After arranging a special auction of the Ice Dagger a few days later, Shen Lingxi came to his high-grade liquor store to inspect.

As soon as he saw Shen Lingxi coming, Shopkeeper Lin hurriedly greeted him.

"Young Master Lingxi, I heard that you got an ice dagger this time, it's really good, young master is really powerful. ”

Shopkeeper Lin was brainlessly patting on the back, in short, Shen Lingxi was used to him like this, knowing that he was still very attentive and loyal, and now this high-grade liquor store was still handed over to this person to take care of.

For the high-grade liquor store, Shen Lingxi has great hopes. Gu Shen Lingxi understands that in fact, people in this world are also very good at drinking, whether they are ordinary people or monks who have attained Taoism, they like to drink some wine on occasions such as happy and happy, sad and depressed, and happy events.

Moreover, the Shen family's big house has a spiritual spring to drink wine for their own house, and the Shen family has a drinking spring mountain in the suburbs, and the spring water flowing out of the mountain is abundant, and the big house has built a wine-making workshop on a small scale over there for the Shen family to drink on weekdays.

Shen Lingxi investigated the market demand for wine in Runan City, and found that whether it was a restaurant, an inn, or a food stall, there were all wines selling wine, but these wines were all low-alcohol wines, like rice wine, with degrees in their twenties and thirties.

Moreover, there are many suppliers of these low-alcohol wines, such as the Zhang family and the Li family, which also brew some low-alcohol wines to sell in the market, of course, these big families will generally give priority to their own wines to places such as large restaurants.

That time, Shen Lingxi came to Runan City for the first time, and had dinner with the cheap lady at the inn called Yueqing, and the pot of osmanthus wine on the dinner table was supplied by the Li family.

Although these big families do not have any brand awareness, they seem to have touched some thresholds, such as the Li family's wine is mainly made of osmanthus wine, and the Zhang family's wine is called sweet rice wine, in short, the low-alcohol wine market in Runan is mainly controlled by the Li family and the Zhang family.

Therefore, even if the Shen family has a spiritual spring with a very good water source, the Shen family does not make wine to sell in Runan City.

Shen Lingxi now holds the exclusive secret recipe of high-alcohol wine, and investigates the market demand, and feels that just in this Runan City, if high-strength wine is sold on a large scale and grabs a part of the market share of low-alcohol wine, this income is also quite considerable.

"Shopkeeper Lin, has there been a high bar from the workshop these days?" Shen Lingxi looked at his own high wine specialty store and found that the high wine seemed to be gone, so he asked suspiciously.

Shopkeeper Lin hurriedly took a ledger and came to Shen Lingxi with a smile on his face.

"Young Master Lingxi, this is the sales situation during this time. This high wine was sold out as soon as it was launched, and there are still many restaurants and big merchants waiting to get the goods, but the output of the workshop is too small to meet these needs. Shopkeeper Lin said with a heart-wrenching expression on his face.

Shen Lingxi had already expected this situation, so he nodded without any expression, and opened the account book to look at it.

"Oh, during this time, a total of 8,000 pots of high wine were sold, and the profit of one pot was about two taels of silver, and these 8,000 pots were 16,000 taels of profit. How can there be 12,000 taels of advance deposit, what's going on?"

Shen Lingxi flipped through the account book casually, and immediately saw what he was looking for, and for the doubts in his heart, Shen Lingxi asked directly.

The shopkeeper saw that Young Master Lingxi was just flipping through it, and he could see the business situation inside, and he was very impressed in his heart, and secretly warned himself in his heart to be more careful in doing things in the future, and he must not be faulted by Young Master Lingxi, after all, although his young master is young, he seems to be a rare business genius.

When the shopkeeper heard Shen Lingxi's question, he hurriedly said: "Master Hui Lingxi, this pre-received deposit is forced by those merchants who are waiting in line to get the goods. This is also the way that those merchants want to come out and squeeze out those opponents who do not have a large amount of funds, and our small store has no choice but to give priority to supply according to the time of paying the deposit. ”

Speaking of this, Shopkeeper Lin peeked at Shen Lingxi, for fear that Young Master Lingxi would be unhappy.

"Well, I see! Judging from the amount of this deposit, this is only a 20% deposit, which is almost the same as the profit during this time, so the order is too large. With the scale of our production now, we don't know how long we have to wait to meet the needs of these people! Alas, it's all money!"

Of course, Shen Lingxi will not be angry because of the high demand, on the contrary, she is very worried about the scale of production of high-grade wine, if the output can go up, the money will flow into her pocket.

In order to ensure that the distillation technology of high-grade liquor is not imitated and stolen, Shen Lingxi feels that it is better to get an assembly line production method, and each recruited person is only responsible for a small step of distillation, so that it can quickly recruit people to expand production, and there is no need to worry about personnel being poached and the technology will be leaked.

Of course, this highly distilled technology is not very difficult, but Shen Lingxi wants to control this technology for a long time, so that the monopoly money can be earned as long as possible.

Now Shen Lingxi feels that he is short of start-up capital, the equipment for this distilled spirit must be made separately, each step must be refined, and there will be recruitment of personnel, and a few more estates will be selected to expand the scale of the workshop, which requires the investment of early funds.

In addition, Shen Lingxi wanted to buy a sixth-grade alchemy furnace as soon as possible, as well as buy those auxiliary materials for refining Guyuan Dan, in short, Shen Lingxi felt that he was extremely short of money now.

Then the thought of selling the ice dagger became even more urgent.

After checking the current high-grade liquor store, Shen Lingxi knew that there were about 30,000 taels of cash in the high-grade liquor store during this time.

"Shopkeeper Lin, you will use all these 30,000 taels of silver to recruit people for me to build a new distilled liquor workshop, I want you to recruit at least five hundred people for me as soon as possible, as well as the distilled liquor workshop in our manor, I want you to find someone to expand immediately, and I will let people customize a new set of equipment." In short, we have to use the money in hand to expand production capacity as quickly as possible. ”

Shen Lingxi carefully instructed the shopkeeper Lin to some details, and also specifically pointed out that if the money for the expansion of the new workshop is not enough, you can continue to collect a large amount of deposits from customers, and collect as much as you can, anyway, the more you collect, the faster the new workshop will be built, so that the production capacity can quickly keep up.

Shen Lingxi's trick can be said to make full use of the loan business model of later generations, but Shen Lingxi is more clever that these deposits are interest-free, and there is no need to repay the money in the end, and only need to pay these customers a high degree of wine.