Chapter 1113: Sold-out Moutai
Chapter 1113: Sold-out Moutai
Li Mo'er naturally wouldn't refuse an invitation from Brother Liu, who was undoubtedly her cousin's future husband.
For breakfast, Brother Liu's younger brother bought steamed buns, soy milk, and fried dough sticks, which were still steaming hot.
During the meal, Brother Liu said to Li Mo'er, "I have purchased fifty acres of land. The temperature has been rising these past few days, and we are about to start building warehouses. Right now, we only have simple fences."
Li Mo'er said, "Okay, you can leave the livestock over there, and the grain in your yard!"
After breakfast, Brother Liu drove Li Mo'er to his small courtyard with a basement. The courtyard was surrounded by high walls, so outsiders wouldn't be able to see what was inside.
There were two people guarding the courtyard. When they saw Brother Liu and Li Mo'er arrive, they greeted them and then went out to have breakfast. Brother Liu told them to come back in the afternoon, and the two left happily.
These few underlings of Brother Liu are all his confidants; otherwise, Brother Liu wouldn't have entrusted them with guarding this place, as the basement here contains immense wealth.
Of course, Liu's trusted henchmen all have considerable wealth by following him.
At first, when the whole country was starving, they could barely make ends meet by following Brother Liu. But after he started trading with Li Mo'er, Brother Liu's net worth skyrocketed, and his underlings naturally followed suit, becoming much better off than the factory workers.
They can be said to be among the first ordinary people in China to become millionaires.
If all of Brother Liu's underlings went to Beijing, they would all be able to independently purchase a courtyard house with one courtyard.
After the two underlings left, Brother Liu led Li Mo'er into the house, took out a key to open a room, which contained some antique furniture of not very high quality, as well as various famous wines.
The most common type of liquor among these is Moutai, which Li Mo'er specifically requested.
Li Mo'er wanted these Moutai and Wuliangye liquors not to sell them for money in the future, but to keep them for drinking.
Brother Liu said, "Through connections, we got in touch with a sales representative at the Moutai factory and supplied them with some of our wheat. You know, Moutai is mainly brewed from sorghum and wheat, and our wheat can elevate the taste of Moutai by more than one level. That's why the Moutai factory supplies us with 300 bottles of liquor every month."
Wheat is the raw material for making Maotai liquor daqu. Wheat is ground, mixed with mother koji and water to make koji embryos, and then fermented and stored before being used in liquor production.
During the high-temperature fermentation process, wheat produces a variety of aroma and flavor compounds through Maillard reactions and other processes, laying the foundation for the soy sauce aroma of Moutai liquor.
The wheat produced in Li Mo'er's space is rich in spiritual energy and can produce a variety of components that are very beneficial to the body. Most importantly, it tastes very good.
Ever since Brother Liu started sending wheat to the Moutai distillery in exchange for liquor, the distillery's sales have increased day by day, and prices have risen again and again.
As for why the price has increased, one reason is the good taste, and another is that many wealthy people feel comfortable all over after drinking Moutai, some minor ailments have gradually disappeared, and their skin is also better than before.
This made their wives extremely eager to buy Moutai, and they desperately urged their husbands to do so.
This resulted in Moutai being snapped up by wealthy and powerful people as soon as it left the factory.
Some people even tried to pressure Brother Liu through the manufacturers to give up some of his share. Brother Liu had been in the black market for so many years, and the amount of grain and vegetables he had sold was far more than ten or twenty tons. He knew exactly what effects the things Li Mo'er had given him were.
When the manufacturer put pressure on him, he decisively cut off the supply of wheat. This made the manufacturer very anxious. The deputy factory director personally came to Beijing to negotiate with Brother Liu. In the end, the manufacturer had no choice but to change the 200 bottles supplied to Brother Liu to the current 300 bottles.
This calmed Brother Liu down, and he called his younger brother to continue supplying wheat to the distillery.
Li Mo'er looked at the hundreds of bottles of Moutai and many other fine wines, her eyes crinkling into slits with laughter.
With a thought, she stored all the liquor into her spatial storage. Then she said to Brother Liu, "Brother Liu, give them some of the water I prepared and have them brew a batch of liquor. If they're satisfied with the liquor, I'll give them 100 jin every month. The condition is that they give me 500 bottles of liquor every month!"
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