Chapter 231231

This year, because of the hot sales of Wugong Tea from Wugong Mountain, the people of the second and third rooms can be said to have made a lot of money, and this is not counting the Mingqian tea that was given away.

This year's Mingqian tea did not make any money, and it was all given away as gifts and for promotion. However, next year's Mingqian tea has not been sold yet, but it has been pre-ordered by tea merchants from all over the country. Many people only paid a deposit, which was enough to pay more than the money that local girls earned in a year working in the factory.

Many of this year's Ming and Qing Wugong teas are put into Jiang Guotai's tea processing plant for frying and packaging. The exact amount of money sold is still unknown, and the subsequent profit sharing will not be distributed until the end of the year. However, the deposit alone is enough to make those first and fourth wives who felt that they had too much tea to sell last year regret it!

How could they know that Jiang Guotai was so capable that he even invited the CCTV crew to come down and film their Wugong Mountain Wugong tea! As soon as

"The Legend of the White Snake" was broadcast during the summer vacation, their Wugong Mountain Wugong tea became popular all over the country and became well-known nationwide. Many tea merchants from all over the country called to ask about Wugong tea.

Of course, the first and fourth wives also have tea trees, some have two or three, and some have five or six. But how can these few tea trees be compared with the one acre of tea land that the second and third wives have been allocated directly?

They estimated that the second and third wives could make at least 10,000 or 20,000 yuan just from selling tea leaves this year!

That’s 10,000 or 20,000 yuan! Even

if they can only make 10,000 yuan, that’s enough for a floor of a house!

They wanted to go to the village chief to make trouble, but it didn’t work. The village chief said: “Now is the critical period for the development of the tourism economy of our Linhe Brigade. If any of you want to make trouble for me and make trouble at this time, don’t say that I can’t forgive you. See if Guotai can forgive you!”

Jiang Guotai’s name is now the most famous person in the whole area!

Didn't you see that even Wugong Mountain was contracted by him?

Is there anything else in the local area that he hasn't contracted?

Three large sand factories, the riverbeds and the hills of Shijian Township.

It feels like the entire Shuibu Town, Shijian Township, and the road to the neighboring city are almost all owned by Jiang Guotai alone, not to mention that he also has brick factories and other projects in the town and the city.

It can be said that if he stamps his feet in this area now, his existence will tremble three times.

When they heard that Jiang Guotai would not forgive them, the people of the first and fourth houses did not dare to make trouble even if they were anxious. They could only wait, and their hearts and lungs were burning with anxiety.

The reason they are so anxious is that the tea planting season is from August to November every year. Once the tea planting season is over, they will not be able to buy tea next year, and they will have to wait until the year after.

The people in Linhe Brigade are really too busy this year. They should have sorted out the remaining hills in July and August and waited for September, October and November. But after November, it will be too late to plant tea trees. It's too late!

But throughout July, August and September, the people in Linhe Brigade were busy, either selling tea, or busy receiving tourists, or dancing in the square at night. Families who can make snacks and meals at home are busy selling food.

For example, Aunt Jiang, who has a good cooking skill, opened a small restaurant. She brought her two daughters-in-law with her and worked from morning till night without a break. When Aunt Jiang couldn't handle it anymore, her second and youngest sons would take over the cooking. Although the food was not as delicious as Aunt Jiang's, it was still 70% of the original. Those

who didn't have the cooking skill like Aunt Jiang bought a cart and sold fried skewers, popsicles, large snails, and small snails.

There is an old man in the village who doesn't know how to make money, so he goes to the fields to pick snails every day. He picks up two buckets of big and small snails, keeps them for two days, adds various seasonings and brine, cooks them, and sells them in plastic buckets. He can make two tablespoons of big snails and one tablespoon of small snails in five seconds. They are spicy and addictive!

Now these fried skewers are everywhere, especially next to the town school.

Some people in Jiangjia Village sell fried skewers next to the movie theater in the village, such as lotus root slices, potato slices, ham sausage, orchid bean curd, chicken fillet, etc. After being fried, they are brushed with spicy and fresh sauce, which is very popular among tourists. They can make tens of yuan a day just by frying skewers.

