Living Leisurely in Tang Dynasty

The next meeting was in Kwai Garden, and Li Yuanying would pick up the little friends one by one, and by the way also called Li Chengqian, the crown princess and Li Xiang.

It is too cold in winter to build houses, but in order to quickly settle down the temporarily scattered visitors from Gaochang, Li Yuanying still spends a lot of money to invite people to build the houses down the mountain. He paid generously and gave out winter clothes and rice grains. Many people were willing to come and work in order to live the winter well, and they really rushed to build a circle of houses down the mountain in the beginning of spring.

Not only the Gaochang people, but also the farmers in Kuiyuan moved into the new house. The houses were originally used as schools. Mei Niang plans to expand the enrollment of a group of students after the new year, and recruit all the children from villagers in ten miles and eight townships for basic education. Therefore, no one is idle during the winter. In the repair of repairs, everyone's faces are filled with contented and expectant smiles.

Recently, it has not snowed in Chang'an, and the mountains in the distance have gradually become a little blue. Li Yuanying wants to ask his friends to come and see the new look of Sunflower Garden.

It's a pity that the winter has just passed, and the surrounding area is a little bald and not very interesting. Li Yuanying can only take them to the future "tree house base". The settlements of the old and new villagers have been solved. The spring plowing season is past and they will be able to mobilize their hands to build the rest of the drawings. It will not be long before they can enjoy themselves in this tree house base!

This is also the reason why Li Yuanying invited Li Chengqian together. He took Li Chengqian to an open space and asked Li Chengqian: "Chengqian, how do you think this place learns to build a big stove? There are many people in Kuiyuan. There will be more in the future. You can eat all roasted whole beef and roasted whole lamb, and the number of times you can use it will not be less than yours!"

How does Li Chengqian know about construction? However, he looked at the open space vacated by Li Yuanying, nodded and said, "This position should be ok." Li Chengqian still knows Li Yuanying very well, so he took the initiative to say, "I will ask someone to come over and help you build the stove before he can speak. Come out, if no one under your hand can cook whole lamb by that time, I will call you a few more people."

Li Yuanying, who had left the stove empty, was very happy. That's why he likes his elder nephew. The eldest nephew is too generous.

Li Yuanying didn't even think about talking about business or something, first took Li Xiang and the others around in the sunflower garden, and played with the children in the sunflower garden for a long time. When Li Xiang blushed and couldn't play anymore, Li Yuanying asked the little ones to eat snacks and rest first, and took Di Renjie and the others to sit together and discuss the results of the past few days.

Li Yuanying told Li Chengqian about his previous situation. Li Chengqian has many Turkic friends. Although they are all Turkic people who have returned to the Tang Dynasty, their living habits are not far from the Western Turks who are currently active on the grasslands. This is Li Yuanying who brought Li Chengqian here. The second reason.

Of course, Li Yuanying didn't open his mouth and said that they wanted to take the Tubo and Turks into the possession of Datang. That way, the tone was too loud, and people might even say this if he talked about it!

Li Yuanying only talked to Li Chengqian about his original intention: he was worried that Wencheng had a bad life in Tubo, and he had no relatives and nowhere to tell. Therefore, he wanted to send caravans to places like Tubo and Tuyuhun to communicate more and more, and timely transfer the people there. The message is delivered back.

After hearing Li Yuanying's plan, Li Chengqian said, "Are you going to sell the tea from the south to the Tubo and Turks first?"

Li Yuanying said: "Yes, I have already mentioned it with Nalu Dongzan in Tubo. It should not be difficult to sell after discussing a few more ways. There are more caravans, so we can know the latest news in time. Wencheng is in Tubo. Honghua is in Tuyuhun, and I must send people from both sides. I think I should send some people to the Turkic side, so I have to come over and discuss with you."

Li Chengqian said, "I'm afraid it will not be easy. Caravans are still worried about bandits while walking in the Tang Dynasty, let alone going to Tubo, Tuyuhun and Turks?"

