Three Kingdoms: Jiuyuan Tiger

Chapter 32 Preparations
Lu Bu thought about the rich merchants in the Three Kingdoms period, the Wuji Zhen family was the first, the Mi family in Xiapi, and the Hedong Wei family who sponsored Boss Cao's army were slightly inferior.

Given Lu Bu's current position, he should join forces with the Wuji Zhen family to do business and make a fortune together.

Although Youzhou is not close to Jizhou, compared with Xuzhou and Sili, Jizhou is close.

Moreover, as far as Lu Bu knew, the Zhen family seemed to have dabbled in the business of smuggling war horses, buying them at low prices and selling them at high prices, and profiting from the price difference.

Right now Lu Bu doesn't have much money to buy and sell war horses, but in the future, there may be useful places to go this way, so it is the most sensible choice to cooperate with the Zhen family.

In addition, the Zhen family's business network almost involved all states in the Eastern Han Dynasty, because the main business of the Zhen family was grain sales.

Food is the most important thing for the people, whether it is the common people in the market or the dignitaries, they all have to eat.

Be it delicacies from mountains and seas, or eating bran-swallowed vegetables, most of the food and grass they bought were sold through the Zhen family.

So once Lu Bu and the Zhen family confirm the cooperative relationship, then Lu Bu will be able to buy food and grass at a low price in the future!
This is a long-term cooperation, once completed, the benefits will be endless!
The candidate for the next family has been determined, and it is time for Lu Bu to study how to make wine and sugar!
Rare things are more expensive, and the rarer the goods, the more people will buy them, and the higher the selling price will be.

Therefore, Lu Bu does not intend to mass-produce these two things, wine and sugar. What he has to do is to create a brand effect, so that the products he makes can become luxury goods in this era, so that they can maximize their value.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in Lu Bu's mind, wasn't he riding a donkey to find a donkey!

Why did you forget Zhang Rang, the great Buddha? !
With Zhang Rang, as long as the quality of wine and sugar is good and the taste is pleasant, it can become a must in this era. With a little operation, it can be turned into imperial wine and imperial sugar!

By that time, people all over the world will not rush to buy their own wine and sugar?

Lu Bu cursed secretly, "Confused", and joined forces with the Zhen family, wouldn't it be good to make a fortune by himself?
Wouldn't it be nice to buy more ribs?No, it doesn't seem like eating pork ribs these days!I'm almost out of food, what ribs to eat!
Taking a step back, it is not impossible to cooperate with the Zhen family, but when my wine becomes the royal wine, from the perspective of the head of the Zhen family, he will naturally come to discuss cooperation matters with him, and it will not be too late to discuss specific matters at that time.

After all, Shangchuangzi is not a business. Going to talk to the Zhen family by yourself, and talking to yourself with the Zhen family are two completely different concepts.

The matters related to wine making are complex and complicated, but if they are simple, they are actually easy to brew.

The baijiu of later generations is purified through continuous fermentation and distillation. The degree depends on the number of distillations and purifications.

If ten catties of wine is purified into one catty of wine, one can imagine how high the degree will be.

It is definitely not feasible to use alcohol for blending in this era. It is the best policy to honestly and practically make wine with grain.

In addition, winemaking has very strict requirements on grain materials. In this era, many distilleries use uneven materials for winemaking, so the taste of the brewed wine is naturally not much better.

When Lu Bu makes his own wine, he must use high-quality grain, and don't worry about money. When the wine is brewed, the income he will get will be ten times, a hundred times, or even a thousand times.

As for sugar making, Lu Bu also knew a little about the principles.

Most of the sugar used in this era is brown sugar with a lot of impurities, which is completely incomparable with the white sugar of later generations, and it is not even suitable for white sugar to carry shoes.

To turn brown sugar into white sugar, you only need to boil it over slow fire, purify it, remove impurities, and then you can get white sugar water.

