Kim Khora is still with him.

Now, he has not only been to the Forbidden City, but also entered the Qianqing Gate with the emperor, passed the three palaces and six courtyards of the Later Dynasty, and passed through the imperial garden.

I didn't dare to raise my head, and I didn't dare to glance around!

Tao Zhongwen was a little better, although he didn't lower his head, his eyes had been calm and never moved, and he walked forward without hurrying.

I was still speculating about this unexpected situation in my heart: the emperor was neither to pray for immortality nor to pray for Jiao, but for ...... What about the way of physics?

All the way to the Qin'an Palace, Zhang Zuo was already waiting there.

"All ready?"

After Zhu Houxi asked, Zhang Zuo immediately replied: "Onion and garlic, icing, alkali powder, dry sand, spirits, the four treasures of the study, and the slaves and maids have all been prepared." ”

"How many steamed spirits did you have?"

"It didn't work last time, Your Majesty said that the more mellow the better, and the slave and maid ordered people to steam it again and again. Now this liquor is not even dared to enter the throat of people who can drink soju very much. The slave has already tried it, and it really ignites immediately, and then the situation is like a nightmare! ”

He was scared when he said it, but Zhu Houxi nodded, it seems that after trying a few times, this time it was done.

If you take a closer look, you will know that the method of distillation appeared very early. However, it has only been used for the last 200 years. Today's wine is much higher than in the Tang and Song dynasties, which is also the reason why there are fewer and fewer records of heavy drinking like Li Bai and Wu Song in literary works after the Ming and Qing dynasties - I can't stand it.

The word shochu refers to this kind of steamed liquor.

But Zhu Houxi wants a higher degree of alcohol, which is very useful. But at the moment, progress is much slower than Zhu imagined. The reason for this is that there are various problems such as temperature control and poor volatilization of sealing. And in the case that the food is not enough to eat, Zhu Houxi does not want to rush to promote the preparation of this thing when the wine production rate is not high.

There are only vague memories, and if you want to use it for disinfection, the alcohol content must be well controlled.

Fortunately, Zhu Houxi is not going to use it for disinfection now, but just to light it on fire.

When I arrived at the open space behind the Qin'an Palace, two small desks were set up there.

"These two experiments, one moving and one still. Let's look at the quiet first, Zhang Zuo, you come. ”

In the Forbidden City, although Zhang Zuo is the master of ceremonies, the things he is responsible for at the moment are very scattered and more idle, not as important as Huang Jin.

It is rare that the emperor has a special errand assigned to him, and Zhang Zuo has become a "researcher" these days.

Now he worked so hard that he rolled up his sleeves and went to a table, and began to peel onions and pound garlic.

"Come and take a closer look." Zhu Houxi took Tao Zhongwen and Jin Kela to step forward, "Ordinary green onions, raw garlic." ”

“…… Your Majesty, I don't know what to ...... Experiments, what is the method? ”

Zhu Houxi smiled: "It's not a cultivation method, Tao Daochang just looks at it." ”

I saw that Zhang Zuo quickly smashed the green onion root and garlic cloves separately, and then used a cloth to filter out some juice and put it on a small saucer.

Afterwards, Tao Zhongwen watched him pick up two new brushes, dipped them in different juices and wrote on the two pieces of paper.

At first, there were wet prints, but after a while, the marks were dry, and the white paper looked like nothing had been written.

"Bring the candles."

Zhang Zuo turned around and commanded, then picked up a piece of paper and looked at the emperor: "Slave maid try one first." ”

He now asked for instructions on everything, and when he got permission, Zhang Zuo carefully took the piece of paper, placed it at a certain distance above the flame, and ironed it back and forth.

Jin Kela's eyes widened, and the white paper that had been wet printing could no longer be seen before, but now the brown and yellow handwriting was slowly revealing on it. Although it is not as neat as the ink writing, it is also easy to recognize.

This scene looks a little magical, but Tao Zhongwen is still quite calm.

"It's done!" Zhang Zuo seemed to be more excited than him, "Your Majesty, if you write a secret letter in this way, it will be of great use!" ”

Zhu Houxi chuckled: "Why bother so hard." Tao Daochang knows this method? ”

The reactions of the two audiences were different, and Zhu Houxi naturally saw it. Tao Zhongwen saluted when he heard the words: "I have heard a little." ”

"Do you know the reason? Why does onion juice and garlic juice have this effect, but the juice of some things does not? ”

"Everything has its own nature. Onion and garlic spicy thing, fiery nature. Paper is made of grass and wood, woody. The fire and wood, the onion and garlic juice and the simmering fire attacked inside and outside, and the paper was scorched, revealing the handwriting. ”

Jin Qila listened to Tao Zhongwen talk eloquently and admired it very much.

