Chapter 280: Exporting Tea
Then it was time for Mingzhu to return to the door. Liu Jingyuan and Mingzhu returned to the place where the Hu family lived with the gifts. When Hu saw his daughter and son-in-law, tears flowed out. Think about it, how hard it is for a divorced woman, in this case, she can still raise her daughter to adulthood, and also marry her daughter beautifully, which she really couldn't think of before.
Wen Hui had been waiting at the Hu family for a long time, and when she saw the Hu family crying, she said with a smile: "Aunt Hu, this is because of the marriage ceremony, the Liu family lives in the official office, and when the wedding is over, Master Liu and Mrs. Liu have returned to the capital, and Sister Mingzhu and Brother Liu have moved back." Won't you be able to see Sister Mingzhu every day? I have half a son. ”
Hu thought about it, Liu Jingyuan had already given the rent to the Hu family, and said that it was not suitable to rent the Hu family's house, but it was not suitable to marry in the same house, so Liu Jingyuan lived with his family in the official office, and when the wedding was over, Liu Jingyuan and Mingzhu would move back to live. After all, the place in the official office is shallow and narrow, where to live, let alone live in people, even if there is no place to put the dowry of the pearl. Therefore, when Mingzhu got married that day, he wore red makeup for ten miles, carried out from the Hu house, turned around, and put it in the Hu family.
Hu Shi thought that he would be able to live with his daughter and son-in-law in a few days, and his tears were gone, and he smiled.
The Bai family is very busy, and the Hu family doesn't know much about these chores, and the Bai family presides over the ceremony. Bai Shi saw the loving appearance of the righteous daughter Mingzhu and Liu Jingyuan, and his heart was also tight.
Of course, Wen Hui couldn't help but make fun of Mingzhu, and Mingzhu said hatefully: "Hmph, when you get married in the future, I must take revenge." Wen Hui laughed.
Time passed quickly, and soon after Mingzhu's wedding, the old couple of the Liu family had to go back to the capital. After all, there are still shops in the capital, and the grange has to be taken care of. Before leaving. Master Liu really handed over the tea fields and tea mountains in the south of the Yangtze River to Mingzhu to manage.
After Master Liu went back, Mingzhu and his wife moved to Hu's house. At this time, the three Wen Hui brothers and sisters are also preparing to stay away from home. This time. Wen Jun and Wen Hui still went to Shanghai City, and Wen Lin went to Shanghai City first. Then he was going to the clan land with the items purchased by the Chen family, and he couldn't come back for the New Year, which made the Bai family sad.
Wen Hui was preparing to go to Shanghai that day, and Mingzhu's maid came over and asked Wen Hui to come over. Wen Hui cleaned up and went over in the car.
The two families were originally close to each other, but they arrived in a short time. Wen Hui saw Mingzhu and asked, "What about Brother Liu?" ”
Mingzhu said: "He went to the yamen. With so many things piling up these days, he hurried to deal with them. ”
Wen Hui thinks about it, Liu Jingyuan is Liu Yan's right-hand man. Wen Hui asked, "Sister, what's the matter with calling me?" ”
Mingzhu smiled bitterly and said, "I really let you guess." My father-in-law really handed over to me the affairs of the tea mountain and the tea farm. I looked at it in the past two days, and I only made that little money every year, and I really didn't know how they operated. ”
Wen Hui asked: "Is it because the tea production is not large?" ”
Mingzhu said: "This is not true, the main reason is that the tea production is too large. The quality of the tea is not very good, and the sales volume is small, so it is always left, and after a long time, it is good not to lose money. How can you still make money? ”
Wen Hui nodded and said: "I have long heard that the Liu family's generation is not very good at business, and sure enough, it is good that their family has married you, you should hurry up and save the tea mountain and tea farm at home." ”
Mingzhu said: "Oh, am I an immortal? They are operating at a loss, and I am going to make money if I operate? ”
Wen Hui smiled and said: "Actually, you don't have to make money, but you can't watch your family's property lose, what do you plan?" I must have figured out a way to get me here. ”
Mingzhu pursed her lips and smiled, "You, what a ghost." I've thought about it. The first one, first of all, I have to send my housekeeper to those tea mountains, tea farms to see, if the variety of tea trees is not good, slowly replace it with new tea trees, if it is the steward in the pocket, replace it, if the process of making zuò tea is not good, I have a good way to copy tea, go back and pass it on, and Gu Shang master will remake new tea. ”
Wen Hui nodded and said, "Well, sister, your plan is very good." I know, Aunt Hu used to teach us the tea ceremony, and you must have a good recipe for making tea at home. ”
Mingzhu smiled and said, "This is not my mother's recipes, my mother's recipes are still too popular." My grandfather gave me this recipe when I was in the capital before. My maternal grandfather is recognized as a genius in the world, astronomy and geography, miscellaneous medicine, there is no one who can't do it. ”
Wen Hui only remembered that Mingzhu had a grandfather like Huang Yaoshi, Hu Zhili. He smiled and said, "Hey, the recipe in your hand will definitely be able to cheer up your family's tea farm." So what are you looking for me? ”
