Chapter 3: Li Gang is in a good mood
Buying tea and other trivial things naturally don't need Uncle Yi to do it himself, back to the Chu Palace, Uncle Yi found Li Kuan, and stopped talking several times, and finally Li Kuan couldn't bear it and asked: "Uncle Yi, do you have anything to say?" ”
Uncle Yi sighed and said quickly: "Your Highness, you asked me to sell all the land of our family except Zhuangzi yesterday, do you still sell it?" ”
Uncle Yi's eyes flashed with hope, he hoped that Li Kuan was quick to talk yesterday, not really to sell it.
Li Kuan suddenly realized when he heard this, and then said: "That's right, we can't all sell it." ”
Uncle Yi breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, his master is not completely crazy.
"Except for Zhuangzi and 10,000 acres of fertile land in Henan Province, all the rest will be sold."
Uncle Yi almost swallowed it in one gulp and suffocated himself to death.
Don't you sell it all, it turns out that you just keep 10,000 acres.
Uncle Yi said that his master might be crazy, and at this time he really wanted to enter the palace to meet his old master Li Yuan, and ask him to send an imperial doctor to take a look.
"Your Highness, if our family sells, it will sell 80,000 acres of fertile land at one time, and half of our family's business comes from grain resale."
Uncle Yi begged bitterly, and even asked people to bring the family's account book and explain it bit by bit, Li Kuan listened slowly, waited for him to speak, and said calmly: "Is it useful to gather a large amount of land and accumulate a large amount of food in your hands?" Sooner or later, it will disappear anyway. ”
Uncle Yi sighed and left helplessly to control this matter.
Li Kuan looked at the back of Uncle Yi leaving, shook his head, at this time, he was really grateful to the Jin Dynasty for leaving the Jiupin Zhongzheng, the gate valve management, so that the subordinates took the master very seriously, otherwise, he was a teenager, and what he said would be two words.
Uncle Yi left Li Kuan, hurried back to his room, wrote a letter, found his confidants, and handed him a token engraved with the Yuan Cong Guard.
"Give this letter to the Emperor Taishang, His Royal Highness the King of Chu is crazy."
Li Kuan didn't know Uncle Yi's small movements, and if he knew, he would only smile casually, all for his own good.
After Li Kuan sent Uncle Yi away, he came to the study, tried to recall the process of roasting tea that he had seen on the Internet in his previous life, and then wrote it down and handed over everything he needed to Uncle Yi.
Recently, there has been a rumor in Chang'an City, saying that Li Kuan, the king of Chu, is crazy.
Everyone didn't believe it at first, but when someone said that the king of Chu was selling the fertile land in large quantities, everyone believed it.
Don't be crazy, who sells land.
Many nobles of the family appeared with the attitude of trying, and traded with the Chu Wangfu to buy land.
At first, when they heard the rumors, they only thought it was a joke, but when Li Kuanzhen asked Uncle Yi to make a sale, everyone realized that the time had come to be quick and slow.
There is not a lot of land in the Chu Palace, and there are 90,000 acres at the peak, which is the foundation of the Chu Palace.
The sale of 80,000 acres of land is very fast, and this one buys some and that one buys it, and it will soon be gone.
There are more and more rumors that the king of Chu is crazy.
During the sale of land, Li Xiaogong came to see Li Kuan once, and Li Yuan also sent the imperial doctor to see it, knowing that Li Kuan was fine, Li Yuan could only attribute it to Li Kuan's lack of IQ and stupidity, and then he was scared by Li Shimin a few days ago, for this reason, Li Yuan scolded Li Shimin fiercely, dogs, will bully the elderly and children.
For this reason, Li Yuan decided to send Li Gang, a famous Confucian, to Li Kuan as a teacher.
As for the land sold, Li Yuan didn't take it seriously, he sold it, and when a natural disaster occurred in the future, he asked Li Yi to make preparations, and he could buy tens of thousands of acres cheaply when he turned his head.
Li Gang received Li Yuan's order and decided to visit as an ordinary person first.
