Almost as soon as Han Du finished speaking, these words appeared in the minds of everyone in the banquet hall. To be honest, they could imagine a beautiful picture just by hearing Han Du's words.
A beautiful girl set out from the foot of the mountain before dawn, climbed to the top of the mountain step by step, dripping with fragrant sweat, stretched out her green onion-like fingers to pick the tea leaves. Such tea leaves can be sold for a hundred pounds of gold.
Is a pound high? Not high!
After listening to Han Du's words, the city lord looked down and asked doubtfully: "Since the tea drunk by the nobles is already so exquisite, what is the tribute tea like?"
Yes, since it can be a tribute tea, it is naturally the best tea. The tea that the nobles drink is already so fascinating to them that they can no longer imagine how much better the tribute tea can be.
Including the city lord, everyone in the banquet hall looked at Han Du.
Han Du smiled slightly, stretched out a finger, and said with a faint smile: "First of all, tribute tea will only be picked from tea trees that have grown for more than a thousand years. Secondly, there are only such tea trees in the entire Ming Dynasty."
Han Du flipped his wrist and his fingers changed from one to three.
"Three!"
"Three." At first Hade nodded subconsciously, but suddenly he realized what he was doing. He didn't care to tell others, and directly asked Han Du with wide eyes: "Three trees?"
Han Du retracted his finger and said with a smile: "Of course, otherwise, what do you think tribute tea is?"
Harder was speechless. He never thought that there were only three tea trees in the Ming Dynasty's tribute tea. After telling others in despair, the people who got the answer suddenly screamed in shock.
These days, they have used various methods, including but not limited to, to explore the news of the Ming Empire from Hader and Tare. Hader has only been to Old Port, so the information he provided was all he heard. But precisely because of this,
Although the information everyone got from Hader was scattered, they all gave a comprehensive description of Ming Dynasty.
Tare was humiliated by Handu, and it was when he was very angry. At first, he didn't want to pay attention to these people, and just turned them away. But there is no door in this world that cannot be opened by gold, nor can it be opened by gold.
There is a fire that cannot be extinguished even by gold. With the generous help of the city lord and others, Ta Lei is willing to share the news of the Ming Empire with them.
Unlike Hard, who had only been to the fringes of the Ming Empire, Ta Lei had personally been to the capital city of the Ming Dynasty. According to Ta Lei's information, the city lord and others knew that the Ming Dynasty had a very vast territory, a very large population, and a very large population.
Rich and very powerful. This Ming businessman is in the city lord's palace
This is not exaggerated nonsense, but fact.
By the way, even if Tare was willing to share information about the Ming Empire with them for the sake of gold, he did not reveal Handu's identity to everyone. He relied on his identity as the envoy of the Timurid Empire in Hulumo
Si is domineering. If these people know Han Du's identity in the Ming Dynasty, will these people still be so respectful to him in the future?
But even the Ming Dynasty, which was so powerful and had a vast territory, only had three tea trees?
The preciousness of this tribute tea instantly rose to the highest level in everyone's hearts. Everyone looked at the tea in their hands and immediately regarded it as a treasure.
How many tea leaves can be picked from three tea trees every year? No wonder this Ming businessman said that even the royal family of the Ming Empire, not everyone can drink this tribute tea. Such a rare quantity is easily divided up by others.
, where can I sell the extra ones to Hurumos?
I'm afraid that no matter how high the price they pay, they won't be able to buy the tribute tea. After all, who can afford this tribute tea will lack this little gold? Sure enough, this is not what gold can buy.
"Now that the heat is just right, you can taste the Ming Dynasty's unique tribute tea." Han Du smiled with a smile on his face and stretched out his hand to signal to everyone.
After Harder relayed the complaint, everyone including the city lord looked at each other. Everyone looked at the cups in their hands. Just looking at the tribute tea was an extremely rare treat.
Everyone just looked at it, completely reluctant to drink it!
Seeing this, Han Du could only reach out his hand again meaningfully and said, "Please use tea. If you don't drink this tea, it will be wasted."
After listening to Han Du's words, everyone reluctantly lowered their heads and took a sip. Just such a sip made everyone understand the preciousness of this tea.
It's so fragrant that when the tea enters the throat, it seems to turn into a mist, directly moisturizing the internal organs. The comfortable and refreshing feeling directly makes many people roar with forgetfulness.
After a long time, everyone gradually came back to their senses. Everyone looked at the empty cups in their hands, and the regret in their hearts was like the water of the two rivers.
Originally, they all just took a small sip, but after taking a sip, their hands seemed to lose control and they drank all the tea in one go.
