Emperor Hongzhi Zhengse: "Have you thought clearly, do you really want to buy these 40,000 ducks and geese?" ”

"The minister has thought clearly, if the minister can sell these 40,000 ducks and geese, please don't blame Your Majesty, and please don't impeach the lower officials."

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, officials were forbidden to buy and sell.

If you make a lot of money and earn the people's money, and the officials are angry, they will label you as a corrupt official and impeach.

Selling 40,000 ducks and geese is not a small move, obviously it is unlikely to be hidden, for the sake of stability, Yan Chengjin still asks for a reassurance first.

Li Dongyang and the others nodded.

In their opinion, Yan Chengjin is the wronged leader, and he bought 40,000 ducks and geese for the imperial court in vain, so he has to go bankrupt......

"I'm right." Emperor Hongzhi wanted to see what Yan Chengjin would do, so he sold it to him.

Tens of thousands of duck troops are still waiting outside the city, guarded by fifty percent of the soldiers and horses.

Right now, Yan Chengjin bought these 40,000 ducks and geese, and fifty percent of the soldiers and horses are the yamen of the imperial court, and they will not always help him guard them.

Yan Chengjin asked Chunxiao and his daughter's father, Lao Wangtou, to take the displaced people who built the new courtyard to drive the 40,000 ducks to Liangxiang County for resettlement, where there are 100 acres of land given by His Majesty.

How can he cry with a sad face, I heard that the young master bought 40,000 ducks and geese, should he raise running ducks, this is to kill him......

Yan Chengjin squatted in front of the duck cage: "Go and invite Veterinarian Liu." ”

"Young Master, which veterinarian Liu?"

"Naturally, it's the judge of the Tai Hospital, Liu Wentai, I don't know, so I asked the Jinyi guard outside the door."

Liu Wentai's medical skills are not very good, but the skills of medical beasts are still trusted by Yan Chengjin.

Although these ducks eat East Asian flying locusts, for the sake of prudence, Liu Wentai was asked to come and have a look.

At this time, it was not long after eating the locusts, if it was really poisonous, now is the time when the toxicity is the strongest, Liu Wentai should be able to see it.

The imperial physician is the royal doctor of the royal family, and generally does not treat outsiders.

But Liu Wentai had a very good impression of Yan Chengjin, and as soon as he heard that he was invited, he came with a medicine box on his back.

Yan Chengjin said politely: "Lord Liu helped me take a look at these ducks, I ate locusts, I don't know if I can eat them." ”

Liu Wentai's face was strange, but he still squatted down, grabbed one left and right and looked around: "It's okay, flying locusts can be used in medicine, what is it if you eat a few locusts, you can eat it with confidence." ”

"It's hard for Lord Liu to go on a trip, so it's better to have dinner at the house, just roast these ducks."

A pound of duck meat is more expensive than a pound of pork.

Liu Wentai smiled: "Then it's a nuisance." ”

The roast duck and roast goose were served, Liu Wentai was not polite, he tore off a duck leg and ate it, and Yan Chengjin gave him all the remaining ones.

Three days have passed,

Hearing that Liu Wentai was lively and alive, Yan Chengjin was relieved.

Wang Busui hadn't come to Yan's Mansion for a long time, and as soon as he heard that Yan Chengjin was looking for him, he knew that there was business to be done again.

"What's the best restaurant in Beijing? The official wants to buy a restaurant. Yan Chengjin asked.

Wang Busui looked embarrassed: "It's the drunken immortal residence on Qianmen Street, and if you want to buy it, it will cost you a lot of silver." ”

"Are there any other big restaurants next door?"

Wang Busui thought for a while: "There is another one, the Drunken Immortal Residence has robbed all its business, if the adults buy the Drunken Immortal Residence, they don't have to be afraid of it." ”

"Just buy this and help me take it down."

“？？？” Wang is not old.

This business is not good, and taking this place down means stealing business with Drunken Immortal Residence, but Yan Chengjin handed over the silver to him, so he could only do it obediently.

Yan Chengjin bought it because it was next to the Drunken Immortal Residence, and there was a huge flow of customers, and there were scholars and doctors with silver who came and went.

As for grabbing customers with Drunken Immortal Residence, he was not afraid at all.

The shopkeeper of Fuguilou was worried that he couldn't get out, but he didn't expect someone to come to buy the restaurant today, and the price was not much discussed, so he happily traded with Wang Busui.

Yan Chengjin just got on the sedan chair and was about to go to the newly bought restaurant to have a look, but before he took a few steps, the sedan chair was pressed down, as if a boulder was pressed on the top of the sedan chair.

When he opened the curtain, Zhu Houzhao actually pressed on his sedan chair, and said with a smile: "Fortunately, the palace is fast, where are you going?" ”

He went out of the palace to find Yan Chengjin, but unexpectedly, he met Yan Chengjin's sedan chair in the alley.