When Li Gang came to the palace of the king of Chu, someone immediately stepped forward and saluted respectfully: "Old man, please come with me." ”
This made Li Gang very puzzled, his identity was exposed? But the people along the way did not speak, and Li Gang just followed him.
Suspiciously walked into the mansion, the huge mansion, quietly, occasionally saw one or two subordinates leading a few ordinary people from the side door, the small door in, but also hurriedly glanced at him, and quickly left.
Li Gang followed his subordinates to a place, which was a courtyard, and when he approached, he could hear shouts inside.
"This is tea, you can drink it with confidence, and I will give you the salary in the Chu Wangfu after the tea tasting conference."
The immature voice made Li Gang puzzled, he knocked on the door, only to hear a sound come in, Li Gang walked in suspiciously, only to see a young man in thin clothes standing on a high place, a group of people wearing subordinate clothes holding pots, pouring tea for the people.
Each of the people carried a large bowl in his hand, which contained hot water and a few slices of tea.
Seeing Li Gang coming, the eyes of the subordinates lit up, Uncle Yi hurriedly beckoned Li Gang to sit down, gave him a big bowl, threw in two pieces of tea, and poured boiling water: "Old man, the person who came is a guest, today we have enough tea in Chu Wangfu, you can drink it, just tell us how you feel after drinking." ”
"And don't worry, you can still come to try tea at such an old age, and we will double your salary, twenty dollars an hour."
Li Gang lowered his head in confusion and looked at a few tea leaves in the bowl, this is tea?
Is it an old man, I can't keep up with the times?
I remember that tea should not be made with oil, onions, ginger, garlic, etc., and simmered over low heat?
How can it be here, just a bowl of boiling water and two tea leaves?
With doubts, Li Gang took a sip after the water temperature dropped a little.
With a warm stomach, Li Gang couldn't help but light up in his eyes, and couldn't help blurting out:
"The aroma is rich and rich, the taste is strong and heavy, and the aftertaste is long-lasting."
This is more than the tea he drank before, and he can taste the sweetness of tea leaves.
Li Gang's enjoyment made Li Kuan's eyes light up, and he hurriedly rushed to Li Gang's side, and couldn't help but say, "This old man, I don't know what your name is." ”
Li Gang looked at the brightness in Li Kuan's eyes and hesitated whether to reveal his identity.
However, he asked suspiciously, "Why is His Royal Highness the King of Chu so excited?" ”
Li Kuan replied excitedly: "I want to promote this way of drinking tea, but there is a lack of people to set an example, and I see the enjoyment of tea drinking by the elderly, I hope you can be our spokesperson, if you agree, I will give you ten yuan a month." ”
When the righteous uncle next to him heard this, his tears couldn't help but fall down, and he wailed in his heart: "Emperor Taishang, the old minister is sorry for you, you didn't teach His Royal Highness the King of Chu well, after selling the land, His Royal Highness will spend money to hire a spokesperson." ”
Li Gang looked at Li Kuan's sincere eyes and couldn't help but fall silent.
Ten dollars a month, which is a bit much.
And, what is this spokesperson?
However, in the spirit of fun, Li Gang still agreed with a smile.
Li Kuan hurriedly beckoned to Uncle Yi.
"Pay these tea drinkers and let them all leave."
"Then you ask our caravan to buy the tea-producing fields I told you about before, buy the production line for making tea, and give the rest to others except for the last roasted tea."
"You really can't outsource this to someone else."
Li Kuan said that he had just sold 80,000 acres of land, and some of them were money.
After that, Li Kuan asked Li Gang to pay twenty times.
"Old man, go back and eat more good food, come to the Chu Wangfu tomorrow morning, and I will ask someone to make you two good clothes for propaganda."
Li Gang took the twenty guan in his hand, and the whole person was stunned.
Didn't I come to see what kind of person King Chu was and decide whether to teach him or not?
How did he somehow become Li Kuan's subordinate?
Besides, this guy paid me twenty pounds of wages and made me new clothes tomorrow, which is the funniest thing I've heard lately.
Li Gang sneered, feeling that he was in a good mood at this time.