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Chapter 181: Good tea for the royal family

A group of people came out of the silk shop in a mess.

Everyone, look at me, I look at you, Liu Yan was particularly embarrassed. He glanced at his Shangguan Daizhou: "Dai Gong, do you want it..."

Dai Zhou had a gloomy face. At this time... he already felt something was wrong.

He was confused, but he scolded, "What are you going to do? Do you want to bring the servants to copy this store? Well, now is the time to need you. I have 30,000 ounces of silk here. You have searched all the silk here and got me 16,000 pieces of silk."

After hearing this, Liu Yan shuddered.

Everyone looked at Fang Xuanling again.

How could Fang Xuanling not understand anything? He looked at Liu Yan coldly, as if he was still not as if he was accepting reality, and then frowned and said, "Try it again and go to other shops to see."

So the group hurried to other shops for a walk, but this time, they became much more cautious. After asking for the price, they were all thirty-nine. Everything was fine, but there was no goods.

Although every silk shop puts silks on the shelves.

If Fang Xuanling didn't understand at this time, he would be really a pig.

Dai Zhou's heart had already sunk to the bottom of the valley, and he saluted to Fang Xuanling with a bitter face and said, "Mr. Fang, the official is in prison."

Fang Xuanling looked at Dai Zhou tightly, and after a while, he said coldly: "Xuan Yin misled me."

Xuan Yin is the name Dai Zhou.

When Dai Zhou heard this, his heart was so cold that he turned to his bones. He turned his eyes to look at the damn Liu Yan, and he wanted to kill him immediately.

"Try to find out where to buy silk." Fang Xuanling said immediately.

After all, he was not a corrupt scholar. At this time, he had thought that it was impossible not to trade silk. Since silk could not be bought in the East Market, there would definitely be a place to buy silk.

So everyone showed their magical powers and finally found out.

Fang Xuanling personally ran to Chongyi Temple and shuttled through the wet thatched hut. At this time, he realized... His Majesty was afraid that he had been here not in Dongshi last night.

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and ashamed.

I sent someone to the silk shop to ask for the price, and it was seventy-three cents.

When Fang Xuanling heard the Seventy-Sanwen, he took a breath, and the rest of the people remained silent, looking shocked.

The 30,000 stags in my hand, not to mention 16,000 pieces of silk, can’t even buy 10,000 pieces of silk.

"The prices have risen to this point?" Fang Xuanling asked Dai Zhou sternly.

Dai Zhou was about to cry. He felt that he had taken many measures to calm prices and stabilize prices. He did not expect... to be so.

The number of seventy-three-montages was beyond his imagination. He looked at Fang Xuanling and couldn't speak for a moment, so he said calmly: "This...this...this...this...this...this is not known."

"The people's livelihood has caused such harm." Fang Xuanling was so angry that his body trembled: "How can you be worthy of Your Majesty's love?"

Dai Zhou was mixed with all kinds of feelings, so ashamed that he wanted to get into the cracks in the ground.

"Seventy-three articles." Fang Xuanling was about to cry without tears, and repeatedly muttered: "Seventy-three articles, seventy-three articles, Xuan Yin, do you know what Seventy-three articles mean? Since ancient times, silk has never risen to such a horrifying level. I finally understand why Your Majesty asked me to wait for silk, I understand..."

Changsun Wuji, who followed them, was already impatient. Anyway, he was the Minister of Personnel, so this matter had nothing to do with him, so he said, "Then should I buy this silk?"

Fang Xuanling was very angry today. He was very tolerant of this uncle on weekdays. For some reason, he said to him: "I bought it, is it because my grandson's husband here to pay for the difference?"

Changsun Wuji: "..."

After all, this is not a difference of tens of hundreds of trump cards. This is more than ten thousand trump cards. Who can afford it? Everyone is here to be an official, not a good deed.

Fang Xuanling took a deep breath and sighed: "Your Majesty is letting us come to Chongyi Temple in person. Don't you feel ashamed when you stand here? I am so ashamed now. I have been waiting in the temple for a long time. Have you ever experienced the hardships of people's livelihood? Let's not talk about it. It's not too early, so go to Erpigou immediately."

After saying that, Fang Xuanling had a gloomy face and hurried away with the people.

When I returned to Erpigou, it was already late.

It was midnight, and there were no nebula in the sky, only the lights of hundreds of families were faintly hazy.

When they arrived at the mansion where His Majesty stayed, everyone stood outside.

An eunuch here seemed to have been waiting for Fang Xuanling and others.

Fang Xuanling said to him: "Where is Your Majesty?"

"Your Majesty has fallen asleep."

Fang Xuanling nodded, and he understood, so he stood outside obediently with his hands hanging down.

When the others saw Fang Xuanling like this, they had to follow the example.

They were old and exhausted during the day. They were exhausted, but at this time they were already exhausted. But they did not dare to disturb His Majesty, and they knew they could not leave, so they had to stand here obediently and wait.

