Chapter 72. Grain**
It is said that one person has ascended to heaven with a chicken and a dog, and it is true, Mao Jue moved to Tieshan, and Xuankong Lao Dao, the dead old man who helped Mao Jue get nitric acid, also moved over, and changed the shotgun to the gun, from the original three small thatched houses to three large tiled houses.
Even the golden body of the Sanqing Daozu was asked to be brushed again, and as soon as he heard that Mao Jue was coming, the old guy immediately smiled at an old face like a blooming old chrysanthemum, and he was busy personally greeting it.
"Mao Gongzi came to Xiaoguan, Xiaoguan is really Pengshengsheng...... wow, what kind of goblin is this? Childe rest assured! Poor Dao has been working hard to correct a faction's mental method for decades, even if it is a blood demon fox spirit who has practiced for thousands of years, it will not be accepted! ”
Poor old guy has never seen a foreigner in his life, and before he finished speaking, he was shocked by Adriana who was biting the dried sweet potato behind Mao Jue, and rushed forward with an arrow step to pull Mao Jue behind him, with the demon seal in his left hand and the Qiankun finger in his right hand, he waved his robe and shouted with righteousness.
But if this old guy didn't have a cry in his voice, and both thighs were trembling there, he would have more of a virtuous image.
The neat teeth bit into the dried sweet potato, and a few green tendons suddenly collapsed on Adriana's smooth forehead, and the little Taoist boy who was leading the way next to him also showed an embarrassed look, and hurriedly explained on the side.
"Master, this is the concubine newly given to Mao Gongzi by the Jiangnan salt merchant, she is a Hu person, not a monster!"
"Huh? Hu people! ”
In an instant, Xuankong Lao Dao's firm eyes even wavered a little, but immediately, the old guy showed Mao Jue what is called a thick black sect, his face was not red and his heart was not beating, Xuankong put away the handle, and immediately said to Mao Jue again, and said seriously.
"Poor Dao has just practiced a set of Zhengyi Lion Roar Exercises, blessing himself with Ling Ran's righteousness, in order to achieve the effect of strengthening the body and prolonging life, what does Young Master Mao think?"
The foreign girl's brain was more bruised, and the corners of Mao Jue's mouth were also twitching, and it took a long time before she hugged her fist stupidly.
"Xuankong Immortal Elder is really extraordinary!"
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Mao Jue is a utilitarian, he is willing to give Xuankong Lao Dao such a big house, and also divided dozens of acres of temple property to him, the old guy naturally has its value. I just walked through the Sanqing Hall on the first floor behind the old guy's buttocks, and in the courtyard behind me, a foul smell of chemical agents suddenly came to my face.
"Oh! Oh, God! Venetian Silver Mirror! ”
Adriana prides herself on coming from a civilized country, is well-informed, and usually the corners of her mouth are slightly upturned, and she is plain with disdain. But Mao Jue always has something here that makes her lose her temper. screamed, and without waiting for the old road of Xuankong to lead the way, this girl had already entered the west wing.
There is also a big chimney on the window of this room that is snorting black smoke outward, from time to time there are Taoist children who put the coal surface and yellow mud outside into it, a huge distillation pot is burned by the fire and the buttocks are red, on the table, several Taoist children are seriously holding brushes and don't know what to brush. Facing the wall of the hallway of the room, Adriana's little mouth opened in surprise and became an O-shape.
It turned out that Mao Jue's mirror workshop had moved here, and in the corridor, more than a dozen finished mirrors hung on the wall that had completed the silver mirror reaction and were framed, her little face was just divided into several mirror walls.
"This is the secret of the Republic of Venice! How did you get the secret recipe that the French King had tried to pressure Venice four times but couldn't get? ”
The mirror is not only crazy in the East at the same time, but also in the West is so fanatical that it makes countless aristocratic women go crazy to the point of selling their flesh and emptying the last franc in their lover's pocket.
