Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

You said there are any special products... It seems that there are no special products.

Not only the vicinity of Changsha, but even the entire Jingzhou, in the original big man, it looks like there is no sense of existence.

Except that Jingbei area is located in the thoroughfare of nine provinces, so many large-scale battles took place, it seems that the impression left by this place is only the civil and military officials in Jingxiang area.

Sun Jian couldn't have packed two generals for himself, could he?

……

Turning his head and glanced at Sun Ce's direction, Zhang Yan opened the top box after seeing him nodding his head.

What came into view was not a rare thing, but clay pots of small size, with the mouths of the pots sealed, neatly placed in the box.

"Strange, what is this?"

Subconsciously, he took out a jar and shook it gently, and a "rustling sound" entered his ears.

Judging by the sound, and the neither light nor heavy feel, the pot should not contain any liquid, but some finely divided things like sand grains.

……

Wait, grains of sand?

As if thinking of something, Zhang Yan lifted the seal of the pottery pot in his hand, and a burst of fragrance came out from the pot, dyeing the whole room a little florid.

And along with this scent, the true identity of the thing in the jar was revealed.

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"Hiss, this thing...is actually tea?"

With a sudden slap on the forehead, Zhang Yan remembered that apart from the common specialties such as silk and spices, Jingnan really had some valuable things that he didn't have here.

"Is this Guzhang tea?"

Turning around to ask Sun Ce, Zhang Yan looked at the tea in the clay pot, Zhang Yan could only think that such a compelling and very valuable thing could be given by Sun Jian as a gift to himself.

And Sun Ce nodded proudly.

"Yes, this is exactly the tea produced in my Jingnan Guzhang area."

"Unexpectedly, you have never taken our Jingnan, but you are quite familiar with the big and small things in Jingzhou!?"

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After getting the answer from Sun Ce, Zhang Yan carefully put the opened can of tea in his bosom, then sighed, and ordered someone to carry back the large boxes in front of him.

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"This tea... your father has a heart. Tell him for me, just say that I have accepted these things and I like them very much."

"Let him not worry about the formation of the alliance this time. I will speak for him tomorrow and won't make it too difficult for him."

"If it's something else, I really might not accept it. But since it's this..."

"Hehe, if you're okay, go back first, remember not to forget what I told you."

"Tell your father what I just said, and he will understand."

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Silently took out the tea pot in his arms and took another look. How could Zhang Yan not know what Sun Jian meant?

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Ba people favored tea. During the Ba-Chu War, the crop tea was introduced to Chu State as a very convenient spice and drink, which is now the territory of Jingzhou.

Regardless of the fact that most of the expensive tea leaves in later generations are gathered in the coastal areas, the custom of drinking tea was first spread from Hanzhong to Jingzhou, and then from Jingzhou to the whole of China.

In the history of tea, Jingzhou is truly the first echelon.

As an important town in Jingnan, Wuling County has always produced tea. This kind of green tea called Guzhang Tea, or Guzhang Maojian, is even more precious, so precious that even Zhang Yan thinks it is outrageous.

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Anyone who is familiar with the ancient history of China knows that among all kinds of foreign trade products, silk, porcelain and tea have always been the three giants of China's specialties, creating huge trade profits overseas.

As for Guzhang tea, the top green tea in the Han Dynasty, the price soared to the level of gold!

Before opening the can, Zhang Yan didn't pay much attention to it, and only thought that Sun Jian was giving him some small gifts of local specialties to maintain the relationship between the two.

But now these large boxes of tea are delivered... As long as Zhang Yan transfers them to the Mi family or those large merchant families in Wu County, it can be converted into a large amount of money and materials.

Even if you stay to drink it yourself, this thing is still a first-class precious thing.

In other words, this is no longer a good relationship, but Sun Jian is actually bribing himself.

Zhang Yan only felt that since Sun Jian did this, there must be a conspiracy.

As for what to plan... Besides the food aid that everyone discussed before, what other things can there be?

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But after thinking for a while, Zhang Yan accepted the "gift".

On the one hand, he really helped Sun Jian a lot this time, and he has a clear conscience about this even if he is a subordinate.

On the other hand, it is also related to the characteristics of this tea...

From the Han Dynasty to the Tang and Song Dynasties, Guzhang tea was used as a tribute to the royal family. This tradition lasted until the Tang and Song Dynasties, and then gradually changed with the change of the economic center.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, although there was no clear decree that Guzhang tea could only be used as a drink for the royal family, this thing was actually just like the unspoken rules established by convention. Unless it was a person who was extremely close to the royal family, no one would take this kind of thing Come out and splurge.

