Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 177 Cooperation Tea Mountain
Tao Zongwang said: "I fully understand Liu Zhuangzhu's difficulties."

"In the past few days, I have traveled to several places, sold some tea, collected 700 taels of silver, and asked Zong Wang to check it." Liu Zhuangzhu waved his hand, and his subordinate Zhuang Ding took a basket with a basket of silver, ten taels a piece Silver, a full 70 yuan.

Jiang Jing counted it, and it was exactly 700 taels.

Tao Zongwang was very moved and said: "Thank you Zhuang Zhuang for your understanding, which relieved my urgent need. So many workers haven't been paid three or four months' wages."

"We still have to wait for the 300 taels, but don't worry, my old Liu's character guarantees that I will definitely not be short of money. Once the turnover is opened, I will pay you back immediately." Liu Zhuangzhu said.

Tao Zongwang said: "Now that the wages of the workers have been settled, my heart is at ease."

Chai Lin said: "You can't sell tea here, and we can't afford tea in Cangzhou. Owner Liu, can you visit your tea garden?"

Tao Zongwang said: "The owner of Chai Zhuang is a well-known businessman in Cangzhou, who runs restaurants, tea houses, iron mines, and quarries."

When Master Liu saw the business coming to his door, his face beamed with joy, and he said, "Welcome, welcome. The tea mountain is not far ahead. I will accompany Master Chai to watch and taste our good tea."

Chai Lin bid farewell to Tao Zongwang and went with Liu Zhuangzhu. On both sides of the road are green bamboo gardens, strong pines, etc., and the leaves do not fall in winter, which is very beautiful.After walking for a few miles, there was a low ridge in front of me. There was not a single miscellaneous tree on the entire ridge, and it was all green tea gardens. Although it was winter, it looked comfortable.

"Master Chai, please look. From here, there are tea gardens on my estate for more than a dozen miles to the east. Liujiazhuang lives in a family, and thousands of people live on tea mountains. There is only a small amount of land to grow rice." Liu Zhuangzhu said.

A group of people came to the tea garden and watched it carefully. Chai Lin couldn't help but admire and said: "Master Liu is so skillful. This mountain is full of bone stones, and it has all been reclaimed into terraced fields to grow tea. It took a lot of effort."

"These are all owned by one family. Some have one or two hundred acres, and the general ones are three to five acres. After 20 years of reclamation, it took a lot of effort." Liu Zhuangzhu said.

Chai Lin sighed: "Shen Nong tasted all kinds of herbs, suffered from all kinds of poisons in the day, and solved them when he met tea. Tea is a good thing. Green mountains and green waters are golden mountains and silver mountains. Building this tea mountain is like having a cornucopia. How much tea can one mu of land produce?" ?”

Owner Liu shook his head and said, "It's difficult. The yield of good tea is only a few catties per acre. The bud tips picked before Qingming are very small. The most is big-leaf tea. Although we are in a mountainous area, there is a lot of rain. , one mu can produce about [-] catties of big-leaf tea. In a good year, a catty of ordinary goods can be sold for [-] yuan per catty, but this year, the market price is about [-] yuan per catty and it can’t be sold.”

During this period of time, Chai Jin's daily necessities department store has a very good distribution of goods, and there are already markets in [-] state capitals, but at present, there are very few goods, only a few commodities such as soap.In places in the north where there is no tea production, very common tea costs about two hundred yuan per catty. Ordinary people buy tea in twos at home, and usually buy three or five taels, which is too expensive. .

Chai Lin said: "My Zhuangshang Trading Company plans to buy tens of thousands of catties of tea. What kind of tea do you have?"

"The front is my house. Master Chai comes with me. Let's take a look at the goods." Master Liu led Chai Lin and Chai Meng to the village. Master Liu's house is well-built, antique, with three courtyards. There are also many orchids planted in the garden, which are very beautiful.

The living room is a big warehouse, and when you enter it, you can smell the strong smell of tea, and the piled tea leaves are full of three or four rooms.

