Chapter 23: Forming a Chamber of Commerce
After the tea leaves are dried, it is to pick the stems to pick out the tea stalks, and the rest is the green tea leaves, after the tea is made, Chu Jie called Duanmu Ci over to taste it, and when Duanmu Ci drank the tea, he was conquered by the fresh and mellow, refreshing and pleasant taste. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Duanmu Ci named the tea as Chu tea, and then divided the Chu tea into four grades, namely special grade, first grade, second grade, and third grade.
1. Special grade: the appearance is fat and strong, round and heavy, the color is emerald green, and the sand green is obvious; The soup is golden and bright, with a high aroma and long-lasting; The taste is fresh and mellow, the rhyme is obvious, the bottom of the leaves is thick and soft, even, and the aftertaste is high and long.
2. Level 1: strong and tight shape, green and oily, green and bright sand; The soup is golden and bright, and the fragrance is long-lasting; The taste is mellow and sweet, the rhyme is obvious, the bottom of the leaves is soft and bright, still even, and there is an aftertaste.
3. Level 2: The appearance is curled and strong, green and oily, with sand green and slightly tender stalks; The soup is golden in color and has a long-lasting fragrance; The taste is still fresh and mellow and refreshing, the rhyme is still bright, the bottom of the leaves is still soft and bright, still even, and there is a slight aftertaste.
4. Level 3: The shape of the curly is still strong, dark green and slightly yellow, and there are slightly delicate stalks; The color of the soup is golden, the aroma is pure, the taste is mellow and sweet, the rhyme is slightly poor, it is still soft and bright, and it is still even.
The premium tea is carefully selected, and one or two special teas can not be selected in 1 kg of finished tea, and the price of tea is also the most expensive 1000 taels of silver and 1 catty, of course, this is also prepared for the high-ranking officials and nobles of the Shijia family.
The first-class tea is only about one or two out of 1 catty of finished tea, and it is supplied to the high-ranking scholars and ordinary officials.
The second-grade tea leaves are selected from about three taels in 1 kg of finished tea, and one pound of 100 to 300 taels of silver is supplied to ordinary scholars and wealthy families.
The third-grade tea, that is, 1 kg of finished tea, after being selected by the special, first, and second-class tea, the remaining tea leaves are sold for 100 copper coins and 1 catty below to be supplied to civilians.
The next thing to do was to expand the scale of tea production, Chu Jie bought two workshops to slightly modify the workshops, added some tools needed to make tea, and the workshop became a tea workshop.
It also employs 60 people, a workshop and 20 workers, two workshops one in the south of the city and one in the west of the city, the workshop in the south of the city is responsible for finishing, and the finished tea is immediately transported to the workshop in the west of the city for rolling, scattering and drying.
The dried tea leaves were then sent to Chu Jie's house for the remaining twenty workers to pick and grade the stems, although this is a bit troublesome, but in order to prevent the leakage of the tea process, this can only be done.
After doing this, Chu Jie returned to the Chu house, called everyone, and established a chamber of commerce called the Chu Family Chamber of Commerce, and the division of labor of the chamber of commerce is as follows;
Although Yuan Chen is young, he is clever and his martial arts are not bad, Chu Jie asked him to set up a purchase team to buy fresh tea leaves or raw materials for other products in the future.
Ma Ben is honest and conscientious in everything he does, so Chu Jie took him to be in charge of the production of the workshop.
Duanmu Ci is good at communication and business, so Chu Jie asked him to be responsible for the sales of tea and the operation of tea houses, or the sales and operation of other products in the future.
Chu Jie asked Di Qing to secretly set up a training camp in the mountains outside Luoyang City, secretly recruiting young adults among rangers and homeless people, training escorts and training dead soldiers.
And Dian Wei was responsible for the guards and servants in the Chu Mansion to protect the property and safety of the Chu Mansion.
There is also an intelligence organization, but there are no more people to do it now, and we will talk about it when there are more people in the future.
After listening to Chu Jie's arrangement, everyone dispersed and went to work on the things arranged by Chu Jie, Chu Jie came to the garden, and now his garden has almost become a workshop.
I saw a large pile of wood piled up in the garden, and more than a dozen carpenters were building these things according to the drawings of tables, stools, and chairs drawn by Chu Jie, and more than a dozen woodcarvers were carving something on some small wooden blocks.
For these things, Chu Jie didn't think about opening a workshop to make these things, because these things are very simple things, as long as you have seen the entity, a carpenter will do it, if you sell it, who will buy you?
Chu Jie walked to the carpenter's area, and saw that there were ten tables, twenty stools, and thirty chairs.
Then come to the woodcarver, the woodcarver made these small wooden blocks are mahjong, a total of 136 mahjong in the north, 36 strips, 36 tubes, 36 million sons, respectively, 1-9 each four, a total of 108 and four in the southeast, northwest, and white, a total of 28 sheets.
