Shu Hui already knew that the soju at this time did not refer to distilled spirits.

Shu Hui had seen on the news in his previous life that a bronze distiller more than 100 years BC had been unearthed from the tomb of the Marquis of Hailun in the Western Han Dynasty. Therefore, some people believe that the history of brewing distilled spirits in China can be traced back more than 2,000 years.

But apparently, this hasty speculation is untenable.

The use of distillation in Mesopotamia can be traced back to more than 3,000 BC, the ancient Greeks used distillation to purify seawater, the ancient Egyptians used distillation to purify spices, and the ancestors of our country BC used distillation for alchemy.

This does not mean that they have mastered the process of distilling spirits. Chinese scholars generally believe that distilled spirits first appeared in China during the Song Dynasty and Jin Dynasty, which is comparable to the time when the Arabs invented distilled spirits. This is a little earlier than the Yuan Dynasty that Li Shizhen said.

The earliest distilled spirits had nothing to do with these ancient civilizations or their descendants. They were made from pottery stills by the ancient Celts who lived in Ireland and Scotland BC.

Shu Hui saw the news of the ancient tomb of the Marquis of Haiyang at that time, and specially learned about the relevant popular science. At that time, he thought that the Tang poems contained "the lychee is newly ripe and the cockscomb is colored, and the soju is amber at the beginning." "It is indeed the first distilled liquor in China to be seen in writing.

However, this is not the case. In the ninth century, Fang Qianli's "Miscellaneous Records of Throwing Waste" gave a detailed description of the so-called soju in the Tang Dynasty, that is, the raw liquor was kept at a temperature of about 70 degrees in a mud-sealed clay pot to "burn" for a period of time to mature, kill yeast and other microorganisms and inactivate various residual enzymes.

It is a preservation process in the sake brewing industry. Compared with direct cooking, it avoids the influence of excessive temperature on the flavor of fine wine, and the existence of mud seal also reduces the probability of volatilization and loss of alcohol. Of course, folk brewing also uses shochu, but it is not sealed, and the alcohol is often lost.

Shu Hui, who felt that the popular science expert was cheating, looked at the slightly drunk red fish with some embarrassment. In the days when there were no distilled spirits, the highest alcohol content was made from grapes with a high sugar content.

Thinking that there was no distilled liquor in Tang Realm at this time, and the distiller had long been lost due to various historical reasons, Shu Hui pondered that he would design a distiller after he went back.

Because after several years of cultivation, the variant of Rose that Shu Hui had previously taken from cuttings has formed a rose variety with multiple layers of large petals, tender and fragrant. When the flowers bloom in June, you can use the distillation method to extract rose essential oil and rose gel during the two-month flowering period.

Add to that the alcohol distilled and you get the world's first perfume, and it's a rose scent that no one has ever seen before!

Shu Hui wants to make changes in this era, and it is impossible not to have his own industry and economic resources. No matter how advanced the production concept and process design are, even if Shu Hui selflessly takes it out for others to use, there may not be anyone who can discern the pearl.

In order to accelerate the transformation of the production model, liberate more labor from inefficient intensive cultivation, and invest in the industrial civilization that Shuhui wants to develop, there are too many factors to consider.

This is a road full of thorns and bumps, and for this, Shu Hui has been thinking about it for a long time.

First of all, Shu Hui had not been involved in economic planning in his previous life, but he had heard of many examples of failure in history. Sheep eat people, silkworms eat people...... Once he fails, he can eat anything, so he can't be careless.

Last year, the imperial court issued official newspapers for prefectures and counties, showing that the number of households in the country was 2.5 million, and the population was less than 10 million. Compared to the land area of more than 5 million square kilometers at this time, it can really be called vast and sparsely populated.

What is lacking now is not jobs, but population. All dynasties in our country have taken agriculture as the foundation of the country, no matter what Shu Hui thinks at this time, he cannot oppose the unanimous wish of the court.

If Shu Hui brainlessly carried out technological innovation in the textile industry based on his meagre knowledge of mechanical principles, although there was more than enough land for mulberry cultivation and there was no need to change the land like Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, it would inevitably cause a large number of people to switch to raising silkworms and hemp, and grain production would drop sharply.

