Early in the morning, after morning exercise, Li Chao was pulled by Hong Shin and Si Niang to go shopping.

They are going back to Hanjing soon, and they plan to buy some local products here. In fact, in Hanjing today, there is no local products in the north and south. Even if there is no Hanjing, the Li family can buy any local products they want.

However, shopping is also a kind of leisure. She also knew that they came south this time and she didn't have time to spend more time with them, so she planned to spend time with them shopping and accompany them.

Cheng Qian also wanted to follow him, but in fact he had never visited the street markets in Jiaozhou.

He did not ask the officials to accompany him, and changed into casual clothes, brought several guard masters with the same casual clothes by his side, and then asked other guards to follow him around to protect him.

"Is there any special local products in Jiaozhou?" Hongshi has been moisturized in the past two days, his face is rosy and his spirit is very good.

"Is the specialty of Jiaozhou? Of course it is sugar. I recommend a few special sugars, one is brown sugar. This is the most primitive and traditional pure handmade sucrose. This brown sugar is black and purple, so it is called brown sugar. The best brown sugar has a natural caramel charcoal burning incense, which is rich and fragrant, which makes people feel fragrant and has endless aftertaste. For women, drinking with hot water in brown sugar water during their period can warm the belly, relieve pain, and are a good thing for warming up the stomach."

Si Niang was a little embarrassed when she heard this, but Hong Shi smiled and said, "Is it really that effective?" Among the people she knew, there were many problems with abdominal pain during menstruation. In those days, it was a life-threatening pain.

"Let's take a look in the store."

The most popular product in Jiaozhou is sugar, and the stores here sell a variety of sugars.

Li Chao and his friends entered a store that specializes in selling black sugar.

A small brown sugar also comes in various styles.

"Welcome to the shop. What do you want to order? We have the most authentic brown sugar in Jiaozhou, including pure brown sugar, osmanthus brown sugar, ginger brown sugar, rose brown sugar and other flower brown sugar."

The shopkeepers were very young. When they saw Li Chao and the others dressed in bright clothes, they knew that they were quite good. Especially with their female relatives, they recommended them harder.

He spoke very well in one word. He kept reporting dozens of brown sugar in the store.

As expected, the red line was immediately shocked by so many kinds of black sugar and the praising effect.

They are especially interested in those fresh flower brown sugar, such as osmanthus brown sugar, and rose brown sugar.

Li Chao asked about the price, but it was not expensive, but the brown sugar of these flowers was obviously much more expensive than ordinary brown sugar. I have to say that the merchants of this era were also very smart.

As the Tang Dynasty or the largest sugar industry in the world, Jiaozhou has now made a variety of sugars. Sugar processing and refining various sugars, brown sugar, brown sugar, white sugar, rock sugar, milk candy, fruit candy, etc., a long street here sells sugar, but it is not the same, but each has its own focus, and each family has its own tricks.

I have to say that this kind of business method is very smart.

The guy introduced the ceiling, Hong Shi and Si Niang, two smart women, couldn't help but shine, and finally bought it. They bought it and bought it. They also bought it and wanted it. They didn't think about it. The Li family was in the sugar industry, and even in the entire Jiaozhou sugar industry, the Li family was the real industry leader.

The Li family didn't want much candy, but now the two of them are excited to buy candy in this small shop.

Li Chao and Chengqian sat in the leisure area specially placed in the store, and the store provided free black sugar trials.

The brown sugar brewed in hot water does taste good, especially after adding it to the flower, the taste is different.

"I didn't expect it?" Li Chao said to Cheng Qian with a smile, "Actually, women are born to be shopping mad, and they are easily moved by the variety of products."

Li Chao knew very well that men should satisfy women at this time.

If Li Chao said, we would say that there would be more sugar in our house and how much is it to send them to the house, it would probably be very disappointing.

"Don't you buy some?" Li Chao said to Chengqian.

"You can buy it in Hanjing, right?" Cheng Qian said.

Li Chao shook his head with a smile, "Hanjing must have it. Although the price must be a little more expensive, I know you don't care about this price, but can you buy it in Hanjing the same as in Jiaozhou? Giving goose feathers for thousands of miles is light and affection is heavy. Buying some local products in Jiaozhou thousands of miles to bring them back to Beijing, and then giving them to the queen, Your Majesty and the concubines, what will they think? I must think the prince is willing."

When Cheng Qian heard this, he seemed to be such a polite person.

"Then I'll go choose some, too." Cheng Qian hurriedly got up.

Li Chao continued to sit there leisurely and tasted the black sugar water.

This is just like traveling in later generations. In fact, there are many specialties in various places and everywhere. But what you bring back from the local area is of course more meaningful.

The decoration of this store is pretty good and the service is also very good.

