Ancient promotion routine

Although most of the talents recruited this time will not be used, there may be some unreturned carriage expenses, but Zhang Yanjin doesn't care about the money, a good talent can make the Peony Garden famous forever, and it will never be defeated. ,The huge benefits that a perfectly designed peony garden will bring in the future are simply not comparable to the current cost of traveling and horses.

"Erlang, your merit order is really clever, it covers everything!" Yuwen Shangkai got the order from his officials and read it, and then came to Zhang Yanjin.

"People in this world are nothing more than seeking fame, profit and merit. Qingqing Zijin, leisurely my heart. But for the sake of the king, I have pondered on it so far. Such a wonderful sentence simply makes every literati want to stop. This is enough to make them willing to come here Give it a try, it's one of a kind."

Yuwen Shangkai excitedly analyzed: "Wan Jin is hired, such a large amount is enough to tempt those who care about money. This is the second. The third is those who pursue merit. Bait, how can those who pursue careers sit still?"

Zhang Yanjin laughed, and had to say that Yuwen Shangkai's evaluation was indeed accurate. When he wrote the order for seeking talents, he considered these three aspects.

The order of seeking talents, the order of seeking talents, can only be regarded as a qualified order of seeking talents if it is written in the hearts of those talents, isn't it?

Of course, in order to find talents faster, he planned to let Zhang Wuer go to Xiangshan.

Xiangshan is located on the shore of Taihu Lake and belongs to the boundary of Suzhou.If it is said that Qinchuan has produced emperors since ancient times, then Suzhou Xiangshan is a place where skilled craftsmen have emerged in endlessly since ancient times.

These craftsmen are not one or two, but a group of construction craftsmen led by carpenters, gathering plasterers, painters, plasterers, sculptors, mountain builders, painters and other classical construction craftsmen.Known as the Xiangshan Gang craftsman.

They are good at complex and exquisite traditional Chinese architectural techniques, whether it is the Canglang Pavilion with a wave of clear water running through it, reflecting the reflection of waves, or the green bamboo pavilion with sunlight piercing through the exquisite bamboo, or the promenade surrounded by looming towers. In the Lion House, they can adapt to local conditions with their own hands, and create the scenery vividly, just like entering a fairyland.

Zhang Yanjin was looking for such a group of people.

"Erlang, didn't you send out the order of seeking talents? Why do you want me to go there?" Zhang Wuer was quite puzzled after hearing Zhang Yanjin's order: "Since what you want to find is from the Xiangshan Gang. Craftsman, why didn't you let me go directly?"

Zhang Yanjin glanced at Zhang Wuer who was full of doubts, and suddenly thought of the scene when Zhang Wuyi said that Zhang Wuer was stupid, and he was secretly happy, this word is really suitable for Zhang Wuer.

"Because I still need to find painters and skilled craftsmen from all over the world." The strength of craftsmen is that they can make objects lifelike, but when it comes to creation and matching, painters are still inseparable.

Zhang Wuer nodded and said: "Okay, Erlang, don't worry, I will definitely find those skilled craftsmen in Xiangshan for you."

Since it took time to find skilled craftsmen, Zhang Yanjin handed over the placement of these skilled craftsmen to his officials, and he began to ponder the structure of other places with Yuwen Shangkai and Huang Xiujun.

With the experience of building a peony garden in Luoyang last time, Zhang Yanjin was much more efficient when planning land in Xinyang, Nanyang, Pingdingshan, Zhumadian and other places this time.

Of course, Zhang Yanjin didn't just choose plain areas, and he didn't plan to leave the mountainous areas alone.Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain in the south, and Funiu Mountain in the west, all the places at the foot of these mountains were surrounded by him, and he planned to build a pharmaceutical factory.

When it comes to Chinese medicinal materials in China, there is one area where medicinal materials cannot be bypassed, and that is Huai Yao from Henan.

Tongbai Mountain, Dabie Mountain and Funiu Mountain are rich in Chinese medicinal materials, among which there are more than 2000 kinds of precious medicinal materials, and there are countless common medicinal materials. The four major medicinal materials in Jiaozuo are "Huai Di Huang, Huai Chrysanthemum, Huai Yam, and Huai Achyranthes bidentata". "It is famous overseas.

Relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to eat water, but people in this era seem to have not discovered how precious the resources in their mountains are, and few people pick them.

For the reconstruction of Zhongzhou this time, Zhang Yanjin intends to make use of these gifts of nature.Of course, he doesn't intend to pick them blindly, he intends to implement protective picking, and implement this principle to all parts of Zhongzhou.

