Chapter 193: Butter Tea
The people take food as the sky, and the people of Lingzhou City are like voles, digging holes leading to the outside of the city.
The leaves of the locust tree, the leaves of the elm tree, but everything that can be eaten, has been afflicted. It was at this time when he was hungry that Wang Fu actually said that he had brought porcelain, tea and silk, and Qin Zejue must have been joking.
But Wang Fu stretched out his hand again very leisurely, grabbed a leaf from the tree, and chewed it gently. There was not the slightest panic on his face.
Qin Ze breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You must have lied to me before, right?" How is it possible to transport tea and all those things here? Even if you can't think of it, those accompanying merchants should be able to think of it. ”
"Phew~" Wang Fu spit out the leaves in his mouth again, but he still couldn't swallow it. Hearing Qin Ze ask himself this, he nodded and said with a smile on his face: "This year's drought and locust plague have caused the entire Tang Dynasty to suffer. Even if I am Taiyuan, there is almost no harvest, didn't Your Majesty ask the government to help the people redeem the children they sold a few days ago? I sold a lot of food in Taiyuan, if it weren't for His Majesty's proposal to exchange locusts for food, it is estimated that I would have starved all over the land by now, where would I still get food. ”
"Didn't you bring anything with you?" Qin Ze was also stunned, he suddenly felt that his dream of making a fortune was about to end before it began.
"Naturally, I brought it." Wang Fu said a word and saw that Qin Ze breathed a sigh of relief, and added: "But it's not enough for us to eat for long." ”
Qin Ze: ......
"Nowadays, the cheapest things in Kannai are tea, porcelain and silk, and if you don't bring this thing here, can you just throw it away? Besides, at this time, I can't eat enough, so how can I sell the grain? ”
Qin Ze stretched out his hand to interrupt Wang Fu's next words, and asked with a desperate expression, "But why can't I see how worried you are?" ”
"Why worry? I was able to take out all my family's savings this time, and so did the merchants over there. When I came out, my sister told me that it would be her dowry anyway, and you would be able to take care of it yourself. ”
Wang Fu spread his hands and said very casually.
"I'll go~" Qin Ze jumped up directly from the ground, but accidentally hit the branch above his head, and immediately squatted down holding his head again.
The reason why Wang Fu is so calm is that he is completely aimed at Qin Ze. How could Qin Ze not know the meaning of his words, the matter of the Chamber of Commerce going north this time was brought up by Qin Ze, and now the Wang family is tied to him on a rope. If something really happens here, don't say the dowry, it's a question of whether the bride is still there.
Thinking that this kid Wang Fu estimated that his Wang family was almost empty, Qin Ze felt cold all over his body.
Qin Ze gritted his teeth and kept patting his chest. Pointing at Wang Fu, he couldn't speak for a long time, but Wang Fu was not in a hurry. Slowly sat up from the ground, and pulled Qin Ze to meet the merchants who came with him.
Qin Ze, who is a cheating father, has seen it, and it is really the first time he has seen this pit brother-in-law......
But since the problem has been solved, it must be solved, and these businessmen are all looking forward to it. It is estimated that it is similar to Wang Fu, so he took out all his belongings, and then followed this trip.
Don't think about these things when you buy tea for these people in Lingzhou, these people don't show up at all, they are determined to dig their own holes. Qin Ze doubted that they would hollow out the underground of Lingzhou!
However, there is one thing worth celebrating after all, that is, this business road has been completely opened by the Taiyuan Chamber of Commerce, although most of the people are not full of food and sleep, but after all, there are still some rich people.
Qin Ze didn't really value how many things he could buy for them, he valued this business route. From Chang'an to Lingzhou, every state and county has a warehouse of the Chamber of Commerce, and this complete transportation line is what Qin Ze values.
As long as this trade route can be opened, once Jieli is defeated and escorted to Chang'an, then not to mention the Weibei region, even the eighteen departments of the grassland will be all over their merchants in Taiyuan. That's when they really get rich.
Just now......
Qin Ze met with several businessmen mentioned by Wang Fu, the biggest being Zhao Weizuo, a tea merchant in Taiyuan, and Sun Fu, a porcelain merchant, and Wang Fu, who was in charge of silk. Others, like Li Liangshang and Zheng Tanshang, are insignificant.
Originally, it was impossible for these big porcelain dealers in Taiyuan to follow Wang Fu, and it was estimated that it was because the things could not be sold that they came out to fight. So at this time, the other party's eyes were shining when they looked at Qin Ze, if Qin Ze didn't say a word, they were afraid that the ship would capsize directly.
What is currently in front of Qin Ze is how to sell things like tea and porcelain. These people have some blind trust in Qin Ze, so as soon as they said two sentences, the system task was triggered: "Please ask the host to complete the wish task of selling all the tea, porcelain, and silk within two months, and the host will get ten wish points for completing this task, and the failure of the task will be punished according to the completion of the task." ”
Qin Ze pursed his lips, and his heart was already a little numb. It's just that when I saw the ten-point wish value, my heart beat slowly, not because of joy, but because of despair.
