Chapter 149 Investigating Suppliers
Spring tea is the best tea of the year.
During the recuperation in winter, tea trees store a large amount of energy and enrich tea polyphenols, amino acids, caffeine and other contained substances. These substances not only make the taste of spring tea more refreshing, but also increase its nutritional value.
Mingqian tea, which is tea picked before Qingming, is the best spring tea. The second is Qianyu tea, which is picked before Grain Rain.
Mingqian tea is a treasure, and Yuqian tea is top quality. The later the tea leaves are, the worse the quality and the cheaper the price.
Of course, some deeply fermented teas, such as black tea, are picked in other seasons, such as summer, autumn, and winter, and the quality varies. Although there are also higher quality summer teas and winter teas, they are definitely not the same as spring teas. Comparable to tea.
In addition to good quality, spring tea also has less pesticide pollution. Because winter has just passed, spring is cold and the pests have not yet risen. Tea farmers often start spraying pesticides after picking the pre-rain tea.
The picking time of spring tea is short, only about three weeks from a few days before Qingming to Grain Rain, so the output of spring tea is small and the price is relatively high.
At the end of March, when the Mingqian tea picking started, Li Xiang drove a luxury SUV and took Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui to a tea house about 60 kilometers away.
That place has a long history of growing tea, dating back more than 3,000 years. It is the main tea-producing area in Sichuan Province and is known as a green ecological tea area. In addition to bamboo shoots, tea is also one of the specialties of Li Xiang's hometown.
There is also some wild green tea on the mountain behind his house, but the quantity is not large. If you want to buy good tea and purchase large quantities, you still have to go to the authentic production area.
That's the next county over.
Even in the same county, tea is grown in some places and not in others.
At Li Xiang's suggestion, Lei Xiaohui put on a camouflage outfit for this trip, and the three women also wore sunglasses. Although they had not yet obtained their driver's licenses, Lei Xiaohui stood behind, and there was already a female bodyguard. posture.
"Brother, do you want me to get some weapons?" Lei Xiaohui asked with a smile.
"As long as you're not afraid of being caught!" Li Xiang joked.
"Forget it."
In fact, if Lei Xiaohui wants to be equipped with weapons, Li Xiang will be able to satisfy her in a few years. You can equip it with whatever weapons you want, including carrying an anti-aircraft missile.
This time they went to a fairly large tea factory.
This tea factory used to supply Gongfu black tea to the teahouse where Zhao Xueqing worked. In addition to Gongfu black tea, it also produces green tea and Kuding tea.
Kungfu tea, Kungfu black tea and black tea are three different concepts. Kungfu tea mainly refers to a method of making tea, which is popular in Chaoshan area of Guangdong Province. Gongfu black tea is a specific variety of black tea, which is made from tea buds through withering, rolling, fermentation and drying.
Gongfu black tea is divided into large-leaf Gongfu and small-leaf Gongfu. The former is made from the fresh leaves of arbor or semi-arbor tea trees, and the latter is made from the fresh leaves of shrub-type small-leaf tea trees. Large-leaf Gongfu black tea usually has a mellow taste and obvious aroma, while small-leaf Gongfu black tea has a soft taste and light aroma.
As for black tea, it is a broad classification of tea, including Gongfu black tea.
Before Li Xiang and the others came over, they had contacted each other and made an appointment. The other party also checked Li Xiang's information in advance and found out that he was a big V with more than three million fans, and he was also a member of the CPPCC County Committee of the next county, so that boss He paid special attention to them and came out to greet Li Xiang and others in person when they arrived.
"Welcome, Teacher Li, teachers, please."
People in Sichuan and Chongqing, like Qilu, like to call people "teacher". In fact, this name is now popular in many provinces because it is less error-prone and more polite. Of course, Qilu is because of Confucius.
The boss led a group of subordinates and welcomed Li Xiang and the others into the conference room. The guests and hosts were seated, and then a beautiful woman came forward to serve tea.
The aroma of tea overflows.
After the two parties exchanged pleasantries, they began to introduce each other's companies. The tea factory owner also specially prepared a PPT for a beautiful employee to explain. Li Xiang and others listened with great interest and asked questions from time to time, and the other party explained in detail. Overall, the atmosphere is pretty good.
