However, Zhen Qian also quickly calmed down, there is no possibility of pie falling in the sky, Qian Zhuang seems to be beautiful, but there is a gap in front of him: no money!

There's no money to open a fart bank!

In the final analysis, the money is a game of money to make money, the bigger the money, the faster you can make money, and if you don't have money, you should go cool. Although I yearn for it, I know that now is not the opportunity, the meal must be eaten in one bite, the road must be walked step by step, and the top priority is how to earn the first pot of gold.

The current Zhen Qian can be said to be a destitute bastard in the golden mountain, and a large amount of money in Zhen's mansion belongs to the nominal Zhen Qian, but it is also a nominal occupation, but he can't move a penny, which makes Zhen Qian extremely depressed.

"The first pot of gold!"

Zhen Qian said silently in his heart, combed through all the plans in his mind, and found that there were not many businesses that could earn the first pot of gold in the fastest time, so after thinking about it, he locked his mind on brewing.

Legend has it that Chinese winemaking originated from Yidi liquor, which has been impossible to verify due to its long history.

It is said that at that time, the Wei State was strong, and Lu, Song, Wei, and Han Jun came to the dynasty. The king of Wei hosted a banquet for the princes of various countries in Yuantai. When the wine is in full swing, the host toasts the guests. Lu Gonggong stood up, left his seat, and said: "In the past, Shun's daughter Yidi was good at winemaking, and the wine tasted mellow. Yidi dedicated the wine to Yu, and Yu also felt that the taste was mellow after drinking it. But because of this, he alienated Yidi and abstained from good wine", and said: "There will be future generations who will destroy the country because of good wine".

Qi Huan felt hungry one night and wanted to eat. Yi Ya boiled and barbecued, made delicious dishes and served him, Qi Zhigong ate very much, slept until dawn and did not wake up, and after waking up, he said: "There must be descendants who will perish the country because of greed for delicious food."

Duke Wen of Jin got the beauty Nan Zhiwei, and he didn't go to the court for three days, so he sent Nan Zhiwei away, saying: "There must be descendants who will destroy the country because of their greed for beauty."

King Chu Ling ascended the strong platform to look at the collapse of the mountain, the left is the Yangtze River, the right is the big lake, ascending and wandering, only feel the joy of the mountains and rivers and forget the death of people, so he swore not to travel to the mountains and rivers again. Later, he said, "There must be future generations who will perish because of the construction of high platforms, hillsides, and beautiful ponds."

Now you have in your glass like a fine wine; On the table are the delicacies cooked by Yi Ya; The white platform on your left and the beard on your right are all beauties like Nan Zhiwei; There is a forest in front of you, and there is a Lantai behind you, both of which are the same places as strong platforms. Possession of one of these four is enough to bring about the destruction of the nation, but now that you have both, can you not be wary? After hearing this, King Wei praised the advice again and again for being very good.

This is the earliest record of fine wine, and another theory is that Du Kang made wine, which is particularly popular among the people, except for some literati, because most of the old books of Xunmeng, songs, treasure scrolls, and books of persuasion are said in this way. The saying that Du Kang makes wine is mainly due to Cao Cao's Yuefu poem "Short Song Xing", which mentions that "how to solve the best, only Du Kang" is popular.

The most amazing thing is the theory that apes make wine, apes make a living by collecting wild fruits, and they are good at hiding fruits. In nature, the growth of fruit is strictly seasonal, so it is often necessary to store it. In the era of the flood and famine, the ancient apes hid the fruits that could not be eaten for a while in caves and stone depressions, and over time, the fruits rotted, and the wild fruits containing sugar were naturally fermented by wild yeasts in nature to produce alcohol and wine syrup, so there were legends such as "apes are good at picking a hundred flowers to make wine" and "tasting ape wine in the depths of the rocks".

In any case, China's wine culture has a long history, and in the Tang Dynasty, there was no wine and no joy, no wine and no poetry, Li Baidou wrote 100 wine poems, and 20% of the more than 12,000 poems in the "All Tang Dynasty Poems" were related to wine.

The Tang Dynasty's wine-making technology was already more advanced, and many emperors also personally participated in the brewing, and Tang Taizong once produced a green wine with "strong aroma and taste", so the wine-making industry was extremely prosperous, and there were many types of wine.

From the point of view of brewing technology, the Tang Dynasty is mostly water wine, but some areas have low-degree soju, Wei Zhuang once said that "Zhuo Nu burns spring and is beautiful", and the burning spring is Jiannan wine, which is now Jiannanchun. From the point of view of raw materials, at that time, it was mostly grain wine, but also wine, coconut wine, and milk wine, as evidenced by Du Fu's "Xie Yanzhongcheng Sent a Bottle of Qingcheng Mountain Taoist Milk Wine". In terms of color, there are mainly white wine, red wine, rice wine, and green wine. From the point of origin, there are mainly 16 kinds of Xinfeng wine, Chang'an wine, Changsha wine, Linchuan wine, Jinling wine, CD wine, etc., Wang Wei called "Xinfeng wine bucket ten thousand", Li Baizan "Lanling wine tulip".

The Tang people have a very strong drinking atmosphere, from the emperor and general, down to the peddler and pawn, there are literati and bachelors, there are farmers and fishermen, women and daughters in the boudoir, wanderers on the way, ordinary people and vulgar people in the square, monks and Taoists outside the party, no one is not greedy for the things in the cup.

