Ancient promotion routine

When advising the doctor Liu Yan, he saw Zhang Yanjin talking eloquently and eloquently, and felt uncomfortable.He is a stubborn person. The time he fell into Zhang Yanjin's hands was the only defeat in his life, so he tried his best to win back a round.

It wasn't enough to learn the lessons from the previous few times. Although he was uncomfortable this time, because he didn't know much about Xinyang Maojian, he didn't speak up and planned to take a look first.

After all, he didn't believe that Zhang Yanjin found the treasure as soon as he went to Xinyang, Zhongzhou.

"Oh, then this thing is a blind medicine?" The emperor touched the tip of Xinyang's hair with his hand, then took another breath of the strong fragrance and said.

Zhang Yanjin held the wat board in her hand and said: "Reporting to the emperor, this Xinyang Maojian is actually a kind of tea."

"Tea?" The emperor frowned slightly, and then looked down at Xinyang Maojian in the tea pot. Isn't tea the medicine that can only be found in pharmacies?

There was also whispering in the court, and everyone laughed in their hearts that Zhang Yanjin wanted to act crazy in front of the emperor, and even brought a pot of wild medicine with a fragrance and said it was a treasure from the mountains. Did you really think that everyone had never seen tea? ?Isn't that the drug used in the pharmacy?

Liu Yanshi stood up from the group of ministers and said, "I would like to report to the emperor, I dare to see the treasure in the mountains that Mr. Zhang said."

Zhang Yanjin did remind him when he said it was tea just now, and he vaguely felt that the smell of this tea seemed to be very similar to the one he had smelled in the pharmacy.

Seeing the emperor glanced at him, Li Mingrui came to Liu Yanshi with the tea pot in his hands. When he walked in front of Zhang Yanjin, he glanced at Zhang Yanjin with some puzzlement, showing worry on his face.

When he first saw Zhang Yanjin talking about a treasure from the mountains, he felt that he had smelled this smell somewhere. Just now Zhang Yanjin said it was tea, and he remembered it. He had seen something similar to this kind of thing in a pharmacy. s things.

Thinking of this, he sighed quietly in his heart.According to his understanding of Liu Yanshi, Liu Yanshi's behavior is probably going to give Zhang Yanjin a hard meal today.

Judging from what Zhang Yanjin had done in the past, he felt that Zhang Yanjin was actually very smart, and could be described as courageous and resourceful. Today, he felt sorry for making such a low-level mistake.

Chen Derang in the court hall gave Zhang Zhongqian a puzzled look. Ever since Zhang Yanjin came back from Nanyang, he was particularly optimistic about Zhang Yanjin, his eldest nephew.

Since the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, there has been peace in the country, except for Zhang Zhongqian leading troops to crusade against the Turks, there has been no war.In addition, most of these wealthy children in Chang'an City are idle and ignorant.Compared with this, Zhang Yanjin, who dared to take risks and pioneered the world, is very dazzling.

Rao Zhou Qiye, who is knowledgeable and thoughtful, is also inferior to Zhang Yanjin in terms of courage in Chen Derang's opinion.

In addition, Zhang Zhongqian and him were colleagues, and they were back-to-back comrades in arms back then. As Zhang Zhongqian's nephew, Zhang Yanjin was his nephew, so he naturally had to worry about it.

Zhang Zhongqian was standing in the queue of generals, and Chen Derang, who was standing in the queue of civil servants, looked at him dumbfounded.Could it be that he didn't stop Zhang Yanjin? In fact, he had already tasted the taste of Xinyang Maojian at home, and the sweet taste in the slight bitterness was still lingering on the tip of his tongue and never dissipated.

Liu Yanshi smelled Xinyang Maojian, and after confirming that it was correct, he immediately said: "Your Majesty, forgive me, this Xinyang Maojian is not a rare treasure at all, it is just the tea commonly used in our pharmacy."

He turned his head to look at Zhang Yanjin, who was also standing in the hall, and took the opportunity to express his embarrassment: "My lord, the emperor gave you the position of a lord to rebuild Zhongzhou, but you found a medicine in the mountains, saying it was a treasure from the mountains to deceive you." Your majesty, you said that this is a treasure from the mountains, what is your intention?"

Zhang Yanjin smiled faintly, not caring what Liu Yanshi said.It can be said that someone in the court would question him like this, and he thought of it.

In the north of the Great Wei Dynasty, the drinks on weekdays included cheese and tea.But the tea they drink at this time is not the same as the tea they drink in later generations.Even at this time, dairy products such as cheese and wine were much more widespread than drinking tea.

Rather than saying that they drink tea, it is better to say that they drink tea porridge or tea soup.

The tea they use at this time is also somewhat different from the tea of ​​later generations, and more of them are "fresh leaves", that is, fresh leaves picked directly from the tea trees.

Their brewing of tea is quite different from that of later generations. First, they dry the fresh leaves, break them into pieces, and then roast them until they are red and dry, mash them, and pour them into porcelain bottles.Only then did the water boil, and various seasonings were added to the pot, that is, salt, onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, and sometimes even orange peel.

After the water boils, pour the tea leaves and boiling water into the pot together. After boiling, it is what they call tea.

This is why there is a small red clay stove, and the green ant new fermented wine has been handed down to later generations, and the small red clay stove is the small stove used for making tea.

