Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 261 Money Making Skills

Daqu is made of pure wheat, the degree of crushing is just right, neither too fine nor too coarse,

When making koji blanks, because there was no suitable machinery, Zhao Dezhao had no choice but to order a few virgins selected from the mansion to manually step on the koji.

The reason for choosing a virgin is very simple, that is, when I drink in the future, I will not feel sick when I think of it, and it can also add mystery and authority to the whole wine-making process.

After making the koji, it starts to be cultivated in the koji room. After two times of high and low temperature cultivation, ten days have passed.After another ten days of fragrance.

Zhao Dezhao was finally able to make wine. Jiang An, Shi Yuanliang, Wang Zixing and others were very interested in his troubles.

Especially Jiang An, when they heard that Zhao Dezhao was going to make wine, they almost decided to come with him these days, and they meant that they would not give up if the wine didn't come out.

Next is a series of steps of continuous rotation,

Soak the ingredients, steam, measure the water, and go through a full saccharification process.

The unique aroma of liquor began to decrease in price and become stronger.

Jiang An shrugged his nose, already starting to get hungry.

The raw material at the bottom of the chaff is absorbed enough water, the temperature is lowered immediately, koji is added, and after a period of fermentation, the liquor can be distilled.

This is a harvest day.

Zhao Dezhao tried his best to make the distillation equipment sealed and hygienic.

The distillation started, and the aroma of the wine became stronger and stronger. Zhao Dezhao took a few large bowls and said to Jiang An with a smile,

"Jiang An, this wine has a strong taste and full stamina. You can drink at most two or three bowls at a time. Don't drink too much. Drinking too much will cause trouble."

Jiang An nodded, the aroma of the wine already carried a strong smell of alcohol,
As a person who is naturally good at wine, he also has a hunch that the taste of this wine is definitely not comparable to weak rice wine.

Looking at the steam, Zhao Dezhao knew that the time was almost up, so he opened the outlet and began to dispense wine.

The first few bowls cannot be ordered, and they are reserved as alcohol.

The fifth bowl started to be picked up by another bucket, and by the way, I picked up a few half bowls and passed them to the people around me.

As soon as Shi Yuanliang smelled the wine, he knew it was a big deal.

He took the bowl, took two sips slowly, tasted it carefully, and immediately praised,
"Your Highness, good wine. This is a real bar. It tastes pungent and tastes sweet, and it will warm your stomach after drinking it."

Zhao Dezhao nodded, "This wine can keep out the cold in winter here."

Jiang An kept silent and had already finished half a bowl, only to feel a burst of hot air burning in his chest and abdomen, which was very comfortable.Pass the bowl,

"Your Highness, have another bowl, it tastes really wonderful."

Zhao Dezhao laughed, "When I have finished a jar, let's go to the table to drink. The dishes are ready, and the only thing missing is the wine."

Wang Zixing also took a sip, and felt that the smell was very pungent, and he didn't like it a bit, but everyone was a general, Jiang An and Shi Yuanliang agreed, and he couldn't say no, so he also praised a few words.

Zhao Dezhao heard that she was insincere, so he didn't say anything.Girls are soft-spoken, that's a fact.

After receiving enough wine, everyone came to the prepared banquet. Zhao Dezhao, Jiang An, and Shi Yuanliang drank until they got drunk, and Wang Zixing also drank a bowl. Although he was not drunk, his pretty face was flushed.

The next day, Jiang An rubbed his head and yawned, and said in a shy voice, "Although this wine is delicious, it is really good. From now on, two bowls per meal is best. Well, in fact, three bowls should be fine."

Shi Yuanliang and Zhao Dezhao looked at each other and smiled. The two slept for a night and basically recovered. Unexpectedly, Jiang An, who seemed tough and brave, was the most undrinkable of the three.

The three chatted and laughed for a while, Shi Yuanliang said, "Your Highness, since this wine is so delicious, I think it can make a big fuss."

Zhao Dezhao's eyes flickered, and he nodded, "How do you think you should make a fuss?"

"Your Highness, this wine has a high alcohol content. As long as it is stored properly, it will not easily volatilize. Unlike the previous village wines, most of them are drunk now and cannot be stored. The rice is still very sour. I think it is a good idea to bottle it and sell it."

Jiang An also said loudly, "That's right, bottle it and take it with you, and those who fight will drink a few sips, it will give them more energy."

Zhao Dezhao nodded, "I made this wine to sell it to raise military pay. It can be sold in Khitan, Northern Han, Xixia, Dali and even Uighur."

"This wine is not a strategic armament material, so don't worry about it, just sell it at a lower price domestically."

"It's always a pot of money, this price is not low." Jiang An shouted.

Zhao Dezhao shook his head, "It's still low. Domestically, it sells for three pennies per jar, while abroad, it sells for four pennies per jar, and it's two catties per jar. We are a seller's market, and I don't believe we can't sell it."

Shi Yuanliang thought about it, it was true, the so-called rarity is the most expensive, the taste and quality of this wine, especially the shelf life, are unmatched by the current wines.

So Zhao Dezhao specially allocated a hundred pro-military soldiers, changed their military uniforms, and specialized in long-distance sales of liquor.

One is for the safety of liquor, and the other is to ensure that money will not flow out.

I found a potter to make a special two-jin jar, and shipped it to shops in all directions. Each store only supplied five jars at a time, and paid for it on the spot without any default.

As the saying goes, it is good not to be afraid of deep alleys.

As soon as the wine is sent out, you only need to uncover the lid, and the aroma of the wine will immediately waft, and everyone will be overwhelmed by it after tasting it again.

Although the price is extremely expensive, shops everywhere basically grit their teeth and eat it, and sell it twice at a higher price.

Some divide the two catties of wine into sixteen parts, two taels each, and the price is much lower. It is 500 liters a part, the price is acceptable, and the quantity is just right, so that you won't get drunk.

So later, these two-packs of small-package liquor began to become popular across the country.

It's not that Zhao Dezhao doesn't want to subdivide, but the cost of packaging is too high. Anyway, he is a wholesaler, so he doesn't care too much about the details.Do you always want to give some benefits to the bottom distributors?

Once this wine was launched, it would be sold out immediately, and Zhao Dezhao specially named it Liu Ling Zui Brand Burning Knife.

In order to ensure the supply, besides mastering the ratio of distiller's yeast and raw materials himself, he taught all the other wine-making processes step by step to different masters. More than a dozen processes were in charge of more than a dozen masters.

Everyone worked overtime brewing regardless of day or night.Finally, the wine is uniformly packed into a two-jin pottery wine jar.

Sold by the pro-military.Make big bucks in no time.

The brewing workshop can produce about two hundred catties of wine every day, and the imperial army scattered around turns these hundred altars of high-quality liquor into four or five hundred Daqi copper coins every day.

According to Daqi's remittance rules, each piece of money is about one tael, that is to say, Zhao Dezhao can now earn four to five hundred taels of silver every day.

That's 5000 taels a month. Although it doesn't seem like a lot, it's enough to support the army.

In fact, wine making is a monopoly in Daqi, but Zhao Dezhaogui is a state herdsman and has his own territory, so there is no problem in making and selling wine on his own territory.

(End of this chapter)