"Your Majesty, Empress Eldest Sun asks to see you."

"Let the queen in."

The door was pushed open, and a young woman in a gold and white shirt, a plain long skirt, and a high bun wore a golden hairpin on her head.

"Your Majesty, the concubine asks to see." The woman's voice is beautiful, although she is twenty-six years old, she is still as fresh and beautiful as a girl, and she should let that Shuhui temperament also make her have a bit of the taste of motherhood.

"Guanyin doesn't have to be polite." Li Shimin was very happy to see the eldest grandson queen coming.

"Your Majesty, a few days ago, the concubine happened to get the 'Huangshan Maofeng' tea that has been very popular in Chang'an recently, and I will dedicate it to His Majesty today." Empress Changsun made a gesture.

Hearing the words of Huangshan Maofeng, Li Shimin was slightly stunned.

The careful Empress Eldest Sun obviously noticed the slight unnaturalness on Li Shimin's face.

"Have you ever drunk it?"

Li Shimin's expression quickly returned to normal, and said with a smile: "No, but I have also heard that this tea is gradually becoming popular in my Chang'an." ”

Empress Changsun covered her mouth and chuckled: "Not to mention the gradual popularity, now the family, after the daily banquet, it can be said that there is no such tea, but the production of this tea is very small, I heard that it is transported from Youzhou, which is far away in the north, and now it has been sold in Chang'an to fifteen pounds, but it is still in short supply." ”

"It's so expensive!" Li Shimin was also a little shocked.

"What's more." Empress Changsun chuckled, "Many nobles of the family have now auctioned this tea internally, and the highest price will get it, and I heard that the most expensive one was sold for a hundred guan and one catty. ”

"One pound!" Li Shimin was also shocked by the wealth of these big families, but then he regained his composure and said: "I want to taste the immortal tea that is suitable for the world, and it can be sold for a hundred pounds." ”

Empress Eldest Sun smiled sweetly and said, "Your Majesty, please take a seat." With that, with a slight wave of his hand, a few maids carefully presented the plate with it.

Li Shimin looked at the transparent and crystal glasses on the plate, and his face was shocked.

He picked up a glass and played with it carefully, the material of this glass was similar to the glass galloping horse on his copy, except that it looked transparent and not as tall as the galloping horse.

"What is this?" Li Shimin asked with a glass.

Empress Changsun hurriedly replied: "This thing is called a glass, which has been sold in many people in my Tang Dynasty, and some big clans like to use this transparent cup like snow, which looks pleasing to the eye." ”

Li Shimin's face was shocked.

It made the eldest grandson queen feel slightly uneasy.

"What's on your mind?"

Glass! Glass! Sure enough, it's glass! At this time, Li Shimin's heart was indeed a little turbulent, he should have thought of it, he didn't just listen to the report of his subordinates when he investigated, this glass is like glass, transparent and moist, but he never expected that the tribute on his copywriting was actually given to him by Xu Yang.

"It's nothing, Guanyin, you continue." Li Shimin is worthy of being the first emperor of the ages, and his joy and anger are not in shape.

As a woman, but also as a queen, Empress Changsun knows that there are some things that she can't know as a woman, Li Er's things don't tell her, and she doesn't complain at all, just make her own tea with peace of mind, which can make Her Majesty happy, which is the most important thing she can do as a queen.

Speaking of making tea, this can be said to be a lot of attention in later generations, Xu Yang in order to make his tea popular, but also printed all these rules and regulations, handed over to Zhou Duan, Zhou Duan, a witty boy, since he saw the professional tea paper, he also immediately found someone to train a professional tea maker, and sent to various places to teach people to drink tea, especially to teach those people from the big family to drink tea, so that Xu Yang was slightly surprised that Zhang Taishou's daughter Zhang Xuelan also participated in the registration of the tea maker, and actually won the first place After graduation, he was arranged to teach the hundred officials of Youzhou to drink tea.

