Chapter 252 High Liquor

I envisioned the Imperial Guards as an all-firearmed, and naturally there was no problem when attacking from a distance, but once the Mongol cavalry was quickly rushed to within ten meters or five meters, as long as the military order continued, "Fire." At the same time, because of the backwardness of firearms, they must rely on group fire to achieve the effect of defeating the enemy, which requires the Royal Forest Army to implement the strictest military orders, otherwise as long as a few people retreat, the confidence of others will be shaken,

Not afraid of sacrifice and obeying the command, this is the military soul I gave to the Royal Forest Army,

For most musketeers, it only takes three or five months to master the essentials of shooting, and the rest of the time to train intensive projects, in addition to improving their basic physical fitness, the most important thing is the psychological factor of the soldiers.

I drank the tea in the cup and said: "Queen Mother, the Royal Forest Army is a new type of army, and it will train according to the child's ideas, and its first point is to make all the soldiers obey and obey, and then obey, the reason why the child chose Xie Aiqing as the deputy commander of the Royal Forest Army is because of Xie Aiqing's out-and-out execution." ”

"Execution."

"Yes, Queen Mother, we don't mention how strong the personal ability of the imperial guards is for the time being, but the 'order and prohibition' is the most implemented in the guard camp, in short, the military discipline of the imperial guards is the strictest, which is not as good as even the well-trained border army, and all this is precisely because of Xie Aiqing's work."

Xie Daoqing didn't understand very well when he heard it: "Eat first, and talk while eating." ”

Quan Jiu took the wine bottle in the hands of the palace maid, poured wine for everyone one by one, I took a sip and said: "Queen Mother, now is the training stage, the child is not interested in which general is able to fight, but to see which general is more capable of training a group of outstanding soldiers, the battlefield is the game of the army as a whole, not relying on the personal ability of a general alone, so, the queen mother, please rest assured, the child chose Xie Aiqing, not nepotism, but believe that Xie Aiqing can be qualified for the position of deputy marshal of the Royal Forest Army, come, queen mother, the child toasts you, Xie Aiqing." , you can also accompany you. ”

"Yes." Xie Daoqing drank it all,

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Xie Daolin also said in one bite,

After three rounds of drinking, Xie Daolin, who usually rarely talks to me, rarely began to talk more, maybe after having a little more contact with me, he felt that I was very easy to get along with.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, the regular training of the Imperial Forest Army will be handed over to the minister, and the minister promises to let them know what a military order is."

"Well, Xie Aiqing, I am completely relieved of this."

Xie Daoqing asked: "Official, then which minister do you plan to let succeed Xie Daolin and serve as the commander of the guards." ”

"Queen Mother, the child is planning to discuss this matter with Xie Aiqing, after all, this position is not trivial, you must choose a loyal and reliable person to take it, Xie Aiqing, according to your opinion, who will take over this position."

Xie Daolin thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, according to what the ministers have seen, the Blue Feather Deputy Command is also feasible. ”

"Lan Yu, the martial arts are strong, and there is no problem with loyalty, it's just that he won't be too young."

My original intention was also to promote one person from the original commander, and Lan Yu and Shen Mo are the ones I am most familiar with, but I am indeed worried that Lan Yu's qualifications in the guards are too shallow and difficult to convince the public.

Xie Daolin smiled and said, "Your Majesty, if you think that Commander Lan is too young, there is a way for the ministers. ”

"Yes, speak."

"Your Majesty, the imperial guards are all brave warriors, and they will only admire people with strong martial arts, why don't Your Majesty come to a martial arts competition to control the system, if Commander Lan can overwhelm the crowd, then everyone will naturally not disobey."

"Tournament." I nodded, "That's a good idea." ”

"Your Majesty, in addition to the ministers, the five commanders have the highest martial arts among the five guards, among these five people, Lan Yu and Shen Mo are already very familiar with their two commanders, and the other three are Du Chunhui, Zhang Zijian and Fang Kang, although the five of them have never had a formal competition, but the ministers have a certain understanding of their martial arts."

"Then Aiqing thinks that among these five people, who has the highest martial arts."

"Your Majesty, the minister is still optimistic about Mr. Yuan's disciple Lan Yu."

"Okay." I agreed, "Xie Aiqing, it is the day of the morning break, and you inform these five commanders to go to the martial arts training hall for a competition at half of the morning (10 o'clock), and the one with the highest martial arts will temporarily take over the position of guard commander." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, Your Lordship."

Xie Daoqing saw that we were only talking, so he said: "Official, you are talking while eating, now that the weather is getting colder, eat more wine and food." ”

"Okay, okay." Xie Daolin raised his glass, "Your Majesty, I would like to give you a glass." ”

"Well, Xie Aiqing, come, do this."

Xie Daolin's amount of wine is already very large, and it is not as restrained as usual, so not only did he drink a lot, but also constantly toasted me, making me drink a lot more than usual, Xie Daolin drank and said: "Your Majesty, although the imperial wine in this palace is good, the strength is slightly insufficient. ”

Although my amount of alcohol is not large, Zhao Yu is a good player in this, but it is the first time for me to drink like this.