Hongzi and the others bought brown sugar, and they were accompanied by them throughout the process. Not only did they introduce various sugars in detail, but they even tried to brew and try them.

After Li Chao sat alone, a young girl came to entertain him.

When he was free, Li Chao talked to her about the production of brown sugar.

In fact, the production of brown sugar is not a secret, because this is the most traditional sugar making process. Brown sugar has not been refined or decolorized. In addition to providing heat energy, it also contains trace elements, which is more nutritious than white sugar.

However, people are like this. Although brown sugar has high nutritional value, in the market, the whiter the sugar, the more valuable it is. After the appearance of white sugar and rock sugar, it can be said that everyone is chasing white sugar. As for nutrition, who cares? They only know that white sugar has many more craftsmanship than brown sugar, and looks more beautiful like frost.

However, nowadays, brown sugar has been packaged with some packaging, such as adding osmanthus, etc., and pays more attention to changes in taste, making brown sugar popular.

"First squeeze the sugarcane juice, then boil it for about six hours to remove the water from the sugarcane juice and decompose it into syrup..."

Li Chao nodded from time to time, and the brown sugar was indeed purely handmade.

"Your store is doing well!" Li Chao said. He looked at the store carefully. It was about 40 or 50 square meters, but there were six young men and women. There was a shopkeeper behind the counter. In addition, there was obviously a yard behind the store, with a front shop and a back shop.

The workshop behind is a place where black sugar is processed by hand, and there are also many workers.

With so many people, the business must be good, otherwise wouldn't it be a loss?

"Since King Yue went south to Lingnan this year, our Jiaozhou City has become more and more lively, and more merchants have come. Our store's business has improved a lot, and now all the six people in the store are still busy." The girl said.

While chatting, an old man in rags appeared at the door with a barefoot and a bamboo stick, holding a broken pottery bowl in his hand.

The shopkeeper behind the counter said, "Go and send it."

The girl looked apologetic to Li Chao, then got up and came to the door, put two copper coins into the old man's bowl, the old man bowed to the store, said a few thanks before leaving.

Li Chao looked at the figure and thoughtful.

"Are there many beggars in Jiaozhou?"

The girl said apologetically, "There were quite a few in the past two years, but it has been getting fewer and fewer in the past two years."

The girl is also a talkative person.

According to what she said, there was sugarcane in Jiaozhou in the past and sugar was also made, but the sugar yield was not high, and the sugar in Jiaozhou was not very famous. At that time, the most popular sugar was the white sugar of Tianzhu. However, the white sugar of Tianzhu was actually brown sugar, or brown sugar, which was not white.

But it was also an exclusive technology at that time.

As the largest port in the south, Jiaozhou is pretty good, but the surrounding agriculture is not very developed, even if there are excellent plains here. However, there are often storms here, floods and floods during the rainy season, and droughts sometimes during the dry season, not all of which are good weather. Farmers and fishermen are often affected. Like the Central Plains before, when they encounter disasters, they have no worries about food and clothing, and even have to borrow money. It is also common for selling land, houses, children and women.

When disaster occurs, a large number of victims will come to Jiaozhou, after all, this is a commercial port.

In recent years, many merchants from the Central Plains have come here to buy land and make industries, build sugarcane plantations, and establish sugarcane sugar squeezing plants, sugar refining plants, etc. This is a good thing for the people of Jiaozhou, because not only has the price of sugarcane increased, but the purchase price of grain has also increased. They can also make money by doing odd jobs during the slack farming period. Some children of some families are even sent directly to be apprentices and workers, which is also a way out.

In the event of wind and floods, Li Ji Money House in the city also borrowed low interest rates, and sugar factories in major plantations donated money and grain to rescue disasters, and also provided some work to the victims. In short, everyone's life is indeed better than before.

"Now people with hands and feet can basically support themselves. Even if they have no property or business at home, they can still work in the plantation, and the treatment there is still good."

Speaking of this, the girl is still very grateful to the merchants of the Central Plains manors. Her family used to have land, but later she borrowed usury due to disaster and finally couldn't afford it. The land was mortgaged, and her sister was even sent to a wealthy family to be a maid.

It was after the people from the Central Plains that their family's lives were changed. His parents planted sugarcane in a sugarcane plantation, and had a fixed salary instead of planting in a tenant land. In addition, she also found a job in the city, with a monthly salary of more than 1,000 yuan, and she also included food and accommodation. She could save ten tons of money a year, which was already a lot in Jiaozhou.

Her younger brother even went to the school run by the owner of the manor and studied for free. Even she herself had a literacy class in the city to learn how to write and count. Because she is good at speaking the official language now, she can write and count it simply. Her boss even said she would give her a raise.

"When King Zhao is here, our lives will be better in the future."
Chapter completed!