"Beetroot?" Suhlen paused for a moment before asking, "Where did you find it? Do you have any more?"
"It's on the slope over there. There's still a lot." Bard pointed at the slope not far away.
The two arrived at the slope, where a large patch of lush plants grew. They looked a bit like the radishes in his previous life.
"Monseigneur, this is the beetroot. My mother found it when we were in the Giant Bear Tribe." Bard dug out a beetroot and handed it to Suhlen.
Suhlen took the beetroot and shook off the soil on it. The beetroot looked like a short and fat radish with a sharp root and red skin. After washing it with water, Suhlen cut off a small piece and tasted it. A sweet taste instantly filled his mouth.
"It's so sweet." Suhlen said in surprise. The beetroot was very sweet, much sweeter than the sugarcane he ate in his previous life.
He wasn't sure when he drank the beetroot soup, but after tasting it for himself, he was finally sure that the beetroot was the beet from his previous life. This kind of beet was widely planted in the north. Apart from being eaten as a vegetable, its biggest use was to extract sugar.
Sugar was a luxury accessory in ancient times and was much more expensive than salt. At that time, there weren't many ways to obtain sugar. Apart from some fruits, the only other way was to obtain sugar from honey. There were no railways, no cars, no highways, and no high-speed trains. Fruits weren't easy to preserve, so it wasn't easy to eat them.
When he was in Kalen City in the south, apart from some local fruits, there were only preserved fruits from the desert kingdom, such as dates and raisins. Of course, there were also white sugar and honey, but the amount of white sugar was very small and very expensive. The white sugar was shipped from the south, and the amount produced every year was pitifully small.
The sugar extraction process in this era was still very primitive. The south used sugarcane to extract sugar, and the color of the extracted sugar was reddish-brown. The amount of white sugar was even less.
Su Lun found sugar beets here. As long as he planted them on a large scale, his territory would produce a large amount of white sugar every year. Although white sugar was not a necessity or even a luxury compared with salt, for the nobles, it was a regular item.
In fact, there wasn't much difference between white sugar and brown sugar. The sugar content was also similar, but brown sugar didn't taste as good as white sugar. It had a bitter taste. Therefore, the price of brown sugar and white sugar were very different, and the nobles could only use white sugar to entertain their guests.
If news of them using brown sugar to entertain their guests spread, they would become a joke in the nobles' circle.
It was said that the white sugar produced by the southern city-state alliance was made with the help of wizards. Most of the white sugar produced in other places were the same. Suhlen knew a way to use brown sugar. Brown sugar was white sugar was white sugar was white sugar was white sugar was white sugar was brown sugar??????????????????
In this era, humans didn't have a good way to get rid of the impurities, but Suhlen knew a simple and effective way to filter out the impurities in brown sugar.
Suhlen put down the beetroot in his hand and ordered, "Go get everyone here and collect the beetroot."
Soon, all the beetroot was collected. The beetroot had been growing here for a long time, and many of them had already borne seeds. Suhlen also collected all the beetroot seeds. He was going to plant a large amount of beetroot in his territory.
After three hours, all the beetroot on the hill was finally collected. The whole hill was full of potholes, and they collected a total of four to five hundred pounds of beetroot and a bag of beetroot seeds. After collecting all the beetroot, Suhlen didn't continue to explore. Instead, he brought everyone back to the town.
As soon as they returned to the town, Suhlen called a few craftsmen over and prepared to make all kinds of sugar-extracting tools. The sugar-extracting process wasn't difficult. Under Suhlen's guidance, the craftsmen didn't spend much effort to make a sugar-extracting machine. In fact, the sugar-extracting machine was an improved version of an oil press.
After washing and cutting the beetroot into small pieces, they were put into the machine to extract the juice. As the machine ran, a red juice flowed out. This juice contained a lot of sugar. The normal way to make it was to filter out the impurities and then heat the sugar water to obtain the sugar.
Two barbarian warriors turned the machine, and the sugar water continued to seep out. Soon, a bucket was filled to the brim. Suhlen dipped his hand in the sugar water and put it in his mouth. The sweetness was very strong.
This way, only brown sugar was produced. If Suhlen wanted to make white sugar, he had to use another filtering method.
He was going to use activated carbon filtration. When he was in school in his previous life, he knew that activated carbon was a widely used filtration material. This material had a very good filtration effect. Although Suhlen knew that activated carbon had a good filtration effect, he didn't know how it was made.
Even if he had learned about it in school, he had forgotten most of it after so many years. He only remembered that activated carbon was obtained by carbonizing wood. Although he didn't know how to make activated carbon, he still knew how to make charcoal. Now, the territory used charcoal every day to make steel.
Although charcoal didn't have as good a filtration effect as activated carbon, it could still be filtered. At worst, he could just filter it a few more times. He sent someone to the kiln factory to deliver a cart of charcoal. Then, he had the workers crush the charcoal into small particles and wash the particles with water.
On one hand, he directed the barbarians to extract the sugar water, and on the other hand, he directed the others to make the charcoal particles.
After washing the charcoal and drying it, Suhlen obtained a pile of small black particles. Next, he poured the black charcoal particles directly into the red sugar water and stirred.
It was time to witness a miracle. The original reddish-brown sugar water's color constantly faded during the stirring process. Soon, the color became clear.
Several barbarians next to him looked at Su Lun's operation in a daze. They couldn't figure out why the brown sugar water became transparent after adding those black things.
Seeing the sugar water become transparent, Suhlen couldn't help but laugh. It seemed that his method was successful.
"Hurry up and work, don't eat!" While Suhlen was laughing foolishly, two barbarians secretly reached into the water bucket, scooped up a spoonful of sugar water, and quickly drank it. Suhlen picked up the spoon and hit their heads twice.
The two barbarians laughed foolishly and continued to work.
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