On the way back, Quan Jiu said with concern: "Guanjia, you drank too much today, do you feel dizzy?" ”

I casually said, "It's okay, basically not dizzy." ”

"Yes, I drank so much at once, why didn't I feel dizzy, yes, Xie Daolin is right, maybe it's because the strength of this wine is insufficient, that is, the degree of later generations is low." I thought about it in a flash,

The liquor said in later generations is brewed by distillation, and the liquor production process of the Song Dynasty is simple, most of them are only brewed by filtration, and its degree is very low, according to some experts, the degree of ancient liquor may only be equivalent to the degree of beer, that is, about ten degrees, according to the description in the "Water Margin", Wu Song can still go up the mountain to fight the tiger after drinking eighteen buckets of bowls in a row, which shows that its degree is very low.

The liquor brewed by distillation can generally reach more than 4 or 50 degrees, compared with the ancient liquor, there is a world of difference, and the liquor of later generations is obviously a high degree of liquor, in my impression, the technology of using distillation to make liquor is much simpler than the development of firearms, the production of clocks, etc.

I sat in the imperial study, carefully recalled the knowledge about liquor, since the advent of monosodium glutamate and other items, the launch of new products has been much slower, there are technical problems, for example, the development of glass has encountered a bottleneck, Shen Yiqiu and Quan Jue and others are not proficient in everything after all, and Lin'an University lacks talents who are proficient in chemical engineering, of course, there is also the factor of my busy affairs, I have not thought about which items can be developed in this era for a long time, Like the development of clocks, it was also because I happened to meet Yang Xiaozhi in college,

China's liquor is made of starch or sugar raw materials made of fermented mash or fermented mash by distillation, the liquor brewed by distillation, its liquor quality is colorless (or yellowish) transparent, the smell is fragrant and pure, the entrance is sweet and refreshing, the alcohol content is high, after storage and aging, it has a compound aroma with esters as the main body, and the liquor of later generations is produced all over the country, especially in Shanxi, Sichuan and Guizhou and other places, and the liquor in different regions also has its own outstanding unique style, There are two ways of production and brewing of liquor: solid-state fermentation and liquid fermentation, and the solid-state fermentation method has large-scale koji, small koji, bran koji and other processes, among which bran koji liquor accounts for a large proportion in the brewing, because its manufacturing cost is relatively low, simple and practical.

There are many theories about the origin of high liquor in later generations, one of the more credible records comes from the Ming Dynasty scientist Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", the book writes that shochu (liquor) is not an ancient method, since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, its method uses strong wine and dregs into the retort, steaming on the gas, with a vessel to take the drip dew, all the rancid wine can be steamed and burned, in the near future, only glutinous rice or millet or rice or barley steamed, and the koji brewing urn in the ten said, steamed well with retort, its clear as water, the taste is very strong, cover the wine dew also,

I took out a pen and paper and wrote down the general steps I remembered about the method of brewing.

First of all, it is necessary to crush grain raw materials such as glutinous rice or japonica rice, the purpose of raw material crushing is to facilitate cooking, so that the starch can be fully utilized, according to the special surname of the raw materials, the fineness requirements of crushing are also different, followed by the new material, distiller's grains, auxiliary materials and water are combined together to lay the foundation for saccharification and fermentation, and the third is to carry out cooking gelatinization, so that the starch gelatinization, which is conducive to the role of amylase, and can also kill miscellaneous bacteria, the fourth step is cooling, that is, the cooked raw materials, with the method of slag or slag, so that it can be cooled rapidlyThe fifth point is to mix the fermented rice, and water should be added when mixing the fermented paste, in order to control the moisture content of the fermented rice when entering the pool is 58~62%, the sixth is to ferment in the cellar, after loading, you need to cover the fermented material with a layer of bran, seal it with cellar mud, add a layer of bran, the last step is to steam the wine, through the steaming of the alcohol, water, higher alcohols, acids and other active ingredients in the fermented wine evaporation into steam, and then after cooling can get liquor, distillation should try to extract the alcohol, aromatic substances, mellow sweet substances, etc., and use the method of pinching the head and tail to remove impurities as much as possible,

"Little Seven." When I finished writing, I exclaimed,

"Official, the little one is here."

"Inform Shen Yiqiu and Quan Jueming to come to the imperial study in the afternoon."

"Yes, let's arrange it for the small ones."

The brewing of liquor should be a huge source of income, and even in later generations, the tax on liquor occupies a very important position.

As for which famous liquor in later generations, I can only come step by step, and when I first brew ordinary high-grade liquor, and then let people go to Sichuan, Guizhou and other places, what Moutai, Wuliangye and other famous liquors come out, it won't take long.

Most of the folds in September are related to the seven major reform measures, so the number of regular folds in this month is relatively small, and after I wrote down the production steps of distilled liquor in later generations, Quan Jiu has already completed today's folds.

"Jiu'er, you go to the Xianwen Pavilion tomorrow morning to find information about winemaking."

"Well, do you want to make wine?"

"Yes, Jiu'er, I think that the current wine is like what Xie Daolin said, and it is not strong enough, so I plan to improve it."

"Okay, official."

"Jiu'er, have you finished sorting out all the books in the Xianwen Pavilion?"

Quan Jiu smiled and said: "Official, it's still early, there are too many books here, if you want to read them one by one, Jiu'er estimates that it will take a while." ”