Chapter 170: King Wen's Immortal Brew
Wang Xu left after having lunch in Wenyuan Pavilion, and was going to go to Wuying Palace, but considering his great wine-making business, he gave up, and then went straight back to the palace with two Yulin troops.
What happened in the restaurant today reached Jia Hui's ears after a while, and I heard that Wang Xu had a kind of wine that the gods drank, and Jia Hui hurriedly came to the palace.
"Lord, do you really have that kind of immortal wine?"
Wang Xu smiled and said, "How can there be any immortal wine, this is just to promote the wine and make my wine more expensive." ”
Jia Hui was extremely disappointed: "That means that King Wen Immortal Brew is fake?" ”
Wang Xu said: "The wine is real, I am about to start brewing, I expect you to see it soon, but it is not immortal wine." ”
Jia Hui was overjoyed: "Great, as the saying goes, scarcity is expensive, if we really have this kind of wine, then the source of food and salary for our army will be settled, and the economy of the Western Capital will also take off rapidly, as long as there are more people who buy wine, our strength will be greatly improved." ”
Wang Xu also thought so, and secretly said that Jia Hui had a good mind, the same as he thought.
But then Wang Xu said: "Seeing that you are so anxious, is it because we don't have much food?" ”
Jia Hui said: "We still have 230,000 deniers of grain in stock, which is quite rich for the time being, and can be eaten by 100,000 troops in June; However, the Lord has decreed that all taxes on the people be exempted, and if we cannot find another source of food, then we will be out of food after six months. ”
Wang Xu nodded, this is indeed a tricky problem, after June, that is, in March next year, when the rice seedlings have just been planted, it is still early to harvest, and it is difficult to buy from the people.
But don't be too anxious, as long as King Wen Xianjiu is developed, the food problem will be solved.
Who wants to drink? Take the grain in exchange! Rattle.
Wang Xu came to the table. Long Feifeng drew more than a dozen sketches on a piece of rice paper, and then he handed the sketches to Jia Hui and said, "This is the process of winemaking, you send someone to find more than a dozen winemaking masters." As shown in this diagram, prepare the tools for brewing. ”
Jia Hui took it, looked at it, and stepped back.
Wang Xu tasted all the wine he bought, and the highest height was only twenty degrees. And there is also a very grand water vapor, it is very uncomfortable to drink, I didn't expect such wine to be sold for 100 yuan, what a blackmail! Like Li Yunhai's restaurant, the wine is the cheapest, 17 yuan, but the water vapor is heavier, only 15 degrees.
Grandma's, no wonder they all say that Wu Song in the Water Margin, before fighting tigers in Jingyanggang, drank not dozens of degrees of spirits. If you really drink so many bowls of spirits, let alone fight tigers, I'm afraid you will fall to the ground directly and be unconscious.
Wang Xu was full of emotion, and then he was complacent. Since in this era, there has not yet been a high-concentration wine, so I will make this wine myself and make a lot of money.
In fact, Wang Xu is not a science student, he does not understand chemistry. He didn't know how to make wine, but he used to read a lot of the Internet in the 21st century, and it said that ancient people only knew how to make wine. Therefore, the purity of the impurities in the liquor is not high and the concentration is very low, while modern people use distillation to make liquor, so the liquor is as clear as water and the concentration is very high.
It just so happened that Wang Xu used to have a college roommate who was an alcoholic. He disliked that the taste of the 40 degrees spirits on the market was not fragrant enough, so he explored and studied it himself, and after many repeated experiments, he finally succeeded in developing it.
This roommate crushed twelve kinds of herbs and spices, mixed them and poured them into ordinary liquor, and then distilled them, the resulting liquor was clear and transparent, with an alcohol concentration of up to 40 degrees, which not only had a strong fragrance, making people want to smell drunk, but also did not go up after drinking, which made people feel fluttering!
Wang Xu drank this improved wine several times, and after drinking, he felt that he was floating in the air leisurely, his feet seemed to be stepping on the clouds, and he suddenly forgot all his troubles and sorrows, and the whole person was very happy and happy like a fairy!!
The only downside to this spirit is that it gives you a splitting headache the day after drinking.
Therefore, there is no market for this wine in the 21st century, otherwise the roommate would have applied for a patent and found a venture capital fund to invest in mass production.
Wang Xu didn't dare to drink it after drinking it a few times, that roommate had a good relationship with Wang Xu, and in the process of making this wine, he called Wang Xu to help, so Wang Xu also mastered the preparation ratio of the twelve medicinal materials and spices, and would also make this unique liquor.
Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, after Wang Xu traveled to ancient times, this kind of liquor actually came in handy!
There are many liquors above 40 degrees in modern times, so there is no market for this kind of liquor that gives people a headache after drinking.
However, Wang Xu is now in ancient times, and the spirits with a concentration of up to 40 degrees are here, and they are scarce and expensive, no matter how much headache they have after drinking, I believe that those rich people will buy and taste it, and have a fluttering feeling.
The next morning.
Yunhai Restaurant.
After businessman Li Yunhai got up to wash his face and rinse his mouth, he came to the lobby on the first floor to have breakfast.
The lobby was already crowded and noisy.
At the table where Li Yunhai was sitting, two people were discussing loudly.
Passerby A said: "Hey, have you heard, King Wen Wang Xu drank wine with the immortals, and the immortals also gave him the secret recipe for brewing immortal wine, I heard that drinking that kind of wine is guaranteed to make you happy like a fairy!" ”
Passerby B said disdainfully: "Cut, this news has long been discussed in the streets, are you embarrassed to use it to sell it?" ”
Passerby A said: "You say, is this news true?" Did King Wen really dream of immortals? ”
Passerby B said, "What's so strange about this?" I heard that Wang Xu, the king of Wen, has been as timid as a mouse since he was a child, cowardly and afraid of things, and this year he got a serious illness and almost died. ”
"Fortunately, there is a white-bearded old man who came down from the sky, rescued King Wen, and taught him a book on the art of war, the fairy old man said that King Wen's bones are wonderful, and now the people are not living, so he wants to read the book of soldiers, and then go to rescue the people to maintain peace in the world, after King Wen got this book, he immediately obeyed the will of heaven, rebelled, and saved the people of the world in dire straits!"
Passerby A said: "No wonder, King Wen has always been kind to the people, loves the people like a son, and exempted all the people in our western capital from paying taxes." ”
Passerby B said: "King Wen is benevolent, righteous and virtuous, and regards the people as the sky, which is much better than those dog officials in the imperial court!" ”
Passerby A exclaimed: "Brother, be cautious and be cautious..." ”
Passerby B said: "What are you afraid of, this is the Western Capital, not the Imperial Capital!" ”
Listening to this, Li Yunhai on the side became more and more surprised.
Yesterday, Wang Xu, the king of Wen, told him about the immortal guidance of winemaking, only Wang Xu's people were present at that time, and outsiders had already cleared it out, why did this matter spread so quickly, and many people knew about it? (To be continued.) )