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After drinking the wine brewed by Li Chongjiu, Ying Hefu asked in a bit of shock at the moment: "Khan, I have never drunk such a mellow and good wine in my life on the grassland, and compared with the wine I drank before, it is like horse urine, I wonder if the Khan can give me a few jars?" ”

Horse urine is such an adjective, which is too exaggerated. But Inghefer licked his mouth, clearly telling the truth.

Li Chongjiu smiled, this is a fine wine made by distillation, of course, much higher than the alcohol concentration of the wine of this era. The mare's milk wine on the steppe, he drank it very strongly, but the taste was extremely poor. However, the wine made by the Han people tastes mellow, but because of the low alcohol content, for the grassland people who are used to drinking spirits, such wine is not enough to resist the wind and cold, so they do not like to drink it.

And the distilled liquor can definitely meet the needs of the herdsmen on the grassland. Since then, Huaihuang Town, Yuyi Second Town, in addition to being able to sell silk and tea bricks to Fanren, has more of this alcoholic wine.

Li Chongjiu listened to Ying Hefu's words, smiled and said, "Anyway, if it's redundant, let's take the thirty altars and go." ”

Ying Hefu couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately carried a small jar of wine and drank it.

"Khan, this wine has no lees at all, it doesn't need to be sifted, it is comparable to the Sanle pulp in the Western Regions, I don't know how much it is worth than ordinary wine?" Wen Yanbo also took a sip, and he was also smiling at the moment, obviously very satisfied.

Li Chongjiu said: "It's only a little more expensive than ordinary wine, but it's much cheaper than Sanle pulp." ”

Wen Yanbo's eyes lit up at the moment, and he said: "This is greatly beneficial to my Huaihuang Town, Fanren's good wine is famous, if you can use this wine to envelop it, there is a disadvantage, and it can improve the prestige of my Huaihuang Town." ”

Li Chongjiu very much agrees with Wen Yanbo's point of view, and it can be seen from Fang Caiying's reaction that as long as he drinks distilled spirit, people with good wine will never drink that mare's milk wine again, so he will not only make a lot of money. For the grassland people, the status of the two towns of Yuyi is even stronger.

You must know that back then, in the late Qing Dynasty, the monopoly trust on the grassland, the Dashengkui firm, the best sales were tea bricks, silk, and camel head wine.

Li Chongjiu turned his head and said to the craftsman in charge of the winery: "In the future, we will produce this wine in large quantities, remember the secret method of winemaking, it must be kept strictly secret, and it cannot be passed on to outsiders. ”

The craftsman said in a sincere panic at the moment: "No, once you listen to the will of the envoy, you will never leak the slightest bit of this wine." ”

Wen Yanbo smiled: "Dare to ask the envoy who doesn't know what the name of this wine is?" ”

Li Chongjiu thought for a while and said: "It's called Huaihuang Bar, and from now on, everyone on the grassland will know about this wine." ”

At the moment when the craftsman received the order, Li Chongjiu decided to set up three major distilleries in Huaihuang, Yuyi, and Jixian to specialize in brewing this distilled liquor.

In addition to the official distilled liquor, Li Chongjiu decided to release the liquor order, the so-called liquor is since the Qin and Han dynasties, the official implementation of the liquor management. Because wine has always been a profiteering business. Therefore, the officials of the Sui Dynasty set up wineries to collect profits, and strictly punished the bootleggers.

However, the government-run liquor shops, like modern state-owned enterprises, have too many drawbacks, and the price of wine is inflated, and ordinary people cannot afford to drink it at all. And Li Chongjiu wants to sell the wine to the grassland Fanren in exchange for cattle, sheep, horses, and furs, and the price can't be too high, otherwise the Fanren can't afford to buy the best wine.

And Li Chongjiu decided to open up the official operation of the winery, allowing Lin Dangfeng and others to support Li Chongjiu and other five chambers of commerce to jointly make wine privately. However, Li Chongjiu paid taxes on the koji of the five chambers of commerce, which can be regarded as enriching the goods.

However, Li Chongjiu was just about to release the liquor order, but Ji Chuan, Liu Yi, and Zhou Xu were unanimously opposed, and even Wei Zheng wrote to oppose it.

The reason for their objection is clearly stated in Wei Zheng's letter, when Qin Shang changed the law, the price of wine was ten times the cost. Qin Law also forbade the surplus grain to make wine in order to sell it for profit. Wei Zheng was worried that the wine industry would be profitable, and he was afraid that the merchants would use the surplus grain to make wine, which would lead to an increase in the price of grain among the people.

As far as the present is concerned, because of the war, the price of grain in the north has always been very high, although Huaihuang Town and Yuyi Town have been good in the past two years, but it is only enough to supply Shanggu County, as for Zhuo County, the county with a large population, there are 90,000 households, and many people are unable to eat and wear.

In the third year of the Great Cause, when the Great Sui Dynasty was prosperous, the grain price in the eastern capital was only five dollars a bucket, and the northern land was only six dollars a bucket, and now the grain price in Jixian County has never been lower than fifty dollars a bucket since last year, and the people are miserable for this, but the grain price is relatively much better than that of other counties.

For example, in the eastern capital, which is now under the siege of Li Mi, the price of grain has reached an appalling point, a thousand dollars a bucket, and there is no market. The reason why the price of grain is so high is that in addition to the large population and lack of grain in the eastern capital, there are many well-to-do large families in the main eastern capital, who are willing to pay for rice.

