"Zong Ze wants to see me?"

Lu Qian was very surprised when he heard the report from someone from the previous district. Zong Rulin has been arrested on the mountain for so long, and it seems that his attitude is the most softening, but in fact, he is soft on the outside and rigid on the inside. Now he suddenly wants to come to see himself, so Lu Qian is first surprised, and then curious.

"Mr. Zong, please come to the Juyi Hall ......, no. Tell Mr. Zong to wait at home, and I will come to visit. ”

Suddenly stopped talking, Lu Qian overturned all the words on his lips. In this weather, how could Zong Ze come to the Juyi Hall from the back mountain, he should have gone to the back mountain in person.

This can show his thirst for talent from Lu Qian and Lu Dazhai. Although Lu Qian didn't think that Zong Ze wanted to see him this time, he would bow down.

"Wuzi is a general judge who has not taken office, and the big boss looks down on him."

Pan Jinlian waited for Lu Qian to change his clothes, and watched the latter stride out of the residence, never saying a word. However, the maid beside her complained, you must know that it is now time to Shen, and you will go to the upper area of the mountain after staying at the residence, and you are afraid that it will take an hour to go back and forth. That Zong Ze has to talk to Lu Qian again, and it is difficult to guarantee that he will be able to return tonight. This is a big taboo for the people in the room.

The handmaidens around Lu Qian are all from poor families, and Pan Jinlian will be subdued by a little means, and now they all regard Pan Jinlian as the heroine, and they are thinking about it. Now it also means that the queen is not in a hurry, and the palace maid is in a hurry.

But Pan Jinlian knew in her heart that the uncle in her house was a very assertive master. Once you make up your mind, you won't change it. If you try to persuade him with inward relations, you will make him unhappy. Pan Jinlian is now a one-man pet, and she doesn't think about it in her heart. But her mind was not carried away by ambition, and she knew that her glory and decline were all due to Lu Qian's thoughts, and she never dared to upset him.

Hearing the maid say this, although she thought it was true in her heart, she rebuked angrily on her face: "Noise! Mr. Zong is a good material in the world, and the big boss must also be respected, how can you praise or disparage. "But that's it.

The maid lowered her head, admitting her mistake but thinking that Pan Jinlian was all concerned about the big leader, and her eyes were only good.

Look at this side again, after going out, someone has already brought the horse forward, turned over on the horse, trotted for five or six miles, and saw a grass house. The sergeant at the sentry saw them from afar and blew his whistle. Just waiting to see Lu Qian's face clearly, this side put down the sword, gun, bow and crossbow.

In this way, it is one of the boundaries between the front and back mountains of Liangshanbo, and if you advance forward from here, you will be the back mountain.

And the residence of Zongze in the previous district.

The latter already knew that Lu Qian was going to come to the door in person, and Uncle Zhang, who was sitting opposite him, showed a mocking smile on his face: "In ancient times, Liu Xuande visited Kong Ming three times in the thatched house, and now Lu Yuhou visited the sect in the wind and snow. That's a lot. If his tone wasn't full of sarcasm, he thought he was praising Lu Qian. Comparing the chief of a grass to Emperor Zhaolie of the Shu Han Dynasty is too exalting Lu Yuhou.

"Brother Ji Zhong, it's better to keep some virtue. Our wealth and life are in the hands of their peers. Zong Ze looked at Uncle Zhang with some distress. Since the news came from the bottom of the mountain that Zhang Shuye was given a well-dressed mound by the emperor, this Zhang Ji Zhong seemed to have the intention to die. The mouth is becoming more and more unscrupulous, and there is no virtue left. Compare Lu Qian to Liu Bei, then don't look at the similarity between yourself and You Hengzhi.

I saw Uncle Zhang smile at night and didn't say a word about Zong Ze's words. The Zhang family is a big family of eunuchs, and he is not the same as the grass thief. After only a while, he mocked Lu Qian again: "Emperor Zhaolie has always had the strategy of being a king, and I think that this big leader of Lu is not bad, powerful and gracious, brave and righteous, magnanimous and strategic." He is eloquent and has won the hearts of the people. Just like Cheng Yu's comments on Xuande, he will never be subordinate. ”

"It's just that today, the foundation of the Zhao family is heavy, and it is far ahead of Wei Wu, and its foundation is narrower than that of Emperor Zhaolie at that time, and it is more difficult to find Sun Wu as a horn to resist a strong enemy. Can it be bent without being indomitable, and it will be strong. In times of turmoil, faith is more than clear. With the words benevolence and righteousness, the three armies of emotion; Let the brave people of the world be willing to lose together. Faithfulness and righteousness, sincerity and virtue, liver and gallbladder deeds, and the end of the great cause ......"

