Chapter 541: Simplifying

After the war, Zhao Yu took a warm bath after returning to the house, and asked people to drink a bowl of sour plum soup in the well water. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info And Wang De had already erected a curtain in the pavilion in the back garden, and put up a soft couch for His Majesty to take a nap here. Speaking of Zhao Yu is the first time to come here, seeing that the trails are quiet, the trees are luxuriant, the pavilions and pavilions are hidden in it, the strange flowers and plants are already in full bloom, and the blue waves in the lake are rippling, but it is a good place to escape the summer, and he has to admire the rich people who will enjoy it.

The pavilion is in the shade of the trees on the shore of the lake, and the curtains block the invasion of mosquitoes, so that people are very comfortable inside, and they do not feel the hot flashes outside. Zhao Hao tossed for a long time, and suffered from heat stroke, and just dealing with the crisis made him feel that he had drained the strength of his body, and as soon as he relaxed, fatigue hit, his eyelids fought, and he fell asleep as soon as he dipped his head on the pillow after lying down, and he couldn't take care of anything.

When Zhao Hao woke up with a soak of urine, it was already dusk, and he couldn't sleep again after solving the problem, but at the same time, he found that there was no dream today, which made him happy. Of course, Zhao Yu was happy not only that he had a good night's sleep, but also that his dreams were born from his heart, which showed that he had finally overcome the psychological obstacles that he had always existed and broke free from fear, as for the reason, he was a little uneasy, was it just because he ordered to kill those Mongols, and he healed the psychological trauma of the past two years?

"I'm not going to be a pervert, am I?" Zhao Yu was taken aback by this idea of his own, and relied on killing people to calm his tension and anxiety, what is that not a perverted demon?

But after thinking about it, Zhao Yu was relieved again, the reason why he slept without dreams today, in addition to fatigue, should be that at the same time as his status has changed, he has gradually controlled the power of life and death, and is no longer the little prince who no one pays attention to and few people care, and when he gains power, he also makes his psychology change, and he is no longer overly worried that he will lose his life at any time, nor will he be anxious at this time.

"Official, are you sleeping well?" Wang De asked with a smile as he brought tea and two plates of snacks.

"Yes, it's cool and tight here, especially since this mat doesn't stick to it at all, what is this made of?" Zhao Hao touched the mat on the couch and said. This mat is woven of milky white filament, like jade and must be tough, like bamboo skin and softer than bamboo skin, he can't think of what material it is made of.

"The official, this is an ivory mat, the small one found it when he was sorting out the thief's private treasury, thinking that the official family was afraid of the heat, so he brought it over." Wang De said with a smile.

"Oh, it's made of ivory." Zhao Yu touched it again, and couldn't help but be impressed by the skills of the ancients, breaking down the ivory into thin strips a few millimeters wide, even modern people with the help of machinery are difficult to do, and they have completed such a precise process manufacturing by hand, which can not help but be admired.

"Yes, this thief has really made a lot of good things, and some of the small ones have never been seen in the palace!" Wang De exclaimed from another angle.

"Are they all gone?" Although Zhao Yu had read the list of confiscated materials, with his knowledge, he only knew that what was hidden must be good things, but he couldn't determine its value at all, let alone figure out which ones should be enjoyed by himself.

"Your Majesty, gold, silver, copper coins and banknotes belong to the imperial court, and these utensils belong to the palace, after all, these good things are not for everyone to enjoy." Wang De explained.

"Oh, I see!" Zhao Yu nodded and said, suddenly thinking that he was the emperor, all the good things in the world must belong to himself, if others did not have permission, it was a private possession, it was trespassing, it was a crime, that is to say, only oneself in the world can use these treasures reasonably and legally.

"These things are transported back, and our palace is finally no longer so empty." Wang De was quite emotional. Since he followed His Majesty, in addition to a few things rewarded by the Queen Mother, he has never added any valuable objects, and after entering the Qiongzhou Palace, there is no longer anything long except for the necessary furniture, and he estimates that in the three hundred years of the Great Song Dynasty, there is no more shabby than the little emperor of the current dynasty.

"It would be nice if all these things were exchanged for money!" Zhao Yu still thinks about money, these treasures look beautiful but can't be turned into money, and they can't be exchanged for the materials they need, so they are waste in this troubled world.

"The official family must not sell them, otherwise how to show the royal majesty, it will make people laugh!" Wang De's eyes turned red when he heard this, and he waved his hand again and again.