This madness means a steady stream of silver, this girl's origin is still now, Mao Jue doesn't know, but looking at her surprised and golden appearance, it is obvious that she has seen it before but has never had it.
It's a pity, even if Adriana was so shocked that she even forgot her honorific title, Mao Jue still looked lazy and shook her head listlessly, and understated the old saying.
"Ask God!"
"Stingy!"
Seeing this goods staggering and following the old road of Xuankong to the courtyard of Sanjin, the angry girl clucked with a neat bite of her teeth, and even ignored what Mao Jue said could make a fortune, and rushed into the mirror workshop angrily, staring at the movements of a few Taoist children like an eagle catching mice, and refused to let go of a bitter and hateful look.
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The entire Tieshan Town has occupied too much of Mao Jue's energy, he can't take care of his own production of mirrors, anyway, a group of Taoist children have nothing to do every day, so they simply throw the work of producing nitric acid and silver mirror reaction here, anyway, the Taoist priest is usually isolated from the world, and he is in his own military fort, so he is not afraid of losing it.
However, Mao Jue still took precautions, and the production of glass was still placed on Phi Dao, so that He Siyong and Wenyuan Pavilion would be responsible, so that even if they knew the silver mirror reaction, these Taoist priests still couldn't get the mirror themselves.
The protagonist of this time is not a mirror, but he turned around at the door of the mirror workshop, and along the courtyard atrium, several people entered the third entrance.
This is directly against the root of the city wall, and it is a room that looks like an alchemy room, but this time the Danding is replaced by a furnace, and there is a stack of steamers piled up in the corner of the wall, and the distiller made of iron next to it droops his head, and the two little Taoist children have already fanned the wind in the furnace and lit a fire, and the coal is burned red, exuding a strong heat, and the hot people's faces are red.
Greeted Mao Jue into this house, about to do business, Xuankong Lao Dao also became extremely serious like a fanatical chemist, pointing to the steamer in the corner of the wall and arching his fist to Mao Jue.
"Young Master Mao, the heat is already good, and the steps have been pondered for a long time in the past two days, as long as you expect it, you can basket it."
"Liu Chong!"
The steamer at the front has been covered with a layer of cage drawer cloth, looking at Xiao Daotong's ready to go, no nonsense, Mao Jue tilted his head directly behind him, and Liu Chong, who was a coolie, and two other personal soldiers carried a bag of more than 100 catties of bud rice noodles and moved over.
It's really familiar, a few Taoist children poured the bud rice noodles into the steamer, and then poured water up with a bucket, each layer of the steamer opened the cornmeal and became soft, Xuankong Lao Dao personally watched on the side, how much water to add is determined by him, every time the old Taoist nodded, a few Taoist children stopped adding water, and sent the good bud rice noodles to the cage drawer, two stoves, twenty layers of cage drawers, soon was full, more than 100 catties of cornmeal used a fine light.
The fire was already hot, and the steam was even hotter, Xuankong deliberately wanted to invite Mao Jue to drink tea in the side room, sit and wait, but this matter was very important to Mao Jue, he stubbornly shook his head, and as a last resort, Xuankong had to move a bench and sit there.
In the blink of an eye, more than an hour has passed, to say that the realm of people is really different, Mao Jue has a lot of things in his heart, sitting here is like a sauna, making him restless, and after a while, he stood up and went around in a circle, and the beads of sweat on his head were like the water of a stream, and the collar of the cotton armor was soaked.
On the other hand, this Xuankong old way, except that the old face is a little whiter and tenderer, and it is smoked by steam, the rest of the time is calm where to go, no wonder the old guys are in their seventies, and they are still so tough, and this kind of mood is not comparable to Mao Jue, a restless young man.
During this period, Xuankong went to the steamer several times to investigate, added water again, and finally until the cornmeal inside was completely cooked, like chestnut cake, it was taken down from the steamer and opened to dry.
