Chapter 2 Laying the Groundstone
readx;?? Before noon, the meeting ended with Zhang Jiashi. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info copy URL access is not to say that Zhang Jiashi thinks that many things do not need to be done, but in this situation, there is not much they can do.
This is also a matter of no choice, because the weather is getting colder, and as the coldest area of the Great Qin Empire, Zhang Jiashi has not planned to build water conservancy facilities during the freezing period in winter.
After all, in many cases, when building water conservancy facilities, it is more about the effect of the construction, and then deciding whether to make further improvements.
And if the water is frozen into ice, then there really can't be a lot of things that can be done.
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For the rest of his life, Zhang Jiashi pondered what else he could do to earn more money.
Although Xianyang has been in a kind of indifferent attitude towards him, this is a good thing for Zhang Jiashi, but also a bad thing. Because the military supplies that could have been obtained can now only be borne by Zhang Jiashi's General Zuo's Zuo Mansion. In a sense, these more than 40,000 Qin troops have completely become Zhang Jiashi's "private soldiers".
After all, everything has to be deployed by Zhang Jiashi's General Zuo's Mansion, and these officers and soldiers have now become an existence that is under great pressure for General Zuo's Mansion.
However, I did not think about the need for disarmament, because now the troops under Zhang Jiashi's command are just able to maintain a certain degree of surplus.
Therefore, to feed the Qin army of more than 40,000 people, as well as the more than 200,000 people who have relocated and have not yet been able to become laborers, it is obviously difficult to support Zhang Jiashi's fine salt trade alone.
Not to mention the now-shut-off mode of seaborne trade, which makes this situation and the corresponding financial gap even more difficult to support.
As a traverser, Zhang Jiashi knows that many things can be done now, and the problem is not big. But what is it that gives less and benefits a lot?
This question couldn't help but Zhang Jiashi thought about it carefully.
In addition to salt, sugar, iron, tea, and the like are all very profitable. But these three things, Zhang Jiashi directly vetoed them.
What can Zhang Jiashi use as a raw material now, there is no sugar cane, no sugar beet, and no starch-rich crops. Obviously, even if Zhang Jiashi can know how to make high-quality sugar, I am afraid that nothing can be done because of raw material problems.
What kind of joke, smuggling salt, Zhang Jiashi can still open his eyes and close his eyes, as if he didn't see it, but once he finds out that someone dares to smuggle iron raw materials or equipment from the area of Liaodong County, he will definitely be killed. It's not that Zhang Jiashi is cold-blooded in this aspect, but if the enemy has a large number of iron weapons, then for the next big war, although I don't know when it will happen, the impact will not be so star-and-a-half.
Therefore, Zhang Jiashi ordered the Qin officers and soldiers who inspected the pass, and once they found that there was a certain amount of iron or raw materials in the goods of the caravan, they would be directly detained with the goods together. If the people of the caravan dare to resist, they will be killed directly.
This is not to say that Zhang Jiashi is cold-blooded, but he thought of a problem, that is, the two things of salt and iron, as strategic materials that have been firmly controlled by all dynasties, must have the truth that they are in their hands to be safe.
The last one is something like tea.
Zhang Jiashi didn't know if the climate in Liaodong could grow tea on a large scale, but in this case, it was not a good thing to plant tea on a large scale in Liaodong County.
At the same time, more importantly, although the profits of tea are also very rich, the factors of the planting cycle have led to Zhang Jiashi now unable to count on the tea side to alleviate the crisis he encountered this time.
Although the profit of furniture seems to be very large now, Zhang Jiashi does not expect these furniture to have any room to operate.
Zhang Jiashi discovered that at this time, there is really no trade that can get more profits, which is suitable for his current situation.
Zhang Jiashi gently picked up the wine in front of him, and drank the liquor in it, which was not strictly speaking, and a trace of spiritual light flashed in Zhang Jiashi's mind like an electric current.
"yes, how did I forget that?"
Zhang Jiashi thought of a situation that he had always overlooked, that is, at this time, there was no high degree of alcohol. Although I don't know if there is a market for high-grade liquor in today's society, as the most suitable way for Zhang Jiashi to make money now, Zhang Jiashi found that there is really no more profitable thing than brewing distilled spirits.
Zhang Jiashi immediately flipped through the corresponding information from the Dao space.
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On the fifteenth day of the first month of the first year of Qin II (mid-October 210 BC), under the orders of Zhang Jiashi and the efforts of Mo Shu and others, two sets of distilled spirit vessels made of glass and iron of poor quality respectively appeared in this world.
After several tests, these two distilled spirit vessels are still passing.
Especially the glass distillation vessel that is not too good, the distilled liquor has a higher alcohol content.
However, because glass distillation vessels are limited to technical reasons, it is not possible to achieve large-scale brewing.
Therefore, Zhang Jiashi still used the iron distillation vessel as the main brewing tool.
