After drinking the wine made by Li Chongjiu, Yinghefu asked in shock: "Khan, I have never drunk such a mellow and good wine in my life on the grassland. Compared with the wine I used to drink, it was like a horse's urine. I wonder if Khan could give me several jars?"

It is too exaggerated to say that horse pee is such an adjective. But Ying Hefu licked his mouth, obviously speaking the truth.

Li Chongjiu smiled. This was a fine wine made by distillation, of course, was much higher in alcohol than the wines of this era. He had drunk horse milk wine on the grassland, but had a very strong alcohol content, but the taste was extremely poor. However, the wine brewed by the Han people had a little mellow taste, but because of the low alcohol content, for grassland people who are used to drinking strong wine, such wine was not enough to resist the wind and cold, so they didn't like to drink it.

The wine after distillation can definitely meet the needs of the herdsmen on the grassland. From then on, in addition to selling silk and tea to foreigners, there is also this mellow wine.

After hearing Ying Hefu's words, Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "Anyway, it's unnecessary, just take thirty oaks and leave."

Ying Hefu couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately started drinking with a small jar of wine.

"Khan, this wine has no lees, and does not require filtration. It is comparable to the Sanle pulp of the Western Regions. I wonder how much it is worth than ordinary wine?" Wen Yanbo also took a sip, and smiled immediately, obviously very satisfied.

Li Chongjiu said: "It's only a little more expensive than ordinary wine, but it's much cheaper than Sanle Juice."

Wen Yanbo's eyes lit up and said, "This is a great benefit to my Huaihuang Town. The good wines of foreigners are famous. If you can win over this wine, it will be unfavorable. It can also increase the power of my Huaihuang Town."

Li Chongjiu agreed with Wen Yanbo's point of view. From the reaction of Ying Hefu just now, we can see that as long as you drink distilled liquor, the good liquor will never drink the horse milk wine again. This will not only make a lot of money. For the grassland people, Huaihuang and Yuyi Towns have even stronger status.

You should know that in the late Qing Dynasty, the trust and Dashengkui Store, which were monopolized on the grasslands, had the best sales of tea bricks, silk and camel head wine.

Li Chongjiu turned his head and said to the craftsman in charge of the winery: "In the future, we will produce this wine in large quantities. Remember the secret method of brewing wine. It must be kept strictly confidential and should not be passed on to outsiders. If one day, I find that others also have this wine, I will not let you go first."

The craftsman said in fear and fear: "I hope that everything that obeys the envoy will never reveal the method of making this wine."

Wen Yanbo smiled and said, "I dare to ask the envoy why he is named after this wine?"

Li Chongjiu thought for a while and said, "It's called Huaihuang Bar. From then on, the people on the grassland will know about this wine."

Now he was a craftsman to take the order. Li Chongjiu decided to set up three major wineries in Huaihuang, Yuyi and Jixian, specializing in brewing this distilled liquor.

In addition to the official brewing and distilling of liquor, Li Chongjiu decided to release the order of liquor. The so-called liquor was officially implemented since the Qin and Han Dynasties. Because liquor has always been a business of huge profits. Therefore, the officials of the Sui Dynasty established liquor shops to collect profits and strictly ordered private brewers to be guilty of guilt.

However, the official wine shop is just like modern state-owned enterprises, and there are too many disadvantages. The price of wine is inflated and ordinary people cannot afford it. Li Chongjiu wants to sell the wine to the grassland foreigners in exchange for cattle, sheep and horses, and the price cannot be too high. Otherwise, no matter how good the wine is, the foreigners cannot afford it.

Li Chongjiu decided to relax the official business of the winery and allow Lin Dangfeng and others to support Li Chongjiu and other five chambers of commerce to jointly make private wine. However, Li Chongjiu paid taxes on the wine and music courses of the five chambers of commerce, which was also considered a rich asset.

However, Li Chongjiu was just about to let go of the order of drinking, but he was unanimously opposed by Ji Chuan, Liu Yi, Zhou Xu, and others, and even Wei Zheng also wrote a letter to oppose it.

The reason for their opposition was clearly stated in Wei Zheng's letter that when Qin Shangyang's reforms were made, the price of wine was ten times the cost. Qin law also banned the use of surplus grain to make wine for sale. Wei Zheng was worried that the wine industry would be huge profits, and he was afraid that merchants would take surplus grain to make wine, which led to an increase in the price of private grain.

As for now, due to the war, the grain prices in the northern land have always been very high. Although Huaihuang Town and Yuyi Town have been good in the past two years, they are only enough to supply Shanggu County. As for Zhuo County, it has a large population of 90,000 households, and many people cannot afford food and clothing.

In the third year of Daye, during the prosperous period of the Sui Dynasty, the price of grain in the eastern capital was only five cents per dou, and the price of grain in the northern part was only six cents per dou. Now, the price of grain in Ji County has never been less than fifty cents per dou since last year. The people suffer so much, but the price of grain is relatively much better than that of other counties.

For example, Dongdu, which is now surrounded by Li Mi, has reached a terrifying level of grain, with a thousand coins per bull, and there is no market price. The reason why the price of grain is so expensive is that in addition to the large population of Dongdu and shortage of food, there are many wealthy families in the Dongdu, who are willing to pay for rice.

