Великий чайный путь

A continental caravan route stretching eleven thousand kilometres: pressed tea travelled from the cliffs of Fujian's Wuyi region through Hubei to the Shanxi jin-merchants, whose piaohao banks financed the trade, and onwards — by camel caravans across the Mongolian steppe, through the imperial Chengde pass, Manchu Mukden, and the Amur frontier to the Russian Kyakhta, where tea was exchanged for furs, and then along the Trans-Siberian Railway — to Moscow.