Moreover, Li Chongjiu also heard that Bing Yuanzhen, who was under Li Mi's command, was greedy for such huge profits, so he privately sold military grain to the eastern capital in exchange for money. After Li Mi heard this, he actually acquiesced to Bing Yuanzhen's move.

Li Chongjiu did not agree with Li Mi's short-sighted approach, but on the other hand, he also believed that the price of grain was so high in both the world and Zhuo County, and if it was used to make wine, there would indeed be businessmen who would use grain to make wine in order to seek huge profits, so the worries of the ministers under Li Chongjiu were also justified, and if the people opened up the wine industry, it would make the price of grain rise further.

Li Chongjiu insisted on his opinion, he wrote back to Zhu Wenchen, saying that several major wine shops would hire the poor people in Zhuo County as a business, so that more than 1,000 people could make a living. As for the order to stabilize the price of grain, Li Chongjiu decided to set up a government-run grain store in each county of Zhuo County.

The government-run grain shops were drawn from the granaries of Zhuo County and sold grain at a uniform price of 50 yuan per bucket to stabilize the price of grain above the dìng market.

Seeing that Li Chongjiu was so insistent, Wei Zheng said again at the moment that the ancients had cultivated for three years and accumulated more than one year, and had three years of storage for nine years. Although there are a lot of hoarding in the granary of Zhuo County, it can't sit on the empty mountain.

You can restore the military tun and let the soldiers solve their own food, not to draw grain from the granary of Zhuo County, and build another righteous warehouse in Zhuo County, which is specially used for preparing for famine in the future, in case of any natural disaster, it is good to be prepared.

When Li Chongjiu saw Wei Zhengzhi's letter, although he felt that he was very reasonable, whether it was the wine industry or the strong army, this was in conflict with his general policy of encircling the grassland and subduing the hearts of the people, so he decided to put it on hold for the time being.

But in any case, Li Chongjiu's liquor business plan was set up, and at the same time, in order to encourage commercial circulation, Li Chongjiu also abolished the city gate tax.

The so-called city gate tax, is the entry into the city to levy a penny, the city gate tax is the Northern Wei Dynasty began to implement, after the Northern Zhou Dynasty briefly abolished, but the imperial court because of the temptation of this tax, so it was reinstated, Zhuo County cities have been implemented.

This is mainly for ordinary people. At that time, the city was divided into a city and a fang, the fang was the place where the people lived, and the city was what was needed for shopping. It's like if you go to a store to shop or sell something, whether you buy it or not, sell it or not, you have to pay a tax of one dollar as long as you enter the door.

In the eyes of modern people, this is very unscientific, and now everyone knows that only when the people spend their money can economic growth be promoted. Restricting people from entering the market for consumption and shopping in this way is not killing chickens and taking eggs.

Therefore, whether it is the private liquor shop or the abolition of the store tax, to put it simply, it is Li Chongjiu who wants to support the power of Lin Dangfeng, Liu Chengan and other local businessmen in Zhuo County, the liquor shop is private, the distillation shop is to attract the people, and the government-run grain shop, the abolition of the store tax is for the benefit of the people and the convenience of the people.

However, although these three have long-term benefits, the disadvantages in the short term are very obvious, and for Li Chongjiu, there is a shortage of grain and grass, and fiscal revenue has declined. Li Chongjiu suddenly found that after he attacked Xiazhuo County, he spent money faster than before, and the army on the grassland wanted to give benefits, not to mention that he had just sent a large amount of materials to Tuli.

Therefore, Li Chongjiu must find a way to get money and grain, and if he can't throttle, he must open source, otherwise the money and grain will bottom out at the end of the year according to the current consumption rate, and a civil official like Wei Zheng will be enough to annoy himself to death.

So where to get the money, the emerging merchants of Zhuojun, that's not enough, taking money from them now will definitely destroy the current harmonious relationship between the two sides. What's more, Li Chongjiu will vigorously support them in the future.

As for the scholars of Zhuo County, they monopolize the local resources, hold the money tightly, and ask them to show a little bit of money and food from their fingers, don't even think about it. In the end, the people of Zhuo County are now so poor that they are tightening their belts, not to mention.

Then the interior is not good, as the so-called wealth depends on robbery, and the nomadic cavalry is best at copying. As the saying goes, coming and going like the wind, Li Chongjiu can give full play to the advantages of the cavalry under his command, but if it can't work internally, it will be transferred to the outside, among the surrounding forces of Li Chongjiu.

Luo Yi, Beiping in Gao Kaidao, and Yuyang County, these two warlords are not good at governing places, and they are poorer than Zhuo County, in case they capture their territory, they don't grab anything, and settle the people of the two counties, which is enough to eat Li Chongjiu.

Dou Jiande in the south is still an ally, and he can't be provoked at the same time.

As for the grassland tribes in the north, such as the Khitan, to be honest, there is really nothing to grab, the Khitan is different from the humiliation of the royal department, after the defeat of Wuhou Qinshui, it has not slowed down, and life has always been bitter. What's more, it's about to be spring now, and the cattle, sheep and horses have just passed the winter, and they can't be robbed and raised, and there are only a few taels of meat to kill, so they can only boil soup and gnaw bones.

So counting around, there are only the surrounding Goguryeo people who are also a farming people.

Last year, Li Chongjiu broke Goguryeo's Gaimu City, which made Goguryeo break a gap in the defense circle of Liaodong. However, the Goguryeo people were still the same, and sent light cavalry to cross the Liao River several times to kill in western Liao, and copied in Liaodong County.

Li Chongjiu can be regarded as having contacts now. (To be continued.) )