Great Tang Southern Emperor

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After leaving Tian Workshop, Li Zhen went to a nearby sugar workshop.

On the way, Yan Jingsi couldn't help but said: "Zhen'er, did you not finish explaining the matter?"

Li Zhen laughed: "Why would uncle ask such a question?"

Yan Jingsi smiled and said: "I just have an intuition, I always feel that you have something to say, Zhen'er, and you haven't finished."

Li Zhen smiled lightly and said: "Uncle, you guessed right, I do have a lot to say, but what I said today is enough for them to digest for a long time, I'm afraid they won't be able to accept it if I say too much, anyway, there is still time It's very long, take your time."

Yan Jingsi looked at Li Zhen gratifiedly: "Zhen'er really has the style of a general, and knows the truth when enough is enough."

Li Zhen smiled lightly: "Uncle is too much."

The sugar workshop is not far from the Tian Workshop. Its name is Royal Sugar Manor. Li Zhen is not very satisfied with this name. Change your name.

The manager, Mu Zhe, had already got the news when Li Zhen entered the Heavenly Workshop, and when Li Zhen left the Heavenly Workshop, Mu Zhe was already waiting at the gate of Tangzhuang with all the stewards, big and small.

Seeing Li Zhen approaching, he immediately brought all the leaders to salute: "Mu Zhe has seen His Highness."

"I have seen Your Highness." Everyone shouted in unison.

Seeing passers-by intending to gather around, Li Zhen quickly waved: "Get up, let's go in and talk."

"Yes, please come down with your Highness."

Mu Zhe already had a general understanding of the Tiantian workshop, knowing that His Highness didn't like those red tapes, so he simply took Li Zhen to the sugar factory.Coincidentally, a batch of sugar came out, and Li Zhen called to stop the craftsmen who were carrying it.

"Is this sugar?" Looking at the thing in his hand, Li Zhen really couldn't connect it with the sugar in his impression.It's just black, Li Zhen knows that the most primitive sucrose is indeed black, and it will be much better after one process.The problem is that the sugar is not only black, but also looks messy, and you can even see the fiber inside.

"Can this be eaten?" Li Zhen looked at Mu Zhe coldly: "You better give me an explanation."

Mu Zhe secretly groaned in his heart, and he can't be blamed for this. Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Mu Zhe whispered: "Your Highness, this batch of sugar is sold to the people, so"

"There are so many impurities, and you let the people eat this kind of candy? Can't you do better?" Li Zhen was even more angry, and asked loudly. Of course, the voice had no deterrent effect.

Chapter 34 Improving the Sugar Manufacturing Process

Chapter 34 Improving the sugar process

"Zhen'er, don't be angry, these candies are already very good." Seeing that Li Zhen wanted to do something, Yan Jingsi hurried out to persuade him.

It's not that he pity Mu Zhe, but that Li Zhen, as the prince, has someone to pay attention to every move, don't look at today's just a small beating of his subordinates, maybe tomorrow there will be a censor who is full of food and has nothing to do The official wrote a letter to participate in Li Zhen, saying that His Highness Eighth Highness is vicious at a young age, and needs to be disciplined. Although it will not bring down Li Zhen, it will still have a little impact on Li Zhen's later development, and it is easy to fall into the trap .

"Uncle, where did you start?" Li Zhen didn't think too much about it for the time being, she only thought that Yan Jingsi had friendship with Mu Zhe, and she was also somewhat dissatisfied with Yan Jingsi.

Grabbing a handful of brown sugar from the basket, he said sharply: "Uncle, look for yourself, look at the impurities in the sugar, look at this, even the bagasse has not been filtered, this kind of sugar can be eaten If someone dies, when the time comes, if someone dies, who will be responsible?"

"Don't be upset, Zhen'er, let me explain to you." Seeing Li Zhen's anger, Yan Jingsi said with a smile: "It's good, Zhen'er, that you care about people's livelihood, but there is nothing you can do about it. The sugar in our sugar farm is pretty good. If you look at other sugar farms, there are many more impurities than ours. Even our family usually eats this kind of sugar, only when entertaining guests I will use a little tribute sugar."

