Chapter 1329 Jianzhou Tea Event
Jianzhou at the end of the seventh year of Yuanfeng.
Zhang Yue lives in a mountain residence and lives a real life of seclusion.
Zhang Yue’s mountain residence is built with Nanpu River. When the bamboo door is pushed open, it is full of green mountains and clear waters.
In the early morning, the smoke of the stream in Zhongnanpu River was swaying. Zhang Yue wore a half-old blue gray and stepped out of the dew, holding a bamboo raft and letting the nine-curved clear stream carry the boat slowly.
Just as there was a huge lying stone in the slow water of the stream. The lying stone was surrounded by water on all sides, allowing seven or eight people to sit and lie down, and there was a depression in the center. For Zhang Yue, this was a natural stove.
Zhang Yue often ordered tea on the river and cooked a pot of tea soup. Sometimes he brought Li Gang and Huang Haoyi to drink tea and preach, and more often he drank it alone.
Zhang Yue often cooks tea while facing the clear Nanpu River, and fishes on the rocks, he casually puts the fishing rod on the lying stones. Although the fish in the bamboo basket are always empty, he enjoys it.
After cooking tea and fishing for half a day, Zhang Yue drove a bamboo raft and returned home. The bamboo baskets were often hung at the tail of the raft, but for Zhang Yue, it was more calm than when it was full.
After lunch, Zhang Yue took a nap and wore a bamboo-woven sunshade hat to clean up some teahouses next to the house.
There are more than a dozen tea farmers living in the village.
Zhang Yue invited a village master to teach Li Gang and other students. Listening to the sound of tea pounding and reading, Zhang Yue felt more intimate, and unknowingly, many past events came to his mind.
The next day, Zhang Yue took the sacrifice ceremony and ordered the mountain people to lead the way to the familiar village downstream of Nanpu River.
But I saw that the pine forest was still the same and the white clouds were still the same.
After not returning for thirty years, Zhang Yue almost cried when he watched this scene again.
The eaves of the village school still hang in strings of straw straws, and the sound of children reading is still pleasant, but the one who holds the ruler on the stage is not the gentleman of the past.
And the house where he and Guo Lin were studying hard has already changed their owners.
Zhang Yue sighed slightly while stroking the school wall.
"Officials are looking for people?" asked the villagers who were busy with farm work.
The villagers no longer knew it. When the young man who was studying in this corner of the city, he pointed at him when he heard that he asked for directions and asked him something about him who was not Guo Xuezhao's relative?
Zhang Yue replied calmly: "Disciple."
The villagers all looked awe-inspiring and pointed to the pine and cypresses on the back mountain.
Tea-picking along the way sang a mountain song.
"The top scholar and the first horse are flying, and the golden flower is tilted into the brim of the hat is low..."
Zhang Yue went to the back mountain to pay homage to Guo Xuejiao and his master's wife, and had newly cultivated loess. Children should often come back to visit Guo Xuejiao.
The so-called peaches and plums do not speak, and they form their own paths.
The mountain wind rolls up the ashes of paper money.
In front of me, there was another scene where the young man in charge was chanting under the eaves. Guo Xuejue looked at him with encouragement, Guo Lin listened with a smile, and the teacher's kitchen stirred rice porridge and threw a look here from time to time.
Zhang Yue silently worshiped the besiege and finally wiped away his tears.
Before leaving the village, Zhang Yue stuffed ten pillars of salt money into the palm of the village old man's hand. The village old man's turbid eyes suddenly became clear and clear: "Are you?"
The village chief looked familiar to Zhang Yue, but he couldn't remember it for a moment.
Zhang Yue passed by the village school and saw children reading.
No matter how many years have passed or how many people have changed, the children's serious eyes that seek knowledge will never change.
The village master held up the "Three Character Classic" and said sternly: "When Mr. Zhang was confused in the past, he was still reluctant to stop writing in winter! You are all from poor families. If you want to make a name for yourself in this life, you can only study."
The children in the hall all had their eyes wide open and claimed that they were.
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After returning to the mountain residence, Zhang Yue returned to his usual days. That afternoon, a guest came to farm in the teahouse.
