Chapter 358: The Rise of the Magpie

There is no need to pretend to like it, it is not a simple superposition of several things, but a taste that complements each other and makes people extremely close and loved. On the well-made tea list of Yuanyuanyuan, there are a total of 33 single items or blended teas in the first batch. Those single teas are not very attractive, as Ye Tao himself admitted, they have not yet figured out the supply channel of high-grade tea, and now it is at most mid-range tea, and in a place like Yuanyuanyuan, which pays attention to environment and style, the cost performance is not high.

However, the information transmitted by Sun Mei'er, Lei Huang and even Sun Boping still made Yuanyuan famous in a short period of time. And Lu Zhen, a down-and-out businessman who was originally unknown, was also known to many people for a while. In everyone's eyes, Lu Zhen is really a little strange, no matter whether Yuanyuanyuan's business is good or bad, he only stays in the store for one morning every day, and in the afternoon he either contacts other things outside, or stays at home to accompany his wife. And when he was in the shop, he usually didn't pay much attention to what the clerks were doing, and everything naturally went smoothly according to the rules he had set for the tea shop, and he was on the second floor every day by the window, playing chess with his old family "Uncle Liu".

It is indeed unexpected that this down-and-out businessman from Zhenzhou was able to catch up with the now hot Sun Boping so quickly, and it seems that the relationship is still very good. But no matter what the previous situation was, after Lu Zhen became a little famous, he successively accepted some children of the same sect who were also downtrodden to Anqing, the oldest was in his fifties, and the youngest was only in his teens. Everyone also felt that Lu Zhen was really a kind person. And his deep dwelling is simple...... No, it is his wife, who lives in the depths but is loved by him, and has also become a puzzle in the circle of noble ladies in Anqing. Sun Boping, Gu Xi, Sun Mei'er and others all secretly visited Tan Weixin one after another, and as for Lei Huang, Lei Ying, Cao Pojun and other people from the inner government, they were even more excited after seeing Her Royal Highness the Princess. Although Ye Tao did not ask for it, when Lei Huang had to rush back to Taizhou to deal with affairs, he left a sect demon group to be dispatched by Her Royal Highness the princess, and, undoubtedly, they were all the elites of the sect demon group elites from the inner mansion.

Equally famous was the biscuit shop run by a large group of young, athletic, mostly handsome-looking young men. The name of the biscuit shop is "Guanshengen", and there is no place for diners to sit, and it is all takeaway. The second floor is a resting place for employees, and in front of the entire first floor is a hall, with dozens of copper plates of the same size placed on two long tables. There is a different kind of cookie on each plate. The second half of the first floor is home to six ovens that roast a variety of biscuits on a cycle. Ever since the oven was ready and the first batch of cookies were taken out and the site opened naturally, the neighborhood around Guanshengyuan began to be tested. As long as the oven is open, the hot aroma mixed with sugar, butter and other main ingredients and accessories wafts around, making everyone uneasy. There is no need to advertise, but the aroma alone attracts many customers to try it, and then they are fascinated by the small things like cookies. From the elderly to children, the appearance of biscuits in Anqing has caused a market group to be: killing.

The biscuits sold in Guanshengyuan include the kind of small biscuits that are mass-produced and sold by catties, as well as the kind of fine products that are individually packed on folded flower-like pieces of paper. And the price of those fine biscuits is really not cheap. Although the soldiers of the special battalion were very confused about the task, they did it conscientiously, and sweating like rain next to the oven was a good exercise in itself, and they quickly linked all their daily work with the training subjects, and they did it with relish. On the ground, everyone is of course warmly welcoming guests, and the passage under the ground is also unconsciously carried out. Every day, a large amount of firewood, charcoal, and other materials are brought in, and the timber used to support the excavation passage is also mixed in and enters the store, and it is impossible for anyone to check whether the wood has been burned. Due to the length of the passages, ventilation and lighting equipment were also delivered. Now, for the things that are particularly needed, it only takes 20 days from sending the request to Yunzhou to being transported to Anqing through secret channels. In terms of logistics efficiency, all parties in Dongping are now really frighteningly high. But with electric lights, hand-cranked generators, and exhaust fans, digging is a little easier.

Originally, Ye Tao also specifically asked Sun Boping for advice, wanting to verify how much silver was in this standing warehouse. Unexpectedly, Sun Boping not only did not have any complaints about Ye Tao's desire to move the silver in the standing treasury, or was worried about whether it would affect his work, but actively offered advice to Ye Tao. It turns out that the so-called standing treasury is just a name, and the meaning of this treasury is not to provide funds for circulation at all levels of the imperial court, or even the treasury that the household department should manage, and even the silver in the standing treasury usually cannot fall into the account of the household department.

