Li Chen felt that the imperial court was too tightly grasping wine. In fact, according to him, he can't sell alcohol. All wine is exclusively operated by the imperial court, which Wang Tong later told him.

This imperial court, from top to bottom, must grasp every link, whether it is grasped firmly or not is one thing, but it is enough to show that the court is determined. This made him feel very crisis.

The Tang Dynasty got a liquor tax, from the original nothing. As the finances have to be tightened, the levy is also getting higher and higher. Originally, there was no tax, but later it became more and more tight, first levied a tax on liquor, and later became a monopoly, prohibiting all official and private brewing. Probably because it was impossible to catch it, the folk private brewing was repeatedly caught, and the imperial court ordered that even the koji was only allowed to be sold officially.

Does this work? Obviously, it was useful, but it was not enough, so a monopoly tax was levied, which was 150 wen per bucket. It's terrible.

Probably because of this, he had to get drunk and sell in the red dust, and he was always half up and down, because it was illegal, and the people who sold it did not dare to sell it, so he could only smuggle it privately. No wonder, he never waited, and no one came to negotiate a large number of sales.

As for other wineries, people have backgrounds and relationships, so they are not afraid. Because this liquor tax is collected by the local government, the imperial court can't control it at all, and the local government turns a blind eye to the tax many times.

Now that he has a relationship, can't he sell it? Mainly, he considered that the price of wine had to be linked to food. The price of food is cheap, and the price of wine is also cheap.

The problem is, if the grain harvest fails and the price of food skyrockets, then he should not say that he will buy "expensive and injured" wine, I am afraid that he will not even have to buy wine at that time. What's more, his distilled liquor is also a waste of food. If there is really a famine, even if there is wine at that time, he will not dare to buy it and brew it. To get the same amount of wine, it takes many times as much grain to make it.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Chen still felt that he had to quickly consider a new source of wealth, it seems that this year's food is still enough, and God knows what the situation will be next year, so he has to take precautions. This is not unfounded, in China, natural disasters are the norm.

This has nothing to do with virtue, and it is not that China has a bad geographical location, but that China is too big. There are many latitudes and longitudes across it, and it is either here or where some natural disasters will occur. In the event of a natural disaster, food prices will fluctuate. This wine... It's just too unreliable.

Wine doesn't work, what about tea? Speaking of wine, Li Chen originally thought of smoking..., drinking and smoking, drinking and smoking... Modern people do not leave a lot of tobacco and alcohol, so he thought of this, if there is really tobacco, then the profit is uproaring. However, where did the Tang Dynasty get tobacco?

Li Chen hopes that at this time, a Westerner will appear in front of him, hungry and cold, and he will be forced to take out some American specialties, hoping to exchange these specialties for two mouthfuls of food, how refreshing.

It's a pity that crookedness is also limited, and the author is not some high school student, and he doesn't consider the navigation skills of the Han Dynasty, so he directly engages a Westerner, not only to the Americas, but also to China, and travel thousands of miles to send supplies to the protagonist, so that the protagonist can be the king and hegemon, as if as long as he is a Westerner, he is born to sail.

Without sailboats, you can drive that kind of three-deck row boat to the Americas, do you think you can play the Age of Discovery? Without eating food or drinking water the whole time, and relying on secret medicine to eliminate fatigue, you can paddle all the way from India back to Europe?

Oh, by the way, the memory has been blurry for a long time. There shouldn't be any need to be the king and hegemon, I remember that in that novel, the pig's foot is the emperor.

It's far away, there's no smoke, so let's make tea. Although it is said that the tea of the Tang Dynasty was also taxed very heavily, it was also a supplement. At that time, the wine will not sell well, or it will simply be gone. Just take tea to replenish it.

'Tea? By the way, the modern tea process should have been proposed a long time ago. Since such a drink, he has been in the Tang Dynasty, drinking tea from the Tang Dynasty, and he has become accustomed to drinking it. I don't think this tea tastes a little weird, what's the deal, as for the trouble of making tea, what's the matter? Anyway, it's not him, someone does it for you.

If you want to drink tea, let a few children do it, and exercise their abilities in the name of beauty. Li Chen knew that in the Tang Dynasty, the tea brewed well was as popular as the modern technology that could put coffee at the mercy of what tricks. Even if you don't eat here, you can add a personal touch. So he was justifiably lazy. After a long time, he forgot that he could make a little modern tea.

Well, it's not quite right to say that it is modern, this tea was probably finalized in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the way to drink it is like that. It is very different from Tang tea. This is definitely not that the Tang people don't like the kind of sweet taste, I remember mentioning it before, this time the process problem.

Tea tastes like it's not the tea you drink now. The tea that modern people drink is obtained after several generations of improvement, removing the bitter taste, and allowing the tea to be sweet, and trying to retain the best taste. You must know that the reason why tea was not popular in the Han Dynasty was mainly because it was too bitter and was used for medicinal purposes.

