Chapter 100

The supplier of tribute tea for the imperial court is selected every three years. At that time, the imperial merchants in each state capital will select the tea landlords with the best tea quality in their territory for tribute.

The number of tribute tea leaves in the palace is small every year, but it is a great honor for everyone to get the signboard of tribute tea. The benefits brought by the signboard of "tribute tea" are definitely more than the little money made by Shanggong tea. With this honor, business will definitely double in the future. Therefore, every time you go to the tribute tea election, All landlords with tea gardens in their hands will actively prepare and try their best to compete.

This year's competition is particularly fierce. The lazy landlords of Shiqiao Town in previous years have been stimulated this year. They began to try their best to compete one by one, and they are still very united. They even formed an alliance and decided to compete for the honor of "tribute tea", which really opened the eyes of landlords in other towns in Jiangyi county.

In addition, Wu Ji, as the most popular in Shiqiao Town, will certainly not lag behind. The Wu family can also be seen in the figure of tribute tea voters, but I don't know whether it is because the Wu family is developing too fast and things are too busy. People see that only the servants of the Wu family come to run for election, and Wu Qingyuan didn't come in person.

This not only made the big businessmen who presided over the election a little unhappy, but other landlords who participated in the election secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that boss Wu's means are good, but he is still too young. He sent a servant to do such an important thing. If he accidentally offended the big businessmen, he will lose the election.

But what didn't make everyone happy for a long time is that even the slaves of the Wu family can't be underestimated. The efficiency and effect of Wu Ji's slaves are not as expected. Although they are just slaves, they also make everyone anxious during the election.

Other landlords gave gifts to the Wu family. Other landlords invited them to dinner. The Wu family also invited them to dinner. Other landlords flattered the Wu family. The servants of the Wu family were even more flattering, coaxing the people sent by the host's big merchants happily, and the tea quality of the Wu family was also first-class.

Seeing that the servants of the Wu family soon coaxed the people of the big merchants to hand over the work of tribute tea to the Wu family, Mrs. Qian and others were extremely anxious. The quota of tribute tea was their last straw. Without this opportunity, they really had to leave Shiqiao Town and form such a big feud with the Wu family. They absolutely didn't believe that the Wu family would swallow their breath so easily, So we must not let the Wu family get the chance of tribute tea!

In order to win the quota of Shanggong tea, Mrs. Qian and others are eager to bribe / bribe large merchants. They double the amount of money given by the Wu family, and they double what the Wu family does. In short, they don't believe that they are better than the Wu family in everything. The opportunity of Shanggong can't fall on them!

Therefore, in this fierce competition, all the landlords in other towns lost this year. Finally, only the Wu family and Mrs. Qian in Shiqiao Town were left in a stalemate.

However, when everyone nervously guessed who the quota of tribute tea fell on this year, the Wu family suddenly chose to withdraw from the election. The servant returned to Shiqiao Town with things and people in a hurry. The big merchants were confused and Mrs. Qian and others were even more confused. They all fought for such a critical moment. How can the Wu family say to give up and give up? Is it silly?

The rest of the Wu family were confused. Besides Li, who had become an ally of the Wu family, they also wondered. They guessed what Wu Qingyuan must be doing, but they guessed specifically. Why do you give up such a good quota of Shanggong tea? If the Wu family gets the sign of tribute tea, it will definitely improve the Wu family's business.

"Last time Wu was away, thank Master Li for helping my husband through the difficulties. If master Li believed Wu, he would ask people to buy more fields and mountains..."

Wu Qingyuan didn't explain too much. He just reminded Li Yuanwai what to do next. When he was away, Li Yuanwai helped the Wu family. Today, even if he thanked Li Yuanwai for his good, the benefits have been sent here. Whether he does it or not depends on Li Yuanwai himself.

Li Yuanwai is a smart man. After a while, he bows his hands and thanks for going home. He believes in the Wu family, an old man's intuition. He has to pave a smooth road for the descendants of the Li family before he goes into the earth

Wu Qingyuan didn't fall behind when he reminded member Li to run the field outside. At the beginning of the tribute tea campaign, he began to prepare and invested all the funds on hand in the field.

If you want to develop business in a place, the premise is that the people in this place are rich enough. Only when the people are rich enough to eat, will they have excess money to consume and the business can be driven. Therefore, the factories of the Wu family should develop and the land products should act quickly.

The Wu family's corn and rice has gradually gained a little reputation within a hundred miles of Shiqiao Town. I believe people outside will soon know that Wu Qingyuan's plan is to develop the grain in his hand before anyone who wants to find business opportunities comes to the door. When he cooperates with those large merchants to promote grain, The Wu family will occupy a place in the grain reform of the Xia state.

Last year, because of the intervention of Mrs. Qian and others, these can not be implemented. Now we must act as soon as possible.

Naturally, sending slaves to run for the quota of tribute tea is not what he wants to get. When he was in Jiangyi Prefecture, the Qi family reminded him that the quota of tribute tea will produce right and wrong, and sent people to fight. Naturally, it is to stimulate Mrs. Qian and others.

With his current strength, these people can't kill all at once, just like doing things in the last world. If they want to solve it once and for all, they can only use their strength. Since Mrs. Qian and others put all their chips on one boat, it's no wonder he capsized at that time.

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The Wu family gave up the election opportunity of tribute tea, and other landlords lost the election long ago. There was no competition. In the end, the quota of tribute tea naturally fell on Mrs. Qian and others.