Mingzhu smiled brighter and said: "The new method requires new tea trees and new manufacturing processes, which cannot be completed in a day or two, or three or five years." Then in the past three or five years, I can't just watch my tea farm and tea mountain lose like this? ”
Wen Hui thought about it, so she asked, "Then what do you want to do?" ”
Mingzhu said: "There are still mountains of tea in my storehouse, these are not new teas, where to sell them?" I'm going to have to figure out how to sell them. Also, we still have a large amount of tea output every year, which is not easy to sell, these are new teas, and we also need to find buyers. So, I thought of you. Didn't your family go to the Wa Kingdom, Goguryeo, and Silla on a fish and sea boat? I thought about making old tea into tea bricks, so that the new tea and old tea could be sold overseas. Tea bricks are sold cheaper, new tea is more expensive, it is always a market, and it is better than not being able to sell it in Dachu. ”
Wen Hui said: "Your method is good. Anyway, those overseas people are as fine as our Da Chu drinking tea. Give them some tea bricks and you'll be satisfied. Moreover, all these things are multiplied by profits when they arrive overseas, and your tea must not be sold. Originally, tea was the most profitable, surpassing silk and porcelain. Because there is a high demand for tea. However, now that the sales of overseas tea are in the hands of a few big tea merchants, it is too late for you to start. But it doesn't matter, we have the strongest control over the stronghold in the Wa Kingdom, and the hands of a few big tea merchants are not that long, so your tea will be sold to the Wa Kingdom. It just so happens that the people of the Wa Kingdom love the tea ceremony the most, but they can't produce good tea, so they especially like the tea leaves of our Dachu. ”
Mingzhu was overjoyed and said: "I knew that as soon as I told you, you would be able to arrange things." ”
Wen Hui scolded with a smile: "Don't pat me on the back." ”
The two friends talked for a while, and Mingzhu suddenly remembered and asked, "As I said last time, let Dr. Miao go to Shanghai City, have you invited you?" ”
Wen Hui said: "Can our second brother still be able to handle it? Dr. Miao decided to take half of his family to the hospital in Shanghai. Now it's good, our hospital not only has a director, but also a doctor, so it will be enough to go back and recruit some servants. ”
Mingzhu said: "So, you have already built the hospital? ”
Wen Hui said: "Of course it was built, but if it wasn't built, how could you come to invite the dean?" Not only was the construction completed, but we also took out 100,000 taels of silver to buy a large number of medicinal materials and prepare to open it. ”
Mingzhu said: "Since you buy medicinal herbs, it is still such a large amount, why don't you buy the pills from our pharmacy?" ”
Wen Hui said: "This is naturally to be bought, I have already made a list, the fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, of course we only bought our own things first." There are also some of our family's mint, big green roots, andrographis, all bought. ”
Mingzhu said: "It's about the same, well, it's still very rewarding today, and two deals have been negotiated, I invite you to go down to the restaurant." ”
Wen Hui smiled and said, "Then I'm not welcome, I must slaughter you." ”
After eating with Mingzhu and shopping together, Wen Hui suddenly remembered Yaozhen's matter, so she went home to ask her father to see how the cotton business was going.
Wen Hui returned home, and when she saw that her father had not yet gone down to the yamen, she went directly to her father's official office. As a result, I still met an acquaintance, and this person was Wu Dashan, the elder brother of his master.
Wu Dashan was very happy to see Wen Hui, exchanged a few words of greeting, and specially said to Wen Hui: "Big girl, if you are free, can you go home with your sister in the evening to have a light meal?" ”
Wen Hui saw that Wu Dashan had something to say, so she nodded and agreed. Wu Dashan was very happy, and repeatedly told him not to forget jì. Wen Hui had no choice, so she had to send the maid around her back to tell Wu Lixia to go to Wu's house for dinner in the evening. After the maid left, Wu Dashan put his mind at ease and left, after all, he still had a lot of official business to deal with.
After Wen Hui waited for Wu Dashan to leave, she tilted her head and thought for a while, this Wu Dashan must have something to say, so he would do this.
Wen Hui put this aside first, and went directly to Chen Yuanheng's office, a big room.
Chen Wenhui has been here many times, and she still can't help but sigh, the office conditions in this era are good, this office is spacious and bright, the furniture is first-class, and there are bathrooms and tea rooms. But it's not called an office, it's a council chamber.
In fact, Chen Wenhui is also in the council hall in Shanghai, after all, Wenhui is now in charge of all the money and food in Shanghai, which is equivalent to the official of the five grades. It's just that Shanghai City has not yet been qualitated, it is still a new city, and the establishment of officials is not perfect, so they can only be collectively called in charge.
Just thinking about it, Chen Yuanheng had already seen his baby daughter, and said with a smile: "Hui'er, why do you have time to come to me?" Is there something going on? ”
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