Chapter 37: Rolling Money
It was already afternoon when Li Hao left Lu Guogong's mansion, and this time Li Hao didn't get a drop of wine, and he came out, which was incredible, and the main reason was the pot of spirits that Li Hao sent.
With this pot of spirits, Cheng Biting Jin can still see any three syrup, but a pot of spirits is only one catty, Cheng Biting Metal Pixiu, good things never know how to share with others, so, from beginning to end, Cheng Biting Jin drank there, Li Hao watched him drink, and finally Cheng Biting Jin got drunk, yelled, took a certain iron lance, and then showed Li Hao his extraordinary martial arts.
Li Hao looked at his drunken appearance, and felt that the iron lance might fly out at any time, and if he smashed himself at that time, there would be no place to reason, the Cheng family was too dangerous, so he quickly took the opportunity to urinate the shield and escaped from the Lu State Mansion.
Li Hao has no relatives and friends in Chang'an, after giving Cheng Yanjin a gift, there is nothing to do, after the fifth day of the first month, after welcoming the God of Wealth, this year is over, Chang'an's major shops opened again, and the huge Chang'an was lively again.
Li Hao also started his own wine-making business, and the workers were all invited from Shanghe Village, because at the beginning he only made some wine and sent it to Taibai Building for trial sale, so he only hired five workers.
Everything is going on in an orderly manner, on the eighth day of the first month, the first furnace of spirits came out, Li Hao personally tasted it, praised it very much, put it into the wine jar, sealed it, and shipped it all to Chang'an Taibai Building.
The next day, Li Hao and Cheng Chumo came to Taibai Building in person, poured ten bowls of spirits and put them at the door of the first floor, and let the aroma of wine waft to the street.
Taibai Lou's business was originally very good, and with the attraction of this wine, the guests immediately flocked to it, clamoring to buy wine.
Li Hao is well versed in the means of hunger marketing, how can he let them drink so easily, and opened an auction to auction ten bowls of immortal brew, and each bowl starts with a consistent price.
When they heard that the money was always going to start, everyone was stunned, and it was only a dozen yuan for a pound and three pulps, and now this bowl of wine actually costs money, which is simply a robbery.
However, the name of the immortal brew is too awesome, and the aroma of the wine in this building really makes those drunkards unable to help themselves, many rich people have begun to bid, the first bowl of immortal brew was finally sold at a price of twelve times, which made everyone staggered, and the person who made this price was a fat rich businessman, who stepped forward with a proud face, took the wine bowl from Li Hao's hand and drank it with his head up, that posture, don't pretend to be too forced.
Li Hao looked at him with a wicked smile and pretended to be forced, waiting for him to come out of the ocean, and sure enough, the fat man squirted out all the wine with a "poof", and then coughed wildly, his face was as red as a monkey's buttocks, his eyes were full of bloodshots, and his appearance was extremely painful.
Everyone was shocked when they saw this, isn't this immortal brew, why is this like drinking poison?
Li Hao didn't panic at all, and asked with a smile: "This guest officer, how does our immortal brew taste?" ”
The fat man finally relieved himself: "This ...... This...... Is this wine? Why is it so strong? ”
Li Hao raised his eyebrows: "If it is not strong, how can it be called immortal brewing?" ”
Everyone was stunned when they heard what they said, it turned out that the reason why this fat man was so embarrassed was because this wine was too strong, they hadn't drunk the spirits, and Sanle Pulp was the strongest wine in the Tang Dynasty, but looking at the fat man's painful and shocked appearance, it seemed that this wine was a little strong.
Li Hao smiled and continued to ask, "How is it, is this a good wine?" ”
Although the fat man choked on the spirits very badly, he couldn't help but nod: "Good wine, it is indeed good wine!" After speaking, he picked up the wine bowl, took a shallow sip, shook his head, and said to himself with enjoyment on his face, "Good wine, good wine, twelve times are not wronged at all." ”
Everyone was even more surprised when they heard this, full of curiosity, what kind of wine is this, the first sip is choked like that, and the second sip is like drinking fairy syrup, it is this curiosity that makes the bidding for the next nine bowls of wine higher, each bowl of wine is auctioned, and the people who drink it are amazed, so when the auction of these ten bowls of wine is successful, Li Hao's pocket has nearly three hundred yuan more, alas, there is no way, Chang'an is a place where there is a lot of stupid money.
In order to let these people who auction immortal liquor reflect their sense of superiority, Li Hao will not sell immortal liquor today, and announced that he will start selling it from tomorrow, and only sell fifty catties per day, with a limit of three taels per person, and the price of each two is eighty yuan, one catty in the Tang Dynasty is equal to sixteen taels, and the price of one catty of wine has always been two hundred and eighty yuan, which is definitely the most expensive wine in the history of the Tang Dynasty, and there is no one.
When everyone heard that the immortal brew would be sold tomorrow, they were all excited, and they planned to go home and prepare the money, and come early every day to grab a place to buy the immortal brew.
Sure enough, early the next morning, Taibai Lou has not yet opened, the outside is crowded with people, nearly noon, Taibai Lou opened, everyone flocked in, grab seats, grab the seats, grab the private room, anyway, are brewed for the immortals, the attraction of the wine is really great, Li Hao is very satisfied with the trial sale effect of the immortal brew, and decided to discuss with Cheng Yanjin in the past two days to produce a large number of immortal brews, and then sell them all over the country, and in the Chang'an area, the major restaurants are limited to supply, and the monthly sales are limited to fifty catties, And Taibai House is available in unlimited quantities, no way, its own restaurant.
