This wine was drunk until the branches on the moon, although the degree of Datang wine is not high, but it can be intoxicating if you drink too much, Li Su was drunk and helped out by the guards, and I don't remember what happened later. By the time he woke up, it was already the next morning, and the man had already returned to the palace.

Waking up from a hangover, Li Su had a headache and wanted to saw his head open, fortunately, Wen'er had already prepared the kitchen with a sobering soup, Li Su drank several bowls in a row to feel better, lying on the bed humming and chirping half a sound before getting up, and playing Tai Chi in the garden, which barely recovered a little energy.

"Your Highness, the steward of the tea garden has sent this year's newly picked spring tea!" As soon as Li Su sat down and drank a sip of salty and astringent tea, Gao Zhong came in and reported to him, the inner courtyard of the palace is the same as the palace, and it is not allowed to enter the palace with a deficit of tea Chapter 13, there were eunuchs before, but all let Li Su rush to the front yard, and now in the inner courtyard except for the maids and servants who do rough work, there is only one man, Li Su, unless there is Li Su's permission. Of course, Gao Chong is the head of the palace and a eunuch, so he is not restricted.

"Phew! Great, bring both people and tea, finally don't have to drink this tea dregs! Li Su spit out the tea in his mouth, he really couldn't stand these strange teas of the Tang Dynasty, it was bitter without adding salt, and he couldn't get used to drinking it with salt, so he had long been thinking about stir-frying some tea to drink. He had instructed Gao Zhong before, and after this year's spring tea was picked, he would send it directly to the palace without any processing, and it happened that it was delivered today.

Taking advantage of the efforts of others to pull the tea leaves, Li Su first cut some fine bamboo in the garden to remove the leaves to make a fried tea broom, and then asked Wen'er to go to the kitchen to find a small iron pot, and the carbon stove for heating in winter was also found to raise the fire, and when these were ready, Gao Zhong took a middle-aged steward to push the cart to the garden.

"Steward Liu Hu see the prince!" The middle-aged steward named Liu Hu parked the car and saluted Li Hu, Liu Hu looked like he was in his forties, with a stocky appearance and a sturdy figure, and the palace with a bit of military neatness and toughness in the thirteenth chapter of the roasted tea and the empty palace between walking.

"Well, get up!" Li Su didn't expect a tea garden steward to have such a temperament, and couldn't help but ask with some curiosity, "Liu Hu, have you joined the army before?" ”

"Lord Qi, the villain used to serve under the Patriotic Army, and later retired due to injury, fortunately the prince appreciated and let the villain manage the tea garden." Liu Hu clasped his fists and saluted. Wei Guogong is Li Jing, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, Pingxiao milled the Turkic expedition to Tuyuhun, he did not taste defeat in more than 100 battles in his life, and his prestige in the army was extremely high, and even Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin had to be defeated in front of him.

"Well, that's right, I didn't expect that there is a talent like you under this king, do a good job, and this king will definitely not treat you badly in the future!" Li Su smiled and praised twice, Liu Hu was also very cooperative, and immediately expressed his gratitude and said that he must repay Li Su for his kindness.

Then Li Su began to fry the tea himself, Gao Zhong and Liu Hu both stayed, Li Su planned to let Liu Hu learn, the tea produced in the tea garden are made into fried tea, after all, such a large tea garden, it is impossible to only rely on their own frying, and after the tea is fried, not only drink it yourself, but also give it away in the future.

Heat the small iron pot to a certain temperature, and then put more than half a catty of tea leaves to quickly rotate and stir-fry for a minute or two, which is called full pot rotation, and so on when the leaves are soft and the leaves are dark green, raise the pot to reduce the temperature some, and then force the tea leaves to rotate in the pot, which is called with strength, when the leaves are shrunk into strips and sticky, then raise the temperature of the pot and then lower it a little, fry until the tea leaves drill into the branches of the broom, fry it several times repeatedly, and when the leaves are three or four into dry, you can get out of the pot.

The fried cha color is dark green and curled into strips, exactly the same as the tea that Li Su drank in later generations, this method of roasting tea is still what Li Su saw from the Internet, but he didn't expect to make good tea in the first operation.