"Really?" Li Zhen glanced suspiciously at everyone's faces as if you don't want to lie to me.

Everyone nodded desperately, and Mu Zhe even had the expression of Dou E: "Your Highness, in fact, our candy is really good, ten times better than other candy, and the price of sugar is too expensive. Then it is as fine as tribute sugar, and ordinary people really can't afford a bite of sugar."

"That's right, it's my fault that I didn't listen to you clearly." Only then did Guan Yang realize that he had misunderstood him, and he pulled a jade pendant from his waist: "It seems that I really wronged you. Your Highness is very clear about black and white. This is a gift for you." Your apology."

"No, no, Your Highness, this is absolutely unacceptable." Mu Zhe was taken aback, knelt down hurriedly, and pushed his hands out: "It's just a little misunderstanding, just let it go. Besides, Your Highness Tianhuang, how can you apologize to the villain, even if the villain dies, he will never be able to afford it."

Not to mention Mu Zhe, even the rest of the people were taken aback by Guan Yang's actions, Yan Jingsi hurried up to dissuade him: "Zhen'er, don't mess around, you are a prince, one person is below tens of thousands, Who in this world can afford your apology? Don't talk like this in the future. Besides, this jade pendant is a gift from His Majesty, how can it be given to others? Well, this apology will be avoided, but it is also true that you wronged Manager Mu, just Uncle will reward Zhen'er with ten pennies instead."

"Alright."

His move was a bit abrupt, although he really didn't care about a jade pendant, but as Yan Jingsi said, this jade pendant was rewarded by the emperor after all, and it cannot be easily given away.

After all, Li Zhen still hasn't escaped the influence of later generations. In that society that advocates equality for everyone, Li Zhen's move is indeed no problem.But now it is the Tang Dynasty, and he is still the son of the Great Tang Emperor. In this world, apart from Li Yuan, Li Shimin, Empress Changsun, Concubine Yan, and the elders of the clan, who else would dare to accept his apology?With Li Zhen's current status, even the concubines in the harem can be ignored, let alone a small steward?If Mu Zhe really dared to accept this jade pendant today, even if no one pursued him for the crime of taking the imperial gifts without permission, at least he should be punished for a crime of disrespect (not disrespect).

"Thank you, Your Highness, Xie Changping County Lord." Mu Zhe quickly thanked, and he was relieved, he really didn't dare to accept the jade pendant, otherwise even if he survived, he would not be able to escape even if he was exiled to Lingnan.

"Okay, get up."

When Mu Zhe got up, Li Zhen grabbed another handful of candy and handed it to Mu Zhe: "Let me tell you, although I misunderstood you, I am really dissatisfied with the candy you made."

"Yes, yes." Mu Zhe wiped off his cold sweat, nodded in a panic and said, "There are indeed a lot of impurities in this sugar, and my subordinates will order the masters to improve the craftsmanship and try to make better sugar. But Your Highness, in this way, our sugar production costs will go up, and if we keep the original price unchanged, I am afraid we will lose a lot of money."

"Then how?" Li Zhen shook her head hastily, sugar production occupies an important position in his next business layout, raising costs is not an option.

"But" Mu Zhe's face was sad, but he cursed in his heart, peat, you don't want to increase the cost, and you want good sugar, how can there be such a cheap thing?Isn't this letting the horse run without feeding the horse?How can there be any reason to do this?

"Come on, what do you think I'm here for?" Even if Li Zhen didn't look at it, she knew that Mu Zhe must be cursing in her heart: "Don't worry, I have a new sugar production method here, as long as you follow my method By doing it this way, the sugar produced is not only perfect, but also the cost can be reduced a lot, allowing more people to eat sugar.”

"That couldn't be better, hehe" Mu Zhe agreed, but he didn't believe it in his heart. I have been making sugar all my life, and I can't say that this skill is the best, but it can be regarded as an authority in the sugar industry. Haven't heard of such sugar making technology?After all, he is just an ordinary person, and his ability to be in charge depends entirely on his skills and qualifications. He doesn't have any contacts in the palace, and he doesn't know the legend of Li Zhen, otherwise he wouldn't think so.

