Chapter 212 Grey Goose
It will take at least a few years to see the effect of whiskey investment. Although there are only semi-finished products now, the slightly smoky new wine has great appeal. More directly, it is the attractiveness of relatively high alcohol content. In the past, even Chunnan, which has much wine culture ahead of Dongping, has no famous distilled liquor. In order to make up for the expense of fully deploying the planting of wine-making crops and building wine cellars, winemaking workshops, etc. in several farms, Ye Tao had to create another wine that can quickly take effect, and this wine is never troubled by the storage period. This wine was originally called vodka.
Compared to whiskey, the vodka process is too simple. Basically, it is just repeated distillation and filtration. Ye Tao chose white birch to make charcoal for filtration, and in just a few days he completed the complete set of vodka technology. Vodka and whiskey are completely different. The most attractive thing about whiskey is the extremely unique fragrance and taste, while vodka is so pure. Ye Tao's familiarity with distillation technology made the concentration of the vodka raw wine after repeated distillation exceed 80%, and no one dared to drink it without dilution. But when this wine was first successfully made, its colorless, tasteless, pure and transparent look really confused many people. And the one hundred tribal guards around Ye Tao seemed to be fascinated by this extremely pure thing immediately.
The production of vodka is not as troublesome as whiskey, so Ye Tao soon began to arrange the purchase of grain, production of vodka and distribution network next year. Compared with Dongping who had been hoarding grain for future wars, Yunzhou's grain reserves have been at a very low level. When General Xu was appointed as the General Xu, he spent a lot of energy and money to purchase a large amount of grain directly from Chunnan, but according to Ye Tao's calculations, once he encountered a more troublesome situation, it was not necessarily enough. Since he took office, the purchasing representatives who were originally directly under the Jingluo Mansion, but now the Commercial Bureau of the Jingluo Mansion has gained greater power. In the large grain production areas of Chunnan, there are almost every county, and every town is cleared and inventory is transported to Yunzhou. It seems that in order to make the brewing of vodka form a scale, Ye Tao has to transfer a batch of grain from the Yunzhou Commercial Bureau.
Whiskey can be called Bailingtan, so what should I do if I do vodka? Ye Tao was thinking hard and couldn't figure it out, so he had to use the private name of winemakers: essence wine. In fact, this is also in line with the characteristics of vodka, especially the vodka raw wine that was not diluted with distilled water. In this time and space, it is already an industrial alcohol without any energy production. Since the glass has no energy, the essence wine is now contained in a long cylindrical pottery bottle with blue glaze. On the pottery bottle, there is a shallow gray goose mark. This is also plagiarism, but it is just a lot of obscurity. In the past, wasn't there a very inexplicable vodka called a luxury in vodka? That brand is called gray goose.
As the first batch of products of Grey Goose Essence Wine began to be bottled, Ye Tao finally renamed the farm where they settled as: Grey Goose Wine Wine, which completely positioned the location that might become a spirit production base in the future and was increasingly farther away from the original function of the farm.
After two and a half days, Sun Jin and Chang Huaiyin finally arrived outside the Gray Yan Winery at noon on the third day.
Although the land in southern Yunzhou has always been dominated by agriculture. However, due to Yunzhou's limited strength and continuous wars, many developments have been insufficient. From Bonan Town, local farmers can be seen everywhere in the construction of field water conservancy facilities and dredging of ditches. These are relatively easy to do during the dry winter period. Many people are repairing the ridges, widening the roads in the fields, and even planting uphill trees on both sides of the road. Even this dirt road is not yet planned by Yunzhou Jingluofu Road and Bridges. It is also neat and wide.
When it was quite a distance from Grey Goose Winery, Sun Jin and his party met tribal guards who came out to patrol and walk their horses. Horses with excellent physique and temperament and infiltrating blood have become an instinctive riding technique. They have also received quite regular military discipline training. The tribal guards almost paranoidly do something that makes everyone stunned: they can maintain a very strict formation during the high-speed riding process.
When Sun Jin and Tan Weixin were reminded by the surprise guard chief, watching the thirty cavalry who rushed to him at a very fast speed and stopped the horses directly into a strict formation, their eyes almost fell out.
Sun Jin's evaluation of Ye Tao's land was a little higher. This kind of personal soldiers is no longer something that can be described by the word "elite". God knows that Ye Tao has no time to control these tribal guards at all. These are the results of tribal guards' exploration while observing other troops' training.
"Who are you? What are you here to do?" asked the tribal guard captain who led the team politely.
"This is the car driver of the Prince Xian's Mansion in Chunnan Country. Please inform him of Zhengluo Ye." Xie Chao, deputy general manager of the palace, replied politely.
"Please come with us. The news has been received by Zhuangzi. His Royal Highness and the Princess are coming here. Lord Ye is waiting. He told us to prepare to greet you." The captain said with a smile. After nodding to Xie Chao, he turned around the horses and ran slowly in front, while the tribal guards naturally expanded their protective formations and covered the entire convoy in their own defense circle.
