Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 1601 Don't be a fool

  Spring is often lingering. There are not only lingering rains, but also lingering people. Even thoughts are entangled and difficult to separate.

  Thin raindrops are just like this, not big, but entangled enough, sticking to the ground, houses, trees, and people regardless of their care, it seems affectionate but ruthless.

   When Xun You saw Xun Chen, it was Xun Chen who was in Chang'an's courtyard.

  Although it is said that Xun Chen has been in Bingbei for a long time, there is still a small courtyard belonging to him in Anpingfang in Chang'an. The yard is not big, there are only three entrances, the first entrance is the screen wall, and the front yard is after turning the screen wall. There is a not very big pond in the corner of the front yard. In the middle of the pond is a rockery near the wall. There seem to be some carp in the water. Standing in front of the pond, Xun Chen is standing in front of the pond, pinching some fish food or something and throwing it into the water, attracting people in the pond. The carps rolled and fought for food, splashing water in all directions.

   Xun Chen is dressed in white, which is extremely eye-catching.

  In the Han Dynasty, it was not so easy to wear white clothes. After all, the so-called ephedra and ashes were the norm, but it was not common if hemp was white. It's just that after Bingbei had the sulfur bleaching technique, there were more and more pure white things, so Xun Chen naturally wore these clothes.

Although the gas produced by sulfur fumigation is harmful and pollutes the environment, and the clothes that have been fumigated and bleached may not be able to maintain their white state for a long time. It is even more yellow than the original, but, in the Han Dynasty, who cares about this issue?

   I have to say that Xun Chen is wearing this white dress, and Xun Chen's appearance is also extremely outstanding, as if shining with brilliance, almost blinding Xun You's eyes. Because in Xun You's memory, Xun Chen was almost equal to being exiled, and it should be a broken body...

   As a result, now, it seems to be more eye-catching than Xun Yu.

  Xun Chen was exiled by the Xun family.

  As the crown family of the world, the Yuan family naturally has some troubles, as if the later generations clicked on special attention. Any small, even boring push will make a ding-dong, attracting the attention of others.

Therefore, when Yuan Shao defected to Jizhou, the Xun family immediately watched closely, and not only the Xun family, but also most of the gentry, so when Yuan Shao expressed his attitude a little bit, the wind direction of the Jizhou gentry immediately changed. After a change, Xun Chen, who was a Yingchuan gentry in Jizhou, naturally received orders from the family, asking Xun Chen to contact Yuan Shao and assist Yuan Shao in seizing power in Jizhou.

However, as time went by, Xun Chen learned more about Yuan Shao, and when he got deeper, Xun Chen felt more and more disappointed, and even stopped Xun Yu who came later, warning Xun Yu that Yuan Shao was not a lord worth entrusting , and then after completing the family tasks, he resigned and retired, and changed his way to Bingbei.

   However, Xun Chen's choice did not meet the family's requirements, so the family was naturally very dissatisfied. They thought that even if Yuan Shao really couldn't do it, Xun Chen could continue to contribute to the family as a pawn. It’s like having a spare tire with the consciousness of a spare tire. Everyone wants to be a jack, so how can it work?

   Therefore, the final opinions could not be unified, so Xun Chen was expelled from the family.

Perhaps at that point in time, Xun Chen arrived in Bingbei, just wanting to take a walk and take a look, mostly to relax his mind, but after he really arrived in Pingyang, he learned that Feiqian started from scratch and brought Pingyang into order step by step. Prosperity, the heart can not help but have a little care. Xun Chen, who eventually fell out with the family because of different political opinions, was abandoned by the family. When he arrived in Pingyang, why didn't he have nothing and no foundation?

  Seeing that even a Heluo family in Feiqian can build a foundation, Xun Chen couldn't help but cheer up again, and immediately found Feiqian and recommended himself, until today...

   "Meet my uncle..."

   Xun You bowed his head to see him.

  Although Xun You's age is about the same as Xun Chen's, Xun You's seniority is a generation behind Xun Chen's. So when Xun You came to visit, Xun Chen didn't have to go out to greet him. Standing in the courtyard was considered a courtesy. Of course, there is still the blessing of Hussar General Fei Qian.

   "Gongda, how is the family?" Xun Chen sprinkled the last bit of fish food in his hand into the pond, and asked Xun You while leading him to the hall.

   "Reporting to Uncle..." Xun You's expression was unavoidably gloomy, "The clan is not as good as it used to be..."

Back then, some people from Yingchuan voted for Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu was still a little unhappy, he sent people to Yingchuan for a walk, but no one obediently followed him, and there was a grudge. After leaving Yuan Shao, he also followed Cao Cao, but he didn't follow Yuan Shu himself. Naturally, this anger could not be concealed.

