"Childe, it seems that we can only move back when we go to see Senior Brother Fei?" Yu Youwei glanced at Cao Yi, who was holding her little hand tightly, and said in a low voice.

"Well, there have been a lot of things recently, meet Senior Brother Fei, go find a good yard to buy, and the formation and training of the performing arts department, the endorsement of flower language soap, these are all things I am going to do in the near future, this is still Zuixianlou and the two workshops I don't need to worry about...... No matter what, even so, these things have to be done in half a month, and from the perspective of time, it is indeed a bit rushed. From the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow will start to run these things. ”

Cao Yi frowned and said, it is true that he has just arrived in Yangzhou, and there are many things that need to be solved at hand, and after meeting with Shi Chengxuan tomorrow, he will go to buy a yard first.

Yangzhou as the hub center of the Great Yan Dynasty water and land transportation, all kinds of caravans, salt transportation and Cao Yun from the south to the north are gathered here, the circulation of various commodities and goods, to the city has brought prosperity and wealth far beyond the entire Great Yan Dynasty other cities, but in the same way, the prices here are not cheap.

It is not easy to live in the capital, and in the same way, Yangzhou, which can be compared to Bianjing in terms of wealth, is also not easy to live in. This era can be said to be the most developed era of commerce in the past thousand years, and the status of merchants has been significantly improved, corresponding to the hoarding of private wealth and the gap between the rich and the poor, all of which have reached an extremely astonishing level.

It can even be said that the treasury of the Great Yan Dynasty is rich at some levels, but the people are richer, of course, the poor exist no matter which dynasty they are in, and in a certain aspect, the more rich people there are, the poor will also increase by geometric multiples.

Take Yangzhou as an example, there are the largest number of salt merchants in the entire Great Yan Dynasty, their wealth is not to say that they are rich and rival the country, but at least they can be regarded as rich Jiangnan, but in Yangzhou, they also sell the most wives and sons and daughters, and even in order to survive, even the people who sell themselves are not nothing, adults are generally slaves and servants, and if they are taken by rich and noble families, they can be regarded as living a makeshift life.

But the small men and women will be very miserable, not to mention the women, otherwise there will be no "Yangzhou thin horse" title, as for the men, if they are not very good-looking, the appearance is average, but also as a scholar or a small servant in the family, it is also lucky. As for those who have red lips and white teeth, they are used as prostitutes by those high-ranking officials and even famous Confucians, and they are reduced to male prostitutes like playthings.

Yangzhou is such a city with a huge disparity between the rich and the poor, and it is only the norm here that there are frozen bones on the stinky road of Zhumen, and everyone has long been accustomed to it.

The price here is very expensive, it is a paradise for the rich, like the courtyard that Cao Yi is now renting in Tongfu Building, it costs more than 100 taels of silver per day. If you buy a good yard in a slightly worse place in the surrounding area, it will be almost a few thousand taels of silver, but it is indeed much more cost-effective than renting a yard. Therefore, the first urgent thing after meeting the teacher Chengxuan is

It is to solve the problem of housing first.

The two walked back to Tongfu Building hand in hand, and only then did they let go, not that they were afraid to go back to Red Sleeves and others to see it, mainly because Tongfu Building is the most upscale restaurant in Yangzhou City, and there are a lot of cars, horses and people coming in and out of the door, and it is not good to be seen after all, and now Cao Yi and Yu Youwei and others are not big or small "celebrities" in Yangzhou City.

Therefore, if you can avoid being noticed, try not to be noticed, so as not to be caught by someone and then teach your tongue. After returning to their respective rooms, the time was still early, but it was only time, of course Cao Yi would not go to bed so early, thinking about what he would do in the next few days, and sorting everything out in order of priority, one, two, three, four, this is a good habit he has developed in his last life.

When Cao Yi was sorting on the paper, someone knocked on the door, and then the red-sleeved "childe" sound came.

"Come in." Cao Yi didn't look up and said lightly.

The red sleeves pushed the door in, he should have just bathed, he had changed his clothes, his hair looked a little wet, and the mixed flower fragrance of the special potpourri soap came to his nose as soon as he came in, which made Cao Yi, who was originally planning things and a little dizzy, instantly sober up a lot.

