"It's Your Majesty," Haruka hurriedly agreed after hearing this.

Then he began to clean up the tea table and arrange the position, seeing the position Li Shimin also felt novel, it turned out that the person who made the tea wanted to sit in the main seat, Li Shimin sat opposite Chunxiang, and the ministers also sat on both sides, and everyone watched how Chunxiang made tea.

I saw Chunxiang put the purple clay pot into the tea wash, uncovered the lid, poured the freshly boiled boiling water, then covered the lid, and poured the purple clay pot with boiling water.

Then use a wooden clip to grab the teacups in turn, park the teacups on top of the tea wash, lift the purple clay pot, and pour out the boiling water to pour the teacups.

Then take out a wooden cylinder from under the table, take out the tea leaves with wooden chips and put them in the purple clay pot. Haruka whispered to a few maids behind her as she put it down.

Then pour in a little boiling water, pour it into the tea wash after a while, pick up the kettle again and raise it high, this is called the hanging pot high flush, flush the boiling water into the purple clay pot to let the tea fully dance in the boiling water, and at the same time let the endoplasm in the tea fully release.

After a while, Haruka arranges the teacups in a straight line and pours them into the teacups side by side, which is particularly ornamental.

"Your Majesty, please drink tea," Chunxiang picked up a cup of tea and handed it to Li Shimin with both hands.

"That's it? It's pleasing to the eye, and it does have some artistic conception. But it's okay to soak it in water, and you don't need to boil it. Li Shimin said suspiciously

"Your Majesty will know when you taste it, the prince said that three mouthfuls of sweetness, this cup of tea should be drunk three sips"

Li Shimin took the small teacup, the teacup was much smaller than what he usually used, and he had to drink three sips if it was not enough to drink one sip?

However, Li Shimin still took a small sip as Chunxiang said, and the tea instantly had a trace of bitterness in the mouth, and slowly turned into mellow.

Li Shimin took a second sip and closed his eyes and tasted it carefully, and returned to sweetness after bitterness. After drinking the last sip, Li Shimin finally realized the artistic conception in Li Shen's article, bitterness is its process, and sweetness is its gift.

"Good tea." Li Shimin spit out two words in the gaze of everyone. "Lovers come and try it too"

The eldest grandson, Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others also picked up their own teacups and tasted them carefully in the same way as Li Shimin.

"Hey~ King Ji is really talented, this tea is the tea that literati and writers like us should drink. Think about the leisure, a cup of tea and a book, quiet and comfortable, what a realm this is, it is intoxicating. Fang Xuanling said with emotion.

"I've been drinking tea for a lifetime, and now I've drunk it so well, and I have no regrets for the rest of my life," Wei Zheng also sighed

"This is really bitter, just like life." Tang Jian put down the teacup.

"It's a little special, but it's a little bitter." Just when everyone's artistic conception is strong. Cheng Biting Jin's words broke the situation.

At this time, this untimely sentence spoiled the atmosphere. Even Qin Qiong said to Cheng Yanjin with a look of disgust: "Zhijie, if you have time to read more, the dignified general is so vulgar." ”

"That is, we are all literary generals, and we have time to find a teacher to study hard. What a shame! "Wei Chi Jingde mended the knife

"Hmph. Second Brother Qin said I'm just that, what's the difference between you and me, what did you drink? Cheng Yanjin pouted at Yu Chi Jingde.

Everyone ignored them, and Haruka began to pour a second brew for everyone. This second bubble is different from the first one, the taste is lighter, less astringent, and more sweet. In this way, Li Shimin chatted with the ministers while drinking tea, which was very comfortable.

After drinking a few pots of tea, Fang Xuanling asked, "Your Majesty, I wonder if this tea Ji Wangfu is for sale?" ”

"I don't know. Chunxiang, your prince, is this tea for sale" Li Shimin didn't know, so he could only ask Chunxiang. Chunxiang, as Li Shen's personal maidservant, should know.

"Back to Your Majesty, the prince said that it will be sold in the next few days. It's just that there are three grades of tea. Third-class tea, second-class tea, and first-class tea. The third class has the highest number of lowest sales. Second class. First-class tea is a small number of first-class teas because the process is cumbersome and the tea leaves used are also carefully selected. Haruka replied truthfully

"Then today's this is a first-class tea," Eldest Sun Wuji asked

"No," Haruka shook her head

"Isn't it?" Everyone's faces changed, and Li Shimin was also a little ugly. What King Ji gave to His Majesty was not a first-class tea.

Chunxiang continued: "This tube of tea is the special tea of the palace, and it is not for sale at present. There are not many palaces either. King Ji asked the slave to tell His Majesty to keep it for himself and not to reward it to others, saying that he didn't have enough to drink. ”

After Haruka finished speaking, the ministers' faces became even more ugly. On the other hand, Li Shimin's face turned smug

This King Ji is too picky. Isn't there something good for the monarch to share?

"I don't know how much this tea costs." Tang Jian asked.

"The prince said one or two teas and one or two gold," Chunxiang received with a smile

"What!"

"One or two teas and one or two gold??"

"I'll just say this kid is very dark."

Everyone was very surprised to hear this price. Chunxiang continued: "My lords, this tea is from the Nanzhao Kingdom in the south of the Tang Dynasty, in order to be able to take it, the prince ordered someone to send 50,000 loads of grain, so that our people can pick it.

And the tea girls who picked were all virgins who had not yet come out of the cabinet. Only the two most tender leaves of the tea tree are picked, and after picking, they are placed in the clothes for preservation. Finally, it is sent to the tea workshop and undergoes complex production before it produces a little bit.

Then transported back from Nanzhao, during which it should be sealed and preserved. The prince said that the climate of Nanzhao is different from ours, where the climate is humid, the mountains are high, and the temperature is suitable.

Therefore, the tea produced is also better than our Datang, but the distance is far away, so the cost is too high. The prince only got a little back as a tribute tea for His Majesty. ”

"King Ji is really extravagant, and his extravagance is not enough to describe. This kind of labor and money is for the sake of the desire of the tongue. Wei Zheng's sense of justice immediately exploded.

"Zheng Guogong, I don't know which people my lord has worked for and whose wealth has been hurt?" Wei Zheng said that Li Shen Chunxiang was unwilling. How good their prince is.

"is so exciting, and she is a tea girl who has no personnel, and she is also a gift of food. Just to take a sip of tea. Isn't it a waste of money and labor? Wei Zheng's eyes widened. A little girl dared to question him.

"Zheng Guogong, the tea girls you mentioned are all paid. Do you know how many unemployed girls in Nanzhao want to do this job?

And the prince of my family is kind-hearted and chooses women from poor families to work. Is this a salvation for them? And all the workers are paid double wages.

How many people want to come to work with their heads broken, what kind of labor is this? As for what you said about hurting money. It's all the money of my royal house. The prince said that he could spend as much as he wanted, and when he was happy, the prince might take the money to block the Weishui River. "The little girl is articulate, and Li Shenxue's sharp teeth and mouth are not at all human.

And Li Shimin loves the house and Wu, stroked his beard on the side, and looked at this scene with a smile. There is no sense of anger at all.