Chapter 84: Retreat to make tea

Gaolu tea is easy to find, and many people actually stay away from this kind of bitter thing. In contrast, the tea leaves of Wu Jun and Qian Tang are more popular, and Gaolu tea is generally only tasted by ordinary people.

"This tea is not good, bitter and unbearable, and the grass green taste is too strong! Even after cooking, you need to increase the seasoning to make the taste balanced! Chen Ying finally helped get a batch of Gaolu tea, and Li Ming knew that the tea leaves of this year were just dried and preserved, and there was no follow-up treatment process.

But this is not surprising, after all, the art of tea has not yet developed, and Lu Yu did not write the "Book of Tea", and even the earliest group tea did not appear, let alone the later fried tea. Don't ask Li Ming why he knew, the traverser must know so much, the question is what the specific process is...... Hehe......

"What happens if I don't go out for ten days?" Li Ming looked at Chen Ying.

"It's not going to be good, the subordinates ensure that all departments can complete the task normally, and the lord only needs to pay attention to the progress, and it's no problem!" Chen Ying didn't know why Li Ming asked that, but he knew that it should be related to this tea.

"Okay, you work harder, help as an intermediary between the two places, and I'll give you a carriage as a substitute!" Li Ming felt that he had to study for a while and at least find a direction.

"Yes!" Chen Ying didn't dare to shirk, and hurriedly responded.

Li Ming has nothing to give power, the key is to give it to whom! The key departments have already arranged for cronies to be in charge, even Xun Biao, Gu Yan and Wei Teng have no way to bypass Zhang Mo, Chen Ying, Xi Zhicai and Jia Xu.

The key is still the army, and the army, including the thieves Cao, are all in the hands of his cronies. At the same time, on the side of the intelligence department, Jia Xu is also paying attention to the dynamics of these families, everything is like a huge net, he only needs to sit in the core area of this big net, waiting for the prey to throw himself into the net!

This was originally the established route designated by Xun Biao to go south, but I didn't expect so many changes to occur in the future. Now that I am doing this, I am afraid that I will let those families be fooled, which is no longer possible. However, after using this system, it bought him time to do something else as much as possible.

For example, making money, such as practicing martial arts, such as accompanying family, such as training the army, and even where to go to farm monsters or something.

In fact, if it weren't for the lack of money, I'm afraid that I would have gone to Xianxialing to farm monsters a long time ago. It is said that there are a lot of spirit beasts and demon beasts over there, and there is no big demon yet, so Li Ming has a plan to farm monsters in the past to upgrade.

Perhaps, if you really don't have any money, it is also a good deal to sell spirit beasts or even demon beast meat to make money. It's a pity that whether it's a spirit beast or a demon beast, it's too rare. The artificial spirit beast cultivation plan will obviously not have results this year.

"Okay, in ten days, if I can't figure it out, I'm really going to make money by hunting spirit beasts!" Li Ming looked at the pile of Gaolu tea in front of him, in fact, it was not only Gaolu tea, but also some tea leaves from Wu Jun and Qian Tang.

The makeshift stove and cauldron had been set up, and this was the tool he intended to use to try his hand at 'roasting tea'. He didn't know the process of roasting tea, and he didn't know whether the tea leaves were suitable for stir-frying.

"Fortunately, my father loves tea, and I have bought a lot of tea leaves at home...... Looking at the pile of young leaves in front of him, Li Ming sighed. TOEFL, I know that tea is divided into three types: green tea, oolong tea and black tea, which are roasted tea, semi-fermented tea and fermented tea.

Among them, Wuyi Mountain Dahongpao is black tea, which benefits from the misty clouds in the mountains, and there will be fermentation when it is dried. The big red robe sent by Peng Die is this kind of tea, but it is not fermented thoroughly enough, and the taste is not strong enough. Of course, no flavor is added to it, and modern tea pigments and flavors can be added a lot.

Of course, the focus is not on the flavor, but on the fermentation! How to make the tea leaves artificially fermented and make them into a group of tea is also his main exploration of the craft.

For ten days, Li Ming almost locked himself at home, except for daily martial arts training and government and military affairs, he was almost locked in the backyard, constantly studying tea-making techniques. When the family and the maid passed by the backyard, they could always smell a very fragrant smell, but unfortunately they also knew that it had nothing to do with them.

"Pregnant women can't drink tea?" Xun Cai wanted to taste it, but was told that he couldn't drink it.

"It is said that tea is not good for the fetus...... Li Ming had heard of this before, but he couldn't explain why.

"Then forget it!" Xun Cai would rather believe that he has it than not believe that he has not. The first child is very important and there should be no accidents.

Ten days later, Li Ming called Zhicai and Zhang Mo over, and there were six kinds of tea leaves, three kinds of green tea, and three kinds of black tea in front of them.

These three are the group teas cooked with Gaolu tea, Qiantang tea and Wujun tea respectively, which can be seeded and cooked on a large scale, stored for a long time, and can be exported to the grassland.

Li Ming directly sent someone to bring a small pot, knocked off some tea leaves and boiled them, and then poured three cups for the two of them.

"Wujun tea and Qiantang tea taste slightly worse, although Gaolu tea is bitter, but it also has a unique taste when made into a group of tea!" Xi Zhicai had drunk tea before, so his answer was pertinent, "If it can be preserved for a long time and sold to the grassland Hu people, then this can be regarded as a new source of wealth, but the harvest is not expected to be fast!" ”

In fact, the group tea made by Li Ming is much better than the traditional tea, and I believe that many scholars will be willing to buy some and go back to taste the tea. If it's not expensive and can be mass-produced, it's a good deal.

"Hehe, I knew you guys were going to underestimate you. Come, try this, I call it green tea, it's still those three kinds of tea, but I gave it another name, Qiantang tea is named Longjing tea, Wujun tea is named Biluochun, and this Gaolu tea is named Kuding tea! As for the way to taste tea...... "Li Ming immediately instructed Xiao Cui.

The latter immediately prepared four teacups, three of which were filled with three kinds of tea leaves, and the last one was filled with plain water. The two originally thought that this kind of tea should also be cooked, but who knew that Li Ming just told Xiao Cui to pour boiling water into it.

"That's it?" Xi Zhicai obviously couldn't accept such a way of drinking. The previous black tea was good, and it tasted good even if it didn't add other condiments, but this kind of green tea, this cooking method is not too child's play.

"A good taste is, remember to take a sip of tea, just take a sip of boiled water to rinse your mouth, I don't want to deviate the taste!" Li Ming kindly reminded.

"My subordinates understand!" Xi Zhicai nodded, and then picked up Longjing and tasted it, with sweetness in the bitterness, but it was a completely different feeling from black tea, only that the taste of green tea was better than black tea.

"Good tea!" Zhang Mo didn't know how to evaluate it, and he hadn't drunk tea either, but it was a good thing, and he could feel it.

"There are two more, keep tasting!" Li Ming smiled and motioned for the two to continue drinking tea.

Biluochun is another fragrance, but it is also a good tea. Kuding tea was bitter, but when Xi Zhicai suddenly picked up the boiled water and rinsed his mouth, he found that the plain boiled water actually had a faint sweetness, and he was immediately shocked.

"The lord is a great talent!" Xi Zhicai gave up, ten days to be able to study to this point, Li Ming is indeed amazing.