The capital is the land of dragons and tigers.

Hundreds of years ago, when the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, the four seas surrendered. There are foreign envoys who come to worship, outside the city of Chang'an, looking up at the tall city wall, shocked for a while, under the agitation of the mood, thinking that they have come to the kingdom of heaven, they have looked at the dust and worshipped.

Outside Chang'an City, people are like wind and horses like dragons, and the traffic is busy all day long, raising the red dust in the sky, so there is a saying that the red dust is rolling.

Since then, China has been known as the Celestial Empire.

Compared with the Chang'an City in the past, the capital of Daxia is now in Beijing, with a high city wall and a wide area, far exceeding the Chang'an City several times in those years. The red door, several feet high, was covered with copper nails the size of a bowl. The city wall is as high as dozens of zhang, standing under the base of the wall and looking up, there is a sense of towering mountains. From left to right, the brown city walls are more than a foot thick, stretching endlessly, like majestic mountains.

At the beginning of the Great Summer, the capital was not in Shangjing, but in Kaifeng, Tokyo. Taizu was bent on going north to recover the mountains and rivers, and the old marshal of the sect, who had the same ambition of the Northern Expedition as Taizu, forcibly crossed the Yellow River several times in his life, but was repeatedly defeated by the Jin State and retreated to the south of the Yellow River. When he was dying, he didn't blink his eyes to death, and shouted three times to Peking University: "Cross the river!" River! River! "Vomited blood and died.

At the end of Taizu's life, he did not cross the Yellow River, which was a lifelong regret for Taizu. After Taizu, Taizong succeeded to the throne. Compared with the eloquent Taizu, Taizong was more belligerent and more eager to regain lost territory. Taizong drove several times to conquer in person, reused the main battle faction generals Yue Xiang and Cao Wen to march north, and forcibly crossed the Yellow River three times, although more than 100,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, but finally defeated the Jin State, all the way to Shangjing, Shengsheng more than doubled the land area, and the great mountains and rivers north of the Yellow River returned to Daxia.

Under the great victory of Taizong, he wholeheartedly emulated the ambition of "those who commit strong men in the Ming Dynasty, although they are far away", and determined to "those who commit strong summers, although they are far away, they will be punished", after attacking Shangjing, Taizong ordered to level the land of white mountains and black waters, and wish that within the four seas, the land of Kyushu, where there are living beings, are all the territory of Daxia.

Yue Xiang, as the main general of the main battle faction that Taizong relied on the most, had a well-known reputation for the Yue family army under his name, and was the main combat corps of Great Xia that terrified the Jin State. Taizong intended to send Yue Xiang out of Shanhaiguan to sweep away the remnants of the Jin Kingdom. Yue Xiang resisted and did not obey, claiming that the current strength of Great Xia was at the end of the crossbow, and if he attacked again, he would definitely be defeated. Taizong was furious, put Yue Xiang in prison for the crime of confusing the army's heart, and ordered Cao Wen to go north and go out of the customs and take Huining, the capital of the Jin Kingdom.

Cao Wen went out of the customs, invincible all the way, invincible, and a month later, most of the land of white mountains and black waters was returned to Daxia. Taizong was overjoyed and promised to seal Cao Wen as the king with a different surname.

There was a voice of opposition in the court, and when Taizu was in power, he had clearly ordered the world to never be crowned a king with a different surname. Taizong's succession to the throne is not the death of the father and the son, but the death of the brother and the younger brother, the voices of the government and the opposition questioning whether the throne of Taizong is orthodox have been repeatedly banned, and Taizong has so openly overturned the last order of Taizu, and for a while, the government and the opposition have discussed a lot. Many Confucian scholars rushed to write a book, asking Taizong to retract his life and issue an edict on the grounds that the law of the ancestors could not be abolished and the last life of Taizu could not be taken away.

Since Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty issued the edict of sin, to the Great Xia, several emperors have issued the edict of sin. During the reign of Taizu, there was a year when natural disasters were frequent, and Taizu wanted to issue an edict against himself, but was dissuaded by his ministers. Now Taizong was asked by the ministers to issue an edict against himself, and he was furious, and after reprimanding the proposed few people, he was sent to Lingnan.

