Chapter 248
Although Mr. Qian himself is not a tea seller, he is a native of Shanghai and previously served as deputy factory director. If the factory had not been unprofitable and went bankrupt, leading to his unemployment in middle age, he might have become the factory director by now.
Of course, his income as a factory manager will definitely not be as much as he is now as his own boss, and all the money he earns is his own, but his connections and status will definitely be higher than they are now.
He knows many people in the Shanghai Stock Exchange, including some in this field.
But he had no intention of giving it to someone else to sell.
A tea brand that is being promoted by CCTV currently has a blank market in the Shanghai Stock Exchange. If he didn't know how to seize the opportunity, he wouldn't have been able to get the position of deputy factory director, nor would he have become a real estate sales manager after the factory was closed due to poor performance, and he wouldn't have decisively set up a decoration design company after realizing the prospects of interior decoration.
After buying a house with Jiang Ning, he has earned money and bought a shop. He plans to obtain the sales agency rights of "Wugong Tea" in Shanghai by himself, take it to Shanghai, and hand it over to his wife.
His wife is also a native of Shanghai, and her network of contacts is no worse than his, so they don't have to worry about sales at all.
As for the better quality Mingqian tea, everyone who understands knows that how could such a great gift-giving product be leaked to the outside world? Basically, those that can be leaked to the outside world, even if they are all Mingqian tea, will not be the best ones. Of course, when they are told to the outside world, they are all the best. In fact, where did the best tea from all over the country go? Everyone who understands knows.
However, they feel that the reputation of this "Wugong Tea" is still not good enough in Shanghai. After all, Shanghai is very close to Hangzhou. Among the famous teas on the market, "Wugong Tea" is just a new tea with no background. If it wants to further consolidate its reputation, it is not enough to rely on a CCTV GG implantation. With the end of the broadcast of "Legend of the White Snake", its influence will inevitably decline gradually.
Fortunately, after the first broadcast of "Legend of the White Snake", it is not discontinued. Until the next CCTV self-produced drama is produced to replace it, it is still being rebroadcasted in other time slots of CCTV. However, the ratings and influence of the rebroadcast are far less than when it was first broadcast!
After Mr. Qian told them the purpose of his visit, Jiang Xin and others were greatly surprised. Even Jiang Guotai, who heard the news, rushed back by motorboat to personally meet Mr. Qian.
Jiang's father and mother did not go to Shenzhen so quickly this year because Jiang Ning wanted to build a house. Also, because they now had a tea field on the mountain, fewer people over 40 went out to work, and all stayed at home to take good care of their several acres of tea field. So when they heard that the tea merchant introduced by Jiang Ning came to order their tea, and that they had newly divided the tea field this year, the fourth branch and some of the first branch's people, who were worried about whether Jiang Guotai's sales could keep up with the tea from the tea field, were excited and hurried over to sell their own tea.
When Jiang's father knew that it was his daughter who recommended the guest, he proudly followed Jiang Guotai to receive the guests. When he saw that Jiang's mother was not there, he quickly asked Jiang Jun to help find Jiang's mother.
They came all the way to Jiangjia Village, so they had to cook and entertain them.
At this time, Jiang Ma was walking up the mountain along the new cement road built last year to visit her tea fields.
Because women did not have to go to the ancestral graves to worship their ancestors, this was the first time that Jiang Ma walked up the mountain after the road was repaired. The road that she was familiar with in the past now seemed so unfamiliar in her eyes.
All the trees and dead grass on the mountain were cleared away, and neat rows of tea trees were planted. However, the original fields at the foot of the mountain were converted back to forest and planted with young fir seedlings.
She walked to the acre of tea field that was hers. In order to make it easier to manage, her tea field and Jiang's father's tea field were divided together. Jiang Ning, Jiang Bai and their tea fields were not here.
I didn’t take it seriously last year, thinking that Dad Jiang was wasting money. But now these tea fields are really making money. According to Dad Jiang, these tea fields will make more and more money in the future.
