"Sir once told me that there are three main schools of magicians. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThere are three kinds of overseas immortal seeking, food qi valley road, and yellow and white techniques. ”

The so-called overseas immortal seeking, needless to say, is that the previous Xianmen Zigao took a boat to visit the Three Immortals Mountain, and the later generations of Xu Fu were also of this faction, which was quite valued in the Qin Dynasty, mainly Yan and Qi Fangshi.

As for the food gas valley road, it is mainly based on the local priests of Chu, the food gas refers to the inhalation of gas, the valley road is the valley, the mountains and rivers of Chu are handsome, there are quite a lot of elegant and romantic legends, just as Qu Yuan said in "Far Travel", "The meal is six qi and the drink is continuous, and the sun is the sun and contains the morning glow." Protect the clarity of the gods, the essence into and the coarse removal", inherited some Taoist philosophies of the old and Zhuang of the Chu State, the monks of the Chu State believe that they do not eat grains, suck wind and drink dew, which is the highest state that can make people immortal.

The third is the yellow and white technique that Xu Ping is good at, paying attention to refining medicinal herbs and minerals into pills, among the three kinds of magicians, this school is the most in need of basic skills and craftsmanship. From the practice of alchemy, they realized that material change is a universal law in nature, so they wanted to smelt lead iron into gold, and dead mercury into silver, so as to get rich overnight, or synthesize various things into "return pills", and achieve the effect of prolonging life after eating.

Of course, Mingyue knew that this kind of wish that violated the laws of nature was impossible to realize, but this did not prevent him from having a strong interest in this "yellow and white technique". This is the closest school of chemistry among the magicians to later generations, and the Danfang is like a laboratory, and many alchemy utensils already have the rudiments of the use of chemical rituals.

In order to refine different minerals, the magicians also summed up the methods of calcining, burning, refining, melting, pumping, flying, and volting, among which the solid is distilled into a gaseous state and then condensed into a liquid, which is "pumping".

"I don't expect Mr. to use the Yellow and White Technique to refine any immortal elixir for me, but I hope that Mr. will use the Yellow and White Technique to create some practical things."

"Practical things?"

Xu Ping scratched his head and asked, "What does Childe mean, gold and silver?" The minister's skill is low, and this magic technique of turning lead and iron into gold and dead mercury into silver cannot be successfully ...... again and again."

How to convert between different elemental metals! You can't make it once, can you? Mingyue didn't bother to poke him, and said patiently: "I'm talking about soju and other things, have you drunk it before?" ”

At this time, Lu Sheng hurriedly replied: "Hugh said to drink, the minister is simply unheard of." ”

"Before that, can you think of making sake in this way?"

Lu Sheng's head shook like a rattle, and he patted his ass and said: "The minister never imagined it, but the son is still smart, and the wise man is far-sighted in the future!" ”

Mingyue smiled: "Otherwise, this soju is actually made by the mercury extraction method in the yellow and white technique, but what is the principle of it, I will discuss it with Mr. ”

While speaking, under Mingyue's signal, someone next to him carried a can of soju that he got in the morning, and another can of ordinary rice wine, all of which were placed on the table, and when the lid was lifted, a smell of wine suddenly permeated.

Mingyue pointed to the two cans of wine and said: "Grain can be fermented in koji to get wine and grain, after ten days and half a month, squeezing, you can get rice wine." However, if you put the sake in a steaming barrel and heat it over a stove fire, as you would in the morning, you will get shochu. ”

"But rice wine is thin, and soju is thick, dare to ask sir, what determines their thickness?"

"Just like rice wine mixed with water is not as strong as ordinary rice wine, it should be because there is more water in rice wine than soju...... Xu Ping replied hesitantly.

"Yes, we call pure wine alcohol, rice wine and soju, in fact, they are not pure alcohol. They are all mixed with water in different proportions, or three or seven, or six or four, so the question is, how to separate the two different substances of alcohol and water? ”

Thinking of the process of distilling liquor in the morning, Xu Ping's eyes lit up: "Use the mercury extraction method to steam it over a slow fire, and after a short time, the alcohol will turn into gas and fly away!" ”

"Yes, but don't forget one thing, sir, as long as it is boiled long enough, water can also be turned into gas."

Under the constant prompting, Xu Ping was already able to keep up with Mingyue's train of thought: "This should be alcoholized gas, which is different from the heat required for hydration gas." ”

Observing the heat is a skill that craftsmen and alchemists must master, and Xu Ping is naturally no stranger to it.

