Walking into the side room of the small courtyard, Zhou Jun looked at the utensils and pottery dishes in the room and couldn't help but take a breath.
On the desk, in the corners, and on the ground, as you look around, you can see all kinds of burners, dishes, bottles, measuring cups, sand filters, and pipes, all of which are piled up.
The moment Zhou Jun entered the door, he almost thought he had entered a laboratory.
In the center of the house, Zhou Jun saw a set of extremely complex distillation equipment.
It contains not only the main tank, condenser tube, refluxer, gas-water valve and other common components of distillation, but also a bunch of auxiliary accessories and dials that look quite complicated and Zhou Jun can't name them.
I saw a small fire burning underneath the metal sealed storage tank, cooking something continuously, and the pungent smell of alcohol also came from it.
After going to the backyard to wash off the soot all over his body, Hua Yue, whose hair was still a little wet, entered the wing.
Seeing Zhou Jun looking around, Hua Yue smiled and said, "How is it? All the equipment here is almost the same as the alchemy room in the Palace of Food."
Zhou Jun was stunned when he heard this, looked around, and asked Huayue: "Where do these utensils come from?"
Huayue: "Most of them are made by others, and a small part are bought on the market."
Zhou Jun: “Where does the money for construction and purchase come from?”
Hua Yue: "But still remember when you left Chang'an last year, you told me about the method of water vapor circulation, distillation and condensation?"
Zhou Jun nodded. He told Hua Yue the method before leaving, and his intention was to let her extract the perfume.
Hua Yue: "I borrowed a lot of equipment from Aunt Gongsun's oil pressing shop, and asked Qu Sanweng to help me modify it. Finally, I built a relatively crude set of water vapor circulation distillation condenser."
"With the help of that set of equipment, I used the distillation method to make the flower essence first. The finished product is not only richer and more fragrant than the Tianzhu and Persian essences sold in Chang'an market, but the cost is also lower."
"After I made the essence, I persuaded Mrs. Gongsun to buy a batch of porcelain bottles as big as my thumb."
"Then, I asked Kong You to help, and asked him to draw flowers and scenery on each porcelain bottle, and then fill the essence into the porcelain bottles."
"Finally, Da Lang and Er Lang from Gongsun's family helped me sell these perfumes to the market."
"After selling several batches of flavors, I had enough money to purchase the equipment in batches."
After hearing this, Zhou Jun was stunned on the spot for a moment. He never expected that Hua Yue actually had this ability.
After calming down, Zhou Jun looked at the equipment in the wing and asked Huayue: "Is there any essence in this?"
Huayue shook her head and said, "After I make enough money and buy all the equipment, I won't make fragrance anymore."
"I've been thinking, since you can use distillation and condensation to get essence from flowers, what about other items?"
"Can the essence of other items also be obtained through distillation and condensation?"
"So, I improved the original water vapor distiller, added an air-tight device and a hydraulic device, and made the entire equipment operation process into two schemes: wet steaming and dry steaming."
"And recently, I have been playing with this using the method of distillation, condensation and purification."
After saying that, Huayue took a jar from the corner and brought it to Zhou Jun.
Zhou Jun opened the jar and took a look, only to see an amber-like liquid inside, with the aroma of wine overflowing.
Zhou Jun asked Hua Yue: "Is this... shochu?"
Huayue nodded and said: "Yes, by using distillation, condensation and then distillation, I found that the intensity of soju can be continuously increased."
"After three to five purifications, the soju will turn into a clear transparent color, and it is extremely strong. If you get close and smell it, you will be a little intoxicated."
Huayue said as he took out a porcelain bottle and opened the stopper. Inside was the clear and transparent purified substance.
Zhou Jun took a look and probably guessed what it was.
After soju is purified three to five times, what is obtained is probably 95% ethanol.
He only gave Huayue a vague water vapor distillation and condensation scheme to extract essence. But within half a year, Huayue not only produced a prototype device, but also continuously improved it on this basis and produced 95-concentration ethanol.
This girl, I really don’t know whether she is extremely intelligent or gifted?
Huayue held the bottle of 95% alcohol, lowered her head and pondered: "Although the purified soju has been made, I don't know what its use is?"
"Originally, I thought it was okay to drink, but I only got a little bit on my tongue, and it hurt like fire, and blisters formed after that."
"Now it seems that the purified soju is not of much use."
Zhou Jun shook his head and said: "This thing is actually very useful."
Huayue was puzzled: "What good can such a strong wine do if you can't drink it?"
Zhou Jun: "Add one pound of this material to four ounces of distilled purified water, and the resulting wine can be used for disinfection."
Huayue: "Disinfection? What kind of disinfection?"
Zhou Jun paused for a moment. At this time, there was no concept of bacteria, so he could only vaguely say: "It can be used to disinfect wind evil and miscellaneous diseases."
Hua Yue was half confused after hearing this, and just nodded.
Zhou Jun thought for a while and then said: "If you want to make a magical elixir for treating trauma, in addition to this wine, you need to prepare another thing."
Huayue: "Another thing?"
Zhou Jun carefully recalled the records in the book and said, "Peel the old garlic, mash it into puree, and put it into a distiller to purify it. You can get a medicinal liquid called allicin."
Huayue: "Allicin? What is that?"
Zhou Jun recalled that the amino acids in garlic meat react with enzymes on garlic skin to produce a broad-spectrum antibacterial drug.
He could not recall the chemical composition of the drug, but he remembered that the name was extremely long and convoluted.
Therefore, he only remembered that the common name of this drug was called allicin.
Allicin can inhibit germs in many symptoms such as dysentery, typhoid, pneumonia, tetanus, etc. It was once called a lower substitute for penicillin.
It is easy to prepare and has a wide range of uses. Whether it is surgery or internal medicine, it can be used as long as it is used to inhibit germs.
However, the purified allicin cannot be used directly for external use because it is very irritating.
It is necessary to dilute 95% alcohol into 75% medical alcohol, and then mix it with allicin to use it as a medicine for sterilizing, treating diseases and enhancing immunity.
Huayue, after listening to Zhou Jun's words, was still a little skeptical and asked: "Can the allicin distilled and purified from old garlic be used as medicine?"
Zhou Jun nodded and said: "Allicin is too strong and will burn the skin if used directly externally. It must be mixed with diluted shochu extract before it can be used."
Huayue found paper and pen and wrote them down one by one.
After memorizing it, Huayue looked at the utensils in the room, and said while thinking: "There are still some old garlic in the kitchen, but they are just made into allicin and the garlic medicine. I don't know how to test its efficacy?"
Zhou Jun scratched his head. It was indeed a problem who could use the garlic medicine mixed with allicin and medical alcohol.
After thinking for a while, Zhou Jun said to Hua Yue: "Let's put the garlic medicine thing aside for now. During this trip to Mobei, I discovered another important thing that needs to be done immediately."
Hua Yue: "What?"
Zhou Jun: "Fried tea."
This chapter has been completed!