The general's wife is sick

That night, Xiong Jinghai didn't eat any meat, and it was already midnight when all the fat on his mouth was dry. He felt sorry for Ji Liu's hard work, and Xiong Jinghai didn't want to torment him. The couple slept chastely under the quilt until early morning.

Early in the morning of the second day, Sister Chun, who had painted rose red lip balm, directed her servants to pack the lip balm away. Suitable for young girls.

Cheng Cheng pouted, his lips were very pigmented, "Young master, it's not fair, I also contributed, why don't you let me paint it."

Looking at his fair and round face, Ji Liu comforted him, "Hey, the young master will make better ones for you in the future, so we won't paint that."

He really can't stand men wearing makeup, even if he was married, he never put those horrible things on his face, so he can only feel wronged and keep his face bare all day long.

"Then I will have two more than Sister Chun!"

"Okay, three copies for you!"

As I said before, women and Shuang'er earn the most money. The cost of lip balm is too low, but the low cost can bring hundreds of times the return on money, which is a high-profit industry.

When the mouth fat was transported away, Ji Liu sent someone to write a letter to the capital, one from the General's Mansion, and two from the Earl's House of Ziyang. The letter to the General's Mansion had another important business besides explaining about the mouth fat, and that was wine making. Industry.

The area assigned to Xiong Jinghai is too barren, and if the economy wants to develop, this alone is not enough. Ji Liu can only make an idea of ​​the same high-profit wine business.

The wine of the Chang'an Dynasty was relatively light, and high-strength wine was rare. In the past, the wine he used for disinfection when treating wounds was high-strength white wine that was specially distilled.

A few days ago, when he was changing Chen Guan's dressing, he used that wine to disinfect his hands, but Xie Kun's nose twitched, and he insisted on taking a few sips of this wine.

In the northwestern region, there is a large temperature difference between day and night. During the day, the sun is shining brightly and the temperature is extremely high, but at night it is bitingly cold and freezing to the heart. It is no wonder that the garrison here wants to drink wine to warm their bodies.

I had an idea in my mind, but when it came time for the actual operation, Ji Liu encountered difficulties. He used to only make wine and fruit wine, and he used ready-made wine and fruit. He just needed to put rock sugar on it and soak it in a cool place for a while to settle. , This kind of simple operation is really not good at making wine, and he knows all about making baijiu, but he knows nothing about it.

The old lady Ji looked at Ji Liu's distraught and preoccupied appearance in the past few days, and felt that the child must be on the edge of something again.

After questioning, Ji Liu expressed his thoughts one by one, and the old lady Ji explained him, "You are a human being, not a fairy descended from the earth, how can you understand everything, just ask if you don't understand, and it's not ashamed, it's really not possible, If you pay money to buy it, who can say that you can't do it!"

Ji Liu blinked in a daze, then smiled knowingly, a big stone fell from his heart in an instant, and he felt much more relaxed, "What grandma said is that Liu'er was thinking badly."

After thinking about it, Ji Liu searched for the best wine brewing shops in Yuzhou and Fuzhou. He bought wine with a lot of money, and hired a master wine maker with a lot of money. The name of the master is Jiang He, and he found a few more. For those who have experience in brewing wine, with the recipe and staff, brewing wine will be much easier.

The letters sent out during the delivery of Kouzhi brought back a large amount of glutinous rice for Ji Liu. These glutinous rice were purchased by Princess Guangyang and transported from the land of fish and rice by trucks. The real high-quality glutinous rice.

The preliminary preparations for the opening of the winery were carried out by Master Jiang and the original staff. After all aspects were settled, the winery began to recruit people.

Recently, Riji Liu has made frequent moves in Yuzhou and Chizhou, recruiting some young and middle-aged people from the local area. Although the military factory is a secret existence, making iron arrows is as long as you have the strength and strength to know how to do the work. can do.

There are three hardships in life. Those who punting a boat and forging iron to sell tofu, and those who work in the blacksmith's shop rely on their physical strength. Because forging iron is too hard and too tiring, in order to ensure that these people's bodies are not overdrawn, Ji Liu pays enough for these people's food. time.

Arrange someone to cook for these people, so that everyone can eat dry rice for two meals a day, and what they hold in their hands is no longer a thin bowl of porridge mixed with a few rice grains in the soup, but cut rice. The rice is really dry, and there is no chewy rice husk in the rice.

In summer, there are wild vegetables everywhere in Northwest China. They are pure natural and have no pesticide residues. Squeeze a handful, remove the roots and rinse them with clean water. Put them on a large iron pan and fry them with oil made from fat pork. Serve a mouthful of deep-fried slices of dry and fragrant fatty meat , and then pull a mouthful of rice, the taste will not be changed even if it is a god!

If you are full, you will have more energy to work, and the food offensive has made the production of Liannu much faster in the past few days. At first, Ji Liu tentatively planned to supply [-] arrows for a Liannu, but now the iron The number of arrows is enough for a repeating crossbow to match ninety iron arrows.

The people who work here are all middle-aged people in the neighborhood, and the food here is good and unlimited, so the news spreads to ten, ten to hundreds, and everyone inquired a lot, only to find out that this place is the wife of General Xiong Jinghai who guards the northwest Ji Liu's industry.