Moreover, Li Chongjiu also heard that Bing Yuanzhen, under Li Mi's command, privately sold military rations to the Dongdu for money because he was greedy for this huge profit. After Li Mi heard this, he actually tacitly agreed to Bing Yuanzhen's move.

Li Chongjiu did not agree with Li Mi's short-sighted approach, but on the other hand, he also believed that the prices of grain are so high in the world and Zhuo County now. If they were used to make wine, there would indeed be merchants who used grain to make wine in order to seek huge profits. Therefore, the concerns of the civil officials under Li Chongjiu were also reasonable. If the people relaxed the wine industry, the prices of grain would further increase.

Li Chongjiu insisted on his own opinion. He wrote back to the civil officials, saying that several large wineries would hire the poor people in Zhuo County as a career, so that they could make more than a thousand people live. As for the purpose of stabilizing the grain prices, Li Chongjiu decided to set up an official grain shop in each county in Zhuo County.

The official grain shops were drawn from the grain silos of Zhuojun and sold grain at a dou of 50 coins per dou to stabilize the grain prices on the market.

Seeing Li Chongjiu's persistence, Wei Zheng said again now that in ancient times, he cultivated for three years and accumulated for one year, and had three years of storage for nine years. However, people had no vegetables. All of them were advised to make good preparations and reserved for the first time. Although there are many granaries in Zhuo County, they cannot sit in the empty house.

You can restore the military camps and let the soldiers solve their own food. You will not draw grain from the Zhuo County granary. You will build another charity warehouse in Zhuo County, which is specially used for future waste preparations. If you encounter any natural disaster, you will be prepared.

When Li Chongjiu saw Wei Zhengzhixin, he thought he was very reasonable, whether it was the wine industry or the strong army, it was in conflict with his own general policy of winning over the grassland and emphasizing the hearts of the foreigners with his might, so he decided to put it aside for the time being.

But no matter what, Li Chongjiu's major wine industry plan was completed. At the same time, in order to encourage commercial circulation, Li Chongjiu also abolished the municipal tax.

The so-called municipal tax means that those who enter the market are taxed one cent. The municipal tax was implemented since the Northern Wei Dynasty and was temporarily abolished in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. However, the imperial court could not withstand the temptation of this tax, so it was restored and the cities in Zhuo County have been implemented.

This is mainly for ordinary people. In the era when cities were divided into cities and fangs, fangs were the place where people lived, and the market was the need for shopping. It was like when you went to a store to shop or sell goods, whether you bought or not, sold, or not, you had to pay a tax of one chunk as long as you entered the door.

In the eyes of modern people, this is very unscientific. Now everyone knows that only when the people spend money can they promote economic growth. Such restrictions on people entering the market for consumption and shopping will kill chickens and get eggs.

Therefore, whether it is a private winery or abolishing the store tax, after all, Li Chongjiu wants to support Lin Dangfeng, Liu Cheng'an and others as local merchants in Zhuo County. The private winery and distilling the liquor shop are to win over foreigners, while the official grain shops and abolishing the store tax are to benefit the people and facilitate people's livelihood.

However, although these three have long-term benefits, the short-term disadvantages are very obvious. For Li Chongjiu, it is insufficient food and grass and its fiscal revenue declines. Li Chongjiu suddenly discovered that after he attacked Zhuojun, he spent money faster than before. The foreign army on the grassland had to give benefits, not to mention that he had just given a large amount of supplies.

Therefore, Li Chongjiu had to find a way to get money and grain. If he could not save money, he had to increase the source of money and grain. Otherwise, the money and grain would be at the bottom at the end of the year at the current consumption rate, and civil servants like Wei Zheng would be enough to annoy him to death.

So where did you get money? The emerging merchants in Zhuo County are not good. Withdrawing money from them now will definitely destroy the harmonious relationship between the two sides. What's more, Li Chongjiu will have to vigorously support them in the future.

As for the gentry in Zhuo County, they monopolized local resources and locked the money tightly. They asked them to expose a little bit of money and grain from their fingers. That was no wonder. In the end, the people of Zhuo County were so poor that they tightened their belts, let alone.

Then it doesn't work inside. As the saying goes, you need to rob yourself to get rich. Nomadic cavalry is best at robbing. As the saying goes, come and go like the wind, Li Chongjiu can play the advantages of his cavalry. If he doesn't work inside, he will move to the outside. Among the forces around Li Chongjiu.

Luo Yi, the two counties of Beiping and Yuyang, where Gaokaidao, were not good at managing the local area, and made them poorer than Zhuo County. If they captured their territory and failed to grab anything, they would have enough to settle the people of the two counties to defeat Li Chongjiu.

Dou Jiande from the south is still an ally and cannot afford to offend him.

As for the grassland tribes in the north, such as the Khitan, to be honest, there is nothing to rob. The Khitan is different from the King of the King of the King of the Wuhou. After the defeat of Qinshui in Wuhou, he has never recovered and his life has been hard. Moreover, it is about to be spring, and the cattle, sheep and horses have just passed the winter, so they are not robbed and raised. If they kill, they don’t have a few taels of meat. They can only cook soup and eat bones.

So after counting, only the Goguryeo people around him who are also farming people.

Last year, Li Chongjiu broke the Gaimu City of Goguryeo, causing Goguryeo to break a gap in the defense circle of Liaodong. However, the people of Goguryeo remained the same and sent light cavalry to cross the Liao River several times to fight to western Liaoning, and the enemy in Liaodong County was raided.
Chapter completed!