Through the ancient dark horse strategy

On the Slender West Lake, Ye Xiaoyi hired a luxurious and beautiful painting boat to entertain friends.

Inside the boat, the gauze is fluttering, the breeze is gentle, and outside the boat is full of blue waves and sparkling water. It is very comfortable for people to lie in it.There are also bursts of flute sounds from the blowing platform in the distance, full of poetic and picturesque flavor.

Ye Xiaoyi only felt that it was very painful. Renting this painting boat cost tens of taels of silver a day, which was enough for him to buy a house in a civilian area.However, the literati in Yangzhou, including wealthy businessmen, like this tune, and Ye Xiaoyi has no choice but to do as the Romans do.

The literati in Yangzhou are very idle, they don't need to study hard like Ye Xiaoyi.There are many literati and poets who hang around Yangliuti and 24 bridges in the ten miles of Slender West Lake every day.

Since Ye Xiaoyi arrived in Yangzhou, he also had to change his study schedule and reduce the time for endorsement, because he needed to spend time socializing.He discovered that the 60-character Four Books and Five Classics that scholars have to memorize are actually dead cultures, and the current culture is really alive.

There are many literati in Yangzhou, and there are also many creations. There are 2 poems alone.And these living things are the nourishment he should absorb. No matter how reasonable the words of the sages in the Four Books and Five Classics are, they are only used as a reference.The soil of his creation should come from contemporary thought.

Ye Fangtian and Xiao Qian are two teammates, although one is an official and the other is a businessman, but they are both well-educated and well-educated people.Ye Fangtian has a brilliant literary talent, and Xiao Qian has excellent poetry and piano skills.Even Xiao Mo, his slave, is an unfathomable literati, only Ye Xiaoyi, a little friend, can't do anything.

Boss Ye's writing and his articles are at the kindergarten level for these great gods.

Ye Fangtian even joked about little friend Ye Xiaoyi: "I haven't seen anyone who is worse than me in literary talent, but is more attractive than me. You really opened my eyes."

Xiao Qian also said to Little Friend Ye: "Although your thinking is very close to mine, your writing is too bad. You need to work harder."

His student was complained about, so Xiao Mo silently decided to give the kid homework.What do the students taught by Ben Gong always get laughed at?

Ye Xiaoyi was with these people, what bothered him the most was not that he was at the bottom of the literary talent, but those two powers.The second generation is often late.

Xiao Qian was just a little late, Ye Fangtian was more casual, and he often arrived only after the gathering was over.Ye Xiaoyi very much suspected that he avoided being an official because he avoided going to work on time every day.

Ye Xiaoyi had already become numb to the lateness of these two people, he found that it was too reluctant to let these romantic ancients talk about the concept of time.They can only adapt to their habit of vaguely agreeing to "after dusk".

These ancient people believed that waiting was a very romantic and poetic thing, and they could even compose poems to amuse themselves while waiting.

After Ye Xiaoyi got used to it, he would often bring his own melon seeds and books, and read while drinking tea and eating melon seeds.

When Ye Fangtian entered Huafang, he teased Ye Xiaoyou: "Hey, are you working hard? That's right, you really should improve your literary talent."

Ye Xiaoyi was eating melon seeds and reading a book, and said calmly: "Didn't you realize that I'm talking more and more smoothly now? It's you, why are you learning so much of my vocabulary?"

Ye Fangtian "hissed", but he loved teasing this poor kid who was pulled to death very much, and he had never been so fond of someone who pulled him so much.

Ye Fangtian squeezed the child's face and said: "Why are you so vulgar? Others play the piano and paint when they go on a boat. Why don't you read a book and eat melon seeds? You look like a commoner. It's really an insult to the elegance of a scholar."

Ye Xiaoyi calmly replied to this guy who always had a bad tongue: "Ah, I get sleepy after reading a book, and eating something can refresh me."

Ye Fangtian clicked his tongue: "You ordinary man, there is a golden house in the book, there is Yan Ruyu in the book, there are all kinds of good things in the book, you dare to say it even if you are sleepy after reading the book."

Ye Xiaoyi gave Ye Fangtian a white look: "Aren't you sleepy after reading "Shangshu"?"

Mentioning this difficult ancient book, Ye Fangtian also thanked him for not being sensitive, and persuaded him: "Why do you read this book? You are not the emperor, and it is taboo to talk about the emperor's art. Why don't you learn more about how to use outstanding literary talents to criticize the new emperor?" Flattering and flattering, it’s better to be the champion like that.”

Ye Xiaoyi was very modest: "It makes sense, I will write it down."

Ye Xiaoyi decided to practice the style of "Ode" more in the future. Flattering is also a strategy. Flattering will touch the emperor's heart, make the emperor happy, and maybe he will be the No. [-] scholar.It seems that we should pay more attention to collecting the views and preferences of the emperor in the future.

