Of course Li Yuanjia would not send someone to Luzhou with just two books.
After all, Li Lingkui was also his biological brother. Born to the same mother, he could be said to be the closest person he had left in his life. So when they set off from Prince Han's Mansion the next day, there were a total of six people and three carriages, carrying enough things.
It weighs hundreds of pounds!
In addition to books, there are also some small things recently designed by Li Yuanjia.
They were not particularly valuable items, they were all specially designed by him to make his stay in the new Han Palace more comfortable.
Of course, they are all ideas from the future, the kind that if you make them in large quantities and sell them, you can easily earn thousands of dollars.
But Li Yuanjia had long given up on making money from small inventions.
In this era, ordinary people should have no problem doing this. It seems that it would be okay if the small nobles gave up their dignity. But he, a dignified prince of the Tang Dynasty, had 700 households and 10,000 acres of land, so he could do some white paper ten
It’s okay to just make a profit from Sanxiang or something, but if you really want to take out food every day...
The impeachment of officials is a small matter, but being dealt with by Li Shimin is a big deal!
Therefore, in addition to using these things for his own home, Li Yuanjia planned to give one set to his younger brother first, and later, after the emperor and the others returned to Chang'an, he would give one set each to Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling, uncle Yuwenshi and the other side.
That's it. As for whether someone later finds it useful and copies it, Li Yuanjia doesn't care.
Anyway, he has already recorded the detailed drawings and stuff in his study, and he will throw them out sooner or later...
"I feel so unfulfilled as a prince!"
After getting the news from Han Shan that the team had set off, Li Yuanjia couldn't help but sigh secretly. In fact, he really wanted to experience the thrill of making money in Datang, but...
"Tap! Tread! Tread..."
Just when Han Shan was watching the king's expression flicker and was a little confused, he suddenly heard a rush of footsteps coming from the corridor outside.
Frowning, Han Shan glanced at Li Yuanjia again.
Seeing that the king was still squinting in thought, seemingly unaware, Han Shan quietly retreated to the door of the study, opened the door and went out and asked in a low voice: "What's the matter?"
The boy who was already standing outside the door with a low eyebrow quickly bowed and said respectfully: "Steward Han, the people we sent to Qiantang have returned."
"oh?"
After hearing the boy's reply, Han Shan's eyes suddenly lit up and he hurriedly asked in a low voice: "Are you back already? How many carriages are there?"
"Two carriages!"
"good!"
Han Shan immediately beamed with joy and nodded heavily.
Qiantang, formerly known as Qiantang, was the administrative seat of Hangzhou and belonged to Jiangnan Road. To avoid the taboo of the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed Qiantang in the fourth year of Wude. This place is thousands of miles away from Chang'an and not close to Luzhou.
, originally had nothing to do with Prince Han's Mansion, but because of Li Yuanjia's sudden order a few years ago, Han Shan had to send several people to this place to collect something from there and bring it back every year...
"You stay here, I will report to the king immediately!"
Han Shan waved his hand and asked the boy to wait. He quickly walked back to the study and whispered: "Your Majesty, the people we sent to Qiantang are back."
"……Um?"
Li Yuanjia raised his head in confusion, before he could recover from his thoughts: "Qiantang?"
"Yes, my lord!"
Nodding, Han Shan quickly continued: "It's the tea you asked us to collect... They came back from Qiantang! And they brought back two full carts of tea!"
"Oh? So many?"
Li Yuanjia finally came back to his senses, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked in surprise: "Is the tea leaves already roasted? Or..."
"Back to your Majesty, it's fried!"
"OK!"
After listening to Han Shan's words, Li Yuanjia patted the armrest of the chair, laughed and stood up.
In order to have a sip of good tea, he sent people to Hangzhou to buy tea leaves every year. In the past few years, because he was not very familiar with it and the quantity of tea leaves in Hangzhou was not very large, the quantity of tea leaves collected each time was relatively small.
It only weighs more than forty pounds at a time.
Unexpectedly, this time, I would be able to receive two carriages of tea!
And because this year we specially sent people to rent a yard and fry the collected tea leaves before transporting them back, so the tea leaves in these two carriages are still dry...
"Now, no matter how hard you try, it's enough!"
After secretly calculating, Li Yuanjia quickly said: "Han Shan, order someone to bring twenty kilograms of tea, catch up with the convoy heading to Luzhou, and deliver the tea to Wang!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
After listening to Li Yuanjia's order, Han Shan was not surprised and nodded immediately.
When Han Shan went out to convey the order and brought in some new tea, Li Yuanjia walked around the room a few times excitedly, then walked back to his desk, spread out the paper and wrote a big word on it.
The word "tea"!
He was not very sure whether the tea collected from Hangzhou was the future Longjing tea, but one thing Li Yuanjia was very sure about was that if he could popularize the tea-frying technology in the Tang Dynasty in advance, then tea as important as
Strategic materials are also likely to appear on the stage of Chinese history ahead of schedule!
The most important role of tea is not to show off.
In the northwest and southwest regions of the Central Plains, due to the influence of the natural environment, meat is basically the main food, and the drinks are mainly cheese. The result is that although the body will be stronger, it will lack the necessary vitamins for the human body.
On the one hand, tea can reduce the greasiness caused by eating meat for a long time, and on the other hand, it can supplement vitamins, which can be said to be extremely important to many ethnic groups.
It was precisely because everyone understood this later that tea became an important strategic material!
Even after the Tang and Song Dynasties, the salt tea monopoly would replace the salt and iron official business. The Central Plains Dynasty monopolized the production of tea and exchanged horses with the northwest ethnic minorities through the tea and horse trade. Therefore, in a sense, it controlled the edges of China through tea.
The lifeblood of trade!
By the time of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court would even set up a "tea department" in tea-producing areas, which stipulated a tea monopoly. Merchants selling tea must have a "tea guide" or "tea origin", and stipulated that "anyone who leaves the country for private tea must be punished."
”! All “bian tea” imported from abroad will be managed by the “Tea Horse Company” and regarded as “official tea”.
Simply put, this is the origin of "treating the border with tea".
Li Yuanjia naturally didn't understand how it worked specifically, but he understood that the Tang Dynasty must not have understood the importance of tea! Because in the north of the Tang Dynasty, which was the center of the rule, few people even drank tea.
, everyone still prefers cheese, just like those people in the border areas...
"Whether tea can become a strategic material in advance depends on my operations in the next few decades..."