The struggle of the reborn prince

Good things come in pairs, people are buzzing on the dam, and at this time the winery is also on fire, the lees exudes a sour smell, and the craftsmen are busy coming in and out.A few guys carefully sent the freshly brewed new wine to an independent small courtyard, where the final process will be carried out to turn it into valuable shochu.

"Xi Ye, why hasn't the wine flowed out yet?" Zheng Yu stared at the distilling retort on the fire. The wine added into the retort had been heated for a long time, but the "legendary" shochu still hadn't flowed out of it.

"Don't worry, cook slowly over a low fire, the wine will be good!" Jian Xi said absent-mindedly, as if his thoughts were not here.

"Oh, a small fire is burning slowly, I'll write it down!" Zheng Yu nodded, and ordered the fireman to slow down the speed of refilling the firewood, "Master Xi, do you think the fire is okay?"

"Well, keep it like this, neither big nor small!" Jian Xi wiped the sweat off his face and said calmly, but his heart kept beating a small drum.

Jian Xi looked outside the door, why the prince hasn't arrived yet, he agreed to let himself come first, and then he tried to come over, could it be that the prince was captured by "mishandling", if the prince fell into the hands of that "hagsha" If it's not good and subject to family law, he won't be so unlucky?

Thinking of this, Jianxi felt even more disturbed. More than half a month ago, the palace suddenly sent several people to the palace, one of them was the dominatrix Yuzhu that Jianxi was talking about. According to the decree of the imperial concubine, she came here to discipline the prince.

There are generally six bureaus and 24 divisions in the palace, and the internal servants and female officials are in charge of all affairs of the government, while the palace Zhengsi is independent from the outside, and is responsible for commanding and punishing, and is in charge of the investigation of the palace and commanding and banning crimes.There is one Gongzheng, two Sizhengs, four Dianzhengs, and four female historians. Although Sizheng is a deputy, his power is not small, and he has the official title of the sixth rank.

This Yuzhu is only in her 30s this year, and she is indeed an old man in the palace. The law is strictly enforced, and her methods are vicious.Because Yang Jian is high above, he will not stare at them every day, but this jade bead is everywhere, if she catches the wrong place and survives, she will have to peel off her skin. Jianxi can't help but feel trembling in her heart and calves when she sees her now.

Although she didn't come to the mansion for a long time, she destroyed the new system just established by the prince, and restored the old system in the palace.The prince is naturally the focus of rectification. She has re-established the rules from basic necessities of life, to sitting, lying and walking, but the prince is not so obedient. She has asked her to use the "family law" bestowed by the imperial concubine to spank her buttocks several times. .

"My lord, come quickly, don't let me sit on the wax!" Jianxi didn't dare to think about it, and prayed silently. After the lord was restricted from moving, he was entrusted by the lord as an 'expert' to guide the winery. After several times of work, now seeing that Zheng Yu is obedient to his words, I feel sweaty in my heart. Today is not as usual, but it is a day of drinking. If there is any mistake, I don't know how to deal with it.My knowledge of shochu is that I have done several "experiments" with the prince, and I have been forced to memorize a few "books" by the prince in the past few nights. Filtering and boiling wine is the first time I have seen it recently.

Jian Xi looked at the door and hoped that the prince would come soon, Zheng Yu was staring at the distilling retort on the stove in a daze, he knew that the secret of making shochu lies in this barrel, but he just couldn't figure it out, and felt itchy It's amazing.This big guy looks like an extra-large copper bucket from the outside, but the top and bottom of the bucket are tightly wrapped by copper skin, leaving only a few holes of different sizes on the wall, one of which is used to As for the brewed wine, what comes out of the other hole becomes shochu, and Jianxi hasn't told him what to do with it yet, and as for what's inside, he can't see it even if he wants to.

In fact, this distillation retort is an ordinary object in the eyes of modern people. It is just a bottom barrel for liquids connected to an identical top barrel with a cooling device. In the middle is a filter bottle that collects alcohol vapor, and the vapor is cooled by water. After that, it condenses into liquid and becomes high-grade liquor.However, this was in the Song Dynasty thousands of years ago, and it became a high-tech product after being packaged by Zhao Tong.

"Master Xi, is this steamer okay? What's inside?" Zheng Yu asked in a low voice, trying to get some secrets out of the 'expert'.

"Hush... the prince said that we have to keep it a secret now, so I can't tell you for the time being!" Jianxi said mysteriously, but secretly laughed in his heart, this is a secret that only the prince and I know, you kid is not qualified to know, in order to keep it secret, we How much effort has been spent with the prince, you want to follow my words, dreaming!

"Master Xi, wine is dripping out of the pipe, what should we do next!" A guy who had been paying attention to the changes in the retort suddenly exclaimed.

