Chapter 131 Consolidation

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Liu Lanxin didn't stay with Xia Liu for long, as she had already achieved her goal for the day. After a while, she bid farewell to Xia Liu and left ahead of him. She needed to come up with a plan for the medicine trial in two days, what would be the best course of action... Not long after Liu Lanxin's departure, Xia Liu also left Binlai City. He was one hundred percent confident that he could get Liu Lanxin to cooperate with him. Before the day of the trial arrived, he had some preparations to make. Of course, there was no problem with the medicinal wine. The issue lay with the future production. The medicinal wine definitely couldn't be processed at Tianluo Pharmaceutical's factory. Any ordinary traditional Chinese medicine practitioner could list the prescription just by glancing at the herbs added to the wine. If the recipe for the medicinal wine leaked, it would become as commonplace as dirt. Therefore, it had to be manufactured in a secret location. Osmanthus Village was the ideal base. Xia Liu planned to set up a factory in Osmanthus Village for brewing and blending! The brewing was for Osmanthus Wine, to advertise for Osmanthus Village. The blending was for medicinal wine, which could simply be made by adding herbs to ordinary high-proof liquor sourced from the market. Before this, Xia Liu had a special plan in mind. Shareholding! All that he was doing now was for Osmanthus Village, and to continue in the current manner. The villagers might feel uneasy. For instance, with the recent villa giveaway, Xia Liu always felt there was a distance between himself and the villagers. Especially in the way they looked at him, there was an indescribable quality, as if subordinates looking up to their superior. In the past, Xia Liu hadn't thought too much about it, only wishing to give everything he could offer. But as time passed, he didn't want the villagers' attitude towards him to change too much. So, he would take the opportunity of this medicinal wine to give the villagers sufficient gains and equal treatment. Upon returning to the village, Xia Liu had Li Zhi gather everyone together. Li Zhi, having learned something from Xia Liu, became invigorated. It took him only twenty minutes to spread the news to all the households in the village. Hearing that Xia Liu would hold the meeting himself, everyone arrived at the village center in no time. Even Gu Fangxia was drawn in. She had been keeping an eye on Xia Liu. This guy had promised to settle the villa payments in two months, and nearly two months were up; she was curious to see how long he could put on a brave face. Seeing the crowd surge, Xia Liu stepped directly onto a table. "Today, I've called everyone together because I have an important announcement to make!" "Heh heh, I heard from Old Li that Xia Liu has a new project in the works." "Really, Xia Liu is truly impressive." "Haha, I wonder what this new project is?" "Everyone be quiet, we'll soon find out what the new project is!" Looking at Xia Liu's commanding figure, the villagers burst into lively discussion. "You all know that with the weather changing, it's hard to harvest oysters, and once winter comes, we won't be able to go into the water." "It's indeed too cold in winter, and it would definitely be impossible for the older folks to go down," Li Dazhuang, at the front of the crowd, nodded in agreement. He was the one who knew the oyster chain best. Since last month, the demand for oysters had been declining day by day, and everyone's income was decreasing as well. Even though everyone had made some money, they wouldn't be able to continue once winter set in. This was no small matter for everyone, and Li Dazhuang could see a lot of pressure on Xia Liu. Those days, he had definitely been thinking about how to resolve this issue. Li Dazhuang sometimes really wanted to slap himself. Being only a bit younger than Xia Liu, and both of them being men, why couldn't he have the capability to help Xia Liu share some of the burden? "Everyone, rest assured, the reason I asked you to come today is to talk about making money. I've recently discussed a project where money is definitely to be made, and I can't earn all the money myself, so I asked you all here to discuss a joint investment." "Joint investment!" "Joint investment? What's that?" "Yeah, what is that, Xia Liu?" The crowd didn't ask about the project's details because they firmly believed that Xia Liu would surely succeed! It's just that before Xia Liu's return, they rarely had access to various pieces of information, so they were somewhat baffled by the concept of joint investment. "Joint investment is simple, I'll explain the details to everyone soon!" Just as Xia Liu was about to explain, Huang Xue suddenly hopped onto another table. Seeing Huang Xue up on stage, everyone was slightly stunned during this period. The villagers had also come to know the reason Huang Xue came to the village—to chase after Xia Liu. Everyone was very happy with this girl from the big city. In the past, if someone in the village married a city girl and talked about it outside, they themselves would feel honored. As for Huang Xue's action, Xia Liu shook his head and didn't say anything; since the girl wanted to perform, he let her perform well. "Joint investment means pooling everyone's money together, then investing in the project. When it comes time to subtract the cost of expenses, the profit obtained will be distributed to everyone according to their respective investment shares..." Huang Xue explained the share system in detail to the silently attentive audience. Having been in Osmanthus Village for some time, she had come to know some of the people here. Whenever the villagers had questions, she would answer them in detail. After about fifteen minutes, everyone had a thorough understanding of the share system. Even if there were some who didn't understand, they wouldn't ask Huang Xue or Xia Liu; they would ask the people next to them. The logic was simple; after discussing among themselves for a while, everyone had it all figured out. However, there was one person who didn't understand, and that was Gu Fangxia. She didn't understand just how charismatic Xia Liu was. He could make these people not care about the project itself, but rather about learning what joint investment was. Moreover, even after understanding joint investment, none of them proactively asked about the project, which was a bit strange. "Boss Xia, what is this project of yours?" Gu Fangxia, who couldn't guess, asked aloud. "Manager Gu asks a good question, I plan to start a distillery, and I'll choose a location right next to the village. When the time comes, I'll be troubling you to build the distillery." ... Gu Fangxia stared blankly at Xia Liu, originally thinking he would pull off some earth-shattering feat. Only to find out in the end, he actually planned to open a distillery. This was somewhat incomprehensible to her. The alcoholic beverage market is already mature today; for a new distillery to break into the market, that is not just a little challenging. It is extremely difficult. Not to mention the capital investment required, the upfront cost of opening market channels; that is definitely a big number. Labor, materials, machinery—the whole setup—without a few hundred million or even a billion or more, might as well just wash up and go to bed. "A distillery? I think it has promise!" "Definitely has promise, just see who's going to start it." Unlike Gu Fangxia, there wasn't a single voice of opposition in the village against Xia Liu. This almost made Gu Fangxia bite her tongue; this simply didn't make sense. You can't just follow Xia Liu into a pit of fire out of trust, right? If the distillery were to start up, the villagers' savings would surely be emptied out.

Chapter 131 Consolidation

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