Chapter 357 Preparing to Open a Branch

Following Shen Xiangwan's suggestion, Zhao Dashan personally took his eldest son and two nephews to the county town the next day, preparing to visit various restaurants and food stores one by one to reach a cooperation intention with them. Everyone has witnessed how well their braised offal and pork ribs sold last year, and almost all restaurants and food stores have signed contracts with them.

A few days later, the Zhao family's pork processing workshop was operational again. According to the total amount of offal and bones needed by the county, they temporarily only slaughtered twenty pigs a day. In order to slaughter more pigs, the young people soon took the prepared braised offal and sauced pork bones to other counties to develop the market.

"Madam, can't you sell more wine every day? Those rich people are almost eating me up."

In the main hall of the Wei family, Cheng Yusheng, who had taken time out from the county town, asked with a sad face, the special effects of wine have spread, and those rich people are almost crazy, buying dozens or hundreds of bottles at a time, and a thousand bottles are not enough. In order to buy wine, servants from each household have started queuing outside the winery in the middle of the night, especially those who came from the provincial capital and other counties. They simply didn't stay in the inn and slept on the floor outside the winery. This has almost become the most unique landscape in the county, and the Wei's Winery has become more famous because of it!
"What are you afraid of? Just ignore them."

Shen Xiangwan couldn't help but laugh. It seemed that those people were indeed crazy. Otherwise, how could they force him, who was always calm and composed, into such a situation?

"Ma'am, could you please be a little more sincere?"

He is the shopkeeper and has been in the shop almost every day recently. Those wealthy customers have come to visit him, and he can't just chase them out, right?
"Okay, even if I give you a thousand more bottles, you still won't have enough to sell. The reason they're buying so much now is because they're afraid we'll run out of stock again, so they're buying them to stockpile. As long as we keep having stock, they'll have enough in stock, so this shouldn't be the case."

Moreover, she wanted this kind of hunger marketing momentum, so how could she sell it freely? The rarer the things are, the more expensive they are, and the same is true for wine.

"Ma'am, you are wrong this time."

Cheng Yusheng shook off his previous depressed look and said seriously, "In the past few days, there have been customers from other states who came to inquire about wine. As long as our wine continues to be so good, business will only get better and better, and will not be weak."

Not to mention wine, even sorghum wine is not sold openly in Chenzhou. Otherwise, he would have suggested his wife to open branches in other cities. By then, their income would be even more substantial. Not only will the Second Master not be short of money in the future, he will probably have more than enough to spend.

"is it?"

Raising her eyebrows, Shen Xiangwan picked up the teacup and lowered her eyes to ponder. Her white and delicate fingers twisted the cup lid and shook the floating camellia flowers. She would not hesitate to make money from the rich. If the reputation of the wine had really spread to other states, maybe she should really consider increasing production? Making more wine?
Probably guessing what she was thinking about, Cheng Yusheng did not disturb her. He just sat there silently drinking tea. This was also one of the reasons why he came back today.

"I will set up a wine workshop someday. In addition, I will expand the sorghum wine workshop again. When the new wine is brewed, it will be sold freely in Chenzhou. For other prefectures, the quantity must be appropriately limited. We will discuss it then."

After a moment, Shen Xiangwan put down the teacup and said slowly that since the reputation of the wine has spread to other provinces, there is no need to engage in hunger marketing in Chenzhou anymore. Their attention should be focused on other provinces.

Hearing this, Cheng Yusheng suggested at the right time: "Madam, why don't we send people to open a branch in the nearby Mingzhou and Jiaozhou?"

Since the scale of the sorghum wine workshop is to be expanded, opening branches can also be put on the agenda.

"Well... OK, you decide."

Shen Xiangwan agreed after a moment's thought. If they wanted to expand into other states, they should indeed have their own shops, otherwise they would have to find other wine merchants to cooperate with. Wine was fine, she wouldn't mind selling it to the wine merchants at a higher price, after all, the real rich families had plenty of money. But once the price of sorghum wine went up, the common people would not be able to drink it.

"Yes."

Cheng Yusheng did not refuse and agreed immediately. Then the two of them discussed some details. Half an hour later, he said goodbye and left.

Wei's house, study. "Send it out as soon as possible."

Wei Chengyi handed a letter to the guards. Two days ago, unable to withstand the fierce attack of the Binzhou army, the rebels had abandoned the occupied city and retreated to another city. Currently, the two sides are temporarily in a truce, but the rebels' disadvantage is still obvious. All they can do is try their best to help them defend the remaining cities and delay the time of defeat as much as possible.

"Yes."

After taking the sealed letter, the guard bowed and left.

"Second Master, regarding the Imperial Envoy's arrival in the capital, we..."

"Cheng Yi!"

Yuan Shu, who was waiting nearby, was about to continue discussing the matter of the prefectural capital with him when Shen Xiangwan's voice suddenly rang out: "Did I disturb you?"

"No."

Looking up at her, Wei Chengyi curled the corners of his lips slightly. She would never disturb them at any time.

"What are you talking about?"

Walking over and sitting next to him, Shen Xiangwan asked casually.

"What else can I say? It's just about the things going on in the capital."

Leaning back in his chair, Yuan Shu continued, "You also know that the imperial envoy we got has already arrived in the city. In order to deal with the bunch of corrupt officials in the government office openly, we secretly had people spread the news. Unfortunately, the people who have been oppressed for many years don't believe that the imperial envoy can make decisions for them, and no one has sued those officials. We are discussing whether to expose all the corrupt officials who have enough evidence and let the imperial envoy ask the military to come forward and deal with those people in public, so that the people can see with their own eyes that he can really make decisions for them, just like in Datong County back then. As long as one person stands up to sue those corrupt officials, there will be a steady stream of victims speaking out."

It’s not that they haven’t thought about having someone pretend to be a victim, but fake is still fake and will not stand up to scrutiny. If the officials notice anything, it would be a waste of such a good situation.

“That’s not necessary.”

Shen Xiangwan looked at them with some doubt, and further said in response to their puzzled eyes: "Have you forgotten that when the Western Hu people broke through the pass, those dog officials threatened to close the city gates and completely ignored the lives of the people? Since it is not easy to start with the government office, why not start with the county offices first, and let the military directly come forward to argue with the imperial envoy. By then, those people in the government office will be unable to cover up. Whoever dares to come forward to protect the people in the county office will be investigated by the imperial envoy. The military can also assist generously. Maybe we can take advantage of the situation to completely disintegrate them from bottom to top?"

Moreover, with the strong and open support of the military, even if someone wants to interfere, they have to think carefully first. The greater the freedom of the imperial envoy, the more things they can do, and the shorter the time it will take to take over the remaining power in Chenzhou. It also won't give people any reason to criticize them and let people take advantage of them to create trouble among the people. This is why they have to go to the trouble of sending an imperial envoy.

Of course, the most important reason for her suggestion was that the crops in the fields would mature by June at the latest, and the potatoes could be harvested around the middle of next month. They had to seize power in the shortest possible time to mobilize all the people in Chenzhou to plant the second season's crops and completely solve their problem of not having enough food.

【End of this chapter】

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