A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 119
Fan Xianji looked in disbelief, "You must be lying to me, just some powder, how can you do anything?"

"Then I'll make some steamed cakes later, and make ramen with some alkaline water."

Soda ash has a promising effect and is very extensive. Huaiyu's refining method is actually quite backward and very complicated. It produces a lot of waste liquid and is useless, causing a lot of pollution.But it would be nice to be able to extract it, after all, it solved the step of creating something from nothing.

In fact, the largest downstream application of soda ash is glass.

The most basic raw materials in the chemical industry are called three acids and two alkalis, sulfate, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, and caustic soda ash. Soda ash is commonly known as soda, which is sodium carbonate. This thing is widely used.

Whether it is making soap or glass, or even steaming steamed buns to make noodles, they are all used.

In fact, there are many natural alkalis in nature. For example, many lands in Zhangjiakou contain alkalis, which can be processed into high-quality edible alkalis, also known as alkalis.

Extracting plant ash with water can also get alkaline water, which can remove dirt and make dough.Especially the genus Artemisia Polygonum, the effect is better if it is dried in the sun and burned to ashes.

People in the Tang Dynasty used old noodles to ferment vegetarian noodles, and they also neutralized them with plant ash to avoid sourness.

However, if it is to be applied in large quantities, such as the manufacture of soap and glass, this method of plant ash is definitely far from efficient.

Huaiyu has been tossing around for so long, using the knowledge of alchemy learned in Zhongnanshan, and the knowledge of chemistry that he had studied for many years. In fact, he has taken a fancy to the salt by-product of salt that is boiled in a large amount in Yanjing Village.

These things that are worthless now, that is, when the Qiang people come to buy salt, they can give them some extras or sell them at a very cheap price for them to use as boiled leather.

The piles piled up more and more, and there were piles of mountains all over the place.

And Yanjingzhai used to have an industry, which was leather tanning. Longyou had a relatively developed livestock industry, and also traded a lot of skins with the Qiang people, so there was also a leather industry here. The sebum is all waste.

But if it is used to refine oil, after filtration and purification, it is processed with soda ash to undergo a saponification reaction, and soap can be obtained. Add some spices, etc., and it can become scented soap.

Compared with the original production methods such as pig pancreas, plant ash, saponins, etc., not only can it turn waste into treasure, but the cost is low, especially the production capacity will be very large.

The waste oil scraped off from tanned leather and the thenardite produced by boiling salt are all worthless waste that needs to be cleaned up. After refining and processing, it can be made into soap and scented soap.

But now in Chang'an City, things like bath beans, noodle medicine, and hand fat used by wealthy people are surprisingly expensive.Before that, Huaiyu tried to produce some fragrant soap in Chang'an as a small gift for Qianjintang to attract customers, and the effect was quite good.

The prospect of Glauber’s salt refining and pharmaceuticals is also very good. Putting Glauber’s salt into various watermelons, cucumbers, bitter melons, winter melons, etc., a layer of frost will form on the surface of the melons. When the frost is scraped off, it will be a good medicine for clearing fire and reducing swelling, such as watermelon frost. If you add some ice flakes, mint, etc., it can be ice cold.

Boiled with radish and Glauber's salt, it can be purified very well, and then processed into Xuanming powder, which is a common medicinal material for many diseases.

It can also be used as a laxative.

Huaiyu specially showed Fan Xuanfu's hand, steamed a furnace of soda ash flowering yellow steamed buns at night, added some broomcorn rice to grind it into flour, sautéed it, then used old flour to make dough, and finally added secret soda ash Neutralize the sourness of fermented old noodles,
Dried red dates are also added, and the steamed yellow buns are all round and blooming. They are extraordinarily fluffy and soft, but also very chewy and elastic.

The big yellow steamed buns are smiling with open mouth, and they are dotted with slices of red dates, which is very beautiful.

Fan Xuanfu, who was born in the Duke's Mansion, couldn't stop after taking a sip.

But Lu Huairang, Cheng Chumo, Wu Huaiyi, Ma Zhou, Wu Junwei, Chen Xing, Zhao Xin, Hou San and the others who came here specially to eat stir-fried dishes had never eaten this novel steamed cake.

