After Naohide encouraged Oguri Tadashun to apprentice with Mr. Egawa Tanan, he went home refreshed, and as for what happened later, it depends on his face.

Yingzi suddenly came to the door to invite Naohide to Nakamura's house for dinner, and during the banquet, the four heads of the family will discuss the one-year arrangement of the Zaoya Group with Naohide - she has been here less recently, and the Zaoya Group officially resumed work on the sixteenth day of the first month, and Yingzi was very busy as a manager who has mastered the core process.

Because Yingzi takes a lot of care of Naoxiu, he plans to make Yingzi a little delicious as a gift in return, and on the way back from Oguri's house, Naohide buys ingredients to make fries, potato chips, peanut butter and salted herring roe.

The spring herring is Fuso's name for the Pacific herring, which spawns near the shallow sea in winter and spring, so it is believed that the abundance of herring is a sign of the arrival of spring.

Herring was a commoner food, and many samurai disdained to eat it, calling it cat food – food for cats. In fact, at this time, there was a kind of "cat rice", which was a simple meal made from white rice mixed with bonito festival crumbs, and it was very popular among the common people.

However, dried herring roe was very popular in the Edo period because of its low price, and it was found even in remote mountainous areas, and it was also the favorite of many poor and low-ranking samurai. When the dried herring roe is eaten, it is soaked in water, and the taste can only be said to be average.

Originally, Naohide was preparing an iron pot to stew the "white bird" goose, but now it is not popular to eat goose, and in the process of looking for goose, he found that herring has been on the market, so good, salted herring roe is also good.

In later generations, salted herring roe was eaten by combining soy sauce, salt, and sake to make a sauce, which was poured into salmon roe and poured over steamed rice. This is the way to eat fresh herring roe, and there is also a long-term way to eat herring roe after salting it and storing it at low temperature.

Herring roe taste particularly good when eaten raw, and many people especially like the feeling of herring roe exploding on the tip of the tongue. The way to eat the light flavor is to add salt and sake, and if you have a strong taste, you can choose to add soy sauce or wasabi mustard.

Peanuts are called "falling peanuts" in Fuso. Peanuts originated in the Americas, and then introduced to Europe, and then introduced to China around 1530 (during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty), and the "Etymological Dictionary" of Fuso records that peanuts were introduced to Fuso from China in the Edo period, so they are also called "Nanjing beans".

When Naohide sent the two students back to their hometown, he saw peanuts from Kamiishihara Village and bought some of them. After shelling, slow baking, mashing and grinding with wooden sticks, the original peanut butter was made, and Naohide went through several tests, adding some cold cooked soybean oil, salt and brown sugar, and after several adjustments, it was made into a peanut butter with two flavors, sweet and salty, and I felt good after tasting it.

The people of the United States say that peanut butter was invented by George Washington (1732-1799), but in fact, the Azitecs in North America have been eating peanut butter in large quantities in the 15th century. History records that in 1884, Marcellus Gilmore Edson of the province of Quebec registered a patent for the production of peanut butter, and the large-scale production of peanut butter and its promotion to the whole country was Kellogg's company, which was founded in 1906.

Peanut butter is a relatively simple sauce, the basic raw material is peanuts, the ingredients are oil, and the seasoning is sugar or salt, which is divided into two flavors: sweet and salty, with delicate quality and rich aroma, which can be stored for a long time.

The potato was introduced to Europa in the mid-16th century from Rice Chau, and gradually became an important food because of its high yield, during which time french fries naturally appeared. Is the origin of fries Francis or Mirniren? This is controversial, but it is generally believed that Mirniren is the birthplace of fries.

French fries appeared in 1802 when President Jefferson entertained guests at the White House, and since then french fries have quickly become the most common way to cook potatoes in the country. Around 1830, French fries were already popular in Europa and the United States.

The invention of potato chips came from a joke that in the spring of 1853, Captain Vanderbilt of the United States Navy went on vacation to a tourist resort in New York. One day, the chef decided to play a joke with Vanderbilt, he cut the potatoes into paper-like slices, fried them in hot oil, and sprinkled them with seasonings.

At Yingzi's urging, Naohide went to Nakamura's house with peanut butter, potatoes, and fresh herring that he bought on the way back.

There are a total of five members of the Nakamura family, the head of the family is Zhengyi, the lady doesn't know the name, everyone calls her Nakamura Yushin (Mrs.), the eldest son Musashi, the second son Gakujiro, the eldest daughter Eiko, Eiko is the sister of Gakujiro.

The head of the family, Shoichi, is very witty and funny, and is quite popular with everyone, and the eldest son, Musashi, usually works with his father, and is very serious, but he is very kind to Naohide.

Today is a day off, and the whole family of Nakamura is there, and Naohide accompanies the head of the house to have a cup of tea, and then goes to the kitchen to instruct how to make potato chips, chips, and salted herring roe. When he taught Yingzi and the maid, he was kicked out of the kitchen, and when he came back, he saw that the four masters of the Zaoya group had arrived.

