Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 406 Brothers
"I'm afraid I don't have time." Zhao Gui said bluntly.

As officials, especially the officials of the imperial camp grain platform, they are also military officials, unlike ordinary local officials, their time is more urgent, especially now is the time of war.

"I don't think we will be able to fight for a while. Now that we have restored Jiangnan, the Tartars have just suffered heavy losses. It is impossible to go south in a short time. We will not be able to go north for a while, so there must be a period of stability. "

Although I settled down in Zhejiang again, but at the beginning I fled empty-handed and had nothing, so it was not easy to build another home.

Although I bought some land in installments with low interest rates, I am still quite tight. I have to buy everything, and everything is not cheap. I don’t even have a cow at home. When I come back from vacation, I help pull the plow every day, and I am exhausted. Life.

I'm a little free now, and I still have to pick tea leaves, and my hands are cramping, but it's just a little hard work.

Zhao Gui was not so optimistic, he felt that in the current situation, the battle must still be fought.

But after all, it is still a holiday now. If you can collect some tea and earn some money, it is better than picking tea on this mountain. He doesn't care whether he is an official or not. Everyone is trying to get more income, so that the family can save more money and food in troubled times.

"I have inquired that the tea market in Pingshui is booming now, and the demand for tea in Ningbo Hong Kong is greater. There is an urgent need for a large amount of tea, and there is a greater demand for new tea. You can see that tea-producing places in various places are full of water customers, and there are still many burdens. Merchants are all too busy, so let's do whatever we want, and it won't make any difference."

Tea farmers grow tea, pick fresh leaves in season, and then generally carry out the simplest rough processing. Small tea farmers usually pick and process themselves, while some large tea garden owners will hire part-time workers to help with picking, finishing, etc. during this season. .

The refined processing such as baking, re-fire, sieving, and sorting is carried out by tea houses in various places, and even the exported tea will be further processed and packaged in the tea shop in the port.

Pingshui, Shaoxing is a center for tea processing and collection. There are many tea houses and tea houses. Most of the tea houses are only responsible for processing, while most of the tea houses are responsible for purchasing and transportation.

Generally, the tea shop sends water customers (tea customers) to the countryside to buy tea. They open scales to collect tea in the local area, and they also pass through the local tea store. The tea store is usually a local tea industry intermediary. To discuss prices and make deals, these tea store intermediaries have to register with the government and obtain business licenses, and the government will also send people to supervise them. As an agent, there are also some agency fees in the agency fee they charge.

The tea store is similar to the tea store in the port, but the tea store is mainly responsible for export trade, while the tea store is an intermediary transaction between tea farmers and tea companies. The local tea store will send people to accompany the water customers of the tea shop to the tea farmer's house to see and buy tea directly, which is very effective.

Of course, there are still many small tea vendors in the local area, and they generally pick up the tea. The main reason is that some teas are produced in remote areas or the output is small. Some tea customers will not go there. Go to the tea inn to sell to the tea customers who receive tea from the tea house.

This kind of business is a small business, but you must have a good eye for tea experience, a certain amount of capital, and you must endure hardships and earn some hard money.

Of course, there are also some who have more capital and good vision. They sometimes see the market, buy at low prices, and stock up on tea for a short period of time. These small tea dealers must be well-informed and diligent, and more importantly, they must have good relations with tea farmers. .

Many tea shop owners were born as small tea vendors at the very beginning. They took on the responsibility of selling tea, and gradually grew bigger, began long-distance trafficking, and finally opened tea shops and became tea shop owners.

From tea sellers to tea shoppers, tea houses, tea shops, tea houses, and tea stores, the production, sales, processing, transportation and sales are layer by layer, and the tea is handled layer by layer, and each link is profitable.

If you do it well, it is more cost-effective than growing tea.

Even today, under the newly-built Royal House of Internal Affairs, not only the Royal Bank is run, but also tea shops, tea houses, and tea houses. They have large capital and strong relationships, and naturally get a large profit from tea every year.

And like Lao Zhao, who is unwilling to pick tea to earn some hard money, he also wants to sell tea. The capital is small, so he will be a small tea vendor. His three sons-in-law are also at home on vacation now, and he has a son. , a family can start a business with a loan, and there is no need to hire anyone.

Anyway, there is no need to accumulate any futures payments for this tea business, and he has even thought about it. When receiving the tea, he will pay a little tea money first based on his relationship. After selling the tea to the tea customer, he will return it. Then make friends with tea farmers, so that the cost will be less.

You have to work hard, and you have to have a good vision. The tea you receive must be of good quality, and you can’t pay for high prices to accept bad tea.

Compared with Zhao Gui, who is still relatively young, now he still wants to take advantage of this troubled times to develop his official career. This time he came back to visit relatives on vacation, to pick tea on the mountain, and to help with the family and even to accompany his wife Son, what he was thinking about was whether to take out another loan to take advantage of the current chaos, buy some mountain land at a low price to grow tea and set up a tea garden, or simply buy some tea gardens.

