Chapter 138: There must be a way to obtain wealth in the world, and the fragrance of tea is spread throughout the world

"What major matter should I discuss with me?" Ti slipped around and floated down the mountain, his tone very excited.

Mei Zhenyi came to the valley and stood by the stream: "Ti Liujie, before I leave, you have not yet learned the essence of the body refining technique. Let's do this. In the next three months, I will come here every night while waiting for Fairy Zhiyan. At the same time, you and I have something to do."

Ti Liuzhuo couldn't help but turn around several times, and happily circled Mei Zhenyi and said, "What are you going to do with me?"

Mei Zhenyi: "I will help you to refine your body, and you will help me practice. Do you still remember the pair of seat cushions I gave to Zhiyan? I want to continue to build one hundred and eight fans, thirty-six fans to Cuiting Temple, and another thirty-six fans to Qi Yunguan."

Liebble: "Where are thirty-six fans?"

Mei Zhenyi: "When the Jiulin Zen Temple is completed, if Zen Master Zhishen has no malice, he will worship it to Jiulin Zen Temple."

The sound of lifting was surprised: "This is too difficult! As far as I know, the pair of seat cushions you made must be refined with nine hundred and ninety-nine pure auspicious soft grass stems. When weaving, we use the method of refining weapons. There should be no slight confusion between spiritual thoughts, otherwise it will not become a magic weapon. It is rare to become a pair of wonderful hands, one hundred and eight fans, God, how much effort is this!"

Mei Zhenyi said with her back: "Of course it's difficult. If not, how can we transform ourselves? People refine weapons, and weapons can also refine people. Let's jump around. I ask you, why do people become adults since they are infants?"

Ti Liuzhuo: "Mr. Mei is asking me if I'm asking about the alchemy technique? It's too advanced. Ti Liuzhuo doesn't have that level of cultivation yet."

Mei Zhenyi: "This is not only a elixir, but only a matter of things, history, actions, feelings, feelings, and knowledge. This is the principle that the artifacts are refined by people, and the artifacts are also refined by people."

He slipped around and waved around and seemed to shake his head: "I still don't quite understand. What does Mr. Mei want to refine one hundred and eight auspicious soft grass mats have to do with my practice?"

Mei Zhenyi: "Of course it's related. Let's come together, I will tell you how to refine grass stems. You have to pick all grass stems in the mountains and refine them pure. For every 999 pieces, I will start to refine a futon."

Ti Liu turned around and almost fell down: "Then how many grass stems do I have to refine? I'll do it..."

Mei Zhenyi interrupted it: "No need to forget it, at least one hundred thousand seven thousand eight hundred ninety-two pieces, if you fail once, you have to refine one more piece, and if I fail once, you have to refine hundreds more piece."

Ti Liubiao gasped and said, "Are there so many auspicious soft grass in the mountains? When will it take to refine it?"

Mei Zhenyi picked a stalk of auspicious soft grass from her side with her hands, and took out the magic weapon pointer that she had not used for a long time with her other hand. She closed her eyes for a moment and didn't know what spell to use. She opened her eyes and said, "You can only use the stem of the grass that just died of white just last autumn. There are more than 120,000 pieces in the Qingyi Mountains. Carefully refining the local language should be enough."

Ti Liuzhuo was already weak and said: "There is only one thing. I don't know how to do it!"

Mei Zhenyi: "I can teach you no, but I can teach you. You have some magic power now, which just happens to be able to refine an auspicious soft grass stem. Although it is difficult, it is also of great benefit to you. You are invisible. I am telling you how to refine your weapon, hoping that you will refine your shape with a weapon, not only refine your grass stem, but also refine yourself."

"Thank you, Mr. Mei, for teaching the Dharma. But when will I have to practice? I can't finish practicing this year, can I continue next year?"

Mei Zhenyi: "This auspicious soft grass in the mountains will last for nine years. If it doesn't happen this year, it will be nine years later. I won't force you. It will naturally be very slow at first, but as long as you keep your heart moving, it will get faster and faster. This method of using tools to refine shape is most suitable for your restless nature. It is also just the opportunity to sharpen you."

