80s Taoism

Zijiang Tea Factory.

A Dongfeng brand truck delivered a load of tea leaves to the tea factory in Zijiang City. The load of tea leaves came from neighboring Shiqihe County, Wuxi City. Fei Zhenglu attached great importance to it and personally received the tea farmers who came to deliver tea.

"Uncle, you've worked hard all the way, how is this year's tea?" Fei Zhenglu asked with concern.

"It's all right. This year's tea harvest is bumper again. Fortunately, you have done a lot for the village. Otherwise, the sales of this tea will be very worrying." Fei Xingyou is very grateful to this nephew.

"Uncle, one family doesn't talk about two families. This is what I can do. Besides, the village can solve a big problem for our factory. As long as the quality of tea is good, the tea factory will be dreaming of it." Fei Zhenglu said.

"Don't worry about it, I told the villagers. When picking tea leaves, you must strictly check, and you can't take a piece of tea that doesn't meet the requirements. When each household handed over the tea leaves, I also checked them carefully. You must not be held back. If you can solve the sale of tea in the village, it is equivalent to saving the whole village. How can the villagers do such ungrateful things?" Fei Xingyou said.

After exchanging pleasantries with Fei Xingyou for a while, Fei Zhenglu arranged Fei Xingyou to the guest house of the tea factory.

Now is the season of tea production, tea factories must seize the time to produce, and quickly digest the tea leaves that are constantly being delivered.

Zijiang Tea Factory is a regular large factory with its own quality inspection and a dedicated tea taster. Before each batch of tea leaves leaves the factory, it has to be tasted by the tea taster.

Tea taster Shen Jinmao has already got the first batch of new tea this year. This batch of tea is commonly known as Mingqian tea. That is, the tea picked before the Ching Ming Festival is less infested by insects, the buds and leaves are tender, the color is green and fragrant, the taste is mellow and the shape is beautiful, and it is the best tea. At the same time, because the temperature before Qingming is generally low, the number of germination is limited, the growth rate is slow, and the yield that can meet the picking standard is very small, so there is a saying that "tea before Ming Dynasty is as expensive as gold". So this batch of tea is also an extremely important batch of tea. What's more, this batch of teas is even more special as they will soon participate in the evaluation of the International Agricultural Expo.

It is not easy to be a highly skilled tea taster. Not only is he a master of tea, but his senses of taste, smell and vision are extremely sensitive, so that he can keenly distinguish the subtle differences in the color and aroma of tea leaves. Shen Jinmao has been doing this for decades, and his knowledge of tea has risen to the level of a craftsman.

But today, after just taking a sip of tea, Shen Jinmao frowned: "Huh? No! This taste is much different from last year's! This is Mingqian tea, not as good as last year's autumn tea!"

Shen Jinmao also felt very strange, there seemed to be no problem with the processing of this year's tea. The color of this tea does not seem to have much problem.

"Go quickly! Call Master Zhou over." Shen Jinmao frowned, and suddenly said to his apprentice Wang Musheng beside him.

Wang Musheng ran out quickly, and after a while, Wang Musheng came over with a middle-aged man. This person is Zhou Xinghai, a master tea maker and director of the production workshop of Zijiang Tea Factory.

"Master Shen, is there something wrong with the tea?" Zhou Xinghai was also a little anxious.

"Come on, try it." Shen Jinmao just made a cup of tea.

Zhou Xinghai took a sip, frowned, and looked at the color of the tea, "It's much worse than last year's tea. But it's similar to our previous tea."

"Is it a problem with the machine?" Shen Jinmao asked.

"This is the first batch of tea. It was all processed by old employees in the factory with last year's machines. How dare you use such good tea to debug new machines? The process is exactly the same as last year. Logically, there shouldn't be such a big gap." Zhou Xinghai shook his head, he also didn't understand.

"Tea! How is the quality of this year's tea?" Shen Jinmao asked.

"It seems to be okay. Before the tea came in, we checked it carefully, and the quality is even better than last year. I heard that this year's tea is even cheaper." Zhou Xinghai said.

"It's a little cheaper. Yes, it seems that last year Lao Zhao bought a large amount of tea at a high price in Xintian County. This year, he was returned by the surname Fei." Shen Jinmao closed his eyes, as if talking to himself, and then opened his eyes suddenly, "Old Zhou, why do you think Lao Zhao bought tea from Xintian County at a high price? People in the factory said that he took kickbacks. I don't believe it. By the way, black tea in bamboo tubes is also from Xintian County, right?"

Zhou Xinghai nodded, "Yes, it is said that Lao Zhao is willing to pay a high price for the tea in Tianxian County just to make the black tea in bamboo tubes stick to the brand of our factory. But now our tea industry has won the national gold medal. It is not worth paying such a high price."

"Do you think Lao Zhao would do such a disadvantageous thing?" Shen Jinmao took out the tea from last year and the year before. After brewing the tea leaves separately, he beckoned Zhou Xinghai to take a look.

"It's not that there is a problem with the tea production this year. The tea this year is similar to the tea from the previous year. The quality is pretty good. But compared to last year's tea, it's far worse. I remember that the taste of our tea suddenly improved a lot last year. At that time, did it happen that Director Zhao brought back the tea from Xintian County?" Shen Jinmao asked.

