Judging by their expressions, these ministers are not convinced. There are a few of these people who are tea lovers, and what an elegant thing it is to taste tea, I can't imagine what it is like to drink tea with a greasy body and a smell.

Li Buqi said with a smile: "I wonder if you officials will be sad if you don't drink tea for ten days?" Therefore, once you get used to drinking tea, it is difficult to quit, not to mention that drinking tea can indeed eliminate many ailments of Fan.

Chen heard that habits are actually very easy to develop, such as raising a pig, if you knock on the trough before each feeding, as long as you knock on the trough after ten or twenty days, the pig will come, regardless of whether there is food in the trough. So as long as you let the Fan people know that drinking tea is good for them, it won't be long before the Fan people will develop the habit of drinking tea by themselves. ”

Linking feeding pigs and drinking tea together made everyone's faces, including Zhao Zhen, turn into buns. Several generals bowed their heads deeply, holding back their laughter.

Ren Bu asked, "If habits are so easy to form, why do they need ten years?" ”

"One is that the longer the habit lasts, the harder it is to break it. The second is that only a few people drink tea at the beginning, and it will take time for the habit of drinking tea to spread, and the kid estimates that it will take about ten years. ”

Zhao Zhen said: "I have waited for ten years. Besides, it would be nice to be able to exchange tea for horses without spending money. ”

Wang Juzheng, the governor of the council, asked: "Do you want to make these soldiers accustomed to drinking tea first?" ”

"Yes. His Majesty was asked to send a medical officer to examine the health of these soldiers and recommend them to drink tea. The minister can also try to make a kind of food that the fan people like, so that the fan people like tea more. When these people leave Beijing, please give them some more tea. Since they are fans, they must associate with other people. They are accustomed to drinking tea, and the benefits of drinking tea will be passed on to other people by them. ”

Lu Yijian said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter can be tried. Wang Juzheng said: "This matter does not cost anything, and the minister seconded it." Ren Bu also said: "The minister seconded the proposal." ”

Li Buqi also said: "The kid thinks that this matter will not be done overnight, it will take several years to work, and it needs to be promoted by a special person, so that it can be consistent and easy to achieve results." ”

Zhao Zhen looked at Lu Yijian, and Lu Yijian said to Zhao Zhen: "The minister thought that he was not in a hurry in advance, and Li Bu would take care of this matter for the time being, and it would not be too late to set up a special person to promote it when the results were seen." ”

Zhao Zhen said: "Then so be it." Then he turned to the inner servant Du Zhi Wang Shouzhong: "You help Li Buqi to do a good job of making the feudal soldiers accustomed to drinking tea." ”

Wang Shouzhong hurriedly bowed down and agreed, and when Zhao Zhen drove back to the palace, he came over and asked, "General, I don't know what you want to do about this feudal soldier?" ”

Hehe, isn't it just to promote health supplements? When he was in college, he also posted advertisements on the streets. Li Buqi immediately made a work schedule and asked Wang Shouzhong to arrange it according to the above requirements. Li Buqi only had two things to do personally, one was to train the sales skills of the imperial doctor who was going to be sent to examine the body of the feudal soldiers, and the other was to make milk tea.

Gathering more than a dozen doctors with more skillful mouths, Li Buqi mainly told them about the significance of selling tea to the feudal soldiers for the country, and said that it was the credit of their imperial doctors to successfully sell tea to the Fanren, and when the Tai Doctors' eyes were bright, they would send them to check the illness of the Fanren. For the sake of his glorious image, he didn't dare to talk about sales tactics at all. If the imperial doctors knew that Li Buqi had that kind of goods, he might have to bear the infamy of a black-hearted businessman in the future.

Then he used the milk and ghee found by Wang Shouzhong to boil milk tea to teach people to learn to boil milk tea and butter tea, and then boiled it for the feudal soldiers to drink.

Tea is really a good thing, or the Tibetan and Mongolian compatriots in the future will drink it every day. Li Buqi's promotion of tea was more effective than he expected, and when the feudal soldiers left Bianliang, many of them sold their surplus horses and exchanged them for tea and other goods.

Zhao Zhen, who had been paying attention to this matter, was very happy to see that Li Buqi immediately exchanged tea for a horse, so he officially appointed Li Buqi to be the official of tea and horses, which became Li Buqi's first dispatch. But this is a later story, after teaching Wang Shouzhong's subordinates to boil milk tea, Li Buqi made every effort to prepare for meeting with the maritime merchants.

This meeting was set at Wuweifang, and Uncle Qin set aside a single room. The sons and daughters of Cao, Gao, Shi, Wang, and Pan in the capital all heard about this, and they all came to Wuweifang early this day to see what Li Buqi wanted to get back from overseas. After Cao Tong arrived, he said: "You have also kept it secret for so many days, today this mystery is revealed, let everyone take a look first?" ”

People always have to be paid for running errands, Li Buqi asked Lu Xiaopang to take out a bunch of picture scrolls and open them one by one in front of everyone.

"This is a loofah, born in the South China Sea, when it is young, it is cooked, and when it is old, it becomes a tendon, and it is best to use it for scrubbing."

"This thing is called cauliflower, it is a kind of vegetable and vegetable, born in the land of Daqin."

"This thing is called cabbage, and it was born in the land of Great Qin."

"It's called crocus, and it's a medicinal herb, and pollen can be used as a spice. Born in the west of the heavens. ”

"This thing is called a pea, it was born in the east of the body poison Qin and Great Qin, and it can also be eaten as a dish."

"It's called an onion, and it's probably born near the big food. It is best served with stews and boiled fish. ”

"This thing seems to be called cranberry, probably born west of Daqin, very tasty."

"It's called lavender, and it's grown in a place called Frank, and it's very good for smoking clothes."

"This thing is called castor, and it is born with poison in the body. Seed oil can be used to anoint cars and can also be used as lamp oil. The best thing is that you can grow it without using good ground,"

Cao Tong smacked his tongue: "The world is unimaginable, there are so many useful things?" ”

Li Buqi took the opportunity to give them popular science: "In fact, there are many useful things, even my Great Song Dynasty has a lot of good things, but they can't be shipped and used." If it can be shipped out, it is easy to exchange thousands of copper coins. What do you think? Do you want to buy a share? These things are very profitable. ”

Cao Tong can be the master, and he is the first to respond: "Just make money for any business you do, this stock is indispensable." I don't know what the charter is? ”

As he spoke,

As he was talking, the maritime merchant found by the Cao family arrived at Wuweifang and was ushered in. The older one is called Yang Wanli, and the younger one is called Yang Baishun, but they are uncles and nephews.

Seeing that both of them were dark and red, looking like they had been through the wind and waves, Li Buqi asked, "I don't know where the two are from?" Where do you set sail from at sea? ”

Yang Wanli said: "We are from Mingzhou, and Hong Kong is in Mingzhou. ”

Oh, Ningbo. "Where have you been?"

"Most of the Western countries have been there. They all waited for the trade winds to rise and rode the wind to the Western Heavenly Countries (Indonesia, India, Pakistan and other countries), Dashi and Tianfang (Arab countries), and the old man also went to Slow Barcelona once. ”

Wait! Slow Barcelona? The name is a bit familiar. Isn't it Mombasa? This guy has actually been to Africa? It looks like Kenya, right?