Song Ming collected his thoughts and said: "Let's put it this way, tea is just like porcelain. In ancient times, Europeans could only drink tea from China. In 1610, the Dutch East India Company imported a large amount of tea from China for the first time.
Tea, but due to the limitations of freight capacity at that time, the so-called large amount was also limited.
Even when the Dutch imported tea, they had no idea what the tea was used for. Most of them put the tea in pharmacies and sold it as a herbal medicine from the mysterious East.
There were even two theories at that time, one was that tea was poison, the other was that tea was a precious drink, and the two sides argued endlessly.
Even so, tea is precious because of its small quantity, and the price has reached a high price of eighty guilders per pound. You must know that this is still the price without tariffs. If tariffs are added, the price is absolutely higher than gold.
Later, I thought that a university professor published a book called "Tea, Coffee and Chocolate". This book popularized tea culture to Europeans, and all of a sudden, tea began to explode in Europe.
The aristocrats drink tea in a fashionable manner, the nouveau riche imitate the aristocrats, the poor look up to...
At that time, tea was so popular in Europe that it was impossible to buy it, and you had to go to auction houses to buy it.
Even so, tea is still an extremely scarce commodity in Europe, with demand far exceeding supply and prices soaring.
With the profits coming, major companies and fleets came to China one after another to purchase tea.
Even so, tea is still extremely expensive.
With the spread of tea culture, countries M and E also came to buy tea.
At that time, Country Y was rising, and the sun never set across the ocean, taking over all the black tea in China at that time.
Country M, on the other hand, settled for the next best thing and bought green tea.
When country E could not supply black tea or green tea, it even did not spare the brick tea at that time. It swept them all away and sold them back to the country.
Even so, with the spread of tea, more and more people joined the tea-drinking army. Country Y soon discovered that importing black tea alone could not meet the needs of the people. So it increased the amount of green tea, and in the end, it also imported brick tea.
There was a saying at that time that foreigners used smoke to rob real gold and silver, and the Chinese used tea and ceramics to rob real gold and silver.
Until one day, Country M knocked on the door of Country R, and the people of Country M suddenly discovered that this inconspicuous place actually had a huge tea industry!
So tea from country R began to enter the market.
The tea of Country R is the result of careful cultivation of tea species that came to China to pay tribute every year since the Tang Dynasty. In other words, the tea of Country R is basically our Chinese tea, not much different.
.Even the techniques for frying and making tea were learned from China.
With the emergence of country R, China's tea monopoly was broken. In addition, the Chinese people were not doing well at that time. Because the tea was selling so well, in order to sell more money, they would pass on inferior quality products and often suffer from shortages.
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As a result, its reputation in Europe is getting worse day by day.
The R people sent people to Europe for inspection and research. After making sufficient preparations, they entered the European market with the positioning of honest and trustworthy high-quality tea.
Europeans immediately fell into the arms of country R and abandoned Chinese tea.
Since then, tea from country R has entered the high-end aristocratic market, with prices comparable to gold.
However, Chinese tea has been reduced to the low-end market and cannot be sold at a high price.
This is nothing at all. If you don't live up to your expectations, no wonder others are smart.
We Chinese people are not people who cannot afford to lose. We just have to get up wherever we fall.
Up to now, Chinese tea merchants have been working hard to return to the high-end market, and in fact they have achieved great results.
We are working hard and using our own strength to fight for what belongs to us.
But while we are all working hard, some people are willing to be dogs instead of humans!"
Hearing this, Tang Chen subconsciously glanced at Boss Qian.
Song Mingdao: "Yes, he was the leader. Eight years ago, people from Country R came to China and held a tea merchant meeting. Everyone went there. The smell of gunpowder was strong, and the Hiei family, the largest tea merchant in Country R, even made wild remarks. Tao: In the next ten years, there will be no tea in China!
At that time, our old man got angry and got up to argue with him and teach him what tea is.
The two sides competed in the tea ceremony and the tea leaves. The result was that we lost in the tea ceremony and we won in the tea leaves.
This is a very embarrassing thing for Chinese tea merchants.
After all, the tea ceremony is good, but at its core, the tea must be good.
After all, what is sold is tea, not tea ceremony.
The tea leaves are responding, which means that the high-end market is beckoning to us.
The Hiei family left in despair, and we thought that was the end of it.
I never expected that today, eight years later, Mount Hiei is back again. This time it is not a tea trade association, but a challenge! Just like the challenge eight years ago, the challenge of tea ceremony and tea products."
Tang Chen was puzzled and said, "What does this have to do with Boss Qian?"
Song Ming said angrily: "Just yesterday, I heard the news that the reason why the Hiei family dared to come back was because they bought the tea seeds we used to win the tea from Boss Qian at a high price eight years ago! Qian Tongming actually stole our rare tea varieties and sold them to the people of R country for money! At the same time, he is now the largest agent of the Hiei family in China. Do you think this kind of person is hateful? "
When Tang Chen heard this, his eyes widened and he said angrily: "Isn't this a traitor?"
Song Ming nodded and said: "The traitor back then could be said to have done it in order to survive, fearing death, and had to do it. But he, huh... was just a dog at heart!"
Tang Chen looked at Mr. Tang Mu and asked, "Master, do you also know about this?"
Tang Mumu chuckled and said: "I know about the competition, but I don't know about selling tea seeds. Speaking of which, the competition between Mount Hiei and Huaxia should be held in three days, right?"
Song Ming nodded and said, "Yes."
Speaking of this, Song Ming sighed and said: "This time the Hiei family came prepared. I heard that they used the tea species we carefully cultivated and carried out targeted genetic adjustments to develop Hiei Zun tea. Hieizon tea is much better than the Qi Cun Xiang we competed in eight years ago, but the best tea we have now is only slightly better than Qi Cun Xiang. I am afraid we will lose this competition. "
Tang Chen frowned and said: "Genetic adjustment? So Hiruizun tea is not natural, but artificial?"
Song Mingdao: "Yes."
Tang Chen said: "This...Master, didn't you say that the best tea comes from nature? No one can be sure whether the tea will have side effects by artificially adjusting genes, right?"
Tang confusedly said: "The best tea, of course, comes from nature. In fact, artificial genetic modification does not matter whether it is good or bad, but it is not recognized in the high-end market. Ms. Song, is your news reliable?"