Traveling through 70's wine

Chapter 185 Gu Zijing

After the National Day, Wen Qing convened the shareholders of the winery to inform everyone about the operating conditions of the three specialty stores.

The store is under the charge of Liuquan, and he will be the one to make the introduction.

The Majiaxiang store has been open for three years, introducing more than 10 distributors every year, selling 4000 bottles of liquor per month, and has sales of 30 yuan so far this year; the Wukesong store has been open for four months, and now sells 4 bottles of liquor per month, has expanded seven distributors, and has sales of 3000 yuan; the Lianhuachi store has been open for two months, and sells 7 bottles of liquor per month, has expanded five distributors, and has sales of 10 yuan. Everyone is satisfied with the result.

Wen Qing specially added that these three stores are all her shops, and the annual rents are 8000 yuan, 1 yuan and 3 yuan respectively. These rent prices are the market prices, and everyone can inquire about them.

Changxia Winery has expanded its popularity through its exclusive stores. No one has an objection to this sales method, and Wen Qing is the big boss, so she thinks it's okay.

Wen Qing signed a five-year store rental agreement with the winery. The rent is fixed annually and is based on market price.

The four people also discussed the positioning of the specialty stores. Majiaxiang focuses on the local market, Wukesong mainly targets young customers, and Lianhuachi serves as a bridgehead to attract foreign merchants coming to Beijing.

Liuquan wants to turn the Lianhuachi store into a sales exhibition and the Changxia Winery's office in the city, ready to receive distributors from all over the country at any time. In the future, when distributors arrive in Pingjing, they can go directly to the Lianhuachi office without having to go to Erxia Village.

He suggested recruiting another group of sales staff to expand the Northeast market. Wen Qing and the other two had no objection.

The first batch of 100 wine cellars in the new winery have started making wine. Wen Qing and Wang Jianguo watched the workers working in an orderly manner in the steaming workshop, selecting, drying, mixing the yeast and sealing the cellars. Each process was well organized. Wen Qing checked the management records of each wine cellar and sampled the ingredients of the new wine. Although the indicators were slightly different, they were all good.

She went to see Wang Guozhang blending the finished wine. The master craftsman, based on his experience, poured the aged wine of different years into a stainless steel tank and mixed them evenly. Wen Qing used the wine extract to make a glass of wine and tasted it slowly. This was a blended strong-aroma liquor, which was sweet and mellow at first, with a fragrant aroma. If you looked carefully, you could smell the aroma of the cellar and the aroma of the koji, with a lingering sweet aftertaste. It was a very good wine.

Wang Guozhang: "Director Wen, how is it?"

Wen Qing nodded, "Not bad, no obvious shortcomings."

Wang Guozhang told Wen Qing the recipe of the wine with a little pride. He used a five-year-old strong-aroma liquor as the base wine, and blended it with twenty-year-old Sichuan liquor and a small amount of one-year-old new wine. The aroma of the koji, the cellar, and the wine was very balanced.

The workers sent the liquor to be bottled, and Wen Qing left the winery and went to the orchard.

The first batch of fruit trees in Erxia Village orchard were planted four years ago, and the second batch of fruit trees were planted three years ago. Wen Qing climbed the stairs behind the winery. Although it was already October, the branches were still full of fruits, the bright red ones were apples, and the golden yellow ones were pears.

These trees are grafted from fruit trees in the space, and are fertilized with poultry manure and fertilizer made from wine lees in the space. They grow big, have good shapes, taste sweet, and are full of moisture. They are very delicious. Wen Qing has to wait until the hawthorns are ripe to pick them together and make fruit wine.

Wen Qing admired the beautiful scenery of the mountains and forests along the way, and soon climbed over the hillside and reached the lake.

A few years ago, she saw several people kidnapping a person by the lake and wanted to kill him. She was so angry that she saved the person and killed him. However, as time passed, she gradually forgot about it.

The lake in October was very quiet and beautiful, with fine ripples reflecting the gradually yellowing leaves by the lake. As I was walking, I looked up and saw two men fishing by the lake. They were sitting on wooden folding chairs with a bucket at their feet and two long fishing rods in front of each of them. There was half a bowl of bait in the bait bowl, and there seemed to be fish moving in the bucket, so they must have caught something.

Wen Qing stood by the path and looked around for a few seconds. Just as she was about to leave, she heard one of the middle-aged men ask, "Girl, do you live nearby?"

Wen Qing replied: "Yes, uncle, I live behind the mountain."

After hearing this, the man stood up and walked towards Wen Qing.

Wen Qing saw that the man was of medium build, neither fat nor thin, and looked to be in his forties. He was wearing a sun hat.

The man asked, "Girl, what's fun to do around here?"

Wen Qing thought they were here for fun, so she introduced them: "This lake is called Qingyun Lake, it belongs to Changfeng Commune. This side of the mountain is called Xiaoya Mountain. Behind the mountain is Erxia Village. There are orchards on the mountain."

He also said: "The mountain is contracted by villagers and some fruit trees are planted. You can go up the mountain for a walk and the scenery is pretty good."

The man stared at her for a few seconds, then turned his head and asked, "Have you always lived here, girl?"

Wen Qing said: "I am not a local, but I have lived here for several years, so I can be considered a native of Erxia Village."

The man introduced himself: "My name is Gu Zijing, I'm from Beijing, and I like to go out and about on weekends."

Wen Qing also introduced: "My last name is Wen. This place was quite remote before, but now there is a feed factory there, and there are more vehicles coming and going. However, this lake is the drinking water source of the commune, and pollution is not allowed."

Gu Zijing was surprised after hearing what Wen Qing said, "There is also a feed factory. Can we go visit it?"

Wen Qing agreed: "No problem, I'm just about to go over there."

Gu Zijing called the young man who was fishing, packed up his things, and moved the chairs, buckets, and fishing rods to the car parked on the side of the road. Wen Qing saw that it was an SUV and immediately guessed Gu Zijing's identity, "Uncle Gu, do you come here often to fish?"

Gu Zijing said: "It should come two or three times a month."

Wen Qing and Gu Zijing walked, and the other man followed them in a car.

After a while, they arrived at the feed factory. Wen Qing said, "Uncle Gu, this feed factory was invested by me and the commune, and we just started to build it."

The man parked his car in the factory parking space, and Wen Qing took the two of them into the workshop.

The factory building has just been built, but the equipment has not yet been fully installed. Gu Zijing saw the stainless steel pipes and containers in the warehouse and said, "Xiao Wen, your factory looks quite advanced."

He had been to some feed factories before, which were always noisy, dirty and dusty. Now he saw that the equipment in this feed factory was all operated in a closed manner, and the stainless steel equipment looked cleaner.

Wen Qing introduced: "Our factory is an automated production line. The soaking, cleaning and feeding of raw materials are all automated. Pipes and containers are cleaned every day to ensure that the feed is clean and hygienic."

"Our factory pays attention to environmental protection, and the wastewater it produces will be purified before being discharged."

He took the two of them to visit the factory's sewage treatment system, and Gu Zijing and the other man nodded secretly.

Gu Zijing asked, "Aren't pigs fed with grass or corn now? Does anyone buy the feed you make?"

Wen Qing said: "We have done comparative experiments and found that pigs raised with feed can gain 30% more weight than those raised with traditional methods. And we don't feed them all the time, but only every few days, or feed them more when they are pregnant. This method of raising pigs is nutritionally balanced, so the pigs grow faster and the meat is better."

After visiting the feed factory, Gu Zijing and his companion left.