Chapter 34: The Brewery

It is said that Du Qian and Song Wan took hundreds of soldiers to recruit people everywhere, and Du Qian came to Cangzhou and secretly infiltrated many villages to promote Liangshanbo's "land policy".

In the beginning, where many strong men and bandits lived, how could they be so kind and would give free land to the people? Anyone who is a little more rational thinks they are blowing nonsense.

Some people are even wondering, are the strong people in Liangshanbo going to trick them to Liangshan, and then use them as human meat steamed buns?

Until the end, there was a family that really couldn't survive, the harvest was not good, and they were going to starve to death this year, so they secretly ran to Liangshanbo, and as a result, Liangshanbo really gave each person five acres of land according to the head of their family, and also provided seeds to let them farm with peace of mind. On weekdays, you can still fish for a living, and you will never starve to death again.

Liangshanbo also has an agricultural tax, but the tax is frighteningly low, only 5%, which is something they dare not imagine in their opinion.

After the family settled down, they wrote letters to relatives and friends, and relatives and friends were suspicious, but two more families really came to Liangshanbo, and these two families naturally divided countless fields and seeds, and they were overjoyed and informed their relatives and friends of this matter.

At the beginning, the family knew about it, but in the end, the entire Cangzhou Mansion knew about it, and more and more people ran to Liangshan.

Song Wan recruited people to go to Yangsan in Jeju and Qingzhou, and the same was true, it was extremely unsmooth at first, but then it became more and more smooth, and more and more people were arranged to be sent to Yangsanbo.

At present, the main task of the Liangshan First Army, which is under the command of Lin Chong, is to bring people to Liangshanbo, and it can receive at least hundreds of people every day.

Dongping Juxianzhuang left 500 private soldiers, and Xuanzhi, Xuanyi, and Xuanhong set up a shadow battalion to be responsible for important intelligence and assassination. The remaining 2,000 private soldiers were led by Xuan He to set up a guard battalion to escort the displaced people to Liangshanbo.

Chinese peasants, no matter which dynasty or generation, their greatest wish is to own their own land, not to mention that in the Song Dynasty, the dynasty with the largest gap between the rich and the poor, 90% of the peasants were tenant farmers, and half of their annual harvest had to be handed over to the landlords, and many of the rest had to be handed over to the government, and there was not much left in their hands. They look forward to the land can be described as "looking forward to the stars, looking forward to the moon", as long as they can own their own land, even the most dangerous things they are willing to do, so they have left their hometowns and headed towards Liangshanpo.

In the era of agriculture, human resources are the foundation of the prosperity of the country and the nation. An important reason why the Chinese nation has survived 5,000 years and survived despite the decline of the other three civilizations of the four major civilizations is that the Han people have always maintained a certain population advantage, even after the Wuhu Rebellion, the Mongols and the Manchus.

The people are the help! This is a conclusion that the ancient sages have long reached. For the next period of time, dozens or hundreds of displaced people joined every day.

Before you know it, more than two months have passed. Many workshops were built in Liangshanbo.

After coming to Liangshan Shuibo Distillery in the morning, Wang Yue and Zhao Shuisheng and his son (talents among the displaced people) carefully studied the improvement measures and methods of the liquor process. Because of the in-depth experiments he had done before, Wang Yue had a comprehensive understanding of the liquor process of this period.

In the Song Dynasty, most of the liquor was made by solid fermentation, and some auxiliary materials needed to be added during fermentation to adjust the starch concentration, maintain the softness of the fermented grain, and maintain the slurry. Commonly used auxiliary materials are rice husks, grain bran, sorghum husks, etc.

In addition to raw materials and accessories, koji is also required. Koji is a crude enzyme preparation that uses starch-containing raw materials as a medium to cultivate a variety of molds and accumulate a large amount of amylase. Why Moutai can only be produced in Moutai Town, it is said that the same mold flora can only be obtained by following the original cellar that has been handed down, and once it leaves, it will not work, which is why Moutai cannot be produced in large quantities.

Through analysis, Wang Yue realized that China's liquor process was quite complete at that time, but there were still some problems that were difficult to overcome due to the limitations of science and technology.

For example, because there was no distillation and extraction technology, shochu (the degree of liquor is generally difficult to exceed 35 degrees, and the 72-degree liquor like "Hengshui Laobaigan" was unimaginable at that time).

Because no purification technology is used, baijiu should actually be called "turbid liquor", which is generally turbid, not at all as translucent as mineral water is now.

Because there is no bartending technology and no additives such as flavors, the aroma of baijiu is not as strong as it is now.

The reason why Wang Yue knows so much is that he had a friend who was a bartender in his previous life, and the two of them played together from childhood to adulthood, often drinking and farting together.

Wang Yue put forward his own knowledge and opinions, and some winemaking processes that would only appear in later generations were also vaguely described and explained by him. Although Zhao Shuisheng and his son didn't fully understand what they heard, they agreed very much with some of the key points.

Just talk about it, don't practice fake tricks. In the following days, Wang Yue and Zhao Shuisheng father and son devoted themselves to improving the liquor brewing process, Wang Yue was mainly responsible for the development of activated carbon, and Zhao Shuisheng was responsible for the research of liquor distillation and purification technology.

After more than a month of trial and error, Zhao Shuisheng and his son have made a breakthrough in their own responsibility, while Wang Yue's activated carbon production has not yet succeeded.

In a hurry, Wang Yue went to the charcoal kiln to learn from the charcoal master in person, and regardless of the hot weather in July, he climbed in and out of the ground with sweat and ashes, which was very much the spirit of Comrade Zhang Side. Under the guidance of the knowledge of the previous life and the unremitting efforts of Comrade Wang Yue, the simplified version of activated carbon was finally made by Wang Yue.

The next thing is much simpler, the specific production by Zhao Shuisheng father and son, Wang Yue from time to time put forward some ideas for improvement, originally he was still wondering whether to put out the glass firing technology, for the upcoming Liangshan pot wine with a transparent bottle, but thinking of the origin of kaolin really can't remember where, had to wait until the future to study this technology.

When the first pot of liquor brewed with improved technology was placed on Wang Yue's desk, Zhao Shuisheng and his son looked at Wang Yue nervously, only to see that after he took a sip of liquor, the poem was great: "Liangshan wine is fragrant, and the jade bowl is full of Yaochi light." But so that the master can be drunk, and he does not know where it is! ”

"Good poetry!" Lin Chong on the side couldn't help but praise.

"It's really wet! Ruda, your saliva is dripping all over my hands!" Wu Song complained.

"Good wine and good poetry really complement each other!" Zhao Shuisheng looked excited.

"Why don't you let the big boss come up with a well-known name for our new wine?" Zhao Shuisheng also said happily.