Wangjiazhuang, 100 official halls.

Jia Hongyu, the chief flag officer, was holding a wine jar with both hands, his eyes were shining, his nose was still sniffing, and he was pouring wine for Wang Weizhen, the officer of the management team, with a smile.

Wang Weizhen's face was similar at this time, and after the wine glass was full, he took it up and tasted it, and immediately stood up in shock, and said loudly: "This wine is really mellow!" ”

Liu Yan, who was sitting on the side, also laughed, when he carried this big pot over by himself, Wang Weizhen and Jia Hongyu heard that this was a rich business, and they didn't care, after all, sorghum wine at this time couldn't be sold at a price, and sorghum wine was synonymous with inferiority.

But just when Jia Hongyu opened the wine jar, a mellow aroma of wine came to his face, although Wang Weizhen didn't say anything, but his face had changed, and now after drinking a glass, Wang Weizhen immediately believed Liu Yan's words.

"After this Dapanbao pot will be sea salt and soap, our third way of wealth, when the wine shop in my Dapanbao officially starts to sell, the rolling silver will come like a wave!"

Wang Weizhen said with a smile: "Okay! Liu Zongqi is really my lucky general, how long has it been, first soap, then sea salt, and now there is such a good pot of sorghum wine, in just one year, we have all made a fortune! ”

Jia Hongyu, who was on the side, poured himself a glass at this time, raised his head and dried up, and then suddenly shouted: "My God, such a delicious wine, is it really made of sorghum?" ”

"Naturally, yes."

Previously, Liu Yan spent money to buy ready-made wine and grain, and the price of wine and grain made from sorghum was low, almost a quarter of that of rice wine and other types of liquor and grain!

Liu Yan said with a smile: "Brother Jia, don't worry, the cost of this sorghum wine is very low, and now it will be sold poorly, and this matter will have to bother the management team and Brother Jia." ”

Wang Weizhen patted his chest and said, "Liu Zongqi, don't worry, this matter is on me." ”

Then Wang Weizhen said to Jia Hongyu: "In this way, early tomorrow morning, Jia Zongqi will go to the Guzhen Inspection Department to help Liu Zongqi contact the businessmen over there, how about it?" ”

Jia Hongyu naturally has no opinion: "Don't worry, my lord, I will go over early tomorrow morning, and I will definitely handle this matter." ”

Liu Yan clenched his fists and said, "Then please Brother Jia!" ”

At this time, Wang Weizhen added: "By the way, the merchants in other places, such as the Qianqian Household Office in Xiahe Village, should also be contacted, as well as the shops in our Wangjiazhuang, you can contact them." ”

Liu Yan quite agreed, although the quality of the Dapanbao pot is good, but now is just the beginning, and it is necessary to contact more businessmen to expand its reputation.

So Liu Yan hugged his fists and said: "What the adults said is extremely true, it is better to do this, tomorrow morning, my subordinates and Brother Jia will go to the Guzhen Inspection Division together, anyway, there are several jars of pots on the ox cart under my subordinates, just bring them over together, so that those businessmen can see it." ”

"Okay, that's it."

That night, Liu Yan and several dun soldiers who came together all lived in the official hall of one hundred households, and early the next morning, Liu Yan led people to drive the ox cart and set off with Jia Hongyu to the Guzhen Inspection Division.

The Guzhen Inspection Department is a hundred households under the jurisdiction of the former thousand households of Xiahe Village, and it is at the same level as the one hundred households of Wangjiazhuang.

Because the ancient town here is prosperous, it is a cargo distribution center in the territory of the Qianqian households in Xiahe Village, so Lingshanwei has set up a patrol inspection department here, in addition to the same as Wangjiazhuang, it also governs some chimneys and tunbao, and is also responsible for the anti-smuggling, public security, escort prisoners and silver rice, litigation and other functions on the ancient town, and the scope of functions is broader than that of a hundred households like Wangjiazhuang.

Liu Yan and Jia Hongyu rode horses and drove to the Guzhen Inspection Office in the evening of the same day, which was a military fort covering a much larger area than Wangjiazhuang, almost twice as much as Wangjiazhuang.

