Chapter 719
By the end of the year, the envoys from all over the country also arrived in the capital one after another. Even the envoys of the northern borders, the Grand Governor, the Governor, the Governor, and the Governor were also arrived.
The envoys who arrived in Beijing were routinely asked to visit the prime ministers in Beijing.
The threshold of the Li family’s gate has been almost trampled on by these officials in recent times.
On New Year's Eve, Li Jing and Li Ji, the two emperors of the Tang Dynasty, and the two heroes from the north, also visited each other. After making a pot of good tea and chatting for a few words, the two began to propose the purpose of visiting. They wanted Li Chao to support their plan to attack the Turks next year.
Li Jing is very tall and not the burly man with a tiger-backed and wolf-waisted waist, but rather a slender figure. He is wearing a brocade robe. He is actually fifty-fifth, but he looks like an old scholar than a Bian Shuai. Compared with his righteous brother Zhang Zhongjian, the bearded guest, Li Jing looks much older.
His face was full of wrinkles and his beard was a little gray. In Li Jing's words, he used to be a general in Daibei for many years, but later he had been fighting around for half his life, and he couldn't help but grow old soon.
Li Jing was also considered to be late for greatness and became famous when he was young. He was called a military genius by his uncle Han Qinhu, a famous general of the Sui Dynasty. At the age of sixteen, he became a hero in Chang'an County. However, since then, he has not been outstanding in his official career and his official position is not high. He has served as the official position of some officials such as the Chief of the War Department of the War Department. It was not until more than 40 years that he became the Chief of Mayi County, which is related to the commander of the army.
The real reason why Li Jing became famous in the military was that after joining Li Tang, he, as Li Xiaogong's deputy, showed his skills in a series of wars in pacifying the southeast, won many battles and defeated them.
Later, he received the recommendation of Li Chao and was awarded the title of the Grand Governor of Hedong Road by the emperor in the new dynasty. He joined forces with Li Ji to attack the Turks twice, both of which achieved impressive victories.
It has become increasingly popular with the name of the God of War in the Tang Dynasty.
Li Ji, the war god who is known as the three gods of the Tang Dynasty's military, is just 30 years old this year. Li Ji, who is just thirty years younger than Li Jing, has no lower merits than Li Jing, and is even a little higher than Li Jing's capital. Before Li Jing was awarded the title, Li Ji surrendered to the Tang Dynasty because he brought Li Mi's troops to the Tang Dynasty, and both father and son were granted the title of Duke.
After that, although he had defeated several battles and was captured in the battlefield in Hebei, he was deeply trusted by Li Tang because of his loyalty to the Tang Dynasty. Especially under the circumstances at that time, this surrendered general in Henan who had territory and troops was very important and the court did not treat him casually.
It was just because he did not directly support Li Shimin for the throne, which made him unable to gain as trust as Li Chao and others in the new dynasty at the beginning. However, he was able to continue to guard the side with Li Chao's support. Now, with his real achievements, he has stood firm among the military generals of the new dynasty.
Today, the God of War and the God of War came to find the God of War. The three gods gathered together, not to discuss the art of war and formation.
After a while, the two of them went straight to the topic. For nothing else, they wanted to persuade Li Chao to support them in fighting back against the Turks next year. The two Li Yi was in Hedong and Hebei, which was the forefront of the fight against the Turks.
Now that the Turkic civil strife, dogs bite dogs and fight for more than half a year, the winner has not been decided. Last time, the second Li crossed the Great Wall and rushed into the foot of Yinshan Mountain, and only robbed many people of the year sheep, but was asked by the court to withdraw its troops.
After retreating to the Great Wall, he had been watching the show for half a year, and both Li were a little impatient.
What a great opportunity for civil strife in the north.
They also knew that the court was in trouble this year and the disaster in the north was serious. But for this reason, the more troops should be sent to the Turks. Taking advantage of the civil strife of the Turks, they robbed their mother.
They rob their cattle, their sheep, their camels, and even their jerky meat.
The Tang Dynasty had more than 100,000 troops on the northern border. If war started, at least it would always be able to support the war and be self-sufficient. It would not require the court to work hard to provide it?
If you don’t grab it, your life will be difficult next year. The north is drought and it is difficult to farm on the border. You can only rely on your own grazing, so how can you grab it directly?
The key is that it is easy to grab now, and if it is difficult to grab, they will not say that.
Li Chao is not the Minister of War, but Li Chao is the Secretary of the Procuratorate Zuo Pushe and Ping Zhangshi, and is one of the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall. He is also the Grand Tutor of the Prince and the Grand Tutor of the Prince and the Secretary of the Prince. He is deeply trusted by the emperor.
They knew very well that Li Chao, who was only twenty-five years old this year, was so young that he looked more like a rich young man. In fact, he was very influential in the center of the empire.
They even understood that most of the external strategies of the Tang Dynasty in the past two years were actually made by Li Chao. If Li Chao beat him, the emperor would consider it carefully. If Li Chao didn't fight, the emperor would listen to his opinions. Just like when Li Chao wanted to fight last time, the emperor would eventually give him power. All the northern parts of the Tang Dynasty were ready to start fighting.
As a result, Li Chaolin started a war and refused to fight, so the emperor finally canceled the order to fight.
Li Jing held the exquisite white porcelain cup of the Li family, "Is this white porcelain produced by Xingjiao? Why is it so thin and transparent, white and green, and has great quality."
