In the fifth year of Kaiyuan, in May.

Chang'an City, West City.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is getting hotter.

The market in the West Market has not become depressed because Chang'an City has opened up the market and demolished the walls. On the contrary, as the situation in the west has stabilized and the Silk Road has reopened, countless merchants and travelers have converged on Chang'an.

This is an important city on the Silk Road, and it is also the commercial center of western Daqin, and even formed an entrepot trading city.

Noon approached.

The people of Zhufang in Chang'an, the stewards of the aristocratic officials' mansions, and many merchants who came to Chang'an to buy goods for resale to other places, all poured into the West Market.

The square wall of Chang'an has been demolished, and the original square street where the street was opened to the door has now become a lively street market, and even several famous square market commercial streets have been initially formed.

But no matter what, the West Market is still lively, and it is now the largest Hu goods trading and distribution center in Chang'an and even in the entire Daqin Guanlong area.

All the world's goods, here is everything.

There are rows of spice shops, and there are orchids of all kinds of styles standing at the door.

Zhang Chao walked on the street, his eyes were almost overwhelmed, and his footsteps couldn't keep up with the father in front. The couple opened a food shop in the West Market, but they specialized in selling yellow steamed buns made of millet seeds, because of their unique taste, soft and sweet steamed buns, so they were deeply liked by the traders and people in the West Market, and they could even fight with the sesame pancakes of the Sogdian Hu people, and called it a double master.

Dad is a veteran of the army, one eye was injured and blind during the war, covered with an eye patch, but the body bones are still very strong, he used to be a spearman, but he used to use a family heirloom iron gun, so he was nicknamed the old iron gun.

In his early years, he was also regarded as a war in the East, he was a soldier of the Sui Dynasty, he also rebelled, he voted for Yang Xuangan, followed Li Mi, surrendered to Wang Shichong, and also voted for Li Yuan, and finally after the city of Chang'an was broken, he was attached to the general Wang Luo Siye.

However, in the first battle of Dafeichuan, he injured his eye, so he retired from the army after the war.

In the suburbs of Chang'an, he had an average of 100 acres of land, and because he had no children under his knees, he was lonely, so he accepted a young monk Zhang Chao as his stepson.

Although the old iron spear has retired from the army, the hundred acres of land are still there, so life is okay. And the stepson of this harvest is also smart, he has a secret recipe, from the lake alkali can be refined a kind of alkali that can be added to the pasta, making the pasta soft and acid-free.

When the two of them were in the farm, they also made some steamed buns to sell, and later became famous, so they simply came to the West Market to rent a shop and sold the old iron gun brand yellow steamed buns, and the business was very prosperous.

"San Lang, if you want me to say, we don't need to deal with that person, our business is doing very well, there is no need to sell."

The young Zhang Chao withdrew his gaze from a wonderful Persian orchid, hurriedly walked a few steps, and followed his father, "Ayah, that person is the Cui family, he used to order buns from us, and recently he has ordered more and more, and now he proposes to buy a child, this is a popular thing, so I want to sell it directly." ”

After all, when they order here, firstly, the two of them can only do so much every day, and it is impossible to have a lot of supplies for Cui Steward, and secondly, it must be more expensive to buy them every day than to do them themselves.

Dad is a conservative character, and thinks that it is very good to hold this secret recipe in his hand now, and he can earn him a few times a day, and he is always happy.

But young people have young people's thoughts.

"Aye, our shop is still too small, I plan to wait for this recipe to be sold, and use the money to simply buy our shop, and then open a restaurant, I will definitely make more money then." When we have money, let's build a big cave with three rooms and nine houses, and then bring a large courtyard, buy a cow, buy a horse, and buy a mule. At that time, Dad, you will marry Aunt Seventh into the door, and life will be much more prosperous. ”

Dad smiled when he heard this, "Your baby just thinks a lot." ”

The two of them arrived at their own shop in the West Market, and today they simply closed for a day because they wanted to talk about business.

The shopkeeper Cui has already been waiting there, this shopkeeper Cui is a member of the Cui clan in Qinghe, but because he is a side branch, he gave Chang'an County's Gongcao military Cui Shanfu as a foreign house manager, responsible for running a restaurant of the Cui family.

This Cui shopkeeper is chubby and round, and his ability is still very good, with the signboard of the Cui family, the operation of the Fumanlou is booming, and the entire Chang'an has No. 1.

Although the five surnames and seven families are not as good as in the early years, they are still famous families for thousands of years.

As soon as Cui Fatzi saw the two of them coming, he stepped forward with a smile.

"Old Iron Spear, San Lang, you two have already thought about it?"

Zhang Tiegun said, "If Steward Cui wants to buy it, it's okay, but you have to talk to me about the specifics." ”

"Don't worry, I won't let you two suffer, I'm willing to pay 500 yuan to buy it."

The young man was fair-skinned and smiling, but he was not in a hurry.

"Steward Cui, let's talk inside."

I opened the door and went inside.

The old iron gun made Cui Pang a cup of tea, and then went to the side to clean up the shop.

"Zhang Sanlang, I've already brought the money."

"Cui is in charge, there is no hurry, the sale has to be discussed, but it has to be discussed clearly. You also know that our family's yellow-faced steamed buns have a number one in the entire Chang'an City, how many people want to buy every day have to queue up, it's late to be gone, and those who have eaten it are said to be good, don't hide it from you, this business can now make a few times when we see the sky, and in January, there are hundreds of profits, you say five hundred, in fact, we have more than a quarter of profits. ”

Cui Pang smiled and said, "Having said that, the business will be good and bad, and it will not always be like this, as long as you respond to these five hundred yuan, it will go directly into your pocket." With this money, wouldn't it be more profitable to do other things? ”

Zhang Chao didn't follow the fat man's words, but directly took out a piece of paper, on which a lot of content was written.

"Cui's shopkeeper, he is kind and wealthy, everyone earns money together, and the emperor now also encourages everyone to make money in industry and commerce. It's my pleasure that you like my approach, and you see, this is a little bit of a deal I've proposed. ”

Cui Pang took a look, and the more he looked at it, the more he frowned.

Originally, he wanted to pay 500 yuan, and he bought this secret recipe directly, and it would be his exclusive in the future.

But now, according to this Zhang Saburo's proposal, there are several trading methods.

The first is to transfer only the formula for making yellow steamed buns, but not including one of the exclusive materials, the alkali production method, after the Zhang family transfers this yellow steamed bun production method, they are willing to continue to provide them with alkali for sale, and this transfer is also divided into two kinds, one is exclusive possession, and the other is not limited to exclusivity.

Prices also vary.

The other is to buy both the production method of yellow bun and the method of refining alkali, which is also exclusive and non-exclusive.

But even if it is the first way to only buy yellow steamed buns, Zhang Sanlang will ask for 500 yuan, and if it is exclusive, it will cost 800 yuan.

The second type is even more expensive, even if it is not an exclusive possession, it costs 1,500 yuan, and if it is exclusive, it costs 3,000 yuan.

"Zhang Sanlang, you're not interesting enough, you didn't say that before." Cui Pang is unhappy, no matter how good the yellow bun sells, how can it be worth that alkali?

"Shopkeeper Cui, before you said that you wanted to buy my prescription and proposed 500 yuan, I didn't agree? I just said that I will talk to you in detail today, you see that my shop is so small, the two of you can make a few dollars a day, and you will say that you want to buy both of my prescriptions for 500 yuan, how is this possible. ”

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