Chapter 348: Heading North
The boat is very good, either because of the luck of the so-called beginners, or because there are tall and majestic building boats to open the way, this road is still smooth, except for Zhang Fei at sea because of seasickness vomited upside down, but there is no big accident. More than ten days later, Guo Bin's boat and dozens of ships transporting sugarcane passed through Huaishui, entered Yingshui, and arrived at the wharf in the east of Yangzhai County. &1t;/p>
Whether it is the northern section of Yingshui near Yangzhai or the Weishui near Changshe, it flows into Huaishui from northwest to southeast. The two rivers, which originally had only three or two fishing boats, became increasingly prosperous after Guo Binxun's rise, and the boats transporting goods came and went in an endless stream. &1t;/p>
Because the two rivers of Yingshui and Weishui are not too wide, and the river water is not too deep, the transportation capacity is very limited. In order not to let traffic become a stumbling block to the economic development of Yangzhai County, with Guo Bin's consent, Changshe City was building a large-scale storage center and building a high-speed highway connecting with Yangzhai County, while also diverting many industries in Yangzhai County. Today's Changshe City, relying on its close proximity to the Yangzhai manufacturing center and the convenience of the high highway, with its advantages of connecting Luoyang, Beijing, to the east, to the rich Xuzhou, and to the south to Chenjun and Runan, has become a dazzling pearl in the northeast of Yingchuan County. &1t;/p>
In particular, the industrial production efficiency of Yangzhai County has gradually improved, and its products in the county are also extremely popular in the market, and more and more businessmen have gathered from all over the world. All kinds of carriages and boats transported raw materials such as felt, raw silk, fur and other materials from all over the world, and then loaded various industrial manufactured products such as Yangzhai stationery, clothing, wine, soap and other industrial products onto the vehicles and ships and sold them all over the world. Therefore, in the manor by the wharf outside the city, in addition to various large-scale storage facilities, there are tiles, restaurants, teahouses, etc., which are specially used for the leisure and entertainment of merchants from all over the world. It has become an excellent place for businessmen from all over the world to discuss business and do business. &1t;/p>
Although the scene of cars and horses and boats weaving is very common in Chosha, even the oldest and most knowledgeable laborers who have been living here since the wharf outside the city was built have never seen the tall and majestic building ship like a mountain in front of him. &1t;/p>
The side of this building is extremely high, the ship is extremely wide, and the ship is built with three buildings, and it looks like a moving giant restaurant from a distance. Yesterday, when it sailed into the pier outside Changshe City, it scared the pedestrians and laborers on the pier. Even today, the popularity has not diminished at all, and there are even those who take a special ride from the city of Changshe to see the excitement by the Weishui River. &1t;/p>
This is the car that Shi Xie lent to Guo Bin, such a building ship was originally a kind of large warship of the ancient Yue people, which was very rare even in Jiaozhou, let alone the Central Plains. During the Three Kingdoms period, the Wu Navy was equipped with 5-story building ships, such as "Feiyun", "Gaihai" and other large building ships, which could carry 3ooo soldiers. Since then, successive naval armies have used building ships as the main warships. &1t;/p>
Naturally, the Shi family built such a huge building ship not to expose their ambitions and use it for death, although this big ship also has defensive facilities such as women's walls and battle grids, most of the goods in it are cargo. Of course, even at sea is not very safe these days, and the pirates in the coastal waters and the bandits in the rivers also pose a considerable threat to the safety of the fleet. Because this is still a batch of sugarcane destined for the Central Plains, in order to ensure the smooth trip of Guo Bin and others, Shixie simply sent the building boat out. &1t;/p>
At this time, water warfare was mainly based on bow and arrow shooting, ship collision, and hand-to-hand combat. Therefore, the size of the ship directly determines the number of sailors and soldiers that a single battleship can accommodate, and of course, the impact force of the battleship. Wars are always won by many, and the greater the number of sailors and soldiers on a ship, the more they can gain a scale advantage when firing bows and arrows, and often in hand-to-hand combat. In addition, the size of the building ship is huge, and the boat gang is one or two feet taller than ordinary boats, so it also has a great advantage in hand-to-hand combat. &1t;/p>
It is precisely because of the various advantages of the building ship in the war that since the Three Kingdoms period, the naval forces of all dynasties have used the building ship as the main warship in the war. In the Western Jin Dynasty, there was a clap pole on the ship. The slap rod mentioned here is naturally not a technique used in fishing, but a kind of war tool. It was first installed on military vehicles and warships, using levers and pulleys to throw stones, nail boards, fires and other objects to hit the enemy. Therefore, from the records of the historical books, it can be known that this clapper is similar to the gun carriage of the 6th World War, and it was the most powerful and lethal weapon on the ship at that time. Wei Yuan simply said the benefits of this slap rod: "The system of slapping rods, applied to the building boat, placed on the boulders, permeated with the sky, hundreds of floors, six rods connected, hundreds of strong men, layers around its peaks, broken enemies, bears in front of Mo." "It can be seen that this building ship is indeed a behemoth that can crush ordinary small boats. &1t;/p>
It's just that although this building ship is good, there is also one thing that is not, that is, its ability to resist storms is poor. Because there are too many superstructures on the building, and they are extremely tall, it causes its center of gravity to move upward. The disadvantage of a high center of gravity is that once it encounters strong winds and waves, it is very easy to capsize, which is very dangerous. &1t;/p>
