The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

Chapter 54: Some are happy and some are sad

Good things come in pairs, the dam was buzzing with people, the fire was blazing in the winery, the lees exuded the smell of sourness, and craftsmen were busy coming in and out. A few guys carefully brought in the new wine that had just been brewed.

A small independent courtyard was built, where the final process will be carried out to turn it into shochu worth thousands of gold.

"Master Xi, why hasn't the wine flowed out?" Zheng Yu stared at the distillation barrel on the fire. The wine added to the steamer barrel has been heated for a while, but the 'legendary' shochu has not flowed out yet.

"Don't be anxious, just use a low fire and cook it slowly to make the best wine!" Jian Xi seemed to be thinking about something else, and said a little absentmindedly.

"Oh, burn slowly on low fire, I made a note of it!" Zheng Yu nodded and told the guy who was lighting the fire to slow down the firewood, "Master Xi, do you think the heat is okay?"

"Well, just keep it like this, neither too big nor too small!" Jianxi wiped the sweat from his face and said calmly, but he couldn't help but beat a little drum in his heart.

Jian Xi looked out the door, wondering why the prince hadn't arrived yet. He had agreed to come first, and he found a way to come over later. Could it be that the prince had been captured by mistake? What if the prince fell into the hands of that dominatrix?

If he's not good enough and has to be disciplined by his family, he won't be so unlucky, right?

Thinking of this, Jian Xi felt even more uneasy. More than half a month ago, the palace suddenly sent several people to the palace. One of them was the mother Yaksha Yuzhu mentioned by Jian Xi. She was originally the Sizheng of the palace. This time

Following the imperial concubine's order, she came specifically to discipline the prince.

There are generally six bureaus and twenty-four divisions in the palace, with the chamberlains and female officials in charge of one of the affairs. The palace chief division is independent and is responsible for commanding and punishing, inspecting the palace, and issuing orders and banishments. The palace chief is appointed

There are one person, two Sizhengs, four Dianzhengs, and four female historians. Although Sizheng is a deputy, his power is not small, and he has a sixth-grade official title.

This Yuzhu is only in her thirties this year. She is indeed an old man in the palace. He enforces the law strictly and uses sinister methods. The maids of the Xiaohuangmen in the palace fear him like a tiger, even more than the famous Yang Jian. Because Yang Jian is aloof and will not stare at them every day.

But this jade bead is everywhere. If she catches it in the wrong place, she will have to peel off the skin without dying. Jianxi can't help but feel her heart tremble and her calves tremble when she sees it now.

Although she had only been in the palace for a short time, she destroyed the new system that the prince had just established and restored the old system in the palace. The prince was naturally the focus of the renovation, from food, clothing, housing and transportation to sitting, lying and walking.

She re-established the rules, but the prince was not so obedient. He had already asked her to use the "family law" given by the imperial concubine and spanked her several times.

"Your Highness, please come quickly, don't let me sit on the wax!" He was so happy that he didn't dare to think about it anymore, and prayed silently. After the Prince was restricted from moving, he was entrusted by the Prince to come to the winery as an 'expert' for guidance.

After working a few times, I saw that Zheng Yu was obeying my words, and I was sweating in my heart. Today was no different than usual, but it was a day for drinking. If something went wrong, I would not know how to deal with it. My knowledge of soju was to follow the prince's instructions.

I have conducted several 'experiments', and the prince has forced me to memorize several 'manuals' these past few nights. Others such as selecting ingredients, making koji, fermenting, collecting wine, loading the tank, and filtering and cooking the wine are all in recent times.

First time seeing it.

Jian Xi looked at the door and hoped that the prince would come soon. Zheng Yu was staring at the distillation barrel on the stove in a daze. He knew that the secret of making shochu was inside 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 in copper skin, leaving only a few holes of varying sizes on the wall of the bucket, one of which

It is used to hold brewed wine, and what flows out from the other hole becomes soju. The other Jianxi has not told him what it is used for. As for what is inside, he can't see it even if he wants to see it.

In fact, this distillation retort is just an ordinary object in the eyes of modern people. It is just a bottom barrel containing liquid 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.

Afterwards, it condensed into a liquid and turned into high-quality liquor. However, this was in the Song Dynasty a thousand years ago. After Zhao Yu packaged it like this, it became a high-tech product.

"Master Xi, can this steamer and barrel work? What's it like inside?" Zheng Yu asked in a low voice, wanting to get some secrets out of the 'expert'.

"Hush, Your Majesty said we have to keep it a secret now, so I can't tell you for the time being!" Jian Xi said mysteriously, but he was laughing secretly in his heart. This is a secret that only Your Majesty and I know. You kid is not qualified to know. In order to keep it secret, Your Majesty and I spent a lot of time to keep it secret.

How much scheming have you put into it? If you want to follow my words, just dream!

"Master Xi, wine is dripping from the pipe, what should I do next?" A waiter who had been paying attention to the changes in the steamer and barrel suddenly exclaimed.

