Feng Zai smiled awkwardly and did not reply.

I looked at Ku Jia with a happy face and smelled the wine.

"How many degrees is this?"

Ku Jia arched his hand and said: "Back to Your Majesty, this is normal wine, according to Your Majesty's words, it should be forty degrees." ”

Li Si is also a little curious, what is normal wine? Is there still something wrong with alcohol?

I took a sip of the jue, the degree is about the same, but it is not as fragrant as the wine of later generations, but it is much better than the current rice wine.

"Meng He, pour a cup for Li Xiang and Feng Xiang too."

Li Si is not very good at drinking, drinking too much will make his brain inflexible, he is the right prime minister, for fear that one day he will drink too much and look foreign or say something that should not be said.

Feng Zheng is good to drink, and he often drinks some when he eats with Feng Quji, but it is not too much.

The two looked at the liquid in the glass, and looked surprised.

"Why is this wine so clear? There is no muddy thing to be seen. ”

I smiled mysteriously, "That's the magic of distillation." Taste it, just taste it, I don't know if you are used to it. ”

Li Si tasted it lightly, suddenly put the cup down, and exclaimed: "What a spicy wine!" ”

Feng Zheng was just about to drink it, but he was taken aback, looking at Li Si's appearance, it didn't seem to be delicious.

"Li Xiang, how's it going?"

Li Si was just about to speak, smacked his lips slightly, frowned again, picked up the wine glass and took another sip.

Feng Zheng was a little puzzled, is this unpleasant or delicious?

Li Si didn't make a fuss this time, put down the glass and praised again and again: "Good wine!" Wine! The entrance is extremely spicy, but after the aftertaste, the lips and teeth are fragrant, and a fragrant breath is refreshing, good wine! ”

Feng Zheng also hurriedly tasted it, he is an expert in drinking, and naturally he can taste the quality of wine better than Li Si, and he is also amazed: "Your Majesty, it is really good wine!" Chen Pingsheng is a good wine, he has never drunk such strong wine, and he feels that his body is hot for a while, and he is a good wine to ward off the cold! ”

I laughed and said, "To be praised by you means that this kind of wine I make is acceptable." ”

Feng Zheng also laughed and said, "I don't know how Your Majesty's wine is brewed?" ”

I waved my hand and said with a smile: "If you want to drink it, you will have to buy it from me in the future, and my exclusive secret recipe cannot be leaked." ”

It seems that Feng Zheng is really good wine.

Feng Zai smiled, looked at the jar of wine next to him and said, "I heard Ku Jia say that this is normal wine, I don't know what the other jar says?" ”

Meng He stepped forward to open another jar of wine, and suddenly a more violent aroma of wine came to his nose than just now.

Feng Zai's eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to try it.

Looking at Feng Zheng's expression, I couldn't help but laugh and said, "Don't think about this altar, it's not that I'm stingy, it's just that you can't drink it." ”

Feng Zhengqi said: "Why is this? ”

I took the bronze jue on the case, and Meng He poured a glass into it.

"Bring me fire."

Meng He took a fire fold from the charcoal fire.

I picked up the fire fold and leaned towards the bronze jue, and suddenly, a light blue flame rushed up.

Li Si and the others were startled, and looked at the burning liquor in amazement.

I picked up the paper on the table and put it on the knight and put out the fire.

"This is the wine I brewed for the soldiers of the army, to be exact, alcohol."

Li Si was a little confused.

"Your Majesty, what is alcohol?"

I asked Meng He to reseal the two jars of wine.

"Alcohol, as the name suggests, is the essence of wine. Wine is the essence of grain brewing, this alcohol is taken from ordinary wine, but it is stronger, so strong that normal people can't drink it, and people who drink this alcohol don't want to live. This alcohol is not for the soldiers in the army, but for them to disinfect. ”

"You should know that if a soldier is injured, he usually burns the wound with a red-hot sword, you think this is just to stop the bleeding, but in fact there is another important role, that is, disinfection."

