Fan Ruzeng didn't expect that the emperor's reaction would be so big!

It seemed that the emperor was out of anger. For Feng Zhenlin, who was originally a clansman, he hated it deeply, and he hated it even more than Jiang Youfu, the head of corruption. It seems that this Feng Zhenlin has done such a heinous crime.

Feng Yunshan's face was pale, he didn't expect that he was originally just investigating corrupt officials, but he inadvertently let himself know about an economic espionage incident, and it was the spying incident of tea, the first economic commodity in modern China.

Feng Yunshan really knows a little about the history of this tea sapling and seed being smuggled to India by British spies for large-scale planting.

That's called Robert? Fu Qiong's economic espionage is extremely famous in history. In the name of a botanist, he was hired by the Royal Botanical Society and the East India Company, and visited China many times to study and study. At first, he still said that it was a plant species investigation, and took away autumn peony, bellflower, bellflower, bone bone, rhododendron, cypress, chrysanthemum, etc., but later, he directly started the idea of tea.

Originally, during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he went directly to the local tea farmers in Wuyi Mountain, Fujian, and secretly learned the secrets of tea fermentation and other production and processing of tea, not only that, but also came to China several times in the name of buying tea, privately purchased tens of thousands of tea seedlings, as well as countless tea seeds, left China by sea, transported back to London, planted and cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens, and then transplanted to India. But for some reason, it still failed.

So, he came to Huaxia again. At this time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had fallen, and the ruling government in China was the Chinese Empire, and when he entered Fujian, he really got 40,000 tea seedlings by contacting Feng Zhenlin, the political envoy of Fujian. Moreover, these 40,000 plants are also parents from the origin of Wuyi Mountain Zhengshan Xiaozhong Tea. Feng Yunshan guessed that at this time, this guy must have learned a lesson as in history, and if he did not return to the UK, he would probably have started planting in India.

Historically, it was this guy, almost a year or two ago, who came to the origin of Zhengshan Xiaozhong Tea in Tongmu Village, Xingcun Town, Wuyi Mountain, secretly collected the best local tea varieties, and purchased a full set of tea-making tools, recruited 8 tea-making workers, and finally took these people and tea seeds and tea seedlings to Kolkata by sea, and then arrived at the southern foot of the Himalayas to open up tea plantations. Within a few years, India's high-quality black tea originated from Tongmuguan, Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province, China, and quickly opened up the international market. This is how the world-famous black tea of Darjeeling and Assam regions of India came about. And not only did India make these black teas famous, but it also caused frequent floods in Bangladesh downstream because the trees in the southern foothills of the Himalayas were cut down to make way for tea plantations.

Immediately afterwards, the British also introduced this tea tree stolen from China to Ceylon, that is, Sri Lanka in later generations, since then, the black tea of India, Ceylon and other British colonies has become the mainstream of black tea in the world, and Britain got rid of its dependence on China, replaced China, and monopolized the European black tea market.

Feng Yunshan still remembers that ten years later, around 1866, less than 5 percent of the tea consumed by Europeans came from India, but at the beginning of the next century, India surpassed China to become the world's largest tea exporter, and a few years later, Ceylon surpassed China to become the second largest tea exporter, as well as Japan, China's tea, and gradually declined. In later generations, the origin of black tea, Zhengshan small black tea in Fujian, declined, leaving only a few negligible "Dahongpao mother trees", on the verge of extinction at any time.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan felt a heart-piercing pain. At this time, Huaxia's treasure was easily stolen by foreign devils, and it was even dug up by the roots.

You must know that the original tea trade was the absolute pillar of China's export trade, especially in the second half of the 19th century, even if the second ranked raw silk and the third ranked porcelain, doubled, there was not as much profit as tea. Think about it, the Chinese Empire's tea export volume is 620,000 quintals the year before last, which is 37,200 tons when converted into tons; last year it was 750,000 quintals; this is still two years ago just experienced war, tea farmers have not settled down, this year under the strong support of the Ministry of Agriculture, there is also the use of phosphate fertilizer, tea production is more, according to Liu Changyou's previous report to Feng Yunshan's prediction, this year's tea export volume is afraid that it will only reach 950,000 quintals, or even more than 1 million quintals.

