Mingmen Family

Chapter 123 Hangbaiju

Fang Xing was overjoyed and quickly kowtowed to thank him.

Ye Yaming took Fang Xing to the main courtyard, and told Ye Chongming about her mentioning Fang Xing as the steward.

Ye Chongming naturally had no objection, and because of Zhou Xiang's matter, he was full of love for Ye Yaming, not to mention that Ye Yaming mentioned Fang Xing as a steward, he just wanted Zhou Xiang, Meng Ji, and Li Fu to come over To be her subordinate, he agreed without saying a word.

Besides, Ye Yaming's request is not excessive at all.

In the Ye family's house, apart from Li Fu, the housekeeper, each courtyard also has inner stewards and outer stewards.The inner housekeeper is naturally a mother-in-law, who helps the housekeepers and mothers take care of the affairs of their own houses.The foreign manager is mainly to go out with the master and handle some business matters for him.

The first and fourth rooms have housekeepers, but the second and third rooms do not.

Needless to say, the third room, Ye Hongsheng of the second room felt that he spent all day making tea in the tea factory, and had no business chores to deal with. Nothing to do, isn't that a waste?

So he simply didn't ask for outside management.

Now that Ye Yaming mentioned Fang Xing to be the foreign manager of the second room, no one could say anything.

As for whether Fang Xing worked with Ye Yaming or with Ye Hongsheng, that was Erfang's own business.As long as Ye Hongsheng has no objections, there is no problem.

"Ming'er, can we sell chrysanthemum tea?" Ye Chongming asked.

Ye Hongsheng brought the chrysanthemum tea back on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival. It has been a month or so since the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the osmanthus tea has already been sold out. The new tea set is waiting for Master Zhizhi to create a buzz, and a design painting will be produced before being fired in the kiln. , it will take some time.

According to Lu Guanyi's plan, it's best to sell the tea set during the Chinese New Year.At that time, Master Zhihui had already set up a tea banquet two or three times, and this trend had already spread to the capital.When he went to the capital with Qi Ji a few years ago to blow the wind a little further, rumors spread from the Ye Family's Fragrance Building that there were a large number of new tea sets, and there was no worry that the tea sets would not be sold.

Lu Guanyi and Qi Ji's cooperation with the Ye family is different from Meng Chengwei's desire to cooperate with the Ye family.Lu Guanyi and Qi Ji's identities are there. Even if they want to start a business, they have to put their names under other people's names, or let a family of confidantes or followers come out to take on this name; One merchant support.

When talking about cooperation, Ye Yaming asked Ye Chongming not to mention this issue.If Lu and Qi find someone to take the title, the Ye family will just take the dividends.Ye Yaming's tea-making methods emerge in endlessly, and he is not worried that the Ye family will become a vassal in the cooperation.

The good news is that Lu and Qi didn't have any other ideas at all, and directly put all the business under the Ye family's name.

This is actually a good thing for them.Firstly, it can borrow the original reputation of the Ye family tea industry, without having to start a new one.Finding the right person to do business is not an easy task; secondly, as long as they want to keep it secret, it is difficult for outsiders to know about their cooperation with the Ye family, so no one will make a fuss about it.

In the future, if Lu Guanyi wants to work in the imperial court and Qi Ji wants to take the imperial examination, it will not be affected in the slightest.

As for the Ye family, in addition to getting more dividends, they can also become famous.With the support of the two, especially if there is a prince involved behind the scenes, the Ye family has a chance to become an imperial merchant.

This is extremely beneficial to both parties.

But the tea set is a cooperative project, but the chrysanthemum tea is not.The family is short of money, so during the New Year, they have to give gifts to the prefect of Qi and people who take care of the Ye family, give red envelopes to the shopkeeper and the assistants, send money to the servants in the family, and buy new ones, all of which need money.

The Ye family has a big business, earns a lot of money every year, but also spends a lot.There are not many who can stay as savings.One year I made a lot of money, so I wanted to get another project and invest it, or buy a tea garden.In short, there is no money left on hand.

Didn't Ye Chongming set his sights on chrysanthemum tea?

Ye Yaming nodded and said with a smile: "When the sweet-scented osmanthus tea was released, it attracted covetousness from all parties. At that time, the cooperation with Mr. Lu and Mr. Qi had not yet been finalized. The tree was big and its foundation was unstable. Naturally, the chrysanthemum tea had to be slowed down. .”

"Now is the time to sell chrysanthemum tea. Autumn is dry, which is the time to drink chrysanthemum tea. But before selling, you first order a batch of packaging paper bags with the words 'Hangbaiju' written on it[note] .”

Ye Chongming didn't understand at first, he frowned and looked at Ye Yaming, then his eyes lit up, he patted the handrail and said, "Good idea."

Writing "Hangzhou white chrysanthemum" shows that this chrysanthemum is produced in Lin'an, and everyone naturally thinks that it is from Yejia Farm.If they want to send someone to investigate, they can only go to the Ye Family Farm.

The Ye family owns more than one property, and Ye Chongming can also let the head of the village and the tenants talk nonsense and set off a smoke bomb.In this way, they can be confused and won't think about Tongxiang.

You must know that the flower farmers in Tongxiang are free civilians. Even if Ye Hongsheng signed a contract with them to set the chrysanthemums for next year, as long as another buyer pays a higher price and is willing to bear all the expenses and consequences after breaking the contract, maybe those flower farmers So he changed course and sold the chrysanthemums to others.

Now focus firmly on the Ye Family Farm, so that the source of the chrysanthemums will not be taken away.

"But this is not a solution." Ye Chongming said, "This chrysanthemum must be produced in our own field."

Ye Yaming was silent.

This is the difference between small peasant society and businessmen in modern society.

Merchants in the small peasant society will spend a lot of money to buy land, and the things they sell are produced in their own fields, which makes them feel at ease and at ease.

For example, here at the Ye family, if the tea gardens on the tea mountain had not been divided up, and those scattered farmers could live well every year relying on the profits from the tea gardens, they were unwilling to sell tea gardens, and sporadic purchases made no sense, otherwise Ye Chongming Will definitely spend a lot of money to buy more tea gardens.

With my own tea garden, I don’t have to be stuck when I book spring tea every year, and I don’t have to worry about being robbed of the gardener.

But doing business in this way can only be a small business, tying all the funds to the fields, so that there is not enough funds to do business, and it is impossible to further expand the business.At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Huizhou merchants declined and failed to evolve into capitalists. One of the reasons was their small-scale peasant consciousness.

But in a small-scale peasant society, the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business has deeply rooted the concept of agricultural standard, which cannot be changed by Ye Yaming.

She can only give an idea: "'Oranges grown in Huainan are tangerines, and those grown in Huaibei are oranges'. The climate and soil are different, and the taste of chrysanthemums is different. If you want to grow chrysanthemums, it is better to buy them in Tongxiang. The price of the fields there is much cheaper than those around Lin'an City."

　Note: Hangbai chrysanthemum is originally produced in Tongxiang.In the 20s, Wang Zixin, the owner of Wang Yutai Tea House, sold chrysanthemum tea to Nanyang for a great profit.In order to prevent others from cutting off, he wrote "Hangzhou white chrysanthemum" on the package, which made people mistakenly think that it was produced in Hangzhou, completely confusing competitors. "Hangzhou white chrysanthemum" got its name from this

　　
　
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