There were also people selling roasted food outside the cinema, such as roasted melon seeds, roasted peanuts, roasted pumpkin seeds, five-spiced silkworms, cooked water chestnuts, etc. They made a lot of money in a day.

Although the cinema only charges 50 cents for a ticket, they made a lot of money by showing five movies a day. The original movie shower had to go out to work in the cinema after the Chinese New Year every year, showing movies for people. This year, Jiang Guotai called him back before May Day, saying that people from CCTV were coming to their team to shoot, and asked him to come back to receive and learn.

As soon as he heard that CCTV was coming, he hurriedly told his supervisor about receiving the CCTV crew. The supervisor immediately gave him a holiday. As a result, he couldn't go out after he came back. He was busy entertaining producer Li and other crew members. In fact, he wanted to learn from them. After that, Jiang Guotai's work on local TV stations gradually took effect. By the end of June, tourists gradually came to Jiangjia Village in Linhe Brigade.

In fact, there were not many tourists at the beginning. Many things in Jiangjia Village were just for show, not for money. Even the movies were free movies in the open air at night.

Who knew that after August, Linhe Brigade had a small peak. More and more people came. Even if the ticket price of his cinema was almost free, he still made a lot of money.

It was not until the start of school in September that the number of tourists visiting Linhe Brigade gradually decreased. The people from the first and fourth rooms could not wait any longer and went to the village chief. How could the village chief have time to take care of them? The construction of Jiangjia Village could not be delayed.

So he told the people from the first and fourth rooms to organize their own people to prepare the land. He asked Jiang Xin in the provincial capital to contact the experts and professors in the provincial capital. After the land was prepared, they could plant tea trees.

What could the people from the first and fourth rooms do? They could only do it themselves.

Last year, the people from the second and third rooms also prepared the land by themselves.

However, the land with good orientation last year was basically divided up by the people from the second and third rooms. Now there are only some tea fields in low places and shaded places left.

The land that is distributed now is still good. The later it gets, the worse the tea land will be. Many people can't feel the difference now, but after a few years, everyone will gradually feel the difference. But by the time they notice it, it will be too late. For

Jiang Xi's sake, Village Chief Jiang also called Jiang's father and asked him if he had any news about Jiang Song. If there was any news about him, he should come back as soon as possible so that he could catch up with the land distribution this year.

Jiang's father was so anxious that his mouth was covered with blisters. He wanted to divide the land first if he had news about Jiang Song, but Jiang Song had to go back to his hometown.

After all, the tea trees were planted in November, and it was the end of the year. At the end of the year, all the young people went back and drew lots together.

Village Chief Jiang asked Jiang's father to contact Jiang Song as soon as possible: "You must come back during the Chinese New Year this year, so that we can draw lots and divide the land together!"

After hanging up the phone, Jiang's father was full of bitterness.

He was now annoyed and remorseful. He was too accommodating to his eldest son. If he had been a little stricter since he was young, he would not have let his eldest son be so free-tempered. No matter how they called him to come back to review, he would not come back. If he had

come back to review, he would have a share of the tea field now, and he would have been sitting at home making money in the future.

Jiang's father could only comfort him, saying that the tea field was very large, and if he didn't get a share this time, there would be another time, and he would always get a share of the land.

Now he only prayed that his son would come back soon!

Last year, Jiang's mother was reluctant to spend money on the tea farm. Now that she heard that the tea in her hometown had really been sold, she stopped talking and worked in silence. She watched Jiang's father make phone calls everywhere, asking for the phone numbers of Jiang Song's former classmates, one by one. He called one by one, asked one by one, and looked everywhere.

Jiangjia Village not only has income from the tea farm this year.

The influx of tourists this year has suddenly opened up a new way for the people of Jiangjia Village to make money, which is to open hotels and B&Bs.

At this time, they realized how wise the big guy's family was. They built such a big house early, and there was no need to rebuild it. It could be used directly as a B&B.

Many families who have just built new buildings, or have built new buildings for a few years, are in an awkward situation. They cannot demolish them. If they do not demolish them, they will have to spend a lot of money to build a new big house. Otherwise, next year, everyone else will make money, and only your family will have to watch others make money because you have few rooms. If

you cannot demolish your house, you can only build it up, or continue to expand the house area in the yard on the basis of the original homestead.

