Chapter Thirteen The Method of Brewing
Li Qingxian secretly gave Luo Jing a thumbs up, and then said, "Uncle Zhou, let's go through the past. Let's talk about the serious matters, and the distillation of strong liquor is true."
Zhou Chunfeng glared at Li Qingxian and said slowly: "If the method of distilling strong liquor can be achieved, it will be a big investment for Yewei and the national treasury. Tell me in detail."
Li Qingxian had already thought of countermeasures on the road, so he said, "My father likes to drink yellow wine in his spare time, Uncle Zhou, you should know."
Zhou Chunfeng was stunned for a moment, his thoughts floated. After a while, he came to his senses and said, "Yes, Gang Feng likes to drink rice wine, loose, and cheap."
Li Qingxian felt his heart down and said, "My father said that strong wine is not easy to brew. I was tight at the time and developed a way to make strong wine. I learned the art of fate. Before I started, I found that it could be done. I tried it secretly, but I didn't expect it to be true.
It's done. Next, just find a good brewer, plus a skilled work department official, and try it out, you can brew real spirits and sell them all over the country."
"I'm asking about the method of distilling strong liquor!" Zhou Chunfeng said.
Li Qingxian looked around the study, looked embarrassed and said, "Since everyone is my own, I won't hide it. When I was trying to make the spirits, I found an interesting thing, with the same amount of jar of wine and a
Pour the jar of water into a pot and bring to a boil. At the same heat and the same time, the wine will boil first, and it will dry quickly and the water will dry slowly. The wine is composed of pure water and pure wine. Since the wine is a grain-sized person, I don’t
Can pure wine be called alcohol? So I thought, since the wine is dried first, does it mean that alcohol is easier to turn into water vapor than water? If I can catch the water vapor again, wouldn’t I have strong alcohol?
?”
The three of them frowned, as if they understood, but they didn't.
"But the alcohol has turned into water vapor, how can I catch it back? I thought about it, and suddenly I remembered that when I was cooking, the water vapor churned and plunged on people's faces and condensed into water droplets. And those
Ice trucks are always full of water droplets in summer. I thought, since water vapor is cold, it can turn into water droplets. Will alcohol also turn into alcohol droplets when it is cold? I tried it a little and it became
!”
"So, I came up with a way to distille strong wine, which is very simple. Let's boil the wine pot first, keep the heat, and let the alcohol inside turn into water vapor. We press the tube on the wine pot and let the alcohol gas go along the tube.
Circulate. Then cool the tube and let the alcohol vaporize into alcohol droplets. These alcohol droplets gather together and become strong liquor. We can mix various suitable concentrations according to the concentration of the strong liquor. It is divided into low and medium
And height, so we have three kinds of wine. Adding messy things, such as flower dew, can form various different flavors and eventually occupy the whole country's restaurants!"
Li Qingxian was excited to imagine the future, and the three of them looked confused.
When Li Qingxian saw it, he couldn't understand it? It was right that he couldn't understand it! He only played distillation once in junior high school, and it was just water.
"That's so simple? It sounds like boiling and then cooling down, that's all?" Luo Jing half-believed and half-doubted.
Li Qingxian snorted and said, "I ask you, how many years has it been taken by the human race from woodblock printing to movable type printing?"
"About four or five hundred years."
"How many years has it been taken by the human race from carving words in stone tablets to printing woodblocks?"
"Thousands of years." Luo Jing said.
"To put it simply, it means carving words on stones, then applying ink and printing them. Why did humans use thousands or tens of thousands of years to go from carving to movable type printing?"
"This..." Luo Jing didn't know how to refute Li Qingxian's fallacies for a moment.
Li Qingxian pointed to his brain and said, "Success is 99% sweat, plus one percent thoughts. Many times, that 1 percent thought is more than 99% sweat.
More important.”
"Don't take advantage of the opportunity." Zhou Chunfeng said seriously, Jiangnan soft words mixed with rustling sounds, and it was a resounding sound.
"Yes, Uncle Zhou. I'm an exaggeration. Nowadays, movable type printing requires years of accumulation of materials, technology and all aspects, and I can't do it with ideas. My distilling winemaking method is not just an idea, but
It was after I gave 99% of my sweat and got the idea. Without my sweat, without my constant thinking, and without my efforts, the idea would never be realized." Li Qingxian had a sincere attitude.
Zhou Chunfeng smiled and nodded, but suddenly lowered his head, touched his mouth with his hands, coughed twice, and his cheeks turned red and quickly dissipated.
Luo Jing became more and more surprised. He knew that the two were not close, but Zhou Chunfeng treated Li Qingxian like his nephew, and while admonishing him, he was quite appreciating him.
"Are you in poor health?" Li Qingxian asked.
"I've gotten used to the root of the disease in the early years." Zhou Chunfeng gently stroked the cow bone fan on the table and said for a while: "This method of alcohol distillation seems ordinary, but in fact it is likely to change the entire wine industry. Don't be too hasty. Let's first
Don’t make a statement, join forces with the Ministry of Revenue, the Inner Transportation Depot, the Night Guard and the Ministry of Works, find a secret place in the Night Guard and try it slowly until you are fully sure and then make it formally.”
Li Qingxian and Luo Jing nodded slightly.
"Sir Luo, what are your arrangements in the Ministry of Revenue?" Zhou Chunfeng asked inadvertently.
Luo Jing's expression changed, he sat upright, thought for a while, and said, "My father was promoted to the fifth rank not long ago. Our Luo family is also considered a prominent family in the Nanxing Sect. I will report this to our Minister Lu, at least in the Ministry of Revenue. This is a matter.
Things will not go wrong. After all, this is to offer God’s offering.”
Zhou Chunfeng nodded and said, "Then I'm sorry, Lord Luo is responsible for contacting the internal transportation warehouse. As for the Ministry of Works and Yewei, I will arrange it. Is there any other conditions for the brewing workshop?"
Li Qingxian thought for a while and said, "I don't need anything to do that thing myself, but to make it bigger, I'm afraid I need a bigger house, and it's secret and safe. You can only make the decision."
Zhou Chunfeng looked out the window and said, "Then choose the Zhaozhushi. There has been some empty space in the past six months and the guards are very strict. Even if someone is thinking about the method of distilling strong liquor, he will never dare to do anything in the Zhaozhushi."
"I think it's good." Li Qingxian said.
"If you want to participate in this matter, it is not convenient to have the identity of the street patrol room. I will add you the identity of the Imperial Prison Secretary, so you can enter and exit the Imperial Prison without any helm."
Li Qingxian smiled and said, "Uncle Zhou, the method of brewing wine is of great importance. I am afraid that someone will cause trouble for me with the golden order. I see that there are a lot of things on your table, so I can do it."
The three of them all looked at the three golden-font orders in the book sign.
"What do you think of this golden word order?" Zhou Chunfeng's face darkened.
Li Qingxian smiled and said, "I want the golden order, not for myself, but for the emperor, for the court, and for the night guard office. If something happens to me and I mess up, the treasury will lose one million taels of silver every year. One million taels per year
Can't I get a golden-font order for silver?"
"Nothing!"
Chapter completed!