Cao Yi's nose smelled the fragrance, raised his head and smiled at the red sleeves, and said, "Is there something you want to tell me?" ”

Red Sleeves smiled gently, nodded, first poured Cao Yi a cup of hot tea, and then said: "The slave maid has some things to discuss with the son, and she also needs to ask for the authorization and consent of the son." ”

"What's the matter, doesn't it mean that you and Uncle Wang are in charge of the two of you here in Yangzhou, I just came to make soy sauce and then travel the mountains and rivers." Cao Yi said with a smile,

Red Sleeves pouted slightly, and said coquettishly: "Since the son is here, there are some things that naturally have to be asked about the son first, otherwise those who monopolize power in the history books will not end well." ”

"Uh......" Cao Yi was there for a while, and finally smiled bitterly: "What is this, what is this, we are just a small restaurant, a small chamber of commerce that has not yet been successfully established, how can there be any monopoly power." ”

Red Sleeves smiled, "Then our Taibai Chamber of Commerce will become bigger and bigger in the future." I believe in the talent of the son, in the peaceful and prosperous times, business will definitely be able to rival the country, and if you enter the office, you can be the marquis and worship the prime minister, if it is in troubled times, you will definitely be able to become a hegemon. ”

Cao Yi also laughed when he heard this, looked at Red Sleeves and joked: "If I am really in troubled times, I will definitely lay a big country for Red Sleeves, and then let you become the second empress like Wu Cao." ”

"Then I wouldn't dare." Red sleeves stuck out his tongue and shook his head and said, Now there are two restaurants, and one chamber of commerce can't manage it, if it really comes to the son, he said

At that point...... She didn't even dare to think about it.

Then Red Sleeves chatted with Cao Yi about the arrangements for the next few days, and there were several tasks to be carried out at the same time, such as the Drunken Immortal Building, but she could let her teacher Wang Zhiyuan take the top first, because the management personnel who brought several waiters from Jiangning could immediately carry out closed training as long as they recruited the personnel.

In addition, there is the construction of soap workshop and rich egg workshop, whether it is the rental or purchase of the site, the training of relevant personnel, the purchase of production materials, the establishment and determination of relevant supply channels, this large number of things must be completed in a short time.

Because at present, there are only two people in charge here, Qifei and Qingwen, and in order to prevent the leakage of production recipes and methods, in Jiangning, it was according to the assembly line production method, and one person was only responsible for one stage of work. As a result, no one knows the complete steps and methods except for them.

So in Yangzhou, the same is true for the Fugui Egg Workshop and the Soap Workshop, so that Qifei and Qingwen have to do everything themselves, and build the two workshops from scratch, and the pressure in the middle is not small, so Red Sleeves thinks that they can take a belt in the early stage.

At the same time, she and Wang Zhiyuan, as the only two people who have the right to speak and decide besides Cao Yi, have to collect a suitable yard for Cao Yi first, and finally select three or five that are relatively good in all aspects for Cao Yi to finally decide on one, but even if it is three or five choices, you may have to look at a dozen or twenty courtyards in advance to be selected.

This kind of thing, the people below are not good, first, they don't know Cao Yi's preferences, and secondly, they don't have the right to decide, so they don't dare to screen it at all. Of course, it is impossible to let Wang Zhiyuan or Cao Yi go to the primary, they both have more important things to do.

Red Sleeves came over tonight to discuss and determine this aspect of work with Cao Yi, and if it can be carried out synchronously, it will be carried out synchronously, and if it cannot be carried out synchronously, it will be arranged in the order of things.

Cao Yi looked at the order arranged on his paper, and then compared with what Red Sleeves said just now, one by one, and said: "Yes, just do what you say, but I think the work of Qifei and Qingwen, you can just watch from the sidelines, based on their own judgments and decisions, even if you are wrong, you don't have to bring it up immediately, within the scope of the controllability of the matter, try to give them room to make mistakes, and only after missing can they be more impressed." Anyway, it's only zero now, and even if the loss is not too big, we can afford to pay for this lesson. ”

Red Sleeves nodded, and said with a smile: "Childe, then the spokesperson of the soap here in Yangzhou depends on you, after all, Qingwen and I are not very easy to enter the Qinglou to deal with those Oiran red cards, so we will trouble Childe to sacrifice himself for cooperation." ”

"Haha, okay, then I have to reluctantly follow the order to visit the Qinglou!"

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