Chapter 319: Tea Picking is Busy and Tender Shoots (Fourth Update)
On the third day after the release of the imperial examination, the students who were admitted to the examination re-entered the Ministry of Officials and accepted exemptions.
All the students dressed up carefully, some rubbed rouge and blush, so that they looked more beautiful, and the clothes were straightened out by the texture.
When everyone went in, the officials looked at their appearances, measured their eyesight, and asked a few simple sentences.
The results were all passed, and everyone was jubilant.
Before noon, when they came out of the imperial city, the others just wanted to make an appointment with the quasi-officials of the Li family Zhuangzi, and the forty-two students had already gotten on the bus.
The convoy turned and returned to Zhuangzi.
Forty-two people had to go back and continue to study textbooks, first by themselves, mainly in physics, chemistry, and arithmetic, and not in Chinese.
They listened to the persuasion and knew that Xinyan would not lie to them, so they should learn their skills in a down-to-earth manner, and now is not the time to play with others.
The other seventeen first-class quasi-officials rode on horses borrowed by others and began to wander the streets.
It's a pity that there are many fewer people watching the excitement than last year, and the people ran to find a place to pick tea.
After picking the tea, I had to send it to Li's Zhuangzi to exchange money, and I didn't have time to watch others parade the streets.
When the team went east and arrived at Pingkangfang, the girls of Beiqu pushed open the windows one after another, waved handkerchiefs on them, and shouted coquettishly.
It was only at this moment that the seventeen jinshi felt that their status was respected.
"From now on, tea leaves can be picked until before the summer harvest." Pei Yaoqing invited Li Yuanhong to eat in heaven and earth.
I saw that some people came from the west of the city, passing by the heavens and the earth, and hurriedly walked east with bamboo baskets on their backs, and said to Li Yuanhong.
Li Yuanhong looked in a good mood, and said: "In this way, the people in the two counties who are not rich in money can save some money, and the work that Huan Zhi and Li Yi found should have a great merit." ”
"Thanks to the outline's understanding, I didn't get angry with my Chang'an Ling."
Pei Yaoqing expressed his gratitude, and he ordered people from another county to follow suit, but the other party didn't say anything.
"The main thing is that I don't dare to stop it, let's not mention whether it benefits the people or not, only the officials can get more money, and it will be difficult for me to stop it." Li Yuanhong said with a smile.
He doesn't fight, it's good to get things done, and it's risky to take money that he doesn't dare to take.
What's more, Pei Yaoqing's money is still used on the people of the two counties, and he is not greedy.
"You don't have to spend money to buy tea in the future, Li Yi agreed." Pei Yaoqing changed the topic.
"The tea brewed does taste different." Li Yuanhong bowed his head, he didn't care about tea, because he didn't know what price Li Yi would sell tea at in the future.
At this time, the people of Jingzhao Mansion were busy looking for wild tea, and some people could not enter the tea garden, so they asked the owner of the tea garden if they wanted to pick tea by hand.
The people in the tea garden know that the tea leaves will grow slowly, and they are still young buds, and the price given by the Li family Zhuangzi is high.
According to different grades, the most expensive pound can reach 50 yuan, and the worst can also have 10 yuan.
The price of tea is higher than that of the previous tea, but it is more demanding, and the new tea picked should not be delivered to Zhuangzi for more than three days.
At the same time, it is not allowed to pile a thick layer, otherwise the price will continue to fall.
Ordinary people find tea trees, pick for a day, they have to rush to the Zhuangzi, and if there are many people nearby, they hire a horse-drawn cart, donkey cart, mule cart, and ox cart.
People who are relatively close to Zhuangzi can pick tea for two days and then take a car to deliver it for no more than three days.
Seeing that there was money to be made, the owner of the tea garden negotiated the price with the tea pickers, and a group of people rushed in to pick the buds.
It seems that both parties are happy, one is that they don't have to find tea trees on their own, and the other feels like they have won the money for nothing.
When the first basket of tea leaves was delivered to the village, the farmers began to get busy.
