In just a few days, Li Xiao had visited many wineries in Chang'an.

As a capital of millions, especially as the capital, Chang'an consumes a lot of wine. Except for a small amount of wine transported from the local area, most of the wine is brewed by Chang'an and surrounding wineries.

Although brewing wine consumes grain and Chang'an's grain price is more expensive than that in the local area, it is not cheap to transport wine to Chang'an. There are many wineries, so there are naturally many wine lees.

After a casual inquiry, Li Xiao’s guess was verified. No matter what wine brews each winery uses, the lees produced are actually sold as feed for cattle and sheep.

"Fifteen citations per stone."

The shopkeeper of the largest winery in Chang'an was quite polite to Li Xiao who came to ask for the price, but the price was not considered polite.

"Shopkeeper, your price is not honest enough." Li Xiao said with a smile. Now a bucket of corn on the market is only two and a half cents, and a stone is only twenty-five cents. This stone lees have sold for fifteen, which can only be said to be expensive.

"That's not what it means. Look at what kind of lees we are. This is the lees left after the glutinous rice transported from Jiangnan. Our wine is the best wine, and the lees are naturally the best. What is the price of a bucket of glutinous rice in Chang'an? One hundred and fifty stone!"

The japonica rice is 110 million per stone, and the price of this glutinous rice is even higher. According to him, the remaining lees left after glutinous rice are sold for 10% of the rice, which is not high.

"Shopkeeper, I bought a lot of money, and if the price is right, I will definitely buy it for a long time in the future. As far as I know, your winery brews a lot of wine, so there are naturally many wine lees. Usually wine lees are a relatively troublesome thing for you, right?"

"Not bother, what's the trouble? Our lees are good things. Many people buy them to cook and eat them. And our lees are also good things to feed cows and horses."

Li Xiao just smiled at the shopkeeper's words.

"It's okay to cook wine lees, but this cannot be eaten as food. I just buy some occasionally, how much can I sell it? Just use ordinary wine lees for feeding cattle and horses. You are too expensive. To be honest, I've looked at Guifang carefully before coming and found that your wine lees have been piled up in several warehouses, and some of them have even been piled up in the open air. If it rains down, it will be in vain."

The shopkeeper also smiled when he saw that Li Xiao was a sensible person.

"How much do you plan to buy? If the quantity is really large, it can be cheaper."

According to Li Xiao’s knowledge, the glutinous rice wine brewed in this winery can last about 100 kilograms of glutinous rice, which is about 30 kilograms of lees left. This is the dry lees.

However, the wine production rate of rice wine brewed with glutinous rice is very high. In the end, you can even get 120 to 150 kilograms of rice wine. This is also a characteristic of rice wine. After all, steamed glutinous rice and koji fermentation, water is finally needed to ferment it, so rice wine is also called water wine.

For the winery, the lees can actually be regarded as negligible residue.

But for Li Xiao, this rosé can become an important raw material for his winemaking.

After making 100 kilograms of glutinous rice, thirty kilograms of dry lees can be left, and Li Xiao is confident that he may steam fifteen kilograms of lees with 100 kilograms of lees.

According to this kind of wine delivery rate, even if the shopkeeper asks for fifteen cents of money, it is quite cost-effective.

But business can't do this.

"If you don't brag, I'll buy as much as the shopkeeper has. But as long as it's fresh, it can't be the kind of spoiled ones. I'm afraid that if it's spoiled, my cows and horses will get diarrhea after eating them."

"Hahaha, this brother is really not afraid of the wind blowing his tongue. Do you know how much wine we want to make in a day? Just glutinous rice wine, the lees produced in a day can scare you."

"So, to show sincerity, how about I am willing to buy 100 stone glutinous rice lees first? What is the price of 100 stone?"

One hundred stone of wine lees can actually produce a thousand kilograms of soybean wine. Li Xiao feels that he will not have to worry about selling this amount, after all, there will be an order from Cheng Yaojin.

One hundred stones, this number is indeed quite large.

The shopkeeper thought that he did have a lot of glutinous rice wine lees, but for a long time, it was not easy to deal with. This is because glutinous rice is more expensive than wheat rice and corn rice. Therefore, he also sells it at a higher price. But glutinous rice is what people buy to feed the animals, so of course they buy it for cheap ones.

"One hundred stones, twelve cents per stone, how about it?" The shopkeeper's price was a cheaper one.

"No, I don't think I'm sincere enough. One hundred stones is just the first batch I bought. If we cooperate well, there will be a larger amount in the future. One hundred stones are not even enough for one hundred days."

After Li Xiao said this, the shopkeeper was really surprised. Where did Li Sanlang come from? Why did he need such a large amount of lees, especially if he also specified fresh glutinous rice lees.

"I dare ask what Saburo wants so many lees to do?"

