Otaku Engineer in Great Tang Dynasty

(Two-in-one chapter)

"Oh? Lord Hou, but you have orders, Zheng must cooperate fully!"

Yunshan Courtyard.

Hearing that Li Zexuan wanted to do tea business, and he needed the help of others, Zheng Yinhong's expression changed and he quickly bowed his hands.

"I'm willing to help Master Hou!"

Cao Wendong and others also bowed their hands.

Li Zexuan nodded and said, "Okay! With your help, I will be more confident in doing this tea business! First of all, we must solve the problem of the source of tea. The dry weather in the north is not suitable for the growth of tea trees, so this tea It must be picked from the south!"

Speaking of this, Li Zexuan looked at Zheng Yinhong and said: "The Lord sent this tea to the palace yesterday. After tasting the tea, he liked it very much. He decided to list the fairy tea as a tribute tea, so the tea needed in the palace in the future , The owner Zheng needs to be responsible for collecting in the Jiangnan area!"

"Tribute tea?"

Several people were shocked, and there was a huge wave in their hearts, but Zheng Yinhong's complexion changed and said: "Hou Ye, Shenxian tea is listed as tribute tea, which certainly shows that its quality is unparalleled in the world, but once it is listed as tribute tea , This shouldn’t be sold freely among the people!"

After hearing this, Cao Wendong nodded his head in agreement and said, "Master Hou, what the owner Zheng said is right! Once the fairy tea is listed as tribute tea, how can people enjoy it at will?"

Li Zexuan waved his hand and said with a smile: "You can't say that. Today's sage loves the people like his son, and likes to have fun with the people the most. Besides, we can make a batch of top-notch tea for the imperial palace. Later, it will be sold in the private sector. Then, thanks to the reputation of tribute tea, Shenxian tea will not be able to sell as much!"

In the Tang Dynasty, there were no strict restrictions on court tribute. As long as the tribute was handed over to the court on time in various places, it did not mean that once something was listed as a tribute, it must not be. For example, cucumbers were sold in the private sector. They were tributes before and during the Tang Dynasty, but couldn't the civilians eat them? Obviously not, as long as you have money, you can definitely buy it!

As for the court tribute tea, there is no precedent for this before. Zheng Yinhong and others are completely out of a foolproof attitude to have this worry!

"Master Hou is a clever trick. It's just this fairy tea, can it be divided into three or six or nine grades?"

Feng Zhihua stroked his beard, wondering.

The tea they drank before was all ground and mixed with spices and cooked. How can there be any concept of tea grading?

Li Zexuan smiled slightly and said: "This tea can of course be divided into three, six or nine grades. Generally speaking, the shorter and more tender the buds and leaves, and the smaller the angle between the buds and leaves, the better the quality of such tea! The top fresh tea leaves must have one bud and one leaf. The angle between the buds and leaves is small, the buds are longer than the leaves, the buds and leaves are uniform and strong, and the length of the buds and leaves should not exceed one inch.

In addition, the method of frying should be exquisite. In my opinion, the tea leaves after frying should be flat and smooth, nice and sharp, tender and fresh, even and heavy, and the bud peaks should be revealed. In this way, the top fresh tea leaves should be topped with top quality. The method of frying, naturally becomes the top fairy tea!

Using this top-quality fairy tea as a tribute, and selling the other slightly inferior teas, not only preserves the face of the saint, but also allows everyone in the world to taste the delicacy of the fairy tea. It can be described as killing two birds with one stone! "

Hearing this, everyone nodded, thinking that this plan was a good idea!

Zheng Yinhong even more convincingly said: "Hou Ye's research and accomplishments in tea ceremony can be called a generation of masters. Zheng used to believe that he had studied tea ceremony quite a bit, but today he heard what Hou Ye said. It's a frog at the bottom of the well!"

"Eh~! Don't say that. Zhuang Master Zheng, in fact, I learned these things from his master, and they are not his own skills!"

Li Zexuan smiled, and then said: "Zheng Zhuangzhu, Ben Hou wants to establish a tea plantation in Jiangnan, but Ben Hou has been in Chang'an for many years, and there is no time to manage the tea plantation, so..."

"As long as Master Hou can trust Zheng, Zheng is willing to manage the tea garden for Master Hou!"

As soon as Li Zexuan's voice fell, Zheng Yinhong immediately answered.

Cao Wendong and others are silent at this moment. Although they have business dealings with the south, they are not southerners after all. Unlike Zheng Yinhong, who has a huge foundation and extensive network in the south, they go to the south to help Li Zexuan. Tea garden, they are more than willing but not enough!