"The good tea has been sold out, and now the only thing left is ordinary big-leaf tea, but the quality is fine, let's taste it, owner Chai." Owner Liu arranged for someone to bring boiling water and prepared teacups for making tea.

The boiling water was poured in, and the tea leaves scattered after a while. The leaves were not small, but the soup was bright yellow in color, rich in taste, and very good in taste.

Chailin looked at a few packages and found that the goods were well preserved, not moldy or spoiled.

"What's the price of [-] catties of this kind of tea? How much will it cost to transport it to Dongping Mansion?" Chailin asked.

Owner Liu said: "Twenty Wen a catty. You heard about this year's situation just now. I don't want more. I sell what I have. Tao Zongwang is still waiting for the final payment. It's not expensive to transport it to Dongping Mansion from here. Next to the Huaihe River, from the Huaihe River to the east, enter the canal, and then go up the Hebei River to Dongping Mansion. A black awning boat is enough, and the shipping fee is not expensive, 20 taels of silver. The total is 520 taels of silver. I will wipe it off for the owner of Chai Zhuang A fraction of 500 taels, what do you think?"

Chai Lin said: "Okay, I'll give you 200 taels of silver, and you arrange to ship the goods to Dongping Mansion, and pay you the final payment after inspection."

Chai Lin paid 200 taels directly with silver, and the business was settled like this.

Owner Liu is very happy, from the bottom of his heart. Although there are still hundreds of thousands of catties of tea in the farm, there is hope at last. looking at the rotten tea leaves on the tree.

After Chai Lin figured it out, this tea is really profitable, at least several times the profit. This kind of tea in Cangzhou also costs [-] yuan a catty for wholesale, and about [-] yuan for retail sales.

"Don't worry, Mr. Liu, as long as the quality of the goods is not compromised, it is no problem for my firm to sell hundreds of thousands of catties a year. After all, this is a consumer product." Chailin said.

Owner Liu said: "Then please, now the world is chaotic, there are wars and bandits everywhere, I don't want to make a lot of money, but I want to have food and clothing. I will arrange to kill chickens and sheep, and dinner will be eaten in my village." gone."

Chai Lin shied away, and returned to the construction site with Chai Meng, the sun was already in the west.

Tao Zongwang was packing up tools, and Chai Lin said, "Brother Zongwang, Mengzi and I are going back to town, and we won't come here later. You can go back to Cangzhou when you're done."

Tao Zongwang said: "Okay, there is nothing to do here. We will go to Cangzhou in two or three days at most."

Chai Lin took out a big silver coin of 50 taels and said, "This is the travel expenses for your brothers, food and drink."

How could Tao Zongwang accept it? He repeatedly declined and said, "I can't, I can't. Our brothers don't have any big money, but we still have travel expenses. My brother took the money."

"Brother Zongwang, don't refuse, you just take it. Any craftsman with good skills can take it. Chaijiazhuang will start too much work next year and will need many craftsmen." Chailin said.

Tao Zongwang refused again and again before accepting it, and Chai Lin and Chai Meng returned to the town.

Ou Peng said: "Zong Wang, what is the origin of this owner of Chai Zhuang, and why is he so generous?"

Tao Zongwang waved, and the four brothers gathered together.

Tao Zongwang looked around and said, "Since Ou Peng asked, we have to clarify this matter. The owner of Chai Lin Chai Village is from the royal family of the former dynasty. He made friends with heroes in Cangzhou and spent a huge amount of silver taels a year. Let's go There is definitely nothing to say about money, but there are certain risks, you should think about it yourself, if you don’t want to go, you don’t have to follow.”

Ou Peng said: "A few days ago our brothers were still thinking about falling into grass, but now that the owner of Chai is so sincere, it is natural that he will pass."

"I'll go too." Ma Lin said.

Jiang Jing said: "Wealth and wealth are in danger, Chaijiazhuang is better than going to Luocao. Don't think about it. We will work overtime tomorrow. After work is over, we will hire a car and boat to Dongping Mansion, and then from Dongping Mansion to Chaijia. village."

　Ask for a monthly pass and ask for a recommendation.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)