Chapter 51: Distilled Spirits
Since the things Jiang Hong wanted to do were really complicated, after figuring out Jiang Hong's requirements, it took half a month for the highly skilled blacksmith to send Jiang Hong something that could barely be said to be a finished product.
Jiang Hong looked at the black and ugly thing in front of him, let's call it a still, Jiang Hong asked people to carry it into his house and put it in the backyard.
In order to get rid of bad luck, Jiang Hong also invited several waves of Taoist priests to remove several evils from this mansion, and also invited the statue of the three Qing Taoist chiefs to be placed in the lobby, and Jiang Hong moved into the county mansion.
Wang Xiu squatted on the ground, looked at the black thing in front of him with a curious expression, and asked:
"My lord, what is this?"
"Hehe, if you can get it, it's a hen that lays golden eggs." Jiang Hong said with a grin.
"Really? Why didn't the slave see it? ”
"If you can see it, you can pay it back."
Wang Xiu pouted dissatisfiedly, Jiang Hong didn't care about her, speaking of Wang Xiu, he can be regarded as one of Jiang Hong's most trusted people, Wang Xiu has no relatives, he is only very close to himself, he rescued her from the mountains and wilderness, if he can't even believe her, who can Jiang Hong trust?
Jiang Hong drove away all the people around him, leaving only himself and Wang Xiu in this backyard, setting up firewood under the iron bucket, Jiang Hong said without looking back:
"Don't be fussy about it, bring me the wine."
"Yes, got it." Wang Xiu saw that Jiang Hong ignored him, and said dissatisfiedly.
Pour the rice wine from the big altar into the iron barrel, and watch the rice wine continue to heat, what is the boiling point of the wine? Jiang Hong thought about it, but he didn't think of a reason, whatever, it's lower than water anyway, as long as you control the heat and don't let the water boil.
After a while, the wine vapor on the iron umbrella kept condensing, dripping into the groove drop by drop along the edge, and seeing that the water was about to boil, Jiang Hong hurriedly pulled out the wood that was still burning.
After a while, he finally lowered the temperature, but this time he was busy, Jiang Hong's face was black and white, and he touched the unstoppable sweat droplets on his forehead with his sleeve, and the sleeve was also black.
Wang Xiu couldn't help but laugh happily when he saw that Jiang Hong was clumsy and black, and the crisp laughter mixed with Jiang Hong's cursing from time to time, there was unexpectedly some harmony.
Seeing that the groove was almost full, Jiang Hong extinguished the fire, scooped up the wine in the groove, and tasted it, En~~ The taste is good, there is a bit of the appearance of liquor in later generations, Jiang Hong saw Wang Xiu who couldn't stop laughing on the side, and decided to tease her.
"Xiu'er, come over and taste it, how about it?"
Wang Xiu heard Jiang Hong call himself, tidied up the hem of his clothes, leaned over, and saw Jiang Hong's wooden spoon in the air, and his face turned red.
Jiang Hong signaled, Wang Xiu slowly closed a pair of beautiful eyes, his red lips opened slightly, but the trembling eyelashes showed the unrest in the master's heart.
"Ah!!h Wang Xiu swallowed the freshly distilled wine, shouted loudly, and kept fanning his mouth, "It's so spicy." ”
Seeing this, Jiang Hong laughed, walked to the entrance of the garden, and instructed the subordinates waiting outside:
"Go and find the county officer, and say that I have something important to look for him."
After a while, Huang Yuan hurriedly walked in, looking at Jiang Hong, who seemed to have crawled out of the pit and was fighting with Wang Xiu, his brain crashed for a moment.
"Well, my lord, what is the matter with summoning your subordinates?"
"Yo, my county lord is here, come here, I have something good to show you." Seeing that Huang Yuan was coming, Jiang Hong stopped fighting with Wang Xiu and beckoned.
"Don't make fun of it, adults." Huang Yuan said helplessly.
"Come, taste the wine I made." Jiang Hong handed the spoon full of wine to Huang Yuan.
Huang Yuan raised his head and drank it, then carefully evaluated the taste, and then sighed:
"Good wine, my lord, this is a good wine that is hard to buy."
"It's a good wine, I'll name it Drunken Aroma." Jiang Hong said with a smile, not thinking that he was dirty, and stretched out his hand to put it on Huang Yuan's shoulder, "You say, how is the sales of this drunken fragrant wine?" ”
"Your Excellency!" Huang Yuan looked at Jiang Hong in surprise, "This is made by the adults themselves?" ”
Jiang Hong nodded and said proudly:
"It's still exclusive to me, no one else can make this wine."
"How much did the adults brew?" Huang Yuan asked eagerly.
"Uhhh Jiang Hong pointed to the groove a little embarrassed, "That's it for now." ”
However, Jiang Hong immediately said:
"But my method is very short, and it is not difficult, as long as you expand production, then you will have a lot of money."
When Huang Yuan heard this, he frowned and asked cautiously:
"So how are you going to expand production?"
"Don't worry." Jiang Hong seemed to see Huang Yuan's doubts, "We have come to this point, I naturally won't be careless, I have already planned." ”
"I'm going to put this wine in Zhongduze, aren't Wang Gang and Xu Hao in the swamp, let them find a hidden clearing in the depths of the swamp, and let Chen Zhi select another 50 absolutely loyal and reliable soldiers to guard, plus Wang Gang and Xu Hao are on guard on the periphery, it won't leak out."
"Then I'll be relieved." Huang Yuan said.
"I'll leave this to you." As he spoke, the smile on Jiang Hong's face turned cold, and he pointed to the condenser in the garden, "This brewing vessel is the key to brewing wine, and that blacksmith in the south of the city knows about this thing." ”
"You send someone to let this blacksmith's family move to Zhongduze, whether it is soft or hard, I will only look at the results, and then let him make more brewing vessels, and let him improve them if he can."
"As for the candidates for brewing, try to select those homeless people, whether it is slaves or human trafficking, first give me all the people, how to brew I will send people to the door to guide there, the key is not to leave traces, do not leak, if someone dares to escape, they will be killed to show the public, you know?"
"Got it." Huang Yuan nodded solemnly.
"Go, by the way, send someone to find Wang Gang and Xu Hao in Zhongdu Zeli, I have other things to tell them." Jiang Hong let go of the hand on Huang Yuan's shoulder and said.
Looking at Huang Yuan's distant figure, Jiang Hong's eyes were full of haze that could not be dispersed.
"My lord, wipe your face." The well-behaved Wang Xiu saw Huang Yuan and Jiang Hong discussing matters, so he withdrew the water that was ready to be cleaned, and it was not until Huang Yuan left that he stepped forward to hand over a clean handkerchief.
Jiang Hong wiped his face clean with a handkerchief, and instantly seemed to have changed as if he had changed a person, and said with a smile:
"Let's go, accompany the master to change clothes, let's go to the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion."
After speaking, he also patted Wang Xiu's little buttocks, and with Wang Xiu's coquettish voice, Jiang Hong's hearty laughter lasted for a long time.