Good things come in pairs, the dam is full of people, and the brewery is also on fire, the sake lees smell of sourness, and the craftsmen are busy coming in and out. A few men carefully sent the freshly brewed liquor into a separate courtyard, where the final process would be carried out to turn it into a soju worth a thousand gold.

"Xiye, why hasn't the wine flowed out yet?" Zheng Yu stared at the retort barrel used for distillation on the fire, the wine added to the retort barrel had been heated for a while, but the 'legendary' soju had not yet flowed out of it.

"Don't be in a hurry, burn slowly over low heat, and make good wine!" Seeing that Xi's mind didn't seem to be here, he said a little absent-mindedly.

"Oh, slow burning, I made a note of it!" Zheng Yu nodded, and instructed the man who burned the fire to slow down the speed of refilling the firewood, "Xiye, are you okay with the fire?" ”

"Well, keep it like that, not too big and not too small!" Jianxi wiped the sweat on his face and pretended to be calm, but he kept playing a small drum in his heart.

Seeing Xi looking out of the door, why hasn't the prince arrived yet, he said that he would let him come first, and then he found a way to come over, could it be that the prince 'missed' and was captured, if the prince fell into the hands of that 'dominatrix' and had to suffer family law, he wouldn't be so unlucky, right?

Thinking of this, Jianxi was even more worried in his heart, more than half a month ago, the palace suddenly sent a few people to the palace, one of them was the dominatrix jade bead in Jianxi's mouth, she was originally the secretary of the palace in the palace, and this time she was specially ordered by the concubine Niangniang to discipline the prince.

The palace generally sets up six bureaus and twenty-four divisions, which are in charge of the affairs of the chamberlain and female officials, and the palace is independent and responsible for the precepts and punishments, and is in charge of the picketing of the palace and the precepts. There is one palace zheng, two Si Zheng, four canons, and four female histories, although Si Zheng is a deputy, his power is not small, and he has the official title of six grades

This Yuzhu is only in his thirties this year, and he is indeed an old man in the palace, with strict law enforcement and vicious methods, and the little yellow gate palace maid in the palace is as afraid as a tiger, even more than Yang Jian. Because Yang Jian is high up, he won't stare at them every day, but this jade bead is everywhere, if she catches the wrong place and doesn't die, she will have to peel off her skin, and when she sees her now, she can't help but tremble, and her legs and stomach tremble.

Although she didn't come to the palace for a long time, she destroyed the new system that the prince had just established and let her divide it by two, and restored the old system in the palace. The prince is naturally the focus of rectification, from food, clothing, housing and transportation, to sitting, lying and walking, she has re-established the rules, but the prince is so obedient, and has asked her to ask the 'family law' given by the concubine Niangniang to spank her several times.

"Lord Wang, come quickly, don't let me sit on wax!" Seeing that he didn't dare to think about it anymore, he prayed silently, after the prince was restricted from moving, he was entrusted by the prince as an 'expert' to guide the work of the winery several times, and now he sees that Zheng Yu is obedient to himself, this sweat in his heart, today is not more than usual but the day of drinking, once there is something wrong, where do you know how to deal with it. My knowledge of soju is to follow the prince to do a few 'experiments', these few nights by the prince forced to memorize a few 'treasure books', others such as material selection, koji, fermentation, wine collection, trough, until the filter of the wine, are the first time in recent times.

Seeing Xi looking at the door and looking forward to the prince coming early, Zheng Yu was staring at the distillation bucket on the stove in a daze, he knew that the secret of making soju was in this barrel, but he couldn't understand it, and his heart itched terribly. From the outside, this big guy looks like a king-sized copper bucket, but the top and bottom of the bucket are tightly wrapped in copper, leaving only a few holes of different sizes in the barrel wall, one of which is used to hold good wine, and the other hole flows out of it becomes soju, and the other Jianxi has not told him what to do, as for what it looks like, he can't see it.

In fact, this distillation retort barrel is an ordinary object in the eyes of modern people, but it is connected to a bottom barrel containing liquid and an identical top barrel with a cooling device, and in the middle is a filter bottle that collects alcohol vapor, and the steam is condensed into a liquid after being cooled by water, turning into a high degree of liquor. However, this was in the Song Dynasty thousands of years ago, and it became a high-tech product after Zhao Ta's packaging.

"Xiye, can this retort barrel work, what is it like inside?" Zheng Yu wanted to get some secrets out of the mouth of the 'expert', and asked in a low voice.

"Shhhh The prince said that he still has to keep it secret, and he can't tell you for the time being! Seeing Xi said mysteriously, but he smiled secretly in his heart, this is the secret that I and the prince only know the secret, you kid want to know the Tao is not qualified enough, in order to keep it secret, how much effort did the prince and I take, you want to dream from me! ,

"Xiye, the pipe is dripping wine, what should I do next!" A guy who had been paying attention to the changes in the retort suddenly exclaimed.

