Kong Yingda's liquor volume is really the heritage of Shandong people, and Yang Chong's amount of eight taels of liquor in modern society can only be equal to Kong Yingda. The two drank until late at night, and there was a curfew on Chang'an Street, and Kong Yingda stayed in the guest room; Yang Chong washed and fell asleep, he was in a daze when he just fell asleep, and was woken up by Wei Lei knocking on the door. Yang Chong was helpless, got up drunk, washed his face, and followed the people led by the prince to the prince's mansion, Duhu and Zhou Qian were waiting.

Yang Chong stepped forward and saluted: "Zhao Guogong really works hard for the country, so late to call the lower officials to come over, I don't know what to send?" ”

Duhu waved his hand and said, "Don't be coy, I heard from Yanshou that you want to see us, so I specially took a free time with Lord Zhou." Yang Chong, what can you say to us? ”

"Lord Zhou." Yang Chong repeated: "Old man, congratulations." ”

"From the seventh rank of Suide Lieutenant, it's just a false title. Boy, I also arranged for Mingguang Temple to hide alone, but. Zhou Qian thought about it, didn't know how to speak, and instantly changed his tone: "Don't talk about it, Yang Chong, you are also a smart person, or tell me what you plan in your heart." ”

No matter how difficult Zhou Qian is, it is nothing more than the pressure given by the wealthy family, Yang Chong responded: "I asked Shi Shuhu to learn about Chang'an, because I suspected that he was from the Eastern Turks, and this point Fu Shan Ying can testify, so if you really want to do wine business, you have to find someone to cooperate with again in Gaochang Kingdom." Of course, if you prove that Shi Shu Hu is fine, or turn him into a member of the Great Sui, you can also follow the original plan; As for the processing of wine, I will leave it to the two of you, and I don't want to get involved in the internal affairs of Yuhai Zhai. ”

Zhou Qian said leisurely: "Two thousand taels of silver." ”

Yang Chong said indifferently: "Old man, don't talk about money, wait until you earn it, but in the front, if you have problems with management in the future, it has nothing to do with me." ”

Zhou Qian said with certainty: "Yang Chong, you don't need to worry about this, the Pei family, Duhu, and Xiao families are all top families, if you can't do this well, you will die of laughter." Let's put it this way, as long as the wine you try at the beginning meets the requirements, it's fine; Two thousand taels of silver, you will take it with you when you go back, and there is this level of trust between us. Shi Shu Hu Xi will be handed over to Zhao Guogong, you tell us how to start now. ”

Zhou Qian was just the messenger of the Yang family of the royal family, and he had actually taken into account Yang Chong's feelings when he spoke, but Yang Chong was uncomfortable when he heard it, and replied without hesitation: "Actually, it's nothing, the wine has deteriorated, mainly because the wooden barrel and clay wine jar leakage, and you can use glass bottles to fill the wine, or specially fired porcelain jars to fill the wine, plug it with twisted cloth or leather, and seal it with wax." ”

Zhou Qian and Duhu looked at each other and smiled, Yang Chong's answer was as predicted by everyone, it was very simple and effective; Glass is glass, too precious; But porcelain is much simpler, the Lanling Xiao family has a large number of porcelain kilns in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Pei family also controls one-third of the kilns in Xingzhou, Hebei. In the Western Regions, porcelain is a high-priced handicraft, and the merchants of the Western Regions are reluctant to use it to hold wine, but the three gate valves of Duhu can specially come to burn the porcelain altar for wine, Zhou Qian and Duhu even thought that they could monopolize the transportation in their hands.

Zhou Qian hesitated for a while, and then asked: "Many freshly brewed wines are either spoiled or have an astringent taste, is there a way to solve it?" ”

As soon as Yang Chong heard this, he thought that there must be a wine brewery in Chang'an or Guanzhong, otherwise Zhou Qian would not have asked such a question. Later generations advocated the storage of wine in oak barrels, because oak itself contains tannins, which can quickly ripen the wine, making the wine more mellow and closer to amber in a short time. Among other plants, which contain more tannic acid and are easy to extract, none other than sumac and gallnut, the bark and leaves of sumac and the nodules of gallic trees contain a large amount of tannins.

