Chapter 15 The Palace's Advice
"Isn't that right? I've heard that there are always people who say that they are not drunk after a thousand glasses, and when our wine comes out, I will see how many people dare to brag about themselves like this! Zhou Yu said ambitiously.
The reason why the ancients drank well was not because they were really able to drink, but because their winemaking technology was not advanced enough and the alcohol they produced was low, so it was normal to drink a few more glasses without getting drunk. And Zhou Yu is ready to make high-grade wine, once it comes out, I am afraid that those who are good at drinking and can drink will also have to re-weigh their own wine.
"Xiao Yu, since you said that King Yu's wine is not yet able to be sold, then why did you ask King Yu for so much wine?" Feng Yue asked Zhou Yudao.
"Well, although King Yu's wine is not enough to sell, it is better than other wines, I am going to use these wines to make some samples of our wine, send them to King Yu, and by the way, use the reputation of the palace to promote it for us." Zhou Yu stated his purpose.
"Okay, let's eat first, otherwise the soup will be cold in a while!" Feng Liang picked up a piece of mutton and chewed it beautifully......
After the meal, Zhou Yu asked Feng Liang to chop some bamboo, and he himself was fiddling with pots and pans in the kitchen.
Feng Liang saw a strange thing in front of Zhou Yu, a pot, a basin and a bamboo tube, he really didn't know what Zhou Yu wanted to do, so he simply went back to the room.
This is actually a simple distillation device made by Zhou Yu, and when the device is ready, Zhou Yu takes the wine from the palace and starts distilling it......
"It smells so good!" Feng Yue and Feng Liang were attracted by the rich aroma of wine, and both of them came to the kitchen to find out.
"Xiao Yu, what are you ......" Feng Liang was about to ask what was going on with this wine fragrance, but was stopped by Feng Yue and motioned for him to be quiet.
Zhou Yu was staring intently at the liquor dripping from the bamboo tube at the moment, paying attention to the distillation.
Feng Yue pulled Feng Liang and quietly exited the kitchen.
One afternoon, Zhou Yu was doing the distillation work until all the liquor was distilled, and only four jars of ten jars of liquor remained, plus a gourd full of liquor. Zhou Yu took a sip, and the concentration of the wine was not much different from that of his previous life.
Zhou Yu called the brother and sister and asked them to taste the taste of the new wine.
Both of them rarely drank alcohol, and as soon as they entered their mouths, they were choked by the strong taste.
"I don't drink alcohol, but the taste of this wine is completely different from that of normal wine, and it has a very strong feeling." Feng Yue gave her own evaluation.
"Xiao Yue is right, compared to this wine, the wine sold in that wine shop can be said to be as light as water!" Feng Liang also gave his own evaluation.
"It's not over yet, our wine is even better than this." Zhou Yu said with a smile.
"Better than that?! Is there any better wine in the world than this wine? Feng Liang was shocked by Zhou Yu's words again.
"The world is so big, there are no surprises. Just like the eldest brother also thinks that the wine in the palace is good enough, don't I make wine ten times better than it? ”
"I dare to say, even if there is only this kind of wine, our restaurant is the only one in Luozhou City!" Feng Liang seemed to have seen that Zhou Yu's restaurant was overcrowded.
"Then please wait and see what kind of wine I can make!" Zhou Yu responded with a smile.
Feng Liang only drank two sips of wine, and a flush already appeared on his face, so he was not greedy for a cup, and went back to the house directly.
"Xiao Yu, you're amazing!" The mutton soup at noon and the distilled liquor in the afternoon all raised Feng Yue's admiration for Zhou Yu to a higher level.
"Don't be obsessed with brother, brother is just a legend." Zhou Yu coldly finished the whole trendy language.
"Look at what you can, praise you for being fat, are you still panting?" Feng Yue was amused by Zhou Yu, and then said, "In the afternoon, the people in the village sent some wooden sticks, you can go and have a look." ”
Zhou Yu realized that he had forgotten about it, so he followed Feng Yue to the courtyard to check whether the wooden sticks made by everyone were qualified.
After some inspection, Zhou Yu returned thirty percent of the unqualified wooden sticks, and the others were accepted, a total of more than 100 sticks. Zhou Yu asked Feng Liang to send the wages to the villagers who passed the acceptance of the wooden sticks and sent them door to door, so that they could accumulate their own credit.
