Chapter 179. Jiading Workshop (Part 2)

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In fact, there is another way for him to work as an ordinary craftsman in two workshops.

But he really can't do the same work as his former subordinates.

Now his main income at home still depends on his wife Zhao Yi. How can he raise his head?

Zhao Yi came home and saw the whole family looking sad, and her mother secretly wiped her eyes.

She stepped forward to make tea for her father and mother, but her mother pushed her away. She wiped her tears and said, "Yi'er, it's almost impossible to open the pot at home, so don't drink tea from now on."

Zhao Yi continued to make tea and said, "Dad, why don't you make tea? Business is coming."

Zhao Leishi couldn't believe it and her eyes widened.

She stood up and said, "Yi'er, I'm afraid you didn't come here to drink tea, so I came here to comfort my mother."

Zhao Yi took a sip of tea and said with satisfaction: "Why don't you believe what I said?"

Zhao Lei reached out to grab Zhao Yi's tea, but this was her biological daughter after all, and she was also the first girl in Jiading City.

She finally sighed and said: "Mom, I know you want to drink tea, so just drink tea. But you must be economical."

Zhao Yi put down the teacup, became anxious, and said loudly: "Mother, I got the news that Zhaojiazhuang Winery purchased a large amount of yam, kudzu root, and monster taro. What is this if not business?"

Zhao Leishi looked confused and asked: "What does kudzu and yam have to do with our Yixin Hardware Workshop?"

Zhao Feiyang couldn't help but be overjoyed after hearing this. He immediately put down his wine glass and said to Lei Jian and Peng Shijun: "Start work and make the hoe immediately."

Although Yu Jie and Zhu Wenbing are extremely busy, they have always paid attention to the winery.

They all wanted to see how Zhao Ping was doing.

On the fifteenth day, Yu Jie, Zhu Wenbing and others received a message and Zhao Ping invited them to attend the drinking ceremony.

They have never encountered what a wine-making ceremony is, but as the name suggests, the winery should be able to make wine.

It's impossible to be so fast. It only took fifteen days from the start of work to the delivery of the wine.

Could it be that he was trying to catch up with the progress of the project and the quality of the wine was not good? Wouldn't that be a joke?

The quality of Zhao Ping's wine is not good, and the faces of these big guys are dull, which means they don't know how to recognize people, and Zhao Ping's future is also bleak.

But since he had already sent out the invitation, these big guys still went.

Jiading and Workshop are a thoroughfare, which is not only neat, but also smooth and smooth. Green bamboos and yellow jujube trees are planted on both sides.

The entire workshop is surrounded by walls, completely separating it from the outside.

The first impression was good, Yu Jie and Zhu Wenbing nodded.

The gate is also very grand, two feet wide, and it is an iron gate, which looks very strict.

There are two solid signs hanging on both sides of the door, but they are covered by red cloth. I wonder what is written on them?

Yu Jie and Zhu Wenbing have hundreds of personal guards. These personal guards are arrogant and have become accustomed to being arrogant.

But when they arrived at the workshop gate, they were stopped and had to show their ID to enter.

Yu Jie's personal guard was furious and shouted: "This is the Marshal's carriage, didn't you see it?"

The guard had no expression on his face and said coldly: "This is an important place for workshops. Please don't enter unless you have to."

When the guards saw everyone, they showed a small card, and the guard checked before letting them in.

The soldier wanted to scold him, but Tang Yi stopped him and said, "Give him the invitation."

The guard looked shocked when he saw it. He took out his tin trumpet and shouted loudly: "The commander-in-chief and the governor are here."

When he heard that the commander-in-chief had arrived, Zhao Ping hurriedly led Xi Xing and Jin Bo out to greet him.

Along with them were officials such as Qin Yulong and Yang Wu.

Zhao Ping was embarrassed and said to Yu Jie and Zhu Wenbing: "The commander-in-chief is here. I should have gone out to greet him. However, there are many mundane matters. Please forgive me."

Yu Jie had no expression on his face, nodded and said: "In the past, Zhou Yafu's Xiliu camp was heavily guarded, and no one could enter unless invited."

Zhao Ping hurriedly raised his hands and said: "The workshops are all secrets that are not told, it has to be like this."

When we arrived at the winery, we found that the entire ground was flat and smooth, with almost no gaps to be found, and almost no water on the ground.

Yu Jie looked at the ground and asked, "What kind of material is this made of? It's so flat and smooth."

Zhao Ping said: "This is fairy cement. It is not only smooth and smooth, but also fast."

Zhu Wenbing also looked carefully and nodded thoughtfully.

There is a wide dam between the gate and the workshop, but the dam is dotted with yellow oak trees, plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums. Although it is wide, it is full of vitality.

Not only that, the wine shop and taro shop are divided into two areas.

In addition to the two workshop production areas, there are also office areas, logistics areas, security areas, rest areas, security areas, and rest areas.

I saw that except for the workshop, there was no building. The rest were buildings on the first floor and one on the ground floor. The walls were all made of red bricks.

Yu Jie thought for a while and then asked: "Do your workshops and public buildings also use fairy cement?"

Zhao Ping hurriedly raised his hand and said: "Commander is wise, immortal cement is not only strong, but also fast in construction."

Zhao Ping paused and said: "The key is that it has another advantage, it can prevent fire."

