Mr. and Mrs. Muping and their son and daughter looked at the bowls of sugar and wooden boxes on the table with puzzled eyes.
This was bought by the people in the house for them to try.
"Is this food edible?" Mu Ping looked in disbelief.
Mu Qinxue quickly scooped up a spoonful of sugar, put it into her mouth and tasted it, her beautiful eyes lit up.
"Dad, Mom, it is indeed very sweet, and the taste is far better than stone honey, and it is not as sticky as caramel!"
The servant explained: "Miss, Boss Liang said that you can only try a small amount of this sugar. If you eat too much, you will get tired of it."
"Then he bought sugar cane just to make something that can only be tasted?" Mu Ping frowned.
The servant quickly pointed to the wooden box on the table and said, "No, sir! What he said is that this thing can be used to make cakes and the like. In this box are the cakes made with white sugar that Boss Liang comes with."
Mu Ping opened the wooden box in confusion and found ten pure white pastries inside.
Mu Qinxue picked up the pastry and took a bite, and said in surprise: "Dad, it's really delicious..."
Mu Ping and his wife looked at each other, then looked at Mu Lingxiao, who also looked disbelieving. The three of them picked up a piece and tasted it, and their eyes lit up at the same time.
"It does taste much better than usual pastries, without that impurity!"
The family is used to eating delicacies from all over the world and is extremely picky about food, but they were still conquered by Liang Xiao's pastries.
At the market, Jiang Fuxue stood beside Liang Xiao, looking distressed.
It had been a long time, and Liang Xiao had only sold less than twenty kilograms of sugar, but he still looked calm.
"Brother doesn't want me to worry, maybe he's already anxious..."
Jiang Fuxue looked at Liang Xiao, who was talking and laughing with the customers, and thought to himself.
"It seems that my brother is not good at doing business. Let's take him back to Bashu~"
Liang Xiao didn't notice Jiang Fuxue's "concerned" gaze behind him at all. He just answered the customers' inquiries calmly and occasionally took a sip of water from the kettle.
In order not to worry Xue'er any more, he had not drank at all for several days.
At this moment, a cry came from the distance: "Boss Liang!"
Liang Xiao took a closer look and saw that it was the servant of Dingguo Hou Mansion who had been ordered to buy a few cans of candy.
"Boss Liang, two hundred cents per pound, as much as you can of the white sugar and icing sugar on site, our Dingguo Marquis Mansion wants them all!"
The excited voice of the servant alerted the surrounding customers, who flocked to ask about the situation.
"You want all two hundred coins?" Even Liang Xiao was a little surprised.
"I want it all, no need to explain! The shopkeeper will be here soon!" the servant said urgently.
"I have five hundred kilograms here, that's one hundred taels." Liang Xiao reminded.
"Everyone wants it!" the servant responded resolutely, making everyone around him look at each other.
Jiang Fuxue's tense heartstrings finally relaxed and she cried with joy.
"Finally no need to arrest my brother and go to Bashu..."
Five hundred kilograms can be sold for one hundred taels!
You know, these five hundred kilograms of sugar only consumed 2,500 kilograms of sugar cane.
The smart Jiang Fuxue is good at mental calculations and estimates that fifty thousand kilograms of sugar cane can produce ten thousand kilograms of sugar, which can be sold... two thousand taels?
The shopkeeper from Dingguohou Mansion who specializes in outsourcing came and inspected the sugar on the spot, weighed it, and paid for it in one go.
People looked at the convoy of carriages leaving Dingguo's mansion with bewildered expressions and were at a loss.
The Marquis of Dingguo is a wealthy man in the capital, and he rarely engages in loss-making business.
"What? Liang Xiao sold the five hundred kilograms of sugar for one hundred taels??"
When Bai He received the news, he looked at the sugar bowl on the table and frowned.
He tasted it, it was sweet and tasted good, but that was all.
What can this sugar do?
Bai He was puzzled, and then sneered: "Then he only earned one hundred taels. Counting the workers' wages, the sugar cane, and the equipment, the cost is estimated to be one thousand taels, right? If he can't pay it by then,
If he needs money to fulfill the contract, he will mortgage his ancestral home and the little girl next to him to my Bai family, tsk tsk tsk..."
The workers who followed Liang Xiao to the market saw their boss making a hundred taels, with cheerful smiles on their faces.
Even if they are just thinking about themselves, they hope that the boss who kindly takes them in can make a lot of money so that the boss can continue to take them in instead of driving them back to the refugee camp.
Five hundred kilograms of sugar were transported to the Dingguo Hou Mansion. Mu Ping immediately arranged for the chef in the house to try making various pastries, and they worked all night.
Only Mu Qinxue and Duan Yunxiu stayed in the boudoir, waiting for the news.
The maid came back soon to report: "Miss, the shopkeeper asked Liang Xiao privately, and he said there is still stock!"
After the maid left, Mu Qinxue and Duan Yunxiu couldn't help but high-five each other.
"He didn't lie to me. Five kilograms of sugar cane can produce at most one kilogram of white sugar, and at least one kilogram and two taels!" Duan Yunxiu was very excited.
This means that if the price of white sugar remains at this price, Liang Xiao can make a profit from the sugar produced from 50,000 kilograms of sugar cane.
And those appliances can be reused, saving hundreds of taels of cost...
"Five hundred kilograms of white sugar, placed in a capital city with a population of millions, is no different than a drop in the ocean!" Mu Qinxue said with pride on her face, "You are worthy of my man!"
Duan Yunxiu said aggrievedly: "Sister Qinxue, that guy bullied me yesterday..."
After listening to Duan Yunxiu's narration, Mu Qinxue comforted him: "Don't worry, when sister deceives him, you can bring the whip and red candle with you, and we will train him well!"
"Hmm~" Duan Yunxiu smiled contentedly.
In the workshop, someone who was supervising the workers making sugar shivered inexplicably.
At night, Duan Yunxiu brought the cakes specially made by Dingguo Hou Mansion back to the imperial study and gave them to the empress who had been waiting for a long time to taste them.
Duan Yunyi carefully took a bite, and his eyes lit up. He looked at the jar of white sugar on the table and praised: "I didn't expect that this little white sugar can be so polished. It can replace honey, but it is much cheaper than honey. Sister has
I have a hunch that this product will definitely be promoted across the country in the future, and even to Dachu, allowing us to make a lot of money from Dachu."
"Sister, he has proven that he can save the country through industry!" Duan Yunxiu started acting coquettishly again, holding Duan Yunyi's arm tightly.
"Okay, okay, it's all up to you! When he finishes his work, you take him into the palace and cleanse him."
"Cleanse yourself? No way!!"
Duan Yunxiu was shocked, looked up at the empress who was smiling but not smiling, and said angrily: "Sister is bullying me again!"
The empress just let her continue to act coquettishly, caressing her sister's black hair, and sighed: "Good sister, I hope Dazhou can have a good consort."
"What did sister say?"
"Okay, okay, Da Zhou will definitely have a good consort."
"elder sister!!"
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After returning home, Liang Xiao took a bath and sat in the yard, enjoying the rare leisure.
After two days of busy work, he became more convinced that he needed to find reliable people to be the shopkeepers and supervisors, who could neither line their own pockets nor mistreat the workers.
"Young Master, Dingguo Houfu sent someone to visit you privately."