After returning to the cottage, Xiao Jiu did not rush to let his subordinates go to the mountain to purchase wine again, but recounted the grain in the village and asked Lao Ma to be responsible for the cashier's records.

After that, he took out a part of the silver taels of the cottage and rewarded them to the hare mountain bandits who had been repairing the village for the past two days.

Although Xiao Jiu's position in the village is relatively stable, the enemy is current, and the rest of the mountain bandits have no motive to rebel, but it is not a long-term solution to suppress them by force all the time, and only a combination of grace and power can effectively control them.

For this group of mountain bandits, it is not realistic to train into forbidden warriors in a short period of time, and they can only use some rewards to give them a sense of belonging to the cottage as much as possible.

The bandits who got the money were a little crooked, and secretly went down the mountain in the evening to find a woman, and Xiao Jiu also opened one eye and closed one eye.

just summoned Zhang Ben and Jinzi, and asked them to explain clearly to their brothers that they can't use force to find women, and cause trouble to the village, and bear the consequences.

In fact, there is no need for Xiao Jiu to explain, and there is rarely such a thing as robbing people's women, in order to be able to harvest food smoothly, the bandits in various cottages and mountains will restrain their subordinates, and only when they meet the kind of villages that resist food and do not pay will they harass the villagers and kidnap women.

As usual, the bandits in the mountains couldn't hold back, so they all went to the kilns in the nearby market towns, and even some mountain bandits would join hands with the rich owners in the town to increase the income of the cottages.

Since returning to Lijia Town, ten days have passed in the blink of an eye, but there has been no news from the mountain, Xiao Jiu thought about sending someone down the mountain to explore the situation, not worried that Li Gui had hacked more than a dozen jars of soju, but thought about whether something else had happened.

Before Xiao Jiu sent someone down the mountain, on the twelfth day, Li Gui took two villagers to the village.

Xiao Jiu invited Li Gui and the three of them into the village, and specially prepared some tea and dry food in advance in the conference hall, and his words were also very polite, which made Li Gui very uncomfortable.

After a few words of greeting, Li Gui explained the process of selling the wine, and sent the money from the jars of soju together.

"Ninth Master, the wine you sent a few days ago has been sold, and the money is two hundred and forty hangs, which has been converted into silver and sent to you."

Li Gui arched his hand at Xiao Jiu, and the villagers who followed him took some broken silver from the blanket on his body and handed it forward.

"Oh? At the beginning, I set a price of one or two pieces of silver, that is, ten hangs of money, why did Shopkeeper Li take so much more silver. ”

Xiao Jiu touched his chin and stared at Li Gui and chuckled, although he thought that his wine was easy to sell, it was a bit unexpected that a jar of wine could be sold for twenty yuan.

In the mountain bandit village, Li Gui was still a little nervous, and explained what happened in detail.

Since Xiao Jiu sent the soju that day, Li Gui did not dare to delay, and took a few villagers to Lingshui County the next day.

As a senior grain and wine supplier, Li Gui has a rich understanding of wine, and basically knows the advantages and disadvantages of wine when he tastes it.

And the twelve jars of soju that Xiao Jiu sent over were something he had never seen before, this kind of high-count soju was very different from the soft taste of Daxia's grain wine and fruit wine.

In addition, the shochu is purified by distillation, and the finished liquor is clear and bright, and the overall appearance is also very bright compared to the turbidity of the brewed liquor.

After Li Gui tasted the soju, he had an idea in his heart, doubled the price given by Xiao Jiu, and entrusted it to the county restaurant for trial sale.

In the first few days, the diners in the restaurant were not interested in this strange high-priced liquor, but since Li Gui opened the first jar of soju for diners to taste for free, the remaining eleven jars of soju were sold out in an instant.

This time, Li Gui went up the mountain, in addition to sending the money from the sale of the soju, he also wanted to ask if he could ask Xiao Jiu's batch of wine from the side.

Lingshui County is a hometown of winemaking, and the wine brewed is also well-known in the whole Qingzhou, but Li Gui has never seen such a fierce wine, which makes him smell the huge business opportunities.

Li Gui and the two villagers were a little absent-minded when they went down the mountain, because the future depicted by Xiao Jiu made him very excited, but his identity as a mountain bandit made Li Gui a little hesitant.

The cooperation that Xiao Jiu said was not a lie, but the object of cooperation was not only him.

Xiao Jiu directly told Li Gui that the soju was obtained by himself by purifying and brewing liquor in a certain way, but the skills and methods in it were not disclosed, and the object he chose to cooperate with was all the villagers in the entire Lijia Town.

The way of cooperation is also very simple, the farmers in the villages and towns will no longer pay the annual grain, but according to the number of heads, each family will make their own brewed water, deliver it to the cottage, and then the cottage will "process" the wine, and then transport it to the county seat by Li Gui, the chief of the Bao, to sell, and the profits will be divided equally between the cottage and Lijia Town.

In this way, the villagers of Lijia Town must all be in favor, in addition to the annual annual grain is a large share, they may also be able to get some windfall income through winemaking.

Moreover, like the peasants do not need a lot of grain to brew village wine, which is mixed with some chaff bran or moldy grain, it is actually harmless, if the villagers' grain can be put in Li Gui's own wine cellar to concentrate on brewing, there is a lot of work left.

All this seems to be a win-win situation, but in fact, it is also mixed with a lot of risks, and it will really become bigger in the future, in case it is deducted as a "company with bandits" hat and defined as a rebellion, it will be killed.

In the end, Li Gui decided to go back and discuss with some of the most prestigious clan elders in the clan first, if he really chose to cooperate with Xiao Jiu, it would be too difficult to get off halfway. He has been in business for many years, and he knows very well that when the time comes, not only the mountain bandits of Hare Mountain, but also the villagers who have been bound by interests will not agree.

After Li Gui left, Xiao Jiu gathered the cottage Zhang Ben, Lao Ma and Jin Zi into the conference hall and solemnly discussed with the three of them some questions about the future establishment of the cottage.

In this era, most of the mountain bandits are desperate to choose to fall into the grass, which is a dangerous and lowly profession compared to farmers or ordinary walkers.

Similarly, it is difficult for mountain bandits to have a sense of belonging to the cottage, at best it is a trough for eating, today the government will suppress it, tomorrow I will change the mountain, as for the kind of righteous and thin clouds, although there are also knights who rob the rich and help the poor, but there are too few.

Xiao Jiu has been thinking about it for the past few days, since it is so difficult to live in this era, it is unrealistic to use some morality or honor to restrain others, and only interests can use others for their own use.

Therefore, Xiao Jiu thought about using the shareholding system to operate the cottage, and then cooperate with the villages and towns under the mountain, in which the bandits in the village and the villagers under the mountain can share dividends according to a certain percentage.

In this way, even if the government comes to suppress it, in the face of hundreds of people with relevant interests, where will they go from?