Robert Fortune, a botanist to infiltrate China and smuggle out the secrets of tea production.

In the mid-19th century, the British East India Company sent Robert Fortune, a Scottish botanist to infiltrate China and smuggle out the secrets of tea production. At the time, China had a monopoly on tea, and the British were desperate to break it, especially after becoming reliant on tea imports.

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