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Money grow from trees!?
What if money could grow on trees? I bet many of you would have thought of this fantasy before whenever you dream of striking it rich! Well, in retrospect, money did use to grow on trees, albeit a small tree in the form of a tea bush.Here’s a an interesting article I found regarding this subject: Tea Money of China. In the 19th Century, various forms of tea bricks(a form of black tea that are compressed into a solid block of tea) were used as a medium of exchange in Central Asian countries such as Tibet, Mongolia and Siberia etc. These tea bricks were highly valued for its medicinal properties and were also popular as it was less prone than cash to robbery from bandits found on the various trade routes. Property such as horses, sheep and swords were traded based on the number of tea bricks they can be exchanged for.Alas, in modern days, this archaic form of using tea as currency have ceased to exist(otherwise you would have found me growing my own “money”). Nevertheless, it is interesting
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