The higher the wish value, the more difficult the task, and the wish value of ten points is almost the sky.
Qin Ze is not worried about these things like tea, since the internal friction is not good, then pull the external demand. The Turkic nomads are still hungry for tea, and for them, in addition to beef and mutton meat, the only vitamins that can be supplemented are milk and tea.
Butter tea should not have appeared yet, this thing is still after Princess Wencheng entered Tibet, it is very unsuitable for the cold climate conditions, especially not suitable for the Tibetan people's meat-based, fishy food habits, only to make it out of their own.
For the Turks under the influence of the cold snap, butter tea must also be their best choice.
Tea can relieve the smell of meat, and the tea is added to the milk of cows and goats, which is the original milk tea. That is, starting from Princess Wencheng, the shepherds began to develop the habit of drinking tea. And it can both refresh the mind and remove greasy, which is especially important for meat-based herders.
Later, people added pine nuts, ghee, etc. when boiling tea, and added sugar or salt according to people's preferences, and slowly became butter tea.
Qin Ze had no doubt about the attraction of butter tea to herdsmen, and he was fortunate to taste it once in later generations, and it was indeed a unique flavor.
Qin Ze said his thoughts, and Wang Fu and the others all looked at each other. For them, how can they drink milk with tea?
"Lord Qin, what is this butter tea? Why was Lord Qin so sure that this thing would be welcomed by the Turks? The Zhao tea merchant of the Chamber of Commerce couldn't sit still at this moment, and he was the first to ask.
Qin Ze was also a little puzzled, these people could accept adding mutton fat and garlic to the tea leaves, but they couldn't even accept adding milk to it? What kind of logic is this?
"It's useless to talk too much, there are goat's milk and ghee here, and I'll make it for you."
Several people are also very efficient, and in less than a pillar of incense, everything is ready.
In fact, Qin Ze is also a half-ass, although he knows the general steps, he has never done it himself. However, this is not the time to think about this, no matter how much it needs, Qin Ze just added it indiscriminately.
The tea leaves are boiled and filtered out, and then goat's milk is added, as well as ghee extracted from cow and goat's milk. Continue to put it in a small pot and start boiling, like some pine nuts and salt, Qin Ze also grabbed it casually.
I don't know why, Qin Ze's face became wrong when he was boiling. Looking at Wang Fu and the others, they were all embarrassed, where were the previous expectations.
Qin Ze coughed lightly and said with a sneer: "It may be that I have added too much tea." ”
At the same time, he scolded in his heart: "I'll go~ How did this thing become this color, green and quiet, how to share the same color with Yoneda!" ”
Qin Ze was helpless in his heart, I don't know if it was because of the addition of salt, the butter tea in the pot had become sticky. With that green and faint color, it's completely the same as Yoneda.
"Lord Qin, don't you forget it?" Even the Zhao tea merchant standing on the side couldn't stand it, if Qin Ze was allowed to go on like this, let alone sell tea, it was estimated that he would not be able to face the tea himself.
"No problem, no problem." What else could Qin Ze do, he could only pretend to be like this, and found a bowl to hold a bowl of butter tea.
Except for the disgusting appearance, this smell is still good. In particular, the strong fragrance of goat's milk and the grassy aroma of tea make you feel relaxed.
Of course, this is only for Qin Ze, the others......
It's been hiding to the side for a long time......
smashed his hands, Qin Ze is known as unparalleled in cooking. I didn't expect to lose on a small bowl of butter tea today, but although this thing looks very disgusting, Qin Ze actually thinks it's still good, at least it smells good.
Well, he comforted himself like this.
He turned around with the bowl and wanted to let Zhao Chashang taste it, but when he turned around, he found that several of them had avoided from a distance.
"Although the appearance of this thing is a little worse, it must be caused by too much tea, you can taste it first to see if it suits your appetite, and then make adjustments later."
Qin Ze's face was sincere, and he said it very decently.
But in fact......
Or is it because he can't talk himself......
Wang Fu and the others frowned, but took another step back. Don't say taste it, they feel sick to their stomachs when they see it.
In the end, there is really no way, no one wants to taste it to see what it tastes like. Qin Ze was joking at a few people at first, but in the end, he found that the eyes of several people were getting more and more weird, obviously wanting to let himself test the poison.
He didn't want to taste this strange thing, so he immediately pretended to be suddenly enlightened and said, "The day before yesterday, Lord Du Wei captured a Turkic scout, but how about we take it to him and let him taste it?" ”
Of course a few people didn't complain, nonsense, if you are awesome you go up and taste it? Keep it and you will never be able to face the tea again!
So, Qin Ze took this bowl of weird things and walked through the training ground to the Duwei camp.
At this time, the entire Lingzhou City was boiling again. The controversy about Qin Ze's taste has also completely become a national topic, those veterans who have followed Qin Ze have all sworn that they have seen Qin Ze steal rice and eat rice Tiangong, and now he has brought another bowl of this thing, and eighty percent is going to share it with the captain!
After seeing Qin Ze directly enter Cheng Chumo's camp, everyone's expressions became even more weird.