However, this time to transport sugarcane to the north, it is indeed to borrow the light of this ship, seeing such a tall and mighty warship, where can the little thieves who are usually mixed in the rivers and lakes dare to take the lead? Moreover, the wind and waves in the offshore sea are small, and the boat on this building is relatively stable, otherwise Zhang Fei, the Marquis of Huan, who is famous in later generations and one of the five tiger generals, is afraid that he will have to get off the boat and ride a horse halfway through. &1t;/p>
Not to mention the huge shock brought by such a large and magnificent fleet to the people inside and outside the city, Guo Bin and his entourage saw Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia and others who came to greet the Changshe, and naturally had another lively scene. &1t;/p>
This time he went south, what he did was to find Dong Feng's whereabouts, and as for the idea of sugarcane, Guo Bin temporarily thought of it and explained it to Xi Zhicai before leaving. With the rapid rise of various industries in Yangzhai County, factories inside and outside the city have been connected, and the high road leading to Changshe has also been under great pressure. In order to alleviate the traffic pressure, but also in order to save costs, and in order to build Yangzhai County into a cultural center, a science and technology research center, and a political center in Yingchuan County, many enterprises with large pollution and low benefits will continue to move to Changshe. &1t;/p>
The sugar mill was located on the edge of the wharf outside the city of Changshe, because the amount of sugarcane, the raw material it needed, was extremely large, and the paper industry downstream was a big polluter, so it was placed outside the city of Changshe. Since the sugar and paper mills were moved to Chosha, the newly established brewery of Fulong Villa was also located here. &1t;/p>
The distillery is dedicated to the production of sugar cane liquor, which is made from cane juice, sugar juice or molasses, which is made from rum originating in the Republic of Cuba, with the addition of an additional distillation process. It is not difficult to say that the distillation technology of this liquor is not difficult, and the distillation tools made of bronze or iron can also obtain distilled liquor, but Guo Bin has no intention of taking it out at present. &1t;/p>
Chinese winemaking techniques are probably passed down from Du Kang or Yi Di in the Xia Dynasty, and even from the Yellow Emperor. Although there are different opinions, the time of its appearance should not be later than the Xia Dynasty. As for the distillation technology of liquor, there are more and more theories about its origins, and there are many different theories. &1t;/p>
One theory is that Li Shizhen from the Ming Dynasty said in his medical work "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Shochu is not an ancient method, it was created since the Yuan Dynasty." The method is to use strong wine and lees, steam to make steam, use a vessel to take drip dew, and all sour wine can be steamed and burned. Although it is not necessary to exhaustively investigate the fact that this medical scientist often engages in cross-border research, his credibility in many matters is also debatable. &1t;/p>
In addition, there is also the statement that this distillation method was passed on from the Song Dynasty, the early Tang Dynasty, and even the Eastern Han Dynasty, of course, each has its own convincing evidence, and now let's talk about the statement that this distilled liquor method was passed on from the Eastern Han Dynasty. &1t;/p>
In the Shanghai Museum, there is a set of bronze stills from the Eastern Han Dynasty, which are dated to the early or middle Eastern Han Dynasty after being identified by bronze experts. In addition, experts have used this still for distillation experiments, distilled a distilled liquor with a liquor content of 26., and a bronze still that seems to be exactly the same has also been unearthed in Huangni Township, Chuzhou, Anhui Province. &1t;/p>
This is where the rigor of the historian in his academic studies is revealed. Mr. Wu Deduo and Mr. Ma Chengyuan, who specialize in this topic, believe that as early as the beginning of the Common Era, or the first and second centuries in China, people have used bronze stills in their daily lives, but they do not believe that this still is used to distill liquor. &1t;/p>
After the 1986 dissertation list, it undoubtedly caused a sensation in the world of science and technology history circles, and aroused the great attention of Dr. Joseph Needham, director of the Oriental History of Science and Technology Library at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and author of the History of Science and Technology in China, and expressed the need to revise this part of his original work on distillers. However, due to the lack of sufficient evidence, the idea that distilled spirits originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty is not widely accepted, and it is indeed inappropriate to rely solely on distillers of unknown purposes to determine the age of distillation technology. &1t;/p>
Some people also took Cao Cao's ban on alcohol as circumstantial evidence, saying, "Wei Cao Cao banned alcohol, and people stole it." Sake is called a sage, and turbid sake is a sage. It means that because of Cao Wei's time, Cao Cao was very strict in prohibiting alcohol. At that time, people said the word wine, so they called sake sage, and turbid wine sage. Some people think that this so-called "sake" must be distilled spirit, but in fact, it is not true. &1t;/p>
In ancient times, charcoal was added to the cloudy sake to precipitate it, and the clear liquor on top of it was called sake, and the white cloudy part left behind was called cloudy sake. As a result, sake is precipitated rather than distilled, and its alcohol content is naturally far from distilled spirits. &1t;/p>
The world-famous Japanese sake is made from rice and natural mineral water, and is brewed through a process of koji-making, brewing, and final brewing, and through parallel compound fermentation to produce a mash with an alcohol content of about 18%. After that, lime is added to precipitate and pressed to make the original sake of sake. Therefore, in terms of brewing and precipitation techniques, it seems that Japanese sake is also derived from ancient Chinese sake brewing techniques. Because the alcohol content of sake is not high, the alcohol content of sake sold in Japan today is only a little more than 10 degrees. &1t;/p>
However, Guo Bin has no intention of distilling liquor, but also to save food. If this good wine is made, and then the drunkards' addiction to alcohol is hooked out, then the consumption of food is bound to increase greatly. At a time when food is extremely scarce and local governments have no intention of developing their economies, this is absolutely unacceptable. &1t;/p>
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