The man in soap clothes ran towards him on the slippery tea path. The man showed Zhang Zitang's face under the straw straw hat.
"The villain Yu Zhong has met his husband!"
Zhang Yue said: "You are? My sister-in-law's nephew!"
"My husband still remembers the villain."
Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Don't slap a husband at once. There is no husband here, only tea-planting old man."
Zhang Yue remembers the other party.
Yu's mother's family was a tea merchant in Jianyang. I remember that his brother had been plucking the wool from Mount Tai back then. Later, he became an official, and Yu's mother's family also wanted to come to the door. However, Zhang Yue cherished his feathers at that time and said a few tactfully.
After that, Yu's family restrained his family and never came to him again.
Unexpectedly, after the prime minister retired, the Yu family came to him.
Zhang Yue knew something was wrong when he saw the other party's expression, so he immediately asked the other party to live in Jishan.
Yu Zhong saw that Zhang Yueshan was simple and there were not many people serving him, and he couldn't help but worry: "My husband, Jianzhou has not been peaceful recently. You are quite remote here, so it's better to move to the city to live."
Zhang Yue said: "Are you talking about tea households causing trouble? We have few tea fields in Pucheng, so we won't be able to do it."
"Since you are here, let's talk about the tea law this year."
"yes."
After sitting down, Yu Zhong immediately said, "This starts with the new deputy envoy of Fujian Transportation Transportation, Wang Cao Envoy."
Zhang Yue's face shuddered when he heard this.
Wu Juhou practiced the salt law on Jingdong Road, and the iron law monopolized the monopoly of the monopoly, while Wang Zijing wanted to practice the tea law in Fujian.
Beiyuan tea in Jianzhou began to be officially launched during the Southern Tang Dynasty. After the founding of Longtuan Tea Tuan during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty, it was improved by Ding Wei and Cai Xiang, and it was even more popular all over the world.
The official roasting system of Beiyuan Tea is already mature. Some officials serve as envoys of all sizes, eunuchs serve as prosecutors, and thousands of tea troops guard the tea gardens. There are special tea households serving tea servitude.
However, in the third year of Xining, the official roasting system was corrupt, one folk tea garden flourished three times as much as the official tea, and another official tea household fled in large numbers.
Wang Anshi reformed the tea official roasting system, and first divided the forty-six official roasts into imperial roasts and regular roasts. The former was handed over to the court, while the latter was purchased at the market price.
At the same time, tea slaughtering matters were abolished and everything was replaced by tea class money.
The tea money for the imperial tea farmers is paid by the treasury coins, and the often-baked tea farmers are exempted from labor according to the output. For the best wax noodles, the tax is 150 yuan per catty. For medium grinding, the tax is 100 yuan. For inferior herbal tea, the tax is 50 yuan.
After Wang Anshi's reform, the disadvantages of tea method remained.
In order to compete for private tea, tea merchants armed each other and carried them in armed manner. Even powerful tools such as the Divine Arm Bow were equipped.
As a result, public security deteriorated only during the Yuanfeng period, and civil riots five or six times a year.
So the official used Wang Zijing to take office. After Wang Zijing took office in the seventh year of Yuanfeng, he submitted a memorial to Jianzhou for an annual output of 3 million jin and Nanjianzhou for 200,000 jin of tea.
The original best wax noodle tea collected 200 citrus per catty, and the inferior herbal tea collected 80 citrus per catty.
The official agreed to Wang Zijing's suggestion and established a tea department on Fujian Road. Wang Zijing, deputy envoy of transfer, was appointed as the commander of 126 tea patrol envoys, and 5,000 soldiers were appointed to the wing army.
After Wang Zijing took office, he promulgated strict laws to ban private planting and the newly reclaimed tea garden was immediately executed.
It is forbidden to pick privately, and non-official bud tea is beaten every two times.
It is forbidden to make private products, imitate dragon and phoenix models and match them.
Smuggling is prohibited, and tea goods are gone from Fujian.
At the same time, it is implemented that every five tea merchants in a row must have a knot. If one household violates the rules, the violation will not be allowed to take the imperial examination for three generations.