Zhu Houxi could only be speechless.

It sounds reasonable, but it's not like that at all.

These so-called "simple and easy-to-do chemistry experiments" are still interesting and remembered by Zhu Houxi when he watched some popular science articles and small videos.

It is clearly because the vegetable oil and some other ingredients in their juice have a lower ignition point, and they are the first to be scorched.

"Then let's do the next experiment and see what Tao Daochang has to say."

Zhang Zuo became much more nervous when he heard this, because of this "experiment", he had tried many times, and it was once before.

Now, he remembered His Majesty's instructions and took the spoon.

Four spoonfuls of sugar, one spoonful of alkaline powder.

Zhu Houxi silently watched him operate.

At this time, people still eat a large number of "sour noodles".

Is it that they don't know that adding a little alkali powder will taste good? Of course I do. The method of making alkali is recorded in "Qi Min Yaoshu": take a bucket of barley straw and soak it in water for seven days. Remove and dry, mash into minced pieces. Put three liters of lime, boil it, and remove the slag to get two catties of alkali.

Weeds on the edge of the fields are everywhere, and there is no shortage at all. In a sense, now people want to eat steamed bread with good taste, and what they lack is never alkali, but noodles.

The demand is not large, and there is not much research on alkali production.

But Zhu Houxi also roughly knows that alkali is very useful, at least what acid-alkali acid-alkali is a very profound point in the few surviving chemical memories.

Now, Zhang Zuo is preparing to demonstrate a beggar's version of the experiment called "Pharaoh's Serpent".

Zhang Zuo's demonstration was very sacred, because the effect of having succeeded once before was a bit shocking to him.

After laying the dried fine sand, Zhang Zuo opened the lid of the tightly sealed porcelain jar, and the rich smell of alcohol came to his nose.

He looked at Zhu Houxi: "Your Majesty, you better retreat, the slave is worried." ”

“…… Don't worry. Zhu Houxi knew that the reaction of this beggar gang was not so violent, and it would not produce poisonous gas.

"Huang Jin, you protect Your Majesty." Zhang Zuo could only say this, and then instructed the man next to him, "As soon as the wine is poured, you will light the fire, be quick!" ”

He didn't know what that truth was, but he tried a few times, and the trick was to be fast.

Otherwise, the fire would have burned out before something unbelievable could come out of the frosting mixed with alkali powder.

poured some highly distilled alcohol on the fine sand, and the little eunuch next to him hurriedly approached with a torch.

Sure enough, it was on fire.

Wine can burn, this Tao Zhongwen knows. But when the wine was burned, the flames were not the same color.

Then, I saw Zhang Zuo quickly pour the mixed sugar and alkali powder on the burning sand.

At first, there was nothing unusual, but after a while, a brown thing suddenly slowly arched on the mass of powder, as if the roots of an old tree were growing out of the fire, and indeed like some monster crawling out of the fire.

"Your Majesty beware!" Huang Jin only knew that Zhu Houxi had arranged for Zhang Zuo to prepare these things, how could he know that there was such a meeting?

"No problem."

Zhu Houxi turned his head to look at Tao Zhongwen and Jin Kela.

Jin Qila's eyes were full of shock, his mouth was wide open, and Tao Zhongwen's eyes were also shining, and he was pondering something.

Because of the different materials used, the reaction in this experiment was far less drastic than that of the truly high-purity materials. Now Zhu Houxi is only arranging one or two demonstrations, and he has not pondered his skills and rendered the atmosphere well.

But Tao Zhongwen's expression is obviously not simple, as an "alchemist", he is very experienced in playing the two methods of "Fire Pill" and "Water Pill", and he doesn't know how many things he has seen look like after being burned.

But Tao Zhongwen really hadn't seen such a spiritual, living thing-like reaction.

Isn't the purpose of alchemy to use immortal things such as gold and stones to complete the physical body so that it can also tend to be immortal? At this moment, there was an activity in the dead thing, and Tao Zhongwen was actually shocked, but the expression management was extremely good.

After the two experiments were over, Zhu Houxi asked: "Do you know Tao Daochang, what is the truth of this?" ”

"......" Tao Zhongwen thought for a while, and spoke again, "The beauty of alcohol and grain is brewed, and the nature of water and wood." Frosting, the nature of wood and earth. Alkali powder, gold and civil engineering are available. When you encounter fire again, the five elements are complete, and life is endless. Your Majesty's technique, poor Dao has never heard of, I don't know if it's right? ”

Zhu Houxi only felt that it was a cross-server chat. No matter what the phenomenon is, he is leaning on the five elements anyway.

It's just that he still says that he is so decent, and he has a chic appearance like a "master", if Zhu Houxi doesn't already have some mature and stable knowledge concepts, I'm afraid he will believe it.

So Zhu Houxi could only say: "Tao Daochang, Ling's Dan Dao has gone astray." ”

"......" Tao Zhongwen didn't speak, but he was not convinced.

"Enter the hall and tell me more."

……

With the current various materials, and Zhu Houxi's very limited chemical knowledge, Zhu Houyu could not arrange an experiment with an abnormal explosion.

With the inherent thinking of people in this era, it is unrealistic to expect one or two small experiments to shock them inexplicably and abandon the old accumulation of experience.

But Zhu Houxi can deny his Tao and say his own truth, and then assist some other means, so that he can try his accumulated knowledge in another direction.

In the Qin'an Palace, the two pieces of paper were taken, one of them had been baked, and the other was not.

The plates, which still hold the "hideous growths," were also brought and placed on the low table in the temple.

"Mover, Pivot of the Dao."

In order to move in the right direction for the ideological understanding of various groups of people, Zhu Houxi has already found many classics of his predecessors in his spare time.

Anyway, the Six Classics note me.

Now that he opened his mouth first, the words in "Zhou Yi", Tao Zhongwen nodded when he heard it.

Hengqu Zhang Zai also said in "Zhengmeng" that the form gathers into things, and the things collapse and reverse. The fire of the car, fierce and vigorous, will return; When mercury sees fire, it flies, and it doesn't know where to go, but it returns to the ground. Aggregate and disperse changes, and its ontology does not profit or lose. Zhu Houxi said a little more, and then asked, "There is a huge thing in the frosting alkali powder of Shicai, which is several times the size of the original thing, is it out of thin air?" ”

Tao Zhongwen couldn't answer this question. What the emperor said, Jin Qila was even more incomprehensible.

"Gold is not scorched when it enters the fire, it does not rot when it enters the water, and it is immortal for thousands of years when it enters the ground. Dansha is as red as blood, and it is also regarded as the source of life. When mercury meets fire, it flies, and the alchemists also think that taking it will help them to ascend. When the Dan Dao master alchemy, the furnace is placed in accordance with the direction of the five elements, and the furnace should be opened at the right time, and the refining is supplemented by a formula. The drugs used, many of which have changed their names, are all secrets of their essential texts, and they cannot be disclosed. Zhu Houxi smiled and asked, "Am I right?" ”

“…… Your Majesty knows a lot about Dan Dao. ”

Zhu Houxi really wants to know something, in this era, there are a large number of people who are searching for him.

Now what he is talking about is the alchemy Taoist priests from the source of their thoughts to their specific practices, from the normal state of the industry to their personal psychological conditions.

The heaven and earth condensed in all things such as "Taixu", "Yuanqi", "Taiji", "Dao" and other various titles are tried to condense according to the guiding ideology of the five elements of yin and yang, and the theory of "profit and loss" is also understood to mean that if you want to seize the opportunity to win the sky and benefit your body, you must not leak the heavenly machine and "damage" the heaven and earth too much, so everyone has a secret name and method.

The same thing is called differently by different people.

Zhu Houxi has another point that he can't say: the fundamental purpose of alchemy is problematic. Alchemy immortality, cultivation soaring, is there such a thing?

But Zhu has neither the ability nor the evidence to refute this, and now he himself is an example: how did he come here?

There was a brief calm in the Qin'an Palace, and then Zhu Houxi put aside these things: "According to me, this is all obsessed with the surface and forgetting the essence. With the grandeur of heaven and the complexity of all things in the world, how can we simply divide it into five elements and explain it all? Dao Chang Alchemy, if you only follow the five elements, you can't do it perfectly. Take today's two experiments as an example, and let me tell you why. ”

One is because the temperature at which it will be fired is different: this is a good explanation, the same clay, the temperature of the firing is different, you will get different things such as pottery and porcelain. Lead, iron, etc., can be burned and melted at different temperatures.

