As night falls, the Flower Street and Liuxiang in Jiangzhou City become lively.
Girls in bright and colorful clothes were leaning on pillars or sitting in front of the windows on the second floor, waving handkerchiefs at the men walking up and down the street to attract customers.
In the private room of Tianxiang Tower, several tea merchants from other places were holding the beauty in their arms, enjoying the wine and food fed by the beauty.
Today's party of drinking flowers and wine was organized by Xu Zhiyan. At home, his father married a powerful tigress for him. When he went out to discuss business with others, he was questioned on all three sides including the servant, the accompanying steward, and himself.
Because the tigress's natal family was powerful and she was an official, he did not dare to go out to drink wine when he was in the imperial city.
Now that I have come to Jiangzhou, I will definitely drink enough.
The door of the private room was pushed open, and a young man wearing a blue brocade robe walked into the private room.
Xu Zhiyan rubbed the oiran's wife's shoulders, looked at the belated young man and said, "Brother Liu is late, so you have to punish yourself with three cups."
The man Xu Zhiyan calls Brother Liu is named Liu Yong, a northern tea merchant. Today Xu Zhiyan has set up a flower and wine bureau. He already has a wife and children at home. He didn’t want to come, but he heard someone say that this place in Jiangzhou
There are two tea shops buying tea leaves at high prices. I wanted to ask if there would be any problems if this continues, leaving them with no tea leaves to collect, so I came here.
Liu Yong punished himself with three drinks, and Xu Zhiyan called another girl to accompany him.
"I wonder if you have heard that the Shen Family Tea Company and the Yun Family Tea Company in Jiangzhou are purchasing tea leaves at prices of fifty and thirty coins?"
Liu Yong asked aloud.
Everyone at the table was stunned and looked at each other, their eyes asking: "Is this happening?"
Obviously they have never heard of it.
"Yunjia Tea Shop, didn't Yunjia Tea Shop promise to sell the tea to me at twenty-five and eighteen?
Why are you buying tea at such a high price?"
The person who spoke was really a regular customer of Yunjia Tea Shop.
Someone worried: "If they charge such a high price for tea leaves, the tea farmers will definitely sell the tea leaves to them, so where are we going to collect the tea leaves?"
The situation has become smaller. Now not only tea farmers sell tea to two tea shops, but some tea merchants in Jiangzhou directly sell their tea to two tea shops.
Xu Zhiyan frowned and thought for a moment, then said with a confident smile: "Who can they sell to after they charge so much tea?
No matter how high the price they offer now, they will have to sell it to us cheaply by then."
He didn't know why these two tea shops did such stupid things, but they were destined to lose everything.
After listening to Xu Zhiyan's words, the people at the table thought that this was really the case! Apart from selling the tea to them, who else could the tea from Jiangzhou be sold to?
He immediately felt relieved and laughed at the owners of the two tea shops. They were so stupid. They paid such a high price to collect tea. They were just trying to make money! Listening to the harsh ridicule on the wine table, Liu Yong felt that this was not the case.
That's it, he decided to go directly to some villages tomorrow and collect the amount of tea he wanted from someone at a higher price than in previous years.
No one is a fool these days, and no one will make a business that makes them lose money.
The next day, there were more people queuing up to sell tea outside Shen's Tea Shop and Yun's Tea Shop.
When people in Jiangzhou City saw this scene, they all praised the Yun family and the Shen family for their kindness and righteousness. They were willing to collect tea from Jiangzhou tea farmers at high prices when tea merchants from other places were lowering prices. They would rather lose money themselves than let the tea farmers make a profit.
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Everyone felt that the Yun family and Shen family would suffer losses if they harvested tea like this, even Magistrate Ji felt the same way.