Chapter 27
When they entered the prefect's mansion, Zhao Feng introduced everyone to each other, so that everyone had a mutual understanding of each other.
"Mr. Zhongde, I wonder how much our troops are now?" Zhao Feng asked.
"Return to the lord, the four counties of Liaodong and Liaodong counties, the total strength is 20,000 and the cavalry is 2,000; Xuantu County, the total strength is 1,000 and the cavalry is 1,000; Lelang County, the total strength is 1,000 and the cavalry is 1,000 and the cavalry is 1,000. The total strength of the four counties is 50,000 and the cavalry is 5,000." Cheng Yu said slowly.
"That's all?" Zhao Feng was a little disappointed.
"Well, lord, after all, the population of Liaodong is not as good as that of the Central Plains, and the total population is only 500,000, and ten people and one soldier is already very good." Cheng Yu said.
"Okay, what about money and food?" Zhao Feng asked again.
"When I first arrived here, the treasury was empty. All the money now comes from the third general. This money is probably going to survive this winter!" Cheng Yu said.
"Hey, I just arrived in Liaodong, and there were problems everywhere!" Zhao Feng sighed.
"Indeed, lord, if you want to arrange the newly brought people you have brought back, I'm afraid that this money will not be enough to survive this year!" Cheng Yu said.
"Don't worry about money. I have already thought of a countermeasure. What you need to do now is to join Zhicai in order to resettle the people under the rule of Liaodong and record every household on the record! Ensure that every household can survive this winter!" Zhao Feng said.
"Oh?" Hearing this, a shiny light flashed in Cheng Yu's eyes, "I wonder what good plans are there for the lord?"
"The mountain man has his own trick! Zhongde just looked at it!" Zhao Feng smiled mysteriously, and everyone was puzzled.
"Haha..." Zhao Feng laughed and turned around and left.
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In the afternoon, Zhao Feng led Dian Wei out and shuttled between various brewing shops. In the Three Kingdoms era, the differentiation of scholars, farmers, industrial and commercial levels was very obvious, which made the status of winery craftsmen very low. In addition, Zhao Feng was the prefect of Liaodong, so it was easy to acquire several wineries and a group of wine-making craftsmen! In just one afternoon, Zhao Feng acquired two larger wineries in Xiangping City, along with more than ten craftsmen.
As early as last night, Zhao Feng checked the brewing methods of "Wuliangye" and "Gujing Gongjiu" in the system space and found that compared with modern brewing techniques, the brewing process of the Han Dynasty only had one step of distillation and filtration except for some processes that could not be completed at that time.
But now Zhao Feng cannot do the distillation step because he does not have equipment! So he bought a ceramic workshop and some craftsmen across the city. In addition, Zhao Feng acquired the only papermaking workshop in Xiangping City. Although Cai Lun improved papermaking, even the paper made by the improved papermaking technology was still much worse than that made by later generations. Zhao Feng planned to improve papermaking technology again and bring advanced papermaking technology to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty!
When he returned to the prefect's mansion at night, Zhao Feng got into the study and designed a simple distillation equipment overnight. In his opinion, it was rare to make such a simple equipment with the ceramic technology of the late Han Dynasty!
The next day, Zhao Feng sent the drawings he designed to the ceramic workshop and ordered the craftsmen to work overnight, trying to build a set of equipment within two days.
Zhao Feng promised that the wages to the craftsmen were several times that they had before, so the craftsmen were very energetic, and none of them were tiring. In just one day, the distillation equipment designed by Zhao Feng was built.
When Zhao Feng saw this set of equipment, he was shocked. The craftsmen actually optimized and improved Zhao Feng's drawings, and the distillation equipment he made was even more advanced than the one designed by Zhao Feng! This made Zhao Feng unable to help but admit that human creativity is really unlimited!
"You go and take a day off and look at the blood in your eyes! Did you stay up late last night?" Zhao Feng said.
"It's okay, sir, we don't know anything else, but sir, we know, that's why everyone works so hard." said a leading young man.
"Haha, I know you work hard, but your health is important. You are all tired and down. Who should I ask for to work? Go, I'll give you a day off!" Zhao Feng said with a smile.
"Sir, thank you!" the few people said with a clasped their fists.
After the craftsmen left, Zhao Feng couldn't wait to order people to move the equipment to a winery and began the process of distilling wine. The space of the improved distilling equipment was greatly increased, which could accommodate ten jars of wine.
When the first bowl of distilled sake was brought out by Zhao Feng, the craftsmen were shocked, and their eyes were full of admiration. They had never thought that wine could be so clear!
Zhao Feng took a sip and felt it was not too high, around 35 to 40. More importantly, this wine has no additives from later generations at all. It is really clear and delicious, and has a fruity aroma. It is really the best among the wine!
This time, 50 jars of wine were distilled out by Zhao Feng. However, Zhao Feng found that the specifications of the wine jar at that time were too single, only five kilograms, and then half kilograms of wine jar. So Zhao Feng had a sudden idea and designed a wine jar that was one kilogram, two kilograms of wine and ten kilograms, and wrote four words in running script - nectar and jade liquid! The craftsman ordered the carving of these four words on the wine jar, which was regarded as the trademark at that time!
After confirming the availability of distillation equipment, Zhao Feng immediately announced that he would distil all the wine in the wine warehouse, but no drop of wine is allowed to betray it! The ceramic workshop also has to manufacture several sets of such equipment, only one set of equipment, and the work efficiency is too low!
Afterwards, Zhao Feng sent troops to garrison to prevent someone from leaking the secret or someone from stealing the army!
Dian Wei, who was standing behind Zhao Feng, smelled the fragrance of wine and swallowed his saliva.
"Mr. Shan, come, how about this wine often?" Zhao Feng handed the wine bowl to Dian Wei, "But be careful, this wine is quite good!"
"Thank you!" Dian Wei couldn't wait to take the bowl, regardless of what Zhao Feng said later, "Gudong" was a big mouthful of stomach.
"Cough cough!" How choking it would be for a big mouthful of white wine. Friends who have drunk it must know that even a "wine tank" like Dian Wei was choked and coughed continuously!
"Lord, you're so good to drink! You're just a little too strong!" Dian Wei said.
"Haha, of course!" Zhao Feng said confidently, "This is my first step in making money! How about it?"
"High! It's really high!" Dian Wei gave a thumbs up.
Chapter completed!