The other involves another issue. Zhu Houxi naturally has difficulty explaining the molecular structure, but gives a simple example: the same bucket of water, if it freezes in the winter, may burst the barrel.

His limited knowledge could only explain a little, but in the end he said: "All things must first be known and recorded." Then do more experiments to see how it changes. Only by insisting so much can we get a glimpse of the avenue. The Tao gives birth to one, life to two, two to three, and three to all things, and the principle of the Great Dao needs to exhaust all things before it can be glimpsed. I said that you only distinguish between yin and yang and the five elements, and try aimlessly, which is to take a shortcut. Is there a shortcut to preaching? ”

Tao Zhongwen is only unaware now, and at the same time, it is mainly because the other party is the emperor: "Your Majesty is reasonable......

Zhu Houxi then gave a means that worked: "The Taoist presides over the Qin'an Palace, as long as it is still the same as the old method of alchemy." However, I will make an offering, and the Taoist chief will also try it according to my method. In the future, I will have many opportunities to learn from you. But if according to my method, if Tao Daochang really has another achievement, wouldn't he be famous in history and a generation of grandmasters? Tao Daochang must not think that the matter of making fertilizer is small, and the crops are also living beings, if you understand the truth that all things nourish the crops, wouldn't it be the truth of nourishing the body next? ”

Tao Zhongwen was shocked when he heard it: This is the reason. Crops are also living creatures, and if you understand the principles of what will benefit the crops, you can really learn from them.

And there's no need to risk trying some drugs.

As a professional, he naturally knew that some of the things he refined were dangerous, so he had the theory of ambushing fire to remove its toxicity.

"If this is done, I can really rely on Dao Chang Tao to participate in the Great Dao of Enlightenment together. At that time, the world's Taoist gates will be under the command of Tao Zhenren. With my help and the power of the world, the avenue can be expected, does Tao Zhenren think so? ”

Alchemy is actually very expensive, many things are not cheap, and Tao Zhongwen knows how long it will take him to accumulate the materials for opening a furnace.

Now the rich Son of Heaven painted this cake for him is much more effective than the previous two small experiments.

"Your Majesty is trustworthy, and you should do your best. As His Majesty said, the poor road should not be greedy for shortcuts, and vainly seek a Dan to ascend. ”

Zhu Houxi laughed: "Just as I want to recreate the Ming Dynasty, I can't do it overnight. That being the case, let's start with a closer look today. I also don't understand how Jin Kela can use those golden stones to fertilize crops. Tao Daochang, don't hide your secrets. From today onwards, I will see you every day and join the Great Dao. ”

“…… Seeing the poor road every day? Tao Zhongwen thought to himself that when this matter spread out, wouldn't he have the reality of a "national teacher"?

"That's nature!" Zhu Houxi still has a lot of things, and he has to be brainwashed slowly.

However, the three Taoist people of Jiajing, who no longer cultivated, Tao Zhongwen, an alchemy expert, and Jin Qila, a manure boss, still established a Dandao research group.

The first research topic is the principle of the heavenly tonic (fertility absorption) of inorganic substances on crops.

In the Gongyuan, the lifters were answering the exam questions on the answer sheet.

On the side of the Wenhua Palace, Fei Hong looked at Huang Jin in amazement: "Your Majesty didn't discuss this matter with the ministers first?" ”

"Chief Assistant, Your Majesty is also worried about this matter, but today is inconvenient, Your Majesty ordered me to come over to get the strategy drawn up by the General Auxiliary and the ministers of state, I will study it tonight, and then discuss it tomorrow."

“…… I heard that the famous magic of the Taoist Department of the Ministry of Rites was ordered to search for them, and they all entered the palace today? ”

As the prime minister, Fei Hong felt that he still needed to express his concerns, after all, the emperor rarely resigned from the very important former cabinet meeting, and now the state council.

Huang Jin immediately said: "Don't think about it. Although His Majesty is indeed talking to Tao Zhenren in detail, all His Majesty cares about is the fertilizer. Your Majesty doesn't know how many times I have sighed, if I have a large amount of fertilizer that is easy to use and easy to transfer, I am afraid that the land of Daming will be able to harvest a few more grains. General assistant, that's a big deal of a few percent of food! ”

However, Fei Hong really doesn't understand, what does the Taoist family have to do with fertilizer?

(End of chapter)