Ye Fangtian was inexplicably happy when he saw that the little friend had absorbed his good opinion, and he also sat down to eat melon seeds.

It wasn't until Xiao Qian came to Huafang that Ye Xiaoyi took out his treasure and called Xiao Qian to drink: "Come and taste my home-brewed wine."

Ye Fangtian took the bowl in front of Xiao Qian very smoothly, and while offering melon seeds with wine, he said: "Xiao Yi, we have the same ancestor 500 years ago, you actually hid the wine from me. It's so unkind."

Xiao Qian took a sip of wine calmly, and spoke for Ye Xiaoyi: "Who told you to always bully Xiaoyi?" Then Xiao Qian changed the subject and asked about Ye Xiaoyi's wine: "The color of this wine A bowl of green is lovely, and a bowl of red is charming, how do you do it?"

The wine that his restaurant has sold for so many years is yellow soup, just like horse urine, if it can add some color, it will be much more interesting, Xiao Qian immediately saw the opportunity.

coming!This big fox actually wanted to trick out his secret recipe for nothing?Ye Xiaoyi said: "You might as well first guess what my wine is made of?"

Xiao Qian took another sip and said: "This bowl of red is very sweet, with a mixed aroma of fruit and flowers. It should be made of fruit wine and flowers. It can't be horse milk apples, right?

The wine is sour and astringent. When you drink it into your mouth, it will produce a wrinkled feeling inside your mouth, which is very annoying.Your wine is only slightly sour, and has a very fresh and refreshing feeling.how did you do it "

Ye Xiaoyi nodded: "That's right, it's horse milk apples. This is the Central Plains wine."

Ye Fangtian also came to intervene: "Ma milk rose fruit? No way? I drank that wine, and it was so astringent that I couldn't even pull my tongue and mouth out. The barbarians still clapped their hands and called it delicious. I dare not drink this wine again. Planting wine is too rough."

Ye Xiaoyi smiled, of course you are not used to drinking liquor, and foreigners are also not used to drinking the spicy baijiu of Central Plains people.Lacking the necessary wine cultural inheritance and wine atmosphere, the only way to make foreign people accept it is to change the recipe.

The astringency of wine is sought after by Western wine lovers: young ladies in furs.When you come to the eastern land, you have to change your appearance, reduce astringency and acidity, and sweet wine is so popular in Asia.

In order to cater to the domestic market, their Yip Group has developed a smooth sweet red wine, which is completely contrary to the orthodox astringent red wine, but it is widely welcomed by compatriots.This is the popular and classic game.

Ye Xiaoyi didn't explain more about the recipe, but continued to hang on to the two of them: "There are wines with a rough taste, and of course there are fine wines. My wine actually has astringency, but this astringency is reflected in the layering of the wine superior.

Drinking sweet water alone does not taste full enough.If there is a sour feeling, a little sweetness will be very obvious.It will also stay sweet after the teeth, with a long aftertaste.

Pure sweet water does not have this stamina.The sour taste of wine comes from the bitter grape skins, which can be turned into delicate if well controlled. "

Ye Fangtian suddenly realized: "So, if you put less grape skins, you can make the wine fragrant, sweet, and refreshing, right?"

Xiao Qian, the largest wine merchant in Yangzhou, despised him:

"You don't need to add koji to make wine. The hoar frost on the grape skins is koji. What wine can be made without grape skins?"

Ye Fangtian, a layman, asked Ye Xiaoyi: "Is that so?"

It seems that Xiao Qian knows a lot of techniques!In order to show that his technology is advanced enough, so that Xiao Qian would not give up on cracking his secret wine-making recipe, Ye Xiaoyi began to pretend: "That's right, the essence of wine-making is actually to allow microorganisms to degrade sugar into alcohol.

The koji used to make Huangtang is actually a type of mold that can be obtained from moldy grains.Adding koji to wine making is to let these microorganisms eat the crops with high sugar content, and the remaining residue is wine.

Because rice wine is brewed from grains, both the wine cake (jiquor koji) and the soup color of the wine are yellow or brown.Even the high-strength liquor distilled from rice wine is actually a little yellow, and this color is the amber light praised by scholars.

However, wine is different from rice wine. The koji of wine is white yeast, not yellow and black mold.The hoarfrost on the grape skins is yeast, so there is no need to add koji to make wine.

The bright red color of wine comes from the pigment on the skin of black grapes, so wine will have a more beautiful color than rice wine. "

Xiao Qian only knew that spoiled rice can be used to make wine, and moldy grains can be used to extract distiller's yeast. He didn't know the reason for this, and instantly felt that Ye Xiaoyou was very superior.

