First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 142

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Feeling the burning sensation in the throat and abdominal cavity, and hearing the high-pitched words, everyone deeply agreed.

"Burning knife?" Liu Hongji hissed his throat, "It's very appropriate, it's really heartburning like swallowing a red-hot knife."

"Brother Hongji, drink slowly." Seeing that Liu Hongji's bowl of wine was only half left, Gao Chong smiled wryly and said, "Today, there is only one bowl for each person."

Liu Hongji blushed when he heard the words, stared and said: "Why do you search so hard, how can you enjoy yourself with a bowl."

Gao Junya took a sip and said directly: "There is no such wine in the mansion, but you brewed it just now?"

Hearing these words, Li Shimin raised his head and asked in amazement: "How can such strong wine be brewed in just over half an hour?"

Gao Chong heard the words and said bluntly: "I didn't brew this. I don't know how to make wine. I just distilled and purified it several times. It took six jars of wine to distill half of the jar. Brother Hongji, even if you think too much Drink, I have nothing to do."

Everyone was stunned when they heard the words.

Gao Junya raised her eyebrows and asked, "Where did your six jars of wine come from?"

Gao Chong laughed hurriedly when he heard the words: "The mansion keeps wine."

Upon hearing this, Gao Junya paused while holding the chopsticks, her face gradually sank, she stared at Gao Chong and said, "That's the royal wine bestowed by the King of Tang, and a jar is worth more than ten guan."

"A jar is worth more than ten guan?" Gao Chong shook his hand, and a piece of chicken fell on the desk without holding it firmly.

Liu Hongji and the others were also stunned, "Yuzhi, did you say how many jars of spirits were used to steam the half jar of spirits?"

"Six...six altars", Gao Chong smiled wryly.

Li Yuanci's imperial wine is already of excellent quality, and its alcohol content must be much higher than the inferior wine on the market. Six jars of wine are also six buckets of wine, and the cost of distilling half a jar of spirits just now is too high.

"That is to say, this half-dowl burning knife is worth sixty or seventy guan." Li Shimin held the wine bowl and clicked his tongue, took a sip, and suddenly felt extremely extravagant.

The rest of the people were also shocked when they heard the words, although everyone present here is not short of the hundred and ten guan, but they really haven't drunk more than sixty guan half a bucket of wine.

Li Shimin looked at the tangy spirits, which were so expensive, and was about to say something, when he suddenly stopped.

And Xue Shou sipped the fine wine carefully, just discussed the fine wine with the left and right grandson Wuji and others, and didn't say much.

When the banquet dissipated, Liu Hongji and others reeked of alcohol and left separately. Seeing this, Gao Junya also returned to the backyard to rest.

Only Li Shimin, Xue Shou and Gao Chong were left in the hall, waiting for Gao Chong to retreat from the left and right maids.

Seeing that there was no one around, Li Shimin immediately lay down on the seat and said: "This knives and cooking are really unique and will be very popular. You need an iron pot for cooking, which is nothing. At most, you need some iron materials, but This burning knife... Youzhi, do you think it can be sold in large quantities?"

Xue Shou also nodded, "Such spirits are indeed rare, but they are too expensive."

Gao Chong shook his head and smiled when he heard the words, and after drinking a bowl of distilled spirits, Gao Chong was also a little drunk.

"You guys think too much," Gao Chong waved his hand, "I never thought about selling in large quantities. You need to know that rare things are more expensive, and the rarer they are, the more precious they are. From the very beginning, I never wanted to make money from ordinary people." Earning the money of ordinary people is called competing for profit with the people, and it is not a skill. What I want is the money of those aristocratic families, nobles, and giant merchants.

What's more, what is the purpose of our intelligence organization?The purpose is to inquire about news, if there is any information that can be obtained by building a wine shop in the south city of Chang'an, useful information can only be found in the living area of ​​the dignitaries in the north city."

The southern city of Chang'an was mostly inhabited by the poor, while the northern city was the place where the royal family and dignitaries lived.