Only in this way can resources be truly inexhaustible.This can be regarded as a small contribution made by him, a person from later generations, to this beautiful and rich place.

After all, when he came here by accident, it was precisely because of the virtue of good life, wasn't it?

After enclosing these fields, Zhang Yanjin specially asked local farmers to take him to the hinterland of the Dabie Mountains for a second inspection.

In fact, he also came to the Dabie Mountains last time, but he didn't investigate deeply, because he also had many questions in his mind.

In his impression, places like Xinyang and Tongbai County in Nanyang are located in the hinterland of the Dabie Mountains, with undulating mountains and crisscross rivers, these favorable natural conditions make the climate here humid, so the soil here is very suitable for growing tea.

In later generations, the tea here was dumped at home and abroad, and even sold overseas, and Xinyang Maojian became the representative of this place.

But the tea that is drunk in the Great Wei Dynasty now seems to be different from the tea of ​​later generations. The current tea contains onion, garlic, salt, pepper and other seasonings. It is more suitable to say that it is tea soup rather than tea.

This is also the reason why Zhang Yanjin specially came to the hinterland of Dabie Mountain to see if there are tea trees here in this era.

If there is, then he will specially enclose this place as a tea garden, and then roast the picked tea leaves and sell them.

By that time, Xinyang Maojian will probably become as popular as his amber wine, and it will be popular all over the country. By that time, the supply will be in short supply.

Although the local farmers didn't understand why Zhang Yanjin, as a high-ranking official, came to the mountains, they still showed Zhang Yanjin the way very seriously.

After a morning of climbing, the sun gradually brightened, and scattered light spots scattered through the dense branches and leaves of the valley.

Zhang Yanjin wiped the sweat from his forehead and saw another small mound in front of him.

The officials who followed him finally couldn't bear it anymore: "My lord, what are we looking for here?" They have been walking around the mountain all morning, and he still doesn't know what he is here for. All he knew was that he was looking for something with Zhang Yanjin.

Zhang Yanjin licked her dry lips and said, "Look for tea leaves."

"Tea?" The officials who followed Zhang Yanjin almost thought that they had heard it wrong. There were special tea gardens for the tea in the Great Wei Dynasty. Although Zhongzhou is destroyed now, you can ask someone to buy a can of tea from other places to make it yourself. It's not difficult, why do you need to find tea in this mountain?

Zhang Yanjin nodded and continued to climb up.After all, he wasn't sure if there were wild tea trees in the hinterland of the Dabie Mountains. If they couldn't find them after searching all over the place, they might have to find tea trees elsewhere and then transplant them.

After all, the climate here in the hinterland of the Dabie Mountains will only be better than that of later generations, and it would be a pity if it is not used.

When Zhang Yanjin bent over and finally climbed to the top of the small mound, he looked up and a lush greenery came into his eyes.

Clusters of young green leaves are crowded together, growing vigorously, like a sweet smile on a child's face, which makes people feel happy.

Zhang Yanjin didn't even bother to wipe off the sweat streaming down her forehead, and the exhaustion from climbing all morning disappeared without a trace when she saw these clusters of delightful greenery.

He took three steps in parallel, stepped forward quickly, plucked a young leaf and chewed it in his mouth, a slightly astringent fragrance spread from the tip of his tongue, slowly occupying the entire mouth.

"My lord?" The officer who caught up looked at Zhang Yanjin suspiciously, with a puzzled expression on his face.

"That's it." Zhang Yanjin smiled and pointed at the tea trees clustered together: "Enclose this place, and no one is allowed to destroy these tea trees."

The old farmer who brought Zhang Yanjin and the others also came forward with a smile and said: "This is a wild tea tree. If we go up the mountain to cut wood, if we are tired, we will grab a leaf or two and chew it in our mouths. After a while, our mouths will be full." Fragrant, refreshing."

"Wild tea tree?" Upon hearing this, the official who followed Zhang Yanjin grabbed a piece of tea leaves, put them in his mouth, and chewed them like Zhang Yanjin did just now.

As soon as his eyes lit up, he reached out to grab the second leaf.

Zhang Yanjin knocked off his hand with a smile and said, "Don't eat any more. Pull off all the young leaves on top and put them here."

Just as he was talking, he spread the cloth bag that he had prepared earlier on the ground, and began to pick tea leaves like Zhang Yanjin.

When picking tea leaves, you need to hold the middle of the young stalk between the leaves with your index finger and thumb, and you can pick the young leaves with one push of two fingers.

After picking, Zhang Yanjin ordered his officials to search for wild tea trees in the hinterland of the Dabie Mountains, and then arranged for people to protect them.

