
The three of them walked down and looked at the store and said, "Are you here looking for ways to make money?"
"Yes!" Li Zhao said with a smile: "Let's go in and have a look?" He did not expose the three people's stalking behavior.
"Okay." The second prince agreed without waiting for the eldest prince and the fourth prince to refuse.
Li Zhao walked in, and the fourth prince looked at the second prince coldly before following him.
This shop sells pastries, desserts, nuts, etc., and the most conspicuous item is sugar!
The candy was very dark, as if soaked in blood.
Shopkeeper Yun saw Li Zhao and others coming in and came over: "What do you want to buy, these distinguished guests?"
Li Zhao asked: "How much does this sugar cost?"
"Sixty cents per catty!" Shopkeeper Yun said immediately.
The eldest prince, the second prince, and the fourth prince were all confused. Lao Jiu asked what the price of sugar was.
Does he want to start a sugar business?
But even if this thing is worth sixty taels per pound, it is unrealistic to earn 50,000 taels.
Li Zhao had learned that a dou of rice in Wu State was worth five cents, which was equivalent to 12.5 kilograms of rice in the later era! ①.
This sugar costs 60 cents per catty, which can be exchanged for 150 catties of rice.
"What about this kind?"
"This is eighty cents!"
"What about this kind?"
"One hundred and twenty coins!"
"What about the white one?"
"Two hundred and fifty coins!" The shopkeeper was very patient.
Li Zhaofang was referring to several different types of brown sugar. Sixty cents per pound was the worst quality brown sugar, with a lot of impurities.
Real brown sugar costs one hundred and twenty cents per pound, which is beyond the reach of ordinary people.
As for the white sugar, it is not the white sugar of the post-modern era, but a white frosting with a bit of beige color.
Even so, the price of sugar is unimaginably high.
You know, Wu State was rich in resources and people, and the people had enough food and clothing, but their annual income was only one or two taels of silver.
If they use their annual income to buy this sugar, they can only buy four or five kilograms.
An absolute luxury.
"Ninth brother, are you trying to make money with candy?" The well-limbed eldest prince couldn't help but said, and he wasn't very good at beating around the bush.
"That's right." Li Zhao admitted generously.
But the second prince and the fourth prince looked weird, not to mention whether this thing could earn fifty thousand taels? Just talking about the materials and craftsmanship for doing business, how did he obtain them?
In this era, sugar has not been out for a long time, and all the major stores have lost their wits. In the end, only a few were able to obtain the supply.
"How many brothers don't believe it?" Li Zhao looked at the three people who were laughing.
"Lao Jiu!" The eldest prince couldn't help but said, "I advise you to think of another way out."
He is a real person and is too embarrassed to attack Li Zhao.
"I can really make money with candy!" Li Zhao looked serious.
The second prince couldn't help laughing, patted Li Zhao on the shoulder and said, "I'm optimistic about you, come on!"
With that said, he strode away.
He admits that the price of sugar is exorbitant.
But this business had already been divided, and Li Zhao rashly stepped in, even if he was a prince, which was a taboo in the shopping mall.
If it were so simple and successful, sugar would not circulate so little among the four major countries.
Lao Jiu's thinking was too simple.
The second prince was not interested. He knew that Lao Jiu was probably just having fun this time and would not make any money.
"Ninth brother... It's not the fourth brother who's attacking you... your method... really doesn't work." The fourth prince shook his head.
"Yes!" The eldest prince also agreed.
"What I mean is, I can refine sugar." Li Zhao explained.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
After Li Zhao finished speaking, everyone in the store looked over, and very harsh laughter sounded, as if they were laughing at Li Zhao's ignorance and arrogance.
"There are still people who say they can refine sugar? Hahaha... interesting and interesting!"
"Who is this man? Is he still daydreaming?"
"It's just nonsense. There are only more than eight sugar shops in our country of Wu. Where did he get the confidence to speak so wildly?"
Everyone scolded and thought it was ridiculous.
The fourth prince and the eldest prince wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl into. Even the princes did not have much sugar reserves.
Because it is really luxurious, you have to buy it in limited quantities.
Li Zhao's words are tantamount to poking a hornet's nest, because sugar was invented and created by the You Kingdom in the south and entered the Wu Kingdom through trade.
Sugar alone brings huge profits to Youguo.
Although there are people in Wu State who are researching it, they have never been able to do it.
Being able to barely produce sixty cents per pound of brown sugar is already a miracle. As for further purification, it is extremely difficult.
White sugar is absolutely top-grade and has a unique status.
In today's world, only Youguo has this technology for refining, and even the mysterious special-level Zhao official in Wuguoshang Food Prison can't do it.
The production of this brown sugar was all thanks to Mr. Zhao.
Even he (she) said that apart from You Guo, it would be difficult for anyone in the world to produce white sugar.
This shows how precious and difficult sugar is to make.
Although Wu Guo is a superior country and has self-confidence, it still needs to be humble when it is time to be humble. It is not difficult to admit that you can't do it.
But speaking nonsense here is disrespectful to Zhao Daguanzi and others.
Li Zhao said in an extremely serious tone: "I can refine white sugar, and it will be whiter than this."
The whole shop was in an uproar.
Their faces are angry!
I feel that Li Zhaozhen is getting more and more outrageous as he talks.
"Who do you think you are? Do you think you are Zhao Daguan of Shang Food Supervisor?"
"shameless!"
"ridiculous……"
In the crowd, a woman couldn't help but shook her head repeatedly, put down the goods in her hands, and said: "If the younger generation of our country of Wu are all such people who have higher sights than anything else, our country of Wu will never be the first to make sugar. It won’t progress, let alone surpass Youguo!”
"Hiss - she is... Miss Yu Shang, a junior official in the Food Supervision Bureau?"
"I heard that Miss Yushang studied under Zhao Daguanzi and is very accomplished in pastries and desserts. She is expected to be promoted to the intermediate level at the age of twenty!"
This woman stood up and attracted admiration and admiration from countless guests.
After hearing her words, everyone felt worse about Li Zhao and felt that this young man was overestimating his abilities.
Li Zhao also looked at the Yushang girl and said, "How do you know that our Wu Kingdom will not surpass You Kingdom?"
"Although the sugar-making technology was created by Youguo, can't Wuguo, our country, stand on the shoulders of giants and make further progress?"
"If you can't refine it, doesn't it mean that others can't do it either?"
①: "Zi Xia Ji" written by Li Kuangyi of the Tang Dynasty records that "rufu (sugar) was newly opened in Shishi, and the price was sixty cents per catty." A pound of this lactose costs 60 yuan. During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, one dou of rice cost 5 cents, and one dou was equivalent to 12.5 kilograms today. In other words, one kilogram of lactose could be exchanged for 150 kilograms of rice. Materials were extremely abundant during the Zhenguan period. The price of rice should have been at a historical low, and lactose had a certain premium compared to sucrose, but the high price of sugar can be seen.
