At the end of February, the Government Council has begun to relocate, all kinds of furniture, tables, chairs, cabinets, etc. are all new products produced by the plate factory, and what needs to be moved are some documents and personal belongings.

The new government council designed by Wang Xuan is quite large, so after many staff members move in, there are still many rooms on the first floor, which is very spacious.

After Wang Xuan visited for a while, he came to the winery in the southeast to accept the results of the first test.

In order to make liquor with a good taste and high degree, Wang Xuan worked hard.

At present, there are a total of 100 brewing workers, because they are in the experimental stage, mainly to sum up experience, so the number is not large, they are selected from 500 fishermen, and the security team in Hedong has not been willing to move.

Today, Wang Xuan is here to "taste wine".

The distillery has two gates, one south and one north, the north gate faces Zhengdong Road, and the south gate faces the planned lord's mansion, and Wang Xuan enters from the north gate.

Because it is a test, the output is not large, a total of ten vats are fermenting, Wang Xuan started from the first vat, one by one.

"The first cylinder is sour, it should not be sealed well, and air entered. "It looks like this first cylinder is a failure.

"The second tank is okay, but the water is less, according to the record, add half more water next time. "It doesn't seem to be a success either.

"The third vat has not yet been fermented. Wang Xuan squeezed the rice grains with his fingers, it was still very hard, and the taste of alcohol was also very light.

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With the assistance of the workers, after a while, Wang Xuan finished appraising the ten cylinders of wine, and only two cylinders satisfied his taste, as for the quality of these two cylinders, it is not yet known!

Subsequently, Wang Xuan ordered someone to take the production records and check them to analyze the reasons for the failure of the eight-cylinder.

A group of craftsmen also listened carefully to Wang Xuan's analysis, and planned to start a new round of liquor brewing.

As for the koji, Wang Xuan checked it and there was nothing wrong with it.

Next, the two jars of wine are filtered, poured into a pot for low-temperature heating and distillation, and then flows into the next pot through ceramic pipes for later use.

To increase the cooling effect, the ceramic pipes are curved, the bottom is immersed in a basin with cold water, and they are replaced on time.

This brewing method belongs to the liquid brewing method, so the degree of the first wine is low, according to Wang Xuan's estimate, it is about ten degrees.

The amount of water added during fermentation will directly affect the degree of the finished liquor, and the degree of the finished liquor will indirectly affect the degree of the distilled liquor and the alcohol content after blending.

Therefore, it is important to keep the various ratios under control, so that you can produce the same taste and improve your reputation.

This method is a type of liquid brewing, which requires distillation of the first liquor to obtain a high concentration of edible alcohol, and then the liquor is blended.

As for medical alcohol, its concentration needs to be controlled between 70% ~ 75%.

This is because too high a concentration of alcohol will form a protective film on the surface of the bacteria, preventing it from entering the bacteria, making it difficult to completely kill the bacteria.

If the alcohol concentration is too low, it can enter the bacteria, but it cannot coagulate the proteins in the body, and it cannot destroy the bacteria.

In addition, the filtered residue of fermented rice grains can also be distilled to obtain a high concentration of alcohol. As a result, the distillery has two distillation zones.

After the first distillation, Wang Xuan used a bamboo spoon to hold a little bit of the product, and felt that it should exceed the degree of the second pot head, so the second distillation was carried out.

He believes that after three times, it should be possible to obtain edible alcohol with a purity of nearly 95 percent, and then it can be blended.

The bottles ordered by the ceramics factory have been delivered and are currently stored in the warehouse.

There are large and small shapes, and there are many styles, according to the volume, there are five hundred milliliters, one thousand milliliters, and two thousand milliliters.

As for the blending water, it is the groundwater at the foot of Xixingyao Mountain, where the terrain is high, the water source is not polluted, and after digging a well to extract water, it is filtered by charcoal many times before being put into use.

Just after the time passed, Wang Xuan blended three degrees of liquor, which should be 30 degrees, 40 degrees and 50 degrees according to the proportion.

