Freezing outside? I looked up at the tyrannical sun, it seems that Mr. Cheng's messenger has been on the road for at least more than a month, and it belongs to the family letter, and there is no way to send the military newspaper. The military order that alcohol cannot be drunk in the army is not very strict outside the fortress, and the soldiers there do not want to drink, but the generals ......

Mosquitoes? Maybe, I think that since it is cold, there will not be many insects who dare to go out and wander, but the old man Cheng described it as an exaggeration, not to mention the cold, and mosquitoes are rampant; The front sounds like it's stationed in Siberia, and the back has the feel of Xishuangbanna. Subversion, I haven't been to these two places, it's hard to judge, but it has greatly subverted my common sense of life and accepted my fate.

The medicinal wine specially brewed for the old man just before the year was made according to several common preparations in later generations, namely aphrodisiac, slow supplement, and anti-rheumatism. It is not surprising that colleagues who love to drink basically have these common senses, and the restaurants of later generations, regardless of their size, basically put a few large bottles of medicinal wine on the counter to swagger, large glass jars, and there are many kinds of medicinal herbs in them, and people are dazzled by them. If you go often, talk to the little girl who sells wine and talk a few words, ask what kind of medicinal materials are clear, and go home to get a few bottles according to the cat and the tiger, and bluff the visitors during the New Year's holidays, so as to have face. I once went to a Cantonese restaurant, where snakes and toads were all soaked, and this kind of meat wine was exempted, for fear of scaring others. Yingniang's family is in the medicinal herb business, close to the water, it is inevitable to soak a few more jars, usually nothing to get two pots to taste, to be honest, it is difficult to drink, but it must be the old man Cheng's appetite, the old man who drinks the flower water, no matter what wine you take out, as long as the degree is high.

"Carefully," I filled the three carriages called by Cheng Fu with large wine jars, and explained to the visitor: "The celadon jar is a medicinal wine, and each of them is pasted with a seal that explains the efficacy, don't rub it off." The remaining jars of glaze are all soju, which is brewed at home. There are vegetarian eggs in the porcelain jar, and they are placed in a cool place. He handed him a big box again, "This is Jiuhua Yulu, explain it to the old man when he speaks, try not to drink it as much as possible, the taste is not as good as the medicine wine." ”

"Yes, yes!" And then the man told me again. Drove the carriage and retreated in high spirits.

The old man gave me a handwritten letter, which was very short and straightforward, and I could understand it. First of all, thank me for taking care of Cheng Chu when he was not at home, and explain that I am in good health and very adaptable to that side, and tell me not to worry about it, and then I want things. The twist was not given to him, and it deteriorated after two months. The crime of poisoning the 'Chief of the Green Mountain Road March', I'm afraid that even the emperor can't afford it, so I'll forget it.

Promotion has the advantage of being promoted, and the long history is much more nourishing than joining the army, except for wartime emergency reports and some top-secret military reports. For other news, I can ask the military department to send it to the door to read, and I don't even have to go out.

It seems that there is no intention of making a move, and although the military reports from the west have been frequent recently, there are almost no major conflicts. Except for the Liwei operation that swept through the territory of Tubo as soon as Old Man Su passed. Old Man Su's intentions are clear, since he is here, he will greet the neighbors first, so that Tubo can be prepared. In the face of peerless famous generals, the Tubo people really gave face, and the elite troops on the border immediately changed their defenses and increased their troops, and the pressure on Tuyuhun was reduced a lot, and the strategic intention of the Tang army was successfully achieved.

Old handsomes. Especially for famous marshals of the level of Su and Cheng, there has long been a tacit understanding of the coordination and cooperation between the large corps, and the communication in this era cannot keep up, and the arrangement and coordination of thousands of miles is only based on experience, and this battle is all determined by the tacit understanding of the two old commanders. Although they are old enemies, I have confidence in these two people, they are both hydrogen bomb-level characters, and they will be released at once this time. The Turks and Tibetans should be more worried at this moment.

Wheat harvested. The whole Zhuangzi was busy up and down, and even the four or five-year-old children went down to the ground to help. Except for me. Sometimes I appear in the watermelon field, sometimes I take Wangcai to catch two crabs along the riverside, and sometimes I pretend to be dead on the kang, anyway, I go to all the places where no one is. I can't even intervene in such a big scene, it seems that it is not all a good thing that my mother-in-law is too capable.

