Mingmen Family

Chapter 69 What does Ming'er mean?
Ye Chongming was panicked by her words again: "Then why... take them all out?"

Ye Yaming shook his head: "It's not right to take all of them. Since our family does not want to become a vassal or even a puppet of Lu and Qi, we have to keep some bargaining chips in our hands. In addition to half of the tea in Jiangnan, we have to continue to make tea. Only by innovating and constantly coming up with new tea-making recipes can we keep pace with them and not be suppressed and have no status at all.”

Ye Chongming thought about Ye Yaming's words, and nodded slowly: "You still think deeply, Minger."

Ye Jiaxing sat aside and looked at Ye Yaming with a dull expression.

The father kept saying that the third cousin was amazing, and told him not to feel jealous. Although he was good-natured, he didn't feel dissatisfied. He also knew that the third cousin was amazing from the father's narration, but he had never seen it with his own eyes. There is always a little dissatisfaction.

But now, he was really convinced.

The same thing, if he sees the first layer under the surface, the father sees the second layer, and the grandfather sees the third layer, then the third cousin is definitely on the fourth layer.

This is so powerful that even he can't catch up with it.

"But even if it's 6 taels of silver, our family can't get it out now." Ye Chongming said with a wry smile.

"The female family members of each house should have some money in their hands, right? It's not difficult to think about it together." Ye Yaming smiled and said.

Ye Hongchang didn't think much about it.Although the family is not forced to a certain extent, they will not use the women's private money, but there is really no other way, so they can only borrow it.

Given the situation at home, it was just a borrowing.Wait until next year to make money, and then pay them back.At that time, the interest rate will be thicker, and the female relatives will not only have no objections, but may also be very happy.

But seeing Ye Yaming's smile, Ye Hongchang's heart moved, and he felt that there was something in her words for no reason.

His throat moved, wanting to ask her what she meant by that.But when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back.

He turned his head to look at his father.

Ye Chongming also stared at Ye Yaming, his thoughts were turning a thousand times.

This business originally belonged to the Ye family.Invested, and earned money is also owned by the public.As for the future, it will not be clear until the separation.

But if the female family members are involved, it is not the business of the Ye family, but the business of the female family members.After earning money and sharing dividends, the female relatives either keep it as private money or send it to their natal family, which is their own business and has nothing to do with the Ye family.

What did Ye Yaming mean by saying this?Could it be that she hoped that the money would be earned by her mother, the Yin family, not by the Ye family?
Also, she repeatedly mentioned the constant creation of new teas.

At present, sweet-scented osmanthus tea and chrysanthemum tea were created or discovered by the father and daughter of Erfang during this period; according to Ye Yaming, there will be jasmine tea in the future.

Since tea-making recipes have a certain proportion in the cooperation with Lu Qi to take shares, then according to Ye Hongsheng and Ye Yaming's contribution in tea-making, do they also have ideas in this regard?If the cooperation between Lu Qi and Lu Qi is paid by the public to take up the shares, then the vast majority of the final proceeds will still belong to the big house.Is Ye Yaming dissatisfied with this?
Ye Yaming's eyes didn't flicker or avoid, and he looked at Ye Chongming quietly.

She obtained the body of the original owner and promised to help her change the fate of the Ye family, but she would not be selfless and only wanted to make money for the Ye family.

According to the customs of the Jin Dynasty, when the two elders are gone, the Ye family must be separated.The eldest house is the long house, and gets [-]% of the property of the Ye family according to the rules; the second, third, and fourth houses share the remaining [-]%.

In other words, she and Ye Hongsheng worked hard for the Ye family and contributed a lot. In the end, the second wife only got [-]% of the Ye family's property. Why?
Ye Hongsheng is good at making tea. If he was placed in modern times, he would be a proper technical talent and the core figure of an enterprise. He should be treated and respected by everyone.He should take a certain amount of technology shares for company shares.

But what about Ye's house?Because the tea-making skills were passed down from the ancestors of the Ye family, the Ye family did not regard Ye Hongsheng's skills as their own.They feel that they are capable only if they are good at rhetoric and good at business.Even the incompetent and prodigal fourth brother Ye Hongrong didn't think highly of Ye Hongsheng, the second brother.

However, it was precisely because of Ye Hongsheng's tea-making skills and the sweet-scented osmanthus tea made by her, the eldest daughter of the second household, that the Ye family found a backer and the opportunity to cooperate with others.

Could it be that at this time the second room is still trying to make money for the first room in vain, and after it is over, it depends on the face of others?
Since the power of the family is emphasized at this time, the second house does not take up the majority, only one-fifth of it, which is not too much, right?
She didn't dodge or evade, she looked open and frank, but Ye Chongming looked away first.

He said: "This is also a way. But it involves the fourth house of the Ye family, this matter needs to be discussed with the principals of the several houses."

Ye Yaming knew that in this patriarchal era, her proposal would be a huge blow to Ye Chongming and Ye Hongchang.She didn't expect them to agree immediately.

She nodded with a smile and said: "If grandfather has nothing to do, I will leave first." She also took the opportunity to discuss this matter with the successors of the three generations of the Ye family.

"Okay, go back and rest. I'll call you if there's anything else to do." Ye Chongming said.

As soon as Ye Yaming left, Ye Hongchang frowned and asked Ye Chongming: "Father, Ming'er, what does this mean?"

Although Ye Chongming suspected that Ye Yaming had selfish intentions, in view of her outstanding performance in the past few days, he did not want his eldest son and grandson to look at her suspiciously, and he was even more unwilling to create a gap between them.

He said to Xi Ni: "What do you mean? Isn't Ming'er helping us find a solution? The family has no money, and even the reservation for next year's spring tea has to be borrowed from the Mei family. How can we get 6 taels of silver?"

Ye Hongchang opened his mouth, wanting to say that Ye Yaming's move was to guard against the big house, but this thought was too selfish and full of calculations, he really couldn't say that about his niece.

He simply shut his mouth and didn't speak.

He didn't believe that the shrewd father would fail to see Ye Yaming's thoughts.

"Father, if there's nothing wrong, Jiaxing and I will go back too," he said.

Ye Chongming didn't leave him behind, and said, "Okay, you can go back and rest. If the wound is uncomfortable, call for a doctor in time."

Ye Hongchang complied, asked his servants to help him go out into the sedan chair, and took his son back.

As soon as his son and grandson left, Ye Chongming went back to the backyard and told his old wife about Ye Yaming's proposal just now.

At the end he asked, "What do you mean Ming'er?"

Mrs. Ye is eating sweet-scented osmanthus and lotus seed soup.

After hearing her husband's words, she sipped a spoonful of lotus seed soup in a daze for a long time before saying, "That's what you think."

Ye Chongming glared at her: "If you say this, it means you didn't say it."

Mrs. Ye snorted coldly, put down the bowl, and wiped her mouth with a handkerchief: "Didn't you never let us women interfere in business matters?"

(End of this chapter)