Chapter 30 Creeping Progress (5)
Everything has entered a bottleneck period. The fermented potato wine is slowly underway, and Xu Youlin has not sent anyone to seek emergency addition of spirits. Since the junior brothers' learning of the simpler characters, such as one to ten, and the Tiandi Popular Hand, the speed of recognizing words has been greatly reduced. The nine-nine multiplication table also entered the slow stage of entry after entering the four-multiple part.
Huo Chong simply didn't go out, and he led his junior brothers and sisters to recite, do questions, do questions, and recite every day.
In order to get used to these guys as soon as possible, Huo Chong also made some stone abacus and forced his junior brothers and sisters to learn addition and subtraction.
The only change is the rabbit family, and the female rabbit is even weaker. She lies in the cinder shop every day and eats grass without moving. The little rabbits are trying hard to breastfeed, but they do not know when the weaning period will be.
Huo Chong once raised a cat and had the experience of feeding a kitten. So Huo Chong knew very well that if the female rabbit died during the breastfeeding period, Huo Chong would not be able to provide milk powder for the rabbit. If he could not digest the grass, the rabbits would quickly follow his mother. All Huo Chong's previous efforts would be wasted.
Life is just like this, and the yard looks much brighter because it is cleaned in time. The earthworm room made by Huo Chong is also built up, and a lot of small earthworms are also put into the mixture of weeds and manure. This is a good source of fertilizer and feed, but it also takes time to take effect.
The duty schedule has already shown that it is May 11th. After completing the work for the day, Huo Chong urged his junior brothers and sisters to take a shower and go to bed quickly.
As soon as the lights were turned off in the house, someone knocked on the door. Huo Chong was shocked and hurriedly took the self-defense guy. Since the furnace was found, Huo Chong shot himself a crude self-defense dagger and went to the door and asked in a low voice: "Who is it?"
"It's me." Li Tongshan's voice came from outside the door.
Huo Chong was happy and immediately felt something was wrong. Could it be that Li Tongshan colluded with someone and wanted to come and attack him in the middle of the night?
Fortunately, although the moon in the sky is not as fifteen, at least it is not the dark night. Looking out through the crack of the door through the crack of the door, I saw that Li Tongshan seemed to be alone behind him. Holding the dagger tightly, Huo Chong slowly opened the door.
There was really only Li Tongshan outside. He seemed to say shyly: "Brother Huo, I don't dare to come during the day, for fear of seeing it."
"Come in quickly." Huo Chong asked Li Tongshan into the door, went out to see the door and then quietly inserted the dagger back to his waist and closed the door.
When I arrived at the central hall, Li Tongshan sat down, "Brother Huo, after you left, I thought about it, and the more I thought about it, the less angry I became."
"Oh?" Huo Chong felt that Li Tongshan was saying something from his heart, but this was really unpleasant.
"Brother Huo, who did you learn the skills of cooking materials?" Li Tongshan continued to say unpleasant words.
Huo Chong did not answer, and directly raised his left arm. The cuff fell, revealing the sports watch. The dial lit up, and various pointers and letters on it formed a complicated pattern, which could be seen clearly in the dark.
Just heard Li Tongshan take a slight breath. Huo Chongcai continued, "Brother Li, I won't hide it from you. I met a master who gave me a compass back then and wanted to be his apprentice. The master didn't agree, so I thought about asking for more. The master taught me a few craftsmanship and said that it would be useful in the future. I only knew the craftsmanship of burning materials at that time. To be honest, Brother Li said, I have never burned it before. This time I really couldn't, so I could only grit my teeth and read it."
Li Tongshan was silent again, and after a while, he said, "Brother Huo, I thought about what you said. I didn't suffer any loss. It's just that why don't you sell materials in our Shandong."
"It's not profitable to sell in Shandong. It's a lot to sell in Jiangsu and Zhejiang." Huo Chong replied decisively.
"Jiang...what, how much can it be sold?" Li Tongshan didn't even hear the word "Jiangzhe", and he didn't even say it right.
"Jiangxi is Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It is located in the southeast of our Shandong. There are tens of millions of people there. Even if one out of a hundred people buys the materials we make, it can be sold for 100,000 pieces."
"Hmph!" Li Tongshan sneered disapprovingly.
"Brother Li, just pretend you believe me. We are doing it without any wickedness, how much material can we make a year? Can we make a thousand pieces? Even if we only buy 10,000 pieces in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, we have to do it for ten years. Who knows what will happen ten years later?"
Li Tongshan was silent again. Huo Chong didn't urge him, but he just felt that he was too arrogant to the people of this era. Zhangdian was in Zibo, not even a county town. I hope that the workshop owner of a local workshop here would know that the geographical knowledge of Jiangsu and Zhejiang were too high for the people of this era.
Thinking of this, Huo Chong tried to look at the problem from the perspective of the local workshop owner, and suddenly understood what Li Tongshan was looking forward to and what he was afraid of. So Huo Chong asked: "Brother Li. I know you can't believe me, how can I make you believe me? Tell me one thing."
