Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 36: Chapter 37
It was already afternoon when Li Hao left Duke Lu's mansion. This time, Li Hao came out without a drop of alcohol.

With this pot of spirits, how could Cheng Yaojin care about San Lejiang? However, a pot of spirits only weighs one catty. Cheng Yao’s metal brave never knows how to share good things with others, so, from the beginning to the end, , Cheng Yaojin drank there, Li Hao watched him drink, finally Cheng Yaojin got drunk, roared, fetched a certain iron rod, and then showed Li Hao his extraordinary martial arts.

Seeing his drunken appearance, Li Hao felt that the iron rod might fly out at any time. If he hit himself at that time, there was no place to reason. The Cheng family was too dangerous, so he quickly took the opportunity to pee on the shield and escaped from Duke Lu's mansion .

Li Hao had no relatives or friends in Chang'an, and after giving gifts to Cheng Yaojin, he had nothing to do. After the fifth day of the lunar new year and welcoming the God of Wealth, the year was over, and the major shops in Chang'an opened again. Chang'an became lively again.

Li Hao also started his own brewing business. The workers were all hired from Shanghe Village. Since he only made some wine and sent it to Taibailou for trial sale at the beginning, he didn't need too much, so he only hired five workers.

Everything was going on in an orderly manner. On the eighth day of the eighth day, the first batch of spirits came out of the oven. Li Hao tasted it himself, and it was very good. He put it into the wine jar, sealed it, and shipped it all to Chang'an Taibailou.

The next day, Li Hao and Cheng Chumo came to Taibai Building in person, poured ten bowls of spirits and placed them at the door on the first floor, letting the aroma of the wine waft into the street.

Taibailou's business was quite good, but with the aroma of wine attracting them, customers flocked to buy wine.

Li Hao is well versed in the means of hunger marketing, how could he let them drink it so easily, he held an auction, auctioning ten bowls of immortal brew, and the starting price for each bowl.

Everyone was stunned when they heard that Yiguanqian started the auction. A catty of three lees only cost more than a dozen renminbi, but now this bowl of wine is actually asking for Yiguanqian.

However, the name Xianrenniang is too powerful, and the aroma of the wine is so overwhelming that those drunkards can't control themselves. Many rich people started bidding one after another. The first bowl of Xianrenniang was finally sold at a price of twelve guan Everyone was speechless, but the person who offered this price was a fat and wealthy businessman. He stepped forward with a smug face, took the wine bowl from Li Hao's hand and drank it with his head up. Don't be too pretentious in that posture.

Li Hao looked at him with a smirk on his face, waiting for him to make a fool of himself, and sure enough, the fat man spit out the wine with a "poof", then coughed violently, his face was as red as a monkey's butt, and his eyes were bloodshot , that looks extremely painful.

Everyone was shocked when they saw this. Isn't this Xianjiu? Why is it like drinking poison?

Li Hao didn't panic at all, and asked with a smile: "Guest officer, how does our immortal brew taste?"

The fat man finally recovered his breath: "This... this... is this wine? Why is it so strong?"

Li Hao raised his eyebrows: "If it's not strong, how can it be called Immortal Brew?"

Everyone was stunned after hearing the words, it turned out that the fat man was in such a mess because the wine was too strong, they had never drank strong wine before, and San Lejiang was the strongest wine in Tang Dynasty, but seeing the fat man in pain and He looked shocked, as if the wine was too strong.

Li Hao continued to ask with a smile: "How is it, is this good wine?"

Although the fat man choked badly on the spirits, he still couldn't help nodding: "Good wine, indeed good wine!" After speaking, he picked up the wine bowl, took a shallow sip, shook his head, and muttered to himself with enjoyment, "Good wine, good wine, it's not unfair to spend twelve guan."

Everyone was even more surprised when they heard the words, and they were full of curiosity. What kind of wine is this? After drinking the first sip, it choked like that, but the second sip was like drinking fairy syrup. It was this curiosity that made the next nine bowls of wine The bidding was higher, and every bowl of wine was auctioned, and the drinkers were amazed, so when the ten bowls of wine were successfully auctioned, Li Hao had nearly [-] coins in his pocket. Alas, there is no way, Changan It's a place where people have a lot of stupid money.

In order to let those who auctioned the fairy wine show a sense of superiority, Li Hao will not sell the fairy wine today, but announced that it will start selling it tomorrow. It will only sell fifty catties a day, and each person will be limited to three taels. Each tael will be priced at 16 yuan. A catty of Chao is equal to 280 taels, and the price of a catty of wine has always been [-] yuan. This is definitely the most expensive wine in the history of the Tang Dynasty, not one of them.

Everyone heard that the fairy wine will be sold tomorrow, and they were all very excited. They planned to go home and prepare money, and came early every day to grab a spot to buy the fairy wine.

Sure enough, the next morning, before the Taibai Building opened, the outside was crowded with people. When it was almost noon, when the Taibai Building opened, everyone flocked in to grab seats. They are all made for the immortal brew, and the attractiveness of the fine wine is really great. Li Hao is very satisfied with the trial sale of the immortal brew, and decided to discuss with Cheng Yaojin to produce a large amount of immortal brew in the past two days, and then sell them all over the country. In the Chang'an area, the major restaurants have a limited supply, with a limit of [-] catties per month, while Taibailou has an unlimited supply. There is no way, it's their own restaurant.

