Chapter 253

May is the most beautiful season in Wucheng.

After another year of governance, not only is the public security in Wucheng better than last year, but the evil forces have been almost wiped out. Underground casinos, crackdowns on pornography and illegal publications, and human trafficking have also been eradicated in Wucheng under Secretary Song's high-pressure policies in the past two years. In particular, the fact that Jiang Ning, the pride of the entire village, was almost tricked into a nightclub has made the people of Shuibu Town very vigilant about this matter, and the people of Jiangjia Village hate Jiang Yueqin's family.

I don’t know if Jiang Yueqin’s family felt sorry for Jiang Ning, but they did not participate in the two divisions of tea land in Jiangjia Village.

The first time, there were only a few people from the big house participating. The second time, they wanted to blend in with the crowd and fish in troubled waters, but they didn't dare to stand out and were very timid.

I don't know if it was because of the exposure that made Jiang Yueqin too embarrassed to come back. Jiangjia Village hasn't seen Jiang Yueqin for several years. Logically, she should be married at her age, but she works in a place like that, and no one knows how she is doing now.

The Wucheng County Government and the county and town public security bureaus have very strict control over criminal gangs and human trafficking, with police motorcycles patrolling and inspecting every few days. Not to mention the casinos, even people playing mahjong in private are terrified for fear of being reported and arrested and detained.

For a time, the customs of the people in the entire Wucheng County became clear and simple.

The main reason is that there are too many tourists coming here.

In April, the cartoon "White Snake's Journey to Immortality" was released. After watching the cartoon, many children in Wucheng and Wujiang City saw the same "Wugong Mountain" as the local one. When they were eating and watching TV in the evening, they would ask their parents: "Mom, mom! Look! Wugong Mountain!"

The Wugong Tea of ​​Wugong Mountain is now famous in the province. Even children who have never seen Wugong Mountain, after watching the TV series and cartoon "White Snake Cultivation", have become familiar with Wugong Mountain and the local famous tea Wugong Tea. After watching the cartoon, they even clamor to go to Wugong Mountain for fun.

So during the May Day holiday, in addition to young tourists, a large number of parents bringing their children out for fun also came to Wugong Mountain in Wucheng County.

All those who want to come to Wugong Mountain must first take a bus to Wucheng. Once they arrive in Wucheng, they will be fascinated by this ancient city with quaint charm and colorful flowers, especially the various flowers planted last year, which have now grown into fresh and beautiful appearance, blooming gracefully in the spring. The small willow trees planted by the moat have now sprouted, and have grown into "thousands of green ribbons". The blooming wild peach blossoms also have a unique wild charm.

More importantly, it is May Day and the weather is not so cold anymore. In order to win the dragon boat race next month, the moat is now very lively every day. There are several fleets practicing dragon boat rowing in the moat every day. Sometimes they can't help but start racing while rowing. Every day, countless local residents and tourists stand on both sides of the moat, cheering for these strong men practicing dragon boat rowing.

In particular, in order to show their strong and muscular bodies to the girls from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, some of the men even took off their shirts, revealing their strong and muscular muscles, which drew cheers from the wives and aunts watching from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

In such a warm atmosphere, even unmarried girls started screaming and cheering for the dragon boat teams from their hometowns.

Among these dragon boat teams are those from Yaoba Town, Douba Town and Liuba Town.

Douba Town and Liuba Town don’t know how to attract these tourists into their towns. They can’t be as shameless as Jiang Guoding from Yaoba Town and directly intercept people from their hometown, right?

They can only pay attention to the dragon boat team, thinking that if the dragon boat team of their town can win the first place under the attention of everyone, then who would not know the name of their Douba Town/Liuba Town? By then they will promote it and there will be no shortage of tourists visiting their town.

When the tourists arrived at Shuibu Town, they found a team practicing dragon boat racing not far from the pier. Some tourists who didn't know much about it asked what was going on. The local residents told the tourists that Wucheng held a dragon boat race during the Dragon Boat Festival, emphasizing that "the first place prize is 10,000 yuan, the second place is 8,000 yuan, and the third place is 5,000 yuan!"

