At present, Gao Jingshi can't get involved in military matters, and even his usual method of persuading Gao Gong to promote it is difficult. Therefore, Gao Jingshi can only silently pay attention to the current situation of Xuan Da's border army and take note of it. In my mind, I slowly thought about future reform opportunities, reform methods and even reform steps.
Since Zhenhe Fort is dozens of miles away from Datong, although Gao Pragmatic cut a lot of corners in today's inspection, it was still evening before he could get back to Datong.
Today, only Huang Mengyu, Ma Fang and the Datong magistrate Cheng were present in Datong. The governor of Xuanda, Wang Chonggu, and the governor of Datong, Fang Fengshi, accompanied the imperial envoy Cheng Wen to inspect the Hukou border defense. Therefore, Gao pragmatic declined on the grounds of being tired. After the banquet hosted by the Datong garrison eunuch Huang Mengyu and the Datong magistrate, he rested in the Dusi Yamen and waited for the meeting with Bahan Naji tomorrow.
Since Han Naji could not arrive in Datong until around noon the next day, Gao Pragmatic took a rare nap the next morning and did not get up until he was fully resurrected at about 4 o'clock.
At 3:30 p.m., Gao pragmatic received the news that Han Naji had entered the city and was temporarily received by Huang Mengyu and Ma Fang. However, the luxurious villa originally planned to house Han Naji was ready, and Huang Mengyu sent someone to invite him. High pragmatism goes first.
Gao pragmatic told Huang Mengyu and others yesterday that he would have dinner with Han Naji today - eating is of course a small matter, mainly a meeting.
Huang Mengyu and others had already guessed this arrangement, so they told Gao Pingshi that the banquet had been arranged. Of course, the location could not be arbitrary, so they would eat in the other courtyard where Han Naji was housed. Moreover, Huang Mengyu was still as knowledgeable as he was two days ago, saying that except for Gao Pragmatic and the people he brought, no outsiders would disturb him.
Gao Pragmatic had to sigh once again, smart eunuchs are indeed the best choice to serve people.
Huang Mengyu and Ma Fang received Han Naji in advance mainly to understand the situation. This was their job. Of course, Gao Jingshi would not interfere, but the time difference was just right for Gao Jingshi to rush to the other courtyard to see if it was suitable. -This is actually just a talk. Could it be that Gao Pragmatic temporarily asked for another place to be moved?
Since the questioning between Huang Mengyu and Ma Fang took quite some time, Gao Pragmatic even had time to enjoy some time in the other courtyard in advance and take a nap.
He slept until midnight, when Gao Pragmatic was woken up by his servants, saying that Huang Zhenshou was here.
Not long after, Gao Pingshi came out of the room, rubbing his groggy eyes, and followed Huang Mengyu out of the study, through the flower hall and to the garden.
This villa is actually the property of the King of Dai. This time, it is a great honor to give it to the court for temporary use. This courtyard has seven levels upon entering. The first level is the gatehouse. After the gatehouse, there are the sedan hall, the hall, and the ladies' hall. Behind the ladies' hall is a garden covering about five acres of land. Then there is the upper room with three entrances, forming two triple courtyards, and then there is a high and spacious courtyard connected by arcades. Separated by the garden, the first half of the Daiwang Villa is used for official receptions and banquets, while the second half is where the family members live. There are two study rooms in Daiwang Villa. One is on the side of the living room, with three entrances and five couplets. It is a large study room. The other one is in the courtyard, connected to his bedroom, and is a small study room.
However, when Gao Pragmatic came out of the big study and went to the garden for the first time, he felt that the sun was dazzling. Fortunately, the flowers and trees were sparse and the ground was shaded. In addition, it was approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, so there was no heat wave.
Huang Mengyu led him to the right corner of the garden under the gable - outside this gable is the corridor under the east chamber, where there is a grape trellis with lush vines. There is a stone table and four stone benches on the brick floor under the frame, which are places for occasional resting when visiting the garden. Now, leaning against the corner, a wooden barrel is suspended in the air with a wooden frame. There is a sand filter device at the bottom of the barrel. At this time, water droplets seep out, like broken pearls, and these water droplets flow into a rod about ten feet long. A large bamboo mat was spread with thick silver-white sand. The crystal water droplets filtered by the sand dripped into a clean and shiny blue and white porcelain basin with a white background.
