Late Tang

"Okay, stop arguing!" Bala Khan had no choice but to come forward.In the end, he came up with the idea of ​​distribution, and all twenty departments of tea were divided equally, five thousand catties for each family.The top four thousand catties of Mengding stone flowers are equally divided, two hundred catties for each family.

Although Bala himself was not happy with the result, he also knew that if the fight continued, Diela might have to fight first.Ruan De is his son-in-law, he still hopes that there will be no troubles, and that the Chai Book Ceremony will be held smoothly so that he can get Yi Li Jin's seat.

Bala was distressed that the tea had been divided by a group of wolves, so he turned his head and smiled and asked Cui the shopkeeper, "What good things did you bring?"

It is impossible for a large caravan of 3000 people to only bring [-] shi of tea.Now, Bala is looking forward to more good things to come.He regretted a little, if he convened the ministries later, they would not be allowed to meet the caravan, so he would not have to share the goods with them.

"There are still many things, but Khan will definitely like it like this."

Shopkeeper Cui waved his hand, and a guard immediately brought a box. It was a golden nanmu box. Although it was not as valuable as the rosewood box, it was also extraordinary.Is it glass that is packed in such a box?

The nobles of all the tribes stretched their necks, looking expectantly at the treasurer Cui opening the box.

As soon as the box was opened, everyone immediately blinked.

"It's a glass bottle!" Yeluhende exclaimed, recognizing these things immediately.

There are dozens of glass bottles in this box, all of which are long-necked bottles, which still contain colorful liquids, and some are just transparent liquids.

Shopkeeper Cui smiled slightly and said: "The son of Khan is indeed well-informed, but this is not just a glass bottle, it is a glass wine bottle, and it contains all kinds of wine. These liquids of various beautiful colors are all kinds of wine. Fruit wine, made from grapes, peaches, pears, red bayberries, etc. These wines are delicious and come in different flavors, the smaller ones can be drunk as beverages, the larger ones, but Even the brave men can get drunk."

"There is also this transparent one. This is baijiu, the strongest alcohol." Shopkeeper Cui ordered dozens of glasses to be brought, opened each bottle of wine, and poured a few glasses each. "These wines are the imperial wines given by Marshal Li as a tribute to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. They are incomparably delicious and even rarer and more precious. Please pay me back, I'm sure you won't be disappointed."

When everyone saw these dazzling glass wine bottles and glass wine glasses, they were already shocked.Those colorful wines, in the crystal clear glass in the bottle, have a strange beauty, which makes people ecstatic.

They actually used such precious glass to make wine bottles and glasses, which shows how precious these wines are. Especially when they heard the imperial wine drunk by the emperor of Tang Dynasty, Bala Khan and others were even more moved.Although the Khitan has gradually risen, the Tang Dynasty is still a mountain that all Khitan people dare not cross.

"The royal wine drunk by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty!"

There was a burst of exclamations, and when Bala Khan picked up a cup of the so-called strongest Wuliangyu liquid, his hands were shaking with excitement.Before the wine enters the throat, there are bursts of mellow taste, which makes people intoxicated.Lifting the cup to his lips, he took a swig like drinking kumiss.As a result, as soon as the wine entered his throat, a hot feeling rose up immediately, and he was so choked that he almost vomited.

But after the smell was suppressed, the whole body felt much more comfortable.

His face turned red in an instant, Ba La opened his mouth wide and let out a long breath, and then suddenly shouted: "Good wine, it really deserves to be called the strongest wine in the world, the Royal Wine of the Son of Heaven, it really tastes good. It's too strong, not a Khitan warrior, so you can't drink it What a strong drink."

As soon as these words came out, the tribal leaders and nobles who had been waiting for Bala's reaction quit. What do you mean if you don't drink this wine, you are not a Khitan warrior?

Everyone held a cup one after another and asked people to pour wine.

Drinking one cup after another of strong wine, although these men outside the Great Wall all felt hot in their stomachs and their throats seemed to be on fire, none of them admitted that they were cowardly, instead they shouted for good wine.

True to that sentence, spirits match warriors.

Hende's ten-year-old son even jumped up to take a drink, but after drinking it in one gulp, he immediately lost his footsteps and passed out as soon as he put down the glass.

"It's okay, it's okay, he's still too young, but he can't bear such strong wine. This Wuliangyuye is like a fierce horse that has not been tamed. Only a brave man can do it. Too young can't do it. But don't worry, wait a while. After sleeping, although there will be a little headache, but it will be fine."

Shopkeeper Li on the side smiled and said, "Only warriors can drink strong wine. Others should drink these fruit wines better. It's sweet and sour, and not so strong."

In this way, the other teenagers who were hesitant at first all competed to drink baijiu one after another, and fell down one by one.The cups containing liquor are not small, a cup is worth at least two taels, and few teenagers who have never drunk this kind of spirits can carry it.

"This spirit is called strong, but it is actually very helpful to the warriors. It is cold outside the Great Wall. If you are in the wild, you only need to drink two sips of spirits, and it will immediately warm up your body even in cold weather. , to drive away the cold."