Li Chao smiled and said, "I hired an old cellar from Hebei, and then built a new cellar fired porcelain in Xinping County, Raozhou, West Road, Jiangnan. There was a good porcelain clay. Our craftsmen attracted the advantages of southern celadon and northern white porcelain, and created a new variety of porcelain, which is this kind of blue and white porcelain."
Porcelain is a powerful tool for export, and Li Chao had already made the idea of porcelain. In the early Tang Dynasty, there were two major cellars of porcelain, white porcelain from Xingjiao in Hebei and celadon from Yuejiao in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. They each have their own strengths and are very famous. But Li Chao knew very well that Jingdezhen is the most famous porcelain capital in Chinese history, and Jingdezhen's porcelain is the most famous and exported.
Jingdezhen blue and white porcelain is crystal clear and moist, and is known as fake jade, and was once exported to Europe in large quantities.
Li Chao invited many porcelain craftsmen from Xingjiao in Hebei and Yuyao in Zhejiang and other places. He built porcelain craftsmen at Jingdezhen, Changjiangnan, Raozhou, Jiangxi. After several experiments and research, and some technology provided by Li Chao, he finally successfully burned out the blue-white porcelain that was better than the blue than the blue.
Now the place where the Qingbai Porcelain Cellar is located has become prosperous and has become an emerging town. Li Chao is also named Jingdezhen.
Li Jing looked at the jade-like blue-white porcelain cup in his hand and sighed in his heart that Li Chao was evil. While he became more and more determined to convince Li Chao and support their plan to use troops next year.
"Wen Yuan is really capable, proficient in everything. Not only does he use military force like a god, but he also makes knowledge of things and merchants' transactions are so powerful." Li Ji said with a smile. The younger generation in his eyes back then has now reached the height he needs to look up to.
"The shopping mall is like a battlefield. In fact, it is all about one method and one hundred methods. Come and try the Wuyi Mountain Dahongpao made by my tea house. This is a top-notch oolong tea, with good quality. Look at the soup color, the orange and yellow are bright, and the leaves are red and green. The aroma is rich and fragrant with orchids, and the fragrance is high and lasting. This tea is the most refreshing and energetic, which can eliminate fatigue, promote diuresis, detoxify and prevent diseases, eliminate food and greasiness. Moreover, this tea is also resistant to brewing. A pot of tea will still have a fragrance after brewing seven or eight times."
"But to taste Dahongpao, you must taste the teapot and cup slowly according to the time to taste it in order to truly taste the charm of the rock tea."
Li Chao was the leader of the tea tasting trend in this era. In the past, people used to add various seasonings to tea. The tea-making skills were also mainly steamed tea cakes. Li Chao brought the tea stir-frying process, and even divided the tea flavor into various teas such as red, green, green, yellow, white and black flowers according to the process, and the tea drinking method was also changed to brewing.
Now, wealthy people have changed to making tea. This alone made Li Chao very proud, and he changed the history of ancient Chinese tea.
Of course, drinking oolong tea in winter must be Kung Fu tea.
Li Chao also brought this set of Kung Fu Tea. The Li family had a maid who specialized in making Kung Fu Tea. Her skills were better than those of her. Seeing her making tea, it was as pleasing to the eye as if she was watching a dance.
"I knew that Wen Yuan was particular about food and drink, but I didn't expect that drinking a pot of tea would have so many names." Li Jing sighed, not knowing whether this was a compliment or something.
But Li Chao just regarded it as a compliment.
This is not called luxury, but a pursuit of life. While eating and drinking, people are no longer satisfied with food and clothing. They will pursue a more quality life. They want to eat exquisitely and wear more beautifully. These are human nature.
What a big industrial chain does a tea contain? Cooking tea and selling tea. People grow tea and increase their income. The imperial court collects tea and increases taxes. Merchants sell tea and increase profits. When people drink tea, they also improve their quality of life.
Many things are closely related. The trend of drinking tea is prosperous, tea planting is more popular, and it has even become an important export product. It also drives the prosperity of foreign trade, even tea sets and other industries.
A piece of tea seems small, but it is actually very important.
"This tea does taste good, give me a hundred kilograms." Li Ji said with a smile.
"Hundreds of 100 kilograms? Do you really think this is a knife tea sold to the Turks? If you want a knife tea, I can give it even 1,000 kilograms, it is not a problem. Anyway, the tea leaves are picked with a knife with a knife, and it is as much as you want. But this is the Dahongpao of Wuyi Mountain, which is not much in a year. If you want it, I will give you at most two kilograms, but it won't be too much if you have too much. And if you want this tea, you have to send two maids to come and ask my tea maid to teach her how to brew Kung Fu tea."
Li Jing said kindly, "Then give me two pounds."
Li Ji said, "Wenyuan, you used to call me Uncle Li, so this relationship is worth two pounds of Dahongpao?"
"Now I call you uncle, but it's only two kilograms." Li Chao refused to let go. There are many tea shops in Lijia, and all kinds of teas are making the most of the news. The brand of Lijia Tea has been made, but the output of various good teas is indeed not high.
Li Ji smiled and said, "Okay, since you are unwilling to give more tea, then you can compensate you for other things. You can mention your plan to attack the Turks next year in the Political Affairs Hall. Just support this matter more."
"Uncle Li, are you waiting for me here? Okay, I will study the matter carefully, then write a memorandum and take it to the Political Affairs Hall to discuss with the Prime Minister and Your Majesty." Li Chao responded happily.
This promise made Li Ji and Li Jing a little surprised. The reason they came to the Li family was because they had already submitted many comments and proposed a plan to use troops.
But every time it is sank to the sea.
Chapter completed!