  After Dong Zhuo robbed and killed Yangcheng, Yang Zhai was not able to survive alone.

Maybe it was a bandit, maybe it was a yellow scarf, maybe it was some other soldiers, anyway, between Cao Cao and Yuan Shu's several advances and retreats, Yangdi inevitably suffered from military disasters, and many manors were destroyed, and the Xun family was originally the most important Even the other courtyard where Xun's public lectures were held for many times, the feast was easily broken and destroyed in the fire.

After Xun Shuang's death, Xun Yu couldn't suppress all the members of the Xun family, so the Xun family was divided into two parts, one followed Xun Yu to the north to Cao Cao's place, and the other part stayed in Yangzhai. Those who came down were basically either dead or injured, and the manor was ruined...

  The current Xun family, that is, the remaining Xun Yu who stayed in Xu County, is relatively complete.

   "..." Listening to Xun You's narration, Xun Chen didn't say anything in silence, but the hand holding the spoon trembled slightly a few times, and a few drops of water splashed on the mat, smudged with marks the size of a few copper coins.

On the clay stove at the edge of the mat, a kettle was burning. Xun Chen and Xunyou didn't ask the servants to serve them. The two sat across the table. No one spoke for a while, only the sound of the water in the kettle was heard. After a while, it gradually fell silent again, as if it was accumulating strength and waiting for the next eruption.

Chunyu discovered that there was such a small clay stove in the hall, and immediately tried to go around the eaves and rush in, but he couldn't help but stop a foot in front of the stove, so he had to beat the wooden board hard. Get drenched.

"If someone hides in Runan Mountain according to the family's words, I'm afraid he will be a dead bone at this time..." Xun Chen said while taking out some tea leaves from the small clay pot on the side with a small wooden spoon, and put them in the teapot .

   Xun You twitched his brows, but he didn't dare to respond.

   "Zhengxi... Well, Huqi also likes tea..." Xun Chen sat, waiting for the water to boil, pointed to the tea pot, and motioned Xun You to look for himself, "But Huqi's tea is different from other places..."

   Most of the tea leaves in the Han Dynasty existed in the form of tea bricks, which can generally be regarded as the kind of Pu-erh tea of ​​later generations. Completely ferment, knead and press into a tight cube shape. When you need to use it, use a knife or a small awl to dislodge a piece, and then grind it into powder during rolling, and put it into the pot together with some weird things Cook in the kettle.

  So the tea soup of the Han Dynasty has all kinds of flavors. There is really nothing, just grab two stones, wash them and boil them together...

  Xun You took the small clay pot, opened the seal, and a scent of tea came to his nostrils. He couldn't help but took a deep breath, and blurted out: "Good tea!"

Xun Chen smiled, nodded slightly and said: "In the past, the tea was boiled with more sundries. The more you want, the more expensive it is. Seeking more and more, you think it is beautiful, but you don't know how to lose its essence. It's really a pity. After the hussars arrived at Bingbei, they switched to the method of new tea, taking green leaves, choosing fresh and tender ones, using warm fire to slowly remove the coldness, and drying them in the shade to remove the dryness. The origin, clean body and righteousness, is also in line with the way of a gentleman."

   "It's so complicated, isn't it precious?" Xun You held such a small pot of tea and estimated, "I don't know how much it will take?"

  Xun Chen shook his head and said, "This jar is only five hundred cash."

   "Five hundred dollars?" Xun You held the small jar the size of a palm, looked at the tea leaves in the jar, and couldn't believe his ears.

  In the Han Dynasty, the price of tea was not cheap.

Because of the place of origin and output, many places are even equivalent to gold, so if such a can is like what Xun Chen said, Xun You originally estimated that the price would cost three to four thousand yuan, but it turned out to be only five A hundred dollars is indeed somewhat unexpected.

Xun Chen smiled, looked at Xun You and said, "How can the way of a gentleman be judged by the amount of money? Cleansing the heart and cleansing the nature, conceived in the subtleties, so that the people at the head of Guizhou can also experience the style of a gentleman, this is Huqi's unique mind." place."

  Xun You came to a sudden.

   But, in fact, the price of these tea leaves is not as high as people like Xun Chen and Xun You imagined.

Many things are like this, the output is scarce, and the rare is the most expensive, so the price will naturally rise. For Feiqian, the most important thing for tea is to find a suitable place, plant and reproduce it on a large scale, and then you can Continuous production, for perennial plants such as tea trees, the environment of the Han Dynasty had more areas to plant than those of later generations.