"Don't talk nonsense, just do what I tell you." Li Zhen didn't expect him to believe it, anyway, whether he believed it or not, he would know when the real candy was made.

In fact, Li Zhen’s so-called sugar making process is actually simple white sugar. Brown sugar is heated and dissolved by adding water, and then a small amount of charcoal is added to obtain a colorless liquid, which is then heated to evaporate. As it cools, white sugar will gradually precipitate out.

To put it bluntly, this process is to use the charcoal adsorption function to absorb the impurities in the brown sugar, but it is a pity that this step should have used activated carbon, but in the Tang Dynasty, Guan Yang really did not know how to make activated carbon. We were able to use relatively clean charcoal.Fortunately, charcoal and activated carbon are similar, at most, the adsorption is not as good as activated carbon, and the amount used can be supplemented.

"Your Highness! Your Highness!" Mu Zhe knelt down, ignoring the hot hands, and cried incoherently while holding a handful of freshly separated white sugar: "Your Highness, my subordinates have been making sugar all their lives, but they never imagined that they could make sugar like this." Flawless sugar, subordinates, subordinates, subordinates, this life is worth it, subordinates, subordinates have not lived in vain, woo woo woo, I heard the truth, I will die in the evening, woo woo woo"

"Your Highness, please make amends. This subordinate can't wait to change the craftsmanship, so I'm leaving now." After crying enough, Mu Zhe wiped his tears and snot, confessed a little, and shouted to change the craftsmanship. The appearance is scary to look at.

"Uh..." Looking at Mu Zhe's appearance, Li Zhen expressed incomprehension. He had seen such people in his previous life, and some were even crazier than Mu Zhe. Li Zhen understood their spirit of pursuing the truth, but for them The way of doing things does not understand.But if you don’t understand it, you don’t understand it, but I have to say that it is these lunatics who are driving the progress of the times. Without these lunatics, the pace of history will be ten times slower.

Chapter 35

Chapter 35 Touching Porcelain

Mu Zhe was afraid that he would not be able to get out for a while, so Li Zhen taught Mu Zhe's deputy, a middle-aged man named Tang Fangyi, the production method of fruit candy. This is his real trump card. Datang is an epoch-making thing, as soon as it comes into the world, it can directly become a gold-absorbing machine, earning Li Zhen a lot of white silver and yellow gold.

After ordering everyone to sign a non-disclosure agreement, Li Zhen left the sugar farm. Seeing that the sun was already setting in the west, she canceled the next inspection plan, and everything will be discussed tomorrow.

What Li Zhen didn't know was that as soon as he left, what he did, including those blueprints and the confidentiality agreement, had already appeared on Li Shimin's case.

Li Shimin, who had been working all day, rubbed his head and looked at the drawings left by Li Zhen, and asked with great interest, "Is this all left by Zhen Er?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, these drawings are all left by His Highness." The person in front of the imperial case replied respectfully.

"Then tell me, if those workshops make according to this drawing, what will happen to the things they make?" After browsing through the drawing again, Li Shimin asked, "Can it be accepted by the people?"

"This, my subordinates really don't know." This person is just an intelligence officer, how does he know how precious this blueprint is?I don't even know what the effect of what I made will be.

"Forget it, you continue to observe, and if there is anything unusual, report to me as soon as possible." Li Shimin, who knew that he had asked for nothing, put the drawing on the candle to ignite it and threw it away, and ordered: "But be careful, don't worry about it." As a last resort, try not to expose yourself."

"Yes." The man glanced at the blueprint that had been burned to ashes, and suggested with some hesitation: "My Majesty, in fact, my subordinates think that if we want to know how the blueprint will work, why don't we follow the blueprint and make it?" A batch of things will come, if the people accept it."

"Okay, I know what you mean, but there's no need, you go down." Li Shimin vetoed it flatly, not to mention that he didn't know the effect of this blueprint, even if these blueprints really made money every day, he would not fight with Li Zhen. Grabbing business - no matter from the perspective of an emperor or a father, he can't do it, and he doesn't bother to do it.