Chapter 2 The Wine Incident
(Thanks to the "Huaimengcao" book friends for the tip!)
As soon as Sean finished writing this article, he sent it to the newspaper in the Holy City in an expedited manner.
He then left his luggage at the hotel and headed straight to a prestigious hot spring in Northern Xinjiang Province, where he lingered for a week before returning to the hotel.
"Mr. Connery, you're finally back!"
As soon as the waiter saw Sean appear, he immediately shouted loudly, as if he was seeing his own father.
"Is there anything wrong, man?" said Sean, wondering.
"Sir, at the time of your absence, many people have come to visit you. The waiter replied.
"Who?"
"Mr. Clive Woodley, the chairman of our Northern Xinjiang Provincial Brewing Guild, and the members of his guild, he said that as soon as you return, let me inform him. Would you like to meet Mr. Woodley?"
"Thank you, please inform him that I will be waiting for him in my room tomorrow at 9 a.m. Also, give me a few newspapers you can find, all for the week. Sean seemed to understand a little and gave the waiter a few shillings in a tip.
"Mr. Sean Connery's counterattack!"
"Philosophical quotes of a former ensign of the Empire!"
"Experiments that I claimed to have done at the age of five!"
"A novelist who is not ashamed!"
These are the headlines in the Quds City newspapers, some of which are on the front page, and most of them contain Sean's satirical response to Babia Dolby's satire and comment on it, lest the world be in chaos.
But it's not to blame the newspaper editor, who made Sean claim to have done experiments at the age of five, challenging the IQ of all relevant academics.
And there are already people doing the experiments mentioned by Xiao Si, but there are no results yet. Or there are results, but because of the effectiveness of the newspaper, he has not yet read them.
"Pardon me for my presumptuousness, Mr. Connelly!" Clive-Woodley was an old gentleman and a viscount.
He is the largest winemaker in Northern Xinjiang Province and owns five wine estates.
There is a very strange logic in this era, commercial activities directly for profit, especially retail, are considered to be lowly trades, which are incompatible with the status of the aristocracy, even if the aristocracy is too poor to support himself.
The old-fashioned so-called social tradition holds that the aristocracy should live on the land, even if the aristocracy is no longer able to maintain a minimum of decent living.
This is also the reason why the common businessmen, after making their own fortunes, let their children work hard to get a higher education, and then strive to get an administrative position, or should become a person who lives on IQ, such as lawyers, doctors, and other respected professions, in order to get rid of the status of businessmen.
This is not the case with the wine industry, which is considered tasteful and educated, full of elegance and atmosphere, because the taste buds of the workers of the steel mills and the coolies of the docks cannot tell the difference between different brands and different cellars of different origins.
A philosopher said that a bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
"It's okay, I don't know if Your Excellency Viscount has any advice?" Sean was very polite.
Viscount Woodley looked a little hesitant: "I've read some newspapers lately, and Mr. Connelly is very showy. ”
"Well, I actually just wrote a novel, and when someone slapped me, I couldn't deliberately avoid it, I could only fight back. Your Excellency, are you right?" said Sean.
The viscount smiled and said, "Hehe, I have some expectations for Your Excellency. ”
"What about wine acid prevention technology?" asked Sean directly.
"I did come for this, you know, our northern province is rich in grapes, and the wine industry that comes from it is the most important pillar industry in our northern province. But the headache is the quality of the wine. Some people think that the yeast is not good, some think it is due to soil quality changes, some think it is due to the degradation of grape varieties, and many more think it is a problem of late preservation. If Mr. Connelly can solve this problem, all of us in the brewing industry will be grateful, and of course we will pay a fair price for it. ”
The Viscount didn't say too much, about the problem of the grapes turning sour, they had spent too much energy and money on it to solve it, he didn't trust the young man in front of him, but he had some hopes, because the benefits were great.
"I think we can do a simple experiment. Sean said, "I wonder if there is a laboratory in Wengerburg?"
"The Higher Pedagogical College of Wengerberg has, and I can borrow it. ”
"Okay!"
This experiment is actually not difficult, it is introduced in the middle school textbook in the previous life, borrowing a microscope, you can observe the difference between the yeast in the wine that has turned sour and the wine that has not turned sour, the former produces lactic acid to make the wine acid, and the latter produces alcohol, and it does not require oxygen, as long as the yeast is alive, fermentation is a biological process, not a chemical process.
Observational experiments like this have not been done by anyone, yet scientific developments in microbes have not been able to defeat the theory of spontaneous generation. If the argument continues, it will eventually lead to the question of the origin of life.
However, Sean didn't do this experiment at all.
Because the next day he saw the latest news in the Holy City newspaper that someone had discovered the difference in yeast according to Sean's prompt, and suggested that if the lactobacillus could be removed, it should prevent the wine from turning sour.
Winemakers such as Viscount Woodley were confident and saw hope, and they came to Shaws for advice on how to solve the problem.
"Heat!"
“?”
"Heat the grape juice to 55~60 degrees, then seal it for three months, and then you can see the result. You can do a little more experimentation, some heated, some unheated, some low-heated, some high-heated, because the temperature will also affect the taste and quality. In short, you will find a suitable temperature. Sean said.
"It's so easy?" the brewers couldn't believe.
"Assume and be careful! You're only losing a few barrels of wine at most. Sean faced doubts and had no choice.
Leaving these unhappy brewers behind, Sean set out on his way back home, not even in the mood for Viscount Woodley to invite him to his estate.
As he traveled through the Black Forest, the discussion was even more intense in the newspapers, as more chemists, biologists, naturalists, and many other unrelated people were involved.
Overall, this era is the era of the explosion of technology, with new discoveries being made every day. Scholars have a high social status, and intellectuals are argumentative.
"The Wingerberg vintners decided to heat sterilize the must!"
"The Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer have expressed concern about the Wengerberg experiment, and if successful, it will feed at least half a million more fruit growers, winemakers and related guild members every year, and pay millions more taxes for the Reich Central......"
"Herders in the three steppe provinces of Hotolo, Kimwangbuha and Pasella are also concerned because Kang mentioned that fresh milk can also be sterilized in this way, but it is not clear whether it is the same way as wine......
Professor Bernal believes that the method of sterilization by heating is not the first time it has been invented, it has existed before, and Kang just happened to read the relevant records somewhere. However, he greatly appreciates Kang's attitude of 'bold assumptions and careful verification', which is the spirit of science. ”
"Professor Dolby, one of the protagonists of the wine incident, still believes that heating sterilization or sterilization only destroys the environment in which life occurs naturally, and it is not the natural occurrence of life that is wrong......
"Scholars are watching the actions of the Wengerberg wine merchants, and some are already doing experiments themselves, using broth......"