So Shu Hui decided to do the opposite. Although his purpose is to improve the quality of life of the people of Datang, he should not only focus on the domestic lake, but also on the surrounding countries.

If we want to liberate labor from agricultural production, we can't just do it in one step. On the contrary, the first step in Shuhui's plan is to get more people to abandon their old handicrafts and turn to agriculture.

Huojing County, where Shu Hui is located, was once a member of Yazhou during the Wude period. The famous Ancient Tea Horse Road in history has a branch through Yazhou, leading to Tibet, Nepal, and Tianzhu. This is the Sui Dynasty opened up the tea and horse market channel, the Tang Dynasty folk are not good tea, in fact, at this time there is not even the word "tea", most of the tea is exchanged for horses through the tea and horse market.

The grape wine that Hongyu drank just now was produced by Gaochang Kingdom, and the trade route was not the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, but flowed into the Tang Dynasty through Tibet. However, now that the Eastern Turks have been destroyed, the Western Turks have submitted to the Tang Dynasty, and the Silk Road can be reactivated.

There is a large amount of wool on the grassland, waiting for Shu Hui to pick it up like a waste product. And when he spun the wool into woolen fabric, he could not only sell it back to the grassland countries and exchange it for livestock and precious metals, but also feed back to the country, making Datang's clothing materials more abundant.

At that time, woolen will seize the silk market, and the planting rate of mulberry hemp will inevitably decrease. The goods that the grassland countries could use to trade with the Tang Dynasty would have other outlets, and the demand for tea would also decrease. This part of the agricultural population will be converted to food or fruit farmers. When the domestic grain market tends to be saturated, it is the time for Shuhui to vigorously develop local industries.

According to Shu Hui's plan, it is first necessary to let the land-owned peasants choose more to grow grain, resulting in a surplus of domestic grain and a low grain price. After all, everything can eat people, but food can't eat people, and food can only be eaten by people.

At this time, the prototype of the primitive workshops that appeared at this time was destroyed with more advanced production technology, and the slave and maid owners in these workshops were forced to join Shu Hui's centralized industrial plan in order to obtain greater returns.

For example, the cotton grown in Gaochang at this time could be used to weave precious white fabrics, and the roses cultivated by Shu Hui himself could be used to refine perfumes that were bound to be widely welcomed by the upper classes.

At this time, the price of cotton is not high, but cotton cloth is very expensive, which is caused by the backward technology. When cotton cloth replaced part of the woolen wool, the grassland countries that had tasted the sweetness and invested a lot of resources to raise sheep completely handed over their economic lifeline to the Tang Dynasty, which was both upstream and downstream of their trade.

Doing business with big countries is so exciting.

Although the process is a little complicated, it is undoubtedly much better than being stunned and going out impatiently to show off if you know a little bit about something, and in the end the people will be miserable, and maybe they will be eliminated for the people.

And once the matter of saving the cost of studying for the scholars is over, when he returns to Huojing County, Shu Hui is ready to go to the last place where he was before he came to this era - the ancient Huojing of the Han Dynasty. There, there is a natural gas crater that has been used by the ancestors since the Three Kingdoms.

Taking advantage of the high temperature of the natural gas flame, the quartz can be melted. Even if Shu Hui can't restore the sintering process of colorless glass for a while, he can still get stable and transparent quartz glass, but the cost is too high to be suitable for civilian use.

But as a military use, jade craftsmen can grind quartz glass into lenses suitable for telescopes, and the Tang Dynasty Xiongshi will be equipped with them, which will be like a tiger.

And when the right time comes, some ordnance is improved and powerful weapons are developed that are ahead of the times, and then we can change the route of group fighting and take the route of elite soldiers.

This is the only way to improve the quality of life of the people. The cost of raising soldiers was heavy, and the Tang Dynasty could account for almost half of the taxes. And this is still on the premise of using a large number of government soldiers who do not need to be paid. However, in order to maintain the military superiority over neighboring countries, it has to do so.

