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Lijiazhuang was filled with joy. More than one hundred stones of grain were transported back. Looking at bags of corn moving houses, and even rice and wheat, everyone laughed and cried.

With so much food, you don’t have to worry about being hungry this winter.

Xue Wu saw everything, and he found that although this farmer was small and poor, his heart was very consistent. Especially when he knew that these farmer households were originally tenants of the Li family, but now these farmer households were having dinner with Li San, he was very surprised.

It is a very common thing for landlords to treat tenants well. The relationship between landlords and tenants is not incompatible. In fact, in most cases, the relationship between landlords and tenants is better. Tenants tend to live in the landlords’ homes, and this relationship is often inherited from generation to generation, landlords and tenants from generation to generation.

Tenants have to rely on the landlord's landlord's family to live, while the landlords have to rely on the tenants' labor to farm. The relationships between the two sides complement each other. Over time, the relationship will even bring some friendship. During the holidays, the landlords often have to give gifts to the tenants to thank the tenants for their hard work over the past year.

As for the tenants, they usually help the landlords’ family. They will also hand over what they get from the landlords’ family.

During the year of disaster and hunger, landlords also have the obligation to help tenants. Although it is not free relief, interest is often required.

This kind of relationship is stable and solid, and they all abide by their duties.

Those evil landlords will be unpopular and few of them will be like this.

But if it is rare for Li San to treat the tenant as his own family and take out the grain he bought with the tenant to eat with the tenant. If the tenant is short of food, the landlord can lend it to them. If the kind one is more kind, there is no interest at most. How can you eat a big pot of rice like this?

When Xue Wu saw Yang Dayan writing a thousand-character text with the newly purchased paper and ink, while a group of children in the village were watching carefully, Yang Dayan was even more surprised while writing while explaining the meaning of the words.

Such a poor villager actually has a teacher. From what everyone said, Li Sanlang actually asked his accountant to teach the tenant children for free, and even if he had a good study, he would also have a reward.

"I have never seen such a farm." Xue Wu sighed. His family is a landlord, a big landlord, with many farms and many tenants who rent his land. His family is very good to the tenants, but it is definitely not so good.

"Master, how can you treat tenants like this? Without rules, aren't you afraid of promoting Mien to fight against Mien? If you do so indiscriminately, won't you have no distinction between master and subordinate?"

A follower said unhappyly.

"It's not that simple. I think this Lijiazhuang is not simple everywhere, and this Li San is even more unsimple, interesting, and more interesting."

Li Xiao let Xue Wu sway around in the village. The village was so big and there were only a few people. He couldn't stop Xue Wu when he came, and now he couldn't stop him even if he wanted to visit him.

"My husband, who are these?"

"If you meet on the road, don't worry about them, just let them do it."

Li Xiao was holding a bag of frosting candy in his hand, thinking about whether to extract whiter frosting candy. The man insisted on betting with him that Li Xiao was confident that he could extract whiter frosting candy than on the market now, but he was a little confused about Xue Wu's true identity.

Sand sugar is a condiment and a luxury.

The price is very high, especially the whiter the frosting sugar, the more expensive it is. If Li Xiao takes out a whiter frosting sugar than on the market now, he doesn't know whether it is a blessing or a disaster.

If Xue Wu is uneasy, then he will be guilty of possessing a treasure by mastering this advanced sugar production, refining and decoloring technology.

If Li Xiao just took out some whiter frosting sugar, but only said that he bought it from a Yangzhou merchant, he would be able to make excuses Xue Wu, but he might not believe it.

After all, when someone just asked around, there would be no such good candy as Li Xiao’s hands at that time. Wouldn’t this matter be exposed?

It's really a dilemma.

The Li family is also carrying huge debts. Originally, Li Xiao had some ways to make money, but he didn't dare to take out many ways. It was like some technical means such as papermaking, sugar making and even salt refining. He could make a lot of money by just making it.

But without identity or power, you can't protect yourself. It's like a few years old baby is swaying across the market with a gold brick alone.

Without a certain status, it is difficult to cooperate with others. Who can guarantee that others will not swallow you up and not even have bone scum left?

Sighing, Li Xiao finally planned to experiment with the frosting and sugar decolorization technique first. No matter what, this is also a way to make money.

A large pottery jar, a basket of charcoal, a bucket of yellow mud, a bag of lime, and then ten kilograms of frosted sugar. In the bedroom, Li Xiao tied the door and entered the space.

I don’t want to be known to me when I come to the space to refine candy.

If you want to make the frosting sugar whiter, the key is to improve the decolorization process. However, when Li Xiao bought the candy, he found that the frosting sugar he bought was the secondiest, not only was the color very black and not white, but also had impurities.

If you want to refine this sugar into snow-white white sugar, it is not enough to just refine and decolorize, and you have to purify it again.

A stove was dug on the ground, a pottery jar was set up, and some spring water was scooped from the spiritual spring to put it in, and burn the fire.

Boil the water and add the black frosting sugar I bought. The first time, Li Xiao only added one pound. The sugar is too expensive. If it fails, I can do it a few more times.

After melting the black secondary frosting sugar into syrup in the jar, Li Xiao first filtered the slurry with charcoal.

Although this is just ordinary charcoal and not activated charcoal, charcoal itself has strong adsorption properties and can filter and adsorb many impurities in syrup, thus obtaining a purer syrup.

After the filtration was completed, Li Xiao added lime to the clear syrup, which was very important.

The acidity in the syrup is neutralized by alkali, which is an extremely important step before frosting sugar crystallizes.

According to the summary of later generations, it is because in addition to sucrose and water, there are some organic acid components in the sucrose juice that are not very large but are extremely unfavorable for sucrose crystallization. They will promote the hydrolysis of sucrose to form reducing sugar. This type of sugar not only cannot crystallize itself during the shelving process, but also produce molasses. The ancients called sugar oil, which will hinder sucrose crystallization.

Therefore, the ancients also concluded that wood ash or lime should be used to neutralize or precipitate free acids, so that the organic non-sugar, inorganic salts, and silt suspensions should be precipitated. This can not only improve the taste of sucrose, but also reduce the viscosity of the sucrose juice and make the color clearer.

Li Xiao watched as the syrup gradually became clearer after adding lime, and he was very excited. It seemed that he had a good grasp of this step and had a success in one go.

A clearer syrup also means that purer sugar can be extracted and is more conducive to decolorization.
Chapter completed!