A doctor who travels through two eras

Lin Chen is not bragging. Lin Chen and Liu Fangfang graduated from the Tea Science Department of China Agricultural University, which is equivalent to the Whampoa Military Academy in the domestic tea industry.

Let me put it this way, whether it is the major tea research institutes or major tea merchants in China, they are all seniors and juniors if you count them closely. This is the academic network.

To use the words of fantasy novels, China Agricultural University is the sect. The sect disciples, elders at all levels, and masters of each peak are all powerful connections.

As for others who sell tea, they can only be considered as independent practitioners and their ability to resist risks is relatively poor.

It is almost impossible for those casual cultivators to get a "Foundation Building Pill" (high-end tea).

After Lin Chen returned home, he sorted out the photos and videos of tea he had taken on his mobile phone, and then began to post them one by one in the university group.

"Dear teachers, seniors, I am now the head of the tea sales department of Lingnantang Group. Now our company has obtained a batch of top-grade Pu'er tea, including the following varieties:

The first tier includes Mansong, the second tier includes Iceland and Laobanzhang, and the third tier includes Fenghuangwo, Mint Candy, Kunlushan, Maoerduo, etc.

In addition, we also have Pu'er tea cakes from various time-honored brands, such as Fuyuanchanghao, Qianlizhen Songpinhao, Tongqinghao, Tongxinghao, Xinchanghao, Yongxingxiang, etc., in large quantities and as much as you can eat.

If there are teachers or students who need Pu'er tea and want to buy it, they can come to me. I will definitely supply it to you at the most favorable price.

Here, we at Lingnan Hall can also promise that we will compensate you tenfold for any counterfeit tea, with written evidence. Below are the photos and videos of tea I just took today.”

After sending this message, Lin Chen went to take a shower.

When he came back, he found that his phone had exploded with messages and there were dozens of missed calls.

Lin Chen scrolled through the messages in a certain group chat until his fingers almost broke:

"Is this true? Junior, do you have 30 tons of Mansong Pu'er tea?"

"Oh my god, I can't even get mint candy Pu'er, where did you get so much of it, junior? Is it fake?"

"How could it be fake? Lingnan Hall is a well-known ginseng seller with a good reputation. Didn't they say they would compensate ten times the price if the ginseng is fake?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. I am in Banzhang Village now. This year there was a severe drought and we only harvested 35 tons of Laobanzhang, which have all been sold. Where did Lingnan Hall get Laobanzhang?"

"Are there any classmates in Guangdong who can go and see it in person?"

"Student Lin, I'm Professor Liu Jintang. Would it be convenient for me to visit your tea warehouse?"

Lin Chen and Liu Fangfang were both stunned. It’s okay for other students, but Liu Jintang is the former dean of the Tea College of Agricultural University. How could this great man show up?
Lin Chen was excited now. He knew that Lingnan Hall was famous for selling ginseng, but this was the first time they sold tea.

If you want to sell tea, you not only have to rely on school connections, but also hype it up. Only when it becomes known to people all over the country can you be considered successful.

Lin Chen decided to give it a try. He didn’t want to sacrifice the lamb, so he quickly sent a message in the mobile group:
"President Liu, we at Lingnan Hall welcome you to come and give us guidance at any time. In addition, teachers, seniors and juniors, we at Lingnan Hall are going to hold a Pu'er tea tasting meeting in a week.

We will provide 25 kinds of top-grade Pu'er tea for everyone to taste, and will also open orders. The quantity is limited, and those who are interested are welcome to participate. All accommodation will be provided by our Lingnan Hall. "

Once this message was sent to several groups, the group became even more lively.

Classmate: "Is it true? Do you have all the top-quality Pu'er teas in China?"

Lin Chen: “All of them!”

Classmate: "Classmate Lin Chen, if we come to Huadu, will you really provide free food and accommodation?"

Lin Chen: "Five-star hotel, I will never fool our classmates, we will also reimburse the air tickets of the students who finally made the deal."

Classmate: "Wow, is this true? Do we need to hold sales conferences to promote top-quality Pu'er? Wouldn't it have been sold out long ago?"

Lin Chen: "The main reason is that our Lingnan Hall has just entered the tea industry and is preparing to become famous overnight. I am a student of our Agricultural University, so of course they will give preferential treatment to our family members."

Classmate: "Yes, as long as we can get the top-grade Pu'er tea, it will be a sure profit. Classmate Lin Chen, I will join in."

Lin Chen: "Welcome, senior brother. I will send a formal invitation letter in the group tomorrow."

Classmate: "Lin Chen, I know the wild ginseng from your Lingnan Hall. Can you also guarantee a 100% compensation for fake tea?"