Li Yuanying said: "So we have to plan carefully."

Li Zhi wanted to express his own opinion this time, and interrupted: "If Chali can get up, there must be someone who is willing to take a risk."

Nowadays, the trend of drinking tea is faintly rising in Chang'an, and the surrounding areas will definitely follow Chang'an to learn. In this way, there will definitely be a trend of tea-growing in the south. Tea is not a necessity for the people. The people can drink or not drink on weekdays. At that time, the tea market will usher in a short period of oversaturation.

After returning home, Di Renjie thought about it for several days, and they came to the same result: the supply of Qianjin tea in Chang'an is still in small quantities and high prices, and the price of Qianjin tea continues to rise. For the remaining output, they sent caravans to Tubo and Tuyuhun to open up the tea market. After two or three years, new teas planted following the trend entered the market one after another. The price of tea in Datang was greatly reduced. They then introduced these tea merchants to the Tubo and Turks, and exchanged tea from the Tubo and Turks for cattle. Sheep, horses and other gold and silver treasures.

There are two advantages of this: First, their caravans are not so conspicuous in the ordinary caravans; second, the tea profits are taxed, and the market is big, the tea tax collected by the court will be greatly increased.

They also listed one, two or three points on how to open up the tea market in Tubo and other places. They put it together roughly like this: First of all, of course, it is to train a group of tea artisans who are willing to trek and let them spread the tea culture, Di Renjie proposed You can let the monks go, and there are many people in Tubo who believe in Buddhism; secondly, the tea should be adapted to local conditions with a few legends that are easily accepted by the locals. The people around Li Yuanying can do it. Just give a background setting. The pavilion can collect ten or eight decent legendary sayings in one day; as for how the price of tea is set and how to transport the tea, everyone has put forward their own ideas.

Mei Niang didn't speak this time. She and Wei Shu gathered together everyone's opinions and compiled it into a tea export plan that seemed extremely feasible.

Li Chengqian originally thought that Li Yuanying was just thinking about it. After listening to their discussion thoroughly, he discovered that these children were serious.

Li Chengqian's mood is a bit complicated.

In order to get news from Tubo in time, Li Yuanying was able to come up with such a plan. This is probably the reason why children like to play with Li Yuanying. Li Yuanying loves to be noisy, but he is more serious than anyone else in maintaining himself.

This plan was profitable and harmless to the court. Tea could be exported to the Tubo and Turks, and it would bring back supplies that are needed by the Central Plains such as cattle, sheep and horses. Who would be unhappy in the court? What's more, Li Yuanying also wrote a letter stating that tea should be taxed once every ten, and if you sell ten shares of tea, the court will get a profit! If this is done seriously, why worry about the emptiness of the national treasury? !

Li Chengqian immediately told Li Yuanying and the others what he knew, and said that if he really wanted to sell tea to Turks, he could introduce some Turks friends to let them lead the way.

The two sides hit it off, and the Turkic plan was also drawn up on the spot.

There was a hot chat here, and Li Xiang over there was taking a nap. The princess was chatting with the attendants. Li Xiang sat up and rubbed his eyes. He didn't see the one who was playing with him before going to bed, and was a little bit disappointed. Little boots, barefooted and pattered toward the princess.

The princess noticed the movement of her son when she woke up, stooped to pick him up, stretched out her hand to cover his feet, and rebuked: "Why don't you call someone? Don't get sick when you walk barefoot."

Li Xiang said: "Look for Yao Yao!"

The crown princess couldn't help feeling a little acidic in her heart. She put on Li Xiang's shoes and socks herself and said, "You, if you have Yaoyao, you don't need anyone."

Li Xiang said: "Yes!" After saying that, he followed his example and embraced the princess with open arms, and raised his little hand to pat the princess on the back.

The crown princess was amused by him, arranged his clothes for him, and led him to find Li Yuanying and the others.

