Chapter 350: Confucian Wine (5)

Fierce as fire, sweet and mellow, want to become a fairy!

Even Li didn't expect that his unintentional words of admiration would later become a widely circulated advertising slogan for this distilled spirit brewed by Kong Sheng!

Du Hong gradually drank and danced with the eyebrows of the people next to him, and the case was amazing! It's no wonder that they are overly aggressive, probably because the wine of this year is too light, and suddenly drinking a strong wine like fire is like drinking the elixir and jade liquid!

"The aftertaste is long, as hot as fire, like elixir! Chang'an waits, how can you enjoy this kind of wine exclusively, come and come, hurry up and fill it again, I will wait for a big white! ”

Kong Sheng smiled slightly, waved his hand and signaled Wu Xian Wujie to continue to take people to drink, anyway, he brought a full fifty gourd distilled liquor on this trip, which was enough for more than a dozen people in this inner circle to drink! As for those ordinary scholars in the periphery, Kong Sheng has no supply, his distilled liquor is limited in quantity, production is limited, and the price in the future is extremely expensive, originally taking the high-end route, not selling things to ordinary people, letting these people in the Li family taste for free is just the payment of advertising fees, and the cost will be recovered from these people in the future!

Princess Ning Guo and Princess Ji Guo saw that Li Jian and the others were drinking happily and praised them repeatedly, and their hearts were itching, and they also wanted to try it. Kong Sheng hesitated, but still motioned to Wu Xian to pour a small pot for each of the two princesses, and then gave a gourd.

But Kong Sheng really underestimated the two princesses, Princess Ning Guo and Princess Ji Guo. Princess Ningguo drank a small cup, felt that it was not enjoyable, and even poured herself another one, and after a while, the wine came up, and her face was like a peach blossom. Charming eyes like silk, drunk and sultry.

"Good wine! Chang'an Hou, what is the name of this wine? Princess Ningguo narrowed her eyes, and the glimmer of light that fell into Kong Sheng's eyes was shining.

Kong Sheng was stunned, then shook his head and said, "Your Royal Highness Princess, Kong Sheng brews this wine himself." Not yet named. ”

Li Xi, the king of Zhao, said loudly drunk and hazy beside him: "Kong Sheng, this wine is your own family wine, since this is the case, how about calling it Confucius family wine?" ”

Kong Sheng was stunned, and his heart said that this was really a coincidence in the dark. In his previous life, he once drank a kind of liquor called Confucius Family Liquor from his hometown, traveled to the Tang Dynasty, and inadvertently entertained himself to make a distilled spirit, which was intended to get some money out of the pockets of the powerful in Chang'an. Hit it by mistake!

"It's okay, thanks to the name given by His Royal Highness King Zhao, this wine will be named Confucius Family Wine!" Kong Sheng laughed loudly.

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The Qujiangchi banquet organized by Princess Ningguo ended with the drunkenness of the powerful people present, and the next morning, there was an endless stream of people who came to Kong Sheng to ask for Confucius's wine.

The first was Li Xi, the king of Zhao, and the second was Du Hongjian and other courtiers. And with the word-of-mouth advertising effect on the banquet, the news that Chang'an Hou's self-brewed Confucian wine is comparable to Qiong Jelly and Jade Liquid has spread. More and more Chang'an magnates are coming.

In order to expand the popularity of Confucian family wine, it is also to further open up the upper class market in Chang'an City. Kong Sheng specially asked the Wuxian Wujie brothers to set up an open hood at the gate of the mansion with a group of servants to serve the Confucian family wine for free, but each person was limited to a small lamp.

After two days in a row, the reputation of Confucius's wine shook the whole city, and the magnates of Chang'an came to flock to it.

As soon as Kong Sheng saw that the heat was poured, he increased the output of self-brewed distilled spirits. While letting Zhao Guangran and others let out the wind, the Chang'an Hou Mansion has already transferred the recipe of this kind of wine to the newly established "Confucian Wine Workshop" in the city, and anyone who wants to buy wine, I'm sorry, the free supply is gone. Please purchase it at the brewery.