"I'm an expert, I'm an expert..." Now is the critical time. The quantity and quality of the wine depends on the current one. It seems that the prince can't come, so he can only drive the ducks to the shelves and sacrifice his 100% Duojin was on the line, and Jian Xi silently recited the four-character motto passed down to him by the prince in his heart, and encouraged himself. 'It's just that Zhao Tong compiled it based on the wine manuals he read in his previous life. Maybe he won't be as nervous as he is now.

"Okay, add cold water to the top to cool down!" Jianxi quickly ordered the two waiters who were waiting to pour cold water slowly into a hole on the top of the retort, "Okay, just at this speed, don't be fast, don't be slow, don't stop Add water!" Seeing that the liquid flowing out of the pipe used to dispense wine has changed from a trickle to a trickle, Jian Xi, who has experience in this situation, ordered.

As the wine flowed out, the aroma of the wine diffused, and the whole wine shop wafted a special aroma that had never been seen before. "Old Steward, Xi Ye, how do you look at this wine?" Zheng Yu scooped up a little wine and poured it on two The wine glass was delivered to Zheng Quan and Jianxi and said, everyone in the room looked at them.

"Well, Sixth Young Master, there should be no problem with the appearance. You can see that the wine is clear and transparent without any impurities, unlike the wine we brew, which is a little cloudy!" Zheng Quan put the wine in the sun to observe for a while and said, "This wine It's also the taste of shochu, spicy and punchy, delicate and mellow in the thick, even the belch is fragrant!" Zheng Quan said excitedly after taking a sip of the wine and hiccupping.

After listening to the evaluation of the old wine worm, people turned their attention to the shochu expert, "Well, this wine is not bad, it seems to be relatively successful!" The hops are not much different from before, and they commented on it pretentiously.

"Haha, we succeeded!" Zheng Yu shouted with a maniacal laugh, he knew that his early days were coming, "Hurry up and return to Beijing to report to the master, saying that shochu has been made!" After laughing, Zheng Yu immediately ordered his two confidants to follow.

After the wine flowed out of two more jars, the flow rate slowed down, "Hurry up and change the jar, the wine flowing out from the back is bad, so it should be stored separately and not mixed with the previous one!" Jian Xi ordered, "Master Zheng, I won't be able to grow wine in the future. Here, you have to pay attention to these things!"

"Yes, yes, I must pay attention!" Zheng Yu hurriedly agreed. These experiences will be his own capital in the future, and he must write them down carefully. Now he can't wait to confess Jianxi as a god and leave it in the winery Everything in his mind was emptied.

An hour later, the wine was no longer flowing out. Seeing Xi hurriedly asked the waiter to remove the fire, stop pouring cold water, and then weighed it. One hundred catties of raw wine yielded fifteen catties of good wine, five catties of second wine, and the yield rate was about At 20.00%, it is basically the same as the experiment done by the prince, and I can also hand over to the prince.

"Well, our distillery can now produce [-] catties of raw wine a day, so we can produce [-] catties of shochu every day. Now the better wine in the market can sell for about [-] yuan per liter. Shochu is expensive in the market. How can you sell ten guan for a catty in Wushi, that's a thousand guan in a day!" Zheng Yu made a rough calculation, which shocked himself.

"If the weather gets warmer in a few days and several fermentation tanks are put into operation one after another, one stone of raw grain can produce one stone of wine, and it is conservatively estimated that two thousand catties of raw wine can be produced every day, then four hundred catties of shochu can be steamed, that is four thousand guan Ah, as long as it can be produced for 120 days a year, the gross income will reach [-] million guan, and the cost of raw materials, labor, firewood and music is negligible compared with the huge income.

Time is money, Zheng Yu thought of this, and the fatigue on his body disappeared immediately, "What are you still enjoying there, immediately load the fuel and ignite the fire, no one is allowed to stop, try to steam all the wine today!" He shouted to the room shouted a few guys who were still silly and happy.

"What are you doing? I have to go back and see the prince. He has been suffering for the past few days, so don't let anything happen!" The prince's admiration turned over again, the prince must have expected that he might not be able to come out, so he let him slip out in the name of going shopping, otherwise Zheng Yu would be caught blind today.

"What's wrong with the lord? Who dares to bully him!" Zheng Yu was startled when he heard that, he dared to let his nephew suffer, didn't he beat the child in front of adults, no one bullied our grandma?

"You can't control the matter of the shopkeeper Zheng. The empress sent a secretary from the palace to take care of the prince's life and teach him the rules!" Jian Xi said with a wry smile, thinking that if there was no witch to take care of him, The prince has already come out to join in the fun, so he doesn't have to suffer here by pretending to understand!

"Oh..." Zheng Yu didn't dare to speak anymore, the mother and elder sister disciplined her children, and as an uncle, she really couldn't give him a head start.