The next day, Chen Xu got up early to go to court to discuss politics as usual. After dispersing the court, he went to various offices of the Secretariat to inspect it. After listening to reports from various departments, he asked the housekeeper to find out where there are larger wineries in the city.

Winemaking is already very common in Daqin. In addition to grain wine making, there are now wines made from wine, mulberry wine and even some other fruits. However, the common feature is that the alcohol content is very low, mainly because the fermentation and brewing process is not good. In addition, the ban on wine passed down from the Western Zhou Dynasty also inhibited the development of winemaking technology. In addition, the lack of food in the Qin Dynasty every year, the ban on wine is even stricter, and the folk winemaking parties were beheaded. Therefore, only officially recognized wine merchants can make wine for sale. This also led to the fact that although the wine in Daqin was not good, it was sold at a high price.

Even in Chen Xu's eyes, the turbid wine that seemed as hard as horse urine, could not afford it. A pound of wine was more than ten yuan. If a small official went to a garden, the salary for a few pounds of wine would be almost gone.

When Chen Xu wants to make wine, he naturally needs to make high-purity distilled wine.

Alcohol, as the most commonly used industrial preparation, has a wide range of uses, especially in medicine and chemistry.

With high-purity alcohol, many basic chemical experiments can be slowly unfolded. The smoke released by burning oil candles and Songming is too big. Chen Xu could not imagine what a chemical laboratory with thick smoke would be like. Especially those glass instruments, they would be quickly smoked and could not see clearly.

Less than half an hour after the butler left, he brought back a slightly fat businessman wearing gorgeous clothes.

"Zhao Ye, this is the owner of Eucommia udon, the largest brewing house in Xianyang City, and a brewer licensed by Shaofu. Almost half of the wine in Xianyang comes from Du's winery." The housekeeper introduced.

"Du Zhong pays homage to the Marquis!"

After entering the door, the wine merchant Du Zhong was so excited that he couldn't hold on himself. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Chen Xu respectfully, and was used to calling him the title of Qinghe Hou.

"No gifts, show the tea to Master Du!" Chen Xu smiled and waved his hand to instruct the maid to serve tea. After sitting down, he asked about some of the situations in Du's winery and decided to go to the winery in person to see the brewing process!

"Why are you suddenly interested in brewing wine?" After hearing this, Yu Wuya also walked out with a hand gun with his sword on his back.

"I was in Xiaohe Village, and I told you that there is another kind of wine in the world..."

"Could it be Erguotou?" Yu Wuya was very surprised.

"Hehe, that's right, all kinds of business were busy in the past, and the brewing process was very complicated. I have had time recently. I went to the winery to see if I could get some Erguotou to taste!" Chen Xu nodded.

"My benefactor, you finally remembered that you seduced me and said that you would eat Erguotou, and the world was full of your heart. Wuya has been greedy for several years. Go quickly, and Wuya can't wait!" Yu Wuya licked his mouth and felt saliva begin to fall.

Half an hour later, Chen Xu followed the wine merchant Du Zhong to a huge house in the west of the city. He could smell the smell of wine lees floating in the air from a distance. After entering the winery's yard, the smell became stronger, and the intense smell of wine lees could make people fall into trouble.

There are two huge wooden sheds in the yard.

Countless helpers in one shed are screening corn and mixing wine lees. In the other shed, dozens of large pottery jars are filled with wine lees. Many of them are fermenting, emitting a strong sweet and sour taste. They smell almost no different from the rice wine made in later rural areas. The only thing is that the sanitary conditions are completely impossible to see directly. All the helpers have no hygiene habits. They rub their noses and butts while stirring them in the wine lees, which made Chen Xu's face thrust.

"Mr. Marquis, our Du's winery can make more than 2,000 kilograms of wine every day, and it has always been in short supply. However, the grain output has increased in the past two years. Shaofu allowed us to increase some production, but the venue is limited and there has not been any expansion at present. Marquis, you are a winemaker, and you have passed on the skills of making wine. Now our turbid wine can only be sold to ordinary people..."

Du Zhong was with Chen Xu while watching and introducing, and at the same time he did not forget to take pictures of Chen Xu's horses.

As a wine merchant, there is almost no chance of being involved with Chen Xu on weekdays. The taste and taste of this kind of wine made with traditional crafts cannot be compared. Therefore, the high-end wines in the entire Daqin are now occupied by wine. The wine they make is no longer elegant and can only be sold to ordinary officials and gentry people who cannot afford to drink wine. Although the price is not cheap, they always feel inferior, because the wine banquet is called grape wine and the wine cannot afford to drink Qinghe wine. However, to open a slightly higher-end wine banquet, the red wine of Fan's Winery must still have a few bottles of face to save face.

Therefore, when I heard that the housekeeper of Qinghe Hou Mansion was found, I immediately made Eucommia excited and almost fell into trouble.

The winery is indeed not big, covering an area of ​​only seven or eight acres. Chen Xu finished watching it in 20 minutes. In order to understand the process of brewing more carefully, Chen Xu also went to the chorus room to check it out.

