Chapter 319 Busy Picking Tea, Young Buds Are Expensive

On the third day after the results of the imperial examination were released, the students who passed the examination re-entered the civil service department and were exempted from the examination.

All the students dressed up carefully, some put on rouge and blush to make themselves look more beautiful, and smoothed out the texture of their clothes.

When everyone went in, the officials looked at their appearance, tested their eyesight, and asked a few simple sentences.

The results were all passed and everyone was overjoyed.

They came out of the imperial city before noon. Just as the others wanted to make an appointment with the prospective officials of Lijiazhuangzi, forty-two students had already got on the bus.

The convoy turned and returned to Zhuangzi.

Forty-two people have to go back and continue to study textbooks. They should study by themselves first, mainly physics, chemistry, and arithmetic, but not Chinese.

They listened to the advice and knew that Xinyan would not lie to them, so they should learn their skills steadily. Now is not the time to play with other people.

The other seventeen quasi-officials of the first class mounted the horses kindly lent by others and began to stroll along the side streets.

Unfortunately, there were far fewer people watching the excitement than last year. The people ran to find a place to pick tea.

After picking the tea leaves, I have to quickly send them to Lijiazhuangzi to exchange for money. I don’t have time to watch others parading in the street.

When the team headed east and reached Pingkangfang, the girls from Beiqu opened the windows one after another, waved their handkerchiefs on them, and shouted sweetly.

It was only at this moment that the seventeen Jinshi felt that their status was respected.

"From now on, tea leaves can be picked until before the summer harvest." Pei Yaoqing invited Li Yuanhong to have a meal in heaven and earth.

I saw some people coming from the west of the city, passing by the Heaven and Earth, hurriedly walking eastward with bamboo baskets on their backs, and talked to Li Yuanhong.

Seeing that Li Yuanhong was in a good mood, he continued: "In this way, people with limited financial resources in the two counties can save some money. Huanzhi will be able to find a job with Li Yi, which will be a great contribution."

"Thanks to the outline for being considerate and not getting angry with me, the Ling of Chang'an."

Pei Yaoqing expressed his gratitude. He ordered people from another county to work with him from Chang'an, but the other party said nothing.

"The main reason is that I don't dare to stop it. Let's not mention whether it benefits the people or not. As long as the government officials can get more money, it is difficult for me to stop it." Li Yuanhong said with a smile.

If he doesn't fight, he can just get things done. If he takes money that he dares not take, there is a risk.

What's more, Pei Yaoqing's money is still used for the people of the two counties, and he himself has not been corrupted.

"You don't have to pay for tea in the future, Li Yi promised." Pei Yaoqing changed the subject.

"The brewed tea does have a different taste." Li Yuanhong nodded. He didn't care about the tea because he didn't know what price Li Yi would sell the tea for in the future.

At this time, the people in Jingzhao Prefecture were busy looking for wild tea. They couldn't get into the cultivated tea gardens, so they asked the owners of the tea gardens if they wanted to pick tea by hand.

People in the tea garden know that the tea leaves will grow slowly, and they are still young buds. The price given by Lijiazhuangzi is high.

Depending on the appearance, the most expensive can cost up to 50 yuan per kilogram, and the worst can cost as much as ten yuan.

The price of tea is higher than that of previously made tea, but the requirements are more. The new tea picked must not be delivered to Zhuangzi for more than three days.

At the same time, don't pile up a thick layer, otherwise the price will continue to fall.

Ordinary people find tea trees, pick them for a day, and then drive up to the village. If there are many people nearby, they hire a horse-drawn carriage, donkey cart, mule cart, or ox cart.

People who live relatively close to Zhuangzi can pick tea for two days and then take a bus to deliver it, which will take no more than three days.

Seeing that there was money to be made, the owner of the tea garden negotiated a price with the tea pickers, and a group of people rushed in to pick the buds.

It seems that both parties are very happy. One is that he does not have to look for tea trees by himself, and the other feels that he is getting money for free.

When the first basket of tea was delivered to the village, the farmers began to get busy.

