Chapter 95 Chinese Tea Ceremony, Medical Bureau
It was May 14th in a blink of an eye, and it was the day when Su Ze went to the county town to study.
With the Yunnan horse that Hai Rui lent to Su Ze, Su Ze only took half a day to get from Changningwei to Nanping County.
[Riding Yunnan horses, riding skills +10, Lv1, 36/100]
During these days, Su Ze discovered that the riding skill, the speed of gaining experience is related to the mount.
Su Ze rode the donkey in the family temple for an hour before gaining 2 experience points.
But riding Hai Rui, a Yunnan horse, can gain 5 experience points in an hour.
But it makes sense if you think about it carefully. Driving a sports car will definitely increase your skills faster than driving a tricycle.
But Su Ze's crotch hurt when he was riding this horse. The official road in Nanping County was a dirt road. Although the horse was fast, his whole body was falling apart.
If he keeps going like this, he's probably going to die on horseback.
Su Ze thought of Yu Zongyuan's Fengyang horse. If it were that horse, would it be able to refresh its skills faster?
The most evil krypton gold mobile game, both annoying and kryptonian!
The situation of Changning Guard is better now, but now everything is in ruins and money is spent everywhere. Su Ze is reluctant to spend a lot of money to buy horses.
All we can do is find an opportunity to take advantage of Mr. Yu and find a way to blow up his gold coins.
When Su Ze was about to see the gate of Nanping County when Cao Cao arrived, he saw Yu Zongyuan standing at the gate.
Yu Zongyuan saw Su Ze holding the horse and quickly walked forward.
"Brother Su!"
Yu Zongyuan greeted Su Ze enthusiastically.
"Knowing that you are coming to the county today, I have been waiting for you for a long time!"
Behind Yu Zongyuan was his Fengyang horse carriage, and a group of soldiers wearing green cotton armor followed the carriage. Coming to Zongyuan means traveling far away.
"Brother Su, let's talk in the tea shed."
Nanping County is close to Wuyi Mountain. Everyone in the county, from dignitaries to ordinary people, loves to drink tea.
The practice of drinking tea was so popular that there were tea stalls with stoves on poles at the city gates, supplying tea to merchants going in and out of the city gates.
The stall owner was a gray-haired old man. When he saw Yu Zongyuan wearing brocade clothes, he took out the best tea leaves with a grin on his face, and then licked some charcoal in the stove to heat the water even more.
Wuyishan tea requires boiling hot water. After the kettle boils, pour it into a large bowl of teapot.
The old man raised the teapot high and poured the tea into two bowls and cups.
The fragrance of tea was wafting, Yu Zongyuan waved his hand and said: "Little old man, go and stay aside, let me lend you a tea stall to talk about something."
After saying that, he threw out a bunch of copper coins. The old man at the tea stall quickly picked up the copper coins on the ground and said respectfully Exit.
Su Ze picked up the teacup. Although the tea stall used ordinary tea leaves, the old man brewed the tea at the right temperature and at the right time, and was able to make the inferior tea leaves reach a good level.
However, a dandy like Yu Zongyuan naturally couldn't taste the quality of tea. He just found the coarse tea difficult to swallow and spit it out after taking a sip.
Su Ze drank it with relish. He picked up the kettle and poured it into the teapot, filling up his tea bowl again.
[I found a tea stall where I can learn the skill "Tea Ceremony". Do you want to learn it? 】
Su Ze was delighted, as expected, he could learn skills everywhere, and he immediately secretly said "Learn".
Some basic tea ceremony knowledge poured into Su Ze's mind. Chinese tea ceremony has a long history. Lu Yu began to write the Tea Classics in the Tang Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was also an era when tea ceremony books emerged.
Su Ze immediately knew that the tea in his hand was Wuyi Mountain rock tea, the predecessor of Kung Fu tea that became popular in Fujian in later generations.
Wuyi Mountain rock tea is a semi-fermented green tea, which is a tea between black tea and green tea. It can still produce tea after multiple steepings, and is quite popular among ordinary people.
However, green tea is still the most popular among the scholar-bureaucrats. For example, Longjing is a popular famous tea, especially the young leaves that have just grown before the Qingming Festival.
However, Su Ze, who had been traveling for a long time, felt that the Wuyi Mountain rock tea had a strong taste and was quite thirst-quenching. No wonder ordinary people like this kind of tea.
After Su Ze finished drinking the tea in the bowl, the system popped up a prompt.
[Tea stall tasting, Wuyi Mountain rock tea, "Tea Ceremony" experience +10, lv1, 10/100]
Then I made another cup, and I only heard the system prompt:
[Tea stall brewing tea, "Tea Ceremony" experience +1, Lv1, 11/100]
Sure enough, this skill is the same as the one in the game!
For the tea ceremony skill in the game, you can gain 10 experience points every time you collect a new variety of tea. You can also gain experience by hanging up and drinking tea on weekdays.