Now that Sun Jian gave him these tea leaves, no matter what the other party was thinking, Zhang Yan was really uncomfortable to refuse.

What if this matter is regarded as a political statement?What if Sun Jian defined him as an absolute "royalist" because he refused?

Although Zhang Yan had close contact with the Eastern Han royal family in terms of personal emotions and family relations, but in terms of political orientation, he was very opposed to the feudal monarchy!

If Sun Jian misunderstood himself because of this incident, wouldn't Zhang Yan be at a loss?

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Heaving a sigh of relief, after accepting the gift, Zhang Yan pursed his lips and looked towards the direction outside the door.

But when he looked up, he was surprised to find that Sun Ce did not leave as he said, but stood aside with his arms around his shoulders, waiting for him with great interest.

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"What, what are you doing?"

"Oh... that's right, if it's just to send some tea, Brother Wentai can just send an envoy here, so why do you, the prefect's son, go out in person?"

"You came here today, you should have other things to ask me..."

"Let's be honest, your father is not here now, mother-in-law and mother-in-law don't look like a man."

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Looking up at Sun Ce, Zhang Yan couldn't help but feel a little interested in the other party's intention.

He probably knew that today's matter could be done by anyone, but he guessed that Sun Ce had something to ask him, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to send the previous tribute tea to his house.

"Forehead……"

Seeing Zhang Yan's question, Sun Ce blushed slightly as if he had been told what was on his mind.

"This...Of course there is something to do, Marquis Wan, although I came here today mainly to deliver things, but I still have some personal matters."

"For the past two days, I have been locked in the room by my father and cannot come out. I am holding back my anger! In addition, what you said that day is really outrageous. I have been thinking hard for a long time these days, so I have something to ask you .”

Slightly calmed down, Sun Ce thought for a while, then made up his mind, and asked Zhang Yan aloud:

"Marquis of the Kingdom of Wan, according to your rhetoric that day, you want to say that this big man is a predator of the weak, and the weak must accept the demands of the strong without complaining?"

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"The weak eat the strong?"

After muttering about it for a while, Zhang Yan didn't want to understand how Sun Ce realized the truth of the strong preying on the weak from his words.

According to what he thought, these two things should have been completely out of reach.

"No...how could you have such an idea?"

"For the time being, regardless of whether the law of the jungle is correct or not, is this related to the previous incident?"

Pursing his lips, Zhang Yan was a little puzzled.

"Of course it's relevant!"

Sun Ce nodded confidently.

"According to what you said, what you did was in line with benevolence, righteousness and etiquette, but after thinking about it, isn't it all because your status is higher than that of my virtuous brother?"

"The reason why the Qiao family accepted your offer is because you are the adopted son of Zhongchang servant Zhang Rang, and you have made good friends with the children of many aristocratic families in Luoyang. The Qiao family chose to accept your offer in order to protect themselves. hire."

"If we put it this way, if my virtuous brother had a higher status, greater power, and strength than you, wouldn't the Qiao family have chosen my virtuous brother Zhou Yu as their son-in-law?"

"What benevolence and righteousness, what ethics, in the final analysis, they are all farting! This is a complete theory of only strength!"

"Marquis of the Kingdom of Wan, tell me, this is not the law of the jungle, what is it?"

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In a few words, he threw out the draft he had prepared in his heart to Zhang Yan. Sun Ce came prepared this time, but he was not as rude as he was the first time.

And what surprised Zhang Yan even more was... Sun Ce doesn't seem stupid like this?

If you really want to get to the root of it... Most of the things in this world are really based on the power-only theory, and it really means that only people with higher status are eligible to enjoy better resources and treatment.

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After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Yan still shook his head.

"Yes and no."

"Sun Bofu... just sit down, I'll talk to you slowly."

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You know, Zhang Yan has never liked a word, that is "existence is reasonable".

This core theory of objective idealism originally talked about the causal relationship between things, but in later generations, because of the spread of marketing accounts and various brainless TV series, it became the basis for value judgments among many people.

Existence is reasonable, but rationality only means that its cause of formation can be realized, but it does not mean that it is right and strives for.

In other words, existence is reasonable, but reasonable is not necessarily correct.

Taking what Sun Ce said today, Zhang Yan actually hates this kind of argument similar to the social Darwin system.