Early in the morning of the second day, Xiao Jiu cleaned up the house of the previous second master, found someone in the village who knew how to work with masonry and tiles, worked for a long time, built a chimney stove, and asked a few bandits to go down the mountain to the town's utensils shop to make a few different styles of adobe utensils, and took them to the wine shop to bring a few jars of grain and wine.

After the soju utensils of the "liquor workshop" were simply prepared, Xiao Jiu taught Lao Ma the method of distillation and purification, and asked him to take a few people to burn all the more than 30 jars of liquor stored in the village and bought from the mountain, making a total of 12 jars of soju with a height of 12.

Xiao Jiu participated in the whole process of making liquor, and saw the liquor distilled and refined with a simple condensing device, Xiao Jiu knew that the ratio of ordinary grain liquor made into shochu was about one to three points, and this ratio could not be compared with modern soju, because most of the liquor in this era was brewed with millet and bran, and the year was not long, which caused the wine to be brewed with a lot of impurities, low degree and poor taste.

Looking at the finished knives in a jar, Xiao Jiu had already made a plan in his heart, he had no channel to sell these wines, so he could only find a winery with "wine introduction" as a middleman, and he would have to share part of the profits during the period.

If it is operated properly, it will be able to generate a steady stream of income after that, through Lao Ma, Xiao Jiu learned that the small winery in Lijia Town alone can sell 800 jars every year, not to mention that in the entire Lingshui County, there are more than a dozen wineries and wineries with legal wine-making rights, not counting those private hotels.

As long as there is a market, even if you only make one tael of silver for every ten jars of wine, as long as you sell a thousand jars a year, it is a hundred taels of silver, and the profit you can get from this is more than all the valuable things in the whole stockade combined.

Moreover, he only refines and processes, and does not incur any costs, but is just a middleman to make the difference, on the other hand, those other wine shops in addition to the cost of brewing, but also to pay a large amount of silver wine tax, the profits of which are taken by the imperial court in the form of "wine introduction".

Two days after the soju refining was completed, Xiao Jiu, the mountain bandit leaders Zhang Ben and Jin Zi rode horses together and went down the mountain to Lijia Town with more than ten minions.

Among them, Zhang Ben and Jin Zi rarely rode horses, because there were only four or five lean horses in the village. There were only some leaders who could ride when they went down the mountain before, and "small characters" like them could only ride on it when they fed the horses fodder in the village, and at present, they were still quite loyal to Xiao Jiu, because Xiao Jiu made them change from "little minions" to "little bosses".

And Xiao Jiu is also not used to riding, because although the horses of this era have stirrups and saddles, but the horses do not nail the horseshoe, in some places with more stones and gravel, it is easy to fold the hooves when riding fast, although it is a dirt and stone road in the mountains, Xiao Jiu still rides very slowly, after all, the first four masters fly on the grass is a lesson from the previous car.

From going down the mountain in the morning to arriving at Lijia Town at noon, it was not because the distance was too far, but except for Xiao Jiu and Zhang Ben, the rest of the mountain bandits walked on two legs, and the only mule used to pull wine in the village could not walk fast.

Before Xiao Jiu and his party walked to the town, there were already a group of people with farm tools waiting at the entrance of the town, and at a glance, there were about 20 people.

In this era, each larger market town will select two idlers to take turns to patrol the main road outside the town to guard against the homeless people and bandits in the system, because in the context of this era, the defense forces of a county town are concentrated in the county seat, like the villages and towns under its jurisdiction can not be taken care of at all.

This Lijia town is said to be a market town, but it is just a big village, except for some such as blacksmith shops, tofu shops, and grain shops, there is only a wine shop and restaurant of the rich man Li Gui's family, which provides some wine and food for the past merchants, and most of the other families in the town are mainly farmers, and they are surrounded by fields into a residential area.

At a distance of 100 meters from the town, Xiao Jiu, who was leading the leader, stopped, looked at the expressionless people, turned his head and signaled to Zhang Ben next to him, and Zhang Ben, who got the signal, rode forward and walked to the people.

"Bao Chang Li Gui replied"

Zhang Ben asked loudly with great momentum, looking down at the people with a cold face.

"Villain Li Gui, the town has just paid the New Year's money in the first month, I don't know what the leader is here to do?" As soon as the words fell, an old man standing in front of the crowd bent down and arched his hand to Zhang Ben, his posture was not humble, after all, he couldn't be too weak in the face of bandits who didn't know what he meant.

"Chief Li Gui, my village is mainly looking for you to negotiate a deal, and also, the owner of our new village in Hare Mountain is called Jiuye, you come with me."

After speaking, Zhang Ben rode back, although Li Gui didn't understand what business the mountain bandits were talking about with him, but he still followed Zhang Ben in the direction of Xiao Jiu, and came straight to Xiao Jiu's side.

Seeing Li Gui coming, Xiao Jiu turned over and dismounted, and said: "Li Baochang hasn't seen you for many days, don't be nervous, I am now the owner of Hare Mountain, and I am not here to trouble you this time, but I have a business I want to do with you." ”

Li Gui was also a little surprised when he saw Xiao Jiu, he knew Xiao Jiu.

In the past, Xiao Jiu had taken two mountain bandits to his restaurant twice, although they could be taken down and reported to the official, but at that time, Hare Mountain was still entrenched in dozens of bandits, Li Gui naturally did not dare to do it, and on weekdays, the town handed over the New Year's money every year, and he couldn't make a bad deal with Hare Mountain, so he could only watch Xiao Jiu pat his ass and leave after eating.

Similarly, Li Gui was also puzzled why Xiao Jiu wanted to find himself to do business, business? Don't you usually rob them? What kind of business can you do with yourself.

Although he thought so in his heart, he couldn't say it, thinking that Xiao Jiu didn't have much food from other villages and towns, and planned to extort some more money and food, so he could only continue to ask Xiao Jiu under pressure, "Ninth Master, but the cottage has just changed its owner, and you want to collect some gift money?" “

Hearing Li Gui's words, Xiao Jiu was also a little helpless, his identity as a bandit left a bad impression on people, and he didn't believe that he just wanted to cooperate.

So under Xiao Jiu's continuous relief, Li Gui finally accepted the fact that Xiao Jiu was going to give him a cart of wine, but Li Gui was still thinking about whether Xiao Jiu let him sell it for one or two silver per jar of wine, was it a new type of blackmail? How will you ask yourself for money next time you come?

In the end, Li Gui looked at the wine jars that were unloaded by the mountain bandits, leaving only a figure of people leaving, and was about to disperse the people at the entrance of the town, when a young man opened the wine stopper of a jar of wine, and a refreshing aroma came out in an instant.

"Bao Chang, good wine."