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Chapter 100: Stormy City (2)

I don’t know why, but it seems that seal fonts and ordinary writing fonts have been two systems since the Spring and Autumn Period.

There are ancient Chinese characters written on the notice, but Li Mengxi can roughly recognize them.

But at the seal, Li Mengxi looked up for a long time and couldn't see what the words in the seal were.

Li Mengxi wanted to quietly remove the notice, but he couldn't reach it even with his feet or even when he jumped up.

"Baby, what do you want to do?" An old voice suddenly sounded.

Li Mengxi was suddenly startled, startled, and quickly looked back.

Behind him, Li Mengxi saw an acquaintance.

It was the old man Suntou who opened Zhang Fei's medical clinic who was said to be a famous doctor in Zhuozhou City and gave Zhang Fei a set of acupuncture.

Seeing this kind old man, Li Mengxi pretended to be innocent, scratched his head and smiled, a little embarrassed, "I want to take this off and learn the words on it."

The reason is great.

Seeing that Li Mengxi was eager to learn, Lao Suntou's eyes suddenly lit up when he looked at Li Mengxi.

While sighing in his heart, the old man with a gray beard looked around quickly. When he saw that no servant was watching, he reached out and copied the notice like a thief, then rolled it up and stuffed it.

He put it in Li Mengxi's hands and whispered, "Let's go! Don't let anyone see it!"

It's not good to trick a respected old man, but Li Mengxi successfully took the notice away.

The official seal on the notice is an important certificate.

Li Mengxi read the notice and went back to Zhang Fei's house.

Five hundred people flocked to Zhang Fei's house. There was enough room to hide, but the house was not enough to live in.

I had no choice but to suffer for two days and wait until the time comes.

Liu, Guan, and Zhang had no idea what Li Mengxi wanted to do.

Li Mengxi asked the troops to be hidden in the city, and the three of them brought the troops in.

"Look at the notice I just unveiled. There is an official seal here. This thing can be used as evidence even if it is submitted to the prefect."

As he spoke, Li Mengxi slapped the notice on the table.

The low tables are still the same two low tables. One table has its legs broken, and the sides of the other table were broken by Zhang Fei's blow. The new table carpenters are working on it, so the broken table can be used reluctantly.

Li Mengxi stole the government notice.

At this time, Liu, Guan, and Zhang felt as if they were riding a tiger with difficulty.

Although, he had already planned to fight with Li Mengxi to seize the power of the powerful, and knew that he might go against the government.

But when the real thing came, Liu, Guan, and Zhang still desperately did not want to conflict with the government.

The three of them were silent for a long time.

Liu Bei looked at Li Mengxi and looked at each other for a moment. Li Mengxi's eyes did not shift.

"Xi'er, you are bolder than I am.

I hope everything goes as you expected." Liu Bei sighed.

If Li Mengxi was a subordinate, Liu Bei would have felt that Li Mengxi was difficult to control.

Fortunately, Li Mengxi was not just a subordinate, so Liu Bei didn't think so.

"The food for the powerful has been put into the warehouse. Even if it is not as good as I expected, we can still achieve success by using our troops to seize the food."

Li Mengxi looked indifferent.

Liu Bei sighed again.

He looked at Li Mengxi with helplessness. Such a little baby was so courageous.

The people following him have already been sent out.

Wait for the opportunity and have to wait.

With nothing to do, Li Mengxi handed the notice to Liu Bei for safekeeping and said he would continue to steam wine.

Two craftsmen who had helped Li Mengxi make a set of stills were invited again because of their good skills.

Two more sets of stills are needed.

There are three purposes for steaming wine. One is to steam the basic water wine, cut off the head and tail, and steam it into high-quality wine, which is then sealed in jars and stored for drinking.

The second distillation is 95% pure alcohol, specially used for burning and acupuncture.

Another way is to steam the wine twice, if not three times, to get an alcohol concentration close to 75%.

Why is it 75%? Why can’t high and low points work?

This is because when the alcohol concentration reaches 75 degrees, it has the strongest bactericidal effect.

Specifically, if the concentration is low, the bactericidal effect will not be strong.

If the alcohol concentration is too high, some bacteria will quickly produce protective reactions when encountering high concentrations of alcohol and form spores with hard shells to resist the damage of alcohol. When the time is right, the cells in the film will be resurrected. Therefore,

, the use of concentrated alcohol cannot achieve the purpose of disinfection and sterilization.

Thanks for memorizing the biology questions in junior high school, I still remember them.

If you don't remember this small number of 75%, then Li Mengxi just knows that strong liquor can sterilize, and strong liquor and 75% alcohol are two different concepts.

The sterilizing effect of 75-degree alcohol is twice as strong as that of 40-50-degree or 80-90-degree spirits.

What is the concept of twice? That is to say, if using 40 to 50% alcohol or 80 to 90% alcohol to treat gunshot wounds can reduce the infection rate by 50%, then it is equivalent to, for every four wounded,

Having more spirits to deal with this process is equivalent to saving one more person.

The sterilization effect of 75% alcohol is equivalent to saving two more of four wounded people.

One thousand wounded people meant that an additional 250 people were saved.

The cumulative number of 10,000 wounded is equivalent to a reduction of 2,500 deaths.

The value of two thousand five hundred soldiers who have fought in hundreds of battles is very important to any force.

How much does two thousand five hundred old soldiers translate into money? Obviously, the value of a human life far exceeds the value of a mere liquor.

If it is said that it is not a magical tool in terms of surgical disinfection.

So, if 75-proof spirits could be accurately prepared, it would be considered an artifact.

The new still requires metal guide tubes and water-cooling sleeves. The processing difficulty is much more difficult than the first version. It took a long time to communicate with the craftsmen to understand it.

In order to make a new still, I asked Zhang Fei for several kilograms of copper.

As a common metal like iron, copper has much better ductility than iron and is less difficult to process.

Ductility means that, in layman's terms, copper is relatively soft and can be easily shaped when struck with a hammer.

Another point is that the melting point of copper is low, so the craftsman can make faster progress while heating and shaping.

On May 1st, the first day of the government's grain collection, the grain official, who had been busy all day, closed the stall until night and said he would pay it back tomorrow.

The people who had been waiting for a day had no choice but to go back first, carrying food on their backs.

The watchers kept watch all night, but no grain trucks were seen sneaking out of the county government office in the middle of the night.

On the first day of handing over grain, the big households who secretly communicated with the county magistrate were the first to hand over grain.

There are many people who haven't come yet, but the big households have priority. If we make the big households wait day after day, wouldn't we offend people?

Therefore, all the food for the powerful has been put into the warehouse.

That is to say, the county magistrate did not see the grain truck secretly returned to the big family tonight, which means that the county magistrate wanted to collect the grain first and then return it before it is too late.

On May 2nd, another day of food delivery was given.

Finally, it looks like the food supplies have been delivered.

That night, late at night, when everyone was quiet and everything was quiet, suddenly the gate of the county government opened, the sound of wheels was heard in the street, and an empty carriage came from nowhere and drove in front of the county government.

The servants of the wealthy households came with empty carts to haul grain.
Chapter completed!
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