Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Wine Workshop is Completed

Zhang Junping's actions were all under the monitoring of the Imperial City Division, and his every move was reported to Liu E, who in turn reported it to Zhao Heng.

Zhao Heng is still very satisfied with Zhang Junping's performance.

The most satisfying thing is probably that Zhang Junping has never gone to other powerful people in the past two months, and he has been busy with his own affairs when he visits the minister's house.

This is the courtier that the emperor likes, he can run a private business, but he must not form a party.

Zhang Junping is on the line at three o'clock every day, and he doesn't go to make friends with the civil and military ministers of the court, what is this? This is non-partying.

Kou Zhun has been transferred back and once again served as the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, in charge of the political affairs hall. And Ding Wei's dream of being prime minister was shattered again, and he could only succumb to the position of deputy prime minister of the governor, which also laid the fuse for the struggle between the two people.

Of course, this is also Zhao Heng's intention, and the emperors of the Song Dynasty have always adhered to a policy, that is, the ruling policy of "dissident interference" handed down by Emperor Taizu.

The so-called "dissident agitation" means that people with different political views are put in the center at the same time, serving as the chief and deputy prime ministers, and letting them check and balance each other, so as to avoid the dictatorship of the ministers.

If you so-called loyal ministers and good ministers refuse to fight among themselves, I will make two traitorous ministers to stir up trouble for you.

For example, before Wang Qinruo, Zhao Hengneng didn't know that he was a villain who was habitually conspiracy and slander, jealous and jealous, and flattering?

This is naturally impossible, the original duty of the Imperial City Department was to spy on the military situation externally, monitor the ministers of the DPRK and China, and the emperor's relatives internally, and ordinary officials may not have anyone to care about them, but these prime ministers and deputy prime ministers, every move is under the supervision of the Imperial City Division.

Zhao Heng is not the kind of emperor who has been living in the deep palace and is not concerned with the world, so he naturally knows Wang Qinruo's temperament.

The reason why he was kept was to balance Wang Dan, Ma Zhijie, and Li Di.

Now that Wang Dan and Ma Zhijie have resigned one after another, Ding Wei, the No. 2 traitor, has come up again, so naturally he can't continue to keep Wang Qinruo.

So under the pretext that he was too deeply involved with the Taoist priest, he directly dismissed the prime minister and demoted out of the capital.

It's a pity that Kou Zhun won't stay long, and he will be demoted again, because Kou Zhun's firepower is too fierce, and Ding Wei's group of people who suppressed it alone can't raise their heads.

In addition, Kou Zhun was upright and offended the queen Liu E, and Zhao Heng, who was seriously ill in his later years, had to dismiss Kou Zhun again and demote him from Beijing.

Of course, this is all an afterthought, and now Kou Zhun has just been transferred back to the Beijing Division, and it is the time when the spring breeze is proud.

It was the time for the so-called loyal ministers of the court to rejoice and celebrate that they finally had the backbone of the main body.

Now it is not an exaggeration to describe Kou Zhun's family as a city.

These situations were naturally reported to Liu E by the Imperial City Division, and then passed to Zhao Heng's ears through Liu E.

Although Zhao Heng didn't say anything, he definitely didn't like it in his heart.

These have nothing to do with Zhang Junping, he neither went to visit Kou Zhun, nor did he visit Li Di, Xiang Min and other big guys.

He has no dealings with Ding Wei and others.

At three o'clock every day, busy with his own affairs.

Zhang Junping knows very well that his fate is not on Zhao Heng, but on Zhao Zhen, as long as he hugs Zhao Zhen's thigh, it will be okay to be the marquis in the future.

Therefore, Zhang Junping put all his energy on teaching the prince, teaching students, and practicing three hundred families.

Time flies, another month passes, geese fly south, leaves drift away, and the weather begins to cool.

"Zhang Guanren, take a look, are you still satisfied? So the house was all built with green bricks according to Lang Jun's requirements! The craftsman said to Zhang Junping with a smile.

"Hmmm! Not bad! Zhang Junping looked at it inside and out.

The house is tall and spacious, and the windows are also deliberately enlarged according to Yu Qingyang's requirements, although there is no glass, it still feels very bright when standing in the house.

The grain warehouse, the floor of the cooking workshop, and the walls are all paved with bluestone, which is neat and magnificent.

The drying and mixing workshop and fermentation workshop are all laid with a whole piece of jade according to Zhang Junping's requirements, which looks high-end and high-grade.

There is also a cellar for storing wine, a sloping passage leads directly to the cellar, which is also all made of bluestone masonry, and the cellar area is very large, enough to store millions of catties of wine.

"Uncle Lu, settle their wages! Give some more rewards! Inside and out, I looked at it before and after, and carefully checked the construction quality, and Zhang Junping explained to Zhang Lu behind him with satisfaction.

"Whoa!" Zhang Lu agreed.

"Uncle Lu, have you found a winemaker to make wine?"

"Back to Lang Jun, I have already found it, because Lang Jun explained that he wanted to recruit people from the tenants, so I only invited a dozen old craftsmen who made wine! Other rough work, stupid goods, heavy work are all used by tenants! Zhang Lu replied respectfully: "In addition, the most critical distillation step is all from our family's old family!" ”

"Uncle Lu is very serious and thoughtful!" Zhang Junping praised with a smile.

"That's what I'm supposed to do!" Zhang Lu had a good attitude and said very modestly.

"Uncle Lu, I see that the storehouse is almost dry, and we can start collecting grain!"

"I have contacted the grain merchant, and there will be grain delivered in the next few days!"

"Hmmm! With Lu Bo here, I really don't have to worry about it! Zhang Junping said with a smile.

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In the next few days, as Zhang Lu said, horse-drawn carts and ox carts were full of sorghum, which were sent to the farm in an endless stream and stored in the warehouse.

The warehouse of the winery is also very large, one warehouse can hold 20,000 stone of grain, a total of three warehouses, can store 60,000 stone of grain.

According to ancient legends, three catties of grain and one catty of wine, these 60,000 stone grains can brew 2.4 million catties of wine.

However, with the current technology, it is difficult to achieve three catties of grain and one catty of wine, and it is good to be able to achieve three and a half catties of grain and four catties of grain and one catty of wine.

The difference between fermented liquor and distilled liquor lies in the distillation that follows.

The fermented wine is crushed and steamed, cooled and mixed, and the liquor is filtered out after fermentation, and the liquor degree at this time is very low, which is more than ten degrees.

Distilled liquor, after fermentation, put the fermentation material into the steamer, and evaporate the alcohol, water, higher alcohols, acids and other active ingredients in the fermentation into steam by heating the steamer, and then cool it to obtain liquor, and the degree of liquor at this time can reach more than 60 degrees.

The core of Zhang Junping's immortal drunkenness is the last step of distillation, which is strictly controlled by Zhang Lu's old family Ding.

After this period of training, several old family members who are responsible for distilling and processing fairy drinks have now become experienced brewing masters.

The construction of the barracks of the 300 families was much faster than the construction of the winery, although the construction began nearly two months later than the winery, but it was only completed one seven days (one week) later than the winery.

Under Zhang Fu's arrangement, all 300 families and 500 orphans moved into the barracks.