Chapter 338: The Quality Has Dropped [Asking for a Subscription, Asking for a Monthly Pass!]
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A Dongfeng truck delivered a truckload of tea to the Zijiang Tea Factory, which came from Shiqihe County, a neighboring city of Wuxi. Fei Zhenglu attached great importance to it and personally received the tea farmers who came to deliver tea.
"Uncle, you've worked hard all the way, how is this year's tea?" Fei Zhenglu asked with concern.
"It's okay, it's okay. This year's tea harvest is another bumper harvest, thanks to your great efforts for the village. Otherwise, the sales of this tea will have to worry to death. Fei Xingyou is very grateful to this cousin.
"Uncle, the family doesn't talk to each other, this is what I can do. Besides, the village was able to solve a big problem for our factory. As long as the quality of tea is good, tea factories are unwanted. Fei Zhenglu said.
"Don't worry, I told the villagers. When picking tea, we must strictly control it, and you can't ask for a piece of tea that doesn't meet the requirements. When the families handed over the tea, I also carefully inspected it. You must not be held back. If you can solve the problem of selling tea in the village, it is equivalent to saving the whole village. How can the people in the village do such an ungrateful thing?" Fei Xingyou said.
Fei Zhenglu and Fei Xingyou exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then arranged Fei Xingyou to the guest house of the tea factory.
Now is the season of tea production, and the tea factory must seize the time to produce and quickly digest the tea leaves that are constantly being sent.
Zijiang Tea Factory is a regular factory, with its own quality inspection, as well as a special tea master, each batch of tea before leaving the factory, must be tasted by the tea master.
Tea master Shen Jinmao has already gotten the first batch of new tea this year. This batch of tea is commonly known as Ming Qian tea. That is, the tea leaves harvested before the Qingming Festival, are less infested by insect pests, the buds and leaves are delicate, the color is green and fragrant, the taste is mellow and beautiful, and it is the best product in the tea. At the same time, due to the generally low temperature before the Qingming Dynasty, the number of germination is limited, the growth rate is slow, and the yield that can reach the picking standard is very small, so there is a saying that "tea before the Ming Dynasty is as expensive as gold". Therefore, this batch of tea is also an extremely important batch of tea. Moreover, it is about to participate in the evaluation of the International Agricultural Expo, and the significance of this batch of tea is even more special.
It is not easy for a skilled tea taster to be not only a master of tea, but also to have a very sensitive sense of taste and smell, so that he can keenly distinguish the subtle differences in the color and aroma of tea. Shen Jinmao has been doing this for decades, and his understanding of tea has risen to the level of a craftsman.
But after just tasting a sip of tea today, Shen Jinmao frowned: "Hmm? No! This taste is much different from last year's! This is still Ming Qian tea, and it is not as good as last year's autumn tea!"
Shen Jinmao also felt very strange, there seemed to be no problems in the processing of tea this year. There doesn't seem to be much wrong with the color of this tea.
"Go quickly, call Master Zhou over. Shen Jinmao frowned, and suddenly said to Wang Musheng, the apprentice next to him.
Wang Musheng hurriedly ran out, and not long after, Wang Musheng walked over with a middle-aged man. This person is Zhou Xinghai, the master of tea making in Zijiang Tea Factory and the director of the production workshop.
"Master Shen, is there a problem with the tea?" Zhou Xinghai was also a little anxious.
"Come, you taste it. "Shen Jinmao has just made a cup of tea.
Zhou Xinghai took a sip, frowned, and looked at the color of the tea again, "It's a lot worse than last year's tea." But it's about the same as our previous tea. ”
"Is it a problem with the machine?" asked Shen Jinmao.
"This is the first batch of tea. All of them were processed by the old employees in the factory with last year's machine. With such a good tea, where do you dare to use it to debug a new machine? The process is exactly the same as last year. It stands to reason that there should not be such a big gap. Zhou Xinghai shook his head, he also didn't understand.
"Tea!How is the quality of tea this year?" asked Shen Jinmao.
"It seems to be okay. We have carefully checked the tea before it comes in, and the quality is even better than last year. I heard that this year's tea is a little cheaper. Zhou Xinghai said.
"A little cheaper. That's right, it seems to say that Lao Zhao received a large amount of tea at a high price in Xintian County last year. This year, I was refunded by the surname fee. Shen Jinmao closed his eyes, as if he was talking to himself, and then suddenly opened his eyes, "Lao Zhou, why did you say that Lao Zhao bought tea from Xintian County at a high price? I don't believe it. By the way, the bamboo tube black tea is also from Xintian County, right?"
Zhou Xinghai nodded, "Yes, it is said that Lao Zhao is willing to pay a high price for the tea in Tian County just to let the bamboo tube black tea stick to the brand of our factory." But now our tea industry has won the national gold medal. It would not be worth paying such a big price. ”
"Do you think Lao Zhao will do such a loss-making thing?" Shen Jinmao took out the tea leaves from last year and the year before last. The tea leaves were brewed separately, and then beckoned Zhou Xinghai to come over to see.
"It's not that there is a problem with this year's tea production, this year's tea is similar to the tea of the previous year. That's a good quality. But compared to last year's tea, it is much worse. I remember last year our tea tasted a lot better all of a sudden. At that time, did it happen that Director Zhao got the tea back from Xintian County?" asked Shen Jinmao.