The place where the tea is prepared must be kept secret, and the roasted tea must not be taught, counting on this to make money.
Song De looked at the condition according to the pictures and instructions drawn by Li Yi, and whenever he gave a high price of fifty yuan, he smiled happier than the other party.
Later, the tea makers began to process the tender tea according to different processes, and the finished product rate was different according to the different moisture requirements of the tea.
The drier the tea requirement, the more green tea is needed, and under normal circumstances, green tea is more than four catties of green tea out of one catty of finished products.
If a large number of green tea is sent over, and four or five catties of good buds are selected out of ten catties, then this fried one catty actually belongs to the quality of ten catties out of one catty.
But the buds that have been selected can still be fried.
If you are making very dry tea, you may need to pick out ten catties from twenty catties of green tea and fry one catty.
The young shoots here in Jingzhao Mansion, picked up, five catties out of one catty of green tea, can be sold at a sky-high price.
As for how to sell it, the proprietor has a way.
Next to Zhuangzi, people who don't make honeycomb coal for the time being form a group, hire a carriage with Zhuangzi, and go to pick everywhere.
It had to be hired, money had to be paid, and the cart had to be loaded with hay, salt, and buckets of water.
It is usually a day's journey, and the horses must be given a rest halfway.
Pick for a day, more than half a day, and then rush back and sell the tea buds to Zhuangzi.
However, Zhuangzi promised to give them some poor tea to drink.
Supplement vitamins or something, clean up the stomach and intestines by the way, and don't drink if there is something that is not suitable for tea.
The people in Zhangjia Village did not move, they cleaned up the land and planted cotton this year.
The lunar calendar is February, and the solar calendar is April, and it is time to plant.
Not only the village, but also the Zhuangzi are also planted.
The people of Zhangjia Village cooperated with Li Yi Zhuangzi to plant cotton, Zhuangzi produced seeds and technology, and the villagers were responsible for the work.
Zhuangzi gave the village a lease of land and a hired worker.
It is equivalent to the people in the village earning an extra salary, and their tourism industry will continue to be developed.
Including the breeding of toads and the cultivation of paddy fields, where crabs are raised.
It is equivalent to the Li family Zhuangzi, who got rich first, to drive the place and then get rich.
The same is true for the Huangzhuang in the north, where everyone is waiting to continue to make money this year and then build a new house.
On February 28, the tenth day after the imperial examination, Li Yi stood at the bow of the boat and watched the boat slowly landing.
The boatmen said that ten days is ten days, and it was accurate.
Luoyang Wharf is now Henan Mansion, and the highest governor of Henan Mansion is Henan Yin.
Henan Mu is a remote leader, and a prince said that it was Henan Mu, but he didn't care about anything at all.
At present, Henan Yin's name is Bi Gou, and he is sixty-five years old this year.
According to the information, he will return to Chang'an this year and become the head of the household department, and then he will get sick next year and hang up if he doesn't get better.
Li Yi knew that some of the reasons why the locust plague was not handled well were because of him.
It is estimated that he is old, an old minister, and he stubbornly resists Yao Chong and does not clean up the locusts, so Li Longji transferred him back.
Normally, Yao Chong is in a hurry about the locust plague this year, and he can't do it, and next year he will dare to give a death order if he loses a key person.
The name of the child named Bi Gou is based on the five elements, and the name of his character also has a wooden character next to it.
is also known as outsiders with a group of people, you are an official of the imperial court, how are you outside?
As for the other officials in Henan Prefecture, Li Yi didn't find the information, and they were all unknown in history, so they didn't need to pay attention to it.
Li Yi looked and thought, the boat stopped steadily, and the springboard was hit.
The boatmen helped to carry things down, to send people away, to wash the boats, and by the way, to ask if there was anyone else who wanted to carry the goods, and to take the money and transport it.
Li Yi didn't work, he got off the boat, and from the dock, he saw that on the last day of early April in Luoyang's solar calendar, the weather was very hot, and the water of the Yellow River was obviously shallow.
The grass in the grass on the pier is yellowish, and grasshoppers are jumping there.