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When Shen Zhezi sat beside him, Shen Chong spoke: "I entrust Shiyi to take care of the affairs of the family, and I am not worried. Later, the sixth and ninth brothers will return to Wukang, and they can be Shiyi's arms and maintain the family. ”

Qian Feng did not shirk Shen Chong's entrustment, it can be seen that he is already familiar with each other's family business, and his father also trusts Qian Feng's ability very much.

"Qingque, the affairs of the Zhu family, you can let it go. If you hesitate, you can discuss it with your Uncle Qian. Even if something goes wrong, you have your own father to bear it for you, and you don't need to tie your hands and feet. ”

Shen Chong was convinced of his son's ability, so he simply let go of his work and exercised: "Also, you will go to the old immortal of Jiguo, and you will listen to the lectures in the family studies first, and I will invite a doctor of high school to teach you the scriptures and righteousness in the next year." Don't delay the study of scriptures and righteousness because of the entanglement of general affairs! ”

When Shen Zhezi heard this, he couldn't help but cry out in his heart. Although he was full of respect for the scriptures and righteousness of the Chinese scriptures, he did not feel that he should be poor in vain. But he can't be guilty of disobeying his father in front of him because of this matter, and he doesn't need to ask others, even if his father really invites a teacher, he will be generous and supportive, and he will play on his side.

Next, Qian Feng spread out a volume of books and told about the situation of the Shen family's industry during this time: "At present, there are still more than 15,000 pieces of rice and grain in the warehouse, and more than 8,000 pieces of rice, millet, mushrooms, and mushrooms. Ming Gong this time transported back more than 20,000 Hu, the manor in the shade of the household to pay the grain back to the warehouse, within ten days, the warehouse grain up to more than 60,000 Hu. ”

When Shen Zhezi heard these figures, he also secretly smacked his tongue and felt distressed, the Shen family is already in a food shortage right now, and he can still make up tens of thousands of grains by sweeping the bottom of the warehouse, it is conceivable how many families his father has lost in the past half a year this year! The local tyrant is capricious, and this temper is piled up with a lot of money and grain!

Not to mention anything else, just to mobilize more than 10,000 troops and civilians for the rebellion, I am afraid that the food consumption in a few months will not be able to stop only 100,000 Hu. After that, all parties made a dot, and the money and grain were sprinkled outward, and the food donated to Jiankang and other places alone amounted to nearly 200,000 Hu! As for the delay in farming this year, there are more than 100,000 poor harvests on the acres of fields!

After a little calculation in his heart, Shen Zhezi couldn't help but sigh, fortunately his grandfather's coffin board was tightly set, otherwise the old man would have known that his father would kill the old man's savings for most of his life in a few years, and he would definitely jump out of the coffin to scold this loser!

Shen Chong didn't feel ashamed of his family's background, but just groaned: "In this way, the amount of money used a year ago can be maintained?" ”

Qian Feng nodded, fiddled with the calculation on the case, and said while calculating: "At present, there are still thousands of Hu Hu daily income in each village, and as for the weak stop of work under the moon, you can get nearly 10,000 Hu." Fishing, hunting, gathering, poultry, fish, vegetables and the like, can still store enough stones. It's just that after entering the winter moon, production can't continue. ”

In this era, the mountains were closed, and the cold people lacked food, and they did not dare to go up the mountains and down to fish and hunt for food. But the Shen family is naturally not among them, and there are large areas of rivers and marshes and mountains in their own manor, and of course they will not let go of the treasure trove of ingredients gifted by heaven and earth. The Wu people's eating habits, rice and soup fish, making fish bream, dried fish and other techniques are very proficient, and the ingredients can be preserved for a long time.

However, the turn of the two Jin Dynasties was also a period of Xiaoice, and the winter was three or four degrees different from that of later generations, and the internal migration of Zhuhu had a great relationship with the climate. Although Wuxing is located in the south of the Yangtze River, the winters are also very wet and cold, and outdoor production is almost unsustainable. So in the winter months, it can be said that there is only consumption, not production.

Shen Zhezi listened carefully to Qian Feng's story, and gradually understood that there seemed to be a lot of inventory at the moment, but the really large consumption period had not yet arrived. When the cold wind blows, the Shen family will not only have to meet their own consumption, but also help other families who are following the Shen family. For example, the Yuhang Qian family, the Wucheng Xu family, etc., these families are all hardcore allies of the Shen family and cannot be ignored.

In this way, the shortfall of 100,000 grains is already a very conservative estimate. If the weather is worse this year, and the spring warmth is delayed, the food shortage will only be even greater!

"In extraordinary times, extraordinary measures should be taken. Then we will make greater efforts to collect the surplus grain of the shade households, and the private households shall not burn the stove and start the fire, and the food and drink of each village shall be allocated to the public. If there is a person who violates the ban, you don't have to worry about Shiyi, the military law will deal with it! ”

At the critical moment, Shen Chong was ruthless and did not let the shade households store grain, on the one hand, to facilitate the unified allocation of resources, and on the other hand, to exert personal control over the population. The hardship is only for a while, but if people's hearts are floating and outcast, it will be difficult to do. Even if you have a field in hand after the beginning of spring next year, it will be difficult to recover due to a lack of labor.

Hearing his father's move, Shen Zhezi smacked his tongue, but also found that he had the potential to be a black-hearted landlord. He had been thinking about this problem earlier, and the cauldron was open and the work was paid, which was very effective in solving the current dilemma. Since Daddy had already thought of this method, he didn't say anything more.