Li Tongshan immediately replied: "I can't make materials for you now. If you want to make them yourself, I have to send someone."
It seems that Li Tongshan has already thought of his bottom line, and Huo Chong decisively agreed: "Zhong!"
"You have to give it to me first."
Huo Chong immediately started bargaining, "You have to say how much it costs first. It's too high, and I can't agree."
The next night, Li Tongshan brought a small worker and pushed a wheelbarrow creaking with fine materials to the door of Huo Chong's house. Huo Chong had already prepared to pick him up, so he quickly unloaded the things and invited Li Tongshan and the others in.
This time, Huo Chong was not vague and put the mine lamp with the candles in the main hall, and the room immediately became lit. It was much better than the oil lamp.
Li Tongshan looked at the irregular lampshade carefully for a while and couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Brother Huo, you said you had never cooked the ingredients. This ingredients are better than what I cooked."
"I won't have any ingredients for me, so I'll make a fuck." Huo Chong replied with a smile.
Li Tongshan didn't answer, stared at Liuli's lampshade for a while before turning back and said, "Brother Huo, if you do this more regularly, you can sell it."
"Can Brother Li find a buyer?" Huo Chongdeng became interested.
"Well. Brother Huo, can you burn it in a regular way?"
"I can only do my best. Whatever I burn is up depends on my life."
"You burn it first, I'll ask."
So, after dawn, smoke from the furnace rose from the furnace. The junior brothers shook the wheel and used the creaking transmission device to urge the leather blower to enter the furnace more air.
Li Tongshan's fine materials gradually melted in the crucible, and the iron rod driven by the iron transmission device was constantly stirred in the crucible. Try to make the molten fine materials thoroughly stir evenly.
Finally, the first pot of glazed glass was burned out. Li Tongshan's small worker kept staring at Huo Chong and the others in the work. Seeing the red and hot glazed liquid in the crucible, he even came up. Tie Niu stood in front of the small worker unhappily, Huo Chong smiled and didn't say anything.
A few days ago, I tried my best to knock out a flat iron plate as possible. The lampshade was made before. In addition to being inexperienced, there is also an important reason for the lack of a flat iron workbench.
The iron pipe was ready, Huo Chong took the long thing dipped in glass paste and started blowing the utensil. After more than a dozen failures, the first object in the shape of a wine bottle was finally made.
Huo Chong felt exhausted. However, the first time he saw his junior brothers and sisters, they all looked left and right with bottles, and couldn't let go of it.
When everyone was happy, Huo Chong caught a glimpse of the little worker at Li Tongshan's house looking at the bottle that was obviously much clearer than the glass made by Li Tongshan. He quietly retreated and squatted beside the fine materials prepared by Huo Chong. He probably wanted to see some tricks from these fine materials.
Huo Chong has no experience in burning glass, and even less experience in preparing materials. Huo Chong had compared his own materials with Li Tongshan's materials before. He found that the materials on Li Tongshan were probably silica, which means that sand selection was much more reliable than his big white neck.
Anyway, when I see the sand in his house, it looks more like authentic sand than what Huo Chong thought.
However, no matter how much experience Li Tongshan has accumulated, it is impossible to compare with the accumulation of modern industry. One of Huo Chong's concepts for glass products is clarifiers, and the arsenides, antimony oxides and the like in the clarifiers. Huo Chong can't get these, and nitrates are also something that Huo Chong can't get for the time being.
What Huo Chong could still get was sodium chloride, that is, salt. He added some when melting the glass, but unexpectedly it would have an effect. But Huo Chong would not tell about this kind of thing, just know it. Li Tongshan is still far from the level of cooperation that could be taught to Huo Chong.
The speed of burning glass is getting faster and faster, and the transparency of glass is becoming more and more like glass. Huo Chong can only make twenty or thirty pieces every day. When the glass bottles can finally be packed neatly, Zhu Erniu ran over excitedly to tell Huo Chong that he could prepare to steam wine.
Huo Chong has already made malt sugar made of potatoes. It must be said that the taste is very average. It is not even delicious as sweet potato malt sugar.
Replenish the ingredients with malt sugar. After another two days of brewing, Huo Chong started steaming the wine. The distilled wine smell was obviously much thicker from the beginning. After steaming halfway, Huo Chong even felt that he had smelled the long-lost vodka smell.
After dozens of kilograms of wine came out, Huo Chong tasted it and immediately grinned. This is all alcohol!
Compared with the complex ingredients of grains, potatoes can appear particularly simple, and the wine they brew is also simple and straightforward.
Zhu Erniu also took a sip impatiently, and was choked out of tears. He beat his chest hard, and Zhu Erniu stuck out his tongue and wiped his eyes with no image. He was a little like a Hutchs. After finally taking a breath, Zhu Erniu asked in pain: "What is this?"
"Sauce wine!" Huo Chong continued to maintain his name.
Now everything is ready, and I only need the east wind from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Huo Chong couldn't help but doubt his judgment. Can this kind of thing really be sold? In 1717, when he was not used to high alcohol, he could probably die if he could drink in one sip of wine.
Chapter completed!