Chapter 1416 Luzon Taishi
The spring of the second year of Longshuo.
Sugarcane is being cut in the plantations in Luzon, and many people are busy transplanting rice seedlings in the fields.
Qin Lang is inspecting the royal family's tea mountains in the Ningyuan River Valley. Along the slopes at the edge of the valley plain, countless terraced fields have been cultivated, and tea, as well as cash crops such as pepper and cinnamon, have been cultivated.
"Saburo really don't want to visit Luoyang?"
Wei Chang, in his eighties, asked with a smile.
"I'm not interested." Qin Lang answered directly, pulled the tea shoots, and Qin Lang watched them carefully on the palm of his hand. I have to say that the climate in Luzon really can't produce any good tea. The quality of tea is hard to find in Luzon.
This tea looks quite tender, but it is not enough to make high-quality green tea. It is only suitable for foreign trade black tea. After fermentation and other processes, it forms a unique taste, which is not bad. Of course, it is also possible to make black tea. Generally, at the end of the tea picking season, a batch of knife tea will be picked at the end, and the buds, leaves and stems will be cut off directly with a knife.
These old leaves that have grown for at least six months, after being picked, they have to be put into a red pot and killed in a heated iron pot. To ferment, you have to turn the piles, leave the warehouse after fermentation, and dry the tea, and put it in the warehouse after drying, and then you have to sort and pick the tea to remove mildew and impurities.
Finally, the stalks need to be cut. Although the stalks should be harvested continuously, the proportion of stalks must be controlled. The tea stalks should be kept at about 2.5%, and the excess should be cut off. Two or so.
Finally, the dried and selected tea leaves and tea stems are reconstituted according to the proportion and quality. The prepared tea leaves are weighed one by one with special bamboo scales, and packed in "Mapa" (bags sewn with linen), which is called "Dahang".
Workers put the tea leaves in the hung mapa into the steamer to steam, which is called "walking handkerchief".
After steaming tea, pounding, bagging, sorting, brushing, paper wrapping, and packing, Luzon dark tea is finally formed.
This kind of dark tea was originally a processing method of Bashu tea leaves, mainly produced and sold to pastoral areas. The tea is black, with tightly rolled cords, mellow aroma, and reddish-brown soup color. This kind of tea is suitable for people who eat milk and meat For herdsmen, it is undoubtedly quite in line with the taste. It tastes better when it is boiled with milk products such as milk and mare’s milk.
Black tea also has several varieties due to different tea leaves from different places of origin, picking and processing methods. For example, Pubai from Yunnan is also a kind of black tea.
There are also some wild teas in Luzon, but this kind of tea is used by the original islanders as herbal medicine. Now the tea in Luzon is still transplanted and cultivated from the Central Plains tea species, and the climate here makes these teas different from the original place of origin. The taste is different, and even now the processing method has been improved to adapt to the local tea.
Now there are two major categories of black tea and dark tea in Luzon, and there are more than a dozen small varieties, which are mainly for export and are also sold on the island.
Although geography and climate have a great influence on the quality of tea, the Qin family has been in the tea business for decades and has always been the largest tea merchant in the Central Plains. It also has a considerable advantage in tea-making technology, which greatly makes up for the quality of Luzon tea. Insufficiency of Luzon tea through technology has made Luzon tea famous, sales have continued to increase, and the area of tea plantation has also become larger and larger.
Compared with food cultivation, tea is undoubtedly a more valuable economic crop, especially in high demand, which is different from the fact that food is not easy to transport and low profit, and tea cultivation does not even have such high requirements for land. The mountains in Luzon Can also be planted.
After establishing an alliance with the Nanyang countries, especially now that Qin Lang also holds the title of South China Sea Consolation Envoy, after Lu Song established a new South China Sea Consolation Envoy, the name of Lu Song's leadership in Nanyang was changed, and the countries felt more at ease. Follow Luzon.
Through the alliance of spices, Qin Lang is now also adding Luzon tea to the Nanyang trade. This year, only the orders of Luzon tea from the allies of Nanyang countries are very gratifying.
Now Qin Lang is busy firing the cannon to make the brand of Lusong Tea shout. He is really not interested in what happened in Luoyang City.
Although when he received the urgent letter from Luoyang and heard that the emperor was critically ill, he was shocked and even couldn't believe it, but after collecting the information and knowing the real situation, Qin Lang could only Can sigh a few times.
In addition to saying that Li Zhao is unlucky, he can only say that his fate is bad, or that he is too young.
Fortunately, there was Lai Ji waiting in the court, and it didn't get any worse. Although the big conspiracy involved too much, and even this case took the opportunity to eliminate the suspicion of the opponent and even expand it, Qin Lang didn't want to interfere too much.
At any time, this kind of party struggle is always inevitable.
The restoration of the Supreme Emperor ended before it even started. The emperor became critically ill after only one year in office, and the crown prince died early. Now his three-year-old grandson, Long Qing, became the crown prince and changed his name to Li Ye. He also won the support of the ministers. It can be regarded as stabilizing the political situation.
It can only be said that good luck tricks people.
Li Zhao had never been a prince before, and was finally supported by Qin Jun and others. However, he took the throne for just over a year. He was only in his twenties and died because of taking pills. Fortunately, he still has a few princes. There will be no successors.
