"Yao is not a thousand bells, there is no way to build a taiping; Kong is not a hundred yao, there is no way to be holy", this sentence comes from the pen of Kong Rong, a descendant of Confucius, who quoted the scriptures and showed the great significance of wine to the progress of civilization in the form of a piao script.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao looked at the history of the present, and felt that good wine would delay people's business, so he ordered a ban on alcohol, but this order was opposed by Kong Rong, who splashed ink and wrote a letter against prohibition.
In the article, he has counted the various roles of wine in the development of history, and for a glass of wine, he dared to openly oppose the powerful Cao Cao, Kong Rong can also be regarded as an alcoholic.
In the history of the mainland, there are not a few such alcoholics, such as Xu Shiyou, one of the founding generals, who is a drunkard.
Xu Shiyou is addicted to alcohol, and his taste requirements for wine are particularly high, he loves Moutai the most in his life, and he must use Moutai to entertain guests when he invites guests to dinner, but General Xu Shiyou is diligent and thrifty, and his life is poor, and he cannot support the consumption of Moutai.
At this time, the staff around him thought of a way to skillfully solve this problem, and Xu Shiyou did not know the method that the staff thought until his death, so what is this method? First of all, we may wish to see how much General Xu Shiyou really likes Moutai.
First, a lifetime of frugality only love wine
Like many founding generals, Xu Shiyou was also born in a peasant family, he suffered from a long time, tasted the hardships of life, knew every grain of grain, it was not easy to come by, so Xu Shiyou developed a good habit of thriftiness and simplicity, hard work and thrift, until he later became a founding general, he did not change these habits.
According to the later recollections of the staff around General Xu Shiyou, Xu Shiyou maintained his true character as a farmer throughout his life, and even if he later became a senior cadre, he would never waste extravagantly and wastefully in his life, for example, he never had cakes and milk or other things on his breakfast, but some very ordinary and simple things.
However, General Xu Shiyou, who is so diligent and thrifty, has an exception in one aspect, that is, in terms of drinking, xu Shiyou likes to drink is a well-known thing.
There are still many anecdotes about General Xu Shiyou drinking, and moreover, General Xu Shiyou not only likes to drink, but also has particularly high requirements for wine, and the most favorite wine he drinks in his life is Maotai, and Xu Shiyou is not a general love for Moutai, it is simply obsessed, almost to the point where non-Moutai does not drink.
General Xu Shiyou had served in the Nanjing Military Region for many years, and in the Nanjing Military Region at that time, there was a saying called "Xu Shiyou invited me to drink Maotai", which means that Xu Shiyou not only often invited guests to dinner.
Moreover, when inviting guests to dinner, they must take out Moutai to entertain guests, so later everyone also used "Xu Shiyou invited me to drink Maotai" as an alternative to "Xu Shiyou invited me to dinner".
In short, General Xu Shiyou has never forgotten his origins, and has never forgotten the fine tradition of hard struggle, so even after he has achieved fame, he still constrains himself with the requirements of thrift and diligence, however, at the same time, General Xu Shiyou, as a flesh-and-blood person, inevitably has some small hobbies, that is, drinking Maotai.
However, Moutai is not an ordinary wine, he is a famous Chinese wine, the price is naturally not cheap, so can General Xu Shiyou's salary meet his desire to drink Moutai?
Second, the issue of alcohol fees
Because Xu Shiyou loves Maotai, drinking expenses have always been an important expense in Xu Shiyou's family, but gradually, some of Xu Shiyou's family cannot afford this expenditure.
After the 55 years of conferring the title, Xu Shiyou was awarded the rank of general by virtue of his merits in the conquest of horses, and enjoyed the treatment of the fifth level of administration, it can be said that at this time, the treatment of General Xu Shiyou was still relatively high, but later, with the reform of the army, the military age allowance was gradually abolished, so the allowance that General Xu Shiyou could get was also decreasing.
