Beiyang new warlord

Adelaine, a girl who claims to be from a civilized country, is well-informed, and usually the corners of her mouth are slightly raised, with disdain in her plainness.But Mao Jue always had something that made her lose her composure.With a cry of surprise, the girl had already slipped into the west wing before Xuankong could lead the way.

There is also a large chimney on the window of this room, which is emitting black smoke. From time to time, a Daoist will mix the coal noodles and yellow mud outside for good luck, and a huge distillation pot is red from the fire. On the road, a few Taoist boys held the brushes seriously and didn't know what to brush.Facing the wall of the corridor of the house, Adelaine's small mouth opened into an O shape in surprise.

It turned out that Mao Jue's mirror workshop moved here. In the corridor, there are more than a dozen mirrors hung on the wall to complete the silver mirror reaction and the finished mirror after mounting. Her small face is just divided into several mirror walls. Bi Xian.

"This is the untold secret of the Republic of Venice! The king of France has pressured Venice four times but failed to get the secret recipe. How did you get it?"

The mirror is not only crazy in the East at the same time, but also in the West. It seems that the fans of the West are chasing each other, making countless aristocratic women crazy to the point where they even sold their bodies and emptied the last franc in their lover's pockets.

This madness means a steady stream of money. Mao Jue doesn't know about this girl's background until now, but looking at her surprised and golden eyes, it is obvious that she has seen it before but never before.

It's a pity that even if Adelaine was so shocked that she even forgot her honorific title, Mao Jue still looked lazy and shook her head listlessly, an old saying that was understated.

"Ask God!"

"Stingy!"

Seeing this guy staggeringly followed the old Taoist Xuankong to the Sanjin yard, the girl was so angry that she gritted her neat white teeth, and even ignored Mao Jue's saying that she could make a fortune, and she was so angry The last thing was to rush into the mirror workshop again, staring at the movements of the Taoist boys like an eagle catching a mouse, and refused to let go of the bitter and bitter look.

The whole Tieshan Town has taken up too much of Mao Jue's energy. He can't care about producing mirrors by himself. Anyway, a group of Daotong have nothing to do every day, so they simply leave the production of nitric acid and the work of silver mirror reaction here. Anyway, Taoist priests are usually isolated from the world, and they are in their own military fortress, so they are not afraid of losing them.

However, Mao Jue still took precautions. The production of glass was still placed in Pidao, and He Siyong and Wenyuan Pavilion were in charge. In this case, even if they knew the reaction of the silver mirror, these Taoist priests still couldn't make a mirror by themselves.

The main character here is not the mirror. They turned around at the entrance of the mirror workshop, and along the courtyard, several people entered the third entrance.

This is directly against the city wall, and it is another room that looks like an alchemy room, but this time the alchemy tripod has been replaced by a stove, and there is a stack of steamers piled up in the corner, and the iron distillery next to it hangs its head downwards. Well, the two little Taoist boys had already fanned the stove and started a fire. The coals were burning red, exuding a strong heat, and the faces of the hot people were flushed.

Greeting Mao Jue into the room, it was time to get down to business, the old Taoist Xuankong also became extremely serious like a fanatical chemist, pointing to the steamer in the corner and punching Mao Jue.

"Master Mao, the fire is ready. I have been thinking about the steps for a long time these two days. As long as I think about it, I can go to the basket."

"Liu Chong!"

The steamer in the front has already been covered with a layer of drawer cloth. Seeing Xiaodaotong ready to go, there is no nonsense, Mao Jue tilted his head directly behind him. Liu Chong, who is a coolie, and two other personal soldiers Carrying a bag of more than 100 kilograms of corn flour, they moved there.

It's really easy to handle. A few Taoist boys poured the corn noodles into the steamer, and then poured water up with a bucket. The water is judged by him. Every time the old Taoist nods, several Taoist boys stop adding water and send the reconciled corn noodles to the cage. Two stoves and twenty layers of cages are quickly filled to the brim. , More than 100 catties of cornmeal were used up.

The fire is already hot, and the steam will make it even hotter. Xuankong intends to invite Mao Jue to drink tea in the side room and wait, but this matter is very important to Mao Jue, he shook his head stubbornly As a last resort, Xuankong had no choice but to move a bench and sit there.

