In the private room on the third floor of Fengle Building, Miao Xun is pouring tea for Chen Laozu, and the red and yellow tea soup shows the extraordinary nature of this tea. Take a look at the color of the tea soup and then look at a brick-like thing made of tea leaves on the table. Chen Tuan Ancestor stroked the white beard under his chin, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Guangyi, this tea is the first time I have seen it as a teacher, can it have a proper name?" ”

Miao Xun replied while pouring tea: "Back to Master, this tea is called tea brick, the color of tea is extraordinary, but this taste, it is very ordinary, you will know it as soon as you try it!" ”

Hearing Miao Xun's explanation, Chen Jian Ancestor picked up the teacup, sniffed the fragrance of tea, nodded slightly, and then took a sip and closed his eyes to feel the tea rhyme left in his mouth. After a while, he said: "The brown color is thick, the inner quality is pure, and the smoke of pine wood is slightly fragrant, which has the effect of refreshing and refreshing the mind." Although it is not a high-quality tea, it can be regarded as a unique charm. ”

"What the master said is very true." Miao Xun said: "In fact, the taste of this tea is just general, but another way to taste it is a unique charm." ”

"Oh?" Chen Tuan Ancestor wondered.

"Master, wait a minute." Miao Xun said, then brought a small red clay stove to the table, and then mixed the brewed strong tea and boiled ghee together in a small bronze tripod, and then placed it on the burning red clay stove, stirring while boiling.

After a while, seeing that the thick soup in the bronze Xiaoding had been boiled into milky juice, Miao Xun used a strainer made of linen cloth to filter the soup in the bronze Xiaoding into the teacup, and then served it to the interested Chen Tuan ancestor who was watching from the sidelines: "Master, please taste!" ”

Chen Kuan Ancestor nodded and took the teacup, tasted a few sips, breathed a long sigh of relief, and said: "The fruit is extraordinary, with the clear rhyme of tea, the strong fragrance of milk, although the first sip is still astringent, but then it is mellow and fragrant, it is a rare good product." ”

Miao Xun introduced: "Wen Jue named this thing butter tea, in fact, in addition to this thing, Wen Jue also taught a mare's milk wine in the Honglu Temple, although the taste of the disciples did not dare to agree, but the northern barbarians seem to like it very much. ”

"Oh, it turned out to be from Wenfu!" Chen Qian Ancestor smiled.

"Hui Shizun is from Wenfu, and this tea is also on the list of return gifts for envoys from various countries. It's just puzzling that this tea was only given to northern envoys such as Liao, Uighur, and Tubo, while Li Tang, Houshu, Wu Yue and other southern countries did not have this kind of tea brick, although there were also tea gifts. Miao Xun was puzzled.

After closing his eyes and meditating for a while, Chen Tuan Ancestor picked up the tea brick on the table, weighed it in his hand a few times, and then said: "It seems that this thing is the biggest reliance on Wen Jue's statement to move His Majesty to lift the restriction on the sale of cattle." ”

"Oh, Master, has you understood Lord Wen's intentions?" Miao Xun hurriedly asked.

"The reason why you think that this tea tastes ordinary is only because you are a vegetarian all year round, and if you eat meat all year round like the northern herdsmen, you will know the preciousness of this tea." Chen Lao Zu sighed: "Presumably, the production method of this tea must be very simple, and the price will not be too high, because the materials used to make this tea are also very ordinary." ”

Miao Xun nodded and said: "Master, although the products produced by Wenfu have always been expensive, but they are only expensive, but the materials have always been very cheap." It's just that why would the master affirm that this thing is the biggest weight to persuade His Majesty to agree to lift the ban on the sale of cattle? ”

Chen Lao Zu explained: "Because the northern herdsmen will definitely like this kind of tea brick, and it will become an unobtainable food in their lives, so in order to get this kind of tea brick, they can only exchange it with cattle and horses with Wen Jue. ”

"What does the master mean is that I will not be short of cattle and horses in the future?" Miao Xun was surprised.

