Song Ming sorted out his thoughts and said: "Let's put it this way, tea is the same as porcelain, in ancient times, Europeans wanted to drink tea, and they could only import it from China. In 1610, the Dutch East India Company imported large quantities of tea from China for the first time, but due to the limited shipping capacity at the time, the so-called large quantities were also limited.

Even the Dutch imported tea at that time, and had no idea what it was used for, and most of them put it in pharmacies and sold it as a herb from the mysterious 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, and the two sides argued endlessly.

Even so, tea is prized because of its small quantity, and the price reaches a high price of 80 guilders per pound. You know, this is still a tariff-free price, and if you add tariffs, the absolute price is better than gold.

Later, I thought that the university professor had published a book called "Tea, Coffee and Chocolate". This book popularized tea culture for Europeans, and all of a sudden, tea began to explode in Europe.

The aristocracy drank tea with vassals, the nouveau riche followed the example of the nobility, and the poor looked up to ......

At that time, tea was so popular in Europe that it was impossible to buy it, and it was necessary to buy it to the point of going to auction houses.

Even so, tea is an extremely sought-after commodity in Europe, far from being in short supply, and prices are skyrocketing.

Profitable, major companies and fleets have come to China to purchase tea.

Even so, tea is still very expensive.

With the spread of tea culture, countries M and E have also come to buy tea.

At that time, country Y rose, and the sun never set across the ocean, dominating all the black tea in China at that time.

Country M retreated to the next best thing and swept up green tea.

In the case that black tea and green tea could not be supplied, country E did not even let go of the brick tea at that time, and swept away all of them and returned to China to sell.

Even so, with the spread of tea, more and more people joined the tea drinking army, and country Y soon found that importing black tea alone could not meet the requirements of the Chinese people. So the amount of green tea was increased, and in the end, even brick tea was imported.

At that time, there was a saying that foreigners used big smoke to plunder real money and silver, and Huaxia used tea and ceramics to plunder real gold and silver.

Until one day, country M knocked on the door of country R, and the people of country M suddenly discovered that this inconspicuous place of all sizes actually has a huge tea industry!

So the tea of country R began to enter the market.

The tea of country R is the result of careful cultivation of the tea varieties that are begged for when they come to Huaxia to pay tribute every year since the Tang Dynasty. That is to say, the tea of country R is basically our Chinese tea, and there is not much difference. Even the techniques of roasting tea and making tea were learned from Huaxia.

With the emergence of country R, the monopoly of tea in China was broken, and in addition, at that time, the Chinese people were not angry, because tea was selling well, so in order to sell more money, shoddy, and the lack of catties and two things was also frequent.

As a result, the reputation in Europe is not getting worse day by day.

The people of R sent people to Europe to inspect, investigate, and make sufficient preparations, and entered the European market with the positioning of honest and trustworthy and high-quality tea.

The Europeans immediately threw themselves into the arms of country R and abandoned Chinese tea.

Since then, the tea of country R has entered the high-end aristocratic market, and the price is higher than gold.

Huaxia tea, on the other hand, has been reduced to a low-end market and cannot be sold at a high price.

This is nothing, I don't fight for myself, no wonder others are shrewd.

We Huaxia people are not people who can't afford to lose, just get up from where we fall.

Up to now, Huaxia tea merchants have been working hard to return to the high-end market, and in fact, they have achieved great results.

We are working hard to use our own strength to fight for what belongs to us.

But just when we are all working hard, there are people who are willing to be people and become dogs!"

Hearing this, Tang Chen subconsciously glanced at the Qian boss.

Song Ming said: "That's right, it's him who took the lead." Eight years ago, the people of R came to China to open a tea chamber of commerce, and everyone went. The smell of gunpowder at the scene was very strong, and the largest tea merchant in country R, Biei, was even more present and said: In the next ten years, there will be no tea in China!

At that time, the old man of our family became angry, got up to argue with him, and taught him what tea is.

The two sides competed in the tea ceremony and the tea leaves, and the result was that we lost in the tea ceremony and we won in the tea leaves.

This is a very long-faced thing for Huaxia tea merchants.

After all, the tea ceremony is good, but the core essence is that the tea leaves must be good.

After all, it is the tea leaves that are sold, not the tea ceremony.

Tea should respond, which means that the high-end market is beckoning to us.

The Hiei family was gone, and we thought it was over.

I never expected that today, eight years later, Mt. Hiei is back again, this time not as a tea shogun, but as a challenge! Just like eight years ago, the challenge of the tea ceremony and the tea taste. ”

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 Hiei family dared to kill back was because they bought the tea seeds that we used to win the tea at a high price from Boss Qian eight years ago! This Qian Tongming actually stole our precious tea seeds for money and sold them to the people of the R country! At the same time, he is now the largest agent of the Hiei family in Huaxia, you say this kind of person, hateful?"

When Tang Chen heard this, his eyes glared at the boss, and he said angrily: "Isn't this a traitor?"

Song Ming nodded and said: "The traitors back then can be said to be afraid of death in order to survive, so they had to do it. But he, huh...... It's a dog at heart!"

Tang Chen looked at the confused old man and asked, "Master, do you know about this?"

Tang said with a smile: "I know about the competition, and I don't know about selling tea seeds." Anyway, the match between Hieiyama and Huaxia should be held in three days, right?"

Song Ming nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Speaking of this, Song Ming sighed and said: "This time the Hiei family came prepared, I heard that they used the tea varieties we carefully cultivated, carried out targeted and genetic adjustment, and developed Hieizun tea." The Eizun tea is much better than the seven-inch incense we participated in eight years ago, and the best tea in our hands now is only a little better than the seven-inch incense. I'm afraid I'm going to lose this game. ”

Tang Chen frowned and said, "Genetic adjustment?

Song Ming said: "Yes. ”

Tang Chen said: "This ...... Master, didn't you say that the best tea comes from nature? Artificially adjusted genes, no one can be sure that the tea will have side effects, right?"

Tang said confusedly: "The best tea, of course, comes from nature. In fact, artificially adjusting genes, whether good or bad, is not recognized in the high-end market. Ms. Song, is your news reliable?"