Chapter 559 Brown sugar is also a treasure
Marin didn't take the sugar seriously, but Angela felt very distressed - that was her candy!
The half-ship of sugar was almost 50 tons, or 110,000 pounds. Marin actually wanted to give it all, but she felt sorry for her butler. So that night, Marin was pinched by her a few blue spots on her body...
Marin thought Angela liked to eat candy, so she quickly spread the science and said that eating too much candy will cause tooth loss of teeth, and the goddess will become a toothless monster. In addition, it can easily lead to diabetes and other things...
Angela was indeed frightened and dared not eat sugar. But Marin told her that if she really wanted to eat sweets, she could eat honey. Honey is a simple sugar, which is easily absorbed by the human body like glucose and converted into energy, and will not cause deposition. Therefore, even diabetics can eat some honey appropriately. Of course, it is authentic honey. In the later generations, due to food safety problems in China, many supermarket honey was actually pretended to be malt sugar. Therefore, diabetics are not suitable for eating, and there will be problems after eating. If it is authentic pure honey, there is still no problem. Of course, you cannot eat too much.
However, for today's Europeans, sugar is still a rare thing. Not to mention excessive amounts, even the nobles did not eat enough. Today's Europe is very similar to China before the reform and opening up. Most people have yellow faces and thin skin and insufficient nutrition. When they see fat meat, everyone likes to eat it, just for the fat meat...
Even in Europe in this era, the supplies were poorer than before China's reform and opening up. At least, Chinese people could buy sugar with tickets in that era. Although the amount was smaller, they ate more than the European nobles in this era. Even European nobles had never seen sugar, but only saw brown sugar. Brown sugar was considered high-end goods from India.
During this period, Europeans were still very backward in sugar making technology, and they didn’t master the brown sugar technology, let alone the white sugar. At this time, in China and Nan'an, Fujian, it seems that the yellow mud method has appeared to produce white sugar. In addition, rock sugar technology is also available.
Therefore, the European nobles of this period lived a very miserable life. As the son of the eldest prince, Caesar could not help but face black sugar, let alone ordinary people.
So Marin tried to divide some of the black sugar into his guards. As a result, the guards treated the black sugar as treasures. Some people were stuck on their fingers when they ate the black sugar, and they even thought that Caesar would put their fingers into their mouths and suck them. Moreover, the expression on their faces was very swaying, and they wanted to suck something poisonous...
Marlin was shocked and also knew the weight of sugar in the eyes of ordinary Europeans in this era. You should know that most of his guards came from the Knights family and were still considered a Xiaofu family. The children of these Xiaofu family loved sugar so much, let alone those civilians.
So Marin decisively ordered the packaging bags of sugar to be smaller. From the previous standard of 20 pounds per bag to a size similar to the later generations of salt packaging bags. Of course, a beautiful appearance was also designed, which looked very tall and generous.
Moreover, Malin also learned from later leaders and wrote the inscription himself - Delicious Sugar...
In fact, when I opened the oil paper bag, there were only black black sugar inside, which looked like a damn gunpowder powder...
If a girl from later generations unpacked the packaging and saw the things inside, she would probably throw them directly on Marin's face with the inscription. But now, this is a high-end product...
When Marin met Jerry, the fat grandson of the fat Prime Minister Jeffrey, he smiled and gave him a bag of black sugar. Then, Jerry suddenly hugged him in his arms and stopped letting go. He stopped listening to his grandfather's reprimand, as if he was afraid that others would rob him.
If parents of later generations saw Marin's actions, they might have whipped their fists and taught Marin a lesson - just use this rag to fool my baby?
But here, Jeffrey expressed his gratitude for Marin's reward. It was true gratitude, not false gratitude...
Then, this delicious sucrose quickly became a high-end product in Orich's upper class, and it was priceless.
When they heard that Marin was going to take out 110,000 pounds of delicious sugar to reward the soldiers who were rewarded with meritorious people, the soldiers were very happy, but the nobles were not very happy.
However, Jeffrey told those nobles - if you want you to wait until the reward is over, you can buy it with the soldiers who have received the reward... As long as you pay a high price, those ordinary soldiers who are suffering will definitely sell it...
In fact, this is just the 1.0 version of Marin's cane sugar sold. This kind of brown sugar is naturally the lowest-grade sugar. When Marin sends people to contact the Ming Dynasty, he can hire high-paying sugar craftsmen from Fujian to guide his subordinates in Cuba and Grenada to produce more advanced brown and white sugar.
Moreover, Marin had already planned - in the future, brown sugar will be sold to ordinary people; brown sugar will be sold to small nobles and wealthy families; while white sugar is a confidential thing, a high-end product, specially used to sell to middle and high-end nobles, and even the royal family, and is listed as a luxury product...
Of course, the packaging will also be different. For example, the oil paper bag that wraps brown sugar has the words "delicious cane sugar" written on it. In addition to the words, the bag that wraps brown sugar will also be printed with exquisite patterns to show the difference.
As for white sugar, it is even more amazing. Not only is it wrapped in the most exquisite oil paper bag, but it is also packed in exquisite wooden boxes on the outside. Then, it will be sold for 100 million yuan... Ah, it is a very high price... at least, it will exceed the price of pepper...
In fact, Marin is not unaware that the sugar produced by activated carbon is better. Moreover, Marin also knows some ways to make activated carbon - it is to use 500 degrees high-temperature steam to impact the charcoal on the metal mesh, believing that it creates pores and causes adsorption.
However, it is very troublesome to get such equipment. Moreover, the production cost is also very high. In this era, the sugar produced by the yellow mud method was already white enough and could be considered a high-end product. So Marin was too lazy to get activated carbon. The most important thing is that the yellow mud method is low in cost and can be mass-produced.
This kind of black sugar can be bought for 3 shillings per pound, and if brown sugar is produced, the price will definitely be higher. As for white sugar, Marin had planned to have the price exceeding 10 shillings per pound. Moreover, sales must be controlled and the illusion of "nobleness" is created to maintain high prices.
At this time, Marin also reacted - it turned out that the housekeeper Angela did not feel sorry for the sugar, but because the sugar was also money! Calculated at 3 shillings per pound, the 110,000 pounds of black sugar are worth 330,000 shillings, equivalent to 66,000 gold coins...
But Marin still insisted on giving this batch of black sugar to the soldiers as a prize. Why? If the soldiers gave out gold coins, they would not feel anything if they received one or two gold coins.
However, I received one or two bags of oil paper bags and black sugar that I wrote inscriptions by myself. This rare thing is more attractive than giving money directly. If I send this black sugar worth 66,000 gold coins, I may have the effect that I will be more shocking than the cash of 150,000 gold coins...
Moreover, these black sugars were produced by Marin in the sugar cane plantation in Grenada. Apart from the need to provide food, accommodation and clothing for those serfs, there is basically no cost. In addition to the use of advanced agricultural technology and fertilizers, the sugar cane yield is quite high, resulting in lower production costs.
Chapter completed!