Emperor Xiaoyao of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 71 The Way Out of Liquor (Please recommend)
Cheng Huaimo realized something was wrong after being spat on by Yang Ying. Isn't this molesting his sister-in-law in front of his brother?Immediately, he hurriedly explained to Jin Yu: "Brother, younger brother is talking outrageously, not molesting my sister-in-law! Please don't get me wrong."

Jin Yu really didn't think that Cheng Huaimo was molesting Yang Ying, but instead doubted whether Cheng Huaimo was really a "friend". "I didn't misunderstand, but Huaimo, you ``` are really not good at that``` masculinity?"

"My little brother swears to God, if he's a man, I'll let him never do it for the rest of his life!" Cheng Huaimo looked at Jin Yu and still doubted him, regardless of the injury on his forehead, with a serious expression, he raised his hand and made a poisonous oath.

"Then I'll believe you once, but you should take the medicine yourself." Seeing Cheng Huaimo's such a poisonous oath, Jin Yu immediately believed that it was a misunderstanding just now, but there is still a psychological shadow.

"My little brother has exactly this intention, and if I ask my elder brother to give me medicine, my little brother won't be able to bear it." Cheng Huaimo was obviously hurt, and thought of Jin Yu's closeness in taking medicine, he shivered.

Jin Yu looked at Cheng Huaimo's clumsy application of Wanhua Oil, and asked, "Huaimo didn't come here just to apply the medicine, did he?"

"There are indeed other things." Cheng Huaimo inevitably touched the wound when he applied the medicine, grinned and winked at the pain, thinking that the ancestor turned into a monkey.

"My father wants my elder brother to take my sister-in-law to Uncle Qin's house tomorrow, and my father will also go, saying that we will discuss your marriage together." Cheng Huaimo casually explained the reason for this trip while taking medicine.

"There's no need for Huaimo to go there personally, right?" After coming to Chang'an, Yang Ying would make up for Jin Yu's "family rules" unique to this era whenever she had the chance, with the intention of "teaching her husband Jackie Chan", so Jin Yu Yu easily saw through what Cheng Huaimo said was not his real purpose for coming to his home.

"Hehe, did the elder brother see this? The younger brother admires it!" Cheng Huaimo poured the good medicine, played with the glass bottle of wanhua oil, and revealed the real purpose: "The younger brother wants to partner with the elder brother to do a business."

"Business?" Jin Yu was a little surprised when he heard what Cheng Huaimo said, "I don't have anything valuable in my hand. This glass bottle is really the last one, and I don't know how to make it."

"This is not what my brother is talking about." Cheng Huaimo reluctantly put the bottle on the table, and said solemnly: "My brother is referring to the liquor business!"

"Shochu? This stuff is a failed product. If you drink it so much, you don't need to do it." Jinyu knows that without a stable product, doing business will only damage his reputation, and it will be even more difficult to start any business in the future. , especially now is the era of word of mouth, consumers' word of mouth is even more important.

"We don't do business in Guanzhong." Cheng Huaimo pretended to be profound and said: "Sell this shochu to the bitter cold places in the Northwest and Northeast. It doesn't matter whether those barbarians are in the top. Drinking it to keep warm is the key!"

Jin Yu was slightly taken aback. He really didn't expect Cheng Huaimo, the second generation ancestor, to have such insight, but he had to veto his proposal: "That's not okay. Originally, Uncle Cheng opposed your business. Everyone will suffer, besides, you sell liquor to the northwest and northeast, let them warm up and attack us later?"

"Oh, my little brother finally took a fancy to this shochu, and wanted to make a career to impress my father, why is it so difficult." Cheng Huaimo was very annoyed, and slapped the handle of the chair vigorously. The chair was not broken, but his hand hurt a lot.

"It's actually not difficult to impress Uncle Cheng. There is an opportunity in front of me, but I don't know if Huaimo is willing to do it." Jin Yu saw that Cheng Huaimo wanted to make a career so much, in order to realize the "alcohol" he created faster For the future, we have no choice but to reciprocate and benefit each other.

"Oh? Brother, let's hear it." Cheng Huaimo listened to Jin Yu's meaning and didn't block all the roads. He put down his hand that was rubbing the pain from the fall, and grabbed Jin Yu's arm ecstatically and asked.

"Let go!" Although Cheng Huaimo swore that he was not a gay friend, Jin Yu didn't want to have any intimate contact with men, so he knocked off Cheng Huaimo's hand and said with a frown.

"Hey, I'm excited for a while, and I'm excited for a while." Cheng Huaimo withdrew his hand and rubbed it embarrassedly.

Jin Yu sorted out his thoughts and said: "I can purify the shochu into alcohol to make it stronger. It can't be used for drinking, but it can be used as disinfectant. Whether it is a knife wound or a sword wound, as long as it is rubbed with alcohol, it will be cured. It can greatly reduce the chance of festering. If Daoist Sun concocts Panax notoginseng powder and throws these two things on the battlefield, will the loss of personnel due to injuries be less?"

"Huh? Wonderful! Brother, this method is very good!" Cheng Huaimo is not stupid. As soon as Jin Yu finished speaking, he understood the key point, stood up excitedly, paced in the study, and said as he walked: "Dad Let’s just say, many subordinates didn’t die on the battlefield, but died after the victory, because there was no good medicine to treat them, and they died alive. If the younger brother can preside over the promotion of this alcohol, then the old man will definitely not object, saying Maybe I will support my younger brother!"

"Well, I also ask the old god Zhen for the verification. It won't be too late to talk to Uncle Cheng after the old god gives the definite result. After all, this is not tiger bone wine, and the scope of involvement is too big." Jin Yu wanted to ensure that things went smoothly. , finalized the schedule with Cheng Huaimo.

