Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

Chapter 137 New Mission, Everyone's Excitement

While Xie Shufang and others were busy, Li Yuanji was also not idle. Now that he had plenty of food, he began to study wine, or to be more precise, alcohol.

In this era when there were no disinfectants, Li Yuanji felt it was necessary to produce alcohol. As for wine, if it was just for the sake of strength, it would be easy to do, but if one wanted to produce a wine with a sauce-flavored and mellow aroma, the difficulty would increase.

Li Yuanji acted as soon as he said it. He called the craftsmen and asked them to make a distiller. This device could be used to purify alcohol easily.

After the distiller was ready, the next step was to use grain to make it. Li Yuanji looked around and found no sorghum, and he was immediately puzzled.

"This is weird. Didn't Gaoliang already come in? How come we can't find it now, let alone hear any news about it?"

Li Yuanji was really speechless. The best materials for making wine were sorghum and wheat, which were easier to ferment, had higher sugar content and tasted better, but unfortunately they were not available now.

Sorghum was introduced during the Han Dynasty, but before the Song Dynasty, it did not attract much attention and was not planted on a large scale. It was not until the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, especially the Ming Dynasty, that the scale of sorghum cultivation gradually took shape.

"You really don't treat food as a treasure."

Li Yuanji shook his head and sighed. The sorghum yield was actually quite good, but it did not attract much attention. He really did not expect this. Li Yuanji had no choice but to find a piece of paper to draw the shape of the sorghum, and then called Xie Shufang.

"Shufang, this is a crop called sorghum. Go and find it right now. Find as many as you can. Also, tell Dahe that after you find the sorghum, you should plant it. It's food, edible, and has a good yield. Don't waste it."

After giving instructions to Xie Shufang, Li Yuanji went out. The work of making wine was not yet finished.

Xie Shufang looked at the paper in his hand and was stunned for a moment. Sorghum? Edible? Food? The yield was decent? Then why had he never heard of this thing?

Xie Shufang was immediately very happy. A new kind of food had appeared. No matter what, it was a good thing. He wanted to ask Li Yuanji again, but Li Yuanji went out directly and ignored him. Xie Shufang had to go find Ning Chun.

Li Yuanji, who came outside, was not in a hurry to make wine. Brewing wine requires building a separate house because the steps of fermentation, distillation, and koji production all have temperature requirements, otherwise it will affect the taste of the wine, so it is very necessary to prepare the facilities.

After assigning these matters to the craftsmen, Li Yuanji began to frown again. Food was fine, at most he could use rice and wheat for now. He also had a distiller, and the next difficulty was the koji. The quality of the koji during blending directly determined whether the wine tasted good or not.

Li Yuanji then asked people to find a lot of auxiliary ingredients, including orchid fragrance, light bamboo leaves, mulberry leaves, etc., which were added to the koji to enhance the taste.

For a while, Li Yuanji was busy preparing raw materials, screening, clarifying, soaking, building a wine-making place, and making koji. Fortunately, there were many people and the process was fast.

A day passed, and the next morning, Li Yuanji got up to check the task panel and was suddenly surprised. It was for no other reason than that the construction tasks of the docks and ports were finally completed, five hundred contribution points were credited to his account, and new tasks were also refreshed.

New task: How can you develop without arable land? Reclaim 10,000 acres of arable land. You will get 1,000 contribution points if you complete it.

Li Yuanji looked at this new task and liked it more and more. This task seemed to be giving him contribution points. You know, he has been organizing the reclamation of wasteland. It seems that it will not take much time to complete these ten thousand acres.

Li Yuanji was immediately happy. He thought it would be a task that would take time, and he even thought it would cost 500 contribution points. Unexpectedly, he got 1,000 points directly. If he had not organized the land reclamation before, this task would indeed take a lot of time to complete.

"This mission is really humane. If it's related to development, then it's really related. I had foresight and figured it out easily."

Li Yuanji was really excited. Wouldn't the contribution points come in large quantities now? He had 800 contribution points right away. Although he had to complete today's daily tasks to get 800 points, it was only 100 squats, which was not difficult at all.

