Zijiang Tea Factory.

A Dongfeng truck sent a truck of tea to Zijiang Tea Factory 27. This truck came from the adjacent Shiqihe County, Wuxi City. Fei Zheng Road attached great importance to it and personally received the tea farmers who came to deliver tea.

"Uncle, I have worked hard all the way. How is the tea this year?" Fei Zhenglu asked with concern.

"It's okay. This year's tea has a great harvest. Fortunately, you have made great efforts for the village. Otherwise, the sales of this tea will be so worrying." Fei Xingyou was very grateful to his cousin.

"Uncle, I can do it if my family doesn't say two words. Besides, the village can solve the big problem for our factory. As long as the quality of the tea is good, the tea factory will never be able to ask for it." Fei Zhenglu said.

"Don't worry, I told the villagers that you must strictly check when picking tea. You must not ask for any tea that does not meet the requirements. When each household handed over the tea, I also carefully checked it. You must not hold you back. If you can solve the sales of tea in the village, it is equivalent to saving the whole village's old and young. How can the villagers do that kind of ungrateful things?" Fei Xingyou said.

Fei Zhenglu greeted Fei Xingyou for a while, and then arranged Fei Xingyou to the guesthouse of the tea factory.

Now is the season for tea production, and tea factories must seize the time to produce and quickly digest the tea that is constantly being sent.

Zijiang Tea Factory is a regular large factory with its own quality inspection and a specialized tea tasting maker. Before each batch of tea leaves, it must be tasted by the tea tasting maker.

Tea tasting master Shen Jinmao has obtained the first batch of new tea this year. This batch of tea is commonly known as the tea before the Qingming Festival. That is, the tea leaves picked before the Qingming Festival are less invaded by insects, with delicate buds and leaves, green and fragrant, and mellow taste, and beautiful shape. It is a good product among tea. At the same time, because the temperature before the Qingming Festival is generally low, the number of germination is limited, the growth rate is slow, and the yield that can meet the picking standards is very small, so there is also a saying that "the tea before the Ming Dynasty is as expensive as gold". Therefore, this batch of tea is also an extremely important batch of tea. Moreover, it is about to participate in the International Agricultural Expo evaluation, and the significance of this batch of tea is even more special.

A skilled tea tasting chef is very not simple. Not only a master in tea, but also extremely sensitive in taste, smell and vision, so that he can keenly distinguish the nuances of the color, fragrance and taste of tea. Shen Jinmao has been working on this for decades, and his understanding of tea has risen to the level of craftsmanship.

But today, just sipped the tea, Shen Jinmao frowned: "Hmm? No! This taste is much different from last year's! This is still the tea before the Ming Dynasty, not as good as the autumn tea last year!"

Shen Jinmao also felt very strange. There seemed to be no problem with the processing of tea this year. The color of the tea does not seem to be too bad.

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

Wang Musheng hurriedly ran out. Not long after, Wang Musheng came over with a middle-aged man. This person was Zhou Xinghai, a tea master of Zijiang Tea Factory and director of the production workshop.

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

"Come on, try it." Shen Jinmao had 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 the tea leaves last year. But it's similar to the tea leaves we used to."

"Is it a machine problem?" Chen Jinmao asked.

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

"Tea! How is the quality of tea this year?" Chen Jinmao asked.

"It seems to be OK. Before the tea comes in, we carefully checked it, and the quality is even better than last year. I heard that the tea this year is a little cheaper." Zhou Xinghai said.

"It's a little cheaper. Yes, it seems that Lao Zhao collected a large amount of tea in Xintian County at a high price last year. This year, the one with the surname Fei was refunded." Chen Jinmao closed his eyes, as if he was talking to himself, and then suddenly opened his eyes, "Lao Zhou, why did Lao Zhao buy tea in Xintian County at a high price? The factory people said that he had taken the kickback. I don't believe it. By the way, the bamboo tube black tea is also from Xintian County, right?"

Zhou Xinghai nodded, "Yes, it is said that Lao Zhao was willing to pay high prices to collect tea from Xintian County in order to make the bamboo black tea sticker in our factory. But now our tea industry has won the national gold medal. It is not worth it to pay such a big price."

"Do you think Lao Zhao can do such a loss?" Chen Jinmao took out the tea from last year, the previous year, made the tea separately, and then waved Zhou Xinghai to see it.

"It's not that there is a problem with the production of tea this year. This year's tea is similar to the tea two years ago. The quality is quite good. But compared with the tea last year, it's much worse. I remember that our tea taste suddenly improved a lot last year. At that time, was it just happened that Director Zhao got the tea back from Xintian County?" Chen Jinmao asked.

