Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 59
"The situation in Kuaiji is new and stable. I can't leave for too long. I will return to Shanyin tomorrow."

When Shen Zhezi sat next to him, Shen Chong said: "I entrust Shiyi to take care of the family affairs, and I don't worry about it. Later, the sixth and ninth brothers will return to Wukang. They can be Shiyi's arms and maintain the family. count."

For Shen Chong's entrustment, Qian Feng did not refuse. It can be seen that they are already familiar with each other and trust each other's family business, and the father also trusts Qian Feng's ability very much.

"Qing Que, you can do things about the Zhu family freely. If you are indecisive, you can discuss it with your Uncle Qian. Even if something goes wrong, I will take care of it for you as my father, so you don't have to be restrained."

Shen Chong was convinced of his son's ability, so he simply let go of his work in order to exercise: "Also, you will be taught by the old fairy Ji Guo, and you will first listen to the ethnology for the study of poetry, books and classics, and I will extend the invitation to you in the next year Dr. Gao Xue teaches the classics and righteousness. Don't delay the righteous study of the classics and righteousness because of the entanglement in common affairs!"

When Shen Zhezi heard this, he couldn't help crying in his heart.Although he was full of respect for the classics of Chinese studies in his heart, he didn't feel that he should be poor.However, there is no need to disobey his father face to face because of this matter, and he does not need to ask others for advice, even if his father really invites a teacher to give him a generous gift, let him play while he is.

Next, Qian Feng spread out a volume of books and described the situation of the Shen family's industry that he had mastered during this period: "At present, there are more than [-] rice grains in the warehouse. More than [-] dendrobiums. The Duke of Ming shipped back more than [-] dendrobiums this time, and all the shaded households in the manors paid grain back to the warehouse. Within ten days, the grain in the warehouse could reach more than [-] dendrobiums.”

When Shen Zhezi heard these figures, he secretly smacked his tongue and felt distressed. The Shen family is in a food shortage right now, and they can still collect tens of thousands of grains by sweeping the bottom of the storehouse. !The local tyrant is headstrong, and his temper is the result of a huge amount of money and food!
Among other things, just mobilizing more than 20 troops of tribal soldiers and civilian husbands for the purpose of rebellion, the food consumption of a few months may not be able to cover [-] hu.Afterwards, all parties took care of it, and the money and food were sprinkled out like water. The food donated to Jiankang and other places alone amounted to nearly [-] hu!As for the delay in farming this year, the harvest failure of the field is as many as tens of thousands!

After a little calculation in his heart, Shen Zhezi couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Fortunately, his grandfather's coffin was tightly ordered, otherwise the old man would have jumped out of the coffin and yelled at this prodigal son if he knew that his father would kill him for most of his life's savings in a few years!
Shen Chong didn't feel ashamed to clean up his family, he just muttered: "In this way, the expenses a year ago can be maintained?"

Qian Feng nodded, fiddling with calculations on the case, and said while doing the calculations: "Currently, there are still thousands of dendrobium income from the pound tax in each village every day. As for the moon, when the water is weak and the work is stopped, nearly ten thousand dendrobium can be obtained. Fishing and hunting, poultry and poultry Fish, vegetables, and the like can still store up to ten thousand stones. It’s just that after the winter moon, production will be unsustainable.”

In this era, the mountains were closed and the marshes were closed, and the poor and the poor were short of food, and they dared not go up the mountains and down the marshes to fish and hunt for food.But the Shen family is naturally not among them. There are large rivers, swamps and mountains in their own manor, so of course they will not let go of the treasure trove of ingredients gifted by heaven and earth.The eating habits of Wu people are very proficient in rice, rice, soup, fish, fish bream and dried fish, etc., and the ingredients can be preserved for a long time.

However, the turn of the Jin Dynasty was also a small ice age. The severe cold in winter had a temperature difference of three or four degrees compared with later generations. The inward migration of Zhu Hu had a lot to do with the climate.Although Wu Xing is located in the south of the Yangtze River, the winter is very cold and humid, and outdoor production is almost unsustainable.So during the winter months, it can be said that there is only consumption and no production.

Shen Zhezi listened carefully to Qian Feng's narration, and gradually realized that the stock seems to be quite a lot at the moment, but the real consumption period has not yet come.When the cold wind hits, the Shen family not only needs to meet their own consumption, but also helps other families who follow behind the Shen family.For example, the Qian family of Yuhang, the Xu family of Wucheng, etc. These families are staunch allies of the Shen family and cannot be ignored.

Calculated in this way, the shortage of [-] Dendrobium grains is already a very conservative estimate.If the weather is worse this year and the warm spring is delayed, the food shortage will only get bigger!
"At an extraordinary time, an extraordinary policy should be taken. More efforts should be made to confiscate surplus grain from shady households. Private households are not allowed to burn their stoves, and the food expenses of each village will be allocated by the public. If there are offenders, Shiyi, you don't have to worry about it, and you will be dealt with by military law!"

At the critical moment, Shen Chong was ruthless and ruthless. He refused to let the shady households store grain. On the one hand, it was convenient for the unified deployment of resources, and on the other hand, it also imposed personal control on the population.Difficulty is only for a moment, but if people's hearts are floating and drifting away, it will be difficult to deal with.Even if there is Tian in hand after the beginning of next spring, it will be difficult to recover due to lack of labor.

Hearing his father's move, Shen Zhezi clicked his tongue and found that he had the potential of a black-hearted landlord.He had been thinking about this issue earlier, starting a big pot and getting paid based on work points would be very effective in solving the current predicament.Since the father had already thought of this method, he didn't say any more.

"Duke Ming, please rest assured. Since Feng has taken orders, he should try his best to maintain it so that Duke Ming will not have any worries."