Li Zexuan smiled slightly, and said: "The kindness of Zhuang Zhuangzhu, Benhou has received it! It's not that I can’t believe it, but because Zhuang Zhuang is so troubled, Benhou will feel sorry for him! So Benhou wants to open a fairy tea garden with Zhuang Zhuang, specifically Picking and frying Shenxian tea, and Benhou is willing to share the frying method of Shenxian tea. Let's build the largest, most famous and top tea garden together!"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked!

Everyone did not expect that Li Zexuan was willing to share the fry method of Shenxian tea. You must know that with the reputation of tribute tea and the high-quality taste and taste of Shenxian tea itself, as long as Li Zexuan solves the source of tea, Rely on tea to earn endless wealth! After all, in the entire Datang, no tea merchant can come up with tea that can compete with Shenxian tea, so naturally there is no way to compete with Li Zexuan!

Zheng Yinhong is not a person who has never seen the world before, but at this moment he still can't help showing a touch of movement. He hurriedly bowed and said, "How can Zheng, and Master Hou be open together? Build a tea plantation? If Master Hou has the needs, Zheng is willing to help Master Hou with all his strength, and Master Hou’s tea-frying method, Zheng will definitely not covet it!"

As a person who has seen the big scene, Zheng Yinhong still kept his heart in the face of huge interests. He is not stupid. Don't look at him in the Jiangnan sea of ​​business. But Li Zexuan is a prince of the country and wants to pinch him to death. It's as easy as squeezing an ant. After all, the division of the social hierarchy of people, farmers, industry and commerce is not a joke. Therefore, his thoughts changed sharply, he considered it seriously, and rejected this attractive proposal!

Seeing this, Li Zexuan couldn't help but nodded secretly in his heart, then he looked at Zheng Yinhong with a smile but a smile, and said: "Zheng Zhuangzhu, you are a businessman. We are now talking about business. It is fair to do business. You free help. It's not like doing business when Benhou opened a tea garden!

You should know that Benhou is not short of money, and he doesn’t like to overpower others. So if you are willing to help in this tea garden, Benhou will divide you 40% of the stock, and the future income of the tea garden will divide you 40%. If you don't want to help, it doesn't matter, Benhou just find someone else! "

Faced with such generous conditions offered by Li Zexuan, everyone present was heartbroken. Cao Wendong and others all cast envy at Zheng Yinhong.

Zheng Yinhong's eyebrows remained silent. From his frowning brows and stern face, it could be seen that he was struggling violently in his heart. After a long silence, Zheng Yinhong finally spoke and bowed to Li Zexuan:

"Master Hou is upright and righteous, and has a kind heart, and Zheng admires it! Since Master Hou treats me sincerely, the old man Zheng Yinhong swears here today that he will do his best to manage the tea garden for Master Hou from generation to generation. If there is betrayal, I hope the men of the Zheng family will be slaves for generations and the women will be prostitutes for generations!"

He understood that to obtain Li Zexuan's secret method of tea frying, he had to be loyal to Li Zexuan, and to make Li Zexuan completely believe in him, so he made this oath!

Everyone was shocked, and Li Zexuan couldn't help his expressions move slightly. You must know that the ancients attached great importance to the heavens, the ghosts and the gods, and the oaths. No one dared to swear casually, and no one would directly take his offspring to Zheng Yinhong. Future generations swear!

Li Zexuan hurriedly helped Zheng Yinhong up and said: "Zheng Zhuangzhu does not need to be like this. The Zheng family has been doing business in the south of the Yangtze River for generations and believes most. Who does not know the trust of Zheng Zhuangzhu? Who does not?"

To be honest, there are two main reasons why he can share the secret recipe of fried tea so easily: First, his method of fried tea is not difficult to learn. Once Shenxian tea is launched, the world’s tea merchants can definitely work together Within a year, he figured out his method of fried tea. Instead of keeping the secret of fried tea, it is better to monopolize all the high-quality tea gardens in Jiangnan when the tea market is still blank. In this way, Zheng Yinhong is absolutely inseparable. "Snake"

Second, Li Zexuan actually didn’t plan to do tea business at the beginning. At most, he wanted to fry a small amount of tea for himself and give to people around him. He is now dedicated to advancing Datang’s basic technology and does not want to spend time making money. These tea business money! He is not short of money! However, Li Er listed Shenxian tea as a tribute tea, and let him be responsible for the tea supply of the palace in the future. Since he decided to be a "licking dog" yesterday, he had to "lick" it to the end. And he has no time, so he can only "delegate power" to Zheng Yinhong and the others!

