Chapter 301 Bombs and Wine

The day after the Sleeping Island Witch relocated, Roland called Barov, the head of the city hall, to the office.

I need you to issue a recruitment announcement, and he will push the draft content to the other side. A short worker in a week, about ten people, preferably women.

Barov picked up the paper and read it carefully. Your Highness, what is starch...?

Do you know wheat flour?

The manager hesitated, do you mean coarse powder or refined powder?After grinding the wheat grains, they can be baked into bread or baked into wheat cakes. What you eat is fine powder that further sifted away the bran. The latter output is only 60% of the former, and the baked bread is softer, but the price is very high, and only the great nobles can afford it.

What made Roland most satisfied with this former assistant to the Finance Minister was that he had a full understanding of all kinds of underlying goods.

Due to backward agriculture and lack of food, the same thing is completely different in different ways in different classes.

For example, the most common way for wheat is to directly cook porridge with peeled wheat grains, which can make the food to the greatest extent possible. However, some remaining wheat husks and sand and gravel will be cooked into the pot together, which often makes you feel crunchy and crunchy.

The little nobles should pay more attention to it. They will order people to sif the wheat grains away from sand and gravel, grind them into coarse powder, bake them into bread and pancakes and enjoy them.

Further up is the great aristocratic class with rich family. For these people, food is no longer a simple tool to fill their stomachs, but a means to pursue delicious enjoyment.

The kitchen will further sift the wheat flour to remove the bran and obtain a snow-white and delicate grinding. The baked bread is beige and tastes not only delicate, but also much sweeter.

Starch is made by continuing to purify and process it based on exquisite wheat flour. Roland spreads his hands. When you recruit people, I will send someone to tell them the specific method.

Continue to process?Barov couldn't help but widen his eyes, how much wheat would have to be used.

I don't need too much, three or four hundred kilograms... Roland paused and changed his mouth, just as big as my desk.

He nodded and responded, and asked, Why do you ask to be as female as possible?

Because they do things more attentively.Moreover, I hope to see more women going to work instead of staying idle at home. Roland suddenly thought of something. The popular education currently promoted in Bianfeng Town seems to be faster in women's classes, right?

Although the main person in charge of the Ministry of Education is Ms. Shujuan, this is indeed the case.Apart from taking care of children and doing housework, they don’t have much to do, so they spend most of their time reading and literacy.

In that case, I require that after the next round of assessments, the city hall you are responsible for must recruit a group of female apprentices and gradually expand the proportion of female positions, Roland ordered.

Your Highness, this...no precedent, Barov frowned, "If only meticulous, my apprentice is no worse than any woman."

If there is no precedent, I will create a precedent. Roland said bluntly that this is also the easiest and fastest way to grow the labor force without expanding the total population. If all women can take on the task of building a town, my available manpower will double.All you have to do is to guide people to change their mindsets. As long as the salary is attractive, I think they will stand up one by one.

After Barov left, the nightingale smiled in the prince's ear, "What are you planning to cook again?"

starch?No, it is not for eating, Roland took a sip of tea, although he could indeed get the same good ingredients during the processing process.

Soak the fine wheat flour into the water, then knead and rub it until the water turns completely white, and then change to a basin of water to continue.

The last ball of sticky substance left is gluten, which can be used for frying or stir-frying, with a flexible taste and elasticity.

After the pot, apply honey or sprinkle sprinkle spices are a great delicacy.

But Roland's focus is not on food.

After sifting the milky white water, starch is precipitated, which is also the main material for making explosives.

Under the conditions where nitrified*glycerol has not yet begun trial preparation and there is no way to talk about it, nitrified starch has become the easiest to manufacture strong explosives, and the manufacturing process is exactly the same as nitroscopic cotton.

Its finished product has low sensitivity and cannot be ignited by open flames. It needs to be detonated with a lightning tube, which is more powerful than TNT. It was widely used as a substitute for the former during the two world wars.

With high-purity starch, those alchemist apprentices who have mastered the production process of nitrified cotton must be able to quickly prepare a batch of nitrified starch.

After lunch, Roland was about to go back to his room to take a nap when a knock suddenly sounded outside the office.

Usually, most of the people who come to him at this time are Anna.His heart pounded twice. Could it be that he fell asleep directly because he was too tired last time, so he decided to choose at noon this time?

Come in.

The door was pushed open with a creak, and Roland was stunned. It turned out to be Evelyn standing outside.

Uh... This is a little different from what he thought. He coughed twice and showed a kind smile. Is there anything wrong?

She walked to the table and bowed and looked a little nervous. Her Highness, I want to ask you a question.

Is it a cliché again why you are so good to witches?But in the spirit of treating comrades as warm as the spring breeze, he smiled and said, "What's the question, please ask."

Why did you... choose me to come to Bianfeng Town?

Roland was slightly stunned. Did she think the wine was not good?

My abilities are not as practical as Sylvie, nor as practical as Lian and Honey, she whispered. If you just taste wine, the monthly salary of one Golden Dragon is enough to hire a professional winemaker from Wangdu.

What do you think of those wines...?

It felt too hot at first, but it was acceptable to drink it slowly. As for the mixed wines mixed with ice, juice and sugar water, it was richer in taste.But this is just my personal opinion. Evelyn replied carefully, "The tavern at home only sells cheap wine and mixed ale, and the tendency of the nobles... I don't know."

It turned out that he was not suspicious of the problem with the wine, and the prince quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

He got up and opened the bookcase, took out a can of ale from the top layer and placed it in front of Evelyn. Can you convert this can of ale into the white wine I brewed?

I think...it should be no problem.She stretched out her hands and held the jar, and soon the dim wine inside changed.

As the bubbles surged, the ale became clearer and clearer, and finally it became as bright as boiled water, but Roland had already smelled the strong aroma of the wine.

He couldn't wait to dip his fingers a little and put them in his mouth, bitterness and burning came at the same time, which was the smell of high alcoholism.

Roland couldn't help laughing, that's why I chose you.

Looking at Evelyn with a confused look on her face, he clapped his hands and said, "I plan to open an alcohol factory... No, it's a winery, are you willing to be my chief winemaker?"