Chapter Twenty-Four: Buying a Distillery
"Young Master Yang is here, what can I do to help you today?" The guy stepped forward enthusiastically and handed over a cup of tea very politely.
"Bring me a glass of boiled water!" Yang Detian said respectfully.
The tea that people in this world drink is really a bit difficult to swallow, probably not much different from the Tang and Song dynasties in history, and it is customary to boil tea, knock down a small piece from a large piece of tea, pinch it into broken foam and put it in the teapot to decoction.
The most unacceptable thing for Yang Dewen is that in the process of boiling tea, some salt and condiments such as ginger and green onions will be put into it.
Where does it seem to Yang Dewen? Are you making tea? It's literally cooking.
Therefore, although Yang Dewen likes to drink tea in later generations, he still doesn't drink tea here.
"That's right, I'm going to buy a winery that makes fruit wine, and I want to ask you if there is a winery to be transferred, and if the price is right, I want to buy it." Yang Devin said.
"O winery! In the past two years, the fruit wine market has been very hot! Many people want to find a fruit wine winery, and they can make money by buying it, but it is not a good time for Yang Gongzi to buy a fruit wine winery at this time! Not only is it much more expensive, but it's also hard to find.
Even if you buy the winery, because the market of fruit wine has risen sharply, the purchase price of various fruits has also risen sharply, although the price of fruit wine, on the surface, is much more expensive than before, but after removing the high cost, in fact, the profit is already very limited.
The price of fruit wine has risen to the top, and it is impossible to rise again, and no one will buy it if it rises again. You are my old customer, so I really don't want you to buy fruit wine at this time.
If you are really interested in a winery, it is better to buy a traditional winery made with grain.
Although the winery that buys grain to make wine at this time is temporarily unprofitable, and there is no way to make wine, it is cheap at this time! This year of calamity will always pass, and it is impossible to continue like this forever, and when the grain is abundant, large-scale sake brewing can be made, and money can be made. ”
Although the guy in the dental store is just a guy, he has been in the dental store for many years and has seen many customers. I basically have a good understanding of the market and trends in all walks of life.
"I have my thoughts on this issue, you just need to help me see if there is a suitable winery to be transferred, a grain-based winery, and a suitable one can also be considered." Yang Devin said.
"Oh well! Although the winery is rarely transferred, it is not nothing, but it is too expensive, since you don't care about the money, it doesn't matter.
There is an excellent brewery that makes wine from grain, but it is relatively large, and it costs a lot of money, but it is definitely a good deal. ”
The tooth shop guy did his best, and since the customer insisted on buying it, of course he wouldn't say anything.
"Okay, let's take a look at them one by one, and buy them if we can talk about them." Yang Dewen nodded and said.
If you go to a certain scale of winery, it will not be in the city, because many places in the city are inconvenient, and the cost will be much higher. There is also the issue of transportation.
It is impossible for any famous wine to be sold only in Mingzhou City. If you want to sell it in other cities, you have to deal with transportation.
Compared with land transportation, water transportation is the most convenient, of course, the lowest cost, and the fastest speed, so most of the general wineries are built by the river.
The first thing that the Yahang guy took Yang Dehua to see was a large brewery located on the bank of the Ming River outside Mingzhou City.
From the outside, it's not hard to see that this brewery definitely has a glorious history.
It covers an area of nearly 30 acres, with a super-large grain reserve and a very large finished wine warehouse.
The facilities inside the winery are very complete, and there is an area where the family area of the winery workers live, because the winery has stopped production, and the workers have been sent home. Only the owner of the winery, the family guards the winery.
When the two arrived at the winery, they were catching up with the owner of the winery, and they were about to eat, when they heard the introduction of the guy from the tooth shop, knowing that Yang Dewen wanted to take over the winery, they happily invited the two to eat together, and let people kill a chicken.
Before the meal was ready, the owner of the brewery took the two of them to visit his brewery.
The scale of the winery is even larger than Yang Dewen imagined, and even the workers are ready-made.
There is still a lot of wine stored in the cellar, and there is also a lot of grain used to make wine in the granary.
What Yang Dewen is incomprehensible is that even if the imperial court now prohibits the use of grain to make wine, this winery has not reached the point of exhaustion.
As the guy at the tooth shop said, if next year is a good year, the brewery will be able to resume normal production.
What surprised Yang Dewen the most was that this very large winery not only brewed grain wine, but also fruit wine.
It wasn't until the man said the secret inside that Yang Dewen suddenly realized.
It turned out that this man was not the real owner of the winery, which was actually the property of his brother-in-law and sister.
It's just that his brother-in-law, on the way back from sending wine to the capital for delivery, bought a large amount of grain and came back to make wine.
As a result, he met on the road, from the hungry people to the homeless people, the rioters looted, and his brother-in-law died in the chaos of the rioters in order to stop the rioters.
His sister was left, as well as young children, and a few concubines. In addition, the prospects of the winery are not good, and several women are not in the mood to continue running the winery. I thought about selling the winery as soon as possible, paying off some of the debts that my brother-in-law owed when he ran the winery, and the remaining money could raise the children.
Yang Dewen thought to himself, whenever there is a catastrophe, there will be many people who can't eat, and if there are more hungry people, there will be chaos, and if the imperial court can't handle it properly, the resettlement of the affected people is more likely to cause a civil uprising and shake the country's foundation.
Facing a family of orphans and widows, Yang Dewen was embarrassed to lower the price, but the owner didn't ask for a high price, and they probably wanted to sell earlier.
The large-scale winery that uses grain to make wine is now the worst time for the market, because the imperial court has banned the use of grain to make wine, so it is not so easy for this large-scale winery to find a suitable buyer.
Fortunately, they still have a part of it, which is used to make fruit wine.
Moreover, the fruit wine was made because of the sharp rise in grain prices later, so some workshops were used to change the fruit wine.
Before this batch of fruit wine could be sold, the owner of the winery had already died.
The people who came back from the capital with the owner of the winery, and many of the winery guys, died in the robbery of the homeless people.
In order to give an account to these dead people, it is necessary to come up with a sum of money to pay for the families of these people.
And where does this money come from? Orphans and widows can only sell the winery in exchange for a huge sum of money, firstly, to compensate the relatives of the victims as soon as possible, and secondly, the orphans and widows also need money to live.