Chapter 201 Wine takes shape
At first glance, what Hatan Junmaki said makes sense. It seems that he can't make money between buying and selling.
But this is not the case.
First of all, the Great Liao and Great Song dynasties had a good harvest last year. The general price of ordinary wine was only seven or eight cents, two or three cents less than usual. In addition, transportation was transported by large ships, and the cost was much less than land transportation. It was transported directly from the Great Song and Great Liao to Otaru City, and at most it would be the capital of fifteen copper coins per kilogram of wine.
Then there is also the sale of salt.
The Great Song and the Great Liao Kingdoms were not considered as salt shortage, but they were generally salt mixed with many debris. For example, the fine salt produced in Liuyin Harbour had such good quality tasted different from ordinary salt. Even if it was 60 cents a pound, the buyers would definitely rush to buy it.
Salt will not rot or become odorous, and it can be stored for a long time, so it is reasonable to buy good things and keep them home.
Besides, there were countless private salt dealers in the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty. They were all wealthy and had great strength and were very good at hand. In the central and western parts of the Central Plains, they were very salt-deficient. When they encountered such good fine salt, they mixed half of sea salt or miscellaneous items, and sold them to the central and western regions for 100 ounces per catty, which were very popular.
Therefore, as long as the quality of salt is good, don’t worry about whether the price is good or not. Just worry about whether you have so much fine salt to sell!
According to Hatan Jingguang's calculations, even if it is a legitimate transaction, the Hatan family can easily make nearly twice the profit. One round trip is more than 20,000 taels of gold, which has accounted for one-third of the annual business profit of the Hatan family!
The key is that this business is not difficult at all. It is not as good as those long-term transactions. You have to pay a smile and ask others for help in order to maintain annual profits.
"Brother. This business requires a long and steady flow..." Hatan Jingguang thought for a while and decided to persuade his elder brother: "You cheated them the first time, will they look for us again in the future?"
"Can they find others?" Hatan Jingcheng said disdainfully.
"Where is the Tsugu family? Where are the ferocious pirates from Echigo? And the caravans of the Great Song Kingdom?"
"Hmph! They dare to compete with me!?"
"No matter whether they dare or not, we must do things well first so that we can cooperate better in the future." Hatan Jingguang saw that his elder brother had softened and said in harmony: "I guess, at least for three to five years, the high-quality salt they produce will probably not be less than two million kilograms of kilograms of salt every year. Brother, think about it. We have always dominated this good business, isn't it better than if you cheat them and cause their rebound?"
"Uh...you said so."
Hatan Minsei thought for a while, and finally nodded solemnly: "Okay, then just add one-third of the water!"
Hatan Jingguang: “…”
Except for him who was speechless, Lu Yi Hata bowed his head and complained again: Master, you are too a profiteer!
Once the family was determined to do this business with Liuyin Harbour, the Hatan family immediately took action.
Of course, it is impossible to hide such a big thing from the Jinqing family, so Hatan Jingcheng also gave his wife's parents' family 300,000 kilograms of salt to his wife's family and his mother's family. The head of the Jinqing family, Tsugakura, quickly sent someone to send all the wine that could be plundered in his territory to the port and transported it to Heiyi Island as soon as possible.
The territory controlled by the Tsuga family and the Hatan family have at least 600,000 people in total. Although they are still very poor, they can also fill their stomachs with food, fish, and wild vegetables. If they are better every year, there will be some surplus food at home.
But ordinary people's food must be kept in the warehouse, and they are reluctant to make wine at all.
Therefore, the Hatan family and the Tsuga family combined only have 100,000 kilograms of wine, most of which are wine made from fruits, and wine made from rice and wheat, accounting for only one-quarter.
The first batch of wine was just to reassure the people of our Sanguo Village, and the following is the highlight.
Next, on the one hand, they should actively search for cheap wine on the island of Japan, and on the other hand, they should focus more energy on the richer Great Liao and Great Song countries, because the people there lived much better lives than Japan, and the wine was cheaper, and there were many.
So, in February and March, the fleets of the Hatan family and the Tsugu family kept shuttled across the sea frequently, and they moved to Otaru Castle several times. Finally, after the ice in the sea completely melted, they simply went directly to the Zengmao Harbour Port and unloaded and loaded at the simple Zengmao Harbour Port Pier.
Of course, the navy of Hatan and Tsuga wanted to come to Liuyin Harbour. However, when they came to Liuyin Harbour, they saw a very dilapidated harbor. Even the harbor pier was made of stones, which was not convenient to stay at all, so they could only choose the slightly better harbor, and we just need to send people there to stay there from time to time.
My father Lauren and I could not stay in Sapporo City forever, so after giving Sapporo City 200,000 kilograms of fine salt in advance, we turned back to Liuyin Harbour.
