Madam, She Has a Tender Heart

Manager Li from the caravan arrived soon. read

I also fell in love with this brewing method.

He took the teacup and looked at it carefully, then put it under his nose and smelled it again and again.

"I like the aroma of this tea. This brewing method is the most convenient when traveling. It's also easy to boil and fry."

Su Qingyu's heart dropped: "Do you want this tea leaf?"

"Yes, why not?"

After speaking, he looked at the jars of tea brought by Su Qingyu: "Did you fry them?"

"Yes. I have learned some before, but have never really done it. I can tell you several methods of frying tea, and you can find someone to study it."

"Okay, thank you very much. Then we have collected all the tea leaves from Madam Su."

Su Qingyu felt happy.

Somewhat unsure: "There are so many wild tea trees on our mountain, and the rolling green hills, can Manager Li eat them all?"

Manager Li and Master Pei looked at each other, and both of them smiled.

Su Qingyu was really unsure.

Because she knew that in many dynasties, tea was sold by officials under the official system. Just like salt, if you want to sell tea, you must have a tea guide.

From the history she knew, the rulers of many dynasties did not allow private individuals to trade tea.

The government also organized a special "inspection team" for tea smuggling to strictly investigate tea smugglers.

There is a stipulation in Tang law: smugglers who sell tea three times and the total amount exceeds 300 kilograms shall be punished with death.

Many tea plantations were established by the imperial court across the country. For example, in the Song Dynasty, thirteen tea plantations were established across the country.

In the long history, each dynasty controlled the tea franchise because tea was used to trade with foreigners in exchange for horses.

The tea-horse trade was the main part of the trade between the government and the nomads.

There is a book record: "People are addicted to cheese and cannot drink tea because of illness. Therefore, since the Tang and Song Dynasties, the method of changing horses with tea has been practiced."

Therefore, "Peter's tea brings good fortune, and I get a horse and my army becomes more powerful." This is a true portrayal of the tea-horse trade.

In order to obtain tea, the nomads even used scarce resources such as war horses to trade. Therefore, all dynasties and generations have always implemented government-operated and official sales in the tea trade.

In fact, when Su Qingyu was picking tea fruits last autumn, she had thought about tea.

But she didn't dare to act rashly.

Zhu Yuanzhang, a concubine, was sentenced to death for selling tea privately.

So, you have to make money, but your life is important.

But then I thought again, this is Shuo Chao, right? Moreover, under the current situation, the emperor doesn't even know who is sitting there. He will starve the bold to death and starve to death the timid. right.

Who makes her short of money?

Very lacking.

Smuggling is the most profitable thing, right?

Su Qingyu started to get ready to make a move.

She still has a son to raise. Don’t you have to spend money to raise a child?

There are so many people under her, and these people don’t need food, drink, or clothing, right? Everyone should reach out to her.

She can tell them that your boss has no money, so you can fend for yourself.

Can you tell me?

cannot.

You should also pretend to be rich.

Su Qingnao thought of this and looked at Pei Nian and Manager Li.

Pei Nian couldn't speak out because of his identity. Manager Li spoke.

"If it had been earlier, I wouldn't have dared to discuss the tea business with Madam Su. I don't have any extra heads to be beheaded."

Su Qingyu was wailing in her heart, so she just said it.

Then I heard Manager Li say: "In our court, the tax on tea is one out of ten, and the tax on tea is over one million dollars a year, which is only a little less than the tax on salt. It can be said to be an important source of tax revenue for the court. We businessmen just think about it. When it comes to making money, I don’t dare to reach out without tea.”

Sure enough, no ruler in the past dynasties would let go of the profit-making tool of tea.

Seeing that Su Qingyao was a little disappointed, Manager Li and Pei Nian looked at each other again.

He smiled and said, "But it's different now. The common people don't have enough to eat, and people are grabbing it to eat. They don't care whether you have tea drinks. The person in charge of tea drinks doesn't know who he belongs to."

Su Qingyu's eyes lit up: "Is Manager Li going to do this business?"

"It's profitable, why not do it?"

readily!

I just like doing business with people who have a bottom line, know practical things, and know how to seize opportunities. Su Qingyu couldn't help but secretly say Xu.

"Then my mountain can produce a lot of tea, can you eat it?" Su Qingyu asked again.

"Don't worry. Take as much as you can."

How much do you want?

Now that the Shuo Dynasty is fighting within itself, the foreign tribes have not heard of the intruders. Are you selling them to foreign tribes for horses? And then do something big?

Su Qingyao looked at Manager Li.

He looked calm and drank the tea that was very fragrant, so there was nothing wrong with it.

Forget it, I sell my tea, and I have no control over where the other party sells it.

"Okay. I just don't know what kind Li Guanshi wants? If it's the kind of tea cakes and tea powder that all the scholar-bureaucrats in the Shuo Dynasty drank, then I'll order Cai Cha Qing. If you want the kind of fresh buds I just brewed, I'm afraid it will be difficult to measure. not much."

"I was busy in the mountains all day that day. I went up the mountain before the dew had gone, and didn't go back down until dark. I only picked more than a pound of fresh sprouts in one day. And when I fried them, it took four or five pounds to get one. Jin dry tea.”

Manager Li knew the inside story, but this was the first time Pei Nian heard that it took one day to collect one or two kilograms of fresh buds, and it took two or three days to make one kilogram of dry tea.

Somewhat surprised: "You only collected so much in one day?"

Su Qingyu raised both hands: "Yes, sir. My hands are stiff and the skin on my fingertips is cracked. It took a long time to wash off the tea stains."

"A pound of tea requires 20,000 to 30,000 buds. You can only pick one bud at a time. Even if you use both hands at the same time, you have to pick 10,000 to 20,000 times. You have to stand for a long time, bowing your head and bending over... Sir, it's very difficult. It’s hard work. I don’t even want to make this money.”

After harvesting for a day, it was difficult to even pick up chopsticks when I came back to eat.

A young man from an aristocratic family like Pei Nian was born with fine clothes and fine food, and was served by countless servants. How could he know the hard work of tea farmers?

After hearing this, Pei Nian clicked his tongue and sighed: "No wonder tea is so expensive. Then foreigners are willing to use war horses to trade tea with our court."

Shaking his head with emotion.

Manager Li couldn't help laughing when he saw Su Qing couldn't help but nod: "I'm afraid Madam Su wants to raise the price with me."

Su Qingyu was stunned for a moment and sighed: "You noble family members really don't know how hard it is to pick tea. The mountain is so high, do we have to climb up? There are also all kinds of wild animals in the mountain."

"Besides, picking wild tea is different from picking it in a tea garden. It's much harder than that. Some trees are very tall and you have to climb them. You can't pick even half a catty in a day."

Manager Li and Pei Nian looked at each other, and they both understood each other's meaning.

Pei Nian then said: "Qingqing, I will discuss the price of this tea with Guan Li in advance. I will call you after we have discussed it."

What? After working so hard with her, why don't you let her hear about such a big thing?

Taking a look at them...

Well, she's also afraid of losing her head.

Just make some steady money.