Chapter 840: Hugh's Adventure

Hearing Yang Meng talk about Tianzhu, Hugh was shocked: "Yang, I know you love adventures, but believe me, don't go to Tianzhu, it's the big adventure of life when you get there!"

Yang Meng blinked: "No, Tianzhu was originally a colony of the Corrupt Country, and now it is still one of the Corrupt Nation Federations, you should like Tianzhu as a tycoon of the Corrupt Country!

Hugh smiled bitterly after hearing this: "I not only have a holiday villa there, but also a tea plantation. But...... Alas. ”

What is Darjeeling famous for?

The world's three major fragrant black teas are Ceylon black tea from Sri Lanka, Keemun black tea from Han and Darjeeling black tea from Tianzhu. Well, but the merchants who can't stand the Han Kingdom will blow it, and blow the Tianzhu Assam black tea into the 'world's four major black teas', in fact, the original Assam black tea is a bargain at all------ otherwise where would the merchants get their profits?

By the way, I am talking about an interesting little knowledge: the tea that the people of the rotten country drank back then were bags of Wuyi black tea, because the specifications of the tea bags in the mainland were different from those exported to the rotten countries, and the tea bags exported that year had to be re-unpacked and packed.

The fungus on the feet fell on the tea leaves, helping the tea to ferment a unique taste on the long road to the rotten country, including the later Darjeeling black tea and Ceylon black tea。。。。。。

In fact, whether it is Ceylon black tea or Darjeeling black tea, it turns out that they were both born in the Han Kingdom.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, because the tea production of the Han Kingdom was greatly reduced, the rotten people who loved tea found that it was not a way to import tea from the Han Kingdom, and there must be other tea import channels, so they hit the idea on the tea trees of the Han Kingdom.

At that time, the East India Company hired an adventurer named Robert Fujun, a well-known Han man who was familiar with and understood the Han Kingdom, and the East India Company gave him the task of stealing the tea trees and tea making techniques of the Han Kingdom.

At that time, transportation was inconvenient, and it was not easy to get tea trees to cross the ocean to survive elsewhere. Robert Fujun came up with a way to use the 'Ward Box' used by the doctors to preserve the saplings.

This so-called 'Ward box' is actually very simple, it is a wooden box, which is covered with a glass cover, and because it is sealed, it can retain water, so that the plants can survive inside. Robert Fujun put the tea tree seeds in the soil of the Ward box, so that the tea tree seeds could germinate just enough to be transported over long distances.

He used this method to transport a large number of tea seedlings to Assam, India, a colony of the Corrupt State at that time, and also took a lot of skilled workers from the Han State, and since then Assam has produced a large area of black tea under the orders of the Corrupt State. Later, the black tea of Assam spread to the Darjeeling district of West Bengal, which was originally a summer resort for the Corrupt people, and a large number of the ruling class of the Corrupt country would visit here every summer, and several public schools were established in the Corrupt country, where the famous movie star Vivien Leigh was born. It can be called the back garden of the rich and corrupt state. While developing tourism there, the people of the Rotten country carried out tea cultivation here, which gave birth to Darjeeling black tea. And buying tea from his own colony is definitely much cheaper than buying tea from the Han Kingdom, so under the instruction of the Rotten State, Tianzhu vigorously developed tea cultivation. Darjeeling black tea is even more sought after by the people of the rotten country, and it is directly called one of the three major black teas in the world.

But to be honest, although this Darjeeling black tea is good, it is not so exaggerated. In the Han Kingdom, it is a medium-to-high black tea, which is far worse than the domestic black tea. However, due to the popularity of the rotten people, Darjeeling black tea is very popular all over the world.

By the way, the world's largest producer of Darjeeling black tea is really not in the Darjeeling region of Tianzhu. This Darjeeling can only produce about 8,000 tons of Darjeeling black tea every year, while the Darjeeling black tea sold in the world every year is more than 50,000 tons, and the rest of the more than 40,000 tons is self-evident------- anyway, it is almost the same black tea, and most people can't drink the difference at all.

Speaking of which, there is another point, many people think that foreigners love to drink coffee, but in fact this is also a misunderstanding.

In fact, with the exception of North America and Oceania, the main drink in most countries in the world is tea. Even those two countries in North America used to drink tea! But let the rotten people do it, they don't drink tea and drink coffee instead.