But whether it is building up or expanding the house area, it costs money. You can't expand it just because you want to. It's better for those who have two or three bedrooms and made money from selling tea this year. They plan to start expanding their houses at the end of the year to prepare for the arrival of tourists next year.

The people in the first and fourth houses can only watch and wait for the tea trees to be planted this year so that they can share the profits next year.

Although there are no more student tourists at this time, there are still many tourists coming to Linhe Brigade, especially during the National Day, which is a peak period.

During the National Day alone, Aunt Jiang and some families in the village who cook delicious food made a net profit of more than 2,000 yuan, and those who run movie theaters also made a lot.

Many people watch movies in the city, and a movie ticket costs at least 10 or 15 yuan. Here, it’s 50 cents during the day and 1 yuan at night. It’s as cheap as free. Isn’t this worth it?

Almost everyone who has visited Jiangjia Village has a good impression of this place.

However, there is still a shortcoming, that is, the dry toilets in the countryside.

Jiang Guotai originally ignored this point, but after the tourists gave feedback, he immediately asked the village's best bricklayer, that is, Uncle Jiang's family, to build six public toilets in Jiangjia Village.

One is next to the brigade headquarters, which is at the end of the village. It is directly modeled after the toilets in the city. It has a squat toilet with a separate cubicle and a flush tank. Not to mention the walls, even the floor of the toilet is neatly paved with large tiles. Each toilet has 20 single rooms.

After the toilets were built, for a while, the villagers stopped using their own toilets and came to visit the toilets next to the brigade headquarters.

It was this toilet that was built. It was more beautiful than many people's houses nowadays, and the materials used were good: "This doesn't look like a toilet at all. People would believe it if it was someone's mansion!" "

Guotai is really rich. The toilet is better than other people's houses."

Many people in the village were jealous.

They all knew that Jiang Guotai had made a fortune, but they didn't know he was so rich!

It would cost at least 20,000 to 30,000 yuan to build these six toilets. It

cost 20,000 to 30,000 yuan just to build a toilet. They really couldn't even imagine it.

After the first toilet was built, a large public toilet like this was built in the center of the village, next to the cinema, and then at the head of the village and on the mountainside.

This is for many people who like to climb mountains and pick tea on the mountain. Otherwise, they can't just find an empty place on the mountain to relieve themselves when they feel the urge, as they did before.

In the past, there were few people on the mountain, so this solution was OK. Now that there are more people on the mountain, this is no longer acceptable.

In addition, there are beaches and piers.

The toilet on the beach was built last, mainly because the beach has not been built yet.

There is a small island not far from the bank of the Shahe dam. Jiang Guotai built the leisure villa on this small island and fully developed it.

The artificial beach that Jiang Liu mentioned was built on this island with less than 500 acres of land, which is very close to the Linhe Brigade. At the same time, some large-scale amusement facilities suitable for children were also prepared.

From then on, the dry toilets in the whole village were left idle, and all the villagers went to the public toilet built by Jiang Guotai. With

more people going there, the sanitary conditions could not be guaranteed, especially for the locals who were born and raised there, who still had the habit of doing it anywhere. After a short time, Jiang Guotai found that it was not working, so he invited the lonely elderly people in the village to clean the toilets every day and serve as the director of the public toilets. It was also very simple to go to the public toilets to relieve oneself, 1 cent for urination and 2 cents for large discharge, and it was free for tourists.

At one time, many people wanted to abandon their own dry toilets, because the elders of the village were blocking the door of the toilet, and they could not force their way in. They were reluctant to spend a few cents, so they did not go to the public toilets. The public toilets were cleaned up a lot, and the lonely elderly in the village also had a stable income.

And all this excitement was from the second and third rooms, the first and fourth rooms, except for a few families who took such a bonus, the rest of the people, all watched the second and third rooms happily making money, but they seemed to be excluded and felt very uncomfortable. So, after the National Day holiday, they went to the village head's house and asked why the tea tree varieties had not been harvested, especially the first room, who made the loudest noise.