Moreover, Xu Shiyou is still a person with a clean style and strict self-discipline, and he has adopted a uniform attitude of rejection of all kinds of gifts sent by others, General Xu Shiyou once went to inspect a brewery, and the comrades of the brewery sent two cases of beer to General Xu Shiyou, but Xu Shiyou knew that after he was very angry, he strictly ordered his men to send the two boxes of beer back.
Therefore, General Xu Shiyou would not receive any gifts and gifts at all in addition to the normal salary income, and in the 80s, Xu Shiyou's monthly salary was 400 yuan, and in that generation, 400 yuan was enough to support the family for a month.
However, Xu Shiyou has a habit of inviting guests to dinner, and he especially likes to use Maotai to entertain guests, so the 400 yuan is somewhat insufficient.
At the same time, the price of Moutai wine is rising, at the beginning, a bottle of moutai at a preferential price only needs 4 yuan a bottle, but then it rose to 8 yuan a bottle, and the price directly doubled.
Moreover, the upward trend of Moutai prices has not stopped, and by the 80s, a bottle of Moutai can already buy 12 yuan, although this price is still affordable for Xu Shiyou, but if you drink it without scruples like before, it will be somewhat difficult.
In short, with the reduction of General Xu Shiyou's salary subsidy and the rise in the price of Moutai, drinking Moutai has gradually become a burden in Xu Shiyou's family, but General Xu Shiyou has worked hard all his life, worked diligently all his life, and served the people, and now there is only one wish to drink Moutai, and his family cannot bear to advise him to stop drinking Moutai.
However, the problem always has to be solved, and finally with the efforts of the staff around Xu Shiyou, they came up with a wonderful solution, so what is this solution?
3. Invent "Tu Maotai"
In fact, the military also took into account General Xu Shiyou's special love for Moutai, so it would regularly provide some Moutai for General Xu Shiyou, which was the only "privilege" that General Xu Shiyou had enjoyed, but these Moutai were not enough for General Xu Shiyou, who liked to use Moutai to invite guests to dinner.
In order to solve this problem, the staff around General Xu Shiyou also racked their brains, and finally they thought of a good way to "steal beams and change pillars", they invited a teacher with rich winemaking experience, and asked him to configure a cellar-flavored ordinary liquor, which is very similar to the taste of Moutai liquor.
Then, the staff next to General Xu Shiyou put this wine in the bottle of Moutai wine that they had drunk before, and they also gave this wine a playful name, called "Tu Maotai", when Xu Shiyou invited guests to dinner, General Xu Shiyou and some important guests were surrounded by real Moutai wine, while some other ordinary guests drank the "Tu Maotai" made by this staff.
Of course, before the banquet, the staff will also explain the truth to the guests, and after the guests know the truth, they will also express their understanding.
In short, later, "Tu Maotai" almost became a "little secret" known to a person in the Nanjing Military Region, but everyone tacitly did not tell Xu Shiyou about this matter, so General Xu Shiyou did not know these small actions that his staff around him did without concealing themselves until his death.
epilogue:
The so-called people are uninspirable, that is to say, everyone has some small habits that cannot be abandoned, and for General Xu Shiyou, his habit is to drink Maotai, and it is this innocuous habit that makes General Xu Shiyou look more flesh and blood, more real.
However, General Xu Shiyou has a habit, but also his own persistence and ethics, although he loves to drink Maotai, but never thought of using the power in his hands to satisfy his hobby, he has always been like an ordinary citizen, with his own salary to buy Moutai wine, which is also the personality of General Xu Shiyou.
The staff's approach, not only witty, but also full of humanity, not only cleverly solved the dilemma of General Xu Shiyou having no money to buy Maotai, but also silently maintained General Xu Shiyou's small hobbies, perhaps it was General Xu Shiyou who was gentle and kind to his surroundings, and the staff around him were willing to come up with these methods for him.
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