Chapter 141 Colchicine and Salicin
The little eunuch is the adopted son of Eunuch Hu. Eunuch Hu is just a small mine supervisor. In the palace, he is only a sixth-grade official. Naturally, he cannot be surrounded by people like the big eunuch. Many adopted sons.
This young eunuch, whose surname was You, worked as a handyman in the dyeing and weaving bureau after entering the palace. He was favored by Eunuch Hu and adopted as his adopted son.
This relationship between adoptive father and adopted son is also very ancient. When the adoptive father is in his prime, he will protect and support the adopted son. When the adoptive father is old, the adopted son will provide for the adoptive father.
Of course, this is just an ideal state. The father and son are still close to each other, let alone the adopted father and adopted son.
However, Eunuch Hu was quite generous to Xiao Youzi, and Xiao Youzi followed Eunuch Hu to Fujian to supervise the mines. The relationship between the two was indeed as close as that of father and son.
After seeing Su Ze, the young eunuch said: "Ms. Su, my father said that the dye has been made. Please go and have a look!"
Dye!
Su Ze suddenly thought of the recipe he threw to Eunuch Hu. Did he not expect that his mobility would be so strong?
Lin Liangjun pricked up his ears and heard the little eunuch talking about "prescriptions" and "dyes". He immediately became interested and said,
"Brother Aze? What's so fun? I want to go with you too!"
Su Ze thought. After thinking about it, he took the little carrot head with him and went to Eunuch Hu's laboratory with the little eunuch.
After the last conversation with Su Ze, Eunuch Hu had a lot of new ideas, and a lot of new bottles and cans were added to the laboratory.
These things were all made by Eunuch Hu himself. Su Ze once again marveled at Eunuch Hu's versatility. He could even make ceramics by himself.
Eunuch Hu was recording something in front of the dyeing pool. When he heard Su Ze's footsteps entering the door, he immediately turned around and walked over and said,
"Ms. Su! It's done!"
Eunuch Hu couldn't wait to pull Su Ze to a pool and pointed. The cloth man in the pool said:
"This is a cloth that has been washed five times. Look, Mr. Su, the color is still well maintained. This is indeed a sun-resistant and wash-resistant dye!"
Su Ze looked at the cloth floating in the water. Blue cloth, of course, is the most famous chemical dye in human history.
Prussian blue, this dye is famous for being used to dye Prussian military uniforms. Because of its strong dyeing and bright color, it is widely loved by the fashion industry.
This color is also widely used in painting and printing, and even has some medical uses.
Su Ze also didn't expect that Eunuch Hu would actually create Prussian blue dye from the recipe he just remembered casually.
Eunuch Hu was already dancing with excitement. He said excitedly:
"It has been washed five times and the color has not faded. It can still stay bright after being dried! How beautiful would this robe be if it were woven and dyed?"
Eunuch Hu continued: "The Za family I want to present the dye to His Majesty!"
Hearing that Eunuch Hu wanted to donate Prussian blue dye to Emperor Jiajing, he quickly said:
"Wait a minute!"
Once something is listed as a tribute, it will be a huge disaster for a certain place.
For example, this is the case for tea farmers in Wuyi Mountain. Once listed as tribute, they must pay tribute every year even if the emperor does not need it.
Paying tribute requires manpower and material resources, and it also requires being exploited at all levels. Su Ze did not want the Dogon blue dye in Nanping County.
Su Ze said: "Blue shirts are just common people's daily color. How can your majesty use this color?"
Hu Eunuch argued: "This blue is different from the blue dyed by blue."
Su Ze still said: "But the palace will only say that you presented Aizen to the palace."
At this point, Eunuch Hu was discouraged.
He had no backer in the palace, and no one would speak for him. Although the dyed blue cloth was bright, it did not look much different from the coarse cloth dyed by the folk indigo dyeing method at first glance.
Blue is the color of common people, so it is really inappropriate to present it to the palace.
In fact, there is no shortage of colors among Chinese people. For example, blue is a color commonly worn by ordinary people.
In the Ming Dynasty, students were required to wear blue shirts, so blue shirts became the color most commonly used by scholars at the lowest level.
However, this blue shirt does not use chemical dyes, but a plant that is very familiar to modern people - isatis root.
The blue color dyed by Isatis root is easy to fade after a few washes. Rich kids like Huang Shixing in the county school would wear bright blue shirts every time.
Children from poorer families would wear washed gray blue shirts.
Eunuch Hu was discouraged. If Su Ze hadn't reminded him, it would be inappropriate to give blue tribute to the emperor.
Seeing that Eunuch Hu had given up the idea of using Prussian blue dye as a tribute, Su Ze said:
"Although this blue cannot be sent to the palace as a tribute, this dye is also very useful!"
This kind of blue is not easy to fade. Dyes will definitely be loved by poor scholars, and ordinary people will also buy them.
