Early in the morning of the second day, Li Gui moved quickly, and brought a few villagers to Hare Mountain, ready to discuss follow-up cooperation with Xiao Jiu.

Xiao Jiu is actually not too sure about how to choose Lijiazhen, because he has learned through these days that the people of this era are obedient to the feudal order that modern people cannot imagine.

But after the people of Lijiazhen discussed, they still found a compromise solution.

That is, in the cooperation between Xiao Jiu and Li Jiazhen, find a middleman who plays the media, if the government really tracks it down one day, it will only kill the "evil leader" of this bandit, and this person is undoubtedly the chief of the security Li Gui.

When Xiao Jiu heard this method, his eyes lit up, and he secretly sighed that after all, he still underestimated the ancients, they would only choose the safest way, which was also a kind of survival wisdom.

Eventually, everything was settled, and then the villagers would send the grain to Li Gui's distillery in the form of annual grain, where it would be simply fermented, and then transported to the cottage to be purified and finally sold.

During this period, Li Gui suggested that Xiao Jiu should build a winery in Lijia Town, and directly send people from the cottage to "process", which also saved the cost of transportation back and forth.

But Xiao Jiu still rejected Li Gui's proposal after a simple thought, without him, Li Jiazhen, who has not cooperated now, cannot gain his trust, and directly purify it in Lijia Town, and the production process of distilled liquor will be leaked in a short time.

Although the method of making shochu will eventually leak out one day, but one more day of secrecy, the self-brewed shochu will maintain a competitive advantage in the market for one day, and now there is no patent saying, the so-called "secret recipe", the more people know, it has become common sense.

Half a day passed quickly, and when everything was finalized, Xiao Jiu still wanted to leave a few people in the cottage for dinner, but everyone hurriedly said goodbye, saying that a few people would go home and gather everyone to inform them of various matters.

Walking to the gate of the cottage, he looked at Li Jiazhen and his party who were going down the mountain, and when they walked out of the village for 100 meters, they stopped Li Gui again.

"You also have a lot of money, why bother wading into the troubled waters this time?" , Xiao Jiu watched Li Gui walk back to the front and asked with emotion.

Li Gui on the other side thought for a while, and returned to Xiao Jiu with a fist: "Born in troubled times, all the villagers want is to live, although I have some wealth, I can't support Lijiazhen." ”

"Lord Xiao Zhai's method can benefit Lijia Town, and the villagers in the town are all villains, so they are willing to be this middleman."

Xiao Jiu listened to Li Gui's one-on-one answer, and couldn't help but be interested in this little chief: "Aren't you afraid of killing your head?" ”

Li Gui looked at Xiao Jiu, who had a serious face, and sighed in a low voice: "Afraid, how can you not be afraid?" But compared to the lives of hundreds of people in Lijiazhen, what is my life. ”

Xiao Jiu listened to Li Gui's words in front of him, and was in awe of this slightly blessed middle-aged wine merchant in his heart, and solemnly hugged his fists, and the old horse and his bandits who came with him also bent down and hugged their fists, causing Li Gui to return the salute.

Then he exchanged a few words with Li Gui, and then asked Li Gui to go down the mountain with the people of Lijia Town who were waiting at the gate of the village, but finally told Li Gui that if his life was really in danger, he could come to the cottage and defect, and there would be a leader.

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Time flies, and it has been three months since Xiao Jiu traveled to this era, and nothing major has happened since the cooperation with Li Jiazhen was finalized, so Li Guihui occasionally went up the mountain a few times, brought some self-brewed or purchased wine, and then brought the processed soju back to the mountain to sell.

During the period, there was no government to suppress bandits, and there was no mountain next door to loot the fire, the last time the villagers of Lijia Town raised funds to brew, the first batch of grain brewing was about to leave the factory, and the villages also immediately harvested the "New Year's grain".

Everything seems to be developing in a good direction, but Xiao Jiu knows that this year's drought has been year after year, and the land of the whole country is facing the severe problem of reduced grain production.

Recently, the "burning knife" brand of soju has gradually opened up the market, sold to Lingxian County and even Qingzhou all over the country, because of the scarcity, the price of each jar of wine basically starts at three taels of silver, and the price of a little farther away from the county has even been fried to ten taels of silver a jar.

When Li Guilai reported to Xiao Jiu, Xiao Jiu was also shocked by the strong spending power of these dignitaries.

In just over a month, hundreds of jars of soju grabbed high profits for Li Jiazhen and Xiao Jiu, and Xiao Jiu only took one or two taels of silver from each altar of burning knives, and the rest of the profits were all handed over to Li Gui for distribution.

This move also allowed the people of Lijia Town to dispel their original concerns, and they were not as resistant to cooperating with the mountain bandits as they were at the beginning.

When a hanging copper coin was delivered to the people of Lijia Town, those opposing voices were also swept away.

In previous years, after the villagers paid the official grain and bandit food, in the end, even the rations for the day were stretched, except for a few rich families with many fields, who could still save the remaining money?

The current villagers, from the initial semi-coercive cooperation, began to change to really rely on Xiao Jiu and Hare Mountain, and everyone consciously kept secrets about cooperation, for fear of losing their money.

With the official departure of the grain and wine brewed by Lijia Town, which was transported to Hare Mountain in batches, the mountain bandits in the cottage were also busy.

This month, the cottage did not accept any newcomers, and during the brewing period, Xiao Jiu also issued a half-month ban on the cottage people, and they were not allowed to go down the mountain.

This ensures as much as possible that the distillation process leaks before the shochu is sold.

More than ten days later, the first batch of soju production was completed, more than 20 mountain bandits in the cottage participated, a total of more than 200 jars of production, Xiao Jiu was not stingy, directly opened more than ten jars of shochu, distributed to everyone, counted as celebration wine.

When all these drinks are sold, it will be a lot of income, but Xiao Jiu does not intend to directly distribute the money he earns.

Instead, he was going to use this money in exchange for a certain amount of food and materials to store in the cottage, and then distribute a certain amount of money and food to the people in the cottage every month in the form of a stipend.

This is undoubtedly a huge impact on the people of Hare Mountain, who are bandits on the mountain.

Most of them fell into the grass just to fill their stomachs, and no one thought that they would be like in the army, and they would still be paid for it, and for a time the enthusiasm of the mountain bandits was unprecedentedly high.