Mingmen Family

Chapter 40
But that's for later, there are still things to discuss with Ye Yaming.

He went out and told the maid in the corridor: "Go and invite the third girl."

Before the servant girl could respond, Li Fu, who had been waiting beside him and had something to report, hurriedly said, "Master, the eldest lady knows that the elder master is back, so she sent a servant girl to investigate outside the door."

Ye Chongming frowned: "I have something to discuss with the elder, let her go back and wait."

For the first time, he was dissatisfied with his eldest daughter-in-law.

When Ye Hongchang came home, he didn't go back to the back house of the big house at the first time, but went into the outer study first, knowing that there must be something important to discuss.The eldest daughter-in-law sent her maids to chase her here, it's too outrageous.

"Yes." Li Fu was about to turn around when he saw the guard at the door come in and report: "Old Master, the maid of the eldest lady has been called away by the maid next to the old lady."

Only then did Ye Chongming's expression soften: "I see." Turning around, he saw the maid was still standing there, and turned his face hard, "What are you still doing in a daze? Why don't you hurry?"

"Yes, yes." The servant girl hurried out the door and went to the second bedroom.

Ye Yaming was still busy making tea in the yard, when he heard Ye Hongchang came back, he changed his clothes and went to the study outside.

Seeing Ye Yaming, Ye Chongming smiled kindly, told her the news that the tea silver had been preserved, and asked, "Since that's the case, shall we issue tea coins?"

The issuance of tea coins is a last resort.Now that the Ye family has money, but they don't pay the tenants, and use tea coins to fool the tenants, it is really unreasonable, and it is also inconsistent with the honesty-based business philosophy that the Ye family has always pursued.

Don't publish it, he has already agreed with Mei Chonglin.Mei Chonglin also pointed at the Ye family to help him open up the situation and make the bank run prosperously.

It's a real dilemma.

Ye Yaming said: "You can make it clear to the farmers. If you choose tea coins, you can get a sum of interest in next spring; if you don't believe it, you can pay cash directly. As for the tea coins, you can go directly to the bank to exchange for one item. You can, but there's no need to overdo it."

Ye Chongming patted the armrest: "That's right, that's it."

In doing so, he neither deceived the tenants nor tore up the cooperation with Mei Chonglin. It was the best of both worlds.

"But this matter can't wait any longer, hurry up." Ye Yaming said, "Meng Chengwei was waiting for us to get into trouble before, so he took advantage of the situation, so he stayed put. Now we have settled the matter of private tea, and the robbers are gone. If the uncle was seriously injured and the tea silver was not taken away, Meng Chengwei might jump over the wall in a hurry and play tricks on the tenants."

Ye Chongming was startled: "Didn't the magistrate say..." He didn't continue, but he believed that Ye Yaming could understand what he meant.

Ye Yaming shook his head: "Master Zhifu has to go through procedures to arrest people. He has to interrogate people, and then send people to investigate, and then he can summon people. If there is no evidence, he can't immediately detain people. "

Not only that, the prefect of Qi may have to ask the people above for instructions to see how they plan to deal with Meng Chengwei.

If the people above use this excuse to discuss cooperation with Concubine Min, once the two parties reach a consensus, then Meng Chengwei will be fine.If the higher-ups wanted to make an example of others, they would use Meng Chengwei as an example.

In short, this is not a legal matter, nor is it a competition between businesses, but a game between political groups.The magistrate of Qi was willing to accept the pleadings from the Ye family and planned to take action against Meng Chengwei, but it was nothing more than profit-driven.The Ye family has nothing to complain about.

There are no mobile phones in this era, and the prefect of Qi can only send someone to the capital to inquire if he wants to ask the higher-ups for advice.Based on this calculation, Meng Chengwei will have to go outside for at least a few days.

These few days are when the Ye family needs to be vigilant the most.No one knows what else Meng Chengwei can do.

Ye Chongming and Ye Hongchang had been working hard in the mall for many years, and they understood what Ye Yaming had left behind.

The expressions of the two suddenly became tense.

Ye Yaming worried that Ye Chongming didn't know the seriousness of the matter, and said: "If he jumps over the wall in a hurry, spares no expense, and spends three or four times more money than before to order tea, grandpa, think about the consequences...

Ye Chongming's heart trembled, he stood up abruptly, and said anxiously, "I'll go up the mountain right away."

Although those farmers have cooperated with the Ye family for more than ten years or even decades, but in the face of interests, who can tell clearly?If Meng Chengwei did not hesitate to spend a large amount of money to reserve tea from the growers who cooperated with the Ye family, at least half of the growers would sell tea to him.

And those who resist the temptation to sell will inevitably bear the complaints from their family members.At that time, would the Ye family have the nerve not to increase their prices?

And once the price is increased, it cannot be lowered.Tea is in short supply, so the price can only go up but not down.

And with this precedent, maybe all the growers on this mountain will have to ask the tea merchants to raise their prices.They had wanted to raise the price a long time ago, but because there was a tea shop in Lin'an, and the tea shop restrained the tea merchants from raising prices privately, the price didn't go up.Now that the Ye family has started, how can other tenants have any reason not to raise their prices?
At that time, the Ye family will become the criminals of the tea business and offend all the tea merchants.

With Meng Chengwei's trick, the Ye family will not only lose a large sum of money and the tenants they have cooperated with for many years, but also Ye Chongming, the head of the tea company, will definitely lose his position.

Thinking of this, Ye Chongming broke out in a cold sweat. He wished he could go to the mountain immediately, hand over the money and sign the contract, and sign the contract with the farmers in one go.

Ye Hongchang was also quite frightened.His niece's strength certainly shocked him, but the serious consequences of Meng Chengwei's huge sum of money to rob the farmers made his heart tremble so much that he had no time to praise his niece's strength.

Unexpectedly, Meng Chengwei had a second plan if the first plan failed, and a poisonous plan that would harm others and benefit himself if the second plan failed.Fortunately, my niece pointed it out straight to the point, otherwise, my father would not be able to keep his position at the head of the line, lose his tenants, and become the enemy of all enemies. They would not be able to stay in Lin'an City, and they would lose the business they depended on for survival.

Thinking of the consequences, he shuddered.

"Grandfather, please wait." Ye Yaming called Ye Chongming, "Show me the model contract signed with the tenant."

Ye Chongming didn't know why.

But now he didn't ask any more questions at all, he directly took out the key to open the wooden box, and took a copy of the contract written inside to Ye Yaming.

Because he had to sign a contract with the tenants, he asked the accountant to copy these contracts, a total of 78 copies.These contracts are all the same.

Many garden households are illiterate, so they will read the contract once the time comes. After the other party confirms that it is correct, they fill in the name of the other party's head of household and the approximate quantity of tea leaves to be ordered, and then the other party signs and marks the contract, and the contract is completed.

(End of this chapter)