However, for Chen Xu, there is no difference between wine and vinegar, he is now wine and vinegar, and he doesn't know how to make wine at all, the only thing he knows is that grapes can make wine, since it can make wine, it should also be able to make vinegar, and whatever it is brewed can be considered successful, this is the advantage that two thousand years of civilization brought him.

Just like he can't make iron, but he knows that coal can reach the temperature of smelting steel, this era is not short of smelting craftsmen, but there is a lack of theoretical scientists, just like the later generation of Einstein proposed the theory of relativity, and then there will be countless scientists to constantly test to verify the accuracy and correctness of the theory of relativity, if there is no theory of relativity, then many scientists will lose their research direction, and the science of the earth will be chaotic or even stagnant.

Therefore, Chen Xu's biggest advantage is that he knows the direction in which human science and technology will develop, he knows coal, oil, gunpowder, steel, cement, basic elements in nature, some simple chemical reactions, knows some simple mechanical principles and physical knowledge, knows where cotton is, knows where potatoes and sweet potatoes and corn are, knows where peppers are, knows the overview of the earth's oceans and land, knows the principle of refraction and reflection of light, and knows the agricultural machinery of later generations. I know the compass printing, I know that the sky is not round, the earth is not square, and I know that China is not actually in the center, but only a corner of the earth......

These things that later generations of primary school students know are the key to his ability to develop step by step, many things he can't, but he just needs to know how to find it, how to apply it, human civilization is driven by prophets and wise men, so Chen Xu decided to be the prophet and wise man who guides civilization, not just a craftsman.

Of course, as a wise man, you also need to be well fed and clothed, and you need to use your own actions to let others see your ability as a wise man, which is the same as those modern celebrities and scholars who give speeches everywhere and open museums to teach apprentices, only in this way can you continuously improve your reputation, so that many people can benefit from it, and willingly follow your own development, so that you will not be frozen to death if you are warm in a group.

Although it is poor at the moment, it is necessary to get some wine without violating the Qin law to improve the quality of life, and at the same time, it can also slowly open up another way to make money, the most important thing is to let the farmers in ten miles and eight towns follow to earn a little money to subsidize their families, and slowly change the current state of extreme poverty.

In this era, whether it is tea or grapes, it is dependent on natural wild plants to provide raw materials, so the yield will be very unstable, just like tea, the finished product effect is also very difficult to predict, but in any case, wine is not complicated, it can be obtained after simple fermentation, and the taste is not easy to predict, but as long as it is wine, you must know that the so-called wine is not even the rice wine of later generations, it is a very turbid water wine, the taste is bland, and the alcohol content is estimated to be only two or three degreesTherefore, the alcohol content of the wine is not too high and Chen Xu does not have too high requirements, and it is satisfied when it reaches the level of the beer of later generations.

When the time comes, eat barbecue and drink wine, well, the same as eating chocolate on a rainy day, it goes well.

Soon, two helpers from the winery came to help Uncle Ma and others weigh the mountain grapes, a total of 130 catties, one dollar and five catties, and more than 20 yuan.

"Xiao Xu, I don't want the money, this time I brought it by the way anyway, and it didn't take much time!" Uncle Ma looked at the copper coins handed over and waved his hand again and again.

"Xiao Xu, Uncle is right, just a few catties of mountain grapes, it turns out that no one eats on the rotten mountain, it is too much to give money!"

"Hehe, Xiao Xu, I haven't drunk the wine yet, I don't want the money, just brew the wine and make it with me for a pound and a half!" A villager said with a smile licking his mouth.

Looking at the simple smiling faces of a group of villagers, Chen Xu waved his sleeves very cheerfully and said, "Okay, then please drink at that time!" ”

"Very good, very good!" Uncle Ma was also a little excited, licked his mouth and said, "I still drank seven or eight years ago, that time I caught an injured tiger in the village, carried it to the county government to receive the reward, the county order also rewarded a jar of wine, came back to drink once, that time Xiaoxu your father was also there, I clearly remember that the arrow that hit the tiger was shot by him, he was drunk that day, and your mother quarreled for most of the night, and gave birth to an apricot the following year......

"Haha......"

Chen Xu: ......

Chen Jiang retreated to the side in shame and didn't dare to join in the fun.

