Chapter 260: You Can't See the Sun Tomorrow Morning
However, this industrialized production process has the advantages of unlimited production without grain fermentation and low cost, but the disadvantages are also obvious, there is no unique flavor of traditional brewed puree liquor, and various spice additives need to be added to simulate the aroma and taste of traditional liquor. And these additives and spices are more or less harmful to the body. Although edible alcohol is not industrial alcohol, there will be no poisoning and other conditions, but drinking too much can really hurt the body.
Moreover, after using these blending techniques, the entire liquor production process is divided into many links, and Yi Feng has the most complete brewing process in his hands. However, after being dispersed to the entire winery, only one process is mastered in each link, and the confidentiality of the process is greatly enhanced, and the secret is not easy to be revealed. Therefore, Yi Feng can also keep this secret and completely monopolize the liquor business.
During this period of time, Yifeng has found many brewing masters, and has been studying these two blending technologies, until not long ago, when he was able to break through, and under the guidance of Yifeng, he found the correct process method and was able to expand production capacity on a large scale.
After the number of workers in Huaihuang Distillery expanded to more than 10,000, its production capacity also reached 50 million catties per year, up to a huge production capacity of more than 20,000 tons of wine. However, this output, in later generations, is actually only the size of a medium-sized distillery. But in this era, it can already make Yi Feng make a lot of money. It can be said that Yi Feng had already planned to make a lot of money with this liquor to support his 100,000 army. Previously, Yang Liang, the king of Han, wanted to fight Yifeng Wine Workshop's idea, but when the Han people came, he was immediately thrown into the black prison mercilessly.
The low-alcohol liquor that Huaihuang is about to sell ranges from 21 degrees to 29 degrees, 38 degrees, and 42 degrees. The price has also changed from the previous high price, from the lowest five wen a catty to a thousand wen for a total of thirty-six grades.
In short, this time Yi Feng is ready to grab money on a large scale, from five cents a pound to three thousand dollars a pound. There are all grades and degrees, and the purpose is to seize the market in an all-round way.
Anyway, even if the cheapest 21-degree low-alcohol wine sold costs 51 yuan a catty, which is the same price as the lowest grade of official brewed wine, but the cost of the two wines is very different, and the cost of a pound of 51 yuan wine is at least dozens of times that of 1 catty of 21 years of wine. This is the huge gap between industrial production factories and traditional handicraft workshops.
"If you're going to do a reselling business, you're probably in the wrong place. After the expansion of the winery. The production has surged, and it can produce 100,000 catties of wine a day, and it can produce so much wine every day. A steady stream of sake. It is no longer that the merchants are worried about not being able to buy the wine, but that the wineries have to think about how to sell so much wine. Ling Jing smiled, he had already seen through Zheng Tu's plan. In the past, liquor had no price. Doing such a resale transaction is naturally easy and easy to make. A million profits. But now that the supply of wine is released, what is needed is the capital, that is, the shipping channel, and the repurchase, if you don't do it, you can only smash it.
Zheng Tu shouted: "Impossible, 100,000 catties of wine a day, not to mention anything else, how can there be so much grain wine in Huaihuang?" One pound of wine and three pounds of grain. So-and-so also knows. 100,000 catties of wine a day, then 100,000 catties of grain. This is nearly 1,000 stone grain, 50 million catties of wine a year, that is at least 400,000 stone of grain. Huai Famine and no grain production, all the grain is originally transported in, where can there be so much grain to make wine. Ling Gongzi don't think that my old Zheng is easy to deceive, if you want more share, just say yes. However, four or six points have already reached the top, and it is impossible to have more. ”
"There are only unimaginable things in this world, but there are no things that cannot be done." Ling Jing said, "Before Yi Dashuai, who would have thought that the salt water in the lake could be turned into such good salt, and it would be possible to make the grain merchants desperately pull the grain in exchange for it without a little effort?" ”
"Yi Dashuai's salt for grain is like a trick, this is really a magical act of turning stones into gold." For this, Zheng Tu also admired and agreed.
Ling Jing also laughed along, "Yi Dashuai is what you and I can guess, salt for grain, and now this wine is the same." ”
"Yi Dashuai is indeed a god-like character." Zheng Tu said seriously, before Yi Feng took charge of Huaihuang, he was just a butcher who had killed pigs for generations in a small roadside village under Daning Pass. It was Yi Feng who brought about the change of Huaihuang, and also brought about his change. "You still know who gave you today!" For the first time, a cold chill permeated Ling Jing's voice.
"Huh?" Zheng Tu felt a little dizzy, and he didn't seem to understand Ling Jing's words.
"Do you still know Yi Dashuai?" Ling Jing accentuated his words, "Since you understand, why do you dare to follow the big handsome and do these things?" ”
"I never wanted to fight against the big handsome?" Zheng Tu swallowed his saliva, "I'm just eating with a mouthful of food." ”
"But what you did was against the commander's decree." Ling Jing reminded him.
"I'm just messing around." Zheng Tu's brows furrowed.
"That's still against the big handsome!"
Zheng Tu slammed the cup on the ground, "What do you mean by the surname Zheng, you came to the door to drink my wine and eat my food, and then you came to scold me?" ”
Hearing the sound of the cup breaking, the curtain of the door outside was suddenly opened, and seven or eight big men with pig-killing knives rushed in with fierce eyes.
