对于大多数国人而言,茶是美味,是文化,不过大多数历史研究者都觉得茶过于轻盈,不值得大书特书。但学者周重林却发现了茶叶对中国历史的价值,他从茶叶人手,以另一个角度解读了鸦片战争,为何英国以茶富强,而晚清却因茶走向衰亡。茶是因,鸦片是果。基辛格曾说,谁控制了石油,准就控制了世界。在周重林看来,当时的世界里,茶叶就是石油。在他与著名茶人太俊林合著的新书《茶叶战争》中,我们发现,小小的茶叶重塑了当年世界权力的格局, For most people, tea is delicious and cultural, but most history researchers think tea is too light and not worth a special book. However, the scholar Zhou Gonglin discovered the value of tea to Chinese history. From the manpower of tea, he interpreted the Opium War from another perspective. Why Britain is prosperous for tea while the late Qing dynasty declines because of tea. Tea is because opium is fruit. Kissinger once said that who controlled the oil would have taken control of the world. In Zhou’s opinion, in the world at that time, tea was oil. In his new book entitled “The Tea War,” co-authored with Tai Jun Lin, a famous tea man, we found that the tiny tea leaves remodeled the pattern of world power that year,