Chapter 40: Horse's Mouth Takes Food and Brews Spirits
"The paper and printing are already out, what more can we do to make money?"
After leaving Pang Tong's residence, along the way, Liu Chan was turning his head, thinking about how to earn more money and food.
"The so-called seven treasures of the literati, piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine and tea! Do you want to stop getting this real high wine and tea out for money? ”
Thinking of the money and food that he had easily earned back with paper and printing before, Liu Chan immediately hit the idea on those big families.
No way, who calls it that in this era, only those big families have money and food?
"Well, although we can make high-grade wine, this wine is also made from grain!"
Just thought of the popular project of high wine, which was a traverser to make a fortune, Liu Chan had to give it up reluctantly.
No way, at this time, food is the first strategic material, except for those big families, even Cao Cao, he will not be willing to take a large amount of grain to make wine, right?
As for tea, at this time it was only an elegant gadget liked by a few people, and it was far less popular than in later dynasties. If you want to make money with it, it's better to save it!
"Herod's Lotus!"
Just when Liu Chan had no choice but to give up the popular money-making project of high wine, there was a sudden neighing sound of horses in his ears.
It turned out that he was thinking about how to make money all the way, but he unknowingly turned to the stable of the state governor's mansion.
"Childe!"
Seeing the arrival of Liu Chan, the young master, the servant groom in charge of horse breeding, hurriedly put down the work in his hand and bowed.
"It's all busy with you, this son is just walking around!"
waved his hand, but Liu Chan walked towards a colt with red hair.
Speaking of which, because of his age, it has been several years since he arrived in this era, but Liu Chan has not even learned to ride a horse, and he can only take a carriage every time he travels.
Therefore, in order to let him learn to ride a horse as soon as possible, the second master specially got him this half-big foal.
It's just that because he was worried that riding too early would hurt the foal, Liu Chan was never willing to ride, but just let people take care of and raise it.
"Come, Chi Li!"
Grabbing a handful of feed from the manger, Liu Chan skillfully fed it to the mouth of the half-big foal.
"Hey, what are you feeding Chi Li?"
Looking at the red particles in his hand with a small amount of wheat, bran, etc., Liu Chan, who had just sent it to Chi Qi's mouth, quickly retracted his hand at this moment.
"Herod's ......"
Being 'teased' by Liu Chan like this, Chi Lu suddenly hissed dissatisfied, and then angrily lowered his head to the manger and chewed.
"Returning to Gongzi, this is Diliang...... Originally, it was fed to adult horses, but seeing that Chilu seemed to like it more, I fed him some ......"
The groom, who knew how much Liu Chan liked this red horse, hurriedly opened his mouth to explain, for fear that he would blame him for not taking good care of him.
You must know that Liu Chan, a red horse, in addition to forage on weekdays, most of the time the concentrate is corn and other beans. Coarse grains like sorghum are not on top of their recipes.
"Ogiliang? How do you look a little familiar, it seems that you have seen ...... somewhere"
Twisting the half-crushed granular 'Diliang' with red skin in his hand, Liu Chan couldn't help but muttered with some confusion.
"Qi Yu Gongzi, this Diliang is also known as Shu millet, and there are many plants in Yizhou and Beidi. Most of them are for preparing for waste, and most of them are cattle and horse feed on weekdays......"
Just when Liu Chan was puzzled by this somewhat familiar thing, there was another introduction from the horseman to this 'Diliang'.
"Shu Huang? I said how this thing looks familiar, it turned out to be sorghum! ”
When Liu Chan heard the title of 'Shu millet' from the mouth of the groom, Liu Chan, who had only seen white-faced sorghum in the supermarket in later generations, suddenly couldn't help but suddenly realize.
You must know that in later generations, because of the term 'strange Shu millet', Liu Chan is no stranger to the name of sorghum.
"Sorghum? Hey, the name of Childe is appropriate, this Shu millet is indeed very tall......"
Hearing the new name of the sorghum, several groom servants hurriedly complimented them.
"From today onwards, it is not allowed to feed horses with Shu millet in the future, this thing is of great use, hahahaha!"
Ignoring the compliments of several grooms, he grabbed a handful of sorghum rice from the manger of the horses on the side, and then Liu Chan walked away quickly with an excited face.
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"Gong ...... Childe, this is a ...... Although...... Although it is also edible, it ...... But it's mostly for ...... There are many things to prepare for the waste...... It is mostly feed for cattle and horses. Public...... Childe Mo ...... Could it be ......"
Looking at Liu Chan, who was going and returning, he was full of excitement and showed a handful of sorghum rice, but before Liu Chan could speak, Deng Ai, who had just apprenticed, stammered and splashed his cold water.
"Shizai is right, although this thing can also be used as food, but the taste is very poor. And eating too much is easy to 'be unfavorable', if you use it as military food, it is ......"
Following his apprentice Deng Ai, Pang Tong, who was a teacher, couldn't help but shake his head.
"Strategist, when did the kid say that he was going to use it as military rations? Besides, wouldn't it be too wasteful to use such a good thing as military rations, hahahaha! ”
Ignoring the loneliness of the master and apprentice, Liu Chan smiled mysteriously.
"Don't make military rations? That boy is going to ...... with this thing"
Pang Tong, who had experience in betting with Liu Chan, didn't know what Liu Chan wanted to do with this sorghum, but when he saw his expression, he couldn't help but look at him expectantly.
"The military advisor is good at wine, so I don't know what kind of wine is the most important in the world?"
did not directly answer Pang Tong's question, but Liu Chan raised his hand and pointed to the wine gourd on his waist.
"Good wine? In terms of rarity, it is naturally the peach wine that is the most. I think that back then, Meng Bolang once exchanged a peach wine for the position of Liangzhou Thorn History, did the son think that this wine was precious? ”
Seeing that Liu Chan mentioned the wine, Pang Tong immediately let go of the curiosity in his heart and introduced Liu Chan to the most precious peach wine of the Han Dynasty.
"Well, forget about the peach wine, the kid is asking about grain wine and spirits!"
Knowing that the No. 1 wine in this Han was actually wine, Liu Chan had to change his question.
"Grain wine? Childe doesn't want to use this stalk to make wine? ”
Seeing Liu Chan mention grain and wine, Pang Tong immediately thought of the sorghum that Liu Chan brought.
"Exactly! The boy will not only use this sorghum to make wine, but also use it to make the strongest wine in the world! ”
Seeing that Pang Tong had already guessed his plan, wouldn't Liu Chan stop selling Guanzi?
"The strongest wine in the world, how strong is it?"
Hearing the word spirits, Pang Tong, a good drinker, couldn't help but light up his eyes.
You must know that there are few people in the world who are really good at drinking. The reason why the ancients invented so many drinking games and rules is that in the final analysis, isn't it because the alcohol is not high enough!
Therefore, after hearing Liu Chan say the words 'the strongest in the world', Pang Tong's reaction was naturally not surprising.
"It's so fierce that you can't imagine it, hahahaha!"