Anna's fingers picked up the crystal ice cube, rested it on her lips, stretched out her small, crimson tongue and licked it, cold, sweet, refreshing. www.biquge.info In the past, in the Brachna Palace, the royal cellar would also store ice from the peaks of Mount Bolgar, but it should not be mixed with sugar, it was only stored at low temperature in the cellar, and it was impossible to produce an attractive sweetness. But Khitan snow can directly turn sugar water into ice, is this another magic of it?

Anna then continued to read Gawain's letter: "It's just a small surprise Anna, but you can't use such precious Khitan snow to make sweet ice, but you should make 'Khitan fire' that can be ignited or launched, the latter is crucial to our situation." When I was in Varyag, I had traded a lot of money for the production of Khitan snow from the Crescent merchants who crossed the Yukxing Sea (Gawain was another serious nonsense, but he had been deeply involved in certain industries before, so he naturally knew the history of such things as Khitan snow), and when I was idle hunting, I also made my own Khitan fire pot for fox hunting. From what you have seen just now using Khitan snow to make ice, you should understand that this kind of thing is contained in the damp and cold environment, such as stables, pigeon coops, sheep pens, pigsties, chicken coops, etc., and the 'wall frost' condensed at the root of the wall, this kind of thing will also be found on the ceiling, and whenever it is the dry summer season here, they will be covered with layers of white flowers from the roots of those moldy walls. ”

This passage almost made Anna vomit, and she also understood a little why Gawain had never told her before, this kind of Khitan snow looked beautiful after being made, but the process of making it was so unbearable for Anna, an "aesthetic laborer" (she didn't even want to go to the flax garden before, because she couldn't stand the smell), "Not only the frost on the walls, but also the dirty salt soil in the hut and latrine, I had the children of the peasants on the Holy Warrior Land collect them on wheelbarrows and send them to the workshops in the Mut River Valley. There they were piled up in stone troughs, where the Syrians shoveled them out with shovels and placed them in large vats, separated and overlapped with Cypriot lime and Cilician ash, watered layer by layer, and the precipitated solution was cooled in high barrels, and then scooped out with wooden baskets, poured into the brass furnace where the fire was made, and into which were poured some mixtures of phaean alum, ash and urine, both human and livestock, from the consuls at the northern end of Thrace (Anna had already begun to unconsciously cover her mouth and retch, especially when she saw the ice cubes that began to dissolve on the table, and she had tasted two sips of it herself), of course, in order to better remove impurities, you can also put in celery and lettuce from Seleucia and Cilicia, after boiling the alum and salt will settle to the bottom of the copper furnace, and then pour these solutions back into the high wooden barrel to cool, and then repeat the boiling once or twice, pour it into a flat pool, and when it is dry, it will naturally form Khitan snow...... Then we mixed it according to the recipe with sulfur (they have a lot of refined in Lombardy, Sicily, and Syria, and they are not worth much, and we can easily get them), charcoal (which is abundant in the mountains of our territory), and mashed and ground it with a stone mortar, and it forms a Khitan fire, so there is no need to worry about the yield - don't be anxious about Samuelfa, now you can do a lot of things by mixing two Khitan fires, and the rest of the work will be done after I finish my affairs in Tarsus, and I will reunite with you and think about it in the long run.

But Anna, the dawn is just around the corner, Khitan fire is far better than the weapon of gunfire and defensive fire, since ancient times, the most powerful and vicious element is fire, now we can use thunderbolts, wind and fire together, that will be invincible, I am afraid that it is not only the innovation of weapons, but also the changes in the military system and even the times......

P.S. I don't know if I should tell you or not, or I said it. Anna, in addition to the frost and gray salt soil, there are also urine and feces of people and animals, and even their corpses can be piled up and stored, put into a large pond and mixed with lime to stir up, so as to condense Khitan snow......"

"Oh, oh, oh!" Anna, trembling and holding the letter, hurried to the washstand and helped it to vomit.

Then, she sent the fat eunuch, "Tomorrow's trip, I'll inspect the workshop outside." ”

The so-called Khitan Snow Workshop, just by the market where the Paulians were backed by mountains and water, Anna Qiang smiled, sat on her shoulder, and knelt outside to worship a circle of believers and Syrians, and the female consul stood beside her shoulder and introduced, "This aqueduct is still a defensive trench dug by the Kallegos brothers during the rebellion in the past, we dredged it and laid stones, and set up a waterwheel and a water wheel here - the water wheel can drive four wooden pestles to pound and make a Khitan fire, while the rest of the craftsmen do this by manpower. The Khitan fire, which had been mixed and sieved, was put into wooden barrels, hooped, and transported to the camp of Milio Sefalon on the smoothest mule cart. ”

While Kabeamia was explaining this, on the road through the valley of the Mut, a large number of peasants who had been requisitioned, carrying various tools and wheelbarrows loaded with baggage, were heading towards the destination that the consul had said. In the open space next to the Khitan Snow Workshop, the Paulicians are very carefully pushing the wooden barrel containing the Khitan fire onto the cart, this kind of carriage is specially modified, only a small amount of special manufacturing, the box board behind it has hinges, can be placed down, the barrel is pushed into it horizontally, and the back two sides of the box board are erected, the regulated barrels are sandwiched in the middle, slowly moving along the road, guarding against bumps and collisions!

"How many people are there who can use it?" Anna suddenly remembered this and asked Kabeamia.

"According to the training regulations issued by His Highness Gawain, the chief guarantor of the Great Hospital, three hundred garrisons of Alarmanburg and five hundred of my followers, under the supervision of a Syrian named Leotius, have initially learned to use Khitan fire. In addition, the sailors of the Seleucian fleet were being trained by His Excellency Andreev. ”

"Does Alalmanburg need it too?"

"Yes, my followers have entered Miriosephalong to fight for Her Highness the Princess, while the garrison of Alamanburg is stationed at the gateway to the western coast of Seleucia - by the way, Her Highness the Princess should get out of here quickly, it's not safe. Why don't I take you to the workshop for the refining of wall frost and salt soil, in the northern part of here, near Mutterburg. ”

As a result, Anna retched violently again, angry, "No, I'm going back to Seleucia." ”

"Yes, I will escort you back with the believers." Kabeamia snickered in her heart.

As a result, the group had barely walked half a gully when several cavalry of the People's Army hurried over, and they were acting as scouts on the periphery, "The army of the empire has arrived a hundred gul miles away from Milio Sepharon, this is the message from the sentry post further ahead!" (To be continued.) )