290 George's Sugar Experiment
In Nass City, George was tinkering with something in his lab, with countless green-skinned fruits piled up behind him.
"No, why is there never a way to extract a snow-white sugar like the teacher?" Yes, during the absence of Teacher Kunen, George was secretly pondering the teacher's experiment on white sugar.
You must know that the batch of white sugar brought by Zhou Kun directly made the nobles of the surrounding cities crazy, and no one thought that the kid in Nas City, that is, George, had just sat in the position of the city lord and found the cash crops belonging to Nas City so quickly.
In just over a year, Nas City has not only not collapsed, but has even become richer and more powerful in George's hands. Military hard power is guarded by three dragons in turn, and the economic soft power George is not inferior to anyone, relying on the highly profitable business of sugar, Nas City has made a lot of money.
Just half a month ago, when George and his men were exploring the wilderness around Nas City, they found a large piece of the latest candy.
There are not many known candies in the Aomu Continent, but Nas City has discovered Longan before, and it is precisely because of this sweetness that Zhou Kun has taken George to the trial before, so that George has been subconsciously imitating the behavior of Zhou Kun, the teacher, so exploring the wilderness and discovering more fruits that can be used has become a must-do for George every month.
During the whole process, George will personally go into battle and take the army of Nas City to explore the wilderness together, which can be regarded as a kind of military exercise.
"Maybe more stabilizers should be added. "George's experiments with white ponds were always unsuccessful, and the result was that all the sugar turned into charred black charcoal.
In fact, the reason for the failure of George's Baitang experiment is very simple, the first is that in the candy he found, high sweetness does not mean that the sucrose content is high, often many of them are fructose, and the difficulty of fructose extraction is much more complicated than that of sucrose.
The second is that every time he refines white sugar, the temperature is always too high, and the water in the pulp is often directly carbonized after evaporating rapidly.
Suddenly, the stirring in George's hand began to slow down, as he seemed to have found crystals similar to sugar on the edge of the test sample.
George hurriedly stopped the small fireball technique under the reagent, and carefully scraped out a circle of white crystals around the reagent, although these crystals were not as crystal clear and slightly yellowish as the white sugar brought by the teacher, but after George put them in his mouth, he found that this was indeed the taste of white sugar, even a little sweeter than white sugar.
George immediately picked up the parchment paper in his hand and began to record: "The fifty-second experiment is close to success, when the newly found candy is boiled into white sugar, add long beard vine and bihua vine ashes, and apply a small fireball technique below (this can be replaced by a furnace fire), and after stirring until it is viscous, yellow-white crystals appear on the edges, and the sugar content is tested to be more than white sugar, but it cannot be as crystal clear as white sugar for the time being. ”
Suddenly, there was a sharp knock at the door of the lab.
"City Lord!"
"Please come in!"
"City Lord, your teacher is here. ”
"Teacher Kuhn is here, hurry, look at these experimental samples of mine, and I will go to meet the teacher. ”
Zhou Kun received George's commission to bring a batch of sugar last time, so after collecting a large number of hardwood vine branches, he made a special trip to Nas City.
"Teacher, look what I've made!
"White sugar?" Zhou Kun looked at the yellow-white lumpy object in George's hand a little strangely, it was hard to imagine that this thing was white sugar.
"Recently, when I went to the field trial, I found a new candy again, and this time the fruit I found was even sweeter than the previous fruit, and the white sugar was extracted very smoothly, of course, not as crystal clear as the white sugar made by the teacher before. George downplayed the whole process of his experiment, in fact, he hadn't been out of the lab for more than ten days.
"You have found a new variety of candy?" Zhou Kun is no stranger to the candy in George's mouth, that is to say, George has discovered a new fruit, and the sweetness of this fruit is very high, it can be used to directly squeeze sugar, what kind of fruit is this, which makes Zhou Kun a little curious.
"Teacher, would you like to go to the lab with me?"
"Let's go!"
George took Zhou Kun to the laboratory just now, and the green fruits piled up like a hill made Zhou Kun stunned, isn't this Shakya?
It's just that these Shakyas are a little small, not as big as the ones sold outside. In order to confirm his thoughts, Zhou Kun picked up a Shakya fruit and broke it, and the cream-like flesh and black seeds inside confirmed Zhou Kun's guess.
"Teacher, try it, this newfound candy is very sweet and suitable for refining white sugar. ”
It's very suitable? Can it not be suitable? Originally, the sweetness of the fruit is amazing, and the quality of the otherworldly fruit has always been very good.
After tasting a mouthful of Shakya, Zhou Kun suddenly felt that his previous expectations for it were not enough, and there was no difference between eating this Shakya and eating sugar. Not to mention the sweetness, the flesh of the fruit is as smooth as cream, with a faint aroma, the flesh close to the inside is slightly soft and glutinous, and the flesh near the skin has some graininess, if you taste it carefully, it feels like chewing sugar.
It's so bad that Zhou Kun, who doesn't like sweets, began to frown after tasting it.
"Teacher, is there anything wrong with this candy?"
"No, it's just that the teacher doesn't like sweets by nature, how much candy is the sugar in your hand made of?"
"It's not a lot, about two catties of candy can make so much sugar. George's words revealed a hint of sincerity, but Zhou Kun watched him stretch out his little finger and scratch half the size of a fingernail, and he was still impressed by the efficiency of extracting white sugar from the other world.
"Ahem, George, this time you did a good job and found a new candy, but your experiment is still too inefficient, so it's better for me to take all this candy with me, and I'll return the sugar to you next time I come back." ”
A very obedient George rarely had a feeling of grievance, and it turned out that his experiment was still so worthless in the eyes of the teacher.
Maybe he really doesn't have a talent for experiments, otherwise why doesn't Mr. Kuhn bring himself to experiment every time? Or is it that he doesn't even have the qualifications to help the teacher now?
Seeing his apprentice withering at a speed visible to the naked eye, thinking that he, Teacher Kuhn, hadn't taught George a lesson for a long time, Zhou Kun spoke: "George, since you came to Nas City and Winnie returned to the Iron Empire, we haven't had a trial for a long time. ”
"Teacher, is there a test today?" George regained his excitement in a second.
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