Liu Yan rode on a war horse, and saw that some farmland had been reclaimed outside the Ancient Town Inspection Division, but it was a little deserted, and in the cold winter season, some broken ridges and damaged canals could still be seen.

The Ancient Town Inspection Division has four gates in the east, west, south and north, and each gate is built with an urn city outside, and there is a ditch outside the fort city to protect it, and there is a suspension bridge on it.

Although it was dusk at this time, there were still a lot of pedestrians coming and going, and Liu Yan could see that most of these pedestrians were small merchants and hawkers, and there were some more decent merchants among them.

"The Guzhen Inspection Department really lives up to its reputation, it is really business-oriented!"

Jia Hongyu said with a smile: "Then it is needless to say, here to the west is the Qianqian Household in Xiahe Village, to the northeast is the Lingshan Acropolis, and to the north you can go to Fengmeng County and Jiaozhou City. ”

Liu Yan pointed to the fort in front of him and said, "But I see that the fort is a little in disrepair, and it seems that the inspection here is a bit abandoned." ”

"Haha."

Jia Hongyu laughed out loud and said: "The current inspector of the Ancient Town Inspection Department is named Song Gongming, and this person is also a hundred household officials, and he is quite powerful in the ancient town area. This person is the same as our team leader: love money! It's just a little rougher. ”

Liu Yan smiled, rough? I can't control being rough with others, but if this Song Gongming dares to play tricks with himself, it will be a vicious fight. Now Liu Yan is in a hurry to develop his strength, but he will not let anyone interrupt his development process, if anyone doesn't have long eyes to bump into it, then there is only a dead end!

"Brother Jia, let's go in, it's getting late now, let's find a place to rest for the night, and let's hurry up and get down to business tomorrow."

"Good!"

That night, Liu Yan and Jia Hongyu and his entourage found an inn to live in, which was said to be an inn, but it was actually a big car shop, which had several houses in the chase room, and they slept in the chase shop.

However, they don't care about it when they go out, Liu Yan and Jia Hongyu and others are not hypocritical people, so they chartered a large room that night and moved the four wine jars on the ox cart in.

The next morning, Jia Hongyu took the first step and took a few of his subordinates to go door-to-door to deliver posts to familiar businessmen, inviting these businessmen to a banquet at noon today.

Liu Yan left a few dun soldiers to guard the wine jar in the inn, and went out to find a wine shop called Swift Building, where he ordered a few good dishes, as for the wine drunk at the banquet, he naturally had to use the jars brought by Liu Yan to burn the pot.

Near noon, Liu Yan took a few dun soldiers to move the pots of Dapanbao over, and after a while, Jia Hongyu also rushed to the Swift Tower, and said to Liu Yan with a smile: "Liu Zongqi, rest assured, everything is done." This morning, I contacted a total of 17 merchants, and although their businesses are large and small, they are all merchants who sell all kinds of goods and traffic in various places, and they know many people, go to many places, and have many friends with businessmen. ”

Liu Yan smiled and said, "That's good, let's not get drunk here today!" ”

"Haha!"

Jia Hongyu laughed and said, "If those people have drunk our Dapanbao pot, it is estimated that they will never be able to drink other wine in the future." ”

"Liu Zongqi's method is really amazing, even if we don't say anything today, just with this meal of wine and food, we can let those businessmen rush to help us sell wine!"

It didn't take long for the businessmen invited by Jia Hongyu to come over one after another, Liu Yan and Jia Hongyu warmly welcomed everyone in, and everyone sat at three tables, Liu Yan and Jia Hongyu naturally sat at the main table.

"Here, get drunk!"

Jia Hongyu couldn't wait to greet loudly, and several Dun soldiers moved to the wine jar, one of the Dun soldiers just opened a jar of wine, and the room was full of a strong aroma of wine, all the merchants looked at it in surprise, everyone's eyes widened, and they looked at the jars of wine in disbelief.

One of the businessmen sitting at the main table stood up, looked back at Liu Yan and Jia Hongyu and said, "Liu Zongqi, Jia Zongqi, what kind of wine is this, it is so mellow!" ”

The rest of the merchants also began to ask nonsense, and a few businessmen didn't care about etiquette, so they ran directly to the open wine jar, poured a few glasses of wine themselves, and couldn't wait to drink it.

