The trip to Beijing of the Danes and Swedes went extremely smoothly, and it took them a few days to sign a generous treaty with the Qing government, because it was almost a copy of the treaties of Britain and France, and the Qing government had always had a share in the transfer of interests. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This made the two countries, which had sent huge missions with a large group of experts in state law and economics, punched in the air and were useless at all.

The treaty was signed, but not everyone went back, because there was also a question of exchange of treaty, the exchange of the treaty between Britain and France caused a war, and neither country dared to be careless, and the head of the regiment remained in China, putting on a cautious attitude.

The princes and princesses of the Danish delegation did not leave, but they all stayed in Guangdong, which was more friendly to the government.

Zhang Rou took Princess Alexandra to visit the Gao family's tea garden, but the Dane was still very picky, thinking that the scenery was not beautiful enough, but he didn't want to give up a tea garden and get a tea garden in China, which was something that had never happened in the Western aristocracy.

What's more, there is another unspeakable reason, Alexandra's family is very poor.

The Danish royal family was a world-famous poor royal family in later generations, but Alexandra's family was poor, that was really poor.

Christian was elected as the Prince of Denmark, he could enter and leave the palace and live in the court, but the problem was that he had no financial resources, he was elected as the heir to the throne, and the family of the Duke of Glücksburg in his hometown certainly had no reason to provide them with financial help, and he was not the biological son of the Danish king, and the king was not willing to let him spend the royal wealth, in fact, if it weren't for the nobles' unwillingness to let the old king's daughter inherit the throne, it would not be Christian's turn, so the relationship between the old king and Christian has always been bad, Therefore, his family is living a very tense life.

The family lives only on Christian's allowance for his position in the army, and this allowance is only 400 pounds a year, what is 400 pounds enough? When Li Hongzhang later visited England, the London banker entertained him with 6,000 pounds, and the British prince went to the manor house of a country nobleman to be a guest, and the host's expenses would not be less than 4,000 pounds.

For this reason, this family in Denmark even rarely socializes, those who don't know think they are low-key, and those who know understand their sadness, Alexandra even had to squeeze into a small room with her sister, and her sister, who later became the queen of Russia, who would have thought that an English queen, a Russian queen, was so poor that she didn't even have her own separate room before she got married.

For this alone, the intelligent Alexandra did not want to give up a tea garden that could bring their family a lot of wealth, but as a nobleman, she really wanted a beautiful tea garden to be made into a royal estate, and she proposed that she wanted to choose a tea garden on a larger scale.

After thinking about it, Zhu Jinglun met her request, but he didn't think he could find such a tea garden, even if the Hakka people were good at opening mountains, it would be impossible to open all mountains, at least it would be easier to open, that kind of cliff is impossible to develop, and that kind of place is the best scenery, but where is there a tea garden? There may not even be people!

Zhang Rou took Alexandra to transform the tea area of Heshan, and Huang Maobi ran all over again, and really didn't find one that satisfied Alexandra, but she really found a place that she liked very much.

Invite Zhu Jinglun to visit together.

In the west of Heshan County, between Zhaiwu Town and Shuanghe Town, there is a big mountain called Yunsu Mountain.

Between the two towns of Zhaiwu and Shuanghe, the nearest village under the mountain is Sihe Village, which is also a Hakka village, this area is one of the Hakka gathering areas in Heshan, it can be said that the flashpoint of the Tuke weapon fight is here, that year when the Hongbing Incident in Shuangqiaodu, Luo Ying, the inspector of the Shuangqiao Division, first fled to Sihe Village to take refuge, and then gathered the Hakka to practice Yong to counterattack the Zhaiwu, thus starting the large-scale fight between the Hakka people and the Hongbing.

The east side of this mountain belongs to Zhaiwu, from the foot of the mountain, three kilometers away from Zhaiwuwei, and the west side belongs to Shuanghe, two kilometers away from Shuanghewei, but if you count from the top of the mountain, there are no people within 12 kilometers of the surrounding area.

Yunsu Mountain is 600 meters high, it is not a famous mountain and river, but it is indeed relatively high in this area, the more precipitous peak, the county chronicle is recorded in "ascending high (mountaintop) and looking far away, looking at Duanzhou (Zhaoqing) in the north, looking at Tuocheng (Guangzhou) in the east, seeing the sea (sea) in the south, looking at Gaoliang in the west (Enping ~ Maoming area), vividly in my mind. ”

Usually, except for some literati and artists who like to climb mountains, even the Hakka people do not come to this mountain to open up wasteland.

But the bizarre thing is that Zhang Rou and Alexandra led people to discover an ancient city here, of course, it was mainly the local guide who led them up, otherwise they couldn't even figure out the way to the ancient city.

This ancient city is also famous in the local area, and the literati all know the "Yulei (female) city in the Yunsu Mountain", and there are often literati and ink writers who climb the heights and write a lot of poems for this dilapidated ancient city.

When Zhu Jinglun climbed up, he raised his eyes to a desolate wilderness, all of which were primitive forests and grasses, and it was also a desolation in later generations, and it was a good place for travelers to climb the mountain.

In such a wilderness, but there is a city, the scale is not small, the remaining city wall has hundreds of meters, and are built with huge stones, there is no stone in the local mountain, obviously it is still moved from other places, a mountain is cut flat and neat, the ancient city is square, most of them have been destroyed, only the foundation remains, only the southeast wall is about 500 meters long, 3.5 meters high, 2 meters wide, the northwest wall is about 400 meters long, 2.5 meters high, according to the foundation calculation, the area is 48 square kilometers, it can be called a giant city.

