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Life in Chang'an Chapter 16: A great weapon to make money

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    PS: Why do you feel more tired during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday than at work?

    It was not until the curfew was about to come that Li Ke got up and prepared to go back home. Li Yong originally wanted to live here with Li Min. After all, the task assigned to him by his father had not been completed. Although he said it harshly, he still wanted to avoid the limelight first.  However, Li Min asked Li Yong to go back and tell his father that they didn't need to think about the tea business, but he also had a bigger business here that he couldn't do with his own strength, so he was planning to recruit people to join him. If  If this business is completed, the annual profit will be more than one million!  As soon as Li Min said this, not only Li Yong was inexplicably surprised, but even Li Ke was a little moved. He wanted to ask but was embarrassed to ask.

    "Haha, if your father and the King of Jiangxia are interested, please invite them to come to my house tomorrow. Third brother, don't be polite. You must come tomorrow. I'm too young, I'm afraid I won't be able to impress these two.  Cousin, when the time comes, third brother, you will also take part of the shares. If we brothers are tied together, we won¡¯t be afraid of being swallowed up by old foxes like them." Li Ming smiled and said to Li Yong first, and then pulled Li Ke in.  , Li Ke is his biological brother, and he often helped him in the past. Of course, he should not forget this third brother because of the benefits.

    "Haha~, since Liu Lang said so, the third brother will not refuse, but I am very curious, what kind of business can make millions of profits?" Li Ke was also a cheerful person, and agreed with a smile.  Li Min's behavior in the past few days has completely changed Li Ke's previous view of him.

    "Haha, that's it~" Li Min said with a mysterious smile, "We'll keep it a secret for the time being. You'll find out when you come tomorrow!"

    "Damn, Liulang, when did you learn to play riddles?" Li Yong was full of hope and wanted to hear what the business was, but he didn't expect that Li Min didn't say anything, and he couldn't help but get angry.

    "Okay, okay, third brother, please leave quickly, otherwise you will be embarrassed if you are caught when the curfew comes." Li Min made up his mind not to say anything, and planned to let them see the real thing with their own eyes tomorrow. After all, this thing is only  I'm afraid the words you say are really unconvincing, so it's better to let them experience it for themselves.

    "Well, it's not a bad night anyway." Li Ke was not in a hurry and left after saying goodbye. Li Yong had no choice but to leave together.

    After sending the two people out of the palace, Li Min ordered people to call the craftsmen of the wood and iron workshops in the palace. Some time ago, he designed something and asked the craftsmen of these two workshops to make a trial. They talked about it two days ago.  It was almost completed, but Li Min was busy with the tea shop at the time, so he never had time to look at it.

    Not long after Li Min returned to the hall, a servant came in with two people dressed as craftsmen.  As soon as the two of them saw Li Min, they immediately knelt down and saluted: "I'm here to see you, my lord!"

    "Get up, is that thing finished?" Li Min put down the tea bowl and asked. The two craftsmen were both in their forties and fifties, and were in charge of the woodwork workshop and the ironworks workshop respectively. The one with thick arms and legs and a dull face called  Huang Cheng is the head craftsman of the carpentry workshop. The man with gray hair and stout body is named Wu Qiao. Because he is old and mature, everyone calls him Old Wu Tou. He is the head craftsman of the iron workshop.

    "Reporting to the prince, the things have been made. The villain and Lao Huang tried the method as the prince said, and found that it is indeed feasible." Old Wu took a step forward and said. Huang Cheng, who was a carpenter, was dull and seldom talked, so there was  Old Wu was the one who spoke about everything.

    "Well, you did a good job. I will use the things tomorrow. If the things are well made, I will definitely reward you!" When Li Min heard that the things were done, he couldn't hide the excitement on his face.  Next, Li Min asked about the details of the production, and Lao Wu and Huang Cheng answered them one by one. They were not allowed to leave until Li Min was satisfied.

    It was three o'clock in the morning the next day. Li Min had nothing to do anyway, so he hadn't gotten up yet. Suddenly, Gao Zhong hurried in and loudly announced: "Your Highness! Your Highness! What a joy!"

    "What's going on? What are you doing in such a hurry?" Li Min opened his sleepy eyes and asked very dissatisfied.

    "Your Highness, as soon as the Wang family's teahouse opened this morning, countless people rushed to buy it. The tea prepared in the teahouse was simply not enough to sell. Less than an hour after it opened, it was already sold out." Gao  Zhong said with a look of ecstasy.