"The wound can breed a lot of bacteria, which is dirt, and the injury is often accompanied by a high fever, which is the bacteria. High temperatures can kill these bacteria. This method is not only painful, but also ineffective. Alcohol serves the same purpose and can be used to kill bacteria. If you soak the garlic that has been mashed and left for a period of time in alcohol, it is better to apply it to the wound. ”

Both of them were amazed, they didn't expect this wine to be so useful, why didn't they find it before?

If I hear what they think, I'll appoint one person to give a popper. The rice wine you all drink is sterilized with less than 10 degrees of rice wine? Are you immortals, or are Lupe Hernandez stupid?

The two of them were happy for a while, and suddenly realized something.

Li Si frowned slightly and said, "Your Majesty, what garlic did you just say?" What's that? ”

I wondered, "It's garlic, garlic ......."

", garlic has to be brought back from the Western Regions by Zhang Qian of the Han Dynasty...... 'I was speechless for a while, I only thought of alcohol, but I didn't expect Daqin to have no garlic! It seems that I have not worked in vain in this Western Regions, I have to go there......

I waved my hand, "You'll know later." ”

When Feng Zai heard this, he showed a lewd smile that did not match his identity as the prime minister of Zuo.

"Your Majesty, you just said that if you want to drink this wine, I have to buy it from you, I don't know how much it costs?"

I was speechless for a while, you are Prime Minister Zuo, is this expression appropriate?

"I will give you two altars by myself, and you will help me promote them. If there are more people who buy it, in the future, the two of you will buy the wine at half price, and the others will buy it, ten gold and one jar! ”

Feng Zheng was taken aback, ten gold! What is the concept of ten gold, enough to buy 200 stone rice! Those officials with the rank of doctor and below are not enough to buy a jar of wine for a year!

Seeing Feng Zheng's expression, I smiled arrogantly: "Don't be too expensive, when everyone knows that this wine is good, I'm afraid you won't be able to buy it if you have money!" ”

Feng Zai grinned, his words were not rough, judging from the taste of this wine, it was really worth the price.

Feng Zai arched his hand and said: "Thank you for the two jars of wine rewarded by Your Majesty, and the minister will definitely help Your Majesty vigorously promote it!" ”

I smiled and nodded, "Do you know why I'm pricing so high?" ”

Li Si muttered: "Once this wine appears, it will inevitably provoke those who love wine to go crazy. But His Majesty's price is so high, ordinary people must not be able to afford it, so they can only sell it to those rich nobles or merchants. ”

Lis's brain was still spinning fast.

"Li Xiang is right, I didn't want to sell this wine to ordinary people in the first place, there are two main reasons."

"The most important thing is that the brewing of this spirit requires a lot of food, which is more than four times more than the rice wine we drink now! For my Daqin, food is the top priority, and if you can make huge profits through winemaking, I am afraid that Qianshou will have no food to eat. Therefore, not only is it not allowed to make liquor on a large scale, but it is also not allowed to be made privately. ”

"The second is that wine is not a necessity for Qianshou, I can call it a luxury. Which of the paper, farm implements, movable type printing, etc., which of the previously issued papers, farm tools, movable type printing, etc., was taken out and handed over to merchants for trading that could not overflow the treasury? But why did I choose to hand it over to the government at a price that everyone could afford? Because these are necessities, every capital must use them. As for why this luxury item is priced so high? The role is to take out the money from those who have money, and then use it for the imperial court, which indirectly benefits the head of the Qian. ”

"I am the emperor, don't compete with the people for profit!"

Li Si and the others got up and bowed deeply.

"Your Majesty is benevolent and virtuous, and my Great Qin will be passed on forever!"

I got up and said with a smile: "I will leave this matter to Meng He, and then there will be a wine shop called Wanli Xiang near Bashi Tai, you have to wish him a hand, and don't reveal that it is brewed by Shang Shifu." ”

"Obey Your Majesty's orders!"