Chapter 205: Forgotten Sugar

Thinking of the problem of wine, Zhang San remembered that he seemed to have found three winemakers, and immediately asked people to call the three old men, and after a while, the three old men came to meet Zhang San, Zhang San asked the three to sit down, and then said: "I have a store in the capital, I plan to make new wine, how are your skills?" ”

One of the old men got up and said: "Yu Gongzi, the little ancestral home is Fenzhou, Shanxi, although he only operates some village brews, but the ten miles and eight towns are very famous, the son wants to make wine, and the little old man is willing to give it a try." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Zhang San listened to it and asked with interest: "But what kind of passers-by refer to Xinghua Village's Xinghua Village Fenjiu?" ”

The old man said happily: "Exactly! ”

Zhang San was looking at the other two, and one of the old men said: "The little one was originally the brewing master of a restaurant in the Daimyo Mansion, and then the owner saw that I was old, and the apprentice learned my ten-story Ben is, and then he lived on the street. ”

Zhang San nodded and said: "Don't worry, I respect you the most, not only can you get paid for guiding technology, but you can no longer work in the future, and you can still take half of the original salary until you die." ”

These masters are still very in awe of the son who can ask for someone from the princess, and when they saw that Zhang San assured him, the three of them believed eight points. When the last old man saw Zhang San say this, he didn't hide it and said: "Son, the little one used to run a wine shop, and the wine that the little old man used to brew by the Yellow River was called Jiuqu drunk, and there are many people along the river who know about it." ”

Zhang San nodded, all three are good, as for why any three brewing masters have a special skill, this is very simple, this has something to do with the brewing system of the Great Song Dynasty.

Anyway, only those who have the strength are qualified to make wine, these masters, the previous winery can eat and open must have a special skill, as for why there is a unique job, why is it still on the street, this is also because the Song Dynasty private can not make wine casually. These 72 main restaurants have their own brewers, so naturally they are not needed.

Zhang San nodded and said: "The three of you will be arranged in the Hero Building Wine Workshop, responsible for directing the winemaking, and your wages will be divided into first-class, second-class, and third-class according to the quality of the wine, the first-class monthly money is ten times, the second-class monthly money is five times, and the third-class monthly money is two times." ”

The three old men nodded happily after hearing this, Zhang San's salary was not low, Zhang San asked the monkey to find someone to lead them to the brewery in Zuixianlou to start work, and strive to produce the first batch of wine during the New Year, so that everyone could taste it.

Alcohol is now going to start to be stored, I heard a lot of historical novels say, this alcohol has to be put for more than a year to get rid of the strongness, the taste will be good, Zhang San does not have so much time now, and now the earliest batch is only a month or two, Zhang San plans to store a large number of now, while saving and selling, with new wine ginseng and old wine to sell.

This method is also called bartending, it doesn't matter if the taste is not good, the key is to be strong enough, special enough, this has enough gimmicks, and slowly wait for the reputation to be played, and their wine will slowly get better.

Anyway, Zuixianlou couldn't open a business years ago, Zhang San went to the winery of Zuixianlou to see, a small courtyard with poor production conditions, a few days will only brew wine, it is said that it was also lively before, and the business was booming.

But since the loss of the secret recipe, there are fewer and fewer foot shops here to buy wine, and Zhang San only learned from the wine shop that a main store just sells wine to these foot shops almost accounts for more than half of the income.

So the beginning of the failure of Zuixianlou seems to have started on wine, and later although the boss also wanted to invite a new winemaker, but the Taibai Mansion has become a big trend, coupled with Wang Huan's threat of force, so Zuixianlou Distillery has not been opened.

The business in your own store is also declining, doing business is like this, without income, you can't retain talents, without talents, the business will get worse and worse, the worse you are, the less money you have to improve your business, then you will be worse day by day.

The family of the owner of the drunken fairy building also thought of a way, and invested money to change people several times, but did not reverse the situation, but wasted a lot of money, and finally the clan discussed that since the business could not continue, instead of sticking money all the time, it was better to sell the shop and buy land and collect some rent.

The wine cellar of the drunken fairy building is built in the backyard, there are only a few hundred jars of wine in it, and there are thousands of jars of sour wine that are brewed and wasted.

Zhang San doesn't know much about this, but Zhang San plans to try distillation, which should theoretically be able to separate the acetic acid, if not, it's a big deal to make it into alcohol disinfection. So recently, Zhang San asked Zuixianlou to transport all the liquor over and prepare to start fractionation.

Naturally, this large-scale brewing could not be made with the old pot and saltpeter ice. It just so happened that Zhang San was free today, and immediately went to call Liu Qiao over, as well as the four old coppersmiths who were found from the princess yesterday.

After the five people arrived, Zhang San described the curved copper pipe he wanted, this time he didn't have to make it so thin, just make the bamboo so thick, the curved arc and shape were depicted, and the five people said that there was no problem, and Zhang San asked them to do it without leakage after they did it.

Several people are old coppersmiths, and although this kind of thing is weird, it can be done. A few people were instructed to immediately buy tools and copper to prepare for work, and then Zhang San called the carpenter, painted the distillation barrel and the special barrel lid shape, and instructed them to make it according to the requirements.

The copper pipe over there is estimated to take two or three days to be ready, so Zhang San is not in a hurry to set up a pot or anything, looking at the sweaty monkeys running, Zhang San feels that he really needs to find some maids and servants and the like.

Now not only do they need someone to run errands, but these elderly craftsmen also need someone to take care of them, and some brothers who are busy every day also need someone to clean up behind, so Zhang San decided to buy some maids and servants to come back.

It's just that Zhang San has a lot of secrets here that can't be passed on, and the newly bought servant maid will suffer a big loss if he has a different heart, and before recruiting the maid, Zhang San first has to sort out his yard and arrange some things that need to be kept secret in a special yard next to it.

There was also a set of equipment for making alcohol in the front yard that needed to be moved, Zhang San thought of the equipment before he remembered, he seemed to have forgotten the white sugar of the experiment, and hurriedly ran over to look, and when he entered the house, Zhang San looked at the white sugar funnel, only to see that there was a layer of gray on it, and the color could not be seen at all.

Zhang San blew carefully, and then opened the upper layer with his hand, the color of the sugar below was close to white, Zhang San nodded with satisfaction, it seems that there is no problem with the process. Zhang San scraped out the sugar, and poured the mud and other things underneath into the bucket and left it alone.

Anyway, it's just a matter of trying the process, as long as it can be done well, Zhang San will clean up this place, take away the white syrup and mud, and no one will be able to see what Zhang San has done for the rest of the things.