We should have been happy to get this opportunity, but Mrs. Qian and others were a little unhappy. They always felt something wrong and trembled in their hearts. Before, Wu Qingyuan threatened them like that. This tribute tea election has reached the last important moment. Why did the Wu family suddenly give up? It's strange, really strange!

Having made so many contacts with Wu Qingyuan, Mrs. Qian also knows Wu Qingyuan's behavior style. This time, the Wu family gave up the election at the last moment, which made her feel an unknown premonition, but she can't think of any problem. At the moment, all the chips have been put in, there is no way back, and if she feels wrong, she can only harden her head and go down this road.

At the same time, the Wu family's branches have also unknowingly set up branches in most small towns in Jiangyi County, as well as "Wuji freight". A store similar to an escort agency but not an escort agency, similar to a caravan but not a caravan has also set up base points in various small towns.

For the people in the town, they don't know what the "Wu Ji freight" is for. They want to send things to the government post station, and they want to transport things to the escort agency. The freight store of the Wu family is nothing new to them.

However, if you change to a modern person, you can understand what Wu Qingyuan wants. Advanced business ideas and preventive measures are the necessary literacy of every successful businessman. Express, he wants to establish an ancient express company.

Backward communication and transportation was the biggest problem in the development of ancient times, especially for businessmen, the transportation of goods was a very big problem. If he wanted to develop the Wu family's business rapidly, he needed to have his own transportation network.

Wu Ji freight is not open to the people, but to the inside of Wu Ji. Once this transportation network is successful, Wu Ji's business will develop rapidly in a short time, at a speed that everyone can't expect!

Wu Qingyuan's actions have always been watched by Jiang Da. After living in the Wu family for several months, he found that his more than ten years of business experience and vision have been subverted, and the struggle in his heart is burning.

On the eve of leaving home, Jiangda found Wu Qingyuan and secretly talked with him for several nights. Finally, the two became partners. Jiangda got a plan and contract that Wu Qingyuan gave him alone.

The two concluded an alliance across a river and sea. Wu Qingyuan developed in Xia state, while Jiang daze acted on his hometown island. While doing business cooperation, if anyone is in trouble in the future, overseas is the retreat of Wu family, and Xia state is the shelter of Jiang Da.

Those who keep their hands and start from scratch should leave a way back. Eggs can't be put in one basket.

Near the end of this year, the Wu family was doing the Wu family's business. Mrs. Qian and others were busy preparing tribute tea. Unlike last year's hot business in the town, everything seemed to calm down.

But it was like the tranquility on the eve of the storm. On the day before the new year, the emperor died and the prince died, and the news of the second prince's accession to the throne was suddenly announced.

These news did not have much impact on the people, but it had nothing to do with the change of the country's emperor. As long as the new emperor did not impose exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, they still farmed and ate, and for other officials and large businesses, this news was big news that moved their fundamental interests.

The change of the emperor means the change of the power of the imperial court. Especially this time, instead of the prince who was originally scheduled to ascend the throne, the humble second prince took the throne. It is certain that the power of the imperial court has changed greatly. It is conceivable that those who stand in the wrong position before the situation has been determined will end up.

After the news of the new emperor's accession to the throne was announced, in this new year, a large number of officials in the court were sacked, and the major merchants outside were copied for various reasons. The Liu family, a merchant who came to Shiqiao Town to preside over tribute tea, also suffered along with the supporting officials in the court. The whole family was convicted, and all their possessions were confiscated.

The collapse of the Liu family, a big merchant, naturally ended the tribute tea matters he was responsible for before, which means that Mrs. Qian and others who participated in the tribute tea election lost all their chips overnight!

The news confirmed that, just like the difficulties faced by the Wu family at the beginning, the source bosses who cooperated with Mrs. Qian and others hurried to ask for debts. The Wu family owed goods to them at the beginning, and these people also had bills in their hands. Now it is clear that Mrs. Qian and others are finished, and they can't let themselves lose money.

Faced with the news from the imperial court and the debt demands of the supply bosses, several big landlords in Shiqiao Town couldn't accept it on the spot and fainted. Mrs. Qian sat in her chair and couldn't move for a long time.

If they leave early or bow their heads, they may be rich and continue to live their next life in front of the landlords and their wives.

However, in order to win the qualification of gongcha election, they invested almost everything and ignored other businesses during the competition. At the moment, all the businesses within a hundred miles of Shiqiao Town are firmly controlled by the Wu family, and they have no more struggle.

When creditors come to the door, they don't have enough money to pay their debts, and the shops that are few are even more worthless. The only way out is to sell their land. After the matter is over, they will have nothing. Even if they still have the rest of their money, they will be just rich families, changing from famous landlords to ordinary class families again.

They were deceived by such obvious means when they sent only slaves to the election with Wu Qingyuan's character.

Now we can only blame them for being too stupid and not knowing how to cherish. The Wu family actually gave them a chance. The other party sent the bandit's body to the door not to intimidate them, but to give them one last chance.

If they had wanted to understand how to cherish them, bow to the Wu family, pack up and leave, they would not have fallen into today's land.

Unfortunately, if not, the only thing that the whole Shiqiao Town can see most clearly is member Li, because the other party has a mind they don't have.

"Call the accounting room to settle the industry... And find Zhao Haisheng for me."