"The Book of Tea" was already copied at that time, and "The New Tang Dynasty Book Yinyi Biography" said that after Lu Yu wrote "The Book of Tea", "the world knows how to drink tea". At that time, the tea sellers even made Lu Yu into a pottery elephant and placed it on the stove and worshiped him as the god of tea. The Book of Tea greatly promoted the production of tea and the spread of tea culture after the Tang Dynasty. Later, a large number of tea books and tea poems appeared, including "Tea Description", "Sencha Water Record", "Tea Picking Record", "Sixteen Soups" and so on.

Along with the tea culture of the Tang Dynasty is the Chinese Zen religion, because tea has the function of refreshing and benefiting the mind, generating jin and quenching thirst, so the temple advocates drinking tea, planting tea trees around the temple, formulating tea ceremonies, setting up tea halls, selecting tea heads, and presenting tea activities. The Chinese tea ceremony formed in the Tang Dynasty is divided into court tea ceremony, temple tea ceremony, and literati tea ceremony.

While tea was prevalent among the literati, tea gradually began to be endowed with a certain political significance. Originally, tea was just a gift for foreign kings, but as foreign kings began to drink tea, the culture of tea drinking began to spread around the world, and after it was introduced to Japan, the tea ceremony was even promoted as a means of governing the country.

Oda Nobunaga, the sixth demon king in the history of the Warring States period, wanted to replace the ritual with the tea ceremony to become a new idea of governing the country.

Oda Nobunaga, who was born in a family of military generals, naturally loved the tea ceremony, liked to collect the world's precious tea sets, and often invited famous tea craftsmen from all over the world to perform the tea ceremony. On June 1, 1582, the 10th year of Tensho, Nobunaga held the largest tea party of his life at Honnoji Temple in Kyoto, called the Honnoji Meimonokai. The 38 types of tea utensils were on display to the public and wealthy merchants, and the tea utensils displayed at the time included various items that Nobunaga loved, such as tea bowls, hanging scrolls, and teapots, as well as the floating algae eggplant, which became the catalyst for Nobunaga's "hunting mastery".

These tea sets are all treasures treasured by the daimyo of various countries, and even the richest people in the world have no way to collect all these tea sets. Only those who kill these daimyo by force have the ability to become the owners of these tea sets. Oda Nobunaga not only wanted to show off his hobby of collecting, but also used a seemingly gentle teapot to show off his murderous martial arts.

Those who have played "Taiko Rishiden" will know that after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army defeated the Shimazu family in Kyushu (when the whole game is basically about to be cleared), Toyotomi Hideyoshi will hold a famous tea party - Kitano Great Tea Party!

As long as you love the tea ceremony, whether it is a samurai, a merchant, or a farmer, you only need to bring a tea kettle (a tea set, a pot for boiling water), a water bottle, and a drink. If you don't have tea, it's okay to replace it with rice flour paste. You don't have to worry about not having a tea room, you can just spread two or three tatami mats in the pine forest, and if you don't have tatami mats, you can use a regular straw mat, and you can freely choose the location of the tea mat. In addition to Japanese, Chinese who love the tea ceremony can also attend. Anyone who comes to Hideyoshi's tea ceremony can drink the tea that Hideyoshi ordered himself. As soon as this proclamation came out, the respondents gathered, and on the day of the tea party, the tea banquet reached as many as 800 one after another. Hideyoshi even put on a golden tea room that he once flaunted in front of the emperor and Ming envoys—a tea room built entirely of gold.

By this time, the Japanese tea ceremony had become the most important part of political life, and it was the ultimate expression of the ruler's martial arts.

In China, tea is not only a part of political life, but also a military element on the basis of political life.

In China's thousands of years of history, the greatest threat to the Central Plains came from the steppes, whether Xiongnu or Khitan, or later Mongolia. Their main food is mostly hot, greasy and indigestible things such as beef and mutton and milk, while tea is rich in vitamins, tannins, theophylline, etc., and the nutrients of fruits and vegetables that nomads lack can be supplemented. Ethnic minorities in southwest China, especially those on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, generally lack vitamin intake in vegetables due to unsatisfactory planting conditions and a meat-based diet. The function of tea just makes up for the missing link in their diet. Therefore, tea, which is used as a daily spice for the Central Plains ethnic groups, has become a necessity for some ethnic minorities like food.

The Ming Dynasty coerced this to ask for "Nama Yi Tea" for foreign nationalities to make up for the shortage of military horses in the interior. To this end, the Ming Dynasty stipulated: all imported into the country of "side tea", by the "tea and horse division" unified management, as "official tea", it is strictly forbidden to trade privately, if violated, the punishment is extremely severe, so no one dares to commit. Since the Song Dynasty, the use of tea in the interior to control the ethnic minorities in the border areas in order to strengthen their rule over them was one of the magic weapons of the rulers of the Central Plains.

China's monopoly on the sale of tea lasted until the modern Opium War (author: I was also drunk, and Zongheng actually refused to use the word tooth bird tablets). Until then, China had been the world's largest seller of tea, and no country could influence China's hegemony in the tea trade.

In modern history, China has monopolized the export of tea in the world market for a long time, leading the pulse of the development of the world tea market. Tea has also become the "fist product" of China's foreign exports and plays an important role in China's foreign trade. Especially after entering the 19th century, the demand for Chinese tea in the world market continued to rise, and from 1817 to 1833, China's tea exports accounted for more than 50% of the total exports, which shows the importance of China's export trade on tea.