In fact, Li Hao can completely monopolize the entire Chang'an market, but he doesn't plan to do this, because that would be tantamount to exterminating other restaurants in Chang'an, which is easy to attract people's jealousy, and if they switch to the limited supply of immortal brew to other restaurants, they will be grateful to themselves and scold themselves, and at the same time, it will not have any impact on Taibailou's business.
Li Hao went to the Luguo Mansion to discuss with Cheng Yanjin for a long time, and finally finalized all the links, and at the same time leased 500 acres of land with Cheng Yanjin to grow corn, since a large number of wines are to be sold throughout the country, then a large amount of corn is needed, with his current fifty acres of land, it is definitely not enough, it doesn't matter, Cheng Bites has a lot of gold fields, with the 500 acres of land lent to him by Cheng Bitingjin, the amount of corn produced in a year can reach at least 40,000 stones.
Forty thousand stones seems to be a lot, but if it is used to make wine, the loss rate is very high, and it is also a high-purity distilled spirit, Li Hao distributed his corn seeds to some farmers in Shanghe Village, and signed an agreement with them, they planted corn, and sold it to themselves after maturity, and the price he paid was sixty percent of the price of grain.
As soon as the peasants heard the joy, they divided some fields to grow corn, and they all knew that the yield of corn was very high, even if it was only 60% of the price of grain, then it would earn two or three times more than growing grain.
Li Hao and Cheng Yanjin's plan is to sell the immortal brew to the states of Guanzhong first, so that the reputation of the immortal brew will spread from Guanzhong, and when the time comes, they will not be afraid that they will not be able to sell it at a good price when they go to other provinces.
After nearly three months of busy work, Cheng Yanjin has asked his family relatives to sell 50,000 catties of immortal brew to fifteen states in Guanzhong, and no matter which state the immortal brew goes to, it will cause crazy robbery, the price is cheaper than Chang'an's, fifty dollars a tael, this price is still expensive, but the wine is not worried about selling, and it is difficult to make money.
On the eighth day of the first month of March, the weather in Guanzhong has become warmer, and the Chengjia honeycomb coal shop has collectively closed down, there is no way, the coal business will make a winter of money, but one winter is enough, on the tenth day of the first month of March, Cheng Chumo escorted seven ox carts to send money to Li Hao, each ox cart is piled up like a hill of white silver, these are all dividends of the honeycomb coal business, a total of 40,000 yuan, in fact, Li Hao's dividends should be 48,000 yuan, Cheng Biting Jin asked Cheng to silently bring a message to Li Hao, the 8,000 taels were deducted, It's time to honor his uncle on a holiday.
Li Hao thought about it, it seems that there has been no festival recently, if you want to talk about the festival, it seems that there is only one Qingming Festival......
Li Hao decided not to dwell on the eight thousand taels, the money robbed by Cheng Yanjin was useless, it would only add blockage to himself, it was better to be generous, and he should be sent to ask for food.
On the eighth day of the fifth month, Cheng Biting Jin asked Cheng Chumo to send money again, this time it was eight ox carts, as in the last situation, each ox cart was filled with white silver, a total of 53,000 yuan, which was a dividend from selling immortal brew.
What surprised Li Hao was that Cheng Yanjin didn't covet his dividend money this time, which moved Li Hao to tears, but Cheng Chumo's words made him feel at the bottom: "My father said that he really can't think of any excuse this time, so he doesn't need to give gifts, and he will give them next time." ”
After hearing this, Li Hao fell directly into a state of facial cramps, and greeted Cheng Jin's eighteenth generation of female relatives in his heart.
made money, made a fortune, the money in Li Hao's cellar was piled up, Li Hao was so happy, he locked himself in the cellar every day and looked at the mountain of money, so happy that he didn't want it.
With enough funds, Li Hao opened a Taibai building in Chang'an again, this time in Dongshi, and now the chicken wishbone shop has become a sideline, after all, the income of the chicken wishbone shop is not comparable with the restaurant, Li Hao simply generous once, and divided half of the equity of the chicken wishbone shop in Lantian County and gave it to Hu Laohan and his wife, and half of the equity of the Chang'an chicken wishbone shop was given to Zhang Yu and the three of them, he was going to divide some equity to Jin Qiaoyun, Jin Qiaoyun thought that it was not suitable for women to do business, so he refused, and Li Hao had no choice.
Just when Li Hao was busy making money, something big happened in Chang'an, and the emperor Li Yuan died.
The death of the Emperor Taishang is a major event, the national mourning, the people of the whole country are not allowed to drink and listen to music during the mourning period, which has had a certain impact on Li Hao's restaurant business, but it doesn't matter, you can't drink fine wine, isn't there still food, the food of Taibai House is also a must in Chang'an, Datang is the only one, and the national funeral is only temporary.
As soon as the national funeral ended, Fuyun Khan of Tuyuhun sent envoys to Chang'an to pay tribute, and the strange thing was that the envoys wantonly plundered Shanzhou (now Ledu, Qinghai) on the way back.
Li Shimin was very angry, and sent an envoy to Tuyuhun to reproach Fu Yun, and enlisted Fu Yun into the court, Fu Yun did not come under the pretext of illness, but sent his son Zunwang to the Tang Dynasty to ask for peace. Li Shimin agreed, and ordered the king to come to Chang'an in person, but the king released Li Shimin's pigeon again.
Li Shimin was even more angry, not only that, Fu Yun jumped very happily at the border, and also invaded the Tang border many times, Li Shimin, as a dignified Khan, was bullied by a small state several times, and finally became angry and decided to send troops to Tuguhun.