After he went back, he immediately arranged for someone to take out the tools he had prepared a long time ago.Since he liked drinking tea very much before, he still knows a little about the process of making tea.

The tea leaves he picks are green teas, so the process is different from that of fermented tea like Pu'er.

He first asked people to scatter the tea leaves in the bamboo weaving that had been woven long ago, and let the tea leaves wither.

Withering is to allow the water in the tea to escape from the leaves, because only in this way can fermentation proceed.

Of course, it does not mean that it is enough to spread the tea leaves in the bamboo weaving to dry, and it needs to be checked constantly, and there is a certain degree of certainty in this.

If the water in the tea leaves is lost too much during the withering process, the leaves will be too dry, which will cause the tea leaves to have a weak taste.

If the drying is not enough, the water in the tea will lose too little, then the baked tea will be bitter and taste bad.

After withering, other processes such as baking can be carried out.

Zhang Yanjin first went out to stir and stir every one and a half hours in the afternoon, then went out to stir and stir every other hour, and finally went out to stir and stir every half an hour.

The process of stirring and turning is called Langqing. When the tea leaves are turned like blue waves, it is called Langqing.

This process can make the water in the tea leaves disappear evenly, and it can also make the leaves rub against each other to promote fermentation.

After drying in the sun for an afternoon, Zhang Yanjin felt that it was almost done.

The tea leaves in the bamboo weaving are not as green as when they were picked at noon, and the color is somewhat dull.

He asked people to put the bamboo weaves that hold the tea in the house to allow the tea to fully ferment.

If the tea leaves are not fermented, the aroma of vegetables will be tasted in the mouth after drinking. After fermentation, the aroma of vegetables will turn into the aroma of flowers.

After fermenting again, the floral fragrance will turn into fruity fragrance again.If it is fermented again, it will turn into the aroma of sugar.

Of course, the colors of tea leaves in different stages are also different.At the stage of vegetable fragrance, the color of tea leaves is green, at the stage of flower fragrance, it is golden yellow, at the stage of fruit fragrance, it is orange, and at the stage of sugar fragrance, it is vermilion.

The less fermented tea, the closer to the flavor of natural plants, on the contrary, the more fermented, the farther away from the flavor of natural plants, which also needs to be grasped.

It is precisely because people in this era do not know how to ferment, that green tea has not been discovered for so many years, right?

After the fermentation is complete, it can be rolled, which can stop the fermentation of the tea leaves.After that, it is dried, and when the drying is completed, the tea becomes primary tea.

Primary tea can be brewed directly for drinking, but the quality of this tea is not stable.

If you want stable quality, you need to carry out refined processing. After the process of screening, pulling out stems, cutting, covering fire, and roasting, the tea leaves with stable quality will be obtained.

Three days later, the first batch of tea leaves under the personal guidance of Zhang Yanjin was finally freshly baked.

Zhang Yanjin looked at the curly and long strips of green tea, and immediately asked someone to bring the fired teapot, and brewed a pot of tea.

The green curly tea leaves are like willows stretching in the wind, slowly unfolding the curly leaves, dyeing the originally clear and transparent water into green bit by bit.

The aroma of tea leaves drifts out little by little along with the curling heat, which makes people feel much more peaceful.

The officials and servants standing beside Zhang Yanjin looked at the clear green tea and couldn't help swallowing a few saliva.They never imagined that this green tree growing in the middle of the mountain has such a strong fragrance.

Looking at the emerald green tea and smelling the fragrant tea, Zhang Yanjin's heart was also moved.

Xinyang Maojian is divided into spring tea, summer tea and autumn tea.Spring tea is divided into Mingqian tea, Yuqian tea and Chunwei tea according to different time periods.

Mingqian tea is the tea picked before Qingming, Yuqian tea is the tea picked before Guyu, and their Chunwei tea is the tea picked in late spring and early summer.

Compared with Mingqian tea and Yuqian tea, Chunwei tea is slightly worse in bar shape, but it is resistant to brewing and tastes good.

As for summer tea, it is the tea picked in summer. At this time, the color of Xinyang Maojian is darker, and the leaves are much larger than those of spring tea.In terms of taste, summer tea tastes slightly bitter, and the aroma is not as strong as spring tea, but it is resistant to brewing.

Autumn tea is the tea picked after August. Because it is picked after the Bailu solar term, people also call autumn tea Bailu tea.

Calculated according to the time when they picked the tea leaves, the tea leaves in his hand belonged to Chunwei tea.

Zhang Yanjin hadn't drank tea for a long time, just as the tea was brewed, he poured a cup for each of the people present. After that, he didn't give in, and directly picked up the teacup and began to taste it slowly.

