Chapter 56: Distilled Spirits

After thinking about it, Xu Qing still felt that making flint was angry. Gun. First of all, this musket is easy to make, and sub. Bullets are also easy to make, lead shots or even iron shots will do. Secondly, this fire. Guns for fire. Rope guns and revolt fire. The gun is much more advanced, so it is a relatively easy and practical musket. As for the problem that it can only be fired once at a time, and then it needs to be reloaded, Xu Qing thinks that it is enough to make a few more, and then he will be a prince with two guns.

Flint fire. The structure of the gun is simple, the barrel, *, and then the chamber is used to fill * and bullets. The so-called flint is to add a piece of flint and use a striking device to make the flint spark and ignite the fire. Medicine. Xu Qing drew the chamber of the gun, and the mechanism of the excitation device was given to different blacksmiths from far away, and the structural diagram of * was drawn to the carpenter, all of which were made from the best materials. Iron needs iron that has been refined for a hundred years, and hardwood that has been refined for 50 years.

Xu Qing ordered fifty sets, he didn't want to equip a unit, but the craftsmanship of the Tang Dynasty was relatively rough, and if he assembled it like this, many of them might not match. In this way, fifty sets, at most five sets can be used. Xu Qing also instructed Yang Wen to order some very thin and short nails as assembly tools.

Fire. Guns, fire. Guns, at least facing martial arts masters alone, think of Cheng Biting Jin, you have the power of self-preservation, don't you? Xu Qing thought to himself, if he offended someone, or even offended the emperor, as long as he escaped, he would immediately form a musket team and pull up an artillery team, and it would be a big deal to doom him. But Xu Qing thought about it in a blink of an eye, where did the money come from to form a team? Oh, money, money, you can't have it.

Although Xu Qing is now a county man, most of his income is the grain paid by the tenants, even if it is a little discounted, it is replaced by other physical objects, and he rarely uses money. He can't take these with him, in case he is persecuted, all these properties will be frozen, and 10,000 stone of grain will be useless.

"Occasionally there must be a secret little vault!" Xu Qing said secretly.

Finished with fire. Xu Qing, who has gun parts, can't play with Xun Xue'er yet, and he has to continue to distill liquor or something. It's almost winter, and this spirit is warm to drink, and it will definitely be very popular in front of that group of generals.

In the kitchen, Xu Qing brought more than a dozen jars of wine, a well-sealed steaming drawer, and a round hole was carved out of the steaming drawer. The cave is connected to a bamboo pipe, and one end of the bamboo pipe is sharpened, so as to increase the area of receiving wine drops, but less water droplets. The steaming drawer is placed on top of the pot, and then the place where the steaming drawer touches the pot is covered with a thick towel.

Two pots, the lower one puts the wine, the top one puts the water, the wine is heated and evaporated, the steam rises to the bottom of the upper pot, condenses into a liquid, flows down the pot to the bottom of the pot, and then dripped into the bamboo tube and flows out. This is the local method of making sake in the village, and it is not a problem to make sake at about 40 degrees. If you steam it a few more times, it can reach more than 50 degrees, and no matter how high it is, it will not work, and the sealing degree will not reach the standard first.

In addition to the good sealing, the most important thing for steamed wine is the heat. As long as the heat is in the kitchen, as long as it is made and eaten, it is always the most important. Alcohol volatilizes most at about 70 degrees, and no matter how high it is, it will bring out a lot of water vapor. Heat slowly over low heat, pressing the fire at the right time. It's slow, but for such a rough tool, maximum efficiency is guaranteed.

"Huh? Where does the wine come from......"

"It's so fragrant, I drool when I smell this wine......"

"Let me take a sip and I'll be satisfied......."

"you, you still have a sip, I just need to tap the chopsticks a little."

"You still say him, I just need to get close and smell it!"

The aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys, Xu Qing listened to the smell of wine from afar, and some of them were not happy, but pity. Didn't the smell of wine escape from these cracks? That's all loss, you can smell it from afar, that means it's not a small loss.

After steaming a pot, the original puree wine of four jars is steamed out only half a jar of less than half a jar, which is too little, no, we must improve the process. When I tasted the leftover wine residue in the pot, there was a lot of wine smell, but why did it flow out of the bamboo pipe so faint that it couldn't do it?

Temperature is a matter of temperature, how to effectively control the temperature?

"That's right, the waterproof heating method! How did I forget this......." Xu Qing patted his head and thought of the "water bath heating" in the middle school chemistry exam. So Xu Qing rebuilt a stove outside, there were two pots in the morning, and the water bath pot was buried in the stove, filling up just half of the steaming wine pot. Then, as before, put a steaming drawer on top of the steaming pot, and put a pot of water on top of the steaming drawer to cool down.

There are small holes in the support between the two pots below, which can test the temperature of the water so that it can be controlled. With a water bath, unlike the kind of direct heating with fire, when the temperature is high, the alcohol will not volatilize, and the water vapor will be happy.

A thin quilt is also wrapped around the steamer to increase the seal.

Xu Qing tossed like this, and everyone in the Xu Mansion knew about it. They were all curious about what this little master was busy with, and the three pots were stacked together, and they were quilts and wine jars, and they all gathered around to watch. And this distilled liquor is not as secret as *, if someone in his own family learns it, Xu Qing doesn't mind letting him be a distilled liquor "grandfather" or something.

Let's start with two jars of wine, and put the rest of the pot in front of it, as well as the steamed ones, to make an experiment.

"Brother Xu, I remember that you don't drink......" Xun Xue'er sat with Xu Qing holding her chin, she only behaved like this in front of Xu Qing now, and at other times she was a hostess, a fighter......

"I didn't drink this wine myself, I gave ......it away when I went to Chang'an," Xu Qing said with a smile, touching Xun Xue'er's head.

"Oh......" Xu Qing said whatever he wanted, and Xun Xue'er, who had always taken this as a principle, stopped asking and looked at Xu Qing with a blank look.

"Tick Tick Tick Tick ......Tick" The wine in the bamboo tube flowed out, and because it was covered, only the sound of ticking could be heard. Every ten minutes, Xu Qing went to take a look, smell it, and taste it with his fingers.

After a long time, the first jar was full, but the wine in the bamboo tube seemed to be unfinished, and it was still ticking. Xu Qing held this first jar of distilled liquor in the Tang Dynasty, couldn't help but be overjoyed, poured a bowl, called the cow to eat grass, and asked him if he drank it. The cow also watched the grass for a long time, and the aroma of wine had long aroused the roundworms in his stomach. He knew that Xu Qing almost didn't drink a drop of wine, so he was not polite, and took the wine bowl under the eyes of everyone's expectation and envy. Then he opened his mouth, looked up, and took a big sip, and the people watching from the side also followed the cow to graze and raised their heads, as if they were also eating.

"Hiss~~" The cow ate grass and poured a big mouthful, at first I didn't care, I just felt that the wine was extraordinarily fragrant, but when it came to the mouth, it felt like a knife was cutting, the wine was like seeing a gentle and beautiful girl, and when I got to the bed, I found that hey, eight-pack abs, the strength is greater than that of a man. However, the cow eats grass after all, he is a fierce man, and he forcibly takes a bite and tames this wild horse-like wine.

"Good wine!" "Plop!"

"Brother Niu, Brother Niu, Young Master, what's wrong with Brother Niu?" Xiao Ru saw the cow grazing and fell on the spot, panicked, hurriedly ran over and squatted next to the cow's drunken body eating grass and shook it vigorously, shouting loudly, but to no avail. Xiaoru looked at Xu Qing aggrievedly. Xu Qing comforted her and said:

"Just drunk......"

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A lot of red envelopes! Lots of flowers!