Li Xiang smiled, and suddenly, like a trick, felt a jar of wine from his body!

"Okay, everyone has worked hard today, and when we leave later, everyone will go to Xue'er's shopkeeper to receive the bonus, everyone is consistent! I've got a jar of good wine here, let's try it together! "Li Xiang is very generous. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The cooks and guys, as well as the beautiful waitresses, all smiled! It's always been a tael of silver, so much money, this boss is really generous.

When Li Xiang opened the wine jar, the fragrance of distilled liquor spread, and those cooks were the most knowledgeable, and they knew that it was good wine as soon as they smelled it.

Chef Li said excitedly: "Good wine, boss, what kind of wine is this, I have never smelled such fragrant wine, compared to this wine, those famous wines are like horse urine!" ”

Li Xiang said with a smile: "This is the new type of liquor invented in Benzhi County, now it is only made in small quantities at home, and when the wine shop is set up in the future, this wine can be sold to customers, and then the business of the restaurant will naturally be more popular, and everyone's bonus will be higher and higher!" ”

Of course, this wine is just a sample, it was distilled by Li Xiang with the wine he bought, and it is not very good! When the real old cellar wine comes out, I am afraid that it will immediately become a hot commodity.

Liquor was also a drink that was consumed a lot during the Song Dynasty. At this time, the wine can be divided into four categories: rice wine, fruit wine, blended wine and liquor.

Rice wine is made of cereals, "all the brewing of japonica, glutinous, millet, millet, wheat, etc., and the koji wine style are suitable for water and soil". Due to the economic development of the southern part of the Great Song Dynasty, glutinous rice replaced millet and other ingredients as the main raw material for making liquor.

The fruit wine of the Great Song Dynasty includes wine, honey wine, yellow mandarin wine, coconut wine, pear wine, lychee wine, jujube wine, etc., among which the output of wine is more, "Five General Chronicles" said: "Wine is strange since ancient times, this dynasty is Pinghedong, and its brewing method began to enter the capital. "Hedong is rich in grapes and is also a major wine producing area. However, the fruit wine production technology of the Song Dynasty was still relatively primitive, and the proportion of alcohol consumption was not large.

In the Song Dynasty, most of the prepared liquor belonged to the nourishing medicinal liquor, such as drunken wine, chrysanthemum wine, tung bark wine, pit viper wine, rehmannia wine, wolfberry wine, musk wine, etc., and there are about 100 kinds of statistics today.

Baijiu is a distilled spirit unique to China. Scholars have different views on the origin of baijiu, with one theory that baijiu originated in the Tang and Song dynasties and was completed by the Chinese independently, rather than being imported from other countries. However, the so-called "liquor" of the Song people did not have the nature of distilled liquor, and the names at that time were steamed liquor, soju, liquor dew, etc. One of the major characteristics of Song wine is that it is quite commonly bottled. Until the Tang Dynasty, wine estimation was often carried out with shengdou and the like, and in the Song Dynasty, wine bottles were used extensively. Bottles of wine generally range from one to three litres.

During the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, due to the poor quality of the wine, the emperor issued an edict to "Huzhou 13,349 bottles, Quzhou 17,283 bottles", and "allowed to abandon them". At the end of Song Zhenzong, "Hangzhou Liquor sells one million bottles of wine per year, and the official price of each bottle is 68 Wen". During the time of Song Shenzong, "every year the palace temple set up Jiao", using a large number of royal "French wine", to "hook up empty bottles".

During the Southern Song Dynasty, "more than 1,600 bottles and altars of sacrificial wine were offered to the ancestral hall in Lin'an, and more than 14,200 bottles and altars were offered to Tianzhang Pavilion, Jingling Palace and given wine." A batch of famous wines appeared in the Song Dynasty.

