My Empire War Game

"Beetroot?" Suren was taken aback for a moment, and then asked, "Where did you find it, and are there any more?"

"It's on the soil slope over there, there are many more." Bud pointed to the soil slope not far away and said.

The two came to the soil slope. A large lush and green plant grew on the soil slope, which looked a bit like the radishes grown in their previous homes.

"Lord, this is this kind of beetroot, which my mother discovered when we were in the giant bear tribe." Bud dug out a beetroot and handed it to Suren.

He stretched out his hand to take the beetroot, Suren shakes off the soil on it. The beetroot looks like a chunky radish, the root is sharp and the skin is red. After washing it with water, Suren cuts it off. After tasting the small pieces, a sweetness filled the mouth instantly.

"It's really sweet." Suren said in surprise. The sweetness of this beetroot is very high, much sweeter than the sugar cane he ate in his previous life.

When he drank the beet soup just now, he did not dare to confirm, but after tasting it personally, he finally determined that these beetroots were beets from the previous life. This beet is widely grown in the north. In addition to serving as a vegetable, one of its biggest functions is to squeeze sugar.

Sugar was completely a luxury in ancient times. It was much more expensive than salt. At that time, there were not many ways to obtain sugar. Except for some fruits, only sugar was obtained from honey. There are no railways, no cars, no highways and high-speed railways, and fruits are not easy to preserve, so it is not easy to eat fruits.

In the southern city of Karen, apart from some local fruits, there were only some preserved fruits from the desert kingdom, such as dates and raisins. Of course there are sugar and honey, but the amount of sugar is very small and the price is very expensive. These sugars are shipped from the south, and the amount is pitifully small every year.

The sugar squeezing process in this era is still very primordial. The sugarcane used in the south is used for squeezing sugar. The color of the squeezed sugar is reddish-brown, and the amount of white sugar is even smaller.

Suren found sugar beet here. As long as he grows it on a large scale, his territory will produce a large amount of white sugar every year. Although compared with salt, white sugar is not a necessity, even a luxury accessory, but for the nobles In other words, these sugars are standing items.

In fact, the difference between white sugar and brown sugar is not that big, and the sugar content inside is almost the same, but the taste of brown sugar is not as good as white sugar, and it has a bitter taste. Therefore, the prices of brown sugar and white sugar are very different, and the nobles can only use white sugar to entertain guests.

If brown sugar is used to entertain guests, if it spreads out, it will be laughed at by the entire aristocratic circle.

It is said that the white sugar made by the southern city-state alliance is made with the help of wizards. Most of the white sugar produced in other places is also the same, but Suren knows a way to make white sugar from brown sugar. The color of brown sugar is different from that of white sugar because there are impurities in it. As long as the impurities in the brown sugar are removed, the brown sugar becomes white sugar.

In this era, human beings have no good way to remove impurities, but Suren knows a simple and effective way to filter out the impurities in brown sugar.

"Go call everyone and collect the beetroot here." Suren put down the beetroot in his hand and ordered directly.

Soon all the beetroots were collected. These beets have been growing here for a long time. Many beets have already produced seeds. Suren also collected all these beet seeds. , He plans to grow sugar beets on a large area in his territory.

It took three hours and finally all the beets on this hillside were collected. The whole hillside was already bumpy. A total of four to five hundred catties of beets were harvested, as well as a bag of beet seeds. After collecting the beets, Suren did not continue to explore, and directly returned to the town with everyone.

Back to town immediately, Suren called several craftsmen over to make various sugar squeezing tools. The sugar squeezing process is not difficult. Under the guidance of Suren, several craftsmen made a sugar squeezing machine without much effort. In fact, the sugar squeezing machine is an improvement of an oil press.

Wash the beetroot and cut it into small pieces and put it in the machine for squeezing the juice. As the machine runs, after a while, a stream of red juice will flow out. These juices contain a lot of The common way to prepare sugar is to filter out the impurities that can be seen inside and then heat the sugar water to obtain sugar.

The two Barbarian warriors were allowed to turn the machine, and the sugar water continued to seep out, and soon a bucket was filled. Suren reached out and dipped it in the sugar water and put it in his mouth. The sweetness was very strong.

In this way, only brown sugar is produced. If Suren wants to make white sugar, another filtering method must be adopted.

He is going to use activated carbon filtration. When he was in school in his previous life, he knew that activated carbon is a widely used filter material, which has a very good filtering effect. It's just that Suren knows that activated carbon has a good filtering effect, but he doesn't know how activated carbon is made.

Even if I learned it when I was in school, I almost forgot it after so many years. He only remembered that activated carbon was obtained by carbonization of wood. Although he doesn't know how to make activated carbon, he still knows how to make charcoal. Today, charcoal is used for steelmaking in the territory every day.

Although charcoal does not have as good filtering effect as activated carbon, it can also be filtered. At worst, it’s better to filter a few more times. Let people go to the kiln to transport a car of charcoal, and then let the workers crush the charcoal into Small particles, then rinse these particles with clean water.

While directing Barbarian to squeeze sugar water, the other directing others to make charcoal pellets.

After washing the charcoal clean, and then drying it, Suren got a bunch of small black particles. Next, pour these black charcoal particles directly into the red sugar water, and then stir.

The time to witness the miracle has arrived. I saw that the original reddish-brown sugar water gradually faded during the mixing process, and the color soon became clear.

Several Barbarians next to Suren watched Suren’s operations stupidly. They couldn’t figure out why the sugar water became transparent after adding those dark things to the brown sugar water.

Seeing that the sugar water became transparent, Suren couldn't help but giggled. It seemed that his method had succeeded.

"Hurry up and don't eat it!" While Suren was smirking, the two Barbarians sneaked into the bucket, scooped a spoon of sugar water, and drank it quickly. Suren picked up the spoon and hit the two heads twice.

The two Barbarians gave a smirk, and then resumed their work.

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