Chapter 4 The mellow aroma of spirits

Songzhou, located in the throat of the Tongji Canal, has convenient transportation and developed commerce, especially the salt tax and grain tax, which is an important place for all parties in the imperial court. www.biquge.info Lin Kun secretly said that the reason why the rebels rebelled was that the court persecuted them too much, and pressed all the Khitan tribute salt in Songzhou, cutting off their financial routes, and General Shi Weiyi was the person who inspected Situ Sang Weihan, and Sang Weihan was incompatible with Ma Du Chongwei in the court, so Shi Weiyi became a victim of the struggle between them, and Shi Hao Dongqing, the defense of Tongzhou, was recommended by Du Chongwei to be the envoy of Songzhou. Lin Kun was invisibly affected by the pond fish, the number of expanded sergeants was also cancelled, and all the rebel prisoners of war were sent to the state capital tomorrow.

Because early tomorrow morning, Lin Kun personally escorted the prisoners of war to drink wine with the soldiers in his own wine house, and the Lin family did not have enough wine, so Liu Gouwa and a few men had to go to Sanli in Dongcheng to pour some wine. The business model of ancient times is very different from that of later generations, unlike later generations, a phone call in the past, or a light click on the computer keyboard, ten minutes before the ancient people opened a shop, there is no one to say, my goods are here, buy the goods by yourself, my goods are here, do not buy my goods are still here, how ridiculous.

Although it's ridiculous, Liu Gouwa still has to push the wheelbarrow to buy wine, the rules here are like this, you have to adapt to its rules, otherwise, his goods are still there, hehe. After walking for about half a stick of incense, I arrived at the winery of Sanlipu winemaking, just like the original Lin family winery, the winery has no name, no signboard, if it is not a guy who is familiar with the road, Liu Gouwa will definitely not find here. The winery is a few simple old wooden houses, the pot table of winemaking is tattered, jet black, dirty, the process is relatively simple, a large cauldron, pick out a yellow and yellow tube, this should be the place where the wine is directly produced, no wonder the ancient wine is so light. Behind the workshop is a fenced garden, the messy open air is full of all kinds of empty wine jars and wine jars, a little farther away, there are a few large pottery jars, are emitting wine, the sour and musty smell wafted over for a while, Liu Gouwa was in a trance, thinking that she had returned to the black workshop of the republic.

The owner of the winery is a middle-aged couple surnamed Li, with a seventeen or eighteen-year-old son to run this winery, it is said that they are not locals, but Tang people, who opened this tavern after the failure of doing business here, and the business was so-so, and now after the war, the price of grain is still high, so they plan to take the winery out and return to their hometown in the Tang Kingdom.

Liu Gouwa had planned to have the opportunity to produce alcohol, and she wanted to take this winery down, so she negotiated the price with the owner of the winery and asked him to keep it for three days. Although the Lin family treats him well, after all, he is a slave and a servant, he doesn't know what the previous dog's mentality is, as a person from the Republic era, a wage earner, he will always have the idea of being a boss, no matter what era, no money is not good, although it is not omnipotent, without money, you will not be able to do the same. For example, now, if you don't have money, you can't buy this winery, and you want to produce alcohol? Dream on!

When Liu Gouwa bought wine and returned to the Lin family wine inn, he told the shopkeeper Lin what he thought, hoping that he could borrow himself a dozen taels of silver and promise to return it twice after three months, but the shopkeeper Lin thought that Liu Gouwa was messing around, half a child, and he didn't even know what the wine tasted like, and he dared to make wine indiscriminately, and the dozen taels of silver were not a small amount.

Liu Gouwa had no choice but to take out all his silver, in addition to giving the woman with a high fever two taels of silver, there were more than two taels, and returned to the winery in Sanlipu, and said to the owner of the winery that he could not make up enough money, hoping that he could stay for half a month, the winery let him operate for half a month, usually their income remained the same, half a month later, the price doubled, Liu Gouwa also handed over his remaining two taels of silver to the owner as a guarantee, and allowed the owner of the winery to supervise the operation. The owner of the shop thought about it for a while, and felt that he would not suffer anywhere, so he agreed.

Liu Gouwa asked Zhang San and Li Si to help, cleaned up the wine workshop, placed the wine pots and crockpots in the back garden in a neat and orderly manner, rebuilt the stove, imitated the process of winemaking in the hometown of later generations, built several cooling pools, repaired several circulating pipes with bamboo tubes, and sealed linen cloth at the mouth of the wine pipe out of the steamer, filtered water vapor to ensure that the concentration and purity of the wine can be improved, and personally made koji, steamed grain, fermented wine, and arranged for Zhang San and them to go up the mountain to collect wine and medicine flowers as spices, and they were busy all day. The owner of the wine shop felt very novel and unheard of Liu Gouwa's approach, looked left and right, and asked thoroughly about the links that he had not steamed wine before, such as why he added sackcloth to the catheter mouth, didn't it block the wine? Why do you want to build a cooling pool, I just use a long wine pipe, why do I want to make koji, is it not more refreshing to send wine mash directly, etc., Liu Gouwa does not hide his secrets, and explains them one by one, and the winery owner half understands it.