Anyway, he relied on his current position, Zheng Yinhong did not dare to betray him, he believed that Zheng Yinhong was a smart man!

Now, Zheng Yinhong made this heavy oath to make him more certain that his judgment was correct!

Cao Wendong, who was on the side, also nodded at this moment, and echoed: "The Zheng family is the most trustworthy in the business field, and everyone knows this!"

Zheng Yinhong glanced at Cao Wendong with gratitude, and then handed over to Li Zexuan: "Master Hou is so sincere, but Zheng can't help but praise him. Zheng can only take 30% of the shares of the gods tea garden. If Master Hou is unwilling, then Zheng You can only forgive the hardship! But Zheng has an unrelenting request, I hope Master Hou can agree!"

"Oh? Villa Master Zheng, please say!"

Li Zexuan's expression moved slightly, and he said curiously.

Zheng Yinhong said solemnly: "Zheng knows that Lord Hou has established a Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce, and he has been fascinated. I wonder if Lord Hou can also let Zheng join this Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce?"

After 10% of the shares of Shenxian Tea Garden, exchange for a member of Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce, in the long run, he is still a bit at a loss. After all, the future potential of Shenxian Tea Garden is infinite! However, the reason why he made this suggestion is mainly because the dry shares of 40% of the gods tea garden are too hot, and 10% is divided out to ask for a member of the Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce, which can not only protect the life clearly, but also broaden the way for the Zheng family!

Li Zexuan pondered for a moment, nodded, and said, "Ben Hou has no opinion, but I have an idea here. Ben Hou takes out 10% of the shares of the gods’ tea garden. You can discuss it with Mr. Cao, Mr. Lin and Mr. Feng. In total, I took out 10% of the original stocks of the Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce and distributed them to the owner of Zheng Zheng. As a reward, you would split the stocks of the gods tea garden equally according to the corresponding proportion. How about?"

The first batch of members of the Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce were determined by auction. The proportion of dry shares held by each person was determined according to the proportion of the money they paid, and the amount of goods they would receive from the workshop later , Is directly linked to the dry shares of the Chamber of Commerce held by them.

To put it simply, Li Zexuan is now using 10% of the dry shares of the gods tea garden that Zheng Yinhong gave up to exchange 10% of the dry shares of the Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce with Cao Wendong and others. Anyway, this wave of exchanges, he will definitely not lose, he still controls the six. Into the tea garden dry shares!

Cao Wendong and others looked at each other, nodded to each other, and said one after another: "I wish to follow the arrangements of Lord Hou!"

They are not stupid either. The goods Zheng Yinhong distributed from the Qiquge Workshop are to be transported to the south of the Yangtze River for sale, which does not conflict with their business at all! On the contrary, they can get involved in the tea business after they own the dry shares of tea gardens, and they could not get the dry shares of tea gardens, because their connections can't help Li Zexuan build a tea garden, but now Li Zexuan Give them a chance, how could they better seize it?

Li Zexuan nodded with satisfaction, and said, "This way, everyone will be happy! Later, I will mark some of the best tea gardens on the map. At that time, Mr. Zheng will help open tea gardens in these places, as for the construction of tea gardens. The cost of this will be borne by us!"

Zheng Yinhong said: "Yes! Lord Hou!"

Li Zexuan smiled, then picked up the tea cup, and said, "Come on, everyone uses tea instead of wine to celebrate our Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce has added a new member today!"

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After discussing the construction of the tea garden, Zheng Yinhong took the map that Li Zexuan gave him that afternoon and set off for Jiangnan and Chang'an City. He asked Zheng Qianjun to stay and look after the team.

The map given to him by Li Zexuan ~www.ltnovel.com~ marked the best tea plantation sites. These locations are almost all places where Longjing tea is rich in previous life, such as Shifeng Mountain, Longjing Mountain, Qipan Mountain, Shangtianzhu, Wengjiashan , Yangmeiling, Manjuelong, Baihe Peak and dozens of peaks. Li Zexuan wanted to rely on the memory of his previous life to quickly monopolize the producing areas of these high-quality teas. Even if someone later finds out a high-quality tea-frying method, the quality of the tea will be far inferior to the fairy tea!

Of course, in addition to the task of building tea gardens, Zheng Yinhong returned to Jiangnan this time. The top priority is to go to the existing tea mountains and send people to pick a batch of fresh tea as soon as possible to make tribute tea. As for the fairy tea gardens, it is estimated that they will have to wait until they want to produce tea. Next year, after all, we have to transplant tea trees!

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Two chapters in one!

Thanks to the lord Heihong Meifang for the reward (March 8)

No more today!

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