The Great Qin: Starting with marrying Jingni, I began my quest for immortality.

The so-called rise to power seems difficult, but it is actually quite simple.

All you need to do is demonstrate your value, solidify your position, and then get rid of your boss.

As the most outstanding and loyal one, you will naturally be given important responsibilities.

Jiang Chuan thus replaced Fei Cuihu and became the person in charge of Ji Wuye's finances.

Although he is said to be in charge of Ji Wuye's finances, Ji Wuye does not actually fully trust Jiang Chuan yet. The biggest evidence of this is that Jiang Chuan only has control over a portion of the Jade Tiger's assets.

Another portion was directly taken over by Ji Wuye himself.

This is not surprising.

After all, Jade Tiger had been managing Ji Wuye's business for many years, and its business empire had long since penetrated into various industries. Some of these industries were shady, so Ji Wuye naturally couldn't hand over these businesses directly to Jiang Chuan.

Only after Jiang Chuan demonstrates his abilities will Ji Wuye be able to hand over these assets to Jiang Chuan.

Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Way of Tea

What abilities does Jiang Chuan need to demonstrate in front of Ji Wuye?

As the one who replaces Emerald Tiger, what he needs most is naturally the ability to make money.

So, not long after inheriting the Jade Tiger business, Jiang Chuan launched a promotional campaign for the alcoholic beverages he had previously sold.

After six months of fermentation.

Lord Xinling has become a truly high-end wine.

Even the lowest grade of Xinling wine can easily outperform the fine wines on the market, not to mention the medium and high grade wines above it.

However, Xinling Drink was expensive.

Even the lowest quality alcoholic beverages are only affordable for the wealthy.

This is very bad.

There are alcoholics in this world who are not only rich people.

As the successor of Emerald Tiger, Jiang Chuan is not the same kind of unscrupulous businessman as Emerald Tiger. He is determined to make wine affordable for ordinary people.

Of course, lowering the price is out of the question.

After all, the price had already been set.

While we can't directly lower the price, we can offer a discount.

So, how should the discount be offered?

Recruiting people.

For example, if you get ten people to join a group purchase, you can get a 10% discount for everyone.

If there are a hundred people, that's a loss.

If there are a thousand people, that's amazing! We won't even offer a 30% discount, we'll go straight for a 31% discount.

Although some people might band together to buy alcohol, it doesn't matter. All Jiang Chuan needs to do is sell the alcohol, making small profits but increasing sales volume. After all, alcohol is a consumable product.

They bought it once, and after they finished drinking it, they would come back to buy it again.

Jiang Chuan, on the other hand, will gain a lot of cash by selling a large quantity of alcohol at once, thus achieving success in a short period of time and winning Ji Wuye's favor.

The same is true.

When Jiangchuan launched a group-buying program, even the lowest grade of Xinling drink immediately saw a surge in demand.

Sales immediately exceeded previous levels.

Jiang Chuan didn't know how much money he had made, and his money was equivalent to Ji Wuye's money.

This made Ji Wuye even more certain that handing over the Jade Tiger business to Jiang Chuan was a good idea.

This retainer of Lord Xinling was indeed a capable man.

Jae-ho was already very wealthy; otherwise, he could not have become South Korea's first richest businessman.

However, the reason why Jade Tiger was able to earn so much money was mostly due to Ji Wuye's power and influence, through cunning and extortion.

Jiang Chuan, however, made money differently. Instead of directly relying on Ji Wuye's power, he took a different approach, using various marketing methods to sell goods and make money.

Because after Jade Tiger died, he did not lose any money; on the contrary, he made even more money.

As Ji Wuye perused the ledger Jiang Chuan handed him, he couldn't help but feel that the death of Emerald Tiger wasn't such a big deal, and that Emerald Tiger wasn't an indispensable figure.

Ji Wuye had this idea not only because Jiang Chuan had made him a lot of money, but also because, so far, Nightfall had not found any clues about the murderer of Emerald Tiger.

This is an incredibly incredible thing.

Over the years, night has come to completely cover the entire country of South Korea.

Although its scale cannot be compared with the Qin state's net, Ji Wuye was confident that on the land of Han, the night was no less formidable than the net.

The results of it.

After investigating for so long, not only have we found the murderer of the jade tiger, but we haven't even found a single clue.

Even if it were the top-ranking member of the Luo Wang organization, they wouldn't leave without leaving any clues, would they?

Because of past collaborations with the Luo Wang organization, Ji Wuye was aware of the assassin levels within it.

He was unaware that the one who killed Emerald Tiger was none other than the top-ranking member of the Luo Wang organization.

Originally, Ji Wuye planned to continue the investigation. After all, one has to consider the owner before beating a dog, and Emerald Tiger was a loyal dog that he was very comfortable using.

But now, Jade Tiger has a replacement; someone is more capable than Jade Tiger and can earn him more money.

Ji Wuye gradually changed his mind.

After all, the dead cannot be brought back to life, and even if the truth is found out, Emerald Tiger cannot come back to life.

Of course, this happened in Xinzheng, on his own turf.

The investigation must continue.

It's just that it's impossible to invest as much manpower and resources as before.

Time flies, and another period of time has passed.

After inheriting Emerald Tiger's business, Jiang Chuan, in addition to continuing to buy wine through various means, launched another high-end product: tea.

Tea does exist in this era.

But tea in this era was all tea soup, with various seasonings added, boiled and drunk. That's what boiling tea meant.

Not only was it inconvenient, but the taste was also indescribable.

Anyway, Jiang Chuan can't drink it.

So he launched fried tea.

To the outside world, it is claimed that this is "Taoist tea," a tea drunk by Taoist masters. It only needs to be brewed with boiling water. The tea tastes bitter at first and then sweet. Taoist masters are able to cultivate their character and comprehend the Tao by drinking this tea.

In today's world, Confucianism and Mohism are the two most prominent schools of thought, but the reputation of Taoism is by no means weaker.

Upon learning the origin of the tea, it immediately piqued the interest of some wealthy individuals.

Jiang Chuan also promoted tea through exquisite packaging. Although it wasn't as profitable as alcohol, it undoubtedly provided another avenue for making money.

As for the concept of Daoist tea?

Jiang Chuan wasn't making this up.

Because he clearly remembered that in the original novel's Xiaomeng side story, the tea that Beimingzi drank was tea leaves, not boiled tea soup.

Before he decided to market tea, he investigated tea in the world and learned that it was all tea soup.

Therefore, he came to the conclusion that the practice of directly brewing tea with boiling water may only exist in some Taoist sects and has not spread throughout the world.

This gave him room to maneuver.

On that day, Jiang Chuan successfully sold wine by leveraging Lord Xinling's reputation.

Now, using the name of Taoism, he has started selling tea.

Ji Wuye gradually figured out the tricks of Jiang Chuan's business: he liked to make a big show of things.

But it must be said that the effect is indeed very good.

He was happy that Jiang Chuan was making money, because it meant he was making money too. But while Jiang Chuan was making money, Ji Wuye couldn't help but have some new ideas.

This way of making money seems a bit slow.

He wanted to make a fortune.

The reason for this idea is that it's time for the imperial court to pay the border troops again.

The military pay amounted to a full 100,000 taels of gold.

If only I could get my hands on it.