On the second day of the welcome banquet, Baibei found Li Guan and personally proposed to retire on Shamen Island. The old pirate who had left three hundred early also asked to stay. Faced with this request, Li Guan pondered for a moment, and finally agreed.

Lin Wei expressed some concerns about this, fearing that these old pirates would suffer from the consequences of staying in Shamen Town. His main concern was his identity. After all, Shamen Town is the border garrison of the government army, and even if the pirates retreated, they would be thieves after all. If Feng Zhang and others knew about this, they might cause some unexpected things. However, Li Yan also had his own ideas. In Li Yan's view, this request from Whitebeard was actually a step to add relationship between Shamen Town and Zhendonghai. Now the two sides are good in cooperation, but after all, one side is a soldier and the other side is a thief.

Now that Baibeard and hundreds of old pirates stayed, it was tantamount to taking the initiative to keep himself as hostage in Shamen Town, so that Li Guan would not have to worry about Zhen Donghai’s disbelief. To be honest, Li Guan now needs the pirate force in Zhen Donghai. As for the future troubles discovered by Feng Zhang and Wang Jin, he is familiar with the history of the late Tang Dynasty. The war will soon be in chaos, and it is another matter for who will take care of who will be able to take care of whom.

After receiving Li Yan's approval, the Whitebeard and others immediately did it themselves, circled a large area of ​​land in the south of the new city, quickly set up a tent, and prepared to start construction of a yard of mountain and seaweed. The pirates gathered seaweed and collected mountain and stones, and were very busy.

However, Li Guan didn't have time to care about this anymore. He now had a more important thing in front of him.

That is the batch of goods shipped back from Maodao. Half of the goods worth millions are from Donghai, and one belongs to Shamen Town. Although the goods are of high value, there is a problem, that is, these are all goods, not cash. If you want to cash and then use them to maintain Shamen Town’s expenses, Li Guan still has to find a way to sell the batch of goods.

In the rows of new warehouses on Niutuozi Island, goods piled up like mountains.

Li Guan was both happy and worried when he looked at the pan. It was not easy to cash out so many goods. There were millions of goods. There were not many people who could eat them. What's more, most of these panties were sold to other foreign countries.

"General, we have formed a new caravan with King Zhao and others. Why don't we sell the goods to our caravans directly?" Zhang Hong now has to come to Niutuzi Island twice a day to see the flocs. Shamen Town now has to spend a lot of money, building cities and training troops. The last few extra money has been almost allocated. Although the merchants on the island can earn a considerable amount of money every month, it basically only once a month. Although the income from the dock seems good, it is still not worth mentioning compared to the current continuous expenses in Shamen Town.

"You can't put all the eggs in the same basket." Li Yan shook his head. Since he knew that Li Yan might be rebellious, he has already started to keep a distance from Li Yan. Although he also intends to use Li Yan, he has never heard of any king in the late Tang Dynasty making any noise. Since that is the case, there is no need to get too close to Li Yan.

Joining the merchant group by Li Junan is still of great benefit to Li Guan now, but Li Guan is unwilling to let him throw his own shit into it further. All the eggs are put into one basket, and the person carrying the basket is King Zhao. This is not good for Shamen Town.

What Li Guan thought in his heart was that it would be best to hand over this batch of goods to Zhang Yingying for processing. After all, Zhang Yingying is the queen of the sea, and her caravan is the most powerful among the three seas. But it is strange that since that farewell, he has no news about Zhang Yingying. Although he also wanted to send someone to contact him, there was no exact address in the vast sea. Where should I look for it?

The rest of the rest is a group of pirates in Zhendonghai. It is easy to get them to grab things, but it would be a bit embarrassing for them to sell things. Among the remaining people, Li Guan also knows Wang Yueying, Xiao family and Han family. However, although Wang Yueying's cloth shop is quite large, they cannot afford to eat goods like a million yuan. Li Guan always maintains a vigilance and does not want to fall too deeply with them.

"It really doesn't work. Let's do it ourselves and process it." Li Yan gritted his teeth.

Zhang Hong was puzzled: "General, what is reprocessing?"

Li Guan smiled and said, "Old Zhang, how about the Wuliangye we made last time?"

"Good wine, sweet and fragrant, I can't bear to stop drinking it." As soon as I mentioned Wuliangye, Zhang Hong couldn't help but stroke his goat beard and said with a look of aftertaste.

Seeing him like this, Li Yan couldn't help but feel funny. At this time, the wine in the Tang Dynasty was basically mainly rice wine, and most of them were green wine. The wine was full of wine lees and other things. The wine brewed was all green and so-called turbid wine. Before drinking each time, you had to sift wine. Of course, there were also white wine like Jiannan Shaochun, but the amount was not comparable to Wuliangye. Wuliangye, which was brewed with five kinds of grains, was transparent and clear, and had a very high degree of wine, can be said to have broken through the limits of many fine wines. Even after Zhang Hong, who had been yelling that he was wasting food all day, he now had to drink three small cups before going to bed.