In a blink of an eye, more than an hour has passed. If you say that people's realms are really different, Mao Jue has many things in his heart. Sitting here is like taking a sauna, which makes him restless, and he stands up and walks around in a while , the beads of sweat on his forehead were like streams of water, soaking the collar of his cotton armor.

On the other hand, this Xuankong old man, except that his old face is a little more white and tender, and he is smothered by the steam, the rest of the time he is calm and looking somewhere. No wonder the old guy is over 70, and he is still so tough. Such a state of mind is not like Mao Jue. Restless young people can be compared.

During this period, Xuan Kong went to the steamer several times to check, and added water again, until the cornmeal inside was completely cooked, as sticky and soft as a chestnut cake, and then it was taken down from the steamer and opened to dry.

"how?"

Seeing the dead old man rubbing the cooked cornmeal with two fingers, his brows were furrowed for a while, and his face was full of intoxication for a while, Mao Jue was really worried about being caught, and couldn't help asking hastily.

"According to Pindao's years of experience, it should be possible!"

Taking a deep breath, Mao Jue was a little annoyed and couldn't laugh or cry. He pretended to be deep and whetted his appetite. Is this a common problem of these masters?

The Taoist boys aired the cornmeal again to cool down the temperature, the Xuankong old Taoist went back to his back room, and immediately took back a jar like a treasure. As soon as he opened it, a strong smell of wine came to his nostrils, but Just at this time, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew past the door, and someone pushed the tightly closed door open.

"Close it quickly, if the material is frozen, it will not be able to go down!"

It was a rare time when the old man was not calm, and Adelena, who pushed the door open in a panic, turned around and closed the door heavily.Just now this girl has been nesting in the mirror shop, watching Taoist boys evenly brush the rice soup on the back of the glass that has been coated with silver nitrate, until a half-person-high coat mirror is completed and waiting to be dried, this girl didn't see any secrets Come.

No wonder, apart from the old Taoist Xuankong who refined nitric acid, even the little Taoist boys don’t know what they are brushing. The dried sweet potatoes in her bosom were gone, and at this time, she replaced it with a round mirror. This treasure, which was worth even more than her body, became this girl's trophy.

After receiving Mao Jue's vicious look, she also sniffled her nose heavily, holding the mirror tightly with her small hands, but Adelaine couldn't help showing a look of disdain on her face, and her small mouth was pouted to the side.

"Isn't it just wine making? As for making it so mysterious?"

This girl is starting to act cute again, but Mao Jue really didn't take her into consideration at all, he still watched the old Taoist Xuankong mix the koji and cornmeal in the jar evenly, and put them into the prepared big vat Finally, Mao Jue heaved a sigh of relief when he moved the vat to the warm kang.

Among the resources in his hands, the first mirror is the most valuable, but when there are too many on the market, it will definitely drop in price. Glass products are similar, and these two are not bulk commodities. Luxury goods are similar these days, and only the wealthy can buy them. The market that is destined to be opened up will not be hit.

Ginseng, mink fur, deer antler, etc. are similar, and Mao Jue has no way to monopolize these things. Shanxi merchants who go to the grassland every year, as well as the official merchants of the capital, also smuggle a considerable scale from Liaodong. Gadgets are not a civilian industry, and they are greatly affected by the war, which cannot drive the economic development of Iron Mountain.

But once the corn wine making is successful, it will become a unique local industry. The materials are easy to obtain. The corn planted all over the mountains and plains can be used to make wine. The market is extremely wide. After all, there are not many men who like this. The two big wine bags can be seen. If the situation is really opened up, Mao Jue will not have to worry about military expenses.

However, there is a specialization in art. Mao Jue has studied machinery, worked in a shipyard, and played in a glass workshop, but he has never brewed wine. Later generations of Northeast Xiaoyao are very famous. He only knows how to drink, but he doesn’t know this. How did the stuff come from, how to turn the corn into wine, he really has a dark eye.