More than a dozen wood carvers did it together for a few days, and it took a pair and a half of mahjong wood blocks to be created, which is also good, because there are eight more flower cards in southern mahjong, and these flower cards are not easy to carve, so Chu Jie chose to do northern mahjong.
Chu Jie stayed in the garden for a while, helped the craftsmen solve some problems, and then left the garden, since the training camp was to be established, the amount of weapons needed was also large.
If you use money to buy it again, it will definitely attract the attention of some well-intentioned people, and it will be a lot of fun if someone catches the handle and sues the government.
He also once asked the audience for advanced information, but as long as it is out of the era of cold weapons, it will be automatically marked with mosaics when it is sent to the live broadcast room, so that he can't see that it is a limitation of the system in his heart.
Taking out the drawings from the study that recorded half of the steel filling method and process provided by the audience, Chu Jie left the house and headed towards the blacksmith's address.
Zhang Li lives in a blacksmith in the south of Luoyang City, does not open a blacksmith shop, but has the skill of making good weapons, has a strange personality, likes to study better steelmaking methods, but has studied for half a lifetime and has not studied anything.
Chu Jie came to the outside of the courtyard of the house in the south of the city, the courtyard wall was covered with cobwebs, and the courtyard door was also covered with dust: "This can't be an empty house, right?" What kind of people would live here! ”
Chu Jie stepped forward and knocked on the door, but there was no sound in the courtyard, he tapped the door hard again and shouted, "Is there anyone!" Anyone!! I'm looking for Master Tension"! Still no one answered!
"Grass!! Fooled by someone,! Don't let me see that kid again, a tael of silver from Lao Tzu! Grass! Chu Jie scolded in his mouth, he was still unwilling, and kicked towards the courtyard gate.
All I heard was "Bang Bang!" "He kicked the courtyard door open!" Hey! Seeing that the door was open, Chu Jie probed his brain and looked into the courtyard.
I saw a person sitting on a stone in the courtyard with his head bowed and his back to him, I don't know what he was doing, and when he saw someone, Chu Jie thought to himself, is this person the blacksmith? Sure enough, strange enough, he straightened his clothes and stepped into the courtyard.
Chu Jie walked near the man and saw this person clearly, about forty years old, with his hands on his cheeks, his eyes staring at a piece of iron in front of him, he didn't even know that he was in, he didn't know what to think so distractedly.
"Ahem! Master Zhang! In Xia Chu Jie, I came to you today to ask for something important," Chu Jie said with a bow.
"Huh?" Chu Jie raised his head and saw that this person was still looking at the iron distraction, and Chu Jie was suddenly a little embarrassed.
Then he stretched out his hand and patted the man's shoulder and said, "Master Zhang! Hey! Master Zhang! ”
The man reacted, only to see Zhang Li, the blacksmith, raised his head, glanced at Chu Jie lightly, and said: "The weapon is 200 yuan a handful, in the room, go pick it yourself!" Then he looked down at the piece of iron on the ground.
"Alright! This old boy has developed a habit of it" Chu Jie thought to himself, and then he spoke again: "Master Zhang, I didn't come to buy weapons today, I heard that you are studying a new steelmaking method!" There is a better steelmaking method in the hands of Xia Bucai! ”
"It's all about weapons! What the? You say you have a better way to make steel? Zhang Li waved his hand impatiently before he reacted and said loudly.
"Yes, there is a better way to make steel than it is now! It's called the steel filling method! Chu Jie took out the drawings from his arms and said.
"Give it to me, give it to me! Show me! The blacksmith immediately stood up and grabbed the paper in Chu Jie's hand.
But he snatched Chu Jie, and when he saw Chu Jie retreat slightly, he let Zhang Li catch up.
"It's okay to show you! But you have to think clearly, after reading it, you have to come with me and help me build weapons," Chu Jie said.
"No problem! No problem! As long as it's better than the current steelmaking method! You can do whatever you want me to do," Zhang Zhang said excitedly.
Then Chu Jie handed over the drawings recording the steel filling method to Zhang Zhang to watch, and Zhang Zhang said while watching: "So that's the case!" No wonder I didn't make it! ”
After a while, I saw Zhang Zhang raise his head and say to Chu Jie with red eyes: "The rest?" What about the rest of the drawings? ”
"Master Zhang Li will pack up your things first, and I will hand over the rest of the drawings to you when I get to the place," Chu Jie replied
Zhang Zhang hurriedly ran to the room to pack a package and followed Chu Jie, who took Zhang Zhang to the backyard of Chu Mansion.
The backyard has been secretly transformed into a simple weapon making workshop by Chu Jie asked craftsmen, and after bringing Zhang Li here, he handed over the remaining drawings, including some drawings of weapons and equipment, to him, and let him forge it here and equip it with five apprentices.
He called Dian Wei and told him to keep this place under strict guard, and that no one should enter without his orders.