After two days of wine mash, on the third day, the first pot of wine began to be steamed, Liu Gouwa personally controlled the fire, first boiled with a fierce fire, and then reduced to a simmer, when the wine was released, the room was full of wine aroma, which lasted for a long time, the winemaker first tasted a mouthful, but suddenly was choked by the wine and coughed, his face was red, and after he was angry, he was full of praise for this wine, and he was amazed, and shouted that this wine was too strong and too mellow, and he only saw it in his life. When steaming the second pot of wine, Liu Gouwa wrapped a small amount of mast flowers picked by Zhang San with a small cloth piece and steamed them together in the pot, originally Liu Gouwa told Zhang San to go to the mountain to pick some osmanthus flowers, intending to brew some osmanthus wine for later generations, but Zhang San did not find osmanthus flowers, but picked some mast flowers, and could only brew some mast flower wine. When the winery owner tasted the mast flower wine, the whole person was stunned, and shouted incredible, even the wine can be brewed like this, how can other winemakers live, taste the bowl of wine, close his eyes and say how he feels.

On the third day, they were brewing wine all day long, brewing more than 100 jars of wine, and the tired Zhang San and Li Si and their half-grown children dozed off and yawned for a long time. Although she was very tired, Liu Gouwa continued to pack dozens of small cans of liquor and mast flower wine, labeled them and put them away, and the owner of the wine shop couldn't help but ask, "Why are you doing this?" Is it sold in bulk? ”

Liu Gouwa pointed to the wine and said: "This wine is not for sale, it is to be given away, and it is given to the shopkeepers of various wine inns to taste." ”

"It's not that I said you, it's not worth giving away so much good wine." The owner of the winery said distressed when he heard this.

Liu Gouwa analyzed the marketing strategy of later generations with him, the sales doorway, the wine shop owner just said that his wine was good, and the customers would naturally come to the door by themselves, and it was redundant to send them wine, and it was very distressing to give them wine, but now Liu Gouwa is in charge, so he has to do it.

On the fourth day, Liu Gouwa arranged for the most elfish Li Si to give wine to each winery, and he took Zhang San and their children to hang signboards in the winery, erect road guides, that is, wooden signs to guide the way, and when there were many people at noon, they used a trolley to personally push a few jars of wine to the city for a free tasting of Liu's wine. Seeing all kinds of strangers drinking the good wine brewed by their own liquor shop for free, even he was reluctant to drink it, the owner of the liquor shop was so angry that his eyes were red, and he scolded Liu Gouwa for being a fool and doing stupid things.

However, early in the morning of the fifth day, the winery owners were dumbfounded, and the shopkeepers of the wineries in the city rushed to their wineries in an endless stream, crowding the winery yards, and all kinds of orders flew all over the sky, which dazzled the winemakers' eyes, and these winekeepers did not care about money at all, but only wanted to order wine as soon as possible, but in the end, it was still in short supply, and they could not buy it with silver. Seeing the shopkeepers who didn't buy the wine leaving, the wineryowner's heart trembled, and he couldn't control his excitement.

After the shopkeepers left, the owner of the wine shop quietly took Liu Gouwa's hand, went to his broken board room, and said, "Little brother, I still won't sell this wine shop.......

When Liu Gouwa heard this, she thought that the owner of the wine shop regretted it when she saw that the business was improving, and couldn't help but say: "Master Li, you can't be untrustworthy.......

"How can I be?" Li Fang Master said busily, and then said embarrassedly: "I mean, I mean, I mean, I don't want your silver, this two taels of silver will also be returned to you, just ask you to let me have some shares of the winery, today, your wine sold, the silver flowed in like water, less than half a day, I earned more than two taels." After speaking, the owner of Li Fang handed over the two taels of silver that had been prepared in his hand.

"Oh, so that's the case, everyone earns money, everyone spends money, and tobacco and alcohol are not separated." When Liu Gouwa heard this, she was stunned, and she burst into the era of the republic.

Owner Li couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and he didn't know whether he agreed or not. Seeing this, Liu Gouwa knew that she was speechless, and hurriedly said: "Welcome, this is originally Master Li's winery, I just improved the process of steaming wine." ”

"Craft?" Fang Master Li was a little blank and asked.

"Method, method." Liu Gouwa was busy, knowing that there were many mistakes in what he said, so he didn't say more.