The tea trees nowadays were planted just over a year ago in September or October of the previous year. Their branches are sparse and short, which is completely incomparable to the six old tea trees that have been raised at the foot of their mountain for more than ten years.
It is impossible to say that Jiang Ma does not know that she can make money from tea. Although they have tea trees at home, they do not buy tea to drink. There are tea shops in Heshuibu Town. Cheap tea costs dozens of yuan per catty, while expensive tea can cost two or three hundred yuan per catty.
It’s just that everyone knows that their tea is good, but no one comes to buy their tea, so they have no market.
Who would have thought that in just one year, Jiang Guotai and Jiang Ning would have opened up the tea sales market.
She and Jiang's father earned more than 6,000 yuan from the two acres of land, which is equivalent to 500 yuan a month. If she had a pension of 500 yuan a month, what would she worry about? Do you still need to beg your children for help and depend on their mood to make your life when you are old?
No.
So she was feeling extremely complicated at the moment.
The one who came to find Jiang Ma was not Jiang Jun, but Jiang Jun's sister-in-law.
Aunt Jiang's temperament was extremely kind, and her two daughters-in-law were also kind people. They panted and found Jiang's mother, and said with a smile: "Oh, I knew Second Aunt was in the tea garden. The tea trees are pretty good, right? They have grown a lot in a year. Your tea garden is in a good location, but my acre is not so lucky, but I still earned 2,000 yuan last year. Hongjun's tea garden is in a good location, and he earned almost 4,000 yuan a year!"
She held Jiang Ma's hand and said, "Come down with me quickly. There are guests at your house. How capable is Ning Ning? She has only been away for a few days. She just met a tea merchant in Shanghai. He has come down to place an order for tea. Second Uncle wants to cook, so he asked me to come up and ask you to receive the guests!"
Jiang's mother was surprised when she heard this and said, "She invited him? Could it be Jiang Bai who invited him? Who does she know in Shanghai? It's more like her brother, Jiang Bai is studying in Shanghai."
"Oh, they said it was Ningning who invited them. They also brought a house designer with them. It seems like they came to build a house for Ningning!"
When Jiang Ma and the others came down the mountain, Mr. Qian and Jiang Guotai were already talking. Jiang Dad found with regret that he had stagnated in the past few years and really couldn't keep up with the pace of the times. Even though he could understand what they said, he couldn't get a word in. Seeing Jiang Ma coming, Jiang Dad stood up and asked her to receive the guests. When he said receiving guests, he just had to pour tea and prepare some snacks. Jiang Dad had to go in to cook, as he couldn't leave the host alone here.
Mr. Qian has already mentioned to Jiang Guotai that "Wugong Tea" is not well-known enough in the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Chinese people love to drink tea, and Shanghai people are no exception.
Take Mr. Qian and the people in his circle as an example. Except for special occasions, they will drink Pu'er tea. Generally speaking, their first choice is green tea, and the first choice of green tea is Longjing, Biluochun and Tieguanyin.
Why?
In addition to the good quality of these varieties of tea, another very important point is that they are famous.
Especially people of this generation, their pursuit of famous teas is even higher than twenty years later.
In fact, this was already planned when Jiang Ning and Jiang Guotai first discussed how to build fame for "Wugong Tea". "Legend of the White Snake" was actually a pleasant surprise, which brought "Wugong Tea" into people's vision ahead of time, but the most correct route is to pay attention to the National International Tea Expo.
Only when you gain fame at the World International Tea Expo will you really get orders.
Jiang Ning had already made plans for this, and asked Director Li Ang and Wang Yong from Guangzhou to help keep an eye on it. They are all in the magazine media industry, the mainstream newspaper media of this era, and are well-informed. In addition, the five branches of "Wuxia" magazine are all located in the most economically developed cities in the country, including Shanghai, Nanjing, Tianjin, Chongqing, etc. The news about where the tea expo is held is usually preheated in major magazines in advance, and the news is also released on TV. Generally, people who are interested in tea will go to participate after getting the news.
