Chapter 807: Full Height
"Black tea in the coming year is destined to be unsalable. The time is as short as one or two years, and as long as three or four years, which has too much impact on China's tea. Therefore, we must make tea in the country and digest these tea leaves internally. If you can start the tea business, I won't ask you to digest all the leftover tea next year, I will give you three years. If it's done, I'll give you another ten years of the franchise! ”
"You can advertise as royal. Even if I and your queen mother can take it out and use it. ”
For the years of the second half of the nineteenth century, the age of drinks seems too far from it. Liu Xian had never thought of tea drinks before this. This is all forced, and it has to be done as a last resort!
Liu Yu's face changed a few times. He knew that this was his father's trust in him, his trust in his business talents, and it was also a test for his father, if he failed, ......if he failed, if he succeeded......
"Hehe, where is the reputation of the father and the queen mother, only the royal signboard is enough!" Liu Yu said in a relaxed tone. It seems that the person whose face has changed and changed before is not him at all.
What is there to be afraid of? Three years. My father has changed from a small leader in regimental training to a general soldier in three years, can't he make a tea brand under such good conditions? Besides, the iced tea in the palace is really delicious, and in the summer, it is refreshing to add ice cubes.
After Liu Xian returned to the palace, he immediately recruited attendants and inquired about the development of the domestic glass industry. To make iced black tea bigger, bottled is the key, and canned tea with current technology is better than knowing whether it can be manufactured on a large scale. Speaking of this technology, it is not difficult, and the development of China's aluminum industry is also very good. The material of the aluminum can lid itself is processed to form a rivet, which is riveted with a pull ring on the jacket. With matching notches, it becomes a complete lid. It's easy to say, but hard to do. Liu Xian has little confidence in this. But the problem with the bottle is much simpler.
If tea drinks can really be developed, it will also have a great role in promoting the development of China's glass industry.
But. Can tea drinks really prevail in this 'ancient' era? Liu Xian had already made a decision, but he was not sure at all in his heart. This is a decision made purely on the head and without any market research!
Liu Xian then ordered the cabinet to have them systematically conduct a business census, and Liu Xian suddenly became very eager to know where the development of various industries in China has been.
As the time enters winter, the turmoil of the European economic crisis has affected China. At the same time, the turtle cowered in the United States in the eastern part of the Great Lakes. They also very simply rejected the demands of Britain, France, Germany and other European countries to lower their tariffs. In this economic crisis, the Americans have not done Europe much help. Because in a few years, the Americans have initially restored their industrial chains, especially the steel industry, relying on iron ore in their homeland and Canada, the Americans have been rid of the demand for steel from Europeans in only two years. By now, even for food, thirty to forty million Americans have largely achieved self-sufficiency. Because the Americans have the rich Great Lakes and the wide Atlantic Ocean to develop fisheries.
The Americans have even organized three shipbuilding centers in New York, Miami, and Boston, and a small battleship of 10,000 tons has been launched this summer. The strength of the Americans has recovered much, much more, and their strength may not be comparable to that of Britain, France and Germany. But compared to Italy and Austria-Hungary, the winner will definitely be this bald eagle!
The Americans have also narrowed the distance between the Americans and Colombia, and the Colombian Conservative Party, which has the support of the United States, now has an absolute advantage in the war with the Liberal Party. If it weren't for the dense forests of Colombia. The Liberal Party has long ago failed completely.
This is definitely not just to ensure their international standing in the Americas, the Americans are aiming for the Panama Canal, which is under construction.
They can't take the Republic of Panama away from China, so they can only target Colombia. The conservatives of the latter hit it off. The liberals, who resolutely reject China's interference in Colombia's internal affairs and civil war, have their defeat inevitable. Because Liu Xian will never go to the Colombian liberals again at this time.
The whole Latin American world. Few countries can truly reject the United States. Spain, which ruled many colonies in Latin America, was one of the most important partners and allies of the United States in its return to Latin America. Steel production in the United States has grown rapidly in the past two years. In addition to Canada, it relies on high-grade iron ore from Brazil.
With the exception of Mexico and Panama, which were clinging to China's thighs, all the countries in Latin America reconnected with the United States intermittently after 1900. In the previous life, the United States completely 'trampled to death' the declining Spain on the Iberian Peninsula, but in this time and space, the United States and Spain gradually had a trace of hardcore allies. This is not a mouse as a bridesmaid for a cat, but a person who has fallen from the end of the world!
However, the combination of the United States and Spain still has a great influence. In Cuba and Puerto Rico, Spain's shaky rule was re-entrenched, and the United States was able to import large quantities of agricultural products and industrial raw materials from these two places at relatively low prices. This has undoubtedly been a great help to the recovery of the United States. The negative effect is that the alliance between the United States and Spain has caused a large number of Latin American countries represented by Venezuela to resist it to a certain extent. After all, these Latin American countries were colonies of the Spaniards a hundred years ago.