Cheng Huaimo stood still and gave Jinyu a thumbs up: "Brother is thoughtful, and younger brother admires it."

"If this matter is successful, it will take two or three years. After two or three years, I will make wine that is really undrinkable. By then, the two brothers will have much less resistance to partnering again." On the way back, I was thinking about my own plan. With high-yielding crops, apart from raising some livestock, I don’t eat much. The biggest role for me is to make wine. If the crops I brought can be put into production smoothly, it means Wuliangye came out hundreds of years in advance!
"Okay, the little brother will wait for the big brother to finish!" Cheng Huaimo said and stretched out his hand.

"Why?" Jin Yu now rejects physical contact with Cheng Huaimo.

"Didn't elder brother say that this is the custom of making a deal?" Cheng Huaimo's hand still stayed between the two of them awkwardly.

"Okay, happy cooperation!" The two hands that spanned more than [-] years were firmly held together for the second time, which was a milestone in the liquor industry.

Cheng Huaimo still stayed in the Jin Mansion for lunch. During the meal, Jin Yu and Cheng Huaimo discussed a lot about the operation of commodities.The dazzling product packaging, promotional methods and advertisements from later generations made Cheng Huaimo very energetic. Although some methods were not applicable in the early Tang Dynasty, they did not affect Cheng Huaimo's interest in learning.In the process of constant communication, Cheng Huaimo interpreted what Jin Yu said was unreasonable with the operation method of the Tang Dynasty, and always achieved a perfect combination.It can be said responsibly that this conversation added another layer of practical guarantee to the cooperation between the two, and laid a solid foundation for the promotion of liquor in the future.

"By the way, that cotton ```" After sending Cheng Huaimo out, Jin Yu remembered the matter that had been resolved.

"My little brother has already found it, but it's a bit difficult to get it, but my little brother has entrusted someone to do it, and I think there will be results in the next few days." Cheng Huaimo saw Jin Yu mentioning this matter, patted his forehead, and interrupted Jin Yu's words, Reported the latest developments.

"That's good, if it's too late, the sowing will be delayed." Originally, Jin Yu wanted to tell him that he had found it, but Cheng Huaimo was not slow to move, so he swallowed back the latter words, and if he said it again, he would offend others up.

"Then the younger brother will leave. Huaiyu will come to pick up the elder brother tomorrow, see you again in the Qin family!" Cheng Huaimo swiftly stepped on the stirrup and rode away.Jin Yu stared straight, isn't there a stirrup?Why don't you have your own immediately?Was it tricked by profiteers?

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There are different opinions about the origin of liquor. Li Shizhen mentioned in "Compendium of Materia Medica" that it began in the Yuan Dynasty.Poets in the Tang Dynasty mentioned it as "Shaochun", a word "burn", indicating that the degree of drinking alcohol was already a bit high at that time. Tang Gaozong Li Zhi wrote a poem "Rose Flower": "The depth is the most suitable The fragrance provokes the butterflies, and when you pick it, you are also afraid of the flames burning the spring." The word "flame" in it indicates that the degree of liquor in Tang Gaozong's period has reached more than 40°.In fact, the classification of wine in the Tang Dynasty, purely in terms of degree, should have two types: one is shochu and the other is sake.Shochu has a long history, as I have just said.Sake was also popular at that time, and the poems of Li Bai, a patient with alcohol dependence, illustrate this point very well.It is rare in China now, but it is more popular in Korea and Japan, and its origin is in China before Tang Dynasty.

Further afield, the Shanghai Museum now houses a set of distillation equipment from the Eastern Han Dynasty, which can distill alcohol to a degree of 20.4°-26.6°, which can be said to be the earliest degree of distilled alcohol supported by existing evidence.Although a set of more sophisticated distillation apparatus has been unearthed, it has not been announced, so it is not known to what age it can be advanced.Of course, the unearthed distillation equipment may also be used as alchemy equipment to distill special items.

Going further, the medical usage of liquor was recorded in "52 Disease Prescriptions", which shows that liquor with a relatively high alcohol content existed around 200 BC. Therefore, in the Three Kingdoms period, Hua Tuo scraped the bones of Guan Yunchang to cure poison Guan Yu can anesthetize himself with wine. (Referring to "52 Prescriptions for Diseases", hoehe found a hilarious prescription when he was reading it: "For ordinary people, take two mercury, four male evils, one dan, and ``````" Guess everyone Guess what this "evil" means? I can't find it in the dictionary, so let's talk about it in the group, because it is said here that the light ones will be reviewed, and the serious ones will be harmonized.)
In the past, many authors mentioned distilling liquor when they wrote about the Tang Dynasty, but due to ancient distillation techniques, Hoe He did not think that the degree of liquor in the early Tang Dynasty could exceed 50°, so when Hoe He mentioned liquor, the degree of distillation was more than 50° According to the distillation equipment of later generations, 75% of medical alcohol is completely distilled.

Besides stirrups and horseshoes, Hoe Wo consulted a lot of information, and there are unearthed objects to prove that in 302 AD, single stirrups appeared in China, and double stirrups were popularized in the Tang Dynasty.No real horseshoe has ever been unearthed, and there is no evidence of the existence of horseshoes in the pits unearthed before the Yuan Dynasty. However, a mural painted in the Sui Dynasty in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang vividly depicts the process of ordering horseshoes.From this point of view, in the early Tang Dynasty, stirrups were already popular, but the popularity of horseshoes was not high.Stirrups are popularized in this book, but horseshoes are not written.

Interested book lovers can refer to "Archaeological China's Third Hidden Treasure Revealed: Chariot Ruan Ma Xiaoxiao (2004-84)".

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