The Ming Dynasty had a rich variety of teas. There were dozens of famous teas recorded in "Neng Duo Shi Shi" in the early Ming Dynasty. Just collecting new teas would be enough for Su Zegan to reach Level 5.
As soon as he entered the county town, he discovered a skill that could improve his health. Su Ze was in a great mood.
Seeing that Su Ze just kept drinking tea, Yu Zongyuan said: "Brother Su, don't be busy drinking tea. I'm worried to death." "
Brother Yu, why are you worried?"
Yu Zongyuan looked around the tea stall. There was no one, so he whispered: "It's not about the Yushi Qing army."
Su Ze pretended to be confused and said: "Didn't Brother Yu say there was no problem last time?"
Yu Zongyuan sighed and said: "Brother Su In Changning Guard, I don't know the recent situation in the county." "Xu
Shuli, who was originally sent to Fuzhou City to assist the imperial censor of the Qing army, is familiar with my family. With him, the Qing army can get through safely this time." "
But. Unexpectedly, Secretary Xu met with an accident when he left the city that day."
"Accident?" Su Ze asked pretending to be innocent.
Yu Zongyuan lowered his voice again and said: "It is said that he was attacked by Japanese pirates, but the county magistrate blocked the news and only said that Secretary Xu died of a sudden illness."
Su Ze quickly covered his mouth pretending to be surprised.
Yu Zongyuan sighed and said: "There are Japanese pirates outside this county. Now people in Nanping City are uneasy, so dad sent them to Fuzhou City at this time."
Yu Zongyuan looked like a drowning man seeing a life-saving straw, and said to Su Ze: "Brother Su, can you help me calculate this trip to Fuzhou City? I delayed my trip to Fuzhou City for a few days on the pretext of being sick. Finally, I waited until the day when I entered the city, so I set off today. I just wanted to ask you if it was good or bad? "
Su Ze was also speechless. Everyone knew that it was about the family's wealth, but Yu Zongyuan still delayed his departure until today just to ask Su Ze for fortune telling.
In this way, the Yu family can still inherit the third-level command of the capital from generation to generation. Only a hundred households in the Lin family will die heroically for the country in this life. It’s no wonder that a thousand Japanese Japanese under King Lu’s command can scare the whole of Fujian into restlessness.
However, Yu Zongyuan came to the door on his own initiative, which was a good opportunity to inquire about the news. Su Ze pretended to count his fingers and said, "Brother
Yu, this Secretary Xu is deeply involved with your family."
Yu Zongyuan was shocked. Although Xu Shisheng had a close relationship with the Yu family, Yu Zongyuan only realized that Xu Shisheng's status in his father's heart was so high after Xu Shisheng's death and his father got very angry.
Su Ze just made some calculations, and even when it came to the relationship between Xu Shisheng and the Yu family, Yu Zongyuan believed that Su Ze was truly "moral".
Su Ze added: "The death of Secretary Xu has also affected your family's luck. If you go to Fuzhou City this time, you may not get the results you want."
Yu Zongyuan quickly prayed: "Brother Su Save me! I delayed setting off for a few days just to wait for you. If something goes wrong again, I'm afraid my father will beat me to death!" Su Ze touched the tea bowl and said, "I'm afraid your family will lose money to eliminate the disaster
. "
When Yu Zongyuan heard about spending money to eliminate disasters, he calmed down. Isn't it just a waste of money?
Anyway, the current Yu family's property has nothing to do with him. As long as he can get things done, it doesn't matter if he spends more money!
Yu Zongyuan suddenly had other thoughts. If he cursed his immortal brother, could he take the opportunity to make another fortune and save more capital for himself after dividing the family?
Yu Zongyuan bowed solemnly to Su Ze, took out a package and stuffed it into Su Ze's arms and said, "
This is my wish. Brother Su, when I come back from Fuzhou City, I will hold a banquet for you at Yaoyue Tower!"
After that ! After this, Yu Zongyuan immediately walked out of the tea stall, got on the carriage and hurried away to Fuzhou City.
Su Ze opened the package and found another twenty taels of silver. He could only sigh that this second young master was really a good "NPC" who could earn gold coins.
Su Ze sincerely hoped that the Yanping Wei Yu family could withstand the Qing army this time. There were not many such easy prey.
Entering Nanping County, the atmosphere in the city was indeed much more tense than last time.
The merchants were all in a hurry. The tax collectors who usually collected taxes at the city gate and the city gate guards who blackmailed merchants no longer had any thoughts of making money at this time, but stepped up their inspections of the road guides.
After finally queuing up and entering the city, the bustling street in front of the city gate was no longer as bustling as before, and the Arhat Feet who gathered here were nowhere to be seen.
Su Ze didn't know that these Arhats had become meat and potatoes. Not only the strong men of the county government had them put on clothes and become servants.
The big families in the city also wooed these Arhats and asked them to look after their homes and courtyards.