After taking a few sips, he let out a long breath, recalling the aftertaste of the tea leaves in his mouth, and suddenly felt that his whole body was clear, even the summer heat was relieved a lot, it seems that this kind of tea is still delicious.

Xinyang Maojian has the characteristics of "thin, round, light, straight, more pekoe, high fragrance, strong flavor, green soup color", it seems that it is not bad.

"Erlang, what kind of tea is this? Why is it different from the usual tea!" Zhang Yanjin's subordinates exclaimed in amazement.

Zhang Yanjin smiled lightly and said, "This is called Maojian. It was picked in Xinyang, and it will be called Xinyang Maojian from now on."

Maojian is just a kind of green tea, but because Maojian here in Xinyang is so famous, later generations gradually called the tea here Xinyang Maojian.

Zhang Yanjin naturally knows how important the brand effect is, so he added the word Xinyang from the very beginning, making Xinyang Maojian a representative tea in green tea, instead of being called Xinyang Maojian as it spreads and accumulates After all, the process of relying on the accumulation of word of mouth one after another is too long.

"According to what I said, after picking the tea leaves, follow the steps of drying, greening, and finishing. The tea leaves picked in different periods are stored separately." Zhang Yanjin instructed the artisans under him.

Afterwards, he asked someone to bring a blue and white porcelain tea pot, and put Xinyang Maojian into it.The snow-white ceramic inner wall matches the green tea leaves. With the fragrance of the tea leaves, the tea leaves are as exciting as the spring buds just emerging in spring.

Zhang Yanjin asked someone to pack ten cans of tea, and planned to present the three cans of the best color to the emperor, and then left the cans for the Ningguo Mansion, and set aside three more cans of tea for his uncle Zhang Zhongqian to give away, and the other two cans Then pack it up and give it to his friends.

A smile gradually stained his face. After he dedicated Xinyang Maojian to the emperor, Xinyang Maojian would probably be famous throughout Chang'an City.

But here in Xinyang and Nanyang, he has asked all the officials to find out all the wild tea trees, and made statistics and registered them in the register. A batch of Spring Tail Tea is coming soon.

After this batch of Chunwei tea is sold, Zhongzhou will at least get a huge sum of money, and then he can invest this money in Zhongzhou's reconstruction work.

After all, there is a lot of waste in Zhongzhou now, and money is needed everywhere.

After planning in this way, Zhang Yanjin rushed to Chang'an City with Xinyang Maojian without stopping.

The reconstruction of Zhongzhou was a major event in the Great Wei Dynasty. Seeing Zhang Yanjin standing among the courtiers, the emperor put other matters aside for the time being and asked Zhang Yanjin, "How is the reconstruction of Zhongzhou going?"

"The planning for the reconstruction of various places in Zhongzhou has been completed, and construction has started in some places. The brick burning yard and cement factory in Luoyang have begun to deliver bricks, stones and cement to all parts of Zhongzhou."

After Zhang Yanjin finished his report, he changed the topic: "My Majesty, when I was visiting Xinyang and Nanyang this time, I accidentally found a treasure deep in the mountains, and I came here to present it to the Emperor."

"Treasure from the deep mountain?" The emperor asked in surprise.

Zhang Yanjin took the blue and white porcelain tea pot he brought in the morning from the little eunuch at the side, and handed it to Li Mingrui.

Li Mingrui took it and opened it, looked it over quickly and found that there was no danger, and then placed it in front of the emperor.

The courtiers only felt that when Li Mingrui opened the tea pot, a faint fragrance gradually permeated the hall, and people couldn't help but want to take a few sips.

The emperor was the closest to Xinyang Maojian, and he could not help but take a deep breath when he smelled the refreshing, refreshing tea fragrance and faint green.

"My Majesty, this mountain treasure is Xinyang Maojian, which I found in the Dabie Mountains on which Xinyang and Nanyang depend. This is a treasure hidden in the Dabie Mountains. When the aura grows, it has the effects of invigorating the spleen and clearing the lungs, refreshing the mind, improving eyesight and digestion, diuresis and detoxification, preventing dental caries, eliminating bad breath, and making people feel refreshed and contented. The good words came out word for word.

The corner of the emperor's mouth twitched slightly. He always felt that he had heard such similar words somewhere. With an amazing memory, he quickly remembered that he had heard it when Zhang Yanjin offered to move bricks last time.

Thinking of this, doubts arose in his heart again. This shiny green thing looks good and smells good, but is it really as good as what Zhang Yanjin said?Could it be that this kid is thinking something wrong again?