Due to the appearance of Gongsun Sheng a few days ago, Gu Haotian's county economic investigation activities returned in vain, and he and Bian Zhong entered the city again on this day.

In Gu Haotian's plan, his first idea of developing the economy is to make wine, the degree of wine in this era is generally low, that day in his own restaurant, he also carefully observed, the degree of wine is not more than 20 at most, and the wine is very turbid, in fact, it is mixed with a lot of lees, when you drink it needs to be filtered, at that time he suddenly thought, no wonder the wine to be called "sifting" wine.

After entering the city, the two went straight to Shilixiang, and the shopkeeper heard the news and hurriedly saluted.

"A few days ago, a petty official came to the store, and the old man coincidentally went out, and he was not flattered, rude, and rude."

"It doesn't matter."

The three of them entered the private room and sat down, Xiao Er served tea, and the shopkeeper got up again to salute.

"The old man still has one thing, and he has to thank the little official again."

"But why?" Gu Haotian thought about it carefully, and it seemed that he had nothing to do with this shopkeeper.

"Old man and boy Gu Bo, since joining the escort team, these days have really been reborn, the original bad habits are gone, the little official is very gracious!"

It turned out that the shopkeeper's name was Gu Song, and he was the brother of Gu Zhen's five suits, because he was loyal and upright, and was good at management, he was very valued by Gu Zhen, so he entrusted the Gu family to the largest industry in the county. That Gubo is his youngest son, and he was also on the scene to see the excitement of the review that day, and he is grateful today.

"No, that kid from my family is also in the escort team, and he has seen a lot of growth." Bian Zhong responded.

Gu Haotian smiled and asked about the price of wine in the restaurant. The ancient Han is familiar with the way, this restaurant usually has three types of wine, the low-grade ten wen a catty, the medium thirty-five wen a catty, the high-grade such as the silver bottle wine can be sold for more than 70 wen a catty. Gu Haotian calculated in his heart, if the distilled liquor is made of medium liquor, and ten catties are steamed to get two catties, the cost per catty will be one hundred and fifty yuan. If a large number of listings, the demand for raw wine is very huge, and there must be a stable and smooth channel, so I asked about the incoming channel of the restaurant.

"The good teacher learned that the goods before the New Year were originally selected from various companies in the market according to the price, and the wine was only purchased in the Zhangjia Wine Cellar after the New Year." Feeling the puzzled eyes of the two, he continued, "The owner of this Zhang family's wine cellar is called Zhang Buren, who was originally a splash on the street, but gave birth to a good sister, who was sent to the county Yawu County Lieutenant as a concubine the year before last, so he took advantage of the power to dominate the market, and the insiders dared to be angry and did not dare to speak. After saying that, he sighed.

It turned out to be the collusion between officials and businessmen, Gu Haotian secretly thought in his heart, thinking that distilled liquor would be his own big business in the future, and he must not pinch the neck of the purchase in the hands of others, so he decided to go to this wine cellar to have a look.

Led by Honka, it didn't take long to reach this brewhouse. I saw a man in his thirties leaning back in a chair, with triangular eyes and rosacea, looking like a scoundrel.

"What kind of wind is blowing from the ancient shopkeeper?" didn't get up, the man asked lazily.

Gu Haotian didn't look like a word, and he didn't enter the door, turned around and came out. Honka knew it. "Pass by and see if Shopkeeper Zhang has any good wine in the near future, so I can go in some way." After answering two sentences, he also turned around and followed.

The three of them didn't walk a few steps, but they saw a Yishui winery dozens of steps away diagonally, with four big words written on the door: "Clearance and cheap buying". Gu Haotian was very curious, so he walked in, only to see a listless man sitting behind the counter, but he saw a fist-bone face, a three-pronged yellow beard, and a very burly figure.

"Guest officer, but buy wine." Seeing people coming in, the man hurriedly got up.

"Don't know how to buy it?" Bian Zhong asked.

"If you buy them together, it only costs seven cents and one catty."

This is also too cheap, could it be that there is a problem with the quality, Gu Haotian motioned to Bian Zhong to taste it, and found that although it was not high-grade, it was not like inferior wine. Seeing the guest's doubts, the man opened his mouth.

"In the lower Yishui County, and the brothers to do some wine trading, years ago learned that Yuncheng County is very good, opened a winery here, the original business is good, so a large number of goods, counting on a good profit after the year. Unexpectedly, Zhang Buyen bullied and dominated the market, and I lost all my blood and was still burdened with huge debts. As he spoke, he glared at the wine cellar, "I can't wait to peel that guy with cramps." ”

After hearing this, Gu Haotian looked sideways at Gu Song, and saw Gu Song nodding faintly, understanding in his heart. Then he asked, "What was the original price of your wine?" ”

"In the next wine, it is transported from Yishui, and the cost is also 11 wen a catty, and I usually buy 15 wen."

Looking at the wine jar stacked on top of two houses, the price of the fold is really enough for a small businessman to go bankrupt. "Alas, it's really helpless to encounter such a bad thing when doing business in a foreign land." Gu Haotian couldn't help but sigh.

"A few guest officers, if you can buy them all, the small ones will endure the pain and give some profits." The man saw that the few people in front of him didn't seem to be buying, so he added another sentence.

"Shopkeeper, I want all the wine in this house." As soon as Gu Haotian spoke, the man was immediately overjoyed.

"The price, just settle it according to 12 cents and a catty." Gu Haotian then quoted a price.

"Ahh The man responded, and then shouted again, "Twelve? ”

"It's not easy to do business, so let's take back some of the capital and go back to my hometown."