Especially the landowners who had Zhuangzi outside the city. Although they could hide in the city, the Zhuangzi outside the city also needed people to take care of them, so they offered these Arhats a large price to guard the courtyard.
Su Ze didn't know that pretending to be a Japanese pirate and attacking Xu Shisheng would cause so many chain reactions.
It was not yet time to report in the afternoon, so Su Ze was going to take a walk around the city to see if he could learn any new skills.
The first thing to learn is medical skills. In troubled times, learning medical skills will not only protect yourself, but also heal others.
Before entering the city, Su Ze asked Lin Xianyang that there were two medical clinics in Nanping City.
One is the government-owned Huimin Pharmacy, and the other is the Shao Family Medical Center, which has been practicing medicine in Nanping County for generations.
Huimin Pharmacy has appeared since Wang Anshi's reform in the Northern Song Dynasty. It was established and abolished in the Song Dynasty, and it was not established permanently until the Yuan Dynasty.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Huimin Pharmacy, Yangjiyuan (an orphanage for the elderly) and Luzeyuan (cemetery) all became standard facilities in the city.
It's a pity that after the Qing army entered the customs, the people-benefiting pharmacies in various places were destroyed, and this policy of benefiting the people was abolished.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Huimin Pharmacy was quite good. At that time, the pharmacy had its own medicine fields and specialized doctors who had been practicing medicine for generations, treating people and prescribing medicines for free.
However, by the time of Chenghua, Emperor Chenghua's reputation in history was similar to that of Han Dynasty, and he was considered a relatively generous emperor.
But similar to Wenjing, under the loose governance style, the grassroots in various places were rapidly strengthened. The policy of suppressing mergers that was still implemented in the early Ming Dynasty was quickly relaxed during the Chenghua period. The fish scale inventory was also gradually distorted at this time, and finally the court completely Loss of control at the grassroots level.
There was also a policy during the Chenghua period that allowed the government to sell official land.
It was at this time that local governments began to sell off the official land they controlled.
In fact, this policy was not unreasonable. At that time, official land cultivation was inefficient and needed to be managed by people. Tenants who rented official land often occupied the land for generations and paid only a small amount of taxes to the government.
At that time, the number of yamen personnel in various places was increasing rapidly, yamen funds were drying up, and various projects of the imperial court required money.
When the court did not give money, local government offices could only sell the official land in their hands.
As a result, the number of official fields decreased sharply during the Chenghua period. A large number of officials and relatives took the opportunity to buy land, and local powerful officials even gobbled up the best official fields.
The medicine fields of Huimin Pharmacy were also sold in Chenghuajian. From this time on, Huimin Pharmacy, which lost its cheap medicinal materials, gradually turned into a clinic that could only treat minor illnesses.
The loosening of the medical household system will lead to the rapid loss of a large number of medical households. They will either open their own pharmacies or medical clinics, or simply give up on changing from medical to imperial examination.
Su Ze thought for a while and decided to go to Huimin Medical Bureau first. He was just here to get his skills for free, and he didn't really want to see a doctor.
Huimin Pharmacy is located near the west gate, not far from the government office. Su Ze led the horse and quickly arrived in front of Huimin Pharmacy.
It has to be said that as a model project of the Ming Dynasty, Huimin Pharmacy has a good reputation.
The two characters "Hui Min" are written on the tall archway. It is said that this is a unified style across the country, and it is all handwritten by Emperor Hongwu.
Doesn’t it mean that Huimin Pharmacy is in decline now? Judging from the appearance of this facade, it should be well maintained.
Su Ze walked into Huimin Pharmacy and saw that it was empty with only a few patients.
[I found that at the pharmacy where you can learn the skill "Medical Skills", do you want to learn it? ]
"Study."
After learning the medical skills, Su Ze was about to leave when two people walked in from the main entrance of the medical bureau, blocking Su Ze's way out.
An old man wearing the uniform of a medical officer was respectfully following behind a slender young man in brocade clothes, nodding and bowing and saying something.
A woman disguised as a man?
Su Ze quickly noticed the walking posture of this young man in brocade. Her dress was not as good as Lin Mojun's, and she smelled faintly of powder. Was it so common for women to dress up as men in the Ming Dynasty?
But think about the trend of this era. Now every festival in the Jiangnan area, the women in the boudoir will wear men's clothes to go on an outing. Various erotic novels are publicly printed and distributed, and there are even literati who specialize in writing such books.
In the coastal areas of Fujian, before the Ming Dynasty, there was still a tradition of women heading the household. Zhu Xi once criticized his hometown for "taking companions as wives and eloping with wild partners." The atmosphere in Fujian was still open.
However, those who can travel in men's clothing are probably the female relatives of officials and gentry.
The atmosphere of freedom can only be enjoyed by the upper class, and ordinary people will be tricked to death by ethics and education.
Su Ze didn't want to cause trouble. He wanted to go around and leave, but his attention was attracted by the conversation between the two.
(End of chapter)