Chapter 1173: Spring for Water Mages
"Is Vice President Rong coming?" Ding Kui interjected.
"That has to do with the first question I'm going to ask you today. Gonglianggu put away his smile, "If Ruan Xingzhu marries you, will Li Fei's status be above or below her in the future?"
This is a cold question, Ding Kui thought silently, Jiang Tong was not easy to interject, Ruan Xingzhu was Rong Ci's apprentice, and his influence was greater than that of Li Fei when he was seriously considered, and it was not easy to say which one he valued.
You can't blame Gongliang for finding faults, it's not a secret that the second daughter likes Ding Kui, this time Li Fei can marry Ding Kui, maybe Ruan Xingzhu can also in the future.
"First of all, Xingzhu may not marry into the Ding family, the younger generation has married a wife and two concubines, and if he meets the woman he likes, he will not be able to give him an official name, but the younger generation respects every woman who entrusts her life to the younger generation, in the hearts of the younger generations, they have no distinction between size and size, and after Li Fei marries the younger generation, her status will not be lower than that of Luan'er. ”
This is the answer that Ding Kui has thought about again and again, and it is quite distracting.
Is a person lying? Elemental mages can easily tell.
"You can barely pass the test by answering like this, I don't care about Li Fei's status, Vice President Rong is not necessarily, there is a chief worshipper uncle, and I can't help but pay attention to the face of the teacher. "Gongliang is like a reminder and a knock.
"The younger generation didn't think much about it. Ding Kui knew bitterly that she hadn't seen Ruan Xingzhu for a while, and she was sure that she knew about Li Fei's marriage.
"I heard that you have a good time working with earth magicians, and I think water magicians can also do more for the people, it should be as simple as making some ice cubes and fighting fires. "The second question of Gonglianggu comes.
"Master, wait a while, the junior will go and get something. "Ding Kui is confident.
Not long after he left, he took back a jar of wine, then took out a glass container, filled it with wine, and put it in front of Gong Lianggu.
"This is the lowest liquor in the folk, the wine contains many ingredients, one of which is volatile, pungent odor and flammable liquid, can the master help me purify it?"
This is to use the hands of a water magician to purify the alcohol!
There is wine in the Shenyuan world, but there is no high-purity wine, and it is even more impossible to have alcohol, Ding Kui knows several ways to purify alcohol, but it can't reach a high enough purity, so he thinks of the magician.
Gonglianggu began to understand what ethanol was, and after Ding Kui patiently explained, he finally found a similar liquid in the wine.
"Huh, there's such a thing in the wine!"
It was too simple for the water elemental magician to purify the alcohol, and with a wave of his hand, he could refine a small bottle of alcohol with a purity of more than 90 degrees.
Ding Kui filled the small bottle with alcohol and immediately closed the cap.
"This ethanol is very useful, it can replace fire oil to a certain extent, and it is made by fermenting grains and fruits, and it can be produced as long as there is land, and it can be applied to the whole continent. ”
After that, he briefly demonstrated several uses of alcohol.
"It's so amazing!" Gongliang Gu took the small bottle and looked at it carefully in front of him, "This ethanol is extremely unstable, so it's not easy to preserve." ”
A master is a master, and at a glance you can see the characteristics of alcohol.
"What the master said is that this thing must be sealed in a bottle, and there is a danger of explosion if you are not careful. Ding Kui has already begun to conceive of a mass-production of alcohol.
Gonglianggu nodded and said, "Well, smear wax on the seal, this substance is easily soluble in water, and hiding it in a reservoir can reduce the risk of explosion." "He is not a person who has no common sense of life, after all, he has lived for more than a hundred years.
Makes sense wow, how I didn't think of it.
This reminded Ding Kui that building a reservoir is too simple, and there is an inexhaustible source of water in the Tongyuan River.
"This thing is flammable and easy to gas, through three elements, you can teach the three magicians to explore the rules of the elements, I didn't expect you to be a knight to make such a thing, you shouldn't have cultivated fighting spirit in the first place, how good it is to learn magic from me, you will not lose to those chosen sons." "Gonglianggu regrets that he missed such an excellent magician seedling.
"It's a pity that the younger generation met the master too late!" Ding Kui's expression was much more exaggerated, and he was almost satisfied.
Jiang Tongxin said: "If you let you take Kui'er, won't the inheritance of the Ding family be severed? Maybe he can't have children after cultivating magic, and even the inheritance of my Jiang family is dangerous, but fortunately it didn't fall into your hands." ”
"Is it difficult to refine ethanol, and what level of water magician can do it?" Ding Kui asked again.
"It's not that difficult, the apprentice magician can also tell the difference, refining this thing only consumes a very small amount of mana, but if the quantity is huge and needs to be divided into multiple containers, then it has to be done at the level of robes or above. "The words of Gong Lianggu are authority.
The alcohol must be sealed immediately after extraction, otherwise it will be too dangerous, and the apprentice magician can only cope with a small amount of production.
"The robed magician is also fine, this thing must be in short supply, the unit price will not be too high but the output is huge, its production scale will not be lower than cement, and most of the military's needs for healing and disinfection can be bought. "Ding Kui has calculated the profit.
"The imperial court asked you to buy it, do you sell it?" Gongliang Gu looked directly at Ding Kui, and his spiritual power also shrouded him.
