Chapter 840: Gifts
Du Jinning doesn't have to worry too much about buying a tea garden, as long as he talks to Zhuang Yue, he will ask his shopkeeper to look around the mountains. If the mountains near the capital were too expensive, Du Jinning suggested that they go to Huizhou or Fujian to buy them.
Huizhou Xiuning, Huangshan, Tunxi, Qimen and other places are very famous tea producing areas in the Ming Dynasty, Xiuning is famous for pineapple tea, pineapple tea is the originator of fried green tea.
Now that the fried green tea has been taken out by Du Jinning in advance, I am afraid that the pineapple tea will never have a chance to become famous. But there are beautiful mountains and rivers, but it is a good place to grow tea, and good mountains and good water produce good tea. Du Jinning bought the mountainous land there when it was not famous, and it didn't cost much money, but he could get very good quality tea.
Tongguan, Anxi and other places in Fujian are also places where good tea is produced, and Du Jinning will naturally not let it go.
This is Du Jinning's unique advantage.
At a time when other women are still trying to cottage all kinds of snacks and snacks and fight against all kinds of best products, our Lord Du won the imperial examination, opened the way with science and technology, and walked out of a broader avenue.
Science and technology are the primary productive forces, and this is the first truth in the world.
The seedlings planted in the field thrive in the spring breeze. Under the personal guidance and participation of Du Jinning, when the fertilizer research team made phased progress, the newly developed fertilizer was sprinkled, and the rice began to set ears, and the rice ears hung heavily on the rice grass.
Wu Zheng couldn't wait to run to Zhuangzi one hundred and eighty times a day, but even Zhao Yu couldn't help but leave the palace in person and went to Zhuangzi to see it twice.
The ears of rice also live up to expectations, the grains are full, the fruits are abundant, and the discerning person knows at a glance that the yield per mu of this field is definitely not low. An old farmer like Song Zhuangtou can predict that this time the rice will yield more than seven stones per mu.
"The princess is really a person with great ability." Wu Zheng stood on the ridge and sighed infinitely at Zhao Yu.
Zhao Yu nodded: "The most rare thing is that the princess is open-minded, everything is country-oriented, and she does not hide her selfishness." ”
"Your Majesty." Wu Zheng not only agreed with Zhao Yu's point of view very much, but also couldn't wait to add more than a dozen words of praise to that sentence.
Because he was concerned about high-yield rice, he and Zhao met from time to time in the past six months to ask the four officials sent to study with Du Jinning about the situation of the 500 mu of rice.
Then, the four officials who had only been with Du Jinning for a month or two were so confused that they couldn't understand what they were talking about.
It doesn't matter if they don't understand, the four officials said that they have understood the reason why Wu Zheng used the same seeds for such low yields.
After another two months, four officials said that with the seeds, they were able to grow high-yielding rice.
That's enough.
It shows that Du Jinning did not hide her selfishness and passed on all the knowledge she knew to the four officials.
Regarding the four officials who have become Du Jinning's new fans, Zhao Yu and Wu Zheng are not disgusted at all. Because they are all fans themselves. For Du Jinning, who has Li Min in his heart and compassion for the world, Zhao Yu has no suspicions.
"Brother Huang, why are you here?" Du Jinning came out of the house when he heard the news.
"I'll come and take a look." Zhao Yu said gently, "The imperial sister has worked hard. ”
Du Jinning shook his head: "It's not hard, I like to deal with fields." "It's much better than intriguing with those courtiers.
"How long is it until the harvest?" Zhao Yu asked, pointing to the rice field.
"There is still half a month." Du Jinning said, "The seedlings of late rice have grown, and we will have to grab them next month." ”
Zhao Yu also knows what a double robbery is.
He suddenly remembered that the tenant farmers who had moved from Runzhou had planted 300 acres of land, and now they had to plant 500 acres, so he was afraid that he would not be able to keep busy.
He hurriedly asked, "If there are enough people, if they are not enough, I will order some people to be moved." ”
Du Jinning smiled: "Enough." ”
She didn't want the tenant farmers arranged by Zhao Yu and others. After the tenant farmers in Runzhou moved over, she spoke out in the local area and recruited more than 20 families.
