Traveling through 70's wine

Chapter 127 New Wine Song

Wang Jianguo and the workers help with the winemaking, but I have to do things in the space by myself.

In the space, Wen Qing drove a harvester to harvest 80 acres of rice, and then spread all the bundles of rice on the drying dam to dry. She returned to the small bamboo house to rest and appreciate the calligraphy and paintings and porcelain in the study.

She took out the things she had bought in Chang'an. This time she bought a lot of things, including pottery, ironware, and some stones.

She cleaned the three earthenware vessels very carefully and placed them on the shelf. Although they were a little damaged, they were still very charming.

After cleaning, the two iron artifacts revealed their true appearance. The short-handled sickle was part of a weapon called a yue, and the iron rod-like thing, after removing the mud covering it, was revealed to be a bronze sword, about 1.2 meters long. The handle was gone, leaving only the sword body, which was a little rusty, but not very serious, and you could still make out ripple-like patterns on it.

Wen Qing had never collected ancient weapons, so she happily placed the two things on the table.

There was nothing interesting about the stones, so the picture stones were placed on the shelf and the other stones were put into the box.

She cleared out space for a few books and paintings, intending to hang them at home as decoration.

It was already evening outside and the workers in the winery had already gone off work.

After dinner, she went to the koji room and prepared to turn over the fermenting koji.

Wen Qing found that Wang Jianguo was still in the koji room. He was trying to make a new koji. Wen Qing did not make any noise to disturb him, but just watched silently.

Seeing that he deliberately made the dough thick on the sides and thin in the middle, Wen Qing was puzzled and asked him the reason.

Wang Jianguo was a little surprised and said, "Sister Wen, I am actually doing an experiment.

I find that the flavor of our strong-aroma liquor is relatively monotonous compared to first-tier Sichuan liquor.

I wanted to start with the yeast, let the yeast produce more flavor substances, and then through fermentation, bring these flavor substances into the wine. "

In his understanding, the thickness of the koji varies, so the yeast in each piece of koji may have more variations, and perhaps more types of microorganisms will be produced, thereby promoting the diversification of flavor substances.

Wang Jianguo had this idea a long time ago. In fact, he had already prepared a batch of koji, but the quantity was not large.

Wen Qing thought this idea was novel, but it needed further practice, so she said, "How about this, the cellar mud in our new winery has been cultivated for more than half a year. Let's use two wine cellars to make wine, one with the original koji and one with your new koji, and see how the wine turns out?"

During the day, the workers had already started moistening the grain. The two men worked together to transport the necessary grain and rice husks to the new winery. They also shoveled up the mash from a wine cellar in the backyard and transported it to the new winery in a cart. The two men lit the fire to steam the wine all night long.

After the dregs are steamed, they are used to cultivate cellar mud. The mash below is divided into four equal parts, and grain is added again and again to steam the wine. It is spread out to dry, water and koji are added according to the winemaking process. After mixing evenly, it is put into the wine cellar layer by layer. The two of them worked for half a day and sealed the two wine cellars. Wang Jianguo brought a new registration book to record the type of koji, the ratio of koji to dregs, the cellar sealing temperature, etc.

It was late at night when Wang Jianguo left the new winery. The next day, he went to see the two cellars and checked the temperature personally.

At present, there is no obvious difference between the two cellars, but he asked the workers to measure them every three hours and report to him immediately if there is any situation.

In July, the weather was quite hot, so Wen Qing went to turn on the cold water circulation switch of the winery early in the morning to cool it down.

Seeing Liuquan coming back from outside, he looked unhappy and asked, "Liuquan, what's wrong? Did something happen?"

Liu Quan said: "Sister Wen, the white cloud stone has been brought back to you, nothing happened. It's just..."

He was a little embarrassed to say it, so Wen Qing waited for him to continue. Liu Quan continued, "The Xicheng Subsidiary Food Company, which used to buy our goods, suddenly notified us that they no longer wanted our wine."

"Did you find out the specific reason?"

"I asked them, and they said that our wine requires cash on delivery, which takes up a lot of capital. Now they have decided to sell Erguotou, and the condition given by the Erguotou Distillery is to pay in March."

Wen Qing pondered, now many companies are in the habit of delaying payment for goods, and their Changxia Winery has always required cash payment and immediate delivery.

The main reason is that Changxia liquor is relatively cheap and is not subject to restrictions on the planned supply quota, so it has certain advantages. However, if other liquors also increase their supply and cancel the restrictions on the planned quota, their advantages will be reduced.

Wen Qing said to Liu Quan, "Go contact the West City Subsidiary Food Company, and we'll go talk to their manager and see if there's any way to save the relationship."

Liu Quan accompanied Wen Qing to find Manager Wang of the Xicheng Subsidiary Food Company, introduced Wen Qing's identity, and the few of them exchanged greetings.

Wen Qing said, "Manager Wang, I am visiting you today mainly to inquire about the sales of our Changxia wine in your store."

Manager Wang knew the purpose of the two men's visit, and hesitantly said that the store was short of funds and unable to pay for the Changxia wine on time.

Wen Qing explained: "Manager Wang, we have been cooperating for two years, right? Our Xicheng Subsidiary Food Company has been buying Changxia Baijiu, which shows that we trust the quality of Changxia Baijiu.

I've seen that our Xicheng Foods sell over 300 bottles every month, which means you have a stable customer base.

If you give up selling Changxia liquor, these customers may not necessarily buy Erguotou. They may go to other stores to buy Changxia liquor, which will also be a loss for our food company, don’t you think?”

Manager Wang also nodded and said, "Manager Wen, do you have any solution?"

Wen Qing introduced the purpose of bank acceptance bills. "The non-staple food company has a bank loan quota. You can use this quota to go to the bank to open an acceptance bill. When the bank acceptance bill matures, you can pay it. It will not occupy your funds."

Manager Wang thought this was a good idea and decided to ask the bank.

Wen Qing also introduced to him Changxia Winery's reward policy for distributors, which is that as long as the distributors sell a certain amount of goods each year, Changxia Winery will give them certain rewards.

"How to reward? What to reward?" Manager Wang was a little interested.

Wen Qing explained, "That's basically it. We will hold a meeting soon to promote Changxia Winery's sales policy to distributors. You're welcome to visit us then."

After saying goodbye to Manager Wang, Wen Qing and Liu Quan returned to the winery.

Wen Qing asked Liu Quan to find out if there were other dealers like Manager Wang and what specific problems they had.

Wen Qing asked him to take out the sales reports for last year and the first half of this year. She wanted to analyze any changes in the dealers' purchases.

Liu Quan said shyly: "Sister Wen, I haven't finished yet."

He runs around selling and delivering goods every day, and now there are so many dealers that he is really too busy to handle it.

Wen Qing realized that the winery was not enough with just the three of them, and she couldn't criticize Liu Quan now, so she had to find last year's invoices and delivery notes herself and sort out the accounts one by one.

Fortunately, she asked for cash payment and immediate delivery, otherwise Liuquan might not remember which dealers had not paid.

Wen Qing decided to take on the financial work herself, and quickly filled in the account books and compiled the reports.