"Ming Gong, please rest assured, Feng has received the order, and he should do his best to maintain it, so that Ming Gong will not have any worries."

Qian Feng said in a deep voice, with a cold and murderous intent in his words, and with his scarred face, he had a hideous and cool demeanor.

After explaining these things, Shen Chong was relieved, and sighed after a little silence: "It's a pity that the court has not responded to the resolution of digging a ditch, otherwise my family would not have to be so embarrassed." ”

When Shen Zhezi heard this, he realized that his father vigorously promoted the construction of the Hui Ji Water Conservancy for the sake of state affairs, and there was no lack of ideas for public and private use. The construction of water conservancy projects usually has to be carried out in autumn and winter when the water is dry and the farmers are slack, not to mention anything else, such a large project arranging for one's own strong men to go to work and eat, can also solve a large part of the problem of food shortage.

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

In this era, there is really no pure minister!

Early the next morning, Shen Chong left in a hurry and led a cadre to the south to rush to the Huiji Shanyin office.

Shen Zhezi still remembered his plan for distilling liquor, and then he also packed up and went to Longxi Grange with Qian Feng.

Longxi Grange is the Shen family's longest-running manor, which has a history of several generations, and was originally just a barren valley between the two mountains of Wukang Mountain.

After years of reclamation and water conservancy, there are now hundreds of hectares of fertile and ripe fields alone, and the scale almost includes nearly half of the area of Wukang Mountain, Poling orchards, bamboo and wood forest farms, animal husbandry and weaving, ceramic smelting, everything, almost has constituted a complete ecological chain, similar to an independent kingdom, is the most important industry of the Shen family.

Qian Feng is proficient in general affairs and has strong ability, and after arriving at Longxi Manor, he began to implement the strategy formulated by his father. He is shrewd and capable, covering his face with a towel all day long, revealing only a pair of slightly gloomy 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, and he also knew how to make good use of people. He didn't have much to interject in the general affairs, so he said directly to Qian Feng: "Please uncle help me gather a group of craftsmen who are good at winemaking skills in the village, I have some ideas here to try." ”

Qian Feng is also a man of the year who experienced the Wang Dun Rebellion, and he did not dare to underestimate Shen Zhezi, who could maneuver all sides, even if he transferred nearly 100 craftsmen with winemaking experience from various estates for Shen Zhezi to drive.

However, before letting Shen Zhezi let it go, Qian Feng couldn't help but kindly remind: "The new brew in winter is indeed a good product." It's just that there is a shortage of food in the warehouse at the moment, and it can't provide too many materials for Xiao Langjun. ”

Shen Zhezi explained with a smile: "Uncle don't worry, I don't want to brew a lot. It's just that you can get an ancient recipe from elsewhere, as long as you use ready-made wine as the material. ”

Shen Zhezi's plan is indeed not to use distillation technology to mass-produce high-grade liquor as a beverage promotion, but to package it as a luxury life-saving product to resolve the toxicity of Wushi San.

Human tastes are very special, even if the technology of making and blending liquor has matured in later generations, and drinks such as strong aroma and sauce aroma are not everyone's preference. Especially in Jiangnan, the taste preference is sweet or light, and the heart-burning and spicy soju is not in line with eating habits.

In fact, the well-documented technology of highly distilled liquor flourished in the Yuan Dynasty, but people at that time did not recognize it, believing that drinking it was fainting and poisonous. Even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, alcoholic beverages were still dominated by rebrewed rice wine, while high-grade soju was only popular among the folk bottom. In later generations, Wu Song beat the tiger to drink the village brew, should be inferior rice wine mixed with shochu, the author Shi Nai'an is already a person in the Yuan and Ming dynasties.

Although people nowadays are addicted to alcohol, but the taste is just like that, Shen Zhezi does not expect that his technology can make the kind of wine of the future generations, and naturally he does not expect distilled liquor to be popular in Jiangnan immediately. Therefore, the positioning is tied to the cold food and powder, and the route of high-end luxury drugs is taken, and the scattered stagnation cannot be dispersed? Then drink!

And the flavors of all kinds of wine in the Shen family's cellar also confirmed Shen Zhezi's idea.

There are dozens of kinds of liquor stored in Longxi Manor alone, from the raw materials, rice, millet, cane, and rice are readily available, and the process is koji fermentation, koji tiller fermentation, etc. Others still have special taste uses, pepper wine, osmanthus wine, cypress wine, pine mash, dogwood wine and so on. In terms of quality, there are two kinds of wine, Qi is a shallow thin wine, and a heavy wine is a good syrup.

Shen Zhezi picked out all of these wines and tasted them one by one.

Throw away the peppers, cinnamon, chrysanthemums to be drunk on those festivals, as well as the so-called longevity-prolonging pines, cypresses, etc., which are too strange to mention. Although the taste of other drinks varies, the overall characteristics are slightly spicy and long, sweet and sour.

The thin wine is slightly sweeter, and even the highest-quality and expensive rebrew does not have the excitement of being hot. As for the wine fermented by koji, the taste is more similar to that of later beers, only sweeter. The so-called "tillers" are sprouted rice and wheat.

This is the taste of the current liquor, which strengthened Shen Zhezi's idea to distill and process the liquor as a divergent elixir to package and promote.