In order to prevent problems, she developed some dark lines among the tenant farmers in Runzhou and the tenant farmers in the capital. She knew what was going on down there.
Fortunately, whether it was Zhao Yu, Wu Zheng or the four officials, there was no small move, otherwise she would have let them know that this year's high-yield rice had encountered problems, and the yield per mu was only four stones.
Zhao Yu was very beautiful to her, and if she didn't indiscriminately install people around her, Du Jinning planned to repay her by giving Zhao Yu a gift.
"Brother Huang, it will be your birthday in half a month. In addition to high-yield rice, the royal sister intends to give you another generous gift. Du Jinning said with a smile.
"Oh?" Zhao Yu raised his eyebrows and looked at Du Jinning, looking forward to it, "What gift?" ”
Wu Zheng also pricked up his ears to listen.
A gift that can be compared to high-yielding rice makes people boil when they think about it. Du Jinning won't have developed anything powerful, right?
"Why don't we go into the house and sit down?" Du Jinning said.
Zhao Yu immediately agreed and followed Du Jinning into the house. Wu Zheng also cheekily followed.
Zhao Yu glanced at him, then looked at Du Jinning, and saw that Du Jinning had no objection, so he didn't drive Wu Zheng away.
The three of them entered the hall and sat down, and Du Jinning instructed Aoki: "Go and bring the brocade boxes in my study." ”
Aoki went out at once, and came back after a while, holding two brocade boxes in his hands, and the two maids who followed him also held two brocade boxes in their hands.
At Du Jinning's signal, they opened the brocade box, put it on the table, and withdrew.
"Brother Huang, please take a look." Du Jinning made a gesture of please.
Zhao Yu and Wu Zheng, as well as Wu Gonggong and Wu Zheng's Chang Sui, were already like grass growing in their hearts, and they couldn't be curious. It's just that Zhao Yu was hindered by his identity, holding the shelf, and no monkey rushed forward to take a look. Naturally, other people are not easy to express.
Seeing the invitation at this time, Zhao Yu got up and walked over.
"Huh?" Seeing the contents of the brocade box, he was taken aback, and reached out to take out the contents from the brocade box.
Respect and humility are orderly, the emperor didn't finish reading it, and Wu Zheng didn't want to come forward to watch. But his heart was itching, and he had already stretched his neck to know what was in the brocade box.
At this time, seeing Zhao Yu take out a colorful thing from the brocade box, he finally couldn't help it, got up and walked up.
"It's ...... Chinaware? Seeing the things in Zhao Yu's hand clearly, he couldn't help but gasp.
Porcelain was very popular as early as the Sui and Tang dynasties. However, in the Tang Dynasty, steamed Qingtuan tea was popular, and the group tea was finely ground into powder and became a green matcha-shaped, and people liked to gain green tea sets at that time. The blue-green Zhejiang Yuezhou kiln porcelain is the tea set that Lu Yu most admired in the "Book of Tea".
In the Song Dynasty, it became popular to study the paste group tea, the tea color is still white, people favor the black porcelain tea set that highlights the white, and the rabbit hao cup of Jianzhou, Fujian stands out.
In Du Jinning's previous life, loose tea became popular in the Ming Dynasty. The loose tea tea soup is pure, which can bring out the posture of the tea leaves, and the white porcelain tea set can bring out the subtle beauty of the tea, so the white porcelain began to be sought after.
Jingdezhen has been known for the production of white porcelain since the Tang Dynasty, and the development of loose tea has elevated the white porcelain produced in Jingdezhen to a very prominent position. At that time, all the porcelain kilns could not dry Jingdezhen and closed down one after another.
Jingdezhen in the Ming and Qing dynasties, unified the porcelain industry, but because the porcelain technology is not mature, can not make large pieces, Yixing Yixing, Jiangsu Province because of the ability to make stoneware jars to miraculously survive, and later developed the pot making industry.
As a result, "Jing porcelain" and "Yi Tao" have become synonymous with tea sets.