Mythic version of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 6514 God has gifted me!

Although Liu Zhang had never thought about the value of Li, even if he considered it as a new type of wine, he could still make a lot of money from it, because it was wine!
Even though Liu Zhang didn't know that among the world's three major drinks in later generations, alcohol is ranked second. In order to prevent alcohol from appearing so prominent, the world's three major drinks ranking list also has a special one called the non-alcoholic drinks ranking list, which is specially added to make up the number.

Of course, these are not important. For Liu Zhang, it is enough to know that this thing is wine, and it is a new type of wine with quite good flavor.

Apart from anything else, just his ability as a wine connoisseur Liu Zhang to appreciate wine, and his role in promoting certain things as a member of the royal family Liu, this thing can at least be on the table. And Liu Zhang has seen the value that wine can create over the years, and it really exploded the gambling industry.

To be precise, the gambling industry is nothing compared to alcohol and beverages. As for profits and such, the gambling industry can probably only mention this in front of alcohol and beverages. If we really want to discuss the output value, it will be crushed to the point where not even a dregs is left. The gap is too huge.

When Liu Zhang said that this was a new type of wine, Yuan Shu finally reacted. He immediately picked up the wine, which he originally thought was just okay in flavor, and took two more sips to feel it carefully. He compared it in his mind with the things he had drunk before, and finally determined that this thing was a bit strange, but the taste might be ranked in the upper middle range.

Taking the size of the people in the Central Plains into consideration, basically all the things that Yuan Shu thought were delicious were liked by the people in the Central Plains. After all, every year when Liu Tong distributed snacks, Yuan Shu would always spend money to collect all kinds of snacks, and then eat them all and evaluate them. Therefore, Yuan Shu was still somewhat confident about what was delicious, what was good to drink, and what was suitable for the common people to eat, drink and have fun.

"Indeed, considering that this is a kind of wine that has never appeared before, and it has a special flavor and aroma, then this thing has great potential!" Yuan Shu said with shining eyes, "Speaking of how much this thing costs, is it expensive? If it is cheap, then it has great potential."

"It's cheap. If it wasn't cheap, would I have brought this to you? It's because I saw this possibility that I brought it here specifically for you to see. How about it, it's not bad, right?" Liu Zhang laughed loudly, and the fat on his body trembled because of this laughter.

Even the lowest-grade loose liquor of baijiu and rice wine is more expensive than beer. Even though there are high-end craft beers, the gap between them and the best baijiu is really outrageous. However, beer, like beverages, is too expensive to sell in large quantities.

What's more, in an era like the Three Kingdoms period when people were even poorer, if there was a cheaper alternative, people would definitely be more willing to accept it. It was normal to drink white wine and yellow wine at weddings and funerals, and beer at other times. After all, most people still have to consider the cost issue in their lives.

What status do you, Yuan Shu, have that you dare to touch King Zhou's wine pool and meat forest?
Chen Xi gathered together almost all the mainstream winemaking masters in the world to conduct in-depth research and optimize the winemaking process. He then produced wines with various flavors and is constantly developing new wines every year.

Apart from anything else, in the territory of Yuzhou, Yuan Shu said that he was a real person and asked his fellow villagers if they could give him some water to drink. As long as the fellow villagers had wine at home, they would pour two bowls for Yuan Shu on the spot. Yuan Shu said that among all the wines he had drunk at home, this thing could be ranked in the upper middle level, because he had drunk too many strange things in the fellow villagers' homes.

This is actually not some kind of wisdom, it is just a matter of perspective. Without this height and perspective, it is difficult to realize the value of this thing.

These fermented rice wines each have their own flavors, and Yuan Shu really didn't like some of them. But just because Yuan Shu didn't like them didn't mean that no one liked them. Just by looking at the truckloads of them being taken away and shipped, you could tell that there were many people who liked them. This is generally the case with liquor, all it takes is flavor and taste!
"Nonsense, it's really that powerful. We've got something. I'll go back and take the wine-making master away from Yinping County. We'll go to Chang'an to hire Chen Zichuan's wine-making master to build a factory for us. We can recruit 1,800 people and build a factory. Wouldn't we make a lot of money?" Liu Zhang said excitedly. He even had a plan ready.

But even for rice wine and white wine, which are not very expensive, there is still a gap of several times compared to beer. Let’s put it this way, even the price of the inferior blended white wine sold in small shops in later generations is more expensive than the so-called craft beer most of the time.

After all, no matter how outrageous the Yuan family is, no matter how extravagant Yuan Shu is, could he really invite 500 wine-making masters to study wine-making for him?

It’s not that Liu Zhang has a good vision or outstanding abilities, but the environment in which they live makes their perspective on problems and their methods of solving problems completely different from those of ordinary people.

Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang are considered big players in Chen Xi's wine industry. In addition to drinking the wine themselves, they also distribute benefits to their subordinates on a large scale. There is no other way. In terms of the quality of the wine, the wines researched and formulated by these professional bigwigs far surpass the so-called masters in terms of flavor and taste.

