Chapter 151: The War of Tea Seeds (End)
See all the Aborigines of Ceylon who have been concentrated, the Western colonizers. The interpreter came up to them and asked them to send a picture.
What the tea tree seeds look like, no one knows at first, but it doesn't matter, now I directly send a special color picture. That's an illustration from an encyclopedia sold in a supermarket. Zhang Hongbin spent some silver in the inspection area to copy a lot, of course, these things are not included in the consumption amount.
In this picture, everyone thinks this thing is familiar, but they don't seem to have seen this thing.
"I would like to inform you that this is originally the original product of my Chinese land, and it should only belong to my Chinese people. Any vain attempt to bring out this original product in our China will be regarded as a provocation to our China.
Our China has always been a country of etiquette, even if someone provokes, we should give those innocent people a chance.
So, within one day, hand over the tea tree seeds or all the tea trees, and we will leave immediately. But if one day, when we find this kind of crop planted on the land of Ceylon, then the whole of Ceylon will be razed to the ground! Yes, we do what we say, for the sake of your future lives, for the sake of your children and grandchildren, please think carefully about where you have seen this thing, and if you do, hand it over immediately! The interpreter shouted.
No one can guarantee whether they have really seen it, but there is still an absolute threat and a slaughter mentality that must be done. Now, it is the last mercy, and I hope they will consciously hand this over. Otherwise, in the future, the people of the Intelligence Bureau, in this land, see the shadow of this tea tree, then I am sorry, Ceylon Island will become a desert island...... Unless, this becomes the land of China.
People, you look at me, I look at you, looking at these loaded and murderous soldiers, they think that the other party should not be joking.
Whether it's for their own sake or for future generations, there is no reason why they should not seek out the seeds of the tea plant.
With a threat to life, people burst out with absolute efficiency. In just three hours, everything that could be found throughout the city, similar to tea tree seeds, whatever it was, was taken out. As long as it looks like a tea tree, whether it is a seedling or an adult tree, it will be moved directly. As a result, within fifty miles of the city, there was no greenery.
Gao Jie naturally didn't screen these plants one by one, and directly let people burn them.
After this was done, he finally asked the interpreter to warn them, and even let the battleship fire a cannon in the square, and then shocked them with a huge explosion.
From that moment on, the people who had woken up from the shock kept this picture of tea and tea seeds. Years later, tea was called the Devil's Temptation in this land, and even in the land of India. On the one hand, its taste was liked by both the upper class and the common people, at least until carbonated drinks became rampant. However, no one did anything to propose it, and this thing was introduced and planted. Even if, at that time, India and Ceylon were already sacred and inalienable lands in China.
Gao Jie was completely efficient, leading people to sweep the coastal cities one by one, if there were satellites, you could clearly see that the vegetation in the coastal areas of Ceylon, at least within fifty miles of the coastal cities, was decreasing at a strange rate.
After going around Ceylon, Liu Ruoqi issued the news of the landing in India.
Unlike Ceylon, the Portuguese colonists in India still had a lot of influence, especially the East India Company, a colonial company.
It may not have been touched by the Republic, so it was still a trading haven for Portuguese and Western colonists. Even, relying on the East India Company, the colonists allowed the people here to grow sugar cane, doing twice as much work as modern people every day. The exploitative face of its capitalists is on full display here.
Naturally, this is also the place where the colonizers' merchant ships come and go most intensively, but unfortunately, in the past two days, merchant ships can come to India and cannot leave India, making all the fleets that intend to carry out ocean trade miserable. They didn't know how long this would last, but for many caravans that shipped goods with a relatively short shelf life, the longer it was, the more detrimental it would be to them.
But it was the Republic that blocked the sea, the one that defeated their combined fleet, so that several old seafaring powers were knocked to the dust and reduced to a super-naval power of second- and third-rate countries. When they saw the ironclad ship cruising on the sea, they knew that being obedient was their best choice at this stage.
Originally, they were always worried, worried that the republic would have been blocking the sea like this.
Fortunately, just today, their fleet came to shore, but a group of elite troops who knew at a glance disembarked and quickly occupied various key strategic points, and most importantly, did not give the defenders any time to react. This situation makes them realize that something bad seems to be happening.
Sure enough, when Gao Jie announced that he would conduct a comprehensive inspection and collect tea seedlings or tea seeds, many people understood that it was a good thing done by the Portuguese. As a result, the faces of those non-Portuguese maritime merchants became much more ugly when they looked at the Portuguese maritime merchants.
At the beginning, after discussion, it was only necessary to fully collect and investigate tea seedlings or tea seeds. But according to Liu Ruoqi's meaning, it can't be cheapened by this group of Yangyi who dare to provoke Huaxia. So he gave the order to loot the coastal cities for a day and bombard them for a day before leaving.
For those maritime merchants, 70% of the goods are left behind, and it is confirmed that the whole ship does not have tea seedlings or other Chinese origins, and then they are allowed to be released.
Without 70% of the goods, for all maritime merchants, it is no different from taking a trip for nothing, but compared to the shipwreck, people and blood have no return, so they can finally earn some capital and come back. Seeing that the ironclad ship was ready to bombard, the maritime merchants were powerless to resist and compromised one after another.
After they left, all the harbors had become defenseless little daughters-in-law, and anyone could go up and bully them.
For the next three days, the whole of India was enveloped in the fire of the Republic's navy. I don't know how many people are homeless, and even many Indian women who are too eye-catching or Western women who have immigrated here have been taken back to be used as slaves. In China, slaves were not allowed to exist only for the Chinese people, but not for foreigners. Therefore, whether it is a Japanese people, Koreans, or even Mongolians, as long as they do not join the Chinese nation, then they will all be likely to become slaves of the Chinese nation.
Since then, India has also regarded tea as a devil's tree, believing that it will attract devils. In the future, as long as you see this thing in the territory, you will choose to destroy it as soon as possible, so as not to catch fire. The major Buddhist monasteries also call the tea Buddha's grace, which means the immortal products given by the Buddha, but it can only belong to the Buddha, and if mortals trespass the planting, it will attract the wrath of the Buddha. In Buddhist-believing India, this superstitious practice has made tea a taboo, but for China, it is also happy to see such a development.
It's just that no one can guarantee whether the tea seed has fallen into the hands of Westerners.
Only by continuously implementing the principle of protection of original products and insisting on safeguarding the exclusive rights of original products can we strengthen the country. This will be inherited by the Chinese people forever in the future...... In such an atmosphere, the first original war, also known as the tea war, was declared over.