There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

Fortunately, the people brought by Wantong had long been arranged by the housekeeper in the inverted room in the guest courtyard, where the servants brought to the guests lived.

After Wu Youwei fell asleep, he got up and stretched his waist, and then he heard Wantong's voice: "Are you awake?"

"Well... why are you here?" After chatting, Wu Youwei didn't take Wantong as an outsider at all.

"You can really sleep, it's been an hour!" Wantong wanted to wake him up, but his book boy and housekeeper refused to let him go.

"Oh, I'm just sleepy..." Wu Youwei rubbed his eyes: "What about Xiaoxiao?"

"I've brought you some herbal tea." Wantong stretched out his hand to lift him up from the bamboo couch: "You haven't finished yet!

"What did you say?" Wu Youwei babbled: "Dry mouth!"

Wantong: "Get up!"

"Dry throat!" Wu Youwei groaned.

"Master, master!" Xiao Xiaodiandian walked over, not daring to run away for fear of losing what was in his hand: "The herbal tea is here!"

Wantong carried him to the hall, just in time for Xiaoxiao to come in with something.

As soon as Xiao Xiao saw Wantong, she seemed to put out the fire and dared not open her mouth to speak, but she still insisted on giving her master a cup of herbal tea.

Of course, remember to give Wantong a cup.

After drinking the herbal tea, Wu Youwei was sober.

Holding her herbal tea, Wantong continued to ask: "You said that the army is used for disaster relief, which is a bit unimaginable. Why do you say it is the army? Can't the government servants do it?"

"At least the army can enforce orders and prohibit them. Of course, for example, Jinyiwei, the ordinary army may be burned, looted, smashed." Wu Youwei suddenly thought of the quality of the ancient army, good and bad, and quickly changed his words: "The disaster relief army , you must be obedient, you can't go to rescue people when you see a beautiful girl when you go to a place, and leave it alone when you see an old woman. The disaster relief army must do..."

Wu Youwei now feels that the five words "people's soldiers" are really difficult to achieve.

Thanks to that era, because they had an army like the "People's Army".

But the Ming Dynasty...no wow!

"This is very difficult." Wantong himself admitted that he was a person who had been to the border guards. It was very difficult there, and the troops in various places were more tired and had fewer elites.

The army is the most money-burning existence.

And Daming's treasury has always been very...

"That's right!" Wu Youwei lay on the grand teacher's chair with his back on his back: "Qian, Qian."

"Is there a way to enrich the treasury?" Wantong asked him.

Intuition told him that this person has a way.

"Yes, but there is no way to implement it." Wu Youwei curled his lips: "It's better not to say it!

Wantong was silent for a while, and his question was beyond the scope of his duties.

"Let's talk about the stretcher. In addition to the one I made, there is also a foldable stretcher, which is more convenient. It can reduce the space when marching or transporting..." Wu Youwei continued to talk eloquently:. ...and medicine, which can also play a role in disinfection, but the best is alcohol.

"Alcohol?" Wantong thought for a while: "But wine dew?"

Wine?

Wu Youwei thought about it.

In the land of ancient China, due to the long history and different regions, there were many names of distilled liquor left down, but the name "baijiu" mentioned in ancient literature did not refer to distilled liquor.

As mentioned earlier, it is a kind of brewed rice wine.It was only in modern times that liquor was used to represent distilled wine.

Wu Youwei remembers that the titles of distilled wine in ancient literature mainly include:

Shaojiu and Shaochun were first used in the Tang Dynasty, but whether Shaochun referred to in the Tang Dynasty refers to distilled wine is still debated.

After the Song Dynasty, Shaojiu and Shaochun were the real distilled liquors;

In the Yuan Dynasty, although it only had Guozuo for 90 years, it developed the wine industry very quickly.

Araji wine (Yuan Dynasty "Dinning Zheng Yao");

Nanfan shochu (The Complete Works of Household Necessary Things in the Yuan Dynasty, originally annotated as "Ali Qi");

Ga Lai Ji (Yuan Dynasty "Ga Lai Ji Wine Fu");

Fajiu ("Caomuzi" in the early Ming Dynasty, the original book is also called "Haraji");

However, it was discovered in later archeology that the names of those wines in the Yuan Dynasty were translated as "Jiulu".