This time, it was one night.

The next morning, the sky was still hazy gray and white. The frost fell, making Fang Xuanling and others look funny. Their long beards were originally whitened by frost.

After standing overnight, everyone felt their muscles and bones were sore and numb, and some felt their bodies were shaking and dizzy, but they could only continue to wait honestly.

Finally... Li Shimin's journey lit up the lamps, as if he had suddenly revived the quiet world for a night.

Everyone looked at the gate and finally a eunuch came out of it and said, "Your Majesty, please come in and talk."

When everyone heard this, their tired faces suddenly burst into energy. Fang Xuanling and others hurried into Li Shimin's journey without hesitation.

Here... Li Shimin slept well last night, and he found that although Chen Zhengtai was simple, he was quite comfortable.

While washing, someone brought him a "toothbrush". The toothbrush is made of wooden, with many hairs inlaid on the head, and pig hair. In addition, someone also sent a small box. The box was opened and it was a powder. The powder was ground with honeysuckle, sorghum and poria cocos. It was stained with some and mixed with water. Li Shimin brushed his teeth clumsyly. After tinkering with it, he actually felt that his mouth was very refreshing.

Although it's a little unaccustomed, it's quite interesting.

Real toothbrushes did not appear until the early years of the Song Dynasty. At this time, even the emperor had to use willow branches, but it was inconvenient to use willow branches after all.

After Li Shimin brushed his teeth, someone started to serve tea.

This tea is strange. It is not boiled. There are no onions, ginger, dates, orange peel, dogwood, mint, etc. inside. There is only a little tea. I don’t know if it is dried or made by other methods. I put the tea in it and then burn it with boiling water and sent it to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin looked at the strange tea and couldn't help but be a little cautious and asked the people around him if Chen Zhengtai had any.

The eunuch said that Duke Chen was taking the prince to do morning exercises.

Li Shimin smiled: "Zhengtai is young and has a very good schedule. It is not a bad thing for young people to get up in the morning to practice."

The eunuch seemed to be speechless but stopped.

Li Shimin glared at him: "What do you want to say?"

The eunuch said: "I heard from the farmers here that Chen County has just risen after the sun is on the 3rd day. Today is rare. I get up early and I still have to work in the morning."

Li Shimin suddenly felt his face hurting. When he thought about it, he felt that the eunuch was troublesome and said with a face: "Go and call Chen Zhengtai."

Li Shimin is so slow and slow.

But although Fang Xuanling and others were in the process, they had to continue standing under the eaves outside the dormitory and wait.

Soon, Chen Zhengtai and Li Chengqian came in. It must be because of the morning exercises, so they were energetic and sweating on their heads. They saluted.

Li Shimin didn't point out Chen Zhengtai's morning exercises, but said, "Zhengtai, come, can this tea... be drunk?"

Chen Zhengtai smiled and said, "This is the tea made by students in Erpigou. This tea is indeed different. It uses a special method of making, so...so... just use hot water to take it. This tea can be drunk. Students drink this tea here on weekdays."

Speaking of this, Chen Zhengtai lowered his voice: "Students are planning to put this tea on the market, but they have to find a good tea mountain first. If you have good tea, buy it in advance, and then make a batch before it is launched."

Li Shimin is happy.

There is a deal in Erpigou in the palace. It turns out that this thing can make money?

Li Shimin didn't mind trying something that could make money, so he picked up the teacup and took a sip. After siping, he felt a little bland and boring.

People in the Tang Dynasty had a strong taste, especially tea leaves. There are two ways to drink tea, one is boiling and the other is fried. And it is not just tea leaves, but all ingredients are added. To a certain extent, drinking tea is more like drinking soup. What kind of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar depends on everyone's taste.

Li Shimin frowned slightly and said, "Why do you eat like drinking white water?"

As soon as he said that, he felt that there was a tea fragrance between his mouth. Although the tea he had just drunk still felt light, it seemed to have a different taste.

Although people's taste...it's hard to change for a while.

But good tea can still conquer people's hearts after all.

Li Shimin looked at the teacup in front of him and said, "Wait, I'll give it another try."

So he took another sip of the tea. This time... he began to feel the taste came out. He savored it carefully. Suddenly his eyes opened and said, "It's interesting, interesting. This tea needs to be tasted carefully. The more you taste it carefully, the more you feel it tastes. It seems that the method I just drank tea was wrong."

Chen Zhengtai seemed to have expected this and said happily: "In a few days, the students will plan to sell it in the name of tribute tea. Of course... this is also the idea of ​​the prince's junior brother."

Li Chengqian: “…”

Chen Zhengtai said again: "Now my teacher likes it, then this tribute tea will be confirmed. In a few days, students will send some such tea into the palace and respect their teachers."

Li Shimin couldn't help but smile and said, "Okay, it's so good, it's hard for you to be filial. Oh, are they back from Fang Qing's family?"
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