Author: Fat Bird Goes First

The little eunuch is the adopted son of Eunuch Hu. Eunuch Hu is just a small mine supervisor. In the palace, he is only a sixth-rank official. Naturally, he cannot be surrounded by as many adopted sons as the big eunuch.

This young eunuch, whose surname was You, worked as a handyman in the dyeing and weaving bureau after entering the palace. He was favored by Eunuch Hu and adopted as his adopted son.

This relationship between adoptive father and adopted son is also very ancient. When the adoptive father is in his prime, he will protect and support the adopted son. When the adoptive father is old, the adopted son will provide for the adoptive father in his old age.

Of course, this is just an ideal state. A father and a son are still close to each other, let alone an adopted father and an adopted son.

However, Eunuch Hu was quite generous to Xiao Youzi, and Xiao Youzi followed Eunuch Hu to Fujian to supervise the mines. The relationship between the two was indeed as close as that of father and son.

After seeing Su Ze, the young eunuch said: "Ms. Su, my father said that the dye has been made. Please go and have a look!"

dye!

Su Ze suddenly thought of the recipe he threw to Eunuch Hu, but he didn't expect that his mobility would be so strong?

Lin Liangjun pricked up his ears and when he heard the young eunuch talking about "prescriptions" and "dyes", he immediately became interested and said:

"Brother Aze? What's so fun? I want to go with you too!"

Su Ze thought for a while, then took the little carrot head with him and went to Eunuch Hu's laboratory with the little eunuch.

After the last conversation with Su Ze, Eunuch Hu had a lot of new ideas, and a lot of new bottles and cans were added to the laboratory.

These things were all made by Eunuch Hu himself. Su Ze once again marveled at Eunuch Hu's versatility. He could even make ceramics by himself.

Eunuch Hu was recording something in front of the dye pool. When he heard Su Ze's footsteps entering the door, he immediately turned around and walked over and said:

"Ms. Su! It's done!"

Eunuch Hu couldn't wait to pull Su Ze to a pool, pointed at the cloth in the pool and said:

"This is fabric that has been washed five times. Look, Mr. Su, the color is still well maintained. This is indeed a dye that resists sunlight and washing!"

Su Ze looked at the blue cloth floating in the water. Of course, this is the most famous chemical dye in human history.

Prussian blue, this dye is famous for being used to dye Prussian military uniforms. Because of its strong dyeing and bright color, it is widely loved by the fashion industry.

This color is also widely used in painting and printing, and even has some medical uses.

Su Ze also didn't expect that Eunuch Hu actually made Prussian blue dye out of the recipe he just remembered casually.

Eunuch Hu was already dancing with excitement. He said excitedly:

"It has been washed five times and the color has not faded, and it can still stay bright after being dried! How beautiful would this robe be if it were woven and dyed?"

Eunuch Hu continued: "The Za family wants to present the dye to His Majesty!"

When he heard that Eunuch Hu wanted to donate Prussian blue dye to Emperor Jiajing, he quickly said:

"Wait a minute!"

Once something is listed as tribute, it will be a huge disaster for a certain place.

For example, this is the case for tea farmers in Wuyi Mountain. Once they are listed as tribute, they must pay tribute every year even if the emperor does not need it.

Paying tribute requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and you have to be exploited at all levels. Su Ze doesn't want the Dogon blue dye in Nanping County.

Su Ze said: "Blue shirts are just common people's daily color. How can your Majesty use this color?"

Eunuch Hu defended himself: "This blue is different from the blue dyed by Aizen."

Su Ze still said: "But the palace will only say that you presented Aizen to the palace."

At this point, Eunuch Hu became discouraged.

He had no backer in the palace, and no one would speak for him. Although the dyed blue cloth was bright, it did not look much different from the coarse cloth dyed by the folk indigo dyeing method at first glance.

Blue is the color of common people, so it is really inappropriate to present it to the palace.

In fact, there is no shortage of colors among Chinese people. For example, blue is a color commonly worn by ordinary people.

In the Ming Dynasty, students were required to wear blue shirts, so blue shirts became the color most commonly used by scholars at the lowest level.

However, this blue shirt does not use chemical dyes, but a plant that is very familiar to modern people - Isatis root.

The blue color dyed by isatis root is easy to fade after a few washes. Rich kids like Huang Shixing in the county school would wear bright blue shirts every time.

Children from poorer families would wear washed gray blue shirts.

Eunuch Hu was discouraged. If Su Ze hadn't reminded him, it would be inappropriate to give blue tribute to the emperor.

Seeing that Eunuch Hu gave up the idea of ​​using Prussian blue dye as a tribute, Su Ze said:

"Although this blue color cannot be donated to the palace, this dye is still very useful!"