No matter how high it is, it is not necessary, the tropics are not suitable for too high degrees, even if they are sold to the north, fifty degrees is enough.

Subsequently, Wang Xuan arranged for personnel to move the blended wine to the basement of the Government Affairs Yuan next door for storage, so as to be used later.

In Wang Xuan's view, the taste and nutritional value of blended wine are not as good as dry pure grain wine, so Wang Xuan has set aside an area in the distillery to brew pure grain wine, which is estimated to be drunk at this time next year, even if it is taken out, it is also a high-end liquor in the high-end.

Based on the experience of today's wine tasting, the workers summarized it and made an instruction manual for the liquid winemaking method, which provided a quality guarantee for the future brewing rate.

Workers will then continue to conduct brewing tests until they have been 100% successful for three consecutive times, and the instructions for the liquid brewing method will be updated during the experiments.

The eldest sister Wang Bi's kitchenware factory has been completed, and the workers in various positions have been trained in the ceramic factory for more than a month.

Now except for the distillery, the rest of the workers of the new fifth factory are crowded in Yongsheng training, Wang Xuan can understand Li Yugang's mood, and he has not gone crazy yet, and he is already very restrained.

On March 1, Wang Xuan took Wang Hua to Hedong, the soap factory had already been built, and the first batch of soap needed trial production.

Wang Xuan's trip was compelled to come, not only to let the soap factory be put into production in time and make a profit as soon as possible, but also to reduce the pressure on Yongsheng and make it light.

"Young master, young lady, I finally looked forward to you, hehe!"

The old man was still a little embarrassed when he saw that Wang Hua didn't pay attention to him, after all, last time for the grain and oil factory, he ruthlessly "used" Wang Hua, which was very embarrassing.

"Let's go, old man, isn't the pace of your Hedong construction slow, I heard that all the tools are ready!"

Wang Xuan relieved the old man, and at the same time, he also felt the old man's conscientiousness and the hard work of the people in Hedong.

"Not fast, not fast, it's all March, after receiving the drawings, the big guys are coming to help, for fear that the construction will slow down and affect the pace of auspicious development. ”

Seeing that the old man was full of silver threads and cheeks with knife-like wrinkles, Wang Xuan's heart softened, so he took the old man's arm and walked towards the soap factory.

The soap factory is located in the east of the grain and oil factory, and Wang Xuan considered that in order to facilitate the transportation of vegetable oil, the two factories lived next to each other, only separated by a wall.

In order to simplify the transportation steps, a ceramic transportation pipeline was erected directly between the two plants, high in the west and low in the east, and the vegetable oil was transported through the pipeline to the soap factory.

"Old man, there are three factories here, and there will be more in the future, is this road a little worse? ”

Wang Xuan looked at the stone road in front of the south gate of the factory and couldn't help complaining.

When the old man heard this, he immediately became bitter and hurriedly said: "The young master doesn't know that most of the taxes in the past six months have been used to pay the arrears of the cement factory, the brick and tile factory, the plate factory, and the construction team, and the rest is also used for the salaries of workers and teachers. But I promise the young master that before the end of June this year, a cement road will be built north of the factory to connect the factory and Hedong Avenue. ”

"Concrete roads don't have to be, stone roads. The roadbed is tamped, and the slate area is larger and thicker, which is no worse than the cement road. Moreover, the second phase of the new city is under construction, and the supply of cement is not abundant. ”

Wang Xuan asked that the road, which is less than a kilometer long, be built of stone, which also has another hidden purpose, that is, to use the order to feed the three quarries.

In Wang Xuan's plan, these quarries will change and evolve in the direction of stone factories in the near future, and play a greater role in building decoration and handicrafts.

"Follow the young master's orders. The old man simply agreed.

Sometimes, Wang Xuan likes the old man, and knows what to do and what not to do!