Tea brewing is an invention of the Chinese, an inflection point in the development of Chinese tea culture, driving the development of tea utensils, tea ceremony, tea art and tea culture. Tea making is about tea utensils, water use, water temperature, environment, mood, and even dress (dress) and so on. Before making tea, people will only put the tea leaves in their mouths and chew them. After making tea, tea really became popular and became the favorite of Chinese and tea people around the world.

Empress Changsun is very fond of making tea, because her heart will be very quiet when she makes tea, so she has been practicing hard in the Lizheng Hall for a long time, and she came to perform for the saint today.

Empress Changsun ordered the maid to bring up a small charcoal stove, and a teapot was set up on the charcoal stove, boiling water, and waiting quietly.

A wooden spoon made of mahogany scoops the tea leaves into a gaiwan, and drenches them with boiling water from a pot next to them, and the steam carries the fragrance of tea up. The heart gradually precipitated in the tea smoke, and a long-lost sense of familiarity calmed the desolation in his chest, and Li Shimin felt that his mind was empty. The boiling water was brewed repeatedly, then poured into a porcelain bowl and placed in front of the eldest grandson. The eldest grandson queen used her thumb, index finger, and middle finger to form the "Three Dragons Protecting the Ding", and gently and gently held up the glass without breaking the soul of tea. The glass is held in the palm of the hand, and a few pieces of tea are stretched and rotated in the clear and turquoise liquid, slowly sinking, rising and sinking again, rising and falling three times, and the buds and shadows are shining with each other. She just watched quietly, her eyes were deep and soft, the tea sank to the bottom of the cup, like the tip of a pen standing upright, and the sky crane was flying.

Empress Changsun uses a tea clip to take out the tea residue from the teapot, wash it with warm water, rotate the teacup on the side in the tea boat, warm it with hot water, and then take it out and put it in the tea tray. Dial the tea leaves into the pot, the tea shape of the green top is like a woman dressed in a delicate cheongsam, the buds and leaves are tightly wrapped, the beauty is full, the vision is refreshing, it can be called clear and beautiful, the water is immersed in it, the slenderness travels around, but it is bright but transparent, just like the woman's eyebrows and eyes.

Seven soaks and seven bubbles, the aroma is distinct.

The first layer of water is brewed, and the warm fragrance rises from the cup, and the nose comes to the nose;

The second layer of water is brewed, mellow and sweet;

The third layer of water has been brewed, rich and undecided;

The fourth layer of water is brewed, with a hint of floral fragrance;

After the fifth layer of water is brewed, a fragrance gradually spreads;

The sixth layer of water is brewed, the taste is light and elegant for a long time, and the fragrance is quiet and quiet

The seventh layer of water has been brewed, and the water has left a clear rhyme silently, where to find the string sound on a moonlit night.

Royal elegance.

The pot is held between the fingers of the eldest grandson queen, as light as a piece of thin paper, the middle finger of the left hand holds the pot button, the water flows down leisurely, and the wrist drives the fingers, as if tracing a delicate painting, little by little, one stroke from the bottom of the heart.

A bud leaf slowly dives to the bottom of the cup, and then gradually floats, swaying and floating along the direction of the water, three sinking and three floating, and the tea leaves are slightly rolled, like pinched up small folds.

Li Shimin is also drunk when he sees it, and he feels tired of watching this way of drinking tea.

There was already a pool of Qingming tea left in the glass, and Empress Changsun smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, please use tea." ”

Li Shimin was in a good mood, picked up the glass, and took a sip of tea gently.

The fragrance instantly bloomed in the taste buds, Li Er felt as if he was in the grassland, he seemed to be able to smell the fragrance of the grass, light bitter and sweet, the fragrance was far and clear, the cool feeling of tea washed over and over again, and the originally somewhat drowsy head now felt extremely refreshing.

"Good tea! What a tea! Haha," Li Shimin laughed.

Empress Eldest Sun was also full of happiness when she saw Li Shimin so happy.

"The tea made by Guanyin today is very pleasing to me, reward! Fifty horses of silk and one hundred taels of silver. ”

A small eunuch next to him hurriedly wrote down the paper and said, "No! ”。

Empress Eldest Sun's heart was also extremely happy.

