Zhenguan Xiaoxian Wang Li Shen Li Shimin

"It's your Majesty," Chunxiang agreed quickly after hearing this.

Then he started to clean up the tea table and arrange the seats. Li Shimin also found it strange when he saw the position. It turned out that the tea maker should sit at the main seat. Li Shimin sat opposite Chunxiang, and the ministers also sat on both sides. Everyone looked at Chunxiang. How to make tea.

I saw Chunxiang put the purple clay pot into the tea wash, opened the lid of the pot, poured in freshly boiled water, closed the lid again, and poured the boiling water over the purple clay pot.

Then use wooden clamps to pick up the teacups one by one, place the teacups on top of the tea wash, lift the purple clay pot, pour boiling water over the teacups.

Then take out a wooden tube from under the table, use the wood chips to take out the tea leaves and put them into the purple clay pot. Chunxiang taught the maids behind her in a low voice.

Then pour in a little boiling water, and after a while pour it into the tea wash. Pick up the kettle again and raise it high. This is called hanging pot high flushing. Pour the boiling water into the purple clay pot and let the tea leaves dance fully in the boiling water. At the same time, the tea leaves are in the water. The endoplasm is fully released.

After a while, Chunxiang arranged the teacups in a straight line and poured them into the juxtaposed teacups one after another. It was particularly interesting to watch.

"Your Majesty, please have tea." Chunxiang picked up a cup of tea and handed it to Li Shimin with both hands.

"That's it? It looks pleasing to the eye, and it does have some artistic conception. But it's enough to just soak it in water, no need to boil it." Li Shimin said doubtfully

"Your Majesty, you will know after a taste. Your Majesty said that you will be happy after three sips. This cup of tea will take three sips."

Li Shimin took the small teacup. The teacup was much smaller than what he usually used. One sip was not enough and he had to drink three sips?

However, Li Shimin still took a sip as Chunxiang said. There was a hint of bitterness in the mouth of the tea, and it slowly turned into a pure drink.

Li Shimin took a second sip and tasted it carefully with his eyes closed. It was bitter and then sweet. After taking the last sip, Li Shimin finally realized the artistic conception of Li Shen's article. Bitterness is its journey, and sweetness is its gift.

"Good tea." Li Shimin uttered two words while everyone was watching. "My dear friends, come and have a try"

Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others also picked up their tea cups and tasted them carefully, imitating Li Shimin.

"Hey~ Prince Ji is indeed a great talent. This is the tea that literati like me should drink. Think about the quiet comfort of having a cup of tea and a book in your spare time. What a state it is, it is intoxicating." Fang Xuanling said with emotion.

"I have been drinking tea all my life, and now I have such a high-quality tea, I will have no regrets in my life," Wei Zheng also said with emotion.

"This is the end of all hardships, just like life." Tang Jian put down the tea cup.

"It's a little special, but a little bit bitter." Just when everyone was in a high mood. Cheng Yaojin's words broke the situation.

This inappropriate remark at this time ruined the mood. Even Qin Qiong said to Cheng Yaojin with a look of disgust on his face: "If you know your morals, you should read more when you have time. A dignified general can be so vulgar."

"That's right, we are all literary generals. If we have time, we should find a teacher to learn from Yu. How shameful!" Yuchi Jingde said after finishing his attack.

"Huh. Brother Qin said that's all I want. What's the difference between you and me? What did you drink?" Cheng Yaojin curled his lips at Yuchi Jingde.

Everyone ignored them, Chunxiang started to fill up the second cup for everyone. This second dip is different from the first one. The taste is lighter, less astringent and more sweet. In this way, Li Shimin chatted with the ministers while drinking tea, which was very pleasant.

After drinking a few pots of tea, Fang Xuanling asked: "Your Majesty, I wonder if the Tea Palace is for sale?"

"I don't know about this. Chunxiang, does your prince sell this tea?" Li Shimin didn't know, so he could only ask Chunxiang. As Li Shen's personal maid, Chunxiang should know.

"Back to your majesty, the prince said that the sales will start in the next few days. But the tea is divided into three grades. Third-class tea, second-class tea and first-class tea. The lowest quantity of third-class tea is the largest. Second-class tea is the second. First-class tea Because the process is complicated and the tea leaves used are carefully selected, the quantity is small." Chunxiang answered truthfully.

"Is this first-class tea today?" Changsun Wuji asked.

"No," Chunxiang shook her head.

"No?" Everyone's expressions changed, and Li Shimin also looked a little ugly. What King Ji gave to His Majesty was not first-class tea.

Chunxiang continued: "This tube of tea is the royal palace's special tea. It is not sold to the outside world at the moment. The palace does not have much. King Ji asked his servant to tell your majesty to keep it for himself and not to give it to others. He said he didn't have enough for himself."

After Chunxiang finished speaking, the ministers' faces became even more ugly. On the other hand, Li Shimin's face turned into one of pride.

This King Ji is too stingy. Isn’t there something good that should be shared by the king and his ministers?

"I wonder how much this tea costs." Tang Jian asked.

"The prince said that one tael of tea leaves and one tael of gold" Chunxiang received it with a smile.

"what!"

“One tael of tea and one tael of gold??”

"Let me just say that this kid is very dark."

Everyone was very surprised when they heard the price. Chunxiang continued: "My lords, this tea comes from the Nanzhao Kingdom in the south of the Tang Dynasty. In order to be able to harvest it, the prince ordered people to send [-] tons of grain before letting our people pick it.

Moreover, the tea girls who pick the tea are all virgins who have not yet left the palace. Only the two tenderest leaves from the tea tree are picked and stored in undergarments after picking. Finally, it is sent to the tea workshop and undergoes complicated production before a little bit is produced.

It must be sealed and stored during transportation back from Nanzhao. The prince said that the climate in Nanzhao is different from ours. The climate there is humid, the mountains are high, and the temperature is suitable.

Therefore, the tea produced is better than that of Datang, but the distance is far, so the cost is too high. The prince only brought back some as tribute tea for His Majesty. "

"King Ji is so extravagant, his debauchery is not enough to describe him. He wastes money and people just for the sake of his lust for words." Wei Zheng's sense of justice immediately exploded.

"Zheng Guogong, I wonder which of the people my prince has troubled and whose wealth has been harmed?" Wei Zheng said that Li Shen Chunxiang was unwilling. How good their prince is.

"It's such a huge effort, and it's a tea girl who doesn't care about anyone, and it's a gift of food. It's just for a sip of tea. Isn't it just a waste of people and money?" Wei Zheng's eyes widened. A little girl dared to question him.

"Zheng Guogong, those tea girls you mentioned are all paid. Do you know how many untrained girls in Nanzhao want to do this job?

But my prince is kind-hearted and chooses women from poor families to work. Does this count as saving them from fire and water? And all workers are paid double wages.

How many people break their heads trying to come to work? What kind of labor is this? As for the loss of money you mentioned. It's all the money of my palace. The prince said that he could spend whatever he wanted. If he was happy, he might use the money to block the Weishui River. "The little girl is very articulate, and the sharp-tongued mouth she learned from Li Shen is not impressive at all.

Li Shimin, on the other hand, loved Wujiwu and was stroking his beard and watching this scene with a smile. Not angry at all.