It should be said that this kind of thing is not only a necessity for people on the plateau, but also for all nomadic people.

That's what tea is.

Speaking of the history of tea drinking can be traced back to a long time, although there is no specific conclusion, but there is no doubt that Wang Bao wrote on the fifteenth day of the first month of the third year of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty can be known that at least in the Qin and Han dynasties began to drink tea.

And if according to Don. Lu Yu's "Book of Tea": "Tea is drinking, and it comes from Shennong's." The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info as a basis, drinking tea can be traced back to the ancient Shennong era, because Shennong tasted a hundred herbs.

However, this is the history of tea drinking of the Han people, and it will be much later if we talk about the tea drinking history of the grassland plateau peoples.

However, although the origin is very late, it is precisely these plateau and grassland peoples who have become necessary for life by drinking tea.

And this is due to the living characteristics and living environment of the nomads in the plateau steppe.

For example, steppe milk tea, the Mongolian Plateau is the hometown of nomads, and it is also the birthplace of milk tea. Of course, Mongolian milk tea is a later name, and when there was milk tea at the beginning, it was other steppe peoples who dominated the grassland.

But no matter what ethnic group they are, in short, the living habits of these steppe nomads are mainly based on eating cattle, mutton and dairy products, supplemented by grain and vegetables. Or that grain and vegetables are only eaten occasionally.

Nomads are not good at planting, they can only eat beef and mutton, and no one can stand the meat, not to say that they can get used to it, but the problem of the digestive system.

Greasy things can't be digested first when they are eaten and digested every day, and they are prone to high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia and other diseases that are common in later generations.

Of course, people in ancient times didn't know this, but they knew their own family affairs in their hearts, and they couldn't stand eating meat all day long. But I can't help it, I can't eat anything else if I don't eat meat.

It wasn't until later that the tea spread to the grassland, after drinking the tea, the herdsmen on the grassland found that this thing was very effective in relieving oiliness.

As a result, the people on the grassland knew that tea was a good thing, so tea became a sought-after commodity on the grassland, and it also became the most demanded commodity.

Then the grassland people changed the way of drinking tea according to their own eating habits, adding fresh milk, adding salt, etc., and then made salty milk tea that is more suitable for the sense of grassland population.

"Three meals a day tea, one meal", drinking salty milk tea, in addition to quenching thirst, is also to relieve greasy digestion, and the grassland is cold in winter, dry and hot in summer, drinking a lot of milk tea in winter can quickly drive away the cold, and can quench thirst in summer.

The living environment and living habits of plateau herders are similar to those of grassland herders, but much higher than those of grassland herders.

So, they also need tea to help with digestion, and the highlanders drink butter tea with their characteristics.

Butter tea is an ingenious combination of ghee and tea, and compared to tea, ghee appeared much earlier in the life of the inhabitants of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Ghee is the essence of plateau food, and plateau people can't do without it.

Before there was no tea, ghee was a necessity for the life of highland people, and when tea appeared, tea and ghee, two of the same necessities of life, were combined into a new drink, butter tea.

In the original time and space, it was not until a few years later that Princess Wencheng and her relatives of Tibet would tea become popular in the upper strata of Tibet, and it was not until the period of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty that the Tang Dynasty would meet the alliance and erect a monument in the "Chiling" and establish the "Tea and Horse Market". After that, butter tea appears.

But Wu Yuanqing decided to greatly advance this time, because the current Tang Dynasty and Tubo are not the Tang Dynasty and Tubo of the original time and space, and the Battle of Songzhou is not the original Battle of Songzhou.

In the battle of Songzhou in the original time and space, Niu Jinda killed the enemy and thousands of people Songtsan Gampo retreated, and then almost no loss sued the Tang Dynasty for peace, and asked to marry the princess.

But now, in a big war, not to mention the beheading of thousands of people, half of Tubo was occupied by the Tang Dynasty, and 100,000 Tubo soldiers were wiped out and captured.

Not to mention how much the enemy was annihilated, the key is that now such a large area of land on the plateau belongs to the Tang Dynasty, Wu Yuanqing does not believe that Li Shimin will be generous enough to return these to Tubo and Songtsan Gampo.

Since it is impossible to return it, then this is the actual territory of the Tang Dynasty, which is different from the Detention Prefecture, which is really controlled by the Tang Dynasty and governed by the officials of the Tang Dynasty, and the law of the Tang Dynasty is implemented.

Then the people here will be the people of the Tang Dynasty in the future, in line with the position of seeking happiness for the people of the Tang Dynasty, tea, which is good for the people of the plateau, Wu Yuanqing of course has to take it out quickly.

Butter tea can cure altitude sickness, prevent lips from bursting due to dry weather, and play a good role in keeping out the cold. When you are cold, you can drive away the cold, when you eat meat, you can get tired, when you are hungry, you can relieve your fatigue when you are sleepy, and when you are sleepy, you can clear your mind. Tea contains vitamins that can alleviate the damage caused by the lack of vegetables in the plateau.

There are so many benefits, highlanders will be pleasantly surprised and can't forget it after drinking it once, and they can't give it up. Tea can only be supplied in large quantities in the tea-producing areas in the south, and people on the plateau must rely on the supply of the mainland if they want to drink tea.

To put it mildly, as long as the plateau people are accustomed to drinking tea and regard drinking tea as a necessity in life, then controlling the tea, Datang's control of the plateau is at least two or three points easier.

Therefore, it is necessary to make the plateau people accustomed to drinking tea as soon as possible, and let them use ghee and tea leaves to make butter tea, which is not only conducive to the rule of the Tang Dynasty here, but also conducive to the garrison of the Tang Dynasty soldiers on the plateau.

"Tea is so important, isn't it?" After listening to Wu Yuanqing's explanation, Gao Biaoren was a little smacked.

"Of course, don't you know that the wool and wool produced on the grassland are settled by tea in the imperial court?" Wu Yuanqing asked with a smile.

"I've heard of this, it seems that Xue Yantuo's demand for tea is also very large, and there are also a large amount of tea sold in the Western Turks and the Western Regions." Wang Xuance nodded and said, he is in the Honglu Temple, and these situations are sometimes mentioned in the official documents that come and go.

"That's right, more and more nomads around Datang have begun to get used to eating without tea, and I think this day on the plateau will not be far away in the future." Wu Yuanqing said proudly.

This is all due to him, and tea alone now brings millions of dollars to the national treasury every year.

And the samurai family also made a lot of profits in it, saying that the samurai family was rich and the country did not dare to be, but it was no problem to be second to none rich.