Chapter Forty-Eight: Tea Trustee Li Quan
Although the gathering of scholars is indispensable for wine and food, tea is also indispensable. :7777772e766f6474772e636f6d
Among the scholars who advocate elegance, perhaps tea is much more gentle than wine. Perhaps drinking tea is milder, more suitable for leisure, morning tea every morning, afternoon tea, or a pot of tea lying in the courtyard in the evening.
In short, drinking tea is not inferior to drinking, especially in recent years, the style of writing has gradually changed, no longer like the previous years of poetry must be prosperous, advocating the style of the Tang Dynasty, fighting the sword and drinking the heroism of the world.
Tea drinking has become more and more valued by scholars, and the way of drinking tea has become more sophisticated, and there are more exquisiteness.
After the Lu Yu Tea Sutra, there have been various developments in the Ming Dynasty over the years, in short, the way of tea is advocated by literati and doctors. If a few ordinary literati are chatting like this today, they will also order some tea.
If you drink alcohol in general, you will always hope for good wine, and the same is probably true for famous wine and tea. If the Biluo Spring of Dongting Lake, Xinyang Maojian or other tea products that can give the literati that literary atmosphere.
In short, drinking tea is not simply to quench thirst, or some other effect. If Shen Wuyan said, drinking tea and drinking wine, maybe drinking more is the wind bones.
Drinking tea to show one's literati spirit must be some kind of inner thought among literati.
Now this somewhat unfamiliar tea Tieguanyin was suddenly brought up by a classmate, and even this tea has risen in a certain place in Daming, especially the literati in that place are not weaker than the capital, and the sense of this gap has risen sharply.
Just like two knights of equal proportion, one of them knows that the other has drunk a very noble tea in a certain place, but he has not tried it, he will always feel that there is some internal gap, so that he will be a little unconvinced.
What's more, this tea is the favored thing of Wang Shizhen, a literary giant, and I, who have always been well-intentioned, have never heard of this tea, and suddenly feel that I am as ignorant and ignorant as a peasant woman in the countryside.
Although most of the people in the audience thought so, they did not express their thoughts, but they all kept silent. Each did his own thing, as if he hadn't heard what Li Quan said before.
Li Quan smiled secretly in his heart, and then said: "The origin of this Tieguanyin tea is also quite strange, it is said that it is the first talent in the capital today, Mr. Shen begged Suzhou tea ceremony everyone Gu Yuanqing Gu to cultivate, and it is difficult to say, but you must have seen something."
In these words, he firmly grasped the number one talent in the capital and Gu Yuanqing, the master of the Suzhou tea ceremony, but it made the scholars present secretly frightened for a while.
Most of the people knew that Li Quan was the shopkeeper of the Hanyan Building, so his knowledge was naturally broad, and although they did not recognize what he said on the spot. But they all have something in mind.
When he was so silent, a literati hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "Brother Li mentioned Gu Yuanqing Gu Lao said that his old man had passed away this Tieguanyin tea. It's been lost."
This question is also something that a few people on the side have been trying to ask, but they didn't dare to ask, and when they mentioned it at this time, they immediately became interested, and they all looked at Li Quan, waiting for him to answer.
Li Quan smiled faintly, and then waved his hand and said: "You only know one of them, but you don't know the other one, Mr. Gu passed away naturally, but his hand in the tea ceremony has another heir."
"Could it be Mr. Shen" After a night in Duanyang, Shen Wuyan's status in the capital's literary scene is beyond doubt. Therefore, at this time, when everyone mentioned Shen Wuyan, they also had a little more respect.
Li Quan waved his hand and said with a chuckle: "Mr. Shen is certainly smart, but he has a specialization in the art industry, although he also knows a little about tea, if the milk tea in Suzhou is what he created, he can't learn this Tieguanyin, but he didn't learn it, but he was learned by several shopkeepers in the Xingbake Teahouse."
"It's another awakening guest." One of the literati in the capital who had been to the scholar frowned and sighed: "When I went to Suzhou back then, this awakening eight guests were extremely recruited in Suzhou, and now they have come to the capital. But it seems to be much darker, but I don't know why. ”
Li Quan snorted lightly and said disdainfully: "The literati in the capital are narrow-minded, they only know about Wanjia teahouses, but they don't know the vastness of heaven and earth, and the existence of Xingbake teahouses, they will never be worthy of drinking Tieguanyin tea."
There is some sentiment in this statement, but the bookish atmosphere is normal. Whether he is a seven-foot boy or an old man with gray temples, it is like this.
Therefore, after Li Quan complained like this, it also attracted the echo of several literati, and praised again and again: "What Brother Li said is that I have been waiting for these literati in Beijing for so many years, no wonder everyone in the literary world is from Jiangsu and Zhejiang."
In recent years, there are not as many talented people in the capital as there are in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which is another reason. At this time, he was far-fetched by these scholars, Li Quan was just happy in his heart, so he didn't say much.