In fact, Lao Zhao has no ambitions for an official career. He is just an outsider in Liangtai at a young age. He is satisfied with a good salary. It is also a department in the military, and fighting on the front line is still relatively dangerous.

He is old, and now he wants to settle down and enjoy himself.

"Now the tea market is booming. I work hard to earn some money, and then I can borrow some money to buy a cow and raise it. It can not only help with farming, but also give birth to a cow after it is raised. One cow a year , and after raising it for a year, it becomes a big cow again."

With one cub a year, Lao Zhao felt that buying a cow was definitely a good deal. The cow could not only help plow the land, but also give birth to cubs. As long as it was raised well, it could be rented out to help plow the land, which was also a profit.

Although his family has three sons-in-law and many sons, it is very hard to get a plow for the little land in the family, and renting cattle is not only expensive but also difficult to rent.

It has to be said that Lao Zhao used to be a small rich farmer, and his mind was still very active. Even if he fled to the south with nothing, he could still quickly think of a way to make a fortune.

When fleeing, he still thought about hugging the thighs of the imperial camp, marrying his daughter to the soldiers of the imperial camp, and even doing things with Jinliangtai by himself. Now that he has settled down in Tiantai again, he is thinking about how to make money with a small capital, and then buy cattle and fields.

"We are all officials in the imperial camp, and our son-in-law is a non-commissioned officer in the imperial camp. Those tea merchants and tea customers don't dare to bully us."

Seeing that Zhao Gui didn't answer much, he said, "Could it be that you can't let go of your status, or do you look down on this small business?"

After a few months in Liangtai, the tall and tall Zhao Gui is no longer so thin, and has regained his strong and sturdy Shandong man. He rubbed his big hands, "How can I look down on small business, let alone what status, when we fled from the disaster What happened, but I haven’t forgotten it yet. Now, thanks to the sage Honghou, we can settle down in Tiantai and pay off the loan to buy ten acres of land. The family finally has a foothold, but the house is shabby and there is no cow. The family is not poor and white, and it is a good thing to make more money."

"Then what are you hesitating about?"

"I was thinking that there is no benefit in selling tea hard, and after all, we all have jobs and we can't stay at home for a long time, so I thought, why don't we just borrow more money and let's set up a tea workshop? I I know there used to be a small tea farm in our village, but the owner fled to Guangdong a long time ago, but the tea farm is still there, and there are all kinds of guys in it. I even know that some of the original tea masters are also from our local area. Most of them are in the countryside. The tea house is closed now. We might as well raise money to buy him and bring back those master buddies. We can run a small business, collect tea and process it ourselves. As long as the tea is processed well, we can directly ship the tea to It is hard work to sell in Ningbo, but it is definitely better than being a burden seller.

Even if we don't have time during the holidays, it should be feasible to ask a boss to manage it and keep an eye on it at home. "

Old Zhao didn't expect this cousin to be more thoughtful, and he directly wanted to set up a tea house to run it.

"We have no experience and no capital. Besides, the owner of the tea house has gone to Guangdong. How can we buy it?"

"He still has his clansmen, and I heard that he also entrusted him to sell him."

"Then why didn't others buy it? Isn't there something wrong with it?"

"I've asked, and there's nothing wrong with it. It's just a small tea workshop in the countryside. Now it's just a war. The price is okay, and it's not worth a lot. The key is to run it well. It can be repaired after a while. To open a business, the key is to hire a master to hire a buddy, all of which cost money. I think Zhejiang is now stable and there will be no more turmoil, so it can be done after buying, and there is no need to worry about not being able to open it someday.”

Old Zhao handed a freshly baked crucian carp to his brother, "Let me tell you that you didn't pass the exams in childhood before. If it wasn't for the war, you probably could have passed the exams. Your brain is alive."

"There is no way to study poorly." Zhao Gui smiled, they were lucky enough to meet Master Wang's imperial camp when they were fleeing, not only received porridge relief, but even found a job to do, which also made them feel sad. Family members can be sent to Jiangnan for refuge first.

Although they have worked hard in Liangtai for the past few months, they have no worries about food and drink, and their salary is very good. Among the countless refugees who went south, they already belong to the group of people with the best luck and the best situation.

The two settled down on Tiantai, and they both bought ten acres of land. This is the priority to purchase land rights enjoyed by the status of the imperial camp, and they even get low-interest loans in installments, so they don't need to pay directly.

Although the houses are built of simple houses, thatched huts, and mud walls pasted on bamboo fences, they can at least shelter from the wind and rain, let alone a stable family. Although food prices are expensive in troubled times, their salaries can be sent home. Buy food to get through this difficult time.

Even with porridge, miscellaneous grains and wild vegetables every day, everyone is busy and hard every day, but they can barely eat and wear, and more importantly, they have safety, right?
(End of this chapter)