Song Ming sorted out his thoughts and said, "Let's put it this way. Tea leaves are like porcelain. In ancient times, Europeans could only import tea from China. In 1610, the Dutch East India Company imported a large amount of tea from China for the first time. However, due to the shipping capacity at that time, the so-called large amount was also limited.
Even when the Dutch imported tea, they had no idea what the tea was used for. Most of them put the tea in pharmacies and sold it as a mysterious herb from the East.
There were even two theories at that time. One was that tea was poison, and the other was that tea was a precious drink. Both sides argued endlessly.
Even so, tea was precious because of its small quantity. The price reached a high of 80 guilders per pound. One had to know that this price was exempted from tariffs. If tariffs were added, the price would be comparable to gold.
Later, a university professor published a book called "Tea, Coffee and Chocolate". This book popularized tea culture for Europeans. All of a sudden, tea began to explode in Europe.
The nobles followed the trend and drank tea, the nouveau riche imitated the nobles, and the poor looked up to it …
At that time, tea was so popular in Europe that it could not be bought. One had to go to the auction house to buy it.
Even so, tea was an extremely scarce commodity in Europe. The supply far exceeded the demand, and the price skyrocketed.
With profits to be made, major companies and fleets came to China to purchase tea.
Even so, tea was still extremely expensive.
With the spread of tea culture, M and E countries also came to buy tea.
At that time, when Y country rose, The Rising Sun City swept across the ocean and occupied all the black tea in China at that time.
M country settled for the next best thing and bought green tea.
When E country could not supply black tea and green tea, they did not even let go of the brick tea at that time. They bought all of it and sold it in their country.
Even so, with the spread of tea, more and more people joined the tea drinking army. Y country soon found that importing black tea could not meet the needs of the people. So they increased the amount of green tea. In the end, they also imported brick tea.
At that time, there was a saying, "Foreigners use tobacco to plunder real gold and silver, while China uses tea and ceramics to plunder real gold and silver."
Until one day, M country knocked on the door of R country. The M people suddenly discovered that this inconspicuous place had a huge tea industry!
So, R country's tea began to enter the market.
Since the Tang Dynasty, Japan's tea had been cultivated meticulously every year when they came to China to pay tribute. In other words, Japan's tea is basically the same as China's tea. Even the techniques of frying and brewing tea were learned from China.
With the appearance of Japan, China's tea monopoly was broken. In addition, China's people were not up to expectations. Due to the hot sales of tea leaves, in order to make more money, they sold shoddy tea leaves. Thus, the shortage of tea leaves was frequent.
As a result, their reputation in Europe deteriorated day by day.
The Japanese had sent people to Europe for inspection and research. After making sufficient preparations, they entered the European market with the reputation of being honest and trustworthy.
The Europeans immediately threw themselves into the arms of Japan and abandoned the Chinese tea.
Since then, Japan's tea had entered the high-end aristocratic market, and its price was comparable to gold.
China's tea, on the other hand, was reduced to a low-end market and could not be sold at a high price.
This wasn't a big deal. If he didn't live up to expectations, he couldn't blame others for being smart.
We Huaxia people are not sore losers. We just have to get back up from where we fell.
Now, China's tea merchants have been working hard to return to the high-end market. In fact, they have already achieved great results.
We are working hard and using our own strength to snatch back what belongs to us.
But just as we are working hard, there are people who are willing to be dogs instead of humans! "
Upon hearing this, Tang Chen subconsciously glanced at Boss Qian.
Song Ming said, "That's right. He's the leader. Eight years ago, the Japanese came to China and opened a tea merchant. Everyone went. The atmosphere at the scene was very tense. Japan's largest tea merchant, the Birui family, even boasted that there would be no tea in China for the next ten years!
At that time, our old man was furious. He got up and argued with him, teaching him what tea was.
Both sides competed in the Way of Tea and tea leaves. In the end, we lost in the Way of Tea and won in the Way of Tea.
This was a very proud thing for China's tea merchants.
After all, although the Way of Tea was good, the core was that the tea leaves were good.
After all, they were selling tea leaves, not the Way of Tea.
Since the tea leaves agreed, it meant that the high-end market was waving at us.
The Birui family left with their tails between their legs. We thought that this was the end of it.
I never expected that today, eight years later, the Birui family would return again. This time, it wasn't a tea merchant, but a challenge! Just like the challenge eight years ago, the Way of Tea and tea products challenge. "
Tang Chen was puzzled and said, "What does this have to do with Boss Qian?"
Song Ming said angrily, "Just yesterday, I heard the news that the reason why the Birui family dared to come back was because eight years ago, they bought the tea seeds that we used to win at a high price from Boss Qian! For money, Qian Tongming actually stole our precious tea seeds and sold them to the Japanese! At the same time, he is now the biggest agent of the Birui family in China. Don't you think this kind of person is hateful? "
When Tang Chen heard that, his eyes widened as he said angrily, "Isn't he a traitor?"
Song Ming nodded and said, "The traitor back then could be said to be doing it for survival. He was afraid of death and had no choice. But he, humph … is a dog deep down! "
Tang Chen looked at Muddle Tang and asked, "Master, you know about this too?"
Muddle Tang chuckled and said, "I know about the competition, but I don't know about the matter of selling tea seeds. Speaking of which, the competition between Birui Mountain and China should be held in three days, right? "
Song Ming nodded and said, "Yes."
At this point, Song Ming sighed and said, "This time, the Birui family came prepared. I heard that they used the tea seeds that we had painstakingly cultivated to carry out targeted genetic adjustments and developed Birui Supreme Tea. Birui Supreme Tea is much better than the Seven-Inch Fragrance that we used in the competition eight years ago. And the best tea we have now is only slightly better than Seven-Inch Fragrance. I'm afraid we will lose this competition. "
Tang Chen frowned and said, "Genetic adjustments? Then Birui Supreme Tea isn't naturally produced, but artificially? "
Song Ming said, "Yes."
Tang Chen said, "This … Master, didn't you say that the best tea comes from nature? No one can be sure that the tea leaves won't have side effects after artificially adjusting the genes, right? "
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