Chapter 148, this must not be fascinated by a large piece? 【4K】
After the meeting was dismissed, Chels invited Ryan to the castle alone, and the two sat opposite each other, and the servants around them all consciously retreated, leaving the two of them.
Chels casually asked, "What do you want to drink?" ”
"Please come to the Blood Orchid Bar, I still need to digest all this today." Ryan leaned on the backrest casually, and after getting along with Chels for a long time, he understood that the other party was not a person who paid attention to etiquette, and he seemed to be polite and polite.
"It's just a conspiracy rebellion, and although it's huge, it's not going to really come to fruition." Chels pulled out a bottle of wine that was as red as blood and said as he poured it for Ryan and himself.
The wine glass collided slightly, and the bright red wine rippled slightly in the glass, and Chels drank it all in a hearty way, while Ryan took a sip, his brow still tightened.
"The most elite frontier legions have not moved yet, and the Hurricane Knights have only dispatched a third, His Royal Highness the Grand Duke has a long-term vision and often thinks more, otherwise the rebels would have been strangled with all their might."
Chels was unfazed by the coming war, he was also battle-hardened, whether it was defending against orcs or expeditioning against the kingdom of Andes, and the suppression of the rebellion was indeed a small scene in comparison.
Lane smiled bitterly when he heard this: "My little arms and legs are not the same as your family's big business, it's only been more than a year, and I'm an orc and a rebel." ”
"You're embarrassed to cry poor with me, can I not count how much you have earned? The money piled up in the warehouse is just a pile of metal, but on the battlefield it is a real battle.
This time the rebellion spread to several provinces, and many nobles broke off their inheritance, and you don't want to be moved by those vacant territories? Chels poured another glass of wine and drank it down.
The corners of Ryan's mouth twitched, The money is a lot of money, but now there are not a few children left in the warehouse, but when he heard the other party mention the land, he was interested, His territory is not small, but who would dislike the big territory?
"This time, Your Majesty will take out the land for us to exchange?"
Chels smiled mysteriously: "As long as you have enough military merits, territory, title, you can do whatever you want, this time to go on an expedition with you in my heart is more down-to-earth, when the time comes, we will join forces, all this is not a pipe dream." ”
Whether he and Ryan met on the battlefield, or the relationship between superiors and subordinates, he knew very well what level the other party had, and he could turn the tide of the battle against his own side in one battle, luck, courage, and strength were indispensable.
This is a right-hand man, not some pig teammate, who has lived for so many years and knows Lintonshire well.
The aristocracy is the best at concealment, although he said that every nobleman who goes out on the expedition must send at least a thousand, but the quality of these thousand people is entirely up to their conscience.
Even if they pulled a thousand serfs out and insisted that they were soldiers, Chels would not be able to do anything about them.
He is not a nobleman who is willing to keep to it, he has ambitions, and he wants to go further!
This battle is an opportunity, if he can make a big enough feat, plus the previous accumulation, his title will also have a chance to move up.
And making great contributions is naturally not something that can be done by him alone, a right-hand man is also necessary, and in his opinion, Ryan is this right-hand man.
This draw seems to be fair and just, but who knows if there is any cat in it?
"I won't hide it from you, this time I plan to go all out to expand the family territory again, and this requires your help." Chels looked at Ryan with a serious expression, and clearly told him that he didn't plan to fish this time, so you can do it with me.
Ryan naturally understood what he meant, to be honest, he was already faintly moved, he didn't expect to have the same good luck as last time this time, and directly win a knighthood.
But after making military achievements, you can exchange for many things that the outside world can't get, from magic scrolls and extraordinary weapons to stunning slave girls and interracial beauties.
He needed a lot of things, for example, he felt that his current cultivation had reached a bottleneck, and even if he used the source liquid to cultivate, the effect was very weak, so he didn't know when the Great Knight Rank would be reached.
For this situation, the advice given by his teacher Sterling is to use the treasure to help break through the bottleneck, Ryan has been thinking about it, but he has no suitable channel to get it, which is an opportunity.
"I see what you mean, so I'll go back and prepare." Drinking the blood orchid in the cup in one gulp, feeling the burning sensation circulating in his mouth, Ryan also broke off his mind about touching the fish, and made up his mind to follow Chels!