Taizong's move triggered an even greater backlash from the ministers. The ministers jointly wrote a letter, demanding that in addition to revoking the decree of the king with a different surname and issuing an edict against him, Taizong should also recall the exiled officials, appease and reactivate them. Otherwise, the ministers will resign and return to their hometowns.

Different from Taizu's generosity, Taizong's generosity and strength are strong. In the face of the huge resistance of the ministers working together, Taizong is also clear about the struggle between the monarch and the ministers, and there has always been a situation where either the monarch advances and the minister retreats or the minister advances and the monarch retreats. Now is the time to employ people, if the court is unstable, it will inevitably affect the war ahead. In desperation, Taizong decided to back down.

However, at this moment, suddenly a branch arose.

Yue Xiang, who was still in prison, wrote a letter, although the words were earnest, but implied coercion, asking Taizong to follow the example of Taizu's brother and his brother, and pass the throne to the three princes. This move completely angered Taizong, because when the Great Xia Dynasty was established, it was established that military attachés were not allowed to interfere in the affairs of the court, and Taizong immediately ordered Yue Xiang: "Although Qing Yan is loyal, but he holds heavy troops outside, this matter is not what Qing should predict!" And he gave him a glass of wine.

That night, Yue Xiang died violently in prison. After being buried in a beautiful place, there is a pavilion in front of the grave, called the Wind Wave Pavilion.

Yue Xiang's death chilled some of the ministers, some retreated, and some saved their lives. In the end, only a few people remained to continue to give in, and they were degraded by Taizong one by one. Soon after, Taizong officially appointed his eldest son as the crown prince, which was later Zhenzong.

Besides, after Taizong calmed down the dispute with the ministers and gave Yue Xiang to death, he thought that he could sit back and relax from now on and continue his grand hegemony, but the war was tight ahead, and Cao Wen besieged Huining for several months, but he couldn't attack it for a long time, and he suffered heavy casualties.

Whether to continue to send reinforcements or withdraw the troops, Taizong hesitated. A few days later, he received a battle report, Cao Wen was defeated, died in battle, and all the 500,000 elite soldiers he led were annihilated. The Jin State united with Mongolia and invaded on a large scale, and the border was in danger.

Taizong was shocked and urgently summoned his ministers to discuss countermeasures. The main battle faction advocated sticking to Shangjing and then mobilizing troops and horses from all over the country to reinforce Shangjing and strive to ensure the safety of Shangjing. It is not easy to get to Beijing, and you must not give up. The main peace faction believed that at this time it was necessary to withdraw from Shangjing and retreat to Tokyo, and with the natural danger of the Yellow River, it could be guaranteed.

The main battle and the main peace faction quarreled endlessly, and it became a mess. Taizong was overwhelmed, and suddenly slapped the dragon case, and said angrily: "Anyone who dares to claim to give up going to Beijing will be reduced to the people and will never be hired." ”

Everyone saw that Taizong's dragon had made up their minds, so they didn't say more. By the time reinforcements from all over the country arrived in Beijing, more than a month had passed. Shangjing was heavily surrounded by Jin and Mongol soldiers and horses, struggling to support, with countless casualties.

As soon as the reinforcements arrived, Taizong wanted to open the door to meet the battle, but the ministers tried to persuade him to no avail, so he had to follow Taizong out of the city to meet the enemy. Taizong ignored the body of his daughter, charged forward, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted, and he repelled the coalition army for 300 miles.

Taizong was overjoyed and wanted to wipe out the Jinmeng coalition army in one go. At this time, the soldiers and horses were tired and had no strength to fight again, but Taizong insisted on going his own way and continued to move forward. As a result, he was ambushed in Rehe and surrounded by 200,000 allied troops from Jinmeng, and Taizong led his troops to fight for three days and three nights, and his 300,000 troops were almost wiped out before he was able to escape.

After returning to Shangjing, he found that Taizong had been hit by an arrow in his back. Soon after, the arrow wound recurred, and Taizong died of illness in Shangjing. In accordance with Taizong's will, Taizong's body was buried in Shangjing and did not return to Tokyo. In the end of Taizong's life, although he was suspected of killing his brother and succeeding to the throne, he was also born and died in countless battles, and made great contributions to the expansion of the territory of Great Xia.

