On the bank of the Qujiang River, in a large open space, a piece of smoke and dust was raised in the distance, and a neighing of horses' hooves was seen, and in a blink of an eye, a group of people beat horses.

"What's the matter, my brother specially asked my family to ask for this piece of land, it's not too far from Chang'an City, the place is big, and there are few people, hey, when the time comes, Prince Ke will send a few guards to come over, and no one will dare to stir up trouble!" Li Yexu rode on horseback, and the whip in his hand pointed to a large vacuum in front of him and said.

"Well said! There is no need to Ke Wangye, who would dare to stir up trouble with our brother's industry? Brothers can't kill him with people! "It was Liu Renshi who said this, this thing is also a rampant and domineering master, his father is very powerful, one of the famous underworld leaders, a famous prodigal son of the former Sui Dynasty, the old street ruffian who used to be in the street in the past, in order to avoid the military service of Goryeo, deliberately hacked to death the ploughing ox and let him be caught in prison and squatted for a year, and after coming out, he died in the rivers and lakes, and stole horses for self-sufficiency, and later met Li Shimin, and began to help Li Shimin fight the world, and made great contributions, and was awarded the title of Kui Guogong. Although Liu Renshi is not very old, he has inherited his father's ruffian habits, and although he is now studying in Hongwenguan, he is also a street tyrant in Chang'an.

After Xia Hongsheng made the distilled spirit, he first sent the distilled liquor to the homes of the gentlemen, and the results were self-evident, their families saw the market for the distilled spirits, and the next day they took the copper money and sent it to Xia Hongsheng's house. After everyone allocated shares, Li Yexu remembered that his family had an idle wasteland on the bank of the Qujiang River, so he provided it as a site for the winery. Xia Hongsheng invested in technology, and then invested 2,000 copper coins to monopolize 30% of the shares and become the largest shareholder, and 60% of the remaining 70% of the shares were divided up by this group of gentlemen according to the amount of capital. The remaining 10% of the shares were set aside according to Xia Hongsheng's proposal to be used as a reward for managers. After these people are all nobles, at least the family is also the beginning of the Guogong, and they will definitely not come forward. Xia Hongsheng himself must not come forward, so for the daily management, he must hire someone else to carry it out. Therefore, Xia Hongsheng is based on the model of later generations. Set aside 10% of the cadre stock to reward the management, so that the motivation of those who can manage on a daily basis can be mobilized, and their sense of ownership can also be increased. Linking the benefits of the enterprise with the interests of the individual. It can fully mobilize the subjective initiative of individuals, and now that the winery has become, this can be regarded as an enterprise!

"Talents, what we need now are talents who can do business, and can open up the market for distilled spirits. Carry out publicity and expand the business of distilled spirits. Xia Hongsheng rode on his horse and said to everyone: "Are there any people under your brothers who can do business?" ”

"This is really a problem, after all, as our brothers, I'm afraid we can't come forward to deal with this matter." Li Ke nodded, and also said: "There is no such person under Ke's hands, there may be such a person in the queen's mother, but ......"

"Our brother's business, don't bother the queen...... If you let those stewards come in......" Cheng Chuliang opened his mouth and said, but halfway through speaking, he was glared at viciously by his brother Cheng Chumo. glared back at the rest of the words.

Li Ke shook his head, sighed, and waved his hand: "What Chu Liang said is also that those minions are indeed impure. However, Ke's hand can't be stretched that long. ”

Hearing Li Ke say this, everyone didn't speak, although these gentlemen eat, drink and play on weekdays, none of them are stupid, and it is best to ignore the royal affairs. Don't listen to indecent acts.

"Okay, I have a candidate, I can let him come over for the time being, you guys have any good candidates there. Come over and ask him to bring it. He still has Mingxiangju's business to be busy with, and when he brings out the people here, he will hand it over to the people here to run it. Xia Hongsheng said: "His management ability is very outstanding, and he will be very suitable." ”

Xia Hongsheng recommended the shopkeeper of Mingxiangju to take the lead in the liquor business, not only because he took a fancy to the manager's business ability, but also because he was the person who accepted the business ideas he brought the most from later generations. Xia Hongsheng hopes that the business of the winery can be operated in a new way of operation.

"Mingxiangju?" When everyone heard this, they immediately clapped their hands: "Yes, Jingshi, you are also half of the big shopkeeper behind Mingxiangju, wouldn't it be better to transfer people directly from Mingxiangju to handle it!" ”

Everyone immediately unanimously approved Xia Hongsheng's proposal, and Xia Hongsheng turned his head to look at Xu Qixian, but he didn't say anything. Now everyone knows that Xia Hongsheng has half of Mingxiangju's shares, but they don't know that it is Xu Xiaode's industry, and Xia Hongsheng has no intention of letting them know.

"The next step is to find a craftsman to build a house, and the house here is built quickly, and you can start making wine. Haha, not to mention making wine to sell, the wine made by Jingshi tastes really good, I can't wait, but unfortunately, Jingshi just sent such a jar, and was drunk dry by my father in a few sips, brother, I just tasted it! Cheng Chumo shouted regretfully. Xia Hongsheng rolled his eyes and ignored him, a group of drunkards in his family!