After several days of testing, that is, with a weight of about two catties of ordinary rice wine, about 100 grams of medium-purity liquor can be distilled.
Zhang Jiashi didn't know what the content of these alcohols was, after all, he didn't have professional talents, and he didn't have the kind of analytical instruments of later generations. After experimenting with the liquor made in large distilled vessels, Cheung estimated that the alcohol content should be between 30 and 40 degrees.
Perhaps, this data is a bit high or low, but to be able to do this, Zhang Jiashi does not have any requirements for the ability of Mo Shu and the corresponding craftsmen. Anyway, Zhang Jiashi didn't plan to really rely on this thing to seize market share, and it was not impossible for such an alcohol liquor to test the market reaction.
It's just that Zhang Jiashi also has a question now, that is, where to build this brewery?
Among Zhang Jiashi's intentions, many places are more in line with his requirements, and the secluded area of the Mo family near Dingxiang County is a better choice.
But after the exchange, Mo Hong actually did not agree to Zhang Jiashi's request.
Zhang Jiashi was helpless and could only think about other positions.
In the end, Zhang Jiashi found the most suitable location in an area of about one kilometer north of Liaodong Shipbuilding.
Because, in this place, there will be a branch line of Beijiang Road under construction, which will be extended. In terms of transportation and safety, Zhang Jiashi feels quite suitable no matter how you look at it.
Soon, less than ten days later, the first brewery of the Great Qin Empire was officially put into production.
On the other hand, some powerful people seem to see an opportunity, and they have concentrated their financial and human resources to build a corresponding industrial chain near this brewery.
Pottery or porcelain production workshops used to hold liquor, several workshops used to brew original rice wine, and the corresponding service industries have also developed vigorously.
What Zhang Jiashi did not expect was that in the future, the construction area with the first distillery of Daqin as the core would soon become the first light industry production base of the Daqin Empire, and it and the heavy industry chain located in Anshan became two important links in the industrial system of Liaodong County.
Perhaps, Zhang Jiashi never thought that there would be such an unintentional result of planting willows and willows.
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After the distillery was put into production for a period of time, a new shop appeared in Dingxiang City, and the plaque at the door had three big characters written in small seals: Wine Tasting Pavilion.
Many people are curious about this place the day before the opening of the tasting pavilion.
However, the next morning, after the opening of the tasting pavilion, a marketing method that many people had not seen completely opened up this medium-alcohol distilled spirit, which Zhang Jiashi used to test the market reaction.
After being delivered to each of the valets with copper plates and tasting products containing liquor, many people discovered that the wine they had drunk before was nothing compared to it.
There are also people who don't like this kind of wine that is a little stronger, but they don't mean much compared to most people.
After that, the contents of the pottery sake vessels or ceramic jars are quickly transported to the shelves and sold.
As a result, the distillery's efforts in the past few days were sold out in less than an hour.
The price is a bit expensive, but Zhang Jiashi can't deny one thing, that is, the Great Qin Empire also has the phenomenon of wealth differentiation. Generally, there are no high-income Qianshou, and it may be difficult to buy such products, but for Haoqiang, landlords and some Qianshou with good financial resources, it is not difficult to buy such wine.
Perhaps, there may be something like a fat man with a swollen face, but Zhang Jiashi is not a savior, and after he set up a sign next to the wine tasting pavilion to do what he can, he ignored this kind of happy thing.
It's a little unkind for him to do this, but what else can he do? If someone really breaks up his wife because of this, what does it have to do with him?
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After receiving the sales results of the first day, Zhang Jiashi was immediately stunned by the huge profits.
The price of a wine jar packaged in a pottery wine vessel of about one pound is 300 Wen, but the cost is not 50 Wen and a half taels, not to mention the porcelain boutique for high-end consumer customers.
In less than two hours, Zhang Jiashi sold hundreds of jars of various custom-packed wine jars, which brought Zhang Jiashi a net profit of dozens of gold.
This amount of money, placed in the seriousness of other big businessmen, may not be remarkable. However, Zhang Jiashi is very clear that once the output comes up in the future, the profit will be even higher.
In this case, in addition to ordering the expansion of production, Zhang Jiashi also intends to continue to develop products with higher alcohol content. After all, perhaps because of winter, many people love this kind of product that makes people feel warm.
Can distilled liquor be distilled and purified again? Zhang Jiashi asked the brewing master he hired, and the other party told him the results of his many attempts.
Multiple distillations are possible, but in every respect, the cost of multiple distillations is quite uneconomical.
Zhang Jiashi asked the other party: "Is there any solution to this problem?"
"If we use a product that is a spirit in itself, it may be more effective to improve the quality and save costs. ”
Zhang Jiashi then thought of a question, that is, isn't this distillation method similar to the distillation of brandy?
Perhaps, few people will know that brandy is often the product of re-distillation of wine.
This is also one of the detailed ways to distill liquor in the Qingyu Spirit Book.