We rely on them for news from all over the country.
After Jiang Guotai told Mr. Qian about the plan to create famous tea that Jiang Ning had mentioned, Mr. Qian admired Jiang Ning even more.
This woman is so experienced, how can she be just a girl of 18 or 19 years old? Moreover, she had already thought of all this two years ago. She could not help but be more polite to Jiang Guotai and this village, and said, "I still have some connections in Shanghai. I will also pay attention to some information about the Tea Expo when the time comes."
After all, Shanghai is an international metropolis, and major events like the Tea Expo are usually held in economically developed cities to attract enough foreign businessmen to participate.
When Jiang Guotai heard this, he was of course very grateful. After all, their place was too remote and too small. Even he only had some power in the local area. Outside the neighboring cities, let alone in the big cities outside, even in the provincial capital, his current power was limited, and the information he received was naturally limited. All this information depended on Jiang Ning.
Jiang Guotai didn't know where Jiang Ning got so many information channels. He just thought that Peking University was full of top students, including talented men and women from all over the country, and her information came from there.
As for the capital, Jiang Ning himself is paying attention to it.
Jiang Ning was also considering whether to insert some soft advertisements in Producer Li's next CCTV self-produced drama. However, the reason why he was able to successfully convince Producer Li the first time was mainly because Producer Li himself had the task of promoting the local tourism economy at the time. In addition, some people at that time supported the use of floods as the theme and the filming of flood-fighting dramas. He got the filming plan of "The Legend of White Snake", which actually put him under a lot of pressure. In addition, the original work was Jiang Ning's own, and Jiang Ning himself was also the screenwriter. It happened that they filmed in winter, the lotus flowers withered, and no scenes were taken. This was a coincidence that led to this matter.
It is basically impossible for her to take advantage of CCTV now. If she wants to insert soft advertisements, she will have to pay for it.
She can't afford CCTV gg's money.
However, Producer Li does have a deep affection for Wucheng. If Wucheng's economy really takes off, it can be said that Producer Li deserves the greatest credit, so he is also paying attention to the situation in Wucheng.
As soon as Jiang Ning returned to Beijing, she called and politely asked Producer Li if he had time. Her hometown had changed a lot under Producer Li's publicity. Last year, the economy of the entire county had grown a lot, and there were also changes in her hometown. Jiang Ning wanted to represent the folks in her hometown. She and Song Peifeng wanted to visit Producer Li to thank him for his strong publicity and support for their hometown.
With these words, all the credit for Wucheng's changes over the past year was put on Producer Li. Even though Producer Li knew that the girl was just flattering him, he couldn't help but feel comfortable because his contribution was the key to Wucheng's rapid economic development.
Producer Li usually would not accept visits from students like Jiang Ning who were still in school, but he had to admit that he really liked this junior, as well as Song Peifeng, who was actually from the Song family in Beijing. Although he had been silent for a while due to the influence, he returned to Beijing later. Although his influence was not as great as before, he was still a well-known family. Even he had to be polite and naturally refused Song Peifeng's visit.
After Jiang Ning made an appointment with producer Li, he first wished screenwriters Yuan Feng and Tang Jiang a happy old age, then expressed his gratitude and desire to visit them.
The two screenwriters and Jiang Ning were not at the stage where they could pay Jiang Ning a visit, but they were happy that Jiang Ning remembered to wish them a happy new year. They then asked her whether she had visited Producer Li. Jiang Ning did not say anything specific, but she tactfully expressed that after Producer Li received the news of Jiang Ning's visit, he also smiled and gladly accepted it, but the time must be staggered with that of Producer Li.
It was Jiang Ning's first time to visit someone, and it was New Year, so of course he couldn't come empty-handed. But there were also some considerations about what gifts to bring. It was not appropriate to bring valuables when visiting someone so openly, so Jiang Ning brought only specialties from his hometown.