The exact purpose of this device requires some words to be introduced: Around March, Yin Zhengmao, who was still in office in Jiangxi but learned that he would be promoted to governor of Guangxi, entrusted officials who were escorting tributes to Beijing to give Gao Gong A can of Miyun Long Tea was brought. This Miyunlong tea is produced in Jiaokeng, 35 miles west of Nankang County, Jiangxi Province - a place of about 20 to 30 acres of land.
Since this tea was listed as a drink exclusively for the imperial court during the Feng years of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, this tea has been a royal tribute for hundreds of years, and its reputation has not faded. This tea is made from the new buds of the tea tree around the Qingming Festival every year, and is made into fine small tea cakes, which are milky white like jade and look like a dried chrysanthemum. Due to the small origin, the annual output is less than a hundred kilograms. The highest quality jade cloud dragon only weighs about five kilograms. As a rule, it must be sent to the inner palace as tribute, so it is difficult for foreign ministers to taste it.
However, due to the favorable rainfall in Jiangxi this year, two kilograms more Miyun Long Tea was produced during the Qingming Festival. Yin Zhengmao, who was in charge of this matter, secretly leaked two cans, one was given to Zhang Juzheng, and the other was given to Gao Gong, who decided to promote him.
However, Gao Gong doesn't pay much attention to these things. On the contrary, Gao Pragmatic is more interested in drinking tea - in fact, it is rare to drink pure and pollution-free good tea in the previous life. Of course, if you have the opportunity in this life, you must enjoy it.
So Gao pragmatic asked Gao Gong for it. After getting the Miyun Long Tea, he immediately boiled water and made a pot, poured off the tea milk, and tasted the green tea soup. He felt that his mouth was full of bitterness, but after a while, it tasted sweet again. It's average.
Later, when I asked the room clerk in the imperial tea room who made tea for the emperor, I found out that the emperor used spring water transported from Yuquan Mountain to drink this tea, and the water had to be brought immediately after being beaten to make tea. There should not be more in between. hold up. Tea, tea, water, one is tea, and the other is water. If there is good tea but no good water, the tea soup brewed will definitely not be authentic.
The water that Gaoda Bachelor's Palace usually drinks is the spring water from Yuquan Mountain, but it definitely doesn't have such "timeliness", so it's not good.
Knowing this secret, Gao Pragmatic still sealed the Miyun Dragon Tea in a tin can, thinking that when he had the opportunity to go to Yuquan Mountain, he would taste the mountain spring water directly. But then he thought about it and felt that it shouldn't be so harsh. He felt that any clear mountain spring should be able to make tea.
This time when he came to Datong, he remembered that in later generations, Datong Yungang Grottoes had a faucet that produced spring water, so he brought the tea here and planned to try it.
He remembered that the ancients had a way to remove turbidity from spring water. They only needed to set up a bamboo basket and filter it with sand, and the spring water would return to sweetness. Gao Pragmatic was originally a common man, but in this life he occasionally felt the need to be arty, so he talked to Huang Mengyu and planned to do the same thing when he met Han Naji.
Now standing next to the bamboo couch, Gao pragmatic bent down and looked at the spring water dripping into the blue and white porcelain basin. His face that had just woken up from sleep relaxed slightly, so he turned to Huang Mengyu and said, "Thank you for your trouble, Mr. Huang. I see this porcelain basin." There is enough water in it for a pot. You can order someone to boil it and then make a pot of Miyunlong. Remember, you need to use pine charcoal to boil water. Pine charcoal is warm and slow to heat, so the spring water can be boiled more thoroughly."
Huang Mengyu didn't show any pretense as a guard eunuch, he agreed and left. Gao pragmatically walked alone in the garden, waiting for Han Naji's arrival.