"However, brewing wine consumes too much food." Wantong disagreed, "Wine dew costs ten taels of silver for a jar of five catties."

Wu Youwei was speechless, so expensive?

"Alcohol is not allowed in the army." Wantong hit Wu Youwei even more.

"Listen to me." Wu Youwei said, "Alcohol, it's a kind of...medicinal wine that's more powerful than wine dew!"

Wu Youwei tried to explain clearly so that Wantong could understand.

In fact, alcohol has developed industrial alcohol in later generations.

Later, industrial alcohol was mostly fermented, because it saved money. Some discarded things were used to make alcohol, and the raw materials themselves were very cheap.

Fermentation of sugary raw materials (such as molasses, sulfurous acid waste liquid, etc.) and starchy raw materials (such as sweet potato, corn, sorghum, etc.);

Ethanol by fermentation is developed on the basis of brewing wine, and it was the only industrial method for producing ethanol in a long historical period.

The raw materials of the fermentation method can be starch-containing agricultural products, such as cereals, potatoes or wild plant fruits, etc.; waste molasses from sugar factories can also be used; or cellulose-containing sawdust, plant stems, etc. can be used.

After certain pretreatment, these substances can be hydrolyzed (using waste honey as raw material without this step) and fermented to produce ethanol.

It's just that at that time they could purify it into 95% industrial ethanol, but Wu Youwei now knows that this era is not so precise, and it would be good to get a maximum of 70%, which will be enough for disinfection.

Getting 75% is the best.

The degree of medical alcohol has been very high in ancient times.

But Wu Youwei also said: "Because this medical alcohol is used for medicine, it cannot be drunk. If you drink it, you will lose your eyesight, and you will easily die from poisoning."

"How do you know?" What Wu Youwei said was so true that Wantong felt that what he said could be done, and it was all true.

Wu Youwei closed his mouth.

But he was stunned, he hadn't figured it out yet, how could he explain that he knew so much knowledge that was so much more advanced than this era?Also, he knows a lot of things that don't exist in this era.

Well, he was so addicted to his mouth that he forgot to explain the source.

The original owner only went to Tongzhou once when his second elder brother got married since he was a child, and he never traveled far since then.

It doesn't make sense to say that he has studied with a teacher somewhere in the deep mountains and old forests.

Besides him, where can he get a deep mountain and old forest?

Wantong thought that he had something to hide. He respected the little man's secret, so he didn't ask further. Instead, he asked, "Is it possible to make something sterilized with chaff, wheat bran, sawdust, crop stalks, etc.?"

"Of course!" Wu Youwei explained the effects of alcohol.

In particular, it can prevent wound infection and deterioration.

Wantong's eyes lit up when he heard it, and when he was excited, Butler Lin came: "The kitchen is about to prepare dinner. Is there anything you want to eat?"

"Scrambled eggs with cucumber." Wu Youwei ordered a dish.

Wantong said with a straight face: "Whatever."

"Does our family have casual stir-fries?" Wu Youwei asked.

Butler Lin swallowed: "It seems...not."

"Then have a plate of eggplant with minced meat sauce, that's delicious!" Wu Youwei ordered another dish for Wantong: "Make braised pork.

"Yes." This hard dish can be served.

"Let's have another stewed goose!" Wu Youwei said, "Make a lighter soup.

"Okay!" Butler Lin hurried out to inform the kitchen.

Being disturbed by this, Wu Youwei didn't want to talk anymore, he kept talking, and he hadn't lectured for a long time, his body didn't adapt, his mouth was a little dry, and his cheeks were a little sore.

So he stood up, opened his mouth to the air, closed his mouth, and rubbed the sides of his mouth with his hands.

Wantong looked at him, very puzzled, but he was used to silence, so he didn't ask.

I went to the small study next door by myself, there was also a small study in the guest courtyard, but it was very small and exquisite, and it was complete with pens, inks, papers and inkstones.

