My Empire War Game

"Beetroot?" Su Lun was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Where did you find it, and is there any more?"

"It's on the dirt slope over there, there are quite a few there." Bud pointed to the dirt slope not far away and said.

The two came to the soil slope, and there was a large lush plant growing on the soil slope, which looked a bit like the radish planted in the hometown of the previous life.

"Sir, this is the beetroot. My mother found it when we were in the giant bear tribe." Bud dug out a beetroot and handed it to Su Lun.

Reaching out his hand to take the beetroot, Suren shook off the soil on it. The beetroot looks like a squat radish with sharp roots and red skin. After washing it with water, Suren cut off a small piece and tasted it. , a burst of sweetness fills the mouth instantly.

"It's so sweet." Su Lun said in surprise, the sweetness of this beetroot is very high, much sweeter than the sugarcane he ate in his previous life.

He didn't dare to confirm when he drank the beetroot soup just now, but after tasting it himself, he finally determined that these beetroots were the beets from the previous life. This kind of beetroot is widely grown in the north. One of the biggest uses is to squeeze sugar.

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

In the southern city of Karen, in addition to some local fruits, there are only some preserved fruits from the desert kingdom, such as jujube and raisins. Of course, there are also sugar and honey, but the amount of sugar is very small and the price is very expensive. These white sugars are shipped from the South, and the annual amount is pitiful.

The sugar extraction process in this era was still very primitive. The sugar cane used in the south was used to extract sugar, and the color of the extracted sugar was reddish-brown, and the amount of white sugar was even less.

Su Lun discovered sugar beets here. As long as they are planted on a large scale, his territory will produce a lot of white sugar every year. Although white sugar is not a necessity or even a luxury compared to salt, for nobles, these white sugars are Standing items.

In fact, the difference between white sugar and brown sugar is not big, and the sugar content in it is similar, but the taste of brown sugar is not as good as that of white sugar, and it has a bit of bitterness in it. Therefore, the price of brown sugar and white sugar is 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 in the entire aristocratic circle.

It is said that the white sugar made by the city-state alliance in the south is made with the help of the power of wizards, and most of the white sugar produced in other places is the same, but Suren knows a way to make white sugar from brown sugar. Brown sugar and white sugar are different in color because there are impurities in them. As long as the impurities in brown sugar are removed, 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 and call everyone and collect the beetroots here." Su Lun put down the beetroot in his hand and ordered directly.

Soon all the beetroots in this piece were collected. These beets have been growing here for a long time, and many beetroots have already produced seeds. Su Lun also collected all these beetroot seeds, and he is going to be in the territory. Beets are grown on a large scale.

It took three hours to finally collect all the beets on this hillside. The whole hillside was full of pits and pits. A total of four or five hundred kilograms of beets were harvested, as well as a bag of beet seeds. After collecting the beets, Su Lun did not continue to explore and returned to the town with the crowd.

As soon as he returned to the town, Su Lun called several craftsmen over to prepare various sugar-pressing tools. The sugar-pressing process is not difficult. Under the guidance of Su Lun, several craftsmen made a sugar-pressing machine without much effort. In fact, the sugar-pressing machine was improved by an oil-pressing machine.

Wash the beetroot and cut it into small pieces and put it into the machine for juicing. With the machine running, a red juice will flow out after a while. These juices contain a lot of sugar. The sugar is obtained by filtering out the visible impurities and heating the sugar water.

Let the two barbarian warriors turn the machine, and the sugar water keeps seeping out, and soon a bucket is 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, and Suren has to take another filtering method if he wants to make white sugar.

What he was going to use was activated carbon filtration. When he was in school in his previous life, he knew that activated carbon was a widely used filter material, and this material had a very good filtering effect. It's just that although Su Lun knows that activated carbon has a good filtering effect, he doesn't know how activated carbon is made.

Even if I learned it when I was in school before, I would have forgotten about it after so many years. He only remembered that activated carbon was obtained by carbonizing wood. Although he doesn't know how to make activated charcoal, he still knows how to make charcoal. Now, charcoal is used in steelmaking every day in the territory.

Although charcoal is not as good as activated carbon, it can also be filtered. The big deal is to filter it several times. Let someone send a truck of charcoal to the kiln factory, and then let the workers crush the charcoal into fine particles, and then use these particles with Rinse with clean water.

On the one hand, the barbarians were instructed to squeeze the sugar water, and on the other hand, the others were instructed to make charcoal pellets.

After rinsing the charcoal and drying it, Suren got a bunch of little black particles. Next pour these black charcoal particles directly into the near red sugar water and stir.

The moment to witness the miracle has come. I saw that the original reddish-brown sugar water continued to lighten during the stirring process, and soon the color became clear.

A few barbarians next to him looked at Su Lun's operation stupidly. They couldn't understand why the sugar water became transparent after adding those dark things to the brown sugar water.

Seeing that the sugar water became transparent, Su Lun couldn't help smirking, it seemed that his method had succeeded.

"Hurry up, don't steal it!" The two barbarians sneaked into the bucket while Su Lun smirked, scooped a spoonful of sugar water, and drank it quickly. Su Lun picked up the spoon and hit the two people's heads twice.

The two savages let out a silly laugh and resumed their work.

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