Wang Jian and Wang Weizhong didn't believe it, so they pulled out their swords and slashed hard at the gaps between the red bricks, leaving only white traces.

Zhang Yu took out a fire stick and lit it, but it didn't light up for a long time.

Yu Jie and Zhu Wenbing looked at each other and nodded.

Between the two workshops is a thoroughfare that can carry ten horses and carriages at the same time, making it convenient for pedestrians and carriages to enter and exit.

The entire other area is also a thoroughfare, and each area is covered with bamboo, yellow oak, pine, etc.

There is a three-foot-wide flower bed between the avenue and the workshop, with pine trees planted in the middle.

This is not a workshop. If there is a pond or a small lake, it is almost an amusement park.

The literati nodded secretly, what they liked most was the taste.

Yang Wu couldn't help but sigh: "There are no official documents here, but it is a good place for reciting poems and writing lyrics."

Yu Jie and Zhu Wenbing frowned a little, looked around, and asked: "Ping'er, with such luxury, are you worried that it will increase a lot of costs?"

Zhao Ping hurriedly stepped forward and said: "The craftsmen work very hard here, working in three shifts day and night. In order not to affect their work, providing an elegant environment will help relieve their fatigue."

Yu Jie and Zhu Wenbing looked at each other and asked in confusion: "What does it mean to be busy in three shifts during the day and night?"

Zhao Ping explained: "The main reason is that the wine needs to be fermented. They must get up frequently at night to observe the temperature and heat of the fermentation. If the temperature is too low or too high, the fermentation will not be successful and the wine yield will be low."

There is no way, there is no thermometer at this time, and I completely rely on the master to control the heat.

They have a complete set of experience through long-term exploration, and they know the temperature of the fire by the feel of their hands.

Tang Yi recorded the entire production process and was very interested in it. He asked: "What is the optimal heat and temperature?"

Zhao Ping looked him over. This was originally a secret and would not be made public. But since he is the chief clerk, he still has to say something.

Zhao Ping thought for a moment and said, "This temperature is about the same as the human body."

In fact, fermentation is a kind of yeast bacteria, and its optimal temperature is also 36 degrees, which is about the same as the human body temperature.

However, since everyone feels different, mastering this level of heat requires extensive experience.

These key links in controlling the heat are all people from Zhaojiazhuang Winery.

Others want to learn it, but it may take a long time to learn it, especially in high temperature seasons, otherwise the bacteria will be burned to death and the fermentation will of course fail.

Of course, Zhao Ping would never tell them what the principle of fermentation is.

In fact, even if I tell them, they don’t understand what bacteria are. No one has this concept at all.

The wine shop is on the left, a row of buildings thirty feet long.

The production process is a line from beginning to end, from raw materials, selection, cleaning, crushing, cooking, cooling, fermentation, distillation, cooling, wine production, and storage.

Zhao Ping took the lead and personally explained the production process.

Tang Yi is the chief bookkeeper. Out of professional habit, he took out his notes to record and compare them with Lu Wei's introduction.

When we arrived at the final wine production room, we could smell the strong aroma of wine from afar. Some people who were allergic to wine could not help but cover their noses and mouths.

But those who like wine shout that they are satisfied and keep sniffing.

Although Wang Weizhong and Wang Jian were drunk last time, they still didn't learn their lesson and couldn't wait to walk to the wine shop.

There is a gate here, and there are several craftsmen inside. When they see the young man, they say hello, and then they carefully examine the wine situation.

The craftsmen are proud to work here, because they are not making wine, but making nectar.

Bah, the ones with rice outside are also called wine, but they are glutinous rice, okay?

Everyone entered through the gate and saw a jar that could hold about five hundred kilograms.

There is an iron pipe on it, and a liquid like water flows out of the pipe intermittently, and finally flows into the wine jar.

Everyone looked carefully and found out that the aroma of wine was wafting from the mouth of the iron pipe.

Two drunkards, Wang Weizhong and Wang Jian, rushed in without caring about everyone present.

The two of them picked up two big spoons and scooped out the wine from the wine jar. Regardless of everyone's gaze, they touched each other and laughed loudly and said, "Done."

After saying that, the two of them swallowed it directly. After swallowing, they laughed again and kept saying: "Good wine, good wine."

Tang Yi nodded, stepped forward and bowed his hands, and asked, "Two generals, how does the taste of this wine compare with before?"

The two of them hurriedly returned the favor, as if after thinking about it, they said: "It feels almost the same as before, it's just as intoxicating."

It seems that he is afraid of hiding his secrets, but in fact he thinks too much.

After saying that, the smell of alcohol sprayed from the two people's mouths, causing some people who were allergic to alcohol to recoil.

Zhao Ping said to Jin Bo: "Go and take out the wine glass and let the commander and the prisoner come and taste it."

Yu Jie and Zhu Wenbing tasted it, looked at each other, and nodded.

Zhao Ping finally felt relieved. It seemed that the wine still tasted the same as before.

After a day of visiting, everyone was tired, and more importantly, everyone was hungry.

They didn't expect there to be a restaurant here. They were distinguished guests, so they naturally went to the private room on the second floor.

Everyone carefully looked at the delicacies on the table. Not only did they like the braised white and twice-cooked pork, but the rest were all black dishes?

What kind of dish is this? It doesn’t seem to sell well?