In his previous life, Li Sheng worked as a clerk, although he was not an official, he was also a civil servant. He also has insight into officialdom. Although Li Sheng is very respectful to Wang Sili, he also has the influence of his previous life in his previous life. Although he can cope with some entertainment, if it is said that he can deal with the fight in the officialdom, Li Sheng thinks that it is enough.

Li Shengli thought for a moment and said: "My lord, the kid is indeed too young to understand the world, and he has the ability to be an official there." I'm afraid the kid is going to thank the adults for their kindness. ”

Wang Sili was stunned, this was beyond his expectations. Ordinary young boys, if they hear that someone is being recommended as an official, they still cry with joy, and they bow to thank them for their recommendation. However, Li Sheng's refusal made him a little unaware of Li Sheng's thoughts. Is this kid stupid, or a clever and peerless demon, who can refuse the temptation of power. Li Sheng can invent the quyuan plough and the cocoon car, naturally he can't be a stupid person, is Li Sheng a demonic and intelligent person, Wang Sili instantly dispelled this idea, because Li Sheng's age is too young. Then there is another reason, Li Shengzhen is like he said, because he is young, and his father is not at home, so he doesn't dare to call the shots.

"Xiao Langjun is also a person of filial piety, presumably because his father is not at home, and he can't make his own decisions. It's okay, when Xiaolangjun's father comes back from defeat, the official will come again. Wang Sili instantly found a step for himself, and the descent was very smooth.

Wang Sili's reaction surprised Li Sheng. This is over, no more persuasion, it seems that the three visits to the thatched house are fake. This is also a problem in Li Sheng's own heart, in a flashing heart, many people in later generations have problems.

Wang Sili left, not taking away a trace of spring in Lijia Village. The sun was still warm, and Li Sheng was soaking the sun in the yard as always. The days when he was more immortal than a god made Li Sheng feel very bored. It's so boring that you can come up with a script for a TV series with your eyes closed.

Guan Lao Wu's field was also planted, and when Guan Lao Wu brought food to Li Sheng that night, he brought a jar of wine and some mutton. Coming to the courtyard of Li Sheng's house, Li Sheng got up from the recliner with a smile, cleaned up the table, and made it.

Wine is not good wine, it is as light as water. Guan Lao Wu is not willing to buy good wine, and if he can drink it like this, he must be very painful when Guan Lao Wu buys it. Wine in the Tang Dynasty was expensive, really expensive. The Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu wrote a poem describing the price of wine in the Tang Dynasty. "Su Yixiang is a bucket of wine, and there are exactly three hundred bronze coins." I don't want to come to Du Fu to drink good wine, because some time ago, when Li Sheng and Guan Lao Wu were plowshares, the bucket of wine they asked for in the wine shop was 300 yuan, and Li Sheng drank it not as well as Guan Lao Wu now.

Li Sheng couldn't help but imagine Guan Lao Wu's expression when he took out the money, it must have hurt like cutting meat. This made Li Sheng couldn't help but sigh. Guan Lao Wu is also an upright person, and he must be embarrassed to be touched by Li Sheng's light. The person who estimated the wine and bought the meat also came to Li Sheng Daoxi, a few days ago, the spring ploughing was reluctant to delay, and today he came after he was busy, and the people of the Tang Dynasty were indeed very upright.

"Xiao Langjun, you are now a county man, and you have won glory for our village. You don't know that when I walked to the village, everyone else was very respectful, they all knew that our two families had a good relationship, and the fifth uncle was stained with Xiao Langjun's light. Guan Lao Wu poured wine for Li Sheng and said flatteringly.

This made Li Sheng very uncomfortable, a man like Angzang, tall and burly, with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, it was awkward to look at. In fact, Guan Lao Wu is also a heroic man, and he was also bent over by feudal thoughts, Li Sheng thought that this wine and meat must also be the oppression of feudalism. This made Li Sheng look like he couldn't eat it anymore. As a traverser, equality has been deeply rooted in the heart, although the future generations will not be able to sit on complete equality, but it is also legal equality for everyone.

Besides, Guan Lao Wu can also be regarded as his life-saving benefactor, without his care, Li Sheng would not be able to come back to life, although he took care of that Li Sheng to death, after all, he used this body. Thinking of this, Li Sheng looked at Guan Lao Wu and said solemnly: "Fifth uncle, sit down, my nephew has something to say." ”

Guan Lao Wu saw Li Sheng's solemn expression, he didn't dare to disobey, and sat down very restrainedly. In his concept, Li Sheng has seen the emperor with a knighthood, or a county man who has been enshrined by the holy decree. He and he are no longer people of the same class, and Li Sheng is not the nephew next door of Mu Ne before.

