Sun Shao and Zhang Wen walked into the wine-scented workshop, Ji Yan had already gotten the news, and soon came to Sun Shao with a wine glass.

"Captain, this wine is made according to the captain's recipe, but ......" he smacked his lips, with a helpless face: "The effect is very different from the wine that the captain gave at the beginning." We've tried it a few times, and the results are all different, and even the results are very different between the few times, which is really puzzling. ”

Sun Shao took the wine glass, stretched out the tip of his tongue and licked it, his brows suddenly furrowed: "This wine is too strong, of course the effect is not good." ”

"Isn't it good to be too strong?" Yan was stunned. He was very smart, as soon as he came into contact with this matter, he felt that the reason why this wine was useful was because of the strong wine, so he felt that the stronger the wine, the better the effect should be, and when he arranged for someone to steam the wine, he deliberately let people steam one more dish, but he didn't expect it to be self-defeating.

"It's too much, don't you understand?" Sun Shao put down his wine glass and waved his hand: "You take me to see the workshop first, and then discuss." ”

Ji Yan looked at Sun Shao a little unconvinced, but she didn't dare to say anything. Ji Yan is a smart person, and he is also serious in his work, so serious that he is a little picky. This time, he was ordered by Zhu Zhi to come to Jianye to offer new wine, and the first few things were done smoothly, Sun Quan's attitude towards him changed greatly, and after Sun Shao brought the recipe for the new wine, he was handed over to him to be responsible. Ji Yan was very excited, he knew the important surname of this new wine, Sun Quan was able to hand over this matter to him, which showed his trust in him, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so he worked very hard, but he didn't expect to use too much force, and the new wine that came out smelled good, but the effect of the experiment was not ideal, which made him puzzled. Now I hear Sun Shao say that he is too late, he is not convinced, unwilling, and regrets it.

"Captain, please." Although Ji Yan was not convinced, she didn't dare to despise Zhang Wen when she saw Zhang Wen respectfully following Sun Shao. He can look down on Sun Shao, but he doesn't dare to look down on Zhang Wen, if Zhang Wen's talent can serve Sun Shao, it means that Sun Shao does have something extraordinary, otherwise Zhang Wen would not be so obedient.

Sun Shao followed Ji Yan around, and sighed with emotion, in the end, it is a state machine, this Sun Quan's financial and material resources are much stronger than him, in this circle, there are a hundred steaming barrels, and nearly a thousand people are busy working in it, the scale is so large that he is dumbfounded. Ji Yan explained to him in detail the layout of this place, and specifically stated that the workers here were all official slaves, and they could not have contact with outsiders, and they were all managed separately, in other words, as long as this institution existed for a day, they could not get out of this courtyard wall, except for death.

Sun Shao frowned, he was not used to such serious exploitation, but there was nothing he could do, and there seemed to be no better way to keep this secret. He said to Ji Yan: "Although they are official slaves and don't need wages, they can't be treated too badly, and they must be well supplied in terms of food, and the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers." ”

Ji Yan hesitated, a little embarrassed, all the supplies here have accounts, and the daily ration supply of the officials and slaves has to be counted as dead, Sun Shao wants to be a good person, but where does the money come from? He was hesitating, Zhang Wen smiled and said: "Zixiu, what you listen to the captain is, since he is the captain in charge here, he has his own way to vacate the quota, and you don't need to worry about it." ”

Ji Yan listened and smiled a little embarrassedly. Zhang Wen is right, now he is not in charge here, Sun Shao is the boss, Zhang Wen is the second, he is only a third child at best, what do you care about so much.

"Well, it's all up to the captain."

