There is a [wine] camp in the army. This wine camp was named by Li Mengxi himself. The wine camp has a special camp flag, a special organization, a special camp and a wine storage room.

After a long time, Li Mengxi came to the wine camp again.

When Li Mengxi arrived, none of the brewers were there. Only two soldiers were still guarding the door of the wine room dutifully. When asked where everyone had gone, the soldiers said that they heard that the city had recently summoned people to work outside.

There is no work, the craftsmen are all looking for work.

But no, recently we have been collecting tree buds and digging soil to cushion the sky. There is so much work that we definitely need people.

In the yard, Li Mengxi saw that the flagpole that was erected last winter was broken, and the originally bright flag had faded and became much older. Li Mengxi immediately felt that the matter was not handled properly. He knew that the reward method

It is very useful and can stimulate production power and wisdom. However, on the contrary, if the incentive is not enough, it will inevitably lead to slackness.

The original intention of establishing the brewing camp that day was to study brewing technology and for the sake of the entire brewing industry. However, the brewing camp was ignored for such a long time and people became slack.

Suppose, from last winter to now, even if they are unable to make a large amount of wine due to lack of food, they only need to ask every now and then, and the idle brewers can feel the importance paid to them by their superiors.

If this is the case, if people's hearts are not slack, it is estimated that in the past six months, brewers will spontaneously search for brewing materials, spontaneously search for water sources, and spontaneously think of ways to prepare brewing tools after the beginning of spring.

Various military affairs, such as the blacksmith camp, the carpenter camp, the medical camp, the pottery camp, the butcher camp, and other battalions, because these battalions are always busy with business, they have not been ignored.

Such as brewers, and other craftsmen who make bows and arrows, cast copper, dye cloth, twist silk, make leather, make lacquerware, etc. Although the military attaches great importance to craftsmen, they have long been exempted from all kinds of craftsmen.

They are selected from the refugees and managed individually as a talent reserve.

However, due to various reasons, a lot of production has not been started, which has left the craftsmen with nothing to do for more than half a year.

This is a gross oversight.

Production belongs to production, and construction belongs to construction. Even if production is not started, the construction of people's hearts and their encouragement can start early.

Assuming that in the past six months, basic tasks have been assigned to all craftsmen in various industries, and they have been supervised from time to time, then it is estimated that all industries have started to take off now.

For half a year, although the bow and arrow craftsman had no production tasks, he knew that his craftsmanship was the cost of living. Even if there was no task of making a bow from the superiors, he would probably look for the wood himself and find the missing tools.

I will try my best to get it together, and even if I am afraid that my skills will be unfamiliar, I will find time to practice my skills by myself.

For other lacquerware craftsmen, dyeing craftsmen, leather craftsmen, all craftsmen, all production, it turns out that team building can be built independently from production.

It's such a pity that half a year was wasted.

It's not too late to make amends.

Li Mengxi immediately went to the Ministry of Industry and ordered that from today on, in all industries, whether they are open for production or not, the organization must be trained, the people must be inspired, and the team must be built.

After receiving the order, the officials of the Ministry of Industry immediately went to work everywhere.

Afterwards, he returned to the city lord's mansion, where Li Mengxi waited quietly.

At noon, a craftsman from a brewing camp hurried over without even bothering to wash his face.

"Military advisor, are you looking for us?" the craftsman came in and asked cautiously.

"Well," Li Mengxi nodded, stretched out his hand to invite, "sit down and talk."

The craftsman sat down anxiously.

Seeing that the craftsman's body and head were covered with dust, Li Mengxi chatted with the craftsman for a while, generally talking about whether he was busy or tired.

The craftsman chuckled, "I'm not tired! I gave you an extra steamed bun!"

Listening to his tone, it was obvious that he felt that eating one more steamed bun after doing physical work for a while was very profitable.

Nowadays, the steamed buns in the army are made of thick flour steamed with 50% white flour and 50% bran. Although such steamed buns have a rough texture, they are much more delicious than eating bran. In addition, the steamed buns will be added with

A little salt, Sichuan pepper powder, chopped green onion and other seasonings, the taste is just right.

[To be honest, I have been using the Huanyuan app recently to read and catch up on updates. It allows me to switch between sources and read aloud with many sounds. .huanyuanapp is available for Android and Apple.]

Finally, Li Mengxi asked about the wine situation. The wine they brewed in the jar last year was sufficient.

The craftsman nodded and said, "That's enough! It's already time."

The craftsman was asked to bring wine, and the craftsman followed the order and left.

Soon, the craftsmen brought all the wine jars over, and twenty or thirty jars of wine were placed all over the room.

The craftsmen put down their drinks and were about to leave, but Li Mengxi stopped them.

After calling the messenger, "Go and ask Mr. Jian Yong to come over. Also, bring over a pile of bowls." Li Mengxi ordered.

When Jian Yong came back, he also brought back the wine bowls. Together with many brewing craftsmen, Li Mengxi ordered all the wine jars to be opened.

The wine jars were opened and wine bowls were distributed to everyone. Li Mengxi took a spoon and personally poured wine into each bowl.

He said with a smile, "Try them all and see if they taste good."

The craftsmen were flattered and thanked them profusely.

After tasting the first jar, I tasted the second jar, the third jar, the fourth jar...