"Quwei Old News" and "Wine Names" recorded are famous wines in the later years of the Northern Song Dynasty. For example, the Xiangquan of Song Yingzong's Gaohou family, Song Shenzong's Xianghou family's Tianol, Song Huizong's Zheng Hou's Kunyi, Song Huizong's beloved son Yun Wang Zhao Kaifu's Qiongyu, the favorite minister Cai Jing's family's Qinghui, the eunuch Tong Guan's praise, Liang Shicheng and Yang Jian's Meicheng, etc., are all brewed by high-ranking officials and nobles.

In addition, such as the Meishou of Kaifeng Fengle Building, the Hezhi of Bailu Building, and the immortal mash of Xinle Building, etc., are all brewed by large restaurants.

There are also famous liquors from all over the world, such as the fragrant cinnamon and French wine of the Daimyo Mansion in Beijing, the cinnamon fragrance and Beiku of Yingtianfu in Nanjing, the jade liquid and yuxiang of Xijing Henan Mansion, the silver light and broken jade of Xiangzhou, and the Zhongshan Hall and Jiuyu in Dingzhou. During the time of Song Xiaozong, "the **** imperial wine is forbidden, the name is rose dew, and the minister is given wine, which is called fragrant wine".

In the late Southern Song Dynasty, famous liquors such as Fengquan of the former division of the military palace, Zhan Jian Tang of the Changping Division of the Eastern Zhejiang Dynasty, Huanghua Hall of the Changping Division of the Western Zhejiang Dynasty, Preparatory Hall of the Jiangdong Transshipment Division, Shuangrui of Suzhou, Penglaichun of Yuezhou, etc., were all produced by the government.

The Qingyuan Hall of the Xiuwang Mansion, the Blue Bridge Fengyue of the Wu Hou Family of Song Gaozong, and the Qingbai Hall of the Yang Hou Family of Song Ning Zong are brewed by the families of dignitaries. Lin'an "has a large number of characters, and many people drink it", and "the wine offered by the divisions, the Didi and the states" is not yet among the famous wines.

Another cook was surprised: "Boss, how is this wine made?" It's so fragrant too! ”

Li Xiang said with a smile: "This liquor is only concentrated with ordinary liquor, that is, by distillation, the water and impurities in ordinary liquor are removed, so that the liquor is more fragrant!" However, the real aromatic baijiu is brewed in a new way and then distilled, and then you can taste that taste. ”

After that, Li Xiang poured the liquor in the jar into one cup after another, and those cooks were a little strange, one or two wines were poured into one cup, which was too little, I am afraid that I would drink it in one sip.

Li Xiang said with a smile: "Don't think that this wine is less, you will know when you drink it, this wine is much stronger than ordinary liquor, you drink it slowly, you have to take a sip of it, and you can't drink it in one sip, then you can't taste the taste of wine at all, and you will choke." ”

One of the fellows didn't believe it, so he took the glass and drank it in one gulp, and immediately he regretted not listening to the boss, because after drinking the wine, the whole throat seemed to be on fire!

He said with a bitter face: "Boss, this wine is too strong, I can't stand it!" ”

The guy hurriedly drank several sips of soup, which was a little better, of course, those beautiful waiters couldn't help laughing, it was really full of spring, and those cooks were also very happy to come here to work, not only with generous salaries and bonuses, but also with so many eye-catching beautiful waitresses, especially single chefs, I was even more grateful, and I couldn't say that I could soak in a beauty!

The others couldn't help but pick up their glasses and taste them.

At this time, they realized that what the boss said was true, this wine was indeed delicious, better than any wine on the market! If you sell it in a restaurant, it will definitely be popular.

Even Xue'er couldn't help but take a drink, and then her whole face flew red, which was even more beautiful in the candlelight, and Li Xiang was about to drool when she saw it.

Of course Xue'er is happy in her heart, of course she is happy to be able to help the young master share the affairs of the restaurant now, but in the future, she will have less time with the young master, because now the person who serves the young master has become Yu'er, of course she is worried that Yu'er will snatch the young master away. (To be continued.) )