As time passed, the temperature gradually decreased, and Liangcun began to enter the coldest winter of the year. However, even so, the mountains and wilderness around Liang Village are still green and vibrant. At the same time, the cold air seems to be scorched by the hot labor scenes at grain stations, highways and other places, indicating that the villagers are making great strides towards a fiery tomorrow.

Liu Rui and others were unmoved in the face of huge pressure from the outside world to buy shares, and still implemented the previous plan step by step. After the overall planning and design plan was released, they immediately invited the construction team of the construction company to settle in the grain station, which opened the prelude to the large-scale construction of the grain station. In order to handle the affairs of the grain station, Liu Rui even invited three strong laborers to his home to help his father steam rice and make wine, reducing his father's mana. Of course, the three villagers invited were just able to help Liu Jiahong do some rough work, and they couldn't get access to specific wine-making techniques.

Liu Rui is not worried that his secret will be stolen, because the key to making wine in Liu's Distillery now lies in the secret koji and the magical space spring water. The recipe for the Liu family's special koji is kept secret, and no one else in the Liu family knows about it except for Liu Rui and Liu Jiahong. In addition, the existence of the space spring is even more of a secret, and only Liu Rui knows it in his heart. Therefore, even if the external workers know all the winemaking processes and details of the Liujia Distillery, they still can't make a wine as mellow and fragrant as the Liujia Distillery.

By handing over those repetitive labor with very low technical content to external workers, Liu Rui can be regarded as freed from tedious repetitive labor. At this time, Liu Rui has gradually understood the truth that laborers are controlled by others, and those who work hard are controlled by others. In the past, due to the lack of funds of the Liu family and the small scale of the winery, the cost of external employees was not cost-effective, so many things were done by Liu Rui himself. Basically, Liu Rui is tied up in the wine shop every day, or he goes out to deliver wine, and basically there is no room for free movement.

With the growth of the winery, the workload has increased sharply, and it is impossible to rely on Liu Rui and Liu Jiahong alone, so the hiring of external workers is also an inevitable trend. The Liu family offered a salary of 600 yuan per month, which immediately caused a strong sensation in Liang Village!

In this era when rice was only five cents a catty, the wages of ordinary civil servants were only a little more than before, and if a peasant could obtain a salary of 600 yuan in drought and flood, it would be a great thing. It is not very hard to go to Liu's house to help make wine, every day is to steam rice, dry rice, and take care of the stove fire of the boiler to distill wine. This kind of work is just a bit tedious, repetitive work, and it is not hard work. What's more, after making wine at Liu's house every day, you can go home and take care of the family's crops, which can be described as the best of both worlds!

Under various favorable conditions, these jobs of the Liu family have been greatly welcomed by the villagers, and there is an endless stream of door-to-door applicants. Liu Rui, who was a little unexpected, finally selected three middle-aged men around forty years old after some selection, which opened the prelude to the recruitment of employees in Liujia Distillery.

The reason why Liu Rui recruited these employees who were the same age as Liu Jiahong was out of deep-seated considerations, and it was not implemented casually.

First of all, most of the men of this age have already started a family, most of them are old and young, and most of them yearn for a stable and down-to-earth life, once they have a job with a lot of salary, they will not give up easily. If some young men in their early twenties have not yet decided their hearts, I am afraid that they are not willing to work in a small wine shop in Liang Village all the time.

Don't look at the fact that there is not much technical content in the winery, but after Liu Rui came to the new employees, he had to let Liu Jiahong teach the employees some specific tricks. It is only after learning and a lot of time that these newly recruited employees can be considered to grow and become qualified employees. Liu Rui hopes that his employees are all familiar hands, so that they can improve work efficiency and reduce some losses. After all, the workers have a deep understanding of the various processes involved in the brewery's brewing, which also helps the brewery to improve its efficiency.

In addition, Liu Rui also took a fancy to these employees and his father Liu Jiahong, who are about the same age and experience, and can talk and chat in their spare time in winemaking, so as to make labor easier.

In addition, a common feature of these employees is that they do not have too many fields, ponds, orchards, etc., and there are not many income channels, so such villagers are always able to cherish everything in front of them and work harder. Since these villagers don't have much property at home, they won't be distracted too much and can focus more on the winery.

In this way, Liu Rui set some requirements for the winery to recruit employees, and these conditions gradually became a major feature of the Liujia winery.

In the most glorious time of the Liujia Distillery before the liberation, there were more than a dozen long-term workers in the distillery, as well as technical supervisors and shopkeepers. At that time, Liujia Distillery was already a medium-sized, well-organized small enterprise. Every day, thousands of catties of rice wine flow out of the winery, and these mellow flavors follow the footsteps of the caravan to the Indochina Peninsula, achieving the reputation of Liujia Winery.

It's just that under the influence of various unfavorable factors after liberation, almost all of Liujia Distillery has been swept into the pile of old papers of history and disappeared in people's memory. Through the joint efforts of the Liu family father and son, the Liu family winery finally began to recover and became an important industry on which the Liu family depended for their livelihood.

