"Here, try this." Zhang Cheng, who came out of the kitchen, took a basin of ice cubes, which contained two bottles of cold red wine. This is one of the miracles called the "Holy Blood" by the Church, and it is also one of the direct and powerful evidence that Zhang Cheng is considered by the Holy See to be the reincarnation of the Messiah.

What is a miracle, because since Jesus said that wine is my blood, the clergy of the church have been growing grapes to make wine for a small 2,000 years, but they have never made such a good red wine. Not to mention that this is still a new wine of the year, and if it is aged in oak barrels for a few years, the taste will be even more mellow.

Ye Zi took a sip of the small half cup, then raised his head and drank the remaining half of the cup, and after a while waited for his body and spirit to calm down before holding the empty cup and saying, "It's delicious." Cousin, I still want it. ”

The aunt finished drinking it herself and poured another glass: "You just drink less, don't get drunk." ”

Leaf: "This wine is not intoxicating. ”

Auntie took another drink: "Be careful that foreign wine has a lot of strength." It's not cheap, is it? ”

Zhang Cheng: "The best red wine in the world is now exclusively for the Vatican. ”

Now Zhang Cheng's red wine does not need to go through the traditional new wine press conference, and find some red wine tasters to talk about the characteristics of the new wine - this is the best way for the new wine to be launched and make a reputation. Since the winery's red wine was defined as holy blood, the Vatican is ready to underwrite, as long as the money is good and there is a price, and the Vatican, as one of the richest people in the world, is not short of money.

Think about it, those tyrants who started selling oil have only been selling for a few decades, but the church has collected tithes in Europe for more than a thousand years. However, the finances of the Holy See are secret, and even Zhang Cheng, who has read the Vatican's ledgers, can only roughly estimate the Church's assets - many of them are real estate, investment, gold, and although there is a lot of cash, it is always a minority.

This year, the Vatican only took 20 barrels of red wine to prepare for the religious celebration before the New Year, and according to the agreement between the two parties, the Vatican will pay 6 million US dollars for these 20 barrels of red wine. Based on the calculation of 300 bottles of a 225-liter 750-milliliter bottle of red wine, each bottle of red wine is sold to the Vatican for 1,000 US dollars.

This may be the most expensive new wine of the year, but it is by no means the most expensive. Zhang Cheng knows that only the 1982 Lafite, which is sought after in the Chinese market, costs more than 10,000 US dollars a bottle. The real 1982 Lafite is estimated to have been drunk long ago, because 1982 was a year when Lafite's production was not very high (about 220,000 bottles), but the Chinese rich are too giving, and they have to consume hundreds of thousands of bottles of 1982 Lafite every year.

The problem arises, Lafite 1982, which has been consumed continuously for more than ten years, can still be seen at various auctions - those that are drunk and those that appear at auctions, there must be one of them fake. But it doesn't matter, because the real local tyrant doesn't care about the authenticity and taste, but only cares about whether there is an appraisal and whether the price is the highest red wine.

Zhang Cheng's quota to the Vatican and the Holy See is only a few dozen barrels a year, this is because Zhang Cheng wants to hoard red wine, and now this "holy blood" red wine is only available in his own winery. Didn't the Chinese say earlier, good wine is not afraid of deep alleys.

When his reputation faded, Zhang Cheng wanted his red wine to surpass Lafite in the Chinese market - and Zhang Cheng's red wine could not be copied, at least after drinking the real thing, you could immediately feel the fake - and the fake Lafite can only be distinguished by veteran wine lovers and professional tasters.

Why should we open the Chinese market, because the Chinese market is the largest, and the potential in the red wine sector is also the largest, and it is also the largest and best economic growth point in the world, and the economic scale and growth are also far ahead in the BRIC countries.

With the appreciation of the renminbi and the increase in purchasing power abroad, a large number of Chinese who travel abroad like to buy things back to give to relatives and friends – and even a large part of them buy for others. This kind of magnanimity is like what Zhang Cheng's friends often say: "Chinese are really rich." ”

Just like Matteo Ricci said after entering China and understanding China: "This is not a country, this is a world world." ”

Because China is the only country in the world that can be self-sufficient in a closed country, it is foreigners who can't stand it first. So at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the British came with strong ships and cannons and a five-port trade treaty, and in the seventies of the last century, the Americans came with an advance group of table tennis and Chinese food.

Ye Zi: "Cousin, isn't that only the Pope and the Bishop can drink?" ”

Zhang Cheng: "Not all, those devout believers in religious ceremonies can also drink it, and your cousin and I have some connections to buy it." ”

Well, there is some relationship, and this relationship is stronger than anyone else's - wholly owned.

Americans like to control the balance of risk and benefit (sounds familiar), many wineries and vineyards are a few dozen or even dozens of shareholders, and the real giants in the United States have long used internal share swaps to complete the great Inter Nachonar within the giants.

And the tradition of the Chinese, if possible, still eat alone to grow fat.

Zhang Cheng said, drank all the red wine in his cup, and felt the mellow aroma of red wine and the washing of life on the body Zhang Cheng thought: Bordeaux, Napa Valley, sooner or later, you will bow down one day.

Watching the owner eat and drink, the little white tiger in Ye Zi's arms 'wooed', the little white tiger that was not full moon before was as big as a cat, and if you didn't pay attention, you really thought it was a cat.

Now the three-month-old little white tiger has grown to the size of a pet dog, still drinks milk every day to replenish water and calcium, and has already begun to eat some staple foods.

Because Ye Zi will feed the baby white tiger with various foods, Zhang Cheng and his aunt realized that tigers do not have to eat meat. Of course, meat is definitely the favorite, but the little tiger with noodles and rice soaked in broth is also very fond of eating, even eating fruits, plus occasionally opening a large canned pet - this tiger was raised by his cousin in the same way as feeding Chinese pastoral dogs.

Ye Zi saw that the baby was a little greedy, and gave the little tiger the remaining half of the red wine in his cup to drink, and the little tiger added a few sips to add the cup clean, and then looked at his mother and screamed.

Ye Zi put down the cup, hugged the baby and kissed it a few times and said, "Okay, baby, open a can for you." Drink it again and you'll be drunk. ”

The little tiger screamed twice, and I don't know if Lu Dao understood and buried his head in the chest of the leaf.

Jesse said enviously, "They have such a good relationship. ”

My aunt said in English, "Because he is our family." ”

Family, remembering this word Jesse felt a little sad, his biological father died when Jesse was still young. The stepfather and mother, as well as Jesse's half-siblings, had given Jesse a warm family, but the stepfather and mother hurt her one after another.