Chels had a smile on his face, it was the answer he wanted......
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After returning from Hore, Ryan convened a meeting of the army's top leaders, and he had already had a plan in his mind, and after telling everyone what had happened, he gave the following order:
"After you go back, cancel the leave of all the soldiers, hold a large-scale military training, and unify the organization and coordination of Delai.
Allen, on the other hand, led the senior officers to study and analyze the information I brought back from the viscount, so that they could not be defeated in a hundred battles.
War is not child's play, I hope you will do your best! ”
"Yes!"
After everyone was ordered to leave, Ryan found Hevian and other administrative officials, and instructed them to start raising supplies, although they said that there would be a supply of heavy food, but Ryan never dared to overestimate the temperance of these nobles, and it was better to prepare some by himself.
At the same time, Ryan once again added a group of people to the steel mill, striving to build as many weapons and equipment as possible before the expedition, and these are the confidence to go to the battlefield!
Orders were issued in an orderly manner, and the top and bottom of the Kana collar began to get busy. The lords also suddenly found that the soldiers of the territory would assemble every morning, go out of the city with a rainbow of momentum, and come back in the evening with a helpless face.
No one knows what they're up to, but it shouldn't be nice to look at......
In a humble workshop, bags of grain are piled up, and a group of workers are busy around something.
What they are doing now is preparing for sake brewing, but they are not making red wine or ale wine, but rice wine, which is not very popular in this world.
The ingredients used for rice wine are glutinous rice or rice, but the most abundant cultivation in Kanna is rice, that is, rice.
The brewing of rice wine is very consuming for food, and the war is imminent, and it is inappropriate for Ryan to do this, but he also has his own considerations.
The current scale of the green sugar trade can no longer support the subsequent development, and it is urgent to reopen up financial resources, and wine is Lane's next goal.
Rice wine is not currently seen on the market, as a new wine, its taste is honeyy and soft, elegant and pure, sweet and mellow, and the aftertaste is pleasant.
It is not spicy or nasal before drinking, and it tastes good. If you don't go up, it won't hurt your stomach. is different from the current alcohol, even if it is to satisfy the curiosity psychology, the sales should not be bad.
Alcohol has been a lucrative industry since ancient times, and Ryan naturally intends to intervene, and he has no shortage of raw materials, and the price of food in the south is also very cheap.
Even if the masses don't buy it, Ryan distills it and dilutes it to make a spicy spirit, which should be quite attractive to mercenaries and adventurers who lick blood from their knives all day long.
It really can't be done, further purification and production into alcohol is also a good choice for wound disinfection of soldiers on the battlefield.
You must know that in this world where there is no medical system, they always seek treatment from the pastors of the church, but they are expensive, and the common people use it as a luxury, so they can only spend money to ask for a little holy water that has almost no effect.
If you are cured, it is God's protection, and if you are not healed, you are deeply sinned, and God does not want to forgive you.
There are people injured all the time on the battlefield, and the wound infection is very serious, and many people die from the wound infection, and Lane naturally can't watch his soldiers being infected and taking their lives.
He couldn't invite a priest to join the army, so he could only work on potions and alcohol, and he could have as many effects as he could.
To get back to the point, the brewing process of rice wine is not complicated, in the country where Ryan lived in his previous life, there has long been a history of brewing rice wine, and there is also a "green ant new brew wine, red clay small stove." This kind of poem describes rice wine.
Generally speaking, in order to reduce costs, rice wine is often made with broken rice or aged rice, but Ryan only has new rice here, so he can only splurge a little.
Lane had earlier instructed workers to soak the husked rice in hot water, which would allow it to be steamed more thoroughly and cooked during the steaming process, and it would also save fuel costs, usually for 8-24 hours.
Now that a day and a night have passed, Ryan instructed the workers to scoop out the floating impurities, take out the soaked rice and put it on the steamer to steam on high heat, sprinkle a small amount of cold water and stir it once after half an hour, and then turn to low heat to steam.
It is said that this is because steaming the rice reduces the loss of starch and ensures the yield of sake.
