In the private room on the top floor of the largest restaurant in Luoyang City, Zhao Fan and Qiao Xinchao are sitting opposite each other, and the restaurant under their feet is ten stories high, which is almost the tallest building in Luoyang City, called Stargazing Tower, and it is also an industry under Zhao Fan's private name.

"Your Majesty, the minister recently received a tip-off that Wang Xingyu has been in frequent contact with Li Maozhen, Yang Shouliang and others, and I am afraid that he has different intentions."

Qiao Xinchao filled the teacup in front of Zhao Fan with tea, and whispered about his recent harvest.

Since the establishment of the intelligence agency under Zhao Fan, Qiao Xinchao has officially retreated into the background and rarely appears in the public eye.

This is for the sake of secrecy, and at the same time, it is also for the sake of Qiao Xinchao's safety, after all, intelligence work is not so easy to do.

After a period of development, the intelligence department finally had a preliminary prototype and began to operate slowly.

"Old Joe, don't be so restrained." Zhao Fan chuckled, nodded and said, "Wang Xingyu, I know in my heart, this person is by no means a good man and a woman, the reason why I didn't kill him in the first place was because the world's feudal towns were watching, if I killed him, it would not be beautiful." ”

Qiao Xinchao nodded, signaling that he understood.

"He contacted Li Maozhen and them, just to get them to support him, he thought of the Suining Festival Envoy, I also knew it, but that was impossible, I have already said that I will not add other Festival Envoys in the future."

Zhao Fan picked up the tea on the table and took two sips gently, and said coldly, with a hint of murderous intent in his words.

If I don't go to you for trouble, you will ask for more blessings, and you dare to cause trouble for me, is it really because I am muddy?

Zhao Fan didn't have any good impression of Wang Xingyu, it was this person, together with Li Maozhen and Yang Shouliang, who invaded Chang'an many times in later generations, and forced Zhaozong in history to kill Wei Zhaodu and other loyal generals with tears, and was called the three in Guannei by later generations.

"And what does Your Majesty mean?" Qiao Xinchao bowed his head lightly, waiting for Zhao Fan's instructions.

"You can continue to pay attention to this matter, if he doesn't have a long eye and bumps into my hand, there is just a reason to clean him up."

Zhao Fan's idea is very simple, I'm not afraid of you making trouble, I'm afraid that you won't make trouble, if you don't make trouble, I really can't deal with you, after all, in these years, everything you do is to pay attention to a famous teacher, if you do these feudal towns for no reason, I am afraid that you will give people with a heart a chance, so as to establish the world of feudal towns to their opposite.

After all, this is easy to give people the feeling that the imperial court is going to do something to them, and in order to protect themselves, they may even join forces and clean up Zhao Fan first.

"I understand."

Qiao Xinchao also understood Zhao Fan's mind in an instant, nodded lightly and said.

"Come, don't drink tea, drink bar, I called you here today, not to talk about business, but I haven't seen you for a long time, and I miss you a little."

Zhao Fan waved his hand lightly, poured out the tea in the tea bowl of the two, took out a small jar from under the table, and said with a smile.

Qiao Xinchao heard Zhao Fan say this, naturally he was very moved, and his eyes were a little red, but before he had time to be sentimental, after a while, he was completely attracted by the jar in Zhao Fan's hand.

Zhao Fan broke off the sealing mud of the filling mouth with his hand, and suddenly a strong aroma of wine came out of the small jar, that kind of fragrance Qiao Xinchao didn't know how to describe it, but he just felt that it smelled very good, and it was not at all the same as the wine he had smelled before.

Qiao Xinchao sniffed greedily, his eyes were even more fixed on the wine jar in Zhao Fan's hand, and he couldn't take his eyes off anymore.

Zhao Fan looked at Qiao Xinchao, who was addicted, and couldn't help but feel a little funny, gently took the two tea bowls in front of him, picked up the wine jar in his hand, and filled the teacup with wine. The liquor that was as transparent as water flowed in the tea bowl, and a strong smell of alcohol filled the nostrils of the two of them.

"Your Majesty, what is this?"

As a scholar, Qiao Xinchao's understanding of fine wine is naturally beyond imagination, but it is also the first time he has seen such a wine, the wine is as clear as water, and it is fragrant without heating.

"You're lucky, this is the distilled spirit I just made."

Zhao Fan smiled and said with some pride, "This wine not only looks good, but also tastes better, you can try it." ”

Qiao Xinchao nodded when he heard this, and couldn't wait to pick up the tea bowl on the table, put it to his mouth and took two sips, then his face changed, and his eyes were full of incredulity.

The wine is soft in the mouth, slightly sweet in the mouth, and has a long aftertaste after drinking, compared to the glass of wine in his hand, Qiao Xinchao feels that the wine he has drunk before is simply worse than horse urine.

"How?"

Zhao Fan also picked up the tea bowl and took a sip gently, looking at Qiao Xinchao with a smile on his face, with a smug look on his face.

"It's... Your Majesty, could this be the legendary elixir and jade liquid? ”

Qiao Xinchao was a little reluctant to put down the tea bowl, still feeling the lingering fragrance on the tip of his tongue, and admired it from the bottom of his heart. It's not that he Qiao Xinchao deliberately slapped Zhao Fan's ass, but he was really amazed by Zhao Fan's wine.

"What kind of elixir, this is just ordinary distilled spirit." Zhao Fan shook his head with a smile and said softly.

"What is this distilled spirit? It's the best in the world. Qiao Xinchao couldn't help but take two more sips and praised repeatedly.

"Distilled spirits are... Distilled spirits are also a type of liquor. Zhao Fan touched his head, and didn't know how to explain the principle of this distilled spirit for a while, so he said helplessly.

"This wine, I am also going to sell it, this is recently building a school and training the army, my small treasury is about to be exhausted, I can only find some way to make some money."

Zhao Fan said the truth, this wine is all made up for the purpose of making money, recently it is engaged in people's livelihood, education, and military training, and there is not much money in the treasury, it is all Zhao Fan's private subsidy, and he is really a little nervous at hand, so he can only find a way to make some money and subsidize the "family".

It just so happened that Zhao Fan had seen his grandfather make wine when he was a child, and he also knew the basic preparation method of distilled spirits, and after telling Joey his thoughts, Joey quickly made the utensils for making distilled spirits.

In fact, this home-made distilled liquor is also very simple, there is a cauldron up and down, a cauldron at the bottom heats the liquor, and a cauldron on the top is placed with cold water to cool the evaporated alcohol, and a round wooden ring is fixed and sealed in the middle, and then a wooden bucket is placed under the cooled cauldron to collect the liquor that drips down after cooling, and finally the collected liquor flows into the jar through a long pipe, and the earthen distilled liquor is made.

Although the home-made distilled liquor made by this is not as good as those famous liquors of later generations, it far surpasses any liquor of this era, and the difference between the two is simply the difference between the mud and the earth.

"Then Your Majesty, what price are you going to sell for this wine?"

"It's not expensive, it's not expensive, it's ten gold and a pot."

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(End of chapter)