The court of Qi was directly confused by this reaction of Chu State, and I Qi State called the king of Chu State such a big reaction? When everyone reacted, someone immediately proposed to kill this young envoy of the Chu State. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the face of this threat of death, the young Qu Yuan did not care, he said to the King of Qi: "As the envoy of the Chu State, I came to the Qi State to declare war, and I have already prepared to return to the Chu State, if the King of Qi wants to kill me, I will be loyal to the country, what am I afraid of Qu Yuan?" ”

The King of Qi stared at Qu Yuan, turning a blind eye to the Qi State's ministers' suggestion to kill Qu Yuan.

It was Qi Xiang Zou Ji who stood up and said: "Your Majesty, since my Qi country has signed the Treaty of Xuzhou, we should abide by the treaty in it; Since Chu is also willing to join the Treaty of Xuzhou, of course we cannot violate it. ”

After listening to Zou Ji's words, the King of Qi said to Qu Yuan: "You go back and tell the King of Chu that since the King of Chu has asked the widow to hunt in Xuzhou, the widow will naturally agree." Our Qi country is a big country in the East, and if we compete with the enemy, we will naturally win or lose on the battlefield. The two countries are fighting each other, and if they don't cut it, we still have this kind of energy. If you go, you will forgive me for not sending it. ”

Qu Yuan didn't say much immediately, and left the Qi country directly.

However, what Qi did not expect was that after Qu Yuan left Qi State, he went to visit Lu State and Zou State one after another. Lu is the hometown of Confucius, the origin of Confucianism, and the people of Lu are very respectful of cultivated nobles. Qu Yuan had a good family background, received a very good education since he was a child, and his own outstanding literary talent soon made the nobles of the Lu State fall for themselves. Then Qu Yuan said to the contemporary Lu Hou Chen: "Xue Guo is a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, and his country has always been deferential to the great powers, but the Qi State still destroys its country and worships it. The state of Lu has always been oppressed by the state of Qi, and there was the state of Jin in the past, and the state of Qi did not dare to directly annex the state of Lu; And after the three families were divided, the state of Lu was attached to the state of Wei, and now the king of Wei and Qi has become the king, and the state of Wei has classified the land of Huaisi as the sphere of influence of the state of Qi, and the ambition of the state of Qi to annex the state of Lu is simply known to passers-by, has the king not yet perceived the danger? ”

Lu Jun sighed and replied: "Of course, the widow also knows that my Lu country is in danger now, but our Lu country is weak and weak, and we can't defeat the Qi country, what can our Lu country do?" ”

"Your Majesty can attach yourself to our Chu State." Qu Yuan replied, "Now the only one in the whole world who is willing to confront the Qi State is our Chu State, and our Chu State has declared war on the Qi State, and has become an enemy country with the Qi State." The monarch doesn't have to worry that our Chu State will not be morals like Wei and betray Lu State. And only by attaching to our Chu State and fighting against Qi State can Lu State keep its own society. ”

Qu Yuan's lobbying moved Lu Jun. However, what made Lu Jun's heart even more moved was the impression that Qu Yuan himself brought to people, in front of him, Lu Jun seemed to be able to feel a kind of righteousness, as if this young nobleman of the Chu State would never deceive him. So he immediately agreed to form an alliance with the state of Chu. Under the influence of the Lu state, the vassal state of the Lu state, the Zou state, soon also fell to the Chu state.

After Qu Yuan persuaded the Lu State, he turned his attention to the next country: the Song State.

In the Song Kingdom, Dai Yan was not idle after the end of the meeting of the prime minister in Xuzhou, he was mainly in one important matter: stockpiling grain.

Before the meeting of the kings, he had received nearly 500,000 stone of grain from the merchants of Taoqiu, most of which he transferred to Fengyi, and a small part to Pengcheng.

In the process of his large-scale grain stockpiling, he naturally had no intention of managing his fiefdom Fengyi. Fortunately, with the disciples of the Mo family, the operation of the entire Fengyi is not a problem. The Mo family gave Dai Yan help, and Dai Yan was not stingy. He did not impose the slightest restriction on the development of the Mo family in Fengyi, and tried his best to persuade the Mo family to move their headquarters to Fengyi.

In the end, Tian Jiu agreed. However, it was during this migration of the Mo family that he got something unexpected.

