Zhenguan Leisurely King

Chapter 116 Distilled Wine

The construction of Wangjiazhuang was greatly shortened due to the assistance of people from the Mo family and the public loser. In addition, the people from the Mo family and the public loser are all skilled craftsmen, so the construction time will be greatly shortened.All of this was properly arranged, and Wang Pingan started to develop the wine business, and he returned to the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau in Luoyang City again.

Wang Pingan returned to the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau with only two bodyguards, Tieping and Zhao Hao, who were his personal bodyguards, so he couldn't let them leave him for too long.

After Wang Pingan returned to the Zhenyuan Escort, he asked Wang Shouren to come to the Zhenyuan Escort to meet him. By the way, he asked him to bring thousands of catties of high-quality sorghum, and said that he was going to start brewing wine.

This time he made wine into two parts, one part was to use high-quality sorghum to brew new wine, and the other part was to buy wine directly from the street and use distillation to brew distilled wine.

Zhao Hao followed Wang Ping'an's instructions and went to the wine shop in Luoyang to buy wine. Wang Pingan himself and Tie Ping stayed in the inner courtyard of Zhenyuan Escort Bureau to build a distillation device.

Holding a big pot, Tie Ping asked, "Master, why do you need such a big pot?" This pot was borrowed from the kitchen.

"Of course I am useful, young master. After the fine wine is brewed, I will send a few jars to your mother. By the way, when can I go to Wangjiazhuang?" Wang Pingan said.

After putting down the cauldron in his hand, Tieping said with a smile: "Okay, Wangjiazhuang is so good, I will definitely persuade my mother to go to Wangjiazhuang."

"Well, this is the best." Wang Ping'an ordered again: "Now you go and chop some more firewood, and then clean the cauldron."

"Okay." Tieping went to the kitchen again, took all the firewood cut in the kitchen to the inner courtyard, and asked the kitchen to cut more firewood. The chef and helper in the kitchen all looked like they were about to cry. Looking at Tieping, he really beat Tieping hard, but his fist was not as hard as his, so he could only chop firewood in tears silently.

After Tieping put the firewood away, he cleaned the cauldron clean, leaving it spotless.

Wang Pingan saw the spotless cauldron and said, "Tieping went to find a big wooden barrel, pierced the barrel, cleaned it, and put it on the cauldron to fix it."

"Yes. I'll do it right away." Tie Ping responded and went to look for the wooden barrel.

Soon, Tieping found a big wooden bucket. Wang Ping'an saw that it looked like the big wooden bucket used for soaking feet in the market, and the footbath was brought from someone's room.

After Tie Ping was completely fixed with the wooden barrel, Wang Ping'an planned to sterilize it, so he said, "Tie Ping, light the fire first, then pour water into the cauldron, bring the hot water to a boil first, and clean the cauldron and wooden barrel. Disinfect."

When Tie Ping heard the word disinfection, his face turned pale with shock, and he hurriedly said, "Poison? Master, this cauldron and barrel are poisonous? Let's throw them away immediately."

Seeing that Tie Ping was about to throw away the cauldron and wooden barrel, he quickly stopped him and said, "Stop it, you misunderstood me. When I said disinfection, I didn't mean that the cauldron was poisonous. There were some human beings in the cauldron and wooden barrel. When you see bacteria, you can kill them by simply rinsing them with boiled water, so you should boil the water first."

"Okay." After Tieping finished speaking, he lit the firewood and poured clean water into the cauldron.

Wang Ping'an and Tie Ping were boiling water in the inner courtyard to sterilize the cauldron and wooden barrels.

On the other side, Zhao Hao was taking two servants from the Zhenyuan Security Bureau to buy wine at a wine shop in Luoyang. Wang Ping'an had ordered that he buy high-quality wine, medium-grade wine, and low-grade wine to buy [-] jugs each.

The arrival of Zhao Hao made the shopkeeper of the wine shop burst into laughter, because Zhao Hao ordered three hundred jars of wine at once, which suddenly increased the sales of the wine shop by a month.

After Zhao Hao selected three hundred jars of wine, he asked two servants to push the cart, and on the way back to Zhenyuan Escort Bureau, Zhao Hao also bought a lot of things for his mother, and of course Tieping's things , Zhao Hao also bought it, this is Wang Ping'an's order.

The servants of the Zhenyuan Escort informed Wang Shouren to bring the best sorghum to the Zhenyuan Escort to meet Wang Pingan, and Wang Shou went to the rice and grain grocery store to choose the best sorghum and send it to the Zhenyuan Escort because he knew that Wang Pingan was about to start brewing wine, so he drank it himself. Once, it was the best wine he had ever drunk, so he chose sorghum himself.