This year's new Mingqian tea has not come out yet, and it is not convenient to give last year's old tea, so Jiang Ning brought pure natural wild wolfberries, water chestnuts, and local pork and sausages pickled by her aunt-in-law from her hometown.
When she left this year, Jiang Guoding brought her a lot of fine pearl powder and pearls produced in Yaoba Town.
These pearl powders are not made from shells. Although there is no difference in nutritional content, there is still a difference between the powder made from pearls and the powder made from shells.
As for freshwater pearls, the technology for cultivating freshwater pearls in Yaoba Town is not that good yet. Yaoba Town also produces the large-sized, round and smooth purple pearls, pink pearls, and pure white, round and smooth white pearls that can be seen everywhere in the live broadcast rooms of later generations, but so far, the output is relatively small, and not everyone has the generosity to take out the best pearls produced and bring them to Beijing as gifts for Jiang Ning.
Jiang Guoding personally requested these high-quality pearl powders, which were carefully selected by the pearl factory staff. When Jiang Ning saw them for the first time, she said to Jiang Guoding: "The packaging is too rough and not refined enough."
Jiang Guoding sighed: "The current benefits of the pearl factory are not very great. It is unrealistic to ask them to spend money on the packaging of pearl powder."
Jiang Ning nodded in agreement. It was true that in this era, there were companies like those in the skit "Packaging" performed by Zhao Lirong that had begun to package their own products, but there were more companies like the Pearl Factory that were solely focused on cultivating pearls and had no intention of doing anything else.
The idea of pearl powder was proposed by Jiang Ning and Jiang Guoding, and by Jiang Guoding and the Pearl Factory. However, the Pearl Factory did not take pearl powder too seriously, mainly because they have not yet found a partner in the skin care products category.
There are no suitable cosmetics and skin care companies in their country.
Therefore, even if they produced some pearl powder, they used transparent packaging bags. Apart from a few instructions on how to make facial masks provided by Jiang Ning, there was no packaging at all. They sold them in Yaoba Town to tourists who were intercepted by Jiang Guoding from Wucheng to his town last year. Pearl powder is divided into two grades. The cheapest one is half a pound of shells ground into pearl powder for one yuan. The more expensive one is powder made from small, crooked pearls, and the price is only two yuan for half a pound. Half a pound can be used for facial mask, and it can be used for half a year.
But no matter how high the sales volume in a small town is, it is limited. If the mayor had not suggested it to them, they would not want to start this business. Not only can they not make any money, but it is also troublesome to clean the shells. There are also a lot of pearl powder piled up in the warehouse that cannot be sold. Soon, they will have new shells.
Jiang Ning bought an exquisite porcelain bottle to pack the finely polished pearl powder, along with a jar of wine, and brought these local specialties with him to visit Song Peifeng.
When producer Li saw them coming to his house and carrying so many things, he was shocked and said, "You guys can just come to my place for a meal, why do you bring so many things?"
Jiang Ning was dressed very simply, just like an ordinary college student. When she saw Producer Li, she smiled and said loudly, "Teacher Li, these are some local specialties from my hometown. This jar of wine is brewed by our family, and there is also black pork raised by my aunt. It's just a little salted meat, nothing special. These are all thanks to the villagers for your publicity and support for our Wucheng. You don't know that this year, under the publicity of Teacher Li, our Wucheng's economic benefits have increased by a lot. I will let Peifeng report to you about Wucheng's work this year!"
These words are naturally also spoken to the neighbors who are pricking up their ears and looking over here.
Producer Li's eyes lit up immediately and he secretly praised this clever little guy.
Of course, he didn't care what Jiang Ning gave him, but the fact that Jiang Ning didn't come empty-handed was a kind of respect and courtesy to him. The most suitable thing to be given so generously would be local specialties, not to mention pork raised at home and wine brewed at home.