In addition, Su Ze also discovered that the regular soldiers of the Changning Guard did not have decent standard military uniforms. Using Prussian blue to make a comfortable military uniform would also increase the enthusiasm of the ordinary soldiers of the Changning Guard to join the army!
yes! uniform!
You must know that a good-looking military uniform is the best recruitment advertisement. The beautiful military uniforms of various countries in the Renaissance era are also the best benefits to attract ordinary people to join the army!
Nowadays, the regular soldiers are very attractive to ordinary people in Changning Guard. Su Ze suggested that Lin Mojun improve the food treatment of the regular soldiers. From two meals a day to three meals a day, on the basis of sufficient staple food, they can also eat meat in the middle and late ten days. It's okay to eat.
This also makes many ordinary soldiers in Changning Guard want to become regular soldiers and have enough to eat.
Of course, Su Ze was dissatisfied with the Changning Guard's establishment of a hundred households. Now there are more than 400 mining thieves captured by the Changning Guard alone. These people will be organized into an army in the future. A good-looking and beautiful military uniform can not only Improving the cohesion of the army can also enhance their sense of honor.
Su Ze said to Eunuch Hu: "Eunuch Hu, I, Chang Ningwei, have a batch of fabrics. Can I trouble you to dye them?"
Eunuch Hu said generously: "Mr. Su, just send it. Dyeing is the specialty of the Za family. Got it!"
Su Ze quickly expressed that he wanted to provide the raw materials, and Eunuch Hu said grandly: "The materials used for the dye are all found in the mines, the only thing missing is some cow blood, which is not a rare item." Enter
. After Eunuch Hu's experiment, Su Ze had been chatting with Eunuch Hu, but he didn't notice the demon king Lin Liangjun.
The little carrot head looked around after he came in, and was very interested in Eunuch Hu's bottles and jars.
Seeing the yellow crystals in a porcelain bottle, the little carrot head touched it again and accidentally knocked the bottle to the ground.
Everyone followed the sound and looked over. When Eunuch Hu saw what Lin Liangjun had broken, his expression immediately changed and he said,
"No! Leave quickly!"
Little Eunuch You immediately dragged Lin Liangjun outside and waited until everyone left the house. , Su Ze gave the little carrot head a hard lesson, and then handed over his hand and apologized to Eunuch Hu.
Eunuch Hu shook his head and said, "It's just a jar of medicine, but it's poisonous."
When he heard the word "poisonous", the fearless little carrot head turned pale.
"Then I won't die, right?"
The little carrot head almost fainted from fright, only to see Eunuch Hu staring at him for a long time, nodding and shaking his head.
Little Carrot Head felt pain all over his body and fainted with a scream.
Su Ze quickly used his "medical skills" to check, and when he saw that Xiaoluobo's head and pulse were calm, he knew that he should be fine.
Eunuch Hu showed a sly expression and said, "The Za family is just trying to scare him. Although the poison is powerful, it won't be poisoned by just touching it." "My disciple is rude, please forgive me, Eunuch Hu." Eunuch Hu said
: "Children are naughty and don't get in the way."
"I heard that Mr. Su set up a health school in Changning Wei?"
Su Ze nodded and said, "It's just to provide elementary education for the children in the health center."
Eunuch Hu pointed at little Eunuch You. He said, "It's time for my adopted son to study, but the Za family doesn't know how to teach people to read. Can you please ask Mr. Su to let him attend?" It turned out that this was the matter, and
Su Ze naturally agreed.
He asked again: "Eunuch Hu, what kind of poison is this broken thing?"
Eunuch Hu said: "That thing was obtained by the Za family from the essence of yellow flowers, but they did not expect it to be highly poisonous."
Essence? yellow flower?
Su Ze suddenly became interested and asked, "Day lily?"
"Yes, it's day lily. I saw the bright color and wanted to extract the dye, but I didn't expect the yellow flower essence to be poisonous, no less than arsenic."
Su Ze Ze said to Eunuch Hu: "Eunuch, can you demonstrate how you extract the essence of Huanghua?"
Eunuch Hu nodded, and after waiting for some ventilation, he ordered his servants to clean up the porcelain bottles that Lin Liangjun broke and demonstrate to Su Ze. The process of distilling his essence.
Hu Eunggong's extraction method is not complicated. He crushes the yellow flowers and puts them into water, then continuously heats and filters to extract the yellow precipitate.
In fact, most plant dyes follow this extraction process.
Su Ze said to Eunuch Hu, "Can you let me try it?"
Eunuch Hu gave up his position, and Su Ze began to follow his instructions to extract the essence of the yellow flowers.
Because he was not skilled enough, it took Su Ze half an hour to extract a little yellow crystal.
Sure enough, the system popped up a prompt:
"Extract colchicine, chemical skill +10, Lv1, 17/100."
Sure enough, it was colchicine!