After the Opium War, the British decided to steal tea and grow tea trees for the sake of profit. They stole tea seeds from Jiangxi Province in Fujian Province and brought them to India to find suitable soil for planting in the Indian region. In 1838, the Indian colonies exported their first tea leaves to the British, thus opening the way for the full expansion of Indian tea. In the 80s of the 19th century, China's tea exports flourished and declined, and the British market gradually shrank, while Indian tea and Ceylon tea, which were actually controlled by the British, began to soar. By the 1890s, Indian tea and Ceylon tea had almost joined forces to drive Chinese tea out of the British market.

In the 100 years that followed, China completely lost its international hegemony of tea and fell into the abyss of the old economic era. However, after the arrival of the new economic era, China once again regained its position as the hegemon of tea, and has maintained it to this day.

If there is anything that Oroboroth wants to find most when he comes to this world, then it is estimated that it may be to discover the Eastern civilization in this world. As the descendants of Yan and Huang, there is a yearning and enthusiasm for oriental civilization buried deep in everyone's bones, which is irresistible and vetoed by all Chinese.

This continent must not produce its own tea, if you can produce your own tea, it will make life lose a lot of fun.

"Again, where does this tea come from? When buying these teas, didn't you ask where the tea came from? ”

"No, I have asked the merchants, these teas are all purchased from the merchants of the three major eastern countries, as for where the merchants of the three major eastern countries bought it, I am not very clear, because the three eastern countries are already the easternmost countries on this continent. However, I have heard that to the east of the three major eastern countries, there seems to be another country called the country of Silk, where tea seems to be produced. ”

In addition to kingdoms, cults, and empires, there are actually many countries in "King of the Undead". For example, the Holy Kingdom, the Judgment Kingdom, the Dragon Kingdom, the Elven Kingdom, the Desert Kingdom, the Urban Union, the Desert Kingdom, and the Three Great Powers of the East, etc. In the official world map, the map is very similar to the European continent.

In fact, the kingdom, the empire, and the church, the three early states, were modeled after France, Germany, and the Holy See on the European continent. Among them, the historical figure of the Blood Emperor of the Empire is based on the famous red-bearded Frederick the Great in German history.

As for the three major powers in the East, they should be created as an alternate civilization based on countries such as Russia, Belarus and Poland.

"I see......," Auroboros pretended to be strolling and took a casual sip of tea. Although the village chief provided very little information, it is certain that in the world of "The King of the Undead", there is definitely a civilization like China.

However, there was one thing that puzzled Oroboros: why both the princess and the village chief could drink tea. You must know that in the history of the world, tea was originally only a drink that Western aristocrats could drink, and it was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when the seafaring industry was extremely developed that tea gradually became a daily commodity that ordinary people in the West could afford.

Could it be that the world has begun the Age of Discovery? No, the three major countries in the East are obviously land countries, and the way to transport tea should also be by road.

"Mr. Village Chief, do you like tea? Or rather, do you drink tea regularly? ”

"How is it possible, my lord is joking. Tea is an expensive drink that can only be taken out and enjoyed when the guests arrive, or when the tax collector arrives, and I don't have the luxury of drinking tea every day. ”

It seems that although people here can drink tea, tea is definitely not an ordinary cheap thing. Not particularly expensive as it is in real history, but it is definitely not cheap either.

After drinking the tea in his hand, Orobros thought carefully for a moment, and then asked again, "Mr. Village Chief, do you have a map in your village?" Due to the hurry, we accidentally lost the map. If anything, it's a great help for us. ”

In the original book, Ainz directly excused himself by saying that he was a magician who stayed in the deep mountains and old forests and studied magic diligently, and he didn't know the situation in the world at all. However, in order to prove that his IQ is superior to that of Lao Gu, he decides to find a better reason to promote the plot.

"Oh, that's what it looks like! If you need it, I will provide you with a map right away. With that, the village chief hurried back to his bedroom, and took out a dusty box from it. The village chief opened the box and pulled out a somewhat infested roll of parchment.

Auroboros calmly took the map and pulled out a pair of one-eyed translation glasses from the item box. This is a special item in YGGRASIL that can be used to crack high-level spells and can also be used to translate text. Such props are not only available in Oroboros, but also in old bones. After the Black Work Chapter, Lao Gu once used this prop to show off in front of Fruda, the first magician in the indigenous world......

Auroboros looked around with his eyes for a moment, and then pretended that he didn't know where he was now: "Please help me point out where we are now!" ”

"We are now in the southeastern part of the kingdom, and the village of Karn is near the Great Forest of the Metropolitan Force." Mr. Village Chief was very considerate and helped to point it out.

"Oh, I'll take a look!" The old bone also leaned his head over with great curiosity, and also held a pair of identical one-eye translation glasses in his hand.

"Oh, it feels like we're in the Ardennes Mountains of France."

"The Ardennes?" The village chief and the old bone looked confused.

The Ardennes are an important mountainous region in the south of France. During World War II, Germany used the Ardennes Mountains as a breakthrough point, bypassed the Maginot Line, and invaded France's fragile southern defense line in one fell swoop, and then surrounded the French army on the Maginot Line from the rear by turning the door.