Du Mu's "The imperial concubine is laughing, but no one knows the lychees are coming" vividly explains the difficulties and hardships, and more importantly, the "cost" of transporting lychees to the imperial concubine. The scene of spending tens of thousands of dollars just for a

Du Mu's "The Concubine Riding the Red Dust and Smiling, No One Knows the Lychees Are Coming" vividly explains the difficulties and hardships, and more importantly, the "cost" of transporting lychees to the imperial concubine. The scene of spending tens of thousands of dollars just for a lychee is clearly before our eyes. When the lychees were delivered to the city, fast horses seemed to be galloping past in front of them.

In order to prove his love for Yang Guifei, Emperor Xuanzong decided to give her a surprise on her birthday on June 1st, so he appointed a lychee envoy to transport fresh lychees on June 1st. To Changan . Let the imperial concubine taste fresh lychees on her birthday.

In an era when there were no airplanes, no high-speed trains, and no cold chain transportation, it was simply a fantasy to transport lychees that changed color on the 1st, fragrant on the 2nd, and tasted on the 3rd from Lingnan, 5,000 miles away, to Chang'an. Although he knew it was impossible, how could he dare to disobey the emperor's order? If it failed to be transported, it would be death, and if it was not transported, it would be death. The emperor's personal lychee envoy decided to give it a try.

went to Lingnan to deliver lychees. Fortunately, the emperor ordered in advance that he could come to Lingnan early. I learned from local lychee planting elites that there is an early-maturing lychee that can mature in March, but it has a bad taste and can only be used to make wine. If you pick it in advance and use the ripening method, you can keep it for two more days. So he picked lychees and got a fast horse from a businessman friend in Hu on the condition that if he succeeded in transporting the lychees, he would write to the emperor and hand over the task of transporting the lychees to this businessman friend. Even though Li Zhishi broke his promise in the end, his friends still gave him a lot of help at this time. Study the various routes from Lingnan to Chang'an, draw up special maps, and send a pair of men and horses to rush to Chang'an day and night. Use the flying pigeon to pass the message to get the status of lychees on different routes.

As expected, the first and second tests failed. But there is hope in the two failures. Learning from failure, there is still hope for delivering fresh lychees to Chang'an. Use fast horses on land and fast boats on water. Make arrangements for pick-ups at various stations in advance. However, because the expenses such as fast horses, grain and grass were levied from the people, in some areas the people abandoned their villages and fled to the camps because they could not bear the taxes. Fleeing from the post station will result in failure to change the expressway in time and will inevitably cause delays on the road. So it is unknown how long the delay can be, and whether the lychees can be transported.

On June 1st, Chang'an City was decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, and the imperial concubine's birthday arrived as scheduled. When Lychee was feeling anxious, a horse and a can of lychee galloped past the city gate. A horse and a can of lychees! It took several months and cost tens of millions of dollars, and the people could not bear the tax and fled at the risk of death. The lychees arrived, but they lost the hearts of the people.

Everyone knows that the imperial concubine likes to eat lychees. Of course, the decline of Tang Dynasty was not caused by the imperial concubine eating lychees three or two times!