The cost advantage of "sugarcane liquor" is further magnified because the "Funai Brewery" found that if the standard is lowered, the alcohol content will be controlled at about 30%, and the fermentation cycle will only take 10 days, that is, about 10 days.

And Daqu brewing, not to mention anything else, is only the first fermentation, which takes 40 days. As for the output, not to mention the fact that it also occupies a large amount of grain, which is the most important place.

Although the number of border troops in the nineteenth year of Zhenguan decreased by about 10%, it still remained at about 200,000. The main border military offices are all in the northwest region. Even if it is the Liaodong Border Army, most of them are from the Northern Army, and there are not too many generals from the Youzhou Governor's Mansion.

The geographical and climatic characteristics of these regions, which lead to the demand for spirits, have a considerable cyclical law. Once autumn arrives, it is necessary to keep spirits on stock, and in winter, the consumption doubles, and it continues until the end of spring, when the first wave of spring migration of wild sheep, wild horses, and wild asses appears in the grasslands, tundra, and plateaus, which can be regarded as reducing demand.

In addition, the plateau area, especially the Qinghai army of Li Jing and Hou Junji's old department, almost all year round, needs spirits, not only for their own use, but also for appeasement work other than suppression, which requires a large amount of spirits to trade with the Tibetan heroes. Cattle and sheep, medicinal herbs, leather, women's ...... These materials, in addition to precious metal hard currency, silk cloth is not as good as spirits.

It can be said that since the three-year national disaster, even if the Zhenguan Dynasty was obviously worried about the "food crisis", he could pinch his nose and tighten his belt, and still relaxed the control of winemaking. Although the imperial court still controls the "koji", the liquor market in various states and counties is extremely rich, which belongs to another major source of wealth for the imperial court in addition to salt, iron, sugar, silk coal.

Even if it is only calculated according to the 200,000 border troops, each person consumes ten catties of wine per year, and the annual consumption of the border army alone will cost two million catties.

In the past fifteen years of Zhenguan, Chang'an's good wine has been consistent, and the cheap one is twenty or thirty Wen per catty, and the national average price has generally remained at about 100 Wen per catty.

So it is not difficult to see that if the imperial court can let go of the consumption of the border army and guarantee ten catties of wine for a year, this is 200,000 yuan.

There is no doubt that the account is not calculated in this way, but this trend is quite obvious, there is a realistic supply and demand, and the natural market is placed there, just because of the constraints of the general moral values of the society, so that the imperial court is not able to unscrupulously destroy the "tradition" in person.

A small discovery by sugarcane farmers and fishermen in Changxi County, it solves quite a lot of problems.

Rao is old master Cao told Lao Zhang that "sweet cane wine" has existed since ancient times, but no one has promoted it in the past few hundred years, which shows that there are quite a lot of difficulties in it.

For example, sugarcane has to occupy water resources, land resources, and so on, but it just happened to be in the Zhenguan Dynasty, because of the indifference of a certain engineering dog, not to mention that the problem was completely solved, but it must have reduced the difficulty.

Lao Zhang's recital to Li Dong, there is no vain brain, as the "Emperor of the Ages", and Li Dong who has come to the road of the enhanced version of the "Emperor of the Ages", he instantly made up more than a dozen ways to concoct the remaining "merry" brothers in Hebei and Henan.

Nineteen years of Zhenguan Dynasty, even a child born in the three-year catastrophe is nineteen years old at this time. Rao is such a difficult cultivation method for the imperial examination, and it should also cultivate a group of "national civil servants" who can compete with the wealthy families. If it weren't for a certain earth dog to accelerate this way, even if there were two or three more generations according to normal development, the dynasty would be able to completely say goodbye to the wealthy families of the Central Plains in terms of intellectuals and professional bureaucrats.

And now that Lao Zhang has briskly given an easy way, Li Dong naturally laughed.

"King Bin, Jiang Han observed that the new wine has a high yield and does not account for agricultural grain, what do you think?"

casually threw Zhang De's recital to Ma Zhou, Ma Bingwang's spirit was shocked, and his "old superior" Leng Buding actually made such a big news come out?

Looking at the content of the recital, Ma Zhou nodded, and then said: "The February sacrifice is better than Gan, and the royal driver has never returned to China, why don't you write a sacrificial text again to show the world?" ”

Things that are not related to each other, but the tacit understanding between the monarchs and ministers is here, Emperor Li fell into thought, and said for a while: "Do you want to raise an edict?" ”

"That's how it should be, as for the sacrifice text, it can be handed over to the Hongwen Pavilion Bachelor."

"Hmm."

Li Dong nodded, the imperial court sacrificed Yin Dynasty Bigan, which has a profound truth. Ideologically speaking, there is such a thing as loyalty, regardless of the rise or fall of the country, of course, the more the merrier, because this is the personal need of the current king.

Going to learn from Chen Sheng and Wu Guang one by one, isn't this a trouble?

As the emperor, I wish that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were either fighting or pushing me, and they had to be loyal to death, which was perfect.

The monarch is a minister, and it should be so.

As for a certain Jiangnan native dog suddenly coming to "be loyal", whether it is sincere, Li Dong doesn't care, anyway, his honor and favor for important ministers have never been sincere, he can't wait for Wei Zheng to die, but don't you still want to have two drinks with Wei Zheng?

A few days later, on the fourth day of the fourth month of the 19th year of Zhenguan, the emperor issued an edict to sacrifice Bigan, and posthumously named Bigan as the Taishi, nicknamed "Loyal Martyr".

In short, starting from the fourth day of April in the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, the fourth day of April every year is the "Bigan Day".

Lao Zhang Xin, who received the news, said that on this day, he had to perform a "heart-to-heart and dig lungs" or something, and then ran to the city gate to see if there were no fox spirits selling water spinach......

The tone set by the emperor is "loyal ministers", so who will make trouble on "sugar cane wine" in the future, what does this mean? This shows a great deal of infidelity.

Since he is disloyal, then Li Dong caught people and did it fiercely, so he complained that he didn't say it at the beginning, right?

Don't be unpredictable.

In fact, at this time, the wealthy families in Shandong did not react, and many children of the family who had already gone to Luoyang to work still felt that this Jianghan observation made their brains amused, why did they suddenly start to pat the emperor's ass and get a "tribute wine"?

Yes, most people think that the wine that Lao Zhang made here is especially for tribute.

Where did they think that the central and local governments should join forces to play mixed doubles?

Li Dong first issued an edict, saying how to be loyal to his ministers, I am really moved, and the story of Yin Shang is really urging people to pee...... A certain earth dog has been transformed, and he is theoretically a "loyal minister". Then Li Dong came with an edict, saying that he was going to work in Liaodong and North Korea, where would the pigs and sheep go?

Generally speaking, no one will think that there is anything here, the labor army, the emperor can comfort him as much as he wants on a whim.

It's just that the emperor obviously didn't play his cards according to common sense, and he came up and said to Niu Jinda, Lao Niu, I gave you a batch of wine and drank it openly, do you have any questions?

Niu Xiu saluted at that time: Report to the chief! No problem! Mission completion guaranteed!