Before the Gray Yan Winery had time to make a new gate plaque. But through the narration of the guards, Sun Jin and Chang Huaiyin had already understood what Ye Tao was doing here.
A chief official in the border area and a ruler in Yunzhou. The life-and-death and death-taking commander actually came to such a shabby place to study winemaking before another wedding? When Sun Jin and Chang Huaiyin learned about the various experiments Ye Tao and Tan Weixin were conducting in this winery, they couldn't help but look at each other. This was really beyond their understanding of a minister.
Vodka has been successfully trial-produced. That is, the current fine wine, Ye Tao and Tan Weixin have completed the task in stages and are preparing to return to Ningyuan. At this time, it was natural that people who had not seen each other for a long time and could only be seen in the documents of the Communications and Intelligence Bureau appear in front of them. Moreover, I am afraid there is no first batch of admirers with higher style than these two people.
"Brother Sun, this winery has just been bought, and there are still many facilities that have not been built. It is really a bit simple. Let you laugh at it." Ye Tao apologized to Sun Jin calmly. The winery is still very small now, especially a large number of craftsmen and test equipment occupying a lot of space. Sun Jin and Chang Huaiyin's vocation came in a mighty manner. If Liu Yong hadn't reacted immediately, letting the guards of the Jingfu Palace squeeze out, from four people, one room to six people, one room. The guards of the Xianwang Mansion might have to set up tents or sleep in the carriage, and this kind of weather would have been too much of afflicted. But Ye Tao's verbal apology did not mean any guilt, but rather helpless, as if he had said that I had no choice but to come.
"Justice Ye is polite." Sun Jin bowed and said with a smile. He was also the son-in-law of the king of Dongping, and Sun Jin was just the son-in-law of a prince; Tan Weixin was a well-known financial manager and had a great influence on the national affairs. Chang Huaiyin was just an idle noble daughter. If it weren't for the favor of the Queen Mother of Chunnan, she might not even have the title of the princess; Ye Tao was a famous craftsman master in the world, and now he could be regarded as a well-known historian. With his current position and power he could control, it was considered to be a prince who underestimated him. Sun Jin is still just one of the aides of the Prince of Xian. On any position, Sun Jin did not dislike Ye Tao's inadequate hospitality. On the contrary, Ye Tao was so simple and willing, but he seemed to have a temperament and a style. It made Sun Jin feel that Ye Tao was an interesting person.
"Brother Sun, you are here to taste the wine you just made and taste it." Ye Tao suddenly said after lunch, while sitting in the garden basking in the sun.
"It's better to obey your orders than respect." Sun Jin agreed happily.
The condensation point of alcohol is much lower than that of water. The vodka placed in the wine cellar is always below the freezing point, condensing into a semi-liquid like porridge. When poured out of the bottle, the slowly flowing droplets seemed to condense the warm sunshine.
"Good wine." The fierce and pure taste and the impact of the bitter and strong alcohol made Sun Jin dizzy. Then he put down the cup, licked his lips, and said sincerely. After suffocating a small glass of alcohol, Sun Jin closed his eyes and sat for a while before suppressing the dizzy feeling. He said half-jokingly: "Ye Zhengluo, you are really interested. You are about to go here to make wine. The taste of this wine is indeed very suitable for the tigers in the army or the heroic and fierce people in the world. If you want to come to the herdsmen on the northern grasslands, you can use this to drive away the cold and you will also like it very much. Being an adult's subordinate is really blessed."
Ye Tao smiled unquestionably and said, "This is not for the wedding. I can't get involved in this wedding at all. Just prepare the wallet. The elders of the Dai family, the officials of the court's rituals, and the subordinates of our country are very keen on this. Let them make a fuss. I guess there will be no shortage of wine at the wedding banquet. This wine was just tried and tested here, and now there are only about twenty bottles in the bottle. Moreover, is such a strong wine suitable for taking it out at the wedding? Isn't this embarrassing for yourself?"
Ye Tao's relaxed and humorousness made Sun Jin laugh and said, "Why is the reason why the lord hurried here at this time?"
Ye Tao said seriously: "For the sake of time... Brother Sun probably knows that my position as a strategic person should do a lot. The entire southern part of Yunzhou will fully launch the planting of various crops in the spring of next year. The Hengjun Farm, the Ministry of Agriculture and Trade, my direct farm, and various private farms will be fully mobilized. The agricultural tax is lowered, but a large number of high-quality rice and wheat seeds have been mobilized, and a large number of farmland water conservancy projects have been deployed. As long as there is no natural disaster or human damage, Yunzhou's grain production next year should not only be self-sufficient, but also have a considerable surplus. After all, the original foundation is too weak. In this case, the surplus grain can be produced larger.
Chapter completed!