Yang Chong's heart was still a little angry, and he decided to let this group suffer a small loss, Yang Chong said slowly: "There are two countries in the South China Sea, called Langya Xiu and Terracotta, where they have a kind of white oak, which can be made into barrels to make the wine easy to preserve and improve the quality. All barrels must be straight, without tree eyes, cut into planks, air-dried for two or three years, made into barrels, and then baked over an open flame until the inner wall of the barrel is charred. ”

Duhu usurped it, the process is complicated, and it will take at least three to four years to see the effect in terms of time, and the fox asked suspiciously: "Are there really two places for wolf tooth repair and terracotta?" ”

Yang Chong said with a smile: "Zhao Guogong can arrange for someone to go to Guangzhou to ask first." ”

Since the Han Dynasty, Guangzhou has been the seat of Nanhai County; Zhou Qian nodded, agreeing with Yang Chong's suggestion. When Yang Chong left, he still refused to accept the money, until Zhou Qian hinted that Yang Chong's empty-handed return would affect the credibility of Yuhaizhai, and Yang Chong woke up to the fact that it was the people in the royal family who were afraid of falling into a strong buy and sell handle, so they immediately collected the money and left; Duhu still let the carriage that picked up Yang Chong send Yang Chong back.

After Yang Chong left, Duhu and Zhou Qian still went to see Yang Xiong, the king of Guan, overnight, Shi Shu Hu's matter was related to the Eastern Turks, without the support of the big bosses in the DPRK, the two really couldn't make up their minds, for fear of accidentally poking a hornet's nest. Guanwang Yang Xiong didn't sleep at all, the elderly people didn't sleep much, they heard the news and met the two, after listening to Zhou Qian's report, Yang Xiong concluded that it was true, Gao Gong and Pei Ju both said that the Eastern Turks had many channels for smuggling from the Central Plains.

Duhu said that he had thought of a plan on the road, which was to track Shi Shu Huxi's more than 100 people in an all-round way, Yang Xiong shook his head secretly, Duhu had been living comfortably for a long time, and his reaction was not enough. Yang Xiong thought for a while and said, "If more than a hundred people are all following, it will be easy to be discovered by the other party." Yang Chong's idea should be to control Shi Shu Hu Xi in Chang'an, and even arrest him if necessary, which shows that Shi Shu Hu Xi is important in himself, and some things will not be said to his subordinates. Let Shi Shu and Hu Xi go to Xingzhou, Zhou Qian and Pei Yi accompany each other, and Lu Yinshang will do some tricks, it will be impossible for him to bring too many people. ”

Zhou Qian had actually thought of this method a long time ago, but he was not ready to mention it, because the Xingzhou porcelain kiln was the Pei family's industry, and if Shi Shu Hu Xi made an accident there, the person who came up with the idea would have to bear the consequences. However, Guanwang Yang Xiong is different, don't say that something happened, that is, all those porcelain kilns were destroyed, and the Pei family only stared dryly; Duhu was also determined, and immediately resigned and went back to arrange.

Yang Chong took the silver home, slept peacefully until noon the next day, took Wei Heng to the Yuwen Workshop, talked about the Cui family, and then went to the market to take a look. Yang Chong took a lot of effort to ask clearly, now the tea is sold in the pharmacy, to the pharmacy to look at it, and finally in the two pharmacy to buy ten catties of well-preserved tea, one is the tip of the mountain in Shaanxi, the other is the Huzhou tea transported from the south of the Yangtze River.

When he arrived at home, Yang Chong arranged for Wei Heng to buy a new iron pot, set it up, and let Yang Liu and Yang Jiu copy the tea by hand, and observe it by himself; Every time I fried half a catty, I tried to solve the problem and then found a way to solve it, until the fifteenth time, the tea was fried a little, Yang Chong brewed a cup, it felt good, much better than those tea soups; Yang Chong asked Yang Liu to fry the rest of the tea leaves and put them in a bamboo tube. However, considering the consumption habits of the people in the Sui Dynasty, Yang Chong was still a little nervous, but Yang Chong couldn't help it, because Cui Hongsu arrived.