After Zhenzong succeeded to the throne, he did not go north to fight, he only did two major things in his life, persuading him to learn poetry is one for him, and the other is to go to Beijing.

In the opposition of countless people, Zhenzong insisted on going to Beijing as the capital, and took Tokyo as the accompanying capital, and named Lin'an, which means that the temporary settlement of the king is peaceful. The capital of Great Xia was Shangjing, and the 1,500 miles north of the Yellow River to Shangjing were firmly controlled in the hands of Great Xia.

Zhenzong passed the throne to Xia Jin.

Xia Zhen is the current saint, he ascended the throne at the age of ten, and has been reigning for thirty years now. As a Ming monarch who can be compared with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Xia Zhen had both benevolence and righteousness, and during his reign, he fought in the south and the north, laying the foundation of today's Great Xia territory, not only incorporating all the white mountains and black water into the Great Xia territory, but also returning the northwest and Mobei to Great Xia. What is more far-sighted and stellar is that he also opened the sea ban, and successively set up shipping divisions in Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Quanzhou and other cities to carry out maritime trade, open up the maritime Silk Road, and let the fine porcelain, tea and silk of Daxia be exported to the countries of the South China Sea.

It is Xia Jin's reign of 30 years, the national strength of Great Xia is thriving, the four seas surrendered, and truly achieved the whole world is not the king of the land and the shore of the land, and the country is the first power! After many foreign missions came to Great Xia, they were amazed, and even a few small princes would rather stay in Great Xia and be a small people in Great Xia than return to China to be princes.

Although Xia Zhen fought countless battles and lost money and labor, he was very different from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in that he himself was very frugal. It is precisely because of this that Great Xia did not deplete the treasury as it did when Emperor Wu of Han went to war. And because of the encouragement of commerce in Great Xia, and the very prosperous port trade and abundant tax revenue, Great Xia did not weaken because of the conquest, but due to the expansion of the territory, its strength increased steadily.

"Today's saints are benevolent and pure, but unfortunately the good times are not always there, and now this year is high, but there are no children under the knees, who will inherit the throne, it is a matter of national social safety. And the Holy Dragon's body is not safe, it has been some time, and it will not heal for a long time......"

Although Xia Zhen has been successful in his life, he did not give birth to a son and a half daughter, which is the biggest regret. Li Dingshan cranked the folding fan in his hand, took a sip of Jiancha, sighed, and his eyes fell on the tea lid. At the edge of the tea lid, there is a line of small characters that are not easy to detect, which is a small block of fly's head - good times are always there.

Li Dingshan's eyes looked through the window at the tea flags floating outside the tea shop, the tea flags fluttered in the wind, the sun was just right, and the red tea flags were particularly bright and eye-catching.

The four big characters on the tea banner - good times are always there.

Haojing Changzai Tea Shop is the most prestigious chain tea shop in Shangjing, only in Shangjing, there are at least 100 as many as 100, if it is in the entire territory of Daxia, I am afraid that there are more than 1,000. It is said that there are not only chain operations in Bactria but also stores in neighboring dependent countries and countries in the South China Sea.

"The emperor is seriously ill?" Xiao Jia was dressed in plain clothes, and wore a hat, sitting in the corner, if she didn't pay attention deliberately, almost no one recognized her as a woman, she played with the teacup in her hand, and her eyes stayed on the four words "good times are always there" at the bottom of the cup for a long time, "The emperor is a branch of Taizong, and when the branch of Taizong was passed to the emperor, the people were not prosperous, but the branch of Taizu was flourishing." The eldest prince, the fourth prince and the fifth prince are all descendants of Taizu, and only the emperor and the third prince are after Taizong. Whether to choose one of the princes to succeed to the throne or have another plan depends on the emperor's wishes. ”

Thinking of Xia Xiang again, Xiao Jia's cheeks were slightly red, and she twisted her head to the side, not letting Li Dingshan see her embarrassment: "Calculate the time, Xia Xiang should also enter Beijing, did something go wrong on the way, or was it taken by which lady and became rich?" I heard that the person behind the scenes of the good times is a stunning woman, father, after Xia Xiang entered Beijing, he didn't want to know that the good times were always there, and it was impossible, inns, restaurants, tea shops, good times were always everywhere, and he might have an intersection with the women behind the scenes. ”

"Hahahaha, Jia'er, you ......" Li Dingshan laughed loudly, the woman's mind is really delicate, and she can think of many coincidences, nothing more than worrying that as soon as Xia Xiang enters the land of flowers in Beijing, she will get lost in it, but Xiao Jia's guess is too imaginative, not to mention what is the origin of the woman who is always behind the scenes, just saying that she controls such a huge industry shows that she is by no means an idle person, she must be either rich or expensive, not to mention whether she and Xia Xiang are destined to know each other, take 10,000 steps back, even if she and Xia Xiang know each other, what can she do? She may not fall in love with Xia Xiang, and Xia Xiang may not like her.