    "Oh?" Li jumped out of bed with a gasp. Although he had expected this result, after all, he had done enough advertising for this new tea. The tea leaves he sent out were hundreds of kilograms, but  When he heard with his own ears that the tea was being snapped up like crazy, he couldn't help but feel very excited. At the same time, a sense of joy of success surged into his heart, shaking Li Min's spirit.

    "Okay! Okay! Okay! Let someone inform Wang Zihao that he must control the quantity sold every day. It is better to sell less every day than to run out of stock. After all, there is still more than a month before the next season's tea leaves come out?  "Li Xun walked back and forth in the bedroom excitedly, and at the same time he still did not forget to tell Gao Zhong to remind the Wang family that after all, the current stock of tea is not enough.??, if they are all sold at once, a large amount of money can be made back, but it will have an impact on the newly opened tea house. This tea house will be the main channel for tea sales in the future, and Li Min also invested money in it.  , he didn¡¯t want to have a negative impact on the future development of the tea house because of a wrong sales strategy.

    "Don't worry, Your Majesty, the people of the Wang family are very smart. Seeing that there are too many people rushing to buy tea, they stipulated that each person can buy up to half a catty per day, and except for today, they will only sell 50 catties per day. Calculated in this way, our royal family's tea  The stock is enough to last until the summer tea comes." Gao Chong reported with a smile, and he was very satisfied with the Wang family's approach.

    "Well, not bad, not bad. This Wang Zihao is indeed a talent!" Li Min was also full of praise. In fact, he was also happy and confused. No matter how you say it, the Wang family has been doing business for generations. In the past, he was one of the top ten wealthy businessmen in Chang'an City. His business methods  Much better than Li Min.  Li Min had opened a wood carving shop in his previous life, but in the Tang Dynasty, he was at most a small shopkeeper. Wang Zihao used to be the CEO of a business consortium, and he was not even a little inferior in rank.

    "Your Highness, put on your clothes quickly, don't catch a cold!" Wen'er and Hua'er saw Li Min walking around on the ground barefoot and wearing close-fitting clothes, so they hurriedly brought his clothes and served Li Min.  After getting dressed and washing up, Gao Zhong also had something to do and retired.

    After Li Min got dressed and ate some simple breakfast, before Li Ke and the others came, he might as well test the effect of that thing first, since he was idle anyway.  Thinking of this, Li Min took people to the northeast corner of the palace, which is the workshop area of ??the palace.

    After arriving at the workshop area, Li Min did not go to the woodware workshop and ironware workshop, but went directly to the brewery.  People in the Tang Dynasty drank freshly brewed wine, so the houses of princes and nobles usually had their own breweries.

    "Young man Yang Jiu meets His Highness Prince Liang!" As soon as he entered the brewery, a neatly dressed, thin young man with a shrewd face bowed and saluted.  If you are a servant in the house, you must kneel down when you see Li Min. The reason why Yang Jiu does not need to kneel down is because his status is different.  Li Min once heard Gao Zhong mention that this Yang Jiu was born in a branch of the Yang family in Hongnong, and could barely be regarded as the same clan as Concubine Yang. And because he brewed good wine, he joined Prince Liang's Mansion and was in charge of the brewery, which was generally a workshop in the Prince's Mansion.  There is only a craftsman, one level lower than a steward. Although Yang Jiu is only in charge of the brewery, he is a steward. This is the same as Liu Hu, who manages the tea garden. Both of them are stewards, and they are not servants of the palace.  He just works for the palace with the salary paid by the palace.

    "Get up, is there any fermented lees in the brewing workshop now?" Li Min asked while looking at the brewing workshop.  The brewing workshop occupies a large area, and there are twenty or thirty craftsmen alone. The tools, grains and other items used in brewing are placed neatly. It seems that Yang Jiu manages it well.

    "Your Highness, the workshop brews wine once a month, and today we just have fermented lees." Yang Jiu replied respectfully.

    "Okay, good job. I have created a new brewing utensil. You will prepare the lees for use later!"

    "Yes, Your Majesty!" Although Yang Jiu was confused, he still bowed and accepted the order, and went down to let the craftsman prepare the lees.

