Li Qingxian secretly gave Luo Jing a thumbs up, and then said, "Uncle Zhou, let's pass the past." Let's get down to business, spirits distillation is all true. ”

Zhou Chunfeng glared at Li Qingxian and said slowly: "If the method of distilling spirits can be achieved, it will also be a large amount of input for the night guard and the treasury. You speak in detail with me. ”

Li Qingxian had already thought of countermeasures on the road, so he said: "My father likes to drink rice wine in his spare time, Uncle Zhou, you should know." ”

Zhou Chunfeng was stunned for a moment, his thoughts were flying, and he came back to his senses after a while, and said, "Yes, Gang Feng likes to drink rice wine, loose and cheap." ”

Li Qingxian's heart fell to the ground, and said: "My father said that spirits are not easy to make, and I was short of money at the time, so I came up with the method of making spirits. I learned the art of life, calculated before I started, found that it could be done, tried it secretly, but I didn't expect it to happen. Next, as long as you find a good brewer, plus a skilled Ministry of Industry official, and try a little, you can make real spirits and sell them all over the country. ”

"I'm asking about the distillation of spirits!" Zhou Chunfeng said.

Li Qingxian looked around the study, with a look of embarrassment, and said, "Since everyone is their own person, I won't hide it." When I was trying to make spirits, I found an interesting thing, the same amount of wine and a jar of water, poured into a pot to boil, the same heat and the same time, the wine boiled first, and dried quickly, and the water dried slowly. Wine is composed of pure water and pure wine, since wine is food, can I call pure wine alcohol? So, I thought, since the wine is burned dry first, does it mean that alcohol is more likely to turn into water vapor than water? If I can get that vapor back, won't I have spirits? ”

The three of them frowned, as if they understood, but they didn't seem to understand.

"But the alcohol has turned into water vapor, how can I get it back? I thought about it, I thought about it, and suddenly I remembered that when I was cooking, the water vapor churned and hit people's faces, and it would condense into water droplets. And then there are the ice trucks, which are always full of water droplets in the summer. I thought, since water vapor can become water droplets when it is cold, will alcohol also become alcohol droplets when it is cold? I gave it a try, and it was done! ”

"So, I came up with a very simple way to distill spirits. Let's first bring the pot to a boil and keep it hot to let the alcohol inside turn into water vapor. We buckle the tube on the pot to let the alcohol gas flow down the tube. Then let the tube cool and allow the alcohol to vaporize into alcohol droplets. These droplets of alcohol come together to form a spirit. Depending on the strength of the spirit, we can mix a variety of suitable concentrations. Divided into low, medium and high, in this way, we have three wines. Add messy things, such as flower dew and fruit juice, to form a variety of different flavors, and eventually occupy the country's restaurants! ”

Li Qingxian was excited to imagine the future, and the three of them looked dazed.

Li Qingxian looked at it, didn't understand? If you don't understand, you'll be right! I only played distilling once when I was in junior high school, and it was just water.

"It's that simple? Sounds like just boiling and cooling, that's it? Luo Jing was half-convinced.

Li Qingxian snorted lightly and said, "Let me ask you, how many years did it take for the human race to go from engraving printing to movable type printing?" ”

"About four or five hundred years."

"How many years did it take for the human race to go from stone tablet engraving to engraving and printing?"

"Thousands of years." Luo Jing Dao.

"Movable type printing, to put it simply, is to engrave words on stone, and then apply ink and print, how did it take thousands of years for human beings to go from engraving to movable type printing?"

"This ......" Luo Jing didn't know how to refute Li Qingxian's fallacies for a while.

Li Qingxian pointed to his brain and said, "Success is 99 percent sweat, plus 1 percent of ideas." Many times, that one percent idea is more important than ninety-nine percent sweat. ”

"Don't be opportunistic." Zhou Chunfeng said with a straight face, and the soft words of Jiangnan were mixed with rustling sounds, and they were loud.

"Yes, Uncle Zhou. I am exaggerating to say that today's movable type printing requires many years of accumulation of materials, craftsmanship and all aspects, and ideas alone cannot do it. I didn't have an idea for this distillation method, but I got the idea after 99% of my sweat. Without my sweat, without my constant thinking, without my dedication, my ideas would never have come true. Li Qingxian's attitude was sincere.

Zhou Chunfeng smiled and nodded, but suddenly lowered his head, touched his mouth with his hand, coughed lightly twice, and the redness of his cheeks quickly dissipated.

Luo Jing became more and more surprised in his heart, knowing that the two were not close, but Zhou Chunfeng treated Li Qing as a nephew, and while exhorting and admonishing, he was quite appreciative.

"You're not well?" Li Qingxian asked.

"The root of the disease in the early years, I got used to it." Zhou Chunfeng gently stroked the cow bone fan on the table, and said after a while: "This method of alcohol distillation seems ordinary, but in fact, it is likely to change the entire liquor industry, so you can't be in a hurry." Let's not make a noise first, unite the household department, the internal carrier warehouse, the night guard and the Ministry of Industry, find a secret place in the night guard, and try it slowly until we are completely sure, and then officially produce. ”

Li Qingxian and Luo Jing nodded slightly.

"Lord Luo, what arrangements do you have for the household?" Zhou Chunfeng asked casually.

Luo Jing's expression changed, he sat up straight, thought for a while, and said, "My father was promoted to the fifth rank not long ago, and our Luo family is also considered a prestigious clan in the Southern Star Sect. I will report this matter to us Lu Shilang, at least in the household department, this matter will not go wrong. After all, it's an offering to God. ”

Zhou Chunfeng nodded and said, "Then I still bother Lord Luo to be responsible for contacting the internal carrier warehouse, and as for the Ministry of Industry and the night guard, I will arrange it." Are there any other conditions for the brewery? ”

Li Qingxian thought for a while and said, "I don't need anything to tinker with that thing myself, but to make it bigger, I'm afraid I need a bigger house, and it needs to be secret and safe, and you can only call the shots." ”

Zhou Chunfeng glanced out the window and said, "Then choose to be in the Imperial Prison Division, it has been empty in the past six months, and it is heavily guarded, even if someone is worried about the method of distilling spirits, they will never dare to mess around in the Imperial Prison Division." ”

"I think it's good." Li Qing said leisurely.

"If you want to participate in this matter, it's not convenient to only patrol the streets, I'll add you the identity of the secretary of the Imperial Prison, and you can enter and exit the Imperial Prison freely."

Li Qingxian said with a smile on his face: "Uncle Zhou, the method of brewing wine is very important, I'm afraid that someone will trouble me with the golden letter order again, I see that there are a lot of things on your table, so let me have one." ”

The three of them looked at the three golden orders in the bookcase.

"What are you doing with this golden order?" Zhou Chunfeng's face sank.

Li Qing said with a smile: "I want the golden order, not for myself, for the emperor, for the court, for the night guard yamen." In case something happens to me and I mess up, the treasury is equal to a loss of a million taels of silver per year. One million taels of silver a year, can't you exchange it for a golden order? ”

"Nonsense!"