The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

"In the past two days, my family has been preparing New Year's goods for each family. It happens that you are here today. If you have anything you like, please tell me and I will ask someone to prepare more." Li Fu said to Cheng Yaojin.

"What else can you have? Everything is good in your family, but you must let me choose one thing, then prepare more wine for me." Cheng Yaojin said: "My people went to your farm to order this stuff, and there is a limit on the purchase."

Li Fu laughed.

"Although the output of the wine workshop has increased now, it is still far from enough for the consumption of the entire Chang'an City. This business can't even be done in Chang'an City."

Just the major restaurants in Chang'an City, plus the wealthy families who specially sent people to the farm to order food and money, it was already very tight. When merchants from other places came, there was no stock.

In other words, there is a trading area. People come to get goods and pay first. The workshop will see whether to accept this money.

If you accept the money, you can write a bill to the person, agree on a time, and come to the farm to pick up the goods.

If you want ready-made goods, there is no other place except the Jingyang Palace.

Even the wine in the palace is sent directly to the palace by the Jingyang Palace, not by the workshop on the farm.

Where can the workshop have surplus goods?

"Such a good business, you can expand your workshop. If it doesn't work, build another workshop. If you don't sell enough at the end of the year, how much money will you lose."

Cheng Yaojin was heartbroken when he talked about this.

The most important thing is that the money is not important. It is very sad to drink this wine sparingly.

"But speaking of making money, you are not short of money now. You have a tea business, which you do a relatively large business. But I think that if you expand the wine business, you can make as much money as tea." Cheng Yaojin said, "How about you try it?"

When the production of Wude wine in Jingyang County increases, our people will come to the farm to buy wine, and the deadline for buying wine will not be delayed for so long.

"What you said makes sense." Li Fu smiled: "Why, the nobles in Chang'an City like this Wude wine just like you."

"What you said is the same as not saying anything. If you don't like it, how can the wine workshop on your farm do such a good business? During the New Year and festivals, if anyone entertains guests without serving Wude wine, they will lose face." Cheng Yaojin said.

"Before Wude wine, people drank rice wine, fermented glutinous rice, and sake. I never thought that this high-proof liquor would be so popular. Are you used to it?"

"Let's not talk about whether you are used to it or not, but you can't live without it, you know?" Cheng Yaojin said: "After drinking strong liquor, I always feel that sake doesn't taste good and is not satisfying enough."

After Wude wine came out, the workshop and business were all thrown to Ma Shisan to handle, and Li Fu went to do other things. It should be said that he didn't do market research.

Cheng Yaojin's words are right. If the wine business is done well, it is not much worse than tea.

But there is one thing, that is, brewing wine consumes grain, and the Tang Dynasty has not yet emerged from the food crisis.

There is no shortage of grain in his farm, but most of the people are still in a period of two meals a day and cannot fill their stomachs completely.

At the beginning, the emperor said that during the Wude period, he thought about the court issuing a decree to implement a ban on alcohol.

But it was not implemented in the end.

Why ban alcohol?

It is to save food.

It is said that the food left by the former Sui Dynasty is enough for the Tang Dynasty to eat for many years. That is pure rumor.

If the Tang Dynasty had so much food and so much money, everything left by the Sui Dynasty would have been inherited by the Tang Dynasty.

Now Li Shimin has led his people to the grasslands.

Still suffer this humiliation?

"When the food is abundant in the future, I will definitely open more wine workshops." Li Fu smiled.

"Why, your farm is not rich in food yet." Cheng Yaojin was surprised.

Aren't the four granaries full?

"The granary on the farm is full, but the granary in the treasury is not full yet. How many people in the world are still hungry? Can we use a lot of food to make wine?" Li Fu had a bit of sadness on his face.

Seeing Li Fu like this, Cheng Yaojin was moved.

"Well, people are really strange. It's amazing how they think about things in their positions." Cheng Yaojin said with a smile: "You are a prince of the Tang Dynasty and a member of the royal family. Although you don't go to the palace or attend court very often, you still think about the people of the world in your heart, like a proper prince."

"I am a proper prince." Li Fu smiled.

"Okay, for your"I, Old Cheng, would like to offer you a toast to the heart of the country and the people." Cheng Yaojin picked up the wine glass and gestured to Li Fu.

Li Fu also picked up the wine glass and clinked glasses with Cheng Yaojin.

After drinking the wine in the glass, Li Fu sighed.

"In fact, when I was chatting with the emperor before, we talked about the issue of wine. The emperor said that in the Wude years, there was an idea of ​​banning alcohol because of the lack of food and the people could not eat." Li Fu said, "I still remember this until now."

"Alas, if you ask me, in fact, this has been a problem in all dynasties. The problem of ordinary people's food has never been solved. Some people's families are rich and have endless food, while some people's families can't eat. This difference has always existed, so I think you don't have to think so much. "Cheng Yaojin smiled: "If you keep worrying about these problems, there will be too many things in the world to worry about, and one person can't worry about it."

"Just do what we should do. If you worry too much, you will get sick easily. ”

Li Fu understood what Cheng Yaojin meant, so he was also surprised.

“You see things clearly.”

“What kind of insight is this? You have fought all the way here, and you have seen everything. If you have to sigh about everything, you can’t be a general leading troops to fight, or even an official.” Cheng Yaojin said nonchalantly: “There are too many tragic things in the world, too many to see, and too many to solve. The court can only solve most of the important things immediately, and the rest can be done slowly and slowly. It is impossible to complete it overnight.”

Cheng Yaojin looks rough, but he is rough and delicate. He is a military general, but also a scholar. He has a prominent family background. He studied and practiced martial arts since he was a child. It was only later that he joined the army that he became a military general.

“So, do what you can do well at the moment, and don’t worry about the rest. "Cheng Yaojin swallowed a large piece of meat in one gulp, looking heartless.

In fact, he was too transparent.