Chapter Thirty: Outside the long pavilion, liquor causes trouble
After they went out, they started talking to everyone they met. Inside the inn, a batch of wine came, and the wine actually cost one hundred taels a jar.
It's ridiculously expensive. You have to know that a poor person these days can live a comfortable life with only four taels of silver a year for a family of four.
And for one hundred taels, only a rich person can afford to drink it.
When everyone asked him how the drink was, the man fell into deep thought. That bowl of wine was so memorable.
But he couldn't afford to drink, so he could only turn around and leave without saying anything.
As the number of such people increased, the reputation of the inn's drinks spread far and wide, and soon the entire Xiami County heard about it.
Someone shouted, "What is this 100-liang jar of wine made of? I'm afraid it's not worth so much money if it's soaked in gold."
Some people are very curious.
There were naturally a lot of scholars in the Tang Dynasty, especially after Emperor Wu abolished the imperial examinations for aristocratic families, there were even more scholars.
There are many scholars who are rich, and some who have no money naturally have to make a fool of themselves and pretend to be fat.
Often when these three or five people get together, there must be wind and flowers, snow and moon, beauties, and wine.
When a scholar wearing a light blue gown on the street heard about this, he immediately laughed and said: "Let's go and tell my second brother that there is good wine."
"Master, this expensive wine may not be good." The old servant beside him reminded me.
But the scholar pushed him and said, "You dare to charge me a hundred taels of silver if it doesn't taste good? I'll demolish his shop!"
This scene is everywhere. For these scholars, it doesn't matter whether the drinks are expensive or not. What's important is curiosity. Why are you so expensive in this remote country? Naturally, you should go and see it.
As I went back and forth, many scholars came to the inn, saying hello in groups.
"Brother Chen didn't expect you to come too?"
"Brother Liu, long time no see, what should I say this time?"
"Hahaha, I will definitely be on the gold list this time."
A group of people greeted each other with smiles and asked the waiter to start ordering.
Tang Yingcai, who was behind the counter, wiped the sweat from his forehead. One was excited, and the other was scared.
Even though these are just weak scholars, the pens in these people's hands are more powerful than the swords.
What kind of scholars are they? These people are simply like me. It’s like what County Magistrate Li said, the customer is God. Although I don’t know what God is, I think he should be similar to me, right?
If these people are good at serving you, then the wine will naturally be easier to sell if you publicize it. If you don't serve well, you can criticize yourself and go out of business.
Tang Yingcai hurriedly called on everyone to help.
In an instant, it was like a war inside the inn, and the kitchen almost ran out of ingredients.
And Tang Yingcai also went to the battle in person to serve tea and water to these gentlemen.
After waiting for half an hour, he slowly came up, and Tang Yingcai also moved the drinks over. These second-generation ancestors were not just a table and a jar of wine.
But one person and one jar of wine!
One of them was still shouting: "Who can drink with this amount? One more jar! I mean one jar per person! Let the people next door see it and think we can't afford it."
Tang Yingcai hurriedly brought in three or five jars of wine.
And he knew this wealthy man, he was naturally the second young master of the Liu family who was well-known in this county.
Although he was smart since he was a child, he was idle and idle all day long. It is said that this guy lost eight teachers in one year, which gave the head of the Liu family a headache.
"Let me tell you, if your wine is not good, I will destroy your shop and force you to report to the government." Master Liu put one leg on the chair and picked up a chopstick of food.
Said: "Did you hear that?"
"Yes, yes." Tang Yingcai said with a smile: "If it doesn't taste good, I'll let Mr. Liu handle it."
Young Master Liu glanced at him, picked up a jar of wine, opened it and looked up instantly.
But he didn't say anything, but took the empty bowl and poured a bowl of wine into it.
Then he lifted it up with his palm in a strange movement and shook it slightly. Looking at the hops in the bowl, Tang Yingcai was also stunned.
These people are better at drinking than he is.
Just look at the wine in Mr. Liu's hand spinning, and the hops linger for a long time, running wildly in the bowl like a white dragon.
At this time, Liu Shaocai asked about his seriousness and said to Tang Yingcai: "Take off the lid and smell the fragrance. When you raise your hand, you can see the shadow of the dragon. Your drink is good."
Tang Yingcai was overjoyed. Mr. Liu had a very high status in the circle of scholars. If he nodded, he would naturally have no worries about selling his wine.
But as soon as he finished speaking, he heard Master Liu say: "However, taste determines everything."
Tang Yingcai watched carefully and saw Young Master Liu taking a sip of wine, twisting it in his mouth slowly and then swallowing it slowly.
This is the pre-taste, and then you take a big sip and swallow it as if you were swallowing a jujube. You close your eyes and your lips tremble slightly. This is the after-taste.
After a long time, Mr. Liu opened his eyes and said: "Okay! Good! Good! Good wine!"
Only then did Tang Yingcai feel relieved.
A lot of this happened throughout the afternoon, but they were all impressed by the drink.
After all, what good wine-making techniques could there be during the Tang Dynasty?
Didn’t Du Kang learn and improve from generation to generation?
Although he is busy, Tang Yingcai is happy.
Even before it gets dark, a hundred bottles of wine have been sold out, and the food in the store has also been sold out.
Many people are a little unhappy.
When they left, they all told Tang Yingcai to prepare more drinks tomorrow. Some even wanted to take them back to give their father a taste, but there was nothing they could do if they didn't have any.
After Tang Yingcai watched the last guest leave, he immediately shouted: "Close the door! Settlement!"
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On the river embankment, Jiang Yang could see that the embankment was rising almost at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the settlements in the new rural areas had also been dug out.
There is no way, there are too many people!
Jiang Yang also called Ma Feng over and asked him to take a closer look and teach him something.
That's efficiency.
For a river embankment that is under construction, it is enough to invest fifty people from carpenters, workers, transporters, and diggers, and let the remaining people work effectively on the construction.
Otherwise, fifty people can build ten meters a day, and five hundred people can build ten meters a day, which greatly slows down work efficiency.
When Ma Feng asked him how to solve the problem, Jiang Yang proposed multiple sections of construction at the same time. For example, there is currently a construction site 500 meters back on the river embankment, and there are other places on both sides of the river embankment.
Bring up efficiency.
Jiang Yang talked about reclaiming wasteland and how to improve efficiency in new rural areas, leaving Ma Feng to figure it out on his own.
It can be regarded as a training. The master leads you in, and the cultivation is up to you.
After finishing speaking, Jiang Yang saw that it was getting dark, so he started to walk back. He was also anxious to know the status of the drinks today.