The more Uncle Zhang talked at night, the louder his laughter became. Obviously, he was laughing at Lu Qian.

made Zong Ze helpless. Is it really good that your father and son's lives are still in the hands of men, and you are laughed at like this?

He felt that it was not very good for Lu Qian to separate Zhang Bofen and Zhang Zhongxiong from Zhang Shuye. And Zong Ying was a little restless, but fortunately, Uncle Zhang still knew that it was enough to stop.

Zong Ze looked at his departing figure, and his eyes were full of sadness. is full of literature and martial arts, dedicated to serving the community, and Uncle Zhang, who is famous all over the world, is now a living dead, which is sad and lamentable.

Only Zong Ying didn't think so, when this Uncle Zhang was there, he pressed it. In terms of age, fame, and knowledge, Uncle Zhang has no share in front of him. However, now that Uncle Zhang has left at night, and only his father is left in front of him, Zong Ying boldly said: "Doesn't Gong Zhang hear about the chaos in Jiangnan?" Zong Ze is a native of Yiwu, Wuzhou, Jiangnan (now Yiwu, Zhejiang). What kind of grievances are boiling in Jiangnan caused by the disaster of Huashigang, others don't know, don't their fathers and sons know? The clan was also inevitably plagued by Zhu Mian's lackeys. Zong Ze's small magistrate is not in their eyes.

"The resentment of the people in Jiangnan is boiling, and Zhu Mian scolds Wanfu, but he is favored by today's son, and there will be chaos for a long time. What's more, there are Manichaean generations who harbor evil intentions, how do you know that they can't become Sun Wu's situation? ”

Although under her father's stern eyes, Zong Ying's voice became lower and lower. But he still twisted his head and finished speaking. And didn't these words just go to Zong Ze's heart?

The crisis that his son can see, how can Zong Ze not see it? Jiangnan is the land of fish and rice, with a large population, and once a disaster occurs, it will not know how many people will be affected. But what can he do?

He is a humble person, and his words are not valued by others. None of them can reach the Holy Hearing, and no matter how much they speak from the heart, they are all illusory.

Previously, when he was in Quzhou Longyou, he had more than a few upward movements, but he had no effect at all. Even if someone hadn't sheltered him, he himself would have been knocked to the ground by Zhu Mian's henchmen.

Jiangnan, Qilu -

Although it is not the hinterland of the Central Plains, it can be close to Gyeonggi, and it is a place rich in money and grain. Zong Ze was worried.

Lu Qian is an unborn hero in his eyes, "doing the right thing for heaven, eliminating violence and peace", such a banner that is in line with the general righteousness and does not touch the sore feet of the court, how can ordinary people come up with it casually? If you live in China, you can mess with people but you can't rule them. If you take the risk, it is enough to be the master of one party. Compared with Emperor Zhaolie of the Ji Han Dynasty, it is not far behind.

"Although the thieves in Liangshan are strong, they don't dare to do anything yet. There are still many soldiers and horses in the Central Plains, and a piece of paper edict can be adjusted for 320,000 soldiers. The land thief is very forbearing, and if he is not very prepared, he is afraid that he will not dare to do such a disagreeable thing, so as to provoke the wrath of the world. Those who are afraid, the vegetable devil starts in the south of the Yangtze River, peeps into Jinling in the north, and the land thieves run south to the Huaihai, and the two converge, and it is not easy to exterminate them. If these two thieves converge in the Huaihai Sea, the thieves will invade the Central Plains, and it will be difficult to say at that time. If there is an old matter of Ge Shuhan in Tongguan, the western army is far away in Guanxi, and it is difficult to adjust it in a short time, and Zhao and Song are afraid that it is really difficult to hunt in the west, and the world will be troubled. ……”

Zong Ze thought deeply in his heart, and the more he did this, the more pessimistic he became. Because according to what he thought, this Zhao Song Jiangshan will definitely give birth to a big disaster. Just like the "Liangshanbo" calculated by the court and the princes of the court, those who dare to be thieves and those who dare to fight to the death are all killed, and the world will be peaceful. There are more than 100,000 people who will die.

He is willing to 'help' Liang Shanbo, and his original intention is to do his best to save the hundreds of thousands of people near Shuibo. There is no need to save everything, but if he can survive one hundred and one more, his father and son will die without regrets.

But for the "general trend" of the future, it is like a grasshopper shaking a tree, which is ridiculous. That feeling of powerlessness reminded him of the sadness when he was in Longyou County, when all the books on the road were sealed, and he was bluntly warned by the officials who loved him. It was the sorrow that all the strength was going to pass away.

