The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 33 Deep Cultivation in Fuling County ([-])

The time has entered AD 258.In this year, the Shu Han changed to Yuan.The reign name Yanxi, which had been used for 20 years, was discontinued and a new reign name: Jingyao was activated.Therefore, this year, in Shuhan, is the first year of Jingyao.

This year's New Year's Day, in a closed room in the back mountain of the prefect's mansion in Fuling County, there was no New Year's laughter, no peaceful and harmonious atmosphere.On the contrary, there was just a burst of chills.

"Let me say this for the last time, if I don't leave now, I won't be able to get off the boat after seeing what I have done later. There is still time to leave now." In the closed room here, Guan Suo and Liao Yong.The faces of Ma Guo and the other three were very serious, while Zhang Zun, Zhao Yi, Jian Jian and Sun Gang who were standing next to him were panic-stricken.

After a while, Zhang Zun let out a low growl: "Brother, although we brothers used to walk around less when we were in CD, we really congenial in the past few months in Fuling County. Zun believes that brother will not harm us. Brother Just stay here and don't go!"

"Exactly, I can't wait to leave."

Guan Yi's thinking has undergone certain changes now, and his bond with this era has become deeper and deeper, and he has become more and more involved.Many times, there are many things that he can no longer control by himself.He is no longer satisfied with the unambitious goal of finding a place to take refuge, he wants to do something!

To do things, you must have your own team.Not the kind of official team in broad daylight, but a team with him as the core.In this team, the emperor has to go to the back.Because, as a time traveler, Guan Yi knew how difficult and shocking the things she had to do in the future.

Among his staff, Li Mi and Chen Shou were the first to be eliminated.Li Mi is too upright, and Chen Shou's identity is too complicated—a student of Qiao Zhou, the leader of the capitulation faction, and secretary of Jiang Wei, the leader of the main combat faction.

Among the remaining people, Liao Yong, as the representative of Liao Hua, must be held back.It goes without saying that Guan Suo is his elder.And Ma Guo, an outstanding talent with good government affairs ability and political strategy level, cannot be let go no matter what.So Guan Yi took the initiative to invite these three people.

As for Zhang Zun, Zhao Yi, Jian Jian, and Sun Gang: They are all descendants of Yuan Cong, and their positions are the same.After working together for the past few months, we all get along very well.Belongs to the object that can be fought for.But Guan Yi still gave them a chance: what I'm going to do next must not be rumored, it's fine if you don't see it, if you see it, it will be leaked out later.No matter how difficult it is, I will kill you.So, you decide for yourself whether to stay here or not?
The definition of the so-called non-disclosure is: it is only known to the few people present.Even their parents, family members and even the emperor can't tell, can you do it?

It was this overly formal and heavy request that made the four sons feel very sudden.But after careful consideration, they all decided to stay.

"Everyone can stay, which shows your trust in Guan. Guan thanked you here first." Seeing that the four sons and brothers are willing to stay, Guan Yi also heaved a sigh of relief. He didn't want to make himself a lonely person. .

"Xiaoji, come in." Following Guan Yi's call, Guan Xiaoji, another companion he grew up with, walked in.

"Look at it, I will only demonstrate it once, and I will leave it all to you in the future."

What Guan Yi has to do now is to use lard to make soap, oil wax and glycerin.

The first step is to boil the lard into a liquid in a large pot.

In the second step, fill a ceramic urn with a particularly large opening with clean water and pour in quicklime.Once the lime slurry is formed, pour the baking soda into the lime slurry.

Almost all the mountains in Fuling County are composed of limestone, and quicklime and baking soda are almost unlimited resources.So these two things are not restrictive to Guan Yi.If it weren't for the fact that lard has not been stored to a certain extent until now, he would have been ready to use his brains on soap.

The main component of baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, and the main component of quicklime is calcium hydroxide.After the two react, the generated substances are calcium carbonate precipitate and sodium hydroxide solution.

This precipitated calcium carbonate is light calcium carbonate.It is different from the formation of various stones when ordinary calcium carbonate enters the human body.Light calcium carbonate is widely used in modern society. In this era, Guan Yi has already arranged the uses for them: one is calcium for the elderly to improve osteoporosis—well, it’s not just for the elderly.Due to the lack of nutrition, the bone calcification intensity of people in this era is far lower than that of modern people, which is something that can be widely used.The second is adjuvant therapy drugs for various peptic ulcers.The third is the main whitening ingredient in toothpaste produced in the future after toothbrushes produced with bristles are on the market on a large scale.

