Chapter 989 Tea Picking Girl
Yingzhou in the southwestern corner of Qiandongnan has a humid subtropical plateau monsoon climate. There is no severe cold in winter and no severe heat in summer. The four seasons are distinct, and the rain and heat are in the same season. This is the most comfortable environment for tea growth.
Green tea is abundant in central Guizhou.
Yangai Maofeng in Juzhou and Maojian in Yingzhou are famous in Guizhou.
“Yingzhou Maojian tea is also called fine Maojian and Baimaojian. Among them, the best ones are Yuhook tea and Que tongue tea produced in my Xiejia tea mountain.
Xie Yuanshen, the patriarch of Yingzhou, is leading his disciple Qing Zhuang from this mountain to cross the Wumeng Mountain with Zhang Shigui, on an expedition to Yunnan Dongcuan and the rebellious Wuman tribes. fighting.
In Yingzhou Mountain, more than a thousand miles away to the east, by the Jian River, Xie Jiang, Xie Yuanshen's granddaughter, took Qin Lang to watch Xie's tea house.
"When my ancestors of the Xie family went south with the army in the Eastern Han Dynasty, they were stationed in Guizhou. Cultivate these two excellent tea varieties."
Qin Lang likes tea, but he is not too obsessed with it.
For him, tea is not only a good drink, but also a way to make money. He changed the method of frying tea since the Sui and Tang Dynasties to brewing tea, which not only changed the method of drinking tea, but also brought a The new method of frying tea. In recent years, more and more loose teas have been roasted. The new tea led by the Qin family has gained more and more people's love. At the same time, the scale of the Qin family's tea industry is also growing.
Looking for good mountains and lands suitable for growing tea, establishing tea farms, training tea farmers, and even looking for some excellent tea species, ancient tea trees, etc., to create one after another famous tea.
Xie’s tongue and fishhook are both green tea, which belongs to Maojian, and can also be regarded as yellow tea.
The characteristic of this tea is that it has one bud and one leaf, or one bud and two leaves. The shape of the hair tip is relatively thin, straight, round and smooth, and the whole body of the tea leaves is covered with pekoe. The taste of the tea soup is very fresh, thick, sweet and unique. Bright green and smooth.
The color of this tea is fresh, clean and free of impurities. The aroma is elegant and fresh, and the taste is fresh, mellow and sweet. It is definitely a treasure among teas.
What is more powerful is that the hooks and tongues of the Xie family have always been loose tea. This unique tea-making process is hundreds of years earlier than the Qin family, which is now known as the leader of fried tea.
As for tea, although steaming was the mainstream before, and then drinking was done by frying tea, this is only the mainstream. In fact, tea has a long history. Although it was not popular in the gentry circle until the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was not until the Qin and Han dynasties. Tea has been made and drunk a long time ago, and even tea has a longer history as a medicinal material.
However, although Xie's tea is roasted loose tea, it is still very different from the method of roasting tea promoted by Qin Lang.
For example, the Buque tongue of Xie’s family is also called La Que tongue tea. Their tea is fried with spices, while Yuhook tea is also steamed first and then fried. There is a big difference.
The tea mountains of Xie’s family are very large, and many villages here will also grow some tea, and there are even many wild tea trees in the mountains.
Plucked every year before the Ming Dynasty, and made with the ancient method passed down from generation to generation. It is not only for drinking and entertaining guests, but also for trading the excess.
The Xie family has the best tea gardens and tea masters, and the quality of tea produced every year is also better, which has become a good thing for tea merchants who travel thousands of miles to snap up.
However, in Qin Lang's view, the Xie family's tea making method is still a bit too old, especially after imitating the waxed tea method made by those tea merchants in the Central Plains, and adding many precious spices into it. This tea is famous, but it is really Not a good thing anymore.
Qin Lang has always been opposed to waxed tea, good tea with so many spices in it, it’s not fried melon seeds to eat, why put spices.
The geography and climate here in Yingzhou is good, which makes the tea trees here are very good, but it is a pity that there is no good way.
"These tea leaves should be able to achieve a better taste if they are fried by the method of frying tea."
Qin Lang asked Xie Jiang for cooperation. The Qin family can send experienced tea masters to help manage the tea garden and expand the tea garden, and according to the characteristics of these teas, develop a special tea-making method to maximize the tea. The benefits of these tea trees.
"We have the technology, the market, you have the mountains, the tea, and the people. If we cooperate, it will definitely be a win-win situation. Not only will the Xie family increase a large amount of tea income in the next year, but it will even drive the business here. The common people grow tea and pick tea to increase their income, and the local government can also increase the tea tax. If the production increases greatly at that time, it will attract countless tea merchants every year in the future, and it will also drive other mountain products here. sales of..."
Compared with the great-grandmother's resistance to the Duke of Wei, in fact, to the young Xie Jiang, she was more curious and admired. She was in a naive and romantic youth, and she was very curious about the world outside the mountains. .