Including the Hori family, there are a total of 19 families in the Zaoya group, all of which are neighbors in the vicinity, and the ancestors are the Tokugawa family Ashigaru who belonged to the same group, and after the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, the chicken dog ascended to heaven and became the second half of the imperial family. Because the ancestral house (homestead) was uniformly distributed together, and after that, they became old neighbors for hundreds of years, so the relationship was very close.

There are four people who are faintly revered as leaders in this generation, they are Taro Takemae, Shoichi Nakamura, Shigeru Kojima, and Kuro Nakajima, and because of the Zaoya Group, people in the neighborhood call them the four heads of the Zaoya Group.

Taro Takemae and Shigeru Kojima are the hearts of the Obangumi, and they usually follow their bosses to be responsible for the vigilance of Edo Castle and Edo; Shoichi Nakamura is the accountant of a small warehouse, and Kuro Nakajima is a Tongxin (agent) of the Edo-cho Commission.

The Obangumi were the vanguard of the shogunate army in battle, and Taro Takemae and Shigeru Kojima were famous for their swordsmanship, so they were quite respected; Shoichi Nakamura is also popular among the most literate people in the neighborhood; Nakajima is four years older and is the leader of the younger generation in the neighborhood.

The jujube house group has been running for nearly a year, and each family has gained a lot, and each family has been allocated 30 to 40 small judgments in the past year, although Naohide has long since withdrawn from management, and now Mrs. Takemae and Yingzi are in charge of management, but as a generation, Naohide still has dividends.

Although the internal positions are usually Mrs. Takemae and Yingzi, it is these four masters who take the idea behind it. I brought Naoxiu here today, just to hear Naoxiu's advice to the Zaoya Group.

"What is the attitude of each family towards the Zaowu Group?"

"Everyone is happy to have money, but I don't know how long I can earn this money?" Taro Takemae patted his thigh and said.

"Let's not talk about the future, are they satisfied with the distribution plan of the money?" There are more people who have more thoughts, and Naoxiu is actually very worried about the distribution.

Nakamura Masaichi smiled slightly, "The craftsmanship is in our hands, and others don't dare to make any trouble." Besides, the rules you set, one job for adults, half a job for half an adult, half a job for children, record every day, and then distribute the income evenly every month, which is very fair. ”

Zhixiu asked some more questions and found that the secret recipe was not leaked, and the tone of each family was also very strict, and there was no one watching the income of the Zaowu group at present.

After understanding the situation, Zhixiu directly told everyone that the windfall profits of antidiarrheal powder can only last for another two years, although the Zaowu group also makes thirteen spices and five-spice powder, others may not be able to guess the exact formula, but after a long time, it is inevitable that some people will be worried. Therefore, it is the best choice to sell the formula to Mr. Ito Genpo's medical clinic or wealthy merchant after two years.

"And what about two years from now? The income from small grinding sesame oil, thirteen spices and five-spice powder is not very high, just to earn a hard-earned money", Kojima Shigeru was a little anxious.

"I have a few ideas, uncles and big brother Nakajima help me think about it", Naohide gave four paths for everyone to choose.

The first way is to continue to develop new drugs, Naohide said that this study tour he got the ancient prescription to save the heart pill, which has a special effect on patients with palpitations, although the symptoms are not cured, but the elderly still use it, and the prospects are very good. In addition, he will also seek new prescriptions, and strive to continue to introduce new drugs.

The second method is to improve the family personality. After all, the internal job is the internal job, and you can't get on the stage, if the family personality is improved, you don't have to do the internal job if you have more money.

"One thousand taels of gold with one heart, two hundred taels with strength", Hiroo Nakajima told the traditional secret of the Edo Town Commission.

"Relying on rewards (merits) is not reliable, credit is not our turn, if you rely on money, we can only solve one or two, and you don't have to think about improving your family personality", Taro Takemae said while grinning.

Zhixiu's third method is to move to the countryside and make a larger land, so that you can hoard a batch of land and be conservative in drought and flood. The four masters objected in unison, "Who wants to move to the remote countryside"*4.

Naohide's last method was to buy land in Edo and live on rent, but the four heads of the family explained to Naohide that this method really didn't work.

Lower-ranking samurai were not allowed to buy or sell commercial shops or rural land, nor could they simply collect merchants' rents without doing business, nor could they rent land to peasants to plant, but they could buy a few houses in Edo and rent them to others.

But the poor live in longhouses, and many of the houses in the commercial towns are occupied by people in the front and behind the shops, and according to the shogunate's regulations, only merchants can buy and sell, and samurai cannot buy and sell, and the samurai houses in the hand of the mountain, the high- and middle-level samurai apply for a land from the shogunate, and then build the house themselves, and the poor samurai who sold his ancestral house, you want to collect rent from him to make money, do you think too much?

