Director Zhao had the expression of an elderly man on the subway looking at his phone, completely confused:
"Xiao Lin, although I'm not from Yunnan, I've been working in Yunnan for over ten years. I really can't understand what's so good about Pu'er tea.
Take the top ten famous teas in China for example: West Lake Longjing, Quangang Huibai, Huangshan Maofeng, Keemun black tea, Taiping Houkui, Lu'an Guapian, Sichuan Mengding, Dongting Biluochun, Xinyang Maojian, and Wuyi Rock Tea.
After all, there is Pu'er tea in here.
Just like last time you asked for Pu'er tea, our comrades went to various prefectures and counties to buy it. The tea was piled up in warehouses. Yunnan's climate is humid, and a lot of the tea had molded and rotted, so we had to select some of the better tea cakes.
Even in ancient times, Pu'er tea was made into tea bricks and sold in snowy areas. Think about it, can the tea sold in snowy areas be good tea? How can this stuff be valuable abroad?"
Lin Sanqi thought that it was not what was valuable abroad, but what would be valuable in China decades later.
Europeans and Americans like to drink black tea, Japanese and Koreans like to drink green tea, and they have almost no interest in Pu'er tea, and there is no promotion of Pu'er tea. So how did Pu'er tea become so popular?
We have to "thank" our fellow Hong Kong compatriots for this.
They were the ones who started the real estate speculation, and they were also the ones who started the Pu'er tea speculation.
This group of people entered the mainland in the 1980s and 1990s, and began to cooperate with certain domestic interest groups and began to hype the magical effects of Pu'er tea in major media.
Such effects as clearing away heat and promoting salivation, helping digestion and relieving hangover, cleaning the mouth, and refreshing the mind.
Later it became even more miraculous, being touted as having the effects of lowering fat and weight, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood sugar, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, nourishing and protecting the stomach, preventing thrombosis, and promoting bowel movements.
In the end, they kept blowing it up, saying it could prevent cancer, keep you young forever, etc. They just kept blowing it up to say how magical it was.
Once the market becomes heated and everyone knows about it, capital will start to monetize the traffic.
The first step is to create a brand. They randomly find a few mountains and a few ancient tea trees, and then start telling mythological stories around these tea trees to scare consumers.
In this way, with the joint efforts of Hong Kong capital and domestic capital, and with the cooperation of a large number of domestic investors, Pu'er tea is no longer tea.
It is a kind of financial attribute, a game of passing the parcel.
Lin Sanqi doesn't believe in this kind of nonsense, but that doesn't stop him from taking advantage of the situation and making some money.
Aren't you capitalists trying to hype Pu'er tea and make a ton of money? But you never dreamed that someone could travel through time and get the exact same tea you've stockpiled, breaking their monopoly on Pu'er tea.
Thinking of this, Lin Sanqi took the boiled water brought by the staff and said:
"Comrade Lao Zhao, don't overthink it. We can just supply whatever kind of tea foreigners like. You should quickly think of a way to trade tea for penicillin. Do you think this deal is possible?"
Zhao Youxia chuckled:
"Yes, we can do it. Xiaolin, you don't know, we in Yunnan see other brother provinces such as ZJ Province and Hu Jian Province exporting tea to earn foreign exchange. Do you know how jealous we are?
Now, the tide has turned. This unwanted Pu'er tea can be exchanged for valuable supplies. Only a fool wouldn't do that. It's a deal, then. You can't go back on your word!
No, Xiaolin, since it's rare for you to come to Yunnan anyway, I'll go back and report to my superiors. We'll try to arrange a special flight tomorrow. Where to? Oh, right, Menghai County, Xishuangbanna, right?
Lao Cao, is there a military airport in Menghai?"
Cao Zhiyang shook his head. "There's no airport in Menghai, but there is one in nearby Xishuangbanna. It only takes about an hour to fly there, so it's quite convenient."
Zhao Youxia slapped his thigh and said cheerfully:
"Then fly to Xishuangbanna. Xiaolin, you can go and inspect it yourself. If it's really the Pu'er tea you need, you can place an order on the spot, specifying the quantity and quality you require. We in Yunnan will fully cooperate."
Lin Sanqi thought about it and it was a good idea. After all, the plane could go back and forth, and if everything went smoothly, he could go back and forth on the same day.
Even if you can't go back and forth on the same day, staying for one or two nights is not a problem. Just treat it as a trip and see what those mythical old tea trees look like now.
If he could really get some of those Mansong Pu'er, Bingdao Pu'er, and Banzhang Pu'er, he would make a fortune again. You know, in another time and space, high-end Pu'er tea would cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan per kilogram.
Its economic value is no less than that of Xinhui dried tangerine peel.
When Commander Cao saw Lin Sanqi and Zhao Youxia chatting enthusiastically, he became anxious.
Director Zhao represents the civilian system, and penicillin is to be distributed to various hospitals or support medical teams.
