A Decade’s Long Promise to Run a Tea Shop Is Worth More Than a Thousand Ounces of Silver
During the Qianlong period, an older man named Chen from Sichuan Wan County (now Wanzhou, Chongqing) opened the Jiangwan Tea Shop in Shanghai. To hire someone to help him, he posted a recruitment notice on the tea shop door. A few days later, Zhan Gu, a young man who was 20 years old, came to ...