After laughing, Li Dingshan picked up the tea leaves packaged in a beautiful bamboo tube, and on the bamboo tube, a poem was engraved: do not envy the golden ring, do not envy the white jade cup, do not envy the Chaoren Province, do not envy the twilight people, envy the Xijiang River, and once came down to Jingling City.

It is the song of the tea saint Lu Yu.

Turning over the bamboo tube, there is a square seal at the bottom, and the square seal is engraved with four small characters in seal style - good times are always there.

Whose industry is the good times, Li Dingshan does not know. Three years ago, when I left Beijing, there was no good time, three years later, the good time is often born, from inns, restaurants, tea shops to tea, God knows what other industries are covered, it is completely the trend of Changhong.

With the good times in just three years, there is no doubt that behind the good times, in addition to the guidance of masters, there will be an incomparably huge force behind the scenes.

"Daddy is not allowed to laugh." Xiao Jia's face turned red, knowing that her father had seen what was on her mind, she couldn't help but be ashamed, "Jia'er knows that it is impossible to be with Xia Xiang, but she has been getting along day and night for three years, and she still likes him." I don't want to, but I can't be the master, people say that women are as beautiful as spring flowers but their lives are as cheap as grass, but I don't believe it. What happened to the woman? Women can also make a living for themselves. ”

"That's right." Li Dingshan nodded slightly, with a look of approval in his eyes, "Jia'er, Daddy has always been optimistic about your prospects." Although you are a woman, you are not half a point worse than most men. Good times are always in an industry controlled by a woman, and you may not be able to make a career like her. ”

Xiao Jia was overjoyed when she heard this: "Daddy really thinks that I can also be rich?" ”

"Don't just be rich, but be rich in the world." Li Dingshan didn't just say to comfort Xiao Jia, with his understanding of Xiao Jia, he believed that with Xiao Jia's intelligence, it was not difficult to achieve a career in Daxia, where business was developed.

Li Dingshan once again looked at the teacups, teapots and tea packaging with the same style and exquisite design, as well as the logo that was obviously well-designed and highly recognizable, and felt more and more that the birth of the good times seemed to have some unknown internal relationship with the serious illness of the saint today. In the end, which of the great princes is the power behind the good times? Or is it someone else? He couldn't figure it out.

"Little Er......" Xiao Jia smiled quietly and called the shopkeeper, "How much is the tea in your store?" ”

The second year younger is about fifteen or sixteen years old, although he is a teenager, he is dark-skinned and tall, like a black tower, he respectfully accompanies the smiling face: "Guest officer, the tea in this store is not sold to the public, only for the guest officers who drink tea in this store." ”

"It's weird...... Can you please come out and see the owner? Xiao Jia thought about it and smiled, "I want to discuss with her how to promote the good prosperity brand." ”

"......" Xiao Er smiled contemptuously, and only after laughing did he realize that he was rude, and said with a busy and serious face, "This guest officer, my master is usually not in Beijing, even if he is, he will not easily show his face, even if the third prince wants to see her today, he must bow down first, whether she sees it or not, it also depends on the mood." When it comes to promoting the brand of Good Times, I don't know where do you think that the brand of Good Times still needs to be promoted? Do you know how many tea shops, restaurants, inns and inns there are in this huge Shangjing City? Thirty percent of the total number of tea shops, restaurants, and inns in Shangjing are signs of good times, do you know? Guest officer, if you want to drink tea, please taste tea with your heart, the way of tea lies in the calm of the heart and the peace of mind. ”