Tucked around: "Okay, please pass on my spell."

Mei Zhenyi waved her hand: "Don't worry, I have another major event to discuss with you. Once you and I start this practice, you will search all over the mountains. I want you to pay attention to familiarity with every grass and tree here, as well as every mountain and earth.... I heard that you want to be my housekeeper, and this is unlikely, but in the future, if I build the immortal cave heaven in Qingyi Sanshan, you are both the guardian of Jiulian Mountain and the general manager of the Sanshan Temple. Are you willing?"

"I'm willing, of course I'm willing! Please rest assured, Mr. Mei, I will definitely search all over the mountains, while refining the auspicious soft grass stems, while examining the future Cave Heaven Temple!" He slipped around from the ground and swirled, and even the stream next to him was brought to waves, which seemed extremely energetic.

Mei Zhenyi knows the temper of Ti Liuzhuo. It is really difficult for this restless little devil to repeat such boring things so many times. But if you give it a spiritual motivation and let it rush to do it on its own, things will be much easier, and this is indeed the most suitable Ti Liuzhuo practice method.

Ti slipped around the stream for a few times, then came over and said, "Mr. Mei, when will we start?"

Mei Zhenyi: "Start from tonight, stop turning, calm your body and spirit, and listen to my teachings."

The magic he taught was not complicated, he just wanted to use the method of refining the body to refine the weapon. The magic power of the refining is not strong, but it has an invisible wonder, and it can be used to refine the stem of auspicious soft grass. The number of plum shaved clothes is very large, and it needs to search the mountains. It has no time to go around elsewhere during this period.

On the first night, I tried my best to refine three pieces and seven pieces were ruined.

The next night, I still refined ten branches, but I refined seven branches, and only three branches were used to refine them. My skills did not increase, but my methods became more familiar.

On the third night, she slid around and refined fifteen pieces, and eleven pieces were refined. Mei Zhenyi praised her repeatedly.

Ti Liuzhuo likes to listen to Mei Zhenyi praise it. The more you praise it, the more you become, the more powerful it becomes. Unconsciously, the increase in magic power and the cultivation of the mind and nature. On the seventh day, it actually refined a total of 999 pieces, as if it had broken through a bottleneck. After two hundred years of practice, I finally found a suitable method.

Mei Zhenyi also began to make auspicious soft straw mats, one hundred and eight fans. Her mood at this time was completely different from the one that day's wonderful hand puppet. It was a completely boring repetition. Every time it was a test from beginning to end, and there was no tolerance for a slight mistake, otherwise all previous efforts would be wasted. Why did he do such a thing? There are two reasons.

First of all, he used this to temper himself, not only to refine weapons, but also to train his spirit of the ground furnace and cauldron. The longest step in his practice has been to "rebirth" and there is no way to take advantage of it. Mei Zhenyi has been practicing diligently since childhood because his understanding is good and qualifications are first-class, but it is precisely in this level of qualifications and understanding that cannot play a decisive role, mainly depends on the depth of his hard work.

The second is to refine the Nine-Turn Purple Gold Pill. Since getting Wen Yuchalcedony, Mei Zhenyi knew that he was not sure of successfully refining it once. But he didn't have the chance to come for the second time, so he had to master the way of refining medicine absolutely skillfully. The best way is often the stupidest. His weapon refining technique was understood from the way of refining medicine, and continued to exercise it in order to ensure that everything was foolproof.

Danxia's third son gave him thirty-two spiritual medicines. He initially refined them and then refined them into the worship whip. He failed in total four times. In other people's opinion, the success rate was already very high, but it was not enough to refine the Nine-Turn Purple Golden Pill in the divine world, because there were not so many spiritual medicines in the world that he had to try again and again.

Originally, he did not give him much hope, but just used it as a kind of exercise. But since Qingfeng promised to help him find the medicinal materials, Mei Zhenyi immediately treated it with caution. Not only Wen Yuchalcedony, he hoped that Qingfeng would not miss every elixir he used to refine it himself. So instead of rushing to refine it, he turned around and laid a solid foundation.