"Hehe, I know!" Zhao Yu also smiled when he saw this, in fact, he knew that the biggest role of these treasures in anyone's hands was to show off, just like modern liars and local tyrants like to live in luxury houses and buy luxury cars, in fact, the house is rented, and the money to buy oil is borrowed, but to die to save face and suffer is nothing more than to 'show strength', so that he can cheat money from the bank or fools. And they are in a precarious situation at the moment, but these things are placed in the palace with the same effect.

"The official family is scared to death, if we don't put a few good things in the palace, we will be looked down upon by those barbarians and heroes!" Wang De seems to be well versed in this, and patted his chest with a frightened look.

"It's getting hotter and hotter, and I see that this place is cool and spacious, so let the subsequent ministers move here, and discuss it nearby if you have something!" Zhao Hao looked at the sky, the sun was setting, and the cool breeze in the back garden was very pleasant, much more comfortable than the hall in the outer courtyard. And on the north side of the garden is the chess courtyard of Pufu, where there are thirty-two attics for those beautiful women who are used as chess pieces, and now the building is empty, and it is just right to arrange the ministers to work collectively here, but the people who play chess have changed, and the people who are used as chess pieces have also changed.

"The official family is sympathetic to their subordinates, they will be grateful, and the small ones will send people to arrange and clean up here!" Wang Deyan said.

"It's a thing!" Zhao Yu waved his hand and asked Wang De to do it quickly, he ate two pieces of dim sum, and then picked up the teacup and looked at the tea inside and frowned, he really had enough of this kind of tea.

Zhao Yu suddenly came to this era from modern times, it can be said that he has all kinds of discomforts from eating to, and the thing that makes him most unaccustomed is drinking tea, and there is no way to avoid this thing, and he can't drink it if he doesn't want to. Judging from the wide angle swept by the tea drinking fashion, although the tea ceremony was popular in the Tang Dynasty, and all the princes and courtiers drank it, the custom of drinking tea was only popular in the upper class; In the Song Dynasty, from the royal family and nobles, down to the peddlers and pawns, they all took tea drinking as a lifestyle fashion, and tea has become an indispensable part of people's daily life, and the palace is naturally not exempt from vulgarity.

The Song people said, "Cover people's daily indispensable, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea." "In the Song Dynasty, when people received guests, they had to use tea and drinks. When guests visit, the host family should first serve tea and entertain them; When the guests say goodbye, the host family offers drinks to the guests. These are no different from modern times, but the people of the Song Dynasty are different from the tea brewing method that has only been formed since the Ming Dynasty, but the tea cooking method used is also different.

According to the current saying, modern people mostly drink 'loose tea', and the Song people drink it is called 'group tea', which is similar to the Pu'er tea cakes in today's society. When cooking tea, then grind the group tea into tea powder, put it at the bottom of the bowl, and then use boiling water to brew into tea soup, and at the same time use a tea whisk to quickly blow the tea soup to make it foam, and the foam floats on the soup noodles.

If this kind of tea is placed in front of a 'knowledgeable' modern person, he will definitely think that this green slimy, frothy soup is poison. But the Song people are tired of this, they think that the tea powder is white as the top grade, the finer the grinding, the better, so that the tea can be "lightly panned into the soup" when ordering tea, and the foaming is sufficient, the Song people will order the skill of tea, to the extreme, and formed a superb tea art called "tea". Excellent tea master, can through the reaction of tea powder and boiling water, in the tea bowl to brew out a variety of lifelike patterns, so that the tea veins into the image of the image, birds, animals, insects, fish, flowers and plants are delicate and picturesque, a bit like today's café using coffee and milk, tea, chocolate different colors, to mix interesting patterns of fancy coffee.

"Go, get me a tea cake!" Zhao Yu was not interested in this kind of tea drinking method that the Song people played a high level, and today he felt even more difficult to swallow, so he splashed the tea with his backhand and said to Xiao Huangmen, who was still boiling water and grinding tea on the side.

"Your Majesty's atonement!" Xiao Huangmen was frightened by Zhao Hao's actions, thinking that today's tea was not good, which angered the little emperor, and the two hurriedly knelt on the ground to plead guilty.

"Atonement? Atonement for what sins! Is there anything wrong with me asking you to bring you an unused tea cake? Zhao Yu was confused, lowered his head and asked the two.

"I didn't ...... No, go get the small ones! Seeing that the emperor showed no signs of anger, Xiao Huangmen hurriedly got up to get tea cakes, and the other still didn't dare to move.