"Last year's grain storage was almost all on the Fenghe Zhuangzi, and I don't know when the grain subsidized by the imperial court will arrive, and the newly beaten wheat is not delicious." Ying looked at the grumbling of dissatisfaction in the granary, and questioned the efficiency of the imperial court, "If you can't do it, you can exchange some grain from the Zhuangzi for the storage of the villagers." ”

"Okay, how many people can't even eat wheat, and you still have to pick and choose." I didn't think about the new grain and the old grain at all. This morning, as soon as Ying and her second daughter came back from picking up wheat, I received a letter from Lanling that there was a flood disaster in some areas of Hedong and Jiangnan, and because of the long-term rainy weather, the grain production was greatly reduced, and more than a dozen local officials have been investigated, and the imperial court focused on this year's war against the Turks, that is, to provide disaster relief and to solve the supply of front-line soldiers. frowned and said: "Don't worry about these for now, now find the fourth child, trouble is coming." ”

"Huh?" Ying didn't know what was going on, "Trouble? The court won't subsidize us? ”

"Go call the fourth!" waved his hand impatiently, "Let her stop me no matter what she is doing, quick!" Turning his head, Jiang Ying stopped again, "There is also a steaming wine workshop, hey, forget it, the fourth brother is here to discuss again!" ”

It's a big problem. The steaming wine workshop takes the high-end route, and the customers are either this or that duke, and there are a few palaces, not that they can stop if they can stop, it is a matter of offending people. If it doesn't stop, the ban will be over, and now the wine business is booming, and there is no stock in the cellar except for the wine you drink. Flower water, once the production is stopped, the business will collapse, the painstaking sales network will be scrapped from then on, it doesn't matter if the input is gone, once the reputation and sales are gone, it will be disgusting, and several years of hard work will be in vain.

"Uncle Qian, call a dozen or so people, and leave me with all the work in hand! "The butler is still happily selling rent at the back door, and this year's harvest is good, and everyone is smiling." Pointing to a row of tenants who paid rent, "Hu account room, so many people will stop after the rent is collected, and they will be called back if they come again, and they will pay again when they have time." He bowed his head and said softly: "Bring the account book of the flower water workshop, and go directly to the back house in a while, don't delay." ”

The housekeeper didn't know why, "Little Waiter." That's when half of the people were paid, stop..."

"Stop it, so much nonsense." Hu Shufang is a shrewd person, as soon as he heard my tone, he knew that something was happening, and before I could speak, he blocked the words for the money housekeeper, stood up and explained a few words loudly to the tenants who paid the rent in the back, and after they were all driven away, "Little Hou Ye." In the next this is the past. ”

The housekeeper reflected, hurriedly urged the last few families to pull the grain in, hurriedly ran to gather people to clean up the cellar, and gave a grateful look to the Hu account room before leaving.

The fourth child had not received the news that the imperial court was preparing to ban alcohol, so he ran to the meeting with a blank face, and moved a chair to the corner of the courtyard alone, while Ying and the second daughter were crowded on a soft chair. He looked excited, after all, it was the first time in his family that he had such a strange meeting.

"Dalai, when the tea is good, I went down to guard the door, and the maids in the back house were all thrown out, and they were not allowed to come in if they were not called inside." Ying took out the posture of the main mother. He greeted Hu and said, "Mr. Hu is here, there are no outsiders, don't be polite." ”

"Listen to me first," I motioned for Hu to sit next to me. looked around at the crowd, "I received news today, there is a flood in the south, which has harmed the crops, and the imperial court plans to ban alcohol to get through the difficulties," just said this, several people in the venue took a breath at the same time, and everyone looked panicked. "Fourth. Once alcohol is banned, our two businesses will have to be closed, not to mention the steaming workshop, and the flower water workshop will be kept. ”

"How many days are left?" The fourth child hurriedly asked: "Is the news accurate?" ”

"It should be reliable." I nodded, "It's uncertain in terms of date, the wheat harvest has not been completed yet, and the imperial court has not estimated the large number, so it is not easy to issue this ban." In my estimation. If you want to ban it, it will be more than half a month later. ”

"How many days is it forbidden?" Ying can't be decent. Trotted into the house and came out with an abacus, "Did you say exactly the time?" ”

"Nope." I turned my head and asked, "Mr. Hu, has the imperial court ever banned alcohol after the disaster in the past?" ”

"There were two times when the country was founded, one was two years, and the other was shorter, about a year and a half," Hu turned over the account book, "If there is an account under it, you have to say it first, if it is banned for two years, according to the requirements of our flower water workshop, at least 5,000 catties of good wine must be hoarded to ensure that it will not stop production......"

