Section 153 Business (II)

In the next few days, under the guidance of Shen Fan, several identical courtyards were built along Huifu Street on the wasteland next to Zi Zhenzhai. The courtyard walls were towering and the courtyard gates were closed. Inside were rows of standard brick and wood structure factories. The wineries were first put into production. The distilled liquor technology in the Ming Dynasty was mature, and there were many wineries in urban and rural areas, producing various famous wines and low-priced earthen firewood.

Guo Yi did not plan to start brewing wine from grain fermentation at the beginning. According to Wu Nanhai's wine industry development plan, the winemaking industry will only start after a large amount of sweet potatoes and sugarcane harvest. The cost of buying grain directly in Guangzhou is too high: there are many processes, and the water used for brewing wine and koji have certain technical requirements, which is quite troublesome. Moreover, the process of brewing will involve the transportation of large amounts of grain and the handling of wine lees - generally traditional wineries often come with pigs, so that they can handle a large amount of wine lees. Guo Yi did not plan to open a pig farm in Guangzhou.

Therefore, they adopted the method of distilling soil and stew. This kind of liquor is everywhere in the country, with simple technology, low price, and large batches. After purchasing soil and stew, it is secondary distilled to remove impurities in soil and purify the wine, increase the alcohol, and then make high-end products. In fact, many modern famous liquors are also made by purchasing large amounts of base wine from small distillery and then blending. Compared with this winery with the best time and space, Shijiezhong also has the advantages of quantifiable quality system standards, modern monitoring equipment and extremely efficient distillation equipment.

The distillation equipment was disassembled in Linggao after being manufactured by the mechanical department and then transported to Guangzhou by Dengyingzhou. The distillation is made of pig iron, tin and wood. This kind of distillation is much better in efficiency than all the same-simultaneous distillations. It no longer uses direct heating. It is equipped with a small boiler that travels through a type of one type - a very simple normal pressure boiler made of pig iron and oil barrels, producing water steam to indirectly heat the snake-shaped tube. After such distillation, the soil finally produces a kind of high-spirited wine that is as clear as water and inlet like fire. Due to the second or even three distillations, the smell of various crepes almost completely disappeared, leaving a pure taste.

Hundreds of small flat wine bottles were shipped at the same time as the distiller. The bottles had been labeled with printed trademarks - the above is a woodcut picture of the military uniform of the Han general, and the seal Chinese character "National Shi Wushuang" printed below, and the following is marked with small simplified Chinese characters. The bottom of the trademark is: Zichengji Honorary Production. Finally, there is a volume nominal on the trademark: 250 ml. This seemingly unnecessary approach was proposed by Xiao Zishan: the promotion of new weights and measures, and the promotion of Arabic numerals should be "silent and silent". Many new generations of time-travel countries that grew up later learned about the simplified Chinese characters, Arabic numerals and weights and measures for the first time from the various "time-travel goods" packaging that year.

After the wine came out, after several winemakers tasted it, they all felt that it was more mellow than the various earthen pots on the market, but compared to the best white wine, it was only comparable to those of the best white wines, and it was not particularly mellow. Some winemakers regretfully said that with such a good steamer, he could make music by himself, and then find good water to make it the best in Guangdong Province. Guo Yi smiled but did not answer - Zichengji's wine was not in the wine itself, but in the glass bottle - Guo Yi was going to take the high-profit gift box route. He ordered people to bottle the wine and seal it for use - the first batch of wine was very small, and it would be used as a gift to the person when the business opened.

Chen Fan customized more than 100 gift boxes in a local lacquer shop, lined with brocade. Each box contains two bottles of wine and two glass wine glasses. This idea was plagiarized from the wine gift boxes of this time and space. It was definitely an unprecedented creativity in the Ming Dynasty. Even the shopkeeper Shen was amazed and said that the owner was really a big deal.

However, Guo Yi lamented the exquisiteness of traditional Chinese handicrafts, the exquisiteness of these lacquer boxes and the gorgeous decorations, which he had never seen before. As the shopkeeper Shen said, this was not a top-notch work, but just a batch of goods.

In the first month of the second year of Chongzhen, Guangzhou advanced stations were busier than Linggao, and it was not easy for anyone to open three fonts. Guo Yi took Manager Chen, Sun Chang and others out to visit customers every day, and visited every aspect - they were just a matter of new arrivals, and the courtesy was very important. Every place they went, according to the other party's identity, they gave different gifts. Liang Cunhou's family, who had given famous posts on the market, also visited them specially. Mr. Liang was very happy to see his business opening. In addition to receiving the gift, he also gave his own homemade roast wax. The intimate relationship between Guo Dongzhu and Mr. Liang made Mr. Shen overjoyed:

"The boss has a good method and actually got to know Mr. Liang." Old Manager Shen praised quietly.

