Mingmen Family

Chapter 26

He warned earnestly: "It is just a position at the head of the line, and it has caused a catastrophe. If Meng Chengwei knew about the sweet-scented osmanthus tea and the craftsmanship of making tea, what kind of means would he use? And coveters like Meng Chengwei abound So Ming'er, if you know these two things, remember to keep in mind that no one will know about it."

He turned his head and said to Mrs. Ye: "All the maids in the room just now, you all have a password ban, and you are not allowed to publicize Ming'er's sweet-scented osmanthus tea and tea making techniques. Anyone who violates the order, the whole family will sell it to mine."

Saying this, he deeply regretted that he didn't pay too much attention to Ye Yaming's tea making skills and tea making techniques, so that besides him and his old wife, there are so many maids who know about it.

Mrs. Ye also knew the importance of the matter, and said repeatedly: "Don't worry, I will take care of it."

Those who were in the room just now, besides Nanny Yu and Bai Rui, stood the housekeeper Li Fu and a big maid in her room standing outside the door.These men are faithful and trustworthy.

She will call in later, just tap them one by one.

Ye Yaming frowned: "Grandfather, you mean sweet-scented osmanthus tea, you don't want to sell it, do you?"

She made osmanthus tea to solve the business crisis of the Ye family.If you don't sell it for fear of attracting Meng Chengwei's more violent methods and more wolves, then you will lose the meaning of its existence.

Moreover, after learning about Ye Chongming's business methods, she disagreed with some of his business ideas.

Ye Chongming sighed: "You have also seen the situation at home. We are helpless. Meng Chengwei almost ruined our family with a little trick. Once this sweet-scented osmanthus tea is taken out, how can we survive?"

Ye Yaming shook his head: "We can't be passively beaten like this. Since you think this sweet-scented osmanthus tea is a good thing, which can attract many people's covetousness, then we can use it to cooperate with others. Find someone with a strong background who can cure Meng In this way, we can collect some tea silver for next year’s tea collection, get more tea incentives through the relationship of partners, and block those pretenders. Wouldn’t it be good to have multiple things in one fell swoop?”

After hearing this, Mrs. Ye's eyes lit up, and she said to Ye Chongming, "Master, Ming'er is a good idea."

Ye Chongming shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Your method is good, everyone knows that you can do it. The problem is, once you cooperate with others, the tea garden, tea factory, tea house, and our tea-making skills are not the same as our Ye family's." That's right. We will be completely reduced to other people's slaves. In order to keep our family's property and keep it from being touched by others, your great-grandfather and uncle and I have put in so much effort."

In this regard, Ye Yaming has a different opinion: "You are not willing to cooperate with others, and others are eyeing us. Now we are being forced by the Meng family, isn't it because we have no background? According to me, rather than being forced Instead of becoming a slave, it is better to choose someone who is kind and kind, and become a partner."

Ye Chongming's pupils trembled, and immediately, there was an indescribable sadness in his expression: "Do you really want to do this?"

Ye Yaming frowned, as if it was difficult to understand Ye Chongming's sadness: "Why are you sad? In fact, cooperating with others is not necessarily a bad thing."

Seeing Ye Chongming and Mrs. Ye looking at her incomprehensibly, she said, "I don't know how much money our family can make every year, so let me use an analogy. If we do it ourselves, we can only earn 5000 taels a year." , but you can earn 2 taels by cooperating with others, and you can get 1 taels if you share it equally, and you have backers and connections, and you are not afraid of being remembered by others. Isn't this better than you earning 5000 taels of silver and still worrying about it?"

"Doing it yourself is like a small boat, struggling to survive in the cracks of the rich and powerful, and is in danger of being overturned by the wind and waves at any time; cooperating with others becomes a big boat, which can withstand the wind and waves, and may merge when others are about to capsize. Others. And when your boat is big enough, others have to give way to you. Where the boat goes, you are the one to say. You have a choice, which one do you choose?
Modern enterprises, if they want to become bigger and stronger, they have to keep financing and strive to make the cake bigger.When the cake grows bigger and accounts for a considerable share in the industry, you will have the right to speak and become the person who makes the rules.Isn't this better than a small fight, being run on at any time, and facing bankruptcy at any time?
Ye Chongming's thinking is still confined within the frame of the small peasant economy.It's no wonder that the Ye family has only had this little family property for several generations. Although you are a figure in the tea shop in Lin'an City, when you step out of this place and this industry, the rich and powerful don't think much of you at all.

Ye Yaming's words shocked Ye Chongming a lot.

He stared blankly at Ye Yaming, his heart was turbulent.

He and his father and grandfather guarded the property of the Ye family. When someone covets it, they can save it in a roundabout way, or cut off their tail to survive. Every time, they are exhausted physically and mentally to keep the property of the Ye family.

But now someone told him that what they did was wrong, that they were silently following the rules and standing still.Cooperating with others, not only does not have to work so hard, but also makes more money and makes the family business bigger.

They always think that there is a risk of being swallowed up by cooperating with others.But if you don't cooperate with others, isn't there no risk?Now that the Meng family is an imperial merchant, they can be forced into such a situation, not to mention the real dignitaries.

He tried his best to calm down, to suppress the chaotic thoughts, and not let Ye Yaming get sidetracked.He always felt that Ye Yaming's reasoning was a bit crooked.

He argued: "It's not that we haven't thought about cooperating with others. Isn't this getting you engaged to Song Yifeng and sponsoring him to take the imperial examination? When Yifeng is admitted and becomes an official, he will become our family's backer. And he is the son-in-law of our family, with equal status, at least it is better than cooperating with those powerful and powerful people grovelingly."

"When you come to the distant water, you can't save the thirsty. In this crisis, wouldn't he be able to help? Is the road of the imperial examination so easy? How many people get their ambitions at a young age, but they end up in the exam? He has been admitted in the past few years, but slowly climbing up from the seventh-rank official, how many years will it take to grow into a towering tree and become our backing and support?"

Ye Yaming sneered, and continued: "Secondly, why do you think that if he becomes the son-in-law of the Ye family and uses Ye family's money to study and test his fame, he will definitely help the Ye family? When he becomes an official or climbs to a high position, Maybe he will be ashamed of being married to our family. At that time, what do you think he will do?"

The expressions of Ye Chongming and Mrs. Ye suddenly changed.

"This... why do you think so?" Mrs. Ye asked with a face full of disbelief.

"Because I know him. I know him better than anyone else. Both you and grandpa only saw the surface of him. He is extremely inferior and proud. He married our family and used our family's money. Ashamed. So he worked harder than anyone else, and vowed to let our family and those who look down on him be beaten in the face."

(End of this chapter)