"Fifth uncle, my father is not at home, you take care of my nephew when he is sick, and your aunt does the food, and you send it to my bed. Without the second elder, Sheng would have been out of personnel for a long time. Sheng will say a word today, fifth uncle, you will always be my fifth uncle, you are when Sheng is a county man, even if you are a servant, you are also my fifth uncle. Please ask the fifth uncle to act as a nephew on my behalf, if you are wrong, you can still beat and scold. ”

Before Li Sheng finished speaking, Guan Lao Wu's eyes were red, he looked at Li Sheng directly, and said in his mouth: "I'll just say it, I'll say it." The nephew of the Li family has a mirror-like heart, and he will never look down on my fifth child. This aunt insisted that I buy some wine and meat, which was far away from my nephew's heart. Go back and see if I don't smoke him. Guan Lao Wu said as he spoke, and tears fell. He felt embarrassed to shed tears in front of Li Sheng again, so he hurriedly wiped them away, and endured it very hard in a serious manner.

Li Sheng didn't see it, picked up the wine and said, "Fifth uncle, you can't beat my aunt when you go back, then my nephew won't be able to be a man." ”

"Don't fight, don't fight, let's drink." Guan Lao Wu dried up, wiped the corners of his mouth, and said, "This wine is really refreshing to drink." Joyfully. ”

After Li Sheng finished drinking, he pondered for a while and said, "Fifth Uncle, do you know what the price of Datang's wine is?" ”

Guan Lao Wu seemed to have opened his heart, and after drinking another bowl, he said: "We poor people can't drink once a year." I don't know how much wine is priced, but when I went to Xianyang County to buy wine today, the store introduced it to me. The most expensive three-run one-bucket, I didn't dare to look at it when I was scared. ”

Li Sheng smiled, already having the idea of making money in his heart. In later generations, if the distilled spirits were made, they would definitely be able to buy them at a good price. You can definitely make a lot of money.

"Fifth uncle, do we have a wine shop near here?"

"I don't know, I'm a farmer, where I know this."

Well, I haven't heard anything useful. Li Sheng was not in a hurry, and asked again: "Does the fifth uncle know how to make wine?" ”

"Good wine will not be brewed, but it will be drunk by yourself, but it is too difficult to drink, the year before and last year, there was a great drought in Guanzhong, and in the second year of Zhenguan, there was a locust plague in Guanzhong. I didn't have enough food to eat, so I didn't brew it, and I'm not afraid of your jokes, I haven't drunk for three years since the last time I drank. ”

Li Sheng was overjoyed in his heart, and finally asked something useful. If you know how to make sake, you just need to make your own equipment for distilling sake. Then the distilled spirits will come out.

When he thought of this, Li Sheng remembered that Guan Lao Wu said that there was a great drought in Guanzhong and a locust plague. Li Sheng finally thought of something important. This year is the fourth year of Zhenguan, and last year Li Shimin conquered the Turks, and Li Sheng's father Li Erhu also joined the army. Thinking about it, it's time to come back, the only relative in this world, Li Sheng hasn't met yet. Li Sheng is also very conflicted, how should he face this father when he sees him, and how should he live together.

"Nephew of the Li family, what are you asking about this?"

Guan Lao Wu's words interrupted Li Sheng's thinking. Li Sheng smiled and said, "My nephew wants to make a kind of wine, and drinking two catties of wine can make people undrunk." ”

Guan Lao Wu said in disbelief: "How can anyone get drunk with only two catties of wine?" ”

"Fifth Uncle doesn't believe it? Can you help me make wine from all the food in the house? ”

Guan Lao Wu looked at Li Sheng like a fool and said, "You make all the grain into wine, aren't you afraid that you will come back and pick your skin?" This is no small matter. ”

You can't blame Guan Lao Wu, if the grain is put together with the wine, the civilians of the whole Tang Dynasty will choose the grain, which is the ancient times of low productivity.

"Fifth uncle, you said that if I can make a wine that is sweet and strong, mellow in taste, and can make people drunk after drinking two catties, how much food do you say can I exchange?"

Guan Lao Wu was stunned after hearing this, and he was reluctant to swallow the wine in his mouth just after drinking it, so he held it in his mouth. It's like he drank the liquor that Li Sheng said.

"You're talking about the heavenly bar?" Guan Lao Wu swallowed the sip of wine and said in disbelief.

"Fifth uncle, don't believe it first, you brew a stone of grain first, and after brewing the wine, I will let you taste it first, and then you will naturally believe it."