Zhou Xinghai looked at the date on last year's product and nodded, "Yes, Director Zhao went to the province to participate in the evaluation, and happened to meet people from Xintian County. They took black tea in bamboo tubes to participate in the evaluation. At that time, Director Zhao began to buy tea from Xintian County at a high price."

"Too bad. As soon as the surname Fei came, he tore up the agreement with Xintian County. He also declared that he would no longer receive tea from Xintian County." Shen Jinmao slumped on a chair.

"I heard that Xintian County built a tea factory this year, and invited several retired old masters from our factory to guide the production. Now we are willing to pay a high price, and others may not be willing to sell it to us." Zhou Xinghai said.

"Forget it, this is not something the two of us can do anything about. Report to the factory." Shen Jinmao said.

In the office of the director of the tea factory in Zijiang City, Fei Zhenglu was furious when he got the news: "The quality of the tea has declined? Check! No matter who is involved, we must investigate to the end! Whether it is a problem with the tea or processing, we must find out the problem! Notify it, and the party committee will hold a meeting immediately!"

Soon in the conference room of the tea factory in Zijiang City, the leaders of the tea factory were all gathered in the conference room except for a few business trips. Everyone has serious expressions, and anyone can tell that something big has happened!

"Master Shen, tell me the specific situation." Fei Zhenglu said.

"The quality of tea this year has dropped by one level compared to last year. It may be more than one level." Shen Jinmao said.

"Do you know what caused it?" Fei Zhenglu suppressed his anger.

Shen Jinmao glanced at Fei Zhenglu and sighed, "I discussed it with Master Zhou. The preliminary conclusion is that the problem is not in the processing workshop, but in the tea leaves."

"Tea?" Fei Zhenglu glanced at Shen Jinmao, always feeling that Shen Jinmao's sighing eyes just now were a little strange.

"It's about the tea." Zhou Xinghai said.

"Master Zhou, why are you so sure that there is something wrong with the tea?" Fei Zhenglu began to suspect that Zhou Xinghai had shirked his responsibility.

"Master Shen and I just compared this year's tea with last year's and the year before last's. We found that although the quality of this year's tea has dropped compared with last year's, it is basically the same or even slightly improved compared with the previous year. But compared with last year's tea, the quality is at least one grade lower. It is even said that this year's Mingqian tea is not as good as last year's autumn tea." Zhou Xinghai said.

"How is it possible?" Fei Zhenglu was no layman. How could Mingqian tea be inferior to autumn tea!

"Indeed." Shen Jinmao nodded, "We analyzed the reasons. It turned out that our tea from last year was not too sure when it was judged in the province. But in the second half of the year, we successfully won the gold medal at the National Agricultural Expo. We even got the opportunity to go abroad to participate in the evaluation. The quality of our tea last year had a qualitative improvement in the second half of the year."

"What's the reason?" Fei Zhenglu felt that the situation was not good, as if he had done something wrong. These two old fellows are trying to keep things secret. Lead yourself into the abyss step by step.

"Tea. Last year, there was a tea variety in our city that won the Gold Medal of the National Agricultural Expo. It has something to do with us. Black tea in bamboo tubes once had our trademark on it. I heard that Director Zhao agreed to harvest tea from Xintian County at a high price in order to have black tea in bamboo tubes stick to our trademark. Now there are signs that the quality of our tea has been upgraded to a higher level because of that batch of tea. The reason why Director Zhao is willing to buy tea from Xintian County at a high price is precisely because of the quality of the tea in Xintian County." uncovered.

Fei Zhenglu felt as if his face was being slapped. The first fire he made when he came to power was to tear up the agreement with Xintian County, which made him proud, and he did it extremely beautifully. Now it seems that it is indeed the biggest failure in his life. If this move directly caused the tea factory to suffer huge losses, his prestige in the tea factory would drop to the bottom all of a sudden.

In fact, the reason why Zhao Jinyuan was inexplicably transferred from the tea factory was precisely because someone reported that Zhao Jinyuan used his power for personal gain and bought tea from a certain county at a price that exceeded the market price, which caused the tea factory to suffer losses. In addition, on the issue of OEM black tea in bamboo tubes, some people think that Zhao Jinyuan took advantage of it. It is believed that affixing the trademark of the tea factory to the black tea in a bamboo tube has seriously damaged the interests of the tea factory. It is the tea factory that not only did not benefit from OEM black tea in bamboo tubes, but also had to pay an inexplicable price for it. If it wasn't because Zhao Jinyuan's achievements last year were too dazzling, so he didn't deal with it, but was transferred out of the post in a low-key manner.

The conference room was dead silent all of a sudden, Fei Zhenglu's face was livid, and he stared at Shen Jinmao with staring eyes. Shen Jinmao didn't tell him about this in advance, but chose to lead him to the cliff step by step during the meeting, and finally drove him to a desperate situation. But he has nothing to do with Shen Jinmao.

"The meeting is adjourned!" Fei Zhenglu stood up and left the conference room angrily.