Qingshui County.

Qingshui County has beautiful mountains and rivers and rich products, but if you talk about the most famous Qingshui at the moment, it must be the Qinghe Banquet.

Unfortunately, Qinghe Banquet has a wine brand, so it would be too difficult to buy in large quantities.

Although the Li family is working together with several other companies to do business, there are too many people making wine in Qingshui Town. The Li family looks down on those small workshops and will not cooperate with them.

There is no requirement in the prohibition of alcohol, people cannot make wine at home and drink it by themselves. During festivals, a few jars of local wine are allowed as long as they are not sold.

These small workshops in Qingshui Town also made a living by making wine for generations. Now the court does not allow them to sell wine. If they have a wide range of people, they go to Qinghe Banquet to work. Li Baohuai is a generous boss and gives wine brewers a high salary, which is similar to what they earn when they opened a small winery before;

Those who can't make a relationship simply change their careers. Some buy a few acres of paddy fields, and some use all their savings to open shops or do other small businesses.

Yan Zhaoshi is a filial son. After learning from Yan Jingguang that the Yan family was separated, he wanted Lefu to go to Pingcheng to take Old Lady Guo over.

Just a few days ago, after his marriage with Tian Zhenzhen was settled, Zhang Xiucai took him to discuss business on the grounds that he wanted to save some money to hold the wedding.

It was a businessman from another place. He heard that Yan Zhaoshi was the chief clerk. The businessman was flattered and raised the baskets of good words outwards. Yan Zhaoshi felt a little fluttering.

However, he also learned from the conversation between the businessman and Zhang Xiucai what business the businessman was going to do when he came to Qingshui County.

This businessman came to buy wine heads and wine tails.

The wine brewed from the wine is base wine. The base wine is added to the wine koji and can only be made into a sold wine after being mixed by the brewer.

Whether the wine is good or not depends on the quality of the base wine and koji, as well as the skill of the brewer.

The wine head refers to the first base wine brewed, and the wine tail is the last base wine. The wine head and the wine tail are either discarded or used to blend poor wine, while the second base wine is the best.

Although every family in Qingshui Town can make wine, not every family can make base wine. Those small wineries bought the wine heads and tails of the four masters at a very cheap price, blended them into cheap wine, and sold them to taverns and villages in the distance.

Now the Qinghe Banquet is worth a hundred times the price. I am worried that someone will mix bad wine under the banner of Qinghe Banquet, which will affect the reputation of Qinghe Banquet. After the four shareholders discussed, they will pour out the wine head and tail directly after each time they give out the wine.

The purpose of this businessman came to Qingshui County was to ask someone to get some wine heads and wine tails from the Qinghe Banquet.

Seeing the merchant looking at him, Yan Zhaoshi had to smile bitterly. It was not that he didn't want to help, but that even the county magistrate of Qingshui County could not control the Qinghe Banquet.

There was a wine sign issued by the imperial court. The Ministry of Revenue sent an official to station in Qingshui Town. The official's surname was Wang. His superior was the wine department of the Ministry of Revenue, which had nothing to do with the Qingshui County Government.

The merchant was able to find Qingshui County because he knew that there was an official in Qingshui Town of the Ministry of Revenue. He bowed to Yan Zhaoshigong: "Mr. Yan, Xiaoke has no other meaning, just want to ask you to help set up a line. You are an official, and the master of the Ministry of Revenue is also an official. You can recommend Xiaoke to Lord Wang, which is definitely much better than Xiaoke himself by accident. You see, this is just a small matter for you, but for Xiaoke, it is a life of life."

Zhang Xiucai also said: "Yes, Lao Wu is a kind person, so he will definitely not let you do your work in vain."

Lao Wu is this businessman.

Yan Zhaoshi was going to get married and took my mother over again. It was all silver.

Seeing that he was still hesitant, Zhang Xiucai winked at Lao Wu. Lao Wu took out two cans of tea from the bag placed under the table: "Mr. Yan, Xiaoke doesn't understand the elegant things like calligraphy and painting. This is the tea from Xiaoke's hometown. It is not a valuable thing, but it is the new tea this year. Please don't dislike it."

Yan Zhaoshi didn't know much about the routines in the officialdom, so he really thought that these were just two cans of tea, so he happily accepted it without any pressure.

In the evening, when he was studying, he remembered the two cans of new tea he received during the day, so he wanted to taste it. Unexpectedly, he opened one and saw a silver note placed in the tea leaves.

Fifty taels.

He quickly opened another can of tea, which was also a fifty tael silver note.

If it were three years ago, one hundred taels of silver would be nothing to Yan Zhaoshi, but if he sold him now, he would probably not be able to sell one hundred taels.

Yan Zhaoshi's heart was pounding. Return these two cans of tea back?

He was a little reluctant to let it go. He was too short of money now.

Introducing Lao Wu to an official from the Department of the Ministry of Revenue?

The imperial court had a ban on alcohol. Old Wu wanted to buy the wine head and wine tail for the Qinghe Banquet, and clearly wanted to sell wine for money. If it was found out, it would be a lawsuit and he would be involved in it.

But Yan Zhaoshi thought about it again and said that Lao Wu was just asking him to help introduce him. If the truth was revealed, he would only say that he didn't know Lao Wu's purpose was.

If Old Wu could buy wine heads and wine tails from the Qinghe Banquet, it would definitely have given Lord Wang a lot of benefits, otherwise Lord Wang would not have taken the risk to help.

Yes, if it is found out then, the court will investigate Lord Wang. If it is found on my head, I just pretend that I don’t know.

Thinking of this, Yan Zhaoshi made up his mind and collected the two silver notes.

Early the next morning, on the way to the yamen, he exchanged the fifty taels of silver notes for five or ten taels, took out the thirty taels of them, handed them to Love, and asked him to leave for Pingcheng.

Yan Zhaoshi felt sorry for my mother living in a place like Banzichang, but she was worried that her elder brother and third brother would come with her. Therefore, he instructed Lefu to avoid the Yan family after arriving in Pingcheng and quietly take out Mrs. Guo.

Yan Zhaoshi even regretted that he shouldn't have written a letter to Mrs. Guo in advance. At that time, after hearing Yan Jingguang talk about the family affairs, he felt sorry for Mrs. Guo, so he wrote the letter. I think the eldest brother and third brother have all read this letter. If they come together, the house in Shuiqin Lane will not be able to live in.

Thinking of his elder brother and third brother, he thought of his elder nephew Yan Jingxiu.

As long as Yan Jingxiu is thought of, Yan Zhaoshi feels extremely guilty.

If it weren't for Li Qiniang and her daughter, Sun wouldn't have been beheaded. If Sun had not died, how could Yan Jingxiu's reputation be ruined and his future was ruined?

Therefore, Yan Zhaoshi felt that he could understand the elder brother’s actions with him that day, and he had implicated his son.

Therefore, Yan Zhaoshi may also accept the incident of Qingshui County when the eldest brother and the third brother may also come to Qingshui County.
Chapter completed!