"I'm an expert, I'm an expert..." Now is the critical time, the amount and quality of the wine depends on the present, the prince seems to be unable to come, can only catch the duck on the shelf, spare himself more than 100 catties, see Xi in his heart silently recited the four-character proverb passed on to him by the prince, cheered himself up, at this time if he knew the Tao of the Tao of the prince knew that the knowledge of the wine making of the Tao was actually not much better than him, the 'treasure book' passed on to him was just Zhao Ta according to the wine instructions he had read in his previous life, and his heart might not be as nervous as he is now.

"Okay, add cold water to it and cool it down!" Seeing Xi hurriedly ordered the two guys who were waiting for the battle to slowly pour cold water into a hole in the top of the retort barrel, "Okay, just at this speed, don't be fast, don't be slow, keep adding water!" Seeing that the liquor flowing from the pipe used to make the sake turned from a trickle at the beginning to a trickle, Miki, who had this experience, commanded.

With the flow of wine, the aroma of wine spreads, and the whole wine shop wafts with this special aroma that has never been seen before, "Old steward, Xi Ye, how about you take a look at this wine?" Zheng Yu scooped up a little wine and poured it into two wine glasses and sent it to Zheng Quan and Jianxi and said, the eyes of everyone in the room were looking at them.

"Well, Sixth Young Master, there should be no problem looking at the appearance, you can see that the wine is clear and transparent, without any impurities, unlike the wine we brew is a little turbid!" Zheng Quan put the wine in the sun and observed it for a while and said, "This wine is also the taste of soju, spicy and energetic, thick and delicate, even the wine burp is fragrant!" Zheng Quan took a sip of wine and burped and said excitedly.

After listening to the old wine worm's evaluation, people turned their eyes to the soju expert, "Well, this wine is okay, it seems to be relatively successful!" Seeing the wine in the glass of Xixi, looking at the fine hops in the wine glass, it was not much different from the previous one, and pretended to comment profoundly.

"Ha Luha, we made it!" Zheng Yu shouted with a smile a little crazy, he knew that the day of his emergence was coming, "You hurry up and load the jar wine and go back to Beijing to report to the master, just say that the soju has been made!" After Da Yan laughed, Zheng Yu immediately ordered the two henchmen to follow.

After the wine flowed out of the two jars again, the flow rate slowed down, "Hurry up and change the jar, the wine flowing out of the back tastes bad, so you should store it separately and don't mix it with the one in front!" Jianxi instructed, "Shopkeeper Zheng, I won't be able to grow here in the future, you have to pay attention to these things!" ”

"Yes, yes, I'll pay attention!" Zheng Yu hurriedly agreed, these experiences will be his own capital in the future, and he must write them down well, he is now eager to offer Jianxi as a god, and stay in the wine shop to empty out all the things in his head.

An hour later, the wine was not flowing out, seeing that Xi hurriedly asked the man to withdraw the fire, stop pouring cold water, and then weighed it, one hundred catties of raw wine, fifteen catties of good wine, five catties of wine, the wine rate was about 20 percent, basically the same as the test made by the prince, and he could also give the prince an account.

"Well, our winery can now produce 500 catties of raw liquor a day, so we can produce 100 catties of shochu every day, and now the better liquor on the market can be sold for about 300 wen per liter, how can shochu be sold for ten pounds a pound if it has a price in the market, that is a thousand catties a day!" Zheng Yu made a rough calculation and startled himself.

"If the weather gets warmer in a few days, several fermentation ponds have been opened one after another, a stone of raw grain can produce a stone of wine, and it is conservatively estimated that two thousand catties of raw wine can be produced every day, then four hundred catties of shochu can be steamed, that is four thousand guan, as long as it can produce three hundred days a year, the gross income will reach 1.2 million guan, and the raw materials, labor, firewood and the money to buy koji are simply negligible compared with the huge income.

Time is money, Zheng Yu thought of this, and the exhaustion on his body immediately disappeared, "What are you still having fun there, immediately load and ignite the fire, no one is allowed to stop, and strive to steam out all the wine today!" He shouted loudly to the guys in the room who were still laughing.

"You guys, I have to go back to see the prince, he has been guilty for the past few days, but don't do anything!" Seeing that he has been busy with work these days, and he is not tired, he yawned and said, but the admiration for the prince in his heart turned over again, and the prince must have expected that he might not be able to come out, so he let him sneak out in the name of going out to buy first, otherwise Zheng Yuzhen would be blind today.

"What's wrong with the prince? Who dares to bully him! Zheng Yu was startled when he heard this, and dared to let his nephew suffer, didn't he beat the child in front of the adults and bully no one in our grandmother's house?

"You can't control this matter of the shopkeeper Zheng, Niangniang sent a priest from the palace to take care of the prince's life and teach the prince the rules!" Seeing Xi said with a wry smile, if the heart was not controlled by that demon woman, the prince would have run out to join in the fun, and he wouldn't have to suffer by himself who didn't know how to pretend to understand!

"Oh..." Zheng Yu didn't dare to speak, his sister disciplined her children, and she really couldn't give him a head out as an uncle.