I am a child of Daqin Xiong, who supervises the country at the age of eight

Chapter 190 Refining Sucrose
Inside Zhangtai Palace.

Ying Zheng has been waiting for a long time. Waiting here with him are Li Si, the prime minister of the Great Qin Empire, and General Wang Jian.

After Ying Changsheng entered the hall, Ying Zheng waved to him immediately, and said.

"You don't need to be too polite, kid!"

"Father called his children into the palace, what's the matter!"

Ying Changsheng raised his eyes and glanced at Ying Zheng on the dragon chair, then asked.

I only heard Ying Zheng laughing and opening his mouth to say.

"I called you here for something. A few days ago, didn't you ask me to order Baiyue to send a batch of fresh sugar cane?"

"It was delivered by sugarcane!"

Hearing that Ying Changsheng was here, his eyes lit up immediately, knowing that the arrival of sugarcane meant that sucrose could be made.

Seeing him facing Yingzheng, he said excitedly.

"Father, where are these sugar canes now? Are they ready for use? And Chen can't wait to make some cane sugar, and then let His Majesty taste it!"

"Hearing your kid say that is very confident!"

Hearing that he won the government here, the big rock hanging in his heart fell to the ground. He thought to himself that this kid is so confident, it seems that he should really be able to extract sugar from this job.

At the same time, Prime Minister Li Si and Wang Jian also had serious expressions on their faces.

I only saw the two of them talking.

"Young Master Nineteen, the sugar cane has been delivered. It's at the Shaofu. Young Master Nineteen is going to go there now?"

"Let's go now, I also want to see how to extract the sugar from this sugarcane!"

Speaking of winning politics, he waved his hand.

Said to Prime Minister Li Si and Wang Jian at the side.

"The two of you go along together!"

For a moment, the two nodded hastily.

A group of people just followed Yingzheng.

One by one, they went to the official residence of Shaofu.

Right now, I can only see the open space of Shaofu.

There is a pile of sugar cane that has just been unloaded, and these sugar canes have been transported all the way.

Some are damaged.

At the moment, a group of workers who were temporarily called over are cleaning up the broken sugar cane inside. Of course, these broken sugar canes are only a small part after all, and more sugar cane is still intact.

After arriving.

Ying Zhengsheng then turned his eyes to the sugar cane on the ground, and after carefully looking at it for a few times, he let out a long breath.

The sugarcane at this time is slightly different from the sugarcane of later generations. First of all, it is smaller in size and not as thick as that of later generations.

Of course these are harmless.

The most important thing is whether the sugarcane at this time is as sweet as the sugarcane of later generations.

Is the sugar content in it that high?
That's the most important thing.

Seeing Ying Changsheng, he reached out and lifted a sugar cane from the ground.

Then he held it in his hand and said to Ying Zheng.

"Father, would you like to try it?"

"How do you eat this?"

Ying Zheng looked puzzled.

But he still stretched out his hand to take it from Ying Changsheng's hand, and Mosuo took this sugarcane in his hand.

But Ying Changsheng took a sword from the guard on the side.

The sugar cane is then chopped.

Then he quickly peeled off the skin and cut off a piece, and sent it to Ying Zheng.

"Father, please have a taste!"

Ying Zheng looked at the sugarcane that had been peeled to reveal the white sugarcane flesh, and couldn't help but secrete a little saliva from his mouth.

He thought to himself that this thing looked pretty good, and it was okay to try it, only to see Ying Zheng took a bite carefully, and then chewed it in his mouth.

After tasting the sweet taste of sugar cane.

Ying Zheng nodded slightly while chewing, and said to Ying Changsheng in front of him.

"This thing is really sweet!"

After Ying Zheng's voice fell, Wang Jian and Li Si, who were beside him, became interested immediately.

But immediately Yingzheng realized that something was wrong, he frowned, chewed the sugarcane in his mouth, and then spit it out in one gulp.

"This thing, after chewing, the sweetness dissipates, and the taste is like chewing wax!"

"Ha ha!"

After hearing what Ying Zheng said, Ying Changsheng laughed.

He immediately explained to Yingzheng.

"What the father said is exactly, this sugarcane is indeed like this, it can only taste the juice in it, and spit out all the residue!"

"I see!"

Ying Zheng suddenly understood.

At the same time, Ying Zhengsheng cut a section of sugar cane for Wang Jian and Li Si who were beside him.

Then he took a sugar cane himself.

Then taste the sweetness of Qin Chao's sugarcane in your mouth.

have to say.

In the Qin Dynasty, there was no selective breeding and special training.

The sweetness of sugar cane.

Compared with future generations.

Obviously much worse.

But the problem is not serious.

Although the sweetness is a bit worse, it does not mean that the sugar cannot be extracted.

Ying Changsheng nodded in satisfaction, and then said to the craftsman beside him.

"Wait, cut all these sugar canes into sections, and then clean all the sugar canes, and prepare an oil extraction machine!"

"Yes, Young Master Nineteen!"

The workers on the side didn't dare to neglect in the slightest, and hastily used the water presser that came out from the well on the side.

Press water from the well.

Then the sections of sugarcane are fed into the tree and after cleaning, they are cut into sections as many as possible.

Then these sugar canes.

Packed in a tub.

Soon.

Thousands of kilograms of sugarcane were cleaned one after another.

A group of craftsmen in the distance laboriously lifted a wooden machine over.

This is a very old machine that can still be seen in the 21st century.

In some rural areas of China in later generations.

The old machinery can still be seen.

I only saw sugar cane being stuffed into it one by one.

First it was hammered into pieces, and then it was squeezed together again.

Then a few able-bodied workers.

Wielding a hammer.

Place the piece by piece, wearing a pointed piece of wood.

To be stuffed into this machine.

Under the squeezing force generated during this process.

The sugarcane juice gushed out quickly like a spring, and then, flowing water poured into the wooden barrel prepared beside it.

A barrel of sugarcane juice appeared in the barrel not long after.

It looks clean and hygienic, quite delicious.

Looking at this scene, Ying Zheng couldn't help being curious, and he couldn't help opening his mouth to ask.

"Is that what your boy said about extracting sucrose?"

"It's still a little bit short, and it will take a while!"

Ying Changsheng smiled and said to Ying Zheng.

Then he waved his hand and said to the eunuch next to him.

"Immediately go and prepare a large iron pot, and prepare it quickly for me, prepare the fire, and then pour this thing into the iron pot!"

"Boil it slowly, the heat should be well controlled, not too big!"

"No, son nineteen."

The eunuchs didn't dare to be negligent, and after a while, an iron pot was set up, and the juice was poured into it.

I saw the sugarcane juice slowly evaporating under the fire.

then.

The original sugarcane juice in the iron pot gradually became viscous.

When it became more and more viscous, it seemed that it could not be stirred.

Ying Changsheng immediately gave the order.

(End of this chapter)