The raw materials for sugar production are not difficult to obtain. Sugarcane can be used for sugar production. Otherwise, brown sugar circulating in the market is used to boil white sugar, how much will it cost!

But sugarcane is not very easy to get. There is no such thing as Youzhou, a place of bitter cold. If Lu Bu remembers correctly, sugarcane should be a product of Jiaozhou!

But if someone went to Jiaozhou to buy a batch of sugar cane at this time, according to the traffic at this time, the Wuhuan people would probably call before the sugar cane came back!
So Lu Bu could only make two-handed preparations. Right now, he would buy some brown sugar in the cafeteria, and then send a group of soldiers to Jiaozhou to buy sugar cane.

Hey, why is there no SF Express at this time?How nice it would be to make a phone call and have it delivered to your home!
Lu Bu sketched on the bamboo tube, and suddenly thought of a way to make money.

At this time, paper seems to be a luxury item?
The printing of movable type has never appeared, has it?
But the matter of papermaking can be said to affect the whole body.

The aristocratic family controls countless books. If Lu Bu makes paper and studies printing, it is tantamount to making an enemy of the aristocratic family in the world.

Although Lu Bu looked down on this group of moths from the bottom of his heart, it was obvious that this was not the time to quarrel with them.

Therefore, the two things of papermaking and printing must be put aside first, and they must be strong before they are put on the agenda.

Otherwise, the big families in this world jump over the wall in a hurry and attack Lu Bu in groups, then the loss outweighs the gain!

The next day, Lu Bu got up early in the morning and called Di Renjie to discuss matters related to wine and sugar production.

After hearing this, Di Renjie clapped his hands and said excitedly to Lu Bu: "Your Majesty, forgive me for your boldness. If what you said is true, then you won't have to worry about money for a long time!"

From Di Renjie's perspective, it is natural to see how much benefit these two things will bring once they come out, and it is not an exaggeration to describe them as huge profits.

Lu Bu smiled and said: "That's it, then I will leave the purchase of raw materials to you. Remember, you can buy back as much sugar as you have in the market. You don't have to worry about money. The money is enough to last for a while, and the grain used for brewing must be carefully selected, and half a grain of miscellaneous grains must not be added!"

Di Renjie cupped his hands solemnly and said, "Please rest assured, my lord, my subordinates will definitely handle this matter well for my lord!"

Lu Bu patted Di Renjie on the shoulder: "Go, come back as soon as possible!"

"No!" Di Renjie cupped his hands.

Di Renjie's work efficiency is not low. Within a few days, Di Renjie bought back a large amount of brown sugar, and the grain used for wine making has also been selected.

At the same time, Di Renjie also selected a group of clever men to go to Jiaozhou to buy sugar cane.

During the past few days, Lu Bu was not idle. Lu Bu drew the blueprints of the equipment for distillation and purification and the utensils needed for boiling sugar, and handed them over to Gongshuyin for making.

Lu Bu told Gong Shuyin thousands of times that this thing must be made by Gong Shuyin himself, and no one else can handle it, even bystanders are not allowed!

Although Gong Shuyin had never seen such a weird thing before, and he didn't understand why his lord attached so much importance to this weird utensil, he still built it according to Lu Bu's instructions and sent it to Lu Bu's prefect's mansion.

Brewing wine is a job that takes time. Lu Bu selected a group of confidants to be responsible for brewing wine, and then Lu Bu started preparing to boil sugar.

Lu Bu specially chose two mansions as the winery and sugar workshop, surrounded by elite soldiers guarding them day and night, so that even a fly would not even think about flying in.

Lu Bu ordered the craftsmen who worked among them to be registered to strictly prevent the crafts from being leaked.

The preparations are all done, and it's time to start making sugar!

　The second watch arrives!Ask for recommendation tickets, ask for investment, ask for collection, thank you, buddy, give me a hug!Thanks to every brother who voted for the old man, I am grateful!

　　


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