Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 56 Distilled Wine

After much deliberation, Xu Qing still thinks about making flintlock guns.First of all, this kind of musket is easy to make, and bullets are also easy to make. Lead shot or even iron shot will do.Secondly, this kind of musket is much more advanced than the rope gun and the revolver gun, so it can be regarded as a relatively easy-to-obtain and practical musket.As for the problem of only being able to fire once each time, and then needing to reload, Xu Qing thinks it is enough to make a few more, and then become a prince with two guns.

Flintlock. The structure of the gun is very simple, the barrel, butt, and then the chamber is used to fill gunpowder and bullets.The so-called flint is to add a piece of flint, use a striking device to make the flint emit sparks, and ignite the gunpowder.Xu Qing drew the barrel of the gun, gave the mechanism of the firing device to different blacksmiths far away, and drew the structure diagram of the gun stock to the carpenter, and asked them to make it with the best materials.The iron needs to be smelted iron, and the wood needs to be 50-year-old hardwood.

Xu Qing ordered [-] sets. He didn't want to equip an army, but the craftsmanship of the Tang Dynasty was relatively rough, and if he assembled it in this way, many of them might not match.In this way, fifty sets, at most five sets would be good.Xu Qing also ordered Yang Wen to order some very thin and short nails as assembly tools.

Huo. Gun, Huo. Gun, at least facing martial arts masters alone, like Cheng Yaojin, will have the power to protect themselves, right?Xu Qing thought to himself, if he offends someone, or even the emperor, as long as he escapes, he will immediately form a musketeer team, and then pull up an artillery team, and they will all die together.But Xu Qing thought about it in a blink of an eye, where did the money for the team come from?Oh, money, money, without it is absolutely impossible.

Although Xu Qing is now a county man, most of his income is the grain paid by the tenants. Even if there is some discount, it is replaced by other things, and he rarely spends money.He can't take these with him. If he is persecuted, all these properties will be frozen, and [-] shi of grain will be useless.

"Occasionally there is a small secret treasury!" Xu Qing secretly said.

Xu Qing, who finished ordering firearm parts, couldn't play with Xun Xueer, but continued to make distilled wine or something.Winter is approaching, drinking this kind of spirit will warm your whole body, and it will definitely be popular in front of those generals.

In the kitchen, Xu Qing brought more than a dozen jars of wine, a well-sealed steamer with a round hole cut out of it.A bamboo tube is connected to the hole, and one end of the bamboo tube is sharpened, which can increase the area for receiving wine drops and less water drops.The steaming tray is placed on top of the pot, and the place where the steaming tray contacts the pot is covered with a thick towel.

Two pots, the bottom one puts wine, the top one puts water, the wine is heated and evaporates, the steam rises to the bottom of the upper pot, condenses into a liquid, flows along the pot to the bottom of the pot, and then drips into the bamboo tube and flows out .This is a native way of making wine in the countryside, and it is not a problem to make wine with a temperature of about forty degrees.If you steam it a few more times, it can reach more than [-] degrees. If it is higher, it will not work. First of all, the airtightness will not meet the standard.

In addition to good airtightness of steamed wine, the most important thing is the heat.As long as the fire is in the kitchen, as long as it is cooked and eaten, it will always be the most important thing.Alcohol volatilizes the most at around [-] degrees, and if it is higher, it will bring out more water vapor.Slowly heat over a small fire, and press the fire at the right time.This is slow, but guarantees maximum efficiency for such a crude tool.

"Huh? Where does the smell of wine come from..."

"It smells so good, this wine makes my mouth water..."

"Let me take a sip and I'll be satisfied..."

"Fuck you, if you still have a sip, I just need to nod with the tip of my chopsticks."

"You still say him, I just need to get close and smell it!"

The smell of wine is not afraid of deep alleys, Xu Qing heard the smell of wine from all the family members, some of them were not happy, but regretful.Didn't the smell of wine that asked the question escape from these cracks?That's all loss, and it can be smelled so far away, which means that the loss is not small.

After one pot of steaming, four jars of puree wine are steamed, and only half jars are steamed, which is too little, no, the process needs to be improved.After tasting the wine dregs left in the pot, there is still a lot of wine smell, but why is the wine flowing out of the bamboo tube so faint.

Temperature is a question of temperature, how to effectively control the temperature?
"By the way, the water heating method! Why did I forget this..." Xu Qing slapped his head, thinking of "water bath heating" in the middle school chemistry test.So Xu Qing built a new stove outside. There were two pots in the morning, and the water bath pot was buried in the stove, and it was just enough to soak half of the wine steamer.Then, as in the previous method, put a steaming tray on top of the wine steamer, and put a pot of water on the steaming tray to cool it down.

There is a small hole in the support between the two pots below, which can test the water temperature for control.With a water bath, it is not like heating directly with fire. As the temperature rises, the alcohol will not evaporate completely, and the water vapor will bubble up happily.

Moreover, a thin layer of quilt is wrapped on the steaming tray to increase airtightness.

After Xu Qing tossed like this, everyone in the Xu family knew about it.They were all curious about what the little master was busy with. Three pots were put together, and they were quilts and wine jars. They all gathered around to watch.And this distilled liquor is not as confidential as gunpowder, if someone in his family learns it, Xu Qing doesn't mind making him a distilled liquor "grandfather" or something.

Let's have two jars of wine first, and put in the remaining pot and the steamed one as an experiment.

"Brother Xu, I remember you don't drink alcohol..." Xun Xueer propped her chin and sat with Xu Qing. Now she only behaves like a girl in front of Xu Qing, and she is a hostess at other times, like a fighter...

"I didn't drink this wine myself, I gave it to someone when I went to Chang'an..." Xu Qing smiled and patted Xun Xueer's head.

"Oh..." Xu Qing said what he said, and Xun Xueer, who had always been based on this principle, stopped asking and stared blankly at Xu Qing's serious expression.

"Tick tock tick tock..." The wine in the bamboo tube flowed out, and because the quilt was covered, only the sound of ticks could be heard.Xu Qing would look at it every ten minutes, smell it, and taste it with his fingers.

After a long time, the first jar was full, but the wine in the bamboo tube seemed to be unfinished, and it was still ticking.Xu Qing hugged the first altar of distilled wine in the Tang Dynasty, couldn't help but poured out a bowl, called the cattle to graze, and asked him if he would drink it.The cow ate grass and watched it for a long time, the smell of wine had already aroused the roundworm in his stomach.He knew that Xu Qing seldom drank alcohol, so he was not polite, and took the wine bowl under everyone's expectant and envious eyes.Then he opened his mouth, raised his head, and took a big sip. The people watching followed the cows to eat grass, raised their heads, and opened their mouths, as if they were also eating.

"Hiss~~" The cow ate grass and took a big gulp. At first, he didn't care, he just felt that the wine was extraordinarily fragrant, but when he put it in his mouth, he felt like a knife was being cut. The wine was like seeing a gentle and beautiful girl, waiting It was only when I got to the bed that I realized, oh, my eight-pack abs are stronger than a man's.However, the ox is a strong man after all, so he suppressed the wine as strong as a wild horse with a strong sip.

"Good wine!" "Plop!"

"Big brother Niu, big brother Niu, young master, what's wrong with big brother Niu?" Xiao Ru fell down on the spot when he saw the cow grazing, panicked, ran over and squatted beside the drunken body of the cow grazing, shaking vigorously, and shouted loudly , but to no avail.Xiaoru looked at Xu Qing aggrieved.Xu Qing comforted her and said:
"Just drunk..."

(End of this chapter)