However, although this light calcium carbonate has so many uses, it is much less valuable than the layer of liquid floating on the surface.

This layer of liquid is the sodium hydroxide solution.The most basic raw material in the chemical industry: caustic soda in three acids and two alkalis.

"Xiaoji, look carefully. This layer of clear liquid can only be touched with a ceramic bowl or spoon. Hands are absolutely forbidden. Once touched, the arm will be burned through."

In the third step, the sodium hydroxide solution in the ceramic bowl is poured into the heated lard that has formed a liquid state.

Guan Yi asked Guan Xiaoji to come up and take the spoon to stir slowly in the pot, so that the two were fully mixed.And he started the next process.

The fourth step is to add water to the pre-prepared brine block, mash and mix well.

The brine block is a block formed after the salt brine evaporates.In the Bawu counties of the Shu Han, each county has saltworks of different sizes.The Shu Han government has salt and iron officials in the five counties of Ba.So for Guan Yi, there was almost an unlimited supply of brine blocks.

At this point, the saponification reaction in the oil pan is almost over.In the liquid lard, the yellow soap on the top layer has begun to solidify.

"Hurry up and take out this mushy thing."

The fifth step is to put the soap that has not completely solidified into another large wooden barrel, and fully stir it with the pre-prepared rouge powder and other auxiliary materials.Then put them into various molds, and after they are fully cooled and hardened, the initial soap is ready.

In fact, once that mushy mass cools and hardens, it is already soap.But this kind of soap has a strong lard smell-it is estimated that no one likes to use such soap.Therefore, all kinds of auxiliary materials must be added-while deodorizing, it also reduces production costs.

The sixth step is to thoroughly mash and stir the brine block to form brine, and add it to the large pot for cooking lard.

Starting from this step, it is not making soap.

The active ingredient in the brine block is magnesium chloride, which can be fully reacted with water to obtain hydrochloric acid.Among the three acids and two bases, the two bases are relatively easy to obtain, while the production of the three acids is more troublesome.Although the effect of making hydrochloric acid with brine blocks is very low, it is indeed the easiest, cheapest and safest method in this era.

Soap is obtained when lard is reacted with caustic soda.The remaining lard that has not fully reacted with caustic soda continues to react with hydrochloric acid, and what is formed is - wax!

At the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, poor people generally used torches for lighting at night.Rich people will light lamps, and the main fuel in the lamps is butter or other animal fats, or sesame oil.There were waxes in this era, but they were usually naturally occurring, such as beeswax - the stuff was too smoky and smelly.The high-end point is beef wax.The topmost thing is spermaceti, not to mention ordinary people, even the royal family can't use it for a long time.

Therefore, working at sunrise and resting at sunset is not just talking. In the era of lack of cheap lighting tools, the ancients generally could only stay at home at night.Even if you are nestling at home, it is quite troublesome to wake up all night or something.

What Guan Yi made was extremely pure oil wax. Using it as the shaft and cotton thread as the wick, the candles were made with bright flames and very little smoke and smell.In the foreseeable future, it will illuminate the families of many big men.

Step [-]: Filter the liquid that has not yet solidified in the cauldron layer by layer with gauze, cotton cloth and other filtering tools until the liquid that flows out is no longer yellowish and smelly.But when it is a colorless and odorless liquid - glycerin is in hand!
In the Wuling Mountains, there are all kinds of trees all over the mountains, including many wild fruit trees.In summer and autumn, only a small number of wild fruits of all kinds entered the mouths of humans or wild animals, and most of them fell to the ground after ripening and rotted.

There are three reasons for this situation: the scope of human activities is limited, the taste of wild fruits is extremely bad, and wild fruits cannot replace staple food to truly fill the stomach.

In modern society, many families make their own wine by the turn of spring and summer.The production method is also very simple, a layer of grapes, a layer of sugar, and a layer of grapes... layer by layer.It is then naturally fermented to form fruit wine.

In this era, there is no such thing as sugar.If there is no large amount of white sugar to suppress the wild fruit after natural fermentation, the tannin in the wild fruit will be very popular: tannin is extremely bitter.

Glycerin is the best choice to remove tannins and restore the sweetness of fruit wine.

(End of this chapter)