Another local added: "It doesn't matter if the dragon boat team didn't get the top three, there are still awards for excellence and consolation prizes!"

Talking about the dragon boat race that will be held next month, the locals were all beaming with joy and were boasting about their own dragon boat teams!

Who can blame them for being a water town in the south of the Yangtze River? Especially the various brigades under their Shuibu Town, almost all of which are based around the Shahe River. Everyone is a good swimmer. Not to mention that everyone knows how to row a boat, but everyone has grown up on boats since childhood. When it comes to dragon boat racing, no one is willing to admit defeat, and everyone thinks that their team will definitely win the championship.

It is the nature of Chinese people to love to join in the fun. The May Day holiday has just begun, but the tourists are already thinking about the Dragon Boat Festival holiday next month and continuing to come to Wucheng for fun.

The dragon boat team of Linhe Brigade is currently led by Xu Changjiang, the brigade secretary of Linhe Brigade. Half of the people on the dragon boat team are from Xujia Village, and the remaining half are from Jiangjia Village. The remaining places are evenly distributed among Xiaojiangjia Village, Dingjia Village, Shijia Village, Wanjia Village, etc.

The people in these villages have long wanted to play with Jiangjia Village and let the people in Jiangjia Village lead them to prosperity. They were very proactive in participating in the dragon boat race. The young men sent over to race the dragon boats had a competition in their own village, and finally those who were selected were all strong and vocal men in the village. They wanted to take advantage of this dragon boat race to get closer to the people in Jiangjia Village so that they could get rich together!

Didn’t you see that the people in Xujia Village grew tea, but couldn’t sell even a few kilograms? If they had no sales channels and had to sell the tea on their own, the tea from Huolu Mountain would not have been left uncultivated for so many years.

In fact, Xu Changjiang didn’t want more people from Jiangjia Village to be on the dragon boat. It was just that the people of Jiangjia Village were too busy and could not find so many young and strong men.

Most of the young and strong men in Jiangjia Village, like those in Xujia Village, have gone out to work. There are not many left in the village. In April, Jiang Ning, who was far away in Beijing, brought back an important news. The Millennium World International Tea Expo will be held in Guangshi in June. Jiang Guotai is required to arrange people to prepare the best tea from Wugong Mountain and tea testing certificates, promotional packaging backgrounds, tea sets, tea artists, etc., to prepare and practice, and submit the registration form to the Guangshi Tea Expo to obtain the qualification certificate to enter the Tea Expo. In June, they will go to Guangshi to participate in the International Tea Expo.

According to Jiang Ning, attending a tea expo is not just about bringing tea leaves and test reports; the most important things are packaging and promotion.

First of all, it would be best to edit all the clips of "Wugong Tea from Wugong Mountain" that appear in the CCTV TV series and the cartoon "The Legend of White Snake", the scenery of Wugong Mountain, and the scenery of Linhe Brigade, and add music, subtitles, and dubbing. It would be best to prepare two large TVs and put them in a prominent position in front of the booth of the Tea Expo, and play them repeatedly for promotion at a volume that others can hear but not too loud.

Secondly, the layout of the booth must highlight the theme of "Wugong Tea" and at the same time be antique, simple and elegant. In a word, it must appear high-end.

Thirdly, it is best to arrange a tea artist with classical temperament and superb tea art, a simple and grand tea table, an elegant background music with ancient charm, several sets of high-quality tea sets, tea cup washing tools, etc., to perform tea art on the spot, so that tourists or tea merchants can have a place to sit down and taste tea on the spot.

Fourth, the test report on the content of substances in Wugong Tea should be printed out and posted in a conspicuous place so that people passing by can see it at a glance.

In short, packaging is carried out in all aspects.

This preparation cannot be completed hastily in a day or two.

First of all, it is the booth design.