"Your Highness, your method of stir-frying tea is also novel, and the aroma of tea is also very peculiar, but I don't know what the brewed tea tastes like?" Liu Hu snorted and said, as the steward of the tea garden, he knows a lot about tea, but it is the first time he has seen such a method of making tea, so he is a little uncertain.

"Hehe, this tea is not boiled, just brew it with boiling water. Wen'er, is the water boiling? Li Su said with a smile.

"That's it!" Wen'er agreed and walked up with boiling water. The painting put several cups, Li Su personally put in the tea leaves, Wen'er washed the boiling water in, and the tea leaves curled up into a ball slowly stretched out in the water, and the tea also became emerald green and transparent, looking like jade. But after a while, a light and distant tea fragrance spreads, and the smell is shocking.

"Huh? Good tea! What a tea! Liu Hu sniffed the fragrance of tea, and praised loudly, he has managed the tea garden for so many years, and has drunk countless good teas, as long as he smells the fragrance of tea, he can know the quality of this tea. The tea brewed from this roasted tea is definitely better than the tea he has drunk before. Liu Hu stared at the teacup with bright eyes, if it weren't for Li Su's identity, he would have grabbed the cup first.

"Come on, come on, let's all taste it, and see how about the tea made by this king?" Li Su beckoned, took the lead in picking up a cup of tea and took a sip. Well, it feels good, and the taste of tea sold on the street for a few dollars and a tael in later generations is similar, roasting tea is a technical job, in addition to the quality of the tea itself, the more skilled workers fry the tea, the better, Li Su This kind of raw hand did not fry the tea, it has been calculated very good.

Liu Hu saw that Li Su had already tasted it, so he couldn't wait to pick up the teacup, first put it under his nose and sniffed it a few times, with an intoxicated expression, and then slowly tasted it, until he finished drinking a cup of tea, then put down the teacup with an aftertaste, and looked at Li Su with a look of awe. Gao Chong, Wen'er, and Hua'er also took a sip, and they may be a little unaccustomed to it at first, but they slowly felt the benefits of roasted tea, and drank the tea with a happy face.

"Your Royal Highness, this tea soup is bright, the aroma is high, the beginning of the taste is slightly bitter, gradually cool, after sweet, people have an endless aftertaste, it is simply the fairy tea of the heavenly realm, the villain dares to guarantee that there is no tea in this world can compare with this tea!" Liu Hu bowed deeply to Li Su.

"Hahaha~, Steward Liu is really powerful, and he immediately said the characteristics of this tea." Li Su smiled proudly, he just couldn't listen to other people's praise, and when others praised Li Su, he was a little carried away, "Steward Liu, I will pass on this method of roasting tea to you, and the tea produced in the tea garden is made in this way." ”

"Thank you for the prince's trust, the villain will live up to the prince's trust." Although Liu Hu had vaguely guessed the reason why Li Su let him stay, when he heard Li Su say it with his own ears, he was still excited and couldn't help himself. As the steward of the tea garden, how can he not see the importance of this method of roasting tea, His Royal Highness King Liang did not hesitate to teach himself the method, which shows his trust in himself.

"Your Highness, this method of roasting tea must be kept secret, the roasted tea can be handed over to the old slave, and then let people sell it on the market, it will definitely be very profitable, and the money obtained can also make up for the deficit of the palace." Before Li Su could speak, Gao Zhong next to him jumped out excitedly and said.

Selling tea? Li Su didn't think about this, the first thing he made tea was to drink by himself, and the second was to give it away, and he never thought of using tea to make money, after all, in his thoughts, he should not be short of money, right? But listening to the meaning of Gao Chong's words, it seems that the finances of his Liang Wangfu are not very optimistic?

"Gao Zhong, what do you mean by this, is there still a deficit in the house?" Li Su asked curiously.

"This ......" Gao Chong's face froze, this kind of thing should not have been told to Li Su, but he was excited for a while and said that he missed his mouth, and now Li Su asked, how should he answer the question?

"Your Royal Highness, the finances of the palace are indeed not very good, the income of the palace is not enough to meet the expenses, and now it is in debt, fortunately, Concubine Yang and the King of Shu often fund, so it can barely maintain the ......" Gao Zhong hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to tell the truth, because he found that since King Liang woke up from injury, it was like a different person, and these things should be known to him.

