On the second day,

"Boss, are you ready for what I want?" Li Ke asked as soon as he entered the glass shop.

"This guest officer, do you think you are satisfied with this?" After saying that the boss took a utensil, Li Ke was still more satisfied, so he paid for the goods, and called two guys to come to the restaurant with me.

"My lord? What is this? Jiang Lan looked at the barrel at my feet.

"Hehe, this is what we will make money in the future. Let's move the stuff to the vat first. "The house left by the owner is really nice, with a hall, five bedrooms, a cellar, a kitchen at the back, and even a place to make wine. If it weren't for being bullied by bullies, no one would have sold their house so cheaply.

As soon as the wine lees were ready, the consul's man brought someone to transport the utensils designed by Li Ke. The structure of this thing is very simple, underneath is a huge pot with a large cylindrical wooden barrel on top of it and a strange lid on it.

This thing is actually a distiller, and anyone who knows a little bit about physics can design it. The last time Li Ke drank in the restaurant, he found that the taste of wine was very light, and he remembered that distilled liquor had not yet appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and now all he drinks is brewed wine, because this kind of wine has not been distilled, so the degree is only 18 or 9 degrees at most.

The people of the Tang Dynasty loved wine, but what they drank was usually freshly brewed wine, which is not to say that the newly brewed wine was delicious, in fact, everyone knew that the older the wine, the more fragrant it was, but the wine that had not been distilled was because the degree was too low, the preservation conditions were very harsh, and it would deteriorate if you were not careful, so what you generally drank on weekdays was freshly brewed wine, and the good wine that could be preserved for several years or even decades was generally used to celebrate major festivals or entertain important guests, that is, even the dignified Qin King Li Shimin was afraid that he rarely drank it.

Since distilled liquor has not yet been invented, it is a very profitable opportunity for Li Ke, after all, compared with brewed liquor, the emergence of distilled liquor is simply an epoch-making change in the brewing industry, and it will definitely sweep the entire Datang society, and the profits in it are so big that it is unimaginable that if you can keep the secret of distilled liquor, then Li Ke will definitely become one of the richest people in Datang.

Of course, this premise must be kept a secret from his brothers, but he is not worried about this at all.

"Well, the workmanship is very fine, there should be no problem!" Li Ke personally inspected the still, and found that the workmanship was very fine, the iron pot and the wooden barrel were tightly fitted, a small hole was opened in the middle and upper part of the barrel, a copper pipe was inserted diagonally upward, the top end was spoon-shaped, the lid of the wooden barrel was actually a low barrel, there were water outlet holes and water inlet holes on both sides, the bottom was an iron cone, and the tip of the awl was facing the spoon head below. When used, the low barrel keeps adding cold water, and then puts the lees into a large pot to steam, the boiling point of the alcohol is relatively low, it turns into gas when heated, and turns into liquid when it encounters a cold cone-shaped bottom, and then drip into the spoon below through the tip of the awl along the lines, and then flow to the outside of the barrel through the copper pipe.

Distilled spirits have a high degree of content, generally reaching fifty or sixty degrees, and can only be drunk after blending. The longer it is sealed, the stronger the flavor becomes, and even after opening, it can be stored for a year without spoiling. Distilled spirits have great advantages over non-distilled spirits, and once they are introduced, they will definitely replace the current non-distilled spirits.

At this time, when Li Ke was looking for the great wealth that distilled liquor had brought to him, the next person came to report that Li Ke and they had come, and Li Ke hurriedly asked people to bring them here, intending to steam the liquor in front of them once, and then let them taste this spirit, and explain everything with facts.

"Lord, do you say this thing makes money?" Jiang Lan asked all the thoughts, he was originally an honest man, how did he know these things.

Li Ke, who was concentrating on drinking, heard Jiang Lan ask, "This, I don't know either!" ”

Li Ke replied like this, which made Jiang Lan a little painful, you don't know why you have to do it.

"Actually, I really don't know, I'll have to wait for it to come out."

At last when all the wine in the barrel was dry, and the distilled wine was not yet one-fifth of its original size, everyone was disappointed to see that they had squeezed out such a little thing.

Li Ke saw that the wine finally came out, hurriedly ran over, tasted it, and became excited, is this the wine of the future, Lao Tzu is going to make a fortune, and then laughed loudly.

When everyone was still questioning why Li Ke was laughing, the aroma of wine was wafting at this time, and I have to say that this wine tastes really good, compared to the original wine, it is like a heaven and an underground.

"Lord, this wine is so fragrant!" Jiang Lan smelled the aroma of wine and couldn't help but say excitedly.

And Li Ke was quiet in the aroma of wine but couldn't extricate himself, he was thinking, these are all money, what's wrong with the concubine, as the saying goes, money can make ghosts grind, as long as you have money, you will still walk vertically in the future.

Seeing that Li Ke was thinking about something, Li Ke didn't bother, but the aroma of wine was getting stronger and stronger, Jiang Lan was originally a person who loved wine, and he didn't care if Li Ke replied or not, he went straight up, he was thinking, even if Li Ke wanted him to die today, he would be willing, after all, the fragrance of wine was too tempting.

Shaking a sip of wine, Jiang Lan drank it down, because he drank too violently, cough ......, Jiang Lan was directly choked. But the wine he tasted was so violent, and if it weren't for his own ability, he would have poured it directly to the ground.

But this time, he became surprised, he tasted it slowly, the wine entered his heart, indescribably spicy, but it made people love it. Then he drank it again.

The remaining two people who helped couldn't help the aroma of the wine, and they also tasted it, and they began to think like Jiang Lan, and drank it in one gulp, almost coughing them up to death, this is another person who makes wine, how can he not taste a few more sips when he encounters such a strong wine.

Unconsciously, several people present were drunk, and Li Ke dared to guarantee afterwards that the wine was about 40 degrees at that time, while the general wine of the Tang Dynasty had about 14 or 5 degrees of beer in later generations.

Li Ke, who drank a lot at this time, was also happy, because he felt that this was the happiest day he came to the Tang Dynasty, as the saying goes, I hope that I will not wake up after a long drunk, but Li Ke at this time is happy, because when he is drunk, he doesn't have to think about those trivial things, he really wants to live a carefree life, but the process of history tells him that he can't.

If you don't get into trouble, trouble will find you, but after thinking about how far away it is, I didn't think much about it, so I drank a sip of wine