Chapter 5 Harold I just like candy

Chapter 5 Harold I just like candy

In the next three days, Harold chose to give up the courses at Amyrido College and concentrate on studying at the Wisdom Palace.

He had never attended classes at the college, but after listening for ten minutes, he found that he was more efficient in learning by reading books.

He was originally a scholar discovered by his mentor at Amyrido College from another country, and he obtained the authority granted to him by his mentor Zacharias. So he began to frantically absorb biological knowledge, consult materials, and lay the foundation for the thesis he was going to write.

The more he learned, the more he realized how idealistic his original ideas were, and some of the research methods he had originally planned to use were simply impossible to achieve with Xumi's current technology.

His mentor actually had the guts to praise him as having "the qualities of a great sage" and let him stay alone in the Palace of Wisdom for several days. Harold couldn't help but drink a sip of tea to calm his nerves.

Even after three days, he still felt so embarrassed when he thought of this sentence.

It can be done, but the complexity is self-evident.

Because Xumi did not have the concept of HPLC, dichromate method, and enzymatic hydrolysis method at present, he could customize some equipment and use these methods to determine the content of certain components in plants, but he could not write the conclusions in the paper.

If he had to use them, he would first write a paper explaining what high performance liquid chromatography, dichromate method, and enzymatic hydrolysis are, and why they can be used to determine the content of certain ingredients.

In the previous life, these things could be done by just writing [Using XX method, we can conclude that the content of XX, XX, XX in XX is XX, XX, XX], but now he is required to prove why. It is like I know 1+1=2, but you force me to write a paper to explain why 1+1=2.

Yes, but Harold doesn't want to.

Once these papers are finished, he may not have to work on the next project anymore, and he can be directly elected as a sage of the vitalism school based on the reputation gained from his theoretical achievements.

Harold also knew that his mentor was optimistic about the "new" measurement method he proposed. The amount of information contained in Harold's few short sentences was too great, as if he was going to establish a new knowledge system. Zacharias was optimistic about his abilities and even more so about his ambitions.

If it were his mentor in his previous life, let alone praising him for having "the qualities of a great sage", he would probably immediately stop all the research he was doing that would not produce results in the short term and make him work for him wholeheartedly.

However, Zacharias was destined to be disappointed. Harold had no plans to make any innovations for the time being, nor to establish any new knowledge system, let alone covet the position of the sage of the vitalism school.

What a joke! Don’t you see who the great sage is now?

It's our good friend, stingy Hazard.

This guy lacks everything except ambition, and he is especially immoral.

What's the difference between working for the academic community at this critical moment and running in front of him and jumping around? It's simply saying "come and mess with me" written on his face.

Harold still remembered the fate of the sages of the theory of life and the theory of cause who opposed Azar in the game. If he made trouble at this critical juncture, Azar might let him go because of his achievements, but he would definitely be imprisoned for ten days or half a month.

Besides, Xumi’s thesis does not necessarily have to “propose something, establish something” in order to be written, nor does it mean that research cannot be carried out without bringing out the wisdom of great men of the past.

For his first paper in this world, Harold plans to complete it on his own using the existing experimental methods in this world. He believes this will be a good experience.

As a scholar, there is still some obsession in my bones.

Turning to the first page of the notebook filled with writing again, Harold used a feather pen dipped in red ink to cross out the bold words he had written a few days ago.

At this point, he had rejected all five topics he had drafted a week ago, leaving only one.

But this last one is also difficult to do, although it is the research direction most likely to produce results in the short term and is the one that can bring him the most fame so far.

But it has a fatal flaw.

It's a bit laborious.

Harold's target is the Prankster, who is known as the "Newbie Killer" in the game.

This flower will disguise itself as a Sweet Flower and attack animals and humans. People who have played Genshin Impact probably have had the experience of being beaten to a pulp by a Sweet Flower when they were a newbie, and they also know that the Sweet Flower will drop Sweet Nectar.

This is what Harold wanted to study, and to be precise, all the topics he thought of at the beginning were related to each other.

It's not related to the deceptive flower, but to [sugar].

I wonder if you have noticed when playing the game that there is no "sugarcane" and "beets" in the continent of Teyvat. I also wonder if you still remember the issue of "substitutes" that Harold mentioned when comparing the creatures of the two regions of Teyvat and Blue Star.

There are no sugarcane or beets on the continent of Teyvat, so what do the people of Teyvat use to make sugar?

The answer is sweet flower.

However, the efficiency of making sugar from the sweet flower is not high. Only the stem of the sweet flower can be used to make sugar. The stem of the sweet flower is easy to squeeze juice and has a high sugar content. The Tevat people make sugar by mashing the stem of the sweet flower into juice and then using lime precipitation, steaming and other methods to obtain sugar. The general process is the same as the method of making sugar from sugarcane.

But what is the efficiency of sugar production from sugarcane? What is the efficiency of sugar production from sweet flowers?

Just by comparing the sizes of the two, you can probably guess that the manpower and financial resources consumed in making sugar from sweet sugar flowers are several times more than those consumed in making sugar from sugarcane.

Look at the price of sugar in the grocery store in the game. 450 Mora can only buy a small can. Cream and butter are not that expensive!

The price of jam made with sugar is as high as 1500 Mora per jar, which is more expensive than crab roe.

The price of sugar is relatively high, which is in line with the reality of the continent of Teyvat.

Harold thought.

Why is this game always so particular about weird things?