After completing today's daily tasks, he began to continue his wine-making business. As for Yang Qingwan, she has no time at all now because she needs a lot of clothes due to the pension issue. In addition, Yang Cheng is about to start trading again, so he is still stockpiling goods and has a lot of things to do with clothing and textiles.

Li Yuanji continued to be busy, and Xie Shufang was full of confusion. He really didn't understand what Li Yuanji was busy with.

"My king, what are you doing? Are you preparing to make some new objects?"

Xie Shufang was curious. Li Yuanji had come up with so many new things before. Now he saw that he was tinkering with something he didn't know about, so it was natural for him to think in this direction.

Li Yuanji glanced at Xie Shufang and then smiled.

"Want to know?"

Xie Shufang nodded excitedly, and Li Yuanji smiled even more brightly.

"Well, I won't tell you. You'll know when it's done."

Xie Shufang froze for a moment, staring at Li Yuanji with wide eyes, his expression very innocent, obviously wondering, is it fun to tease him like this?

Li Yuanji laughed out loud. He found it quite nice to tease Xie Shufang when he was busy.

"Your Majesty, please tell me about this. I promise I will never tell anyone. I am really curious."

The more Li Yuanji hid, the more Xie Shufang wanted to know, and his curiosity grew.

But Li Yuanji ignored Xie Shufang. After a while, a man came to Li Yuanji.

"My lord, a lot of the stills have been separated."

When Li Yuanji heard this, he immediately walked over. Xie Shufang followed him. Before he saw anything, he smelled the wine, which immediately brightened his eyes.

Especially when he got closer, the pungent smell of alcohol kept hitting him. Xie Shufang couldn't bear it anymore. After all, he hadn't drunk much for such a long time.

"My king, is this wine? It smells very strong, it must taste good, how about letting me have a sip? Just one sip, my king, give me a sip."

Li Yuanji looked at Xie Shufang speechlessly.

"Shufang, can you be more steady like you were in Chang'an? You seem to be getting more and more out of control. This is alcohol. You have to mix it before you can drink it. I'm afraid you'll drink it to death. This alcohol is used for disinfection. Injuries and wounds are prone to festering and rotting. Even if they are cured, they are likely to leave sequelae. With this alcohol, those won't happen. After applying it, those conditions won't occur again.

Do you understand now? This is not for you to drink. If you want to drink, wait a little longer. There will be some later."

After Li Yuanji finished speaking, Xie Shufang was shocked and looked at the so-called alcohol coming out of the distiller in disbelief.

"My lord, can this really prevent the wound from recurring? After it is truly healed, will there be no other sequelae?"

It's not Xie Shufang's fault. It's true that during this period, any injury was difficult to deal with. It often happened that the wound had been treated, but the person could not be saved in the end and would still die, and there would often be various sequelae.

This is why casualties are mentioned together. Once injured, if it is a minor injury, it is okay, even if there are some sequelae, at least it will not be fatal. But if it is slightly more serious, it will be very difficult to survive. Not to mention serious injuries, nine out of ten seriously injured people will eventually die.

Now that there is alcohol that can solve these problems, how can Xie Shufang not be shocked and excited? With these, he knows very well that the army will have a greater advantage. Think about it, with the same thousand casualties, not only will his own wounded soldiers die less, but they will also be able to recover quickly and return to the battlefield again.

What about the enemy? Whether they can be rescued is one thing, but even if they are rescued, they will not be able to recover in a short time, because it will take longer to treat the wounds. If there is an increase and a decrease in the number of troops, wouldn't it be equivalent to increasing the number of troops in disguise? The more tragic the battle, the greater the advantage?

Although Xie Shufang's idea was a bit optimistic, it was still the same logic. As long as the number of casualties was less than that of the enemy, wouldn't it be equivalent to increasing the number of troops in disguise? There was nothing wrong with this theory of relativity.

Li Yuanji looked at Xie Shufang's expression, without smiling, and nodded seriously.

"Do you think I would joke with you about this? This alcohol will be sealed and will not be sold to the public. When you enter the military camp, you must keep an eye on it. You can use it yourself, but you can't let the enemy get it.