    As soon as the wine grains were prepared, Old Wu Tou and Huang Chengcheng brought over the utensils designed by Li Min.  The structure of this thing is very simple. Below it is a huge pot, and above the pot is a large cylindrical wooden barrel with a strange lid on it.

    This thing is actually a distiller, and anyone with some knowledge of physics can design it.  The last time Li Min drank in Junzilou, he found that the taste of the wine was very weak. At that time, he remembered that distilled wine had not yet appeared in the Tang Dynasty. What he drinks now is brewed wine. Because this kind of wine has not been distilled, the alcohol content is low.  At most it's only 18 or 9 degrees.

    People in the Tang Dynasty loved wine, but they usually drank newly brewed wine. This does not mean that newly brewed wine tastes good. In fact, everyone knows that wine becomes more fragrant with age, but undistilled wine has very low alcohol content and requires very strict storage conditions.  , it will go bad if you are not careful, so what you usually drink on weekdays is newly brewed wine. Good wine that can be stored for several years or even decades is generally used to celebrate major festivals or entertain important guests. Even Li  Surprised, King Liang rarely drank this drink on weekdays.

    Since distilled liquor has not been invented yet, it is a very profitable opportunity for Li Min. After all, compared with brewing liquor, the emergence of distilled liquor is simply an epoch-making change in the brewing industry, and it will definitely sweep the entire Tang Dynasty society, and inside  The profits were so huge that it was unimaginable. If he could keep the secret of distilled liquor, Li Min would definitely become one of the richest men in the Tang Dynasty.

    But now Li Min is planning to take it out and open a large brewery with Li Ke and others. This is mainly due to two considerations.  The most direct reason is that Li Min's economic strength is too weak. If there is no large investment, then he can only make small investments. He doesn't know when he will have capital to expand.?Scale.

    The underlying reason is very complicated. Ever since he came to the Tang Dynasty, he has had a strong sense of insecurity. Although he is the king of Liang, he does not please Comrade Li among the Li Shimin disciples.  , even very annoying. Although he has worked hard to improve his image during this period and tried to change his impression in the mind of Comrade Lao Li, this matter will not be effective in a short time.  The struggle between royal families is very cruel, ranging from being demoted to death. Especially Comrade Lao Li himself has set a bad example of killing his brothers, which makes the struggle between the princes who are adults or about to become adults gradually become more and more serious.  It tends to get intense, and you may fall into someone else's trap if you are not careful.

    Although Li Min has no interest in the lofty throne, since he is a prince, he has been involved in the struggle for the throne since he was born, and he cannot escape.  If Li Min wants to protect himself, the most effective way is to have strong strength, so Li Min wants to use the benefits that his future knowledge can bring to form a group with a strong background around himself, so that when others want to touch him  , is to touch the interests of this group. As long as the people in his group are strong enough, no one can touch him. Li Daozong, Li Xiaogong and others are the first people Li Min wants to win over. The reason why he also draws Li Ke  When he came in, he wanted to help his brother.

    "Well, the workmanship is very fine, there shouldn't be any problems!" Li Min personally checked the still and found that the workmanship was very fine. The iron pot and the wooden barrel fit tightly together. There was a small hole in the middle and upper part of the barrel, and a copper pipe.  Insert it diagonally upwards. The upper end is spoon-shaped. The lid of the wooden bucket is actually a short bucket with water outlets and water inlets on both sides. The bottom is an iron cone, and the tip of the awl is facing the head of the spoon below.  When using the short bucket, keep adding cold water, and then put the distiller's grains into a large pot to steam. The boiling point of alcohol is relatively low. When heated, it turns into gas and rises. When it encounters the cold cone-shaped bottom, it turns into liquid, and then passes through the awl along the lines.  The tip drips into the spoon below, and then flows out of the bucket through the copper pipe.

    Distilled liquor has a high degree of alcohol content, generally reaching 50 or 60 degrees, and must be blended before drinking.  The longer it is sealed and stored, the stronger the flavor will be. Even after opening, it can be stored without deterioration for one year.  Distilled liquor has great advantages over non-distilled liquor. Once launched, it will definitely replace the current non-distilled liquor.

    At this moment, Li Min was enjoying the huge wealth that distilled wine had brought to him. A servant came to report that Li Ke and the others had arrived. Li Min hurriedly asked someone to bring them here, intending to steam the wine in person to show them, and then  Let them taste the spirit again and let the facts speak for themselves.

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