Datang: Get Xiang Yu's divine power at the beginning

Chapter 260 Offering Tea
"Your Majesty, this is the Yuqian Longjing in West Lake Benshan. To tell you the truth, the villain has worked in the Shen Mansion for many years, served the master, and saved some property. It's hard to find one or two!"

Longjing before the rain?Li Chengdao recalled that when he traveled to the West Lake in his previous life, the streets and alleys were selling this Dragon Well before the rain. Is it because there are few plants now, so the supply and demand are out of balance, so it is so expensive?
I don't know if he was influenced by Yu Gong, but now Li Chengdao has a keen sense of these lucrative industries. Hearing what Steward Liao said, he immediately became interested.

Li Chengdao was overjoyed immediately, and asked, "Steward Liao, is it because there are too few Longjing wells? Or is it because it is difficult to plant? Butler Liao is the chief steward of the Shen family in Suzhou and Hangzhou. Is it so difficult to buy?"

Steward Liao laughed when he heard the words, and said, "Your Highness really thinks highly of villains, not to mention villains, even the local wealthy businessmen in Hangzhou can't ask for nine out of ten. People, sit in the tea garden every day, not even a single piece of tea leaves is allowed to flow out, all those who steal the tea leaves will be handcuffed for [-] slabs, chained for three days, paraded in the streets, tell me, who else can match this posture?"

Lu Zicong?Isn't he the eunuch who guards the power of the tax supervisor?You actually care about this?
Although the guarding eunuch is in charge of taxation of rice, grain and tea, even if this tea is tribute tea to the imperial court, it should be supervised by the local governor. Why did Lu Zicong go overboard and send someone to take over the tea garden?

Li Chengdao was puzzled, but he kept his expression on his face. He pretended not to care and continued to ask: "If my king remembers correctly, this Longjing tribute tea should be managed by the governor. Unexpectedly, Eunuch Lu also has the right to supervise. It seems It’s my king who is ignorant and ignorant!”

Hearing this, Butler Liao explained with a smile: "Actually, what His Highness said is not bad. There are basically only a few tea gardens for Longjing mountain tea. The good ones are Xianrenchong, Huangxijian, Wumeijian, and Mengduwan. We are in a mountainous area, and there are only a dozen acres of mountain land in total, which can’t produce three to four hundred kilograms a year.”

"However, the tea produced in these tea gardens is not enough as a tribute, let alone on the market. Therefore, most of the Longjing teas sold on the market are teas from tea gardens near Hangzhou, pretending to be Longjing's Benshan tea, but the taste is not bad. !"

"Back then, Eunuch Lu was worried that someone would sell tribute tea privately for profiteering, so he sent his people to supervise these tea gardens. Even the governor of Hangzhou can't get involved."

"Every year before the rain, the top-quality Longjing tea comes down, and all of them are paid tribute to the palace and several palaces according to the imperial bar. After April [-]th, the tea produced at this time is allowed to be sold by the Hangzhou government for taxation."

Steward Liao paused at this point, and continued: "I dare not lie to Your Highness. One of my nephews is a trusted steward under Eunuch Lu. He knows that I like tea ceremony, and he has spoken well to Eunuch Lu many times. Begging, I just begged such a little bit from Eunuch Lu. Although it is not considered the top grade emperor, it is almost the same. His Highness naturally doesn't care about this when he is in the palace, but compared to a villain, this is a villain. Heart!"

When Li Chengdao heard the words, he smiled lightly and said words of gratitude, but he didn't care too much in his heart. What did he think it was?After talking for a long time, it is only the top grade imperial tip. This thing is tribute tea, which is specially for your majesty and several princes to drink. Li Chengdao himself is the current king of Wu. so precious.

But Li Chengdao just thought about these words in his heart. Li Chengdao was also thinking about whether to take out some of his best imperial tips and give them to this old butler who was good at tea.

Thinking of this in his heart, his subordinate Fanzi had already brewed the tea and brought it up. Li Chengdao took it over without hesitation, uncovered the lid, and under the light, he could see the water was clear and green, and there were a few tea leaves floating in the tea soup. A light and elegant fragrance floated out, refreshing.

Li Chengdao was surprised. Although the tea color was the same as the top-quality bird tongue that he often drank in his mansion, the aroma was completely different.

At the beginning, the fragrance was a light and elegant fragrance, but then it was a lingering fragrance, not very strong, but like spring flowers blooming, lingering around the beam for a long time, lingering.

Li Chengdao held the teacup in his hand, and was stunned for a while.

Seeing this, Steward Liao over there saw Li Chengdao holding the teacup in his hand, thoughtful, worried, and asked anxiously: "Damn the villain, Your Highness is used to drinking the best imperial tea, why is this little rough tea for the villain?" You can show your shame and offend His Highness, please forgive me!"

"Ah? Oh! Where, where, Steward Liao, please hurry up. Butler Liao has misunderstood. This kind of top-quality tea is fragrant and fragrant. After drinking, the whole body feels comfortable, even if it is comparable to the top-grade Huangjian!"

As Li Chengdao said, he took out a brocade handkerchief from his bosom, put it on the table, pretended to be salivating and said, "Oh my, Steward Liao, you've really hooked up my glutton, my lord!" This trip, look, you are surrounded by Jinyiwei people, these people are slanderous, they are good at murdering and setting fire, but they are not good at serving people. Before leaving, they didn’t even bring tea."

After speaking, Li Chengdao sighed a long time, and said helplessly: "Now that I have tasted your good tea from Steward Liao, I can't drink any other tea. This king has an unfeeling request. I don't know Steward Liao Can you part with me and give some of this top-quality tea to me?"

As he said that, Li Chengdao suddenly realized something, slapped his head, and took out a small golden cloud treasure of about five taels from his long sleeves, and handed it to Steward Liao.

Steward Liao couldn't help being flattered immediately when he heard the words, he happily held the small cloth bag with both hands, and said: "Your Highness is serious, it is a villain's honor to offer tea to His Highness, if His Highness likes this tea, as a Hangzhou native, the villain's face will also have a smile on his face. Not only that, this tea is a little treat, please accept it with a smile, and please use it first on the way, and when you get to the place, maybe Lu Gonggong will still be filial to you!"

When Li Chengdao heard this, he sneered in his heart, this Lu Zicong is so brave, he even dared to drop the package of tribute tea. Give me?

Steward Liao refused to give his gold, but Li Chengdao also knew that the tea was not easy to come by, so he insisted on giving it to him. In the end, Steward Liao had no choice but to put the gold in his arms and thanked him repeatedly.

Li Chengdao put Butler Liao's small bag of tea into his arms, but forgot about the square handkerchief he had just taken out. Butler Liao stepped forward to remind him, but his eyes fell on the handkerchief and he couldn't pull it out.

"Your Highness, your handkerchief is the best Suzhou embroidery!"

Li Chengdao was taken aback when he heard the words, and handed the handkerchief to Steward Liao, saying, "I didn't expect Steward Liao to have researched this embroidery. If you like it, I will give it to you!"

(End of this chapter)