Chapter 668: Gu Ling returns to Beijing

The cold wind howled.
Da da da……
Ground vibration!
A team quickly rode from the northwest.
"There is the capital in front, and it is still fifty miles away at most. Everyone should work hard to get into the city before dark."
"General, after a few hours' journey, people can withstand it, and horses can't withstand it. Can you rest for half an hour?"
Gu Ling's gaze swept across the faces of each soldier, and they were exhausted.
He nodded, "If I remember correctly, there is a tea shop in front of me. When I get to the tea shop, I will rest for half an hour."
"The general is mighty!"
The soldiers responded with a sudden, excitement and excitement.
Continue to fight forward, and as expected, a building appeared in front of him.
Not a tea shop, but a wine shop.
"Haha, there is wine in this place. General, let's rest here, okay?"
Gu Yu nodded and emphasized: "Listen to this general. Each person can drink at most a glass. Who dares to be greedy?
"No!" The soldiers agreed in unison, with an amazing momentum, which immediately attracted the attention of the merchants in the wine shop.
"Look at that momentum, it's a soldier."
"Coming back from the Northwest, maybe the Northwest Army."
"One by one, looking sturdy, it must be the Northwest Army. Except for the Northwest Army, soldiers in other places don't have this momentum."
"Men take it so!"
"It's all nonsense. Haven't you heard that a good man is not a soldier? A good man should study and serve the court."
"This man has a brain disease."
"Reading is stupid, don't worry about him."
"They all go to study and become officials, whoever goes to garrison at the border. Sure enough, they are stupid in studying and not producing."
Merchants are quietly examining and discussing Gu Ling and his party.
Gu Ling's soldiers are also looking at the surrounding environment.
"As expected of the capital, such a remote wine shop is actually full."
"This house is quirky."
"I haven't seen it. This is a house built of cement. This is a popular way to build houses in Beijing."
The dude greeted them with a smile on his face and enthusiastically welcomed them into the wine shop.
"What do you want to eat? The menu is posted on the wall, just follow the order."
"Hey, isn't this bullying people illiterate." A soldier muttered.
"Stop talking nonsense. It doesn't matter if you don't know how to read, as the general is literate."
Gu Ling stared at the menu occupying half of the wall, and said, "Two catties of wine, ten catties of pig meat, ten catties..."
When the order was finished, the guy responded, "Okay. Wait a minute, all the guests, the food will be ready soon. But the little one has to make it clear to the uncles that the wine here is neither sorghum nor wheat wine. It's sweet potato wine. If the guest officials have no objection, the younger one will serve you wine."
"Sweet potato wine?" The soldier looked dumbfounded and had never heard of it.
The guy laughed, "You guys just arrived in the capital, so it's no wonder. Sweet potato wine is currently only sold in Gyeonggi. It is estimated that many people have never heard of it outside of Gyeonggi. But sweet potatoes want to come to you. The officials should have heard of it."
"Nonsense, who doesn't know that sweet potatoes are heavenly food. There are also people in the northwest that grow them, and the output is always high."
The man nodded in agreement, "Yes, yes! This sweet potato not only has a high yield, it can fill your stomach, and you can know that sweet potatoes can still make wine. This year, many farmers in Gyeonggi Province made a fortune by growing sweet potatoes and selling them to breweries. . But the only bad thing is that the taste of sweet potato wine is not as good as sorghum wine and wheat wine. But sweet potato wine is cheaper.

The soldiers opened their mouths and asked them, would they dare to sell them wine with a bad taste, when they beg for food? Can't afford to pay or what?
As a result, Gu Ling raised his hand and stopped.
Gu Ling looked at the buddy, waved, and told him to take two steps forward.
The guy was a little startled, was stared at by a few soldiers, and had to step forward two steps, very close to Gu Ling.
Gu Ling is handsome, but dark.
His voice was soft, which made the guy relax a bit.
He asked: "Why does your store only sell sweet potato wine?"
The man hurriedly said: "Several soldiers have been in the barracks all the year round. I don’t know the current situation. In recent years, there have been natural and man-made disasters every year, either drought or flood. I heard from foreign merchants that there are places where there has not been a drop of rain for three years. It takes only one month for a place to rain. Drought due to drought, flood due to waterlogging, and reduced grain production.
In the area of ​​Gyeonggi, the weather has been barely smooth in recent years. With the smooth ditches and the irrigation of Wei water, there has been no natural and man-made disasters.
The soldiers know that this wine requires a lot of food. One catty of wheat wine will cost several catties of wheat and can live a life. Seeing the reduction in grain production, the imperial court made three orders and five applications, not allowing people to make wine without permission, or selling grain wine without permission.