The emergence of Shennong space and the magical effect of space spring water have made the production of Liujia Distillery improve by several grades overnight, which inspired Liu Rui's idea and confidence to carry forward the distillery. As a result, the Liu family began to make koji with the ancestral secret recipe, and expanded the winery to the highest output of 1,000 catties of rice. Now, there is a new winery that has begun to recruit employees, which has become the focus of attention of Liangcun people.

Every morning, when the smoke began to rise in the farmer's kitchen at the foot of the mountain, the new winery in the backyard of the Liu family was already red and steamy. This kind of hot scene lasts until about 12 o'clock every day, and the day's work at the brewery is not over until the rice wine is distilled out of the pot and the rice stall is mixed with koji. Of course, this is that Liu Rui has not completely opened the market in the county, and brewing 500 catties of rice per day is already the limit. If sales increase in the future, the distillery may have to increase its manpower, and then achieve two shifts to reach the scale of brewing 1,000 catties per day.

With the addition of employees, Liu Jiahong has become much easier, and he does some odd work in the winery every day, and as for those heavy repetitive labor, it is gradually handed over to the employees. No, now the employees are breaking up the steamed rice on the mat in the open space of the winery, and Liu Jiahong is talking to Liu Rui while weighing the koji on the side.

"Rui'er, external employees shouldn't leak secrets, right?" Liu Jiahong was still a little worried about the leakage of the secret recipe, and asked a little nervously.

"Dad, don't worry!" Liu Rui looked at his father's nervous look, and said with a smile: "The secret of our rice wine is in the recipe of koji, as long as you don't say it, who can know the secret?" Without koji, even if someone else learns all the processes of sake brewing, it is useless! ”

Liu Rui knows that as long as there is a unique killer feature like space spring water, the rice wine brewed in the winery can only get better and better, and there is no need to worry about being stolen.

"That's good!" Hearing his son's assurance, Liu Jiahong felt a lot more relieved, and the sadness on his face dissipated a little.

"Dad, don't think about it!" Liu Rui knew that his father had been a little uncomfortable because he had been doing less work recently, so he said with a smile: "Anyway, in the future, you can do some technical guidance in the winery to ensure the quality and yield of rice wine, and leave other things to me to deal with!" ”

"Hmm!" Liu Jiahong looked at his son's resolute face and broad shoulders, and knew that his son had become his pillar, which was both happy and lost.

Recently, my son didn't know how to move his grandfather, so he actually lent out the last of the Zhang family's family and invested it in the newly established 'Ruilan Company' at the grain station. The investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars shocked Liu Jiahong and made him feel extremely frightened, if the investment failed, the consequences would be unimaginable! No matter what the return on his son's investment in the grain station is, the winery and him should be the strongest backing for his son, even if his son is bleeding when he hits outside, he still has a chance to make a comeback when he goes home.

As soon as he thought of this, Liu Jiahong regarded the winery more and more important. Although he now has three employees, he has basically taken over all the rough work and heavy work of the winery, Liu Jiahong still does not dare to let go of all the technical work related to the quality of rice wine.

For example, the weighing and spreading of koji, the control of rice temperature, and the mastery of the amount of steamed rice will greatly affect the yield and quality of rice wine, so Liu Jiahong is naturally sloppy.

But fortunately, his son knew what he was thinking, and he was not in a hurry to retire himself, but handed over the work of the winery to himself, which made Liu Jiahong, who was in his early forties, feel a passion for entrepreneurship. Now Liu Jiahong no longer wants to manage other industries, and the focus of his life is now on the winery, hoping that through hard work, the winery will regain its former glory!

"Brother Hua Zhang, they came to pick up the brewing equipment of the old winery, and after a while, after they make wine, we can stop the brewing of low-grade rice wine and hand over those customers to them!" Liu Rui thought about it in his heart and said: "At that time, the special secret recipe koji can also be used, and in the future, the new liquor shop will use those koji to start producing more high-end liquor!" ”

"You can rest assured about this, Dad won't be old and confused!" Seeing that his son reminded himself very carefully, Liu Jiahong smiled and said.

These strategies were already agreed upon when the decision was made to sell the brewing equipment, and now all Liu Jiahong has to do is execute.

During this period of time, Liu Jiahong has taught Wang Huazhang how to make wine by hand, and the details of every process have been told to him. Fortunately, Wang Huazhang is not too stupid, after less than half a month of study, he has gradually mastered the technique of winemaking, and his reading power is also good.

Just when the father and son were still discussing some things about the future, the sound of a 'Tututu' walk-behind tractor came from outside the courtyard gate, which was also mixed with Xiao Hei's somewhat ruffian cry. Liu Rui walked out of the front yard and took a look, and found that the three fathers and sons of the Wang family had already entered the courtyard with smiles on their faces.

On the courtyard dam, a small walk-behind tractor driven by a 12-horsepower Yuchai diesel engine is lying quietly horizontally, with mottled mud and angular bodies, all of which have a kind of steel power. This small walk-behind tractor is the most common agricultural machinery in the countryside of Aoyama and can be found everywhere.

