He didn't dare to say it was easy to deal with, and a shiny dragon-patterned silver dollar was handed over. The dull dock worker immediately smiled. He held the silver dollar tightly and warmed his body temperature. He felt so soft in his heart!

The economy in Jiangnan has indeed recovered a lot in recent years, but it has not reached the point where ordinary people can earn silver dollars. What these dock workers can earn every day is only five or six cents, so they can barely get enough food and clothing!

He had the courage to say that he looked around and said carefully, and the translator also whispered the message in a low voice. The cause and effect of the fight became clear, but this story made Simpson dumbfounded!

It turns out that the cause of everything is one hundred kilograms of tea, and to be more specific, one hundred kilograms of top-quality literati tea!

Of course he knew that Simpson often drank tea, and he didn't know black tea like ordinary British people. He knew that there are many categories of tea in China!

But if you search for all the memories in his mind, you don’t know what this literati tea is?

Today I have gained some knowledge. It turns out that the literati tea is made by a group of poor and delicate literati who are full and full. Of course, they must be rich literati!

This fat man, Master Guo, is a juren. He was originally from the edge of Taihu Lake, Jiangsu. Later, he fled to Shanghai to buy an industrial house because he was hiding from the war!

Because of the rich background, I bought it in Shanghai and have a lot of shops and warehouses, and I live a very rich life!

Later, when the war ended, he bribed senior Hunan Army officials and quickly regained his own land with the original land deed, and embezzled a large amount of unowned land at a very small price!

Now, Juren Guo is near Dongting Mountain in Taihu Lake. He is also a big landlord with a thousand-acre brand. In addition, the industry in Shanghai is also a wealthy family. Most people have to give him some thinness, even the government!

But today I am evil. Shanghai Dao had a good relationship with him, but he had a big fuss over some tea leaves more than ten days ago!

For the wedding of Emperor Tongzhi, the whole country began a collective action to collect rare treasures, including gold, silver and jade, antique calligraphy and paintings, porcelain, silk, lacquerware and furniture, and Western treasures!

There are all kinds of food, clothing, housing, transportation, and entertainment!

Many officials want to find their presence in this big gift, so they racked their brains to find a way!

I don’t know which channel I learned from this Shanghai Taoist that Guo Juren has a baby at home. It is actually a favorite tea of ​​literati and elegant people, called lipstick tea!

A kind of tea is rich in the shore of Dongting Lake, called Biluochun, commonly known as scary fragrance! This kind of tea is a kind of green tea, and it is refreshing to drink it!

Therefore, Biluochun was much more expensive before the Ming Dynasty than before the rain, and Juren Guo hired a large number of young and beautiful girls before the Qingming Festival, and they must be virgin women!

These girls go to their own tea mountain, pick the tenderest buds with their lips, collect them together and stir-fry them. During the process, no man can touch his hands, and girls who have passed the hands have to choose from them!

Such tea is called lip tea. Since it is a special supply that is popular in the literary circle, it is also called literati tea, which is a very niche variety!

Juren Guo’s family has countless tea mountains and hired hundreds of girls to pick them. However, the output of this kind of lip tea in a year is only about a hundred kilograms, and there is nothing left in the circle of literati!

When Shanghai Daotai knew that there was such a good thing, he immediately wanted to offer treasures. He took the initiative to contact Juren Guo and wanted to buy this batch of lip tea at a high price!

But I knew that Fatty Guo was quite a bit flirting. I refused to admit that I had this treasure. I asked for a lot of relationships in Shanghai for ten days but couldn’t buy it!

This annoyed the government. Shanghai Dao was cruel to get this batch of tea, but it actually colluded with the gangsters to deliberately falsely accuse the Guo Ju human trafficker!

The soldiers from Daotai Mansion now have the right to go to check the door, and Fatty Guo has a wide connection and his friends have urgently reported the news that this Fatty is really hard to give up. He wants these teas even if he doesn’t want his life!

He sent people to transfer his wealth and tea overnight, trying to secretly send it onto the boat and transport it from the Yangtze River to his friend's house to hide for a while!

Unexpectedly, Shanghai Road launched countless gangsters and surrounded his house long ago. As soon as there was something wrong this morning, soldiers immediately sent around the cargo ship. This is what Simpson reporter saw!

This oriental legendary story has made Simpson stunned. He didn't expect that there was such a legendary tea in this world, and the Qing Empire mobilized the whole country for the emperor's wedding, which was so good news material!

At this time, the Guo Juren cargo ship had been occupied by the soldiers. Fatty Guo, who was crying, was thrown aside. He gritted his teeth and said that he wanted to complain, go to the capital to file a lawsuit, and go to Jiangning to seek connections!

The leader of the soldier sneered and raised a whole box of Indian horse-hoofed soil from the cabin and threw it in front of him, saying, "Ju Ren Guo! Look at it yourself, what is this? You copied it from your ship, you are selling opium in private!"

"This is framed! This thing is not on my ship. You are framed!"

"Okay, don't yell. You are also a juren. You are not unfamiliar with things in the officialdom! When you were taking advantage of other people's land in your hometown, you did not do any bad things."

"Stop making trouble, think about how to atone for yourself! Look, it's obvious that the matter of ordering tea leaves is going to break up."

"Hehe, prepare the money and prepare to save yourself!"

The literati tea, who regarded it as a treasure, was finally stolen and confiscated. Simpson watched Juren Guo and his group be escorted to the yamen by the servants. He had nothing to say and had no choice!

Of course, as a traveler who has been to China for the first time, he obviously doesn’t care about these nosy things!

All of this today is apart from a sigh, but only a wonderful article in the newspaper!

Strolling in Shanghai, the area managed by the Qing Dynasty was still called Songjiang Prefecture at this time. Simpson truly felt the efforts made by the Qing Empire for Emperor Tongzhi’s wedding!

Local officials collect taxes from shop to shop. These are new taxes that exceed the usual taxes, which are called ruling taxes. Even if the smallest department store sells some needles, the whole family will collect a silver dollar!

As for the big restaurants, large silk and satin shops, they charge a quantity ranging from 60 to 30 yuan depending on the size of the shop!

Simpson was surprised to find that there were no tax standards for all these, as if every servant had a ruler in his heart. He could naturally report the number when he went to that store, and the store owner did not dare to bargain and could only pay the money obediently!

"God! Do these people have no evidence to collect taxes? The taxes that are empty-mouthed?"

A friend smiled bitterly and said, "This is the East, this is the Qing Empire! There are no rules here. These people like to follow the unspoken rules. They have already discussed with these store owners in advance before the servants come to collect taxes!"

"If you are willing to bribe these servants, you can pay ten or twenty yuan. If you refuse to bribe, you may not be enough for seventy or eighty yuan!"
Chapter completed!