  Tea trees like warm and humid environments, and in the Han Dynasty, there were many such places.

  Although many large lakes are gradually shrinking at the moment, it really became the situation of the later generations with four distinct seasons and a huge temperature difference between the north and the south. It was only after two small ice ages that it became a situation. Although it is true that the Little Ice River has cooled down a lot now, many places are still very good, such as Hanzhong, and Sichuan and Sichuan...

  The small pot in Xun You's hand is the tea grown in the mountainous land opened up in Hanzhong.

Tea trees don’t need flat land, and they don’t need to be like Zhuanghe. They need special canals. They only need basic fertilization and irrigation. It can also be fired on the side by the way, it is simply the best economic crop in the Han Dynasty.

   In addition, it is not pressed solid, so a small pot of tea leaves does not weigh much, and it looks like a little more than two taels. Although it feels heavy in the hand, it is because of the clay pot!

  Is the clay pot not heavy?

   This is exactly the same as the packaging of later generations...

  The water boiled and there was a gurgling sound.

Xun Chen brought the water from the kettle, first poured some water into the teapot to wash away the dust and impurities on the surface of the tea leaves, and after brewing again, he poured out two small bowls of tea, and pushed one of the bowls into the teapot. In front of Xun You.

  Xun You looked down, the tea soup was crystal clear, with a faint fragrance of tea, he couldn't help admiring in a low voice, first thanked Xun Chen, then picked up the bowl and drank it slowly.

   Immediately, it was the second brewing.

   Then a third time.

  After brewing for three times, Xun Chen stopped, then took out the tea leaves from the teapot, and put them in a small flat bowl beside him, apparently not planning to brew again.

   "This tea..." Xun You looked at the tea leaves that had been brewed and stretched, and was a little puzzled. Looking at it like this, don't you want to eat these tea leaves?

Xun Chen didn't answer Xun You's question right away, but he tidied up the tea set and other things on his own, and then called his servants to carry them down. After the servants removed the stove and tea set, they brought some pastries and dried fruits. After that, Xun Chen said slowly: "For a gentleman, it is enough to take the essence, how can I eat it all?"

   Xun You froze for a moment, took a breath, and remained silent.

  Are these tea leaves really going to waste? No, after the servants are withdrawn, they will naturally be divided. For these servants, these tea leaves that have been soaked three times are still rare and good.

Xun Chen said softly, although the voice was not loud, but every word was full of power, "Everything in the world needs to have a surplus, and it must be exhausted. When the sky is exhausted, it will be faint, the earth will be barren, and if people are exhausted, then there will be a lot of trouble." Death…"

"The way to govern a country is the same. A dull person only knows how to amass the wealth of thousands of households, occupying thousands of acres of land with thousands of stones, especially not enough, who knows that if they eat it up and use it up, the people will be in turmoil and chaos will breed... "Xun Chen continued, "Although the price of this tea is not high, it will be used in Beiguanzhong and sold in the Northwest. The amount required is huge. This alone will bring in two million yuan a year! , the farmer, the potter, the lucky ones, and the merchants also get the rest, and everyone gets their own benefits...So, does Gongda understand?"

  Xun You moved his eyebrows, but remained silent.

"The people in Shandong have come to the end of their journey." Xun Chen's tone turned cold, and he said slowly, "Guangwu is settled in Luo, and he is also trapped in Luo. After a hundred years, will there be any changes? Will the people under the rule benefit? Use it all, how can there be no rebellion? The number of the Yellow Turban Rebellion is fixed, even if it is suppressed for a while, the country will also be shaken, so there is the current situation..."

  Greed is always endless, don't expect greed to show any kindness, but anyone who uses it to kill people will inevitably have all kinds of chaos, sooner or later, this is a certainty.

Fei Qian felt that Xun You was a talent, and planned to keep him. Xun Chen naturally agreed. After all, Xun You was indeed worth using, and second, Xun Chen himself felt a little weak, especially among the Jingxiang group. In front of him, so it is best to be able to pull Xunyou into the group.

   But even so, Xun Chen didn't intend to persuasion, nor did he intend to beg, but let Xun You experience it by himself, because Xun Chen believed that a fool should not speak, and a fool should not speak. Stupid people only believe in what they see and hear, and they can't see or hear the truth expressed by others, so even if a bell or drum is used to ring around them, it may not be able to wake them up.

  But a wise man does not need a heavy hammer to play the drum.

A bowl of tea vividly shows the difference between the hussar general Fei Qian and the original Shandong people. Xun Chen also saw this before he stayed, and he also believed that if Xun You was smart enough, he would also be the same. stay…

  (end of this chapter)