In the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan beat Li Shimin at the beginning

Chapter 17 Tomorrow morning, bring wine to court

Li Shimin rolled his eyes and said, "I can't laugh."

"Hey, then I don't want 10 guan, I only need 1 guan. So, you should be able to laugh, right?"

Li Shimin looked at Li Ke, very angry.

"Silly boy, are you really stupid or are you just pretending to be stupid with me here? No."

Li Ke said speechlessly: "I don't have 1 guan, that's fine, I don't want you to give it to me. I earn it myself. You order someone to send the distiller's grains left over from the daily brewing in the palace to my Shu Palace. That's okay, right?"

Well, this is Li Ke's real purpose.

The method of brewing wine in this era is similar to that of wine.It is not distilled at all, but fermented.

The remaining distiller's grains are actually fermented distiller's yeast, which is a good thing for Li Ke.

If Li Ke uses rice to make wine directly, a fermentation process is required, and this process will take a month.

If these distiller's grains are used to make wine, even the fermentation process can be saved.

All you need is to get a set of brewing equipment, just put it in the pot and cook it, and it can be done in a day.

Use this thing to make distilled wine, it is fragrant!
When Li Shimin heard it, he was immediately happy.

"Okay, this is fine for you. But, what do you want this thing for?"

Yes, 10 is unacceptable, and 1 is also unacceptable. It's just a little useless distiller's grains, and that's fine.

If you don't give this thing to him, it won't have much effect.At most, it is only used to feed some livestock, and generally no one will eat this stuff.

Li Ke said with a smile: "Don't inquire about this first, I will give you a surprise in two days, how about it?"

"Are there any surprises? All right, Dad promised you that all the distiller's grains in the palace will be sent to your Shu Palace. Are there any questions?"

"No more, I'll bring you a surprise in two days. Dad, goodbye."

After speaking, Li Ke quickly got up and left.

"Okay, bye."

"This silly boy. I don't know where he learned the words."

Li Shimin turned around with a smile and explained to Wang De.Wang De immediately went out and arranged for someone to do it.

Li Ke returned to the Shu Palace, and immediately took his servants to play tricks in a big house in the backyard.

It is actually not difficult to make distillation equipment, as long as you understand the principle, basically anyone can make it.

The distillation equipment made by Li Ke is a large iron pot at the bottom, with an open lid on the top.

On the opening of the lid, put a ceramic jar with a perforated bottom. Inside the ceramic jar is a small mechanism for dispensing wine, and a bamboo tube is used as the wine outlet.

Put an iron pot on the top of the ceramic cylinder to cover the mouth of the cylinder, and fill the iron pot with cold water for cooling.

Of course, when cooking, the whole set of equipment must be sealed when it comes out of the wine outlet.

His set of equipment is not ready yet!The palace has already sent someone to bring the distiller's grains over.

There is a lot of wine in the palace.Therefore, they sent a lot of distiller's grains at one time.

Although Li Ke has never weighed it, it is estimated that it weighs about 500 catties.

500 catties a day.Then send people to the houses of other big families to collect them.If you put them all together, it is estimated that you can get 2000 catties a day.

2000 catties of distiller's grains, 1400% of the wine is calculated from it.There are also [-] catties a day.

Posted.

This is the starting capital for Li Keqian's business.

Li Ke was very happy, and immediately called Liu Hong and asked him to arrange for someone to go out to collect the distiller's grains.

If people ask, just say that you bought it to feed livestock.

After finishing the wine steaming equipment, Li Ke began to teach them how to steam wine.

The people he taught were all the food towns of the king of Shu.

What is Shiyi?To put it bluntly, it is almost like a slave.Their life and death, honor and disgrace are closely connected with the King of Shu.

Therefore, these people are absolutely loyal to Li Ke.

Besides, Li Ke doesn't intend to keep this method a secret forever.

As long as it is kept secret for a period of time and he earns enough start-up capital, then it will be fine.

The housekeeper Liu Hong is an old man in his 40s who took care of Li Ke when he grew up.He has never tripped Li Ke, so of course it can be believed.

Li Ke ordered people to pour all the distiller's grains into the cauldron, and add an appropriate amount of water.

Then, seal the distillation apparatus.

Then, you can start a fire.

Soon, the distiller's grains were boiled.A strong smell of distiller's grains spread throughout the yard.

Li Ke had nothing else to do, so he found a stool and sat there, looking at the bamboo tube.

In fact, there are many items in the Shu Palace that only appeared in later generations, but others don't know about it.

For example, this four-corner stool was made by those servants instructed by Li Ke.

Li Ke was a little worried.

He understands the principle, but he never brewed wine in his previous life.Whether he can succeed or not, he really has no idea.

Hmm...a familiar smell.

Li Ke sniffled and asked loudly, "Liu Hong, do you smell the aroma of wine?"

Liu Hong also sniffled and said, "It smells pretty good, but I don't know if it's the smell of wine."

No way, Liu Hong has never seen this kind of wine before!I have never smelled the aroma of this wine.

The others also looked at Li Ke with confused faces.

"Quick, quick, bring me a bowl, the wine is about to be served."

A servant hurriedly handed a bowl to Li Ke.

Li Ke extended the bowl to the mouth of the wine, but after waiting for a while, a wisp of nectar fell into his bowl.

Immediately afterwards, the wine was getting bigger and bigger.

Li Ke took half a bowl in a while.He took it and sniffed it.

That's right, that's the taste.

Familiar taste!

The wine from the outlet is now normal, like a small faucet, it fell into the large tank that had been prepared long ago.

Li Ke casually poured out the half bowl of wine he had just picked up, and took another half bowl again.

Yes, you can't have the first wine, there are too many impurities.

He took half a bowl again and took a small sip.

"what!"

"That's right, that's the smell, I succeeded. Haha..."

"Come on, Liu Hong, take a sip. Don't drink so much, this wine is a bit strong."

Liu Hong nodded, took the bowl and took a sip.

"Ah... good wine, fragrant and mellow, but a bit strong..."

As soon as he took a sip of the wine, Liu Hong let out a breath of foul air.As soon as I felt my body warm up, my hair almost stood on end.

That's right, this is first pot wine with a very high alcohol content.

What is head pot wine?
The first pot of wine is the cooling water of the pot on top boiled, and it is necessary to change the water for the first time.The wine that comes out before changing the water is called the first pot wine.

The degree of this kind of wine is generally relatively high.This is how Erguotou got its name.

The wine that comes out after the first water change is called Erguo wine.This wine will be lighter in alcohol.But it's also spirits.

Then, change the water for the second and third times, and the wine produced is called Sanguo wine and tail wine.

The alcohol content of this kind of wine is even lower.For those who don't like hard alcohol.

Li Ke asked happily: "Do you also think this is good wine?"

Liu Hong nodded and said: "This wine, this fragrance, 1 catties a day, definitely not enough to sell."

When the three people who were making wine with Li Ke heard this, they immediately brought bowls, took some wine, and took a sip each.

"Ah, it's really good wine. After one sip, I feel warm all over my body."

The three guys were all talking about their feelings after drinking, and without exception, they all said that the wine was good.

Li Ke was very happy and said, "Liu Hong, is the jar I asked you to prepare ready?"

Liu Hong said happily: "It has been prepared for a long time."

Li Ke said happily: "Okay, put the wine into the altar. Tomorrow morning, we will bring the wine to court."

(End of this chapter)