In fact, the standing treasury should be regarded as the treasury directly under the jurisdiction of the Anqing Terracotta Division and reported to the household department for daily tax buffer. However, due to the small amount of cashiers and the fact that the total amount is reported once a year, there is too much oil and water, and the Terracotta Division is reluctant to hand over the standing treasury to the direct subordinate of the household department. In Xiling, local taxation is generally two channels, the local official, or the tax supervisor directly under the local government. In relatively small areas, all kinds of taxes are directly managed by the local officials, and then they are paid to the government at the next higher level, while in relatively large areas, there are tax supervisors, on the one hand, to collect the taxes paid by small localities, and on the other hand, to implement all kinds of taxes on the spot, especially the payment of tax increases. However, in Anqing, there was no such problem originally, and the subordinate officials of the household department directly taxed various affairs in Anqing. Unexpectedly, because the household department had a big basket before, there was a large-scale corruption, and a few decades ago there was a thorough cleanup that lasted almost a year. The taxes in various places are just temporarily waiting for transportation, and no one in Anqing has carried out the taxes, so they were taken over by the Anqing Terracotta Division. And then it gradually became what it is today.

The standing treasury is actually not always available, it is just an expedient solution, but the Anqing Terracotta Division has been unwilling to let go because it is constantly able to get money from it. This standing treasury is already an out-and-out small treasury of the Terracotta Division. Of course, the daily taxes are piled up with the broken silver, but after the counting of many years, the surplus left over from the division of the important officials, and the common part that is reserved for special expenses in special times are also piled up in the standing treasury. How much money is in the standing treasury, even Sun Boping is not very bottom, he only knows that every year from the standing treasury to the household department, it is always around one million taels, and the fluctuation does not exceed 100,000 taels.

At this moment, Ye Tao's prank of wanting the soldiers of the special battalion to hesitate whether to fight quickly to steal money or make money is a little out of shape. No matter what, Ye Tao couldn't think of a way to make the soldiers of the special battalion earn millions of taels of silver in a few months. However, even Sun Boping was gradually shocked by the ability of a Yuanyuan Garden and a Guansheng Garden to make money. Because of Sun Bo's screen, no official dared to fight the autumn breeze, but the various etiquettes on both sides were still quite thoughtful. Not to mention the Yuanyuan Garden, the tea brewed there is really not cheap, and because the guests are used to sitting and chatting or playing chess in the Yuanyuan Garden, the revenue of the Yuanyuan Garden is limited.

But Guanshengyuan is very terrible, from the opening of the furnace to the present, several ovens can not stop, that is twelve hours a day can not meet the huge market demand. Guanshengyuan immediately bought the house in the back, erected twelve more ovens, and then began to provide ordering and home delivery services after the production capacity increased. The handsome, robust, and sunny soldiers of the special battalion have been repeatedly recruited by those high-ranking families. If it weren't for the lofty ideals they all had in their hearts: to defeat Xi Ling, I am afraid it would be difficult not to waver. Naturally, the soldiers of the special battalion did not really want to get a million by selling biscuits, and it took them a month to dig the passage to the outside of the standing warehouse, which was only separated by a wall from the place full of silver. At this time, they were waiting for a suitable time to get the silver out before they knew it. No matter how much silver was piled up there, the soldiers of the special battalion remembered one number: the turnover of Guanshengyuan in the first month was 112,433 taels.

This number alone was enough to make Ye Tao snicker, and the soldiers of the special battalion were slightly puzzled. Although it looks leisurely on the surface, Ye Tao didn't come to Xiling for leisure after all, he became famous in Yuanyuan Garden, and when the name Lu Zhen began to be known by more and more people, Ye Tao had more and more problems to face. Who is this businessman with an amazing business experience? After all, someone is starting to be curious about this. So, on the one hand, Ye Tao actively began to contact all kinds of people, according to the plan to spread out his various contacts in Xiling, on the other hand, he was also interested in preparing to run away at any time with Tan Weixin. They don't want to be stuck in Anqing at that time.

When Yuanyuan Garden opened for a month, Ye Tao took Tan Weixin and quietly came to the suburbs of Anqing, not to go out to play, but to visit Kong Yan, the head of Xingsifang. Xingsifang is also the Chen family's industry, and it is one of the few industries that remain calm and rational in the centrifugal tide, and everyone in the industry is strictly required to do things well and not be careful. It may not be easy to bring such a business back into your hands, but it is very appropriate to expose the clues of your "identity" through such a business.