Royal Gold Magistrate

After some small twists and turns, the court meeting returned to normal.

After the court meeting was over, Guo Tianyang squinted his eyes and approached Fang Zhengyi with a mysterious expression.

"My dear brother, Your Majesty summoned me to meet you in the Imperial Study Room."

"Oh, thank you, Brother Guo!" Fangzheng took out a bank note and stuffed it into Guo Tianyang's cuff without anyone noticing it.

Guo Tianyang nodded in satisfaction, and said in a low voice, "Maybe he asked some questions about tea."

"okay."

Seeing the back of Fangzheng leaving, Guo Tianyang couldn't help feeling a little depressed.

Apart from being cheap, this kid is very kind, but why is he so ignorant sometimes?

Do you have to ask us to accept the godson in person?

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After entering the imperial study, Emperor Jing had already set up a seat indoors.

As soon as Fangzheng arrived, he said directly, "There is no need to be formal, just sit down."

Seeing this, Fangzheng became happy. It seems that there should be nothing wrong today.

Emperor Jing was reviewing the memorial, without raising his head, he said, "Tell me, how did you hit that Zhang Chang?"

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"Why did Your Majesty say that?" Fangzheng became vigilant, did he send someone to follow me?

Emperor Jing sneered: "Heh, don't I know what kind of person you Fang Zhengyi are? Quarrels? What good fruits can someone who has a spat with you have?"

Fangzheng laughed twice... Depending on the situation, the boss is trying to cover me up.

"I'm ashamed, I just had a brief discussion... I didn't hit hard, and I even asked him to take a bath after beating me."

Emperor Jing raised his head slowly, and pointed at Fang Zhengyi with a brush: "Zhang Chang is the son of the Minister of the Household Department, you don't know it?"

"The capital city is different from Taoyuan County. Don't be reckless in the future. You'll be bluffing all day long. You don't look like a minister!"

Seeing that the boss was concerned, Fangzheng smiled shyly: "Why is Your Majesty looking for me?"

Emperor Jing's expression became serious: "Tea... can't be sold anymore!"

"Although the sales of the batch of tea imported from Taoyuan County last time were good, the sales of tea after that have been declining day by day."

"In the past two days, some of them have been sold out, and there are similar categories on the market."

"So, I want to ask you how to solve this problem."

Fangzheng was not surprised to hear such a situation, those things were originally inferior products.

Everyone is just trying something new and catching up with the trend, not to mention that Emperor Jing set the price so high that no one who has money can be taken advantage of every day.

"Return to Your Majesty, these are normal situations."

"The quality of Dapin Tianxian tea is not high-quality, and the category is single, and the price is too high."

"It's not difficult to solve this problem. We only need to import some other types of tea from Taoyuan County to segment and reposition the market."

"This tea can be divided into longevity tea, beauty tea, fattening tea, aphrodisiac tea...etc."

"The packaging must be exquisite, and it is best to have the effect of returning the pearl after buying a box, and write a short story inside to introduce the long historical background of this tea."

"The counters set up in the store should also be divided into categories and carefully planned. For example, longevity tea is best sold by some old people with a sense of demeanor, and beauty tea is sold by more beauties..."

"You can find people like Eunuch Guo for Zhuangyang tea, and you can just tell everyone you meet! Just imagine, which man can resist such a temptation?"

Recently, Guo Tianyang, an old man, always looks at Fang Zhengyi with strange eyes, but he remembers it!

Hearing him teasing Guo Tianyang, Emperor Jing originally wanted to laugh, but immediately put on a straight face: "Speak well!"

"Uh......"

"Secondly, the existing sales model is only too rough for over-the-counter sales."

"It's better to sign a long-term cooperation agreement with other restaurants or brothels, supply large quantities at a lower price than the sales price, and let them promote it in the market."

"The most important thing is the price! Please forgive me, the price of tea sold by Your Majesty is too high!"

"This leek has to be harvested wave after wave, and the loss outweighs the gain if the ground is planed!"

Emperor Jing looked at Fang Zhengyi with strange eyes: "Then the things in Taoyuan County are not cheap at all?"

Fangzheng said awkwardly: "This capital city is different from Taoyuan County's model, and Taoyuan County uses a tourist attraction model."

"Tourist attraction mode?"

"That's right, there are very few outsiders coming to Taoyuan County, and the merchants who come to buy goods have to buy from Taoyuan County, so...hehe!"

Emperor Jing couldn't help laughing: "What if I entrust the sale of tea to you?"

Fangzheng shook his head quickly: "No, no, no, I can't do it. I have already lost my energy to teach the prince, and now I have a headache when I get up and go to the field. If I have to work part-time to manage tea, I'm afraid...it will have the opposite effect."

Just kidding, buy goods from Taoyuan County, earn the same money and work two jobs?When will Young Master Fang suffer such a loss! ?

"Divide [-]% of your profits."

"Done!"

Fangzheng blurted out without even thinking about it, and then regretted it.

Emperor Jing stared at Fangzheng and said, "You are the first one who can bargain with me. Do you know why I prefer you so much?"

This sounded awkward, Fang Zhengyi's expression was a little unnatural: "Because I can make money?"

Emperor Jing said slowly: "That's right. Last year, the national treasury revenue totaled more than 2000.

"Now the treasury is empty, and it is difficult to move forward. There is a shortage of food and money. I have a headache."

Fangzheng nodded and said: "Actually, there is still a shortage of food in the final analysis. If there is enough food, a lot of manpower will be released, and wealth will be created and flowed accordingly."

"Huh? It's a bit interesting. I have seen your ability to make money. What about... producing food? What can you do?"

There was hope in Emperor Jing's eyes, hoping to hear the desired answer from Fang Zheng's mouth.

But soon disappointed.

"I can't help it."

Fang Zhengyi was also very helpless, the Jing people had never heard of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn, and he also sent people out to inquire about them.

In the end, nothing was found, and the hope was so slim, Fang Zhengyi didn't want to waste manpower and money on this, so he could only stop searching.

In the end, we can only send special personnel in Taoyuan County to breed the existing main crops, but the scale is too small and little progress has been made.

There are some efficient farming tools, but manpower is extremely cheap in this era, and these tools are insignificant in the overall situation.

Emperor Jing waved his hand regretfully: "Forget it, it's hard for you. After all, this kind of thing can't be solved by one person."

"Okay, that's all for today, the prince is still waiting for you."

As soon as Emperor Jing finished speaking, Guo Tianyang rushed in.

Sweating profusely, his face was terrified and he said: "Your Majesty! Imperial Physician Hu said that the fifth princess is dying, so go and have a look!"

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