In the blink of an eye, entering the second year of Qingli, now Li Buqi hangs every day in addition to hanging Gao Zunyu's gang of nobles who have worshiped Li Buqi to the ground, there is also a handsome guy - Uncle Cao Guo. Cao Yan, Uncle Cao Guo is a handsome old man with a lot of gold, naturally he will not be like a group of bear children in order to ask Li Buqi for the magic skills of picking up girls, and the purpose of following Li Buqi is to refine the pill and cultivate immortals.

Li Buqi told Empress Cao that day about the method of making white granulated sugar and rock sugar from the frosting of Huang Bulaji sold in the Great Song Dynasty, and asked him to hand over the molasses as scraps. Empress Cao casually asked about the use of molasses, and Li Buqi honestly said that it was made of alcohol.

It's hard to explain to the Song people what alcohol is, so I have to say that it is the essence of wine. Unexpectedly, this news reached Cao Yan's ears, this uncle who is good at cultivating and seeking immortals somehow thinks that using the essence of wine can wash away the impurities in the alchemy materials and improve the success rate of alchemy. So Cao Tong came to Li Buqi, urging Li Buqi every day to quickly make alcohol so that he could make alchemy for the Taoist priests.

Although Uncle Cao's purpose was somewhat deviated, it was undeniable that alchemy and alchemy gave birth to the initial chemical research, so Li Buqi still supported Uncle Guo's alchemy cause. And many things are immediately much easier with Uncle Cao's help, for example, Li Buqi now has a license to make wine, which Uncle Cao Guo directly asked the emperor for; Li Buqi said that he wanted to collect different koji from all over the world, and Uncle Guo contacted the nobles to find it; Li Buqi said that a relatively large place was needed for the study of wine-making, and Uncle Cao Guo allocated 50 acres of land on the edge of Yujin Garden in the south of the city to Li Buqi, saying that as long as alcohol was made, this land would belong to Li Buqi.

Fifty acres of land is more than 200 yuan, but it is rare that the land around Bianliang cannot be bought with money, and with these fifty acres of land, Li Buqi can plant crops from overseas nearby.

After the Chinese New Year, Li Buqi spent a month teaching the craftsmen of the royal workshop how to decolorize and recrystallize the icing, and after two crystallizations, the remaining molasses could not be used to get granulated sugar, so Li Buqi transported the molasses to the courtyard next door to the backyard of Wuweifang, where they were diluted into sugar water of different concentrations, added to the koji and sealed into the jar.

Before the crossing, his unit had a fermentation department, and when he was a child, his home was no more than one kilometer away from the sake lees pond of the alcohol factory, and he had been edified by the smell of sake lees for more than ten years, so it was no problem to do a simple fermentation. He also knew that fermenting with sugar water had too low an alcohol concentration, and that distillation was not only laborious but also too wasteful, and that the real production of alcohol in large quantities still relied on solid fermentation of grains.

The problem is that the koji used for solid fermentation is Dakoji, which was not available in the Great Song Dynasty at this time, so it could only be cultivated by itself. So Li Buqi also bought the courtyard next door to Wuweifang, and made a lot of jars and jars to screen for strains in them.

While doing these things, Li Buqi was also studying the Great Song Dynasty. Now that there is no need to worry that Han Qi can easily kill him, and his wife is also gone, Li Buqi feels that since he has traveled to this era and is close to the emperor, he can consider how to make the Great Song Dynasty survive the invasion of the nomads and let the Chinese civilization continue in this land safely. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a trip for nothing?

He was able to get in touch with the Shengdou Xiaomin, and he was able to get in touch with the emperors and top nobles of the empire, saw a lot of things that were difficult for ordinary people to see, heard a lot of secrets that he didn't know before, and found that in addition to the soft bones, the Great Song Dynasty really had a lot of lovely places compared with the Ming and Qing dynasties.

At least the officials who addressed the Great Song Dynasty did not have to be called "adult", that was the title of their parents; Although the minister needs to bow to the emperor, he can also spray the emperor with foaming stars, and the emperor can't be in a hurry; The class hierarchy of the Great Song Dynasty was not so strict compared to that of the Ming and Qing dynasties; The laws of the Great Song Dynasty attached great importance to people, and did not allow the existence of slaves, even those who sold themselves into slavery had a time limit, and the economic dependence of tenant farmers and servants on the master's family was stronger than personal dependence.

In these respects, the Great Song Dynasty was a peak of the stable development of Chinese culture, the aristocratic class that shrouded the heads of the small people completely disappeared, and the Chinese culture contributed to the unprecedented equality of people, which in turn promoted the unprecedented prosperity of science and technology. Since the Mongols invaded the Central Plains, Chinese culture has gone back.

Look at the later Ming Dynasty, in a country built by reckless men who lacked cultural cultivation on the scorched earth ravaged by the Mongols, nobles and slaves reappeared, small people called officials their parents, peasants' personal dependence on landlords was strengthened, and Chinese society even regressed to the level before the middle of the Tang Dynasty. Not to mention the Braided Dynasty, which was simply the last bit of fire that almost destroyed Chinese culture.

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If the Great Song Dynasty can continue to develop steadily, it is estimated that there will be nothing to do with white-skinned pigs on this earth, and Li Buqi's parents before the crossing will not have to suffer so much, and Li Buqi will not have to spend so much effort to learn English back then. Even so that future generations don't have to have a headache learning English, Li feels that he must do something.

According to Li Buqi's understanding, the Great Song Dynasty was a feudal state, very similar to the structure of a company, the emperor was the chairman, and the following nobles and rulers could be regarded as executive directors and managers. The least resistance to reform is to reform from the top down, and if the chairman, directors and managers can be persuaded to work together, then the company's reform has a good chance of success.

However, corporate reform is not easy, and Li Buqi is a pessimist in this regard. Look at what the civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty are doing, and you can see how serious the bureaucracy of this company is. It is difficult for even the chairman and directors to challenge the bureaucracy of the entire company with one heart, so Li Buqi will not be stupid enough to jump out and take action immediately, and will definitely plan and then act.

He knew that next year, that is, the third year of Qingli, would kick off a reform, although Li Buqi saw that this reform would definitely fail after the trials and tribulations in the workplace, but this did not prevent him from studying the various forces within the Great Song Dynasty by observing this reform at close range, and finding a way. There are always more ways than difficulties, and if you can't be gentle, you will use violence.

Li Buqi is not a person who is accustomed to putting all expectations on others, he is also a man of action, and when he needs to take action, he will definitely participate in it personally, of course, at that time he must have a suitable identity and strong power.

There should still be a few decades before the "shame of Jingkang", and the time is still rich, what he has to do now is to sneak into the officialdom through the imperial examination to find allies and take out potential enemies, so that when he does it, everything will fall into place.

So Li Buqi made a five-year plan for himself, striving to earn millions of yuan in family property within five years, pass the imperial examination, have an official and a half position, and build an army that he can control. In Da Song, such a goal is not high.