Of course there are also wine shops that secretly sell food and wine. Those were all illegal, and if they were caught, they had to eat a prison meal. Our boss is timid and abiding by the law, saying that the court will not sell it. However, sweet potato wine can be sold at will, and the court does not restrict this. "
After listening to Gu Ling, he laughed, "Does this sweet potato wine you talk about is also produced by Sihai Commercial Bank?"
The man was excited when he heard it, "Master also knows the four seas firm, but I didn't expect the four seas firm to be so famous. The master guessed right, this sweet potato wine was originally produced by the four seas firm. Later other brewers all followed the same pattern. Buy sweet potatoes everywhere to make sweet potato wine.
Don't look at the sweet potato wine taste as good as grain wine, but it sells pretty well. Our shop alone can sell one or two hundred catties a day. Nearby villagers, there are people who run our shop to drink. "
Just as he was talking, a ten-year-old boy, carrying a wine gourd, came in and shouted, "Boss, boss, here are two catties of wine. My dad is waiting to drink, hurry up."
The boss Li Sheng stretched out his head from behind the counter, "Little third son, is your father finished drinking again?"
"It's finished. You give me two catties of wine. This is money."
The little third son took out several copper plates from his arms, counted them one by one, and placed them on the counter.
Li Sheng put away the copper plate and threw it into the drawer. A wine spoon made of bamboo filled with three spoons of wine and poured it into the wine jug through a funnel. No drop was spilled.
"Two catties of wine, take it! Put the lid on, don't spill it on the road, and be careful of your father beating you."
"I know! The boss is really long-winded." The little third son took the hip flask, waved, and ran out.
Li Sheng shook his head, stinky boy, clever.
When he gets older, he can be recruited to the store and be a second-hand.
Gu Ling retracted his gaze and continued to ask: "That kid, from a nearby village?"
The man nodded, "Go down the side road and walk three miles, and it is a village. The child is from that village."
"Sweet potato wine is sold so cheaply, can it make money?"
The guy laughed, "If you don’t make money, who would sell sweet potato wine, you’re right. It’s just that if you don’t make much money, you make a little bit of living money, which is not as good as grain wine. I heard that some people in the south use rice to make wine. It’s a waste of food. No wonder the court has made repeated orders and not allowed private brewing."
Gu Ling smiled, "Here is two catties of sweet potato wine. Taste the taste today, how much worse it is compared to grain wine."
The guy said loudly, and soon called two catties of sweet potato wine.
The guy said to Gu Yu: "In fact, the taste of sweet potato wine is not bad, and most people can't tell the difference. Master, you can taste it and see how it tastes."
Gu Yan poured herself a glass, took a sip, and tasted the taste.
"There is indeed a difference."
"Master actually tasted the difference, it's amazing." The man gave a thumbs up.
Gu Ling laughed, "You just said that your boss is timid. I don't think it looks like it. People who can open a wine shop on such a road section without a background in wealth are not good."
When he heard this, he immediately laughed and whispered: "Master is too dear to my boss. Let me tell you, my boss is a refugee, yes, he is the one you think. But he was the first group of refugees to settle in the capital. , It's a good time.
Later, Sihai Commercial Bank took some measures, saying that it was to help the refugees buy their homes. My boss was the first person to eat crabs. He took the money loaned from the Sihai Commercial Bank and leaned on the Sihai Commercial Bank to match the bridge and ran here to open the wine shop. Unexpectedly, it really became.
Masters, do you know that the ingredients and drinks in our store are all supplied by global trading houses. Even this house, the chairs and benches here, and even the dishes and chopsticks are all purchased by the Global Commercial Bank. Every month, my boss pays back a sum of money to Sihai Commercial Bank.
Let me say that our boss is not so good at doing business, but he is lucky and always catches up with the first batch of dividends. On the contrary, it is a native like me who still has to pay my boss for work. I don't know when I can get on the big ship of the Four Seas Commercial Bank, and I will pay dividends. "
After listening to the dude's nagging, Gu Ling smiled more brilliantly, "According to you, Sihai Commercial Bank is very good to those refugees."
"My parents are not so good." The guy looked envious. "Everyone bought a house and settled in the capital, and some of them became the boss. It must be the smoke from the ancestral tomb that caused such a good thing. But later came to the capital. For the refugees, there is no such good luck."
Gu Ling smiled, "Sihai Commercial Bank has done a great job."
"That's it! Master looked at our shop, everything, food, clothing, housing, as small as a pair of chopsticks, a spoon, as large as the entire house, are all contracted by the four seas firm, think about that business How big it has to be."
Gu Ling took out a few copper plates and gave him a reward.
The guy took the reward and smiled with joy, "The guest officer waits a moment, the younger one will urge the kitchen to serve you quickly."
"Go!"
Gu Ling looked at the boss behind the counter. Who would have thought that this boss was a refugee who was about to starve to death a few years ago.