The steamed rice needs to find a place to spread out and cool, and then you can add koji and stir, and pour the fully stirred rice into the clay jar to seal and ferment.
In the follow-up, you only need to pay attention to stirring, and it only takes a few days to ferment a small amount of wine, and if you continue to keep it fermented for a few days, the amount of wine will be considerable.
Ryan is still quite satisfied with the finished product, but it doesn't feel like drinking, after all, the degree is too low.
He left a batch and sold it in his own shop first, which was about the same price as ale, and if the response was good, he could consider selling it to other territories in the future.
It's just that this is not his goal, he wants a higher degree of liquor, but there is also a saying that rice wine is distilled out of rice wine, Ryan doesn't care about this, he says that whatever kind of wine is what kind of wine.
The distillation device is relatively simple, and you can just buy a set of ready-made ones and use them later.
The liquor that was distilled for the first time was about thirty or forty degrees, and it was already a little spicy when drunk, almost reaching the category of liquor.
As usual, a batch was left for sale to see the effect, and the rest was further distilled with a small amount of quicklime, and the process of distillation into alcohol failed many times because there was no thermometer to monitor the temperature.
After wasting a lot of raw materials, the workers gradually mastered the doorway, and then the alcohol was born, and the purity is not known how much, but it should meet the standard of disinfection, which is better than nothing.
However, in half a month, rice wine, liquor, and alcohol were directly produced in one stop, and Ryan still felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.
But what he's going to do next is definitely a big money project, and that's perfume.
Perfume is a proper luxury in this world, and a small bottle has to be settled in Jindler, and even nobles cannot use it wantonly.
It is said that there is a perfume used by the royal family, which is imported from the Purple Kite Kingdom, which is known as the cradle of magicians, and each bottle is sold for a sky-high price close to three digits!
In this world where a few gold coins can buy a life, it can only be said that poverty limits Ryan's imagination.
His mother, Karinman, uses perfume very rarely, not because she has no money, but because this thing is not only expensive, but its production is still small, and it is useless to have money and no channels.
Perfume making is a little more difficult than alcohol, but it is also limited, and now that alcohol is available, essential oils are missing.
Lane, the raw material of the essential oil, chose some of the season's flowery flowers, and even instructed Kewell to pick the magic flowers he had cultivated for nearly a year.
Ordinary flowers aside, these magic flowers can be very popular, a total of two kinds of large picking, one is the golden sunflower, this kind of flower that can emit bright light, the fragrance of the flower is very strong, and it does not make people feel pungent.
One is the purple moon orchid, this is even more powerful, after Kewell's experiments and research, this flower has the effect of sleeping, can be called the gospel of insomnia patients, and its floral fragrance is long-lasting and elegant, and it is also very suitable for making essential oils.
After the flowers are slightly dried, they can be distilled, and the liquid that is distilled is the essential oil of the plant.
The two major raw materials have been prepared, and the next step is to make perfume, mixing distilled water with alcohol and essential oils according to a certain ratio, fully stirring and mixing, and after precipitation, it will enter the most critical aging.
This stage requires rapid stirring, but Ryan doesn't have a blender, so he can only rely on hands, and this kind of thing naturally can't be done by the honorable Lord Ryan himself.
He set his evil eyes on young Levi, and as a junior knight, he had no problem being a humanoid blender.
When Levi was as tired as a dead dog, the process was finally completed, but due to the problem of craftsmanship, the perfume produced in this batch was a little cloudy from the outside, not clear, and the number was not much, just a few small bottles.
However, the condition is just such a condition, and he is already satisfied if he can make it.
I opened the cork and sniffed it, because of the addition of special hydrangea essential oil, the fragrance is very strong, but the smell is very comfortable, there is a feeling of sunshine.
Using a little on the neckline of his clothes, he suddenly felt a unique fragrance emanating from his whole body, sniffing like a dog, and Ryan smiled with satisfaction.
Narcissistic said: "With this perfume, don't you be fascinated by a large piece of the aristocratic banquet or something in the future?" ”
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The production methods and steps in the article are simplified, and some places will seem unreasonable, please don't delve into it, just a good picture~
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