Mingmen Family

Chapter 43
Meng Chengwei hadn't thought about this approach.In fact, he had thought about it from the very beginning.

But what he wants most is the Ye family's tea making method, and the connections of Ye Chongming, the leader of the tea business.

Once such a thing as robbing tenants is done, it will be a disgrace to the Ye family, and it will be detrimental to others.After all, it takes a lot of money to rob the tenants.Next year, if he doesn't pay such a high price, those farmers will definitely not cooperate with him; if he pays a high price, he feels that he will suffer a lot.

It is useless to buy raw tea, but there is no way to make tea, and you can't make delicious lump tea or loose tea.

So he never thought of using this trick.

But now...

He was extremely irritable.

Seeing him walking back and forth in the room, Liu Qilin said again: "If something happens to the girl from the Ye family, they will definitely not want to see us, and they will have to suspect that we set up a trap. If they suppress the news, they will not admit that the girl from his family is broken , casually find a shabby settled household to marry, then our plan will come to nothing."

Seeing that Meng Chengwei was thinking and listening to his words, Liu Qilin cheered up and continued: "But if there is pressure on the tenants to snatch their tenants, then the Ye family will have to take care of them." Weigh the matter of cooperating with you. It’s not enough to give kindness and kindness at the same time, and Nawei always works with two prongs to be safe.”

Meng Chengwei turned around, sat on the chair, smiled on his face, and praised: "That's right, Guanshi Liu, what you said is good."

"It's not too late, this matter is up to you." He said again, "Move quickly, if you delay it, it will be too late."

The usual practice here in Lin'an is to pay taxes and pay at the Department of Negotiations on the second day of the Mid-Autumn Festival.After the formalities at the Department of Commerce were completed, the tea merchant and the gardener immediately found a place outside the Department of Commerce to sign the contract for ordering tea.

In this way, the tea merchants don’t have to bother to go to the mountains anymore, and the tea merchants can serve the farmers’ lunch at noon, so they don’t have to spend their own money, killing two birds with one stone.

Before accepting the matter, Liu Qilin had to make his words clear: "At the beginning, we were worried that we would scare the snake away. We didn't go to the Legal Affairs Department to inquire about the farmers who cooperated with the Ye family. We still have to inquire now, and it takes a little time. The soonest Tomorrow we can go up the mountain to find those farmers."

Although he didn't inquire about the tenants who cooperated with the Ye family, Liu Qilin followed Meng Chengwei's orders during this period, and he got through the relationship with the Department of Vertebral Affairs, and gave a gift to a small boss, which is considered acquainted.

Therefore, as long as he invited that person out for a meal and gave him a generous gift, he would be able to get the list of tenants who cooperated with the Ye family.It saves me some time.

Meng Chengwei nodded: "Go."

……

When Liu Qilin went to contact the little boss of the Ministry of Public Affairs to make contact, Ye Chongming had already arrived at a Li Zheng's home.

The real name here is Zhou Jiawang, who is in his 60s, about the same age as Ye Chongming.Having known each other for decades, Ye Chongming knew how to be a man again, and he intended to befriend each other, and the two old men had already developed deep feelings for each other.

Ye Chongming didn't hide anything, and told him the matter directly, saying: "I have no choice but to beg you. I know that before Chongli, you can't guarantee that every farmer will listen to you and keep the tea leaves. To the Ye family. I don’t need you to do more, but after the tenants sign the contract, you go with me to the yamen to turn the contract into a red contract, and I will pay for the tenure fee.”

"In addition, the matter of tea coins is also voluntary. At first, I was worried that the tea silver would be robbed and there would not be enough money, so I discussed with Baofeng Bank to issue tea coins. Now that the tea silver is kept, I still take out the tea coins, but I am grateful to Baofeng. The owner of Fengqian Zhuang extended a helping hand when I was in distress. The interest I give to the tenants is 100 taels of silver and a half. Tea coin."

As he spoke, he raised his hand, and Li Fu opened a rattan box, and 100 taels of white money appeared in front of Zhou Jiawang.In addition to the 100 taels of silver, there are also a few very bright silks and satins.

The expression on Zhou Jiawang's face didn't seem to change, but Ye Chongming could still see the light in his eyes.

Zhou Jiawang works as Lizheng on this affluent tea mountain in the south of the Yangtze River, and his family background is not bad.But this is not bad, and it is only relative to the surrounding tenants, and there is no such thing as how rich it is.If you can save more than 100 taels of silver in a year, it is considered very good.

The 100 taels of silver was considered a lot of money to him.What's more, there are those few bolts of silk and satin that are worth tens of taels of silver at first glance.

Ye Chongming's request is not too much, it is just to change the white deed to the red deed, and the farmers do not need to pay taxes themselves.As long as the tea leaves are sold to Ye's family, there is no difference between the white deed and the red deed.

As for the tea coins, if the Ye family can't come up with silver and can only give everyone tea coins, then he is still a little embarrassed.But the Ye family obviously has silver, farmers who don't need tea coins can get the silver directly, and the interest of tea coins is not low, so this matter is not difficult.

These two things are easy for him, and he sold a favor from the Ye family without harming the farmers' interests at all, and he got 100 taels of silver for nothing, how could he refuse such a good thing.

"Okay, we have been friends for a lifetime, what else can we talk about? This matter is on me." He said boldly.

Then he pretended to decline: "You take this money back, I can't accept it."

Ye Chongming naturally refused, and the two of them back and forth declined, and finally Zhou Jiawang accepted the money.

After getting 100 taels of silver for nothing, Zhou Jiawang was too embarrassed to do nothing, and said: "Go, I will accompany you up the mountain, and I will finish the two nearby villages while it is still dark. Don't go back at night, just stay at my house." Rest, so as not to toss back and forth up and down the mountain."

That's what Ye Chongming planned when he came.Even if Zhou Jiawang didn't mention it, he still had to ask Zhou Jiawang to send his son with him.

Now that Zhou Jiawang is willing to go in person, that would be great.

Those two villages are located at the foot of the mountain, and the roads in the villages can lead to horse-drawn carriages.

The two got into Ye Chongming's carriage, Zhou Jiawang said: "Go to the village in a while, don't mention the out-of-town tea merchants. Just say that there have been many disputes over the contract in the past, and now the government requires unanimous signing of the red contract."

Ye Chongming expressed emotion: "That's why I was the first to come to Brother Zhou, and no one else is as warm-hearted as Brother Zhou, and they are more considerate of me."

This made Zhou Jiawang laugh "haha".

There are two villages at the foot of the mountain, one with thirty or so households and the other with forty or so households.But there are tea gardens on the mountain, and there are only more than 30 households in the two villages combined. Zhou Jiawang is leading this village, and Ye Chongming successfully signed contracts with these 30 or so garden households.

As for the red deed, Ye Chongming and Zhou Jiawang just informed them, and they didn't need to go to the yamen in person.Zhou Jiawang is the Li Zheng and the guarantor, so he and Ye Chongming only need to go to the Yamen to go through the formalities.The tenants didn't have any objection to this, and Lizheng had obtained their verbal power of attorney.

Ye Chongming stayed at Zhou Jiawang's house that night.

(End of this chapter)