260 The Divine Decree (2nd Watch)
If you have to be curious, you can take a closer look to find that the color of this fruit wine is crystal clear like a jewel in the sun, and it actually has some brilliant colors.
Cheng Zhaoer is still very proud of the production of fruit wine.
This fruit wine is said to be wine, more like fruit juice, and when you drink it, it has a little taste of wine, but the light one is negligible, and it can be drunk as a juice or a juice-type cocktail in the previous life.
For more than a month since it was sold, men don't like it, but big girls and little daughters-in-law, and even some ladies will come to book this fruit wine for banquets.
If you want to talk about the method, in fact, Cheng Zhaoer still cheated.
In his previous life, he had seen others use the method of distillation to make wine, Cheng Zhaoer not only imitated this method, but also made gauze with cotton cloth, which was specially used to filter the sediment and impurities in the fruit wine.
But it doesn't matter if the cost is high, this wine Cheng Zhaoer also takes the high-end route, even if the cost is high, the price is also high, and the ladies and ladies are given, and it sells very well.
In addition to fruit wine, there are also some grain wines, which follow the distillation method, and are not turbid at all! Not only that, the alcohol content is also high, and all kinds of medicinal herbs or health ingredients are brewed with these, and they are specially bought and sold in medicinal wine or health wine.
These wines have won the likes of many old people or those who do coolies, and the famous Chengwei Dart Bureau in Changshun City now comes to buy wine regularly.
The dart master who bought the wine said well, and the dart master of the Chengwei Dart Bureau likes to drink. Drinking not only makes me feel energetic, but I also feel warm all over my body.
After drinking for a month, I don't know if it's a delusion, and I feel that I am more energetic in practicing martial arts on weekdays.
It's just that at this time, Cheng Zhaoer's wine has gradually stopped selling.
Not for any other reason, but for a real time when the grain is in short supply!
Sure enough, as the farmers are worried about, this year's Changshun City is really not smooth in the wind and rain, from the early spring to the end of spring and now the summer solstice, still not a drop of rain falls. It's really a response to "Spring rain is as expensive as oil!" That's it.
Many farmers look at their land. They all sighed one after another. Even prayed for blessings and rain, but a lot of money was spent, and the rain still couldn't fall!
It's just that. This is not to say that human beings can control it. Almost all experienced crop handles can already be predicted to a large extent. This year, Changshun City can't escape the bad luck and has entered a dry year!
How much old grain can be left from the previous year? There are still so many people at home who are waiting to be fed, and food is becoming more and more precious. In such a situation, people still do not have enough to eat, and where is there food to make wine.
Cheng Zhaoer didn't force it, and stopped for the time being when this batch of wine was sold. The accompanying fruit wine also stopped.
It's one thing to earn money, but food is a life-saving thing, and you can earn it again when the money is gone, and if you can't save your life, you'll have nothing left!
Take 10,000 steps back, even if Cheng Zhaoer continues to sell alcohol, it will be too eye-catching, isn't it, maybe it will arouse the hatred of the people and want to vent her anger.
Besides, every household is not in the mood now, and things like banquets have basically stopped.
Not only those people, but also Cheng Zhaoer himself, were also affected.
All this originated from a series of policies promulgated by the new emperor!
At the beginning of the Chinese New Year, the new emperor ascended the throne, and then issued eight holy decrees in a row. Except for some canonization of the queen and the queen mother's holy decrees. It is a series of wills aimed at the soldiers and people's livelihood at the border gates.
The first one is to appease the soldiers on the border, let them be a little restless, and move forward bravely, as the emperor, he is waiting for them to return to Jindu to add officials and become knights!
Not only that, the cotton in the hands of the households was collected in large quantities, and hundreds of thousands of cotton clothes and some warm skins were rushed to the border, and a whole team of doctors from the hospital were dispatched. Support the soldiers who are struggling against the Turkic allies at the border.
I heard that this policy has greatly boosted the morale of the border and won a battle for the first time.
Even so, the people of the Great Xia Dynasty and the new monarch of the Jin capital did not relax.
Because, the departure from the south has not stopped, and the new monarch has collected all kinds of antidote medicinal materials, sent troops, and rushed to leave the country!
The monarch of the Southern Departure and the Northern Turks have now become horns, and the monarchs of the Southern Departure Country do not know what alliance they have formed with the great leaders of the Northern Turks, and now it is a mental battle against Great Xia.
In fact, it is not just now that Nanli has not stopped, but the Emperor Taishang is a person who does not like war very much, and he boasts that he has just fought with Nanliguo, so he must not have recovered so quickly, so he didn't pay much attention to them, but he didn't expect that when Nanli disturbed the border, as if he had made an appointment, the Turks were also restless.
At this time, the Great Xia Dynasty knew that the two places were afraid that they had already united.
The new monarch is a resolute person, the way the emperor does things is completely different, as soon as he ascended the throne, he actually squeezed out 30,000 troops from other places and left the country in the south.
This means to declare war on both countries at the same time!
Such a difficult environment is no longer only a matter for the royal family and nobles to plan, but now it has become the responsibility and burden of the entire Great Xia Dynasty.
These wars and domestic disasters are like a sharp sword hanging over the head, and the slightest negligence in the thin rope will break, and once broken, it will be a catastrophe!
The rich households were all mobilized, and all of them had to donate grain, and the county magistrates and prefects in various places set up and summarized the amount of grain to be paid according to the new emperor himself, and they were collected one household at a time!
What, cry poor?! If there is not enough food, then I'm sorry, there is nothing I can do, the emperor's holy decree is to borrow and make up for the food!
Otherwise, it will be dealt with as treason!
After that, the new emperor seemed to feel that this was not enough, and continued to order the rice and grain merchants of the entire Great Xia Dynasty not to raise the price of grain, raise the price, and take the opportunity to make money in the national disaster!
As soon as these resolute wills were reached, they immediately had immediate results!
The rich families complained in their hearts and complained bitterly, but they dared not speak out, but in the end, the food and money on hand were tight, and suddenly the weekday events and banquets were not very thoughtful.
In addition, in March, the Emperor Taishang finally breathed a sigh of relief and returned to heaven, and then it was a national funeral.
Not long after the national funeral began, the former queen and the current queen mother also followed the emperor, and the whole country naturally mourned.
Where is the mood and courage to hold a banquet? (To be continued.) )