Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 19 The Pursuit of High Quality of Life
The first thing to do is tea.

Fang Jun was generally satisfied with the life of the Tang Dynasty, but he was very scornful about the tea.The special mutton oil, onion and ginger are mixed together and boiled. Is that also called tea?
Well, of course, this is tea, and it has been popular in this continent for hundreds of years, but Fang Jun can't enjoy it, he still likes the fresh, natural and timeless taste of fried tea.

Fang Jun remembers the origin of Longjing tea very clearly, and the place is easy to find, he has just explained to Fang Sihai.

It's just that this Dahongpao became famous in the Ming Dynasty. I don't know if it was in the Tang Dynasty, but I think those tea trees on the cliffs didn't appear out of thin air, right?Hundreds of years have changed for the world, but for the tea tree on the cliff, it is only a fleeting moment. It is expected that there should be the mother tree of Dahongpao at this time.

Anyway, you don't have to go out on your own, if you encounter it, it will be a big deal.

"Remember, once I find the tea trees I mentioned in these two places, I will buy all the land around ten miles for me. First, I will use my father's seal to sign the contract with the local government, and then send people back quickly. I will prepare it myself. Good property to buy land.”

As long as he thought that Longjiang and Dahongpao were about to become his property, Fang Jun's heart jumped...

Oh my god, that day was so beautiful, I couldn't even think about it...

After explaining Fang Sihai, Fang Jun handed the map to him, sent him away, and called another servant over.

Different from Fang Sihai, who is slender and slender, he has a short stature and a simple and honest face, more like a farmer.

Uh, it seems that this is how Princess Gao Yang described Fang Jun...

This servant who followed his mother Lu's dowry was very prudent, and he was very respected and trusted by his parents.

Fang Jun pulled out a few pieces of rice paper from under the desk like a conjuration.

"Lu Cheng, hurry up to find a few good blacksmiths, find a secluded place, and get this thing out as soon as possible. Remember, before showing this blueprint to them, you must sign a contract with them for five years. Inside, the mystery of this thing must not be revealed to others..."

Lu Cheng looked at Fang Jun with a strange expression, and said, "That... Erlang, why do you need to look for it? My house has its own blacksmith, and there is a blacksmith's shop, so there is no need for contracts. All blacksmiths are servants of the Fang family. Those who have sold their bodies will not betray the interests of the master family at all..."

Fang Jun: "..."

Does the house have a blacksmith shop?
Isn't it that the feudal dynasties are all salt and iron monopoly?

What he didn't know was that in the early period from the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the special tax on salt had been abolished, and the market tax was the same as that of other commodities.After the Anshi Rebellion, the financial difficulties of the imperial court led to the implementation of salt monopoly.Since then, all dynasties have strengthened the monopoly of salt, and imposed a taxation system on iron, which is no longer treated in the same way as salt.

That is to say, in the early years of Zhenguan, the court did not monopolize salt and iron, but collected market taxes.

What's more, Fangfu's blacksmith shop only builds some farm tools, not an ironworks, so no one cares about you...

Since it is his own shop, there is no need to worry about the confidentiality issue, only the level issue remains.

Lu Cheng took the drawing, his eyes stared like two horse lanterns, but he didn't understand after looking at it for a long time, so: "Erlang, this...is a carriage?"

Fang Jun said: "It's a carriage, but it's a carriage that surpasses the times. It's unique in the sky and the ground..."

When he said this, Lu Cheng's face changed, he carefully took the blueprint in his arms and hid it close to him, and patted it lightly, and then heaved a sigh of relief.

No wonder Lu Cheng was so nervous. Since ancient times, what has been most important to a craftsman?

craft!

A craft handed down from the ancestors can make the children and grandchildren have no worries of food and clothing, especially in this era when the world has just ended the war, a unique craft can even allow a family to survive in the chaos of war.

In order not to reveal their own craftsmanship, many people would rather die than reveal half of it.

Where did Fang Jun know about this?

The reason why he designed this carriage was that when he took Du He's carriage to Zuixianlou that day, his bones were almost torn apart. You must know that this is in Chang'an City. If you take a carriage to go for a ride outside the city, Still have to shake the yolk out?

But thinking of his own blacksmith shop, Fang Jun's mind flashed, and he thought of an essential item for modern people.

When he thought of it, he did it. Fang Jun picked up the brush and drew the drafting plan on the rice paper. After a few sketches, he felt that it was not too similar, so he crumpled the rice paper and threw it in the corner, and then replaced it with a new one.

Lu Cheng looked at the pile of discarded rice paper that looked like a hill in the corner, and his eyes twitched in distress.These rice papers are tributes given by His Majesty to the master. Even the master is reluctant to use a few. He usually writes on ordinary yellow paper. This Erlang is really a prodigal...

After a while, Fang Jun finished the sketch.

Lu Cheng looked like a stove and a pot, but he still didn't understand...

Fang Jun doesn't care whether he understands it or not: "You just have to instruct the craftsman to do it. Also, this thing should be made of copper."

Lu Cheng snapped: "All copper?"

Fang Jun nodded: "It is necessary!"

Nima, the hot pot is not made of copper, but iron?

In the Tang Dynasty, copper was extremely lacking. Apart from casting money, people rarely used copper to make utensils.Fang Jun painted this thing that looks like a pot but not a stove, I'm afraid it will take a piece of copper to dissolve.

Lu Cheng looked at the second young master with a natural look on his face, and said in his heart that Erlang's family was defeated, and there was no one else...

With a drop of money, you can buy a fat and strong cattle...

Fang Jun sent Lu Cheng away and sat in the study in a daze.

There is tea, there is a four-wheeled carriage, and there is a hot pot. What else is missing?
I'm afraid I won't be able to make toothpaste. That thing is completely a chemical product. It's too complicated. Fang Jun, an agricultural student, can't do it at all.However, I seem to have read it in some book before. It is said that there is no toothpaste for sale in South America. People use cinnamon mixed with honey to brush their teeth. Not only their teeth are whiter, but their breath is fresh. I don’t know if it’s true or not.

Yes, and soap.

This is a must-have. Since time-travel, I have used the round bath beans every time I take a bath. The fragrance is quite good, but the decontamination ability is obviously not good. Every time I rub it for half an hour, my body is still greasy.

And that thing is extremely expensive, according to the little girl Qiaoer, the bath beans used by the owner of the house are the best recipe, "clove, agarwood, green wood fragrance, peach blossom, stalactite powder, real pearl, jade chips, Shushui flower, papaya flower Three liang each, four liang each of naihua, pear blossom, red lotus, plum flower, cherry blossom, white hollyhock, and inula, one baht of musk. Top 17 flavors, pound various flowers, don’t pound various incense, real pearls, jade chips Don't grind it into powder, combine it with soybean powder seven times, grind it a thousand times, keep it secret and don't leak it..."

And there is a very famous joke about the bath beans. Wang Dunchu, the cousin of the Eastern Jin prime minister Wang Dao, went to the toilet... After returning, the maid held a golden bath tray with water and a glass bowl with bath beans. It is called "dry meal", and all the maids don't hide their mouths and laugh at it...

Nima, you can eat this stuff...

But how is soap made?If he changed to a science student, he would get it done in minutes, but Fang Jun's hair turned white.

Really answered that sentence: learn physical chemistry well, and don't be afraid to travel anywhere...

Could it be that the buddies will have the world's first chemical experiment in Datang?But it seems that after the soap thing is made, there is an accessory product called nitroglycerin, which can easily explode.

Did you accidentally explain yourself?
Fang Jun was tangled, thinking deeply about it...

(End of this chapter)