In the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau, Wang Ping'an had already simply sterilized the cauldron and wooden barrels, and now everything was ready, and the only thing he owed was Dongfeng.

"Master, I'm back." Zhao Hao's artificial voice arrived first.

"Zhao Hao, hurry up and bring in the wine. I, my young master, will start brewing wine now." Wang Pingan said with a smile.

Zhao Hao smiled and carried two jars of wine into the inner courtyard, followed by a few servants who also carried the wine into the inner courtyard.

The wine in the inner courtyard gradually increased, ten altars, twenty altars, eighty altars... Finally, they were divided into three piles, each with one hundred jars of wine.

When the wine arrived, Wang Pingan started to work again: "Tie Ping, start to light the fire, Zhao Hao, you pour the high-quality wine into the cauldron, and it's enough to fill it to seventy percent."

Tieping and Zhao Hao, because of Wang Ping'an's orders, started to act. Tieping lit a fire, Zhao Hao poured wine, and soon the fire was lit, and the wine was seventy percent full, and the wine jars on the ground were four empty.

Just as Zhao Hao casually slapped away the mud prints on the wine jar, suddenly, a scent of wine wafted out from the wine jar, and began to pervade the entire inner courtyard.Without any hesitation, he immediately poured the wine from the jug into the cauldron.

Looking at the wine in the cauldron, Wang Ping'an can see that it is slightly turbid. This is some impurities in the wine in the lobby. It seems to be negligible, but it will greatly affect the taste of the wine. This is the flaw of Tang wine. Wang Ping's purpose is to These blemishes are removed to make the wine taste better.

Then, Wang Pingan ordered Tie Ping to take out the prepared black cowhide and directly seal the entire mouth of the barrel, leaving only a small gap.This gap only allows the prepared bamboo tube to be inserted just now, and then quickly tied up without leaving any gaps.The other end of the bamboo tube leads to the outside.

Under the bamboo tube, there is an empty wine jar.The mouth of the wine jar was also sealed with cowhide, and only the other end of the bamboo tube was inserted into it.

After finishing all this work, Wang Ping'an watched as the flame ignited in the stove, and Tie Ping added a piece of dry wood to the fire from time to time to make the flame burn even bigger.

"Let me tell you, my young master's method is called distillation, and the wine produced is called distilled wine. This is one of our industries in the future, and it should not be revealed easily." Wang Pingan said.

"Please rest assured, young master, we will keep the secret and not let others know." Tieping and Zhao Hao said.

Wang Pingan said with a smile: "I don't worry about this. Do you know that the wine you drank before was brewed by the most basic fermentation method, which contained a lot of residual impurities and sediments. It tasted very bad, and the alcohol The purity is not high, and the distillation method is to remove the impurities and sediments in the wine, so that we can drink it with a more mellow taste, a better concentration, and a better taste."

Both Tie Ping and Zhao Hao are wine lovers. Hearing what Wang Pingan said, the wine worms in their stomachs were seduced, and they wished they could drink the distilled wine that Wang Pingan said.

"Master, how does this distillation method make wine? Can it be made after burning?" Zhao Hao asked. He is a wine lover and is also very curious about wine making. Mother.

After hearing this, Tieping also put down the firewood in his hand, and listened carefully.

Wang Pingan said with a smile: "The distillation method is actually to precipitate and filter the impurities in the wine, then boil it again, boil the wine water in the cauldron, and evaporate it into wine gas. Do you know what a wine vessel is?"

Tieping and Zhao Hao shook their heads to express their ignorance.

Wang Pingan explained with a smile: "Wine gas is the essence of wine. These wine gas will slowly condense new wine after high temperature. Now the wine gas will return to the wine jar along the bamboo tube. The wine we are going to drink It is a new wine formed from the essence of the wine. This kind of wine not only makes the wine clearer, but also has a higher purity, making it easier to get drunk."

"Then young master, when can we drink the new wine formed from the essence of the wine." Tie Ping said, wiping his saliva.

"You can drink the wine when the jar is full, but if you want to drink better wine, you have to distill the wine in the jar several times, so that the taste of the wine will be more mellow and the purity will be higher. People who know how to drink can get drunk after just one drink, and even those who don’t get drunk after a thousand glasses can’t finish a jar of wine.” Wang Pingan said exaggeratedly.

(End of this chapter)