After chatting for too long, Xiao Er hurriedly brought over a pot of soaked Tieguanyin. Li Quan took it in person, and immediately gave a heavy reward, and then hurriedly poured tea for these long-awaited scholars.
The fragrance of tea soon filled the room, and the scholars all showed intoxication, as if they drank this tea, they could be more noble in the capital, and it seemed that they could get closer to Wang Shizhen's status.
In short, before he took a sip of tea, he had already said seventy good teas, which made Li Quan a little bold, after all, when Shen Wuyan mentioned this, he didn't expect that it would be so effective.
I don't understand what kind of business this saucer is, but it seems that if the Xingbake Teahouse wants to open a market in the capital, it will definitely be a sensation again.
However, it cannot be said that this method is novel, Shen Wuyan did it several times in Suzhou a few years ago. At that time, it was to make the literati in Suzhou accept milk tea, and the scholars and doctors were already spitting on these barbarian things.
Let them accept to drink animal milk, but it is intolerable for these literati who are fed up with the Three Principles and Five Constants, but after all, they still use this method to get used to it, and even rely on it.
Today, unlike in the past, he himself is the first genius in the capital, which is enough to drive a group of literati in the capital to follow, and he has made friends with a group of literary giants, who can come to help him at any time.
In addition, the family background is far from being comparable to that of the year, but the opponent is stronger, but it does not make him afraid.
Just like what he said to Shen Wuliang in the study that day, doing business is not a difficult thing, and the key lies in strategy and tactics.
Of course, this is just a simple development of the market, presumably there are still some feasible points, to really compete with Wanjia, after all, there is still a big gap, but it is not without a trace.
Li Quan didn't know what Shen Wuyan was thinking, he only knew that Shen Wuyan's first step plan was to let every literati in the capital know that there was a kind of tea called Tieguanyin, and Tieguanyin was only available in the Xingbake Teahouse.
This is only the first step, as for what to do in the second step, Shen Wuyan did not explain, and Li Quan did not ask too much, nor did he think too much, doing a good job in the first step is the greatest success.
Even in Li Quan's heart, he thought that the speed of doing this was still a bit slow, at least in the short term, it was not enough for tens of thousands of literati in the capital to know about this, but during this period, the Wan family would already be aware of it.
In recent years, there have been many new teahouses in the capital, which have prospered in various ways, but after all, they are still no match for the majestic momentum of Wanjia.
Ten thousand homes are like the sea, and all the details of the rivers can only be returned to the sea after all, even if there are small waves, but it has no effect on the sea.
In Li Quan's heart, Wanjia is so indestructible when he thinks about it, so what he hopes in his heart is only this first step, so that all the literati in the capital know about the awakening of the Bake Teahouse.
Once the awakening eight guest teahouse rises, it only needs a little operation to drive the prosperity of the smoke-containing building, such as the connection between the two, for example, the Tieguanyin of the awakening eight-guest tea house in the smoke-containing building, giving certain benefits.
Compared with Shen Wuyan so far, Li Quan has also learned about all kinds of business operation methods, and the so-called marketing, which is not easy to understand, is actually very clear to explain.
And Li Quan knows even more that these words and means were not available in the Ming Dynasty in the past, and if the so-called Taylor management method is really used in the restaurant, it can improve the efficiency of the restaurant a lot.
Now it's just a simple tea, a simple gathering, so that all classmates resonate, probably after they walk out of this restaurant today, they will boast to their friends that they have drunk the taste of Tieguanyin.
Then their friends and friends will continue to inform it widely, and finally let all the literati in the capital know that there is such a thing as the Eight Guest Teahouse, which is indeed not too difficult, but it is a matter of time.
After leaving the restaurant, Li Quan was not in a hurry to go back, except for a few restaurants to party, and after the prospect was repeated, it aroused everyone's interest and informed everyone of the awakening eight guests.
After completing this, he hurried towards the mansion again.
Doing business in the capital is bound to deal with the government, if a rich businessman like Wan Jia still has to befriend the officials in the capital, but it is for convenience.
Today, Li Quan went to the Yamen, but he also came for this matter.
Lord Fu Yin may be a little disgraced among the hundred officials in the capital, after all, there are six ministries and nine secretaries in the capital, and there are cabinet celebrants, and even the Dongchang Jinyi Guard is directly under the emperor.
Therefore, Fu Yin, as the yamen of the local security of the capital, is really a little awkward.
However, this does not affect his status in the capital, even if the officials of the six ministries commit crimes, they must first be tried by Lord Yin, and then handed over to the Metropolitan Procuratorate of the Criminal Department of Dali Temple for inspection.
In short, the cheapness of things in the capital is still to rely on this mansion lord everywhere.
In fact, on weekdays, during the New Year's holidays, Hanyanlou will also send people to send some dry goods, but today there are other things to ask, so it is a little abrupt, and Li Quan didn't bring anything.
This made the guards of the yamen a little displeased, and they wanted to send Li Quan away, but they heard that the other party had something important, so they had to go to report. To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation