Drunken by Chrysanthemums

Plot Synopsis

During the reign of Emperor Xianfeng, the tea exports of the Qing Dynasty had long put the Sino-British trade in a state of deficit, which greatly damaged the interests of Britain. To reverse this situation, Queen Victoria specifically ordered the Marquess of Dalhousie, the British Governor-General of India, to send botanist Mackinnon to sneak into China to steal tea seedlings and seeds as well as recruit Chinese tea growers. Hu Ying, the young master of Tianquan Tea House and a giant in the tea business in Hunan, and his elder brother Hu Jiabao returned to their hometown of Anhua in Hunan from Beijing to celebrate their father's birthday. Due to falling into the trap of villains by mistake, on the day of the birthday banquet, the whole family suffered a disaster, and Hu Ying unexpectedly survived. Mackinnon learned of Hu Ying's whereabouts from the British Consul General in Shanghai. After going through numerous hardships, he rescued Hu Ying and smuggled him out to sea together with the tea seedlings. They