Yan Chengjin had a black face and ran out of the palace again.

"The minister bought a restaurant, I want to go over and have a look, Your Highness hurry up, the minister will go to Wang Gong's factory in a while!"

Zhu Houzhao rolled his eyes, swished into the sedan chair, and squeezed Yan Chengjin out.

"............" Yan Chengjin.

"Let's go, Lao Gao, this palace can't come out for too long." Zhu Houzhao said.

Half an hour later, Yan Chengjin came to the newly bought restaurant.

It was deserted, and the cook and Xiao Er were dismissed by the former shopkeeper, leaving only an empty restaurant.

Wang Busui handed over the contract: "My lord, you see the Drunken Immortal Residence, it is not easy to do business here." ”

Ten steps away, is the Drunken Immortal Restaurant.

The courtyard is prosperous, and the flow of people is endless, almost breaking through the threshold of the drunken immortal residence.

The outside is extremely luxurious, just like a seven-star hotel in the capital.

Yan Chengjin didn't care: "Don't worry, we sell ducks, which are distinctive, you take off the plaque first, and the official thinks of a name." ”

Zhu Houzhao was elated: "How about calling it the first duck in the world?" ”

Yan Chengjin couldn't wait to press Zhu Houzhao to the ground and beat him violently.

"Use my father's pen name, welcome the pine, and ask the carpenter to make a plaque, which should be more magnificent."

Wang Busui knew that Yan Chengjin wanted to sell the 40,000 ducks and geese, and although the reputation of the welcome pine was famous, the readers were going to his books, and they might not be willing to buy roasted ducks.

This is like Wu Dalang, who sells cooking cakes, and changes his career to selling tofu, others are willing to buy your cooking cakes, but they may not be willing to buy your tofu.

Moreover, roasted duck is available in major restaurants, and it is not uncommon.

Yan Chengjin didn't want to make money from scholars, how much money did those poor talents have? I can't say that I'm done eating, and I have to scold.

His target was the gentry who had silver in the capital.

Zhu Houzhao didn't dare to stay too long, so he went back to the palace first.

Yan Chengjin went to Wang Gongchang to find Song Jing, and heard Zeng Jian say that this guy has been staying here recently.

In the corner of Wang Gongchang, Song Jing sat on the ground, and there were drawings scattered around him, which seemed to be artillery.

"Help the official build a furnace, not for ironmaking, but for roasting ducks." The best way to sell duck, Yan Chengjin felt that there was only roast duck.

"Students also have to learn from their masters." Song Jingdao.

Scholars think very highly of themselves, and Song Jing is no exception.

But when he blew up Wang Gong's factory once, he became humble about everything.

It was very easy to make a stove, and within two days, the stove was set up in the back kitchen.

At this moment, in the drunken immortal house,

Xiao Er said flatteringly: "Shopkeeper, the restaurant over there has changed owners again." ”

The shopkeeper didn't raise his eyelids, and the restaurant opposite had to change owners three times a year, most of them were wealthy businessmen from the south of the Yangtze River, looking for a profitable business in the capital.

Which one is not a bankruptcy.

"Who drove it this time?"

"I heard that it was a Hanlin, but the little one was inside, and I saw that bookseller Wang was not old." Little Erdao.

The shopkeeper Xue Gui was stunned when he heard it.

As Zhang Heling's second housekeeper, he knows very well that Wang Busui has published the book of Yingkesong, and isn't Yingkesong Yan Chengjin's father?

Then this restaurant, isn't it Yan Chengjinkai?

Hearing this, Xue Gui hurriedly returned to the house to report: "Master, Yan Chengjin has opened a new restaurant next to our Drunken Immortal Residence. ”

"Who is Yan Chengjin?"

"That's the one that let the master transport 300,000 stone grains to Hanlin in Biansai."

Zhang Heling almost didn't jump.

"Reliable information?"

"The name of the restaurant is called Welcome Pine."

Zhang Heling said angrily: "Tomorrow, the price of the Drunken Immortal Residence will be reduced, and the price will be reduced ruthlessly, and the old man will close the door if he wants him to open it!" ”

Zhang Yanling's eyes lit up: "Brother is right, compensate him to death, hahaha"

Early tomorrow morning, the restaurant will open.

Wang Busui became nervous, and when he inquired, he found out that the owner behind this drunken immortal residence was actually the Zhang family brothers.

What makes people even more frightened is that Ning Shouhou also released cruel words and let them go out of business tomorrow.

Yan Chengjin only thought it was interesting when he heard it, this Zhang family brother is really as Wang Yue said, turning his face is faster than farting.

"Don't worry, it will open as usual tomorrow, and the official will go to the palace first."