Regarding the registration for the Tea Expo, Jiang Ning can entrust Li Ang and Wang Yong to fax or mail the information after they get it, and ask Jiang Guotai to prepare the information and mail it over to help with the registration.

However, after successfully registering, as for renting a booth and designing the booth, they need to take people to the site to see it, design it, and then ask people to go to the market to buy things for the layout.

Fortunately, Jiang Guotai didn't have to worry about the booth design, as the person was already there, the designer Lou, who had returned from studying abroad and who had designed the house for Jiang Ning.

Designer Lou is not only good at Chinese style design, but also very good at European and American style design, and is even better at integrating the two.

In this regard, the building design was done very beautifully in the design of Jiang Ning's four-story Western-style building. Jiang Ning's self-built house uses a combination of Chinese and Western designs, and at the same time blends perfectly with the surrounding scenery.

Now Jiang Ning’s self-built house has become a scenic spot in Linhe Brigade and the most beautiful house in the surrounding area.

After looking at the design drawings and interior decoration drawings that the building designer had made for Jiang Ning's house, Jiang Guotai immediately decided that Miaomiao and Yanyan's houses should also be built and decorated according to this design!

Jiang Guotai was generous with his money, so the building designer simply designed Jiang Miao and Jiang Yanyan's houses together. The three-in-one design is more perfect, and each has its own characteristics.

Now that the task of designing the booth in Guangzhou was naturally not to bother two people, it was directly handed over to this building designer.

More importantly, the designer himself has experience studying abroad. This World International Tea Expo will not only have many domestic tea merchants participating, but also many foreign merchants will be invited to participate.

Among their group of people, except Jiang Miao who can speak some English but not very fluently, Lou Designer is not only the booth designer in their team, but also a translator.

Here, less than ten days after Jiang Guotai sent the registration information to the address Jiang Ning gave him, he received an invitation letter and admission notice from the Guangzhou Tea Expo, asking them to bring more detailed information and original documents to Guangzhou to complete a series of things such as registration and signing a booth rental agreement.

Jiang Guotai is already very busy with the affairs in his hometown, and he has arranged for his son and daughter-in-law to study abroad this year. Apart from his wife and daughter, he has his sister and brother-in-law, and the only people who can help him are very limited. He wanted to call Jiang's father and Jiang Song back to help him, but then he thought of Jiang's mother, and he didn't know where Jiang Song had gone.

As for Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai, there is no way Jiang Ning and Jiang Guotai can be called back. She herself said that she is destined not to be on this track in the future. The meaning is very clear.

As for Jiang Bai, he is a star now. Although there seems to be no new works released since the end of last year, Jiang Bai also said during the Chinese New Year that he would take the entrance exam for the postgraduate program in science at East China University of Technology. Now he is very busy and there is no news about him at all.

As for the younger generation, the youngest daughter of Jiang Guoqi's family is about to take the college entrance examination this year and has not grown up yet. The son of the electrician in the eldest family has not graduated from university yet, and we don't know what his future will be like. Besides, the people in the eldest family may not be willing to come and help him. The son of the former brigade secretary of the second family has never come back after graduating from university. His daughter Jiang Hehua looked smart when she was a child, but who knew that she would become more cunning than a needle tip when she grew up. Now the whole family has moved to live in another place, and there is no information about them, so they are considered useless.

In fact, apart from the people from the third room, Jiang Guotai himself is not willing to use too many relatives and people other than the third room, which leads to no one available under him. Now he is still young, and he is just waiting for his eldest son and daughter-in-law to return from studying abroad so that they can help him.

Jiang Guotai had no choice but to let his brother-in-law stay in his hometown, while he took his daughter Jiang Miao, Jiang Hongjun, building designer and some others to Guangzhou.

In fact, it was completely unnecessary for him to go there in person, but Guangzhou was too unfamiliar to them. His sister-in-law was of okay character, but she was too honest and simple-minded. His sister was smart, but now she was in charge of some things for him and could not leave. In addition, the reason why he had to make this trip in person was that Shenzhen and Guangzhou had been developing better and better in recent years, and the demand for river sand was increasing.

