Chapter 393: Officially opened
Chen Shizheng, the plaque unveiling ceremony began Nalan Dongde presided over the ceremony as the master of ceremonies, Tian Liang was the shopkeeper here, and both of them changed into robes and horse coats and followed the prince.
In the sound of firecrackers, gongs and drums, and the loud announcement of Nalan's guards, the prince climbed the ladder, unveiled the red silk, and five emperors wrote the imperial inscription "Jade Dragon Hot and Cold Drink" in large characters appeared in front of everyone. The plaque is red, the words are golden, "The imperial inscription of Emperor Shunzhi is also golden, but the imperial seal of the emperor is white." Particularly eye-catching. ”
Everyone knows that this trader is the emperor, the jade dragon, only the emperor can call it a dragon. This is an out-and-out, full-bearded and full-tailed royal businessman!
Three eunuchs holding dust whisks walked out of the door of the jade dragon's cold drink, and the clothes were the eunuchs in high positions. This is still the head of the Internal Affairs Office, Li Tingzhang, Gonggong Li.
"Lord Rui and others take the order!" The voice was sharp enough.
Everyone will kneel before the decree, and all who are present, including those who are watching the commotion, will kneel.
Gonggong Li stood in front of the incense case, with a small eunuch on the left and right by his side, and four guards behind him.
When everyone knelt down, Gonggong Li shook off the dust and began to read out the holy decree: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: Prince Heshuorui has traveled for a year, and wants to dedicate all the things purchased and learned in foreign lands to the imperial court, and his high wind and bright festival will shine in the annals of the Qing Dynasty and be famous through the ages!" All the people of the Qing Dynasty, regardless of the royal family, relatives, court officials, military and civilians, etc., are strictly forbidden to use various excuses to arbitrage, embezzle, deceive, extort, etc. to ask for property, money, etc., if there is a violation, according to the circumstances will be punished, and the circumstances are severe! This decree is valid for the Jade Dragon Cloth Village, the Jade Dragon Paper, the Nalan Department Store and all the merchants under the Rui Wangye in the future. The sixth day of the sixth month of the sixteenth year of Shunzhi"
At the end of the ceremony, the prince and Tian Liang, as the owners and shopkeepers of this shop, met with the elders of the capital, and opened the door to welcome the guests.
As soon as you enter the door, you will be greeted by a huge picture of a peony, blocking the way to the kitchen.
The painting screen is very large, not mounted on a piece of paper, but a square wooden frame with a few pieces of plywood nailed to it, and the painting mounted on the plywood is Yun'er's first large-scale exotic painting masterpiece. With peonies as the mainstay, wisteria, narcissus, mountain stones, streams, and peacocks as supplements, the pink, red, and purple peonies are set off with bright and bright and swaying postures. Anyone who enters the hall is attracted by this picture called "Splendid Future". Especially for those who love painting, they stand in front of the painting for a long time and linger. They were very curious about how the petals of the peony were drawn, from deep to shallow, so naturally transitioning. It's no different from a real peony! The three-dimensional sense is very strong, and it is about to come out.
Yun'er, who painted this picture, didn't feel that it was too hard, but Mr. Chen, who framed this picture, was tired enough. It was made by cutting a large painting into small pieces and putting them together. Each small painting is tightly knit, there is no place for dislocation, this is several pieces of plywood spliced together, even if it is placed horizontally, it is also very high, and it can only be obtained by building a shelf. Fortunately, Yun'er, Fish and Shui Er can frame the painting, and the process of brushing paste is still excellent, brush one and hand one to Mr., and Mr. accurately mounts it on the plywood. Tian Liang is very worried that he can't help at all, so what if his father gets on such a high shelf, what if he doesn't pay attention and falls? All he can do is take care of his father. Mr. is a master of framing, and even if you look closely, you can't see the seams.
In the blank space of the upper right corner is Yun'er's line book inscription poem "Only the peony is true to the national color, and the flowers are full of the capital" The left side of the inscription "Shunzhi 16th June Qianyin:" Feiyun Mansion Lord".
It is this "Feiyun landlord" words that have aroused boundless associations and discussions among people who appreciate peonies, and one said: "The painter must be a white-bearded old man, the landlord, and the age of being the landlord will not be young." This painting would never have been painted without forty years of hard work. ”
The other said, "What kind of vision do you have?" Is the landlord still young and old? In my opinion, he is rich. ”
"What you said is not right, I think he is a powerful ......" Tian Liang heard the discussion of several people, and almost didn't burst into laughter, the whole thing was a blind guess!
The hall is very large, the entrance door is a large cold drink hall with forty square tables, the stairs open on the right side of the door, and the upstairs are all private rooms, which are much quieter than the downstairs. On the wall of each private room is a set of calligraphy banners with four screens, which is very elegant. The facilities and utensils inside are many times better than those below, but the plates for ice cream are all very elaborate glass plates. Of course, the service fee here is also many times the following.