Everyone rode on horseback to discuss a matter, Xia Hongsheng found that this group of gentlemen can not only look at them from age, it seems that people in ancient times are more precocious than people in later generations, Xia Hongsheng has seen people of the same age, whether it is dealing with people or dealing with people, are much more mature than people of the same age in later generations. This gang of gentlemen is more effective because of family reasons. When we discuss the affairs of the winery, they are all like adults, and if they are placed in the future generations, people of this age will not talk about doing business, and they are still in school to endorse and do questions.

The group discussed the matter and went back to Chang'an City together. Everyone still had something to do, and after entering the city, they separated, Xia Hongsheng said goodbye to everyone and went to his house with Xu Qixian.

Although it was a mid-year holiday, Xu Xiaode was still in the East Palace on business, and was not at home, Xia Hongsheng was alone in Chang'an City, and it was not interesting to go back, so he stayed at Xu Xiaode's house, chatting with Xu Qixian and Xu Hui bragged, while waiting for Xu Xiaode to come back.

"Senior brother, how did you pick up that wine, how did it look so translucent, like water, but it tasted very strong, stronger than the wine you drank for your brother!" Xu Qixian is still thinking about the matter of distilling liquor, this is the first time he has made his own decision, and it is the first major thing he has done in the real sense, so he is very concerned. He also tasted the trial product distilled by Xia Hongsheng, and his tongue was immediately spicy.

"Hey, hey, steamed!" Xia Hongsheng smiled at Xu Qixian and said.

Xu Hui, who was holding an embroidery needle and embroidering a handkerchief on the side, heard this, and immediately gave Xia Hongsheng a roll of his eyes: "Can the wine still be steamed?" I don't believe it! ”

Xia Hongsheng stretched out his head to look at the handkerchief in Xu Hui's hand, and saw a duck embroidered crookedly on it, so he smiled and said: "This duck is really embroidered like that, well, it's time to practice female red......"

"I'm not a duck!" Xu Hui interrupted Xia Hongsheng's words, staring at Xia Hongsheng with wide eyes, his black and white eyes bulging and looking extremely cute: "This is a mandarin duck!" And one that hasn't been embroidered......"

"Mandarin ducks?" Xia Hongsheng looked at Xu Hui in surprise: "Who to give it to?" ”

Xu Hui glared at Xia Hongsheng, and her eyes rolled: "Hmph, I use it myself!" ”

Seeing that the two of them were bickering again, Xu Qixian waved his hand next to him and diverted the topic: "Okay, okay, so are the two of you, obviously so good, why do you quarrel as soon as you meet?" Brother, you just said that wine is steamed, but what is the reason? ”

"Who's going to be good with him!" When Xu Hui heard Xu Qixian say this, she immediately exploded like a frightened rabbit, her face turned crimson, and she stared at Xu Qixian with some annoyance and shouted, seeing Xia Hongsheng grinning there, she was even more annoyed, and stepped on Xia Hongsheng's feet as soon as she raised her foot, and Xia Hongsheng grinned at the foot when she stepped on it.

Xia Hongsheng hurriedly smiled and begged for mercy, Xu Hui still had a cloudy face and turned back to give Xu Qixian a kick, turned around and was about to run away.

"Hey, don't you know how I steam wine?" Xia Hongsheng saw that Xu Hui was leaving, so he shouted.

"If you like to say it, you can say it, if you don't like to say it, you won't say it, what does it have to do with me?!" Xu Hui turned around and said angrily at Xia Hongsheng, but his footsteps stopped.

Xia Hongsheng cleared his throat and prepared to teach them a lesson: "I told you about water vapor before, do you remember?" ”

"Well, for my brother, I naturally remember that you said that the water will turn into steam and fly away." Xu Qixian is a person who loves to learn, listened very carefully, nodded and replied.

Xia Hongsheng nodded: "Yes, in fact, not only water, but also many other things can also be heated to a certain extent by fire and then turned into steam." The reason why the wine we drink has that kind of taste and that kind of smell is that after the sake lees are fermented, something called alcohol appears in it, and with this kind of thing, the wine can be brewed. This alcohol can also be turned into steam after heating, and the temperature required for it to become steam is lower than the temperature required for water to become steam. So I steamed the sake lees, heated the temperature of the sake lees to a temperature that could turn the alcohol into steam, and let the alcohol in the sake lees turn into vapor, and then when it came across something that was lower than it, it re-condensed into a liquid, and in this way, I got those high-purity alcohols, which are liquor. This involves two concepts, evaporation and condensation, both of which are physical categories, and if you want to learn them, I can teach them. ”

"Physics?" Xu Hui and Xu Qixian were confused.

"Yes, physics, the principle of all things!" Xia Hongsheng's eyes were scorching, staring at the two of them: "I can teach you and show you a god-like world that you have never set foot in!" (To be continued.) )