"Scarcity will still be scarce, but at least there's a way to get it. Regardless of whether it is the Liao, the Uighurs, or the Tibetans, even if they restrict the trade of cattle and horses with our dynasty, they can no longer completely eradicate it from then on, and even if they prohibit it on the surface, this huge interest will prompt them to do it privately. Chen Tuan Ancestor sighed.

Miao Xun was puzzled: "But even so, it can't solve the problem of the scarcity of my cattle!" Those barbarian cattle and horses could not learn to plow the fields without training at an early age. ”

Old Ancestor Chen sighed lightly and said, "I think that Lord Wen must have a solution to this, otherwise he would not be able to convince His Majesty." ”

Miao Xun sighed: "It seems that Wen Jue is planning to use tea and wine to solve the increasingly fierce problem of slaughtering and cultivating cattle among the people!" ”

"Now it seems, it is!" Chen Tuan Ancestor nodded.

Miao Xun was surprised: "But this problem only appeared more than a month ago, could it be that at that time, Wen Jue had already guessed the development of the current situation?" ”

"Don't forget, the initiator of this slaughter of folk cattle is Lord Wen." Chen Jun Ancestor reminded.

Miao Xun was surprised: "Could it be that all this was arranged by Wenjue?" ”

Old Ancestor Chen sighed and said: "If all this is really intentional by Wen Jue, then Wen Jue's wisdom is probably beyond the reach of ordinary people like me, and I am afraid that only the son of destiny as my Taoist ancestor said has such intelligence." But if all this is just a chance meeting, and Wen Jue just follows the trend, then his destiny is to be favored by heaven, and the son of destiny belongs to him! ”

Miao Xun sighed lightly: "But some time ago, we mobilized all the forces of Taoism, and only then did we determine that Your Majesty today is the son of destiny as stated by the ancestor in "Tui Bei Tu". Although Wen Jue's life number is abnormal, it is only a variable. ”

Old Ancestor Chen sighed and said, "Yes! But now Wen Jue's variable has gradually begun to affect His Majesty's decision, and the restriction on the sale of cattle, which has been implemented for thousands of years, has now been abolished. Don't underestimate this matter just because it only involves the ploughing of cattle, you must know that the laws of all dynasties and dynasties first protected the interests of the nobles, and now although they are not protecting the interests of the people, it is the first time that the interests of the people and the nobles are put on the same scale.

This also means that in the future, the people will enjoy the same rights as the nobles in the matter of ploughing cattle, that is to say, there will never be one who migrates three thousand miles for killing cattle, and one who is only fined 100 catties of copper for killing cattle.

Thousands of miles of river embankments collapsed in the anthill, once there was a start, the privileges of the nobles would gradually collapse, which is why there were many fierce and opposing voices in the court. ”

"What is the purpose of this?" Miao Xun frowned.

Ancestor Chen Kuan muttered: "The first sage Mencius said: The people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light. This idea of the people's nobility and gentlemen's light is also an important embodiment of Confucianism, and perhaps Wenjue was also influenced by it. ”

"Could it be that Wenjue is a Confucian disciple?" Miao Xun was surprised.

Chen Chuan Ancestor got up and came to the pavilion window of the private room, looked into the distance, and said slowly: "Judging from Wenjue's past performance, he is proficient in hundreds of skills, and he is more like a disciple of the Mo family, but he can write Confucian Hongwen such as "Three Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Names". It is even more unique to arithmetic, and his book "Elementary Arithmetic" has surpassed many sages, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a generation of grandmasters, and it is not an exaggeration to be a school of its own.

And his mentor, who calls himself Xiaoyaozi, listens to his name, but he is like my Taoist ancestors........

It's hard to choose, so let's take a look........ Look at ........ again."

"........" Hearing Chen Jun's last muttering words, Miao Xun felt a little overwhelmed. Is this still my own master who can see the subtleties and know the past and the present!?

(End of chapter)