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The tea making process of Lijia is divided into four parts: steaming, rolling, molding and drying.

Steaming green leaves destroys the enzymes contained in fresh leaves through high temperature, fixes the original bright green color of leaves and makes them soft.This is the most important step in tea making, which requires extremely high heat. Workers need to stay in the sweltering steaming workshop for monitoring, and regularly use stirring sticks to break up agglomerates to avoid the loss of tea juice.

The steamed tea leaves are soft and need to be smashed immediately to destroy the cell walls to release aroma and nutrition.This process needs to be finely ground before the tea leaves are cooled, and the meridians that are not conducive to making tea powder must be carefully selected, which is very troublesome.

Mold making involves filling moist tea powder into various molds, patting them into cakes and drying them.This step is the most skillful. If you pat lightly, the tea cake will not be firm enough, and the appearance will be ugly and easily broken.The beat is heavy, and the loss of tea juice will cause the aroma to fade.

In the final drying step, only unsmoky firewood can be used in the whole process, and workers need to pay attention to the drying degree at all times.If the drying is not enough, the tea cake is unfavorable for storage and easy to mold.If the tea cake is too dry, the tea cake has a smokey smell and is very hard, so it is difficult to break it when it is boiled.

Only tea cakes that have passed these four levels can be perforated and packaged for sale.

In order to make as many finished products as possible during the picking period, a large number of fresh leaves are picked and sent to the workshop. The production time is tight, and the body is not strong enough to do this job.

Zheng Purn entered the workshop on the first day, and he had a hard time recovering from the hardships, greatly increasing his knowledge.

When she first entered the steaming green workshop, the master chef didn't dare to let her monitor the heat, and assigned her to the relatively easy work of knocking tea cubes.

Zheng Purn knew that she came in through the back door, and there were countless eyes staring at her behind her back, so she didn't dare to neglect her, and honestly ran around among the countless steaming barrels in the steaming green workshop according to the prescribed time, carefully breaking the tea cubes.

Even with the windows open, the steaming youth workshop was hot and stuffy, and the knocking poles were long and heavy. Zheng Lin wore thicker clothes to hide his figure, and he felt profuse sweating all over his body, drinking water all the time. Feeling parched, I am extremely envious of the shirtless master.

When she finished her day shift and went out of the workshop, her whole body seemed to be scoured in the water several times before she got it out, it was wet.His fair skin was flushed red from the steam, his eyes were staring with gold stars, his arms were sore and sore that he couldn't lift them up, he was so tired that he almost fell apart, and he wished he could lie on the ground immediately and couldn't get up.

The workers all knew that she was sent down from above, and they thought she was the young master who came from somewhere to put on a show, and they would just go back to the main shop when the time came, so they didn't expect much from her.

Unexpectedly, this child is hardworking and honest, and he doesn't know how to save energy when he works!She is indeed someone who is valued by the young master. I think she worked so hard when she came to the manor to familiarize herself with the skills.There are many old workers in the outer manor, and many of them have children and grandchildren who are about the same age as Zheng Lin, so they can't help but love her.

In addition, this baby looks good, after "steaming", her lips look like vermilion and her face looks like fat, Bai Shengsheng is handsome and bright, which is very pleasing.

Everyone laughed and gathered around, someone introduced her the tricks of taking a break between work; someone taught her how to save time and effort to make a good tea; Go to a cool and windless place slowly, otherwise heat stroke in autumn will be ridiculous.

In the end, everyone advised her, since she's not a big girl like our young master, don't wear so many hot clothes!How good it is like they are shirtless!What kind of embarrassment is there for a strong young man standing there with a big one? !We don't despise you Bai!

Already disgusted, okay? !The baby is suffering, but he can only hold back!

Zheng Purn accepted all the good intentions before, but she could only grin her teeth in embarrassment at the last one, and had to bite the bullet and take on the title of "shy and beautiful boy".

After seeing the complexity of ancient technology and being moved by the hard work and simplicity of the workers, Zheng Purlin became more diligent.Every time she goes to work, she is the first to come, rushing to do things when she is working, cleaning and boiling water when she is resting, or sticking behind the old workers to ask for advice.

The workers are not very playful, and they don't hesitate to teach her when they see that she is sensible.In this way, Zheng Purn absorbed knowledge and searched for problems.

Yes, it is to find the problem.A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier. Zheng Lin doesn't plan to sell to the Li family for the rest of her life, she has her own plans.

Due to her family relationship in her previous life, she had studied the tea ceremony and knew that the ancient tea industry had a high status.In its heyday, everyone in the world did not drink tea or love tea. It was an important pillar industry surpassing silk and porcelain, second only to grain, iron ore, and table salt.Therefore, since the Tang Dynasty, all feudal dynasties have attached great importance to it.