In many ways, the operability of this kind of liquor distilled from rice wine to improve the alcohol content is limited by the relatively low alcohol content of rice wine, which makes it very difficult to solve the problem.
Zhang Jiashi knows very well that it is a good choice to directly solve this problem and brew a wine with high purity itself.
Therefore, after talking to the brewing master who was in charge of the product development of the brewery, Zhang Jiashi ignored this situation.
Subsequently, Zhang Jiashi began to think about other ways to use the distillery.
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Can a distiller only distill liquid? The answer, of course, is no. For Zhang Jiashi, if he can make a small and effective distillation vessel and equip it in the army for the production of distilled water, such a thing can effectively avoid some problems in some aspects.
For example, the other party uses water sources that are contaminated by biological toxicity, and so on.
To this end, Zhang Jiashi once again went to the headquarters of the Liaodong Military Construction in the Anshan area.
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As the most high-profile shop in Dingxiang City recently, the existence of the wine tasting pavilion has made many wine merchants who do not know the backstage of the wine tasting pavilion grit their teeth.
The happy thing happened not long after Zhang Jiashi left Dingxiang City.
Perhaps instructed by someone to provoke the door of the tasting pavilion the day after it opened, some people came to the door of the tasting pavilion and provoked it.
Many people were a little scared in their hearts after seeing the person in charge clearly. Because this person is a famous ruffian in Dingxiang City.
It is said that there are still several lives in the hands of this ruffian, and even the government is helpless, because there is no definite evidence.
They soon felt sorry for the Tasting Pavilion, because these people obviously had bad intentions.
However, what happened next quickly surprised them, because what this ruffian was facing was not those male servants, but a team of well-equipped Qin officers and soldiers.
Uncle Sun Ji glanced at the fierce god in front of him angrily, but like a sculpture, the petrified person did not move, and said after a while: "General Zuo really thought of everything. I'm still thinking, you dare to come here?"
The ruffian led by him, the beads of sweat on his forehead couldn't help but flow on his face, and then slowly soaked his clothes, because in front of him were more than a dozen Qin army guards with strong bows and crossbows in their hands.
Seeing this lineup, this ruffian certainly knows that the backstage of the wine tasting pavilion is not as simple as those bastards say.
In the mouth of Uncle Sun Ji, after this strong man heard the three words of General Zuo, he knew that he was really in trouble this time.
He didn't dare to move, and he didn't dare to let his subordinates in behind, because the eyes of the other party's leader showed exactly that kind of playful and murderous look.
Uncle Sun Ji was very interested when he saw this person, and he was not interested in continuing to be so deadlocked, after all, the store still had to do business: "Take it all away." ”
"Whoa!"
The next thing is very simple. Because the officers and soldiers inside the shop cooperated with the officers and soldiers of the pro-guard team who were ambushed outside, they quickly arrested this ruffian and all the hooligans under his command.
The problem was quickly solved, and the people who watched the excitement nearby could not have imagined that this would be the result.
And Uncle Sun Ji pouted lightly helplessly, because of such a thing, he didn't know what he had to show off.
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Since such a thing has been done, then some people have to pay the price.
When Chen Ping got what he wanted, some Haoqiang or small families who were good friends with General Zuo's Mansion were contacted by him, and then went to General Zuo's Mansion.
These powerful family owners were once again stunned by some interests. They only need to pay a small "price" to be able to get what they want straight into their pockets.
However, this time Chen Ping came to them, naturally not just to sell those things that were raided, but also for one more thing, that is, Chen Ping hinted at these family owners, and General Zuo's Mansion was willing to cooperate with them and let them sell the wine sold in the wine tasting pavilion.
This hint made these family heads fall into madness.
Because the wine tasting pavilion was in the limelight for such two days, wasn't it brought by those spirits that they had never seen before?
Many family heads quickly expressed their willingness to cooperate with General Zuo's Mansion.
And Chen Ping quickly reached a series of agreements after a long period of exchange and cooperation with the head of the family.
That is, other Haoqiang, Xiaoshijia can buy the wine of the wine pavilion at eighty percent of the price of the corresponding products in the wine pavilion and sell it in other places.
Moreover, Chen Ping has a small additional requirement, that is, these owners can set their own prices for the products, and they cannot be lower than the price of the wine tasting pavilion.
Of course, these heads of the family agreed that this was not a request, and they were full of promises.
Chen Ping showed a hint of a smile, looking at these family heads engaged in a verbal battle for how much share they should get, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart:
"Adults may have lost a lot of money by doing this, but in many ways, we have gained significantly more than we have lost. Now, I finally don't have to live so tightly anymore. ”
Chen Ping's face was still smiling, but how many people could understand that General Zuo's Mansion, including Zhang Jiashi, was martial arts, and it was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice?
Without the assistance of Xianyang, everything can only be left to their own self-reliance, Chen Ping knows very well that there is no better result than the current situation.
And with sufficient income, Zhang Jiashi and what they can do are naturally more.
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