If the third son of Danxia heard that Mei Zhenyi would do this - using more than 100,000 auspicious soft grass stems to refine futons that are only used for meditation, but using the same method of refining weapons that are similar to those of refining medicine, they would be shocked! Smart people often rely on their good understanding and are unwilling to work hard, but Mei Zhenyi knows this well and specifically finds some pain for himself.

Mei Zhenyi started to wove it. She couldn't provide the stems of the grass. She was busy circling all over the mountains and fields, and she had no time to use it as a bag to inquire.

He was busy and was busy. Zhang Guo, the real manager of the Mei family, was not idle either. He also had to take care of the affairs of Wuzhou Prefecture. The young master asked him to sort out all the tenants, farms, people from each family, and production in various places. Fortunately, Cheng Xuanhu had sorted it out once and made it very detailed, otherwise Zhang Guo would not be able to come up with the young master's requirements for a while.

The Mei family has two thousand households in Wuzhou. There are nearly 10,000 men, women, young and old. About one-third of these people are slaves in his family. They do various places arranged by the Mei family, and they have monthly payments. The other two-thirds are tenants in the farm. The Mei family pays rent for the land, or pays the Mei family for two months of work every year to pay the rent, and there is no absolute personal dependence.

When Zhang Guo brought these accounts, he asked strangely: "Young Master, why have you taken care of these mundane affairs? If you were asked to take care of you, I would have nothing to do, and it is not the eldest master who should have to worry about it."

Mei Zhenyi looked at the account book and said, "Old Zhang, you know that I am going to get married. You can't just get married without starting a career."

Zhang Guo smiled and said, "This family business will be yours in the future."

Mei Zhenyi: "Since I was a young master who was not diligent in four bodies and had no distinction between grains. Apart from becoming a disciple and practicing, I have never had any care in my family business and enjoyed the power of others' work. Now I have to do something myself."

Zhang Guo: "Young Master, if you say that, it will make all the dandy all over the world feel ashamed. You don't have to do what the young master wants to do, right?"

Mei Zhenyi smiled: "Actually, I want to run the industry, so I need to count how many resources I have available, and I find that the potential is quite great. Just give an example. It is your arrangement for the four members of the He family. He Musheng helps the Mei family manage the farm in Yangxian Township. However, his son He Huogen is strong and is just helping him in the field. He has a lot of spare time but has no other business. His wife He Xiangu is just pretending to be a god and making a few spare money at home."

Zhang Guo: "The country people have lived like this since ancient times, so it would be great to have a good time for good weather."

Mei Zhenyi nodded and said, "So I can help them think of a solution, and I am also helping myself. I went to Luoyang to investigate and found that my Mei family can still develop industrial operations. At least two items of tea and wine are enough to make a profit."

Zhang Guo reminded: "The tea produced in Jiushan of Meijia is inclusively for self-use, and it is worshipped in the Nanlu Gong Mansion of the capital. There are not many tea cakes in my home, and it is not something that ordinary people can afford." Here we need to introduce the popular method of making tea in the Tang Dynasty and drinking tea, which is very complicated.

Tea fields are mostly picked before and after Grain Rain. On sunny days, it is best to use the tall tender leaves on the top of the tea tree. At that time, there were not many artificially grown tea gardens and there were no professional tea pickers. Tea makers often carry tea cages to the mountain to pick tea, which is very difficult.

The fresh leaves are picked and steamed first. Then mash them into tea paste and pour them into tea molds. They also need to be patted and compacted to make the structure tight and solid without gaps. When the tea paste is completely solidified, it will be taken out to make a preliminary tea cake.

After the tea cake is made, it must be roasted in a roaster over low heat to prevent mold and rot and easy storage. There are holes in the middle of the roasted tea cake and thread them into strings for storage or carrying. Just making tea, there are so many complicated processes.

When drinking, first place the tea cakes on the fire and grill them softly, then use a tea mill to crush them, then use a sieve to sieve into fine powder, and put them in boiling water to cook. There are also one boil, two boiling and three boiling points. There are more than ten kinds of tea used before and after. In the living room, the guests will take the cup to drink tea for a while, and at least two servants must be busy for a long time.