At that time, the Corrupt State and Gaul were engaged in a seven-year war there, and the Corrupt Country was very short of money because of the war, so it hit the idea on the head of the North American colonies, and the Congress of the Corrupt Countries passed a "Townsend Act", which was a high tax on the North American colonies at that time, including tea, and later felt that the money was less, so it simply promulgated a "Tea Tax Law" The East India Company was allowed to sell tea directly to North America, so that the price of their tea was cheaper than that of smuggled tea, but the common people of the North American colonies had to pay a tea tax if they wanted to drink tea.

These two bills were enacted together, the cost of tea was reduced, but the tax revenue increased, and the corrupt country made a lot of money.

As a result, the common people of the North American colonies got angry and directly launched a 'no tea drinking movement', the colonists who went to North America were Europeans who loved tea, and as a result, they began to drink coffee, and then there was the famous 'Boston Tea Party', a group of rebels disguised as Indians poured the tea shipped by the East India Company to North America into the sea.

When the people of the corrupt country see this, can they still bear it? You are going to rebel! Directly promulgated a "coercive act" to clean up those North American colonists, and everyone knew the rest of the matter, a guy named George Waught-Shengton, who had never cut down a cherry tree when he was a child, led the people of the corrupt country to fight hard and won, and from then on the world's first power was born.

Why do Han people think that foreigners drink coffee?

It's all Hollywood blockbusters, and other Hollywood movies are made by Stars and Stripes, and they drink coffee over there. But the Stars and Stripes really don't represent the whole world. It's not that two cups of coffee can be 'international'.

Let's just say that if you go to Europe, you will have a good tea cooking technique, which is definitely better than being able to make coffee!

Yang Meng was puzzled after hearing this, and asked: "There are many people in our Han Kingdom who tout Tianzhu, and when it is like heaven, it makes me itch and want to see it." ”

Hugh sighed after hearing this, and Susan on the side said: "This summer, we went to Darjeeling to escape the summer, and it was also the first time we went to Tianzhu, which was really eye-opening. ”

Hugh also said: "You know, because of historical reasons, we people in the country think that Tianzhu is a very good place, and even Tianzhu cuisine is the most popular overseas dish in the country, so we have nothing to do in the summer, so the two of us went to Tianzhu, after all, we haven't been to it before, so we planned a travel route, from New Delhi to Mumbai, then to Varanasi, Chennai to Bangalore, and finally Darjeeling." ”

After hearing this, Yang Meng said: "Well, this is a classic tourist route for Tianzhu travel, right?"

Susan sighed: "It's really a classic route, and almost all of us are fighting liars along the way. ”

"Huh?" Yang Meng was stunned after hearing this: "Is it so exaggerated?"

Hugh said: "We were deceived as soon as we arrived at the New Delhi airport!"

Susan added: "We had just gotten off the plane and there was a money changer inside the New Delhi airport. A woman with an airport staff sign dragged us in to exchange money,"

"And then?" Yang Meng asked puzzled, "This is normal, right?"

Susan sighed: "There is only a fee of 100 rupees for withdrawing money from the ATM of any bank in Tianzhu, and this is the amount you can withdraw. And the airport has a 12% exchange rate difference! This is the airport! There is a currency exchange shop that clearly shows the pit money, and the woman who pulled us in is still wearing the airport staff's work card! No one cares!"

Yang Meng didn't know what to say after hearing this: "。。。。。。 ”

"And beggars!" said Hugh

"Yes, yes, and beggars!" Susan said indignantly: "In New Delhi alone, I met at least a hundred beggars who told me, 'The child hasn't eaten for several days,' and helped them buy more than 60 cans of milk powder, which is three times the price of the regular store!

Hugh added: "Not to mention taking a taxi! We took a taxi from Le MΓ©ridien to the Bird's Nest Aquarium, said 300 rupees, and when we got off, we asked for 300 dollars!

"We were also stolen twice in the tuk-tuk!" added Susan as she suddenly remembered.

"There are also fake monks and dervishes. That's everywhere!" Hugh said: "Remember, the monks and dervishes you can see in Tianzhu are all fake, including almost all those seen on the Internet, and the real monks and dervishes are in the deep mountains and old forests or temples! How can they go to the streets to collect money?"

Susan suddenly slapped her forehead when she said this: "What I can't stand the most is their double standard there! How much does it cost to go to the Taj Mahal from a foreign country? The entrance fee is 750 rupees! There is an additional 500 rupees for the construction of the city! There is also a credit card fee of 500 rupees! It adds up to 1,300 rupees! What about the natives? 40 rupees! The price of a bottle of Coke!"

Yang Meng smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Then you should go to Han to play, the situation here is just the opposite, foreign adults are cheaper and locals are expensive." ”

Susan didn't understand the meaning of the sentence, and said there, "These are just appetizers!"

"Huh?