As I said before, the core of rice wine and white wine brewed by traditional methods is the taste of grain, and there is a certain gap in flavor compared with the blended wines in later generations. There is nothing much to say about other aspects. Moreover, after scale development, not to mention things like brand effect, the price is generally not too outrageous. This is also the reason why the prices of the wines sold by Chen Xi in supply and marketing cooperatives in various places are not too high.

The people of Yinping County have been drinking Li for hundreds or even thousands of years, but no one has ever thought of selling this stuff. But when Liu Zhang and Yuan Shu came here for the first time, tasted it, and realized that it was Li, they realized the value of this thing.

"Fuck, it's so awesome!" Yuan Shu was shocked when he heard that. This was a completely different flavor of wine, but its taste could be mixed with the wine he drank and it was considered upper-middle grade. It didn't have the sour taste of most wines and it was quite cheap. Wasn't this a reward from God for the two brothers?
When Yuan Shu was the boss of the Yuan family, he had drunk all the finest wines from various places. If he was fed the wine that Liu Zhang brought him today, he might even mock Liu Zhang and say something like this was rubbish. But he had been through so much, built a lot of roads, and made a real name for himself in Yuzhou, so when he was hanging out in the countryside, he could ask for water from the villagers.

Yuan Shu didn't even dare to be beaten to death. Although the official history shows that Yuan Shu dared to rebel, if he dared to recruit 500 wine-making masters to help him study wine-making, I'm afraid he would have been treated like King Zhou before he could even ship the wine!

There was no way around it. The liquor Chen Xi sold in the supply and marketing cooperative was always more expensive. Except for those who loved drinking very much and had more spare money, most families still brewed some liquor at home and stored it. This behavior was somewhat similar to the 1980s when the country was just opening up. There were already goods that could be bought and sold in shopping malls, but due to financial constraints, most families still relied on their own production.

Chen Xi had thought about making beer before, but Chen Xi had the impression that hops were not native to China, so after forcing himself to use malt to make a few rounds of beer, he gave up the plan and instead let professionals study rice wine and white wine.

But no matter how unpalatable it is, it's up to you to decide whether it's respectful or not. Yuan Shu said that he liked others to respect him. It's this kind of wine. Nine out of ten homemade wines taste unpalatable, especially the wine brewed with bran. It has a weird taste. Only I have experienced it through the test, otherwise I can't swallow it.

"This is so exciting." Yuan Shu's face was full of ecstasy.

As two people who had once relied on Chen Xi and received special training, they had been to Chen Xi's wineries in various places. Those large-scale factories really shocked them. They were completely different from the small workshops before. Moreover, the number of people involved, the jobs that could be provided, and the local output that could be driven were so many that Liu Zhang and Yuan Shu realized that this thing was more reliable than those high-end things.

There is no way. For a large winery, not to mention the industrial issues involved in bottling, the upstream grain industry alone is enough to feed countless people. If we also take into account its own distribution channels, the winery's own front-line staff, various managers, etc., the super-large wineries can actually be said to be the basis for the food and clothing of millions of boat workers... The problem is that the wine industry can only support a dozen or twenty of these super-large wineries. Many people say that the wine is so unpalatable and not good for the body, so why are there so many wineries?

Whether it is actually unpalatable or not is aside for now. Anyway, the average Chinese consume dozens of liters of alcohol per year. Judging from the data, it should not be unpalatable. Many people love it. As for whether it is bad for the body or can cause sudden death from staying up late, is this a problem? It is not a problem!
Considering the labor-intensive nature of the winery, the social value it can create, etc., are the previous problems still problems? They are bullshit problems.

In any era, industries that can provide millions of jobs are industries that the country must deal with with caution when it wants to touch them. If they are really destroyed, people will lose their heads and this is no joke.

"Come on, let's go over there and take a look, try a few places and see what the difference is." Yuan Shu said excitedly. Even if they couldn't build viaducts for Yinping County and Zitong County in a short time, they could create a local specialty in these two places, and a specialty that could change the local people's livelihood. That would be considered a success. At least with such a thing, they would have some capital to leverage Chen Xi's plan, right?

After all, it is already the tenth year of Yuanfeng. It is basically impossible to change Chen Xi's second five-year plan, but it is still possible to influence Chen Xi's third five-year plan. At this point, Yinping County and Zitong County have produced such an important specialty, so if we influence it slightly, Chen Xi might nod his head.

For a boss of Chen Xi's level, it doesn't matter where the roads are built. Apart from those major arteries that need to be determined at the first time, other roads are actually more a reflection of resource allocation. Now that we have better resources here, it is not impossible for the other party to build roads here. Thinking of this, Yuan Shu felt much better.

In this case, it seems that he and Liu Zhang won't have to embarrass themselves. It would be too embarrassing to have said it and then swallow it back.

