[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence":3,"chapter-warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-183":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Warlord: Starting with Daily Intelligence",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2338646,4572,"Chapter 183: Refining White Sugar!","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-183",183,"\u003Cp>“Heavens, it really is Lightning Silver Fish! My lord, I’m guilty—I almost smashed one with a stone!” Mi Gen was stunned and delighted, yet also terrified by his own actions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t exaggerate—Lightning Silver Fish won’t be hurt or scared off by just one stone.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They’ve entered the Silver Light Lake en masse, which means they’ve accepted this as their habitat.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“As long as we maintain the lake’s environment unchanged, they’ll return here every year!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Every year? My lord, does that mean you can, like the legends say, cultivate a hundred titled knights in just four or five years?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mi Gen finally relaxed, but his face now wore eager anticipation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If our lord continues advancing toward the viscount title, we his subordinates will surely rise with him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When we first followed our lord to the Land of Death, we thought our later years held no hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, our lord has become a viscount—and further promotion to earl is within reach!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That depends on how hard you work! If you train diligently, a hundred titled knights won’t be hard to produce!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And if you work even harder, earn me more merits, maybe I’ll be promoted to earl too!” Gervas laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, a hundred titled knights in four or five years? Gervas knew it was impossible…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not because the number was too high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But because it was too low!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his intelligence network, if he didn’t produce three or five hundred titled knights in four or five years, he’d be betraying his golden finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, we’ll work hard!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterwards, the care of the Silver Light Lake was entrusted to Old John.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Lightning Silver Fish have just begun spawning, a process that will last two or three days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after two or three days, once spawning is complete, will they voluntarily approach shore, waiting to be eaten by other creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But such a precious resource mustn’t be left to wild beasts—how else would our subordinates become titled knights?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, we’ll need dedicated serfs stationed by the lake to collect and retrieve the Lightning Silver Fish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, news of the Lightning Silver Fish must be confined to Gervas and a few trusted knights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Externally, they must all be treated as ordinary silver river fish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, that earl who caused a kingdom-wide sensation is a warning example.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, had that man’s silver fish habitat not been sabotaged…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would have surely risen to the rank of marquis in his lifetime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he was only the weakest of marquises, he’d still be a marquis family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For other nobles, such advancement usually takes generations—even dozens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, there’s one extreme scenario: joining the “entrepreneurial” ranks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But entrepreneurial opportunities are rare—only one or two every few hundred or even thousand years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, all the brown sugar produced these past months is here!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Also, the bamboo charcoal you ordered is ready!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then let’s begin!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the warehouse’s crates of brown sugar, Gervas couldn’t help but smile with delight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To him, these sugars were already glittering gold coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over these months, the Sugarcane Island had produced over three thousand kilograms of brown sugar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roughly a thousand kilograms per month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this output wasn’t high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the bottleneck wasn’t the process—it was the supply of sugarcane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that over half the sugarcane groves on the island have been cut down, brown sugar production has dropped to its lowest point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because at least one-third of the remaining sugarcane must be kept as seed stock for next year’s larger planting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of the remaining two-thirds, harvesting and boiling must be selective, based on sales demand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, to sell this brown sugar at a higher price, Gervas planned to refine it into white sugar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White sugar is pure and translucent, grains like crystal diamonds—its appearance and taste are far more suitable for sale than brown sugar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cost of refining brown sugar into white sugar is extremely low: simply remove all its pigments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once stripped of color, brown sugar becomes the white sugar of his past life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Traditional refining methods are two: yellow earth adsorption and activated charcoal adsorption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas chose the latter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, dissolve the brown sugar in clean water, then add large quantities of bamboo charcoal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stir and mix thoroughly, letting the charcoal adsorb all the pigments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then filter the charcoal-laden water repeatedly through gauze to remove all residue, and re-boil the sugar solution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the water evaporates, white sugar appears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… my lord, how did brown sugar turn into crystal? But these crystals are full of cracks and shards—don’t they seem worthless?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I think brown sugar’s still more valuable—nobles will fight to buy it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mi Gen, seeing the white sugar, mistook it for crystal—cracked, shattered crystal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having tasted brown sugar, he naturally believed it was worth more than broken crystal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He now lamented the waste of so much brown sugar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas smiled: “Mi Gen, this isn’t crystal—it’s ‘gold,’ gold even more valuable than brown sugar!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… how did it become gold again?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enough—taste it and you’ll understand!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing his subordinates’ bewildered expressions, Gervas dropped the riddle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He scooped up a small amount of white sugar and handed it to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They took it, puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Eat it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gulp!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, won’t eating this crystal tear up my stomach?” Mi Gen hesitated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Will you eat it or not?” Gervas stared at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If my lord says to eat it, then even if my stomach gets torn apart, I, Mi Gen, will eat it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mi Gen realized Gervas wasn’t joking. He closed his eyes and shoved the pinch of white sugar into his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other knights, seeing this, followed without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the knights realized something strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The “shattered crystal” melted in their mouths, flooding their bodies with an unprecedented sweetness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sweetness surpassed any fruit—apples, peaches, nothing compared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nor did they feel any pain from sharp shards cutting their tongues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, as saliva flowed, the “shattered crystal” dissolved, growing smaller and smaller.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How does it feel?” Gervas asked, smiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My… my lord, what is this? Why is it sweeter than brown sugar?” Mi Gen and the others were stunned and ashamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is called white sugar—a sugar more precious than brown sugar.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brown sugar is delicious, but its flavor is strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It suits dishes like brown sugar egg custard or brown sugar buns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White sugar, however, is pure sweetness—no other flavor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So it’s perfect for cakes, wine, or drinks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White sugar adds only sweetness; all other aromas come from the ingredients themselves, untouched and unmasked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, this… this really is gold! I thought it was broken crystal!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mi Gen no longer dared question—he finally understood what his lord meant by “gold.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This white sugar is sweeter and more miraculous than honey—how could nobles not fight over it?\u003C\u002Fp>",1126,"2026-06-20T22:44:01.160Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","f80ef9eeb5e6b0b3b47ed0c0a9cf78d437d9c64259c7b9070bdc1b4e849e6c7c","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-184","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-182",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-cover.jpg"]