"Guanyin, I want you something." Li Shimin held the glass, and suddenly said to the eldest grandson. At the same time, with a wave of his hand, the maids and eunuchs in the room retreated.

Empress Eldest Sun sat up slightly, she had rarely seen Li Er like this, every time Li Er spoke to her in such a tone, it meant that something had exceeded Li Er's expectations.

"Your Majesty wants to ask something, and the concubine will know everything."

"Do you know who invented this roasted tea?" Li Shimin's gaze was slightly solemn.

"This concubine doesn't know, but she knows that she came from Youzhou."

"Do you know who invented this glass?"

"This concubine still doesn't know, and she only knows that it is from Youzhou? Don't? Empress Changsun was also a little shocked, the person who could have these two inventions could be said to be sitting on a mountain of gold and silver.

"Yes, both inventions were made by the same person." Li Er's tone was a little profound, "His name is Xu Yang, and the words have not yet been investigated, and at the same time, he not only has the invention of glass and roasted tea, but also the invention of sacred objects such as mouth cellars and bicycles." Li Er's tone revealed deep appreciation.

"Then this person can be said to be the lucky star of the Tang Dynasty, my Tang Dynasty has been fighting for many years, and now it is finally stable, and the people urgently need to live and work in peace and contentment and improve their living standards, but there are Turkic tigers in the northwest, there are Tubo people in the southwest who want to turn over, there are Goguryeo in the northeast to block the north, and the strongman pirates of the Wa Kingdom often rob merchant ships at sea, internal and external troubles, and the country is in urgent need of able ministers." Empress Eldest Sun analyzed.

"But I wonder if this person can be of my use?" Li Shimin's tone was a little confused.

Empress Eldest Sun was a little shocked, she couldn't be used by me, this means rebellion?!

"This person intends to rebel?!"

"Nope. But Li Shimin didn't know how to explain it.

"Why?"

Li Shimin thought for a while and said: "This person has established a civil corps organization with Youzhou Taishou and many assassins, and there are more than 300 people, I am worried that he will be opposed." ”

"Poof~" Empress Changsun snorted and laughed, making Li Shimin a little overwhelmed.

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, can you dare to fight in the face of the Turkic 3,000 Corps?"

Li Shimin said very domineeringly: "With only 3,000 corps, I can destroy them with my hands!" ”

"That's it." Empress Eldest Sun said with a smile.

"How?" Li Shimin still didn't understand.

"Your Majesty is not even afraid of the 3,000 Turkic soldiers with strong soldiers, but he is afraid of the 300 Tang militia, wouldn't it be a joke to say it." Empress Eldest Sun said with a smile.

Li Shimin's face turned red.

"Your Majesty doesn't have to blame yourself, it's just an obstacle, just look away." Empress Eldest Sun comforted.

Li Shimin nodded and said, "What Guanyin said is extremely true, I have indeed entered the obstacle, and now I don't have any worries when I hear what Guanyin said." ”

Empress Changsun said again: "This person can invent so many profitable objects, he must also be a wonderful person, why not recruit him to come to Chang'an as an official?" ”

Li Shimin said: "I still want to see, without my influence, what exactly this son is going to do, I have arranged for the shadow guard to go to his side, it is estimated that there will be a response in a few days, if this son shows more magic in the future, I will consider meeting him, if he dares to rebel~"

"Bump!" The glass in Li Shimin's hand was crushed, and Li Shimin's hand was full of blood.

"I told him to die!"

Empress Changsun hurriedly came up to bandage Li Shimin's wounds.

If Xu Yang saw this scene, he would probably be scared, Li Er, the ruthless man who killed his brother and killed his brother in the history of the emperor, remembered himself, and cut himself as if he was cutting a melon, and chopped his own into meat sauce in minutes.

After a long time, Empress Changsun bandaged Li Shimin's hand, complained a few words, and then asked, "Your Majesty, the concubine still doesn't know this person's name." ”

"Xu Yang."