"You come with me." Sun Shao finished reading the workshop, and took Ji Yan and Zhang Wen back to the official house, which is a small courtyard in front of the workshop, the front is the office hall, and the back is the rest room, which was originally where Ji Yan lived, and after learning that Sun Shao was going to be in charge, Ji Yan consciously moved out and lived in the east wing. Sun Shao sat down in the hall, asked Ji Yan to bring the recipe he wrote to Sun Shao, and pulled a bamboo slip and threw it to Zhang Wen: "Hui Shu, you are the right man, you will be responsible for it in the future, you have to remember some processes in detail." Zixiu, you can temporarily serve as Huishu's assistant, for Zuo Cheng, if there is anything, the two of you will discuss it. ”

"Whoa." Zhang Wen nodded, didn't say much, and quickly took out the pen and ink to prepare for the record, although Ji Yan felt strange, but did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly lifted the water injection and dropped two drops of water, and then began to grind the ink. After grinding the ink, Zhang Wen picked up the pen in his hand and listened attentively.

"The ingredients that work in this new wine are the essence of the wine, let's call it alcohol. The amount of alcohol in it is called the alcohol content. Alcohol with different alcohol content has different effects on different wounds, and if it is too strong or too light, it will affect the curative effect. Sun Shao spread out the prescription and began to talk about the effect of alcohol, he said very slowly, and stopped from time to time to explain, Zhang Wen listened to it for the first time, very fresh, but Ji Yan has been doing it for a while, and has considerable practical experience, and there are still a lot of confusion in his heart.

Sun Shao spent an hour telling Zhang Wen about the knowledge of alcohol, and finally said: "What needs to be controlled at the moment is the temperature, and the second is the number of distillations. ”

"And how do you measure the alcohol content? How accurate can it be? Ji Yan asked.

Sun Shao looked at Ji Yan with some surprise, there are not many literati who can think of the degree of accuracy these days, they all like to set surnames, they don't like quantitative, it's almost enough, although this Ji Yan is roundabout, it also has the advantage of being roundabout. "I have a recipe here, you send someone to buy it immediately, and I will give you a way to measure the alcohol content, and then you will know how accurate it can be."

Ji Yan took the recipe and looked at it, there was quicklime, sulfur, charcoal, rosin, saltpeter, and a lot of them were written, the largest of which was quicklime. If it was before Sun Shao's explanation, he would have doubted Sun Shao again, but now after listening to Sun Shao's account of the new wine, he didn't say a word and bowed down to accept the order.

"Well, I'll arrange for someone to buy it right away."

"Don't make the city stormy." Sun Shao said: "Whether it's Cao Ying or Liu Bei, their subordinates all have annihilation, and they can't be let get the news, otherwise, sooner or later, there will be uninvited guests in this workshop." ”

"The captain has a point." Zhang Wen nodded again and again: "I suggest that different people work separately, and no one will be transferred to the whole process, so as not to leak secrets." ”

"Reasonable." Sun Shao smiled, stood up and stretched: "I'll leave the matter here to the two, I'm not staying here anymore, what's the matter, you let people go to the General's Mansion to find me, but you'd better not have anything to do, so as not to disturb me." ”

Zhang Wen smiled and nodded, but Ji Yan was very surprised, listening to Sun Shao's meaning, he didn't seem to want to take care of specific affairs, this hand-shaking shopkeeper is really comfortable, every year a thousand stones, just let him hang a name? This clan is a clan, and if you don't accept it, you can't do it.

"Zixiu doesn't want to live in the East Wing, where the kitchen is leaning and the smoke is too big. Keishu lives in the west room, you can live in the east room, and as for the middle room, keep it for me, maybe I will come and stay for two days one day. After Sun Shao finished speaking, he flicked his sleeves and left.

"This ......" Ji Yan couldn't cry or laugh, pointed to Sun Shao's back and said to Zhang Wen: "Brother Huishu, is this appropriate?" The Supreme blames it down, how is it good? ”

"As long as you and I do the wine well according to the captain's method, the Supreme will not blame." Zhang Wen patted Ji Yan's shoulder with confidence: "Besides, this is the captain who asked you and me to make meritorious contributions, what are you not satisfied with?" ”

When Ji Yan heard it, she suddenly realized.

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