"You said, if we took out this Wuliangye for sale on the public, do you think someone would buy it?" Li Guan asked with a smile.

When it comes to buying and selling, Zhang Hong was immediately energetic, with bright eyes, "Of course there is a market for such good wine, and there will definitely be many people rushing to buy it. When I see the wine in the world, only Jiannan Shaochun and Sanleju can be compared with it, but the first two are still much less lusty than Wuliangye." As he said that, he suddenly said with regret: "It's a pity that brewing wine consumes too much food, and the wine fermentation time is too long. Although the market is good, our food consumption is also high."

The wine brewed in Shamen Town is now all distilled liquor after distillation. One pound of fermented rice, sorghum, wheat, etc. is fermented and then distilled. It can produce about half a pound of Wuliangye wine at fifty degrees or fifty degrees, or doctor's alcohol at seventy-five degrees. However, the only biggest disadvantage is that the fermentation and brewing time is too long.

There were many kinds of wines in the Tang Dynasty, such as the Tukouchun in Xingyang, Shiwanchun in Fuping, Shaochun in Jiannan, Fushui wine in Yingzhou, Ruoxia wine in Wucheng, Lingxi wine in Lingnan, Jiuyuan wine in Yicheng, Xishi drum wine in Chang'an, Sanlejiu imported from Persia, and Malang wine imported from Dashi. Different wines are different, and the price of wine is also different. Du Fu's poems contain the words "300 green coins for Doujiu", while Li Bai also has the words "10,000 yuan for Doujiu".

Speaking of which, famous wines like Jiannan Shaochun are about Li Bai's 10,000 yuan, and a bucket of wine costs ten tons. The 300 bronze coins mentioned by Du Fu should refer to relatively ordinary wine. Ten liters per bucket is ten kilograms, which is ten kilograms. However, the Tang Dynasty only had 0.6 liters of later generations, and all one kilograms were about six kilograms in the Tang Dynasty. In fact, Jiannan Shaochun costs more than one thousand six hundred kilograms, which is two pieces of silk. Ordinary popular wine costs fifty cents per kilogram.

Wuliangye brewed on Shaman Island uses five kinds of mixed grains. One pound of five kinds of mixed grains costs only about 150 cents, but half a pound of wine can be produced. The distilled liquor of Wuliangye is better than fermented liquor like Jiannan Shaochun. Even if it is only 1,600 cents per pound, it is almost twenty times the cost of grain. This is a huge profitable industry, and the key is to increase the output.

Shamen Town lacks a good financial revenue channel. Although the two largest workshops, the island's two largest workshops, the military equipment workshops and bedding workshops are not small in scale, they can only supply the capital and need civilian use in a short period of time, and they cannot make money from production and sales to the outside world. After thinking about it, Li Guan thought that brewing is a good industry.

"Our Wuliangye is better than Jiannan Shaochun and Sanlejuice, and everyone who has drunk it praises it. You said that Jiannan Shaochun can sell Doujiu ten thousand. If we sell Doujiu twenty thousand, do you think anyone buy it?"

Zhang Hong looked surprised, "Twenty thousand yuan for wine? Isn't this the same as grabbing money? We brew a dou of wine, but it only requires ten to twelve kilograms of grain, and some technology is also required. But in terms of cost, a dou of wine costs at most two or three jin of jin, but it sells for twenty jin. Isn't this a profiteer?"

"No businessman is not businessman," Li Guan smiled and said, "We need money now, but we don't have normal output income, we don't have enough farming and hoarding fields, and we have no capital to do business. Finally, we have a specialty product, so we can't manage it well. Besides, people who are willing to spend ten thousand yuan to buy a Dou Jiannan Shaochun, do you think they really care about spending ten thousand yuan to buy our Wuliangye? For many people, they only drink expensive things, not the best. Our wine is the best, and therefore will be the most expensive. Once we can determine the name of the strongest wine in the world, believe me, at that time, we will buy a lot of people even if we sell Dou 30,000 yuan."

"But brewing consumes too much food. Now that the disaster is not enough, the food is getting worse, and the food is getting tighter. The population on our island has exceeded 20,000, and the food consumed every month is calculated in tens of thousands of stones." Zhang Hong said embarrassedly. While he was imagining the large amount of money he could earn by selling wine, he was worried that brewing would consume the food and the island would lack food.

"This is not simple. We not only charge money for selling wine, but we can change it to the wine payment to half of the cash and half of the food. A bucket of wine costs twenty thousand yuan, and we collect ten stags of copper coins, or silk, and then fifty stags of rice, or rice, millet, sorghum and other various grains worth ten stags. You can calculate, we will spend more labor, and a bucket of wine can only consume two stags of grain. Now we can earn fifty stags of grain, and we can also collect ten stags of money. Do you think this transaction is not cost-effective?"
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