Lord Moyu was forced to open

Chapter 263 Trade food for wine!

It didn't take long for Zhao Jun to meet the official from the Armament and Grain Storage Department in the study.

The dark study room became brighter as the lights were lit, and the shadows were constantly flickering in the lights.

"Tell me, what do you want to do with me?"

Zhao Jun sat down in his seat and asked directly.

The surname of the official in the Grain Storage Department was Fan Zheng.

Asked directly by Zhao Jun, Fan Zheng didn't try to hide it, he just cupped his hands and said, "My lord, I need your help!"

"Oh? What help?"

Zhao Jun raised his eyebrows and looked at him.

"To be precise, it should be the help of Feiyun Chamber of Commerce." Fan Zheng explained.

Then he said the reason.

"Your Majesty, you have entrusted the matter of exchanging horses to the subordinates, and the subordinates are very grateful, but the matter of trading horses with Tatars is not enough for our grain storage department alone.

And as you said before, normal winemaking takes at least a year anyway, and it is completely impossible for us to brew enough wine in the remaining four months!

So if we want to get enough wine within four months, we have to trade with Guan Nei.

Although there is a shortage of food in Guannei, a large amount of wine is still brewed every year.

Especially those cities that are entrenched by aristocratic families, there are simply countless wines brewed every year.

Xiaguan didn't intend to exchange for those good wines, as long as he could exchange for a large amount of the most common dirty wine!
But this official can't do it, you have to ask the help of the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce under your command. "

Zhao Jun immediately became interested when he heard the words, sat up straight and asked: "What do you say? Why do you want so much dirty wine?
Didn't you say that Tatars need spirits? "

Fan Zheng smiled mysteriously, first looked left and right to confirm that there were no outsiders here, and then said with a proud face: "My lord, you don't know, I have discovered a secret method that can turn dirty wine into strong wine.

It's just that the consumption of turbid wine is relatively large.

That's why we need to exchange grain for a large amount of turbid wine first.

After the conversion of Xiaguan's secret method, ten catties of turbid wine can be turned into three catties of spirits by Xiaguan!
As long as we switch hands, we can get the spirits we need in the shortest time! "

Zhao Jun smiled, feeling amused by Fan Zheng's mysterious appearance, what kind of secret method, isn't it the distillation method?
I can guess it by myself, but Zhao Jun didn't say it, just nodded and agreed: "Yes, since you have this password, then the king can inform Yunli and ask him to cooperate with you in using food." Change wine in the pass.

But, as the king said before in the conference hall, wine is only one of the difficulties you have to face. The other difficulty is whether the Tatars are willing to trade with us under such circumstances. How do you solve it? "

Fan Zheng said confidently: "My lord, don't worry, this question is very simple. Although we and the Tatars seem to be going to war, it is a matter between us and the big tribe of the Tatars. The main force of the war is also those big tribe.

We only need to target those small Tatar tribes as our customers, and let the planning Tatars in the county find those small tribes to trade with them.

Driven by interests, even if those small tribes know that they are going to war with us, they will agree to make a deal with us. "

Zhao Jun only thought for a while before he figured out what he was thinking, and Dang even nodded in agreement.

"Okay, this king ordered Feiyun Chamber of Commerce to help you with all its strength, and I will also notify you of the naturalized Tatar tribe.

You just need to do what you said and get enough horses for my Yunzhou County, then the position of director of the grain storage department must be yours. "

With Zhao Jun's promise, Fan Zhengdang grinned happily.

"Thank you, Lord!"

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Not long after the meeting, the entire Yunzhou County became busy.

Everyone is preparing for the possible Tatar invasion in mid-September.

All kinds of logistics materials were mass-produced, and the recruitment work was carried out in the three counties of Shendu.

What surprised the officials of Yunzhou County was that in their imagination, now that life is getting better, those common people should become resistant to serving in the army, and their conscription work will become extremely difficult.

But what they didn't expect was that as soon as the news of the conscription was spread, a large number of young and middle-aged men were sent by their families to serve as soldiers for the prince.

According to these young people, the old man at home said it!
We can have the good life we ​​have now because the prince and the guards are carrying us forward.

Those of us who are ordinary people have nothing to help the prince except farming. Now the prince needs someone to resist the Tatars. If we continue to maintain this kind of life, then we will become soldiers!
Serve as a soldier for the prince!
Become those who carry the burden for everyone, and resist the Tartars for the prince and his family!

The recruitment was in full swing, and the recruiting work, which was thought to take a long time, took less than half a month to fully recruit.

One hundred thousand recruits entered the camp and started a new round of recruit training.

Here, the recruitment of new recruits went very smoothly.

Fan Zheng didn't encounter any problems here.

In the customs, food is now hard currency.

Generally, [-] catties of grain in the customs can yield [-] catties of wine, but the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce offered a price of [-] catties of grain for [-] catties of turbid wine.

Such a cheap price naturally aroused the great interest of those aristocratic families in the wine business.

One hundred catties of grain can produce a full fifty catties of turbid wine, but Feiyun Chamber of Commerce only needs [-] catties, which means that as long as they are willing to exchange, they can directly earn nearly twenty catties of turbid wine. The difference is one hundred They can earn forty catties of food!
This business is simply not too cost-effective!

In the current situation in the Song Dynasty, food is very precious. Even for their aristocratic families, the amount of wine brewed has decreased a lot in the past two years.

It is because of the lack of food.

Now that they have the opportunity to exchange the stale wine stored before for food, they are naturally willing to earn some money.

Soon, Feiyun Chamber of Commerce started trading with a large number of family firms.

A sum of food was sent out, and in exchange for a jar of dirty wine.

The aristocratic family got food, and Yunzhou County got wine, and everyone was happy.

And when the first batch of [-] catties of wine was sent back to Yunzhou County, Fan Zheng quickly turned the [-] catties of turbid wine into [-] catties of high-strength alcohol through distillation.

Then Fan Zheng went to find the naturalized Tatar tribes in the territory and asked for help.

And with Zhao Jun's greeting in advance, the patriarchs of the naturalized tribes didn't make things difficult for him, and agreed directly.

It was just a small request, that is, to ask Fan Zheng to sell them a batch of dirty wine, but they couldn't produce war horses, so they could only trade with gold, silver or cattle and sheep.

The same Tatars, although they have been naturalized, does not mean that their eating habits will change. Similarly, they are also very interested in this batch of wine.

If it weren't for the lack of horses in their hands, they would have bought this batch of wine by themselves, but now they can only look at it.

To this, Fan Zheng simply agreed.

It's just that there is a limit on the amount of spirits that can be traded to them. They can only trade up to five thousand catties, and the rest must be exchanged for war horses. After all, this batch of spirits was originally produced in exchange for war horses.

If there are no restrictions, I am afraid that these naturalized Tatar tribes can be exchanged directly.

The tribal chiefs were naturally very happy after receiving these benefits, and agreed immediately.

Soon, they used a batch of cattle, sheep, gold and silver to exchange all the amount they could exchange for a clean one.

Immediately afterwards, he kept the remaining spirits and began to arrange to find other Tatar tribes to exchange horses.

And soon, they have a goal...

(End of this chapter)