The eunuchs from their families pay attention to a taste, even those who practice martial arts will not snort and leave after eating. If it is a noble-born Manchurian woman, it is even more exquisite. All utensils are Jingdezhen porcelain and glassware.
On the first day of opening, Yulong's hot and cold drinks business was booming. Because the weather is very hot, whether men and women, young and old, rich or not, they are all smoked and roasted under the same hot sun, very hot and thirsty. If you want to buy popsicles and ice cream, and you don't eat them in the store, you can buy them at the window opened on the east wall downstairs, and you can buy them after standing in line for a while. Buy cards at the counter in the main entrance of the store, and then find a place to wait, and each table has two service staff according to the color and number of plastic cards placed on the table by the customer to deliver cold drinks, collect cards, collect dishes, and wipe the table. The order is not chaotic. The shopkeepers here are all dressed up as pro-soldiers. Martial arts are strong and inviolable. There are also the royal guards sent by the emperor to patrol in turns, which is to prevent people from smashing the field.
More and more people are buying cold drinks, and the ice cream and other ice fruits placed in the wooden box are somewhat soft because they are refrigerated by the lower layer of white ice.
The cold products are all made at the end of the ugly time in the middle of the night after Suo Qing brought people. A total of 8,000 pieces: 3,000 popsicles, 3,000 ice cream, and 2,000 ice cream. It was sold out at the end of the day. The net profit is forty-one taels. The production of cold drinks is too small and the supply exceeds the demand.
The next day, 10,000 were produced. Refrigerator freezing and saltpeter freezing are carried out at the same time, 4,000 popsicles, 4,000 ice cream, and 2,000 ice cream, which is already very good to sell this amount just after opening.
After that, it will be maintained at 10,000 pieces per day, and if it is not enough, it will not be enough, and the number will not be increased. Everyone has a problem, the fewer things the rarer, the supply exceeds demand every day, and every day deliberately does not do too much, ensuring that it is about 10,000. The prince is thinking about the people who participate in the system, and he can't just do anything in order to make money, how can he peel two skins from a cow, regardless of whether the workers are tired or not?
"Jade Dragon Cold Drink" You Tian Liang came forward as the shopkeeper, and he almost didn't kill that peak! Even if Tian Liang is a little good for the prince and the cloud master in a foreign land, he can't spoil this part, right? Even if Tian Liang is familiar with foreign affairs and becomes a shopkeeper, he can't leave himself aside, at least he has to give an honorary title of shopkeeper, right? What's going on like that? Did the prince deliberately embarrass himself? So when Nafeng was walking in the garden, he "coincidentally" met the prince.
"The subordinates greet the prince, the prince is auspicious." That peak gave the prince a thousand children.
"Then the manager, please get up. Are you taking a walk? It's good to walk more, the air in the garden is good, and there is a lot of oxygen, which is good for your body. ”
"My subordinates, thank you for your kindness. Listen to his own soldiers, the prince opened a cold drink shop on Qianmen Street? ”
"Yes, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, Fang Fujin learned a few ways to make ice fruits from foreign lands, tried to make them for the emperor and the queen mother, and said that it was good, and the queen mother also meant to sell some while the day was hot. This king thought that no one dared to use the new cold product, but the result was not bad. ”
"My subordinates heard that Tian Guard was the shopkeeper there? Can't see it, he can still do business? ”
"Guarding Tian has been in a foreign land for a year with this king, how can things over there be more familiar than those who have never seen them, right? He has a good brain, learns things quickly, and knows how to drink cold. ”
"Do you mean that Tian Guard learned this skill at the same time as Fang Fujin? Is it convenient? ”
"What do you mean? Did the king say they learned at the same time? The situation over there is completely different from the Qing Dynasty, and there are many channels to learn things, so is there anything wrong with learning together? They are brother and sister. "The prince is angry, this person is really good at exploiting loopholes.
"Lord Wang, you misunderstood, your subordinates didn't mean that."
"So what do you mean? Old that, this king doesn't understand why you don't like Tian Liang? What does he have to do with you? ”
"No, no, you really misunderstood your subordinates. Tian Liang is still very good in this posterity, but he doesn't like to talk, he belongs to the kind of person who cooks dumplings in a teapot and knows what to expect. However, his subordinates think that he is still very young, and I am afraid that he will be given such a big burden......"
"Ben Wang has already said that he has learned in a foreign land, not only cold drinks, but also the use of equipment, as well as business management. Not to mention letting him manage a cold drink shop, it is also very easy to manage the entire palace. ”
After the prince finished speaking, he left, hung the peak there, and didn't come back to his senses for a long time. In this way, the position of foreign director must be handed over to Tian Liang. Na Feng's heart was cold.
