In later generations, whenever a guest came to the house, the host would generally greet the guest with a cup of tea and invite the guest to drink it slowly.

When did Chinese start drinking tea?

According to written records, there were in the Western Han Dynasty, and after the opening of the Tang Dynasty, China's "tea ceremony" has been flourishing, drinking water and putting tea leaves, has been popularized to thousands of people, so drinking tea has become a habit of life for the common people.

There is a demand for a market, a large number of people engaged in the production of tea, in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the output of tea has a considerable scale, with the increasing sales volume, tea planting, tea picking, tea making, sales has formed a stable industrial chain, even the grade of tea, the type of tea has been strictly divided, hundreds of thousands of people rely on "tea" for a living, tea has also produced tens of millions of sales share.

However, the Tang government at that time did not pay much attention to the management of tea, and after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, the treasury could not make ends meet, and the imperial court filled the treasury, and many goods were listed as taxation items, and the hot tea business bore the brunt.

The Tang government adopted the suggestion of "one of the ten taxes" of Zhao Zan, the head of the household department, and began to tax tea, and China's tea tax began until the Qing Dynasty.

On the basis of following the tea tax law of the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty pioneered the implementation of the state monopoly, that is, the tea system.

The system is that tea farmers in tea-producing areas are taxed on tea, and different catties are set according to the situation each year, and the tea farmers pick tea leaves and sell them to the government, which then sells them wholesale to merchants or sends them to government stores for sale.

After the implementation of the tea monopoly, the tea tax could increase millions of yuan for the Song court every year, which can be described as a profiteering business.

In order to more conveniently manage the orderly progress of the tea trade, the Song Dynasty also set up a special "Tea and Horse Division", whose duty was to "take advantage of the tea and use it in Zuobang; Where the city horses in the four Yi, the rate of tea exchange. ”

In order to protect the collection of tea tax, the government also formulated strict laws, stipulating that "those who hide tea and do not send it to officials and smugglers will be counted as guilty if they do not enter it", and in order to protect the tea area, "those who destroy tea trees in gardeners will be counted as the law." ”

In order to crack down on illicit tea dealers and tax evasion, the imperial court enacted a cruel criminal law: "The chief official who trades tea privately and consistently kills five hundred." "The patrol guards smuggle tea and still add one to the other. Anyone who is a gangster who sells illicit tea with a cane, and who is arrested and resists in a lawsuit, will die! ”

In the second year of Zhenghe, in order to alleviate the contradiction between the imperial court and the merchants and the people, Song Huizong agreed to Cai Jing's "Zhenghe Tea Law", giving tea farmers and merchants a certain degree of autonomy in production, thus mobilizing the enthusiasm of tea farmers and businessmen, increasing tea by more than 12 million catties, and government taxes of 10 million yuan, which shows how important the role of fighting chicken blood is.

So the dog flickered, well, the second plan for Wu Lan was the "flower tea" of Huazhai!

The flower tea made by the little yellow flower, I drank it deeply in my heart at that time, the tea tasted sweet, and there was a faint fragrance of grass and trees, so the dog felt that the sale of flower tea should be able to do.

Today's tea price in Longshi City is 70 yuan a catty, I heard Hua 14 say that the mountains near his home are full of this kind of small yellow flowers, and the dog does not ask for much, pick it 100,000 catties, and the task given to him by the marshal is also passed.

The yamen in charge of tea in Longzhou is called the Whistleblowing Tea Supervision Division, which happens to be under the control of Su Da Fatzi, and when the time comes, he will lobby and lobby him, and he will naturally not stumble on himself, so the government will be able to handle it.

Although the flower grows in the flower village, but to become "flower tea" you need Wang Jian's help, financial and material resources are an important part of the early investment, but the most important thing is the "business route" of Qingshui Village, the small yellow flower is only transported out to the market to sell into silver, it is called "tea", otherwise it is still just "wild flowers".

The dog pondered all the way, picking flowers and making tea, this link can let the people of Huazhai come, and the transportation to the market is naturally handed over to the people of Qingshuizhai, and they only need to go through the door, as long as the first transaction is made, the rest can be thrown to Wu Dashuai.

As for the tea leaves, is anyone buying?

The dog scoffed, in today's territory, there are only merchants who can't buy goods, and there is really no goods that can't be sold, and the taste of yellow flower tea is not inferior to other kinds of tea on the market.

The reason why Huanghua tea can't go out is that Huazhai is located in a remote area and has a large transportation cost.

The second is that no one wants to make the flower tea that was painstakingly made a wedding dress for the government in the end.

These two dogs are not afraid, the road is not passable, the people will be recruited to build the road, there is a handsome to support the matter is very simple, the second point, I am looking for a way to make money for the government, and I am afraid that the government will rob the government? Wu Dashuai can hold a knife in his hand, so the officials below dare not rob it, and the officials above can't grab it.

That's the thing, looking at the curious eyes of Wang Zhizhai and his two wise men, the dog smiled and took out a handful of tea leaves from his pocket.

Each of them picked up a handful, sniffed it in its nose, put it in its mouth and chewed it again.

"Phew, Brother Zhao, isn't this the wildflower tea sold by the villagers on the street?"

Wang Zhi picked up the bowl of tea and looked at the dog with a frown.

"By the way, the business I'm going to talk about is this wildflower tea?"