When Feng Liang came back, Feng Yue had already heated up the mutton soup, and Feng Liang drank three bowls in a row before leaving the table satisfied.
At night, Feng Yue entered the bath room and was about to take a bath, when Zhou Yu suddenly broke in, so frightened that Feng Yue immediately covered her body. Of course, with Feng Yue's figure, this action seems a bit redundant, and what should be seen can still be seen.
"Xiao Yu, what are you doing?!" Feng Yue said in shame.
"Hey, what's there to hide, you're my lady, where haven't I seen on your body?" Zhou Yu was very calm.
"You whore! Get out of here! Being teased by Zhou Yu, Feng Yue was even more ashamed, and her arms were covered tighter, but she wanted to cover up.
"I was kind enough to send you bath beans, but I asked for these bath beans from King Yu for you, but you still don't appreciate it, so I had to take ......" Zhou Yu directly made a move to capture the old man, and turned around to leave.
"Stop! Leave the bath beans behind, you people out! Feng Yue's voice came from behind.
"Okay, okay, I'll go!" Zhou Yu put down the bath beans and left the bath room.
Feng Yue carefully picked up the box of bath beans, and the shame on her face gradually turned into a happy smile......
After washing, Feng Yue returned to the room and asked Zhou Yu: "These bath beans are very valuable, and it is extremely difficult to buy, King Yu actually gave you a box so generously?" ”
"Harm, that loser, he definitely hasn't paid attention to these things, I don't know how rare this bath bean is, so I will send out a box casually, I hope he won't regret his intestines......" Zhou Yu, who was sitting on the bed, teased.
In fact, what Zhou Yu said was right, when King Yu found that there were only three boxes of bath beans in the entire palace, he almost didn't cry and fainted.
"King Yu kindly gave you such a valuable thing, and you actually said that people are losers? I'm afraid you're the only one in the world who dares to say that. Feng Yue took off her shoes and went to bed and sat next to Zhou Yu.
"I didn't wronged him, even a small ice-making technique is willing to spend two thousand five hundred taels of silver, he is really stupid and has a lot of money. But don't say it, this King Yu's character is still good, he can think of the people of his family and country when he does anything, and he can be regarded as a virtuous king. Zhou Yu objectively evaluated Chen Jin.
"People are princes, and they want to be emperors in the future, so they must think about the world!" Feng Yue said.
"Then you are too exalted to him Chen Jin, have you ever seen a prince who wants to inherit the unification will not be in the capital? Others are in Luozhou, if nothing else, he will have no chance to be an emperor in his life, and it would be good to be able to enjoy a rich old age or something! Zhou Yu touched Feng Yue's hand and said.
Zhou Yu was right, as the prince, he was not in the capital, which meant that this person was not within the scope of the emperor's consideration of the prince.
"That family is also a prince, how can he not even enjoy his old age in peace?" Feng Yue didn't quite understand these imperial things.
"This matter of seizing the heir is extremely bloody, and often the opponents who refuse to give up without killing themselves, let's take the Xuanwumen change in the former Tang Dynasty as an example, didn't Li Shimin kill his brother and force his father to get the throne?"
Listening to Zhou Yu's words, Feng Yue frowned, recalled carefully for a while, and said, "I have heard you read many books before, but why have you never read the changes in the Xuanwu Sect in the former Tang Dynasty?" ”
Zhou Yu then remembered that there was no Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty of this world, so he quickly changed his words: "I remember wrong, it's not the Tang Dynasty, it's another dynasty......
"Then tell me what happened to this Xuanwu Gate change!"
"If the lady wants to hear it, then I'll talk about it, and then Li Yuan raised troops in Jinyang......" Zhou Yu began to tell the story.
"Li Shimin shot Li Jiancheng to death with his own hands......" Zhou Yu was halfway through his speech and found that Feng Yue had fallen asleep.
He smiled, then hugged Feng Yue and lay down, covered her with the quilt, kissed her lightly on the forehead by the way, and whispered, "Good night." ”
Zhou Yu gently held Feng Yue's hand, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
In the dark, Zhou Yu naturally didn't notice the smile on the corner of Feng Yue's mouth, which was not easy to detect......
The next morning, Feng Yue followed Zhou Yu's example and cooked a bowl of green onion fragrant noodles for Zhou Yu to send to the room.
