The question of food has always been Xin You's biggest concern.

In this place where supplies are scarce, whoever dominates the food has the right to speak.

As one of the three major families, the Xin family naturally occupies a lot of fertile land, and the output of grain is second only to the Fan family.

Sheen's self-sufficiency alone is no problem at all.

But this is the whole Xin's family, not Xinyi's grain.

It's not even the grain of the Xin family.

The Xin clan, that is, the Xin family, has few people, and there are not many good fields to occupy.

The fields of Xinyi are strictly speaking royal family.

The successive generations of Xinyi doctors, that is, these ancestors of Xinyou, strictly followed the Jingtian system.

It's just that with the development of time, in the middle and late Spring and Autumn period, the well field system has long been destroyed.

Rather than cultivating the well fields allocated by the state, those powerful families preferred to cultivate the wasteland themselves and treat it as their own private land.

People's minds are on their own private land, and the public land will naturally be wasted.

This is the case with most of the public land in Xinyi.

Anyway, the annual output of the public land is to be handed over to the royal family, just do whatever you want, just have something.

The private land is intensively cultivated and the yield is very good.

Only Xin You's family, public land and private land have always been treated equally.

The ancestors and ancestors of Xin You refused to open up the wasteland, thinking that it was a destruction of Zhou Li.

For generations, they guarded the land that the Son of Heaven had given them, without the slightest progress.

Therefore, the grain output of the Xin family is far less than that of the Xin family, let alone the Fan family.

In the eyes of Xin You's father Xin Wuxi, the land of Xinyi is the Son of Heaven.

How to distribute the land, there must be an order from the Son of Heaven, and it is illegal to open up barren mountains without permission.

It's just that this is the general trend of the times, from the princes to the small nobles, everyone is running their own private land.

No matter how Xin Wuxian writes to the township, everyone will pay attention to him.

Occasionally, the output of Xinyi's public field is not enough, and Xin Wuzhi will use his own grain to make up for it.

Coupled with his perennial serious illness and sparse family, the Xin clan did not have the slightest say on the issue of "food".

At the end of the year, Xin Wuzhi had to beg a few big families to spread out their food and lend it to Gongzhong and those people who had no food to eat.

Therefore, Xin had to pay attention to the issue of food.

Unfortunately, this is a problem that cannot be solved in the short term.

Learn from those foreign princes such as the Lu State, recognized private land, and began to collect agricultural taxes?

If he were Zhou Tianzi, he would be okay, but now he is just a doctor, and he doesn't want his own head if he does this.

Carving out your own private land?

Feasible is feasible, but by the time there is a harvest, at least until next year.

This winter, there is still no food.

Eye water can't quench thirst.

Without food, the people of the country did not even dare to come to the school.

Everything Xin wants to do will come to an abrupt end here.

"I'll have to try that thing when I go back tonight."

After the class, Xin went straight home.

He had already instructed Yu Zuo to call Fan Dou.

Fan Dou carries a borrowed ox cart full of Xin and custom-made pottery.

"Gentleman, my father and I have been sleepless for the past few days, and we finally made what you wanted."

Curious, he ran over and found that the ox cart was loaded with dozens of pieces of pottery, large and small.

"It's strange, what does the gentleman want so much pottery for, I haven't heard that there is a shortage of pottery at home......" Yu Zuo said secretly.

"Zuo, what are you still doing in a daze? Move things into the hall. Xin instructed again.

Luo Zuo didn't dare to slack off, and moved a lot of pottery into it with Fan Dou.

Xin asked the rest of the group to avoid it, leaving Wei alone.

"Gentleman, there is no shortage of pottery at home, what are you doing with so much pottery?" Wei is also very curious.

"Winemaking." Xin said simply.

"Winemaking?! A gentleman wants to make wine? ”

"What? Surprised? ”

Wei is indeed incredible, what's wrong with this Xin, why did she start to care about these things?

"Xinyi is poor, and only the winemaking industry can make Xinyi rich." Xin said again.

"But don't we have Sinji, the sommelier? I heard that he made very good wine. ”

"Yes, yes, it's a pity that it's not enough to make money from this wine." Xin said again.

The wine made by Xinji can only be counted as a matter wine.

This kind of wine is the cheapest in Ganlu's market, and it can only be sold for two yuan per catty.

There is an old folk saying that one pound of wine is three pounds of grain.

The price of grain in Xinyi is basically about 60 yuan per stone.

There are more than 100 catties of grain per stone, and if these grains are made into wine, about forty or fifty catties of wine can be produced.

Combined with other costs, the liquor made from one stone of grain is generally sold for about 70 yuan.

Converted into about two yuan per catty of wine, you can only make a profit.

According to the general situation, in the year when the price of grain rises, the price of wine will definitely rise.

However, most of the wine in Xinyi is supplied to the township and the royal family, and the price of wine is fixed.

Even if you get Ganlu, the price can only be bought slightly higher.

This year's grain price has risen to 65 yuan per stone, and Xinyi liquor making is simply a loss.

But if Xinyi's wine can be rated as "old wine", the price cannot be the same!

The wine that the princes drank was at least the wine of the past, so the price of this wine far exceeded that of ordinary wine.

However, the brewing process of the old wine is more complicated than that of the wine, and the price is at least five times that of the wine.

And even more!

Xin had already inquired about the price of these wines.

So he wanted to get distilled spirits out as soon as possible.

Distilled spirits naturally do not have distiller's lees, and the color is naturally much brighter than ordinary liquor.

Coupled with the strong flavor, there is no problem with being rated as a former sake.

As for how many catties of liquor can be distilled per catty, Xin is not sure yet.

He only remembers that he had seen someone on the Internet do experiments before, and with eighty catties of wine, about seven or eight catties of brandy could be distilled.

Xin You's requirements for wine are not so high, as long as the distilled wine is cool in color, it can explode ordinary wine.

In this case, the proportion is estimated to be a little higher.

……

Looking at the pottery all over the ground, Xin couldn't help but smile bitterly.

In order to protect his "patents", he took great pains.

He mixed the pottery used for distillation with ordinary pottery and placed an "order".

In this way, even if someone from the Fan family asked Fan Dou to re-fire a portion, he didn't know how to use it.

"Wei, you're going to do these. All of this is taken aside. Xin said again: "Let Yu Zuo come in with a bottle of wine." ”

"Gentleman, it's so late, do you still want to drink?" Wei asked with concern.

"It's not drinking, it's making sake."

Soon, Wei brought a bottle of wine from the kitchen in the back.

At this time, Xin had already placed a few pieces of pottery and waited for the wine to enter the pot.

Wei looked at the pottery on the ground, some of which she recognized, some of which she didn't.

Xin had "assembled" these things into something Wei had never seen before.

There was a large cauldron underneath, on which was a cylindrical pottery fastened, and a small opening was made on it, and a bamboo pipe protruded from it.

This thing is called "retort", but it is different from the retort in the spring and autumn period.

On top of the cylinder, there is a smaller pot filled with water.

"This thing, called 'Heavenly Pot', can make the wine clear." Xin said again: "Tomorrow morning, we will have our own old wine!" ”