Daming: From the end of Hongwu

176 Chapter 174 - Take a famous name
the next day.

Zhen Wu, who had lost a lot of fighting spirit due to the comfortable life at home, raised his fighting spirit again, and suddenly he had the sense of urgency he had when he first came to this world.

The most urgent task is to get Zhu Di to lift his ban.

But this matter seems to need an opportunity.

Zhen Wu thought of making wine.

Zhu Di is good at wine, and Zhen Wu and his old subordinates know it very well, so Zhen Wu plans to brew some wine himself and give it to Zhu Di.

When Zhu Di was happy to give gifts, he might have lifted his ban.

Otherwise, Zhen Wu was afraid that Zhu Di would forget him, so he kept locked at home.

Do it when you think of it.

Moreover, Zhen Wu reckoned that the brewing equipment remade by the craftsmen would be ready soon, so Zhen Wu asked Cao Xiaoman and the others to collect jujubes from the Zhuangzi that day.

Afterwards, Zhen Wu selected the sorghum of the season and invited several brewers to study it together.

The brewers are all connoisseurs, and they opened their mouths and said, "Today's fine wines are Zhejiang Jinhua Wine and Mung Bean Wine, but the Qiulubai from Suzhou Gu's family in the past two years can also be called the best."

"What about us in the north?" Zhen Wu asked.

"We in the north say that burning pot is famous, and it tastes spicy enough. It's the best way to warm up in winter."

Zhen Wu drank Shaoguozi before, and this is what they often drink among themselves. It belongs to distilled wine, but it is almost tasteless regardless of taste or strength, so Zhen Wu came up with the idea of ​​making his own wine.

However, now hearing people talking about southern wines, Zhen Wu became curious and called Cao Xiaoman to buy some of each.

After Cao Xiaoman bought it back, Zhen Wu tasted a few mouthfuls of each and was greatly disappointed.

Although it's not bad to drink, it's the rice wine of later generations.

The elders are not strong enough to drink this.

have to.

If you want to drink something to your liking, it is still reliable to do it yourself.

Zhen Wu knew that there were distilled liquors in this era, but the tastes were relatively simple, and it was only brewed from sorghum and barley.

Then, Zhen Wu discussed fermentation and other matters with the masters. When the masters heard that Zhen Wu said that wild jujube should be added, they were all a little surprised, but soon their eyes lit up.

Yes.

Barley and sorghum can be brewed, but sour jujube can't be brewed?
This suddenly opened up their minds, thinking that if they really try it out, they will go back and think about other things, and maybe they can make a certain name.

After that, several people began to discuss the fermentation time, proportion and so on.

Zhen Wu is not short of this money now, so he bought several vats, steamed sorghum jujube, added distiller's yeast, and put them in different vats for fermentation in different proportions.

According to the brewer's words, they usually ferment for seven to ten days, but after hearing this, Zhen Wu thought something was wrong. He remembered that it seemed that they needed to ferment for more than 20 days.

But Zhen Wu was not sure, so he decided to ferment for fifteen days.

After these things were done, the brewers dispersed, and Zhen Wu called Cao Xiaoman.

"I've taken a fancy to three of the brewers who just went back. Go and find out if they have any background behind them, and see if I can provoke them. If so, dig those three out. Come here, I want to open a wine shop." Speaking of this, Zhen Wu solemnly said to Cao Xiaoman: "I have made an agreement with you in advance, don't threaten them, and make it clear that the wages or other money that should be paid will not be small."

Cao Xiaoman nodded in response, then asked who were the three, and went down.

Fifteen days passed in a hurry.

In the past fifteen days, Zhen Wu's wine shop has also been under renovation. On this day, Zhen Wu only called in, and the three brewing masters he had dug out were distilling together.

The three masters were amazed when they saw the equipment made by Zhen Wu.

Not to mention anything else, the closure alone is better than what they used before.

Thinking that the distilled pot would be even better, they couldn't hold back any of them immediately, and urged Zhen Wu to start distilling quickly.

Zhen Wu didn't waste any time. He opened the fermenting wine vat, and immediately there was a strong smell of wine. Everyone was busy, putting different proportions of fermented wine into different distillation equipment, starting to boil on high fire, and then slowly heating on low fire.

Along with this, the fermented turbid liquor boils and turns into steam, then slowly condenses and flows out drop by drop along the pipe, turning into distilled shochu.

It's just that after Zhen Wu distilled all the wines fermented in different proportions, the final result was a little different from what Zhen Wu imagined.

The color of all the distilled wine is still a bit cloudy, logically it should be clear and transparent.

Zhen Wu took another sip of each, and some of them just didn't taste right. Even if the best one had a similar taste, they still couldn't say it was right.

What went wrong in that link?
While Zhen Wu was thinking, Cao Xiaoman came over and said that Zhang Wu, Xue Lu and the others had come together. Zhen Wu said angrily, "What are they doing here now?"

