Mr. Wang's face was as deep as water. He said, "Although you are the official farm, I am just a businessman, but everything must be reasonable. In previous years, I collected the candy. Whether it was the peace year or the disaster year, my payment for the goods was settled in one go, and I have never been owed. This year, I came here from afar, and you turned me out with just one word. Chen Tou, isn't this suitable?"

Old Man Chen was indeed a little embarrassed. He said, "Mr. Wang, you know that you have always been fair in business, but this brown sugar is really not sold this year. So, I will take you to the homes of those farmers. No matter how much, you can collect some first and at least fill it."

"Is someone who came to collect it before me? Chen Tou, we have been doing business for many years. You should know what kind of person I, Wang Baiwan, are you? I don't have to pay. Chen Tou, you know, those people don't know the details, and they may not be as happy as I can for my payment!" Seeing that he was sincere, Mr. Wang's anger was a little restrained. This year, the Guangdong and Guangxi region suffered a drought, and many villagers there picked up sugarcane seedlings and replanted sweet potatoes.

There was originally a sugar-producing province there, but at least three or four out of ten brown sugar was produced in the southern market. This year, the production of brown sugar has dropped immediately, almost half of the previous years.

After receiving the news, Mr. Wang immediately set off for Nanmin Province, hoping to buy brown sugar at the original price before the news spread. But unexpectedly, someone actually made a move, but it was nothing more than being taken away by others. As long as it could be transported out, the profit here was still very large.

Old Man Chen was a little amused and laughed: "Where do we come from? We are remote here. If we were not familiar merchants, who would have come to us?"

"What's the reason? If it's the price, then it's easy to say. I'm willing to raise 10% of the original price. How about it?" Mr. Wang looked very open-minded. Zhangzhou Prefecture is very suitable for growing sugarcane. It's better in size and sweetness than other places, and the brown sugar squeezed is also excellent. If it's not that it's too remote, there will definitely be a lot of people coming to bid.

Old Man Chen shook his head: "Mr. Wang, this is not a matter of price. To be honest, all the brown sugar we sold this year is made into frosted sugar, brown sugar and brown sugar, and even if we want to sell it to you, there is no more."

Mr. Wang's pupils expanded rapidly. What did he hear?

"Tao Chen, are you kidding? Have you made frosting candy? That kind of white frosting candy?"

Old Man Chen proudly raised his chest: "That's right! It's piled up in our warehouse now. I know Mr. Wang, you have always been in the brown sugar business, so you can't sell it this year."

"Brother Chen, you are prejudice. Who said that we who do brown sugar business can't buy frosted candy?" Wang Baiwan suddenly changed his smile and said happily. "Take me to see it. If it's good, I'll want it all!"

His readily words made Old Man Chen feel at a loss. The price of frosted candy is much higher than that of brown sugar. How can it be?

"Master Wang, this little old man can't make the decision, and the frosting here looks better than the ones on the market, and the price will not be lower." It's not possible to lower the price!

"Then please ask Brother Chen to ask someone who can decide. If the price is, I have to check the quality of the sugar before discussing it. If it is really a top-quality product, I will naturally not treat you badly." Wang Baiwan is determined to win these frosting sugar. Speaking of which, isn't the reason why he has been doing the brown sugar business because he can't get the frosting sugar?

Almost all the frosting sugar on the market come from the Zheng family in Huainan and the Yang family in Jiangyin. The two companies are blooming everywhere, and only they eat meat, so others can’t even drink soup. Even Wang Baiwan, who does the sugar business himself, spends thousands of taels of money to buy their frosting sugar to make his face every year.

Seeing that he really wanted, Old Man Chen no longer hesitated and asked someone to take a ox cart to the Tixue Department to find someone. He took Wang Baiwan into the village and opened the warehouse to let him check the quality of Frosantang.

Before seeing Frosting Tang, Wang Baiwan was actually half-believing and half-doubted. He himself tried to make Frosting Tang, but whether it was washing or sieving, it was just a waste of brown sugar and could not succeed at all.

"This...this is the quality..." Wang Baiwan walked forward a few steps and wanted to reach into the jar to touch it. Old Man Chen quickly stopped him, and then scooped some candy with a wooden spoon and poured it on his hand.

Wang Baiwan first looked at its color and found that it was as sweet as the white snow in the Tianshan Mountains, with dry tentacles and fine sand on the beach. He stuck out his tongue and licked the candy into his mouth and sucked it. He found that the sweetness of the candy seemed to be better than that outside, and it was indeed a top-quality one!

Old Man Chen observed his expression and smiled proudly: "Mr. Wang, can this candy be considered a top-notch?"

Wang Baiwan didn't speak out for a while. According to the merchants' habits, it was their instinct to belittle the goods, otherwise how could they lower the price?