And the decline of the United States also gave opportunities to the Germans and the British. Britain and Germany, which have long coveted South America, especially the long-awaited nitrate ore and copper ore in Chile, have been vigorously intervening in South America in recent years. Chile is an important entry point for them. This long, narrow country has irreconcilable contradictions with Peru and Bolivia, and has disputes with Argentina and Brazil for hegemony in South America. Xiaoqiang is the same country, but it can't stop the interference of Britain and Germany. In particular, in 1891 naval officer J. Monte launched a civil war and seized power. After that, the landlord class, together with the large importers and exporters, took control of the government through the Congress, and began the so-called "Congressional Republican Period". This gave Britain and Germany too much room to intervene.
As a result, South America today is a complex palette of colors, and no one knows what color it will become.
On the canal site in Panama, there are more than 50,000 Japanese and more than 100,000 Nanyang natives working here, and here there is an integrated division of the Wehrmacht stationed along the river alone, and in the past few years, at least 25,000 Japanese laborers, Chinese and Nanyang natives have been lying here forever.
Just this matter, a big mouth of blood that can never be filled, and it can't stop devouring flesh and endless money. But in the same way, it is also very workable, and the construction workers who have grown up rapidly in the harsh environment can be compiled into countless construction teams with first-class business standards.
The first batch of iced black tea made by Liu Yu was delivered here, priced at 5 yuan a bottle. Also sent to Panama was a batch of freezers, iced black tea, iced tea, and no ice is ice.
The sales staff are all disabled workers who are going to 'retire' on the construction site. After all, this thing is very simple, a simple small house, a freezer is woven, and the electricity is turned on, and the guests are waiting for the guests to come to the door. If you are out of stock, you don't need to make a trip by yourself, call the sales department, or set a fixed delivery time, a basic salary of 2,000 yuan per month, plus a sales commission. As soon as this treatment was thrown out, although the Panamanian construction site was very bitter and dangerous, there were still people who applied for it.
According to the plan, only 30 sales points will be set up in the first phase. Liu Xu's capital is very large, and he has shipped 100 freezers at one time, and has set up a branch in Panama, but he has no idea how the actual sales are.
The focus of his first wave of offensive was on Panama and Nanyang, and he carried out a pilot project in Lingnan. Panama and Nanyang, two places close to the equator, are tropical, with high temperatures all year round, which is suitable for buying iced tea.
On the contrary, in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and other places, I didn't see any big moves by Liu Xu. Liu Xian doesn't care about it, he just needs to look at the sales. Let's see how much we can sell in this first month!?
The Qin consortium has officially involved the tea industry. But do not make too high-end fine tea, at the moment the concept of fine tea in the Chinese, not how beautifully you package is a fine product, but the quality of the tea industry. Fine tea is synonymous with famous tea, and famous tea will always have a small share in the output of the entire tea industry. The tea company of the Qin consortium makes bagged tea. In today's China, there has never been a tea bag. Anyway, Liu Xian has done his best to develop the market for the tea industry. If the situation is not ideal, then it is not possible. He is not an all-powerful god and Buddha.
Nowadays, there are thousands of people in all walks of life in China. In many industries, Liu Xian only glanced at the report and did not study it in depth at all. He can put so much effort into the development of the tea industry, it can be said that the word 'tea' has an extraordinary influence in China, and it can also be said that Emperor Liu is purely idle and bored at the moment, and has nothing to do. That's why I spent so much effort on the tea industry.
The cabinet is responsible for government affairs, and there is no possibility for the military to develop by leaps and bounds in the short term. Liu Xian is getting more and more arched!
Everything in the country is moving for the better. The price of grain has been as low as eight cents, and it will even be as low as seven cents a pound on the days when new grain is on the market. Per capita grain production has been rising. Even though a large amount of rice is still imported from the Nguyen Dynasty and Nan Tien Kingdom every year, especially some high-quality rice, the per capita grain output of the whole country has exceeded 700 catties. Last year, the country's total industrial and agricultural production value also exceeded 5,000 billion yuan.
Liu Xian is very satisfied with the development of the country, and the agricultural machinery subsidies formulated by the cabinet have made the Luoyang Agricultural Machinery Group under the jurisdiction of the Qin consortium mixed with a kick, from tractors to threshing machines, to harvesters, pumps and other 17 kinds of agricultural machinery, all of which are reduced by 3,000 yuan or 10% of the amount.
Emperor Liu, who dreamed of developing mechanized agriculture in China, took the initiative to formulate a policy before he mentioned the agricultural machinery subsidy, and also formed a good communication with the Congress, which was passed in one fell swoop. This represents the Chinese government's all-round high pole in administrative capabilities, vision and means! (To be continued.) )