Although he runs three large sand factories, he has always been based in a small place. He does not directly take orders from other big cities, and it is unknown how many times the sand has changed hands in between. The price of his sand factory is actually kept very low.

Although he also made money, the people in the middle made more money. How could Jiang Guotai be willing to accept this?

This is also the reason why he wants to visit Guangzhou and Shenzhen in person.

He didn't know whether Jiang Ning had anyone in Guangzhou, but he still called Jiang Ning before leaving.

When Jiang Ning heard that Jiang Guotai was going to Guangshi in person, he told Jiang Guotai about the people he knew in Guangshi and said, "Uncle, I have met two editors in Guangshi because of my writing submissions over the years. One is my direct editor, and the other is Director Li Ang, the founder of "Wuxia" magazine. Director Li has now been promoted to the Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department and is in charge of the city's cultural and creative sector. He is also in charge of the Tea Expo you are going to this time. The news about the Tea Expo was also given to me by Director Li."

The International Tea Expo belongs to the category of cultural industry, which happens to be under the jurisdiction of Director Li. This is why Jiang Ning was able to obtain first-hand information so quickly.

Jiang Ning said, "The only person I've had direct contact with is my editor Wang Yong, who has now been promoted to director of the film and television copyright department. I can help you say hello to Brother Yong, but I don't know if it will help you open up the market there. You need to discover these things on your own."

Jiang Ning's relationship with Wang Yong over the years has been extremely simple, and it is precisely because of this simple relationship that Jiang Ning and Wang Yong have an extremely good relationship.

After all, Jiang Ning was the first author Wang Yong accepted. It was also a critical period when he had just graduated and was in his internship and wanted to be converted to a full-time employee, but was facing the magazine company being revoked and could not be converted. Later, not only was the staffing matter thanks to Jiang Ning, but even his promotion to the director of the film and television copyright department was closely related to Jiang Ning.

So even though he and Jiang Ning hardly met each other over the years, their contact never stopped. Even though his relationship had been transferred to the copyright department, he never let go of Jiang Ning, his cash cow, and he had always been Jiang Ning's editor over the years.

His feelings for Jiang Ning are also extremely special.

Jiang Guotai always thought that Jiang Ning got the information from his classmates at Peking University. He never expected that Jiang Ning actually had such connections in Guangzhou.

Although Jiang Ning did not directly say how good her relationship with Director Wang and Director Li was, but since she could tell him about this relationship, then the relationship must be extraordinary, otherwise there would be no need for her to say this.

After Jiang Ning hung up the phone with Jiang Guotai, he called Wang Yong and Director Li.

Jiang Ning spoke more casually to Wang Yong, always calling him Brother Yong, and the relationship between the two was no different from that of brother and sister.

On the contrary, he was very polite to Director Li who was promoted to the Municipal Party Committee. In fact, Director Li had a very high favorability towards Jiang Ning. It can be said that his promotion to the municipal level was inseparable from the influence Jiang Ning brought to the "Wuxia" magazine. As for Jiang Ning's statement that his uncle was going to participate in the World Tea Expo, he naturally knew about it. Jiang Ning had told Wang Yong about this matter and asked him to pay attention to it. He called Wang Yong as soon as he got the news and asked Wang Yong to inform Jiang Ning.

Even though Li Ang has been promoted to the city level, he has always been concerned about Jiang Ning's affairs. Although Li Ang has been promoted to the city level, he is still the direct leader of the cultural industry. When Jiang Guotai goes to participate in the World International Tea Expo, he will inevitably have to deal with Director Li. The difference between having this relationship and not having this relationship at the tea expo is a world of difference.

After communicating with Wang Yong and Director Li and obtaining their consent, Jiang Ning gave Wang Yong and Director Li's personal mobile phone numbers to Jiang Guotai, and told Jiang Guotai that he had contacted Director Wang and Director Li in Guangzhou City, and that someone would pick them up at the airport when they arrived.