Qian Feng said in a deep voice, his words were quite cold and murderous, and matched with his face with intertwined scars, he had a ferocious demeanor of a cruel official.

After explaining these things, Shen Chong was relieved, pondered for a while and then sighed: "It's a pity that the court has not made a decision to respond to the proposal of digging a canal in Kuaiji, otherwise my family would not have to be so embarrassed."

When Shen Zhezi heard this, he realized that his father's vigorous promotion of the construction of Kuaiji water conservancy was not only for national affairs, but also had the idea of ​​private use of public equipment.The construction of water conservancy projects usually takes place in autumn and winter when the water is dry and the agriculture is slack. Among other things, such a large project arranges the young people to go to work and eat, and it can also solve a large part of the food shortage problem.

Not to mention that there is still a lot of room for mediation and operation between the turnover of money and food. Even if the father promotes this matter in office, even if he does not need to directly fill his own pockets, but by taking advantage of the situation, it will not be difficult to solve these food shortages in his family.

In this era, pure ministers are indeed not popular!

Early the next morning, Shen Chong left in a hurry and led a group of cadres to the south to the Shanyin office in Kuaiji.

Shen Zhezi was still thinking about his plan to distill liquor, and then he packed up and went to Longxi Farm with Qian Feng.

Longxi Farm is the longest-running manor of the Shen family. It has been traced back for several generations. It was originally just a barren valley between the two hills of Wukang Mountain.

After years of reclamation and management and construction of water conservancy, now there are hundreds of hectares of fertile and mature fields alone, covering almost half of the area of ​​Wukang Mountain. Poling orchards, bamboo forest farms, animal husbandry and weaving, ceramic smelting, everything that one expects to find, has almost formed a complete land. The ecological chain of the Shen family is similar to an independent kingdom, and it is the most important industry of the Shen family.

Qian Feng is proficient in common affairs and has strong abilities. After arriving at Longxi Manor, he began to implement the strategy formulated by his father.He is shrewd and capable, and covers his face with a scarf all day long, only revealing a pair of slightly dark eyes, which makes people dare not despise him.

Seeing Qian Feng's resolute and resolute style of doing things, Shen Zhezi felt that his father entrusted him with family affairs, which was also a good use of his knowledge.In general affairs, he didn't have much room to intervene, so he said directly to Qian Feng: "Uncle, please help me gather a group of artisans who are skilled in wine-making skills in the village. I have some ideas here to try."

Qian Feng was also a man who experienced Wang Dun's turmoil. He dared not underestimate Shen Zhezi, who was able to deal with all parties. He immediately transferred nearly a hundred craftsmen with wine making experience from various manors for Shen Zhezi to drive.

However, before letting Shen Zhezi let go, Qian Feng still couldn't help but kindly reminded: "New wine in winter is indeed a good product. It's just that there is a shortage of food in the warehouse, and there is not much material for Xiao Langjun."

Shen Zhezi explained with a smile: "Uncle, don't worry, I'm not trying to make a big brew. It's just an ancient recipe from somewhere else, as long as the ready-made wine is used as the material."

In Shen Zhezi's plan, it is indeed not to use distillation technology to mass-produce high-grade alcohol as a drink to promote it, but to package it as a luxury life-saving product to detoxify Wushisan.

People's tastes are very special. Even if the wine blending technology has matured in later generations, not everyone likes alcoholic beverages such as Luzhou-flavored and sauce-flavored liquors.Especially in the south of the Yangtze River, the current taste preference is either sweet or light, and the heart-burning shochu is not in line with eating habits.

In fact, the well-documented high-distillation technology flourished in the Yuan Dynasty, but people at that time did not recognize it, thinking that drinking it would faint and it was poisonous.Even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, re-brewed rice wine was still the mainstream beverage, while high-grade shochu was only popular among the bottom of the folk.The village wine that Wu Song used to fight tigers in later generations should be low-quality rice wine blended with shochu. The author Shi Naian was already from the Yuan and Ming Dynasties.

Although people nowadays are addicted to alcohol, their tastes are just the same. Shen Zhezi doesn't expect to be able to make drinks with the taste of later generations with his technology, and naturally he doesn't expect distilled wine to become popular in the south of the Yangtze River immediately.So the positioning is bundled with Hanshi San, taking the route of high-end luxury medicine, and the stagnation of Sanli cannot be dissipated?Then drink it!

The flavors of various wines stored in Shen's cellar also confirmed Shen Zhezi's idea.

There are dozens of wines stored in the cellars of Longxi Manor alone. In terms of raw materials, rice, millet, cane, and sorghum are all available.Others have special tastes, such as pepper wine, sweet-scented osmanthus wine, Baishi wine, pine mash, dogwood wine and so on.In terms of quality, it can be divided into Qijiu, Qi is light-brewed beer wine, and Liquor is heavy-brewed fine wine.

Shen Zhezi picked out all these wines and tasted a little one by one.

Leaving aside the peppers, osmanthus, and chrysanthemums that are drunk on festivals, as well as the so-called pine and cypress that can prolong life, etc., these taste too weird.Although the tastes of other drinks vary, the overall characteristic is that they are slightly spicy and lingering, sweet and sour.

The bouillon has a slightly sweeter taste, even if it is re-brewed with the highest quality and price, it does not have a hot stimulation.As for the wine fermented by the beer, the taste is more similar to the beer of later generations, but it is sweeter.The so-called "tiller" is germinated rice and wheat.

The taste of wine nowadays is like this, which strengthens Shen Zhezi's idea to distill and process the wine, and use it as a divergent nectar for packaging and promotion.

　People's taste is really hard to figure out.Even eating zongzi can be divided into salty and sweet, which is really inexplicable.Zongzi, can you eat it without dipping it in thirteen incense?

　　
　
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