Producer Li smiled and said, "You know what? I lived and ate at your aunt's house last year. I know her cooking skills. I really miss this dish."
Jiang Ning climbed up the pole and said, "Then I have to show you my cooking skills. My cooking skills are really taught by my aunt!"
This is a further step to strengthen the relationship.
Producer Li laughed when he heard this and invited Jiang Ning and the others in.
Producer Li's wife was also at home. Upon hearing what was said, she came out and warmly invited Jiang Ning in.
When Jiang Ning came to visit, Producer Li naturally told his lover about it. He also told her about how Jiang Ning had helped him to go to Wucheng to shoot the film and promote Wucheng and her hometown last year. Of course, his tone was full of appreciation for this junior, but that was all.
Producer Li's home is in the Second Ring Road. The area of his home is not small, but it is definitely not big either. It is about 60 to 70 square meters. Only the couple live there, and their children have been sent abroad to study.
Jiang Ning was very open and frank. Although the heating was turned on in Producer Li's home, the curtains and other things were all open, and he was very frank in what he said and did.
After Jiang Ning put down the things, he also introduced with a smile: "Teacher Li, this is the wolfberry planted in our village this year. When you were filming in our village and promoting these agricultural products to us, these wolfberries had only been planted for a few months and we had not eaten the wolfberries from our hometown. These are the wild wolfberries that the elders and villagers in my hometown asked me to bring to you, just to express their sincere gratitude to you. Without you, there would be no Wucheng today, and no Linhe Brigade today!"
"This is the native pork my aunt asked me to bring you. She raised it herself, and she made the sausage herself!"
"This bottle of pearl powder is produced by our Yaoba Town Pearl Factory. It's for my master's wife. It's a crude thing, but you can try making a hand mask with the pearl powder!" With just a few words, Producer Li became Jiang Ning's teacher, and Producer Li's wife became Jiang Ning's master's wife.
Jiang Ning called her "Master's Wife" all the time, and her tone was so affectionate.
The neighbors on both sides were staring at this place. Through the window, they saw Jiang Ning really take out a piece of bacon, a string of sausages, and a white porcelain bottle with very simple packaging from the bag. It was obvious at a glance that there would be no precious things inside. There was also a box of wolfberries, and the rest was the jar of wine.
You can tell at a glance that the wine jar is not something valuable.
Although they couldn't hear what was being talked about inside, just seeing these things was enough to make them lose interest.
Jiang Ning stopped talking loudly and said with a smile on his face, "This is the wine that my uncle Tai asked me to bring you. It is made from a wild herb called 'Niu Dali' in our hometown. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation, nourishing the lungs and strengthening the spleen. Don't underestimate this name. In our hometown, it has a beautiful name called 'Southern Ginseng'. It is the most nourishing. If you are used to drinking it, I will ask my uncle to send it to you next time."
No matter what kind of 'Southern ginseng' it is, as long as it is not bought but brewed at home, it is a local specialty and is 'not worth much'.
As for the first few items, Producer Li just accepted them with a smile, but the last one really touched his heart.
Producer Li's first reaction was to turn around and look at his wife, smiling and saying, "Look, these are all gifts from the children. I didn't buy them!"
When Producer Li's wife heard that it was a medicinal wine, and a medicinal wine known as "Southern Ginseng", she did not say anything to stop Producer Li from drinking it. She just smiled and said, "Okay, since it's sent by your little apprentice, you can only drink two cups per meal, and don't drink too much."
Producer Li winked at Jiang Ning, took his wife's hand and smiled, "Have a couple of drinks with me, too."
Song Peifeng sat next to Jiang Ning and watched how, in just a few words, Jiang Ning had gone from being a junior who had worked together, to someone she affectionately called "master's wife", and now, to being the little apprentice recognized by the master's wife herself.
Even Song Peifeng, who thought he had seen Jiang Ning many times, couldn't help but marvel at the skill of this relationship-building artist.
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