"Five thousand catties is not enough." The fourth child twisted his eyebrows and interjected: "I have just discussed with the inner government, starting in the second half of the year, we will increase the supply of 600 catties every year, and according to this calculation, it will be about 7,000 catties." ”

"The special supply on the inner house, can you open a side to our network?" As soon as the Inner Mansion was mentioned, Ying immediately reacted to favoritism, "How to say that the prohibition is the emperor's decision, maybe it can be accommodating." Twisted his face and asked the fourth: "You go and see if you can find a relationship and think of a way, after all, there is no wine, and he will not lose money in the house." ”

"Impossible." I know what Ying means, it's better for the fourth child to find a relationship than for me to find a relationship, anyway, it's all looking for Lanling, if Lanling can cover the local dialect, there is no need to send someone to give a message in a hurry. It stands to reason that the prohibition of alcohol, whether it is to make wine or store wine, Lanling's meaning is very clear, hurry up and prepare, and the wine-making will be exempted, and she will cover the matter of storing wine, and the help of the inner house is so great. "Now we don't think about what convenience people can provide us, the key is to solve it by ourselves, and being able to say hello in advance is to help the world." It's still no problem to get 7,000 catties of wine in the cellar, the key is to get so much back from there. "Can the steamed wine workshop stop the export sales first and store a batch at home?"

"It's only a month in the next half a month, and people have booked it." The fourth child bit his fingers in embarrassment, and was rewarded by Ying. "It's not an ordinary customer, and no one is easy to offend. Besides, even if the steaming wine workshop stops supplying, it can't steam 7,000 catties of wine for most of the month. His eyes rolled, "We know this news?" ”

"I don't know, I guess it can be a few days earlier, it's hard to say in the future." It's no problem for Lanling to get first-hand information, but if there is no fire in the paper, you can wear the wind in three or five days, and then the workshops in the whole capital will mess up a pot of porridge, and it will be even more difficult to collect it. "You have to be early, otherwise it's hard to say seven thousand, not to mention seven thousand." Once everyone knows, the big households in the capital begin to give themselves a large amount of wine, and it will be too late to do it again.

"Well," the fourth nodded and turned his face to look at Ying, "It is estimated that there are a lot of wineries over there at the north gate now, why don't you send someone over to collect some back?" ”

Ying looked at me, "Go and collect it, anyway, it's a ban on alcohol." He can't do it if he doesn't. Let's do good deeds and accumulate virtue, and pull him along. As he spoke, he put the abacus on the stone table and pulled it up, "Don't worry too much about the price with him, we will collect as much as we want, pinch his output for half a month and then order it all, and in the next half a month, he will make wine for our family." ”

"Give him a 10% price," the fourth nodded, "Count it backwards." The price of the land is an additional reward, and it will be given to him if he can complete our order. Our local workshop will start work all day from today, and I will now arrange for craftsmen to rotate shifts, and steam a little more. ”

"Not only is it high-grade liquor, but the liquor shops that supply our family with shochu raw materials are all greeting, raising prices and asking for goods, and there are all kinds of liquor shops and restaurants in the capital, so that shochu can be bought back without delay. It doesn't matter how much money you spend, the key is to keep enough in the cellar for at least two years. "Two years is also to see the quality of the grain harvest across the country, if there is still a disaster, let alone two years, ten or eight years are possible. However, it will be easy to resist the past two years. After a long time, there must be people who secretly brew wine for huge profits, and in the future, it will be a little more expensive, and some of them will be able to get it back. The first two years were not easy. "Mr. Hu. You are responsible for collecting the wine account, and the money will go from the flower water workshop. "It's not easy for the family to come forward from the wine shop on the north gate, "I'll find a way on the north gate, and the fourth child will start to work overtime to collect raw soju, second daughter, you also go to help." ”