You should know the importance of wound treatment. With these, the risk of injury and death of soldiers can be greatly reduced. Although they are not direct medicines, their effects are no less than medicines. "

Li Yuanji was not going to sell this alcohol to the outside world. Looking ahead, the Tang Dynasty might become his enemy in the future, and he did not want to aid the enemy for the money. Now, he had plenty of goods, including alcohol.

Moreover, it is best to make money by drinking the wine that is brewed immediately. The alcohol concentration of the blended wine can no longer achieve the disinfection effect, so he has nothing to worry about.

After hearing this, Xie Shufang became even more excited, and his eyes were full of passion as he looked at these high-concentration liquors.

"Don't worry, my king. If anyone dares to sell this alcohol, I will kill him with my own hands, no matter who he is!"

Xie Shufang was determined that the alcohol must not be leaked out, as it was extremely important in the army.

Li Yuanji then started to get busy again. The wine-brewing room was very hot, so Li Yuanji installed a stove inside because the temperature had to be higher. Fermentation and koji making both required temperature.

Li Yuanji used part of the distilled wine to make alcohol, kept part for aging to increase the softness and taste of the wine, and took out a small portion to directly blend and season it. He also wanted to try what the wine made in this way would taste like.

Two more days passed, Li Yuanji's contribution points reached 810, and the wine was finally produced.

"Shufang, go call Dahe, Junmai and the others to come and try the newly brewed wine. It must be better than what you had before. Go quickly."

Xie Shufang swallowed his saliva. He couldn't help but want to drink it now. It was really because he was smelling it next to him. It was too tempting.

"Yes, I will go right away."

Xie Shufang once again transformed into a wind-like man and ran out in a flash. Li Yuanji took out two jars of wine, but didn't take more because he was afraid that these people would all get drunk.

The concentration of the wine at that time was still relatively low. There were also high-concentration wines after the Tang Dynasty, but they were limited. The real high-concentration liquor appeared in the Yuan Dynasty, which is Shaojiu. Li Yuanji himself knew that the wine people drink now has a little taste, but that's all.

As for wine, it also existed in the Tang Dynasty. Wang Han wrote it very clearly in his poem "grape wine in a luminous cup". Wine has existed for a long time, but few people drank it because it was expensive. Most people could not afford grapes, let alone wine made from grapes.

Li Yuanji couldn't help but sigh that frontier poets really had a kind of sentiment, especially the poets from various periods of the Tang Dynasty. Li Yuanji was really interested in it at this moment.

"Li Bai, the Immortal Poet, right? Just wait. I will live to that time even if I have to take longevity pills. Then I will ask you to come to me and write a poem for me in person. As long as you tell me the beginning, I will tell you the rest. Let's see how you deal with it."

Li Yuanji had a look of bad taste on his face. He wanted to see what else Li Bai could come up with. As for plagiarizing the poems of these people, he had no such idea. Without that kind of artistic conception, it would ultimately lack flavor.

After a while, everyone arrived. Everyone was very excited, not for any other reason, but because they had learned from Xie Shufang that Li Yuanji had made a new wine.

Looking at what Li Yuanji had made before, in their opinion, this wine must be good. Nowadays, both civil officials and military generals like it very much.

"My king, can we drink now? Everyone is here."

Xie Shufang looked impatient, and Yang Cheng also joined in.

"Brother-in-law, my king, what kind of wine is this? Let us taste it quickly. I can't wait any longer."

The others also had eyes full of desire, and Li Yuanji did not hide it and took it out directly.

"You'll be in for a treat in the future. This wine is definitely good, and there will be better tasting ones later. Now just give it a try. But this wine is very strong, so you'd better drink it slowly. Otherwise, if you get drunk, don't blame me for not warning you."

Li Yuanji took out the wine, and Yang Cheng was the first to impatiently start pouring the wine. As for what Li Yuanji said about getting drunk? No one cared. With just two jars of wine, they didn't think they could get drunk at all.

When the wine jar was opened and the aroma wafted out, everyone became even more excited and started pouring wine immediately.

Although Yang Cheng was eager to drink, he still poured the first bowl to Li Yuanji.

"Brother-in-law, you have worked hard. Of course, you go first."

(End of this chapter)