Jiang Guotai has been so busy this year that he has no time to take care of them. He is also unhappy with the attitude of the people in the first house, saying that last year they bought tea seeds for their own tea fields and also bought tea for the second and third houses. This year, the money for inviting experts and professors, their travel expenses, food and accommodation, and the travel expenses of Jiang Xin and others to invite experts and professors, etc., all have to be paid by the people in the first and fourth houses.

The people in the fourth house have always been silent like quails, and the people in the first house don't do anything. Why should they pay more than the people in the second and third houses?

Jiang Guotai was very single, "If you want to divide, then divide. If you don't want to divide, forget it. Last year, I asked you to divide together, but you all thought that I, Jiang Guotai, was going to take advantage of you. You are so tactless! This year, you two, the first and fourth wives, can divide the tea land among yourselves. It doesn't make sense for me, Jiang Guotai, to pay for you, right?"

Jiang Guotai's temper was getting stronger now. He would spend the money he should spend, but he would not spend a penny of the money that was taken advantage of by him.

The people in the first and fourth wives had no way to deal with him, and they couldn't afford to offend him.

The people of the fourth house didn't say anything. Jiang Guotai and Village Chief Jiang said to pay, and they also thought they should pay, so they paid.

The people of the first house were also afraid of Jiang Guotai. They knew that Jiang Guotai was as shrewd as a devil. They wanted to take advantage of Jiang Guotai, thinking that he made so much money and such a big boss would not care about such a small amount of money. Who knew that he was so greedy that he was unwilling to let them take advantage of such a small amount.

The second and third wives, on the other hand, only realized at this time that although the money for hiring experts to buy tea seeds last year came from the public, Jiang Guotai paid for Jiang Xin's running around to hire experts and other efforts, and he hadn't said anything to the second and third wives. Now they heard about the extra money paid by the first and fourth wives. Although the money was not much, it was still money, so they naturally knew that Jiang Guotai was taking care of the second and third wives.

So Jiang Guotai only spent a little more money, but he tied the second and third wives to him more closely. The first and fourth wives were not a monolithic group. Seeing that Jiang Guotai could bring them benefits, they followed Jiang Guotai closely with all their strength, and did whatever Jiang Guotai said.

After all, following Jiang Guotai meant they could eat meat, and they were not fools. They knew who had brought about the changes in their hometown.

Yes, the idea was from Jiang Xi, and the CCTV people were hired by Jiang Xi, but without Jiang Guotai's initiative, financial resources, and courage, Jiangjia Village would still be the poor and backward village it was last year. It would not be like what it is now, suddenly becoming the first village in the surrounding area, as if it had formed a fortress with the surrounding villages, and developing rapidly.

Let's not talk about anything else, just say that it was the first village to have a cement road throughout the village. If you tell others about it, who in Jiangjia Village would not be proud and hold their heads high in front of people from other villages?

At the same time, while the people from the first and fourth houses were busy cleaning up the mountain, Jiang Guotai also hired many people to clean up the mountain and temples of the real "Wugong Mountain".

The terrain of Wugong Mountain is also very peculiar. It is very high in altitude. The five highest peaks are shaped like a human palm, somewhat like the Five Fingers Mountain in Journey to the West. From a distance, they look like the five fingers of an immortal, standing tall in the mist.

Among them, the three peaks in the middle are the highest. The temple of Wugong Mountain is located on the highest peak.

Jiang Guotai did not intend to move the highest peak, but invited experts to inspect the land to see where it is suitable for growing tea. He planned to plant tea in the real "Wugong Mountain". In the future, this will be the real "Wugong Tea".

The peaks are too high and are actually not suitable for growing tea. Among the five peaks, the shortest peaks on both sides are more suitable for growing tea, so Jiang Guotai focused on hiring people to clean up these two peaks.

As for the renovation of the temples in Wugong Mountain, it was secondary. After all, there were people inside. The main thing was that the mountain roads needed to be renovated and developed. This was really not a small amount of money. Now in the entire Wujiang City, and even in the neighboring cities, there was really no one else except Jiang Guotai who was rich and generous and willing to spend money to build his hometown.

This was a huge investment that no one would be willing to spend now, but he did it.