When it was Li Xiang's turn, Li Xiang talked eloquently and boasted a lot. Although his Chinese style teahouse was still under construction and not even the rough parts were completed, it did not prevent him from describing it based on the renderings and introducing it by the way. Check out the Chinese style pub, coffee shop, milk tea shop, etc. He also said that he had reached a cooperation agreement with a coffee estate in Dian Province and purchased a large amount of coffee every year.
Anyway, when you go out, your identity and strength are given by yourself, and others don't know the specific details.
Then he also talked about the charity live broadcast organized by the county government to help farmers a while ago. Yao Yao was very discerning and immediately excitedly introduced Li Xiang's sales performance, which stunned the tea factory owner. I'll go, five days, more than 36 million, awesome! In fact, it's not considered a "bluff". After all, this is a real performance, which can be found through official channels, and it has even been in the news.
Yao Yao: "Boss Chen, if you don't believe it, you can search on our county government's website. It's absolutely true. Brother Xiang never makes lies."
“I believe it, your team is really amazing!” the tea factory owner praised. He was surprised in his heart that Li Xiang owned so many industries besides teahouses. And the sales performance is so strong.
He also wants to find Li Xiang to bring goods. No, the opportunity is right in front of him, so we can talk about it.
When Zhao Xueqing introduced herself, she was the person in charge of this Chinese style teahouse.
Boss Chen had been to the teahouse where Zhao Xueqing worked several times before, and had also admired her long-mouth pot Kung Fu tea intangible cultural heritage performance. He was very impressed at the time and thought that this girl was very skilled, but she was only a waiter at the time. , how come just one year later, I suddenly became the director of a teahouse?
"Teacher Zhao, I haven't seen you for a few months. I didn't expect that you have opened your own teahouse. Congratulations!" said the tea factory owner.
Zhao Xueqing quickly explained: "I don't drive it myself, I work for our boss!" She pointed at Li Xiang.
"That's pretty cool, the person in charge, store manager level." The tea factory owner gave a thumbs up, and then said, "I'm also very grateful to you for recommending my tea to Teacher Li!"
Zhao Xueqing smiled slightly: "Thank you for your praise. I recommend the tea here because of its good quality and reasonable price."
Yao Yao interjected: "Our future volume will be very large, so you have to give us a more favorable price."
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"Definitely."
Without Li Xiang opening his mouth, the three girls started bargaining.
Girls are so good at bargaining. The boss couldn't resist it. He quickly changed the topic and invited Li Xiang and the others to visit the tea making workshop.
"That's what I meant!"
The purpose of Li Xiang's trip was to conduct on-the-spot inspections, firstly, the tea-making workshop, and secondly, the tea mountain.
While walking on the road, Li Xiang asked: "Teacher Chen, can I take pictures in your workshop?"
The owner of the tea factory repeatedly agreed: "Okay, okay, no problem. It would be better if you can help us publicize it."
Yao Yao smiled and said: "We have this business, well, the advertising fee is 200,000 for 60 seconds."
The owner of the tea factory thought for a while and said: "Our tea can be discounted, and your advertising fees can be cheaper. How about resource exchange and win-win cooperation?"
Li Xiang said: "No problem, we will discuss it in detail later." He secretly gave Yao Yao a thumbs up.
When you go out to discuss business, it will be much more convenient to bring three well-spoken girls with you.
Zhao Xueqing frowned slightly, this tea is my business, why are you always interrupting?
Yao Yao noticed it and was secretly proud, thinking, I am here to help enthusiastically, Sister Green Tea, you have to thank me properly.
Zhao Xueqing thought, from now on, I will also follow you in your wine business, and I cannot suffer this loss.
Although this tea factory is not particularly large in scale, the workshop looks quite formal and very clean. There are many large-scale tea-separating and tea-frying equipments, and the workers all wear clean uniforms, hats, and masks. There is also a hair net under the hat to cover the hair to prevent it from falling into the tea leaves.
The owner of the tea factory took Li Xiang and others to visit each process and explained it.
In fact, the process of frying tea is not complicated, nor is it a secret. This county is an authentic tea production area, and many people know it.
But knowing comes knowing, whether it is done meticulously or not, and whether each link is not properly controlled will have a great impact on the quality of the tea.
(End of chapter)