industrial lord

Chapter 22 Unexpected Gains

Frederick's life has changed a little since Katie's arrival.

For example, the last item of practice every night is that Katie took a sword and slashed at him for about 10 minutes, letting him run and block until he was exhausted before stopping, and there was jelly after the practice.

Katie grew up by the sea and is familiar with all kinds of seafood, including the seaweed that makes agar.

In the inland areas, the greatest role of agar is to clarify beer and wine. Frederick had no chance to meet him, so he ate jelly at this time.

Frederick had a rest that day and planned to sleep until he woke up naturally, but Katie grabbed him out of bed and went to have breakfast.

Just after breakfast, Friedrich, a poison engineer from the University of Weissenburg, came to visit.

Frederick gave him a part of the small amount of funds to study roundworm medicine, and came here today to report the phased results.

In the living room, Friedrich poured a bottle of medicinal powder into the saucer, and then began to introduce: "Principal, this is the roundworm medicine I developed recently, and it has barely succeeded."

"In order to meet the requirements of reducing the side effects of drugs on people, I no longer continued the previous idea of ​​poisoning roundworms, but chose to anesthetize roundworms."

"The medicine I am making now can effectively anesthetize the roundworm for a long time, so that it no longer crawls on the intestines, and it can be excreted with a mild laxative."

"I have done experiments with cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs, and eating it for three days can expel all the roundworms in the intestinal tract."

"But there is still a problem. This medicine will cause severe stomach pain when you first take it. This problem has not been solved yet."

"The medicinal materials used in this medicine are not expensive, and the cost of the medicine for three days is equivalent to the food cost of an ordinary person in Wessenburg for one day."

Frederick nodded slightly. The cost of a course of medicine is equivalent to a day's food for city people, which is not expensive. In addition, labor costs such as packaging and double the profit can make it affordable for tenant farmers in the village.

It is the side effect of this stomach pain that is unacceptable. You can't boil water and pour it in from the back.

"Just a stomachache?" Katie asked suddenly.

The senior sister was very curious about what the little junior brother was doing, so she followed along to watch the fun.

Now she understood that Frederick had someone make a medicine, but there was a problem with this medicine, it would cause stomach pain after taking it.

Friedrich replied: "It's mainly a stomachache. When the medicine enters the intestines, it will cause a little dizziness and drowsiness. This is not a big problem."

"That's easy." Katie showed a confident smile on her face. "Just keep the medicine powder away from the stomach when it's in the stomach. Let's go to the kitchen."

Then Friedrich and Friedrich saw Katie hand-rubbing capsules in the kitchen.

Put some water to boil the agar, and insert the handle of a table knife into it without any special tools for a while and dip it in a layer.

It didn't take a moment for the agar to cool and solidify after the knife was taken out, and when it was taken off, it was a small pouch.

Use a small spoon to put the medicine powder in, and don't need to put the other half on it. Two table knives are heated and the capsule is clamped on the back of the knife to seal it.

"Hiss..." Friedrich took a deep breath, "If poisoning in this way can delay the time of poisoning, it will be difficult to find out."

"That's right." Katie said calmly, "It's usually used by dead soldiers."

Frederick was silent, deciding to pretend he hadn't heard anything.

Back in the living room, Friedrich held a few capsules in his hand while observing and pondering. After a while, he said: "If this method can effectively prevent the medicine from irritating the stomach, then many medicines can be taken directly."

"There's also a powder for diarrhea that comes to mind right now, a powder for colds."

"Principal, let's build a pharmacy workshop."

Like everyone else at the University of Weissenburg, Friedrich also suffered from the problem of "looking at the money".

A smile appeared on Frederick's face, and he said, "No problem, it's just that I don't have so much energy recently."

Friedrich seemed to have thought about this issue, patted his chest and promised to take care of everything by himself, and the headmaster just waited to count the money.

Frederick also let him go, and wrote a note on the spot asking him to go directly to Administrator Frick to get a piece of land to build a workshop.

During the next chat, Frederick asked curiously: "Won't these medicinal powders irritate the intestines if eaten directly?"