Like the Song Dynasty, at the beginning of the founding of the country, it was surrounded by strong enemies, and it was impossible to occupy the advantage of force.

A strong country has the pride of a strong country, and a weak country has the living law of a weak country. But since Shu Hui has too much insight ahead of this era, why can't he reduce the consumption of raising troops on the premise of not losing or even strengthening the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty?

Otherwise, once the army is raised, hundreds of thousands of troops will travel thousands of miles, and more than one million will be required to carry grain and wages along the way.

And if the number of troops can be controlled to tens of thousands by means of armed firearms and other means, and the burden on the finances and the people can be reduced by ten times!

In the past three years, Shu Hui has been unable to use the system, and he has nothing to do all day long, and he has thought about these things many times. He was regarded as a god, although it was not out of his intention, but he also accepted the treatment given to him by Li Shimin and others according to the specifications of the gods. Now that the money has been collected, how can you not do something?

Even if you change to a real god, you may not be able to do more than him. Lao Tzu said: "Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are used as dogs." "Before heaven and earth, there is no difference between man and the straw dog that man worships heaven and earth; In the eyes of the gods, perhaps the three animals offered to the gods by people and people actually look similar.

Shu Hui wanted to develop science and spread a materialist worldview in this era. But he is regarded as a god, and only with this identity can he let others hear his voice.

Therefore, the contradiction in his heart can be imagined.

Because of this, Shu Hui asked Li Shimin not to disclose his identity. In order to take advantage of the rapid rise of the upper echelons of society who are familiar with his identity as a god, he can preach a scientific materialist worldview as an ordinary person in front of the ignorant people.

At this time, he didn't know that his idea was still too naïve for this magical world......

In the backyard of the restaurant is the inn, but it is only two floors.

By the time Shu Hui and Yuan Tiangang went down to the second floor, the students who had come to observe or participate in the village shooting ceremony had already returned to their rooms to settle down.

Along the verandah on the second floor, you can go straight to the second floor of the inn of the restaurant, where Shu Hui's room is located. Shu Hui and Hongyu's room is Tianzi No. 3 room, room No. 1 and No. 2 are opposite, I don't know who took it, and the No. 5 room next door lives with the guard Ao Guang.

Since Zhou Xingsi of the Liang Dynasty compiled the "Thousand Character Text" more than 100 years ago, some inns in later generations that served literati and ink writers divided the guest houses into four levels with the first four characters of the thousand character text, "heaven, earth, Xuan, and Huang", which were roughly equivalent to business rooms, suites, standard rooms, and single rooms in later generations.

Although most of the people who can travel abroad with the help of the road guide are people with some identities, it does not rule out that there are people at the bottom of the society who have no choice but to travel far away. With the promotion of this set of grading and naming standards, in the slightly lower-grade hostels, it is impossible to say that Tiandi Xuanhuang refers to single rooms, double rooms (strangers), Tongpu and firewood houses.

The Tianzi room is really very stylish, in addition to the unique through-the-flower lattice branch window of this ten-square building, the decoration everywhere is also elegant. The whole room is divided into four parts: living room, study, front room and back room, although the layout is slightly compact but the functions are complete, and do not interfere with each other.

One of the windows on the back door of Shu Hui's singular room opened to allow a distant view from the second floor. The surrounding buildings are relatively low, and this place is outside the ancient city wall, which belongs to Xia Guo, giving Shu Hui a comfortable sense of combining prosperity and tranquility.

There are all kinds of pen, ink, paper and inkstones in the study, but Shu Hui is not very good at using brushes, so he took out the reward he received for making quills from the system backpack.

"Richard Miller" automatic mechanical fountain pen, white, RP999. Although it is not the most expensive fountain pen of later generations, it is undoubtedly the most ingenious fountain pen. Through the ingenious mechanical structure, this fountain pen has obtained a unique performance that other fountain pens do not have.

Its nib can be retracted automatically. That's right, it's cool, although it doesn't work.

