The rise of the prince

Chapter 130 Experimental Production and Scale Production

Li Ye patted Gu Feng on the shoulder and said, "You should study hard. From now on, I will leave the wine making to you. No rumors about today's affairs are allowed. I can't spare anyone here who spreads the word."

Everyone nodded in agreement, and then Li Ye began to instruct Gufeng on what to pay attention to when brewing this wine. Of course, he will instruct him many times in the future, and it is impossible to hand it over to him once or twice.Although Gu Feng is an old man, he listens intently like a primary school student at this time.

In fact, there are two concepts in any product production, that is, experimental production and large-scale production. If you want a product to affect the market and enter people's lives, large-scale production must be achieved to change the status quo on a large scale.

This is like steel. If you say when steel was produced, there is a record of steelmaking in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods in China as early as the sixth century BC. However, China has never achieved large-scale industrial production of steel for thousands of years, so it Nor has it changed China.

Until the rise of the capitalist power led by the United Kingdom, industrialized large-scale steel production drove the era of giant ships and cannons, and became the hegemony of the world. For a long time, steel production even became the standard for Western powers to measure a country's national strength.

Another example is oxygen production. The laboratory will tell you to heat potassium permanganate, but this method cannot be mass-produced because the cost is too high and the efficiency is too low. This method is like the most primitive steelmaking method. Steel can be smelted, but nothing can be changed on a large scale.A large amount of large-scale production of oxygen is to use high pressure to liquefy the oxygen in the air and then separate it.

The reason why Li Ye used this set of distilled wine production methods instead of the distillation method that heats boiled wine and then condenses and purifies it is to solve this problem. The process is complicated and the loss is huge, so it can be used for experiments. It is simply not feasible for mass production.

Now a wine cage can hold hundreds of catties of grain, and can produce hundreds of catties of wine at a time.

Once this experiment is successful, Li Ye can make the wine cage bigger and make more wine cages. At that time, a palace can brew several thousand catties of distilled wine at one time!According to the cycle of about ten days for food, plus a few days to prevent accidents, it can be brewed twice a month.

In addition to drinking and buying, there are also medical uses, such as mosquito repellent water, perfume, and specific fuels. This is a complete and huge business chain, so Li Ye has to be careful. He also needs a lot of people who can make wine. Just him.

The whole brewing process lasted for more than an hour, and the last few pots came out with only sour and weak wine.

The wine needs to be blended. To put it simply, the alcohol content of the first few jars is too high, the highest can reach about [-] degrees, and the human body cannot bear it directly.

What needs to be done is to mix light wine with strong wine to reach a suitable drinking level. Generally, it is about [-] to [-] degrees in later generations, but considering that people in this world may not be used to such a high degree of alcohol at first, and if someone Drinking this new wine as if it were old wine might cause problems.

So Li Ye thinks that 35 to [-] degrees is suitable, and the most difficult part comes. He doesn't have a measuring tool, and he doesn't know the specific degree of wine, so he can only rely on his feeling and experience.

By shaking and looking at the size and duration of the hops, you can probably see the approximate degree of the wine. The longer the hops exist, the lower the number.

Generally, after shaking for more than ten seconds, there will be hops the size of corn grains. If they exist for about 15 seconds, then the temperature is about [-] degrees.

Li Ye had no choice but to blend slowly, trying the blending one at a time, because he was afraid that if he swiped his hand too much, the blending would be diluted.

It took a whole afternoon, and under the curious onlookers, he finally blended seven altars of distilled wine with a temperature of about [-] degrees and was suitable for drinking. He didn't blend with the one with the highest degree, but stayed alone.

Li Ye tasted the altar, and the temperature should be around [-] degrees, which is too wasteful to mix with wine.

After brewing the wine and annealing the fire, the Tianguo was removed, and the grain in the wine cage had turned into hot distiller's grains. After cooling down, Li Ye asked his servants to take it out and pile it up. This thing can be used to feed cows, pigs, and fish, but At present, the palace is useless.

Li Ye checked the bottom pot, wine cage, wine trough, and sky pot for the last time, so he was relieved. With this experiment, as long as he followed this blueprint, large-scale production of distilled wine would soon be realized.

Li Ye was overjoyed. After working all day, he was in the steaming brewery again. He was already sweating profusely after busy work. He asked Gu Feng to take his servants to pack things, clean the wine cage and the bottom pot, and he was going to take it with him. He Qian went back to have dinner and then had a good sleep.

At this moment, someone told him that Mr. De was coming.

Degong still came with Gillian this time, and brought a gift, an exquisite small box with a red silk inlaid bottom, with golden gold nuggets inside. Degong said that there are 100 taels, and 100 taels are about a little more than six catties , this is a great gift!
One tael of gold is worth ten taels of silver, and if it is of good quality, there will be more. Moreover, gold is easy to store, and the actual value of a hundred taels of gold will only be more than a thousand taels of silver.

"Degong, why are you so polite? You don't need to give such a heavy gift when you come here." Li Ye told Yue'er to put it away quickly. He will start to produce distilled wine on a large scale and build a hydraulic drive system. There is a lot of silver used.

"Heh, you're just being polite." De Gong shook his head and smiled.

"What's the matter, my family is a little poor recently, and I can't be polite if I want to." Li Ye asked Qiu'er Yueer to bring fragrant tea while talking, He Qian also came over, greeted Gillian, and felt happy for some reason In the afternoon, I suddenly became depressed and sat on the side without talking.

"I didn't come here in vain this time. Last time Tang Zhou mentioned to the emperor about your excellent planning skills in the palace, His Majesty wanted to test you, but it was inconvenient to leave the palace, so he asked Zu Yi from the Hanlin Academy to come out. Now that the question has been answered, let the old man come to test you on a special trip, no favoritism is allowed.”

Li Ye didn't know whether to laugh or cry, this Tang Zhou didn't do anything because it was really a good thing, he just made trouble for him, if he knew it would be like this, he wouldn't have helped him in the first place.

Degong solemnly took out a few sheets of white paper from his bosom, on which were the imperial paintings of the emperor, with densely packed titles written on them, Li Ye took it over and said, "Qiu'er, help me do it."

"No!" De Gong blew his beard and stared: "This is the emperor's imperial decree, how can you be so casual, you have to do it yourself even if you think it is simple, otherwise you are deceiving the emperor."

"I'll study ink for the son of a prince." Gillian, who had always been shy, took the opportunity to speak at this moment.

Li Ye was helpless, the emperor asked Degong to oversee his temper, and he definitely couldn't shirk it, but in his opinion, it was not a problem, and there was a little beauty serving him, so he could easily get it done.

After finishing it, hand it over to De Gong, and then say: "By the way, I have new wine in my palace, let me give you some." After all, De Gong gave him his precious Plum Garden wine last time. He can't be missing.

"Heh, can your wine be better than the old man's plum garden wine?" De Gong asked disdainfully.

(End of this chapter)