Chapter 141 Tea

The two soft eggs were carried down by the eldest sister and mother-in-law, and Lin Daiyu and Xiaobao turned around to entertain Gao Hongsheng and their party.

The guqin was taken down in Gao Hongsheng's greedy gaze, and it was replaced with tea fruit dim sum, the tea is good tea, and when the tea is made, a fragrance comes to the face.

Gao Hongsheng smelled the fragrance of tea, and patted his thigh in annoyance, negligent, negligent, how did he forget to pour the famous tea of this era to modern times, mistakes, mistakes.

However, if you want to pour tea, at least you must find a good tea doctor, and you need advanced processing methods, otherwise with the processing methods and preservation methods of this era, good tea will also be changed into secondary tea.

Unless you control the tea mountain and tea field by yourself, and then pour some modern processing machinery over and use modern packaging methods to package it, otherwise a single preservation is enough for your own headache.

At the same time, in this era, Indian tea has begun to gradually replace Chinese green tea as a new type of drink.

The difference between green tea and black tea is that green tea is an unfermented tea, while international black tea is a fermented tea.

So why did the barren and backward India become the pearl of the British Empire?

It is because of the tea leaves, to put it simply, Indian black tea.

At that time, tea accounted for an absolute proportion of the world's beverage varieties, and coffee was still a luxury at that time, and it had nothing to do with the general public.

If you look for old movies, you will find that you have to go to a special café to drink coffee, not just drink it if you want to, until instant coffee comes out, coffee becomes a common drink.

Tea is not so troublesome, boiling water in a kettle, directly invading can be brewed, and it is also good for people's bodies, so once it is spread, it has become a fashion, and it has become a world drink from high-ranking officials and nobles to peddlers and pawns.

Britain even set a time for drinking tea, which became one of the benefits of the workers in the capitalist factories, drinking afternoon tea.

At that time, the reason why the British Empire launched the ** war was also because the deficit in the tea trade was too large, tens of millions of taels of silver flowed into China every year, and Britain had no suitable goods to fill the loopholes, so it had to use the harmful ** to offset the trade deficit, but even this could not smooth out the deficit.

This situation did not gradually change until an Englishman named Fu Qiong stole Chinese tea seeds and tea cultivation technology, and succeeded in growing tea in India and Ceylon.

So when did the British start drinking black tea instead of green tea?

Black tea first left in the eyes of the British is the black tea of Wuyi Mountain, but the production at that time was not enough, so a large number of green tea was also sold to Europe, people's tea drinking habits are green tea and black tea at the same time, but gradually green tea withdrew from the sight of the British, black tea became the most important drink.

On the one hand, it is related to the climate habits of drinking tea, green tea is usually drunk in hot climate areas, while black tea warms the stomach and is suitable for drinking in areas with low temperatures, the United Kingdom and other places are 50 degrees to 60 degrees north latitude, the total annual sunshine is relatively small, and the climate is relatively cold.

The second is the aesthetic and psychological reasons, the color of green tea is light and green, a cup of green tea looks a lot cooler in the hot summer, and on a cold winter day, a cup of warm black tea looks warm, which is also one of the reasons why black tea is popular in Western Europe such as the United Kingdom.

At the same time, the aboriginal living habits are also the reason for the formation of black tea drinking habits in the UK, and their original drink is red wine, so it is easy to accept black tea with the same red soup color.

In addition, black tea is warm and pure, it can be pure drinking, and it is also suitable for mixed drinking, mixed drinking can be added in the black tea soup according to each person's preferences, adding sugar, milk, honey, lemon, etc., to make milk tea, honey black tea, lemon tea, etc., after the black tea is brewed, the soup is red and thick, the aroma is high and long, the taste is mellow, and after adding milk and other condiments, the tea fragrance is not reduced, and it is very popular with Europeans.

You must know that Britain's colonies at that time were all over the world, and any of his preferences unnaturally affected the whole world, and tea went to the world little by little with British colonial rule.

When Britain successfully planted tea in its colonies of India and Ceylon, due to the relationship of interests, the British team carried out conscious manipulation of the national tea market, belittled Chinese tea, and hindered Chinese tea in many ways, so that the sales of Chinese green tea were dealt a heavy blow, and Indian black tea gradually replaced Chinese green tea.

So the reason why India became the pearl of the British Empire can be understood by now.

That's right, it's tea, and to be honest, what's in that place in India?

Did minerals get to the British Empire? Enough for shipping. Are crops, food, the British shortage?

Because they stole China's tea planting technology and successfully planted it in India, Britain no longer relied on Chinese tea alone, so that India became a pearl for Britain.

At the same time, Britain controlled the world tea trade and made a fortune in it, which made India one of its important colonies.

Otherwise, in British thinking, that place is just a dirty and poor place to grow ** to balance trade with China.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, China's tea exports gradually declined, gradually fading out of the world tea market, becoming a regional drink, not a single supplier that ruled the world.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, China's traditional export varieties, tea, silk, ceramics, and tea were hit by India, and silk and ceramics were blocked by Japan and fell to a low point.

What the hell did I get here again?

How did the tea and dim sum get here and faint to death.

Go ahead.

Tea, seasonal fruits, and snacks came up like water, and Gao Hongsheng also took out his thoughts from his frustration to chat with Xiaobao who was accompanying him, chatting so lively.

The one named Jin Xiaobao is a veteran in the end, and he doesn't have the slightest sense of exploration, just chatting with Gao Hongsheng, what perfume on his body is the latest in France, the material of the clothes has just come in, and the style is the latest.

Gao Hongsheng also followed the nonsense, the nonsense from all over the world, and even threw the big revolver on the round table for Jin Xiaobao and them to fiddle with, the lively and lively thing was not to talk about business, it was all about them to have fun with themselves, and Albert and they were even more foolish, flirting with the two little women.

But Gao Hongsheng has no problem with the three foreigners, they are all veterans among the flowers, but it doesn't mean that Hong Jincai is no problem.

Lin Daiyu also saw that Hong Jincai was the best breakthrough among these people, and they directly pulled Hong Jincai to the bench in the pavilion and made love to him! It's like a ** for many years, and it's just stuck together.

Be affectionate, just be affectionate, it's just a show, it's not a big deal.

But why is the 18-karat gold-plated counterfeit pocket watch on your chest gone, shouldn't it be a gift?

No, after a while, I bought you more than 5,000 Yingyang's civilization sticks, and you don't give them to me, hell will you.