Chapter 14: The Method of Brewing
Li Qingxian secretly gave Luo Jing a thumbs up, and then said: "Uncle Zhou, let bygones be bygones. Let's talk about business. The method of distilling spirits is all true."
Zhou Chunfeng glared at Li Qingxian glanced at it and said slowly: "If the method of distilling strong liquor can be achieved, it will also be a huge income for the Night Guard and the treasury. Please tell me in detail." Li Qingxian had already thought of a countermeasure on the way, so he said: "Father
, In his spare time, he likes to drink rice wine, Uncle Zhou, you should know."
Zhou Chunfeng was stunned for a moment, his thoughts were wandering, and it took him a while to come back to his senses and said: "Yes, Gang Feng likes to drink rice wine, loose and cheap. Li
Qingxian's heart dropped, and he said: "My father said that spirits are not easy to brew. I was short of money at the time, so I came up with a method of making spirits. I had learned fortune-telling, and I calculated before doing it. I found that it could be done, so I tried it secretly, but I didn't expect it. It's really done. Next, as long as we find a good brewing master and an official from the Ministry of Industry who understands the technology, and try it a little bit, we can brew real spirits and sell them all over the country." "I'm asking about the distillation of spirits
. Law!" Zhou Chunfeng said.
Li Qingxian looked around the study, with a troubled look on his face, and said, "Since everyone is one of our own, I won't hide it. When I was experimenting with making spirits, I discovered an interesting thing. There were the same amount of a jar of wine and a jar of spirits. Pour the water into the pot and boil it. The same heat and the same time, the wine is boiled first, and it dries quickly, while the water dries slowly. Wine is composed of pure water and pure wine. Since wine is grain essence, can I Call pure wine alcohol? So, I thought, since the wine is burned to dryness first, does it mean that alcohol is easier to turn into water vapor than water? If I can recapture those water vapors, wouldn’t I have strong liquor? "
The three people frowned, as if they understood, but also seemed not to understand.
"But the alcohol has turned into water vapor, how can I catch it back? I thought and thought, and thought, and suddenly I remembered that when cooking, the water vapor billows, and when it hits people's faces, it will condense into water droplets. And those Ice trucks are always covered with water droplets in the summer. I thought, since water vapor can turn into water droplets when it gets cold, will alcohol vapor also turn into alcohol droplets when it gets cold? I gave it a try and it became !”
"So, I came up with a method for distilling spirits. It's very simple. We first boil the wine pot, keep the fire, and let the alcohol inside turn into water vapor. We fasten a tube on the wine pot and let the alcohol vapor flow along the tube. Circulation. Then let the tube cool down and let the alcohol vaporize into alcohol droplets. When these alcohol droplets gather together, they become spirits. We can prepare various suitable concentrations according to the concentration of spirits. They are divided into low and medium. and height, in this way, we have three kinds of wine. By adding messy things, such as floral water and fruit juice, we can form a variety of different flavors, and eventually occupy restaurants across the country!" Li Qingxian excitedly imagined the future, and the three of
them A confused look on his face.
Li Qingxian looked at it, didn't he understand? Just don’t understand! I only tried distilling once when I was in junior high school, and it was just water.
"It's that simple? It sounds like just boil it and then cool it down. Is that okay?" Luo Jing was half-convinced and half-questioned.
Li Qingxian snorted softly and said, "Let me ask you, how many years did it take for the human race to go from engraving on stone tablets to movable type printing?" "
About four to five hundred years."
"How many years did it take for the human race to go from engraving on stone tablets to engraving printing? ?"
"Thousands of years." Luo Jing said.
"Movable type printing, to put it simply, is to carve words on a stone, then apply ink and print it. How did it take humans tens of thousands of years to go from carving to movable type printing?" "This..." Luo Jing was confused for a moment
. I don't know how to refute Li Qingxian's fallacies.
Li Qingxian pointed at his brain and said: "Success is 99% sweat and 1% idea. Many times, the 1% idea is better than 99% sweat." more important."
"Don't be opportunistic." Zhou Chunfeng said sternly, Jiangnan's soft words mixed with the rustling sound, it was really loud. "Yes, Uncle Zhou. I am exaggerating. Today's movable type printing requires years of accumulation of materials, techniques, and all aspects. It cannot be accomplished with just an idea. My distillation and brewing method does not directly come with ideas, but It was only after I put in 99% of my sweat that I got the one percent of my idea. Without my sweat, my constant thinking, and my dedication, the idea would never have been realized." Li Qingxian's attitude was sincere.
Zhou Chunfeng smiled and nodded, but suddenly lowered his head, touched his mouth with his hand, coughed twice, and the blush on his cheeks quickly dissipated.
Luo Jing became more and more surprised. He knew that the two of them were not close, but Zhou Chunfeng treated Li Qingxian like a nephew, admonishing and admonishing him, and appreciating him at the same time.
"Are you in poor health?" Li Qingxian asked.
"The root cause of the disease in the early years is that we are used to it." Zhou Chunfeng gently touched the cow bone fan on the table and said after a while: "This method of alcohol distillation may seem ordinary, but in fact it is likely to change the entire wine industry. Don't be too hasty. Let's first Don't make it public, work together with the household department, internal transportation warehouse, night guard and the engineering department to find a secret place in the night guard and try it slowly until you are completely sure before officially making it." Li Qingxian and Luo Jing nodded lightly
.
"Master Luo, what arrangements do you have with the Ministry of Revenue?" Zhou Chunfeng asked casually.
Luo Jing's expression changed, he sat up straight, thought for a while, and said: "My father was promoted to the fifth rank not long ago, and our Luo family is also considered a prominent family in the Southern Star Sect. I will report this matter to our Minister Lu, at least in the Ministry of Household Affairs, this matter Things will not go wrong. After all, this is an offering to the gods."
Zhou Chunfeng nodded and said: "Then I would like to trouble Mr. Luo to contact the internal transportation warehouse. As for the Ministry of Works and the night guard, I will arrange it. I am free, brewer. Are there any other conditions for the workshop?"
Li Qingxian thought for a while and said: "I don't need anything to make that thing myself, but to make it bigger, I'm afraid I need a bigger house, and it has to be secretive and safe. Only you can do it. Make the decision."
Zhou Chunfeng glanced out the window and said: "Then choose the Prison Division. It has been a little empty in the past six months and is heavily guarded. Even if someone is thinking about the method of distilling spirits, they would not dare to mess around in the Prison Division. Come."
"I think it's good." Li Qingxian said.
"If you want to participate in this matter, it is inconvenient for you to be a street patroller. I will give you the status of a prison secretary and secretary, so you can enter and leave the prison freely." Li Qingxian said with a smile on his face: "Uncle Zhou, brewing
wine The law is of great importance, and I'm afraid that someone will bring trouble to me again with the gold-letter order. I see there are quite a few of these on your desk, so give me one." The three of them looked at the three gold-letter
orders in the bookcase.
"What do you think this golden order is?" Zhou Chunfeng's face darkened.
Li Qingxian smiled and said: "I want the Golden Order, not for myself, but for the emperor, the court, and the Night Guard Yamen. If something happens to me and I mess up, the national treasury will lose one million taels of silver every year. One million taels every year Silver, can't I get a gold token?"
"Nonsense!"
(End of this chapter)