"Is Mr. Liang very famous?" Guo Yi heard Liu Gang say: Mr. Liang is a child of a noble family. He is just a polite and generous person.

"Don't you know?" Chen Fan was a little surprised. "This young master Liang Cunhou is the legitimate grandson of Liang Renpu, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. His father served as two prefects. He himself had a juren. He was a famous official and gentry family in the local area."

The old shopkeeper Shen said that the Liang family claimed to be a family heir of poetry and rituals and never cared about things like jewelry and toys, and they may not be able to do business in their family. However, his family has a deep foundation in the local area and has many benefits if they make friends.

"Let's make friends with him more in the future." Guo Yi responded casually, and suddenly thought of a question, "Do you know all the officials, gentry, and wealthy people in Guangzhou?"

"Eight or nine out of ten." Chen Fan was quite content.

"I will write it all when I go back. I want to know all the officials in Guangzhou City-"

Chen Fan laughed: "What's the difficulty? You'll know if you send someone to a bookstore to buy a book called "The Gentleman". From the Grand Secretary to the Ming Dynasty, there are all officials."

"There is such a book?" Guo Yi was still a little surprised. Don't say it. In the original time and space, the book "Civil Servants List of the People's Republic of China" definitely did not exist - even if there is one, it will not be sold publicly.

"Dongmaster, I'll send someone to buy it now."

"No hurry," Guo Yi thought that the intelligence information team originally asked the dispatch station to collect the situation of officials in Guangdong. He still thought it was a huge project, but now it seems that it is not complicated - the information is sold publicly.

"Are there any more detailed ones? For example, those who used to be officials but are not now, but still have a lot of power-"

"There are also this, the "Records of the Gentlemen" in this province."

"Okay, you'll send someone to buy all these books later. Yes," he thought, "I want to get the news."

"It's not difficult. Just find a yamen to copy it out. But what is Dongzhu doing?" Chen Fan felt strange. He wanted the "Jingen Relic" to be useful for business. The court reports were all memorials from the court, and no one would read them except those who were interested in being officials.

"The movements of the court are also very important to us. Who knows what the court has for maritime trade?"

Chen Fan thought this was right. Most of the goods of the boss were from sea. If the court strictly prohibited sea trade, it would be a big blow to the boss. However, as long as this kind of news is connected with the yamen's books, the master and even the small officials, they will be very angry. When they see the news leaked in time, there is no need to spend time copying newspapers, right? But since the boss said it, it will be done, and it is not difficult anyway.

"Mr. Li, who handles the manuscripts in the Governor's Office, is very familiar with me. I would like to give him some benefits."

"You just do this. Just report it to me directly for how much money you have to spend. Don't spend it on the counter." According to the notice from the Economic and Financial Committee, the intelligence fee of the dispatch station can no longer be distributed in the operating expenses of opening a shop, and it must be established and managed to calculate it separately. This made Guo Yi very impressed: In terms of favor expenses, it is difficult to accurately distinguish whether it is for intelligence or for business, which is mostly both. Finally, after discussion, it was decided to count all favor expenses in intelligence fees.

"Yes, the boss."

Back to Zizhenzhai, the decoration of the shop is coming to an end. In order to avoid any shocking discussion, the decoration is still a more traditional method. There are three large shops along the street, square brick floor, grinding bricks, and the blue brick walls with grinding bricks are not coated with lime, wooden lattice strips are suspended, four large red palace gauze lanterns are hung, and there are also a row of small glass lamps bought from Yiwu. Surrounded by purple wood corridors, the hall is surrounded by poems and paintings of famous local masters, with different styles and appearing luxurious and religious. When you look closely, the author is either a local family or a ruling official. The three big characters "Zizhenzhai" hanging in the middle of the hall are also the most popular under Wang Zunde, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. The staff and the Governor's Office praised the painting of Lu Yizhong's work - these three words cost Guo Yi five hundred taels of silver. There were a water-filled rosewood flower table, table, eight immortal table and official hat chair, various vases, screens, ornaments were all fine - all from the Gou family's things transported from Linggao - Dengyingzhou has recently transported a large number of such items to Guangzhou every time. One is the first to open a font and decorate the scene of the dispatch station, which can cost less money, and the other is the opportunity to sell stolen goods, so as not to pile up everywhere in the warehouse. Chen Fan was wondering: Where did so many good things come from? Don't really get them from pirates, right?

The four glass display cabinets are located on both sides of the main hall, which is very conspicuous. In order to ensure safety, Guo Yi asked someone to make an additional circle of copper railings on the outside of the large cabinet to avoid too many people watching the glass.
Chapter completed!