"Hey, even softer than mothers-in-law and aunts!" Xu Er, who had just picked up a hungry man as his wife, was extremely surprised.

"Sweet!" Hou San ate sharply, only uttering one word.

"Why is it so soft and fluffy? When you pinch it, it forms a small ball, and when you loosen it, it becomes fluffy again. It's amazing!"

"There is no sour taste at all!"

"What secret recipe is added to this steamed cake today? It's not like we haven't eaten yellow noodle steamed cake before." Cheng Chumo was amazed, "This is the best yellow noodle steamed cake I've ever eaten in my life."

"Don't worry, I specially made the strips today. I promise that the strips today will be very special, more muscular and more beautiful!"

A whole bowl of strips boiled in mutton soup, one noodle is a bowl, add fresh mutton soup, then scoop some stewed soft mutton, and sprinkle green shallots.

"Say it earlier, I just ate four yellow noodle steamed cakes in one sitting." Cheng Chumo hurriedly put the two yellow buns in his arms, and then went to serve the mutton soup to make a note.

Several other people were also unwilling to lag behind, and rushed forward one after another.

"Don't worry, everyone has a share, it's already counted for you to come." Huaiyu said with a smile.

Cheng Chumo snatched the first bowl and sucked a large section of strips into his mouth, "Ah, the strips are really different today, they are quite different..."

After a few people ate it, they were very curious, "Why is the pasta today different from usual? The steamed pancakes are softer and fluffier, and the noodles are more chewy. What did you do?"

"Hahaha, as long as it's delicious, I don't care about that much." Huaiyu smiled proudly. Adding alkaline water to the ramen has good chewiness and ductility, and it will never break. It will not break when cooked, and the taste will be very good. good.

In the end, Huaiyu had no choice but to agree to those guys, to continue steaming today's yellow-noodle steamed cakes and making strips tomorrow.

"That's called yellow steamed buns, not steamed cakes."

"Yes, it has to be called Huang Momo. Whose steamed cakes can be steamed so fluffy and soft?" Cheng Chumo quickly agreed, as long as there are some leftovers for tomorrow, it's fine to call him Huangmomo or steamed cakes.

Lu Huairang tried several times to ask Huaiyu what secret recipe he had added, but Huaiyu ignored him at all.

Early the next morning, Huaiyu specially found the owner of the thenardite in Yanjingzhai and offered to buy the thenardite.

"Wu Zhen will need someone to install this thing directly for whatever purpose it is bought for."

"I want all the thenardite in the village."

"All of them? What's the use of them? Although they can be used to cook leather and make medicines, they don't need so many."

"Anyway, it's piled up. Now that the village is going to be rebuilt, I plan to buy them and transport them away so that they can be easily rebuilt. As for the use, I plan to use them for medicine. I have a Qianjintang in Chang'an, which is a medicine shop. .”

The local tycoons expressed their willingness to give it away for nothing, and it was not worth much anyway.

But Huaiyu said that he would buy it at the price they sold before.

In the end, those people still took the initiative to lower the price and gave a very affordable discount. After all, after buying so much, Huaiyu bought all those things like picking up for nothing.

Immediately afterwards, he reached a cooperation agreement with the owners of those leather tanning workshops. From now on, all the sebum scraped off from the leather will be given to Huaiyu, who will wrap it up at a low price.

There are people who want this kind of garbage. The workshop owners are very puzzled, but in the end they can't figure out what the use of this thing is. Now someone helps them clean up and is willing to give some money. They are very happy to reach a cooperation.

"Erlang, you bought that thenardite and the sebum from the leather workshop. What are you going to do?" Lu Huairang smelled something and came to ask Huaiyu.

"Is the matter of Concubine Lu's salt well settled? The Salt Temple is almost finished, and I'm going to invite the Salt God soon." Huaiyu changed the subject.

"Well, I was just about to tell you that everything has been negotiated. I will come forward in person. Can those guys be uninterested? Erlang, we are going to send it this time. Now we just wait for you to ask the God of Salt to let Yanjing reopen. There's brine coming out."

All is ready except for the opportunity.

"Very well, I've already made preparations, so let's respectfully ask the God of Salt to return to his place tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)