"Childe, one hundred stone beams and seven hundred stone corn have been transported into the warehouse, and a total of 10,000 yuan has been spent. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Early the morning of the second day after returning from the banquet in the palace of the Emperor of Qi, Eunuch Ning came to report that the purchase of grain ordered by Chang'an Jun yesterday had been completed.

The money spent here is the sword currency of the Qi State, and the purchasing power is a little greater than that of Qin, Wei, and Zhao. The price of Linzi, the middle-aged millet, ten dollars and one stone. The age of the fierce valley is expensive, twenty dollars and one stone. This year's harvest in Qi is not good or bad, so it doesn't cost much.

But Liang is a bit expensive, this kind of high-quality grain is exclusive to the aristocracy, and it is called the same as meat. One hundred stone beams, it cost a full three thousand!

However, these beams, Mingyue is not used for eating, but for other purposes.

"Can the long-abandoned winery in the backyard be cleaned up?" While asking Nuqi to help him get dressed, he asked Ning Jian Dao.

"It's been cleaned up, and the three winemakers are also waiting for the son's orders."

Ning Jian didn't know what happened last night, he only knew that when Chang An Jun came back, he had a faint smell of alcohol on his body, and his face was unhappy, and the first thing he did after getting off the car was to ask him if the grain could be bought, and if the wine cellar could be cleaned up and put into use tomorrow?

Chang Anjun has always been in no hurry to do things, and he rarely can't wait so much, Ning Jian said that his heart was not good, so he arranged it overnight.

"What exactly is Childe going to do?"

With doubts in his heart, he once again accompanied Chang Anjun to the wine shop by the pond in the backyard.

When Mingyue came here to inspect yesterday, this self-used winery of Meng Weijun's family looked like a ruin in other respects except for the barely complete building, the weeds in the yard were knee-high, the messy clay pots were thrown all over the ground, and the wine-making equipment in the house was also broken.

But today, under the cleaning up of the subordinate concubines, this place has changed. The well, which had been crushed by a large bluestone slab, was removed, and the water inside was still very clear and usable, and the culvert filled with silt was dredged.

The most important thing is that the wine cellar, which also seals a part of the wine, there is a faint smell of dregs, which is the greatest luck, you know, it is easy to build a wine cellar, it is difficult to raise a wine cellar, but it will take a year or two of effort.

Mingyue looked around and was quite satisfied, so she asked: "If there are enough people, enough food, and enough wine-making equipment, how long will it take for this place to start?" ”

Ning Jian didn't know this, he compared his hands, and asked the three wine workers who had been silent behind him to step forward and say to Chang'an Jun in detail.

"Villain Di Yang, I've seen Childe!"

Di Yang was a wrinkled old winemaker, forty or fifty years old, dressed in a coarse cloth stub, and behind him were his two bare-armed sons, named Di Zhong and Di Ji, whose father could barely speak clearly, but they did not even dare to lift their heads.

Mingyue asked them to get up and talk, and after asking, they learned that this Di Yang was originally from Zhongshan, and had made wine for the Zhongshan royal family for generations, and after the fall of Zhongshan, he was arrested in Handan, serving the court of Zhao and doing the position of "pulp". Then he was assigned by Empress Dowager Zhao and put in the huge team that came to Qi this time......

"The world-famous Zhongshan mellow liquor is the ancestral art of the villain, and the thick wine of Zhao Guo will also be brewed by the villain." Speaking of his best skills, Di Yang is a little complacent.

"Good, then tell me how these good wines should be made."

Mingyue was not in a hurry, and asked Di Yang to follow him and tell him how to make wine in this era.

……

There is no way to verify who invented the wine, the Warring States Period, most people think that it is Xia Yu's Yidi, Xia Yu drank the wine she offered, drunk, and prophesied that there will be people who will die with wine in the future.

In a word, the demise of Xia Wei and Shang was largely burdened by wine, and the largest proportion of the ritual vessels of the Xia Shang kings and nobles was the wine vessel, followed by the cooking utensils and food utensils, which shows the importance of wine in their lives.