For this young Duke of Wei in Central Plains, he has heard his name the most. In the past two years, Duke Wei has fought in Pingman in Lingnan, Kaihai Zhennan, and his reputation has long been spread all over the world with those merchants. Well, the tea merchants who come to Yingzhou every year will also bring news from outside, many of which are about the young Duke of Wei.
Which girl is not pregnant?
Especially for girls of this age, they worship heroes in their hearts and yearn for the outside world.
And when she really saw Wei Guogong himself, she was even fascinated all of a sudden, so young and mighty, especially he has something that the men in this mountain don't have.
Compared to those of her brothers and cousins, she is about the same age, but she only knows how to fight bravely, try to win with strength, or hunt and drink.
Compared with the two, Wei Guogong appears mature and wise, elegant and funny.
The great-grandmother asked her to serve Qin Lang, but at first she refused, but after being rejected by Qin Lang, after a few days of sulking, the girl felt more and more that Wei Guogong had principles and made him more attractive, and immediately took the initiative again. It started to pester Qin Lang.
Qin Lang didn't have much idea about this girl in the mountains. Girls at this age, especially those in the mountains, were too innocent compared to the daughters of everyone in Chang'an.
Simple like a piece of white paper.
Xie Jiang, who was immersed in his heartbeat, didn't care whether Qin Lang liked it or not. Once he made up his mind, he would be bold and unrestrained. This is a common problem of many little girls. Once they fall in love with someone, they will be like moths to a flame. regardless of.
In comparison, women like Acha and Yuxiao have rich life experience, so they know how to advance and retreat, and understand the depth.
Qin Lang followed Xie Jiang to see Chashan, and also wanted to insinuate some attitudes of the Xie family from the mouth of the daughter of the barbarian king of the Xie family.
But there was no need to worry about how to formulate the words, Xie Jiang told him everything he knew like a bamboo tube pouring beans.
She is like a lark, bouncing around in the tea garden, not as reserved as a daughter of a family with five surnames and seven sects, nor as flying as a young lady of a wealthy family.
is cute and innocent.
She took the initiative to tell Qin Lang that Dongxie of Yingzhou actually lacked enthusiasm for the war outside the mountains. If it wasn't for the commander Zhang Shigui leading the army to Yingzhou and urging her father to lead the army, they wouldn't want to get involved at all.
Whether it is the court of the Central Plains or the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, they all lack enough enthusiasm.
Not to mention loyalty.
As long as it doesn't affect their life in the mountains hundreds of miles away, they don't want to care about so much and so far away.
Dudu Zhang urged him so hard that his father had no choice but to lead his uncles and brothers to march to the west.
The great-grandmother is in charge of the house, and life is still as usual. Wei Gong led the soldiers to the east, which made the great-grandmother very nervous. The plans proposed by Wei Gong made the great-grandmother sleepless and even unable to eat well.
But Xie Jiang felt nothing.
It doesn’t matter if you set up the governor’s mansion, station the Pingnan Army, dredge the river, open post roads, set up troops and immigrants, etc., then what’s the matter? Didn’t Xie Jiazu go from Central Plains to Guizhou in this way?
Great-grandmother said that she turned her elbows out and was lost by Qin Lang, but thank you Jiang Lele.
This is our Dongxie’s Yingzhou. The old great-grandmother said so, but Xie Jiang still didn’t take it seriously. She always went to Wei Guogong early in the morning, and went there when she had nothing to do.
When he came back from the tea house, Liu Rengui was waiting for him.
"The governor Zhang Shigui sent a good news that most of the Dongcuan rebellion has been quelled, and most of the twenty-eight tribes of Wuman who attached to the rebellion have surrendered..."
"Most of them surrendered, that is to say, there are still Wuman tribes resisting?"
"Dudu Zhang has already led troops to encircle and suppress, and he has just put down the rebellion of the Wuza tribe together with Cuan Hongda, Cuangui Wang and his father and son."
"Speaking of which, the Uza tribe is also trying to die. They had already made a high-five oath with King Cuangui to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty and wipe out the rebels, but for some reason later, the Uza tribe and the Wumeng tribe attacked each other , and then the Usa tribe said that Cuangui was partial to his father-in-law, the Wumeng tribe, so they simply turned back and voted for Dong Cuan. He opened the sword, and all kinds of soldiers and horses surrounded and suppressed the Wusha tribe. In the end, Xie Yuanshen, who was in the east, took the lead in attacking the Dazhai of the Wuza tribe. The leader of the Wuza tribe had no way to escape and set himself on fire. "
"Dudu Zhang is still asking for credit for Xie Yuanshen!"
Qin Lang looked at the map for a while.
Wumeng Mountain is one of the four major mountain ranges in Guizhou in later generations. It is the boundary mountain to the west of Guizhou with Dalou Mountain in the north and south. It is under the leadership of the Cuan family.
So the previous boundary was drawn, and the Wumeng Mountains were drawn to the Yunnan boundary.
"Weining prefecture was newly established with the Usa tribe, taking the meaning of the tranquility of Weizhen, and redesignating it as Qianzhong Road, so Xie Yuanshen's contribution to breaking the Usa man was specially played as the governor of Weining prefecture... ··”
(end of this chapter)