After breakfast, Zhou Yu took four jars of wine plus a gourd to the palace of King Yu.
Steward Li saw that he was carrying something again, and asked cautiously, "Gongzi Zhou, what ......is this wine?"
"This is for Your Highness." Zhou Yu explained.
Steward Li immediately smiled, borrowed the wine jar and said, "Gongzi Zhou is really polite...... Wait a minute, isn't this the wine jar of the palace? ”
"The wine jar is the same, but the wine is different!" Zhou Yu smiled and said.
Steward Li suspiciously followed him to the main hall to wait for Chen Jin.
"Brother Zhou, I was about to send someone to find you! The matter you asked me to ask has been settled, and the restaurant and the house have been found! Chen Jin walked out and said with a smile.
"Thank you, Brother Chen! But next day, I want to invite Brother Chen to taste my new wine! Zhou Yu knotted the wine gourd and handed it to Chen Jin, this gourd was specially used for Chen Jin to taste wine, while the other wine jars could be sealed and stored.
"Oh? Then I'm going to have a try! Opening the wine gourd, the mellow aroma of wine gushed out, making Chen Jin a little drunk before drinking.
"Good wine!" Chen Jinguang can conclude from the fragrance of this wine that the wine in this gourd is extraordinary!
The liquor entered his throat, and the rich taste made Chen Jin's eyes shine.
"When I was in the capital, I tasted a lot of famous wines inside and outside the palace, even if it was a product from the royal collection, it was less than one-tenth of this wine!" Chen Jin did not hesitate to praise himself.
"Don't hide it from Brother Chen, although this wine is fragrant, it is not really a good product, it can only be regarded as an ordinary wine. Moreover, the cost of the wine produced by this method is too high, and of the ten jars of wine that Brother Chen gave me yesterday, only four jars of such wine appeared, and of course, the gourd in Brother Chen's hand. Zhou Yu said.
"Could it be that you have a more powerful way of making wine?" Chen Jin stared at Zhou Yu tightly and asked.
"Of course, just a little winemaking skill, why worry about it!" Zhou Yu said without modesty.
"Brother Zhou, how much do you know about the strange things in the world?" Chen Jin became more and more interested in Zhou Yu.
"I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, the things of this world, whether it's yin and yang gossip, or Qimen Dunjia, I know everything." Zhou Yu smiled.
At this moment, Chen Jin felt that his surname should be Zhang, the arrogant Zhang...... Chen Jin didn't believe it, but it was not good to poke him directly, so he asked:
"What does Brother Zhou think about the current situation today?"
"I don't know if what Brother Chen said is within the country of Wen, or outside the country of literature?" Zhou Yu asked.
"Oh? Brother Zhou, what about both? Chen Jin said.
"If you ask within the big text, I think that the rich country and the people should be the first term."
"How can a rich country and its people be safe?"
"Brother Chen is a member of the royal family, so he naturally knows that most of the silver in the treasury comes from taxes, so the amount of taxes will determine the adequacy of the treasury. Most of the people in the world live on agriculture, and the collection of agricultural taxes is naturally a key ......" Zhou Yu began to start with agricultural technology and the collection of agricultural taxes, and then extended to the main issues of taxation in the country, and finally talked about the economic structure and social system......
"As the old saying goes, Cangli knows etiquette and etiquette, and the common people are well fed, dressed, and live a good life, and of course they will be grateful to the court. At that time, the treasury of our country will be abundant, the court will be united, and the officials and the people will share the same hatred for the enemy, so they will naturally not be afraid of foreign enemies. At that point, it will not be too late to dwell on the situation outside the country. Zhou Yu said, feeling a little thirsty, so he drank all the tea in the teacup.
Chen Jin was already stunned, he didn't expect that a little scholar in a mountain village would have such a profound insight into the major affairs of his family and country.
"Brother Chen, what's wrong with you, don't you think what you said is wrong?" Zhou Yu couldn't help but ask when he saw that he was looking at himself and didn't speak.
"No...... No, Brother Zhou has unique insights, and this king admires it! Brother Zhou just said that the situation outside the country of Wenguo, can you give me another lesson? Chen Jin began to get serious, Zhou Yu's analysis of the national conditions of the country just now was the essence, which benefited him a lot. This international situation is a matter of national security, and he must listen carefully to it, and even make his claim official.