These tractors remove the back of the body and replace it with non-skid steel wheels, which can be turned into small iron cattle for plowing and raking fields. Aoyama is a typical southern hilly area, and the rolling terrain makes it rare for the farmland here to be flat and unlimited. Compared with the situation in the north, where large-scale mechanized agricultural production can be realized, Qingshan County is more suitable for intensive agricultural production. As a result, this small agricultural machinery with small size and easy steering is very suitable for the situation of many Qingyun terraces and has become one of the good helpers of farmers.

When the fields are not ploughed, the back of the tractor is hung with a car body, which has become the most common means of transportation in the Qingshan countryside, greatly improving the labor efficiency of the villagers. These walk-behind tractors can bring paddy home, send farmyard manure to the field, load goods into the city, and turn them into vehicles to take the villagers into the city!

Today, Wang Shaojun drove his own walk-behind tractor to Liu's house, ready to transport the brewing equipment home.

"Old man, here we are!" Seeing his old buddy coming, a knowing smile appeared on Liu Jiahong's face.

"Did you make wine today?" Wang Huaqiang nodded and asked.

"Lao Liao, they're busy inside, let's move the boiler out first!" Liu Jiahong pointed to the smoking chimney in the backyard and said.

On the side, Liu Rui, Wang Shaozhang and Wang Shaojun chatted for a while, and then there was not much verbosity, and they began to enter the old winery to disassemble the wine-making equipment.

Although this set of brewing equipment was purchased three years ago, because the Liu family pays attention to maintenance in the process of using it, and there will be no action to destroy the surname, so this set of equipment still looks brand new and abnormal.

The whole set of equipment is made of aluminum alloy, and the whole body is silvery-white, although it looks like it has the coldness of metal, but it is actually quite light.

Brewing equipment is mainly divided into several parts, and each part is fixed and sealed with screws and gaskets with pipe fairyland. If you want to relocate, you have to remove all the screws and disassemble them.

The main body of the boiler, this is the core of the equipment, whether it is to steam rice or distill rice wine, the steam required is generated from here. A boxy cabinet is a steaming cabinet for steaming rice, put an appropriate amount of rice and water in a tray basin, put it in a steaming cabinet and seal it, and it can be cooked thoroughly by steam for about 40 minutes. In addition, a conical apparatus is a container for distilling rice sake, and the fermented sake lees are put into it, and high-temperature steam is introduced to make the sake lees boil in a short time. With its volatile physical characteristics, the alcohol can easily pass through the pipes on top of the retort to the condenser. The condenser is also made of aluminum alloy, and the pipe is somewhat twisted and wound, in order to increase the contact area with the external condensate, accelerate the condensation of alcohol, and finally flow into the wine bottle through the pipe.

This set of brewing equipment is not complicated to be honest, and after Liu Rui and Wang Shaozhang were busy for a while, they had already removed all the screws. After that, it became so easy that a few people could easily move the very light parts out of the old brewery and onto the body of the walk-behind tractor.

Wang Shaojun started the small walk-behind tractor and drove home, while Wang Shaozhang and Wang Huaqiang sat on the rider a little nervously, staring at the equipment cautiously, for fear that the equipment would be bumped into it.

Once these aluminum alloy equipment is damaged, not to mention that someone in Liang Village can repair it, even in Qingyun Town, no one can deal with it. Because sewing and welding aluminum alloy requires acetylene oxygen welding equipment, every time it needs to be repaired, it can only be sent to the manufacturer in the county, which is very troublesome.

The water quality in Liangcun is a bit hard, and after the boiler is used for a long time, it is inevitable that there will be scale deposits, and it will also corrode the bottom of the boiler. In addition, when burning firewood, it is inevitable that there will be bumps and bumps, so Liu Jiahong has also encountered several boiler leaks in recent years, all of which were disassembled and sent to the county for maintenance, which is extremely troublesome.

After coming to the Wang family, several people worked together to move all the equipment through the gate of the Wang family, but before that, everyone had to cross the brazier at the threshold. This is also a custom in Liang Village, no matter whether the things bought back are new or old, they have to go over the fire once. In this way, it indicates that the unclean things that these things bring outside will be burned by a fire, and it indicates that the future life will be prosperous.

When he came to the Wang family, he put it inside, and Liu Rui began to instruct the Wang family father and son to start installing the whole set of equipment. This set of equipment is not complicated, and Liu Rui also gave guidance when he built the winery before, so there is no problem in installing it step by step according to the location of the Liu family.

In order for Wang Shaozhang to get on the right track of production as soon as possible, Liu Rui specially pushed off the work of the grain station and spent this morning helping the Wang family install and debug the equipment. However, the installation work was quite smooth, but at ten o'clock in the morning, the whole equipment had been installed, and at first glance it looked like it was originally in the Wang family's winery.

The blazing fire began to burn, the water temperature on the thermometer also rose in a straight line, there was no water leakage, no air leakage, and the whole set of equipment was running normally!

The successful relocation of the winery indicates that the Liu family can concentrate on producing high-end rice wine, and Wang Shaozhang can also start to make a fortune by making wine and raising pigs!

(To be continued)