Prince An hurriedly came to the mansion to sue the prince that this restaurant was the property of a guard in their house, because the guard's younger brother had a conflict with the young owner of another restaurant, and the guard's younger brother disabled the young owner. In addition, the owner of the restaurant sued the guard's younger brother
Suncheonfu lobby. Whatever the cause, it is a sin to maim someone. Shuncheon Mansion Yin sentenced the guard's younger brother to compensate the victim with 3,000 taels of silver, and if he couldn't get the compensation, he would be imprisoned for five years, with a time limit of half a month.
This is to admit beating or punishment, and choose for yourself. The guard's younger brother is still young, and he has been delayed for five years in prison, and he can't let his son go to jail if he sells his property.
Many merchants are optimistic about this restaurant, but they feel that his family is in a hurry to use the money and bargain with him.
I didn't think anyone would get there first. The prince thinks that people are in danger, and this kung fu bargaining is equivalent to falling into the well. With Prince An as a guarantee, he bought this restaurant. Of course, the site survey has been carried out before paying the money, and this restaurant has just been completed for three years, and it is basically new.
After going through the formalities, hurry up to decorate, downstairs is the public seat, upstairs is divided into ten private rooms, enjoy high-level service. The so-called high-class service refers to the elegant and precious environment of the private room. Clean and comfortable, all the utensils are high-quality porcelain, utensils, there is a uniform clothing of the shop Xiaoer waiting, polite, there are questions to answer, Tang poetry and Song Ci and so on are involved. There may also be a supply of paper for poems, songs, and riddle couplets. The taste is much higher than that of the guests in the hall. Yun'er also attached great importance to advertising, and before the opening of the "Jade Dragon Restaurant", hundreds of leaflets were printed and distributed by personal soldiers in the capital. So before the opening, someone booked a room to taste the hot and cold drinks made by Yulong's hot and cold drinks.
In addition to popsicles, ice cream, ice cream, and newly made juices, some of which are squeezed from last year's old fruits, and some of which are squeezed from grapes that have just come down.
There are also many varieties of hot drinks, and the eldest sister helped Yun'er buy a lot of hot drink chocolate powder, milk tea powder, cocoa tea powder, taro flavored fruit powder, pearl milk tea powder and other hot drink materials that are ready to be brewed, as well as honey grapefruit tea, black tea, milk, soy milk, etc. All kinds of tea powder are brewed with boiling hot boiling water, and they are served with hot air, which is sweet and fragrant, and satisfies the various tastes of officials and celebrities at all levels, rich and wealthy people, young masters and young ladies.
Yun'er said to the prince that if you can install the oven first, only the cake baked in the oven will have an authentic taste, and the cake with hot and cold drinking is a high-end enjoyment.
"Okay, let your brother get you this, his brain is getting more and more handy. He's your brother, do you still have to be polite between brother and sister? ”
Yun'er has never been used to saying anything to Tian Liang alone, and she has become a habit.
But this time I really had to talk to him face to face. Just when Tian Liang and Nalan were bringing things to Yun'er, Yun'er said, "Brother Qingfeng thinks that hot and cold drinks and Western-style pastries are used together, isn't it a good match?" ”
"My subordinates understand!"
"Hey! This one is more restrained than Yun'er. ”
Anyway, Tian Liang started immediately, and Nalan was called away by the prince, but he couldn't let him see the generator. Nalan didn't expect this layer at all, and it was his duty to protect the prince.
Participating in the cake trial were Yu'er, Shui'er, Ling Juan, Mama Lin, and Mama Jiang, and the test location was in the small kitchen. Originally, I wanted to live in Yun'er's east room, which was quieter, but the old lady wanted to try to make snacks, and there was no time to watch the children. Ling Juan has moved to the Suzhou house, Yun'er wants to move the baby Beibei over, the old lady's west wing is not very sunny, which is not conducive to the development of the child, but the ground here still has to be dealt with, the child will climb soon, and he can't get cold if he climbs on the ground.
After repeated trials, the first cake, anhydrous honey cake, was successfully made, followed by tiger skin cake. These two kinds of cakes were sent to the private room of Yulong's hot and cold drinks, and they were immediately accepted by many high-end guests. In particular, the tiger skin cake, which is light brown on the surface and tender yellow on the inside, is cut into square slices and triangular slices after one finger, and then put it into an exotic high-end porcelain plate, with a transparent glass with a high pile, which makes many high-status people feel delicious and face-saving, as well as talking after tea and dinner.
The reputation of the people is also very strong, and many officials' families, young masters, old men, young ladies and young grandmothers of wealthy families want to come here to enjoy exotic food and high-end services. I heard that there are a lot of upper links there, and if you want the guests to make the lower ones, there will be a prize for good matches, and the prize is a transparent and pure glass that can drink water. Ten private rooms are not enough, so you have to book in advance.