He started to write, with a standard pavilion style,

After finishing writing, it is full of what Wu Youwei said, few people know about it, but Wan Tong never forgets it with his eyes or ears.

This is specially trained to perform tasks better.

His thousand households climbed up bit by bit by himself, and he deserved his name.

"Dinner is ready!" Wu Youwei called him outside: "Zhongming, come out and eat!"

Wantong's chest felt tight, and the last word was written a little distorted, so he quickly packed up the paper, and when he went out, he saw that the table had been set, and several maidservants were putting dishes on it.

Today's staple food is rice, white rice.

During the meal, Wu Youwei was talking about the farming industry again, but he was talking about fish farming.

"You can raise them in Moling Lake at the bottom of the mountain." Wantong is not interested in fish.

In addition, although people in ancient times ate a lot of fish, most of them were wild, and there were too few farmed fish.

"Let's forget Moling Lake, I still want it to be quiet and quiet!" Wu Youwei curled his lips: "I must have beautiful mountains and clear waters here."

Well, the mountains and rivers are beautiful enough. “Wantong is very unimpressed by this.

Take a look at what Wu Youwei built in Wujiacun, it's almost catching up with the other courtyards of big families.

And it's quite complete, with everything. He intends to be self-sufficient, and he can basically have everything he needs without leaving the village.

Wu Youwei bared his teeth: "Hey!"

After eating, the two of them went outside to enjoy the shade. Wu Youwei went to see the dog. The dog was still healthy and the food was very good, but what he gnawed was a sheep's hoof!

Still boiled and sterilized but not rotten sheep's feet.

It was a joy to eat.

Wantong really thinks that Juren is good to both humans and animals.

After digestion, the temperature dropped at night, but all kinds of small bugs were everywhere. Wu Youwei hated mosquitoes and did not go out in the house. Sometimes small bugs flew in the gauze lamp. Wantong directly prepared spices for him and burned them. After waking up, the smell is very strong, but the mosquitoes are instantly reduced.

Wu Youwei also ordered for his guest house: "Anti-insect, anti-insect!"

"Okay." Wantong didn't tell him, in order to hide his whereabouts, Jin Yiwei usually doesn't burn incense.

But he is also doing it for his own good, so I won't talk about Xiaojuren.

On the second day, breakfast was boiled noodles and marinated eggs. Wu Youwei's food was very delicious. The eggs he raised at home were delicious.

After breakfast, Wantong bid farewell: "After I go back, I'll come back to ask for advice in a few days.

"Oh." Wu Youwei scratched his head: "Well, do you understand what I said?"

"Yeah." Wantong nodded, and reminded him by the way: "Your brother has been very active recently."

"I know, did my daughter enter the palace to be drafted?" Wu Youwei said in a thief-like way: "Did he send all the Wu family's wealth away?"

"Almost!" Wantong twitched his lips, "I'm leaving."

"Oh, bye... let's go." Wu Youwei shook his paw, smiling like a beckoning cat.

When Wantong left, Wu Youwei regarded it as sending off a friend.

But later he was in a bad mood because the butler of the Wu Mansion came.

'Congratulations, young master, the eldest lady of our family has passed the primary election. "The butler of the Wu Mansion smiled happily.

"Oh." Wu Youwei nodded: "Very good.

"Well, the little one wants the eldest granddaughter to go back..." The housekeeper of the Wu residence came here just to pick up his youngest son and eldest granddaughter.

"No." Wu Youwei directly refused.

"Why?" The butler of the Wu Mansion was very upset: "The eldest lady has passed the primary selection!"

"What does that have to do with you?" Wu Youwei said indifferently, "Do you know what the primary election is?"

"What to choose?" The butler really didn't know.

"The primary election is to check whether the person is correct and whether the show girl is a virgin. If she can't pass this test, she can die." Wu Youwei has also watched many TV dramas and movies, and there are many records in ancient books and history. The first hurdle for drafting into the palace is to check, and then to check the body, but all those who are not virgins will be returned.