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Chapter 157: Erguotou arrives)

Liu Yong nodded and hurriedly ran out.

The second pot produces the most wine, and it takes a longer time. Then I changed the water twice. The third pot has a little lighter smell, the fourth pot is even lighter, and the fifth pot has a little sour taste.

"The second pot of wine and the third pot of wine can be mixed, and the taste is more appropriate." Lu Xiangjiu mixed several kinds of wines there on the spot, without any proportions, just mix them directly.

"The taste in Yangzhou and Jiangnan is relatively light. If you need it in the future, you can mix the fourth pot." Lu Xiangjiu said with his lips pursed.

After the five pots of wine were released, the grain of wine turned into wine lees and was quickly cleaned up. This thing can also be sold for money. Feeding pigs is very good feed. Pigs have long been brought to order.

Take out the gauze on the steamer in the floor pot and soak it in water, then twist it and lay it on. The apprentices nervously place the wine and grain to prepare for the next cycle.

Seeing Lu Xiangjiu busy here, Su Da reminded the apprentice who was burning fire for a few words, and also came over to flatter him and said: "Boss, such good wine must be easy to sell. Good wine must have a good reputation, so the boss will give him a name."

Zhao Jin pondered for a moment, and said with a smile: "Just call Erguotou and Hanjing famous bar."

Wang Zhaojing, who had finished writing the sign, came over and heard the name just in time and said with a smile: "This name is good. Xuzhou was the birthplace of Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, with good water and wine. This Han well attracted people's imagination. Brother Zhao always said that he had never read a book, so how could this name be produced without a foundation?"

Lu Xiangjiu and Su Daben were just to make up for fun. When they heard Wang Zhaojing say this, they thought it was good and they all applauded.

Zhao Jin glanced at Wang Zhaojing. The handsome brother, who was usually elegant, was already wet all over. He looked very funny. Zhao Jin smiled and said, "You have written a good word, so I will leave this name to you. Go out first to prepare and change your clothes and cool down."

Wang Zhaojing looked down at him, laughed, and then turned around and went out. Lu Xiangjiu and Su Da were also busy on the other side.

Zhao Jin pulled over an empty wine jar and sat on it, whispering in a low voice: "Actually, I just want to call Erguotou."

This wine-making process is indeed Erguotou. The reason why it was named another name was not to avoid suspicion. In the original history, this wine would not appear for a hundred years. There is nothing to be shy about. It was just that Zhao Jin thought that if he named this name, it would inevitably be solved by other wine-making methods. The name of this famous Hanjing wine was actually inspired by Gujing Gong.

What Zhao Jin learned in the past has nothing to do with making wine, but he has experienced too many social occasions, too many wine shops, and too much drinking. He also knows a lot of knowledge and allusions about wine.

When drinking, I always talk about everything. I often hold a wine glass with a showy way to talk about the origin of the wine. I can't help but be impressed if I listen to it too much.

Interestingly, the way to make this wine is the most profound part of my memory in the past. The reason is that I heard too much and remembered it clearly.

Zhao Jin has heard the allusion of Erguotou many times, saying that it was when he made wine in the past. The so-called "small in the first pot has too many impurities, which is too strong when drunk, which is harmful to people. The last pot of wine is too light and there is no smell of alcohol.

The three Zhao brothers in the capital improved the craftsmanship of soybean wine, "cut off the head and remove the tail" to make Erguotou, and then marketed it to the world.

Erguotou is not a top-notch wine, but its brewing process is not that complicated, and it is clear and mellow enough at this price, far better than the same grade of sorghum. The price of sorghum is much cheaper than that of rice and wheat beans, and the cost is much lower.

"Pinch the head and remove the tail", the quality of soju can be increased by a hundred times, and the effect is similar to turning stones into gold. Such changes are particularly dramatic, so they can be remembered more.

Zhao Jin remembers it very clearly that in the north, Erguotou is indeed a large number of white wine, and people drink it not simply because it is cheap, but because the taste of Erguotou is indeed good.

Although my memory of the historical process is relatively vague, the time when the three brothers of the Zhao family improved their technology to make Erguotou was in the original historical trajectory of the Kangxi period, and it was decades or hundreds of years apart from the present. Zhao Jin can still be sure of this. The only thing that cannot be confirmed is whether there is such a method of brewing wine in this era.

Zhao Jin was also a veteran of the restaurant back then. The wine was about the same quality and bad. He also heard many people comment on the taste and analyze the reasons. When he first drank the soju of this era, Zhao Jin felt that the wine was impure and the taste was too mixed. He immediately thought of Erguotou.