In fact, Li Hao can completely monopolize the entire Chang'an market, but he doesn't intend to do so, because that would be tantamount to killing all other restaurants in Chang'an, which would easily attract people's hatred. Be grateful to yourself, flatter yourself, and at the same time, it will not have any impact on Taibailou's business.

Li Hao went to Lu Guogong's mansion to discuss with Cheng Yaojin for a long time, and finally finalized all the links. At the same time, he also rented [-] mu of land from Cheng Yaojin to grow corn. Since a large amount of wine is going to be sold nationwide, a large amount of corn is needed. With his current [-] mu of land, it must not be enough. It doesn't matter, Cheng Yaojin has a lot of fields, and with the [-] mu of land that Cheng Yaojin lent him, the annual corn production can reach at least [-] shi.

Forty thousand stones seem to be a lot, but the loss rate is high when used to make wine, and it is still high-purity distilled wine. Li Hao distributed his corn seeds to some farmers in Shanghe Village and signed an agreement with them. He grows corn, sells it to himself after it matures, and the price he pays is [-]% of the grain price.

The farmers were overjoyed when they heard it, and those with a lot of land at home allocated some fields to grow corn. They all knew that the yield of this corn was very high. Even if it was only [-]% of the price of grain, it would still earn two or three times more than growing grain. , Such a good thing, a fool would not do it.

Li Hao and Cheng Yaojin's plan is to sell the Xianren Noodles to the Guanzhong states first, so that the reputation of the Immortal Noodles will spread from Guanzhong, and they will not be afraid that they will not be able to sell at a good price when they go to other places to sell them.

After nearly three months of busy work, Cheng Yaojin has asked his family relatives to sell [-] catties of immortal wine to [-] states in Guanzhong, and no matter which state the immortal wine goes to, it will cause a mad rush, and the price is higher than that of Chang'an. It's cheaper, fifty cents a tael, the price is still ridiculously expensive, but the wine is not worried about selling, and it's hard not to make money.

On the eighth day of March, the weather in Guanzhong was already getting warmer, and Cheng’s briquette shop closed down collectively. There was no way, the coal business could only earn winter money, but one winter was enough. On the tenth day of March, Cheng Chumo escorted seven ox carts Come to send money to Li Hao, every bullock cart is piled up like a hill of white silver, these are all dividends from the briquette business, a total of 8000 guan, in fact, Li Hao's dividend should be [-] guan, Cheng Yaojin asked Cheng Chumo to bring a message to Li Hao, and the [-] taels were deducted, as a gift to honor his uncle during the festival.

Li Hao thought about it. It seems that there is no festival recently. If there is a festival, it seems that there is only one Ching Ming Festival...

Li Hao decided not to worry about the 8000 taels. The money that was robbed by Cheng Yaojin is useless, it will only cause trouble for himself, so it's better to be more generous and treat it as a beggar.

On the eighth day of the fifth lunar month, Cheng Yaojin asked Cheng Chumo to send money again. This time it was eight ox carts. Same as last time, each ox cart was filled with silver coins, totaling [-] guan. This is the dividend from selling immortal brew.

What surprised Li Hao was that Cheng Yaojin didn't take his bonus money this time, which moved Li Hao to tears, but Cheng Chumo's words made him feel depressed: "My father said that this time I really can't think If there is no excuse, there is no need to give a gift, and I will give it next time."

After hearing this, Li Hao fell into a state of facial cramps, and he greeted Cheng Yaojin's [-]th generation female relatives in his heart.

Making money, getting rich, the money piled up in the cellar of Li Hao's family, Li Hao is so happy, every day he locked himself in the cellar and looked at the money like a hill, he couldn't help but be happy.

With enough funds, Li Hao opened another Taibai Restaurant in Chang'an, this time in Dongshi. Now the chicken wishbone restaurant has become a sideline business. After all, the income of the chicken wishbone restaurant is not comparable to that of restaurants, so Li Hao simply He was generous once, and gave half of the equity in Lantian County Chicken Wishbone Store to Old Man Hu and his wife, and half of the equity in Chang'an Chicken Wishbone Store to Zhang Yu and the three of them. Originally, he planned to distribute some equity to Jin Qiaoyun. Jin Qiaoyun thought it was not suitable for women to do business, so he refused, and Li Hao had no choice.

While Li Hao was busy making money, a major incident happened in Chang'an, the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan died.

The death of the Supreme Emperor is a major event. National mourning is held, and the people of the whole country are not allowed to drink or listen to music during the mourning period. This has had a certain impact on Li Hao's restaurant business, but it doesn't matter. You can't drink fine wine, and there are delicious foods, too. It is also a must in Chang'an, and Datang is the only one, and the national mourning is only temporary.

As soon as the national funeral was over, Fuyun Khan of Tuyuhun sent envoys to Chang'an to pay tribute. The strange thing is that the envoys plundered Shanzhou (now Ledu, Qinghai) on the way back.

Li Shimin was very angry, and sent envoys to Tuyuhun to reprimand Fu Yun and recruit Fu Yun to enter the court. Fu Yun refused to come because of illness, but sent his son Zun Wang to the Tang Dynasty to ask for a marriage.Li Shimin agreed and ordered King Zun to come to Chang'an in person, but King Zun released Li Shimin's pigeons again.

Li Shimin became even more angry. Not only that, Fu Yun danced happily on the border, and also invaded the border of the Tang Dynasty many times. .

(End of this chapter)