"The fourth child will rest at our house." Ying looked at me, and seeing that I didn't mean to object, she turned her head and instructed the fourth child: "Send someone back to say hello to my father." I was busy working for the second half of the month, and I couldn't leave. Let my brother's winery stop there, and all the wine bought in bulk will be recycled. ”

"Don't stop." I hurriedly stopped: "It's enough to say hello, and the wine can be sold in limited quantities." I can't let the family be alert, and I will wait until I buy all the workshop wine on the north gate. ”

The arrangement was smooth, I hurriedly rushed towards Cheng's house, Cheng Chu came forward more appropriately, and it was common for the Guogong Mansion to prepare a large amount of wine. It will not arouse suspicion from others. Lan Ling is not in front of him. Some questions are not very clear, and I don't know the bottom of my heart. Seven up and eight down the ground.

"Prohibition of alcohol?" Cheng Chu was a little surprised, "The granary of the younger brother's family can't be put down, and I'm worried, who is spreading the news?" ”

"Your home is your home, what does it have to do with your family about the more than a thousand miles to the south?" Give him a detailed assignment of the matter of collecting alcohol, "How many you want, you can do it if you know what you know about the prohibition of alcohol, don't spread it outside, and talk about it when the house is full!" ”

"It's okay," Cheng Chu was anxious when he heard it, "If you don't have wine, you can't live?" Brother Zihao, you wait, the younger brother will copy all the wineries in Chang'an immediately, and if you don't sell them, you will die. ”

"Collect it one by one, don't make a big show, first put the one on the north gate, according to the method I told you, don't be rough." After thinking about it, "Also, all the wine will be moved to my house for cellaring, and the processed land from the Chen family will be sent to you at any time after drinking, and it will not be short for you to drink." ”

"That's," Cheng Chu nodded, "Now that I have been drinking the wine of the Chen family, the younger brother can't drink it from other families, although the north gate is also a taste of wine, but the younger brother has a fire in his heart and has never been there." Listen to you! After that, he asked the housekeeper of the Cheng family to go out to steal the wine in person, and advised: "Tell him to work day and night, and send someone to stand next to the wine shop in front of his house, and make trouble when there are guests at the door, let him know that if we don't sell it, our house will have to be closed!" ”

How else there are bullies, a specialty of the Cheng family. Our students, who didn't learn the teacher's goodness, were used to it. No one can do this, except for the Cheng family, the special flavor will definitely not arouse suspicion. "All the things I brought in a few days ago were sent to the old man?" After the matter was dispatched, he sat on a chair and played homely things, waiting for news.

"Grandpa too, so far away to ask for things." Cheng Chu was a little embarrassed, and smirked a few times, "Actually, the little brother should have gone to the door in person that day, and I was dissatisfied with you, and the little brother was really embarrassed." ”

"Nonsense! I'm sorry. The old man's wish, the bitter cold outside, how can it be done without two sips of wine? It would be too much to tell me so clearly in the future! I also had such a grandfather wronged for Cheng Chu, so I hurriedly said something to appease him: "The old man fights on the battlefield, for the country and the people, and it is not too much to ask for it, this is the truth." ”

"But ......" Cheng Chu saw me say this, and he didn't want to complain anymore, and scratched his head, "Brother Zihao, Heiye will go to Jiannan next month, once Jiannan's defense is in place, grandpa should do it, and the younger brother is really a little worried." Saying that, he patted his thigh discouragedly, "The younger brother is tall and big, and he even eats half a bowl more than others, so he sees that his grandfather is so old and fighting outside, and he can't help at all, and he is inevitably aggrieved." ”

Cheng Chu is different from me, he is an ideal and ambitious person, and he wants to show off his prestige on the battlefield and expand his territory for the country, but he has a meritorious old man Cheng on the top of his head, and he has been at home for more than 20 years, which is really pitiful. After thinking about it for a long time, I didn't know what words to say to consol, "The old man has his own plans, our brother has only lived for a few years, how can he compare to the old man's knowledge?" Don't worry about this, with your local skills, you have your own place to play. ”

"Hehe...... " Cheng Chu smiled helplessly, and was about to talk, but the housekeeper hurriedly ran back to report, saying that the wine had been wrapped up by others, and after scolding, the boss couldn't take out a drop.

。 Three Heads M.