What can you do with all that bad grain?

When Liu Tianhao asked like this, he really stopped Jia Xu, Li Yang, and Wang Ji!

That's right, it's just the bad grain in the warehouse, the key is that there is still a steady stream of grain to Lu Nu outside, and the bad grain accounts for at least one or two percent, no way, the landlords and gentry have too much grain!

The four of them were silent for a while!

Wang Ji is worthy of being in charge of the warehouse, and he knows very well how to deal with good and bad grain, seeing that the two adults and a colleague Li Yang are silent, he said quietly,

"Bad grain can't be used to feed pigs, so it is estimated that it can only be used to make wine, but if it is used to make wine, it will not be used so much!"

"Winemaking?" Liu Tianhao originally had thick eyebrows and a sad face, but when he heard Wang Ji say winemaking, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately slapped his thigh, which scared Jia Xu and the others.

"Yes, why didn't I think of it, bad grain can be used to make wine!"

Jia Xu glanced at Liu Tianhao very vaguely, full of contempt, and said slowly, "Lord, Wang Ji also said that if you make wine, you won't need so much food at all; Besides, why do we make so much wine? In this city alone, there are four or five winemakers, and they can't sell all the wine! ”

Li Yang and Wang Ji nodded again and again on the side, agreeing with Jia Xu's words.

"Hey, what's that wine here?" Liu Tianhao seemed to hear a hint of sarcasm from Jia Xu's words, and hurriedly opened his mouth to retort.

"Where are we?" Jia Xu was stunned.

Li Yang and Wang Ji didn't particularly feel Liu Tianhao's words, but they thought that Liu Tianhao was dissatisfied with Lu Nu's wine and didn't think he thought of him; But Jia Xu is different, he faintly heard a trace of strangeness, he is a native of Liangzhou Guzang Wuwei, and his familiarity with Lu Nu is not as good as Liu Tianhao, however, just now Liu Tianhao said 'you here', this 'you' is obviously included in his Jia Xu here, that is to say, Liangzhou, Bingzhou, Jizhou, in Liu Tianhao's view, can only be regarded as 'you here', so, where is 'there'?

Liu Tianhao saw Jia Xu stunned and thought about it, and after thinking carefully about what he had just said, he suddenly found that he was emotional, and he actually said that he had leaked his mouth, and he was immediately anxious, but his mind was spinning, but he thought of another excuse,

"Of course, the wine here in Dahan can't be regarded as real wine at all, compared to the wine brewed in the Ghost Valley of Penglai Island in the East China Sea, it is simply weak!"

As soon as the words came out, Liu Tianhao didn't know if he could fool Jia Xu, but this excuse was already the best he could find.

"Oh, does Ghost Valley also make wine? What does it mean to be weak? Jia Xu seems to believe Liu Tianhao's excuse.

"The people of Guigu are also people, so naturally they have to drink! Weak explosion, that is, it means that it is too far and too far away! Liu Tianhao couldn't help wiping a cold sweat, embarrassed.

"Lord, are you going to use these bad grains to make wine according to the brewing method in the Ghost Valley?" Jia Xu's eyes gradually lit up.

Liu Tianhao's chest straightened and said proudly, "Of course!" ”

"If it is really as the lord said, the wine brewed by the Guigu wine-making method can compare the wine of our Han ...... If the weaker ones explode, these bad grains are not a chance for us! Jia Xu had a scheming expression on his face, and his eyes kept flashing!

"That is, the wine we drink now is yellow soup, and it's okay to drink six or seven jars, no wonder it's called turbid wine; The wine we brewed there is innocent, sweet and fragrant, not to mention drinking six or seven jars, that is, one catty, and there are few people who are not drunk, and those who can drink three or one catty are all heroes in the wine! Liu Tianhao praised while recalling the famous liquor of later generations.

"Oh...... Really? Jia Xu's eyes are getting brighter and brighter, he is not a good drinker, which shows that the reason why Jia Xu is excited is because he pays attention to the market expectations and profits of Qingjiu that Liu Tianhao said!

"Of course! Well, just do it. Li Yang and Wang Ji, since you say that there are four or five wine-making merchants in Lunu City, and you say that they can't sell all their wines, then they must not be able to make any money in this business; In that case, both of you will go and talk to them, and if possible, buy me their winery; It's really not good, at least you have to buy me two, the price is easy to say, and you can't make them suffer! ”

By chance, Liu Tianhao decided to make wine, and he did what he said, vigorously and resolutely, without dragging the mud and water at all!

In fact, when he first came to this era, he found that the level of winemaking in this era was too poor, and the wine produced was only rice wine, which was turbid and the alcohol content was even lower. Even rice wine is much worse than Shaoxing rice wine two thousand years later, and at that time, the idea of improving the winemaking technology flashed in his mind!

However, he has been too busy, and there are so many advanced technological levels in later generations, he can't do it all, he doesn't have the energy, and he doesn't have the resources!

