The scorching sun hung high in the sky, enveloping the entire land of Guanzhong.

Li Kuan drank a glass of sour plum juice, glanced at Wu Meiniang, who was sitting next to him and quietly reading the book, and exhaled comfortably.

These days, life is more comfortable than I imagined.

Even the construction of the cement road, I originally thought that there would be a group of people there to sneer there, but I didn't expect that Wang Xuanwu's investigation and feedback showed that few people laughed at Li Kuan.

It seems that after being slapped in the face a lot, everyone has learned to be smart.

"Fugui, this king asked you to investigate and consider how to promote tea on the grassland, what do you know?"

"Lord Wang, I have inquired with many Eastern Turks in Chang'an City, and they basically didn't drink tea before; I also asked Xue Yantuo and the Tuyuhun people, and even the Dangxiang and Uighurs, and I asked them all, and the basic answer was not to drink tea. The Hu people on this grassland don't have the habit of drinking tea, and if our tea is transported over, we can't sell it. ”

Wang Fugui stood in front of Li Kuan with a sad face, during this time, he came forward to buy a large number of tea cakes and coarse tea in Chang'an City, plus the tea bricks produced by the Chu Wangfu's own tea-making workshop, there were tens of thousands of catties of tea in the warehouse alone.

Although it is not a tea that can be compared with Longjing fragrant tea, it is also tea, and it cost nearly 10,000 yuan.

"I heard a story from a Taoist priest about a Persian merchant who assigned a task to two of his men, and promised that whoever could complete the task would be rewarded very richly. Do you want to know what this mission is? How did these two guys answer? ”

"Lord Wang, what task?" Wang Fugui immediately felt that Li Kuan was training himself.

Full of Chang'an City, there are not 10,000 but 8,000 people who are willing to listen to Li Kuan's business guidance, which is a rare learning opportunity.

"There are millions of people living in a nearby island country, but they have never worn shoes since ancient times. The merchant's task was to get the two men to go to the island to promote their shoes. ”

"Huh? People never wear shoes, isn't this businessman embarrassed? ”

Wang Fugui couldn't help but say this.

However, as soon as he spoke, he reacted that he had said the wrong thing, "Lord, I didn't mean you." ”

"Nonsense, of course this king knows! Do you know how these two guys answered? ”

As soon as Li Kuan's words were finished, Wang Fugui had not yet spoken, but Wu Meiniang put down the book in her hand, "Lord Wang, how did they answer?" ”

Feeling our empress, reading books is fake, and both ears are listening to Li Kuan and Wang Fugui talking.

"Yes, Lord Wang, what did these two guys say?" Wang Fugui was also curious.

Li Kuan smiled, "The first guy is similar to your reaction, I feel that the businessman is embarrassed for himself, the people on the island have not worn shoes since ancient times, and now let themselves be promoted, isn't he wearing small shoes for himself?" ”

Wang Fugui's face was a little embarrassed, and Nuo Nuo didn't dare to say anything.

However, Wu Meiniang's eyes were shining, and she was looking forward to how the other guy would answer.

As for the other fellow, he replied the exact opposite. He said, "Shopkeeper, I'll go, I'll go, let me go!" What a great opportunity, what a space, if the people on the island know the benefits of wearing shoes...... Oh my God, how many people come to me every day to buy shoes. ”

When Li Kuan said this, his eyes stared at Wang Fugui.

"Lord Wang, do you mean that the Hu people on this grassland, although they don't drink tea now, but because they don't drink tea now, it is worth vigorously promoting tea and making them fall in love with tea?"

Wu Meiniang quickly reflected.

"That's right! Those Hu people on the grassland eat beef and mutton every day, although they can also pick some wild vegetables, mushrooms and other things to relieve greasy, but for them, this is a long-term problem. And this tea ......"

"The most important thing is to eliminate food and relieve greasyness, which can just solve the problem that plagues Hu people?" Wu Meiniang continued Li Kuan's words and said.

Although tea was first used as a sacrifice, it was eaten as a dish in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period; In the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, it developed into medicine, and in the late Western Han Dynasty, it became a high-end drink in the palace.

From the Western Jin Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty, tea has slowly become a drink that ordinary people can eat.

Of course, ordinary people here also need to put quotation marks.

As the daughter of the former Guogong, Wu Meiniang is no stranger to tea, and naturally knows its efficacy.

"That's right! Once these Hu people accept tea, you will find that these Hu people are even more inseparable from tea than we are. ”

The tea and horse trade, the ancient tea horse road, this has left a great name in history.

Why not say it's the salt horse trade, and why not the iron horse trade?

This fully shows that these nomads are more inseparable from tea than salt and iron!

Although salt is mainly produced in the Central Plains, there are not no salt lakes and salt mines in the grassland, so relatively speaking, the Hu people can still find some sources.

However, as for tea, there is really no tea on the grassland.

"Lord Wang, according to what you say, once tea is promoted on the grassland, won't Datang have another means to control the grassland?"

The empress is the empress, and the height of looking at the problem is higher than that of ordinary people.

Li Kuan looked at Wang Fugui, and then at Wu Meiniang.

It's no problem with the execution of my subordinates, but the level of using my brain is still a little worse.

Wang Fugui seemed to feel Li Kuan's disappointment in himself, and hurriedly remedied: "Lord Wang, I will bring a batch of tea to Liangzhou tomorrow, and then promote it near Liangzhou first." Don't worry, if I don't spread the trend of drinking tea, I won't go back to Beijing. ”

Liangzhou is the first base camp of the Chu Wangfu outside Chang'an City, and the geographical location is very critical, which can radiate the surrounding grasslands, and if the tea really opens up the situation there. Things will be easier in the future.

"Okay, but you remember, to sell to those Hu people, you only need tea cakes and tea bricks, there is no need to bring tea leaves like Longjing fragrant tea."

Li Kuan's words are not to look down on the consumption power of those Hu people, but purely because he thinks that letting these people taste Longjing fragrant tea is a tyrannical thing, and when these people drink tea, it is the same as Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit.

Anyway, they drink tea, just to get tired of it, what tea ceremony, elegance, perception and the like, are all floating clouds.

In the future, Li Kuan plans to keep some tea trees to pick tea leaves later, and when the leaves grow more, the yield will be greater.

As for the taste, anyway, it is made into tea bricks, and those Hu people don't pay attention to any taste.