Under the guidance of the experts from the Agricultural Bureau, the wolfberries planted

by Jiang Dabo Niang also began to bear fruit. The wolfberries planted by Jiang Dabo Niang and her friends were not seedlings. Seedlings take five or six years to bear fruit, but Jiang Dabo Niang and her friends planted transplanted seedlings, which were also labeled by the professors of the Agricultural College.

Two professors from the Agricultural College simply took their students to stay in Jiangjia Village, specifically observing the wolfberries planted in Jiangjia Village this year and recording various data on their growth.

Since they were transplanted seedlings, they had already borne fruit in the autumn of the first year of planting, but the fruit was not much, and the yield looked similar to that of wild wolfberries.

The professors picked some wild wolfberries and artificially cultivated wolfberries, recorded the data, and took the wolfberries back to test the difference in their nutritional components.

In order to make the local wild wolfberries a local tourism promotion project, Jiang Guotai ordered people to cut down all the deep wormwood on both sides of the embankment, leaving only wolfberries and some ornamental plants suitable for growing on both sides of the embankment.

Wolfberry is a type of plant that needs a lot of sunlight. After all the wild wormwood on both sides of the embankment, which was more than two meters high and deep, was cut down, the amount of wild wolfberry fruit suddenly increased a lot.

Generally speaking, wolfberry trees will enter their peak production period after growing for five or six years. Wolfberry trees that are ten to twenty-five years old will be their golden period for fruiting, and it is also the time when the production is the highest. However, these wild wolfberries have been unattended for a long time, and there are all kinds of weeds and wormwood that compete with them for nutrients and sunlight. Under this premise, these wild wolfberries are in the golden period of fruiting. The fruits are like small red lanterns, hanging on the branches, with strings of bright red fruits, and their vitality is very tenacious.

After the wormwood that blocked their sunlight was cut down and the surrounding weeds that competed with them for nutrients were cleared away, these wild wolfberry trees, which were tenacious and in the golden period of fruiting, began their era of wild growth. The experts who came to guide Aunt Jiang and others in planting wolfberry trees directed the aunts and daughters-in-law in the village to insert bamboo poles next to these wild wolfberry trees and use thin wires to make the paper strips that originally hung on the ground grow upwards. In this way, by next year, these wild wolfberries will probably enter a new round of crazy growth.

Jiang Guotai did not let them work for nothing. He paid them 15 yuan per person per day and asked them to follow the experts' advice and put up racks for all the wild wolfberry trees and move the branches onto the bamboo racks to give them more space and sunlight to grow.

All these wild wolfberries can be picked for free by tourists, but the premise is that the wolfberry branches cannot be damaged. Breaking the branches will result in a fine. For this reason, a sign is inserted next to each wolfberry tree to protect the seedlings.

The taste of fresh wolfberries is actually average, with only a slight sweetness, which is incomparable to the sweet fruits. However, the sign next to them boasts about the nutritional value of wolfberries, saying that they can "produce body fluids and quench thirst, improve sperm quality and improve eyesight." Jiang Guotai does not expect to make any money from these things, but they are just a way to retain tourists, just like picking mulberries for free.

In fact, the whole Jiangjia Village is making money this year, and he is the only one who is losing money.

Perhaps it cannot be said that it is losing money, but rather that it is an investment in construction. This investment is long-term and cannot be recovered immediately in the short term.

Jiang Guotai was really grateful to Jiang Xi for this. If she hadn't suggested to him to lay out the sand factory in advance, he would not have had so much money to develop the economy of his hometown and bid for projects in neighboring cities and even larger markets.

In particular, the timing of his choice to contract the sand factory was so clever. It happened to be during the flood in 1998. At any other time, he would not have been able to monopolize the three large sand factories.

He was ready to eat meat for himself and leave a piece of meat for others. However, because the flood submerged the river sand, the brother-in-law of the city leader came to see the sand factory, but he didn't see anything. He was almost left in the river because of the electric wires on the river. He was so scared that he never came to Shahe to see any sand factories again. This allowed him to swallow up three sand factories that made a lot of money every day.

It is because of these three large sand factories that he has such confidence.

While the construction of Wucheng as a tourist city was in full swing, at the end of September, the movie "The Guard" won the "Best Foreign Language Film Award", "Best Art Director Award", "Best Cinematography Award" and "Best Screenplay Award" at the International Venice Film Festival.

