Chapter 207: Saltpeter Ice Making
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Morton's scalp suddenly tingled, how to explain it? Could it be that you are greedy for pleasure and think that the summer is too hot to make a little ice to cool down? With {dream} small ◢.1a
"Oh! I want to know too! Li Shimin was also very interested, a child of the Mo family came to the Taoist place in strange clothes to buy some alchemy materials, how weird it looked.
Li Shimin knew that he couldn't help but use his brain, and he also knew that this was a guy who was also uneasy, and he definitely wanted to do something, rather than making the city stormy at the time, it was better for him to solve it in advance?
The three brothers of Li Chengqian couldn't help but look sideways, but they all knew that Mo Jiazi could come up with strange things every time, such as live fish secret techniques, hot air balloons taking off, ink magazines, city-wide warning systems, and four-wheeled carriages, either causing a sensation in the whole city, or being worth a lot of money, so let Mo Jiazi personally go out this time, it will definitely not be an ordinary trivial matter.
"Ugh!" Morton saw that he couldn't hide it, so he had to confide in the truth.
"Your Majesty, Weichen heard that the weather is very hot, and the ice in the palace is exhausted, which is not conducive to the recovery of the queen's mother's body, so I want to make some ice to share your Majesty's worries."
"Make ice, you're going to use this wall frost to make ice!" Li Shimin looked at the saltpeter on the table, and sneered at the corner of his mouth.
"Hehehe!" Li Tai laughed out loud very cooperatively, and the others also looked incredulous.
"Yes, Weichen uses this thing to make ice!" However, to everyone's surprise, Merton nodded solemnly.
"What?"
Everyone looked at Merton in amazement, everyone felt that it was ridiculous, but when they thought that Merton only saw a miraculous performance, they couldn't help but feel absurd in their hearts. If this matter is put on someone else, it will definitely be laughed at by someone, and it is not necessary to even be considered crazy, but from the mouth of Mo Jiazi, it is an incredible thing, and they are afraid that they will have to think twice.
"Ice can be made from wall frost." Yuan Shoucheng looked at the extremely familiar wall cream in his hand, he usually used it when he was alchemy, it can be said that he was very familiar, but he couldn't think of it as having the function of making ice.
"This is impossible, summer insects can't talk about ice, this is the order of heaven and earth, except for the method of hiding ice, it is impossible to have ice and snow in this summer." Li Tai exclaimed.
"His Royal Highness the King of Wei is wrong in this statement, even in the scorching summer, there are some high mountain places, which do have snowflakes all year round and do not melt for ten thousand years." Merton shook his head.
"I have also heard that in the area of Tibet, there are high mountains, and the snow does not melt for thousands of years." Yuan Shoucheng also stroked his beard and nodded.
Li Shimin also nodded, he had also heard such a strange news,
"It's just a very special place." Li Tai retorted.
"What His Royal Highness the King of Wei said is very true, the sages of the Mo family once did an experiment, if the temperature is divided into 100 degrees from freezing to boiling, every 1,000 steps up, the temperature will drop by 6 degrees, that is to say, as long as it is a 2,000 zhang high mountain, there may be snow that does not melt all year round." Merton explained why.
Li Shimin suddenly realized that the Jiucheng Palace where he was going to escape the summer this time was built on the middle of the mountain, and every summer, the climate of Jiucheng Palace was cool and pleasant, and I am afraid that the high terrain was the most important reason!
"I didn't expect the sages of the Mo family to come to such a point, I admire it!" Yuan Shoucheng sighed, he has also traveled countless famous mountains, of course he knows that the temperature on the mountain is much lower than that under the mountain, he has never thought about this before, this time he heard Merton say this, and suddenly understood.
Li Tai was also stunned for a while, the sages of the Mo family had nothing to do when they were full, and they actually studied these things.
As if seeing through Li Tai's thoughts, Merton said: "This is a common phenomenon in heaven and earth, but it can be bypassed, the reason why the water freezes is because the temperature is too low, if you can create a way to keep the water cool, it is not impossible to freeze in the hot summer." ”
"Cool the water, can you use these wall frosts to cool the water?" Li Tai sneered and asked rhetorically.
"Not bad!" Merton said solemnly.
"How is that possible?" Li Tai exclaimed.
