Chapter 19 Pursuit of high quality of life (Part 2)
The first thing that bears the brunt is tea.
Fang Jun was generally satisfied with life in the Tang Dynasty, but he was very dissatisfied with the way of tea. If you mix these special things like mutton fat, onions, and ginger together and boil them, 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 lasting aftertaste of fried tea.
Fang Jun remembers the origin of Longjing tea very clearly, and the place is easy to find. He just told Fang Sihai.
It's just that the Dahongpao became famous in the Ming Dynasty. I don't know if it existed in the Tang Dynasty, but I guess those tea trees on the cliffs didn't appear out of thin air, right? Hundreds of years have changed for the human world, but for the tea tree on the cliff, it is just a fleeting moment. It is expected that the mother tree of Dahongpao should have been there by this time.
Anyway, you don’t have to take action yourself. If you encounter it, you will make a fortune.
"Remember, once the tea trees I mentioned are discovered in these two places, all the land ten miles around will be bought for me. I will first use my father's seal to contact the local government and sign a contract, and then send people back quickly. I will prepare it myself. Good property for purchasing land.”
As soon as he thinks that Long Jiang and Da Hong Pao will become his property, Fang Jun's heart will beat fast...
Oh my god, those days were so beautiful, I can’t even think about it...
After explaining Fang Sihai, Fang Jun handed him the map and sent him away, calling another servant over.
Unlike the slender Fang Sihai, he has a short stature and a simple and honest face, more like a farmer.
Well, it seems that this is how Princess Gaoyang described Fang Jun...
This servant, who came as a dowry from his mother, Lu, acted very steadily and was highly respected and trusted by his parents.
Fang Jun pulled out a few more pieces of rice paper from under the desk like magic.
"Lu Cheng, quickly find a few skilled blacksmiths and find a secluded place to get this thing out as soon as possible. Remember, before showing this drawing to them, you have to sign a contract with them for five years. Within, the secret of this object must not be revealed to others..."
Lu Cheng looked at Fang Jun with a strange look on his face and said: "That... Erlang, why do you need to look for it? My house has its own blacksmith and a blacksmith shop. There is no need for a contract. All the blacksmiths are servants of the Fang family. If you sign Those who have signed a contract to sell themselves will never sell out the interests of the host family..."
Fang Jun: "..."
Does the Fang family also have a blacksmith shop?
Isn’t it true that the feudal dynasty only specialized in salt and iron?
What he didn't know was that from the Sui Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty, the special tax on salt had been abolished and the market tax on salt was collected like other commodities. After the Anshi Rebellion, the imperial court had financial difficulties and the salt monopoly was implemented again. Subsequent dynasties have strengthened the salt monopoly and implemented a tax system on iron, which is no longer treated in the same way as salt.
In other words, in the early years of Zhenguan, the court did not monopolize salt and iron, but collected city taxes.
What's more, Fangfu's blacksmith shop only makes some farm tools, and it's not an ironworks. No one is too lazy to care about you...
Since it is our own shop, there is no need to worry about confidentiality issues, only the level issue.
Lu Cheng took the drawing, his eyes widened like two lanterns. He looked at it for a long time but didn't understand why: "Erlang, this...is a carriage?"
Fang Jun said: "It is a carriage, but it is a carriage that transcends the times. It is unique in the world..."
As soon as he said this, Lu Cheng's expression changed. He carefully took the drawing into his arms and hid it close to his body. He patted it gently and then heaved a sigh of relief.
No wonder Lu Cheng was so nervous. Since ancient times, what has been most important to craftsmen?
craft!
A craft passed down from the ancestors can ensure food and clothing for generations to come. Especially in this era when the war has just ended, a unique craft can even allow a family to survive in the midst of war.
In order to prevent their own skills from being leaked, many people would rather die than reveal anything.
How did Fang Jun know this?
The reason why he designed this carriage was that when he took Du He's carriage to Zuixian Tower that day, his bones almost fell apart. You must know that this was in Chang'an City. If he went for a ride outside the city in a carriage, Why don't you shake out the egg yolk?
But when he thought about having a blacksmith shop, Fang Jun suddenly had an idea in his mind and thought of another item that was indispensable to modern people.
As soon as he thought of it, Fang Jun picked up the brush and sketched a rough sketch on the rice paper. After a few strokes, he felt that it didn't look too similar, so he crumpled the rice paper into a ball and threw it in the corner, and then changed it to another one and started drawing again.
Lu Cheng looked at the pile of discarded rice paper in the corner, which looked like a small mountain, and his eyes twitched with distress. These rice papers are a tribute given by His Majesty to the Master. Even the Master is reluctant to use a few of them. He usually uses ordinary yellow paper for writing. This Erlang is really a prodigal...
After a while, Fang Jun finished the sketch.
Lu Cheng took a look, and it looked like a furnace and a pot, but he still didn’t understand...
Fang Jun didn't care whether he understood it or not: "You just need to tell the craftsmen to do it. Also, this thing must be made of copper."
Lu Chengzhao said: "All copper?"
Fang Jun nodded: "It's necessary!"
Damn, hot pot is not made of copper, but of iron?
There was an extreme shortage of copper in the Tang Dynasty. Apart from casting coins, people rarely used copper to make utensils. This thing that Fang Jun painted, which looks like a pot but not a furnace, would probably have to melt a bunch of copper coins.
Lu Cheng looked at the second young master with a matter-of-fact expression, and thought to himself that Erlang's family was defeated by no one else...
For a small amount of money, you can buy a fat and strong cattle...
Fang Jun sent Lu Cheng away and sat in the study in a daze.
We have tea, we have carriages, we have hot pots, what else is missing?
I'm afraid I won't be able to make toothpaste. It's a completely chemical product and too complicated. Fang Jun, who studied agriculture, doesn't know how to do it. But I seem to have read in a book before that there is no toothpaste in South America, so people use cinnamon mixed with honey to brush their teeth. Not only does the teeth become whiter, but the breath is fresher. I don’t know if it is true or not. I will try it another day.
Oh, and there's soap.
This is a must-have. I have used that round bath bean every time I take a shower since time travel. The scent is quite good, but the ability to remove dirt is obviously not good. I still feel greasy after half an hour of rubbing it every time.
And that thing is extremely expensive. According to the little maid Qiao'er, the bath beans used by the master of the house are the best formula, "clove, agarwood, green wood incense, peach blossom, stalactite powder, pearls, jade shavings, Sichuan water flowers, papaya flowers Three liang each, naihua, pear flower, red lotus, Add four liang each of plum blossoms, cherry blossoms, white hollyhock flowers, and inula flowers, and one baht of musk. Pound the flowers separately and grind the other fragrances. Grind the pearls and jade shavings separately into powder, and mix with seven ounces of soybean powder. , grind it a thousand times, keep it secret and do not leak it..."
There is also a famous joke about bath beans. The cousin of the Prime Minister Wang Dao of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Dunchu Shangzhu, went to the toilet... After returning it, the maid held a gold bath tray to fill the water and a glass bowl to hold the bath beans, so he poured the water and drank. It was called "dry rice", and all the maids laughed at it without covering their mouths...
Damn, you can eat this stuff...
But how is soap made? If it were a science student, he could have done it in minutes, but it would have made Fang Jun's hair turn gray.
I really agree with that sentence: learn physics well, and you will not be afraid of traveling anywhere...
Is it possible that my friend wants to conduct the world's earliest chemical experiment in Datang? But it seems that after the soap thing was made, there was an accessory product called nitroglycerin, which could easily explode.
Could he accidentally give himself away?
Fang Jun was in a dilemma, and it was terrifying to think about it... (End of Chapter)