"Wrong, wrong, wrong, how can you wronged me like this, I was born with a loyal and honest image. Besides, knowledge is wealth, you see, you have to buy my winemaking method because I have this knowledge and you don't, that's the gap. Zhou Yi said with a heartbroken expression that a good person had been wronged.

Zhang Zhong had to admit that what Zhou Yi said was right, sometimes what you need happens to be something that someone else has, so you have to trade, which is a helpless but willing thing.

"But what I want to ask is, how do you know these things?"

Of course, Zhou Yi can't say it, and he can't say it, otherwise he should be arrested and killed as a heretic.

"Read more books, they are all in the books, it depends on whether you can see them."

"Let's go, let's sign a contract, your wine-making method is mine, you are not allowed to teach the second person, I spent 10,000 yuan." Zhang Zhong is not in a good mood, after all, 10,000 guan is already a large amount, how to persuade the people in the family to take out the money is enough to give him a headache, after all, there is still an old man in the family, and it is not something he can do when the money reaches a certain amount.

Zhou Yi corrected and said: "It's 5,000 guan, and the other 5,000 guan should be your investment." ”

It was here that the two finalized the transaction of the secret recipe for the production of sorghum wine, Zhou Yi was satisfied, and Zhang Zhong said that within three days, all the 10,000 yuan, including 5,000 guan investment, would be sent to the Daguan Tea House. This is not a small amount, both in terms of amount and volume, if it is metal money. But Zhou Yi had no intention of saving the money in the bank, because the hot pot shop was in urgent need of opening, and the money would be used immediately.

Three days later, Zhang Zhong arrived as promised, he handed Jiaozi into Zhou Yi's hands, and said, "Now you can tell me the method of brewing, right?" ”

"Of course, I've already written all the ways into a booklet, and that's it." Zhou Yi took out a book and said.

Zhang Zhong took it, and Zhou Yi continued: "If you want, I can personally guide them to brew for the first time, and I'm afraid they will have to come by themselves in the future." ”

"I can't ask for it." Zhang Zhong said that what is written in books is not as easy to understand as people say.

Instructed Zhou Min and Zhou Sheng to look at the store, Zhou Yi followed Zhang Zhong out, Zhang Zhong was in a hurry, he refused to keep him down to eat some smoothies, but now it is June and July, it is the hottest time, eating smoothies can be said to be the best way to prevent heatstroke and quench thirst, and now the county yamen has to order a lot every day.

When he arrived at the brewery, Zhang Zhong couldn't wait to gather all the brewers.

"Everyone, pause, I'm going to announce something." Zhang Zhong grabbed the booklet given by Zhou Yi and shook it and said.

Everyone looked at him curiously, and Zhang Zhong said, "We want to make a new wine, an epoch-making wine." ”

Everyone looked at him curiously, and the word disbelief was clearly written in their eyes.

Zhang Zhong didn't shout out those inspiring bloody declarations, he just briefly introduced a few words, and then asked everyone to obey Zhou Yi's command.

Everyone is no stranger to Zhou Yi, and Daguan Tea House has long been well-known in Qingshen County.

"He's right, we're about to create a kind of wine that makes everyone crazy, like milk tea, don't doubt my ability, since I can create something you don't know, then I can definitely make a second, a third, and for the next period of time, you will have to listen to my command, and no one will be allowed to resist my orders until the new wine is brewed."

Although he does not look very old, he does not smile when he speaks, so no one can doubt the authenticity of his words. Besides, for these workers, who is not to listen? Anyway, you can't just follow your own ideas.

To brew sorghum wine, sorghum is naturally indispensable, Zhou Yi only understands these things theoretically, and as for the details and improvements, he is far inferior to these skilled brewers.

To make wine, it is necessary to grind, stir, make koji blocks, cultivate koji, pile koji, grind koji, and add sorghum to ferment to complete the koji making work.

Koji is a substance that contains koji bacteria, which, when added to steamed rice or wheat and stirred with sorghum, convert starch into glucose, which produces yeast to make alcohol. In order for sorghum sake to ferment smoothly, koji preparation is a necessary step.

The flavor, quality and yield of sorghum wine are mainly determined by the quality of koji. The koji is first ground into powder, mixed with water and poured into a mold to make koji blocks, and then the koji pieces are sent to the koji frame in the culture room for fermentation.

During the first three days of koji fermentation, the doors and windows of the koji room must be closed to help the koji bacteria multiply smoothly. During the fermentation process, the temperature of the koji cubes will continue to rise, and the water will evaporate quickly, and then the doors and windows will be opened to adjust and air dried.

