Chapter 45: Li Tai in a race against time

After explaining everything clearly, Zou Fengchi reached out and picked up a bottle of MSG from the man's hand and put it on the table. Then he said loudly: "This is the first bottle of MSG at auction today, and the reserve price is one or two silver." Each increase is 50 cents. In the end, whoever pays the highest price belongs to whomever he wants. ”

This unique way of selling makes everyone feel novel. Coupled with the mood that they wanted to buy MSG, some people began to increase the price. In the end, the first bottle of monosodium glutamate was successfully sold at the price of five taels of silver. Even the remaining nine bottles have found buyers at prices ranging from three to five taels.

After sending everyone away, Zou Fengchi came to the back hall excitedly and said to Li Tai: "King Wei, this method of yours really has an effect, and you actually used ten bottles of monosodium glutamate to sell it for the price of thirty-six bottles. ”

"It's just a contingency, and it's unrealistic in the long run. So now we have to embark on a new path of making money. Otherwise, when the limelight of MSG passes, we will not have a large amount of silver in our accounts. Li Tai shook his head and said to Zou Fengchi.

"I don't know what way King Wei has to make money." Zou Fengchi asked Li Tai curiously and expectantly.

In fact, for the next step, what should be used to earn a large amount of silver? Li Tai also racked his brains, and in the end, Li Tai still locked his eyes on winemaking. Wine was an absolute luxury in the Tang Dynasty, and ordinary people simply couldn't afford it.

Because of the backwardness of winemaking technology, a large amount of grain needs to be consumed when making wine. This is also the reason why the price of wine is very high. At its most expensive, it even reached the price of a bucket of wine, which required ten taels of silver. Even some officials of low grade have no way to afford this expensive price.

Li Tai's choice of winemaking method is to make distilled spirits from sorghum. When sorghum was in the Tang Dynasty, it was not called sorghum, his name was Shu millet. And the price is not very high, so I use it to make sake. It can definitely reduce the cost significantly.

Coupled with a pound of millet and millet can be brewed into about half a catty of liquor. In this way, the profit is not ordinarily high. So Li Tai decided to open his own brewery.

Li Tai laid a drawing on the table. said to Zou Fengchi: "Find someone to make these drawings and the things shown on them to help this king." At the same time, he sent people to buy a large number of Shu millet. When everything is ready, send someone to inform the king, and he will teach you a new way to make money. ”

Today's Li Tai is really short of money. Although he was from the hands of Wang Yushi, and Pei Lin respectively. I brought four thousand taels of silver. But for Li Tai, it was definitely a drop in the bucket. Even Li Shimin has approved him that he can recruit craftsmen on his own to build weapons and equipment. Li Tai didn't dare to do it.

After all, if you spread the stall too big now, you probably won't be able to take care of it. That's when it really became a burden. The main thing is that in two years, there will be a big war waiting for Li Tai.

In the third year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin and Qin Qiong will go to the Eastern Turks, and finally Li Shimin was trapped in the sheep pass. Thirteen-year-old Luo Tong will hang the seal of the second marshal, lead the troops into battle, and savior for thousands of miles.

However, since Li Tai has come to this era, it is estimated that the story of Luo Tong's sweeping of the north will be completely rewritten. Because Li Tai was ready to take command in person, he would personally rescue his father from the Shepherd Pass.

Therefore, the current Li Tai is racing against time. Before the arrival of the third year of Zhenguan, he had to make all the preparations. An important factor in wanting to do these things well is money.

Only with money can Li Tai let his horse farm have countless war horses. Only then can he expand his forbidden army of King Wei and equip them with good equipment and armor. These are inseparable from money, so Li Tai is now in urgent need of a large amount of silver to maintain his own development.

And the development of this local distilled liquor is Li Tai's main means of collecting money. In order to be able to achieve complete confidentiality. Li Tai has decided to set up a winemaking workshop in his newly built palace. In this way, the leakage of the brewing method can be avoided to the greatest extent.

At the same time, Li Tai also explained to Zou Fengchi that the equipment needed for brewing would be divided into parts and made by different craftsmen. In order to make it impossible for others to master their own brewing equipment.

After explaining everything, Li Tai took his two guards and left the Thirty-Three Heavens. Go to the temporary barracks of the forbidden army of the King of Wei. Now that the forbidden army of King Wei has ended, the early queue training. The next step of training began.

Li Tai sorted out the martial arts recorded in the Wudang Secret Dictionary and passed it on to his Wei Wang's forbidden army. In order to help them improve their combat effectiveness. Let their individual combat ability be qualitatively improved.

After this period of training, the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army of King Wei has been initially improved. Although it has not yet met Li Tai's requirements, it has far exceeded the combat effectiveness of the Sixteen Guards.

Li Tai's forbidden army of King Wei had a total of five thousand troops. Luo Tong led a cavalry team of 1,000 people, called the Thunder Blue Dragon Army. Li Tai prepared to make them into heavy cavalry. Qin Huaiyu led the same cavalry thousand-man team. It's called the Flame Suzaku Army. Li Tai was ready to turn them into light cavalry.

Yu Chi Baolin, Yu Chi Baoqing, and Cheng Tieniu led a thousand infantry troops. They are Yu Chi Baolin's Wind White Tiger Army, Yu Chi Baoqing's Wild Wave Xuanwu Army, and Cheng Tieniu's Four Spirit Qilin Army.

In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the infantry, Li Tai taught the three of them the seven interception formations of true martial arts recorded in the Wudang Secret Codex. Although the Zhenwu Seven Interception Formation is not as powerful as in the novel. However, the role it plays should not be underestimated.

Li Tai divided the three infantry of the Wei Emperor's forbidden army, each in a group of seven. Let them practice the True Martial Seven Interception Formation. Every seven groups is a team, which can form a medium-sized Zhenwu Seven Interception Formation. Every seven teams is a battalion, which can form a large Zhenwu Seven interception formation.

Each thousand-man team has three battalions, and every time it fights, it can become the force of three talents. Attack from three different directions. At the same time, the team of five thousand people was distributed according to the direction of the five elements. It can really be attacked, retreated and defended.

However, in order to meet this requirement, it is necessary to train for a long time, and only complete a long-term run-in in training. so that they can exert their true power in battle.

Fortunately, Li Tai's Wei Wang's forbidden army are all veterans of a hundred battles, so they don't lack experience on the battlefield at all. For the Zhenwu Seven Interception Formation taught by Li Tai, they were also very cooperative. Because they know that cooperating with each other on the battlefield is the key to victory.

After taking a turn in the barracks, Li Tai went to the Wei Palace, which he was building. The Wei Wangfu was originally rebuilt on the basis of the Furong Garden. So it doesn't have to, how much time it takes. Now it's largely done. Just wait for the barracks to be built. Li Tai can move over. That's when Li Tai really let go and do it.