There is no one growing tea in Xinghua, at least Liangchuan knew that no one growing tea was grown. The tea was either bought from Jianzhou to the north or went south to Qingyuan County to buy it. As for why no one growing tea in this place, he never thought about it. At first, he thought that the soil and climate here were not suitable for growing tea. As a result, Sun Houpu told him that the land in Xinghua is also an excellent place to choose tea gardens.

This made Liang Chuan very confused.

If the income from growing wheat and vegetables is small, it is easy to understand that no one wants to grow it. However, tea, which is almost essential daily necessities in life, has a large demand and a low profit, smart Xinghua people should be planted by many people.

Zheng Ruoying's family did not grow it, and even Zheng Zuliang, who was addicted to tea, had never heard of a tea plantation. Is this a coincidence? It must be that there is no, there must be some reason that tea is kept away from everyone! The answer lies with Sun Houpu.

Sun Houpu took a loquat and played with it. He didn't peel it off and ate it. He said, "Your Xinghua is really a Feng Shui treasure land. Although eight mountains, one water and one branch of the fields, the fields are fat fields, and you can grow lychees and loquats. Even the red-hearted Wendan pomelo is here. You can definitely roast good tea after planting tea trees."

Zheng Ruoying thought they were talking about business affairs, so she leaned her body and raised her ears as if she was watching Yi Niang and the others making bamboo weaving, but her ears were listening to their conversation.

"Why no one grows tea when they can roast it?"

"Because you can't sell tea, no one will grow it." Zheng Ruoying actually said the same thing.

Sun Houpu's eyes lit up, and then she said: "Those who do our tea industry, whether they grow tea or make tea, are called gardeners. Just like the ancestral business that has been passed down from generation to generation, usually after doing this industry, their descendants are also engaged in this industry."

"Our ancestors lived in Changkeng for generations and started growing tea very early, but the tea we grew cannot be traded freely. The court set up thirteen mountain fields in Jiangnan. These thirteen mountain fields are the thirteen mountains above our heads, which make us breathless."

"If you can't buy or sell, where will the tea you grow go?"

"You don't understand this. Tea should be taken away by people from the mountain ground." Zheng Ruoying said.

"What?" Liang Chuan was confused when he heard this.

Sun Houpu saw his confusion. Is there any normal person who doesn’t know about tea production in the Song Dynasty?

"Brother Liang, there are thirteen mountain fields south of Huai, which are responsible for the production and trading of our parks. There are six goods in the north of the river, which are responsible for the national tea and salt transactions. If you want to buy tea, you have to go to Tokyo to pay the tea price in advance with money or silk, and then take the tea to the designated mountain fields or goods in the designated mountains. You can only sell the tea if you get the tea!"

Liang Chuan was so crazy that he heard this. What a mess. "I can't sell the tea I grew myself. I have to sell it to the government first and then I go to the government to buy it back so that I can sell it freely?"

"Although your words are a bit rough, this is just the truth." Sun Houpu agreed.

Liang Chuan was so angry that he picked up a piece of firewood, put it on his chest, folded it hard, and folded it into two pieces. He was still not satisfied, and said angrily: "How much does the tea price increase in this battle? Tea farmers sold the tea to the mountain farm, and they had no choice. That wasn't the meat on the chopping board, so they could slaughter it?"

Zheng Ruoying said seriously: "The name of the official family is to trade fairly with the households of the garden, but in essence it is a forced robbery. Since Taizu implemented the tea-debt method, the households of the tea planters who died and fled, and it has also caused many neighbors to sit in the village. Cutting down the tea trees is a violation of the law, and it is a big deal to be injured. As the people now say, "The land is not raw tea, but it is really a disaster."

Liang Chuan watched the two of them sing and reconcile, and there was a sense of a couple singing along. Liang Chuan frowned and looked at the two of them. The two of them were uncomfortable being stared at by Liang Chuan, and then they realized that they were red. Zheng Ruoying's cheeks were slightly red, and she lowered her head and refused to let people look at them. She said in a slight voice: "I won't speak anymore."

Sun Houpu recalled the past and said quietly: "My Sun family also cultivated a small mountain in his early years, planted a few tea trees, and drank it by themselves. Later Zhou, our Fujian region was owned by one place, which was also considered a peaceful era. My grandfather broke through the ground and expanded the area of ​​the tea garden again and again. At that time, Taizu had not yet entered Fujian, and the government focused on mediating with Taizu. The people were not very exploited except for taxation."

"Who had ever thought that the Taizu Dynasty, when the people enjoy peace, the people were in a prosperous era, but the households in our garden were doomed. In the second year of Taizu's Gande period, the tea from all over the southeast began to be banned. In the second year of Taizong's Taiping Xingguo, the mountainous country opened a mountain to hold affairs. Tea in the world was lost to the government market. They dared to hide or privately store tea, and they were all in the official property. They were judged as per the value. People who privately destroyed tea trees or sold fake tea...

The more Liang Chuan listened, the more he became more frustrated, and the more he listened, the more frightened he was. Where is the tea control and drug control?

"What will happen?"

"A man who sells private tea, a thousand stakes, and a woman who is sent to the army for hard labor, and no matter how many people are, he will be sentenced to abdication in the market, and if the tea trees are destroyed privately, he will be punished by kilograms of tea. If he sells fake tea, he will beheaded and abandoned in the market for 100 sticks per kilograms. "

Liang Chuan almost burst into tears, "Xiao Sun, please slow down your guy. Don't plant those tea seedlings, it will be a fatal disaster!"

Sun Houpu said, "It's already growing on the ground, it's too late." Sun Houpu also wanted to see how Liang Chuan dealt with it. At that time, his family tried hard to open up this tea path. Since I asked me to plant it, I wouldn't be able to destroy the tea. I was sued for the official position, so I was in trouble.

"I'm forced to a dead end by Xiaosun. No wonder you said that this tea sucks people's blood, not just blood sucking, it's so fatal. My small tea garden has less than two kilograms of tea a year. Could it be that I have to go to Tokyo?" Liang Chuan is a stupid layman in the tea industry. He used to think that it was light and he would make some extra money by himself. Now that the tea cannot be sold, he may even lose a lot of money.

Zheng Ruoying was not sure about the whole story of this matter. Why did Liang Chuan so boldly dare to reach out to tea? His father was involved in everything, but he didn't dare to touch salt, iron, tea and wine. He had no backer behind him, and only had to be blackmailed. Who could make money? Liang Chuan actually went to plant tea trees. What was he thinking? Listening to their words, why did Liang Chuan know nothing about tea, and this man surnamed Sun secretly tricked Liang Chuan into pieces?

Thinking of this, Zheng Ruoying was even more disgusted when she saw the look of a young man like Sun Houpu. She was not so arrogant and honest. What kind of gentleman is she?

Sun Houpu continued: "The price of tea is determined by the mountain farm, and this price is set before buying tea. Regardless of the production of tea this year and the quality of the mountain farm, the mountain farm has the final say. This is called the official price. The official price cannot be bargained, but the government will pay the tea money to the garden households first."

Liang Chuan has learned to be smart now. He has traps everywhere in tea. The phenomenon of governments competing for profit between the people is everywhere. How could such good things happen? First give the tea farmers money and then collect the tea leaves?

Liang Chuan glanced at Sun Houpu with a squinted eyes and said with a giggle: "I'm afraid there is no such good thing, right?"

Response so quickly!

"Yes, of course there is no free food in the world. What the government pays in advance is called capital. After the tea is collected, the households in the garden have to pay the full amount of tea, and they also have to pay interest. The value of five or one is called tea interest."

It's worth five to get one? Wouldn't it be a 20% interest charge? Poverty limits Liang Chuan's imagination. What's the difference between raising pigs and killing fat? The people are the pigs in the eyes of the government. If this makes it so hard, can the government get a sip of soup?

"This is usury, it's terrible."

"I don't know what the usury brother Zhang said is, but I can imagine it is not a good thing."

"Young Master Sun should say less." Zheng Ruoying looked at Sun Houpu coldly. Seeing that her face was not kind, Sun Houpu thought he hadn't offended her, so why did he look like he was so bitter and revenge that he was worse than before.

"Oh, by the way, the official price of tea is very low. After paying the principal and interest, a loss of between 20 and 35 kilograms per 100 kilograms of tea is added. This is called tea consumption." Sun Houpu said in a small voice, his eyes did not leave Liang Chuan's face. Liang Chuan's face was expressionless at this time, but he just shook his head.

"Why did Brother Liang shake his head?" Sun Houpu asked a little consciously, isn't it all reasonable?

"I shook my head because this dynasty's tea method is so harsh, won't the tea farmers resist?"

If a dog is anxious, he will jump over the wall, and if a rabbit is anxious, he will bite people. You are a tea farmer who asks for an excessive money tree, and the people will not rebel? Liang Chuan has read some unofficial history. Most of the heroes in Water Margin were killed by Fang La. Why did Fang La revolt at the beginning? It is said that Fang La was originally a tea farmer. Liang Chuan was still wondering when he saw this. How could tea farmers in the Song Dynasty rebel with such richness?

Under the exploitation of this kind of tea method, it would be strange if the tea farmers do not rebel. Song Jiang’s old opponent Fang La is a tea farmers in Zhejiang. Don’t think that these leading brothers are poor people who are not full. They are all the ones who make a lot of money, but they just want more!

When the word resistance was expressed, Zheng Ruoying and Sun Houpu both felt a stern heart. How could you say this casually and be sued? It would be a loss of your head? Liang Chuan is so bold that he speaks without changing his face.

"Taizong's tea law was strict in the rebellion. Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun in Shu rebelled. Sichuan only produced tea in dozens of prefectures and counties, and many people lived by the tea industry. In the northwest of Boma, the northwest of Shu tea market, the tea prices were as bad as earth manure, so the tea farmers reversed. For this reason, Taizong also issued the "Imperial Examination of Sin", which shows the anger of the tea farmers."

Sun Houpu is worthy of being an expert in this industry. A history of tea is simply in his heart. He knows the sadness and tears of all kinds of tea farmers.

Zheng Ruoying only knew one thing but not the other in many things, and she was secretly shocked when she heard it.

"After the people's rebellion, will the tea method remain unchanged?" Liang Chuan said the idea.
Chapter completed!