20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3732 Fan Chufei's Black Hair
"Pengzhou and Shancheng are adjacent, and the quality of their tea is not much different, with Yunwu tea even slightly superior. Of course, Taohua Lake has a year-round misty atmosphere, and the lake water, with its stable temperature, is more resistant to the extreme cold and drought in early spring than high-mountain tea, resulting in more stable tea production and quality without significant annual fluctuations. It's fair to say that each has its advantages. However, in terms of brand building, this place is lagging behind by more than one era."

Zhao Chang'an and Wu Yudong took the lead and climbed first, followed by a large group of people. He didn't intend to play any riddles but clearly told Wu Yudong the purpose of his visit to the tea plantation.

“Yesterday I proposed to Secretary Duan the idea of ​​integrating the high-quality tea gardens in the mountain city. However, she felt that the resources were too monopolized by Yi Nanmi, which might not be a good thing for the Shancheng Maojian brand. In that case, the company is preparing to create a new tea brand in the mountain city, and these high-quality tea gardens in the south of Pengzhou are the first choice.”

Hearing Zhao Chang'an say this, Wu Yudong finally understood why Zhao Chang'an would climb mountains in such cold weather during such a tight schedule. This was of course a great thing for Pengzhou, and it would not be an exaggeration to call it an opportunity. Wu Yudong couldn't help but show an excited expression.

"Since arriving in Pengzhou, I have felt sorry for the tea industry here. Although the teas in the two places are divided into Pengzhou tea and Shancheng tea, they are actually the same teas from the same tree, with no major difference. However, people only know Shancheng Maojian and look down on Pengzhou tea, thinking it is just a poor imitation and trying to make up for the fame of Shancheng Maojian."

“I had thought about making Pengzhou Maojian tea a success before, but the tea merchants weren’t very enthusiastic. It was obvious that in their view, since they could sell tea under the name of Shancheng Maojian, why bother to start from scratch and work hard to build the Pengzhou tea brand? And even if they could make it successful, the price would still not be as good as Shancheng Maojian. It would be a thankless task.”

“Now it’s a market economy, and as a mother-in-law, it’s not good to interfere too much or be too lenient. So in the end, we didn’t do anything about it and just left it to ride on the coattails of the Shancheng Maojian brand. Just like those tea merchants said so confidently, Pengzhou is also a county under Shancheng, and the tea is called Shancheng Maojian, so no one can find fault with it.”

As Wu Yudong got more and more excited, he lost his footing. Luckily, Zhao Chang'an caught his arm just in time, otherwise, who knows if he would have fallen flat on his face or something even worse.

He was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. Standing there, he said to those below, "Everyone, be careful! Don't fall and die in the line of duty!"

Seeing Xiang Juan's face flushed and covered in sweat, and the other subordinates in similar condition, especially the office director Qin Dade, who was over 200 pounds and had a large head and ears, was panting heavily.

He said to Zhao Chang'an, "How about we rest for a while?"

"it is good."

Zhao Chang'an casually found a protruding rock nearby to sit on and handed Wu Yudong a cigarette: "The problem is that Shancheng Maojian itself hasn't been doing well these past few years, so the income of Pengzhou tea farmers will definitely be even lower. As a result, in a few years, a large number of these tea gardens here will definitely be abandoned. So, now is also an opportunity to produce Pengzhou tea. Tea seedlings only enter the harvesting period in their third year. If you don't want to waste a year, it's best to start and finish this year."

Zhao Chang'an thought for a moment and said, "At least 10,000 mu of tea gardens need to be planted, because time waits for no one, and we must seize every minute!"

Wu Yudong was surprised and shook his head, saying, "It's too difficult. If we're talking about next spring, as long as the support of one nanometer is in place, 30,000 mu should be possible. But this year, with such a rush, even 3,000 mu is unlikely."

Three thousand mu is a tea garden of less than two square kilometers, which can produce about 100,000 jin of pre-Qingming tea.

Wu Yudong's statement about adequate support essentially means that contracts and funding are in place. However, while the tea industry may be important to the cultural tourism group, it is a negligible industry within the entire OneNanometer system.

Zhao Chang'an went to such lengths to develop the local economy. As for whether to do it locally or how to do it, that's a matter for negotiation between the local government and the cultural tourism group.

From Zhao Chang'an's perspective, the ambition of three thousand mu was too small. If he were the administrator of Pengzhou, he would convene a meeting with the leaders of several townships in the south and continuously mobilize and promote the project on television, encouraging farmers to rationally reclaim barren mountains and wild ridges. There are about 300,000 people living in the mountains in southern Pengzhou. If an average of 30 people reclaim one mu of tea garden, it would be really easy.

Wu Yudong's plan was to have an average of one hundred people cultivate one mu (approximately 0.16 acres), which means each person would cultivate six square meters of tea garden. For a laborer, even cultivating forest land would only be a small part of the workday.

It took Zhao Chang'an and the others nearly half an hour to climb to the top of the tea garden, which was about 200 meters above the mountain. If it were Zhao Chang'an himself, he would have made it up in less than ten minutes. However, the physical strength of the people who followed him was obviously not good, which is why it took them so long.

At this time, the entire tea garden was quiet. There were no tea plantation staff guarding the area since it was not tea picking time. Looking at these old tea plantations that were at least thirty years old, Zhao Chang'an no longer worried about the small number of tea plants that Wu Yudong had reported.

After all, this is the first step in leveraging the brand of Shancheng Maojian tea. While it is said to be about Pengzhou tea, the ultimate goal is to integrate the high-quality tea gardens of the two regions and create a truly nationally renowned organic tea brand.

Going up the mountain is easy, but going down is hard. When it came time to go down, even Wu Yudong started to stagger and walk down with some trepidation.

Fan Chufei, who claimed to be Xu Xiake, the world's greatest traveler, was trembling uncontrollably. Zhao Chang'an was really afraid of dropping her, so he pulled her thin, stick-like arm down the mountain with her.

Fan Chufei stopped being stubborn and accepted Zhao Chang'an's kindness with a slightly flushed face.

A mountain breeze blew, lifting Fan Chufei's long hair, with strands of it brushing against Zhao Chang'an's face, carrying a pleasant woman's fragrance.

"Heh, not being stubborn anymore, huh? You think you can be like Xu Xiake? Do you even know that Xu Xiake was a wealthy man from Jiangyin? When he went out to travel, he always had a porter and a page with him. He only made it halfway up the mountain before his skinny legs went weak. If you were to go to some remote mountain in a foreign country, you'd be beaten up by the local natives with a stick, taken home as their concubine, and have a bunch of wild monkeys in the primeval forest, and no one would save you."

Qi Xuan'er was displeased to see Zhao Chang'an holding Fan Chufei's arm so affectionately. When Fan Chufei turned around and rolled her eyes at her, she wanted to force Zhao Chang'an to let go, but the steep stone steps made her hesitate.

(End of this chapter)