During fermentation, the koji cubes need to be kept at a temperature before they are placed in the koji chamber for the koji to be aged. Finally, after taking out the koji room, the koji block is earthy yellow, and the whole piece needs to be ground into granules called koji grinding, so that it can be easily mixed with sorghum sake brewing and fermented, and the koji making work can be completed.

After the koji is made, the next step is to process the sorghum.

Start by placing the sorghum in a soaking pond for a day's time. After the sorghum is soaked, it is put into a pot for steaming, which is commonly known as "steamed sorghum rice", or "steamed rice" for short. Each pot of steaming takes about an hour.

The sorghum grains are steamed through the starch because of the steaming, sticky and thick, and then they need to be cooled quickly, and these winemakers have their own special methods.

After the sorghum rice has reached the purpose of cooling, pour in the koji flour and stir it afterwards so that the koji flour can be evenly stirred. The sorghum is then poured into a fermentation tank and stirred every three days to allow it to ferment evenly, which takes about 10 days.

This kind of koji mixing action is called "turning the groove". The fermented sorghum is mixed with chaff again, put into the boiler and steamed, and the water vapor evaporated in about half an hour rises, circulates at the bottom of an iron pot filled with cold water, cools, and then condenses into drops, and falls into a pre-set bamboo tube.

The liquid that flows out is the freshly baked sorghum wine, which is called the "head pot".

After steaming the first wine, the sorghum dregs must be taken out of the pot and sent to another boiler, where smoke is seen, and then 50 catties of shells are added to cool it. Follow-up add 100 catties of koji powder, and then send it to the fermentation tank for fermentation, but also carry out the "turning" work, the fermentation time is about more than ten days, this is the action of mixing koji and fermenting again. Immediately after fermentation, the second distillation procedure is carried out, which is the second sake. The time is also about half an hour, the second wine is less sorghum miscellaneous taste, more fragrant, more pure, more smooth than before knowing, called "two pot head".

After half a month of hard work, Zhou Yi finally made this two-pot head, which is the transparent and mellow new wine he made.

When the first pot of wine flowed from the bamboo tube into the vat, the wafting aroma of wine made the workers who had worked hard for more than half a month cheer.

After brewing the first vat of wine, Zhou Yi placed it on the stone table in the middle of the courtyard, and hurriedly sent someone to call Zhang Zhong over.

"It smells so good." As soon as Zhang Zhong entered the courtyard, he immediately laughed, took a deep breath, and said with an intoxicated face.

Zhou Yi patted the wine jar and said, "Of course, I promised you before, I will naturally do it, come and taste it, this kind of good wine you have never drunk." ”

Zhang Zhong hurriedly agreed, scooped the wine into the bowl with a bamboo tube, and saw that it was as clear as water, and immediately cracked his mouth and laughed: "It's done, it's done, haha." ”

"Yes, it was finally done, during this time, I seem to have become a spectator, an outsider, it is these brothers under you, who used their experience to wake me up, and finally we overcame many difficulties to brew this good wine that I imagined." Zhou Yu was relieved, and finally lived up to expectations and made a good wine, which made him feel at ease, at least not to be told by others that he had taken Zhang Zhong's 5,000 yuan for nothing.

Zhang Zhong was very proud, because Zhou Yi attributed most of the credit to his own workers, which made him very proud. He picked up the bowl of wine in front of him and said, "Come, this wine is good-looking, but what it tastes like will not be known until you take a mouthful, after all, wine is for drinking, not for seeing." ”

"That's natural, come, let's all come together, a bowl for everyone, at this time, I don't think we should pay attention to the gifts of those masters and servants." Zhou Yi said with a smile.

Zhang Zhong naturally did not object, and all the workers had a bowl each, and they couldn't wait to drink it with their heads held high.

The rich aroma of liquor and the alcohol content that surpassed the times stimulated the nerves of all people, and a few workers who boasted of drinking an astonishing amount of liquor immediately turned their cheeks red and their steps floated after a bowl of liquor.

Drinking liquor was not a difficult thing for Zhou Yi, but Zhang Zhong and the others couldn't accept such a high alcohol content, so after drinking two bowls each, some workers fell directly to the ground and fell asleep.

In Zhou Yi's opinion, the alcohol content of these two pots is about 40 degrees, which has reached the standard of high wine, while in the Song Dynasty, the pressed wine everyone drank was closer to rice wine, the kind of white turbid wine that Zhou Yi called a drink.

Not to mention the workers, even people like Zhang Zhong, who often drank for social needs, were drunk under the powerful offensive of this baijiu. Zhou Yi had to command the people outside to help them into the room to rest.

The next morning, Zhang Zhong woke up from a severe headache, sitting at the head of the bed, he frowned, but a smile suddenly appeared on his face, he had tasted the liquor himself, and he had already remembered the strong taste.

So, who else can resist it?