"Sell!" Ding Kui replied very simply, "Treating the sick and saving people is the first place, I can't stop selling it because of the conflict between me and Shaodian, the court must buy it for soldiers and people, I am also a Shaodian person, there is no need to obstruct it." ”
The crossbow had deep wounds that could not be saved by alcohol alone, and he was not worried that selling it to a hostile force would hurt his people in turn.
"Very good! I got inspiration from your factory, which is very helpful in the production of alcohol, for example, digging a big pool, and I set up a circle at the bottom of the pool, which can automatically extract the alcohol and then lead it to another place to be sealed. Gonglianggu said this method after he was sure that Ding Kui would not monopolize alcohol.
Ding Kui asked urgently, "Do you need a magician to keep it running?"
"Of course, it takes magic power to activate the magic circle, magic cores are used to maintain the magic circle, mental power is required to divert alcohol, and at least one water magician needs to take care of it. "Gong Lianggu can't estimate how long a robed magician can work for the time being.
You can build an enclosed wine pool on the ground, and the top tube is taken to divert the flow to the steel carcass, and the cylinders can be separated into multiple halts, hehe, the alcohol manufacturing plant is too simple.
Ding Kui had already thought of the prototype of the alcohol factory, and then asked, "How big of a pool can the magic circle control?"
"Ten meters high. "Gongliang Gu compared.
One hundred cubic meters is about eighty tons, and the purification is calculated at one to ten, and ordinary water wine can be extracted eight tons, and the production of two times a day is sixteen tons, and one kilogram of alcohol is sold for one hundred copper plates, and the output value per day is one hundred and sixty gold coins, and the gross profit of at least one hundred gold coins is removed from the cost.
"How many alcohol making circles can you help juniors set up?" Ding Kui thought of a wine jar, and his eyes flashed with gold coins.
Gong Lianggu smiled slightly, and said: "Materials are needed to arrange the magic circle, some of them are my unique secret recipes, it is impossible to help you arrange them without restrictions, I think there are at most ten." ”
Ten is a thousand gold coins a day, more than 300,000 a Chinese New Year's Eve, which is not bad, equivalent to the tax of a medium-sized city.
"Okay, a pool hires a low-level magician for fifteen gold coins a day. Ding Kui immediately made a bid.
"Thirty gold coins!" Gonglianggu held up three fingers.
Ding Kui cried and said with a sad face: "It's too much, so the juniors have no money to earn, eighteen gold coins, no more." ”
"I won't even confiscate the material fee for you to set up the magic circle, twenty gold coins, the magician is dignified!" Gong Lianggu took a big step.
"Wow, a third-level combat power earns twenty gold coins a day, where can I find such a good job? I can hire a shield breaker knight for six hundred gold coins a month." "Ding Kui deliberately used knights as an example.
There are many more knights than magicians in the Shaodian Kingdom.
"Then you let the knight refine the alcohol, twenty gold coins, it can't be lower!" Gongliang Gu bit his mouth and didn't let go.
Seeing this, Ding Kui knew that he couldn't hold it down, so he had to say: "Since the master asks for this, then do what the master wants!"
"I have one more condition. Gonglianggu improvised his idea, "I want to build an alcohol factory in Pingzhong County, without you having to dig out a copper plate, let you take a 10% of the dry shares, and ensure that the scale of the factory does not exceed yours."
The amount of alcohol you produce is limited, and the imperial court is too far to buy it, so it is better to let the Fuji family take advantage of it, and the Fuji family will be your ally in the future, of course, you have to listen to the imperial court on the surface, and the imperial court will turn a blind eye if it wants alcohol. ”
He is a nostalgic person, he has not forgotten the kindness of the ancestors of the Fuji family, and he will carry the Fuji family when he has the opportunity.
"The master is so calculating, Pingzhong County is located in the hinterland of the south, and he can sell alcohol to the whole country, which is much stronger than that of the younger generation. Ding Kui did not make a clear statement.
"You can sell it abroad, are you still worried about the market?" Gonglianggu could see it clearly than Ding Kui's imagination.
"Okay, just save the master's face, the junior agreed!" Ding Kui is a shareholder of intellectual property rights to set an example for the world.
"Yes, you have the mind to do big things, my third question, what do you want to do?" Gonglianggu asked Shaodianluan about asking his younger brother to be reinstated.
Ding Kui replied with his head held high: "The younger generation wants to transform the Shaodian Kingdom in their own way!"
Gong Lianggu was not surprised, and turned his head to look at Jiang Tong.
"The rebellion of the kingdom seems to be unstable on the throne, but in essence, it is the instability of the military, after the death of my old in-laws, the foundation of the military collapsed, and it is difficult for the legions to unite together, so that the traitors can find an opportunity to troubled the kingdom, otherwise the Yang family will be suppressed by the military as soon as they rebel, how can there be the current situation?"
Jiang Tong did not reserve his opinion.
"I think the Ding family is qualified to regain control of the military, recast the foundation of the military, and bring the kingdom back on the right path. ”
His voice was tantamount to the Jiang family's statement that the behemoth that had been hidden under the water all the year round wanted to show its fangs in order to help Ding Kui seize control of the military.
"Hmm. Gonglianggu nodded and said, "I don't mean anything else, I agree to marry Li Fei, I have to know what your future prospects are." Now it seems that you have the strength to intervene in the battle for the throne, and you will have a chance to regain the glory of the protector in the future.
The last question, if you fail, do you have a way back?"