"Your Highness, there are thirteen wineries in Jingyang City. The officials bought nine wineries under the name of the royal palace. The remaining four families believe that the wines in their families are selling well and are unwilling to sell them to the royal palace."

The next day, the Qinzheng Hall.

Yu Jin placed a stack of contracts in front of Liu Jun.

Liu Jun glanced at the price above and found that the nine breweries had a total of 23,000 taels of silver.

Pushing the contract back, he said, "These contracts are kept in the Business Department."

He did not ask if he bought the winery at the cheapest price.

As the saying goes, do not doubt people, do not doubt people.

In these trivial matters, he must learn to delegate power, so that the Industry Department and the Commerce Department have their independence.

Yu Jin originally wanted to tell Liu Jun about the acquisition process to prove that he had reduced the price to a minimum.

But seeing that Liu Jun did not ask about the trade process at all, he couldn't help but feel moved.

Because this means that Liu Jun trusts him very much.

"The wine storage officer of the wine shop has sent someone to the workshop in Xinghua Garden, and the staff from the Industrial Department have signed and accepted it." Yu Jin added.

Liu Jun nodded. Today he asked Yu Jin to come and there was something important.

Making money is important, but it is even more important to keep Jingzhou, otherwise everything is just to send ammunition to the enemy.

After deciding to use the unconscience cannon, he believed that he would accidentally cause a large number of casualties to the Fuyu army.

But the premise is that he must have sufficient ammunition to pack the medicine bag.

Originally, Jingzhou's ammunition was just to meet the needs of a mesh rope gun.

Now that artillery and conscience-free cannon are available at the same time, the ammunition required has increased dramatically.

The reserves in the craftsmanship department were insufficient, so he had to buy them from other states.

"There is an important thing you need to do. After you go back, you contact the merchants in Jingzhou to buy sulfur and saltpeter from them. By the way, there is also apricotite."

Liu Jun said, while writing a handwritten order, "Take this to find Qin's account in the royal palace, he will allocate 300,000 taels of silver, each of which will be bought for 100,000 taels."

Yu Jin took the order and replied yes.

Liu Jun continued: "These things will be stored in Jingzhou in the future, and there will be other things to buy in the future. So when doing this, you borrow some people from Wang Yu and build the warehouse of the Business Department."

Yu Jin was slightly happy when he heard this. He was worried that he had nothing to do, but now he found that there was a lot of things to do.

When he was helping his father in business at home, he was so idle. Now that he had such things, he suddenly felt a surge of enthusiasm.

After giving a few more instructions, Yu Jin bowed and turned around and left.

Hu Wei said in pain: "There will be no more than 300,000 taels of silver."

"I didn't spend your money, why do you feel sorry for?" Liu Jun gave Hu Wei a blank look.

Hu Wei said: "The little slave is your highness's mansion, and the prince's mansion is your home. The little slave naturally feels sorry for your highness."

It would be fine if Hu Wei didn't say it, but when he mentioned it, he felt a little painful.

Even if you have 300,000 taels of silver or 60,000 bottles of rouge, you can't make it back.

After all, rouge also has a cost. Five taels of rouge cost at least five cents.

"War is the bottomless pit for burning money." Liu Jun sighed in his heart.

This is just gunpowder, iron ore, coal, lime, craftsmen’s monthly money, soldiers’ salary, and dead soldiers’ pensions are not big money-eating households.

Thinking of this, his scalp became numb and he could never stop making money.

After forgetting the time, he went to Xinghua Garden again in the afternoon.

As the old craftsman guaranteed, at this time, a ceramic still in the ceramic workshop had been fired.

"Your Highness, what else is wrong?" Seeing Liu Jun circling around the jar, the old craftsman was nervous, afraid that he would ruin his reputation if he didn't do it well.

Liu Jun was just checking and saw that the imitation of the ceramic was exactly the same as the ones painted, so he couldn't help but take a few more glances.

Upon hearing this, he said, "There is nothing wrong, it's very good. How dare this father-in-law ask for his surname?"

"Caomin's surname is Yin's name Ban." The old craftsman breathed a sigh of relief and bowed to answer.

"Yin Ban." Liu Jun recited silently, and he said to Liu Xuan: "I will give each participating craftsman ten taels of silver later, and Mr. Yin will give you a single 20 taels."

Liu Xuan smiled and nodded to write down.

"Thank you for your grace." Yin Ban was a little flattered and saluted with his disciples behind him.

Liu Xuan waved his hand and said, "This is what you deserve. Anyone who has made contributions to the royal palace will be generous to rewards."

Touching the white wine distiller, he said, "Brother Yin, I will have to thank you for the next period of time. Within ten days, I will want 120 such jars."

"Don't worry, Your Highness, Caomin's disciples have learned it, it's no problem." Yin Ban said.

Liu Jun nodded slightly and ordered someone to carry the distiller away.

I went on the middle road with Liu Xuan to the third row of the yard house.

"Let's draw out five houses in this row as winery." Liu Jun ordered people to put down the distiller in the first yard and said to Liu Xuan.

Liu Xuan silently recorded it when he heard this.

"Take the wine that Yu Jin sent." Liu Jun wanted to test how much the wine could be purified after distillation.

Soon, the craftsman who was arranged to go to the winery brought twenty jars of wine over.

To retreat unnecessary people, Liu Jun directed the craftsmen of the brewing shop to pour the wine into the hole outside the first jar, and then covered it with a pottery lid.

Then let someone pour water into the second jar and put a jar at the wine outlet below.

"Your Highness, do you want to burn the fire?" Liu Xuan asked when he saw that everything was ready.

Liu Jun smiled when he heard this, "No, there is something important."

In order to reduce the risk of leakage, he did not let the ceramic workshop make a complete distiller.

In other words, the current still is incomplete.

"Find a wide-mouthed pottery jar, fill it with water and stand it under the first jar." Liu Jun said to Liu Xuan.

After Liu Xuan thought for a while, he realized that Liu Jun had a hand.

However, thinking that because of his responsibilities, he knew almost all the processes, he couldn't help feeling a little stressed.

He was still scared of the last time when the merchant gave away money.

He knew that with so many secrets, the Flying Fox Guard would definitely stare at him.

So every night when he goes to bed, he forces himself to forget the manufacturing process of these goods, and reminds himself not to let go.

Otherwise, if you lose Liu Jun's trust, it will be a catastrophe for their family.

I went to find the Kuokou Clay pot in person and put it under the first jar according to Liu Jun's wishes.

Only then did the craftsman burn the fire and heat the water-filled pot below.

Soon, white air emerged from the clay pot filled with water.

The wine outlet of the second jar also dripped pure and transparent wine.

Liu Jun reached out to stick to a drop and added it, slightly satisfied.

In his experience, the wine was about thirty-eight degrees, which was about ten degrees higher than what he drank that day.

Looking at the steam rising under the first jar, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The key to distilling liquor is that you cannot use charcoal directly, because the boiling point of alcohol is 78 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees.

If it is burned directly with carbon, the water will evaporate quickly like alcohol, basically the same as without distillation.
Chapter completed!