"How?"
Seeing the dead old man rubbing the cooked cornmeal with two fingers, frowning for a while, and being intoxicated for a while, Mao Jue was really a little worried about fishing, and couldn't help but ask hurriedly.
"According to the many years of experience of the poor road, it should be possible!"
Taking a deep breath, Mao Jue was a little annoyed and couldn't cry or laugh, pretending to be deep and satisfying people's appetites, is it the common disease of these high-ranking people?
The Taoist boys hung the cornmeal again, cooled down, and the old Xuankong Dao went back to his inner room, and then took back a jar like a baby, just opened, a strong smell of wine came to the nose, but at this time, a cold wind suddenly blew at the door, who pushed the door that was closed.
"Close it quickly, if it freezes, you won't be able to get off!"
It was rare that the old man was not calm, and Adriana, who was so panicked that she pushed the door in, turned around and slammed the door shut. Just now, this girl has been nesting in the mirror workshop, watching the Taoist boys evenly brush the rice soup on the back of the glass that has been coated with silver nitrate, until a half-person-high coat mirror is finished and waiting to dry, this girl didn't see any secrets.
It's no wonder, in addition to refining the old way of nitric acid, even the little Taoist children don't know what they are brushing, if Adriana can see it, it's weird, but she is not completely ungained, just the dried sweet potato in her arms is gone, at this time, it is replaced with a round mirror, this treasure that is worth even more than her person, has become the trophy of this girl.
took a vicious look from Mao Jue, and then snorted heavily, holding the mirror with her little hands, but Adeleena's face couldn't help but show a look of disdain, and a small mouth pouted to the side.
"Isn't it just winemaking? As for being so mysterious? ”
This girl started to sell cuteness again, but Mao Jue really didn't care about her at all, and still watched Xuankong Lao Dao evenly stir the koji in the jar with the cornmeal, put it into the prepared vat, and finally moved the vat to the hot kang, Mao Jue breathed a sigh of relief.
The resources in his hands, the first mirror is the most valuable, but the number of listed is large, the price must fall, glass products are similar, and these two are not bulk commodities, the luxury goods of this year are still about the same, only the wealthy class can buy, and the market is destined to be opened.
Ginseng, mink, deer antler, etc. are also similar, and these things Mao Jue can't monopolize, every year the Shanxi Jin merchants who go to the grassland, as well as the officials and businessmen of the Beijing Division, will also smuggle a considerable scale from Liaodong, and the most important thing is that this thing is not a civilian industry, which is greatly affected by the war and cannot bring the economic development of Tieshan.
But once the corn brewing is successful, it is a unique industry in the local area, the material is simple, the corn planted all over the mountains can be used to make wine, the market is very wide, after all, a lot of men are good at this, look at Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, the two big wine bags can be seen, if you really want to open up the situation, Mao Jue will not worry about military spending.
However, there is a specialization in the art industry, Mao Jue has learned machinery, worked in the shipyard, and played in the glass workshop, but he really has never made wine, and the Northeast is very famous in later generations, he only knows how to drink, but he doesn't know how this thing came about, how to make bud rice into wine, he is really black-eyed.
Fortunately, there is a wine-making expert around him, don't look at Xuankong as a Taoist priest, a monk, but he believes in a righteous school, and is not like Buddhism to taboo meat and fish, not allowed to get married, the old guy also has a history of romance back then, and the old guy also pays great attention to health, will make his own wine, and use ginseng and deer antler velvet to brew into medicinal wine, once Mao Jue received his configuration of ginseng strong wine.
This time, whether he can turn corn into wine depends on him, this old guy is again commanding to put the next bag of cornmeal on the steamer, full of hope, Mao Jue slipped in front of the wine vat again, looking inside, hoping that wine can be born now.
Mao Jue didn't pay attention to it, Adriana who was holding the mirror, her beautiful blue eyes, and she turned around again......