Chapter 17 Immortal wine has never been drunk
The head of the house gave an order, and the housekeeper and others next to him immediately took the subordinates to prepare the car and pack up, and for a while, the owner and the shopkeeper were left in the whole room!
The head of the house watched the people walk away, and then asked in a low voice, "Where did this wine come from?" ”
"Today, a Taoist came to the wine shop...... "The shopkeeper told the owner everything that had just happened.
Only then did the head of the family nod and said: "You are doing the right thing, you must grasp the whereabouts of that person, if you can really get this wine-making technique, you can pay some price." ”
The shopkeeper immediately understood, if that person obediently handed over the technology, it would be fine! Just give him some money. If he didn't hand it over, he wouldn't have to do anything bad about it.
This master and servant are not ordinary people, and the play just now is just a show. The so-called if you want to deceive others, you have to deceive your own people, so the two teamed up to deceive the housekeeper and several subordinates. The fewer people know about this kind of thing, the better, and the less chance it will be leaked.
The reason why the shopkeeper calls this wine immortal wine is just to invite the name! This wine is the wine drunk by the gods, can it be cheaper when you buy it?
The ancients didn't know marketing, but fake invitations were very slippery! There are many auspicious things in the history books, some of which are clearly recorded, but more often than not, many people fake auspiciousness!
Let's take Bailu, for example! This is a deer with albinism, but it is regarded as auspicious. After all, it's less! In fact, there is no problem with becoming auspicious, just take it as a good wish.
But how can there be so many deer with albinism in the world? What if not? I'm still thinking about getting an auspicious rui! It's easy to do, just find a paint to apply one.
Of course, everyone else may be more advanced, but the essence is the same, and the same is fake.
So, the ancients were not stupid! They don't understand marketing, but they know how to invite names! The upper class of society at the end of the Han Dynasty was a society that invited names.
Before the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Xu brothers conducted a monthly review in Runan, and many people would become famous and become celebrities when they were appraised by them. The title of celebrity is very useful, Cao Cao killed the celebrity Bian Rang, and as a result, Chen Gong and others rebelled and welcomed Lu Bu into Yanzhou, and only three cities were left to end Cao Cao's nest.
Therefore, those who wanted to get ahead in the late Han Dynasty wanted to be famous and become celebrities. Many people went to ask the Xu brothers to comment, and Cao Cao, who was still a young man, also thought.
But the Xu brothers looked down on him because he was from a bad background. His father Cao Song was passed on to his grandfather Cao Teng when he was a child, so he was a eunuch and has always been disliked by the celebrity circle.
In the end, Cao ** was anxious, he intercepted Xu Shao with a sword, and only then did he get a comment: The capable minister who governs the world, and the traitor who is in troubled times.
Cao Cao's current achievements have something to do with his reputation. Otherwise, he would not have easily gotten Dongjun at the beginning, let alone Yanzhou, which had something to do with the reputation he had built during the period of courting Dong. Otherwise, Cheng Yu would not have gone on the pole and said that Cao Cao was the master, and even changed his name, flattering and adding a Japanese character to the word Lizi, so that he was called Cheng Yu.
To get back to the point, the head of the family is not a stupid person, he knows what he means, and when he finishes drinking, he feels that he can make a big fuss here, so he wants to make a drama of offering immortal wine. As for why the object of the wine offering is Liu Biao, but not Zhang Xiu?
This is very simple, Zhang Xiu's background substitution was not taken into account by the head of the family at all. Zhang Xiu was born in Liangzhou Haoqiang, but this head of the family was born in a family, and the family alone is one level higher than Haoqiang, not to mention that his family is still in the Central Plains, Zhang Xiu's Haoqiang is only from Liangzhou, and it is a level higher in terms of geography!
Although it is annoying to divide people into three, six, nine, and so on, this is the inferior root nature of human beings, and the bad root nature that cannot be removed for thousands of years.
And Liu Biao is different, not to mention the emperor's relatives, and he is also one of the "Eight Chefs", and he is also a celebrity, and he is very noble! If it weren't for Liu Biao secretly saying hello to these families in Wancheng, these families would be able to squeeze out Zhang Xiu, and you would be worthy of occupying Wancheng as a barbarian in the wilderness?
Of course, they only dared to think about it in their hearts, and didn't dare to really do anything to Zhang Xiu? Don't you see that when Dong Zhuo was in charge of the government, the families of the Manchu Dynasty were all obedient? In the face of absolute force, they can only bow their heads, at most they are just making small moves in private! I didn't understand the small movements of the Yuan family back then, and Dong Zhuo raided the house.
Because he deliberately let the news leak out, when the head of the family arrived in Xiangyang, the news that the Deng family got the immortal wine and offered it to Liu Biao had already spread all over Nanyang County and Nan County.
Liu Biao met with the head of the Deng family here, and drank the so-called immortal wine, and the feeling was indeed different, I am afraid it is not easy to drink more. But this wine is indeed good wine, and then the head of the Deng family promised to send some to Liu Biao every month, and the two quickly reached a tacit understanding. The next day, the news that Liu Biao was drunk after drinking came out!
At this time, there was really no wine that could get drunk with two or three lords. At this time, the alcohol content is low, and there is often no problem with drinking several buckets, and the strength of the wine may not be as strong as beer, and normal people will go to the toilet a few more times after drinking two or three buckets. So all of a sudden, such a bell of wine appeared, which immediately attracted the attention of the upper echelons of society.
Jingzhou has been relatively wealthy because of the few wars in these years. Many cultural people took refuge in Jingzhou to escape the war, and they not only came, but also brought a lot of wealth. Therefore, Jingzhou, which has few wars, is almost the richest place in the world, and the only place that can compete with this may be the Jizhou region controlled by Yuan Shao.
There are many rich people here, and there are many people who buy more luxurious things. Suddenly, this kind of immortal wine appeared, and it became a trend, and many rich people wanted to taste it.
But there's nothing on the market for sale at all!
These rich people even begged Liu Biao here, but Liu Biao refused, and only gave a few famous people in Jingzhou to drink some, like Mr. Sima Hui! Pang Degong of the Pang family! Huang Chengyan of the Huang family! His two important strategists, Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue! His brother-in-law Cai Mao!
This wine! There weren't many in the first place, and these people all shared some, and basically there was nothing. If he wants to make peace with himself, he has to wait for the Deng family to send it to him! How else can you give it to someone else? As a result, after waiting for half a month, the Deng family didn't send it, Liu Biao was in a hurry! Just send someone over and ask what's going on! This wine has already made a reputation, why is it not on the market yet? Even if I pay for it myself!
In fact, it's not that the Deng family is unwilling to sell, they also know that it is best to go public at this time. But isn't that going wrong?