Chapter Eighty-Four: New Tea
On the fourth day of Li Yuanjia's return, the spring tea that was fried after picking from Jiangnan arrived.
Quietly, more than a dozen big cars drove in from the east gate of Chang'an City, all the way north to Shengyefang, and then quietly drove into the palace of King Han.
After several years of preparation, the quantity of tea produced this year has increased qualitatively.
A car is hundreds of catties of this year's spring tea, and more than a dozen cars are nearly two thousand catties, carefully stored, and a warehouse specially prepared by Li Yuanjia is stuffed.
took out a small packet of ink paintings and soaked them in a pot, and took a sip, and Li Yuanjia suddenly showed a satisfied smile on his face.
This tastes good.
Although there is no research on tea at all, but now he is also the master who asks them to make tea every day, and he can taste the difference between this new tea and the old tea at home by casually tasting Li Yuanjia - the fragrant taste seems to be a little stronger?
"Even if it's a psychological effect, I admit it!"
After sighing with satisfaction, Li Yuanjia raised his hand and said to Han Lucheng, who was waiting on the side: "Those wooden boxes that you made are all ready?" ”
Licking his somewhat dry lips, Han Lucheng said helplessly: "If you go back to the king, only five of them have been done." The main reason is that the box you made is so delicate that it takes a lot of time just to carve the patterns on it, and most of the carpenters in the family are now helping out in the dumping workshop...... Now you can only make up to two a day! ”
In front of Li Yuanjia, Han Lucheng had no intention of concealing it.
The longer he followed the king, the more he knew about his master, and he knew that at this time, he must not talk nonsense in order to please the king, and he must tell the truth. As long as the reason is simply explained, even if the king is unhappy, he will never be blamed.
As for the wooden boxes that the king wanted, it was really too troublesome to make!
All the best wood is used, the texture is already very hard, and the result is to polish and carve the pattern and color, even if it is a veteran carpenter, it is quite hard to make......
Sure enough, as soon as he heard that he had only done five, Li Yuanjia's expression sank suddenly, but he didn't get angry, he just frowned and said, "The overturning workshop should have been done properly, right?" You ask Wang Pu and Chen Mu to ask, if it's appropriate, draw two people out, hurry up and do more! ”
"Yes, my lord, I'll send someone to ask now!"
Without any hesitation, Han Lucheng immediately bowed and nodded.
He knew what the king wanted those wooden boxes to do, they must be filled with tea as gifts, and the people who gave them were still the top big people in the Tang Dynasty, so naturally he didn't dare to slack off.
But before he could go out to find someone, Li Yuanjia frowned and said, "Wait a while, bring the five boxes that have been made, fill each with half a catty of tea, and then send someone to Jiucheng Palace...... Well, I will write a letter later and bring it together to your majesty! ”
"Yes, my lord."
After Han Lucheng went out, Li Yuanjia couldn't help but shake his head, and then sighed.
What a!
Knowing that Li Shimin doesn't like to drink tea, he loves goat's milk, and it is estimated that these five boxes of tea are also thrown into the treasury of an emperor, and they will never see the light of day again.
But if you don't send it, you really can't!
To put it bluntly, Li Shimin knew that he had planted a lot of tea trees in the south of the Yangtze River, and he would send a large number of new tea to Chang'an City every year. So it doesn't matter if the emperor drinks it or not, you are a younger brother and courtier, you don't know how to give him a little if you have good things, maybe you will give Li Yuanjia small shoes to wear when you turn around - tea, our King Han is of great use!
Thinking that in addition to the emperor, the crown prince, the king of Wei, the old father-in-law and the uncle had to be sent, Li Yuanjia felt a headache. There are so many teas, of course, I don't feel distressed, but this box of tea leaves is really troublesome to make.
And what makes him even more troubled is that the things he wants to send are not only tea, such as the cards that are now very popular in Chang'an City, as well as the Hanwang paper that is now the first class in the world, and of course, there is no other glass on the wheel except for the emperor, and the monopoly man who will inevitably sweep Chang'an in the future......
The emperor, Fang Xuanling, and his uncle Yu Wenshi and, these three must be sent.
As for the two eldest nephews of the crown prince and the king of Wei, Li Yuanjia pondered for a while, and the tea can be sent a little bit, especially Li Tai, the king of Wei, he plans to send him ten boxes and eight boxes directly - he finally met a person who likes to drink tea, Li Yuanjia is naturally very generous.
But other things, sorry, spend money to buy it!
For example, if you plan to sell a piece of glass for 100 yuan this year, Li Yuanjia can give her eldest nephews a 20% discount...... No, let's get a 50% discount, they are also the two bigwigs who are in the limelight at the moment, and they can also help promote it......
While pondering, Li Yuanjia began to write a letter to Li Tai, the king of Wei, borrowing his hibiscus garden for two days.
The time for the trip has just been set, on May 30th.
More than a month is enough time for Li Yuanjia to do everything for this trip, and it is also time for the person who received the invitation to prepare a little......
"Gotcha! Get! ”
Just as Li Yuanjia was considering the words, there was a knock on the door of the study. The ink painting went over and opened the door, and Chunyan came in and saluted: "King, Cheng Erlang is here." ”
"Huh? He's here again? ”
As soon as he heard Cheng Erlang's words, Li Yuanjia's scalp tightened, and the brush in his hand suddenly drew an ugly slash on the white paper!
“…… Yes, my lord, now wait in the room. ”
"Okay, take me there."
Seeing Chunyan's obvious smile, the corners of Li Yuanjia's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but sigh, put down the brush and stood up.
As soon as Cheng Erlang came, he was basically abolished for half a day.
So when he followed Chunyan out, Li Yuanjia couldn't help frowning and complaining: "Tell me, why is this Cheng Erlang like that...... Ahem! Even Fang Jun was able to finish two books in one month, and the third one took another month, but Cheng Erlang's progress was less than two-thirds of Fang Jun's! ”
Speaking of this, Li Yuanjia subconsciously sighed again.
When encountering such a lump of wood, he really has no tricks. If you want to say that Cheng Erlang doesn't have to learn it, it's just that people are really serious, and they don't know how much they use just the small book used to study, and the result is just like the string that doesn't have math in his head, but he can't play it!
But as soon as he finished sighing, Li Yuanjia suddenly thought of what he had just said, and immediately looked at the girl beside him: "Chunyan, two-thirds of what I just said, do you know what it means?" ”
Blinking a pair of big eyes, Chunyan smiled: "Of course you know, King." You let us follow the princess to learn mathematics, everyone naturally dare not slack off, I have already reached the fifth volume. ”
"Yo? It's the fifth volume? ”
After listening to Chunyan's words, Li Yuanjia smiled with some surprise: "I can't see it, you are quite talented in mathematics...... Alas, you said that Cheng Erlang, if you have half of your talent, you won't be able to learn like this......"