Zheng Tu only thought that this young Ling Gongzi had a big appetite, so he snorted his teeth at the moment, "Open five or five, everyone will get rich together." ”

Ling Jing still shook his head.

"Four-six, I'm four, you're six, I can't do it any more. If it weren't for the fact that liquor is selling well now, and it is difficult to get the goods, it would be impossible to give you this number. Zheng Tu was a little unhappy in his heart, this little white face had too much appetite.

Ling Jing picked up a piece of pig ears and threw it into his mouth, the sauce pig ears with white wine are really a perfect match. "This liquor is only owned exclusively by Huaihuang, looking at the world, there is no second one that can be brewed, do you know how many businessmen are rushing to Huaihuang now, just to get a batch of liquor back?"

Of course, Zheng Tu knew that Huaihuang's liquor had always been a hot seller, but the previous production was too low, and it only produced 50,000 catties of liquor in a month. That bit of output has long been eaten by those big merchants. Other businessmen have no hope at all, and every time they take out a little bit and put it on the exchange for auction, they can even fetch a jaw-dropping high price. Even Huaihuang's own restaurants, if there are a few jars of liquor town stores, business can be booming. Today, the largest White Horse Restaurant in Huaihuang is said to be the private property of Yi Dashuai, but it only supplies 100 catties of liquor every day, on a first-come, first-served basis, and every catty can be sold at a sky-high price.

Zheng Tu had already seen this kind of hot situation, but he could be majestic in this one-third of an acre of land outside the city, but when he entered the city, he was just a pig killer. However, in the past few days, news came out from Qixing Castle that the winery over there has completed the expansion, and the new winery can now produce more than 100,000 catties of wine a day and more than 3 million catties of wine a month. It can produce 50 million catties of wine a year. This output is already a hundred times that of the previous one. Many people feel that this is an exaggeration, but Huaihuang has indeed let it out. The first batch of liquor began to be sold a year ago, and this batch of liquor reached one million catties. With so many new liquors on the market, it has already attracted countless excitement from those who did not have the opportunity to buy liquor. Now liquor is extremely popular everywhere, as long as you can get liquor, it is definitely a lucrative business. Countless merchants flocked to the city, and the inns in the city were already full, even the small shabby shops in the shantytowns outside. They were also inhabited by merchants who wore gold and silver and silk. Zheng Tu thought about it, and also wanted to get involved. I happened to meet this Ling Gongzi, according to a friend. said that he had someone in the governor's mansion, and he was also familiar with the stewards in the Seven Star Castle Wine Factory, and he could get wine. Zheng Tu wanted to cooperate with Ling Jing, and he didn't plan to transport the wine to other places. I just want to take advantage of Ling Jing's relationship to get wine. Then directly resell it to those merchants from other places at a higher price, and make a lot of money from it, which is simply straightforward.

"I heard that after the expansion of the winery, the output is now very high, and it is said that the annual output is 50 million catties of wine." Zheng Tu told the news he heard, but he didn't believe it, he produced 50 million catties of wine a year, how much it had to be. Pour it out and do not gather it into a sea.

Ling Jing smiled and said nothing, he knew the output of the winery over there in the Seven Star Castle. It turned out that there were indeed only 50,000 catties in January, but now there are 3 million catties in January. This is true, not exaggerated. Now on the side of the Seven Star Fort, the number of workers in the winery has reached more than 10,000, and its scale is huge. But the most powerful thing about the winery is not the sheer size, but the uniqueness of the winemaking process. Before the advent of dam liquor, the liquor of Dasui was all rice wine, and there was no distilled liquor process. In the Bashu region, there have been some of the most primitive methods of brewing earth shochu, but they are tens of millions of miles away from distilled liquor. Therefore, this liquor of Yifeng is indeed unique.

Especially now, since the re-enactment of Prohibition in 16 years, most of the private breweries around the country have closed, leaving a small number of sneaky private brews. Most of the liquor was brewed by the imperial court's wineries, but the output was not high, and it was difficult to meet the demand of the general public, and the prohibition of liquor led to the rising price of liquor and the rampant smuggling of illicit liquor. The biggest reason for the imperial court's ban on alcohol is indeed the consumption of grain, the traditional wine-making process, a pound of wine costs three pounds of grain.

At this time, the price of wine was still relatively expensive, and even the rise of tea drinking was because of the high price of wine, and the people had to start drinking tea instead.

How expensive is wine at this time?

The expensive wine bucket is 10,000 Wen, the general wine fight is 300 Wen, and there are also 100 Wen for the wine fight. How much is a bucket of wine, at this time a bucket of wine is about 6,000 liters, wine is lighter than water, 6,000 liters have 12 catties of water, but generally only 10 catties of wine. Therefore, expensive wine sells for about 1,000 wen per catty, and cheap 10 wen per catty. A thousand dollars can buy a pig, or two sheep, which is really worth a lot. But in modern society, the price of wine is also 10 million times different, there are hundreds of thousands of good bottles, and cheap ones are a few dollars a bottle.