Looking at the moldy wine chorus piled all over the floor, Chen Xu frowned slightly. He remembered seeing the winery making process on TV. It seemed that they were all large bricks of chorus bricks, like moldy tofu. But at present, the chorus piled up randomly looks neither clean nor hygienic, and the moisture on the ground may deteriorate and produce some toxic mold.

Chen Xu squatted down and grabbed a handful of wine choruses and looked at it. He found that the particles were very rough and had changed color and could not tell what they were.

"What are your wine music made with?" Chen Xu clapped his hands and stood up.

"When I returned to the Marquis, the wine koji is mixed with ground wheat beans, mixed with water and piled up. After the Aspergillus is full, it will be moved to a cool and ventilated wooden shed to dry and set aside..." Eucommia numbness briefly introduced the process of preparing wine koji.

Chen Xu recalled it and seemed that he had never heard of the soybeans used to make wine koji. It is probably a method passed down from ancient times. Now Daqin’s winemaking method is actually rice wine from later generations. After fermentation, it is filtration and wine water. It does not go through the two steps of steaming. The wine production method is the same. If the storage seal is not good, it will easily deteriorate. Therefore, the wine in the wine shop is basically made and sold on the spot. After the production is done, wine merchants will directly use wine jars to sell it. Moreover, the supply of wine is in short supply and there is no backlog.

"I know a method of making chorus may cost more and more time, but the quality of the chorus produced is much better. You can try it in the future!" Chen Xu said to Du Zhong after covering his nose and came out of the room where the chorus was piled up.

Du Zhong was surprised and quickly bowed: "The Marquis's advice must be a good method, and Du Zhong will definitely do it!"

"Well, you have seen the method of making mud bricks!" Chen Xu asked.

"I've seen it!" Du Zhong nodded repeatedly.

"In the future, all wine koji are used. Grind the wheat into flour, add clean well water and mix it into a ten-pound tiles, and then place it in a closed room to make mold. The time may be different depending on the temperature of the four seasons. You have to wait until the tile has completely grown thick Aspergillus and then move it to a cool and ventilated room and put it on a wooden rack to dry. The wine koji produced in this way is not easy to produce mold, and the mycelium inside is sufficient and convenient to store. When using it, just crush the koji bricks and mix them into the lees!"

"Yes, Du Zhong will definitely make the song according to the method of the marquis in the future!" Du Zhong nodded hurriedly regardless of what Chen Xu said.

"Also, try to use only one raw material for brewing, either corn or millet, which is not easy to mix with other grains, otherwise the fermentation process will be uneven, and the wine produced will taste bad, some will be bitter and some will be sour and astringent!"

"Mr. Marquis, can Shushu be used to make wine?" Eucommia was surprised.

"Of course, all grains can be used to make wine. The wine brewed by millet is clear and transparent, and the wine tastes mellow. Although it is not as mellow and sweet as the rice brewed by millet, the taste is more pure. You can arrange someone to verify it!"

"Don't worry, although Shuzu is the staple food in the northwest, it tastes bitter and not delicious, and it is more convenient and easier to grow than millet. Among the grains and grains, Shuzuzu is the cheapest one. If it can be used to make wine, it will inevitably save a lot of money. Later, I will ask you to buy some Shuzuzuzu and try to brew it. When the Marquis is free, please come and give some advice!" Du Zhong quickly bowed again.

"Well, you are a master of winemaking. I can only mention it. Whether it can be successful or whether it is good or not depends on your own continuous summary of experience. I want you to help you prepare a few tanks of good wine lees for later use. I will send someone a set of wine making utensils in a few days. Also, a steaming room next to it, a fire stove is built, and a diameter of five feet. At that time, you will need to install a steamer and a steamer..."

Chen Xu carefully explained Du Zhong to him and left the winery. Although Yu Wuya had been following him and didn't say anything, he was a little dissatisfied after coming out. "My benefactor, if you want to make wine, our Yucheng people are our ancestors. Shaokang started making wine in Luncheng, and Luncheng is our Yucheng. In the past, when Wei State was still in the Kingdom of Wei, there were winery everywhere. If you want to make good wine, why not let someone go to Yucheng to find some wine craftsmen?"

"I just asked, the ancestor of Du Zhong is from Yucheng, and his surname is Du. If you can run such a large winery in Xianyang, you must have a few brushes. Maybe you are the descendants of Du Kang. Moreover, the winery looks very mature in making wine, and you don't need too much improvement to make high-purity white wine!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"What is white wine? Our Yucheng also makes white wine. What does this have to do with the immortal Erguotou that my beloved wants to make?" Yu Wuya asked curiously.

"Erguotou is actually steamed through fermented glutinous rice, which is not considered an immortal. I just lied to you to move bricks hard!" Chen Xu laughed dryly.

Yu Wuya was so dark that he couldn't help but complain: "It turns out that my benefactor has been lying to me."

"Hehe, Brother Yu, don't be angry. In fact, it's not a lie to you. After a few days, the steamed wine utensils will be well created. After you taste the steamed wine, you will naturally know that with white wine, wine and turbid wine are not considered wine. Just take your soul to keep it in one sip!"
Chapter completed!