The slightly tipsy Gao Chong spoke very straightforwardly, Li Shimin and Li Shimin immediately understood, and they couldn't help nodding their heads in agreement.

Li Shimin took out the brochure Gao Chong gave him during the day, raised his eyebrows and asked, "So, here are the secret recipes for burning knives and cooking?"

"Secret recipe?" Gao Chong listened happily and nodded, "Exactly, according to this brochure, you can open a store, and then open branches in Bashu, Central Plains, Jingchu, Jianghuai and other big cities", Gao Chong said. After a quick pause, "Second Young Master, didn't you read it?"

Li Shimin burped, "I haven't talked about the share, how can I go to see it, you must decide how to share, and I will never teach you two to suffer."

Hearing Li Shimin's words, Gao Chong admired him very much. Immediately after thinking for a while, he said: "Since the Second Young Master insists on giving the gift, then I will have the audacity to accept it. The Second Young Master naturally takes the lead, [-]% of it. My uncle and I Bao and elder brother each get half of it."

Li Shimin frowned when he heard that, and before Li Shimin could speak, Gao Chong said, "Second son, don't think too much, and brother Bo Bao, don't think too little, this restaurant is destined to take the high-end route, and the future profits will be huge, half of the time." be enough".

Seeing that Gao Chong was so serious, Li Shimin didn't want to say much, he nodded and said: "Half and half is half, left and right are just some money."

And Xue Shou asked again: "Second son, now there are specific regulations, please give me a name."

"Give a name?" Li Shimin was stunned, frowned for a long time, and then hesitated: "This organization is destined to be hidden in the dark. If it spreads all over the world, its scale is at least not smaller than a Weifu. How about calling it a secret guard?"

Gao Chong rolled his eyes when he heard the words, "The Wei Mansion in the dark is called the Dark Guard...".

Seeing this, Li Shimin became angry from embarrassment, and said directly: "Then you come."

"It doesn't have to be hidden in the dark in the future." Gao Chong looked at Li Shimin and Xue Shou, and said quietly, "When the second son becomes famous, he can appear in a bright and bright manner, and he can frighten all civil and military officials, and he can supervise the soldiers. Farmers and merchants, loyal and loyal, can be used as a pro-army, directly under the second son's dispatch, wherever they go, everyone will change, how majestic, how about being called 'Weifengwei'?"

In Gao Chong's heart, Weifengwei is the emperor's pro-army, just like the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty, guarding the emperor Luanjia, directly driving the guards, patrolling and arresting, but before Li Shimin ascended the throne, Weifengwei must have been hiding underground , Doomed to be invisible.

"Weifengwei?" As soon as Li Shimin heard these three words, it was like a lightning strike, and he sat up straight in an instant, muttering non-stop, "Weifengwei...very good, Weifeng, it's called Weifeng Wei Lie, You Zhi, Bo Bao, I want this majestic Wei Fengwei to be a sharp sword in the palm of my Li Shimin."

Gao Chong and Xue Shou looked at each other when they heard the words, they both bowed down and bowed down, "willing to die for the second son".

All three of them are smart people, and everything goes without saying.

Li Shimin's eyes were shining brightly, he walked out of the hall with his hands behind his back, looking up at the moon, not knowing what to think.

After a long time, he clenched his fist tightly and his veins were exposed, "The mighty phoenix will surely soar to the sky".

Turning around to look at Gao Chong behind him, his expression was a little excited, "You Zhi, you understand me".

Xue Shou on the side was a little puzzled: why the Second Young Master was so excited, it seems that the word Weifeng obviously touched the Second Young Master.

The next day, when the sky was getting dark, Gao Chong just rubbed his tingling head and struggled to get up, "It seems that this distilled wine has a lot of stamina."

Li Xiuwan didn't ask any more questions, but gently helped Gao Chong to dress and wash, and then went to the dining hall, Gao Junya hadn't left the house yet.

After seeing the ceremony and sitting down, Gao Chong grabbed a steamed mutton cake and gnawed it. While eating, he said vaguely: "I won't be back these few days, and I will come back to say goodbye the day before the expedition."

(End of this chapter)