"What is this?" Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang were inspecting a wine-making workshop in Yinping County. Having been to an overly professional large winery like Chen Xi's, they had no interest in this kind of workshop-like winery. But as they walked around, they saw some strange things.

"Yeast flower is a kind of herb that we must add when brewing sweet wine here. After adding it, the taste and aroma of the sweet wine will be improved, making it more suitable for drinking." The old man who made wine answered cautiously. He had received a notice that the two fat guys in front of him were big shots from above, bigger than the county magistrate.

"I have the impression that the sweet wine I have doesn't seem to have this thing added to it." Liu Zhang said with some reminiscence. As a wine tasting master, he has seen others brew sweet wine. Although it is rare these days, Liu Zhang still has some impression.

"That's normal. If the level is better than others, there must be something special about it." Yuan Shu said nonchalantly. He didn't care what was added to this thing, as long as it wasn't something disgusting and the final product tasted good, that was enough.

"Yes, and looking at it again, I feel like there is nothing special except this thing." Liu Zhang said with some doubt, "Is this the so-called difference? If so, doesn't it mean that adding this thing to other liquors will also cause changes? So what is this yeast flower? Is it a tree?"

"It's not a tree, it's grass." The old man gestured with his hands and explained, "There are a lot of these grasses in the mountains. Every year when we make wine, we go to the mountains to collect them."

"Okay, there's one more kind. This thing might be used as an additive. Never mind, no matter if it's useful or not, we'll dig it up and find a place to plant it. Then have someone add it to the brewing process of Li and see if there's any change." Yuan Shu turned and instructed Liu Zhang. Liu Zhang nodded when he heard it. It was just grass. They had professional growers.

Although he is not Cookie, he is also Cookie's disciple. To be honest, although Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang have cancelled their real positions and retained honorary positions, the resources they can mobilize are still far more than most high-ranking officials. After all, no normal person would do such a thing as blackmailing Cookie, but Cookie himself is from Sichuan, and with Liu Zhang taking the lead, some things can still be revealed.

However, this behavior is not very civilized and should not be encouraged. If discovered, Liu Zhang might be chased and beaten. But if we are to be honest, the talents obtained in this way through extortion are really useful.

"Is there anything else? I see there's no difference from other ways of brewing liquor. It seems like just this thing is added." Liu Zhang asked curiously.

"There is indeed no difference, it's just the addition of yeast flowers." The winemaking master said somewhat embarrassedly. This is the biggest difference between the liquor of their Yinping County and that of other places. As for other techniques and things like that, there is no difference at all. It all depends on God's gift.

"Then it is probably this thing. Let's dig some out and study it later." Yuan Shu said excitedly. He liked this simple and crude method. The way Chen Xi asked people to study winemaking was too outrageous. Yuan Shu couldn't afford it. He liked this kind of behavior of God feeding him directly. It was really great.

"No, no, no, if that's the case, what reason can we find to ask Chen Zichuan to add an elevated bridge to Yinping County and Zitong County in the next year's plan?" Liu Zhang turned his head and said to Yuan Shu. Making money is important, but do they still need to make money at their current level? Is this a small amount of money? What they lack is something else.

"Hey, you're so smart, I didn't even notice it." Yuan Shu touched his double chin and said with some surprise.

"Nonsense, I used to be the governor of Yizhou, and these are my people. If I don't give any fucking consideration to them, who the hell should I give consideration to? They are just like you, heartless." Liu Zhang said angrily.

"I am heartless?" Yuan Shu sneered, "You don't know how the people of Yuzhou praise me. Besides, I have worked hard to repair the roads for Yuzhou, and there is also Lei Jitai. Do you understand? Look at how many of these things you have in Yizhou. We in Yuzhou are almost finished. I am heartless. Tell me honestly, who has a better reputation in our own territory."

Liu Zhang's face darkened. Although there were objective reasons, if we were to say who had a better reputation locally, it was undoubtedly Yuan Shu. In the territory of Yuzhou, Yuan Shu could at least be ranked second to Liu Bei. After all, whether it was the roads that connected the counties or the Leijitai that was almost completed, these were all built by Yuan Shu through various scams.

In addition, Yuan Shu was the first nobleman to kick promissory notes, land deeds and other documents into the fire basin. In Yuzhou, Yuan Shu's reputation was extremely good.

As a price, the road was built so hard that Yuan Shu dared not return to his hometown in Runan, because all the money of the old man in his family was defrauded by Yuan Shu. Lei Jitai even cheated Li You, so Yuan Shu still dared not appear with Li You at the same time. In short, Yuan Shu's life is not easy now.

"So, little brother, don't worry about it. I have worked hard to complete my own work. I am the uncrowned king of Yuzhou. I can get a table of food with a broken bowl in Yuzhou. Do you understand? No, you don't understand. You don't have this treatment." Yuan Shu laughed loudly, and then mocked Liu Zhang fiercely. To be honest, this is the fact!
　Poor, got up late, scratching my head
　　(End of this chapter)