Zhao Si is a well-known carpenter in Kyoto. Usually, many people come to him to make some equipment in the home all year round. If he encounters poor families, he will give preferential treatment and charge less money. Therefore, he has a good reputation in the east generation of the city.

Although his wife often complained about his less money, his life was much more comfortable than that of ordinary people.

It is precisely because of this that some dignitaries would ask him to do carpentry. Not only would he have wages, but he would also receive a lot of rewards after he was done. However, there are very few opportunities like this, and you must be careful when you go in and out of the rich and you must be careful when you go in and out of the rich.

He had the opportunity to go to the homes of high-ranking officials and nobles, and he understood that those big figures should not be messed with. One of the gaps in heaven and underground could only be understood with his own eyes. For this reason, he was at peace and well-behaved every day, married and had children, worked hard to make money, and wanted to live like this for the rest of his life.

But just this morning, a bolt from the blue hit his forehead.

It is the end of the year and there is no way to take care of it. In addition, it is cold and he has finally had time to freeze. He gets up late every day, but this morning he is awakened by a rush to knock on the door.

He was dissatisfied. He was sleepy and pushed open the quilt and got out of bed, and his wife complained. He walked through the snow-covered courtyard and put it on the front of the old wooden door. He found that his second uncle was his next person at the door, and there was still someone behind him.

Zhao Si rubbed his eyes and said, "Why did the second uncle knock on my door so early? Can't you talk about it later if you have any problems?"

The second uncle said anxiously: "It's not that I have something to talk to you about, it's that Prince Xiao's Mansion has something to come to you. This is Lord Yan from the Prince's Mansion!"

Prince Xiao’s Mansion! A thunder exploded in his mind. Zhao Si suddenly lost all sleepiness. He quickly wiped his face and said, “What are the instructions for sir?”

"The prince wants to invite you to the palace and come with me."

Zhao Si was stunned and panicked: "Okay, okay, the villain will go and clean up now..."

"Move faster, don't let the prince wait too much."

"I know..." Zhao Si smiled repeatedly, but as soon as he retreated into the hospital, he lost his soul and staggered into the house. His wife asked in confusion: "What's wrong with you?"

"The Prince Xiao's Mansion invites me to do things." Zhao Si replied with a sad face.

"The palace! That's not right, and I have a lot of wages. Otherwise, with your ability, how can you hire a sir for your children in the future?" said the wife while tidying up the bed.

"What do you know? There is Li Xingzhou in Prince Xiao's Mansion!" Zhao Si almost cried: "Li Xingzhou is a big disaster in Kyoto and is arrogant and unreasonable. Two years ago, the son of the Liu Gong family next door was broken because he was accidentally blocked on the street and had his legs broken all his life!"

Hearing the wife, he was panicked: "Then I won't go anymore. Although the family is short of money, there are many opportunities to make money, so don't rush for a moment."

Zhao Si shook his head desperately: "If I go, I will only suffer, but if I don't go, I'm afraid our whole family will suffer!"

My wife was stunned on the spot, as if the sky suddenly collapsed, and she hugged her husband in tears and said, "I scold you on weekdays, but that's so angry. You are the backbone of the family. What if something happens to you!"

Zhao Si, who was scolded by his wife at home all day long, suddenly heard this and couldn't help crying. The couple hugged their heads and cried bitterly.

After a while, Zhao Si calmed down and made up his mind to caress his wife's backs: "Madam, if something happens to me in the palace, you should take your son and family savings out of Beijing. Go as far as you go, you can use the money as your dowry, and find another good family to marry."

"What are you talking nonsense? If I marry you, you are from your Zhao family. If something happens to you, I will not live anymore..." Zhao Si's wife choked up.

"Miss..."

"Zhao Si, what are you doing? Hurry up!" The urging from the prince's mansion came from outside the courtyard.

Zhao Si endured the grief and wiped his tears and said, "Come now!"

....

Li Ye saw Zhao Si, a famous carpenter in the abandoned courtyard, in which he was confused by his expression of being deceased to die and going to the battlefield.

"Yan Shen, he is really a carpenter and not a sergeant?" Li Ye asked Yan Shen who brought him.

"Absolutely, the prince, I've asked everyone around me for it." Yan Shen was very sure.

At this time, the weeds and snow in the entire yard had been removed by the servants, and the wood stored in the wing room was piled up in the yard.

Li Ye stepped forward and said to Zhao Si who was trembling with the war: "I have sent someone to inquire with the neighbors around me. The best carpenter in the east of the city is, everyone admits it, so I sent someone to invite you."

Zhao Si nodded, almost burst into tears in his heart. On weekdays, he would collect less money for the sake of the villagers in the countryside, and even if he was scolded by his wife, he would do whatever he wanted to make a good relationship. He didn't expect to harm himself at this critical moment!

Li Ye continued: "I asked you to come here because I wanted you to help me make something." As Li Ye said that, he took out a piece of paper from his arms with detailed illustrations on it.

"That's it. You can use nails or mortise and tenon between the wooden boards. You know this more, and you can do it yourself. The purpose is to make the wooden boards tighter and try to be airtight." Li Ye said while showing him the drawings.

Zhao Si had already looked at it. The drawings drawn by the prince were beautiful, concise and easy to understand. He seemed to be afraid that he would not understand them. He drew them from different directions, just like an old craftsman.

"Does the prince want to make a big steamer? But why are you not sure..." Zhao Si was puzzled as he looked at the drawings.

"Don't ask too much, just follow the drawings I gave you. If you do it, you will be rewarded with ten cents of money." Li Ye said.

Shi Guan! He was stunned when he heard this Zhao Si. He worked hard to earn only ten coins in a year. Could it be that he could only make such a bottomless big steamer? No matter whether it is true or false, he was so excited that he didn't care about fear. He hurriedly said, "Don't worry, the prince, the villain must be doing it without any leakage!"

Li Ye nodded and smiled, "Then you start work, the faster the better. Tell the servants what equipment they use to ask them to take you to the warehouse to find it."

Zhao Si nodded repeatedly, and then hurriedly started work...

......

In fact, it is not difficult to brew distilled liquor, it requires two pots.

Put water on the pot below to prevent burning. Then use bamboo to woven a garden tray and wrap it with gauze on it. Put a cylindrical wooden structure on top, just like a bottomless steamer, but much larger.

It would be better to use iron for airtightness. Many wineries in later generations also used metal materials, but iron could easily rust when exposed to water. The wine brewed over time will smell rust.

The cylinder is also called a wine cage in the countryside. It contains fermented grains, and then put a pot above the wine cage. This mouth is called "Tianguo".

When the bottom of the pot is heated when brewing wine, a small amount of water in it boils, the bottom of the wine cage will heat up quickly, like a steamer. At this time, the boiling point of the alcohol in the fermented grain is low, vaporizes rapidly, and then rises, touching the bottom of the Tianpan pot.

The most important step is that the sky pot must have two sinks, one inlet and the other outlet. Keep the water in the sky pot cold water at all times, which is equivalent to a primitive water cooling system.

In this way, the sky pot is always cold. When the vaporized high-temperature alcohol touches the cold bottom of the sky pot, it will instantly condense into liquid water droplets and adhere to the bottom of the sky pot. Because the pot is an arc, the liquefied wine will flow downward and gather at the bottom of the sky pot and then drip. At this time, just one wine tank can guide the high-level wine gathering at the bottom of the sky pot.

This is the brewing of distilled wine.
Chapter completed!