Li Mengxi was about to go to the military doctor and inform Tian Bu about soap making and sulfur.

"Brother, didn't you tell me to make sweets?" The younger brother asked, holding Li Mengxi's hand.

"Oh!" Li Mengxi suddenly remembered that he had promised his little brother during the day to see if the maltose was cured.

"Come on, let's go take a look."

The wheat used to make maltose has been soaked in water for several days, so it should have sprouted and produced maltose.

Li Mengxi took his younger brother to find Liu Bei. In the training ground with bright torches, Liu Bei stood upright on one side, training in full swing.

Sometimes, when looking at Liu Bei, an ancient man in ancient costume, with different hands, unmoving shoulders, and unmoving body, Li Mengxi felt that it was a bit unnatural.

In any case, from Li Mengxi's point of view, Liu Bei's command of queue training was pretty good.

Standing at attention, taking a rest, gathering, counting, aligning, turning left and right, and stepping and pausing, etc., are all practiced well.

Now, it’s time to move when it’s time to move, and it’s time to stop when it’s time to walk.

Dynamic movements are much more difficult than static movements. Liu Bei practiced for several nights, but the queue was still uneven.

Li Mengxi watched in the shadows for a while and felt that it was not good to disturb others' practice, so he took his brother away and went to find other people for help.

In the main tent of the Chinese army, there was a big man with a red face and a long beard, doing needlework with an embroidery needle.

This person is Guan Yu.

Guan Yu was sewing his armor with needle and thread when Li Mengxi came.

"General Guan, are you still busy?" Li Mengxi asked with a smile.

Guan Yu raised his head and smiled immediately, "Xi'er come over when you are free?"

As he spoke, he did not put down the sewing work in his hands.

Li Mengxi went to sit down on the short bench. He saw that the infantry breastplate placed on Guan Yu's lap had been finished.

The other parts are placed on the short table, and they also look like they have been knitted.

Li Mengxi was confident in his heart. It seemed that Liu Bei and Guan Yu had dismantled fifty pairs of good armor in the army and woven it into one piece of armor.

Li Mengxi asked curiously, "General Guan, have you finished compiling this armor?"

"It's almost done." Guan Yu nodded and said, "The armor will be finished tomorrow."

Li Mengxi saw that Guan Yu was almost busy with his work and would not delay Guan Yu's affairs, so he asked, "General Guan, does he know how to make candy?"

Guan Yu was stunned for a moment, and the movement of strapping on the seam of his armor also stopped for a moment. Guan Yu took a look at the small brick next to Li Mengxi, and he suddenly knew roughly what was going on.

Guan Yu also knew about the maltose.

If a wounded soldier's intestines and stomach are injured, he has not eaten anything. Only by drinking sugar water can the intestines be free of dirt. This is what military doctor Lu Li told Guan Yu.

Candy can save lives.

Now that Li Mengxi had arrived, Guan Yu put down the half-sewed strap in his hand and said, "Let's go."

Guan Yu took Li Mengxi to make maltose.

The wheat was put into earthenware pots, moistened with water, covered with linen cloth, and placed on one of the carts in the carpenter's camp.

The carpenter's camp was busy at night. There were torches and pillars everywhere in the carpenter's camp, and the fires were bright. In the quiet night elsewhere, the voices of the people in the carpenter's camp were a bit noisy.

No matter how many times he watched it, Guan Yu felt confident whenever he saw the busy appearance of Jiangying.

The vigorous and progressive atmosphere refers to the current atmosphere of Jiangying.

Throughout the carpenter's camp, the carpenters were busy spontaneously and wholeheartedly, trying to get things done as quickly as possible.

This is completely different from forcing carpenters to work with orders.

Guan Yu and Li Mengxi came to the carpenter camp. The carpenters took one look at them and started working again.

Lu Li, who was working for others, saw Li Mengxi coming, put down his work, and walked over the wood on the ground with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

"Lu Li, where did you put the wheat?" Li Mengxi asked.

Lu Li took Li Mengxi and three others to a cart where debris was stored. At the back of the cart were several pots covered with linen.

Lifting the linen cloth, I saw the wheat in the basin sprouting clusters of buds.

"Is it okay?" Li Mengxi asked.

"Yes." Guan Yu nodded.

The process of making maltose is as follows: borrow a stone mortar for pounding medicine from a military doctor, put the germinated and softened wheat into the stone mortar, and smash it hard to break the wheat and release the maltose inside.

Then he used a large basin and put the broken wheat into the basin. Li Mengxi understood this process clearly.

This is the extraction method. Maltose can be soluble in water, while bud and bran are insoluble in water.