Lin Chen: "Agricultural University students don't cheat on agricultural universities. Besides, we are all professionals. How can I cheat the teachers and seniors?"

In fact, Lingnan Hall’s good reputation and credibility played a big role at this time. If someone else said they had top-grade Pu’er, no one would believe it. But Lingnan Hall was different. According to past practice, Lingnan Hall would either not sell Pu’er or sell high-quality Pu’er.

So although everyone was skeptical about Lin Chen's words, generally speaking, the majority believed it, not to mention that they could inspect the goods on site.

As more and more information came in, Lin Chen couldn't handle it alone, so the couple worked together and hardly slept that night.

In modern society, information spreads very quickly.

After fermenting overnight, the news that Huadu Lingnan Hall was ready to sell top-grade Pu'er tea quickly spread to everyone in the tea circle across the country.

The next day, all the wealthy circles and tea circles in China were discussing the affairs of Lingnan Hall.

Some are welcome and some are worried.

Those who are ready to make a fortune have already arranged their trips and are sharpening their knives to rush to Huadu.

This shocking news also reached the Yunnan Pu'er Tea Association, which really stirred up a hornet's nest.

The Pu'er Tea Association, in official terms, is a social group formed by a voluntary alliance of units and individuals involved in Pu'er tea production, processing, circulation, scientific research, teaching, supervision, and management throughout the province.

It is the organization that manages the "Pu'er Tea" certification trademark and is a provincial Pu'er tea industry organization that is not for profit.

But those who know know how Pu'er tea became so popular.
Behind this are all major capitals. It is their capitals that unite with each other, spend a lot of effort, and invest huge amounts of money in advertising and soft articles, which has put Pu'er tea on the altar.

The purpose of doing this is to monopolize the supply of top-quality Pu'er tea and make a fortune for themselves.

So this is a rather closed small circle, and only a few capitals in the small circle are qualified to have a bite of such a big piece of fat meat, and outsiders are absolutely not allowed.

Even if someone wants to take advantage of this opportunity, they can only compete in the highly competitive mid- and low-end Pu'er tea market.

However, big capital just watches the situation with a smile, allocates huge amounts of money, holds top-grade Pu'er tea, and makes most of the profits.

The so-called Pu'er Tea Association is also controlled by these big capitals.

To put it nicely, they are formulating Pu'er tea industry standards and actively promoting Pu'er tea.

But to put it bluntly, they use the power of discourse in their hands to exclude dissidents and eliminate emerging competitors in advance.

The scary thing about capital is that they love monopoly very much, because only monopoly has pricing power and can make the most money.

Now Lingnan Hall is spreading the word in Huadu, welcoming tea merchants from all over the country to Huadu to taste and place orders. This touches on the interests of those big capitals.

Look, Zhu Baorong, one of the largest Pu'er tea merchants in the country and also the president of the Yunnan Pu'er Tea Association, has been losing his temper early in the morning.

"Check, check for me, where did this Lingnan Hall get its tea?"

Vice President Wang Binggen frowned and extinguished his cigarette in the ashtray:
"Yes, check. Call now. Call the village committees that produce Pu'er tea. Call all the major distributors. Which link has gone wrong? Who is secretly supplying tea to outsiders?"

The several villages and tea mountains that can produce top-grade Pu'er have all been contracted by major capitals.

Including the Banzhang Village that Lin Sanqi visited in another time and space, the thousand-year-old tree was privately contracted, and the tea picked was not circulated to the outside.

The capital and the villagers had signed an agreement before, which stated that tea must not be sold to outsiders. It was clearly signed and stamped in black and white.

In addition to the law that can restrict the agreement between the two parties, in Yunnan, a martial ethnic minority, capital will also use special and abnormal means to maintain this agreement.

At this time, another vice president, Liu Xiaode, was holding a few documents in his hand and said thoughtfully:

"That's not right. Look at the list in my hand. Our association controls all 19 top-grade Pu'er tea mountains. According to the tea production over the years, there doesn't seem to be any big discrepancy.

This year's output is indeed slightly less than last year, but that is all because of the drought last year which led to lower production.

For example, the production of Laobanzhang Pu'er tea was about 50 tons in previous years, and this year we harvested 10 tons of spring tea. It can be said that I personally watched over the first piece of fresh Pu'er tea entering the warehouse, and it was absolutely impossible for it to flow out.

Even if a few dozen or a few hundred kilograms flowed out, it is possible, but according to Lingnan Hall, there are dozens of tons of Laobanzhang alone, and this output has exceeded the spring tea output. How is this possible? Absolutely impossible!" (End of this chapter)