"This heat is called the boiling point, which is the moment when liquefaction into gas. Suppose the boiling point of hydrated gas is 100, then the alcohol is 70, so if the warm fire is burned to 70 or 80, the alcohol in the wine begins to turn into gas, but the water does not rise, so if the heat is controlled, the alcohol and water can be separated! ”

In the same way, if it is cold to a certain extent, the gas will also turn into liquid, and when the wine meets the heavenly pot filled with cold water, it will turn into liquid again in an instant, and it will naturally flow out, and it will become soju. Therefore, in soju, there is more alcohol and less water, which is naturally stronger than rice wine. ”

After finishing speaking, Xu Ping's eyes were bright, and Lu Sheng's mouth opened slightly.

Chang Anjun's words seemed to open a window in front of them, allowing the two of them to see a light that they had never imagined before.

On weekdays, their masters and apprentices boiled water every day to drink, and once accidentally boiled the wine, and when they saw the white steam in the kettle, they also regarded it as ordinary, but they never thought deeply about the reason. Unexpectedly, this commonly visible thing actually contained such a familiar and unfamiliar truth, which was dissected by Chang Anjun one by one, which made him feel a sense of sudden enlightenment.

The clever little apprentice Lu Sheng also immediately summed up by inference: "In this way, mercury also has its own boiling point, and it should be higher than water!" ”

"Clever, exactly."

Next, Mingyue gave their master and apprentice science popularization of "melting point" and the concept of zero degrees.

"The ancients said that when you see the ice in the bottle, you know the cold of the world. Gaseous, liquid, and solid, these are the three common forms of things in heaven and earth, although the state is different, but the alcohol and water themselves do not change much. ”

"So, mercury is the liquid form of dansha?"

Mingyue hurriedly corrected: "No, in the art of yellow and white, the mutual transformation of all things is different, Dansha produces mercury when it encounters heat, and mercury turns into red Dan when it encounters sulfur. In Huachi, when the iron sword meets Zeng Qing, the surface turns into copper ......"

Xu Ping and Lu Sheng had already pricked up their ears, waiting for Chang Anjun to analyze the principles of those changes, but unexpectedly, he sold it and said with a smile: "Among these complicated changes, there must be some kind of law to be found, so let's ignore it for the time being." ”

Seeing Xu Ping and Lu Sheng's somewhat disappointed expressions, Mingyue secretly laughed.

This is the end of the chemistry class, for this pair of masters and apprentices who have no theoretical foundation, it is enough to talk about physical reactions, chemical reactions are more complicated, and it is not too late to slowly inculcate them when they have the opportunity in the future. Now, he only needs to let Xu Ping forget the unrealistic idea of "refining the elixir of immortality" when doing things for him.

The pursuit of immortality, alchemy and the principle of material change are the essential differences between alchemy and chemistry!

Mingyue said: "Immortality is nothing, ethereal and hard to find; And turning things into reality is practical. I have Mr. as a guest because I want you to use the yellow and white alchemy technique that the sorcerer is good at, while helping me find the law of the transformation of all things, and by the way, I can also make many good things like shochu. ”

"Therefore, I can provide Mr. with a dan room, money, raw materials, and manpower, but what to do and how to do it, Mr. must listen to me."

Now Xu Ping is convinced, and he bows his head and says: "I wish that only the son and the horse are the first." ”

"First of all, Mr. will help me find a way to distill this shochu a few more times......

Xu Ping was shocked: "Still steaming?" I only took a few sips before I got drunk, and when I steamed again, I couldn't drink it. ”

"Let Mr. distill and purify, remove the water in it, not for drinking, but to make the alcohol thicker, you try to make it first, I have my own great use."

Mingyue wants more than just drinkable wine, he also wants to try, can he rely on the simple utensils of this era to make 75° medical alcohol that can be used for disinfection? In an era when half of the soldiers died of wound infections in wars, this product is undoubtedly a life-saving medicine!

……

In the next seven or eight days, in the Proton Mansion, in addition to the wine and grain made from rice were sealed into the cellar one after another, the wine and grain made of Liang and millet as raw materials were also ripe, and they were steaming at the same time on several large stoves, black smoke rose above the winery, and some mellow wine gas also went away with the wind, drifting over the high wall of Zhangyu, and drifting into the Anping Jun's Mansion across the wall.

In a well-lit house, a tiger-headed young man was dozing off on a bamboo slip, but at this moment, his nose was closed, and he opened his eyes suddenly, his eyes were bright, and his nose was like a beast that smelled meat, sniffed around, and said to the person opposite.

"Sister, do you smell it, it's the smell of wine!"