In fact, the one million kilograms of fine salt we claim is just a claim. Knowing that Sapporo City cannot have so much wine, will it increase your burden to bring so much?
First, we made an agreement and we exchanged in a village near Longchuan. Later, when the flowers were blooming, we moved to Zengmao Harbour, which saved the cost and energy of transporting on land again.
The two major families of Hatan and Tsukaku are worthy of being old families for hundreds of years. It took a whole month and a half to buy two million kilograms of wine. Although at least one-third of them are heavily mixed with water, overall, we are satisfied enough to have such a huge amount of gains in a hurry.
The amount of general wine is enough. Now it depends on how we use our skills to convert general wine into delicious wine.
In fact, as early as December, we had already started preparing strategies for how to make the wine taste better.
Because we only have 123 kilograms of super concentrated paste, even if we are configured from one to three hundred, it is only more than 36,000 kilograms. It is far from reaching the goal of selling in large quantities, but it will eventually reach the goal of hundreds of thousands or million kilograms.
Dad Lauren said that the mud wine cans for storing wine were very useful, so we freed up two mud wine cans brought back from the Fexin Mountains and used a mix of one to three hundred. The average quality wine was mixed, and the amount was exactly one hundred kilograms, and we buried it in the soil.
It was only fifteen days later that the wine was opened from the ground. Several old men and elders from the Imperial family immediately ran over as fast as they surpassed the young people, and said righteously that they taste the quality of the wine they blended for us.
All right.
Even though they were looking for excuses to taste fine wine, there was no doubt that the elders of the IUTi are indeed very good at tasting fine wine, so they could only take advantage of this cheapness. Hundreds of other guys who claim to be the most unparalleled wine tasting can only look at them with a small mouthful, swaying their heads and savoring the fine wine.
The elders drank a pound of fine wine before giving their thumbs up in our bad eyes, "These two cans of fine wine are more mellow and fragrant than the one-to-three hundred wines that were not stored in the cellar before, and are even close to the most powerful one-to-fifty ratio."
The ratio of 1 to 50 was just the beginning, we mixed a few pounds. The strong fragrance of the wine was so strong that even women who didn't drink would turn red when they smelled it, let alone taste it. It would definitely be a small mouthful of intoxication and coma.
Of course, the elders were lucky enough to drink that kind of wine, and now they can have such an evaluation. The absolute reason is that this wine is made of a mud wine pot that has also been buried for more than a hundred years, which is very delicious and intoxicating.
Seeing this, Dad Lauren and Master naturally drank some of them. The conclusion they came to was similar to the elders. It was indeed several times more fragrant and intoxicating than ordinary wines with one to three hundred configurations. Although even the ingredients of ordinary wines are exactly the same, the two are definitely not wines of the same level.
Next, we started to carry out subsequent blending, one to five hundred, one to eight hundred... Finally, we reached a unified one to one thousand. As long as we were kept in the mud wine jar for more than ten days, it was equivalent to high-end wines that had been stored in the cellar for several years. It was comparable to the previous one to three hundred ratio, making people unable to stop drinking.
Dad Lauren concluded that the mud wine can was stored in the cellar for hundreds or even hundreds of years, and the mud wine had long been completely smelted by the smell of alcohol. Most of the dissipated wine still remained on the can. Therefore, after putting the new wine again, the taste slowly dissolved from the can, adding to the mellow and deliciousness of the wine again.
The only thing I don’t know is when the magical effect of this mud wine jar will disappear.
But now we can't care about that much. After each jar of wine comes out, we will taste it by a dedicated person. Once the taste does not meet the requirements, we cannot be moved out and sold. We are unwilling to do things that destroy our reputation.
Because we decided on the secret recipe for mixing early and got the first batch of 100,000 kilograms of wine, we started mixing and blending.
Since there are only 100 mud wine jars, only 10,000 kilograms of fine wine can be stored every ten days, so in late March, all we have was 40,000 kilograms of mellow wine.
Seeing the continuous transport of wine from Zengmao Harbour to Sanguo Village, everyone was in a very good mood, but my mood was getting worse and worse.
The reason is very simple.
Two million kilograms of wine have come one after another, but where do we have so many magical super concentrated wine creams?
Even if it is a ratio of one to one thousand, plus a mud wine can that can be used all the time, it will take two thousand kilograms of ointment, while we only have one hundred and twenty-three kilograms, so we don’t know how far it is.
It would be great if I could find hundreds of such wine-stowing caves!
I thought with great hope.
However, this is obviously impossible, because I know that it is not easy to have such a large wine-stowed cave in a poor place like Essay Island. How could there be so many more?
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