It's amazing, a little second who is always in the good times is so eloquent, Xiao Jia was almost choked by the words of the other party with a gun and a stick, but she is not a good person, and she does not immediately refute the other party, but slowly tastes a sip of tea, and then said slowly: "Under the first taste, the lips and teeth are fragrant, it should be good tea." After the aftertaste, the aroma remains too short, fleeting, either in the process of frying the heat is owed, or when the day is not beautiful, the time is not right. This tea is considered a first-class good tea, but it is still a little short of the special class. ”

Xiao Er opened his mouth, as if his throat was choked by something, he wanted to refute but had nothing to say, and the shock in his heart lingered. Last time, he also overheard the owner talking about this year's new tea, the quality is slightly lacking, it is the continuous rainy weather during the picking, and then the wood used in the roasting process is not old enough, resulting in not meeting the standard of special products. However, the host also emphasized that unless the top tea taster is a master, the average customer will not be able to taste the subtle differences.

In his opinion, the top tea master is either a tea saint like Lu Yu, or a fluttering immortal outsider, and the most unfortunate must be an old man over sixty years old with white hair and a long beard, but he didn't expect that the person who broke the defects of this year's new tea was actually a sixteen or seventeen-year-old woman!

How could such a young woman have such a skillful art of tea tasting? Xiao Er immediately put away his contempt and bowed: "What the guest officer said is very true, I have been taught." ”

Xiao Jia was not modest, calmly accepted Xiao Er's salute, picked up the bamboo tube, and flipped it over: "The logo of good times is printed at the bottom of the tube, which is easy to be ignored and is not conducive to the promotion of the signboard." And although the bamboo tube is elegant, it is not delicate or high-grade, so it is better to use lacquer packaging. Engrave 'good scene' on the top of the lid, engrave 'always there' on the top of the cylinder, most people have the psychology of liking symmetry, when covering the lid, like to align up and down, so that 'good scene' corresponds to 'always there', and over time, 'good scene is always there' will be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. ”

Xiao Er was stunned on the spot, the expression on his face was uncertain, puzzled, confused, and unbelievably shocked!

Li Dingshan smiled, and was very relieved in his heart, yes, Jia'er has really grown up and has lived up to his teachings over the years. From the moment Jia'er followed him, he decided to cultivate Jia'er into a force that could call the wind and rain, yes, he firmly believed that Jia'er, like Xia Xiang, was a rare and manufacturable material. The difference is that Xia Xiangzhi is in officialdom, and Jia'er is in business.

In fact, he knows more about Jia'er than Xia Xiang.

When I met Xiao Jia, Xiao Jia was only five years old. Five-year-old Xiao Jia lived on the streets, almost sold to Qinglou by traffickers, after he rescued Xiao Jia, he adopted her as a righteous daughter, raised her to adulthood, and taught her many things, not only literacy, but also strategy and business. Yes, maybe others can't understand why Li Dingshan wants to teach a woman strategy and the way of doing business, but Li Dingshan himself knows that although Daxia has a clear atmosphere, women still can't seek a career through studying, and they can't join the army.

Xiao Jia is smart and witty, although she is not as knowledgeable as Xia Xiang, but she also has her own fickle side. The way to be an official lies in calmness, generosity, and talent, as majestic and firm as a mountain. The way of doing business is to be changeable and changeable, gathering and flowing like flowing water, water is amorphous, and only by following the trend can we embrace all rivers.

Li Dingshan has intended to cultivate her business acumen since Xiao Jia was sensible. Xiao Jia never let him down, he was thorough at one point, and many things were much better than he expected.

Today's events made him firm in his judgment, Xiao Jia's talent in business is no less than Xia Xiang's talent in reading. If he does his best to cultivate a Xia Xiang and a Xiao Jia in his life, even if he dies in a cloth cloth and never returns to the court, he will have no regrets.

"Guest officer ......" Xiao Er's throat squirmed a few times, remembering that the host told that if he met a first-class tea master, he must be treated as a guest and let her know in time that now the tea master is now, but the master is far away in Quanzhou, he does not dare to slack off, "I don't know if I can ask the guest officer to leave a name sticker, and when my master comes back, I will come to visit." ”

"Don't dare to work your master." Xiao Jia took a pen and paper, brushed a few brushes, drew a sketch of lacquerware, and left a "Xiao" character at the sign-off place, "When your master comes back, I will know, and I will visit you again." ”