Na0318 The country of a cup of tea
The main hall of Gujia Tea Garden.
Gujia Tea Garden has been established for nearly a hundred years, and its layout is naturally in the previous style. The so-called main hall can be roughly equivalent to the living room, reception room, lobby or lobby.
Gu Kaiwen sat first in the main hall, and Cao Qin made a cup of tea for Gu Kaiwen.
"The young master, two foreigners from Great Britain came to our house the day before yesterday, and they wanted to cooperate with us. By the way, they also came yesterday, and they hoped to meet the young master." Cao Qin said the second thing.
Gu Kaiwen was stunned for a moment. The guy from Great Britain actually came to him?
The guys in Great Britain do love to drink tea.
As early as 2006, the BBC website conducted a survey on the "Symbol of Great Britain". Among the twelve alternative answers, "A Cup of Tea" ranked first with a vote rate of more than 35%.
This shows how much the guys in Great Britain like to drink tea!
As for the guys in Great Britain who prefer black tea?
This is true!
Black tea is indeed more popular in Great Britain. From the royal family to the dock workers, everyone likes black tea, and they are not very interested in green tea.
Taking 2002 as an example, the annual sales of green tea in Great Britain were only a pitiful £4.9 million.
According to the exchange rate between the pound and the summer dollar, 4.9 million pounds is about 50 million pounds. At first glance, this data may seem quite a lot, but in fact it is very small!
According to a survey by the Great Britain Tea Association, the country of Great Britain drinks about 60 billion cups of tea a year.
Yes!
It is indeed 60 billion cups of tea a year!
According to the average population of Great Britain, a Britannian drinks about 900 cups of tea on average a year.
With such a huge tea market, green tea's annual sales are only 4.9 million pounds, which is indeed very small, right?
However, with the development of the times, the public's health awareness has become stronger and stronger, and a large number of British people have changed from drinking black tea to drinking green tea.
From 2002 to 2006, green tea's annual sales in Great Britain soared from £4.9 million to £156 million, an increase of £156 million.
To this day, in Great Britain, green tea and black tea have become daily choices.
However, it is regrettable that the green tea in Great Britain mainly comes from neon. There are very few green tea sold to Great Britain in Xia Country. For the people in Great Britain, quite a few people don’t even know that there is green tea in Xia Country.
There are many reasons for this situation!
First of all, the green tea in Xia Kingdom lacks publicity and is far less popular than Neon. For the tea merchants in Xia Kingdom, they are more willing to cultivate the domestic market.
Secondly, the top green tea in Xia Kingdom is basically not exported to the outside world!
That's right!
The top green tea in Xia Kingdom has long been digested internally, where can I get the opportunity to export it?
Taking the top Longjing tea as an example, those top Yuqian Longjing, which are excellent in production, are all occupied by various regular customers and will not flow into the market at all. How can they be exported and sold?
As for the Yuqian Longjing, which is sold to the public, it is naturally not the top part.
Even this part of the Longjing in the Rainbow Dragon Bell still has no worries about selling. A large number of teahouses, tea rooms, and teahouses across the country all need the second-class Longjing in the Rainbow Dragon Bell.
These people almost wrapped the best part of the Yulongjing, and where is there any export share?
Although some of the Longjings are selling on the Internet, who knows what they don’t know about the details of those Longjings?
Online sales are nothing more than expanding sales volume and allowing second-level tea to have a sales channel, or allowing Longjing tea, which is not suitable for the origin, to have a sales channel.
The production range of Longjing tea is limited, where are there so many Longjing teas?
The biggest sales of a large number of tea merchants in non-suitable places of origin is the Internet. Anyway, the price is a little cheaper, so there are always people who like it if you are a Longjing in front of the rain, right?
Like Great Britain, Xia Kingdom is also a tea-consuming country. When the top tea is digested internally, tea merchants did not deliberately promote it, so naturally they could not promote the green tea in Xia Kingdom.
Given this situation, Gu Kaiwen was very curious, why did the two Great Britons know the Gu family tea garden, and even know the location of the Gu family tea garden, and even come to the door in person?
"Is anyone?" Xia Guoyu, with a strange accent, passed into the main hall.
Cao Qin immediately spoke, "Young master, those two Britons are here again."
Gu Kaiwen thought about it for a while before speaking, "Sister Cao, please invite them in!"
"You have to get it." Cao Qin responded.
In less than a minute, two blonde and blue-eyed foreigners walked into the main hall, and Gu Kaiwen took the initiative to say hello, "Hello! Friends from Great Britain."
"Hello!"
"You yell!"
The two Britons have strange accents, but they can speak Xia Mandarin at least. Otherwise, Gu Kaiwen's English will not be up to standard, and communication between the two sides will be very troublesome.
After introducing himself with two foreign friends from Great Britain, Gu Kaiwen learned their names, one was Charlie Fiss and the other was Edward Malthus. They run a tea house called "Miracle" in London.
"Charlie, Edward, I have a problem." Gu Kaiwen slowed down his speech while using simpler words.
For example, when Gu Kaiwen said "there is a problem", it is actually more appropriate to use "there is a question", but Gu Kaiwen was worried that the two wrong people would not understand it, so he especially used simpler words.
"What?" Charlie understood Gu Kaiwen's meaning.
Edward understood, and he added, "You ask, we'll tell you."
Gu Kaiwen still slowed down and asked, "How do you know ours?"
In order to prevent the other party from not understanding what he meant, Gu Kaiwen changed his way of asking, "Why are you looking for us?"
Edward's Xia Mandarin was a little better. He was silent for a few seconds, thought about Gu Kaiwen's question before responding, "We want to purchase your tea."
Gu Kaiwen nodded first, and then asked repeatedly, "But why do you know that we are in Xia Kingdom, in Shengqing, and in Jinshan?"
Edward and Charlie started to communicate in English. They communicated for nearly half a minute. Gu Kaiwen's English could only be said in a normal way. He only understood ones of "Japan" and "Tokyo".
‘Neon Tokyo?’ Gu Kaiwen thought secretly, ‘Is it just listening to the wind chanting quietly?’
Edward and Charlie had finished their exchanges, and Edward and Gu Kaiwen exchanged, he responded, "We had traveled in Tokyo before, and then we tasted a very magical tea at a Tea House."
Edward said, taking out his cell phone and clicking on a photo for Gu Kaiwen to check.
In that photo, Gu Kaiwen saw the logo of "The Wind Slows".
‘It’s true that I listen to the wind chant!’ Gu Kaiwen confirmed his guess in his heart. The ‘Wind Quiet Skies’ was the shop sign of Jingting Fengyin Tea Room in Neon Tokyo.
Chapter completed!