After tasting the last jar, Li Mengxi asked everyone which jar of wine was best.

His original intention was to rely on the experience of the craftsmen to determine the best brewing method, but when he saw that these craftsmen were complimenting each other, they were all too humble, so everyone unanimously recommended the oldest craftsman as the best. Look.

At this point, Li Mengxi understood that this was all about human nature.

However, what Li wants is accurate data, not worldly sophistication.

Without saying anything in person, Li Mengxi followed the trend and praised the old craftsman recommended by everyone for a while, but then stopped.

After seeing the craftsmen off, Li Mengxi looked at Jian Yong in the corner. Jian Yong was holding the wine bowl and smacking his mouth, as if he was savoring the taste of the wine.

It's pitiful to say that Julu has very strict control over alcohol. Because alcohol is too scarce and has too many uses, it's impossible to let people drink it. Generally, people can't drink alcohol even if there's no big deal. Jian Yongben also likes alcohol.

But he drank only a handful of times.

"Xianhe, which of the thirty or twenty altars do you think is best?" Li Mengxi asked with a smile.

"Well, none of them are good." Jian Yong put down the wine bowl and shook his head, "It's not as good as the wine from the military medical camp."

"...You went to drink alcohol on the sly?" Li Mengxi understood the key immediately.

"Nothing...nothing!" Jian Yong's eyes dodge.

This guy must have stolen some alcohol.

The military medical camp consumes 80% of the wine. The military medical camp's alcohol control is very strict, so the control of waste wine is not so strict. But, can you drink the waste wine left over from quenching medicine...

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Li Mengxi was worried about the wine jars in the room. He didn't understand wine and didn't know how to distinguish good wine. However, the craftsmen who knew wine were too understanding of people and worldly affairs to tell the truth, while Jian Jian, who knew the truth, didn't know how to tell the truth.

Yong, Jian Yong drank a bowl of wine with one mouth, and his tongue was numb. After drinking, he couldn't distinguish the taste of the wine.

So, what are other ways to test the quality of alcohol?

When making wine, you need to consider the alcohol content, the aroma, and the color of the wine. However, if you only want to obtain the raw material alcohol, there is no need to consider the aroma of the wine.

The year is not good, and winemaking is a luxury. We should do everything we can to increase alcohol production, without worrying about aroma and so on.

But then again, it is still the same sentence, production belongs to production, and research and development belongs to research and development. It may not be necessary to produce wine with excellent taste but low alcohol content, but it is necessary to explore the brewing technology of drinking wine.

Therefore, winemaking should have two technical lines, one is the industrial model, which pursues the ultimate pursuit of alcohol output, and the other, which pursues the ultimate taste.

After finalizing the wine production technology, Li Mengxi also had a method to measure the quality of wine. Whether the wine-making method is good or not depends on whether it produces a lot of alcohol. The more alcohol output, the better the wine-making method.

Li Mengxi ordered the dozens of jars of wine placed in the room to be moved to the military medical camp, and ordered Tian Bu from the military medical camp to distill all the wine into jars and collect the wine from the jars.

The military medical camp had a sufficient number of steamers and manpower. More than an hour later, Tian Bu delivered the distilled spirits in jars.

After the distillation is completed and the alcohol extraction is completed, there is a problem. During the alcohol extraction process, due to various factors such as the size of the fire, the amount of water vapor in the final spirits will be different.

That is to say, assuming that method A can produce 100 alcohol, method B can produce 80 alcohol, and then both types of wine are distilled. As a result, type A will evaporate due to the high fire during distillation.

The wine produced by Type B has a high vapor content and a low alcohol content, while Type B produces less alcohol and preferably has a higher alcohol content.

Therefore, it should not be measured by the alcohol content, but by the total amount of alcohol.

Adding a further step of processing, using quicklime to remove the moisture in the wine, the final product is ultra-high alcohol that contains almost no water.

Finally, after comparison, the jar that produced the most alcohol was selected.

Look at the wine jar. On the wine jar, there is a label with the name of the winemaker at that time.

Li Mengxi took off the note on the wine jar and went to the brewing camp again.

From the wine camp, the craftsmen who had been working for a long time and were covered with dust and dirt came out. They talked with gusto about drinking in the City Lord's Mansion. After drinking a little bit of wine in the City Lord's Mansion, they talked about the present.

When Li Mengxi arrived, the craftsmen immediately stopped discussing and came together.

"Cui Sui, who is Cui Sui?" Li Mengxi read the note again and looked at the people in front of him.

Among the crowd, an ordinary middle-aged man walked out.

"Cui Sui, I appoint you as the chief officer of the wine camp. You will be in charge of all wine-making matters in the army. From now on, you will use your method to make wine for the army. Do you understand?"

"My lord Cui Sui, I would like to thank the military advisor." Cui Sui bowed in defeat.

Li Mengxi nodded and left. He had other things to be busy with.

After Li Mengxi left, the craftsmen in the same camp were delighted with Cui Sui, and then asked him about Cui Sui's method of brewing wine, asking him how he could make wine to win the attention of military advisors.

Cui Sui looked embarrassed. He said that the method of brewing wine was a secret that had not been passed down by his ancestors and it was not convenient for him to tell him.
To be continued...