Chapter 2017: Buying Wine

"Have a taste, trust me, its flavor is even more unique than Yinzhou Drunkenness."

Jiang Xuelan took a sniff and said, "The flavor is indeed different from Yinzhou Drunkenness; I don't know much about alcohol, but this flavor is certainly more fragrant and mellow."

"What do you think?"

Jiang Xuelan looked at Feng Zhenyun; after he took a sip, he said directly, "It has the flavor of Yinzhou Drunkenness, but compared to Yinzhou Drunkenness, there is a significant gap."

"The production of this wine must be missing a step."

"My guess is correct, right, Prince Baru?"

Prince Baru's expression froze, and he gestured for Feng Zhenyun to continue.

Feng Zhenyun continued, "You used the first run of the wine; Yinzhou Drunkenness can only be the second run."

Hearing this, Prince Baru exclaimed in surprise repeatedly.

"Mr. Feng, your guess is basically the truth. This is the first run of the wine; the quality of the second run is indeed much better."

"But you know the little tricks of a merchant; I don't think there is anything wrong with that."

He asked, "Now can you tell me if it is worth the price of one Silver Coin?"

Feng Zhenyun spread his hands and said, "Not at all. If it were up to me, I would only pay ninety copper coins for such wine, no more."

"Of course, this is my price, not Miss Jiang's price."

Prince Baru chuckled, "I think Miss Jiang will understand why I did this; after all, not every European can taste the difference inside."

Jiang Xuelan thought for a moment and said, "Just as you said, this kind of wine does indeed have a sufficiently good taste."

"The first run won't make too many people care about its quality; it is enough to pass for the real thing, but what we need is a reasonable price."

"It is not worth this much money."

Prince Baru spread his hands and said, "I can give you the second run of the wine, but it must be at this price."

Jiang Xuelan nodded, "If that is the case, I can pay this amount, but I need to see if your factory has the capability to provide us with so much wine; we need to take a tour."

"After all, we need to avoid unnecessary trouble."

Prince Baru agreed immediately, "Of course, we can visit the factory tomorrow. But before that, I must confirm: Miss Jiang, are you certain you want to pay ten thousand Gold Coins to purchase this fine wine?"

Jiang Xuelan and Feng Zhenyun were quite surprised that Prince Baru agreed so readily; this might very well expose the Longyan engineers and scientists to him.

Unless they had already cleaned everything up and become this emboldened.

Thinking of this, a trace of unease rose in the hearts of both Jiang Xuelan and Feng Zhenyun.

Jiang Xuelan confirmed, "Yes, but all of this must wait until after we have toured the factory and signed the contract."

Upon hearing this, Prince Baru nodded and finalized it, "Good, that is no problem at all."

Meanwhile, inside the factory on the other side, Zhang Mang was making preparations for his plan to destroy the factory.

He found two stones and, taking advantage of the fact that the factory guards were not paying attention, threw the sparks he struck into the Alcohol stored in the factory.

Soon, with a boom!

The factory exploded instantly!

The French soldiers were slightly stunned when they saw the destroyed facility, not yet having figured out exactly why.

Zhang Mang raised his heavy fist and knocked down a French Soldier guarding the warehouse with one punch.

The other soldiers were dealt with collectively by these scientists and engineers.

"Quick, quick, quick!"

"Take all the wine, we need to leave here quickly! The French troops might find this place very soon."

This explosion destroyed the entire factory; Zhang Mang had served in the Longyan Army and knew how to contain the scope of this explosion, so although the explosion destroyed the factory equipment.

It did not cause many casualties, and the Longyan scientists and engineers, who had long been informed of the operation, were not harmed in the slightest.

They lit the fire-bottles they had prepared in advance with flames.

And threw them at the French soldiers who were rushing over.

These simple and effective fire-bottles caused no small amount of damage to the French soldiers, and they immediately repelled the French soldiers.

The violent explosion blasted open a gap, and at this very moment, the Longyan scientists and engineers who had been plundered by the French poured out and escaped.

The factory that the French had just established encountered unprecedented destruction.

Zhang Mang took the people who had escaped to a valley to rest temporarily.

This time, the Longyan scientists and engineers Zhang Mang brought out totaled thirty people; not all the Longyan people were in this factory.

Although they had escaped, Zhang Mang did not feel any joy.

"As long as we are in France for one day, we cannot be considered to have truly gained our freedom!"

"Next, we must disperse; we cannot appear in any one place in France at the same time."

"If anyone is lucky enough to contact our country, you must inform them of what happened here; there are other compatriots of ours here, and they also need to be rescued!"

Everyone nodded and looked at the factory not far away, where the fire was growing larger and larger; their hearts were filled with hatred. If it weren't for these hateful French, how could they have fallen to such a state!

Zhang Mang said in a deep voice, "Disperse. The enemy will catch up soon; we must leave here quickly!"

Everyone left immediately, fleeing in all directions; they were about to live a life of exile in this strange country.

But they were filled with hope for the future!

Zhang Mang and Yang Dong did not separate; the two decided to go together.

And when the French soldiers who were pursuing them arrived, everyone had long since fled.

"Pursue!"

"Those yellow-skinned monkeys shouldn't have run far!"

Late at night, Prince Baru was fast asleep, dreaming of the money he was about to get his hands on, when at this moment, his butler knocked on the door in a rush.

The sound of the mountains of gold and silver in his dream being smashed to pieces, like the sky collapsing and the earth splitting, startled him awake from his nightmare.

And at this moment, he saw his steward rush in hurriedly, not even waiting for him to open the door.

With an expression of extreme panic on his face, Prince Baru frowned; feeling exceptionally displeased at having his pleasant dream interrupted, he shouted coldly: "What has happened, to make you so flustered!"

"Has the sky fallen down!"

The steward reported urgently: "His Highness, the distillery has burned down!"

Hearing these words, Prince Baru's expression changed abruptly, and he stared blankly at the steward: "What nonsense are you spouting!"

"How could our distillery possibly have burned down!"

"It is absolutely true; the soldiers guarding the distillery came to report it in person, and not only that, but those Longyan people we bought have all run away!"

Upon hearing this, Prince Baru's face turned deathly pale!

He was not afraid of the distillery burning down; what he feared most was those Longyan people escaping!

"Catch them and bring them back, you can kill them; I do not need them to be alive out there!"