Zhang Yanjin still remembered the first time he came here to drink tea. At that time, he almost spit out the tea in his mouth.

But since there were still his uncle Zhang Zhongqian and Mrs. Zhang in the lobby at that time, he swallowed the "tea" while resisting the urge to vomit.

Later, when the weather turned cold, he gradually got used to the taste of porridge here.

But now that Xinyang Maojian has been found, it's a different matter. He not only wants to lead the people of the Great Wei Dynasty to make progress in tea tasting, but also brings in the first funds for the reconstruction of Zhongzhou.

Although the imperial court allocated funds for the reconstruction of Zhongzhou, if he saved such a large sum of money for the emperor, the emperor would remember him no matter what he said, wouldn't he?

More importantly, if he takes this opportunity to thoroughly publicize Xinyang Maojian, then the foundation of tea growing in Xinyang can be stabilized from now on, which can be regarded as a benefit to future generations.

As for Liu Yanshi's claim that Xinyang Maojian is a medicine called tea blindly in the pharmacy, that's not wrong.Xinyang Maojian and medicinal teas commonly used in pharmacies are indeed teas.

However, the tea processing method used in the pharmacy is different from the processing method used by the people of the Great Wei Dynasty when they cooked tea porridge. They collected the young leaves on the tea tree, that is, the fresh leaves, and dried them in the sun.

During the drying process, the fresh leaves will be fermented, so the taste is a bit like that of Xinyang Maojian.

But this is also a bit like, the aroma, color, and taste after soaking in water are much worse.

If I had known that he said that Xinyang Maojian was tea that caused such a big misunderstanding, he should have given Xinyang Maojian a high-ranking name like amber wine, and there would be no such troubles.

"What is your intention?" Zhang Yanjin asked Liu Yan while looking at Liu Yan gently.Since Liu Yanshi hadn't learned his lesson a few times before and came against him, he had no choice but to accept the trick and let him see who is the father.

In fact, every time Liu Yanshi relentlessly targeted him, he felt very helpless.

"Doctor Liu dared to make such an assertion before finding out the truth, what is his intention?"

After Zhang Yanjin finished speaking, she held the wat board and said: "My Majesty, this treasure needs to be brewed with water to get its true meaning. Since Dr. Liu said that this is tea from the pharmacy, it is better to brew it with hot water and see if it is true." Not pharmacy tea."

The emperor raised his hand slightly, and the old eunuch next to him understood what the emperor meant, and asked someone to bring up a porcelain bowl and a small pot of boiling hot water.

He nimbly used tweezers to pick out some Xinyang hair tips from the tea pot, put them into a porcelain bowl, and brewed them with hot water.

As the hot water is poured in, a strong fragrance is released along with the hot steam, and the aroma contained in the tip of the hair seems to be stirred up, permeating the entire hall, making people unable to bear a deep sniff A few mouthfuls.

The emperor sitting in front of the table and the old eunuch and Zhang Mingrui standing beside him could not only smell the fragrance more clearly, but also see the posture of Xinyang's hair tip slowly stretching in the water, and the slowly turning emerald green The pleasant tea makes people think of the new shoots that break through the ground in spring. This touch of green is really gratifying.

"My Majesty, you can taste the brewed tea directly." Zhang Yanjin said at the right time.

Hearing this, the old eunuch quickly took out a small cup from the side, slowly poured out the emerald green tea from the porcelain bowl, and placed it in front of the emperor.

The emperor picked it up, blew it slightly, and then took a sip.

The slightly bitter and sweet taste quickly diffused on the tip of the tongue, and even the laziness of getting up early seemed to be washed away by this taste.

After the emperor tasted it carefully, he couldn't help but took another sip. After a while, the emperor finished drinking the tea in the small cup.

"Good tea! It really is a treasure from the mountains!" The emperor exclaimed.

The emperor has always been prudent. As an emperor, he rarely praised something like this, but today he really couldn't help it.This tea is much lighter and more refreshing than the tea soup he usually drinks. It can be said that he has begun to dislike the greasy tea soup he usually drinks now.

Zhang Yanjin couldn't help being proud, what he wanted was the emperor's praise.Who is the most endorsement capital in this era?That is the emperor!

This is the same as the British royal family. Although the royal family does not have much power, their endorsement capital is unmatched by ordinary stars.

More importantly, in this era where the royal family is respected, a word of praise from the emperor is even more valuable.

The civil and military officials of the Manchu dynasty would meet with the emperor every day. Seeing that the emperor, who rarely praised a thing, praised tea so much, and smelling the fragrance of tea in the palace, he wanted to taste this Xinyang that Yanjin presented to the emperor. What is the taste of Maojian soaked water?

Chen Derang glanced at Zhang Zhongqian with some resentment, as if he was complaining about his old partner, Zhang Zhongqian must have tasted this thing, but he didn't give him some, just now it made him worry for a long time, it was so uninteresting.

But above the court, some people were amazed and some were worried.

Rui Guogong Zhou Qin's complexion is very ugly. In the past, the official tea, that is, the tea drunk by the emperor in the palace, and the tea sold outside were controlled by their gentry named Zhou.

The so-called official tea refers to the tea produced and distributed by the government or sold after paying taxes to the government, and other people are not allowed to sell it.That is to say, since the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, they have been planted by the nobles surnamed Zhou, paid taxes to the government, and then sold them.