New Commodity proposal: Tea!

[Marrone]

I just cant see how tea going to make me rich.

While I'm afraid you can't, you'll have to look back in history and see that, well:

For centuries, China had been the world's sole tea manufacturer. Britain purchased this fuel for its Empire by trading opium to the Chinese - a poisonous relationship Britain fought two destructive wars to sustain. The East India Company had profited lavishly as the middleman, but now it was sinking, having lost its monopoly to trade tea. Its salvation, it thought, was to establish its own plantations in the Himalayas of British India. There were just two problems: India had no tea plants worth growing, and the company wouldn't have known what to do with them if it had. The Chinese interior was off-limits and virtually unknown to the West, but that's where the finest tea was grown - the richest oolongs, soochongs and pekoes. And the Emperor aimed to keep it that way.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3081255...he-tea-in-china

So, that said, if we can make a repetition of history here (being history/future nerds as we are), perhaps Tea can be a high-profit, but low-risk smuggling run from Kusari to Bretonia? I don't know, but I definately do know that tea is a worthwhile commodity that is critical to the social stratosphere in Bretonia. Tea is big business; it was when they were sailing seas, and I don't quite see a difference in this miliue when you're sailing through space!

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