In the afternoon, he would go to Psyche with Katie and Koehler to talk about papermaking. In the morning, his mind was full of fiber. At this time, he remembered that eating wood fiber directly would cause physical stimulation to the intestines.

Friedrich asked suspiciously: "Why does it irritate the intestines?"

Frederick replied: "The powder of those plants goes into the intestines without being digested, and they will irritate the intestines."

Friedrich understood, and said: "Please rest assured, these medicinal powders are obtained by dehydrating medicinal materials boiled, so that they are convenient for storage, and they will melt when they meet water."

Frederick blinked, then his eyes widened.

He immediately put some medicinal powder in the teacup, poured it into the tea, stirred it a few times, and the medicinal powder dissolved quickly.

"Is this method of drying potions difficult?" He asked a little excitedly.

"It's not difficult, just a water repelling technique." Frederick became excited, "Why, can it be used to make money?"

Frederick said happily: "Of course it is possible. After drying the milk into powder, it can be stored for a long time. When you want to drink it, you only need to add water..."

He suddenly noticed that Friedrich and Katie were shaking their heads together, his heart skipped a beat, and he asked, "Why, is there anything wrong with what I said?"

Katie touched his head, and said in a coaxing tone, "Your idea is very good, but you don't have to worry about drinking milk."

Frederick blinked, realizing that he seemed to have made a mistake.

He was indeed wrong and misjudged the place of milk here.

Because fresh milk is difficult to preserve, people prefer to eat processed dairy products such as cheese and butter, which are easy to preserve.

And nobles don't like to drink milk, just use it in cooking.

Frederick is also different. In order to drink fresh milk every day, there is a special place to raise rotating cows at the foot of the castle. Everyone regards it as his hobby.

It is the farmers in the village who drink fresh milk, but they still drink more processed cheese, butter whey and skim milk.

Cheese and butter are an important source of income for farmers. It is better to process it for money than to drink it yourself. Fresh milk that is too late to process will be drunk directly.

Seeing Frederick's lost look, Katie comforted: "It's okay, the caravans and sailors might like it."

Frederick sighed. Selling milk powder in the pastoral era was indeed a problem. Only when the cities developed in the future could this market be cultivated.

But he thought of another direction, so he asked Friedrich: "If it is broth, can you dehydrate the soup and the vegetables in it, and add hot water when you want to drink it?"

Friedrich asked a bit dumbfounded: "Is this necessary?"

"Yes." Frederick said with certainty, "For example, the best soup in the city, if you want to drink it, you can only go to that restaurant."

"If you keep it dehydrated, you can just take it out and pour hot water when you want to drink it at home."

Friedrich was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "I think you can try it."

So they went back to the kitchen, where there was a pot of lentil soup simmered with lentils, onions, carrots, garlic, thyme, etc., ready to eat.

Frederick asked the cook to scoop up a bowl of soup and put it on the table, and Friedrich asked the cook to put another empty bowl beside it, and then began to cast the spell.

As Friedrich chanted, a blue magic circle appeared at the bottom of the soup bowl. After a while, the fountain-like water elements passed through the soup bowl without hindrance and slowly gathered above.

In less than a minute, all the water molecules in the soup bowl were taken away by the water element and put into the empty bowl under the control of Friedrich.

The soup bowl was full of dried vegetables and some greasy residue, and the water in the other bowl was very clear.

Friedrich said: "This magic has many functions, such as drying wood, extracting drinkable clean water from dirty water, and making low-alcohol wine into high-alcohol wine."

Katie added: "And killing people."

Frederick frowned, and there must be this magic in the washing machine in the future.

Then comes the most important moment.

There was hot water in the kitchen, so I took a spoonful into it, stirred it, and soon a bowl of steaming lentil soup appeared again.

Everyone picked up a spoon and tasted it, then tasted the original lentil soup in the pot, and finally came to a conclusion.

"The taste is [-]% of the original." Friedrich said.

Katie chewed and said, "The taste of beans and carrots is a little bit worse, but it's passable."

Frederick nodded, thinking that the front-end technology of instant noodles is now only short of packaging bags.

(End of this chapter)