"It's a pity that there is no alcohol."
Ma Zhou was full of food and drink, patting his belly and saying regretfully.
"The horse tent room will also drink" Zhang Chao asked with a smile, wine is not an ordinary thing these days, ordinary people can't eat enough, let alone drink.
Moreover, in troubled times, the imperial court generally forbade private brewing, so as not to waste food.
As a result, although there is alcohol in the market, the price of alcohol is often extremely high.
Those who can drink, those who drink alcohol, those who drink alcohol, and those who can drink often, are all people with status.
Listening to Ma Zhou's words, it is obvious that people are people who have drunk alcohol and drink it often.
He couldn't help but be a little curious about the identity of this horse tent room, Qin dared to say that this horse tent room was recommended to Qin Qiong by Chang He, and he was originally Ma Zhou's doorman.
In these years, not only do everyone in the world like to raise some doormen, but also officials and generals, as long as the level is reached, they also like to raise some doormen.
These doormen are actually the same as the masters of the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations.
For many literati who go out of the woods, sometimes going to the door of noble officials and being a doorman is also a good way out for them.
Many systems in the early Tang Dynasty followed the Zhou Sui dynasty, and there was a great feature, that is, high-ranking officials were able to open the government, that is, they could set up their own staff.
Just like Li Shimin, the king of Qin who was just crowned as the general of Tiance this year, he had permission to open the Tiance Mansion in Luoyang.
In this Tiance Mansion, there are dozens of staff positions, and although the staff of these Tiance Mansions are not of high grade, they can be selected and appointed by Li Shimin himself.
In addition to Li Shimin being the general of Tiance, he also holds many positions, such as he is also Shangshuling, which is the head of Shangshu Province.
The staff of this group were basically selected and appointed by Li Shimin himself.
In addition, Li Shimin is still the king of Qin, and the staff team of the Qin Wangfu is even larger, and there are even 20,000 or 30,000 troops.
Basically, substantive officials above the third rank, as well as lords above the second rank, will still have a staff team, and some of these staff members are of grade and some are non-grade.
But being able to enter it is also the way for many poor children to enter the office, and if they perform well, then they may be able to get the recommendation of the benefactor and go out directly.
Ma Zhou is a child of a poor family, his parents died when he was young, and he was lonely.
However, he was very studious, studied hard since he was a child, read through many history books, and was gifted with intelligence, so he was full of wealth before the age of twenty.
However, Ma Zhou is arrogant by nature, and he is a little uninhibited, and he finally became a small official in a neighboring county, but he always feels that some talents are useless, and he is very unhappy, drinking all day for fun, and not doing his job.
This is a bit like Pang Tong during the Three Kingdoms, Pang Tong was called Feng Xiao during the Three Kingdoms, and he was recommended by Zhuge Liang to vote for Liu Bei, but Liu Bei thought he was ugly and only gave him a petty official.
Pang Tong drank every day and did not do his job, but later Liu Bei knew that he was Pang Tong and immediately respected him as a military advisor.
It's a pity that Ma Zhou's boss didn't realize Ma Zhou's talent, but scolded and reprimanded him, saying that he was not an official.
Ma Zhou was angry, so he simply resigned, and then traveled around Shandong, and finally came to Chang'an.
However, traveling around the country in the past few years also requires money, Ma Zhou was a poor man, and he didn't stay long as a clerk, so he didn't have any savings, and finally ran out in the suburbs of Chang'an.
I can only stay in a small inn with room money, and I suffer the cold eyes of the owner.
One day, Ma Zhou was ridiculed by the shopkeeper again, and he was extremely depressed, so he happened to meet Chang He and eat at this small shop.
Chang He saw that Ma Zhou had a good temperament, so he chatted with him and invited him to drink.
As a result, Ma Zhou directly asked the shopkeeper to bring a bucket of eight liters of wine, and then he didn't eat the food, and drank all the wine by himself.
Chang He is a military general, he likes to be a cheerful person the most, seeing that Ma Zhou is so arrogant, and he has to know his predicament, so he helped him settle the store money, and then brought him back to the house, so that he could be an idle doorman.
In Changhe Mansion, Ma Zhou is still very idle, and basically has nothing to do every day.
After a long time, I was a little bored, after all, Chang He was just a big boss, and the two didn't have much common language.
Ma Zhou felt that Chang He didn't need him at all, and when he stayed in Chang Mansion, he couldn't help but feel a little like sending someone under the fence and receiving charity.
He offered to say goodbye, and it happened that Qin Qiong asked his old friends in Beijing to find an account room.
Chang He saw that he couldn't keep Ma Zhou, so he recommended him to come to Zhang's house to do the accounting room, but Ma Zhou didn't dislike this errand and came happily.
Zhang Chao didn't expect that the origin of this horse account room would be so peculiar.
"I don't know if I can drink wine in the horse tent," Zhang Chao asked with a smile.
"I drank it in the Zhonglang General's Mansion, and the Sogdians sold it from Gaochang State, and it was indeed delicious, but the price was a little expensive."
There was wine in the Tang Dynasty, but it was basically sold by the Hu people from the Western Regions.
Gaochang country in the Western Regions, is the famous origin of wine, Gaochang wine, with a unique mare's milk grapes, this grape color is green, like mare's milk, after brewing with a unique method, it has the delicacy of both red wine and sake, in Chang'an City, it is quite a high-grade foreign wine, which is deeply liked by the rich and noble, and it is very expensive and very hot.