Uncle Ma and a group of villagers handed over the grapes, and then carried the basket to go shopping to buy some daily necessities, some time ago the village digging medicinal herbs every household got dozens of hundreds of money, which is a big income, so this time to buy some daily necessities, pottery bowls, clay pots, kitchen knives and linen salt, etc., because Chen Xu was busy, Niu Dashi volunteered to take Chen Jiang and Xing'er to play together.

And Chen Xu also happened to take the time to guide a few helpers in the winery to process the grapes.

There are more mountain grapes, although the mountain people in Shili and Eight Villages do not all know that the town wants to harvest mountain grapes, but they still have seven or eight hundred catties down, and they are piled up in more than ten rattan baskets in the pergola. (Note again: The Qin Dynasty only had half a catty in later generations, and seven or eight hundred catties was only about two hundred kilograms, which is not particularly terrifying, lest some friends complain about my scribbling.) ）

Although it seems to be a lot, but in addition to the vines and those that are not fully ripe, less than half of them can really be used to make wine, and there are also long worms and damaged, and nearly one-third of them have to be removed, so after processing, only less than 300 catties can really be used to make wine, and the remaining green fruits are wasted, and you can try to make vinegar.

But whether it is winemaking or vinegar, it is experimental for Chen Xu.

Anyway, he is going to spend money to brew the wine, not to mention that five catties of mountain grapes are only a penny, and the raw materials are very cheap, but the expensive ones are the large and small clay pots and clay jars used for winemaking.

For this era when all kinds of handicrafts are not developed, especially the pottery industry, the larger the shape of the vessel, the more difficult it is to make, so the more expensive, a pottery workshop in the town will not make the maximum diameter of the device on weekdays will not exceed one meter, and it can only be made into a wide mouth and shallow bottom of the pottery pot, Chen Xu has one at home, has been used for more than 20 years, or Chen Xu's grandfather bought it when he was alive, it belongs to the ancestral object, old and precious.

The winery customized a total of nearly 20 clay jars and dozens of clay pots, ranging in diameter from one foot to four feet, all placed in the thatched house, and cost Chen Xu nearly 1,500 yuan in total.

The reason why you want to get so many clay jars is because Chen Xu can't make wine, so he can only make a few more jars and experiment slowly, once it doesn't work, twice, three times or five times, and in addition to opening mountain grapes, there will be wild fruits such as pears and hawthorns in autumn, you can try to get it, anyway, the thirteen thousand yuan that Yu Wuya got back for him last time was only half spent, enough for him to toss, and the money can only be spent to promote circulation, and the purchase of these things will let the money fall into the hands of the villagers, and then the villagers will buy other daily necessities in the town, It will promote the benefits of various workshops and merchants, and the more people who buy and sell, the business can become prosperous, and at the same time, the villagers can slowly buy their belongings, and their lives can gradually improve.

The simplest ones are hoes and axes, if a family is poor and does not have any of these things, then they will not be able to farm well, and the less they plant, the worse the harvest will be, and the poll tax that should be paid cannot be less, so they will only get poorer and poorer, and finally they can only wait for death in a state of complete poverty.

But Chen Xu spent the money he earned from Wancheng in the town, which was actually a disguised increase in the liquidity of the currency, and the sufficiency of the currency would promote commercial demand, and the blacksmiths in the blacksmith shop could have more money to go to the county seat to buy copper ingots and buy scrap copper for processing. The burlap shop will buy more hemp to weave cloth, and the farmers who grow hemp can sell more hemp to increase their income, and then buy hoe knives to expand their planting, which is a virtuous circle, although the money does not produce value, but will promote the development of various industries.

Coupled with Chen Xu's continuous improvement of various farm tools and tools, as long as he persists for a year, Chen Xu believes that the situation within the scope of Qinghe Town will be greatly improved, at least this year he feels that the entire Qinghe Town will not starve to death again.

Because through medicinal materials, he has paid 300 stone tax grain from the county commander, plus 500 stone of grain from the mountain bandits' nest, this is his confidence, not to mention that there is Shui Qingrou to help make and sell tea in Wancheng, and the pills and medicinal powders made by the pharmaceutical workshop can also be sent to the Shui family to sell by the way, and the money earned will be brought to Qinghe Town, and a large amount of investment will be smashed, a small town of less than 3,000 people, and it will be unreasonable to toss for a few years and not be rich.

