When Zhao Laosan rebuilt Niutou Village, he accidentally dug out a hot spring on a mountain. After reporting it to Jintong, within three days, Jintong came out with new drawings and designed a luxurious hot spring resort villa for himself.
The miserable Zhao Laosan had no choice but to continue to recruit people and built a villa for Jintong to use on the mountain next to the hot spring. After it was built, people were sent to clean it every day and take care of the flowers and plants in preparation for Jintong's use.
Now Jintong and his party naturally live there.
Zhao Laosan hurriedly arranged the arrangements for Jintong and his party. After running around for a day, they were exhausted, so they tidied up and took a rest.
The next day, Jintong woke up and washed himself. When he came out, he saw that Chu Wan was looking at Beijing again, but her expression was quite soothing.
Jintong thought to himself: Prince Su has not returned from inspecting Weinan and Shuzhong for the emperor, who is Chu Wan hiding from?
Jintong was preoccupied with brewing and couldn't care about Chu Wan for the time being. He exchanged a few words with her and told people to take good care of Chu Wan before getting up and heading to the brewery built near Niutoushan Spring.
Jintong has tasted the wine of this dynasty. Although there are excellent wines, how can they compare with the wines of later generations?
She had been in the wine sales business for more than ten years in her previous life. She went to the winery almost every year and was familiar with the entire wine-making process. So she pretended to have a few ancient recipes and knew how to make some magical wines, and asked Zhao Laosan to make the recipes according to the recipes.
She makes wine.
Jintong first explained in detail the production method of strong-flavor liquor, the layered distillation process in the cellar, and the relatively simple brandy brewing method with drawings, and asked Zhao Laosan to follow them.
Zhao Laosan originally thought that his willful master must be messing around, but the master had orders and their servants had to obey them even if they died, so they had to follow the blueprints given by Jintong.
Following Jintong's instructions, he built winemaking workshops on several mountain tops with natural spring water, and opened and expanded several large caves. Depending on the mountain topography, he could either store food or use them as wine cellars.
Jintong, an imaginative master, soon asked him to carve out two connected mountains and turn them into some kind of terraces for farming.
However, Mr. Zhao and the other three were too practical. They dug out a hot spring and quickly told Jintong that the project of building a holiday villa was "promoted".
Vacation villas, terraces, and breweries are constantly expanding, and the caves are constantly expanding. In order to prevent others from stealing the company, several teams of people are sent to constantly patrol the entire Niutou Villa. If they see suspicious people, they will expel them.
Jintong, the brewing master, repeatedly emphasized that the recipe should not be leaked out. Therefore, most of the people in the brewing workshop were Zhao Laosan’s own people.
Zhao Laosan not only wished he could split himself into eighteen pieces and use them, but he also wished that each of his sons and relatives could be used by at least eight of ten people. As a result, they were all so busy every day that they almost stopped breathing from exhaustion.
Fortunately, Jintong continued to send people to help, and the mountain patrol work was handed over to leader Lu Liu, and the two projects of holiday villas and terraces were taken over by one of Mr. Gongsun's men. Zhao Laosan could only be responsible for the brewing workshop, otherwise he would not
With such a person running around from east to west, north and south, Zhao Laosan estimates that he will not die soon!
After the entire project was completed, dozens of mountains were purchased, and dozens of hills were occupied continuously.
Zhao Laosan wanted to use even one tael of silver to achieve the effect of ten taels, but in just half a year, he still spent more than 1.2 million taels of silver. During the earthquake, it took only a short time to rebuild West Street.
Six hundred thousand taels of silver, such a comparison, Zhao Laosan felt that his heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys were throbbing with distress.
In the original layout of Niutouzhuang, more than ten hills were mainly planted with peaches, persimmons, pears and other fruit trees, with peaches being the most popular. There were also several hills planted with bamboo to raise chickens, ducks, geese, sheep, pigs and other livestock.
Jintong was given the task of brewing "Taoyao" first. She planned to use peaches instead of grapes to brew brandy. After all, the brewing method of brandy is the simplest and most effective. She also used a filter to quickly ripen the new wine, which is quick and labor-saving.
, can allow new wine to quickly acquire the taste of old wine stored in cellars. This kind of sao operation may not be clear to others for a while.
Zhao Laosan made a grimace and made various strange-shaped brewing stoves according to the drawings given by Jintong, and then brewed "Taoyao" first.
After crushing the peaches, fermenting them at a certain temperature, and then using that weird-looking thing called a "pot still" to distill twice, the purified liquor has a much richer flavor than ordinary liquor, and has the special fruity flavor of peaches.
It was so fragrant that Jintong personally came over to mix it, and the wine that came out was indeed extraordinary.
Zhao Laosan immediately admired Jintong greatly. He followed Jintong's orders, purchased a large amount of winter wheat, and fermented it into distiller's yeast according to the "secret method" given by Jintong. Afterwards, he took the fermented fermented grains out of the cellar and added raw and auxiliary materials.
, distill the wine, gelatinize it, measure the water, spread it to cool down, add the koji powder and put it into the prepared empty cellar without returning the fermented grains to the original cellar.
The fermented fermented grains in the cellar were layered and distilled one by one, and the resulting wine was as clear as water but with a strong aroma. Zhao Laosan was convinced of Jintong.
For a project as big as Niutouzhuang, relying solely on domestic slaves would definitely be insufficient. Zhao Laosan followed Jintong and first used the tenant farmers of Niutouzhuang to help, and then looked for help from outside.
Jintong had her own plans in mind. With such a huge profit from wine making, there would definitely be people who would be jealous and come to steal her skills. Although the core technology was in her hands, Jintong always believed in the wisdom of the ancients. With the wine she brewed as a reference, she could guide her.
Maybe there are talents who will find their own way to brew wine with a unique flavor. There is no way to apply for a patent these days. If the brewing method is stolen and copied by others, her wine will not be unique, and it will definitely be detrimental to her interests.
There is no way to hold the thief legally responsible.
After careful consideration, she could only ask Zhao Laosan to use someone who had an interest in her as much as possible. She knew that he was a tenant farmer whose whole family was in Niutouzhuang, so he was definitely more reliable than someone from outside. Besides, if you have family, you have worries and worries.
, will not take risks easily.
Besides, she also asked Zhao Laosan to buy all kinds of grains and store them in Niutouzhuang for future use under the pretext of making wine. If these things were known to someone with other agenda, something might happen. Employers are concerned.
, it is still necessary to be cautious.
Zhao Laosan lived up to Jintong's expectations. In just half a year, the entire Niutou Village was completely renewed, and the winemaking workshop was booming, producing nearly ten tons of wine.
The first three wines brewed, "Taoyao", "Yuhuchun" and "Wuliang Chunniang", caused a sensation among the aristocratic class in Beijing in just a few days. Xiangrui Tower was packed every day, almost all of them came for the wine.
Jintong made some calculations and found that although according to the output of Niutouzhuang Winery, it could be easily supplied to the nobles in the capital for enjoyment, she still used the "hungry sales method" to value rare things, set extremely high prices, and limited supply.