Jinghu County.

As one of the county seats under the jurisdiction of Yuyang Prefecture, it was one of the first cities to be captured by the Taiping Army. Due to the excellent military discipline of the Taiping Army, and now they have surrounded Dengzhou, and they are about to take the entire Dengzhou, and Jinghu County can clearly see the shape of the present. With the cooperation of local forces, it has become the most stable part of the Taiping army.

The people on the street have also taken it for granted that the Taiping soldiers who patrol regularly (this idiom has been blocked...... ）。

However, when half a brigade and a full fifty soldiers escorted several large carts over, the people passing by could not help but cast curious glances. Many with a sensitive nose can smell the strong smell of sake lees from the felt-covered cart. Could it be that this group of Taiping soldiers is going to open a wine shop in the market in Jinghu County?

As one of the most famous grain-producing areas in the entire Qianyuan, Songjiang County's rice is very famous. Although Songjiang County has not been able to produce famous wines such as Zhuyeqing and Jiannanchun for various reasons, there are still many good wines that can be named, such as the local Baiyutang and Taiquan's Songmomi wine, which are very popular with Songjiang people.

The Taiping Army also wanted to sell alcohol?

Not to mention whether this gang of thieves knows how to make wine, just talking about the famous local wines in Songjiang are enough to occupy more than half of the market. Many people who know about this business are not very optimistic - unless the Taiping army forces people to buy and sell like robbers!

However, to their surprise, the fifty soldiers of the Taiping Army temporarily deposited the cart in the county government's treasury, but did not stop at Jinghu County, but crossed the street and left directly from the north of Jinghu County.

From here, they walked all the way north for more than ten miles, and when they were about to enter the edge of the mirror lake, they made a long circle in the northwest direction. Eventually, we stopped at a valley called "Kangshan".

"Master Du Chun, the Liquan that the general said is in this valley!"

The leading soldier checked the rough map that Chen Wu had personally gathered, looked at it repeatedly for a long time, and finally determined that this was the destination mentioned by Chen Wu.

"This valley is twenty or thirty miles away from Jinghu County, right? Not to mention that the road is so difficult to walk, and it is still so remote here, it is not too much to say that it is a barren mountain and a wild mountain...... Can such a place really have a good mountain spring? ”

Du Chun, who had the smell of sake lees on his body as if he could never get rid of it, and his hair was a little fluffy, scratched his head suspiciously. But his whining stopped abruptly under the sudden murderous gaze of the soldiers around him, and he laughed dryly and said, "Don't overreact so much, okay, I didn't say anything bad about your general, really." ”

He muttered a few words quietly, but after all, he was a little afraid in his heart, and hurriedly walked into the valley first.

This Du Chun is the brewmaster who once created the famous wine of Hanjingfang in "Empire". It's just that before the name spread, Chen Wu, who is familiar with history, passed by Hanjing County when he strategically marched eastward, and even tied him up with a family of six.

At first, Du Chun was really worried that the Taiping army would kill him, but during the whole transfer process, except for restricting his freedom, the Taiping army treated him very well, and the wine koji he carried was always carefully kept by him. Later, after Dingguang County was laid, Du Chun's family was directly placed in Dingguang to take care of him.

At this time, Du Chun finally determined that the Taiping Army should not kill him, but beat him for the idea of drinking.

Even if he knew this, Du Chun was helpless. The lives of his family are in the hands of others, even if he doesn't kill himself, he has to find another way to rectify it, so he can only cooperate obediently. So, after the Taiping army surrounded Dengzhou and basically mastered Songjiang, there was Du Chun's action.

The most important factors in winemaking: grain, process, and good koji varieties, Du Chun and the Taiping Army have them, and the remaining important constraint is the water source.

Good water has a great impact on the quality and taste of wine.

Before the crossing, one of the important reasons why Hanjingfang was so famous was that the water in Hanjing County was good. If the Taiping Army could not provide the same amount of water, Du Chun could not guarantee that the wine he brewed would still be of the same level. But just after he made this request, the Tiangong General who had personally summoned him directly took out this map as if he had been prepared.

Kangshan!

With suspicion, he continued to walk one foot deeper and one foot shallow. However, as Chen Wu said, only a quarter of an hour after entering the valley, they saw the rushing mountain stream rushing down from Kang Mountain in the distance. The water below is extremely clear, but even then you can't see it all. There are as many as six or seven pools of various sizes, the small ones are no more than 100 meters in radius, and the largest ones seem to be like small lakes, spreading all the way to the deepest part of the valley.

Before Chen Wu crossed, some players deduced that there were probably undercurrents in the waterholes formed by these mountain springs.

"Is this it?"

With a little curiosity, Du Chun pulled up his trouser leg and walked to the edge of the pool, picked up a handful of water in his palm, and tried to taste it.