The young shopkeeper Li is like an insurance seller, patiently explaining the benefits to everyone.

"Even if you accidentally step into a hole in the ice during the season when dripping water turns into ice, as long as you can drink a few sips of spirits, not only will you not freeze into a popsicle, but you can swim in the frozen lake."

"Is it really so miraculous?" Many people were skeptical.

In winter, Khitan is extremely cold, and it is not unreal that a drop of water turns into ice.People freeze to death, this is a common thing.Although this baijiu is strong, it still has such a strong effect of keeping out the cold, which is surprising.

It is very windy outside now, and the weather is also very cold. If you don't believe me, you can take off your clothes, and then sleep in the wind outside the hall.When it is too cold, drink two more sips of wine, and you will know if it has such a cold-proof effect after a try.

Bala immediately called a dozen warriors, and told them to take off nothing left, and stood outside the hall in the wind, shaking off his little brother.

At this time outside the Great Wall, it was already very cold at night, and it was the time when it was about to snow.

A row of people stood for less than half an hour, and their teeth began to chatter up and down, shaking all over.Bala asked each of them to bring half a cup of white wine, and the naked men drank the white wine.Sure enough, the whole body of the crowd began to turn red, and they even began to steam. They all raised their chests and looked up, not as shivering as they were just now.

Ask them, and they all say that the whole body is hot, not cold at all, but very cool.

This time, Bala Khan and the others finally believed that the baijiu had such a miraculous effect.Just now everyone just thought that the wine was very strong, but now that they know that this strong wine has such effects, this wine is even more precious.

However, this wine is the imperial wine that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty drank, and seeing the glass as a bottle, no one dared to buy it.

"Actually, there are several types of these wines. For example, those in glass bottles are the emperor's imperial wine, the highest grade. This is what the emperor drinks. There are also porcelain bottles, pottery jars, bamboo tubes, and gourds. There are several types, and there is even a bulk type in large wooden barrels. Different packages have different prices. This most advanced glass bottle of Yugong Wuliangyuye is priced at [-] guan per bottle. Celadon, each bottle The price is ten guan, three guan in clay pots, two guan in bamboo tubes, one guan in gourds, [-] Wen per catty in bulk. Fruit wine is cheaper.”

Baiguan a bottle of wine, not only sells wine, but also wine bottles.The most expensive is the bottle, not the wine.Glass bottles and celadon bottles are very expensive, so they are naturally even more expensive when shipped to Khitan.

The quality of the wines in different packages is somewhat different, but the difference is not too great. The bulk is blended liquor, which is all brewed from wild fruits and has no grain.

Li Jing asked the caravan to bring these wines. He had already seen that the weather outside the Great Wall was cold and there was a great demand for baijiu.And this white wine is not worried that the Khitan people will make it, this wine will even consume more than tea.Let the Khitan men drink the wine produced in Dengzhou, and exchange the wine for the war horses, cattle and sheep, leather goods and minerals in these people's hands. This is a very good deal for Li Jing.

Although it is said that wine has the effect of keeping out the cold, this effect is not as great as that of tea to the Khitan people.Li Jing doesn't need to worry too much about the consequences. Even now, wineries use a lot of fruit to make wine, and after researching the blending process, the production of wine has greatly increased. Exporting to Khitan is an economic plunder of Khitan.

In particular, it is even more vicious to use glass bottles to sell both wine and bottles, and to directly target these Khitan nobles.A bottle of baijiu in a glass bottle sells for a hundred guan, it's a complete scam.But now, people like Bala are scrambling to ask how much wine the caravan brought.

Especially how much wine is in these carafes.

The caravan brought a lot of wine, and there were [-] cases of wine in glass bottles, [-] bottles.There are also a lot of porcelain, and most of them are bulk liquor, a large wooden barrel of [-] catties, and the caravan transported [-] barrels at a time.

This batch of wine alone can earn the Khitan people countless cattle, sheep, horses and skins, but this is still a consumable. After these Khitan people get addicted to drinking, there will be more sales and more demand in the future. This kind of consumption will be gone once you drink it Products, the energy can continue to earn money from the Khitan people.

After another struggle, shopkeeper Cui didn't even need a little promotion, these people had already started to fight again for the distribution of these wines.

The [-] bottles of white wine in glass bottles made the chiefs of these tribes scramble. This time, even Bala put down his body and shouted together with the Yilijin from all tribes regardless of his status.Especially shopkeeper Li at the side, pouring a glass of white wine for these people from time to time, the quarrel became more intense.

Bala wanted all the liquor in glass bottles. He was the Khitan Khan, and he felt he was most qualified to own these imperial wines that could symbolize his identity.After all, this wine was the royal wine drunk by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. He is the Khan of Khitan, so naturally it should belong to him.

The others also refused to give up, especially Bala's son-in-law, who even slapped the table.

He is the Khitan Yi Lijin who is about to take office, and he has hundreds of thousands of people in control of Khitan. Compared with his father-in-law, a noble and powerless Khitan Khan, he should have these Wuliang Yuye, which symbolizes his noble status! (To be continued.)