Two days after they got married, according to custom, Wang Xin and his wife had to return to the door. While everyone was there, Wang Lun and Li Zhu gathered the heads of several forces to discuss things.

Now that the Liangshan forces have been formed, there are also several alliance forces below, Chao Gai, Li Ying and Hu Sanniang all participated in this discussion.

"Jeju, Qingzhou, Yizhou, Haizhou, and Puzhou are all big states in Shandong, and they are the closest to us. If a few brothers are interested, they can also open a few hotels elsewhere to make a living. ”

Liangshan now has three large landowners as logistical support, and he can be self-sufficient, and the food problem can be solved. It won't cost much to buy and sell with Li Ying, Chao Gai and others, but the water wine brewed in Liangshan is a big income.

Duchen is also a talent for brewing wine vinegar, and with the cooperation of the Zhu Fu brothers, Liangshan's brewing business has increased significantly.

Chao Gai has thousands of fertile fields, and has countless tenants under him, and the main business is the grain business, but the business of restaurants and water and wine is not involved.

After thinking about it, Chao Gai said: "It's okay to say that the restaurant is not easy to sell wine!" ”

The Song Dynasty implemented the policy of patenting liquor, one was sold by the official brew, and the other was sold by the people. As the name suggests, the former is the whole process of brewing and selling by the government, and you can enjoy monopoly profits. The latter is to allow wine owners to buy and sell wine, and the so-called "buy" is to promise to pay a certain amount of taxes to the government and obtain the right to open shops and sell wine.

This is a kind of tax package system, for example, after the government calculates the tax payable of a certain product, it attracts investment and contracts. Those who intend to become contractors, that is, those who buy people, can declare the tax amount by themselves, and the one with the highest bid can obtain a business license. After becoming a contractor, it obtains a certain degree of monopoly power, and those who do not have a license are not allowed to participate in competition.

Therefore, Chao Gai has this statement.

In this regard, Wang Lun has already taken countermeasures, "Brother Chao can find those smaller shops in a different way, and use the existing licenses to participate in the shares, and we will wait for technology and commodities to establish new businesses." Even if we don't have the right to operate, as long as the year-end dividends. ”

In fact, in this era, rich people would brew fine wine privately at home, and the government repeatedly banned it. But as long as these people don't take it out and sell it, it's fine. Since Wang Lun wants to make wine, he naturally takes a fancy to the profits.

At this time, private wine merchants could only use the local method to brew fruit wine, medicinal wine and blended wine, among which fruit wine was the mainstay, such as the koji wine and shochu that Wang Lun knew were very few.

At this time, fruit wine was a low-alcohol beverage wine made by fermentation of various fruits and wild fruits. The local method of sake making has a low degree and a poor taste. In recent years, Wang Lun has seen a lot in major cities, such as wine, cider, pear wine, cherry wine, lychee wine, pomegranate wine, yellow orange wine, sugar cane wine and honey wine, etc., which can be described as a wide variety, but the sales are very pitiful. Even in Tokyo, where goods are bustling, there is not much sales a year.

After coming to the Song Dynasty, according to Wang Lun's observation, the Song people were good at wine, but they preferred low-alcohol wine with a mellow taste, so rice wine became popular and became the most important type of wine.

Fruit wine is prohibitive, its color is turbid, there are flocculent impurities, and the sour, astringent and bitter taste, covering up the fruity aroma that should be, and it is really a bad wine.

Since this is the case, there is room for Wang Lun to exert his strength. At least his koji wine is still a unique craft.

For example, to make koji liquor with lychee, it is to collect rotten lychees with the aroma of wine, take their peel and part of the pulp, add them to fresh orange juice, and then ferment them at room temperature. However, it is necessary to ferment the koji at a certain concentration, within a certain fermentation time, and at a certain fermentation temperature.

It's easy to say, but this "certain" ratio is the key, Wang Lun has two talents, Zhu Fu and Du Xing, of course, the problem is solved.

Once you have the right koji, you can divide the fresh lychee juice into small quantities and add it to the koji for fermentation. After the fermentation is completed, and then squeeze vigorously with clean gauze, the original solution with a very strong color and taste will flow out.

Then beat the egg whites into foam, stir well with a small amount of stock solution, and then add them to the jar, stir well and let stand. When the liquor is clear and transparent, the sediment is discarded to obtain the original liquor, and the best aroma, taste and color of the wine are selected to blend to obtain the ideal lychee wine.

Wang Lun's set of processes was operated by Zhu Fu and the two, and it was really cumbersome, and he had to admire that he had a specialization in the art industry.

Since Liangshan had the spirits that the northerners liked and the fruit wines that the southerners liked, Wang Lun wanted to grab wealth in this field. According to Wang Lun's estimates, the initial productivity was limited and there were not many sales, and there was an annual income of about seven or eight thousand yuan. But Wang Lun is sure that when the sales channels and popularity are opened, there will be at least forty or fifty thousand yuan of income every year. After all, the cake of the Great Song Dynasty is very large, and there are Khitan and Dangxiang who are more wine-loving peoples around.

"Brother, this method is good, you can try it." Chao Gai is also business-minded, and after a little thought, he agreed to Wang Lun.

Then Wang Lun said to Chao Gai: "Although there is no shortage of food in the cottage at present, the cottage is developing rapidly, and this food problem will also be the key in the future." The elder brother has many industries, and he can also open grain stores in Yunzhou, Jeju, Dongpyeong Province and other places for later use. But Wang Lun is thinking about the future development of the cottage.

If nothing else, let's just say that in the future, there will be wars or natural disasters, and the food shortage will inevitably be large.

Chao Gai nodded in response, "Don't worry, brother, Chao will do his best." Chao Gai is still a figure on the surface, but he is like-minded with Wang Lun and others, admires Wang Lun's character, and will not shirk these business things.

Lijiazhuang's location in the Dulonggang area is densely wooded and there is a small salt pond. Therefore, Li Ying's business not only in the fields, but also in the purchase and sale of timber and salt.

"Brother Li has a lot of industries, and I hope that Brother Li can recruit some skilled craftsmen for the cottage, whether it is Langzhong, veterinarian, stonemason, mason, bricklayer, blacksmith, carpenter, weaver, medicine picker, mine, shipbuilder, I want them all." Nowadays, Yangsan has a large population, but there are not many craftsmen of all kinds. Even some of them are not skilled. Science and technology are the primary productive forces, how can Wang Lun let go of the opportunity to recruit talents.

Hearing Wang Lun's words, Li Ying smiled, pointed at Wang Lun and said, "Your appetite is not small!" ”

Wang Lun also knows that technical talents are rare, not to mention that the craftsmen are all passed down from generation to generation, and there are few apprentices. "Brother Li doesn't have to be under too much pressure, I will also recruit people through other channels. Even Brother Li also has some ideas, such as if there is a skilled master, Brother Li can introduce it. He came to me to accept apprentices and teach art, and I gave me a salary of five taels a month, and I gave fifty taels of thanks. ”

Needless to say, the purchasing power of silver is now about five taels a year for a family of five. According to this calculation, the income of this master is five people per person. What's more, there is also the generous thank you ceremony, even the master who will be the supervisor in the capital may not have such income.

Seeing that Wang Lun made a big move, Li Ying promised, "Okay, I will do my best in the future." ”

The economic alliance signed by Li Ying and Wang Lun did not waver when he learned that Wang Lun was the owner of Liangshan, and Wang Lun knew that he was also a person who was not willing to be lonely. Although the two sides have not formed a strategic alliance now, as long as there is an exchange of interests, it is only a matter of time.