That Uncle Zhang is a 'living dead', Zong Ze feels that he is not the living dead now?

At this time, Lu Qian came to the previous area, and the Zhang Li and other people were already waiting outside, and Lu Qian would not ask them to follow. It is true that Wu Erlang went to the south, but he also had Guo Sheng and Lu Fanger by his side to follow. What's more, Lu Qian himself didn't give it for nothing.

Not to mention going to see Zong Ze, even to see Uncle Zhang or General Zhang Qing, he is not afraid. Of course, if you go to see Hu Yanzhuo, he will still be soft.

"Mr. Zong is fine, Mr. Xiaozong is fine." Since he came to visit, Lu Qian has done enough work. He told Guo Sheng to go and knock on the door, instead of pushing the door open and walking straight in.

Zong Ze didn't take Qiao, and came to greet him with his son, and Zong Ying personally opened the door.

"The old man, father and son, Jun'an, the big boss Yi'an."

After seeing each other, the two sides sat down in the hall, and after only a moment, the little clan came in with tea. But it is not the last tea that prevailed in the Great Song Dynasty at this time, nor is it the loose tea in the old days, the latter is also called "grass tea", which is only steamed and roasted, without pressing and forming, and does not stick to each other one by one, just like the tea that we modern people often drink now; It is a clear tea brewed with fried green and serious tea leaves.

The Northern Song Dynasty also had loose tea, but the production method was very different from that of later generations, and its status was the lowest. The mainstream society drank the end of tea, Xi inherited the Tang Dynasty, the Song people before drinking tea, need to grind the cake tea or loose tea into tea powder.

Lu Qian was not used to drinking tea, but Liang Shanbo did not have the skills to make tea, but after Lu Qian contacted Manichaeism, it was very different.

The territory of Muzhou is dense with mountains and hills, and there are many products, such as sumac, pine, cedar, etc., and the production is abundant. But compared to the raw silk and tea industry, those benefits are all sub-disciplines. Silkworm tea is the first side business in Muzhou, and the first and second local taxes are also tea production. There were many tea farmers under Manichaeism, and naturally there were also tea makers.

Lu Qian didn't know much about making clear tea, and only knew that fried green was a term, which refers to the technique of using a slight fire to make the tea leaves wither in the pot in the process of making tea, and the water of the tea leaves evaporates quickly through manual rolling, blocking the process of tea fermentation and completely retaining the essence of the tea juice. It is a big leap forward in the history of tea making.

But this is still enough for the Manichaeans to make the tea of the later generations. After all, there is loose tea in this era, but such new things have not yet been circulated in the market, and they are still regarded as tea herbs, and they are not elegant, and the products of Manichaeism have all entered Lu Qian's inventory. In today's Liangshanbo, this kind of loose tea has also replaced group tea/tea cakes for a long time, and everyone is accustomed to it.

Zong Ze and the others were also uncomfortable at first, and then accepted it helplessly. The tea brewed from this loose tea is no more in line with the literati than the group tea and tea paste.

Historically, the reason why loose tea completely crushed the tea-making skills inherited from the Tang and Song dynasties, and made the Chinese tea culture reform from the method of roasting and boiling cakes to the method of directly brewing loose tea, was because of Zhu Hongwu's administrative interference. Emperor Hongwu was poor when he was young, and he knew the hardships of the people at the bottom of society. After the uprising, he fought in the vast tea area in the south of the Yangtze River, had a lot of contact with tea affairs, knew the hardships of tea farmers, and expressed sympathy. The dragon group phoenix cake and the like are too expensive to make tea. It not only labors the people but also consumes national strength, so the edict is called to strike, "only to pick buds to advance". It was this move that essentially swept the old-fashioned tea-making process, which had reached its peak in the Song Dynasty, into the garbage heap. The tea-making process of the Tang and Song dynasties, which lasted for thousands of years, disappeared, including tea paste, and has never been traced. So much so that many so-called tea historians in later generations were obsessed with Zhu Hongwu's approach. It is believed that after the development of tea-making technology in China reached its peak in the Song Dynasty, it turned from prosperity to decline. Its turning point was at the beginning of Zhu Ming's founding of the country. Quite a few people also trumpeted Japanese matcha, yes, Japanese matcha.

Lu Qian didn't understand why matcha was loved by many people, he personally felt disgusting, and he could only say that everyone has their own good. At present, Zong Ze and his ilk, their habits, and their habits have also changed significantly under Liang Shanbo's coercive policy.