“And here, these photos were taken in Mansong Village.
These photos are of the old airport in Xishuangbanna. My grandfather was a Hong Kong businessman and flew there directly from Kunming on a special plane approved by the state.
And these, everyone, look carefully, these are my grandfather’s order forms and invoices from those years. These are the original receipts for purchasing Pu’er tea from various townships and villages, and they all have official seals on them.
Now everyone understands, right? The origin of these Pu'er teas is not mysterious. They were all purchased by my grandfather, Lin Yongyuan, in the 1960s and 1970s, and then sealed and preserved. That's why they are so well preserved.
As for what my grandfather did, he and my great-grandfather were both businessmen in Hong Kong, and they were from the same generation as Li Huanggua and others.
The old man had good vision and acquired a large number of antiques, tea, and jade, and then our descendants began to enjoy the benefits."
Boom~~~The venue exploded again.
The people from the Yunnan Pu'er Tea Association were also getting anxious, and a group of them were chattering and humming.
At this time, many village heads of Pu'er tea-producing villages remained silent, because the photos taken by Lin Sanqi were indeed of their old villages.
Moreover, these old villages have been demolished long ago, so it is impossible to fake them now.
What's more, the people in the photos all have names, and finding a few actors to impersonate them is a very stupid act and is also the easiest to be exposed.
Zhu Baorong of the Yunnan Pu'er Tea Association has been engaged in the Pu'er tea trade for a lifetime and has personally participated in the hype of Pu'er tea. Therefore, he knows the inside story best and raised questions on the spot:
"Impossible, absolutely impossible. Pu'er tea was a local tea in 1962 and didn't even leave Yunnan. How could merchants from Hong Kong personally travel to Yunnan to purchase it? There's no relevant record in our province."
Pu'er tea did not begin to attract the attention of capital until the 1990s, and its price was not really driven up until after 2000.
Lin Sanqi was not anxious, and asked:
"President Zhu, if I remember correctly, Pu'er tea was first hyped up by people from Hong Kong, right?"
"right."
"Then let me ask you, how did people in Hong Kong know about Pu'er tea? You said that Pu'er tea is only drunk by people from Yunnan. So how did people in Hong Kong find Yunnan in the 1990s?"
"this……"
Chairman Zhu was speechless for a moment. Indeed, people from Hong Kong must have tasted Pu'er tea, which is why they would travel thousands of miles to this frontier province.
Lin Sanqi smiled pretentiously and added:
“It was because of my great-grandfather and my grandfather who were the first to discover Yunnan Pu’er tea and personally went to Yunnan to purchase it and then brought it to Hong Kong that the Pu’er tea craze started in the Hong Kong market.
Then, after the reform and opening up, people from Hong Kong followed in my grandfather's footsteps and came to Yunnan, which marked the beginning of the vigorous development of Pu'er tea. So, in a sense, you should thank our Lin family for the success of Pu'er tea today.
Instead of thanking our Lin family, you are now turning the tables and accusing our Pu'er tea of being fake. Don't you feel guilty? You people from the Pu'er Tea Association really don't know how to be grateful."
Crash~~~
All the tea merchants present began to talk and point fingers at the Yunnan people.
Because what Lin Sanqi said is indeed a logical closed loop. The Lin family was the first to bring Pu'er to Hong Kong, and then attracted Hong Kong capital to start entering Yunnan.
Now even Zhu Baorong, Wang Binggen, Liu Xiaode and other Yunnan people began to doubt their lives.
But everyone has overlooked a fundamental problem, that is, Pu'er tea appeared in small quantities in the Hong Kong market before liberation, but it has never been considered mainstream.
After all, after 1949, the capital and landlords from Jiangsu and Zhejiang either fled to Taiwan or Hong Kong, and these wealthy people drank green tea such as Longjing, but not Pu'er tea.
So no one can clearly explain how Pu'er tea entered the Hong Kong market, how it was discovered by Hong Kong investors, and how it entered the mainland and began the tea speculation business.
This gave Lin Sanqi an opportunity to take advantage. Since he had the pictures and the truth, he took the credit for it on his grandfather who had passed away many years ago.
Wang Binggen, vice president of the Yunnan Pu'er Tea Association, is an old fox. He knows that he cannot follow Lin Sanqi's ideas and cannot be led by him.