Zhou Xinghai looked at the date of the product last year and nodded, "Yes, Director Zhao went to the province to participate in the evaluation, and happened to meet people from Xintian County. They took bamboo tube black tea to participate in the evaluation. It was at that time that Director Zhao began to purchase tea from Xintian County at a high price."

"Oh no. When the Fei surnamed came, he tore up the agreement with Xintian County. He also said that he would no longer collect tea from Xintian County." Chen Jinmao sat on the chair.

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

"Forget it, this is not something that both of us can do. Report to the factory." Chen Jinmao said.

In the office of the director of the Zijiang Tea Factory, Fei Zhenglu was furious when he received the news: "The quality of tea has declined? Check it! No matter who is involved, you must check it to the end! Whether it is a problem with the tea or a problem in processing, you must find out the problem! If you inform it, the Party Committee will hold a meeting immediately!"

Soon in the conference room of Zijiang Tea Factory, the leaders of the tea factory were all gathered in the conference room except for some business trips. They all looked serious, and anyone could see that something big happened!

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

"This year's tea quality has dropped by one level compared to last year. It may be more than one level," said Chen Jinmao.

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

Chen 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."

"Tea?" Fei Zhenglu glanced at Chen Jinmao, and always felt that Chen Jinmao's sighing eyes were a little strange.

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

"Master Zhou, why are you so sure that there is something wrong with the tea?" Fei Zhenglu began to doubt that it was Zhou Xinghai who shook off his responsibility.

"Master Shen and I just compared this year's tea with last year and the tea from the previous year. We found that although the quality of this year's tea has decreased compared to last year, it is basically the same as the previous year's tea, and it has even improved slightly. However, compared with last year's tea, the quality is at least one level worse. Even said that this year's Mingqian tea is not as good as last year's autumn tea." Zhou Xinghai said.

"How is that possible?" Fei Zhenglu is not an amateur. How could Mingqian tea be worse than Qiucha!

"It's true." Chen Jinmao nodded, "We analyzed the reasons. It turned out that our tea last year was not very sure when we participated in the provincial evaluation. However, in the second half of the year, we successfully won the National Agricultural Expo Gold Award and even got the opportunity to participate in the evaluation abroad. The quality of our tea last year has improved qualitatively in the second half of the year."

"What's the reason?" Fei Zhenglu felt that the situation was not good, and seemed to have done something wrong. But these two old guys deliberately kept it insincerely and led himself to the abyss step by step.

"Tea. Last year, there was another tea variety in our city that won the Gold Award at the National Agricultural Expo. It also had something to do with us. Bamboo Black Tea, and we once posted our trademark. I heard that Director Zhao also agreed to harvest tea from Xintian County at a high price in order to make Bamboo Black Tea stick our trademark. Now there are signs that the reason why our factory's tea quality has increased by a higher level is that of that batch of tea. The reason why Director Zhao was willing to purchase tea from Xintian County at a high price was because of the quality of Xintian County tea." Chen Jinmao suddenly revealed the answer.

Fei Zhenglu seemed to feel his face being slapped. The first thing he made when he came to the stage was to tear up the agreement with Xintian County, which made him proud and did a very beautiful job. Now it seems that he is indeed the biggest failure in his life. If this move directly causes huge losses to the tea factory, his power in the tea factory will suddenly fall to the bottom.

In fact, the reason why Zhao Jinyuan was transferred from the tea factory inexplicably was because some people reported that Zhao Jinyuan used his power to seek personal gain and purchased tea from a county at a price exceeding the market price, which caused the tea factory to suffer losses. In addition, in the issue of bamboo tube black tea private label, some people believe that Zhao Jinyuan has received benefits. He believes that the trademark of bamboo tube black tea private label has seriously damaged the interests of the tea factory. It is because the tea factory not only did not benefit from bamboo tube black tea private label, but instead had to pay an inexplicable price for this. If it were not because Zhao Jinyuan's achievements last year were too dazzling, he did not deal with it, but was transferred from his post in a low-key manner.

The conference room was silent all of a sudden. Fei Zhenglu's face turned pale and he stared at Chen Jinmao with his eyes. Chen Jinmao did not tell him about this in advance, but chose to lead him to the cliff step by step at the meeting, and finally forced him to a desperate situation. But he had no choice but to deal with Chen Jinmao.

"After meeting!" Fei Zhenglu said that, he stood up and left the conference room angrily. (To be continued.)
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