When the wine shop opened, some interested people found out that it was also the property of the general's wife. When recruiting workers, people around rushed into the wine shop, and the threshold of the wine shop was almost leveled that day.

Brewing is not like blacksmithing, strength alone is not enough, and the most important thing for people engaged in the food industry is good health. Ji Liu asked people to conduct strict health screening for those recruited to work in the winery.

In addition, he set up a few small tests. To do work in the winery, not only must he be healthy but also clean and hygienic. workers.

Including Master Jiang and the original buddies who were hired with a lot of money, there are 26 people in the winery.

However, after the winery opened, Ji Liu encountered new problems.

It turned out that Master Jiang was old-fashioned in his thinking. All winemakers believed in the God of Dionysus, and all the workers in the winery were men. Therefore, Master Jiang was the first to object to Ji Liu's desire to participate in the entire winemaking process.

"Young Madam, entering the winery with Shuang'er is disrespectful to the God of Dionysus, and the wine that comes out will be sour."

These words stunned Ji Liu, who was stunned for a long time, then suddenly smiled, the exquisite facial features were as dazzling and eye-catching as the sun at noon in everyone's eyes.

"What Master Jiang said is true, but I really respect the God of Dionysus in my heart. The God of Dionysus knows my heart and will definitely not blame me! If you don't believe me, Master Jiang, you and I can make a bet that if this The wine is sour when it comes out, and I made a bento to make vinegar at the beginning. After this batch of wine is brewed, I will never step into the winery again! But if the wine is good, I will go to the winery not only this time, but in the future I have to go into the distillery for each batch of wine during the brewing process.”

The boys behind looked at each other. They knew that they had to toast to the god of wine, and they also knew the rule that no one other than men was allowed in the winery, but this winery belonged to the general's wife. Now, should they listen to Master Jiang or the wine shop? Mrs. General's?

This this……

Master Jiang frowned and remained silent.

Cheng Cheng stood in front of him with his hips akimbo, "Our young master hired you with a lot of money, and you just obey the master's words. Where did so many rules come from? If this wine is really sour, it is because you did not care about it during the brewing process and it was contaminated. Dirty thing, I really think we don't understand anything, let me tell you, if you are sincere, I will have dozens of pairs of eyes staring at you!"

"You! You kid is full of nonsense!" Master Jiang's beard was about to stand up in anger, "I have been brewing wine for decades, and I have never made a mistake, and I have never done that black-hearted thing. How can you let me This kid is slanderous!"

"Master Jiang, don't be angry. He is young, so don't argue with him. You know what you mean. There are many reasons for the failure of the wine, and the sourness of the wine is probably due to dirt entering during the fermentation process. It has nothing to do with the woman and Shuang'er entering the winery."

Master Jiang raised his beard, "What Young Madam said is that since Young Madam is the shopkeeper of the owner's house, what you say is what you say, please come in, Young Madam!"

No matter whether he is convinced or not, on the surface Ji Liu convinced the old man.

Ji Liu participated in the whole process of brewing wine with the ingredients, and learned all the skills by ten percent.

All the brewing procedures are done step by step, and Ji Liu only controls the last process, which is distillation.

Distillation is the next step of making wine. Now the distillery just mixes all the cooked glutinous rice with koji, puts it in wooden barrels, and waits quietly for the glutinous rice to bubble.

Ji Liu must go to the winery to report every day. He is diligent and studious, and he is not afraid of hardship. Even if the temperature in the winery is high, he will check the temperature with everyone and stir the fermenting glutinous rice regularly. It was even later than Xiong Jinghai's time to go home.

After a few times, as long as Xiong Jinghai didn't see Ji Liu when he went back, he would definitely ride Black Wind to the wine shop to pick him up.

On the way back, news of the beautiful woman on the dark horse, the mighty general and the harmony and love with the general's wife spread like wildfire.

All the news about Chizhou is spread within the scope allowed by Ji Liu. The poorer the place, the more it needs a spiritual sustenance.Since Xiong Jinghai is their leader, strengthening Xiong Jinghai's weight and majesty in the hearts of the people is an important means of controlling people's hearts.

From the one-year tax exemption for soybean growers to the current secret military factories and wineries, who can bring benefits to the people and let them see who will have meat to eat? It is better than saying that I will give you meat The painted pie of a good life is more useful.

The people of Fuzhou and Yuzhou gradually found that their lives began to change, and there was a wave of bad words in the capital.

Princess Guangyang received not only a letter, but also a pattern of new clothes for summer, with refreshing head and face jewelry. This summer, the capital city is blowing a "lotus pond wind".

Immediately after receiving the pattern of the clothes, Xianyi Pavilion began to make patterns. Princess Guangyang must be the first to wear the current clothes. With the status of Princess Guangyang, as long as the clothes are worn on her body, the value of the clothes will increase several times immediately. times.

She also likes to attend banquets on weekdays, and every time she appears on the stage, she brings along the officials and family members of the entire capital. Princess Guangyang has become a figure who is like a weather vane.

This time, as soon as the balm arrived from the northwest, Yan Shinuo immediately ordered someone to select the best color and send it to the palace.