Seeing the disappointed eyes of everyone, Han Du also said:
He expressed helplessness, "There is no more tribute tea, but there are still some tea leaves for the nobles to drink. I can treat you to another cup."
After speaking, Han Du waved his hand to the maids on both sides.
The maid then started making tea again.
The maid served tea to everyone again. This time, the tea was emerald green, which was pleasing to the eye. It was much prettier than the dark brown tea they drank before. However, after seeing tribute tea, this kind of tea could no longer make them feel happy.
satisfy.
They tried to drink a cup. This kind of tea was indeed far better than the tea they drank before, but compared to the tribute tea, one was in the sky and the other was in the earth. There was no comparison at all.
Han Du did not restrict everyone from drinking such tea. As long as someone needed it, a slave would go over and serve it to them again. ??
Seeing that although everyone showed disdain for such tea on their faces, they kept asking the slaves to serve tea.
Zhu Biao couldn't wait to come to Han Du and asked: "You want to sell tea, wouldn't it be self-defeating? They have tasted the best tribute tea, how can they buy your ordinary tea? Don't tell me about you
Those teas you have are only for nobles to drink. It would be damned if all nobles drank tea like yours."
Of course, the tea sold by Handu is not very good, it is just better than the cheapest tea in Ming Dynasty. Even if it is the tribute tea that Handu keeps talking about, it is not a real tribute tea, but other teas used by Handu
fake.
Anyway, these Khrumos people have no chance to see the real tribute tea of the Ming Dynasty. Isn’t it just what Han Du said?
"Your Highness, does he know why I divide the tea leaves into those for common people, those for nobles and those for the royal family?" Han Du asked instead of answering Zhu Biao's question.
Zhu Biao frowned, his heart full of doubts, "Why?"
"Your Highness, drinking tea is just like that. You can drink a cup of coarse tea, and you can drink fine tea. Since we want to make money from them, we can't let them drink coarse tea all the time like now. We should also drink it.
Let them drink the best tea, as long as they are willing to pay a big price." Han Du replied with a smile.
"How do you want to make their money?" Zhu Biao suddenly became excited when he heard that Han Du had made money in advance. He was a hundred times more confident in Han Du's method of making money. He didn't think these people
The only way to get rid of Han Du is to see how Han Du can make big money.
Han Du didn't hide anything, he smiled and said: "I want to
Let them pay willingly, and pay a lot of money. Then we can't sell it as before, we have to increase the value of tea."
Zhu Biao thought for a while, but still didn't think of any way to increase the value of tea. He simply gave up his thoughts and asked Handu: "How to increase it?"
Han Du smiled coquettishly and said: "Of course, tea is tied to their status. Common people buy tea that common people drink, and nobles buy tea that nobles drink."
"Is this okay?" Zhu Biao remained skeptical about Han Du's idea.
"Okay?" Han Du imitated Zhu Biao's tone and said again, "Your Highness, do you think it will be better if you remove the word "?"
Zhu Biao still didn't believe it, and said with a troubled face: "But they are not fools, why would they spend ten times the price to buy something that is not much better?"
Han Du laughed softly, and then Zhu Biao said: "Your Highness, don't worry, as long as the tea is tied to their identity, then what they buy is not the tea, but their identity. In order to maintain the dignity of their nobles, the nobles will fight hard.
They spend a lot of money to buy the tea that the nobles drink. Even if they are too poor to take the blame, they are not willing to lower themselves to buy tea from the common people. Because this represents their dignity!"
"As for the common people, although they cannot afford to drink such tea on weekdays, it does not prevent them from occasionally luxuriating, such as buying a small amount to taste."
Seeing that Han Du was getting more and more outrageous, Zhu Biao couldn't believe it even more, "However, according to your price, even if you buy a little bit, the price is extremely expensive, and it is even more expensive for civilians.
It’s a big mountain to climb, will they really buy it?”
"Of course they will buy it, and the more expensive the price, the more willing they will be to sell it." Han Du said confidently.
"How is this possible?" Zhu Biao was completely stunned by Han Du's words.
"I don't think it's possible, but something like this is bound to happen. Because different tea leaves will represent different identities. Although commoners cannot become nobles, they can briefly experience it by drinking the tea of nobles.
The status of aristocrats. Driven by this mentality, even if they buy a little tea, it may cost them more than half a year, or even a whole year's wealth, and countless people will choose to buy it."
Han Du shrugged, looking completely indifferent. But Zhu Biao saw a trace of helplessness flash across Han Du's face when he spoke.