Chapter 1595 Burning Qu

Even Su You couldn't help but sigh: "If Xin Niang were a man, she would be more than enough to be the prefect of a county. By the way, the late emperor gave your family a plaque saying 'loyalty, filial piety and integrity'. Why didn't I see it this time?"

Xin Niang said: "The late emperor's reward is not for showing off. I was afraid that my children and grandchildren would show off with it and not want to make progress, so I hid it and couldn't even see them until they reached adulthood."

Su You thought of the family temple built by Zhao Xuci in Kelongli, and couldn't help but feel in awe: "Clear sense of justice, humble and open-minded. In this section, even my Su family can't keep up with Xin Niang, it's really admirable."

Xin Niang said with a smile: "The minister is just joking. If the Wu family can build a family temple one day, the plaque awarded by the late emperor will definitely be hung in it."

Su You then asked: "Where are the other children in the family?"

Xin Niang said: "They were studying in Xiangzhou, and many new species and machinery in Zhuangzi were introduced from there."

Su You asked: "A member of the Han family? I am familiar with their family. If you need me to write a letter to introduce you or something, Mother Xin can just ask."

Xin Niang smiled and said: "If there is a need, Xin Niang will not come out, and she will definitely go to the trouble of envoys."

Even though he said this, his tone was actually full of confidence, like the old Versailles.

This attracted Su You's idea, and he went back to prepare to inquire with Han Chunyan about the situation of the second and third children in Xin's family.

After everything was understood, the banquet began. Wu Cunzhi knew Su You's hobbies, so he didn't kill the sheep or cows, but just let go of a big fat pig. The rest were chickens, ducks and fish, and gave Su You a village banquet.

During the dinner, Su You talked about the topic of rural economic circulation and said to Xin Niang: "I admire the development of Wujiazhuang, but now it has reached a critical point. I think so, Xin Niang, why don't you build a dock in Zhanghe River

, how many more ships will be built?”

"If Wujiazhuang can be built into a thoroughfare, it will become a commodity distribution center in the future, and Wujiazhuang will definitely become more prosperous."

Xin Niang was a little embarrassed: "The Prime Minister's idea is certainly correct, but there is nothing special about Wujiazhuang. If it wants to become a thoroughfare, it must have something that attracts people to come here."

Su You smiled and said: "It turns out that Xin Niang has already considered this, so that's just right. I came here this time to bring an industry to Zhuangzi and solve the problem that Xin Niang raised just now."

Xin Niang knew that Su You was capable of making pottery and Zhu. As long as Tanhua Lang said he could do it, it would usually be an industry that turned stone into gold.

Moreover, Su You has always been extremely generous. He doesn't know how to make money by giving away a lot, so he can't help but secretly rejoice: "I wonder what kind of business the envoy wants us to build in Wujiazhuang?"

Su You said: "Use sweet potatoes to make wine, and let's make sweet potato roast!"

Wu Cunzhi is a martial artist, so he is good at this. When he heard this, he immediately agreed: "This is good! Just do this!"

Xin Niang couldn't help but said angrily: "I took advantage of you, right?!"

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Theoretically speaking, any substance rich in starch can produce alcohol through anaerobic respiration under the action of yeast, but this is only a principle. There are still many skills to make a good wine with a sweet flavor.

Generally speaking, sweet potatoes are not as good as traditional wine-making grains.

However, in the village where Suyou was located, the red potato shochu produced by several wineries was also quite good.

The secret lies in the medicine.

Compared with the koji medicine used in the countryside of central Sichuan and the koji medicine used in the northern countryside, the black medicine in central Sichuan contains a variety of spices, and the koji wine produced will have a much richer aroma than the purely dry-cooked wine in the north.

After dinner, the things that came with the ship were settled, including a camel machine, a multi-purpose power conversion equipment, a mill, and several huge Cizhou kiln pottery jars.

In addition, there is a saw table.

The advantage of the pot machine is that it can use any fuel and can be operated as long as the water can be boiled. It is especially suitable for rural areas.

The location of the winery was chosen by a stream not far from the Zhang River for easy access to water.

Now is the season for harvesting sweet potatoes. Su You asked Li Zheng from each township to go back and say hello. He wants to harvest 30,000 catties of sweet potatoes and 20,000 catties of corn. The sweet potatoes will cost three hundred coins per stone and the corn will cost four hundred coins per stone.

The price is only half of that of wheat and rice. The reason why it is so unpopular with the market and farmers is mainly because the preservation of these two items is really a big problem for farmers.