With the current high prices in Chang'an City, 500 Wen a jar of ordinary wine, probably because the price of grain is still rising due to the undetermined war; Kong Sheng priced the Confucian family wine at 500 Wen a gourd, which is dozens of times higher than that of ordinary wine. However, after distillation, a jar of wine produces only two gourds, and Kong Sheng's pricing is actually not outrageous.

Moreover, Kong Sheng knows that scarcity is expensive, and if you want to take the high-end route, you can't supply it at a low price. The higher the price, the more powerful people will rush to it. This is an inevitable result.

You must know that the last thing that the Chang'an magnates lack is money.

At the same time, Kong Sheng also strictly ordered the winery to supply a limited quantity, no more than 100 gourds per day, which is equivalent to the amount of wine produced per day.

Everyone understands that this Confucian Mansion Distillery was actually opened by the people of Kong Sheng's Mansion, and the big boss behind the scenes is Chang'an Hou. But no one will pierce this layer of window paper, among the magnates in Chang'an, who has no business in their house? It has long been an indisputable fact that the powerful are also the big businessmen.

The Confucian Distillery opened at the end of the day and closed in less than an hour. The long queue of powerful domestic slaves who queued up to buy wine crossed half the street, which also constituted a unique landscape in this neighborhood.

Fifty dollars a day is an astronomical amount over time. Zhao Guangran saw the huge business opportunity in this, and secretly suggested that Kong Sheng increase production, and it was necessary to transfer the winery from Fuzhong to outside the Fuzhong, and send more manpower and winemaking craftsmen. But was politely declined by Kong Sheng.

Kong Sheng knew in his heart that the process of distillation and purification was not complicated, and once the news leaked out, the people who followed it would be everywhere overnight, losing the patent rights and exclusivity, how could he make money?

It's good to make a little fuss like this, you can make enough money, and you can keep secrets. Anyway, the winery is in the backyard of his Chang'an Marquis's Mansion, which is heavily guarded, and the people involved in the winemaking are all palace maids given to him by the emperor, so they don't leave the house, and the possibility of leaking secrets is zero.

Therefore, although many people in the mansion know that their Hou Ye is making wine, no one is at a loss as to how this wine is made.

Kong Sheng has abandoned the method of purifying with Sanle slurry, and instead uses the process of self-brewing and then distillation and purification. In order to improve the technical content and form a unique wine style, he tried to adopt a new process of secondary fermentation in a winery that he remembered in his previous life, and after experimentation, he achieved success.

The first fermentation, which is basically the same as the ordinary brewing process of Datang. However, on the basis of the first fermentation, the second fermentation is actually equivalent to increasing the alcohol content.

Because there is no precision instrument, the specific power cannot be measured. Kong Sheng only judged by his feelings that the slurry of the liquor made by secondary fermentation was about the same as that of the low-alcohol liquor in the previous life, and the alcohol content of the liquor was at least not lower than that of the second pot head whiskey.

Kong Sheng is selling wine and making money, which gives Chang'an City a kind of invisible illusion of the military and civilians, Chang'an Hou because of the officialdom frustration and anger and wine sales, which is a great spectacle since the establishment of the dynasty.

The reputation of Confucius's house wine was unmatched for a while, and even the emperor in the palace was alarmed.

Emperor Li Heng held a glass of Confucian wine secretly purchased from outside the palace by Li Fuguo for the emperor to taste. At first, the emperor was disdainful of Kong Sheng's selling of wine and the so-called "Confucian family wine", and disagreed, feeling that Kong Sheng's young heart occasionally attacked, and he would be relieved after a few days.

But the emperor couldn't put it down after drinking it. His amount of alcohol is actually smaller, and he has fifty or sixty percent drunkenness after a glass of wine, and he went to the queen Zhang with the spirit of wine, and the beloved queen was overwhelmed with clouds and rain, and it took most of the night to stop.

The emperor was overjoyed to discover that this wine had the effect of enhancing his manhood. (To be continued.) )