In short, Harold thought of improving the sugar-making technology in the continent of Teyvat.

The first topic that came to his mind was to find raw materials that could replace sweet flowers.

Initially, he set his sights on Dun Dun peach and date palm, which are specialties of Xumi and both have relatively high sugar content.

The number of wild Dun Dun peaches in the Sumeru rainforest is far higher than that of wild sweet flowers. The rainforest climate and geographical conditions are very suitable for large-scale cultivation of Dun Dun peaches. In the Sumeru environment, Dun Dun peaches can mature twice a year. The land of the continent of Teyvat contains elemental power. As long as there is no disturbance in the earth veins, there is no need to worry about the loss of nutrients in the land.

Just plant it and it's done.

There are also date palms, which are simply sweet flowers in the desert.

The main source of sugar for the people in the Xumi Desert region is date palms, but they have not developed a method to extract sugar from date palms. Instead, they add dates directly to dishes to add sweetness to food.

When Harold first learned about this, he was shocked. What kind of life do these desert people live? Are they primitive people?

The flower-growing people on the blue planet were able to make maltose in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and Europeans began industrializing sugar production in the Middle Ages. Are there still people in Teyvat who eat date palms as sugar?

However, the technological level of the continent of Teyvat has always been a mystery. Even though video recorders have just begun to appear, Fontaine's intelligent robots are already running all over the place, yet Inazuma is still pursuing a policy of isolation.

From Mondstadt to Liyue and then to Inazuma, the traveler seemed to have experienced the period from the Middle Ages to the Republic of China and then to Heian-kyo.

Cough cough cough, we’ve gone off topic again.

Anyway, industrial sugar production is a good research direction.

As long as you find the right raw materials for sugar-making, the process of sugar-making is simple and easy to understand, and it can quickly improve the lives of the people of Teyvat. It's simply amazing.

But problems also followed.

Making sugar, easy.

The paper is difficult to write and cannot be written.

As I said just now, if you want to write about sugar making, you can't just write about sugar making. Haroldt must first write about why Dun Dun peaches and dates can be used to make sugar. He must attach the sugar content of Dun Dun peaches and dates, as well as the data comparison of sugar making from Dun Dun peaches, date palms and sweet flower.

Before that he has to write a paper explaining how he calculated the sugar content.

Then when he found that he could finally study and write about sugar making, he had already become a sage.

What's the point of writing a thesis? The official duties of Amiledo College will crush him.

What? Can I write after get off work?

What kind of nice person would write a paper after get off work? !

That's not how the curling works. He is the curling king, not a black slave.

Hey.

It's really not easy to write a paper.

Finally, he decided to put aside the research on making sugar from Dun Dun peaches and date palms and focus on studying the cultivation of Pian Pian flowers first.

In the game, Phantom Flame is called the "newbie killer", while in the real continent of Teyvat it can be called the "human killer". Harold checked the void and found that countless ordinary people die at the hands of Phantom Flame every year. Even people with the Eye of God have to weigh their own weight when they meet Phantom Flame.

Harold thought about it, then picked up the pen and circled the third topic he had crossed out, [Improvement of the process of making sweet flower sugar]. It was too simple and inconspicuous, and the benefits it brought were minimal. It could be said to be very useless.

It would be fine if he was not a special admission, because such a paper would not cause any waves. There are so many people in the Academy of Education who write strange papers, and one more like him would not make much difference.

But the problem is that he is a special student, and the paper he writes will most likely become a dagger against the "special student" by those who are interested:

Look at those who can get recommendation letters, and their level is only this high.

The recommendation system should be abolished as soon as possible. It should have been abolished hundreds of years ago. Apart from shady dealings, I don't know what the tutor's recommendation letter can bring to the House of Religious Orders.

...

Harold could already imagine what those people would say if he really wrote the paper like this.

And he really couldn't refute it. The quality of the paper was there. Its mediocrity was objective. It was destined to be mediocre from the moment the topic was chosen. On this subject, could Haroldt write something brilliant about it?

Even if El Haisen comes to the rescue, it won’t work. Hai Ge will suggest that he just start over.

It would be good if he could write a series of follow-up papers soon afterwards, such as [High Performance Liquid Chromatography - A New Method for Separating Plant Pigments Based on Adsorption Principle], [Determination of Sucrose and Fructose Contents in Tiantian Flowers by High Performance Liquid Chromatography], [Determination of Sucrose and Fructose Contents in Dundun Peach by High Performance Liquid Chromatography], and [On the Superiority of Dundun Peach Sugar Production Based on High Performance Liquid Chromatography].

If he could have published these papers at lightning speed, the first one, "Improvements in the Process of Making Sweet Flower Sugar," which would have nailed him to the pillar of shame for special admissions, would have been praised as "the last breeze before the storm that swept the academic world."

Oh, damn, there is no concept of sucrose and fructose in Teyvat. After all, there is not even sugarcane. Then I have to add an article [Research on the classification of sugar - sucrose, fructose, glucose].

What the hell is that?

Given Xumi's current level of technology, he would be expelled from the Academy of Education due to pressure from public opinion before he could customize his experimental equipment.

Harold is a very realistic person. He has no interest in playing games of chasing each other with other scholars in Xumi or the top leaders of the Institute of the Church. Therefore, [Improvement of the process of making sweet flowers] became the second plan that Harold rejected.

But now, Harold had to consider it as one of the backup plans.

Because it's too difficult to cheat on flowers.