Zhen Qian secretly thought in his heart that he didn't know if there was a market for the local wine he brewed in the Tang Dynasty, and it was not difficult to brew ordinary wine, but it was not easy to excel among the many famous wines in the Tang Dynasty, and many of the secret recipes for winemaking were inherited by the family, and many of the later generations had been lost, so it was obviously not appropriate for Zhen Qian to restore the ancient method of winemaking.

In any case, from the perspective of historical development, even if high-grade wine did not appear in the Tang Dynasty, it would have stepped onto the stage of history after the Yuan and Ming dynasties, and it was just a matter of advancing the time.

Zhen Qian looked down at the wine glass in his hand, the wine-making process in the Tang Dynasty was very simple, usually taking grain (mainly rice), water, and koji, mixing it according to a certain proportion, putting it in a large urn and sealing it, waiting for the fermentation to be completed. The fermentation time tends to range from a few days to several months. It's almost time, sprinkle with lime...... There are microorganisms in it, and it is easy to sour the wine if you want to continue fermenting, so sprinkle lime to end the fermentation process.

The biggest characteristic of short-fermented sake is that it is cloudy...... That's right, cloudy wine is talking about this kind of wine. If you don't pick your mouth, you can drink it by simply filtering it. This kind of turbid wine, at first glance, is usually a little green, just as Bai Juyi said, "green ant new roasted wine, red clay small stove", and as Li Bai said, "A thousand cups of green wine why get drunk, and a red makeup annoys and kills", will see the author use green to describe wine in many literary and artistic works at that time. There is no way, because of the problem of the brewing process, the quality of the koji is difficult to guarantee, and it is often mixed with other microorganisms, and the wine is green during the brewing process.

Speaking of taste, the first time modern people drink alcohol, it is often ...... Spicy (burning throat), but the Tang Dynasty people do not have this feeling, because the wine of the Tang Dynasty is often sweet, in the poems, poets also often use the soup, the poets also often use the soup, the soup (the Tang Dynasty is a sweet seasoning, equivalent to the sugar in the Tang Dynasty, the starch is also a kind of maltose syrup) and so on to compare wine, such as Gao Biao's "flower branches such as fire wine such as food", Liu Yuxi's "lake fish fragrant better than meat, official wine is heavier than food" and so on. This is also because of the problem of the process, which leads to the fact that a large part of the grain is often saccharified during fermentation, which also makes the wine of the Tang Dynasty very viscous, "green and sticky".

In addition to this turbid wine, Zhen Qian remembered another wine in the Tang Dynasty, and it is estimated that some people will think of it as soon as he says it...... "Grape wine luminous cup, if you want to drink pipa, urge immediately", that's right! It's wine.

Wine was introduced to China as early as the Han Dynasty, but it was extremely expensive; It was not until the Tang Dynasty that Gaochang was broken, and the wine brewing technology was brought back to the Central Plains, and the wine was promoted. But it is still a very expensive wine, Li Bai used "wine, Kimporo, Wu Ji fifteen fine horses" to write about the preciousness of wine, this should be the closest to the modern taste of wine at that time, if someone unfortunately traveled back to the Tang Dynasty to drink it? Then have some wine.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court also promulgated the "prohibition of alcohol", when the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty had just ended, all industries withered and starved all over the wilderness, and there was an extreme shortage of food, so naturally no one was willing to make wine extravagantly. But after the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the grain was already piled up in the warehouse, the "prohibition of alcohol" was naturally abolished, and the drinking culture also became popular.

Most of the famous wines of the Tang Dynasty were brewed in small workshops, although they were famous but scarce, and most of the fine wines were sold locally, and the number of long-distance trafficking was not large, and the price was extremely expensive.

Zhen Qian thought for a while and said, "Uncle Wang, does Zhen Mansion have his own wine shop?" ”

Wang Qun didn't know why Zhen Qian suddenly asked this question, and replied casually: "Zhen Fuzhong also brews his own fine wine, but the quantity is scarce, and it is generally not supplied to the public!" ”

"Where does the wine come from?"

Wang Qun said with a smile: "The wine sold in the restaurant is regularly supplied by other wine shops, there are really a few larger wine shops around, and a lot of fine wine is brewed every year, and there is an agreement between the restaurant and the wine store, and a batch of wine will be sent to the restaurant every ten days and half a month, why is Da Lang interested in the wine store?" ”

Zhen Qian nodded and said, "If the wine I brew can be sent to the wine store for sale, is it true that other restaurants also buy wine from other wine stores to sell?" ”

Wang Qun didn't know what Zhen Qian was going to do, so he shook his head and said: "It's true that other restaurants also buy wine from outside to sell, but the larger the scale of the restaurant, the less wine it relies on to buy from outside, after all, there is still a big difference in profit between buying wine from outside wine shops and home-brewed wine, unless it is a very famous wine, otherwise restaurants are reluctant to sell wine from other wine shops!" ”

Zhen Qian can understand this, after all, the cost of home-brewed wine is lower, and on the premise that the taste is not much different, no businessman will do such a stupid thing, and the key is the reason why the threshold of private brewing technology is not high.

Zhen Qian nodded secretly and said: "Uncle Wang, can you help me get some original wine, it is the kind of wine that is about to be brewed, if it really doesn't work, ordinary turbid wine can also become, but the quantity is more, around one or two hundred buckets, the lower the price, the better!" ”