What Wang Lucao said was as if he had stabbed Jiang Liu's heart twice, Jiang Liucao flattened his mouth and stopped talking.

Wang Lucao's teapot is small and exquisite, and a pot of tea is enough to pour four cups of tea at most.

Wang Lucao looked sideways at Jiang Liuxuan and said, "Are you coming?" ”

Jiang Liusu was extremely happy, picked up the teapot with both hands, took the opportunity to play with it, and kept saying: "This teapot mud glaze is really much finer than mine." ”

He smirked twice and said, "I remember that my father once taught me that when making tea in the Suwu area, it is usually fried in a magnetic bottle with good tea, and the heat is measured according to the heat. ”

He looked at Wang Lucao with a smile and asked, "Brother Wang, are you willing to give up the good tea in your bag?" ”

Wang Lucao smiled and looked at Yumo, who presented several porcelain bottles and jars, and said, "Son, it's all here." ”

Jiang Liusu's eyes lit up when he saw these bottles and cans, and said with a smile: "Eh, I already knew that you were hiding good things, but I didn't expect so much, Wang Lu you really stingy, how good it would be to take it out earlier." ”

Wang Lucao looked at Shen Kang and said, "These are mostly local famous products in Suzhou, and my family's tea house went to try the tea, and the quality is excellent." ”

Shen Kang arched his hand and said, "The little brother has a good mouth today." ”

Wang Lucao picked up a white porcelain jar, opened the lid, and said: "This is Baiyun tea, produced in the white clouds of Huangshan Mountain on Taihu Lake, where the lake is surrounded on three sides, and the water vapor has been steaming into clouds and mist for many years, and the tea is blessed with unique nature. The method of pot brewing in the land of Su and Wu, after brewing, the color is like the milk of jade pulp, clear and clear, the shape is like a bird's tongue, and the taste is like an olive. Picking Baiyun tea is extremely difficult, in a specific season, climb to the top of Baiyun Mountain, take its delicate buds and leaves, and then make it by killing, baking, picking, and making fire. ”

Shen Kang took the tea jar immediately, put his palm on the mouth of the can, sniffed it gently, and nodded: "It's refreshing, it's really extraordinary." ”

Jiang Liusu took the tea jar and asked, "Just brew this Baiyun tea?" ”

Wang Lucao picked up a cyan jar again and said, "This is Tianchi tea, which is also a famous product in Suzhou." ”

Shen Kang took the teapot again and sniffed it.

Jiang Liuxuan was impatient, and said, "This is good, that is good, which can we drink?" ”

Wang Lu said: "These two kinds of tea are rare and good teas, but the one that wins my heart the most is not one of these two, but this frightening fragrance." ”

Jiang Liushu said: "Don't be me, I don't understand, this terrifying fragrance can be regarded as the best Suzhou tea." He paused, and then said, "It's just that these teas are not cheap, how many silver taels did you spend?" ”

Wang Lu said: "In total, it's about five taels of silver." ”

Jiang Liu looked at him in surprise and asked, "Five taels of silver?" How can it be! Which tea shop owner is crazy to sell you such high-quality tea at such a low price? ”

Wang Lu said: "I only said that I went to the tea house to try the tea, but I didn't say that I bought the tea at the tea house." ”

Shen Kanghu said suspiciously: "Tea tax, is it very heavy?"

Jiang Liusu smiled and said: "It's like the salt tax, which is obviously one out of twenty, but in fact, it has reached four or five out of twenty." All these names are for the sake of competing with the people. The same goes for tea taxes. Daming tea tax line tea introduction. The imperial court ordered merchants to buy tea in the production area, and the merchants had to pay off the "money citation" before they could transport the tea for sale. The imperial court stipulated: for every 100 catties of tea, 200 yuan will be introduced. In some special areas, the way of collecting tea tax is also different, such as Shaanxi and Sichuan, which take one out of ten, that is, take one out of ten to exchange horses. ”

Jiang Liuxuan chuckled, looked at Wang Lucao, and said: "You are smart, you have learned to buy private tea, I don't dare to drink this tea, if you land on the shore in a while, you will be arrested by the imperial court, but the gains outweigh the losses." ”

Wang Lu said: "Who said this is private tea? ”

Jiang Liushu tightened his eyebrows and asked, "Eh, you don't sell Guanzi anymore, how did you buy the tea?" ”

Wang Lu Cao said: "I took the time to go to the top of Baiyun Mountain, as well as various tea-producing places, to give rice to tea farmers, recently the price of rice grain in Suzhou Prefecture has overflowed, those tea farmers are worried that they can't afford to buy rice grain, after receiving the grain, a thousand thanks." In order to thank me, they gave me these teas, and I couldn't refuse, so I reluctantly accepted them, and you said, what law have I broken? ”

Hearing Wang Lucao's words, Jiang Liuxuan was dumbfounded, is there still such a divine operation in the world?

Jiang Liusu tugged at the corners of his lips and said, "Give rice to farmers?" ”

Wang Lucao nodded nonchalantly: "Yes." ”

Jiang Liusu smiled and asked, "The other party is very grateful?" ”

Wang Lucao was at the same frequency again, and nodded slowly: "That's right." ”

Jiang Liu asked with a smile: "You reluctantly accepted the thank you gift?" ”

Wang Lu smiled and said, "How? ”

Jiang Liushu arched his hand and said: "Admire, admire." ”

Wang Lucao smiled and said: "The farmers are simple and enthusiastic, but they can't be pushed, as for the tea tax, how can it be counted in the thank-you gift?" I'm a talented person, and I'm not a businessman, so why don't I talk about tea tax, right? ”

Jiang Liuxuan smiled lowly and said, "You are still cunning and cunning, you have saved so much silver, and you will be on the shore for a while, you have to invite me and Shen San to have a good meal." ”

Wang Lucao pointed to the teapot and said, "Make a pot of tea first, and I'll do it on the shore." ”

In the process of brewing tea, Shen Kang was thinking about the tea tax, and couldn't help laughing in his heart: This Zhu Baba is worthy of being born in bitterness, and his hatred for businessmen has really reached a certain level, so he will come up with so many ways to rectify businessmen.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want his dynasty to become the Qin Dynasty or the Sui Dynasty and die as the second emperor, so he designed a system for the Ming Dynasty that applied to him.

In order to stop the tyranny in his own body, he favored the successor of his relatively benevolent son Zhu Biao, rather than Zhu Di, the king of Yan, who was closest to his personality.

He hoped that the Ming Dynasty would eventually rule the world with benevolence, and in order to provide a good governance environment for the crown prince, he killed meritorious officials, set up brocade guards, and abolished the prime minister who threatened the imperial power and replaced it with a cabinet system.

In order to prevent his descendants from weaving straw mats like Liu Bei, he left titles for several generations of his children and grandchildren, set a salary, stipulated food and food, and was not allowed to go out to make a living.

In order to prevent the eunuchs from being dictated by eunuchs like the Han Dynasty, he ordered the eunuchs not to interfere in politics.

In order to let the common people have food to eat and not rebel, he explicitly ordered the peasants to be the foundation, suppressed the merchants, and stipulated that the merchants were not allowed to wear fabrics above the yarn.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought that he had laid a foundation for his descendants for 10,000 years, and he was thinking for his descendants, which can be said to be a lifetime of sadness and calculation.

But history often likes to joke with people the most, and the wise Zhu Yuanzhang never imagined that things would develop in the opposite direction as he envisioned.