Another 800,000 guan of tea and salt is allowed to exchange for salt.
In the seventh year of Yuanfeng, tea profit surged to 450,000 yuan, but it also aroused great dissatisfaction among the tea farmers in Jianzhou.
Zhang Yue listened to Yu Zhong's narration and asked: "How much is the market price of La?"
"Five hundred documents." Yu Zhongdao: "But Wang Caosi only gives two hundred documents, and even the money for tea pickers is not enough."
Zhang Yue thought for a while and said, "It's a little low, but it's still acceptable. But the methods are too fucked and cut a little."
Yu Zhong said: "I heard that Your Majesty was going to promote the Battle of Yongle City, so he was short of money, so Wang Caoshuai wanted to seek credit."
Zhang Yue said: "No matter whether he seeks credit or not, he always works for the court. The court's original intention is not to be an official business, but to tax the tea law, but tea merchants evade too much."
Yu Zhong said: "It is impossible not to escape, the court's taxes are too heavy."
Zhang Yue said: "I understand, but I have retired and returned home now. There are some things I don't know. I will consider this first."
"You will come here again in a few days."
Although the emperor appointed Zhang Yue as the governor of Jianzhou and Jianzhou, he resigned to Zhang Yue. He is still in an idle state now.
And this is also very tricky.
Because the folk tea-fighting trend is extremely popular, the profit of building tea is extremely high.
In order to fight against the court, private tea merchants were extremely smuggling and selling privately, and they developed established armed forces. In the third year of Xining, Wang Anshi presided over the reform. The court relaxed the officials' roasting and allowed private tea to be roasted, and wanted to use taxation methods to let the private tea smuggling and building matters be put on the table.
However, because the taxation is extremely heavy, in Sima Guang's words, there are ten taxes for tea.
Private tea merchants still smuggled in large quantities. Therefore, the tea money received by the imperial court was still minimal. On the contrary, because people were allowed to bake, the scale of tea construction and cultivation became larger and larger.
Now Jianzhou has produced 3 million kilograms of tea per year.
Unlike Sima Guang and others who voted against the imperial court's tea franchise, Zhang Yue quite recognized the imperial court's tea franchise, or at least had to pay a relatively high tax.
Tea is different from salt. Salt is a must-have, while tea is at least a luxury.
Especially for the Dragon Groups of Big and Small, there is no reason not to let rich people spend more money to drink these ridiculously expensive teas.
But Wang Anshi had also passed the previous ten taxes and seven taxes.
Wang Zijing's method is barely feasible, but his methods are a bit ruthless and a little mean. And the armed tea merchants are probably not so easy to meet.
Zhang Yue said to himself: "If King Jing saw the tea administration today, he would probably have broken up the tea case in Banshanyuan."
Just now, outside reported that Peng Jingyi had arrived.
When Zhang Yue met Peng Jingyi, he smiled and said, "What happened on the road has been delayed for so long."
Zhang Yue and Peng Jingyi Ben set out together, but he said he would take his wife and children back to Huaihang to visit his father-in-law who saved his life, so he was delayed.
When Peng Jingyi saw Zhang Yue, he bowed and said, "Please be the master!"
Zhang Yue said in surprise: "Why is this happening?"
Zhang Yue thought to himself that Peng Jingyi has been following him over the years and has been respected by all the people, and no one dares to offend him.
Otherwise, how can you say that the prime minister’s rank is the seventh-rank official?
But Peng Jingyi said, "My husband, I can find out who the person who almost lost my life in the first place."
Zhang Yue asked: "Who? Isn't it on Huai?"
"If you are not in Huai, you are in Jianyang."
"here?"
Peng Jingyi said with a grudge: "The good teacher knows that when I was under Wuzhizhai, I offended a tea merchant. Later, when I lost my power to go to Bianjing to find you, he sent someone to follow me to take revenge."
"He was afraid that the government would find out, so he deliberately did not take action in Fujian, but arranged for someone to kill me in Huaihe!"
"Fortunately, I'm lucky! I found out when I returned home this time."
Zhang Yue said: "There is still this matter, who is this person?"
Chapter completed!