Merton picked up a piece of saltpeter with his hand and nodded: "The ancestor of the Mo family once inadvertently dropped a large amount of wall frost into the water, but within a while, the water temperature was cold and biting, and it was placed for half a sound and condensed into ice. ”
"Really?" Li Shimin was pleasantly surprised, if he could really use wall frost to make ice, then where would it be necessary for him to go to Jiucheng Palace, not to mention that it was inconvenient to travel long distances, just because he was an emperor and left the center, there were too many problems involved.
"Your Majesty, please allow Weichen to try it." Merton said confidently.
"Well, if you can really make ice, I'll credit you, and if you do, you know the consequences." Li Shimin stared at Merton with an unkind face.
"Your Majesty, don't worry, Daoist Yuan, the kid wants to borrow your land." Morton bowed to Yuan Shoucheng and said that he was a child of the Mo family, so he naturally had to say hello to his master first in the territory of Taoism.
"To be able to see the secret technique of the Mo family with his own eyes, Lao Dao is fortunate to have three lives, what is needed, Poor Dao will naturally cooperate." Yuan Shoucheng said.
"Borrow two pots from Guiguan, one is larger and the other is smaller, and both the clay pot and the copper pot are filled with half of the well water that has just been drilled." Merton nodded.
"It's a little thing."
In the side hall of the annex courtyard.
Two basins of water were quietly placed in front of a square table, and Li Shimin and others all looked at Merton quietly.
"Your Majesty, please test the temperature of the water." Merton said to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin tested the water temperature as he said, and nodded, it was indeed the well water that had just been dug out, and it was very cool.
Merton put the copper basin into the clay pot, the saltpeter that had already been crushed, a large number of evenly sprinkled into the clay pot, every ten breaths of time, sprinkled again, Merton in order to pursue the effect, simply regardless of the cost of using saltpeter.
However, after a quarter of an hour, the water in the basin did not react in the slightest.
"Lord Mo shouldn't be mistaken! How to make ice this summer! Li Tai looked at the water in the two basins and didn't react in the slightest, and couldn't help but sneer.
Merton didn't pay attention to Li Tai's ridicule, but reached out and touched the water temperature of the clay pot, and said with a hint of confidence on his face: "Your Majesty, please try the water temperature again to see if it's true or not." ”
Li Shimin was also curious about this kind of thing, and he couldn't bear it, so he reached out and touched the clay pot.
"Father, the emperor can't, this wall frost into the water, no one knows if it's harmful, it's better for the child to do it for you." Li Tai saw that Li Shimin stretched out his hand into the basin without doubt, and hurriedly expressed his loyalty.
At this time, Li Chengqian suddenly bowed down and said, "The child is willing to test the water for his father." ”
"The slave is willing too!" Li Zhi was not far behind.
Merton suddenly sighed in his heart, the three princes who were most entangled with the throne in their previous lives can be seen from today's incident, but Li Shimin was immersed in the dream of filial piety of his father and son, and he didn't notice it at all.
"Your Majesty, rest assured, the wall cream is a laxative, and there is no problem at all when you touch it with your hands, and Weichen did not put the wall cream in the copper basin, it is still pure water." Merton said.
Li Tai remembered Merton's actions just now, and couldn't help but blush, but Li Shimin didn't care, and laughed: "My son's filial piety for his father has been received, but don't you feel that there is any difference in this side hall?" ”
"Ahh Only then did Li Tai react, and before he knew it, the entire room had become clear and extremely hot.
"Really?" Li Chengqian said in surprise, feeling the cool breath in the air, as if returning to the cool autumn and summer.
Only then did everyone realize that they looked at Merton in horror, Li Tai couldn't believe it, and reached out to touch the copper basin, and suddenly a biting cold came, the disease in the palace is not uncommon, of course Li Tai knows that this temperature is almost close to the temperature of ice.
Summer ice-making, I'm afraid that this world can't think of things, I'm afraid it will really be born in the hands of Merton.
Everyone was silent for a while, only the temperature in the clay pot was constantly decreasing, and there was even a faint white smoke curling up, and before they knew it, a thin layer of ice had appeared on the surface of the water in the copper basin.
Regardless of the biting cold, Li Shimin held a thin piece of ice on his fingertips, felt the biting coldness, and a wave of ecstasy poured into his heart.
Summer insects can't be icy, I'm afraid this proverb will be rewritten from now on.