After the imperial court banned alcohol, the ordinary liquor brewed in the imperial court's winery was generally brewed in spring and sold in autumn, called small wine, with twenty-six grades, the cheapest being five wen a catty, and the most expensive being thirty wen a catty. It is brewed in winter, and what is sold in summer is called big wine, which is divided into 23 grades, the cheapest is 8 wen a catty, and the highest grade is 48 wen a catty. But this can only be regarded as a low-end wine, and there are some high-end wines, 72 wen a pound of silver bottle wine, and 81 wen a pound of lamb wine.

At this time, the price of rice is twenty or thirty wen a catty, and buying one catty of lamb wine is equivalent to three buckets of rice. A pound of rice is about five or six yuan, and wine is much more expensive than rice. The cheapest wine is the same as rice, but a good lamb wine is equivalent to the price of more than a dozen catties of rice.

At this time, there were also some foreign liquors shipped from the Western Regions or Funan Linyi, such as plum wine from Linyi, gravy wine from Fula, and Sanle pulp and wine from Persia, which were not cheap. However, the liquor produced in Huaihuang is baijiu, which is a new type of liquor, and although some people are not used to baijiu, there are still a vast majority of people who like this new type of liquor compared to those rice wines that are generally not high.

Of course, the wine produced in Huaihuang is delicious, but it must be expensive.

In fact, modern people know that wine is an extremely profitable commodity.

Before the expansion of the distillery, Yifeng let the distillery produce fruit-based liquor, which was not produced in high yield, but tasted good, and later began to buy sorghum used to feed livestock to make liquor. The cost of making sake from fruits and sorghum is much lower than that of traditional glutinous rice. Ordinary rice wine is a pound of wine and three pounds of grain, while Yifeng uses fruits and sorghum to make wine, and the cost control is zhì in a pound of wine and a pound of grain, and this grain is several times cheaper than glutinous rice. Of course, if this is the case, it is impossible for Huaihuang Distillery to shout the slogan of 50 million catties per year.

In fact, the several technologies in Yi Feng's hands are the key to enabling Huaihuang Distillery to rapidly expand its production capacity.

The key technologies are alcohol blending technology and low-alcohol wine blending technology.

After the expansion of production capacity this time, the newly produced liquor was divided into more than 20 grades, just like the official liquor. Among them, it is divided into two categories, namely grain wine and alcohol blended wine. As the name suggests, grain brewing is a liquor brewed from pure grains, and after distillation, the liquor is cellared for 90 days. The price of these pure grain wines ranges from 100 wen per catty to 3,000 wen per catty, and even the packaging is carefully made, and the 3,000 wen per catty is bottled with celadon bottles. In addition, there are some cellar wines that are not sold until a year later, three years, five years, or ten years, which is a higher grade of cellar wine.

Of course, the price of the puree wine brewed from these grains is relatively high, and the output is not too much, and the real output is the blended wine.

Blending liquor is divided into alcohol blended liquor and low-alcohol blended liquor, and most of the modern liquor is actually not pure grain liquor, but mostly blended liquor. This blending is not mixed with water, but with a small amount of puree and part of the grain alcohol plus some additives and spices, etc., according to the special process ratio formula, blended with pure grain liquor almost the same color and aroma as the blended wine. The cost of this blended wine is lower than that of pure grain winemaking, and the cost of one pound of pure grain wine can be blended into ten pounds of blended wine. And the most important point is that the blended wine does not even need to be stored for at least 90 days, and it can be sold and drunk directly out of the factory after blending. During this period of savings, for the winery, this blended wine is equivalent to the unrestricted production of the heart. As long as the grain alcohol and puree and additives keep up, then the energy will continue to produce wine.

The cost of making liquor from one pound of pure grain in Huaihuang Distillery was originally only one-tenth of the rice wine of the Sui Dynasty Distillery. After blending liquor, one pound of grain liquor can be blended into ten catties of blended liquor. Calculated down, one pound of rice wine needs grain, can make a hundred pounds of blended wine. Even if you remove the cost of some flavor additives, this is a staggering ratio.

What's more, Yi Feng has a more lucrative technology in his hands. That is the low-alcohol liquor blending technology, the general liquor has a higher degree, and the higher the degree is naturally higher. Yi Feng learned the practice of those wineries in modern times, producing a small amount of grain to make wine and a large number of blended wines. A small amount of high-alcohol wine is produced, and a large amount of low-alcohol wine is blended.

Low-alcohol wine blending, to put it bluntly, is the real blending of water. However, this water blending has a set of powerful technology, which can reduce the degree after mixing water, but there will not be much difference in taste. Without this technology, mixed with water at will, the result will only be water or water, wine or wine. But with this technology, there is no such problem. Moreover, while the cost of low-alcohol liquor is reduced, it also allows more consumers to accept this kind of liquor, which is originally higher than rice wine, so that liquor can also seize the market at a low price and sell it to more people.

The original puree wine has to be made of grain solid, the brewing is complex, the production cycle is long, the output is restricted by the fermentation tank, the output is limited, and the cost is also very high. However, through guò blending technology, the use of edible alcohol, can be industrialized mass production, low cost, as much as you want. (To be continued......)