Reborn Tang Emperor Li Chengqian

Chapter 483 Lychee Wine

Last night, at the banquet, there was a lot of drinking and drinking, and everyone ate and drank to their heart's content. Li Chengqian also got drunk and was carried back.

I didn't wake up until noon.

"Come on, change clothes!" Li Chengqian called for someone to wait for him to wash.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Li Chengqian stayed where he lived and did not go out.

"Everyone! Governor of Guangzhou, Lu Yuanrui, please see me!" Wang Quan reported to Li Chengqian with a bow.

"Show him in." Li Chengqian said.

"Promise!" Wang Quan replied, turned around and got up and shouted out: "Xuan Guangzhou Metropolitan Lu Yuanrui to see you!"

When Lu Yuanrui heard him being called, he hurriedly adjusted his clothes, so as not to lose his manners in front of the emperor and make a big joke, which would cause the emperor to be unhappy and suffer.

"My minister, Guangzhou governor Lu Yuanrui pays homage to His Majesty!" Lu Yuanrui paid respects.

"Freedom of courtesy! Give me a seat!" Li Chengqian said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Lu Yuanrui thanked him, the emperor did not give him a seat, so Lu Yuanrui could only stand in front of the emperor.

"I heard that your lychees in Lingnan are good. The varieties of lychees have large fruit, thick flesh, beautiful color, small core, and sweet taste. Is this true?" Li Chengqian asked.

The lychee he was talking about is also called Feizixiao lychee, which is a variety of lychee.

Originally, this lychee was not called Concubine Xiao, but Luotangpu and Yuhebao.

The reason why this lychee is called the concubine's smile is inseparable from the fact that Tang Xuanzong favored Concubine Yang Guifei in his later years. Concubine Yang Guifei liked to eat lychees and hoped to eat fresh lychees.

Out of his love for Concubine Yang, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered the post station that delivered the information to hurry up and transport this kind of lychees from the Lingnan area to Chang'an, the capital.

In order to win the smile of the beauty, so there is the name of the concubine's smile.

Du Mu, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, also wrote a quatrain titled "Passing the Huaqing Palace" because of this incident. There is a famous line in the middle dedicated to this incident: "When a concubine laughs while riding a red dust, no one knows that it is a litchi."

As an emperor, it is a bit absurd to use the post station for delivering official documents to transport lychees to Pomeranian.

But as a man, Li Chengqian appreciates being able to do these things for his beloved woman.

As a man, if he can't even satisfy the woman he loves, that's too useless.

There is even a saying that "if you eat three hundred lychees a day, you might as well grow up as a Lingnan native".

"Your Majesty! It's true, the lychees in Lingnan are sweeter than the lychees in other places. Today, I specially ordered someone to pick some lychees and offer them to His Majesty to taste." Lu Yuanrui said.

"Hurry up and let me taste it." Li Chengqian was overjoyed when he heard the words, and said hastily.

"Your Majesty, please wait a moment, I'll bring it here." Lu Yuanrui said, turned around and went out to bring up the lychees that he had prepared a long time ago, and put them in front of Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian reached out and picked up a lychee, peeled off the lychee shell, threw it into his mouth and chewed it, it was still juicy and sweet.

It tastes the same as the lychees he ate in later life.

After eating the lychee flesh, he spit out the lychee core and threw it aside.

Li Chengqian reached out again to pick up a lychee and peeled it.

While eating the lychees, Li Chengqian said, "It's said that fresh lychees are difficult to preserve. Do you have any way to preserve them here? If you can sell the lychees all over the world."

"As a result, the popularity of the south and the large-scale planting of lychees will make the south more prosperous, which is also beneficial to the economy of Datang."

"I'm dissatisfied with Your Majesty! This fresh lychee is not suitable for preservation. Once the lychee leaves its own branch, it will change color within one day, lose its fragrance within two days, and change taste within three days. The color and fragrance will disappear in four or five days. Therefore, it cannot be sold to further places." Lu Yuanrui said bitterly.

Lychees are not easy to preserve, and they cannot be transported to farther places, let alone sold to all parts of the world. It is simply more difficult than reaching the sky.

"Haven't you guys thought of other ways?" Li Chengqian asked.

"Your Majesty! The Lingnan people have already thought of many ways, but they have not been able to preserve the lychees. Therefore, the lychees can only be sold in the vicinity of Lingnan, and they will go bad any farther away." Lu Yuanrui said.

In order to allow litchi to be sold to farther places, Lingnan people have put a lot of effort into preservation, but they are all unsatisfactory.

"Haven't you guys thought about making dried lychees?"

"You can also make lychee wine from lychees, just like grapes can make fine wine, and lychees can also be made into lychee wine."

"In this way, not only can it be sold to every place in Datang, but it can also be sold to countries in the Western Regions, Dashi and other countries through the Silk Road."

"You can sell lychee wine to all over the world through the port of Guangzhou. Are you afraid that you won't be able to sell it to farther places?" Li Chengqian said.

In this way, the fresh fragrance of lychee can be guaranteed, and the loss of nutritional value of lychee can be prevented.

The most important thing is to be able to sell to all over the world, so as to bring the southern economy to a higher level.

Lychee wine has many health benefits, such as nourishing qi and invigorating the spleen, nourishing blood and benefiting the liver, and has a good nourishing effect on the human body.

It can also prevent aging, beautify, reduce fat, prevent and treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, help the human body digest and sterilize, and has the effect of quenching thirst and diuresis.

Once launched, it will definitely be very popular, especially the lychee wine can prevent aging, beautify and reduce fat, and it can drive many beauty-loving women crazy.

At that time, do you still have to worry about too many lychees?

There is no need to worry about the sales of lychee wine, as the supply will be in short supply when the time comes.

"Your Majesty, we racked our brains and never thought about using lychees to make wine. Your Majesty's words gave lychees a new market." Lu Yuanrui said hastily.

"I leave it to you to make wine from lychees. I believe you don't need to say more about how to make wine." Li Chengqian said.

"I understand, I'll do it now!" Lu Yuanrui said, and hurriedly bowed and stepped back.

After Lu Yuanrui left Li Chengqian's place, he went back and immediately summoned the winemaker to discuss wine making.

After some experiments, the first batch of lychee wine was finally brewed.

Lu Yuanrui brought the brewed lychee wine to Li Chengqian to taste.

"Good! It's really good wine. From now on, you Lingnan will pay me three hundred altars of this kind of lychee wine every year." After drinking it, Li Chengqian was full of praise.

"I obey the order!" Lu Yuanrui replied, as long as the emperor likes it, let alone three hundred altars, even three thousand altars, he must pay tribute to the emperor.

"You can also transport the lychee wine to Chang'an for sale, and it will definitely fetch a good price." Li Chengqian continued.

"I understand! When the lychee wine is brewed, in addition to paying tribute to His Majesty, the other wine will be shipped to the states and counties of the Tang Dynasty for sale, and will also be sold to other places through the port." Lu Yuanrui said.

"Not bad! Your idea is very good. In this way, the south will become more and more prosperous." Li Chengqian praised.

(End of this chapter)