"They are taking a rest today, maybe they are worried about you, so they come to see you together today." Cao Xiaoman said speculatively.

"What's good about me is not enough for them to make trouble."

As he was talking, Zhen Wu heard footsteps not far away, and at the same time he heard Zhang Wu's carefree voice: "Huh? What's this smell? It's wine. Boss Zhen said a long time ago that he would make wine himself. Already brewed?"

Then Xue Lu's voice sounded: "Why does this wine smell so fragrant?"

"Go, go, try it."

While talking, Liang Fang led Zhang Wu and several people to appear in Zhen Wu's courtyard. These people are all important members of Zhen Wu's team. As I said before, there is no need to notify when you come to his house.

After several people came in, their eyes fell on the distillation equipment for the first time, and then their eyes fell on the jars for receiving the wine.

There are almost no soldiers who do not like to drink.

Zhang Wu ran to Zhen Wu's side excitedly, looked at the wine in Zhen Wu's hand, and said cheerfully, "Boss Zhen, is this the first wine you brewed just now?"

Zhen Wu nodded, glanced at his expectant eyes and said: "It's not that I'm reluctant to let you drink it, the main reason is that the wine is not right, so I can't let you drink it. I'll think about it later."

Xue Lu and others also ran over. They smelled the wine and forgot what they were doing here, and they were full of thoughts about wanting to taste the wine.

"What's wrong, I smell good."

"What do you know?" Zhen Wu rolled his eyes, not in the mood to talk to them.

Zhang Wu was unhappy: "Boss Zhen, you can't be reluctant."

"Get lost." Zhen Wu kicked him.

At this time, one of the three brewers who had been thinking hard all the time, his eyes lit up and asked, "Is it because we didn't burn it hard enough, why don't we go back to the pot and try it again?"

Zhen Wu thought about it for a while, this statement seems to be reliable, if it is burned again, at least it can be purified again.

The few people hurriedly made some preparations, then picked the wine with the best taste and put it back into the distillation equipment, and burned it again. As time passed bit by bit, slowly the bamboo tube responsible for the wine began to burn again. The wine flowed out drop by drop.

After there was a certain amount in the jar, Zhen Wu scooped out some, and took a look, the wine was clear and transparent. Zhen Wu took a sip, and the aroma of the wine was pure and lingering.

This time it was much stronger than last time.

Zhang Wu and the others and the brewer all looked at Zhen Wu, and Zhang Wu couldn't help urging, "Taste, try."

Zhen Wu took a sip, and as he drank the wine, it burned like a fire in his stomach, rushed straight to his throat, and then spread to his limbs, one word strong, but the entrance was slightly sweet, soft and soft .

Zhen Wu squinted his eyes and took another sip. Needless to say, the taste is just right. Although it should be adjusted and improved, in Zhen Wu's opinion, at least it is the best wine he has drunk in this era.

"How?" Zhang Wu asked.

Zhen Wu nodded with a smile, and said: "Okay, you don't need to be polite to me anymore, let's all try it, but this is the first wine, just taste it, don't let me drink it, be careful and cause trouble."

"We know." After Zhang Wu finished speaking, he took the wooden spoon from Zhen Wu's hand.

After Zhang Wu took a sip, his eyes widened and he gave a thumbs up: "Boss Zhen, this wine is dead. How about sending me two jars after the wine is all cooked?"

"Go away, we'll talk about it later."

The others hurriedly tasted it, and everyone was full of praise after tasting it. They looked at the wine jar one by one, like hungry wolves, wishing to snatch it away.

This is wine, what did you drink before? It is not strong enough, and it has a hot throat. It is soft in the mouth like this, and it explodes in the stomach.

It's just so cool.

At this time, the brewers had also finished tasting, and one of them said excitedly: "Boss, I dare say this is definitely the top wine in the world. With this wine, we can definitely make a name for ourselves."

The other two winemakers also nodded in agreement.

"Boss, what's the name of this wine? We have to choose a famous name."

"What's your name?"

Zhen Wu didn't care too much about this, he was mainly drinking it for himself, and distilled some high-strength alcohol for disinfection. As for how much he could sell, it was actually not that important, so he casually asked, "How about jujube wine?"

Everyone was taken aback, then shook their heads, this name is too vulgar, not worthy of such a good wine.

Zhang Wu couldn't help but said: "Then it's better to call it Erguozi, at least it's better than burning Guozi."

Erguzi?
Zhen Wu's eyes suddenly lit up, and a name came to mind, he pondered for a moment and said: "You said that, I think of a good name, we burned two pots and drank the first wine, why not call it Erguotou Bar."

what?
The name isn't much better either.

Just as vulgar.

However, Zhen Wu was very serious.

"Believe me, this name is amazing. It can definitely be heard in Beiping City for hundreds of years without losing its momentum."

can you?

The others thought about the wine and gained some confidence.

But they really don't like the name very much.

But Zhen Wu was very satisfied.

This accidental becoming the founder of Erguotou is embarrassing enough to say.

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