The man was stunned for a moment, and knelt straight in front of Gu Haotian. "I Zhu Gui met a good person after all, and the petty officials were reinvented!" The man who was seven or eight feet old was so red that he choked up and couldn't speak.

Gu Haotian stepped forward and held on, "Brother doesn't need to be like this, just do what he can." "I was very surprised in my heart, if it was really that Liangshan Zhu Gui, if it was the truth, then the first four leaders of Liangshan had met three of them, could there really be providence in the dark. also had new ideas for Zhu Gui.

"I don't know what to call Xiao Engong, so I will have a thought in the future." This Zhu Gui's mood has also settled.

"The petty official of my family is Gu Haotian." Bian Zhong replied.

"But Gujiazhuang, an ancient petty official with unparalleled benevolence and righteousness?" Zhu Gui asked urgently.

"Yes." Bian Zhong was quite proud.

"Who is so benevolent and righteous, but I didn't expect it to be a petty official in person, and he really has no eyes." Say goodbye and bow down.

"Don't be polite." Gu Haotian helped him up again, "I don't know what my brother's plans are in the future." ”

"If it weren't for the petty official, the villain really wanted to kill Zhang Buren's bird with a knife, and then find a place to go, but now I think about it carefully, except for returning to my hometown, there is really no place to live." Speaking of which, he was stunned.

"The younger brother has something that he wants to find someone to help, but I don't know if my brother is willing to give in."

Zhu Gui was very surprised when he heard it, and he didn't ask what to do, and he didn't say anything, and it was almost noon, so he closed the shop and went to Shilixiang with a few people.

Gu Haotian's arrangement for Zhu Gui was actually just considered. Zhu Gui is in the Liangshan team, honest and obscure, but he is meticulous and meticulous, and he is a professional in intelligence. Gu Haotian wants to build Shishixiang Restaurant into an intelligence point in Yuncheng County, and Zhu Gui is a suitable candidate. Needless to say, Honka is loyal to the Gu family, but he is not flexible and has no experience in the rivers and lakes, so he is not suitable for intelligence work, but he is the next step to be the manager of distilled spirits. But after all, Zhu Gui is a first-time acquaintance, and to give him such an important work, he must have careful calculations. After a while, he had an idea in his mind.

At noon, the four of them ate some wine and food, Gu Song and Bian Zhong went first, and Gu Haotian and Zhu Gui left to speak.

"This restaurant is an ancient family property, and the younger brother intends to let his brother take care of this restaurant, I don't know what to do?"

"How does this work?" Zhu Gui hurriedly excused himself, the reputation of this restaurant in Yuncheng County, as a wine buyer, of course he knew that he couldn't imagine that the little official would hand over the big family business to him, a person he met for the first time, to take care of it, this little official is very human.

"Needless to say, my brother's ability is self-evident, but there is a problem that needs to be solved." Zhu Gui came over, and Gu Haotian continued, "Brother and that Zhang Buren have a bad relationship, if you take care of business here, that guy will come to tell the truth, and you must find a way to get rid of it." ”

"This bird, I wanted to go for a long time, and I went to cut it at night."

"Don't drag your brother down, wait for the younger brother to think about it." Gu Haotian wants to capture the past.

"Isn't the little official untrustworthy?" So he got up and went to go.

"Brother is so anxious, and it is up to you to go, but do not act recklessly, you need to be careful." Gu Haotian was happy in his heart.

"I wanted to kill this guy for a long time, and secretly followed him for a few days, but he was alone but got along with a widow outside the east gate, and he went to be merry and happy every night, and there must be a river to cross there, and when I dived by the river at night, I killed it with a knife."

"No, it has to be like this." Gu Haotian couldn't imagine that Zhu Gui had the intention of killing early, it seemed that he must have committed a murder before he went to Liangshan, and he said his own arrangements at the moment. Zhu Gui was impressed in his heart, and after a while, he still opened the store.

In the evening, Gu Haotian and Gu Zhong went out of the city and went home. At night, he took Bian Xiang to the crime site, and saw that Zhu Gui had arrived from a distance, so he hid quietly without making a sound. It just so happened that there was no moonlight that night, and there was no nightlife in this era, and the four fields were silent, and it was the season when the night was dark and windy. When he was approaching, he saw that Zhang Buren humming a lewd song and coming with a drunken body, and when he arrived at the bridge, he saw that Zhu Gui leaned up, sealed his mouth and nose and dragged it into the dark corner of the bridge, and took out a bottle of liquor from his arms and poured it into his mouth. Poor Zhang Buren was a scoundrel with no skills, and he was hollowed out by wine, where there was room for resistance, and he was drunk after a while. Immediately, Zhu Gui pushed him into the river, and lurked for a while to see that he was dead, and then packed up his hands and tails and left. After a while, Gu Haotian and Bian Xiang also cleaned up their traces and left quietly.

The next day, pedestrians found Zhang Buren's body, and when the officials arrived, they saw that the corpse soaked in the water was still full of alcohol, and hastily decided to fall into the water drunk and die. Besides, this Zhang Buren is usually unpopular, and the neighbors can't wait for him to die, so someone cares. County Lieutenant Wu got Zhang Buren's family wealth, and it was over by pretending to fool his concubine. However, the Gu family ate the wine stored in the Zhang family's wine cellar and made a small fortune.

Zhang Buren's death made Zhu Gui's entry into Shilixiang Restaurant no longer barrier-free, and Gu Haotian also got Zhu Gui's vote, and there is no doubt about using it.

In early summer, on the streets of Yuncheng County, Shilixiang Restaurant quietly changed its shopkeeper, but no one knew the changes behind him, and no one knew what he was going to do in the future.