Zhou Xinghai looked at the date on last year's product and nodded, "Yes, Director Zhao went to the province to participate in the evaluation, and he happened to meet someone from Xintian County." They participated in the evaluation with bamboo tubes of black tea. It was at that time that Director Zhao began to buy tea from Xintian County at a high price. ”
"Oops. As soon as the surname Fei came, he tore up the agreement with Xintian County. He also said that he would no longer collect tea from Xintian County. Shen Jinmao slumped in his chair.
"I heard that a tea factory was built in Xintian County this year, and we also invited a few retired masters from our factory to guide production. Now we are willing to pay a high price, and others may not be willing to sell to us. Zhou Xinghai said.
"Forget it, it's not something the two of us can do anything about. Report it to the factory. Shen Jinmao said.
In the office of the director of the Zijiang City Tea Factory, Fei Zhenglu, who got the news, was furious: "The quality of tea has declined? Investigate! No matter who is involved, we must investigate to the end! Whether it is a problem with tea or a problem in processing, we must find out the problem! If the notice continues, the party committee will immediately hold a meeting!"
Soon in the conference room of Zijiang Tea Factory, the leaders of the tea factory were not in the factory except for a few business trips, and all of them were gathered in the conference room. With serious expressions, anyone can see that something big is wrong!
"Master Shen, tell me about the specific situation. Fei Zhenglu said.
"The quality of tea this year has dropped a notch compared to last year. There may be more than one notch. Shen Jinmao said.
"Do you know what caused it?" Fei Zhenglu suppressed his anger.
Shen Jinmao glanced at Fei Zhenglu and sighed, "I discussed it with Master Zhou. The preliminary conclusion is that the problem is not in the machine shop. It's out of the tea leaves. ”
"Tea?" Fei Zhenglu glanced at Shen Jinmao, and always felt that Shen Jinmao's eyes were a little strange when he sighed just now.
"It's a matter of tea. Zhou Xinghai said.
"Master Zhou, why are you so sure that something is wrong with the tea?" Fei Zhenglu began to suspect that Zhou Xinghai was shirking his responsibility.
"Master Shen and I just made a comparison between this year's tea and last year's tea and the year before. It was found that although the quality of this year's tea has decreased compared with last year, it is basically the same as the previous year, and even slightly improved. But compared to last year's tea, the quality is at least a grade worse. It is even said that this year's Ming Qian tea is not as good as last year's autumn tea. Zhou Xinghai said.
"How is that possible?" Fei Zhenglu is not a layman. How can Ming Qian tea be inferior to autumn tea!
"That's true. Shen Jinmao nodded, "We analyzed the reason. It turned out that we were not very sure when we participated in the provincial review of last year's tea. However, in the second half of the year, we successfully won the gold medal of the National Agricultural Expo. I even got the opportunity to go abroad to participate in the evaluation. The quality of our tea last year has been qualitatively improved in the second half of the year. ”
"What is the reason for this?" Fei Zhenglu felt that the situation was not good, as if he had done something wrong. These two old guys deliberately sold off. Lead yourself to the abyss step by step.
"Tea. Last year, we also had a tea variety in our city that won the gold medal at the National Agricultural Expo. It has something to do with us, bamboo tube black tea, and once pasted our trademark. I heard that Director Zhao also promised to harvest the tea in Xintian County at a high price in order to make the bamboo tube black tea paste our trademark. Now there are signs that the reason why the quality of tea in our factory has been improved by a grade is because of that batch of tea. The reason why Director Zhao is willing to buy tea from Xintian County at a high price is precisely because of the quality of tea in Xintian County. Shen Jinmao suddenly revealed the mystery.
Fei Zhenglu seemed to feel that his face was being slapped and crackled. The first fire he gave when he came to power was to tear up the agreement with Xintian County, which made him proud and did an extremely beautiful job, and now it seems that it is indeed the biggest failure in his life. If this move directly causes the tea factory to suffer huge losses, his prestige in the tea factory will fall to the bottom all of a sudden.
In fact, the reason why Zhao Jinyuan was inexplicably transferred from the tea factory was precisely because someone reported that Zhao Jinyuan abused his power for personal gain and purchased tea from a certain county at a price beyond the market price, causing the tea factory to suffer losses. In addition, on the issue of the OEM of bamboo tube black tea, some people think that Zhao Jinyuan has accepted benefits. It is believed that the bamboo tube black tea sticks to the trademark of the tea factory, which seriously damages the interests of the tea factory. It is the tea factory that not only did not benefit from the OEM of bamboo tube black tea, but had to pay an inexplicable price for it. If it weren't for Zhao Jinyuan's achievements last year being too dazzling, he didn't deal with it, but was transferred from his post in a low-key manner.
The conference room was silent all of a sudden, and Fei Zhenglu's face turned pale, staring at Shen Jinmao. Shen Jinmao didn't tell him about this in advance, but chose to lead him to the cliff step by step at the meeting, and finally forced him into a corner. But he didn't have anything to do with Shen Jinmao.
"Adjournment!" Fei Zhenglu stood up first after speaking, and left the conference room angrily. (To be continued.) )