Not long after, Zhao Jun met with the official of the Armaments and Grain Storage Department in his study.

The dark study brightened as the lights were lit, and the shadows were constantly swaying in the light.

"Say, what are you looking for this king?"

Zhao Jun sat down in his place and asked directly.

The official of the Grain Storage Department was surnamed Fan Zheng and was named Fan Zheng.

was directly questioned by Zhao Jun, and Fan Zheng didn't mean to hide it, only to see him arch his hand and say: "Lord Wang, the lower officials need your help!" ”

"Oh? What helps? ”

Zhao Jun raised his eyebrows and looked at him.

"To be precise, it should be the help of the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce." Fan Zheng explained.

Then the reason was said.

"My lord, you handed over the matter of changing horses to the lower officials, and the lower officials are grateful, but the matter of trading horses with the Tatars is completely insufficient for our grain storage department.

And as you said before, normal brewing takes at least a year anyway, and it's completely impossible for us to make enough sake with four months left!

So in order to get enough liquor in four months, we had to trade with Kannai.

Although there is a shortage of food in Kannai, a large amount of sake is still brewed every year.

Especially in the cities where the family is entrenched, there are countless drinks that have been brewed in a few years.

Xia Guan didn't plan to exchange it for those good wines, as long as he exchanged for a large number of the most ordinary turbid wines!

But this official can't do it, and he has to help the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce under your command. ”

Zhao Jun suddenly became interested when he heard this, sat up straight and asked, "What do you say?" What do you want so much cloudy wine for?

Didn't you say before that the Tatars needed spirits? ”

Fan Zheng smiled mysteriously, first looked left and right, confirmed that there were no outsiders here, and then said with a smug face: "Lord Wang, you don't know, the little one has discovered a secret method that can turn turbid wine into spirits.

It's just that the consumption of cloudy wine is relatively large.

That's why we need to exchange grain for a lot of turbid wine first.

After such a transformation of the secret method of Xiaguan, ten catties of turbid wine can be turned into three catties of spirits!

As long as we change hands, we can get the spirits we need in the shortest possible time! ”

Zhao Jun smiled, amused by Fan Zheng's mysterious appearance, what secret method, isn't it the distillation method?

I could guess it myself, but Zhao Jun didn't say it, just nodded and agreed: "Yes, since you have this password, then the king can notify Yunli and ask him to cooperate with you to exchange food for wine in the customs."

But, as the king said in the chamber before, wine is only one of the difficulties you have to face, and the other difficulty is whether the Tatars are willing to trade with us in such a situation, how do you solve it? ”

Fan Zheng said confidently: "Don't worry, Lord Wang, this question is very simple, although it seems that we are going to fight with the Tatars, but this is a matter between us and the Tatar tribes, and the main forces of the war are also those big tribes."

We just need to target the small Tatar tribes and let the planning Tatars in the county find those small tribes to trade with.

Driven by profit, even if the small tribes know that they are going to fight us, they will agree to trade with us. ”

Zhao Jun only thought for a moment before he understood his thoughts, and immediately nodded in agreement.

"Okay, this king ordered the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce to help you with all its might, and the naturalized Tatar tribe will also be notified by this king.

You only need to do what you said, and get enough war horses for my Yunzhou County, then the position of the director of the grain storage department must be yours. ”

With Zhao Jun's promise, Fan Zhengdang grinned happily.

"Thank you, Lord Wang!"

……

Soon after the meeting, the entire Yunzhou County began to get busy.

Everyone was preparing for a possible Tatar invasion in mid-September.

All kinds of logistical materials were produced in large quantities, and the recruitment work was also carried out in the three counties of Shenzhi.

To the surprise of the officials of Yunzhou County, they originally imagined that in the current situation of better life, those people should become resistant to becoming soldiers, and their recruitment work would become extremely difficult.

But what they didn't expect was that as soon as the news of the conscription was publicized, a large number of young adults were sent by their families to serve as soldiers for the prince.

According to these young people, the old man at home said!

We can have the good life we have now, because the prince and the guards are carrying the burden for us.

Those of us who are ordinary people have nothing to help the prince except farming, and now the prince needs people, and he needs someone to resist the Tatars and continue to maintain this life, then we will be soldiers!

Be a soldier for the prince!

Become those who carry the weight for everyone, for the prince and his family to resist the Tatars!

Recruitment is in full swing, and the recruitment work that I thought would take a long time was full of people in less than half a month.

100,000 recruits entered the camp to begin a new round of recruit training.

Here, the recruitment of new recruits is doing exceptionally well.

Fan Zheng didn't encounter any problems here.

In Kannai, grain is now hard currency.

Generally, 100 catties of grain in the customs can produce 50 catties of wine, and the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce has set a price of 100 catties of grain for 30 catties of turbid wine.

Naturally, this bargain price aroused great interest among the families who were in the wine business.

One hundred catties of grain can brew a full fifty catties of turbid wine, but the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce only needs thirty catties, which means that as long as they are willing to change, they can directly earn the difference of nearly twenty catties of turbid wine, that is, they can earn forty catties of one hundred grains!

It's not a good deal!

In today's situation in the Great Song Dynasty, food is very precious, and even for these families, the amount of wine brewed in the past two years has decreased a lot.

It's because there's less food.

Now that they have the opportunity to exchange the cloudy wine they stored before for food, and some of them are willing to make money.

Soon, the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce began to trade with a large number of family firms.

A sum of grain went out in exchange for a jar of turbid wine.

The family got the grain, and the Yunzhou County got the wine, and everyone was happy.

When the first batch of 100,000 catties of liquor was sent back to Yunzhou County, Fan Zheng quickly turned the 100,000 catties of turbid liquor into 30,000 catties of high-grade spirits through distillation.

Later, Fan Zheng went to find the naturalized Tatar tribes in the territory and asked for help.

And with Zhao Jun's greeting in advance, the patriarchs of those naturalized tribes did not embarrass him, and directly agreed.

It's just a small request, that is, to ask Fan Zheng to sell them a batch of turbid wine, but they can't get war horses, so they can only trade with gold, silver, cattle and sheep.

The same Tatars, although they have been naturalized, does not mean that their eating habits have changed, and they are also very interested in this batch of wine.

If it weren't for the fact that they really didn't have any horses in their hands, they would have wanted to buy this batch of wine themselves, but now they can only watch the gluttony.

In this regard, Fan Zheng simply agreed.

It's just that there is a limit on the amount of spirits that can be traded for them, and they can only trade five thousand catties at most, and the rest must be exchanged for war horses, after all, this batch of spirits was originally made in exchange for war horses.

If there are no restrictions, I am afraid that these naturalized Tatar tribes can be directly replaced.

After receiving these benefits, the patriarchs of those tribes were naturally very happy and agreed to it in one bite.

Soon a batch of cattle, sheep, gold and silver were exchanged for all the amount they could get clean.

Immediately after that, he kept the remaining liquor and began to make arrangements to find other Tatar tribes to change horses.

And soon, they had a goal ...

(End of chapter)