However, she traveled to Zhongjing for nearly four years, not to mention teahouses, and usually there is not even a tea leaf in the market!At first she thought that the people in Zhongjing didn't like it, but later she realized that it wasn't that the people didn't like it, but that the tea production was too small, and they couldn't buy it, let alone afford it.

The population of Zhongjing is 1000, [-], or [-] million, which is similar to that of the Southern Song Dynasty, but the land area is three times that of the Southern Song Dynasty.In the Southern Song Dynasty, nearly [-] million catties of tea were produced every year, and in Zhongjing, it was at most [-] million catties every year!

Rare things are expensive, and the natural price is extremely high.A catty of slightly better finished tea can be roasted for more than 100 taels of silver, which is equivalent to 10,000+ soft sister coins in the previous life, not to mention the best tea, which can be called sky-high price!This is all sold out as soon as it goes on the market!

Except for the tribute tea that princes and nobles get every year, a small part of it is exported to the royal family of the West Pole to show their friendship.

What is Chanel?What was Lafite in [-]?What is Maserati?What is Patek Philippe?All weak!In Zhongjing, only tea is a symbol of status and wealth, a proper luxury product!

The gap between supply and demand has reached such a level, Zheng Purlin is very curious about why?Is the pure hand-made tea method limiting the production scale?Zheng Lin feels that this is not the main reason.Otherwise, if you look at the Tang Dynasty, people also used the most primitive method of steaming green tea to make tea, but only Mengding tea can produce 3000 million catties per year.

After quietly observing secretly, Zheng Lin finally discovered several important problems.

Firstly, people in Zhongjing seem to have misunderstood tea tree planting, thinking that tea trees can only grow well in the hilly areas in the south of the Yangtze River.Southwest tea and Jiangbei tea have not been developed, and large-scale planting has completely stagnated, and there is no concept of high mountain tea.

Secondly, steaming green tea is the only tea-making method used by Zhongjing. It requires experienced operators and strict requirements on the tea-making environment.The unqualified rate of finished products has exceeded the sky, and the consumption of raw materials is too high. While the quality requirements have to be lowered, the output is also limited and the cost is greatly increased, which is not conducive to promoting process improvement.

The finished tea cakes on the market need to be smashed and boiled before drinking. They must be supported by tea sets. The production of tea sets is also aimed at aristocratic consumer groups. No matter how expensive they are, they need to be maintained after a period of use.

In addition, the tea made with tea cakes is bright in color, but the taste is not very good, with a dull aroma, grassy and astringent taste, and seasoning needs to be added to it, which is a big expense.

In short, not to mention the single variety of finished tea, from production to drinking, there are always many flashy things mixed in, which is extremely troublesome and very unfavorable for promotion.

The worst problem lies in people. The producers and the aristocratic groups seem to be satisfied with making tea only circulated as a luxury in the upper class, and they have no awareness of popularizing it to the public at all.

This is what Zheng Lin most disagrees with. The lifeline of the country’s economy cannot be supported by a few luxury items or the “entertainment industry” that consumes the will!

Zhongjing was severely damaged by the war, and the original economic pillar was almost completely destroyed.The imperial court tried its best to restore agricultural production, and had already done its best to feed the people, and there was no way to resume business.

Insufficient tax revenue and treasury will inevitably be empty. If natural disasters and wars occur at the same time, there will be big problems!It is not impossible to even destroy the country once in a while.

If businessmen are satisfied with the status quo and refuse to save themselves, the newly stabilized country will still be in jeopardy.

Industries such as tea, which are suitable for planting and production in the middle ground, are beneficial to the people, and are easy to form a mass base, are actually very suitable for revitalizing the commercial economy.

If it gets bigger, it can be exchanged for foreign exchange, and even earn military expenses and military supplies.In the Tang Dynasty, tea was exchanged for high-quality horses from other races, thus establishing a strong military position. The interdependence of military and commerce made the ancient tea-horse road last for thousands of years.

However, these thoughts were only temporarily recorded in a small notebook by Zheng Purlin, and he did not mention them to anyone.

Improving the status quo of the entire industry and supporting the economy cannot be achieved overnight.It takes a long time to accumulate, pile up a lot of resources, and more importantly, it needs to have rich industry experience and patient management.

Now that she is a humble person, she speaks lightly, and no one will take it seriously when she brings it up. The most important thing is to live a good life in front of her eyes.

Big things can't be done, but small efforts can always be done.No!She recently discovered a new business opportunity that can not only prosper her own small shop, but also promote the concept of tea culture.

The author has something to say:

No, what you love is money, okay? -_-||?

The turning point is over, and the new copy is open^_^b~

Quantity units are also blocked? ! !why? QQ