Chapter 491 White Sugar

"Is this your white sugar?"

"Yes, this is the specialty of Ryukyu Island."

Before the workshop, Xiao Ming showed a surprised look, while Claire was proud.

This white sugar process is the most advanced sugar process in Europe today, which is enough to make them proud.

Xiao Ming frowned. He grabbed a handful of white granulated sugar at this time. Generally speaking, these sugars have reached the standard of white granulated sugar. These particles are as fine as sand. The only disadvantage is that the color is not pure enough. Some brown impurities.

One or two may not be visible, but a lot of them seem to be heavier.

"The quality of this white sugar is a bit poor." Xiao Ming rubbed the white sugar and said, his hopes were dashed, he thought he could eat ready-made, but he didn't expect to have to work on it himself.

"Poor?" Claire looked at Xiao Ming with a shocked look, and he emphasized, "Your Highness, this white sugar is the most advanced sugar-making process in the Netherlands. These sugars are very popular in Japan, which is bigger than yours. Yuguo's bitter brown sugar is a hundred times stronger."

Xiao Ming said disdainfully: "It's very bad in the first place. The white sugar that this king wants is crystal clear. From a distance, it looks like the sugar of white snow."

"How is this possible, there is no such sugar." Claire said decisively, "Your Highness, forgive me for being rude, even the Great Yu Kingdom doesn't have such sugar, right? Not everyone can master the process of refining white sugar."

Xiao Ming sneered. He looked at another pile of white powder by the workshop and said, "Count Claire, if I'm not mistaken, the method you used is the lime purification method."

As soon as these words came out, Claire was immediately dumbfounded.

Xiao Ming continued: "Actually, the production of white sugar is very simple. It is nothing more than chopping and tearing the sugarcane to make the sugarcane fully broken, and then multiple pressing and multiple infiltration to extract the sugar. After the sugarcane is pressed, the juice and bagasse must be transported separately. Go, at this time, the sugar cane mixed juice is a dark green turbid liquid, and the next step is to boil and purify, and the purification process will determine whether the white sugar is pure enough."

When Xiao Ming finished saying these words, Claire could no longer use shock to describe the mood at this time.

In his opinion, the dignitaries of the Great Yu Kingdom are only proficient in some tricks, and they don't care about these crafts at all, but now Xiao Ming, as a vassal king, can actually

Explain the sugar making process in detail.

The most important thing is that the sugar-making process is also a process with strict confidentiality measures in Europe. This man has mastered it, which shattered his original idea of ​​selling the sugar-making process for money.

However, he felt from Xiao Ming's tone that Xiao Ming seemed to have mastered a more advanced refining process. He seemed to ask unintentionally, "Your Highness, can you make these white sugars as white as snow?"

"Of course." Xiao Ming made no secret of it. Although the white sugar in the workshop did not meet Xiao Ming's requirements, for Xiao Ming, the workshop had already mastered part of the sugar-making process.

And the Dutch also produced sugar-making equipment for the workshop, which would save him a lot of trouble.

"So what is this method?" Claire smiled and looked very amiable.

Xiao Ming laughed and said, "Count Claire, this is a secret, but this king can promise you to sell sugar to Europe."

Clayton looked disappointed. If he could master this craft, he was confident that he could make a fortune in Europe. After all, there is a huge demand for white sugar in Europe now.

Because they need white sugar to make bread, desserts, etc.

Ignoring Claire, Xiao Ming went straight to the workshop, where Xiao Ming observed the manufacturing process of white granulated sugar. Because Xiao Ming already understood the manufacturing process of white granulated sugar, Claire had no reason to stop him, so he could only look on his face. Frustrated, he followed behind Xiao Ming.

"It's so sweet."

While Xiao Ming was observing, Lu Fei grabbed a handful of candy and stuffed it into his mouth, the food tasted delicious, "Your Highness, this is much sweeter than maltose, if it were trafficked to Da Yu for sale, it would not be profitable. less money."

Lu Fei's words were exactly what Xiao Ming thought. This time he invested a lot in order to capture Ryukyu. He must make this war bring actual profits to himself.

Next, he will find a way to profit from the sea.

"Selling is definitely going to sell, but we will sell better candy." Xiao Ming said to himself.

In contemporary sugar production methods, there are mainly three categories: lime method, sulfurous acid method and carbonic acid method. The effect of lime and carbonic acid method is not satisfactory. Only the sulfurous acid method can directly obtain the white sugar that is currently eaten.

This kind of sugar is called sulfuric sugar. Xiao Ming produced sulfuric acid two years ago. Although there is no large-scale production of this sulfuric acid, there is always small-scale production.

There is basically no difference between the preparation of sulfurous acid and sulfuric acid, so this time Xiao Ming went back and asked Lu Tong to develop the sulfurous acid to establish the sugar industry. The 50,000 mu of sugarcane on the Ryukyu Island can be considered to be fully available. used.

After visiting the white sugar workshop, Xiao Ming went to the island to visit the granary. However, there was not much grain in these granaries, and most of them were sold. Xiao Ming did not care about this. Anyway, he wanted this treasure. Others don't matter.

Officially taking over the Dutch property on Ryukyu Island, Xiao Ming and Claire returned to Mikila Castle.

Now Claire is more and more looking forward to the cooperation with Xiao Ming, because in his opinion, this King Qi is very likely to bring miracles to him, and as for the current loss, they will definitely be able to recover.

Back at the castle, Claire suddenly sounded something and reminded: "His Royal Highness, the Japanese country's defeat this time, many Japanese pirates fled to the north of Ryukyu Island. In the past, the north was the hiding place for Japanese pirates. After all, we have not developed that place. However, now that Your Highness has occupied Ryukyu Island, you should consider completely eliminating the influence of the Japanese kingdom on Ryukyu Island."

Xiao Ming nodded. The Dutch said that they only occupied a small area in the south of Ryukyu Island, and most of the areas were still reclaimed areas.

For Xiao Ming, he plans to build two bases in Ryukyu, one is the current Mikila Castle, and the second is the north. After all, there is a world-class deep-water port in the north of contemporary Ryukyu. This is the establishment of a military port. excellent location.

Because of this, he can not only control the north of Ryukyu, but also prevent Japanese pirates from going south along the route to the east of Ryukyu.

"Thank you Earl for your reminder, I'm considering this issue, but before that, let's talk about the next trade issue." Xiao Ming showed a look like a big bad wolf.

The moment to monopolize maritime trade has finally come. He wants to convert Da Yu's domestic commodities into a large amount of silver. After all, Europe received a huge amount of silver from the Americas during this period.