Ning Xiu bought a few hundred catties of grapes from the Zhang family and immediately began to make wine.

The first step is to select the grapes.

Some of the grapes sent by the Zhang family were slightly green, almost ripe, and some were completely ripe.

Ripe grapes are often more suitable for winemaking, so Nimse specially picks out ripe grapes.

Next, he destems the grapes and washes them in the brine he has prepared.

After about a stick of incense, Ning Xiu took out all the grapes and drained the salt water.

The grapes selected by Ning Xiu are fifty catties, although they are not much, they can still make a small barrel of wine.

Ning Xiu poured the grapes into a large pot and crushed them with his hands.

Shiro on the side cried directly.

"Third brother, what are you doing, such a good grape has been crushed."

Ning Xiu turned his head and said with a smile: "The third brother wants to use these grapes to make wine." ”

After speaking, he put in eight catties of white sugar and stirred, and after stirring evenly, he poured the grape pulp into a jar, deliberately leaving one-third of the space for the jar. Because the wine is made with a lot of gases, if there is no space, the wine will definitely overflow.

After that, it's time for sealed fermentation.

Specifically, alcoholic fermentation.

Sugar reacts with yeast to produce alcohol and carbon dioxide, which are exothermic.

With the alcohol, the wine production is more than half successful.

While waiting for the alcoholic fermentation, Ning Xiu was not idle, he went to the carpenter Zhao who sold him the oak wood last time, and explained to him how to make the oak barrel. And let him try to make a sample bucket.

Zhao's carpenters are very exquisite, and it only took two days to make a sample barrel according to Ning Xiu's requirements.

Ning Xiu was very satisfied after inspecting the goods, the oak barrel made by Carpenter Zhao was basically the same as the oak barrel he wanted, although it was not as beautiful as the wine estate in later generations, but it was enough to use.

Next, Ning Xiu asked Carpenter Zhao to teach his hired workers how to make oak barrels.

For each hired worker in the church, Zhao carpenter could be rewarded with one or two pieces of silver, so he did not hide any secrets and taught the craftsmen the craftsmanship without reservation.

The production of the barrel itself is not complicated, because it is a frame barrel, and it only needs to be framed and reinforced.

Soon the hired hands learned how to make barrels, and thirty barrels were made in a day.

It is definitely impossible to make so much wine from the existing grape stock in Yinxiu's hands, but this does not affect the fact that it is time to mass-produce wine after purchasing grapes in large quantities.

Both the hired workers and the carpenter Zhao received considerable incomes, and they were all happy.

Ning Xiu told Carpenter Zhao that he would need more oak wood in the future and would maintain cooperation with him.

Carpenter Zhao was overjoyed when he heard this. Ning Xiu is a cash cow in his opinion, as long as he cuts down oak wood, he can exchange it for silver for white flowers. He is naturally willing to do such a deal.

After 20 days, the juice was almost ready to ferment.

Ning Xiu took open the sealed jar and used a strainer to filter out all the grape seeds, grape pulp, and grape skins.

The next step is aging.

Ning Xiu poured the initial wine into the oak barrel for preservation, and it could be out of the barrel in half a year at the earliest.

Of course, if you want to taste more mellow, it will take at least a year.

But Ning Xiu couldn't afford to wait, he needed the wine to be made quickly, and it was best to sell it before the wax moon.

It wasn't until this moment that Shichiro and Shiro understood Ning Xiu's intentions, and they all sighed that the third brother acted boldly and would become a great weapon.

Ning Xiu was not carried away by these two sycophants, he knew that with the current level of science and technology, what he could do was very limited, and he was by no means a creator who could become a supernatural by reciting a mantra.

In the case of this wine, he can only ferment the grape pulp with the skin to make a red wine.

This is because the natural yeast on the grape skin is a must for fermentation, and the Ming Dynasty did not have yeast powder as a substitute for natural yeast for winemaking, so we had to look at the dishes.

And if there is dry yeast, Ning Xiu can peel and make white wine with pure grape juice supplemented with yeast powder.

Alcoholic fermentation of wine is actually ready to drink. It's just that the wine at this stage is still very light.

Ning Xiu took a small glass of wine and tasted it before putting it into the oak barrel for aging, and it was indeed not enough to be sold.

Although Ning Xiu hopes that the wine can be sold quickly, the process still needs to be followed. Otherwise, if you smash the signboard, the gain outweighs the loss.

Rather lack than abuse is the standard of Ning Xiu, and the products launched by Ning Kee must be of excellent quality.

Wine aging also has very strict environmental requirements, and the environment of the restaurant is obviously not good.

Ning Xiu didn't dare to be careless, and asked someone to move the oak barrel to the cellar of the new house.

Although it is not as good as a professional wine cellar, the humidity and temperature are very close, which is acceptable.

After being busy for a while, Ning Xiu could finally calm down and read well.

According to Zhang Maoxiu's request to him, he had to write a current essay every day. These days owe a lot, Ning Xiu has to work hard.

Finally completed the article and showed it to Zhang Maoxiu with great interest, and Zhang Sangongzi changed his new tricks and began to let Ning Xiu study the articles written by the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy, some Hongru in the court, and Huguangti.

Ning Xiu naturally understood what this meant.

Examiners are also human, so they will have their own preferred style. If you can understand the examiner's style and give it what you like, you can get twice the result with half the effort.

And if you blindly practice hard, even if you write thousands of articles, the final exam is not liked by the examiner, and it is difficult to be Chinese.

What Zhang Maoxiu asked Ning Xiu to do now is to form several sets of styles according to the examiner's preferences and adapt to the situation.

For example, the examiners of the township examination are the school officials and the great Confucian appointed by the Beijing Division.

Then you have to choose the style that these people prefer.

It is easy to say that the scholar is Master Qin.

The officials appointed by the Beijing division were temporarily decided on the eve of the township examination, which can only be guessed.

But it's not all clueless.

Generally speaking, these great Confucians are all officials of the Hanlin Academy, and except for the junior officials such as the Hanlin Editing and Revision, there are not many senior officials in the Hanlin Academy.

I got the articles written by these officials and studied them one by one, and I succeeded in classifying and summarizing the styles.

Ning Xiu couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

It is not for nothing that the children of official eunuchs are more likely to enter the department than the children of the poor family.

There are too many hidden resources that their parents have brought to them.

It is said that these articles written by Hanlin scholars can be easily studied by the children of official eunuchs, and they can be used for speculation. And it is impossible for the children of the poor family to get it, so they can only work hard to follow the tactics of the sea of questions.

Of course, there are also successes, but more of them have become the foil of 'accompanying the prince to study'.

Ning Xiu was really lucky to be able to meet Zhang Maoxiu, at least he wouldn't lose at the starting line, prepare a few sets of writing templates, and the next thing is to compete in basic skills.

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