Ju Hua Zui

During the Xianfeng period, the export of tea from the Qing Dynasty caused the Sino-British trade to be in deficit for a long time, which greatly damaged the interests of Britain. In order to reverse the situation, Queen Victoria specially ordered the Marquess of Dalhousie, the British governor in India, to send botanist McKinnon to sneak into China to steal tea tree seedlings and tea tree seeds and recruit Chinese tea planters. At this time, the Taiping Army was booming, Guangdong and Guangxi…