"Scolding you? You're just a pig butcher, do you think you really think you're some kind of great person because you have a few pig killers? Ling Jing drank all the wine in the cup, and then threw the cup in his hand to the ground, and with a snap, the wine glass was torn apart.
"Lao Tzu doesn't like to listen to you, surnamed Ling, Lao Tzu is also the boss of this piece outside the West Gate, what are you, what qualifications do you have to train Lao Tzu, really Lao Tzu doesn't dare to touch you?"
Ling Jing sneered a few times, "I know very well what you are, but do you really know who I am?" ”
"How old are you?"
"Do you know this?" Ling Jing didn't care at all about the angry eyes of those big men, and took out a sign from his arms without hurrying, a square bronze medal with a special word engraved on it. There is also a line of tiny numbers underneath that appears to be numbered. "This official is Ling Jing, a cavalry lieutenant of the Special Affairs Section of the Wuzhou Governor's Office, who joined the army, and was personally promoted and appointed by Yi Shuai. If you can open your mind, you should kneel on the ground and kowtow and beg for mercy, and perhaps I can spare you death. I will ask you now, and you will answer a question, and if you dare to hesitate for a moment if you dare to say a false word, you will never see the sun tomorrow morning again. ”
Zheng Tu and the rest of his men stared at the bronze plaque for a long time and couldn't speak, they didn't recognize the brand, and they hadn't heard of any special affairs department. But they heard the Governor's Mansion and Yi Laoshuai clearly, and that was enough. In Huaihuang, no one dared to confront Yi Shuai. A young butcher couldn't stand this heavy atmosphere, and wanted to step forward to cut Ling Jing with a knife, Zheng Tu's face turned white with fright, raised his big palm like a fan, and slapped this apprentice to the ground.
Zheng Tu's face turned from red to white, and his drunkenness had been awakened, "You, are you really Yi Shuai's subordinate?" ”
"Maybe you can go to Yi Shuai and confront him personally?" Ling Jing sneered.
"I believe, I believe." How dare Zheng Tu go to see Yi Dashuai, and that is what he can see if he wants to. He also didn't believe that if someone dared to pretend to be Yi Shuai's subordinates in Huaihuang, it was looking for death. "I don't know if the chief needs me to answer, the little one must answer truthfully, all of them answer truthfully, and I will never dare to hide it."
In fact, Ling Jing didn't have anything to ask, he already knew what he should know, and the reason why he came here today was just because he thought that this Zheng Tu was still a little useful.
After a simple inquiry, Zheng Tu's face became more and more ugly, and the other party knew all his little secrets, how many people he had, which yards he covered, how many examples he received every month, and even which woman's bed he slept in last night, the other party knew it clearly.
"What is Shangguan going to do with the small one?"
"What to do?" Ling Jing deliberately made Zheng Tu kneel on the ground and tremble for a while, before he said, "There is a caravan from the Beijing division that is about to return to Guanzhong, and you will follow that caravan on the road early tomorrow morning." ”
The two words on the road made Zheng Tu shiver a few more times.
"Don't worry, I won't kill you. Otherwise, there wouldn't be such a big effort. When you arrive at the caravan, when you see the Pei official of the caravan, greet him for me, and tell him, you are the goods I asked him to carry, and let him settle them for me. In short, when you arrive at the caravan, just listen to Pei Guanren's arrangement. In the future, you will live in Jingshi. ”
"What am I going to do in Jingshi?" After Zheng Tu understood that he had saved his life, his face slowly returned to some complexion, but he was puzzled in his heart.
"Of course, it's to kill pigs and sell meat as a butcher and return to your old business, is it possible that you will not be able to do anything else?" After saying this, Ling Jing got up and went out without looking back, leaving only Zheng Tu and a room of apprentices looking at each other.
After a long time, everyone was still dreaming.
"Master, let's run!" A bold apprentice whispered.
As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden snort, and a powerful crossbow entered through the window and was nailed to the wine table, the jet-blue steel crossbow head glittering under the oil lamp.
"Do as you are ordered or die!" A dull voice sounded outside, and then faded away, "Take these disciples of yours with you on the road, if one of you dares to flee on the road, all of you will die." When you arrive in Chang'an, wait quietly, if there is a need, someone will come to see you, and then you will believe in the special bronze medal! ”
After speaking, there was silence outside, and there was no movement.
Zheng Tu's mind was full of thoughts, and thousands of thoughts flashed, but in the end, he didn't dare to gamble and pack up and run away. The arrow just now made him lose his last bit of courage. In the past, when he grabbed land with other scoundrels, he had never been timid, and once carried a butcher's knife and ran away with five apprentices on the opposite side. But now, he didn't dare to run, and he couldn't even get up to run. What he faced was Yi Dashuai, the only person in awe of Zheng Tu, who was not afraid of heaven and earth.
After staying honestly until dawn, Zheng Tu hurriedly packed up the softness, called all his apprentices over, and took them together to wait for the caravan back to Chang'an. From beginning to end, Zheng Tu and his apprentices did not notice that on their rooftops, and on the roof of a wooden house opposite, several crossbowmen had been hiding and staring at them all night. If he had been a little lucky last night, he would have been afraid that he would not have been able to see the sun this morning. (To be continued......)