Ye Fangtian is also Sparta, "So, the wine we drink is eaten by those things that make the grain moldy, and then eaten by others? Why is it so disgusting?"

I can't do anything about it, that's how fermentation works, Ye Xiaoyi fooled him: "Actually, it's not that disgusting, you just need to treat this kind of thing as time. You think that the wine is just drunk by time first, and then given to you." It is very poetic when people drink it."

This little friend is too capable, Xiao Qian picked up another bowl of clear green wine and took a sip, and asked: "This tastes like yellow soup, why is the wine color as emerald green as jade?"

Didn't it mean that wine brewed from grains, rice, sorghum, corn, etc. is all yellow?Why is this bowl of green so cute?

Ye Xiaoyi didn't answer and asked instead: "Do you think my two bowls of Zhubi wine can become popular?"

The Lanling Xiao family owned countless restaurants, and there were more than ten in Yangzhou City alone, not including other clubs such as teahouses, chess halls, piano halls, and dance halls.Whether this kind of wine can become popular depends on whether Xiao Qian is willing to promote it?

Xiao Qian thought for a moment and asked: "There are many wines in Yangzhou, sweet wines include various fruit wines, chrysanthemum wine, pear blossom wine, peach blossom wine, sweet-scented osmanthus wine, winter jujube wine, green plum wine, etc.

There are also many types of rice wine with spicy throat, ranging from fine wines made by ordinary people to private wines made by monarchs and ministers, as well as palace tribute wine and official wine.These two wines of yours are only slightly better in color and taste better, so you want to be sought after? "

Ye Xiaoyi asked naively: "Why not? In this face-scrubbling world, my wine is so cute and looks so good, how can a literati refuse to drink it?"

Xiao Qian was drunk by him, but he also thought it was worth a try, so he asked: "How do you want to divide it? The consignment of other wines in Lanling Restaurant is divided into [-] to [-]%. How about I seven and you three? Or do you want to share Sell ​​me the recipe?"

Cheating!I only scored three points, how can this be possible?There are no absolute secrets in factories or workshops, and the formula will definitely leak out over time.

This cooperation is only a few years at most, and only [-]% is divided, and it will not get a lot of money in three years.The officials in Yangzhou City have a great appetite, how can I bribe them then.Bribe someone to give me a place to directly participate in the provincial examination?

Ye Xiaoyi shook his head desperately: "No, no, I'm eight and you two, I can accept it."

Ye Fangtian on the side laughed directly, gave little friend Ye a thumbs up and said: "I give you my thumbs up!"

Xiao Qian, who has always been calm and composed, also wanted to shoot this kid to death, "Xiao Yi, you have never done business, so you don't know that the rules of the road are like this. I don't take advantage of you, if you think it is less, I can give you more Cheng, how about I six and you four?"

Concession, good sign!Ye Xiaoyi still pretended to shake his head desperately: "I am eight and you are two is the minimum I can accept."

"Then you won't sell it?" Xiao Qian teased him.

Ye Xiaoyi nodded pretendingly: "I won't sell it anymore, keep it for myself. If you like it, I can give you two pots."

Xiao Qian left regrettably, taking two wine gourds with him at the same time.Ye Fangtian also grabbed two wine gourds and left.

Ye Xiaoyi returned to Yeyuan, and said to Xiao Mo: "Learn to brew a bar with me, you can start soon."

Xiao Mo has been recruiting Hu people for the past few days to form a westbound team.Yangzhou is the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, and the Silk Road is not just about selling silk.

The merchants who developed this trade route always purchased silk, porcelain, tea, salt and iron in Yangzhou, and distributed them all the way to the Western Regions by sea.Then they brought spices, horses, cattle and sheep, precious stones, and exotic medicinal materials back to Yangzhou from the Western Regions.

These merchants are porters. A huge ship can carry tonnage-level goods, and those who dare to fight will join the boat along the Silk Road to resell the goods.If there are too many goods and you are afraid of recruiting people for money and death, you have to form a team.

Xiao Mo has been buying some low-cost handicrafts and daily necessities in the past few days, and is going to ship them to the Western Regions for sale.Then bring back wine, cattle and sheep from the Western Regions to Yangzhou.

Because the grapes transported from the Western Regions to Yangzhou spoil a lot even if they are chilled, and the price has doubled.For the mass production of wine, Ye Xiaoyi planned to let Xiao Mo go to the Western Regions to set up a local winery, buy grapes locally to make wine, and then sell it all the way back after brewing.

Everyone in the Western Regions can make wine at home, and it is easy to find workers.The important thing is that the Western Regions are far away, even if the secret recipe is known, it is difficult to leak it to the Central Plains due to the language barrier.

Xiao Mo wondered: "Xiao Qian actually agreed to your share method?"

Ye Xiaoyi smiled slyly: "He's already itching."