Fresh sweet potatoes are generally stored in piles and can only be stored for up to half a year before they sprout and become empty in spring.

If you want to extend the storage time, you have to cut the sweet potatoes into slices and dry them into dried sweet potatoes, but that will consume a lot of manpower.

Corn is even more annoying because the embryo is huge and fat accumulates, making it very easy to go rancid and moldy. Generally, the seeds are stored on the eaves for ventilation and the grain is stored in piles. It only lasts a year in a farmhouse.

Compared with three to four years for rice and wheat, six to seven years for sorghum, and ten years for millet, the ability to resist risks is too poor.

The reason why Su You asked the court to collect corn for tax purposes is because the output of corn in the country is not high and the price is cheap. The corn harvested every year can be used as feed for the booming animal husbandry industry to ensure that it can be consumed in time.

Let go of this hole.

However, this price has already made the people in several villages in Feixiang extremely happy.

Nowadays, although food and clothing are provided, and every household has grain stores and pigs and sheep, there are really not many treasures.

Tanhualang's price was real. The purchase price he brought was the price he had found out from the grain merchants in Daming Prefecture, but he forgot to deduct the freight, and everyone was too happy not to tell him.

However, the common people also forgot that when Tanhua Lang said hello, everyone worked together to bury the large pottery jar he brought in the soil and built a wine shed on it. Tanhua Lang did not intend to pay them any wages.

Although there are saws for cutting wood, manpower is still needed for tying straw to lay the roof and build the stove.

However, Su You gathered all the women in Zhuangzi and gave each of them a planing knife brought from Daming Mansion, which could be used to peel sweet potatoes. The wages were a hundred cents a day.

Su You always does things grandly. The stove is a Xiaolong stove with ten burners, which can steam ten large pots at a time.

Theoretically, the smaller the material particles, the faster the contact time between the material and yeast, the faster the fermentation, and the higher the output.

But that is a method of producing alcohol, but not a method of producing fine wine. Because the materials are too fine, according to the processing methods in rural areas, the heat will be mushy if the heat is not controlled well, and it is easy to over-ferment, resulting in sourness and bitterness.

appears, affecting the quality of the wine.

In fact, the process is quite difficult to master.

Fortunately, Suyou has the help of various instruments and meters.

Heat up the pot machine, turn on the grinder, throw the peeled and steamed sweet potatoes into it, and connect a thin water pipe to let in water, and the sweet potato pulp will flow out from the outlet.

The slurry is placed on a large tinplate plate and placed in a steamer on top of the pot for secondary sterilization. Then it is cooled to about 38 degrees, poured into a pottery jar half buried in the ground, and then poured into the pre-ground koji medicine.

Slurry, add water and stir evenly.

Then seal the mouth of the jar with konjac glue film, tie it tightly with hemp rope, and pile wheat straw around the jar to keep it warm for fermentation.

If the temperature rises too fast, cooling measures must be taken, and then stir once a day to ensure a uniform fermentation process.

This method is a rapid preparation process. Su You was just demonstrating it to Wu Cunzhi and Xin Niang, telling them that this method can be used in the winery, but if the technology is not up to standard, it is best to use granular materials, which is the traditional method of mixing sweet potato dices with koji medicine.

brewing method, the effect will be even better.

Sweet potato itself has a high sugar content, and Suyou uses a quasi-industrial method. The fermentation process is much faster than traditional folk crafts, from six to ten days to three days.

After three days, the wine can be steamed. Because it is a slurry, a softening agent must be added to allow the steam to fully exert its effect.

The loosening agent is straw, bran, rice husk, grain distiller's grains and the like. After fully stirring with the wine slurry, put it in the pot, cover the condenser and the wine can be produced.

The yield of this method is much higher than that of the traditional method. For a master like Su You, fifty pounds of sweet potatoes can produce eighteen pounds of wine of about 50 degrees.

Fifty thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes and corns, using 150 kilograms of su oil, plus one hundred kilograms of koji medicine, firewood, etc., with a cost of 250 kilograms, 18,000 kilograms of Shaoqu was brewed.

The selling price of Dong Fei's Shao Dao in Hebei is 500 Wen per dou. Even if Shaoqu is cheaper, at 400 Wen per dou, 18,000 kilograms is still worth more than 700 guan.

The flavor of the newly produced koji was not the best, so Su You only took 300 kilograms to reward the villagers who came to help, added koji medicine into the pottery jar, poured in the rest of the koji, and continued to store and seal it all.
Chapter completed!