Chapter 203 Is the price compared to gold?
"I thought, if there was no unique skill in our own hands, I would always be a little worried... Now that this distilled liquor method is a powerful tool for us to explore the outside world..." Lao Lao's father was not so excited, but he had a faint worry: "I just don't know, the more I change things, will he..."
"Haha, Dad, what are you talking about?" I laughed: "Don't you often tell me to learn to change our lives through intelligence? An experimental invention that can make us on Essay Island live a better life is a good thing. Where is there any bad things?"
Dad Lauren nodded slightly, but his expression was not very happy: "There is another point, Xiaobao, this skill is not as good as you think. Go and taste the wine in this jar."
I didn't understand it, but I obediently picked up the small jar that was still a little hot, raised my head and took a sip of the wine inside.
In an instant, my people were fixed.
How is that possible!?
The jar contains clearly wine, but now what I drink is water!?
What's going on?
Too mysterious and exaggerated?
"Did you figure it out?" Lao Lao said lightly: "A full pound of water and wine is distilled into first-class spirits. Only two taels of liquor can be used as a quantity of two taels, and the rest is completely transformed into clean water. One pound of salt can only be replaced with two taels of liquor. Is this expensive?"
Only one pound of strong liquor can be bought for five pounds of salt. Even if calculated based on the ordinary price of refined salt, the value of each pound of strong liquor is two gold minus. This is just the cost price of our brewing wine.
Apart from some famous names on the Japanese island, there are also the nobles, landlords and wealthy people of the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty. I am afraid no one can afford such an expensive bar?
Looking at me with a little frowning face, Dad Lauren laughed again and patted my shoulder and said, "Silly boy! Whether it is the fine wine made from burgers or this kind of first-class spirits, they are not something ordinary people can afford. The quantity is not large, so we just sell them specifically to those rich and nobles, and the profit is definitely very considerable!"
"Can it work?" Although I was quite moved, I said a little unconfident.
"According to your master, ordinary wine is only fifteen or twenty cents per pound, but that is incomparable to our two kinds of wine. And the most important thing is that no one in this world can brew these two superb wines except us." Dad Lauren said seriously: "Xiaobao, then tell me, how much should this kind of fairy wine that was originally only available in heaven be sold?"
I immediately understood what he meant, and slapped the table and said, "Dad, I understand, a pound can be sold for about one or two gold!"
"One tael of gold? That's just our cost!" Dad Lauren had a kind of a profiteering businessman at this moment: "At least ten taels of gold! This is the price sold from us. If anyone sells it back, he will definitely be able to sell it for fifteen taels, twenty taels or even better."
"Haha, it's amazing! It's amazing!"
My mood immediately improved. Looking at the two small bowls of first-class spirits, they had already turned into golden gold in my eyes. I would not get bored no matter how I looked at it.
But I immediately frowned: "Dad, the first one we went to trade was not the rich Song Dynasty and the Great Liao Dynasty, but the poor Jurchen tribes and the Rakshasa tribes. How could they get so much gold?"
"You are smart, why have you become so stupid all of a sudden?" Dad Lauren glared at me. He turned around and walked out: "I'll go and rest for a while, you can think about it!"
As soon as he walked out the door, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of the mystery.
The Jurchens and Rakshasa tribes have no money, but they have countless hundred-year-old hard woods, a large number of ginseng, Polygonum multiflorum, Polygonum multiflorum and other mountain products, as well as horses, cattle, sheep and other livestock!
When I first wanted to do a maritime business last year, I thought of using my own specialties to exchange for these things, but at that time I wanted to sell the wealthy Da Liao and Da Song countries first, and then use the money to buy their things.
It's different now.
I have the most needed salt and wine that small ethnic groups such as the Jurchens and Rakshasa tribes. Why can't I just barter them?
"Dad! I understand, wait for me..."
As I shouted, I followed Dad Lauren's footsteps...
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The procedure for brewing spirits is actually very simple.
Dad Lauren said that when water boils, it will turn into water mist and evaporate between heaven and earth. The real wine in the wine will also evaporate, but the temperature is much lower than boiling.
In other words, the wine began to evaporate before the water boiled.
The inverted triangle round-mouthed jar is to catch the evaporated wine and prevent them from evaporating between heaven and earth. Instead, it condenses into water drops in the inverted triangle jar, and then drips back into a small hanging bowl facing the bottle mouth, thus completing the entire process of distillation into strong wine.
Therefore, in fact, Lao Lao's distillation method is to separate the wine and water as much as possible using the different evaporation temperatures of the two.
As long as you master the difference in the evaporation temperature of the two and control the temperature properly, it will be easier to extract strong wine.
Dad Lauren is now using only small jars for experiments, and he produces very little spirits each time.
Our Sanguo Village does not lack porcelain craftsmen who make special jars, nor does it lack materials. So as long as you find someone who can trust you, you can immediately cook the spirits.
The importance of distilled liquor is even more important than stir-frying fine salt.
Therefore, we once again selected 200 people from the beautiful logistics supervisor and the residents of the former Three Kingdoms, and built a secret and huge mansion. After they learned the secrets taught by Lao Lao, they began to work hard to refine the spirits!
Sanguo Village has grown to 50,000 or 60,000 people, but the ones that are most trusted and most important tasks that can be entrusted with our family are still the villagers of Sanguo Village at the foot of Luoxi Mountain, who have been with us for more than ten years, and the female slaves of Yuanliuyin Harbor who I rescued them from the suffering of water and fire.
Even if others have various problems, at least two groups of them are the most trustworthy of our family and will never betray us.
Therefore, it is best to refine refined salt and refined liquor in Sanguo Village to make money and make money by copying these two unique secrets in Sanguo Village!
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Chapter completed!