If this continues, not only will the other party's Pu'er tea be genuine, but the Lin family will become the first generation ancestor of Pu'er tea, which will shake the legitimacy of the Pu'er Tea Association.
Vice President Wang then stood up and continued to question:
"Everyone, please be quiet. There are quite a few young people here. Young people know that photos these days can be photoshopped. Does anyone know where these photos came from? I suspect they are fake and staged."
Lin Sanqi burst into laughter when he heard this. He had been prepared for this move, so he signaled to his secretary.
Several more documents appeared on the slides, and Lin Sanqi introduced them:
"All of our photos have been authenticated by a judicial appraisal center, and they've issued a conclusion: this is the one. For the sake of rigor, we also had it notarized by a notary public."
Please believe in the law. This judicial appraisal center is not run by our Lin family. They are the most authoritative and technical unit. Vice President Wang should believe it this time, right?
Of course, if you insist on being skeptical, I understand that, so I can provide you with the original photos. You can find an institution or a technical expert to authenticate them, and if they are fake, you can expose them publicly.
Now, the people from the Pu'er Tea Association turned pale and pale.
Look at the hundreds of reporters at the scene, all of them were taking photos and recording, which would be released to the news media. It is obvious that Lingnan Hall would not be able to falsify information and be caught.
At this moment, the old Lin clan leader, who had been silent in the meeting, spoke:
"My friends, I am Lin Peidong, and I am now the patriarch of the Lin family. One of our Lin family's ancestral precepts comes from the Analects of Confucius, Zilu: 'Be true to your word and fulfill your promise.
So we in the Lin family attach great importance to integrity.
Whether these Pu'er teas are real or fake, everyone present, including President Ni of the China Tea Association, President Liu of China Agricultural University, and everyone from the Pu'er Tea Association, should know it well.
In addition, many younger generations don’t know about what happened in the 1960s, but we, the elders, know it very clearly.
I can testify that my second brother and uncle had foresight back then and purchased a lot of domestic supplies. Some of these supplies became worthless decades later, but some became priceless decades later.
Let me tell you another story. Back then, my second brother, Lin Sanqi's grandfather, Lin Yongyuan, bought up all the antiques in the Huadu Cultural Relics Store. Just think about it: who in the 1960s had the vision and courage to do that?
If you don’t believe it, you can go to the museum and see that the more than 30 national treasures newly exhibited in the Dongguan Provincial Museum all come from our Lin family, which is a small part of the antiques my second brother bought back then.
So, while Pu'er tea is precious, it's still far inferior to the antiques of yesteryear, right? There's no doubt about it; some people are born to be the heroes. As the young people say, they're the children of destiny. Their descendants deserve to be rich, right?
As soon as Uncle Lin said this, everyone at the scene burst into laughter.
Yes, their ancestors had money and were willing to invest and collect, and finally made a fortune. Isn’t this logical?
This is just like angel investors. They spend money widely and invest a lot. In the end, as long as one or two out of ten projects are successful, the investment returns will be thousands or tens of thousands of times.
Grandpa Lin's words were agreed and resonated by everyone, and many people cheered.
Only the Lin family members blushed, thinking that although grandpa said that honesty and integrity were the foundation, everything he said was nonsense.
But for the sake of making money, it's not shameful.
However, Zhu Baorong, President of the Pu'er Tea Association, was not giving up. He took a cake of Pu'er tea and continued to question:
"That's not right. Even if your Lin family ancestors had good vision and purchased a large amount of Pu'er tea, look at this Pu'er tea. The age of the tea is completely wrong. Although the packaging is indeed very old and traditional, the tea is not 50 years old."
If the aged tea reaches more than 50 years, the tea leaves will actually become very fragile and will break into powder at the slightest touch.
Moreover, the Pu'er tea cakes that have been handed down for more than 50 years are not in very complete condition. They are either worm-eaten, moldy, or have chips.
It is unlike Lingnan Hall’s Pu’er tea, which is almost always complete and of the best quality, and you can even smell the fragrance of the tea leaves.
Actually, this is indeed a bug, and it is normal for people to question it. In 1962, it happened many years ago. (End of this chapter)
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