When this news reached China, the entire Chinese film industry was shocked.

It won four awards at one of the most influential international film festivals. Just

like the sudden release of "The Guard" during the Lunar New Year and the sudden promotion, before that, there was no news about "The Guard" participating in the Venice Film Festival, and the news of the sudden award was spread back to China.

All of a sudden, the movie "The King's Guard" became a film that attracted the attention of many Chinese people. At the same time, "The King's Guard" was also released in America, and the box office was rising steadily.

Jiang Qi only learned about this after the news spread to China.

After the movie "The King's Guard" raked in more than 100 million US dollars in box office in America, the global total box office of "The King's Guard" set a record for the highest box office of domestic movies!

Last year, "White Snake" earned 42 million in the domestic box office, which was already the annual box office champion. This year, "The King's Guard" has more than 100 million box office in America alone, which is equivalent to more than 700 million RMB, and this does not include the subsequent income from various VCD discs.

Even if the profits are divided among the various companies, each investor and theater chain can get a revenue of tens of millions to 100 million. Such a high rate of return has shocked and stimulated domestic film companies and investors.

Now, not only the director and leading actors of this movie have doubled their value, countless investors have raised a lot of money to invest in this director's film, and the value of the copyright of Jiang Meng's works has doubled!

Many film companies and TV stations have extended olive branches to Meng Meng, wanting to buy other copyrights of Meng Meng's works. Even the "Star Trek" that no one was interested in originally has many people expressing their desire to buy it. Even if the special effects technology in China cannot produce the special effects of "Star Trek", it doesn't matter. Relying on the reputation of Meng Meng's works, it is possible to make a lot of money.

Originally, Tong Jingang said that Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai had good luck since they were young, and they were naturally lucky. The second generation who bought the movie rights of "The Great Song" didn't believe it. Now, after hearing about the global box office of "The Imperial Guard", their eyes widened.

Looking at the movie rights of "The Great Song" that they bought, and then looking at the box office of "The Imperial Guard", they simply couldn't stop smiling.

Especially after knowing that countless people in the market are holding up a lot of money and want to buy the movie rights and TV rights of other works of Xi Meng, the second generation investors feel like they have picked up a great bargain.

It's not a great bargain. When they bought the copyright of "The Great Song" from Xi Meng, the price was only a few hundred thousand, and now it has increased by more than five or six times.

Moreover, they learned from insiders that the copyright fee of "Star Trek" written by Xiao Meng was nearly eight figures. In comparison, the movie they invested in has not been released yet, but they have made a fortune, right?

So they also inquired about other copyrights written by Xiao Meng, and the news they got was that the copyrights of all the works written by Xiao Meng have been sold out, whether it is TV series copyright, movie copyright, children's drama copyright, animation copyright... Even the movie copyright of "Star Trek", which many people think no one cares about, was bought by one of the largest film companies in the United States at a high price.

As for how high the price is, they did not find out the specific price, but it is said that the price of all the copyrights of Xiao Meng's works added together is higher!

Everyone who heard this news was stunned, how high must it be!

Then someone asked about the TV drama copyright of "Star Trek".

The TV drama copyright of "Star Trek" is available, but Xiao Meng is not selling it.

First of all, Xiao Meng is really not short of money now. The publishing fees of three works alone have brought her more money than she can spend in her lifetime, not to mention the film and television copyright fees of "Star Trek" that she just sold. Although it did not reach the height of eight figures, it was close to eight figures.

Investing in the stock market at this time, although it cannot maximize the benefits like investing before 519, there will still be a 50% return until next year, which is very considerable.

Just like before, she didn't put all her eggs in one basket. Even though she knew which stock had the best growth among all the stocks, she still bought them in a dispersed manner. The high-growth stocks could grow by 300%, and the low-growth stocks could grow by 50%.

This is the overall bull market brought about by national policies. Anyone who has invested in the stock market in the past two years will make a steady profit. Even if her profits are a bit exaggerated, they don't seem to be that noticeable in the big market brought about by national policies.

Of course, this is only in the eyes of those who don't pay attention to her. In the eyes of those who pay attention to her, they only think that the speed at which this little girl makes money is simply terrifying.