After getting the world's first cup of tea, Dai Yan didn't think about using tea just as his own luxury, this plant has power inside, he has no doubt. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and he decided to use this power.

He first investigated the range of all wild tea trees in Dangshan, thanks to the good natural environment of this era, and most of the tall trees were cut down, so these low tea trees became "waste" that people looked down on; The results he obtained were astonishing, tea trees were distributed in several mountains, and rough estimates were at least tens of thousands of acres. Of course, these wild tea trees are not professionally managed tea gardens in later generations, and there are many other shrubs, occasional trees, and other weeds distributed among the tea trees. However, even so, getting such a large tea garden at one time still made Dai Yan excited.

Subsequently, he issued an order in Fengyi to recruit a large number of female workers to collect tea and purchase it with grain and money. Among Dai Yan's retainers, Tian Buli was quite unimpressed with this kind of order. In his opinion, since the lord likes this kind of tea, he can naturally levy the people to pick it in the form of forced labor, so why waste his wealth in vain?

Dai Yan then taught Tian Buli a hard lesson. In Dai Yan's view, the most unreasonable system in Chinese history is forced labor. Although some of the systems in the conscription, such as military service, are necessary for the safety and survival of the country, most of the conscription is unnecessary in Dai Yan's view. As soon as the emperor ascended the throne, he began to repair the tomb, which required the people to help you repair it. The same people, so big of a difference? And the demise of some powerful empires is simply due to the great burden of conscription on the people. The most typical is Qin and Sui, when Qin Shi Huang was in power, he repaired the Afang Palace, repaired the Lishan Tomb, and repaired the Great Wall. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was the same, sparing no people's strength, requisitioning the people to build the Grand Canal, conquering Goguryeo and requisitioning the people to transport grain, and his final result was that he was killed by his generals in Jiangdu.

In fact, if you want to say that projects such as the Great Wall and the Grand Canal are useful to the country, someone should indeed do it, but it is too stupid to use forced labor in Dai Yan's opinion. In later generations, some countries even used the construction of large-scale projects as a means to improve the farts of chickens and develop the economy, what is the biggest difference between it and forced labor? In fact, it is nothing more than two words: give money. If the state does not give money, the people will naturally refuse to do it; For construction projects, the bosses have to pay salaries, so naturally someone will do it. People are profit-seeking, mud legs can't see benefits, who will do things for you, and who will work for you?

In Dai Yan's view, if the people under his rule are well fed and have money to make, the people will naturally support him. On the contrary, if you only rely on the name of the fiefdom lord to levy the people to do voluntary labor for themselves, you may be able to save money, but in the end you will inevitably lose the hearts of the people. Xue Gong of Qi and Meng Weijun still know the righteousness of burning coupons, they come from enlightened later generations, how can they not even be as good as these ancients?

And this time, Dai Yan was extremely satisfied with what he got by recruiting female workers and purchasing tea. Because Dai Yan made detailed regulations on the requirements for tea, those female workers were afraid that the lord would finally refuse to accept the fruits of their labor, so almost none of the tea handed in did not meet the requirements, and Dai Yan also faithfully fulfilled his promise and truthfully paid the remuneration of the female workers. And it's such a simple thing, those female workers are all thanking Dai Yan again and again.

In the eyes of the female workers, things like this were simply a favor from the lord. Because it was in the slack period, the lord could go to levy conscription. Most of these women have nothing to do at the moment, and the lord's purchase of leaves, which they consider completely "useless", does not have to be paid for in this way at all, and how dare they not go if the lord does levy them? And their thankful behavior is not superficial, but from the heart. When I got home, I even talked to my husband, son, and brother. With the propaganda of these female workers, the whole Fengyi knew that his lord was not only a "Xuanzi" who was protected by God Haotian, but also a benevolent monarch who was sympathetic to the people. Compared with the divine Xuanzi, the benevolent monarch who is sympathetic to the people is still more valued by the people. And this trust has a far-reaching impact on Dai Yan's follow-up actions.

After Dai Yan learned about the public opinion, he was stunned that such a simple thing had such a far-reaching impact. He can only sigh that in this era, the monarchs have oppressed the people deeply and the people of the Song Kingdom have been simple. And this incident also made Tian Jiu and the Mo family see the excellent qualities of this young man; The Mo family was born at the bottom, and of course they attached great importance to the lord who could truly sympathize with the people at the bottom, so they did not do things for Dai Yan because of the orders of the giant, but began to be truly loyal to Dai Yan from the heart.

Dai Yan got a large amount of tea, and this time he no longer took it as his own enjoyment, but only kept a small part for his own enjoyment and hospitality, and completely fermented most of the tea, thus obtaining a large amount of black tea. The reason why he doesn't process these teas into green tea is simple: green tea is not resistant to preservation, basically only for about three months, while fully fermented black tea can be stored for several years without any problem. Of course, this kind of treatment of wild tea is definitely a huge waste in the eyes of later generations. You must know that wild tea is the source of tea, such as the famous teas of later generations such as Da Hong Pao and Tieguanyin, and the fresh leaf raw materials used in their invention are wild tea. And Dai Yan directly processed these teas on a large scale, which killed the possibility of them becoming famous teas.