The Kwai Garden is all his own people, and no one stopped when the crown concubine brought Li Xiang closer. As soon as he heard the voice of Li Yuanying talking in the room, Li Xiang couldn't wait, and kicked off the crown of the princess and ran over and lifted the curtain to look in.

Li Yuanying's discussion here just came to an end.

Hearing the movement of someone moving the door curtain, Li Yuanying turned her head and saw Little Dot Li Xiang running over. She immediately hugged Little Dot who rushed towards him and asked him if he would drink some tea when he woke up.

Li Xiang looked at the green tea, remembering that Li Yuanying tricked him into licking the wine last time, resolutely shook his head, and refused to open his mouth.

Li Chengqian said, "Let you lie to him last time, so he won't eat what you gave him again."

Li Yuanying didn't believe in evil, so she coaxed Li Xiang to drink tea and eat snacks. Li Xiang swayed for a while, and finally decided to trust Li Yuanying again, half-believingly ate snacks and tea.

Li Yuanying proudly said: "How is it? Yaoyao didn't lie to you, did you? It's delicious!"

Li Xiang nodded: "It's delicious!"

On the way back, the princess held Li Xiang and Li Chengqian and said, "Xiang'er really likes Uncle Yao."

Li Chengqian touched Li Xiang's furry head and talked to the princess about how Li Yuanying was going to keep in touch with Wencheng.

Wencheng had never been in contact with Li Yuanying before, and only went to the palace to live for a while at the end of last year, but Li Yuanying was able to make such a big plan for her! It can be seen that this kind of thing is often mutual. They feel that Li Yuanying is kind to them, and naturally they will especially like Li Yuanying.

The princess did not understand these things. Hearing Li Chengqian said that Li Yuanying was going to sell tea in Tubo, she couldn't help asking: "Can this really be done?"

Li Chengqian hadn't answered yet, and Li Xiang, who was observing carefully, rushed to answer: "It can be done!"

Li Chengqian saw that Li Xiang was full of confidence, and wondered: "How do you know it can be done?"

Li Xiang said gruffly, "Yaoyao said, as long as you want to do it, you can do it! There is nothing difficult in the world, I'm afraid the people who care!"

Li Chengqian and the princess found that their son had a good memory. He could write down everything he said to him without missing a word. It might be a reading material when he grows up. Li Chengqian boasted: "Xiang'er is right, as long as you want to do it, you can do it."

Li Xiang corrected him: "Yao Yao said it!"

It's all said by Yaoyao, yeah, really stupid!

Seeing that her husband was obviously despised by his son, the princess couldn't help laughing.

Li Chengqian didn't care about his son.

After returning to the East Palace, Li Chengqian summoned Fang Yizhi and the others, and asked them to have people and money to pay to support Li Yuanying's implementation of the plan to sell tea that had accidentally become very ambitious. To roll out the entire plan, it is far from enough to rely on the few people under Li Yuanying's hands. Li Chengqian naturally participated in today's discussion, and naturally would not want to sit back and reap the profits.

After Fang Yizhi and the others went back, he ordered the people under him to take action, and he was busy with Li Yuanying's preparations every day.

Seeing that her eldest son has become particularly busy recently, Fang Xuanling looked for an opportunity to find Fang Yi and went straight into the study to ask him what he was doing.

This is a serious matter, there is nothing to conceal, Fang Yi picked out what he could say to the outside world and talked to Fang Xuanling. Fang Xuanling is still the prince's prince. He was relieved to hear that the prince would open up a tea trading market with King Teng and feel that the prince is getting better and better.

Although this may sound wild, but if you really want to do it, it may not be impossible!

You must know that there are not many places in the Central Plains that can raise cattle, sheep and horses. Not to mention eating meat every meal, even if it is not easy to replace manpower with animal power, a lot of labor has to be done by manpower! It would be a great thing for the country and the people if they can rely on tea to exchange some livestock.

Fang Xuanling gratified Fang Yizhi a few words, and raised the matter with His Majesty Li Er the next day.

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