"Good wine, really good wine!"

"I've never drunk such good wine in my life, and I don't think it's even the imperial wine in the palace!"

At this moment, the seventeen merchants suddenly exploded, surrounding Liu Yan and Jia Hongyu in the middle, and the nature of the merchants was immediately exposed, asking what kind of wine this was, where to buy it, what the price was, and so on.

Jia Hongyu glanced at Liu Yan and saw Liu Yan nodding, so he stood up and said loudly: "Everyone, everyone! Everybody be quiet and listen to me. ”

More than a dozen businessmen instantly quieted down and looked at Jia Hongyu in unison.

"I can't hide it, Mr. Liu and I are inviting you to a banquet today, just for this big plate fort!"

"Big Plate Castle Pot?"

"It turns out that this good wine is a big panbao pot!"

"That's right!"

Jia Hongyu said with a smile: "This is brewed by the chief of Dapanbao and Liu Zongqi beside me, if you are interested, you can negotiate with Liu Zongqi, I think Liu Zongqi will give you a good price, you can distribute it together!" ”

At this moment, Liu Yan suddenly became the focus of everyone, so he stood up and clenched his fists and said: "Everyone, since you are all interested in the Dapanbao pot, then I won't go around the corner." ”

"Mr. Liu, please speak!"

"What the hell is the price?"

Liu Yan said: "My Dapanbao Distillery will officially sell the roasted pot wine next month, and you can go to Wangjiazhuang Dapanbao to buy on the first day of next month." As for the price......"

Liu Yan had calculated the cost and price before he came, and now one stone of sorghum, that is, one hundred and twenty catties of sorghum can produce about seventy catties of liquor, and the cost of this stone of sorghum is about two hundred and twenty yuan, plus the various consumption of labor, koji, wine grain and winery, the cost of one catty and two pots is only six yuan.

And the winery now has four heavenly pots, which can consume 16 stone of sorghum in one day, and produce 1,120 catties of wine!

Of course, these are not good wines, they are all two-pot heads produced on the same day. But this is enough, the price set by Liu Yan before departure is 70 wen per catty and two pots, which is the so-called factory price.

According to this price, the monthly income of Dapanbao Distillery is at least 1,700 or 800 taels of silver!

This income is not as good as the salt drying field and the soap workshop for the time being, but Liu Yan is very satisfied, after all, the wine workshop has just been built, and it will gradually expand in the future, and the future income will be very considerable.

So Liu Yan said: "One pound and seventy Wen, how about it?" ”

"Seriously!"

"Mr. Liu, don't regret it!"

"Let's draw a bet now, I want to set five hundred catties!"

"I want three hundred pounds!"

"A thousand catties, I want a thousand catties!"

"I want fifteen hundred pounds, no! Two thousand pounds! ”

No one moved chopsticks at this banquet, everyone surrounded Liu Yan to sign and draw, and with the signing of one contract after another, these seventeen businessmen threw an order of 34,600 catties to Liu Yan, equivalent to more than 2,400 taels of silver!

After Liu Yan signed the order with everyone, he didn't forget to sell a wave of soap by the way, and these seventeen businessmen heard that the soap that was rumored to be rumored this year was actually produced in Dapanbao, and they immediately exclaimed.

All the soap sold in Wang Weizhen was for the officials and officers up and down Lingshanwei, these people had money and could enjoy it, and the demand for soap was very large, so they didn't worry about selling it at all.

So Wang Weizhen didn't get in touch with businessmen from all over the world at all, but just gave it out a little bit as a gift.

These businessmen have long wanted to distribute soap, but they can't find the source, and now the supply is right in front of them!

So these seventeen businessmen made up another contract and ordered a large amount of soap to Liu Yan, and Liu Yan agreed with everyone to deliver it on the first day of the next month.

Jia Hongyu didn't have any opinion on this, Liu Yan and Jia Hongyu also got angry with Wang Weizhen before coming, and they didn't snatch Wang Weizhen's "market share" anyway, so Wang Weizhen naturally had no opinion.