This time, they discussed a great many things.
Wang Yan was not simply setting them up with herbal tea and calling it a day. Herbal tea was an additional source of income, and there were plenty of businesses that could be built around it.
For example, purchasing medicinal herbs from the mainland, or delivering the herbal tea. And once they were handling deliveries, a logistics business would naturally follow. Once the business expanded into Southeast Asia, they could use that convenience to develop maritime shipping as well and make a fortune from that too.
Taken together, this whole series of ventures would employ tens of thousands of people.
Wang Yan had to lay out the framework for all of it. The people of the New Territories were still somewhat lacking when it came to making money. They could make money because they had strength in numbers and could keep both the underworld and legitimate sides under control, not because they had many ideas or much innovation.
Wang Yan had a mature development path and business model. He had used this herbal-tea-startup approach before. If he handed it over to the New Territories and kept in touch to direct them remotely from time to time, then with their own power behind them, they would be able to keep things stable, expand aggressively, and make a fortune.
At one table, the big shots raised questions while Wang Yan answered them. A circle of people seated behind them took notes. Afterward, they would organize everything, then discuss among themselves where to build the factories and how many workers each family would provide. Wang Yan was only responsible for development; the rest was for them to work out themselves.
Even Elder Liang did not say much. He was getting on in years and could