After listening to Mu Zhan's words, Mu Yan sneered.
"You have extended your hand to Lengguo, and you have started a jade business. It seems that you must be short of money." The eldest son of the Duke's Mansion, while thinking about the power in his hand, started a jade business with neighboring countries. Business, have the nerve to talk about him?
Mu Xi tilted his head to the side. In Mu Zhan's business, he also has dry shares.
"You!" Mu Zhan gritted his teeth and stared at Mu Yan.
I didn't expect such a secret business to be discovered by him.
Seeing that the two of them were about to explode, Mu Sheng turned his head and scolded: "What kind of system is it!" A strife started in front of hundreds of thousands of troops? promising!
Mu Yan sneered at the corner of his mouth, but did not speak.
Mu Zhan took a look at Mu Yan, and felt that this cousin who lived in the capital was not ignorant of the situation in Yunnan, and it seemed that the other party had a lot of eyes and ears. Secretly remind myself to be careful in everything, don't miss Xingzang.
Yi Bang, Huo Xi got a good night's sleep, had breakfast in the small courtyard of the inn, strolled around the street, felt the atmosphere of the market, and stepped into the tea horse department.
In the reception hall of Tea Horse Tea, there was already a lot of voices at this time, and the major tea merchants in the Southwest came to meet the appointment.
They are all in the same circle, almost everyone knows each other, even if they don’t know each other, most of them have heard of the name, so the conversation is very lively.
When Huo Xi came in, everyone was quiet, and when Xun Wu revealed his identity, a group of tea merchants left their seats one after another and came forward to say hello.
"I have met Mrs. Shizi."
"Mrs. Shizi has admired her for a long time."
"I have heard about Mrs. Shizi's Guangfengshui for a long time, and I heard that she has won the title of charity merchant from the emperor. I am really amazed. I originally sighed that Mrs. Shizi had been living in the capital and had no chance to see her. I didn't expect to be here. See you."
"Everyone is welcome. It is my honor to meet you all. I just came to see and see the excitement..."
Huo Xi looked around, the people who came were either the heads of the various tea merchants, or the managers of the shopkeepers, there were only men in the water, and she was the only woman.
"Didn't you say that many of us here are women in charge? I thought I would see some heroines from high school girls, but today I am the only one special."
Everyone laughed, "There are many women in charge here, but there is no one like Mrs. Shizi who started from scratch at a young age and created such a big business."
"I'm overwhelmed, I'm overwhelmed. It's all exaggerated by everyone, and it's just enough to make ends meet. After marrying the son, I don't care about it. This time, I also followed the son to appreciate the scenery of the Southwest and walk around."
Everyone greeted each other politely.
Jun Ruoxu, the eldest son of Jun Mingzhang, came to the Jun family. It was the first time for him to see Huo Xi, the wife of the eldest son.
These days, he has seen the confrontation between her and the Jun family. Originally, Abba wanted to run her out of Kunming City, but unexpectedly, the Jun family was almost run out by her to the point of closing down, which made all the merchants in the city see enough jokes.
Huo Xi noticed his gaze, turned to look at him, and nodded to him with a smile.
Jun Ruoxu also smiled and nodded in response.
It's not wrong to say that she is delicate, but this wife of the eldest son has a beautiful face, and there is a sense of heroism between her brows. Such a person should not be in the courtyard of a high gate, be her wife of the eldest son, and socialize with all the wives and ladies , Appreciate singing and dancing, listen to music, talk funny?
Instead, he showed his face and started a business.
Many people are afraid that they are looking forward to changing their identities with her.
But she didn't choose to stay in the backyard to care for her husband and raise her children. What kind of woman is this?
Jun Ruoxu dare not underestimate her.
"It's no wonder Mrs. Shizi can open such a big business, she really is a hero among women!"
"Thank you, thank you. Compared with everyone, I am still far behind. I have never been in contact with this tea business. I will ask for your advice in a while."
"It's easy to say, if there is something unclear about Mrs. Shizi, I will be willing to explain it to you!"
"So, thank you."
All the tea merchants invited by the Tea Horse Division arrived. The ambassador and deputy envoy of the Tea Horse Division heard that Mrs. Shizi was visiting, and rushed to see him.
"Don't be too polite, just treat me as an ordinary tea merchant today."
"yes."
The Tea Horse Office is smaller than the general yamen, and the biggest official is the ambassador, but he is the official rank nine, and the deputy envoy is the second rank. It was merged from the original Chachang Division and Maima Division. Although the biggest official position in it is Zhengjiupin, it has great power.
Specialized in the function of changing tea to horses.
Because the dynasty needed a large number of war horses, the Fan tribes and the surrounding countries and tribes in the southwest also needed horses in exchange for tea and daily necessities, so the court set up several tea and horse departments in the southwest to specialize in the function of exchanging tea for horses .
Usually, he is mainly responsible for purchasing good tea and trading tea for horses. He has set up "markets" and "horse farms" in many places in Yunnan for mutual market transactions and daily management. Tea seeds and tea seedlings were brought to the border.
Because of Huo Xi's presence, the collection of official tea was very smooth, and the price was not lowered.
Tea Ma Division collects 50% of good tea according to regulations, and the rest is brought to the border by tea merchants for self-sale. He didn't even pick the tea leaves that Huo Xi brought.
After the collection of official tea is completed, the next step is the highlight.
Tea Masi is going to sell a batch of low-quality Chinese tea in the warehouse at a low price. All tea merchants are invited to negotiate and purchase.
"Madam Shizi probably doesn't need these anymore."
"No, no, there are good teas in good teas, and bad teas in medium teas also have their advantages." Huo Xi didn't say whether he wanted to buy them or not.
"Haha, Mrs. Shizi is indeed in my generation."
Immediately, the servants of the Tea Horse Division brought out the inferior Chinese tea in the warehouse for bids by various tea merchants.
As soon as the tea was brought in, Huo Xi could smell a smell of stale tea, moldy tea. It is very different from the pleasant tea fragrance of new tea and good tea.
"Ma'am, we don't have to buy these bad teas."
It is expected that the tea horse department would not dare to let Mrs. Shizi take these back as a pawn. Xun Wu went to Huo Xi's side to persuade him, thinking that Huo Xi would be embarrassed to refuse.
"It's okay, let's take a look first."
A group of tea merchants also felt that with Huo Xi's status, they would not want these inferior teas, so they bid one after another.
Huo Xi remained motionless, only staring at the inferior Chinese tea in front of him.
Because the mountain roads in Yunnan are difficult to walk, the tea-horse road is rugged, and transportation is inconvenient, so the tea sold is different from the loose tea in the south of the Yangtze River, and most of them are tight tea.
It is to put loose tea through various processes, put it into molds, and press it into lump tea, tea cakes and tea bricks, which is more convenient for transportation and storage.
And this transaction is also tight tea.
White hairs have appeared on the tea cakes and tea bricks, the tea cakes are loose and smell musty. But in most cases, it is good, and the taste is not unbearably pungent.
"Ma'am, this tea is moldy, can I still have it? Didn't we take advantage of it by buying it back? Don't we buy some moldy tea and let it go?" Vanilla whispered in Huo Xi's ear.