Fortunately, Old Man Chen didn't ask any more. After seeing Frosting Tang, he invited him into the house. Then he asked his wife to make a sugar cake and make a cup of hot tea to serve it to greet him.

This thing was made by Chu Ciran. According to his words, "The visitor is a customer. Regardless of whether it is sold in the end or not, the transaction will not be successful. At least they must leave a good impression on Zhangzhou Prefecture, so that more merchants will come and go in the future."

Wang Baiwan is a rich businessman. He has never eaten any good things. This sugar cake is nothing. But he had just poured the cold wind all the way, and now he is sitting here comfortably drinking tea and eating the sweet, soft, white and tender sugar cake. He actually feels a strange sense of satisfaction. This makes him feel a little more fond of the frosted candy in the village.

After eating, the two sat for a while and the people from the School arrived. It was Wang Ming, and Wang Baiwan didn't dare to be the same as his attitude towards Old Man Chen when he saw him. Since ancient times, there has been differences between officials and civilians. Even if he is just a school official, his status is much higher than that of a businessman.

"Mr. Wang, this is Lord Wang from the Tixue Department." Old Man Chen recommended them.

"Master Wang? This is a coincidence. My surname is Wang. Maybe we will be together five hundred years ago." Wang Ming smiled very well, his attitude was like gossiping, without the arrogance of a superior.

Wang Baiwan felt flattered. As a businessman, it is common to deal with officials. Not to mention these high-ranking officials, even those who are bad at the yamen and have a higher head than others. How could anyone have such a good talker?

"Sir, sir, how dare Xiaomin's king be compared with yours."

"I can't write two words Wang in one stroke, everyone is the same." Wang Ming smiled, "Okay, I won't say much about gossip. Does Mr. Wang really want to do this frosting business?"

Wang Baiwan nodded quickly: "Sir, Xiaomin really wants to do this business. But I don't know how much the frosted candy is? If the price is right, I'll have it all."

Wang Ming was a little worried. He had sent the letter of asking for the price and had not responded yet. He had also learned about the shops these days that the price of each store was different. The one he purchased at his own home was the one in the middle. One tael was about sixty-three or four, and one pound would cost about one tael of silver.

He had never understood these trivial matters in the past, and now he was a little shocked when he heard it. If his family had no permanent property, he would probably not be able to afford the sugar by relying on his salary of more than ten taels of taels a month.

If you want to quote, you must not be at this price. How much is the right one?

Seeing the adult frowning and feeling dissatisfied, Wang Baiwan couldn't help feeling a little nervous. What if the other party opened his mouth and made another forced purchase?

In the end, Wang Ming did not quote first, but explored his words, and then spoke with the quality of his own candy. Wang Baiwan was also familiar with bargaining. From the difficulty of making a fortune to the difficulty of transportation, he finally sold at a price of 57 ounces per tael.

Wang Ming was quite satisfied with the price. After all, it was someone else who came to collect it, so they didn't have to spend time and effort to transport it outside. Wang Baiwan was also quite satisfied, although it was a little more expensive than his psychological price.

This year, the production of brown sugar has been reduced, and this kind of frosting sugar will inevitably be less than before. Scarcity is expensive. Now the frosting sugar outside has been mentioned for about 70 cents every two, which will probably be higher when it is approaching the end of the year. If you buy this batch of frosting sugar, you should lose the cost and the money back and forth, and you will have to make more money than buying brown sugar.

Old Man Chen, who was watching them discussing business, was very excited. In previous years, he worked so hard to make brown sugar, and the purchase price was only fifteen cents per tael. This year, with the help of a cow, it was only one more process than before, and the price could double!

After the business was negotiated, Wang Baiwan was afraid that there would be too many dreams at night, so he asked to weigh it immediately. There was a big scale on the farm. Old Man Chen called out the mansion from the farm to carry out the frosting and candy in the warehouse one by one to weigh it.

After weighing a jar, the weight was written on the paper and sticking it at the mouth of the jar. The five farms combined together had more than 800 acres of land. The construction area and the area where rice and other fruits and vegetables were planted, the sugarcane was about 200 acres.

There were no various fertilizers in ancient times, and the output of one acre of land was about three to ten tons compared to the modern day. One acre of land here is about one or two tons. It is converted into the ancient kilograms. One acre of fertilizer can produce about two thousand five hundred kilograms, while thin land can only produce more than one thousand kilograms.

Some of the heads of the farms in Tixue Department were diligent and lazy, so in the end, the total harvest of 410,000 kilograms of sugarcane was about 410,000 kilograms of sugarcane. One hundred kilograms of sugarcane can produce three kilograms of sugar, one kilogram is 912 kilograms, and three kilograms is more than two kilograms of silver.

Wang Ming asked a few subordinates to settle the accounts together. The few people made a quick calculation and finally calculated the price of sugar in the yard. The accountant invited by Wang Baiwan was also planning it. Finally, the two sides reconciled the accounts and found that the number was just right. The total price of sugar was 11,124 taels and six cents of silver.