In that era, when I was a guest, the host invited you to drink tea, which was a very high-standard treatment! Most people don’t have the time to serve tea at all, and even if they like to drink it, they are not able to drink it all year round.

Since it is so troublesome, how did people drink tea before the Tang Dynasty? The easiest way. Directly picking fresh tea tree buds and boiling water is similar to boiling soup. However, fresh buds and leaves cannot be preserved and transported, so they can only be picked and cooked. Drinking tea is greatly restricted by region, climate and season. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that tea cakes appeared. Drinking tea became a popular lifestyle among nobles and celebrities.

"Who said I want to run tea cakes? Look at this, it is the method of making tea I learned in the Danxia School. This way, it can be stored in all seasons or carried around. When drinking, it can be brewed with boiling water. This tube of tea is cooked in my own small tea garden. Two cups a day can be drunk for three months. The best quality is sold for two taels of silver. The best quality is sold for fifty cents, which is not expensive for wealthy families or well-off families, right? If you sell it all over the world, wouldn't it be rich?"

Mei Zhenyi took out a bamboo-covered tea drum like a magic trick and handed it to Zhang Guo. Zhang Guo studied it for a long time and praised: "The young master not only made tea, but also made the bamboo drums for the tea. However, drinking tea in this way is not a secular habit. I am afraid there is no shop willing to sell it."

Mei Zhenyi said confidently: "Don't worry about this. As long as you launch it, everyone will find that it is convenient. It is much cheaper than tea cakes, and it can be afforded by ordinary people. It will naturally be promoted. The first step is to find a uncle to cooperate with. The Liu family's shops are available in various parts of Jiangnan. It will be profitable and you can ask the Liu family to sell on behalf of others."

Zhang Guo: "This is a good idea. My uncle will definitely help."

Mei Zhenyi: "I have another idea. At the beginning, the Liu family's shop sold this kind of tea. You can set up a table in front of the shop and make it brew on site for people to drink. Don't you understand after drinking it? You can buy it with confidence."

This trick is actually not new. Many modern tea shops do this in selling tea. Mei Zhenyi is just a simple borrowing. Zhang Guo applauded and said with a thumbs up: "The idea is so wonderful. The young master is simply Zhuge Liang!"

Mei Zhenyi smiled and shook her head: "Don't praise me first. Is it wonderful? I will find out after trying it. First, I will try it in Wuzhou, Haozhou, Runzhou and other places. Runzhou is the intersection of the canal and the Yangtze River. It is the key to trade between the north and the south, which is our trial sales. We won't produce too much at the beginning, so we will open up the situation in Runzhou first. As long as we succeed, we can naturally sell it to all parts of the Central Plains in the future."

Zhang Guo tilted his head and thought: "If everything goes well according to the young master's plan, there will be no enough tea!"

Mei Zhenyi: "Of course it's not enough, so we have to plant tea gardens ourselves. This matter cannot be urgent, and we need to go in steps. I have already discussed with Princess Yuzhen, and first use her imperial gift to experiment with the 300 acres of tribute fields. If the tea garden is planted successfully, the tea trial sales will also go smoothly. In the Mei family's land, we chose to promote it by large areas of hillside land... Mr. Zhang, why do you look at me like this? Is there something on my face?"

Zhang Guo's eyes widened and said with a high-fives: "Young Master, I don't know how to praise you, I'm planning so well every step. The Mei family lacks the most is mountainous land, especially on the hillside, which is barren and not suitable for farming, and it is not convenient to dig water and irrigate. It can only be abandoned and idle. However, it is the most suitable for planting tea trees. Old slaves are tree spirits, and they know this very well."

Mei Zhenyi: "No matter how good the calculation is, it must be successful in the first step. I have the capital of 500 taels of gold, which should be enough."

This time it was Zhang Guo's turn to shake his head: "How can I use so much? I can do it myself. Whether it is successful or not, a few hundred taels of silver is enough."
Chapter completed!