As for the matter of the Shui family, Yu Wuya once assured him that there would be no accidents, although Chen Xu didn't believe in this foodie very much, but now he could only believe that in fact, it didn't matter if the Shui family helped him or not, because he had a better candidate in his hands, who might help him develop the pharmaceutical workshop into a large pharmaceutical factory.

A new wooden house was built next to the medicine shop, and all the things with high medicinal and edible value were yams, wild arrowroot, poria cocos and honey, and Chen Xu also collected a lot of other slightly precious medicinal materials, such as licorice, sour jujube skin (this thing is also called dogwood, a wild small wild fruit, a bit like wolfberry after drying), rehmannia root, angelica angelica (this thing also has a name called Duhuo) and other medicinal materials.

It is not an exaggeration to say that this place in Henan is the cradle and birthplace of the development of Chinese civilization, this place is in the middle of the Jianghan Plain and the Huanghuai Plain, just on the dividing line between the north and the south of China, so whether it is the climate, products, resources, transportation, etc., the north and south are eaten, the four seasons are distinct, the water source is sufficient, the resources are abundant, the land is fertile, so Henan is not only a large grain producing province, but also a large resource province, recently Chen Xu found that Qinghe Town can find almost all kinds of plants and medicinal materials in the north and south, and it is also extremely rich.

And what surprised Chen Xu even more was that after he picked up Xu Fu recently, he found that the medical experts of the Qin Dynasty actually had a very rich understanding of herbal medicine, and they also had a preliminary or even very clear understanding of the medicinal properties of many herbs, at least in the past half a month, Xu Fu has brought him a new understanding of people in this era.

That is, this guy Xu Fu not only knows a lot of herbs and understands a lot of medicinal properties, but also has a very deep understanding of curing diseases, and even this guy can perform surgery, which completely changed his prejudice that the Qin Dynasty's medical and Taoist warlocks were all dancing gods at the beginning.

And Xu Fu's inheritance is very mysterious, he has lived by the sea since he was a child, so he especially likes rowing, when he was fifteen years old, once he drove a small boat alone to row to an island dozens of miles away, on the island he met a strange-looking old man, as for how the old man looked strange, he didn't explain it for a long time, because the Qin Dynasty people described people's appearance words are relatively poor, just like scolding, turning over and over is villain, wild bi, rotten wood, mud, dung and the like, Far less colorful than the scolding words of later generations, the scolding of the mountain village will also come to your wife to show respect, but that's all, so the appearance of this old man is a long face, thick lips, broad eyebrows, long beard, cheeks with many lines, a tumor on the forehead, a snow-white beard, wearing a kudzu dress like an old fairy.

And the next section is also very strange, after this old man met him, he asked him so much like the sea, and he likes rowing so much, do you know that there are five ancient sacred mountains overseas?

Xu Fu said that he didn't know, and the old man told him that eight thousand miles away from the East China Sea, he could find Yingzhou, one of the three sacred mountains floating in the sea in ancient times, with immortal grass that brought the dead back to life and prolonged life, and also gave him a Taoist medical book called "The Inner Path of the Ghost Valley", telling him to learn the above medical skills, and when the time comes, someone will come to beg him to go to sea to find fairy grass, so that you can swim in the sea to visit the fairy mountain, and you can be happy overseas.

So in order to achieve the goal of swimming in the sea and being happy, Xu Fu temporarily put down his favorite boating activity, went home and began to study medicine, a few years later, he became a very famous doctor in Qi State, but he waited and waited, and waited until Qin Shi Huang unified China, and no one came to him to go to sea to find immortal mountains and immortal medicines, so he decided to go to the capital of Great Qin to try his luck, because he heard that now the First Emperor is looking for doctors and Taoists all over the world to help him find the elixir of immortality, It happened that a friend in Xianyang sent a letter inviting him to go to Xianyang to study a medical prescription, so he happily prepared to go to Xianyang, and by the way he met Qin Shi Huang to see if he could get an official and a half position to hang up a post of imperial doctor, and then tell the first emperor about Yingzhou Xiandao, so that it was possible to fulfill his childhood dream of swimming in the sea.

As the saying goes, a sailor who doesn't want to conquer the sea is not a good doctor.

Xu Fu decided to be a good doctor and conquer the sea by the way.

However, he didn't expect the rumors of a disciple of the Immortal Family to make him fall into the mountain bandit's nest.

However, he was lucky, and he was rescued by Chen Xu and others before he was sleepy.