The information in this era was too slow to spread. No one sent a message to the big events in Xuzhou City. It would be nice to hear about it in the adjacent Xiaoxian ten days later. Zhao Jin has always been worried that Erguotou's craftsmanship had appeared long ago, but he just didn't know it. It was normal for a child who was studying martial arts to have nothing to do with brewing wine in the winery.

But this bet of the total craftsmanship value is more than 200 kilograms of sorghum per stone, but a kilogram of good wine can always be sold for dozens of kilograms of good wine. Zhao Jin from the winery has been paying attention. According to this "head-cutting and tail-cutting" brewing method, one hundred kilograms of sorghum can produce more than 50 kilograms of wine, and one kilograms of sorghum is officially made of 120 kilograms of sorghum, which is almost nearly 70 kilograms of wine. In other words, ten times the profit can be easily obtained, and more is not impossible.

Before the wine was released, Zhao Jin could not be sure of everything, and could only say he was gambled. But today he came to the winery site and waited until the second pot of wine came out, and then looked at the heart-wrenching shock of Lu Xiangjiu and Su Da. Zhao Jin knew that he had done it right.

Looking at the busy crowd and the familiar fragrance of wine lingering around his nose, Zhao Jin was really wandering around this time. He was wondering that such a simple method, the old craftsmen who had been doing wine for more than ten years and decades had not discovered it.

However, it is easy to figure it out. People open wineries for their livelihoods and earn some hard money. So what's the motivation to innovate and invent. Moreover, in this system where the master teaches the truth, for fear that something will happen after the change will be passed on from generation to generation until a certain person has a bright future, or someone who is interested summarizes the invention and finds this method.

In the past, the wine was mixed in a jar without a few pots, and finally mixed together. It seemed that there was no waste at all. In fact, the bad taste and impurities were all mixed in the wine. If you want to have good taste, you can only use good water, good koji, and good food to increase the taste by increasing the cost. No one would have thought it was so simple.

In fact, this method is in a blind spot of human thinking. Even if you find it occasionally, you will feel it is accidental and will not be regarded as an invention that turns stones into gold.

After the method of abandoning the first and last pots was proposed, Zhao Jin could not give much advice on the next work. Lu Xiangjiu and Su Da demonstrated the experience and ability of wine craftsmen. They gradually adjusted the time and number of times when changing the cold water in the sky pot, so that the wine produced in the second pot tasted sweeter and mellower, and that each pot of wine and mother wine grain could steam more good wine.

Even the first pot of wine and the last pot of wine, Lu Xiangjiu found a way to apply it. He directly mixed the wine and wine into the new grain, and then steamed the wine. As a result, the steamed soju had a unique flavor and became a bit mellow.

In fact, Zhao Jin only did one of all the work, and he only proposed the concept of "cutting the head and removing the tail", but this concept opened a window for Lu Xiangjiu and Su Da, and all the experience and knowledge accumulated in the past were richly applied to this concept.

It was not until night fell and it was dark that everyone stopped working. Everyone had reluctance on their faces. Lu Xiangjiu and Su Da looked tired, but their eyes were shining.

A jar of wine was placed in the winery, with signs written by Wang Zhaojing on it. The friends had already completed Zhao Jin's orders and returned here.

As the evening breeze blew, the heat in the winery drifted a lot, and all the people working in the winery were called over. Zhao Jin smiled and glanced around. Liu Yong whispered behind him: "Brother, everyone in the winery is here."

"Today's wine, you have great credit to Lu Xiangjiu and Su Da will each receive two months of salary." Zhao Jin said loudly.

Before he finished speaking, a scream sounded. After Lu Xiangjiu and Su Da were stunned, they couldn't even open their eyes. This was a reward of nearly ten taels of silver. Usually, people had to earn two years. After the surprise, they quickly knelt down to thank him. Zhao Jin smiled and went up to help the person up, and said, "The rest of them were rewarded for one month's wages."

With a "wow", everyone exclaimed happily. The Piaoxiang winery manages food and accommodation, and pays wages every month, which has already made many people satisfied. It is natural to work hard, and no one can raise idle people. I never thought that one month's wage would be rewarded for work on the first day. This was a real surprise, and everyone smiled happily.

Zhao Jin smiled and turned his head and said, "Daxiang, go and arrange it. This place is also a white flour pancake and a big meat stew tonight."

Because of his father, Ji Xiang had to help Zhao Jin's logistics company, so he accepted the order and hurried out to do it.

When everyone heard that eating so well at night was even more excited. Zhao Jin cleared his throat, his face became a little serious, and he said, "From now on, if you or your relatives open a winery or invest in other winery, as long as I find out, I will destroy him all over the family."

I was talking about rewards and rewards just now, and everyone was happy. Suddenly the topic turned into such murderous aura. Lu Xiangjiu subconsciously flashed back, staggered a few steps, and almost sat on the ground.
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