When Li Zhao dies, there will definitely be some turmoil in Luoyang.
But because Li Zhao, Lai Ji and other chief executives pressed the Supreme Emperor to death in advance, and wiped out some potential opponents who dared to take the lead, even if there was turmoil, there would be no great danger.
Under such circumstances, why did Qin Lang return to Luoyang?
Qin Lang is from Lusong, but he knows Luoyang quite well. He has his own information channel, has been paying attention to the court, and he almost understands the thoughts of the princes in Luoyang today. He really wants to go back by himself. There won't be a few.
Even if they wanted him to go back, not many would be willing to support him and Qin Lang to replace him.
Just like what he had wanted to understand long ago, not to mention that Qin Lang didn't want to seek to usurp the throne, even if he wanted to, there was no such condition at all.
The current situation does not allow it, and there is no big environment.
It is meaningless to go against the sky, and it may not be possible yet.
Why bother.
That being the case, what would he do if he went back to be bored, unless there was really a big problem with the inheritance of the throne, then Qin Lang had to go back, at least to ensure that the throne was passed on to Li Zhao's son, and then to Qin Shu's other sons. son, and cannot let the throne fall into the hands of other royal families.
This involves the fundamental security of the Qin family, and Qin Lang can only intervene at critical moments.
But as long as he didn't reach that point, Qin Lang didn't need and shouldn't go back.
Even if the aunt and nephew, the Empress Dowager Qin and the Empress Qin, had a falling out and each wanted to make their own son the new emperor, Qin Lang would not interfere easily. Anyway, there are princes in court. Of course, it is normal to follow the order, and it is the best to support Li Ye, who is now newly established.
But in case the situation deviates from the plan, the Empress Dowager Qin won the support of some ministers and officials, and finally appointed the emperor's younger brother Li Hong as the emperor. As long as it becomes a fait accompli, Qin Lang will not insist on correcting it.
This kind of thinking can't be understood by ordinary people, and Qin Lang wouldn't even talk about it with his own descendants, but he did set such a bottom line in his heart, try not to interfere with the affairs of the court, unless it endangers the foundation of the entire Qin family.
"I can't believe that the emperor is at this point, and he still wants to make a comeback." Wei Chang also admired the old **** very much. When he was in power, he seemed to be dying of illness. Now being forced to abdicate is like confinement. On the contrary, my body is getting better every day.
It is the young and strong Xinhuang, who can't do it if he says he can't.
"Didn't the saint think about taking the emperor with him before he left? It also completely solved a hidden danger? After all, the emperor has been a prince for 21 years and emperor for 15 years, and he has personally been on the battlefield Such a ruthless person, who can guarantee that after the young prince succeeds to the throne, before he becomes an adult and takes charge of the government, there will be no relapses?"
"After all, Ye Chang Meng has many dreams. Even if a large number of people are killed this time, as long as the emperor is still alive, as long as he still has that ambition, I believe there will always be some ambitious speculators, or frustrated people in the court." , maybe you want to use this to speculate and turn around?"
"There are only those who can be thieves for a thousand days, but there is no one who can guard against thieves for a thousand days!"
Qin Lang threw two pieces of fresh tea into his mouth and chewed, "Why don't you go to Luoyang yourself, Old Wei, and send the emperor away?"
"Sanlang, do you have the nerve to bother an old man in his eighties?"
"I heard that you still have a beautiful concubine every month, and sometimes you can even score twice. Your body is still strong."
"I only have such hobbies left, Saburo don't make fun of me. But to be honest, if Saburo really needs me to go, I can go there quietly, and promise to do a good job."
Qin Lang really thought about it seriously for a while.
Finally, he shook his head, "Forget it, after all, the emperor is my student and Taiping's elder brother. I have known him for decades. Although he has wronged me, I don't want to make things worse. Let him be in the upper class." Let Yanggong retire, maybe this kind of life is also a punishment for him."
Wei Chang smiled and said nothing more.
Although he felt that the emperor Li Yin had lost all his humanity, and there was no need to have any old love with him, but it was Qin Lang who made the decision, and no matter what decision he made, Old Wei would respect it.
"Maybe the emperor will take the emperor away in person before he leaves, and then Saburo won't bother to get his hands dirty."
"Why!"
Qin Lang sighed, if that's the case, it can only be said to be a human tragedy.
"By the way, before Saburo asked to arrange boats and people to go to Arakan to build a business house, the people sent there have sent letters back, and the journey went smoothly. After they got there, they met Wang Xuance. Wang Xuance treated Saburo very well. He is still very respectful, he is very supportive of Luzon’s plan to build a business hall there.”
"He agreed to give us the place chosen by Saburo, and he has a big appetite. He proposed to cooperate with us and attract investment to build a military port fortress directly. It is not only a military fortress guarding the Arakan area in the southeast of Heilongjiang, but also a military fortress will be built at the same time. Coastal ports and wharves may even become the places where the navy will berth and replenish in the future.”
"Wang Xuance said that he sent troops and people, sent captives to build the city, sent troops to protect the construction site, and our Qin family came out of the blueprint design of the port, dock fortress, and paid for it. Of course, he didn't want us to send it in vain, but sent us from the South Tibet Road. Loans to borrow money to repair the port city, and then return it with land, shops, etc..."
(end of this chapter)