Zhang Chao shook his head, in fact, the method of wine preparation may be a secret to the Tang people, but for Zhang Chao, it is not a secret.
Winemaking is both complex and complex, simple and simple.
The reason for this is that anyone can make sake if they know how to do it.
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I say it's complicated because sake brewing is sometimes the same as painting, it's not difficult to draw a shape, but it's difficult to draw an idea.
It's not difficult to make wine, but it's not easy to really make top wine, just like there are so many wineries in Guizhou, but there is only one in Moutai.
It's hard to get the best out of your wine.
However, Zhang Chao does not need to be a winemaker, he only needs to know how to make wine, and then he can make wine with materials, even if his wine is not the best, but it can still be popular.
After all, the Hu people came to Chang'an from the distant Gaochang to sell wine, and the journey was thousands of miles, while Zhang Chao made wine in Chang'an, which undoubtedly cost much, much lower.
"I heard that there are also some rich and noble people in Chang'an, and their homes are planted with mare's milk grapes from Gaochang in the Western Regions."
"Is there anything to do with mare's milk grapes and wine?"
asked Ma Zhou.
"To be honest, I happen to have a secret method for making Gaochang wine, which was told by a monk from the Western Regions when he talked to my master, that Gaochang wine is made from mare's milk grapes.
If I can get this mare's milk seedling, then when I have bought the ten-mile ditch, I will plant a large number of mare's milk grapes and kiwifruit there, and then I will be able to make monkey wine and wine. ” Ma Zhou was a little dumbfounded.
The young owner spent a thousand yuan to buy the ten-mile barren ditch, which was originally intended to be used to grow grapes and kiwifruit, and planned to make wine in the future.
"But the imperial court forbade private brewing."
Zhang Chao smiled, "The imperial court prohibits private brewing because brewing will waste food."
But the wine that wastes food is just corn wine, ale wine, glutinous rice wine and even sorghum wine, and I don't need food to make wine and monkey wine. ” Kiwifruit and grape winemaking are both fruit wines, and they don't need food.
Zhang Chao believes that he has several national officials behind the scenes, and after a few years, he should be able to get a winemaking license.
After all, in a few years, the world will be unified, and the imperial court will probably not ban private brewing forever.
After buying Whale Gully, planting grapes and kiwifruit can not only be used to make wine, but also sold directly.
After all, he is a landlord on the outskirts of Beijing, and it would be stupid to just grow food.
Everyone knows that in a capital city with a population of hundreds of thousands, there is not only a huge demand for grain, but also a huge demand for vegetables and non-staple foods, and even eggs, poultry and meat products.
Although the cost of transporting grain from the distant Kanto, southeast, and even Bashu and other places is very high, after all, Guanzhong cannot be self-sufficient, and must be transported, no matter how high the cost is.
However, fruits, vegetables, fresh eggs, poultry and meat cannot be transported from outside Guanzhong.
In these years, there was no refrigerated transportation, and fruits from areas outside Guanzhong could not be sold in Guanzhong unless they were made into dried fruits.
Tang Xuanzong doted on Yang Guifei so much, in order to let his beloved daughter-in-law eat fresh lychees, he could only use an expedited fast horse to send it from Lingnan, which was more expensive than air transportation I don't know how many times.
Apart from the emperor, there is no second person.
It's the same with vegetables, hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an, it is impossible to only eat without vegetables, and you can't just eat pickles.
Just like in later generations, around various cities, and even on the edge of a small county town, there are many farmers who grow vegetables instead of grain, and this is the demand.
Where there is demand, there is a market.
Growing vegetables and selling them on the outskirts of a big city is definitely more profitable than growing grain.
Because food can be transported from other places, but fresh vegetables can't, so they can only be supplied around.
There is another commodity, that is, charcoal, the same is true, the price of charcoal is not high, but the transportation cost is large, the charcoal is trafficked to a hundred miles away, and the cost of transportation will make the trade unprofitable, so the suburbs of Beijing cut wood and cut firewood to sell, and burn charcoal to sell, is also an indispensable business.
Fresh vegetables, even chickens, ducks and geese, as well as all kinds of poultry eggs, Chang'an, with a population of hundreds of thousands, is in huge demand.
Growing grain in the suburbs of Beijing is definitely not as good as growing vegetables, and Guanzhong is also considered to be in the north, but it can also grow lotus roots.
Zhang Chao felt that he could plant lotus root in the early stage by buying the ten-mile barren ditch.
Growing lotus root is relatively simple, as long as there is water.
And the lotus root can be eaten raw and sold as a vegetable, unlike some vegetables that only have so many stubbles, and the lotus root can be sold for a long time.
Even lotus seeds can be sold for money, and lotus leaves can be sold to shops for packaging after they are dried.
Planting lotus root can also raise some fish.
"Young owners have a lot of ideas."
Ma Zhou felt that the amount of information was a bit large, but if he thought about it, these were not nonsense, whether he was going to buy a ditch to grow fruits and make wine, or he was going to plant lotus root in the ditch to raise fish, and he was planting vegetables and raising chickens and ducks by the water, it seemed to be quite reasonable.
"I think it's good."
"I think it's okay too."
Cheng Chumo also expressed his support.
Zhang Chao leaned there to eat, "Then we have to buy this ten-mile ditch slope first." ” t1706231537: