Xie Yuan wanted to make the tea more fragrant, so he asked the tea farmers to wait until August to pick.
In August, after a heavy rain, the tea farmers received a letter from Xie Yuan and began to pick tea leaves one after another. Then they dried and sealed them according to Xie Yuan's method and sent them all to the manor next to the academy.
This is where Xie Yuan and the merchants sell their goods.
Xie Yuan and Qi Yan worked together and spent half a month developing the antidote to the poisonous powder, finally saving the dying Sangtian.
The mulberry tree began to sprout buds again and gave birth to mulberry leaves.
Autumn silkworms are also raised.
Currently, silk was out of stock, so Xie Yuan thought of making some tea and sending it to the Western Regions for Luo Chen to trade.
Han people have been drinking tea since ancient times, but most of them are sencha.
At this time, two merchants came from the Western Regions to bring goods. Xie Yuan entertained them and prepared to try the tea tricks in the Tea Book.
This is the reward given by the system last month.
Xie Yuan thought about it for a long time before he figured out some ways to make tea.
Merchants had also heard of tea and drank sencha.
When they heard that Xie Yuan was going to do a tea show, all the merchants gathered around to watch in curiosity.
Xie Yuan asked Cui Xunzhi for help - he originally wanted to ask Qi Yan, but Cui Xunzhi also wanted to learn Chabaixi, so he brought Cui Xunzhi over.
Under Xie Yuan's instructions, Cui Xunzhi broke open the tea cake, poured the broken pieces into a tea bowl, poured some boiling water into it, and handed it to Xie Yuan.
Xie Yuan took out his homemade tea spoon and flicked it quickly in the tea bowl. He said that his hand was light and he was heavy, and his fingers were twirling around his wrist.
Soon, the boiling water disappeared from the tea bowl, and the foam slowly appeared, which was called paste.
Xie Yuan scraped off the top layer of ointment, set it aside, held the tea cake with a tea pin and placed it on a candle to dry.
"Hunzhi, this is Zhicha." Xie Yuan said warmly.
Cui Xunzhi understood and wanted to remember it, but was afraid that he would forget it, so he took up a pen to record Xie Yuan's production process.
The dried tea cake is put into tea and ground finely, which is Tencha.
Then Xie Yuan took a tea sieve and filtered the fine powder. This is Luo tea.
The last step is to make watercolor.
Soon, Xie Yuan made several cups of tea.
There are various landscapes painted on it, one of which actually shows Liangzhou City and Yumen Pass.
When the merchants saw this vivid painting, they couldn't bear to read it.
Xie Yuanxiao: "If you don't want to taste it, I can just make tea."
Making tea is the modern way of brewing tea.
He took a few tea cups, washed them, broke the tea cakes, picked some tea leaves and put them into the tea cups, poured boiling water into them, poured out the first cup, rinsed them again, and then handed them to the merchant.
The moment the lid was opened, the aroma of tea overflowed. The merchants picked up the tea cup and took a sip. They found that it was a little different from the sencha they usually drank, so they took another sip.
Hey, not bad!
After drinking two glasses of wine, Xie Yuan asked Cui Xunzhi to bring the accompanying tea.
The merchants were satisfied with the drink and immediately decided to purchase goods from Xie Yuan and bring them to the Western Regions for trade.
These merchants were friends that Luo Chen made after he went to trade in the Western Regions. After they heard that Luo Chen was from China, they thought that the Central Plains was beginning to prosper again and wanted to trade with the Central Plains via the Silk Road.
Luo Chen introduced them to Xie Yuan.
Xie Yuan heard that they came to the Central Plains for trade and wanted to bring some things to the Western Regions. Thinking that there was no silk now, he took out tea leaves.
Hence the above scene.
The merchants left with three thousand kilograms of tea cakes. Before leaving, they also took away the one thousand kilograms of tea cakes that Xie Yuan wanted to bring to Luo Chen.
With Xie Yuan's guidance, many merchant families in the south of the Yangtze River saw a way to make money, and they all applied to the court to trade in the Western Regions.
Of course, Dazai would not miss the opportunity to replenish the treasury and win over merchant families. He quickly issued a warrant to allow those merchant families who wanted to trade.
Driven by trade, the economy of the Central Plains soon began to slowly recover.
But this does not prevent natural and man-made disasters from happening.
Since August, heavy rains have continued in the Central Plains.
Heavy rains fell until the autumn harvest in September, causing floods in various places, and even caused the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers to surge, causing floods that drowned many people and damaged farmland in various places.
It rained less in the south of the Yangtze River. Fortunately, Xie Yuan built a greenhouse and made some dry things, so the crops in the greenhouse continued to grow as well as when it didn't rain.
After the rain slowed down a bit and even stopped, Xie Yuan sent letters to various places in the south of the Yangtze River, asking them to quickly let the tenant farmers harvest the mature crops.
The sharecroppers harvested their crops quickly.
This year's crops, whether rice, peanuts, or cassava and sweet potatoes, are growing exceptionally plump.
Among them, especially rice, there are basically no hollows - thus reaching an astonishing yield of thirteen stones per acre.
The tenant farmers had never seen rice with such a high yield, and they were all frightened. They claimed that they had weighed it wrong and had to weigh it again overnight.
It has been confirmed that one acre of land costs thirteen dan, and some manors have even reached a high yield of fifteen dan per acre.
Sharecropper: "!!"
What kind of fairy rice is this? The yield is so high and the rice that comes out is so beautiful!
They also counted other crops, then sent the statistical list to Xie Yuan, and stored the grains in the cellars of each manor.
Xie Yuan settled the money for the tenant farmers, not forgetting the silkworm farmers, and settled them all together.
By the way, I improved the food at the academy.
Huo Qubing was eating white flour steamed buns and drinking white rice porridge. He thought of something and asked, "My lord, now that the kings in the north have stopped fighting, they want to buy grain from the Central Plains for trade. My lord has a lot of grain in stock. Why not take this opportunity to make a fortune?"
Xie Yuan nodded: "It's natural to make money, but it's just not the right time."
Because the floods burst their banks, crops everywhere were severely damaged, especially among the villagers near the Yangtze and Yellow rivers. It is unknown how many people drowned and how many became refugees.
But they are on a tributary of the Yangtze River. Because Xie Yuan spent money to dig several small canals and hired craftsmen to build dams, floods rarely burst their banks in the entire Kuaiji County and even in the south of the Yangtze River.
Also because the floods broke the banks, the northern kings could not eat food, so they decided to make a temporary truce and wanted to buy food from the south.
However, the damage to crops in Dajin is also very serious. It can be said that except for Jiangnan, there are basically no good crops.
Not only the rebellious vassal kings in the north were hungry, but the Jin Dynasty and even the royal family were facing food shortages.
Thinking of something, Xie Yuan said: "After dinner, I'm sorry, you sent a family soldier to escort some food to the Cui family in Qinghe."
Huo Qubing knew that Xie Yuan wanted to send food to Cui Heng to help them solve their urgent needs. He quickly finished the porridge and led his army to deliver food.
When someone saw Huo Qubing delivering food, their eyes lit up and they asked him where the food came from.
Remembering Xie Yuan's advice, Huo Qubing said that he was from Jiangnan.
When the refugees heard that there was food in Jiangnan, they all ran to Jiangnan to treat Xie Yuanshe to a meal.
Xie Yuan generously opened a warehouse to help the people.
Not only did they provide relief to these homeless people who had no food to eat, but the Wu family and even Lu Zhong also received a lot of food. This chapter has been completed!