"My family has a lot of beef and sheep. It is easy to lose weight in spring and winter. Buying some wine lees can also replenish weight." Li Xiao replied with a smile. The shopkeeper's answer was half-believing, but since the business was delivered, he was still very happy. It is better to have a large order of glutinous rice wine lees to come to your door than to sell them at a low price.

"Sanlang, you offer a price. I don't plan to make money, just treat it as a friend."

"How about five ounces and one stone?" Li Xiao offered a ruthless price, fully leveraging the essence of 30% off the price cut.

The shopkeeper rolled his eyes, who was so ruthless?

"Shopkeeper, it's not cheap. You are rosy, not glutinous rice. Although glutinous rice is sold for 150 minced syrup, it is glutinous rice transported from Jiangnan after all. You are rosyrup, especially as far as I know, there are many wineries in Chang'an and surrounding areas, and there are also many wineries in them. There are also many wineries in them."

"Then I'm losing money." The shopkeeper looked embarrassed.

However, Li Xiao was unmoved and he lost a lot. Who wouldn't know that the profits of brewing wine are high, especially those who can open wineries these days, either official ones or those who have a background, the profits of wine are high and they usually make a lot of money.

A little bit of wine lees can really make as much money as you sell.

"I won't bother the second master if I have six cents and one stone, so I'll get the goods from the shopkeeper in the future."

"Six silences and one stone are so few."

"I pay a deposit of 100 s, and each time I pay 30% of the deposit, and then the shopkeeper's handout sends me a friend to Lantian Lanxi, and pay 20% after the goods arrive. The remaining half of the goods will be settled in March. How about it?"

"Sanlang, you're like this, I have to pay for shipping, and I'm even less money to make money."

"Shopkeeper, we'll be more comfortable. If you agree, I'll pay now. If you don't, I can only turn around and go out and go to the next house."

"Can Sanlang really demand three or five hundred stones of wine lees per month?"

"certainly."

The shopkeeper thought about it and felt that if there was such a large amount, he would not be unable to cooperate. The glutinous rice wine lees that cost hundreds of stones a month suddenly had a way out, and he saved the trouble in the future.

"Okay, I'll make you a friend."

"Happy cooperation." Li Xiao bowed with a smile.

The next thing was naturally to look at the goods and then pay the money. However, Li Xiao asked to make a contract. As a person from later generations, he still paid more attention to the contract. The shopkeeper originally thought that honesty was the basis for doing business, so he could not sign any contract. After all, for him, wine lees worth hundreds of stones a month were actually not much money.

It's only three stagnant of five hundred stones a month, so he has to take some money to get this thing to Lantian for dozens of miles, and he has to spend some money. If he didn't think he could clean up these lees at one time, saving the usual fragments and pieces of sale were always piled up everywhere, he wouldn't be too lazy to mow his teeth with Li Xiao.

Li Xiao insisted on borrowing paper and pen, and wrote a contract on the spot, then signed and pressed his handprints in duplicate.

The contract is very concise and clear, and the price and settlement method are agreed, so that everyone can avoid any disputes in the future.

After the contract was signed, Li Xiao generously paid three stagnant money first, which was equivalent to paying the full amount of 500 stone of lees in one go. This surprised the shopkeeper a little. He was petty when talking about the money. It was really good to have a deal, but Li Sanlang was very generous.

In the warehouse, Li Xiao personally checked the lees.

The warehouse is full of wine lees, all of which are piled up directly. The wine lees are dry, but in fact they are not all dry, but they are a little wet. Compared to the last time the rice wine is produced, it is impossible to press the wine too clean.

The lees stored in this way cannot be stored for too long and may easily become moldy and broken.

Fortunately, the lees in this warehouse were quite fresh. After checking, there was no mold. Li Xiao agreed to the shopkeeper and took the first batch of lees directly.

Mr. Zhao, who followed him, said with some concern, "The winery at home has not been built yet. I bought so many lees at once, so I can steam it."

"Don't worry, Aye, I'm sure."

The money has been paid, so the shopkeeper is naturally happy to be able to clear the warehouse.

It is not easy to transport 500 stones of wine lees to Lanxi. After all, it is eighty miles away. If you transport five stones per truck, you have to transport 100 times. However, this is not difficult for the shopkeeper. There are already many hard-working porters and coachmen around the winery, who make some hard money by transporting wine lees.

The shopkeeper shouted and called a group of men and quickly negotiated the price with them. He did not need to pay, but directly took the lees as wages. Those men were obviously used to and accepted this way of trading.

The lees they take are cheaper than those sold in the winery, so they can actually make more money by selling them themselves.

However, Li Xiao calculated it in his mind and found that the wages of these people are really cheap. He worked hard for a day but actually couldn't make much money.

Not to mention making a hundred cents a day, in fact, you can only make about ten cents a day.
Chapter completed!