After entering the millennium, people's ways of keeping in touch were no longer as troublesome as before 1997 and 1998. People like Wang Yong, Li Chu, and Jiang Guotai all had mobile phones, making communication much more convenient. Only Jiang Ning's mind was fully focused on studying, typing, and hurdles, and he had a landline with fixed hours, so he did not buy himself a mobile phone.

But Jiang Ning is also considering buying himself a mobile phone.

After Jiang Guotai hung up the phone, he felt even more emotional.

He repeatedly thought that he had overestimated Jiang Ning's power. After all, she was someone who was able to persuade the director of CCTV to come down to promote her hometown when she was a student. How could he dare to underestimate her? But the energy she displayed time and time again far exceeded his expectations.

He thought that her influence was limited to the capital, but he didn't expect that she actually knew someone in Guangzhou, and he was from the municipal party committee.

The other party will come to the airport to pick them up because of Jiang Ning. This is not an ordinary relationship.

The other party attached so much importance to Jiang Ning, of course, not only because of the huge profits Jiang Ning brought to "Wuxia" magazine over the years, and because Li Chu himself was promoted from the brink of closure of the magazine to the municipal party committee, but also because of the ability Jiang Ning himself demonstrated in Beijing.

After picking the Mingqian tea this year, Jiang Ning, of course, sent gifts not only to Director Li in Beijing, professors and teachers of Peking University, but also to Wang Yong, Director Li, Editor-in-Chief Bao and others who were far away in Guangzhou. She sent them all local specialties from her hometown. Since she sent the "Wugong Tea", she certainly would not forget the brochure about Wugong Tea, which contained information about how CCTV promoted the "Wugong Tea". Although it did not specifically state how CCTV knew about Wugong Tea and how they went to shoot and promote Wugong Tea, the fact that CCTV promoted and promoted Wugong Tea was a real thing.

Sometimes a small action from above is enough to make local officials below treat it with great severity, not to mention that such a big thing is directly publicized by CCTV.

Why is Wucheng so lively this year and why is the sales of Wugong tea from Wugong Mountain so hot? Isn’t it because Wugong Tea has now become a provincial key policy support project? Many of Jiang Guotai's applications for "Wugong Tea" were approved smoothly, and he basically did not encounter any bottlenecks.

This is the huge impact that the above has on the below.

This influence also affected Li Ang who was far away in Guangzhou.

Especially after Jiang Guotai sent more detailed information to Guangzhou, as the highest person in charge of cultural industries in the Guangzhou municipal government, Li Ang also saw the more comprehensive information sent by Jiang Guotai, and learned to what extent CCTV has supported the economic publicity of Jiang Ning's hometown. Not counting a self-made TV series, this year's cartoons actually had a lot of promotional content about Wugong Tea from Jiang Ning's hometown, which was very unusual.

The above is why Li Ang values ​​Jiang Ning so much. When Jiang Ning called and asked for help, he did not explicitly say that he would help, but he said that he would arrange someone to pick up Jiang Guotai and the others.

After reading the information sent by Jiang Guotai, he immediately made a phone call to arrange one of the best booths for Jiang Guotai and his team at the tea expo.

Jiang Hongjun was considered a relatively calm person in the village, but it was his first time to go out of town to another big city, so he was a little nervous. However, he was able to remain calm because Jiang Guotai was sitting there with a calm expression.

The building designer who had experience studying abroad was also dressed in a suit and looked elite. Standing next to Jiang Guotai, he raised the style of Jiang Guotai and his group a bit.

When Jiang Guotai was waiting at the airport, he turned around and saw the sharp contrast between the building designer and Jiang Hongjun, who were carrying large and small bags and looked rustic, like country kids who came to the city to work. He felt that it was not a good idea and was about to get off the plane. The first thing he did was to change the clothes of these guys from head to toe.

In Jiang Ning's words, it needs to be packaged first.