Although the tea-making process in the Tang Dynasty has changed somewhat, the bitterness still exists. It's not just a matter of just changing the bubble method. It's not that he hasn't tried it, so he brewed it directly, and the taste was so bitter that he couldn't eat it.

Yes, just take the tea, which can be used as a supplement to the wine. Even, probably, he didn't want to sell wine in Vasher, and it was better to sell only tea. Drinking too much wine will make trouble, and if you haven't heard of drinking too much tea, you will make trouble.

Suddenly, Li Chen thought of something, tea, if you want to make tea, what do you want a tea set. The tea set of the Tang Dynasty is very different from the tea set of the modern era. If he could replace the boiled tea of the Tang Dynasty with modern brewed tea, then...

Think about it, everyone who likes this way of making tea, will they want to drink a cup when they go home? If you want to drink a cup of modern tea, you must not use the tea making tools of the Tang Dynasty. Wowhaha, that's a big market. Thinking of this, Li Chen almost laughed out loud.

There's no way not to laugh, if he returns to the Han Dynasty, then there's really no way, just promoting tea, it's not easy. But in the Tang Dynasty, this was an era when the habit of drinking tea had become popular.

If you really have to promote tea, everyone has to change the tea set, just sell one teapot, three teacups, how many can he sell? 100,000 is a small amount.

What's more, there are a lot of teapot tricks. Although he doesn't remember much, he knows that there are hundreds of teapots for making tea, not to mention the style, just the material. Just by selling a teapot and a cup, you can make a million.

Well, what do you say about counterfeiting? When the market is good, there will definitely be many people scrambling to imitate, not to mention that there is no patent right in the Tang Dynasty, in modern times, there is a patent law, you can fight a lawsuit, but a product is popular, and there are few counterfeits?

The problem is, he has mastered the channels and the upstream, how can others compete with him for business? Let's start with the channel. People drink this tea deliciously, enough style, if you want to buy it back, you can drink it when you have time. Where did he drink it? Bliss. Naturally, I will want to buy a tea set from Elysium. You have a natural advantage.

Of course, if people bring tea sets home, they will also come into contact with friends. But when people ask where to buy it, they will also buy it with great joy.

Going farther, if it is really promoted, others will see that it is profitable and imitate it, and tea sets can be bought in many places. He still has upstream, as long as he controls the tea-making process well and does not let it flow out, then people who want to drink tea can only buy it from him. Tea can only be bought from him, can there be less tea sets?

Having said that, such an idea seems a bit selfish, and it is unacceptable to cherish the broom. Besides, if the interests are huge, no matter how much he keeps it secret, he will be pried out by someone with a heart.

It doesn't matter, how long can he keep it a secret, if it really comes to that time, he can do a lot of tricks. There's no need to be afraid. And at that time, I will never have only this little gain in my hands, even if I have a loss, I will completely suffer it.

After making up his mind, Li Chen began to think about the process of modern tea, and if he couldn't think of it, it would be all in vain. He took a piece of paper and began to write down the process he remembered.

'I remember to fry..., and.... Li Chen remembered that he had visited a tea hall and introduced the tea production process, and while thinking about it, he was thinking about how he should do it.

It seems that you still have to buy raw tea and come back and make it yourself, to be honest, this is very risky, too concentrated... It's too dangerous to put all your eggs in the same basket.

But do you want to send someone else to do it? Who to send? It seems that no one can. He only has a few family members now, and those children are not yet ready to help, so study is the most important thing, and we must send them to great use, and wait for them to become adults.

As for the servants... Although he bought some servants and came back, he also had a housekeeper, but Li Chen didn't trust people very much, although Steward Liao looked honest and very good at doing things, and he also bought back as a slave, and life and death were in his hands. But that doesn't mean that he can do whatever he wants to do with other people, unless your family is powerful enough, otherwise there is no enemy, do you think it's okay to kill slaves?

Besides, life and death are in your hands, which does not mean that people will bow down to you. The heart is separated from the belly, and God knows if he can be trusted. After all, he had not heard much about the betrayal of his master's house by slaves. What if he stole the method and leaked it out before he could secure his position? At that time, even if you beat the other party to death, you will not be able to recover the loss.

'There are still not enough people. Li Chen thought of this and looked up to the sky and sighed. His eyes were worth looking at the yard. What should I do if I don't have enough manpower?

Or do you still have to buy servants for servants? Li Chen thought about it carefully. I found myself in a misunderstanding. Probably because he was betrayed, he didn't trust outsiders very much. But Elysium, most of the so-called outsiders are used, so why not be afraid?

Because under his nose, he can star. He now plays twice a day. The accounts will also be carefully checked, for fear of being deceived by their subordinates. So don't be afraid.

The conclusion is, because he can't keep an eye on it? If he can split up tens of millions, then he is definitely not afraid. But can he be separated by tens of millions? No, you still have to be afraid of the result?

No, if people are so distrustful, how can they do business?