In this way, the separation of maltose and impurities is achieved.

Then, Guan Yu took a piece of clean linen cloth, filtered it, soaked the sugar water, and filtered out the buds and bran impurities.

The remaining large basin is sugar water rich in sugar.

Li Mengxi dipped his little finger into some sugar water, stuck out his tongue, and licked the sugar water on his finger. It was really sweet.

Next, it should be boiling sugar, Li Mengxi thought.

When heated, the water in the sugar water evaporates, and what remains is thick, yellow-brown sugar syrup.

Sure enough, Guan Yu said, "If you add more fire and simmer it, the candy will be ready."

You see, knowledge of mathematics, physics and chemistry is very useful.

Li Mengxi, who didn't know how to make maltose, understood the principle of maltose after reading it once, and he even gave some suggestions on how to improve the process.

One is that after the malt is broken, it can be put into warm or hot water, so that the sugar can be more fully integrated into the water, and no sugar will be left on the malt and bran.

Another thing, when boiling sugar, instead of using a jar with a small mouth, it is better to use a pan. The heating area of ​​the pan is large, and the water in the sugar water will evaporate faster.

It was time to boil the sugar. In the wounded barracks, a bonfire was set up next to Tian Bu's car, which was loaded with medicinal materials and filled with many medicine pots, pots and pans. The sugar water was put in the jar and hung on it to start boiling.

Guan Yu, Tian Bu and Li Mengxi chatted while waiting for the sugar to be cooked.

While talking, military doctor Tian Bu mentioned that during the heavy rain a few days ago, many people in the army suffered from colds and coughs and runny noses.

Li Mengxi couldn't help but glance at Tian Bu in surprise.

"Tian Bu, if you hadn't said it now, General Guan and I wouldn't have noticed this matter." Li Mengxi criticized, "Look, you are our army's Chinese medicine officer. If anything happens, you should say it. You

General Guan doesn't know much about medical skills, and neither do I.

There are many people in the army who are feeling cold, but you didn't tell them, wouldn't it be bad if there was a big epidemic?"

Tian Bu was greatly ashamed and quickly confessed.

This is the problem with Tian Bu. This person's medical skills are pretty good, and his management ability is worse than Lu Li from Jiangying. However, Tian Bu is not as good as Lu Li at all.

Ren Luli, if anything happens, I will report it directly.

As for Tian Bu, he didn't say what difficulties he had. What he wanted was not to cause trouble to Li Mengxi and Guan Yu. He also didn't think that if the trouble was solved, it would no longer be a trouble. Keeping the trouble would be a big trouble.

Li Mengxi did not expect that a heavy rain would cause many people to catch colds and colds. He also did not expect that in ancient times, colds and colds were very fatal.

Now reminded by Tian Buyi, Li Mengxi realized the seriousness of the problem.

"Tian Bu, is there enough medicine?" Li Mengxi asked.

Tian Bu shook his head in embarrassment.

This is not easy to handle.

When I left Zhuozhou, I didn't bring much medicine with me.

Although I bought more or less medicine along the way, I couldn't buy much medicine in the countryside.

Now I don’t know how many people in the army have caught wind and cold. They need to be treated completely. There is no medicine, and it would be inappropriate not to treat them.

Li Mengxi couldn't help but frown. He recalled that when he had a fever and a cold that was so serious that he had to be treated, he would go to the clinic and what medicine would the doctor prescribe?

Metamizole is a miracle drug for treating headaches and brain fever. However, this is a Western medicine, and its ingredients are not known and it is difficult to make.

Not to mention penicillin, this stuff is extremely difficult.

Sometimes, the doctor will prescribe two plates of fresh bamboo juice and tell you to drink more hot water.

Yes, what is this thing called Fresh Bamboo Lit?

Judging from the name, fresh bamboo, as the name suggests, is fresh bamboo, and Li means roasting the bamboo over a fire to drain the juice.

This thing may be useful for colds and colds?

Furthermore, when I think about the past colds, doctors would tell me to drink more hot water. Yes, drinking hot water increases perspiration. The perspiration process also detoxifies, which can effectively relieve cold and other symptoms.

Drinking hot water can cure all diseases. Although this statement is exaggerated, it is generally correct.

Perspiration is the process of detoxification. In almost all cold and cold diseases, perspiration can discharge part of the toxins and relieve some conditions.

Therefore, it is said that drinking hot water can cure all diseases, and it is really effective for many diseases.

Did people in the Han Dynasty know that drinking hot water can cure diseases? Maybe, many doctors in the Han Dynasty knew that sweating the body can greatly alleviate the condition.
To be continued...