In short, the flipping mode is very unfriendly to the lower-level samurai.

Naohide smiled slightly, and he asked Nakajima Kuro, "How is Kijiro doing?" ”

Nakajima Kuro's eyes lit up, "This kid relies on the care of Lord Saburo Suke, and relies on your plan to show your plan, and he is very good in Uraga." The others really didn't know about it, and they all urged Nakajima to talk about it in detail.

The Nakajima family is a branch of the Nakajima family that inherited Uraga and the power, and the ancestors of Nakajima Kuro were quite popular with the main family, and when they left the main family, they didn't even change the Miao character. Kijiro is the younger brother of Nakajima Kuro.,Because the family was too poor before.,As the second son, he didn't even get mixed with the low-level royal family "hugging the seat", and after Naohide promised to fund, he gritted his teeth and went to the territory of the Uraga office to open a food pavilion, and he gained a lot under the painstaking management, and now it's really hard to say whether it's better as the brother of a samurai or the younger brother of a merchant.

In fact, one of the main reasons for the poverty of the lower-ranking samurai who were members of the royal family was that there were too many sons, and the eldest son could inherit the position of the head of the family, and the second son or Saburo only had to fend for himself, saying that he was self-freaked, but the family always had to spend money to find a way, and if he couldn't get the status of a samurai, he had to become a doctor and a merchant - because of the difference in status, everyone was reluctant to be a merchant.

But Kijiro, who ran to be a businessman, mixed well, and everyone's concept was shaken, and if he could become a wealthy merchant, it would be much better than the life of a low-level samurai.

Naohide persuaded everyone, not necessarily to be a businessman, the younger brothers can go to the countryside to the head, Shoya (village head), we sponsor some money to buy more land, the countryside life is stable, if you can endure loneliness, go to the countryside is a good way out, besides, you can come to Edo to visit, and live in Shinjuku-cho What is the big difference.

If you are a businessman, Naohide is responsible for introducing Rihachi to Kinokuniya, and "I heard" that Rihachi is building a franchise chain store, and he has a great future.

As the head of the family, the elder brother can usually take care of the merchant's younger brother as a samurai, and he can also give the money to the younger brother to run on his behalf, and sign a long-term loan agreement to avoid the rule that the samurai can't be a merchant. The Zaowu Group cannot be expanded, but it is only natural for businessmen to expand their scale.

"Let's think about it carefully, Naoxiu, didn't you see a doctor for Nishimaru (the general's son), and you often visit the Egawa family and the Oguri family, if you can do the royal family genealogy or the flag book, the children of each family can mix with you."

"I want to have that day, I will never forget my neighbors", what can I do, Naoxiu had to agree first.

At this time, the meals have been served one after another, and everyone has begun to eat.

Since there is mahjong, the square seat Zhuo (short legs of the eight immortal table) is widely accepted, after a long time, no one wants to use a small coffee table, one by one to clean up is too troublesome, a square seat Zhuo, a family meal is enough, and there is no need for each person a dish, how many plates do you need, a few larger plates, what you want to eat with chopsticks. The owner of the house made a special point, and gave two more side dishes, perfect.

Today's dishes are mainly grilled fish, shredded radish, shredded potatoes and miso soup - the herring roe is salted, and the herring has to be processed too, so it is simply grilled and eaten. People don't pay so much attention to it, and when they were poor in the past, they couldn't eat fresh herring.

In addition, each person has a small plate of potato chips or chips, and each person has a salted herring roe, and Naohide is a guest, and the four heads of the house each have two salted herring roe. The fresh salted herring roe is light yellow and crystal clear, and when you take a bite of it, the roe crackles and shatters, and the umami fills your mouth at once, so delicious!

The chips and fries are sprinkled with a little salt and they also taste good.

The last time I ate peanut butter, everyone accepted it well, and I felt that the fragrance was thick and the taste was also very good, and it was quite good to eat it with soba noodles.

After eating, the four owners asked Naohide, "Did you sell it to Kinokuni Yakuza Rihachi?" Hearing that it was not sold, the four heads laughed and told Naohide that they were going to let some children learn to do business with Kijiro, mainly making salted herring roe, peanut butter, potato chips, and French fries to see what the prospects were.

According to Naohide's plan, he needs a large number of helpers in four or five years, and he hopes that the neighbor's children will help him in the future, and it doesn't matter if he can't help but don't mess around, the storm at the end of the shogunate is not a joke, the bones of the unlucky ones are gone, and the lucky ones will not be on the side of the shogunate when it falls. Being a businessman is also a right path, and when Naohide gets a solid territory, he can let people go over again, "A businessman can't be a samurai", Naohide doesn't care about this.

After the meal, everyone was satisfied, everyone got up and went home, he didn't notice that Yingzi was about to cry aggrievedly.