The place where the tea is prepared to be dried must be kept secret. Tea frying must not be taught because you expect to make money from this.

Song De looked at the appearance according to the pictures and instructions drawn by Li Yi. Whenever he gave a high price of fifty yuan, he smiled happier than the other person.

The people who make tea later start to process the tender tea according to different techniques. According to the different moisture requirements of the tea, the yield of the finished product is also different.

The drier the tea is, the more green tea is needed. Under normal circumstances, green tea requires more than four kilograms of green tea to produce one kilogram of finished product.

If a large amount of green tea is delivered, and four or five kilograms of good buds are selected out of ten kilograms, then the fried tea will actually be of the quality of one kilogram out of ten kilograms.

But the buds that have been selected can still be fried.

If you are making very dry tea, you may need to select ten pounds from twenty pounds of green tea, and then fry one pound.

The young buds here in Jingzhao Mansion are picked out, and one pound of green tea can be sold for five pounds, which can be sold at a sky-high price.

As for how to sell it, the proprietor has an idea.

Next to Zhuangzi, those who were not making briquettes for the time being formed a group, hired carriages with Zhuangzi, and went to various places to pick.

It must be hired and paid. When you go there, the car will be filled with fodder, salt and large buckets of water.

It is usually a day's journey, and the horse must be rested halfway.

After picking for a day or more, he rushed back and sold the tea buds to Zhuangzi.

However, Zhuangzi promised to give them some inferior tea.

Supplement some vitamins and other things, clean your stomach and intestines by the way, and don’t drink tea if it’s not suitable for you.

The people in Zhangjia Village did not move. They were clearing the land to plant cotton this year.

The lunar calendar is February and the solar calendar is April, so it’s time to plant.

Not only the village, but Zhuangzi also has a lot of crops.

People in Zhangjia Village cooperated with Li Yi and Zhuangzi to grow cotton. Zhuangzi provided the seeds and technology, and the villagers were responsible for the work.

Zhuangzi gave the village money for renting land and money for hiring workers.

It is equivalent to the people in the village earning an extra salary, and their tourism industry will continue to be developed.

This includes cultivating toads and planting paddy fields, where crabs are raised.

It is equivalent to Lijiazhuangzi who got rich first and led the local area to get rich later. UU reading www.uukanshu.net

The same is true in Huangzhuang in the north. Everyone is waiting to continue making money this year and then build new houses.

On February 28, the tenth day after the imperial examination, Li Yi stood on the bow and watched the boat slowly dock.

The boatmen said ten days was ten days, and it was indeed correct.

Luoyang Wharf is now Henan Prefecture, and the highest official of Henan Prefecture is Henan Yin.

Henan Mu is a distant leader. There is a prince who says he is Henan Mu, but he doesn't care about anything at all.

Now Henan Yin's name is Bi Gou, and he is sixty-five years old this year.

According to the information, he will return to Chang'an this year and become the Minister of Household Affairs, and then he will fall ill next year and die before he recovers.

Li Yi knew this man, and some of the reasons for the poor handling of the locust plague lay with him.

It is estimated that because he was old and a veteran, he was forcing Yao Chong not to deal with the locusts, so Li Longji transferred him back.

Normally, this year Yao Chong would be too anxious to deal with the locust plague, and next year he would dare to issue a death order without a key figure.

The man named Bi Gou named his children according to the Five Elements, and his name also had the character "木" next to it.

You and a group of people are called Fangwai people. You are a court official. How are you Fangwai?

As for the other officials of the Henan Prefecture, Li Yi found no information. They were all unknown people in history, so don't pay attention to them.

Li Yi watched and thought as the boat stopped and the gangplank was put up.

The boatmen helped carry things down, send people off, wash the boats, and ask if anyone else wanted to transport goods. They would do it for money.

Li Yi stopped working, so he got off the boat and watched from the dock. On the last day of early April in the Gregorian calendar in Luoyang, the weather was very hot and the water in the Yellow River became obviously shallower.

The grass in the grass on the pier is yellowish, and grasshoppers are jumping there.