Wang Ming generously stated that the fraction could be erased, so the six coins were erased.

The amount is relatively large, and Wang Baiwan only brought a few thousand taels of silver notes. Fortunately, the money house here was exchanged across the country, so Wang Baiwan quickly invited Wang Ming, brought the seal, and went to the money house that world to exchange the silver notes.

On the next day, Wang Baiwan took the big ship carrying more than 10,000 kilograms of frosted sugar and left Zhangzhou Prefecture.

After the money was settled, Chu Ci was so angry that he thought that he could squeeze another batch of candy in January and February next year, he was extremely happy.

However, this was not the thing that made him happiest. He opened the old calendar and looked at the time in the circle, and felt a mixed feeling of sourness and sourness in his heart.

In another three or five days, Kou Jingjing will arrive!

Chu Ci couldn't forget how he felt when he received the letter and saw the news. He remembered that when he left the capital, he coaxed Kou Jing and said he could go back in one year. It has been more than three years now. He is still in Nanmin Province, and the person who said he wanted to wait for him in the capital came here.

Chu Ci always looks in the mirror when he has time these days, as if he has become the one who attaches great importance to appearance. Since he came to Zhangzhou Prefecture, he has been busy with official duties all the time. He doesn't know if he is still as gentle and handsome as he used to be.

...

Kou Jing was also a little nervous. His nervousness did not come from his appearance, but from some people on the boat.

In the past, Kou Jing still had a good impression of civil servants. He was not like other military officers. He always thought civil servants were cunning and cunning, and had a lot of bad things. However, when he was cheated by Taifu Wen, he couldn't help but have some opinions about the civil servant group.

That time, Master Wen came to him and said he wanted to take a few children with him. He thought that he might be his family members, so he agreed. But unexpectedly, on the eve of his departure, he returned to the general's mansion. As soon as he stepped into the hall, he saw Master Wen sitting in the hall chatting with Butler Xu. There were several people sitting next to him, one of whom was already a handsome young man, and the other two were children. One of them turned his head when he heard the sound. Kou Jing saw the round face at a glance. In the flash, he recognized the person. This was clearly the current sixth prince Yu Qiu!

Although this little prince is a few years older, his face contour has not changed much. From this point of view, the third prince Yu Min next to him should be the third prince Yu Min, and the seventh prince Yu Sui is younger than him! These people are exactly the same eyebrows and eyes as the emperor, making it difficult for people to see it wrong!

Kou Jing was exhausted for a moment. He invited Taifu Wen to the side and whispered to ask the reason. When he learned that it was the Secret Order of the Lord, he was silent. Although he didn't know the reason for the Lord to do this, he knew that he could not ask about it anymore. But did the Lord ask them to set off with the team?

"Mr. Wen, there are many people accompanying you along the way. If you have seen a few young masters, wouldn't the news be leaked?" Kou Jing raised the possible hidden dangers.

Wen Bing said with a smile: "This is going to bother General Kou to arrange a carriage for us. At that time, I will let a few young masters go out." Seeing that Kou Jing was still stern, he played the emotional card, "General Kou, it's not that I want to bother you, but we are old and young, aren't going out alone more suspicious? If we meet a strong man again on the way, I may be forced to be the entrusted by the emperor!"

Kou Jing sighed in his heart, which was one of the reasons why he did not object harshly.

"Since that's the case, please don't let the young masters go out alone. You can avoid it when there are too many people, and the officials will try their best to make arrangements."

Wen Bing stroked his beard and smiled with satisfaction. He had inquired before that General Kou was Chu Ci's righteous brother, and his character was definitely not a problem.

Because I was about to set off tomorrow, Kou Jing left them in the mansion to rest.

That night, when Butler Xu saw that the lights in Kou Jing were on, he asked him what he was worried about. Kou Jing trusted Butler Xu very much, so he told him about the matter.

Butler Xu thought for a while, then said, "Young Master wants them to disguise themselves so as to avoid people's eyes and ears, right? When I was with Master Chu, I heard something about him..." Butler Xu said that Chu Ci exposed the disguise of the Japanese, "I was very interested when I heard about it. Master Chu showed me the prescription of the medicine powder. I still remember it now."

When Kou Jing heard this, he seemed to have mentioned this in the letter, so he and Butler Xu prepared the disguise powder overnight according to the prescription.

The next day, the one who set out with him was an old man who looked very weak and a few unsightly grandchildren around him.

It was strange that when they left the capital by car, someone opened the curtain and carefully checked each car. Later, when they went to Haiping Mansion to take a boat, a team of people checked carefully before letting them get on the boat.

The time on the boat is hard to pass. In addition to taking his men down to the deck to practice his skills, Kou Jing sometimes sat down and talked to Mr. Wen.
Chapter completed!