People who are good are basically good at drinking, and there are not many people who are not good at drinking. Especially in ancient times when food was scarce, although the people became rich after the middle of Zhenguan, it was only relative to the situation in ancient times. It's just relatively rich, after all, productivity can't be compared with later generations. Wine is a luxury in ancient times, and only high-ranking officials and nobles can often drink it. When the poor do not have festivals to marry, no one is willing to spend money on wine and drink.

Guan Lao Wu is no exception, his extravagant hope for wine has long been imprinted in his bones, and I heard that he just tried it first, and he didn't waste much food. He can still drink alcohol, Guan Lao Wu has no reason to refuse. So I readily agreed.

Since this matter was decided, Li Sheng put the matter of making a still on the agenda. The next day, Li Sheng got on an ox cart alone and came to Xianyang County.

Li Sheng also thought about several materials for the design of the still. The first kind Li Sheng thought of copper, but in ancient times, copper was money, and if he wanted to build a copper still, Li Sheng didn't have that capital at all. Because in ancient times, money was more than six catties, and a copper still was too small to have practical value, and he couldn't afford to use it if it was too big.

The second material, Li Sheng, thought of iron, but Li Sheng quickly denied it, the ancient iron was not qualified at all, and the iron would also affect the quality of the wine. Li Sheng then directly denied it.

But apart from these two materials, there was no other material that could be used as a distiller in ancient times. So he thought of a compromise plan, Li Sheng used copper for the low pot, and Li Sheng also chose copper for the condenser above. Li Sheng, who was sealed in the middle, chose to make a wooden barrel out of wood. In this way, it is buckled between the condenser and the low pot, and you can save a lot of money.

During the Tang Dynasty, copper was regulated by the government, and workshops that made ordinary household bronze ware would register anyone who made bronze ware. Li Sheng fortunately has the identity of a county man, otherwise it will be very troublesome to build bronze. The main reason for this problem is the fact that copper is the main material used in coins. Private coinage occurs in every period, and the state is understandable.

Li Sheng built two copper pots, which were only three or four centimeters longer and had vertical edges upward. It is also a matter of sealing the barrels. Li Sheng built another copper pipe. So that if you go back and ask the carpenter to make a barrel, you will be able to make a still.

Li Weiyuan's craftsmanship is really not covered, a tightly fitting wooden barrel, he only took two days to help Li Sheng make it. And also helped Li Sheng open a dark groove at the top and bottom, and also made a condensation tank above the wooden barrel, which is used for condensation to flow down to receive wine when the steam rises to the condenser. Just enough to snap two copper pots. Li Sheng couldn't help but admire the eyesight of the ancients, and it was indeed surprising that he could be so accurate without precise measuring tools.

Li Sheng asked people to set up another stove at home, and after assembling the copper pot and wooden barrel, he pressed the copper pipe on the condensation notch. A very advanced still is good, just wait for Guan Lao Wu to brew good wine and steam it in the pot.

Guan Lao Wu's winemaking was very rude, and Li Sheng couldn't make wine, so he had to let him do it. A few days later, Li Sheng asked him if the wine was ready, and Guan Lao Wu looked at Li Sheng like a fool. Li Sheng finally figured out that it took nearly a year of fermentation to make wine.

This made Li Sheng speechless, and Li Sheng really had no choice, so he had to take out the brocade that Li Shimin had rewarded him, and went to Xianyang County to buy some wine for experiments.

Li Sheng poured the wine into the low pot, assembled the still, and poured cold water into the condenser. Li Sheng lit the fire and started steaming, Li Sheng didn't know the heat of the distillation, that is, the fire burned. But soon the pot was boiling, and the wine was pouring out of the brass pipe. Only then did Li Sheng control the heat, and the steamer made by the province was opened.

The wine that just came out was called the first wine, Li Sheng understood that the first wine could not be drunk, and when the wine slowly became clear, the aroma of the wine became stronger, and Li Sheng dared to let Guan Lao Wu taste it.

After Guan Lao Wu smelled the aroma of wine, he couldn't stop it for a long time. took the bowl of wine handed over by Li Sheng and drank it very simply. His face turned red instantly, and a violent cough sounded, and Guan Lao Wu was choked by wine.

"Good wine, spicy, fragrant. The taste is very good. Drink until your stomach is like a knife. Meidi is very! ”

Okay, as long as Meidi is very good. This also shows that it was successful. Li Sheng also couldn't wait to take a small bite. Li Sheng felt that this wine was about 40 degrees, which was already considered a strong wine in the Tang Dynasty.