Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

"Tea official Yayu, see the king! The king is forever!"

Accompanied by the ministers, Qingji came to the tea house. A group of young girls came to meet him. The leader was a girl with outstanding looks.

I saw that her face was like a silver plate, her eyes were like apricots, her lips were unpainted but red, and her eyebrows were unpainted but emerald.

About seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a green emerald smoked sweater, a pleated skirt of water mist and green grass, and a thin emerald green veil, with shoulders cut into waists and plain.

The muscles are like fat, and the breath is like orchids.

The female tea official named "Ya Yu" led a large group of young girls, bowed to Qing Ji Fu, and then bowed respectfully.

"No gift, flat body."

"Thank you king!"

Ya Yu waited for a group of tea pickers before slowly standing up.

Qingji stared at Yayu in front of him again, and began to examine it carefully.

Ya Yu felt like a deer bumping into her heart under Qing Ji's gaze, she couldn't help lowering her head, her eyebrows crescented, her face was already stained with a blush.

It's hard to be shy!

However, Qing Ji is the ruler of a country, her "king", how dare Ya Yu criticize her?

"Are you the tea picking girl Yayu who caused Bo Tong and Gou Jian to fight?"

Qingji squinted his eyes and asked.

Hearing this, Ya Yu's pretty face turned pale with fright, she quickly bowed to Qing Jifu, and said: "Your Majesty, my daughter is guilty, please punish me!"

"Hehehehe, why are you guilty?"

Qing Ji shook his head and said: "You are born beautiful and hard to give up, not to mention Gou Jian and Bo Tong, even widows, it is hard not to be tempted."

"..."

Qingji said such embarrassing words, is Chi Guoguo confessing to Yayu?
However, Qingji was right.

Yayu is indeed as beautiful as a flower, with a national beauty and a heavenly fragrance.

However, the husband is not guilty, but he is guilty of the crime.

Sometimes women are too beautiful, and it is indeed a sin to be troubled by beauty.

Does Qingji have any thoughts about Yayu?
Intriguing.

Even Qingji himself couldn't explain clearly.

He is not a person who will take people's favors casually, or take away love with a knife.

Qingji immediately entered a bamboo hut, sat on the main seat, looked around for a week, then turned his attention to Yayu, and asked, "Yayu, how much tea does your tea garden produce in a year?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the tea garden produces about [-] shi of tea a year, [-] shi of high-grade tea, about [-] shi of medium-grade tea, and more than [-] shi of low-grade tea."

Ya Yu replied methodically.

With such an output of tea leaves, Qing Ji was quite satisfied.

After all, Wu's tea has been widely planted in the past few years because of Qingji's personal hobbies and Lilan's considerable interest.

Historically, Chinese people have been familiar with tea, from emperors, generals, literati, various schools of thought, down to porters and traders, and ordinary people, all of them prefer tea.

People often say: seven things to open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea.

It can be seen that tea has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Tea appeared as a culture in the Jin and Northern Dynasties.

However, tea has already appeared, and it is recorded in "Shen Nong Shi Jing". …

However, it is the Ba people who really have the habit of drinking tea and planting tea trees.

Most of the tea trees in Wu State are imported from Bashu.

It is worth mentioning that the yield of tea gardens is related to the age of the trees.

Usually three or four-year-old tea trees can produce [-] to [-] catties of raw tea a year.

Mature tea trees can harvest [-] to [-] catties of raw tea a year.

The yield of one mu of land depends on the method of planting, the level of management, the standard of picking, and the kind of tea.

The current tea production in Wu State is definitely more than one thousand shi.

By selling tea, Wu Guo can earn a lot of money from the countries of the Central Plains.

How can a mere thousand stones be digested?
Of course, the Central Plains has also begun to imitate Wu Guo in planting tea trees, but in terms of taste, it may not be as good as Wu Guo's tea.

"The top-quality tea produced in a year is only fifty shi?"

Qingji couldn't help frowning.

"Yes."

Ya Yu replied: "My lord, according to the quality of this tea, there are high-grade, medium-grade and low-grade."

"Fine tea leaves are mainly supplied to princes and nobles, and the value of one stone is about one thousand taels of gold."

"Medium tea is mainly sold to scholar-bureaucrats or wealthy businessmen, and the value of one stone is around one hundred taels of gold."

"Inferior tea is mainly for ordinary people, and the value of one stone is about ten taels of gold."

"hiss!"

Hearing this, Wen Zhong and Kong Qiu and other officials and officials who followed beside him couldn't help but gasped and were shocked.

Is this tea really so profitable?
They know that tea is a relatively profitable thing, but they didn't expect to make so much money, such huge profits!

You must know that Qingji, the king of a country, is very "benevolent and friendly".

Especially for his own courtiers, Qingji will reward Jizha, Confucius, Sun Ping, Wu Zixu and other important court officials with tea, gold, silk and other valuables every year and festival.

Sometimes, when Qingji had a whim, or because he valued a scholar from Jixia Academy, he would reward him with some tea leaves.

This led to the fashion of drinking tea being driven by the celebration of Ji, and gradually became popular in all Chinese countries.

What is the concept of this stone tea?
One stone in the state of Wu is equal to one hundred and twenty catties, which is equivalent to sixty catties in later generations.

As for the tea grown near Jinling, there are [-] shi of high-quality tea, and [-] taels of gold per shi.

That is fifty thousand taels of gold!

Moreover, Wu Guo is planting a large amount of tea in Kuaiji County, and there will be more high-quality tea, which is several times or even ten times that of Jinling Tea Garden.

Doesn't that mean that the country of Wu can earn money just by relying on the income of tea?
No, no.

Of course this is not the case.

Because this high-quality tea is basically digested by Qingji and his concubines, as well as the ministers and officials of the state of Wu.

Those who are less than the level of Sangong Jiuqing may not be able to drink high-quality tea within a year.

Moreover, rare things are expensive.

Once tea trees are really widely planted in Wu State, the top-quality tea will not be sold so expensively, and there will still be no market for the price.

"What is the best tea?"

Qingji plans to test Yayu.

Hearing this, Ya Yu didn't panic at all, thought for a while, organized his words, and replied: "My lord, the tea in spring is the best, it can be high-grade tea."

"The leaf buds of spring tea are fresh and tender, and the color and aroma are in the best condition, but it cannot be simply generalized."

"For example, summer tea, the taste of summer tea will be more bitter than spring tea and autumn tea, but it has a rare sweet taste."

After a pause, Yayu said softly again: "Let's talk about autumn tea, because it has been harvested in spring and summer, the taste of autumn tea is relatively thin."

"Winter tea has a good aroma, almost no astringency, and a unique taste."

Qingji couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and asked, "So, Yayu, do you think that the tea leaves produced in spring, summer, autumn and winter have their own merits?"

"Exactly!"