Sugarcane has a remarkably high sugar yield. Fifteen pounds of it can be boiled down to produce one pound of brown sugar, and the process is simple, requiring no complex equipment.
Lu Zhifeng cut down a large bundle in one go, a good hundred pounds. Based on the yield, that could be boiled down into ten pounds of brown sugar, or seven to eight pounds if it was filtered and refined into white sugar.
When Jiang Chengwu was young, he had also grown sugarcane and even made sugar for everyone as a treat. Seeing the large bundle, he chuckled and asked, "Wild sugarcane? Is this all of it?"
This was a variety of green sugarcane, long and thin. It didn't look very sweet, but tearing a piece open and taking a bite revealed it was plenty sweet.
Lu Zhifeng beamed. "There's more, there's more! Probably enough for several more bundles."
If they were careful with it, this would be enough sugar to last everyone a whole year.