"I am an expert, I am an expert." Now is the critical time. The quantity and quality of the wine will depend on now. It seems that the prince will not be able to come, so he can only rush the duck to the shelves and sacrifice more than one hundred kilograms of himself.

On board, Jian Xi silently recited the four-character motto passed down to him by the prince to cheer himself up. At this time, if he knew that the wine-making knowledge that the prince knew was actually no better than him, the 'treasure book' passed on to him was nothing more than

Zhao Tong compiled it based on the alcohol instructions he read in his previous life. Maybe he wouldn't be as nervous as he is now.

"Okay, quickly add cold water to cool it down!" Jianxi quickly ordered the two waiters who were waiting to slowly pour cold water into a hole on the top of the steamer bucket. "Okay, just at this speed, not too fast, not too slow, non-stop."

Add water!" Jianxi, who had had this experience, ordered as he saw the wine flowing out of the pipe used to discharge the wine from dribs and drabs to a trickle at first.

As the wine flowed out, the aroma of the wine filled the air, and the entire winery was filled with a special aroma that had never been seen before. "Old steward, Mr. Xi, what do you think of this wine?" Zheng Yu scooped a little wine and poured it on two

The wine glass was brought to Zheng Quan and Jian Xi and everyone in the room looked at them.

"Well, Mr. Six, judging by the appearance, there should be no problem. You see, the wine is clear and transparent without any impurities, unlike the wine we brew that is a little turbid!" Zheng Quan put the wine under the sun and observed it for a while and said, "This wine

It also tastes like soju, spicy and punchy, thick yet delicate and mellow, even the wine burps are fragrant!" Zheng Quan said excitedly after taking a sip of wine and burping.

After listening to the evaluation of the old wine bug, people turned their attention to the soju expert, "Well, this wine is not bad, it seems to be quite successful!" He shook the wine in the glass and saw that there were fine pieces of wine in the glass.

Hops, not much different from before, pretended to comment profoundly.

"Haha, we succeeded!" Zheng Yu shouted with a somewhat maniacal laugh. He knew that his days of success were coming, "Hurry up and return to Beijing to report to the master that shochu has been made!"

After laughing, Zheng Yu immediately ordered his two confidants to follow him.

After the wine flowed out of two more jars, the flow rate slowed down. "Hurry up and change the jars. The wine flowing out from the back has a bad taste. Store it separately and don't mix it with the one in the front!" Jian Xi ordered, "Shopkeeper Zheng, I won't be able to grow up in the future."

Now that you are here, you should pay attention to these things!"

"Yes, yes, I will definitely pay attention!" Zheng Yu promised hastily that these experiences will be his capital in the future, and he must write them down carefully. Now he can't wait to offer Jianxi as a god and leave it in the wine shop.

Everything was gone from his mind.

An hour later, the wine stopped flowing out. Seeing this, he hurriedly asked the waiter to turn off the fire and stop pouring cold water. Then he weighed the wine. One hundred kilograms of original wine produced fifteen kilograms of good wine. Five kilograms of secondary wine yielded about 100 kilograms of wine.

At 20%, it is basically the same as the experiment done by the prince, and I can also submit to the prince.

"Well, our winery can now produce five hundred kilograms of raw wine a day, so it can produce one hundred kilograms of soju every day. Now the better wine on the market can be sold for about three hundred wen per liter. Soju has a price in the market.

How can you sell it for ten guan per catty without a market? That means you can make a thousand guan per day!" Zheng Yu did a rough calculation and shocked himself.

"If the weather gets warmer in a few days and several fermentation tanks are put into use one after another, one stone of raw grain can produce one stone of wine. It is conservatively estimated that two thousand kilograms of raw wine can be produced every day. Then four hundred kilograms of soju can be steamed, which is four thousand kuan.

Ah, as long as we can produce for three hundred days a year, the gross income will reach 1.2 million yuan, and the money for raw materials, labor, firewood and buying music is simply negligible compared with the huge profits.

Time is money. When Zheng Yu thought of this, all the fatigue on his body disappeared immediately. "What are you still having fun with? Load the ingredients and light the fire immediately. No one is allowed to stop. Try to steam out all the wine today!" He shouted to the room.

shouted some of the guys inside who were still having fun.

"You guys go ahead, I have to go back and see the prince. He has suffered a lot these days, so don't let anything happen to him!" Jianxi has been busy working these days and is very tired. He yawned and said, but in his heart

His admiration for the prince was renewed. The prince must have expected that he might not be able to get out, so he first let him sneak out under the pretext of going out for shopping, otherwise Zheng Yuzhen would have been blinded today.

"What's wrong with the prince? Who dares to bully him!" Zheng Yu was shocked when he heard this. If he dared to let his nephew suffer, wouldn't he beat the child in front of adults? No one in our grandma's family was bullied?

"You can't control this matter of Shopkeeper Zheng. The empress sent a Sizheng 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 wasn't that witch in charge,

The prince has already come out to join in the fun, so he doesn’t have to suffer the consequences of pretending not to understand!

"Oh" Zheng Yu didn't dare to speak. His mother-in-law and sister disciplined her children, and as an uncle, she really couldn't stand up for him.