This kind of blue dye that is not easy to fade will definitely be loved by poor scholars, and ordinary people will also buy it.

In addition, Su Ze also discovered that the regular soldiers of the Changning Guard did not have decent standard military uniforms. Using Prussian blue to make a comfortable military uniform would also increase the enthusiasm of the ordinary soldiers of the Changning Guard to join the army!

Yes! Military uniform!

You must know that a good-looking military uniform is the best recruitment advertisement. Beautiful military uniforms from various countries in the Renaissance era are also the best benefits to attract ordinary people to join the army!

Nowadays, the regular soldiers are very attractive to the ordinary people of Changning Guard. Su Ze suggested that Lin Mojun improve the food treatment of the regular soldiers. From two meals a day to three meals a day, on the basis of sufficient staple food, they can also eat meat in the middle and late ten days.

Can be eaten.

This also makes many ordinary soldiers in Changning Guard want to become regular soldiers and have enough to eat.

Of course, Su Ze was dissatisfied with the Changning Guard's establishment of one hundred households. Now there are more than 400 mine thieves captured by the Changning Guard alone. These people will be organized into an army in the future. A good-looking military uniform can not only

Improving the cohesion of the army can also enhance their sense of honor.

Su Ze said to Eunuch Hu: "Eunuch Hu, I, Chang Ningwei, have a batch of fabrics. Could you please dye them?"

Eunuch Hu took over and said, "Mr. Su, just send it, dyeing cloth is the Za family's specialty!"

Su Ze quickly expressed the need to provide raw materials, and Eunuch Hu said grandly: "The materials used for the dye are all found in the mines. The only thing missing is some cow blood. This is not a rare item."

After entering Eunuch Hu's experiment, Su Ze kept chatting with Eunuch Hu, but did not notice the demon king Lin Liangjun.

After the little carrot head came in, he looked around and was very interested in Eunuch Hu's bottles and jars.

Seeing the yellow crystals in a porcelain bottle, the little carrot head touched it again and accidentally knocked the bottle to the ground.

Everyone followed the sound and looked over. When Eunuch Hu saw what Lin Liangjun had broken, his expression immediately changed and he said:

"No! Leave quickly!"

Little Eunuch You immediately dragged Lin Liangjun out and ran out. When everyone left the house, Su Ze gave the little carrot head a severe lesson and then apologized to Eunuch Hu.

Eunuch Hu shook his head and said, "It's just a jar of medicine, but it's poisonous."

When he heard the word "poisonous", the fearless little carrot head turned pale.

"Then I won't die, right?"

The little carrot head almost fainted from fright, only to see Eunuch Hu staring at him for a long time, nodding and shaking his head.

Little Carrot Head felt pain all over his body and fainted with a scream.

Su Ze quickly used his "medical skills" to check, and when he saw that Xiaoluobo's head and pulse were calm, he knew that he should be fine.

Eunuch Hu showed a sly expression and said, "The Za family is just trying to scare him. Although the poison is powerful, it won't be poisoned by just touching it."

"My disciple is rude, please forgive me, Eunuch Hu."

Eunuch Hu said: "Children are naughty and don't get in the way."

"I heard that Mr. Su established a health school in Changningwei?"

Su Ze nodded and said, "It's just to educate the children in the health center."

Eunuch Hu pointed at Little Eunuch You and said, "It's time for my adopted son to study, but the Za family doesn't know how to teach people to read. Can you please ask Mr. Su to also listen?"

It turned out that this was the matter, and Su Ze naturally agreed.

He asked again: "Eunuch Hu, what kind of poison is this broken thing?"

Eunuch Hu said: "That thing was obtained by the Za family from the essence of yellow flowers, but I didn't expect it to be highly poisonous."

Essence? Yellow flower?

Su Ze suddenly became interested and asked: "Day lily?"

"Yes, it's day lily. I saw the bright color and wanted to extract the dye into it, but I didn't expect the essence of the day lily to be poisonous, no less than arsenic."

Su Ze said to Eunuch Hu: "Eunuch, can you demonstrate how you extract the essence of Huanghua?"

Eunuch Hu nodded, and after waiting for some ventilation, he ordered his servants to clean up the porcelain bottles that Lin Liangjun had broken, and demonstrated to Su Ze the process of extracting the essence of the yellow flowers.

Hu Eunggong's extraction method is not complicated. He just crushes the yellow flowers and puts them into water, then continuously heats and filters to extract the yellow precipitate.

In fact, most plant dyes follow this extraction process.

Su Ze said to Eunuch Hu: "Can you let me try?"

Eunuch Hu gave up his position, and Su Ze began to follow his instructions to extract the essence of the yellow flowers.

Because he was not skilled enough, it took Su Ze half an hour to extract a little yellow crystal.

Sure enough, the system popped up a prompt:
To be continued...