But Cao Zhiyang represented the military system. While the provincial government could find a way to exchange Pu'er tea for penicillin, what about their own troops? Would they keep the outdated weapons they had seized from the Guo army?
Thinking of this, Commander Cao quickly said with a flattering tone:
"Commissioner Lin, you can't play favorites. You don't even have a part-time job in the health system, but you're the Deputy Minister of Health of our General Logistics Department. So no matter how you look at it, we're family. You can't just take care of outsiders and ignore our troops."
In Commander Cao's opinion, exchanging some garbage tea leaves for penicillin means that Lin Sanqi is taking care of the place and giving it some water.
Lin Sanqi had already thought of a program for Cao Zhiyang last night, so how could he possibly let him go?
"Commander Cao, let me ask you, how is your relationship with the Burmese in the south?"
Cao Zhiyang was confused:
"We have good relations with all the Third World countries, especially our three southern neighbors. We interact with each other frequently and have a good relationship, but what does this have to do with them?"
Lin Sanqi then reminded:
"Commander Cao, you're really begging for food while sitting on a mountain of gold. Don't you know that Burma has a kind of jade called 'emerald'? It's a good thing and valuable."
Commander Cao's mind flashed through those sparkling jades, but he was still a little puzzled:
"I know about jadeite. It's said that the Empress Dowager Cixi and Song Meilin were particularly fond of this kind of jade. But we live in a new society now, and everyone is equal. Who still plays with jade these days? It's not valuable anymore."
It can be said that there is not a single jewelry and jade store in the entire country. People can’t even afford to eat, so who would care about jade?
Suddenly, Commander Cao reacted and asked excitedly:
"Commissioner Lin, are you saying that we can trade jade for medicine?"
Lin Sanqi clapped his hands. "Yes, I want the jadeite, but I need high-grade jadeite, like glass-type emeralds. I don't want anything of lower quality."
Commander Cao immediately thought to himself that China and Myanmar have a good relationship, especially the relationship between Yunnan and several special economic zones on the Lao-Myanmar border is even closer.
How close is it? Let me put it this way: almost all the food, drink, and toilet supplies there are shipped from Yunnan.
If Yunnan is poor and backward, then the people across the Lao-Myanmar border are even poorer and can only eat tree bark.
So Commander Cao felt that it would not be a big problem for him to ask for some jadeite. At most, he could give the Burmese some penicillin in exchange.
Thinking of the price difference, Commander Cao asked unconfidently:
"Commissioner Lin, don't worry. I'll take care of the jade, but you need to give me the specific rules for the exchange."
Lin Sanqi miraculously took out a box from his backpack. Since he was planning to purchase jadeite last night, he had naturally made preparations in advance.
"Commander Cao, look, this is a jade bracelet, glass-type imperial green. If you give me one of these bracelets, I'll give you 10,000 bottles of penicillin. If it's a jade pendant, I'll give you 500 bottles.
If you don't have a bracelet, a rough stone of this level will do. We can negotiate the price. I, Lin Sanqi, will never let our troops suffer any loss, right?"
Suddenly, there was a muffled thunder in the sky, rumbling~~~
Lin Sanqi shrank his neck, clasped his hands together, and bowed to the sky:
"God, please have pity on me. It's not easy for me to make a little money by traveling through two eras. Please don't let a thunder strike me to death."
A glass-type imperial green jadeite bracelet is definitely worthy of being auctioned, with a market price ranging from tens of millions to hundreds of millions.
But Lin Sanqi was prepared to exchange it for 10,000 bottles of penicillin. His conscience was extremely dark. What was Liu Wencai in front of Lin Sanqi?
But Lin Sanqi had no choice. He didn't dare to raise prices, otherwise he would not be able to fill the bottomless pit of other people's money when purchasing supplies from home in the future.
Besides, how many lives could ten thousand bottles of penicillin save? Who would lose and who would gain if they were exchanged for a bracelet?
Commander Cao didn't know what was going on in Lin Sanqi's mind. He was extremely excited, so he patted Lin Sanqi's shoulder heavily.
"Well, Comrade Sanqi, you're great! You're truly thinking about our Yunnan region and the garrison there. Don't worry, I'll personally go to Ruili and Burma tomorrow and guarantee to get you some jade. However, if the quantity is too much..."
Lin Sanqi was ecstatic in his heart, but on the surface he remained calm and composed:
"Commander Cao, it's a rare trip for me to Yunnan. I can take whatever amount of jade you can get, so don't worry about it being too much. I'll take whatever you can get and I guarantee I'll exchange it all for the penicillin you need."
Commander Cao was so excited that he almost cried, thinking that he could get something for nothing.
At that time, he would exchange one bracelet for 10,000 bottles of penicillin, and he would pay Lao Mian 1,000 bottles, so he could make a profit of the difference of 9,000 bottles.
It's a bloody profit. (End of this chapter)
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