Forced to be a concubine, I went to my husband's place to become a wealthy merchant

Chapter 204

In order to make it convenient for those noble people, Ye Xi even sought cooperation with the owner of the shop next to his own.

Ask the other party to set aside some space to sell bowls, tea sets and the like.

In this way, those nobles could just buy bowls nearby to hold the tea she sold and satisfy their taboos.

The main purpose of brewing tea is actually for tasting.

However, the free amount is small, and the amount that can be purchased is large. The people who come to drink for free are just for the publicity.

Her main target was not ordinary people, nor the nobles in the capital, but the foreign merchants who came from afar.

Most of the places where the Hu merchants live are dominated by animal husbandry. They will get sick of eating too much meat, so in order to relieve the sickness, they like to drink tea.

She believes that people will find tea boring if they drink too much of it.

If some tea with special flavor comes into their view, it may add some fun.

Ye Xi's shop had been open for three months and was slowly becoming famous in Beijing, not because of its good sales, but because people scolded the boss for being too stupid.

Even Wei Jue had heard the related rumors. He was curious about what Ye Xi was doing, so he secretly asked Xue Jiu to buy him a bowl of tea.

After drinking it, I found it really delicious, especially the sour and sweet taste.

The sweetness might be due to the addition of sugar, but he didn’t understand where the sourness came from.

The acid in tea is actually lemon, but it was called citron at that time.

This was discovered by Ye Xi by accident. She didn't expect that lemons also existed in ancient times.

However, it is not widely known, and many people are not even aware of its powerful effects.

When she was in Yuezhou before, she saw someone bringing it back from Lingnan, so she bought some and soaked it in water to drink. The taste is a bit hard to describe.

She guessed that lemons in later generations were probably improved, so she spent a long time thinking about it before making the dried lemon slices here and matching the dosage.

Make the tea have a little sour taste but not too unpalatable.

So when she decided to sell tea, she sent someone to the south to sign a long-term contract with the production area.

In order to facilitate transportation, she asked the villagers to slice the citron and dry it before packing and transporting it to the capital as one of her tea-making ingredients.

Wei Jue felt that Ye Xi did not know how to do business. If such a good tea was not quickly captured in the market, it would soon be imitated or even surpassed by others, thus becoming a wedding dress for others.

However, he did not want to remind Ye Xi, and thought it was good to let her learn a lesson, otherwise she would think that a little girl like her could really make a name for herself.

What he didn't know was that during the time when Ye Xi was being ridiculed, she had won the cooperation of several Hu merchants.

In order to monopolize the cooperation with Hu merchants, she even made them unite and sign a ten-year cooperation agreement with her.

During the cooperation period, the price will be kept lower than the market price, and the extent of the lower price will be coordinated once a year.

Later, when others discovered this business opportunity, the largest market of Hu merchants had already been lost.

Due to the fame of Zhi Teahouse, most of the market outside of Hu merchants only recognize Zhi Teahouse, but that is a story for later.

There was no shortage of tea drinks in the market at that time, but most people drank them while sitting in shops to rest.

Even if the boss mixes up the flavors, it is only sporadic business. It is rare to find someone like Ye Xi who starts out by selling tea bags, so Ye Xi has the upper hand in terms of sales format.

Ye Xi discovered a capable assistant and specially selected a young man who sold himself into slavery because of his family's decline from among the slaves who had signed the death indenture. The man was called Fang Xian.

When Ye Xi discovered him, she felt it was a pity that a person of his character was demoted to a slave.

Because he sold himself as a slave, his master gave him another name, and Ye Xi gave him the right to use his original name again.

She asked Fang Xian to take charge of the teahouse while she herself was working on another section.

That section was a bit tricky and she had difficulty making any progress.

Just when she was at a loss, she met an old friend who helped her solve the problem.