One by one, Li Chengji also raised his glass at the right time and drank with him. When I drank it in my mouth, a hot sensation immediately came out of my throat.

"Good wine!" , Xiao Alihe, who drank it all, smashed his mouth and exclaimed.

This is the latest 'boy drunk' under the name of Li's firm. Different from the common wines in the Western Regions, 'Male Drunk' is sorghum wine. And the intensity is much higher than that of ordinary wines.

Generally, people who have never drunk a man will definitely get drunk into a puddle of mud. In the riverine region, this wine is hard to find. In the territory of Daliao, it is sold for one dinar and one tael. Not to mention in Mongolia, there is no place to buy it.

However, in the Persian region, because of religion, the sales of men who are drunk are far less hot than those in Daliao and Mongolia.

When Xiao Alihe was looking for Sigan, he heard of the name of the man who was drunk. It's just that because it's very rare, I haven't been able to drink as much as I can. When he came to Puhua this time, he immediately asked Li Chengji to give himself enough good wine.

As a result, before he drank two taels, he fell drunk. spread out, and there were a lot of jokes among their brothers.

So this time he drank, he no longer dared to complain that the cups on the table were too small.

Li Chengji heard his praise, and the smile on his face became a little thicker. In my heart, I am also very satisfied with this man's drunkness.

In fact, from the beginning, Lee Seungji had the idea of making wine. First, the profit of wine has always been very high. sells well, and also brings a living for yourself. Second, before Li Chengji crossed, he also liked to drink. And habitually, non-spirits are not drunk.

But because of his profession, he had to suppress his hobbies.

When he came to Daliao, he had the idea of being a rich man. I want to do my best to satisfy my appetite.

It's just that where I thought, I was born at the wrong time. This mansion is about to collapse, so that he completely dispelled the idea of a rich man. Later, the matter of winemaking was also forgotten due to various tedious affairs.

Until he took control of Puhua and established the Li firm. He had the opportunity to pass on his knowledge of winemaking to experienced winemakers. So as to be a hands-off shopkeeper and enjoy the finished product of brewing.

In order to maximize the taste of sorghum wine in memory. Li Chengji is still in the raw materials, and he controls it very closely. Not only did he order people to buy sorghum seeds from the Hui merchants. And with great difficulty, he hired the old farmers of the Central Plains and the Han region. Follow the landing route to the river.

The dangers along the way, that needless to say. But fortunately, there is a return merchant to lead, and the money opens the way, which minimizes the risk.

Of course, the price paid for this is also very high. Like every old peasant who came from the Han region of the Central Plains, Li Chengji had to pay ten dinars to return to the merchants. made Zhang Timing and others feel that Li Chengji was spending money to mess around.

In the end, in this era, human life is the least valuable. What's more, it is even cheaper for the farmer who can only dig on the land.

But in order to grow high-quality sorghum, Li Chengji is still willing to pay such a price. Although there is also agricultural production in the riverine area, the cultivation of sorghum is not extensive.

At present, naan, cakes and other foods made of wheat flour are the most common foods in the river and even in the entire Western Regions. Tropical crops such as rice are not common in the Western Regions due to the climate.

Of course, there are also ethnic groups in the Western Regions, which do not rely on rice as their staple food. If there is less demand, the planting area will be pitiful. The rice that Li Chengji ate before was extremely expensive.

Now that he has lived for a long time, he has gradually become accustomed to the food made of wheat. This saved a lot of money on the daily expenses of the Governor's Palace.

Therefore, in terms of planting experience, there are very few in the river area. Before Li Chengji, it was not that he had not worked hard. Through various means, he ordered the people under him to collect sorghum seeds in the territory of Daliao. It turned out that the quality was very average. Both the harvest and the taste are extremely unsuitable for sake brewing.

With this in mind, he took great pains to get seeds from the Central Plains and invited old farmers with planting experience.

Fortunately, the climate in the Hezhong area is still suitable for sorghum cultivation. Because the growth habit of sorghum is between 20 and 30 degrees. It coincides with the two time periods of late spring and early summer and short autumn in the river. It is also resistant to drought and waterlogging, which is also in line with the characteristics of the temperate continental climate of dry and little rain in the river.

In addition, the river is an oasis of agriculture, and it does not depend on God's wind and rain. Therefore, the whole planting process is under the care of people, and it is very smooth.

However, in terms of output, it is more 'touching'. Li Chengji was accustomed to the kind of yield of '1,000 catties per mu' in later generations, so he was a little unbelievable about the harvest of less than 300 catties.

You know, he's in the process of production. He also ordered people to make farmhouse fertilizer and serve it. Even in modern society, he was never so interested in farming.

But in the end, there was still so little to gain.

There is no way, reality is reality, and it cannot be changed. He asked the winemakers to start the brewing process. The whole process is divided into raw material crushing, batching, cooking and gelatinization, cooling, mixing, cellar fermentation, steaming wine and so on.

Due to the lack of mechanical production, all processes can only be completed manually. Although Li Chengji did not participate, he would still go to see it when he had free time. If you encounter a problem that the winemaker can't solve, you can also rely on the encyclopedia of Xiaozi to solve one or two.

As for some of the unanswerable ones, they can only be left to the winemakers to figure out for themselves.

In such a situation, there have been dozens of failures. Finally, the mellow and delicious sorghum wine was made.

In the past, he would have thought that making wine was a very simple job. Now that he is involved, he really understands the 'technical difficulties'. It is no wonder that Moutai, the national liquor of later generations, will recruit workers with such a high salary.

As for the reason for the failure so many times, he also summed it up - that is, the temperature control! Because the fermentation process is a process of changing the moisture, acidity, alcohol content, and starch residue of the fermented material. Different from the monitoring equipment developed in later generations, this era completely depends on human perception.

Therefore, there is a great deal of uncertainty.

It's koji, and it's easy to make. It solves the most critical fermentation problem in the winemaking process.

After feeling the heat in his body at the moment, Li Chengji also sighed a little at the greenness of this body. If he drank two catties before the crossing, he would be able to act like a nobody. It's like now, after a cup, my face is red, and my forehead is oozing with sweat.

Zhu Qing, who served in front of him, immediately poured a cup of tea and let him sober up. She arrived half a month ago! Under the soft grinding and hard bubbles, Li Chengji also remembered the feelings of being sick in bed at the beginning. So he agreed that she and the Shifter Chonga should come together.