Now, thousands of stale grains have been placed in front of Liu Tianhao, and finally the idea of brewing liquor in Liu Tianhao's heart has awakened again!

"Your Highness, then let's do it now!"

As soon as Li Yang and Wang Ji heard Liu Tianhao's orders, they hurriedly hugged their fists and responded to the order, this matter is too simple, not to mention buying those wineries at full price, that is, letting them discount the price, they also have to sell the wineries quickly, not that Li Yang and Wang Ji bully them with their power, but that they really can't make much money by opening a winery!

In this year, the poor people can't even fill their stomachs, where can they have the money to drink wine? Counting on the limited landlord gentry to drink strongly, how much can they drink? The wine is not good, and besides, the gentry are strong in drinking, and they may not give money, and the people are strong!

"What's the panic? Wait, I'm not done yet! Liu Tianhao saw that Li Yang and Wang Ji were about to leave, and hurriedly called out to them.

Hearing Liu Tianhao shout like this, Li Yang and Wang Ji quickly stopped, turned around, and looked embarrassed and embarrassed, "Your Highness, what else do you command?" ”

"I'm going to buy their winery, but I'm going to have to build a new one!" Liu Tianhao opened his mouth and said.

Li Yang, Wang Ji, and Jia Xu were all stunned.

Jia Xu thought for a moment and said, "Could it be that the Guigu winemaking method mentioned by the lord has special requirements for this winery?" ”

Liu Tianhao snapped his fingers and said with a smile, "It's still Wenhe smart!" That's right, the brewery is very important! I bought their brewery because I just took a fancy to their winemaking tools and the koji they already had; As for the real winery, for me, it is not of great use, I want to build our own winery, a one-of-a-kind winery! ”

A one-of-a-kind brewery? Jia Xu and the three of them were really fooled by Liu Tianhao!

Liu Tianhao knows that if he wants to make wine, as long as he improves it a little from three aspects, he can raise the grade of wine in this era by several levels!

The first is koji. The amount of koji used is very particular, and the amount of koji in the Han Dynasty accounted for too much of the wine-making technique, which not only increased the cost, but also affected the taste of the wine; As for the improvement of koji, Liu Tianhao's idea is to change the original practice of mixing koji and grain together at one time to adding koji to grain one by one; A total of nine additions not only do not add as much koji as the one-time addition method, but also double the reproduction rate of live bacteria, so that more koji will be saved!

The second is cellar fermentation. In the Han Dynasty, the cycle of a wine-making was very short, and there was no process of fermentation in a large wine cellar, so it was directly fermented after three or five days of koji and grain mixed and slightly fermented, and then it was sold as a finished wine and drunk, so now the degree of this wine is super low!

Third, it is really the level of craftsmanship after 16,700 years - distillation! If the wine is not distilled, it is very difficult to increase the degree, unless it is sealed in the cellar for ten or eight years; In later generations, the daughter red wine is brewed by time, and it has been nine hundred and eighteen years to get a pot of daughter red! Although the distillation technology appeared nearly 16,700 years later, when Liu Tianhao was studying in Beijing, he once visited the brewing museum in Erguotou, and knew that a few bamboo tools could form a simple set of distillation equipment, so distillation, in this era, works!

"Lord, what are the requirements for the winery you are talking about?" Jia Xu looks at problems and is often able to hit the nail on the head and get to the point!

Liu Tianhao glanced at Jia Xu approvingly, and said, "This winery is best built at the source of living water, and it is best to be a high-quality spring water, which is sweet and cold!" ”

"The finest spring water? Sweet and cold? Wang Ji muttered and repeated Liu Tianhao's words, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "Your Highness, do you know the origin of the word Zhongshan in our Zhongshan Kingdom and the word Lu Nu in Lu Nu City?" ”

When Liu Tianhao heard this, he was stunned for a moment, the topic he just said was obviously spring water, why did Wang Ji suddenly turn to the name of Zhongshan Country and the name of Lunu City, "Oh, could it be that this is still related to spring water?" ”

"The reason why we call this Zhongshan country is because there is a mountain in the country, and this mountain is the Fengming Mountain in our Lunu City; And Lu Nu City said, according to legend, there was a pool in the city in ancient times, the water color was black but not flowing, the water black was called "Lu", not flowing called "slave", so it was called "Lu Nu". Until His Royal Highness King Jing of Zhongshan sealed the king of Zhongshan, built Fengming Tower on Fengming Mountain, dug a clear spring from the top of the mountain, the clear spring went down the mountain, merged into the pool, and the water of the pond became clear and flowed up! Wang Ji said eloquently, he didn't expect that these anecdotes he knew would also be useful one day.

"Oh! Is the spring water sweet and cold? Liu Tianhao's eyes glowed with gold.

"That's right, it's indeed as His Highness said, it's sweet and cold!"

"Okay, that's it!"