Although there was a trend of banning alcohol at the beginning of the week, it came and went quickly. Soon, the children and grandchildren of the Duke of Zhou also began to indulge in this drink, and also set up a wine official in the imperial court, as the chief of the wine officials, responsible for the production and supply of wine.

By the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, both the court and the people, the art of winemaking had become more mature.

When Mingyue continued to inspect the winery, Di Yang followed behind and said: "The villain's ancestral method of winemaking pays attention to the 'six musts', that is, the rice must be Qi, the qu (niè) must be timely, the water spring must be fragrant, the Zhan Chi must be clear, the pottery must be good, and the fire must be ......."

Mingyue listened carefully and asked, "What do these six must say?" ”

Di Yang said: "Rice must be Qi, which means that the raw materials for making wine, Liang and rice, should be mature enough, so it is most suitable to make wine in midwinter." ”

"The koji and the koji are essential for making wine, and they must be made in advance."

"The water spring must be fragrant, which means that good spring water must be used, for example, the alcohol of Zhongshan, can only be brewed in the mountain spring outside Lingshou, to Handan, it can not be made the original taste, the same is true for Zhao wine, must take Zhangshui to brew, otherwise it will lose its original taste......"

So there is so much attention to in this winemaking? Mingyue frowned: "What if I want to make wine now?" Is the right month? Is there time to prepare the koji? Can the water from this well outside be used to make wine? ”

Di Yang said: "The well water outside is very clean because it is well sealed, and it can also be used for winemaking, koji and other things, and the villain brought some when he left Zhao Kingdom." However, if you make wine in the spring, I am afraid that it will affect the taste of the wine......"

"You don't have to worry too much about the taste, as long as you can make it." Mingyue didn't think much about the taste, this first time making wine was just an experiment, and he didn't expect to sell it, just pour that Kuang Liang down.

Next, Di Yang talked about the remaining "three qi", which roughly means that the utensils used for cooking and brewing the soaked rice should be clean, the pottery contained in it should be fine, and the fire should be appropriate when heating and fermenting.

After listening, Mingyue knew that winemaking is really a unique skill of the family, how to make a suitable koji, how to control the heat during winemaking and fermentation, are all university questions, such as fire, there are "tide fire", "big fire", "after fire", not everyone can do it.

Mingyue secretly thought: "Thanks to this Di Yang and his two sons who came to Qi Country with him, I was able to put my idea into practice, and when I came, I also complained that the queen mother added too many people to my team, and now it's too ......late to thank her."

When Di Yang talked about the rise, he was still chattering and said: "Although the types of wine are different in various places, they are roughly divided into two types, namely rice wine and liquor, I don't know which kind of wine Chang'an Jun wants the villain to brew?" ”

The difference between these two types of alcoholic beverages is that one is brewed with "koji" and the other is brewed with "tillers". Liquor made from koji generally has a relatively high alcohol content and a golden color, which is called rice wine. The other is brewed with "tiller", which has a relatively low alcohol content, which is the so-called "lijiu", that is, the sweet wine of later generations, and the taste is probably a little similar to beer.

As there is a saying in the world: "Those who eat meat first eat dried meat; For those who start drinking, drink liquor first. "But at the moment, rice wine is more popular, after all, only with enough intensity can people from the nobility to the common people get drunk and dream of death.

Yesterday Mingyue drank the highest grade of rice wine, the highest degree of "sake", it stands to reason that for a person of his age, Tian Jian should entertain him with liquor, but he directly poured more strong sake into him, obviously bullying him young, wanting to see him ugly, it is really too much!

So he decided to return it in a more excessive way......

So Mingyue shook her head and said, "What I want to make is neither rice wine nor liquor!" It's shochu! ”

"Shochu?" Di Yang and his two sons were stunned when they heard this, and they couldn't remember which country's wine it was.

Mingyue was already gearing up, thinking in her heart: "Tian Jian, Kuang Liang, you and others should be proud, and after a month, let you and others, a group of decadent aristocrats who are addicted to alcohol, see how powerful our rural self-baking wine is!" ”