When Pu Yangxing, a big merchant in Taoqiu, sent grain to Fengyi again, Dai Yan specially took out tea to entertain him. Sure enough, this keen businessman immediately discovered the beauty of tea, he usually likes to eat meat, and the greasy taste in his mouth has always been heavier, but when he drinks tea, the greasy taste in his mouth is gone, and the whole person becomes very refreshing. This feeling made him almost cry out with excitement, and he only knew that he would not be able to do without tea for the first time.

"Childe, you call this thing tea, I don't know where this thing came from? Is it available for sale? Pu Yangxing asked.

Dai Yan laughed and said, "The origin of this thing is indeed a little special. Do you know that when Shennong's tasted a hundred herbs, he encountered seventy-two poisons every day, and he got tea to solve them. I was able to get tea, thanks to the disciples of the Mo family. This is a disciple of the Mo family who traveled to the south, wandered into the barren mountains and mountains, starved and cold, and was guided by the gods when he was about to freeze to death. Under the guidance of the gods, he got this miraculous plant tea, at that time he just picked it up and ate it, and after eating it was full of strength, and then he hunted in the mountains, and found that since then, he has eaten this tea, no matter what kind of meat he eats, he is not tired. Even better, the body is getting stronger and the mind is unusually clear. Later, he brought this thing back, and I tried to plant some of it, but this tea could not grow, so I knew that this tea would not survive without its own growth environment. Since this thing can be taken out to entertain distinguished guests, it can naturally be taken out and sold. ”

"How does Childe want to sell it? No matter how much of this stuff there is, I want it all. Pu Yangxing said to Dai Yan. As for Dai Yan's statement that this tea was discovered under the guidance of the gods, Pu Yangxing certainly didn't believe it. However, he also knew part of the information from Dai Yan's words, and this tea has the effect of removing greasy taste. With this alone, he could see the great value of this tea.

"The output of tea is limited, and I only have 1,000 catties in my hands at present, and this thing is extremely difficult to obtain, so when Dai Yan wanted to take a look, Pu Yangxing directly interrupted his words.

"Childe doesn't need to say much, I want this 1,000 catties, Childe just asks."

"If you really want this tea, then 1 catty of tea and 1 gold will be calculated, and 1000 catties of tea will be 1000 gold." Dai Yan said as if he had made up his mind.

"It's done!" Pu Yangxing took over the conversation in one bite, and there was no meaning of bargaining at all.

Now it was Dai Yan's turn to be speechless. During the Warring States Period, gold meant copper, and one gold was almost a pound of copper, equivalent to 20 taels of copper. You must know that copper in this era is used as a strategic material, and there are not many copper that can be circulated on the market. What is the purchasing power of a gold? In the country of Qi, a skilled fighter kills a person on the battlefield and obtains a head, and the bounty is six taels. And Dai Yan bought 1 million stone of grain from the three major merchants of Taoqiu, but it only cost 50,000 gold, so that one gold can buy 20 stone of grain in Taoqiu. And 50,000 gold is almost half of the annual finance and tax of the entire Song Kingdom, and now Dai Yan relies on a thousand catties of tea to earn 1% of the entire Song Kingdom's finance and taxes at once, which makes him unbelievable.

"Are you sure you can accept the price without haggling?" Dai Yan asked tentatively again.

"Childe, you underestimate my generation too much. People are often clouds: the son of a daughter, he can't sit down. A daughter is wealth, but in a certain opinion, a daughter is just a small amount of money. The efficacy of this tea has already been experienced, and it is natural to know its value. If Childe delivers the tea of the daughter to me, I will immediately deliver the daughter to Childe, and I will never be in arrears! Pu Yangxing said.

It seems that he underestimated the courage of businessmen in this era after all, Dai Yan said to himself in his heart. Then he stopped talking nonsense, and ordered the attendant to take out 1,000 catties of tea and hand it to Pu Yangxing, and Pu Yangxing handed over 1,000 gold to Dai Yan.

When Pu Yangxing left, Dai Yan was still immersed in the joy of becoming the son of his daughter. However, he quickly adjusted his mentality, thinking about how to make more profits with things like tea. As a big businessman in this era, Puyang Xing should rely on his relationship with the northern nobles and his own courage in doing business to make his business so big. He was willing to exchange a pound of tea for a gold to get this tea, which means that tea should be popular among the northern nobles.

Although this Pu Yangxing has the courage to do business, he doesn't know that he has tens of thousands of catties of tea in his hands, Dai Yan pondered. However, Dai Yan does not plan to throw out all these tens of thousands of catties of tea at one time, from later generations, Dai Yan is no stranger to hunger marketing in later generations, and the Apple mobile phone is not the best example. If each generation of Apple phones was cheap when they first came out, and you didn't need to queue up to buy them, would there still be so many people who flocked to Apple phones?

And the tea in his hand now is not the apple of this era?