Tea has existed in China for a long time.

However, the era when it spread throughout the country as a national drink was in the Tang Dynasty and the era after Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.

After the Song Dynasty, tea was familiar, because of the iron pot and fried tea, so brewing with water to drink fried tea became the mainstream way of drinking tea.

Before the Tang Dynasty, tea had a strange status and a variety of ways to drink it.

The earliest tea was used as a medicine for illness and as a sacrifice for sacrifices.

At that time, people did not have an iron pot, did not know how to fry tea, and did not drink tea water by soaking, so they naturally did not think that tea was a drink, but regarded tea as a medicine.

During the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, tea began to gradually change from medicine to high-end drinks, and some of the dignitaries in the court liked to drink tea in their own way.

This kind of tea soup with a lot of seasonings.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, tea was further popularized, and in the Tang Dynasty, tea was gradually popularized.

After the Song Dynasty, tea was a favorite drink of the general public, and in some places, it was almost a day without tea.

The period in which Guo lived was still the era when tea was transferred from sacrifices and medicines to high-end drinks, and some people still used tea as medicine, and some people used it as sacrifices.

Of course, there are also some wealthy people who drink tea in a strange way created by themselves to strengthen their bodies.

During the Tang Dynasty, the way of drinking fried tea with ginger, garlic, salt and mutton fat began to appear during this period.

Anyway, Guo has been fighting on the battlefield for so many years, and he has never thought about drinking tea.

Drinks and water are drunk on informal occasions, and wine is served with table wine on formal occasions, and in any case, there is no shortage of drinks in his daily life, such as juices, honey, and strange drinks mixed with water from various fruits and vegetables.

So for a long time, Guo didn't expect the existence of tea.

Before, after Cao Xiu escorted Liu Zhang and others back from Chengdu, he brought him some gifts, such as silk, rare insects, etc., including some tea leaves.

After seeing these dried tea leaves, Guo was surprised for a long time, and for a while he didn't recognize that this was tea.

Cao Xiu thought that Guo didn't know how to use this thing, so he personally demonstrated how the big family in Shuzhong drank this high-end and rare commodity.

Watching Cao Xiu set up a small pot and boil the tea leaves into a small pot of [soup] with a strange color and even more strange taste, Guo swallowed with difficulty.

A variety of ingredients that can only be put in when cooking.

And salt.

And oil.

After taking a sip, Guo felt the malice from this world.

Guo feels that they don't drink tea as a simple leisure drink, but more often as a soup in cooking, and more likely to use tea as a tonic.

Cao Xiu drank very happily.

Guo didn't stick to it.

The smell was too much for him to bear.

But this did not prevent Guo from thinking of a way to make money by planting tea trees in Jiangnan, harvesting tea leaves, and then roasting tea to make tea leaves that can be soaked and drunk.

Since it has the ability to sweep the country and even the world in the future, it is enough to prove that the charm of tea can conquer all mankind.

The fragrance before the entrance, the slight bitterness at the beginning of the entrance and the sweetness after the aftertaste always make Guo someone want to stop.

And tea really has many benefits for the human body.

Whether it was out of real benefits, or the habits of his previous life, or the need to make money, Guo Peng felt that it was necessary for him to use his position as emperor to advance the historical process of tea in China.

As the emperor, Guo had the capricious capital to do what he said, so he immediately asked the inner court to send reliable people to the Jiangnan area for layout.

Guo chose to start building a tea garden on a large scale in the northern section of Huiji County, that is, in Qiantang County, near Hangzhou Bay.

He sent someone to plant tea trees, studied the techniques and techniques of planting, and brought an iron pot to use as a tool for roasting tea.

Guo told the people in the inner court to let them fry the tea in an iron pot, fry the bright green tea leaves until there was no moisture, and then send them back to Luoyang for Guo to try how it tasted.

Because they didn't know what kind of fried dried tea the emperor liked the most, the people in the inner court prepared many kinds of fried tea leaves in order to please the emperor.

Some are completely dried up, and some retain humidity, which makes Guo someone cry and laugh.

But it's okay to do this, Guo also has the kung fu to taste a little bit which feeling is his favorite.

And finally regained the real feeling of drinking soaked tea water.

The fresh aroma intoxicated him, and in an instant, it made him feel like he was out of order, and he felt like he was back in his previous life.

Although I don't know what kind of tea this is, I don't know how to make the price geometric, and I don't know how to make the tea taste better.

But that feeling is real, it's the feeling of drinking green tea.

That's enough, as long as Guo brings up the rhythm of drinking tea, someone will definitely make up everything in the future.

Many, many years later, tea will also be popular throughout the country.

All kinds of varieties will appear, all kinds of roasted tea techniques will appear, different tea drinking customs will also appear, and there will also be tea fairies and tea saints, which will perfectly summarize the tea culture.

There will be everything that should be there, and what is lacking now is just time.

And for now, it's just that Guo has a new type of drink besides boiled water and table wine.

It's okay to drink tea instead of drinking water and drinking alcohol all the time.

Sweet drinks, slightly sour table wine, this is not Guo someone's liking, and the aftertaste of tea after being slightly bitter makes Guo feel happy and relaxed.

Feeling that the time had come, Guo Peng began a wave of operations, spreading his way of drinking tea in the court, introducing it to the ministers, and personally named the tea [tea].

Not long after, under the leadership of Guo someone, a large number of high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the DPRK and China directly crossed the stage of sencha with green onions, ginger, garlic, salt and mutton fat, and directly entered the stage of drinking tea soaked in boiling water.

Although I don't know if this will make China's tea culture lacking, but as far as Guo himself is concerned, it is really difficult to accept that kind of tea soup.

It's easy to promote it to the people.

Because Guo Peng likes it, the ministers also like it, and the so-called good ones must obey them.

Soon, the bureaucracy also began to like this simple steeping drink, and really thought that this tea with a slightly bitter fragrance but a lingering aftertaste tasted good.

However, because this thing is exclusive to Guo someone, only rewarded, not sold, some people know what tea is, but they don't know how to operate this way of drinking tea, so they are blind.

Tea was soon recognized as a high-end luxury, which was only available to emperors and dignitaries, and was difficult for others to enjoy.

It was also at this time that Guo realized that he could let the inner court run the tea business, monopolize the national tea supply, and make tea into a high-end luxury product to cut the leeks of the rich during the period when the tea production was low and the tea production was even lower.

As soon as he said and did it, Guo immediately ordered the tea business to be included in the management system of the East Factory, so that Su Yuan could control the overall situation.

He ordered Dongchang to recruit people to expand tea gardens and tea cultivation bases in Qiantang, and began to plant and cultivate tea trees in large quantities.

And began to test a large number of roasted tea, from which to explore the method of high success rate and high tea rate, and further summarize the experience and technology, and gradually light up the necessary technology of the tea industry.

Before that, tea still had to exist as a high-end luxury to make money for Guo.

Since there is something good at the top, how can you let go of such a good opportunity?