The water is slightly cool, but it is sweet and sweet, with a refreshing taste. The fatigue of walking for half a day and the thirst of sweating seemed to be dispelled by a handful of spring water. Du Chun stood stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but tremble with excitement.

What water!

General Tiangong really didn't lie to him, the water quality of Liquan here seems to be better than that of Hanjing County. The liquor brewed, even if it is the most ordinary liquor, will add a third of the taste because of this water quality, and it will have a faint sweetness, and it will have a longer aftertaste after drinking, and it is not easy to get on the head.

Excited, he quickly ran away from the smallest waterhole and tasted the remaining waterfall springs one by one. After half a bang, he sat down.

With such water quality, combined with Matsue's grain and its own improved craftsmanship and koji, we will be able to make the best sake!

At this moment, he couldn't help but think of the promise General Tiangong made to him when he summoned him.

"Make good wine, not only will you keep your family rich and safe, but also give you an additional net profit dividend from selling wine, which will be passed on for three generations!"

What this means, Du Chun knows too well.

Previously, in the liquor shop in Hanjing County, Du Chun was only a master brewer, not the big owner of the liquor store, and only owned a part of the equity. Even if sake is brewed, the benefits that can actually be shared are limited. But now it's different, if you can copy the quality of Hanjingfang, with the backing of the powerful military and political forces of the Taiping Army, the scale that Hanjingfang can make is likely to reach the level of Zhuyeqing, which is more than ten times stronger than the Hanjingfang wine shop without a background!

Even if there is only a 10% net profit dividend, it is an extremely staggering number.

Du Chun, who has been making wine and selling wine for generations, knows too well the profits of the wine industry. As long as Songjiang County can provide enough food, it can continue to make huge profits!

"How's that, okay?"

Seeing Du Chun's crazy expression, the escorted Taiping soldiers guessed the result, but they still couldn't help but ask.

"That's great!"

Being disturbed by someone, Du Chun didn't mind, and said with his hands dancing: "This is it!" When can I move things over and make wine? ”

When he was in Hanjing County, Taiping County, he had already perfected the entire process of Hanjingfang wine as early as the beginning of last year, and tried to brew several pots of wine. It's a pity that Taiping County happened to suffer from a major drought, and Ganding Mansion was even more bare land. The shortage of grain and the soaring price gave Du Chun no opportunity to expand production and make a name for himself. After waiting for so long, he can finally restart this opportunity to make a name for himself, and he can't wait.

"I said a long time ago, General Tiangong's words, can they still be false?"

The accompanying Taiping soldiers said this with a little pride, but in the end they still refused Du Chun's request to immediately move things to make wine: "The general also said that the road must be built first!" ”

As one of the richest counties in the world, and with a well-developed business, Songjiang County's official road is already the most outstanding in the empire except for Zhongzhou. But specifically in Jinghu County, because it is not on the main trade road, the road condition is still very poor. Especially when you reach Jinghu Lake and turn northwest, you can't even talk about the simplest leveling. It's a joke to want to develop the brewing industry without building roads first.

First of all, a large amount of sake brewing requires a staggering amount of food and water, in addition to supporting wine jars, as well as shipping channels after the sake is finished!

Limited by the water source, the best choice for Hanjingfang wine may only be near this Kangshan Mountain. In this case, it was necessary to build a road to transport large quantities of grain and wine jars from Jinghu County, and to transport the brewed wine out. In fact, Chen Wu already had a plan in mind. This commercial road, which connects Kangshan and Jinghu County and has a key section of about 20 miles in length, is only the first phase of the project. After that, the Taiping army also needed to build another road to connect Kangshan and Jinghu.

It's about seven or eight miles of road, plus a small inner lake wharf.

After the completion of the cultivation, in addition to the land passage, the wine brewed by the Taiping army can also pass through the Qingjiang River, which is connected to Guò Mirror Lake and Mirror Lake, and take the Qingjiang waterway to market the world.

With these two roads as the foundation, supplemented by the quality of Hanjingfang wine, it can truly become an industry that can support the finances of a government, absorb a large number of labor, and create amazing wealth. The so-called no agriculture is not stable, no business is not rich, no work is not strong, the last one may be a little far from the limitations of the times, but this no business is not rich, but it is real.

If it can be completed smoothly, it will become one of the important sources of wealth for Chen Wu's army expansion.

Although Du Kang did not understand Chen Wu's grand vision, he also knew that large-scale winemaking was inseparable from grain and shipping channels. Although I can't wait to start work immediately, I can only hold back my thoughts and discuss the preliminary planning with the two accompanying masters. According to Chen Wu's request, the first batch of Hanjingfang liquor will make full use of the local protection of the Taiping army, first open the local market in Songjiang, and then try to expand production and sell it to the entire territory of the empire and even foreign vassal states.

This first batch of plans is based on being able to initially meet this goal.

According to his description and requirements, the two masters discussed and combined the terrain to sketch a grand blueprint of the distillery on the silk cloth!