The soap factory was built in style, with a stone and brick structure of water, compared to the grain and oil factory across the wall, which was dwarfed by a wall.

"Please ask the young master to write an inscription for the soap factory!"

Before Wang Xuan entered the factory gate, the old man made a surprise attack, and it was really a spark inheritance.

Wang Xuan had to think of the old man's son, the director of the mosquito coil factory, Gu Dayong.

What else can I say, Tibei!

After thinking for a while, Wang Xuan also mentioned the new name of the grain and oil factory by the way.

The soap factory was nominated as "Jixiang Shufujia Soap Factory", and the grain and oil factory was nominated as "Jixiang Aikang Rapeseed Oil Factory".

Now everyone is happy, discount promotion, buy one get one free.

So, he applauded vigorously, completely ignoring that others couldn't stand it, and the frightened flowers drilled into Wang Xuan's arms one by one, in the end, he was still only a four-year-old child.

Wang Xuan had no choice but to pick up the flowers and step across the factory gate to interrupt the discordant noise.

When it comes to the production of soap, it is not difficult: caustic soda and grease are heated for a chemical reaction, and after the reflection is complete, salt is added to make it salted, and after standing for half a day, the upper layer of soap is soap;

The key point of soap making is the material, the last time Feng Qiangzhi brought back a lot of baking soda, although it is not enough to make glass, but the supply of soap trial production is enough.

In the soap factory, Wang Xuan slowly poured lime water into a container containing soda in proportion, and after stirring evenly, a caustic soda solution and calcium carbonate precipitate were generated, and the caustic soda solution was one of the raw materials for making soap.

Subsequently, the solution is filtered, poured into the pot and heated over low heat, and then rapeseed oil is added, the process should be slow, the amount should be small, and the addition process should be constantly stirred to make it fully saponification reaction.

The reason why rapeseed oil should be added slowly is that it is necessary to record not only the concentration of each solution, but also the concentration of the new solution after the reflection of each solution, so that an accurate formula can be obtained.

The saponification reaction will last for a long time, and Wang Xuan knows the chemical formula, but he can't measure the concentration of the various solutions involved in the reaction.

Therefore, you can only use the stupidest method: add oil to more alkali, add alkali to more oil!

In this way, until the evening, after dozens of times of adding the two liquids to each other, finally it was basically completely saponified; then, Wang Xuan added salt inward, stirred while adding, so that the salt was fully dissolved, and the soap base was condensed through the salting out effect.

Then let it stand for half a day, and after it has been settled, the upper substance (sodium of higher fatty acids) is separated, poured into the mold, and after cooling, it is the original soap.

When the first wave of soap making was completed, it was already the middle of the night, and the flowers were already asleep in Wang Xuan's arms.

The old man touched the smooth soap, couldn't put it down, with a smile on his face, Wang Xuan was worried about his age, so he insisted on asking him to go back to rest and continue to give birth tomorrow morning.

At this time, Wang Xuan also walked to the town government with Hua'er in his arms, and he will deal with it there for the night tonight.

Early the next morning, after a hurried breakfast, Wang Xuan rushed to the soap factory to conduct the second batch of soap-making tests.

After everyone arrived at the factory, Wang Xuan asked people to take the finished product of yesterday's trial soap for everyone to try.

After washing his hands and faces, everyone said that it was amazing, and he never realized that he was so buried.

Replicating yesterday's process, step by step, the recorder faithfully recorded various data parameters, and in the evening, the second batch of soap was made.

The fly in the ointment is that although the shapes are different, but the colors are single, Wang Xuan began to think about how to extract plant pigments.

Finally, after sorting out the statistics, a total of more than 230 pieces of soap were made in two days, except for 100 pieces donated to the merchants for trial, the rest were sent to various government agencies and schools, and followed up on the collection and reflection.

Under the constant urging of Hua'er, Wang Xuan left Hedong and returned to the lord's mansion.

Next, he had to confirm whether the Ministry of Construction's plan for a bridge across the river was feasible.