After a high-level introduction, Li Su finally understood the income and expenditure of his palace, the income of the palace is mainly the salary of his prince, and the salary of the Tang Dynasty is not just money, but the income of money and grain and vocational fields, money and grain are very simple, you can use it, the prince is a product, there are 1200 acres of vocational land, and the tenants on these lands give him a certain rent every year, which is regarded as his fixed salary. In addition, there are some rewards and gifts in the palace in peacetime, which are also a lot of income. In fact, he still has a fief, and the taxes on the fief also belong to him, but he can't use it until he becomes an adult.

As a prince, Li Su's fixed salary for a year is not small, this alone is enough for the expenses of his palace, plus the rewards in the palace and the physical money saved by Concubine Yang are often given to his son, it stands to reason that Li Su should live a very comfortable life, but in fact this is not the case.

The expenses for maintaining the operation of the entire palace are not too large, accounting for only a quarter of the entire expenditure, and the remaining three-quarters are Li Su's personal expenses. Don't think that there has always been very little money, it has always been a thousand yuan, a penny in the Tang Dynasty can buy more than two catties of rice, and in the 21st century, a catty of rice in China will cost at least two or three yuan, and the purchasing power of a penny in the Tang Dynasty is equivalent to more than five yuan in later generations, almost catching up with the exchange rate of the US dollar and the renminbi.

It has always been more than 5,000 yuan, and the reward for a kaki is tens of thousands of yuan, and a banquet will not only invite one kabuki, plus the expenses such as wine and food, a banquet will be at least a million. In addition, Li Su used to be a good gambler, and his luck was bad, he lost a lot at one time, and no amount of money was enough for him to squander it so much. In the past few years, the foundation of Liang Wangfu has made him toss and tear it all away. In order to maintain the expenses of the royal government, the royal government can only borrow foreign debts, and now it owes thousands of foreign debts alone.

The most pitiful thing is Concubine Yang, after knowing this situation, she gave all her body money to Li Su, but she lived a hard life in the palace, and what rewards Li Shimin usually had, they were all given to Li Su as soon as they changed hands, and Li Ke complained a little about Concubine Yang's partiality. When Li Su went to visit Concubine Yang the day before yesterday, he saw that Wangyun Palace was very elegantly decorated, and there were no more luxurious decorations, in fact, it was not that Concubine Yang didn't like luxury, but she loved her children and gave Li Su all the valuable things in her palace, and she usually didn't even have money to reward the maids in the palace.

When it comes to the current situation of Concubine Yang, Gao Zhong is old tears, he entered the palace at the age of eight, followed Concubine Yang when she was still a princess of the previous dynasty, until the fall of the Sui Dynasty and entered the palace of the Qin Dynasty with Concubine Yang, after Li Su was born, he was sent by Concubine Yang to take care of Li Su, until now. It can be said that his feelings for Concubine Yang are deeper than those for Li Su, thinking that Concubine Yang's golden body is so miserable, he can't help crying bitterly.

Bastard! Li Su couldn't wait to slap himself twice, Li Su was definitely a bastard before, with such a good mother who loved him, he was still so uncompromising, he was simply inferior to a beast. Thinking of Concubine Yang's concern for herself in the palace the day before yesterday, Li Su felt a burst of warmth, since he is now fortunate to be the son of this great mother, then behave well, and definitely can't break his mother's heart again! Thinking of this, Li Su secretly swore in his heart.

"Tall, get up! Don't cry anymore! You immediately go to borrow money, and then send someone to buy this year's tea as much as possible, Liu Hu, you will organize all the tea masters in the tea garden, sign a confidentiality contract with them, give them twice the treatment, teach them the method of roasting tea, a large number of roasted tea, and then organize people to sell. In the future, the palace will definitely not be able to rely on the help of the queen mother and the royal brother! With a goal in mind, Li Su immediately felt a shock all over his body, and the whole person seemed to be much more enriched.

"Yes, Lord Wang!" Gao Zhong and Liu Hu immediately agreed, Liu Hu didn't feel anything, but Gao Zhong felt that Li Su's temperament in front of him suddenly changed, and the previous lazy temperament was swept away, and the whole person was a little more confident and decisive, faintly similar to Li Ke, the king of Wu.

ps: Today's Mid-Autumn Festival welfare, so it's late to come back, I hope you understand.!!