"Get up, hurry up and boil a pot of water, I want to use it to make tea!" Seeing this, Zhao Yu said with a little crying and laughing. Thinking about it, I also wonder if I have killed people one after another after arriving in Quanzhou, and I have a bad aura on my body, which makes these people around me feel scared.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The little yellow door also quickly got up, poured the boiling water, washed it again, scooped up new water, and blew hot charcoal to boil the water.

"This is this year's new tea?" After a while, the small yellow door to get the tea flew over and presented a piece of tea cake. Zhao Yu was a big bowl of herbal tea in his previous life, where did he know the quality of tea, he took it and put it under his nose and pretended to be very knowledgeable and smelled it.

"Your Majesty, although the tea in this Pufu is produced in Zhejiang, it is not much worse than the Xiaolongtuan in Jian'an!" Xiao Huangmen said.

"Well, really?" Zhao Yu only knew that the 'Xiaolong Tuan' was the first tea in the Northern Song Dynasty, but it was exclusively for the royal family, not to mention ordinary people, and even many important ministers in the court couldn't even see it, "gold can be there, but tea can't be obtained", so Ouyang Xiu will treasure a small cake given by the emperor for many years and be proud of it. As a modern person, he only heard of his name, and in this era, although he is a royal family, he has never had the opportunity to see it. This little yellow door is an old man in the palace, naturally he has seen it, and he must not fool himself about it, so he said vaguely.

"Your Majesty, this tea cake can't be broken, it has to be knocked down!" Xiao Huangmen saw that the little emperor wanted to break off a piece of tea cake with his hand, but his face turned red and only a few pieces of scum fell, so he hurriedly reminded.

"Oh, then you can get the next piece for me, don't knock it into foam!" Zhao Yu didn't insist when he heard this, and handed him the tea cake and said.

'Keng, Keng......' Xiao Huangmen knocked off a piece of tea cake with a small hammer, and carefully smashed it into several small pieces and sent it up.

"Your Majesty, the water is boiling!" Another small yellow door also reported at this time.

"Okay, let's get two more bowls." Zhao Hao commanded again.

The bowl was brought with little effort, so Zhao Yu picked three tea pieces the size of jujube and put them into the bowl, and then let the boiling water be washed in, and then covered the lid. The two little yellow doors watched the little emperor's every move carefully, but their faces were full of confusion, which was very different from their usual method of dividing tea, and many procedures were simplified in the middle, leaving only this one to brew.

"Come, come, how about you taste it too?" After three or two minutes, Zhao Yu removed the lid of the bowl, a unique aroma of Chen hit his nose, he nodded and smacked, the entrance was a little bitter, and the mouth was a little sweet. And his tea tasting skills are here, let the two little yellow doors also taste it.

"Your Majesty......" The two little yellow doors didn't dare, and they still didn't dare to look at each other.

"What I told you to drink, what are you afraid of, can't there be poison here!" Seeing this, Zhao Yu's eyes stood up.

"Yes, yes!" How can the two little yellow men afford this crime, even if it is really poison, they have to drink it, so they quickly picked up a bowl and learned to sip it from the little emperor.

"How does it taste, and what's the difference between it and your tea?" Zhao Hao asked the two people.

"Your Majesty, the small one tastes mellow and fragrant, although it is a little bitter but has a sweet aftertaste, and the tea is silky and smooth, but the shape is not good." A small yellow door replied.

"Well, what about you?" Zhao Hao asked another way.

"Your Majesty, the taste of the small one is not worse than that of the tea brewed at the end of the tea, and it is even more fragrant." Xiao Huangmen took another sip and said.

"In this case, in the future, I will brew tea like this, and I don't have to spend those efforts to exhale my throat and not quench my thirst." Zhao Yu patted the tea case.

"Yes!" The two little yellow men hurriedly replied, saying that they would indeed save trouble in the future, but their skills were useless.

"Remember, in the future, I hate trouble the most, don't make very simple things extremely complicated, and make miscellaneous ways, it is better to sleep more if you have that kung fu!" Zhao Yu said.

He knew that even if he didn't change it, he would abandon the group tea in the Ming Dynasty, and it is said that it was because Zhu Yuanzhang thought it was cumbersome to drink tea, so he switched to loose tea, which led to the decline of the art of ordering tea. From group tea to loose leaves, it is from complex to simple, but after hundreds of years of evolution, the tea brewing method of loose tea can also form a complex tea art, the most typical is Mo today's kung fu tea, which makes people sigh that the world is impermanent. And now the same is true for dealing with political affairs, everyone chats and farts, and there are a lot of meetings but they can't make a decision, and then they have to try to change it...... (To be continued.) )