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Chapter 64 Although my surname is Zhang, I really don't know how to make alchemy! (Please follow up!)

Xinzheng, the residence of Zhang Ji

Today's Zhang Ji's mansion is different from the previous few days. The broken gate is not only repaired, but also made of golden nanmu brought all the way from the land of Bashu. The wood is delicate and stable, not only firm, but also permeable There is a faint aroma of nanmu, which is definitely the top wood.

Of course, the money would not come from Zhang Ji.

No matter how angry Ji Wuye was when he faced Zhang Ji's threat, he did not dare to gamble the life of his only son Ji Yihu, and finally chose to let Jade Tiger gather skilled craftsmen and collect precious wood to build a brand new building for Zhang Ji. The gate of the mansion as an apology.

In addition to this new gate, Zhang Ji also kept these craftsmen, and asked Jade Tiger to get him a batch of mulberry trees, mulberry trees, and green sandalwood in the name of extortion.

"Sir, the mulberry tree, the mulberry tree, the green sandalwood, the jujube wood and the pear wood are all cheap woods, or I'd better send someone to Bashu to get some golden nanmu and come back."

Emerald Tiger looked at the craftsman who was peeling the bark, completely ignoring Zhang Ji's thoughts.

Although he doesn't know much about carpentry, he knows the price of wood, which wood is of good quality, which ones are suitable for carving, and which ones are suitable for gates, so that he can make profits through trading.

But according to his understanding, these types of wood seem to be very ordinary, only ordinary people will use them.Zhang Ji, on the other hand, was obviously not the kind of owner who would save him money, so he became curious about the reason why Zhang Ji bought these timbers.

In this regard, Zhang Ji generously asked Jade Tiger to go to the yard he would allocate to the group of craftsmen to see what happened.

The Emerald Tiger took heavy steps, twisted its fat body, and followed Zhang Ji to the other courtyard assigned to the craftsmen.

Unexpectedly, the Emerald Tiger had thought that the other courtyard where these lowly craftsmen lived would be very dirty, full of all kinds of stench.But with a gust of fragrant wind, there was only a faint woody fragrance, which made the Jade Tiger's hand holding the silk scarf stagnate.

The rough bark of the wood placed on the ground has long since shed its rough bark, revealing the bare trunk. The ground is also covered with bark and shavings of various woods, as well as some broken fishing nets and rags that can be seen everywhere.

A few brawny shirtless men were standing in front of several pots and kettles, pouring the ashes obtained from burning vegetation into the pots and kettles filled with boiling water in front of them, watching the water become turbid little by little, stirring them evenly, and then picking them up from the ground Bark, broken fishing nets and other things that are like garbage in the eyes of the emerald tiger are thrown into the pot and boiled, stirring continuously.

Suddenly, Emerald Tiger thought of something, his greasy face from eating too much meat turned red with excitement, and he even grabbed Zhang Ji's cuff regardless of his dignity, as if he was afraid that Zhang Ji would die in the next second. Gone in general.

"Mr. Zhang Ji, could it be that you are learning from the Immortal family, and this is refining the elixir that prolongs life?"

The so-called Immortal Family is a faction of hundreds of schools of thought, which was jointly established by many alchemists in the Yanqi coastal area.

The reason why it is a coastal area is because the people of the Shenxian family believe that the fairy mountains recorded in the books and classics exist on the vast sea, such as the legendary Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou.

They believe that there are immortal immortals who can change freely in the world, and they also believe that mortals can achieve immortality and become immortals as long as they take immortal medicine or practice.

However, based on their conditions, let alone looking for fairy mountains, they can't even afford to build a ship to go to sea, let alone looking for gods.As for cultivating to become an immortal, even the old immortals of the Taoist school can't do it, let alone them.

Therefore, in order to promote their theories, they can only focus on the so-called fairy medicine.

By fooling the Chu people who are the most superstitious about ghosts and gods and the people of Bashu, this group of people began to collect various materials to make alchemy.Among them, there are some elixirs that make people feel hot after eating, and then suddenly feel that the gods are cheerful and strengthen their physical strength. Many princes and generals have believed in the alchemists of the immortal family because of this, and they are superstitious about the existence of elixir.

But there are not many descendants of the immortal family, and alchemy is a high-tech job, which requires a certain amount of luck. Many people died because of the wrong placement or imbalance of various ingredients in the elixir.

Therefore, whenever those princes and generals meet the disciples of the immortal family, they will treat them as treasures, and they will not hesitate to throw away their dignity and beg the other party to refine a potion of medicine for themselves. Even if they can't achieve longevity, they still look forward to relying on this potion of medicine To prolong life.

And what Zhang Ji asked the craftsmen to do looked a bit like the scene where the disciples of the immortals were refining the elixir, so Jade Tiger mistakenly thought that Zhang Ji was training these craftsmen to make alchemy, no wonder he was so excited.

It's just that although Zhang Ji's surname is Zhang, he has absolutely nothing to do with a certain Longhushan, and he really doesn't know how to make alchemy.

Therefore, this furnace is indeed not a pill.

If he knew how to make elixir, he would directly make some saltpeter to make ice, which would save him from having to wait until winter to send his servants to the river to fetch ice and store it in the ice cellar.

He just wanted to attract the attention of the Mo family.

Although in Zhang Ji's capacity, it is not difficult to attract the attention of the Mohists, but the difficulty is to attract the attention of the Mohists, and they think that sending Mohist masters to protect Zhang Ji is important enough to let go of some prejudices and cooperate with Luo Wang matter.

Therefore, although he does not know how to make glass or make saltpeter to hydrate ice, Zhang Ji, who has received the education of Jiuyi, still dabbles in some of the most basic technologies.

As for the feasibility of these technologies, he is not worried.

This is not a difficult technique, he only needs to teach these craftsmen the general process.

And he doesn't require these craftsmen to make high-quality finished products, he just wants to complete the process from scratch, which is not difficult for these craftsmen carefully trained by Jade Tiger, and after that he You can implement your next plan.

It's just that, when Zhang Ji's construction was in full swing, Hanwang Palace came again with a decree, which was the decree from Hu Meiren, who had been away for several days, to announce his entry into the palace.

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PS: In the chapter about ice cubes, someone complained about why saltpeter was not used to make ice... I can only say that it is hard to judge when saltpeter appeared.Although the "Taiping Yulan · Department of Medicine" of the Song Dynasty stated that saltpeter had been used as medicine in the Spring and Autumn Period, according to some sayings, the "xiaoshi" is saltpeter with very low purity and can only be used for general medicine.

In short, because the records are too vague, I did not choose to write about making ice with saltpeter.

(End of this chapter)