Wang Jian sprayed the smell of smoky wine in his mouth and asked curiously in front of the dog: "This wild flower tea is picked by the villagers to drink for themselves, and they can't buy the price, and the flower village is narrow and narrow, what can this business do?" ”

The dog avoided his mouth without leaving a trace, picked up a cup of tea and smiled at him: "I heard that when Wang Zhizhai was young, in order for the people of Qingshui Village to live a good life, he ran around looking for business routes? ”

"Hahaha, these are all stupid things that the old man did when he was young! It's not worth mentioning again, haha! ”

Don't look at what Wang Jian said in his mouth is not worth mentioning, but that look is obviously waiting for a group of people to flatter him, and the dog just wants to vomit, but for the sake of the task, he has to arch his hands and praise:

"The kid is now going to follow your example!"

The three of them looked at each other, and Wang Da, who was sitting on Wang Jian's left hand, gave a salute to the dog and said: "Brother Zhao has the perseverance to work hard, and this business can naturally be successful, but I want to remind you that this tea business is government-run, not to mention how heavy the tea tax is, it's just the way of this government, not only to go through the state and county, but also ......."

The dog looked at this person and felt a little crooked, you said that you should study well and be a slave, and you would be a slave to others, which was really embarrassing to the reader, so the dog looked down on him, so he took out a volume of documents from his arms, threw it on the table with a bang, and looked at Wang Jian silently.

Wang Da picked it up and looked at it, his expression was respectful, and he hurriedly clenched his fists and confessed: "It's too much to say, with Wu Dashuai's military order, this business is naturally free of taboos!" ”

Wang Jian, who was next to him, heard him say this, and hurriedly took it over to take a closer look, and after reading it, he picked up the wine cup and laughed at the dog: "Brother Zhao, why didn't you say it earlier if you have Wu Shuai's Lingwen, don't worry, this business is useful to my Qingshui Village, you just have to say, brother, I will cooperate with my heart!" ”

The dog carefully put away the official documents, and also raised his wine glass to the three people in front of him and smiled: "Brother Wang, don't blame, the big marshal said, you can't take his token everywhere to fake the tiger, if he hears about it, he will send someone to catch me and go back to eat the board, so the little brother has to be cautious, in the final analysis, this errand is also to buy a financial road for the army, the gold thief has suffered a big loss this year, and he can't say that he will raise troops next year, and the marshal often says that the people and financial resources of my Lizhou West Road are exhausted, and if the war resumes, I don't know how many battles I can last!" That's why I have my little brother. ”

"If the flower tea thing is done, there will be more time to bother Qingshui Village in the future, the boy is here, for the handsome and for the millions of people on Lizhou West Road, thank Wang Zhizhai and the two elder brothers for their help."

The three of them hurriedly raised their glasses, saying that they didn't dare to dare, and touched one with the dog.

"I'm just exploring the way this time, if the road can be cleared, this business will be handed over to Wu Dashuai, and then there will be officials sent by him to take care of this business!" So some tea money, commission or some other amounts, let's not talk about it for now, Brother Wang, what do you think? ”

What can Wang Jian do? If such a business can be successful, as the saying goes, the first month is the first to get near the water, and the benefits of his Qingshui Village will naturally not be able to run away, so he is happy to see the business of flower tea.

"Naturally, don't worry, dog, my brother still said that, as long as there is a place for me in Qingshui Village, just open your mouth!"

The dog nodded, picked up the wine glass and touched one of the three people in front of him, and this is how Qingshui Village is done.

After the people of Qingshui Village entered the city, they went to Yamen to hand over their errands, and they went home, and the people of Shangzhai originally said that they would return the next day, and then they came to see the people of Huazhai go home, and a group of people really couldn't help the idea of going home, so they went out of the village overnight and went home.

The rest of the people naturally couldn't leave, so they had to live in the big camp, they lived in the big camp, and the dog led a few people with official status to live in the pavilion.

After taking a hot bath and spending two pennies to hire a pedicure to pinch his feet, he lay on the bed with a sour body, and fell asleep in a few breaths.

When I woke up, I got dressed and got out of bed to wash, and I saw a beautiful woman walking out of Tang Laosan's house, this is an old disrespectful guy, the dog rushed to his door, spat fiercely, and turned his head, Tang Xiaoer and Tang Xiaoqi also walked out of the house, so they had to cover their faces and hurriedly run.

After breakfast, the group packed up their things and prepared to leave, it stands to reason that the dog has to follow them, but the dog thinks that he has to come again, so let them go first, and he and a few people follow Hua Fourteen to Huazhai first.

At the gate of the village, the two sides separated the group, all the way to Longzhou, the other way to the flower village, as the brother of the flower fourteen, the dog naturally could not come to the door empty-handed, so he bought a lot of needles and threads in the Qingshui village, and the fourteenth and others also paid for things when they saw this, and the group of people who were grinding and grinding did not set off until noon.

Hearing that the two of them were leaving again, Wang Hou, who was originally hiding in the house and sulking, generously forgave the two of them and chased after them on horseback, his father Wang Jian was naturally reluctant, but compared to going to the front line, there was nothing to worry about going to Huazhai, so he arranged for two Zhaiding who could fight to follow Wang Hou, and in this way, a group of dogs embarked on the road to Huazhai.

The spring mountain forest is like a little lady wearing a green flower skirt, the beauty is intoxicating, close your eyes and take a deep breath, a cool breath is swirling in the internal organs, the birds hidden in the branches of the trees, make a pleasant chirp, the spring water does not seem to want to be robbed of the limelight, roll up a wave, boom will be the pebbles blocking the way into the waterhole, two deer who are drinking water are startled and run away, in the blink of an eye into a grass full of pink flowers to run away without a shadow.