Goldenrod, also known as day lily, also known as day lily among the people, is an edible plant widely grown in our country.
Su Dongpo once wrote, "There are five treasures of jade in Mo Dao's farm, and the yellow flowers everywhere are golden hairpins." What he described was this kind of yellow flower.
Do not eat too much yellow flowers, as eating too much is poisonous, and the toxicity is the colchicine in the yellow flowers!
This colchicine is a good thing!
The biggest role of colchicine is to induce seed mutation! It is the most important reagent in modern breeding!
The use of colchicine can allow originally sterile hybrid wheat to produce offspring, and then continue to cross to screen for better quality and higher yield offspring.
Rice, wheat, modern agriculture can create higher-yielding hybrid varieties, and the role of colchicine is very critical!
In fact, breeding science has appeared in China very early. For example, the seeds planted by Uncle Wei Qi's family in Changning were specially selected and cultivated by him, and the yield is 10% higher than that of other families.
However, hybrid varieties often have no fecundity, there are no scientific experimental methods, and there is no way to cultivate good varieties in a targeted manner.
When you master the "Agriculture" or "Biology" skills in the future and develop high-yielding grain seeds, that will be a more powerful weapon than sweet potatoes!
After all, wheat and rice are the staple foods that Chinese people have eaten for thousands of years.
This Eunuch Hu is really a treasure!
Su Ze also looked at his laboratory with bright eyes, as if looking at a treasure house.
Eunuch Hu also felt like a confidant. He used to tinker with these things by himself, with only his adopted son Xiao Youzi as his assistant. Xiao Youzi couldn't understand these things at all.
Now Su Ze was willing to listen, and he kept introducing his "scientific research results".
When he meets someone who is interested, Su Ze will start experimenting.
Su Ze came to a porcelain vase, and Eunuch Hu said: "This is the essence that the Za family extracted from the bark of purple willow. We originally wanted to get purple dye, but we got this white thing." Su Ze suppressed his excitement
. , said to Eunuch Hu: "Eunuch, can you let me do it again?"
"Yes, yes, but the purple willow essence takes a long time."
"It's okay, it's okay!"
This time the experiment was indeed very long. After waiting for a while, Lin Liangjun slowly woke up, and the little carrot head began to hold his stomach and cry out that he was hungry.
Eunuch Hu ordered his servants to bring the food. When it was completely dark, Su Ze extracted some white powder.
"Extract salicin, chemical skill +10, Lv1, 27/100." It
is indeed salicin!
Lin Liangjun came over, looked at the white crystal and asked, "Brother Aze, isn't this thing poisonous?" The
little carrot head was also psychologically affected, and he never dared to touch it again after entering the laboratory.
Su Ze looked at the white powder at the bottom of the porcelain bottle. If the previous Prussian blue dye was considered an A-level chemical, then the salicylic acid that could be used for breeding was an S-level chemical.
And salicin is an SSS grade chemical!
This thing will also have a famous name in later generations, that is, "aspirin"!
However, the salicin extracted from this plant is not aspirin. This kind of salicin has a stimulating effect on the intestines. Aspirin is acetylated salicylic acid, which cannot be produced with current technology.
But enough about salicin!
This drug with analgesic and antipyretic functions can be said to be a miracle in the history of human medicine and is also the best-selling drug in history.
The analgesic function alone makes it a milestone drug in modern medicine!
Looking at Eunuch Hu's wrinkled old face, I wanted to hug him and kiss him.
As a time traveler, I have even forgotten these time travel artifacts!
Su Ze said to Eunuch Hu: "Eunuch, can this white powder be produced in large quantities?"
Eunuch Hu said: "There are many purple willows in the south of the mine, but is this thing of any use?"
Su Ze nodded and said: "This But it's a good medicine that can treat tens of millions of people!"
"Good medicine? Although this thing is not as poisonous as Huanghua essence, it will cause abdominal pain and vomiting after taking it. Can it cure diseases?"
Su Ze then remembered, why is Eunuch Hu so toxic to medicines ? Understanding, he asked: "Eunuch, how do you know these things are poisonous?"
Eunuch Hu said: "Of course I have to try it."
Su Ze's eyes looked strange, and Eunuch Hu quickly said: "The Zajia are not Dongchang Banners. It is impossible to test poison on people. The Zajia uses monkeys." After speaking, Eunuch Hu brought Su Ze to the laboratory
. In the warehouse, I only saw a few monkeys locked in bamboo cages, and some of them were already dying.
"The monkeys caught by the miners in the mountains will be sold to me. They are the ones who discovered the poisonous essence of the yellow flower essence." "The
dyed things must be worn on the human body. Poison is not allowed."
Rigorous, true Fucking rigorous!
Su Ze admired Eunuch Hu very much. Such a talent was actually sent by the emperor to inspect the mine?
(End of chapter)