Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 73 Why does he often have tears in his eyes...

Seeing that almost everyone came, Young Master Gao nodded to Gan Lucheng and Zhao Yan, indicating that it was time to start.

This is a assistant official sent to him by Fusu. He was born as a scholar. It is said that he knows how to grow tea trees. He is from Hanzhong County. There are rumors that he is Mrs. Zhao Ji's younger brother...

Zhao Yan walked to the edge of the high platform, cleared his throat and said: "Your Majesty's order to pick tea, you have already made it clear. Today, my son and I came here specially to collect tea..."

Before he finished speaking, the villagers in the audience shook their heads and questioned:
"We don't even know about the edict of picking tea!"

"You don't have to ask, the imperial court must be searching for us in different ways!"

Zhao Yan and Young Master Gao looked at each other and frowned slightly. Didn't His Majesty's edict come here?However, Zhang County in the west has already started to organize people to go up the mountain to pick tea!
Especially in Zhangxian County (now Anji, Zhejiang Province), the seat of Zhang County, the daily harvest of tea leaves is dozens of catties!

And the head of Guizhou there went into the mountains like crazy, looking for wild tea trees and transplanting them to their own slopes.

As for why not grow flat land, nonsense, no, good land is still reserved for growing food!

Young Master Gao Zhengzheng dressed, walked to the front of the stage and bowed his hands towards Xianyang, and immediately repeated the edict that the tea harvested in the month will reach a certain weight, which can be used to offset the corvee.

After Young Master Gao finished speaking, the villagers in the audience immediately erupted.

In the 25th year of the First Emperor, King Jian, the Marquis of Wucheng, established the south of the Jing River, surrendered to the Lord Yue, and set up Kuaiji County, which was later divided into Kuaiji County and Zhang County.

Among them, Kuaiji County includes the later generations of southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang, governing more than [-] counties, and has fish, salt, rice, and crabs.

There are wild tea trees all over the mountains and plains, and now you only need to go up the mountain to pick tea, which can offset the corvee. How can the government not say such a good thing?

What an inappropriate son of man!

Zhao Yan remembered what Fusu had warned him before parting, go and come back quickly, only accept tea, and leave the rest alone!
He was a little confused at the beginning, but now the angry Qianshou under the stands suddenly understood.

Zhao Yan raised his hands and pressed the button down, signaling the arguing Qianshou to silence, and then broke up a few words at random, smoothing things over for the government of Kuaiji County.

Then he began to talk about the main point. The imperial court sent them to collect tea, not for compulsory collection, but for a joint purchase at a fair price.

"Buy? How do you buy?" An old but powerful voice came from the audience, and the villagers who were filled with righteous indignation just now became silent.

Zhao Yan looked at the hale and hearty old man with white beard and hair in the audience, and waved his hand, allowing two fighters to carry a huge wooden sign.

The shape of a leaf was drawn on the wooden sign, but after being displayed by the counties along the way, the ink on it was a little faded, so he and Gong Zigao re-drawn it again last night.

Zhao Yan pointed to the graphic on the sign and said loudly: "Single buds like this cost ten cents per catty!"

The villagers in the audience suddenly exclaimed, now that winter is approaching, the price of food has risen slightly, and the price of rice is [-] yuan per stone!

In other words, as long as five catties of tea leaves are collected, one stone can be exchanged, which is 120 catties of rice!
Seeing the exclamation of the villagers, Fan Zeng said loudly: "Single buds are rare, and I'm afraid I may not be able to pick a catty in half a month..."

Zhao Yan nodded and said: "What the old man said is very true. There are more than one kind of tea collected by the court. Among them, one leaf and one single bud cost one jin per jin; two leaves and one single bud cost two jin for each; Three leaves and one single bud, five catties for each money!"

Zhao Yan said while pointing to the graphics on the wooden sign to explain.

Although the villagers are not very literate, they can understand the pictures, especially when it concerns their own interests, and they are particularly fascinated.

"Your Majesty is benevolent!" A man in the crowd said in broken Wuyue dialect: "As expected of being the son of a Chu girl, I miss you from Chu!"

"Why do you say that?" Another man in the corner spoke the same crappy Wuyue dialect.

"Don't you know that your birth mother is my Princess of Chu, and Qin and Chu have been married for many years. If you calculate this way, Your Majesty can be regarded as more than half of Chu people!"

"Oh, really?" The villagers nodded inexplicably, but they didn't join in the discussion. The Qin law is strict, and it is not allowed to comment on the court at will. Violators may suffer from punishment (shave their beards), and in severe cases, they may be fined or sentenced.

However, people's nature of gossip made them reluctant to leave, and it was not themselves who committed the death, so they stopped where they were, expecting the other party to say more.

The man went on to say: "My Kuaiji County is rich in products, and there are tea trees all over the mountains and plains. Once His Majesty's edict comes out, will the tea trees still be tea trees? That's a cash cow! As long as you work hard, you can eat polished rice and fresh fish!"

Another person asked: "That's the reason, but what does it have to do with His Majesty being born to a Chu girl?"

"Stupid!" An irritable villager finally couldn't help it, and he said loudly: "Second and third sons, remember that when His Majesty succeeded to the throne, I was exempted from the oral tax of the first year of Chudi Qianshou! I heard that Jiangbei Donghai County, but it’s only exempted for half a year! And tea trees are everywhere..."

Qianshou?Xiang Ji gritted his teeth, the Xiang family is also a descendant of the Mi surname, a descendant of Emperor Gaoyang, and now he has become the head of Guizhou...

He stared at the man, remembering his appearance.

"Yes, yes, when it comes to the number of tea trees, we dare to say that Chudi is the second, and no place in the world dare to say the number one!" Another man who had been holding back for a long time saw someone make the first bird, so he also jumped out He said loudly: "As the man said, the tea tree is a cash cow. As long as you work hard, good times will come soon! This is His Majesty's preference for us Chu people!"

"Your Majesty, ten thousand years!" At first, the man shouted loudly in his crappy Wuyue dialect.

"Your Majesty, ten thousand years!" Bewitched by him, some villagers also shouted.

"Your Majesty, ten thousand years!" The fighters around the high platform and the young masters Gao and Zhao Yan on the platform also shouted in unison.

Gradually, the voices on and off the stage merged into one, and some reserved villagers also joined in the cheers.

After shouting a few words in unison, the man in the lead yelled again in broken Wuyue dialect:

"Thousands of years of the Qin Kingdom!"

The villagers were obviously stunned for a moment, but when they heard the cheers from the fighters around the high platform, they thought for a while and joined in the cheers.

Anyway, there is no Chu State now, and everyone is from Qin, so let’s just shout a few words.

A warm atmosphere can always fully mobilize people's emotions. For example, the young man with a stature as strong as a tiger and a bear in the audience heard two lines of tears in his eyes when he heard the surrounding villagers cheering in unison...

After a while, the cheers gradually died down.

Fan Zeng in the audience suddenly asked: "I wonder why the imperial court bought tea?"

Young Master Gao was stunned for a moment, frowned slightly, Zhao Yan rushed forward and said, "Firstly, to make the head of Guizhou rich; secondly, to trade with the barbarians around Daqin, to lose to each other!"

(End of this chapter)