Hundreds of catties and thousands of catties of boulders can not be built in one or two years, and experts of later generations estimate that it will take two hundred years to build a mountain city of this scale.

But who spent two hundred years building such a wall, and who finally disappeared, no one can say. Some of the local squires and officials who accompanied Zhu Jinglun who were familiar with the county chronicles could not tell clearly, and some said that it was built by the Yao people in those years, and later the Mongols went south, and the Yao people and the Mongols broke out in war, and the entire clan was wiped out.

Others say that this was established by the resistance army at the end of the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and a poem was found: "There is a stone city at the top, and the base site is green." I don't know who framed it, but the wild legend is Mingshifu".

There are different opinions, Zhu Jinglun can't figure out that it is from that era, but someone built broken porcelain pieces of different ages from inside, there are Ming and Qing dynasties, but no writing was found, Zhu Jinglun speculated that it was built by Yao Min, because Yao Min has no words, if it was the Han Resistance Army, I am afraid that the stone would have been carved with all kinds of inspirational heroic poems.

Zhu Jinglun really couldn't understand why an ancient city hidden between barren mountains could attract Alexandra, could it be that the Mongols of the ancient Jin Ge Iron Horse called the descendants of pirates who fought the wind and waves across time and space?

And Zhu Jinglun has already seen that there is no water source on the mountain, not even a stream, so the Hakka people are too lazy to open the mountain, and it is extremely difficult to develop this place.

"Princess Alexandra, why did you choose this place?"

Zhu Jinglun sighed that if this place was to be turned into a tea plantation, not to mention the risk of planting, it was a huge expense to drink water from the bottom of the mountain and improve the dangerous mountain roads, but he had heard that this prince was a poor ghost, and the reason why he took the initiative to come to China was that his friend had won a generous allowance for him in the Congress.

Playing with a manor on this hilltop is probably not something that this poor ghost family can afford.

Alexandra pointed to a nearby mountain area: "Because of those tea trees, didn't you say that I can choose any tea plantation, I think the tea plantations are very good." How about you give me this mountain? Please! ”

Zhu Jinglun looked around, on the slope outside the city wall, there were some big trees scattered that were completely different from the surrounding plants, the reason why they were different was because they looked like soldiers, and there were some rules, which should be planted artificially.

"These are tea trees?"

Because the tea trees are too tall, the low tea trees that take care of the tea farmers don't dare to think that these are also tea trees for a while.

Alexandra nodded: "Yes, the real tea tree, or wild!" ”

Zhu Jinglun sighed: "I'm afraid it's not wild, I'm afraid it was planted by the Yao people back then, and there are only a few left." ”

Alexandra tilted her head and smiled, not speaking.

Zhu Jinglun smiled: "You still want to lie to me, are you taking a fancy to these ancient trees?" ”

Zhu Jinglun shook his head: "It's not that I don't give it to you, but you don't know about tea at all, it's not that the older the tea tree, the better, the really good tea is the tea produced by the tea tree for more than ten years, and the tea tree that is more than forty years old generally can't brew anything." ”

Alexandra said firmly: "Maybe it doesn't have a strong tea fragrance in it, but there are historical vicissitudes in it." ”

Zhu Jinglun was stunned, I didn't expect her to say such a thing, this kind of tea trees that are hundreds of years old abound in China, many tea gardens in Huizhou have a history of hundreds of years, some tea trees in the temples on the mountains of Fujian were planted even before the Song Dynasty, and there are even thousands of years of ancient tea gardens in Yunnan, and the tea trees in them are even between wild and domesticated, which is considered to be the place where humans first domesticated tea trees.

But it seems that the Chinese have never played the sign of history.

It seems that playing the brand, but also these European aristocrats to play slippery, yes history, just this one signboard, can crush Indian tea, to break the sky, Indian tea is only 20 years, we 200 years abound, how can Indians compare, if you can create a superficial concept of drinking Indian tea, Indian tea will be finished.

On this point, Zhu Jinglun had to promise her: "The whole mountain can't be given to you, and the people near the woods at the foot of the mountain still have to collect firewood." In this way, this mountain is 600 meters high, and the place above 300 meters belongs to you, what should you do? ”

"Wow, thank you so much!"

As soon as Alexandra was happy, she came up directly and gave Zhu Jinglun a hug, and Zhang Rou, who was next to her, rolled her eyes and scolded the foreign woman for being shameless.

When she descended the mountain, Alexandra revealed her true thoughts, he planned to build a castle in the ancient city on the mountain, she would preserve the original appearance of the ancient city, and she would also clean up the surrounding plants that covered the ancient city, and make it a huge manor centered on the ancient castle.

But the question is, "Do you have money?" ”

Alexandra grinned and said, "If anyone in Europe knew that I owned such an estate, some would be willing to lend me money." ”

The future British princess, will marry into the UK with a huge ancient tea estate, and then this tea garden will become the asset of the British royal family, the history of the rise of Indian tea, and the British royal family encourages the drinking of Indian tea and the atmosphere is not unrelated, and even the entire afternoon tea culture, is because the British king married a Portuguese princess who likes to drink tea to bring to the UK, before the British drank tea, in the smoky café, where there is the later afternoon tea culture so elegant connotation.

To be able to tap the cultural brand of the British royal family for Chinese tea is equivalent to labeling Indian tea as an inferior tea. (To be continued.) )