Fortunately, there is a wine-making expert beside him. Although Xuankong is a Taoist priest and a monk, he believes in the righteous school. He is not like the Buddhists who prohibit meat and fish and are not allowed to marry. The old guy also had a romantic history back then. He pays great attention to health preservation, and knows how to brew his own wine, and use ginseng and antler to make medicinal wine. Mao Jue once received the ginseng strong wine prepared by him.

This time, it was up to him whether he could turn the corn into wine or not. The old guy ordered the next bag of cornmeal to be placed on the steamer again. Full of hope, Mao Jue walked up to the wine tank again. Looking inside, I wish I could produce wine now.

Mao Jue didn't notice at all, Adelena who was holding the mirror, those beautiful lake blue eyes, turned around again

Chapter 73. Labor Issues

Some people say that life is like good wine, which needs years of precipitation before it can have a complex taste of bitterness, hotness, sourness and sweetness. Mao Jue still doesn't know what life is like, but good wine is precipitation but it really made him suffer a lot. After emptying the tank, there was no news of his corn wine for more than 20 days.

It wasn't until the fourth day, when Mao Jue was instructing the construction of a new mine in the main mine of Tieshan, that a small road boy came to him on a donkey in a hurry.

"General, my master said that it's time to drink, please hurry up!"

The pitiful two mine heads are still here chattering about the progress of the project. When they turned their heads, Mao Jue had already followed Daotong away. In the cold winter months, they were constructing in the northeast wind, just to win a reward from Mao Jue. After hearing this, he left halfway, and he didn't know when he would come back next time. The two foremen were so angry that they spat hard at the back of the little boy donkey.

When they arrived at the gymnasium, Xuankong Laodao had already started to work, and the brewing room was extremely hot, a puff of steam permeated the shed, making the lime on the roof wet.

The bottom is still the big steamer, but there is an iron pot lid with a metal spout slanting downwards. On the top of the pot lid, there are large ice cubes picked by Xiao Daotong from the outside. It was more than one and a half meters long, and a large jar was placed on it. Then, the strong aroma of wine came from the iron mouth, and a stream of transparent wine flowed into the jar along the iron mouth.

Become!

Almost [-] stones of corn can’t be used, and it’s too wasteful to leave it to rot. This old Taoist Xuankong really helped Mao Jue solve a big problem, but before Mao Jue was happy, the old guy Xuankong actually replaced the clay pot. Turning around and pushing open the door of the house, with a bang, more than a catty of shochu was splashed into the snow, and Mao Jue's mood was really like that of a husky in the sun.

"What's the matter, did the brewing fail?"

As soon as the dead old man turned around, Mao Jue had already stuck to him like a ghost, pointing at the old guy's nose and asking hurriedly.Just now Mao Jue Niao came in quietly, no one was disturbed, Xuan Kong's heart attack was almost frightened by his abrupt voice, and he took a few breaths while holding a jar, then Lada had a bitter face, reminding him sadly Said.

"Young Master Mao! I'm getting old, and I can't stand your shock. Ouch, I'm an old man!"

"What happened to the wine?"

It doesn't matter whether the old guy dies or not. In the future, he can't throw away the money he raised. It doesn't matter whether the old guy will get a cerebral thrombosis in one breath, Mao Jue asked hurriedly.Seeing the anxious look on this young man's face, the old Taoist Xuankong who asked the question shook his head dumbfoundingly.

"Don't panic, my lord. What Pindao dumped just now is the head of the wine. According to our Sanfeng Shanyun's experience in burning medicinal wine for more than 100 years, this half jar of wine is slightly poisonous and cannot be drunk!"

"Each jar can hold ten catties of wine. Our one hundred catties of food can almost hold three jars of thirty catties of wine, and the last one or two catties of wine tails is undrinkable!"

Seeing the crystal clear liquor flowing out of the still lid, like tap water, and hearing this, Mao Jue finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The liquefaction points of alcohol and water vapor are different, and all kinds of formaldehyde, enzymes, harmful substances, and impurities are also the first to come out, so the head of the first catty of wine is not drinkable, and the tail of the last catty or two of wine is similar. , Those stubborn toxic substances also came out, and at the same time the alcohol content dropped sharply.