It is said that the Queen of England is also using this fountain pen. When Shu Hui got it, he thought about dismantling it and modifying the mechanical structure behind it into a mechanical watch. However, this is obviously only to think that he does not have that craft.

Spreading out a piece of paper, Shu Hui drew three views of a simple flush toilet with a water tank on the paper according to his own understanding, and also drew a few drawings separately for some details and structures.

After several scraps, about half an hour, a simple flush toilet design was released. Because there is no dimensioning, only a simple scale is drawn, and the lines are also made casually, but the speed is very fast, but I don't know if others can understand this drawing method.

Rubbing his sore arm, Shu Hui took a breath of relief and sorted out the drawings in order.

Qiong kiln is the industry of the Zhuo family, and ceramic materials are the hardest and easiest materials available today, and they are also the most durable materials. For Shu Hui, many of the special structural components and tools needed in the future plan need to be sintered with a porcelain kiln.

For example, many tools such as shuttles and spindles used in the handmade textile industry are already porcelain, and Shu Hui wants to make shuttles and other tools, so in order to save costs, he will probably choose ceramics. Ceramics are used in all kinds of material pipes, fireproof interlayers, and even factory floors.

Not to mention the drawing in Shu Hui's hand, which can only be processed with copper or ceramics today. And ceramics that can be waterproof, inexpensive, and easy to clean can be said to be the only choice for people with a normal mind.

But if Shu Hui wants to open a porcelain kiln by himself, it is a little more than worth the loss. Its upfront investment is large, the production is very slow, and the requirements for the convenient transportation of raw materials are also very high. Although it is indispensable for Shuhui to use a porcelain kiln, the demand is not high, and it is obviously a more cost-effective transaction to cooperate with other porcelain kilns.

Although some steps in Shu Hui's plan are still too early to talk about, it is necessary to take precautions. Get closer to the Qiongyao, this toilet is the first step, and by the way, you can also investigate whether the owners of the Qiongyao are suitable for cooperation with each other.

With the drawings of the flush toilet in hand, it is impossible for Qiongyao to burn only Shuhui, which is bound to become a rigid demand sought after by the upper class. Shu Hui will ask for dividends on the net profit of the income, and by the way, use this to evaluate the integrity of the owner of Qiongyao.

I thought before that it seemed a little too tortuous to use the opportunity of the red fish to ask for advice on piano skills to get closer, but it was always better than going directly to the other party with the drawings. Besides, the accordion skills, although I don't know if Hongyu is talented enough, Shu Hui still hopes that she can learn a little.

Shu Hui pondered, if she wants to learn, others may not be willing to waste time teaching, and in the end, it will inevitably become a bully. I still have to prepare an apprenticeship or something and hand it over to the red fish.

Shu Hui glanced at the red fish: "Red fish, cyan, RP: 11.4M." ”

She could already use cyan items, but she didn't get the right thing for her. As an apprenticeship of the piano, the fountain pen in Shu Hui's hand is more than enough in value, and it can be copied at will, but it requires high-quality ink that can only be copied by Shu Hui as a consumable, and it does not conform to the aesthetics of the Tang people......

When Shu Hui, a technical nerd who didn't have much experience in communication, was relying on fantasy to rehearse how to live in harmony with strangers and enhance their relationship, in the Tianzi No. 1 room next to him, Zhuo Mengling was taken aback by the news from her brother-

"What, you said that the kid who is only a wall away from us is a god?" Zhuo Mengling's apricot eyes widened, and she looked at her brother's maid Bai He in surprise.

"Yes, eldest lady, the young master learned that there were several officials living in the store, so he asked someone to inquire about the calendar, so as not to commit a taboo collision." Bai He said with certainty: "Because I heard that there is a young master who is only six or seven years old and wears a scarlet robe, and when he learned that the young master was investigating, Liu Yuanjun sent someone to inform the young master, so as not to despise him." ”

It seems that Liu Tingshi has obtained political achievements from Qiongyao, and he also knows how to take care of the owner of Qiongyao.

Zhuo Mengling only felt a little messy in her mind at the moment, and only one sentence kept echoing: "There is a male god ...... the wall"