According to the FOB price of this year's tea exports, the price of tea is 40 s$ per quintal, and the export value of tea this year is 40 million syrup.

This is still the value of this year's tea exports, if the future to increase tea production, to reach the history of the Guangxu period of tea exports, more than 2 million quintals to calculate, the Chinese Empire can earn more than 80 million saint yuan per year tea exports. And this is only the export volume of the Manchu Dynasty, which did not pay enough attention to foreign trade in tea in history, and now it is the empire under its own control, and with its own emphasis on foreign trade, the export volume will only be higher. Moreover, as long as the empire becomes stronger, the price of this international tea will be monopolized by the empire, and the price will naturally rise year by year. This is all net income from the empire, except for a small amount of planting labor costs, the rest is earned.

Hundreds of millions of holy dollars! That's hundreds of millions of holy dollars! Even the United Kingdom, the most powerful country in the world today, has a fiscal revenue of 56 million pounds a year, a total of 250 million holy dollars. Doesn't this mean that if you add the export trade of raw silk, porcelain, cotton, and other materials, these items alone can be exchanged for half a year's wealth of Britain?

This tea is the most important export commodity related to the Chinese Empire before the end of the Industrial Revolution, and its position is absolutely unshakable, not to mention such a digging of the foundation, which must be eliminated.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan once again deeply hated his clansman, Feng Zhenlin.

"Let's behead the public too!" Feng Yunshan looked at Fan Ruzeng and said, "The matter of tea seedlings is very important, so your secret service department will come forward to solve it, and the Ministry of Commerce and the General Staff will fully cooperate!" No matter what the cost, the connection with those details in India, even if it is exposed, must be called Robert? Fu Qiong's foreigners were killed, as well as the tea masters and tea workers hired by him, and they were also eradicated! Of course, the most important thing is to find out their tea breeding base in India, and destroy all those tea seedlings at any cost! ”

Fan Ruzeng had never seen the emperor so nervous, he didn't expect the emperor to attach so much importance to that small tea seedling. Immediately, he said: "Weichen obeys the order!" ”

Feng Yunshan sighed, he didn't know if the leakage of the tea seedlings could be reversed! Fortunately, it has only been a few months, and the British should not have cultivated new tea seedlings in India. As long as you find the batch of tea seedlings that were transported away, you can destroy them all.

Moreover, the key is to kill all the people who are hired to India to know these tea processing and fermentation processes.

In the future, it was necessary to strengthen the management of tea, even with the British, and to strengthen the inspection and management of the goods sold. In addition, everything that foreigners do when they enter the country must be investigated clearly, even if it is a mission, although Feng Yunshan does not pay much attention to the spread of Christianity among foreigners, but this kind of chronic cultural intrusion must be eliminated.

However, the opening of the port for trade was encouraged by Feng Yunshan. You can't waste food because of choking, and strengthen supervision in the future.

Regarding tea, in history, there is also a book, which will also be one of the competitors in the export of tea in the future, but in this era, Feng Yunshan has other arrangements.

Feng Yunshan has already decided to solve the tea seedling incident stolen by the British to India first, and in the next step, after the empire's navy grows and grows or controls the Malay Peninsula, he will directly monopolize tea and control the tea trade of the whole world.

After reading the three corrupt officials, Feng Yunshan was no longer interested in understanding the dozens of corrupt officials behind him. He also knows that there will be such corrupt officials in any dynasty and any country, even if he kills all these people today, at most he will tighten the atmosphere, but it is impossible to put an end to it. Even if Zhu Yuanzhang, who treats corrupt officials most harshly and harshly as in the early Ming Dynasty, corrupt officials still go forward and succeed. To solve the problem of corrupt officials, even in various countries in later generations, there is no way to solve it fundamentally, and it can only be said that the establishment of an effective system of clean government is far more effective than relying on an emperor to advocate it.