When the king of Xuzhou ended, Dai Yan returned to Fengyi and found that the Mo family had finished migrating, and among the various things that the Mo family brought out from the mountains, there was one thing that caught his attention, and it was some slender "leaves". The daily life of the Mo disciples is very difficult, and exercising the mind is also a compulsory subject for the Mo disciples. However, no matter how hard life is, there is still some condiment, so some disciples thought of a way to have fun - that is, to chew leaves. Some Mohist disciples stumbled upon a wild shrub whose leaves were bitter when chewed, but tasteful after chewing, very similar to the Mohists' way of living - although it was hard, it had a taste. So the leaves of this low shrub were used as the daily chewing food of some Mo disciples, and the giant Tian Gu did not care about such behaviors that did not violate the discipline of the Mo family, and did not take it to heart at all.

However, Dai Yan recognized at a glance what that slender "leaf" was, wasn't it the famous tea of later generations!

Later generations of Chinese often said: seven things to open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea. Tea as a necessity was placed last, and there were many people who did not drink tea in later generations, and their lives were not significantly affected, as if tea was not so important. However, when it comes to the most important things that affect a country's security, rice and salt are naturally the first and second, and tea can be ranked third.

Not to mention rice and salt, without rice and salt, the people can directly overthrow the court. And tea is indeed not a particularly important thing for the original Chinese themselves. The beginning of the prosperity of tea probably began in the ancient Northern and Southern Dynasties, when Buddhism was popular, and because tea has the function of refreshing the mind, it was also used as a tool for Zen disciples to assist in their practice. Its status in China has always been only a spice for the life of scholars, not a necessity for all the people. However, when tea spreads far and wide, its true value is highlighted. Most of the ethnic minorities around China are nomadic people, and they eat meat as their staple food, and tea can remove the greasy in meat and can also dispel diseases, so it quickly became a necessity for the nomads around China. Since the Song Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty has carried out tea and horse exchanges through the control of tea, which has obtained a wealth of war horses; The Ming Dynasty used the policy of tea and horse trade to restrain the surrounding ethnic minorities. Later, when the Manchus ruled China, the British bombarded the gates of China with cannons, and in addition to wanting to open the Chinese market, Chinese tea was also an indispensable thing for the meat-eating British.

It can be said that as long as it is any ethnic group whose eating habits are mainly meat-based, it is inseparable from such a thing when it is stained with tea. And in this day and age, no one has discovered or opened this secret. When the disciples of the Mo family took Dai Yan to the headquarters of the Mo family in Dangshan before they came, Dai Yan saw a small area of hills full of such low shrubs, and his heart boiled! The slender leaves of these low shrubs were golden to him. And what are these golden trees, not veritable cash cows?

The disciples of the Mo family who led the way didn't understand why this young prince was so excited to see this low bush, for them, such a bitter thing, of course Gongzi Wang Sun would not like it, but thinking of all the miracles of this child, they didn't say much. Then Dai Yan took matters into his own hands and began to pick tea leaves. He is no stranger to this skill. Because when he was in elementary school, he responded to the great call, and the principal organized all the students to go to the tea garden in the nearby countryside to pick tea leaves, and everyone had to pick two taels of tea leaves to complete the task. At that time, he finally picked two taels of tea leaves in one morning, and in the end, he only received a collective praise from the principal, and he felt very honored. However, when he grew up and had an intersection with the people in the tea garden, he realized that what they did back then was not voluntary labor, and the tea garden paid money to the school, and it was self-evident where the money went.

And the reason why the tea plantation cooperates with the school is not because the students' labor is cheaper. In fact, an adult can pick far more tea leaves in a day than children, but because adults have relatively strong hands, it is easy to pinch the tea leaves when picking tea leaves, which will affect the quality and ultimately affect the taste of tea leaves. Although the children's picking work is slow, it can ensure the quality of the tea. In some places, the tea picking work must even be carried into the tea bag by the virgin with her mouth, and the tea bag is placed on the girl's chest, and the tea leaves are "first roasted" by the girl's body temperature. And this is not entirely hype, in fact, it is indeed a reason to ensure the quality of tea.

Dai Yan led more than 20 disciples of the Mo family to pick tea leaves by hand, because they wanted to ensure the quality, so they only picked a dozen catties of tea in one afternoon. This is only the first step, in the follow-up process, he will finish, roll and dry the tea leaves. After these steps, he only got the most basic kind of tea, green tea.

Dai Yan personally boiled water, and finally used these fresh tea leaves to make the first cup of tea in this world. Because these tea plants are wild and not fermented, the world's first cup of tea tastes bitter and astringent. Rao is like this, and Dai Yan is also excited. Before he traveled to this era, he liked many things, including drinking tea, but when he traveled to this era, all the things he liked were gone. Now that he has tea again, he has somewhat recovered his former life.