Chapter 136: I have to make money before I leave Beijing

Jiang Feng was a little puzzled, why the price he quoted to Xia Cuiyu was one percent, the other party was suddenly so angry, and after saying that sentence, he saw that Xia Cuiyu, who had been smiling, was stunned for a moment, and then stood up from his position with a blue face.

Looking at the young woman in front of him without even saying a word of goodbye, she walked straight out of the house, Jiang Feng was a little anxious, the dock of the fleet was controlled in his own hands, there must be such and such benefits, even if it was not money, it was negotiable, but since the Xia family raised the issue of benefits.

Don't be a Yicheng Wouldn't you be too sorry for yourself, do you want too much, Jiang Feng stood up and chased him out with regret, but Xia Cuiyu, who was wearing a long skirt, was not slow, got into the carriage in a few steps, poked his head out and glanced at Jiang Feng, who was chasing him, and the carriage drove away.

"Why are you in such a hurry, the price can continue to be discussed!!"

Shouting at the carriage that was leaving, Jiang Feng inexplicably turned around and returned to the house, thinking about it, Xia Cuiyu's expression when he left didn't seem to be angry, but more like embarrassing shame.

Two days later, Jiang Feng and the Xia family reached an agreement, after they went to Yantai Mountain to guard, they would provide a small port to the other party, on the condition that it was 10% of the income.

On the third day after the agreement was reached, the Ministry of War and the Jinyi Wei Zhenfu Division issued a document together, and Jiang Feng, a hundred households of Jinyi Wei in Nancheng, was transferred to the town guard of the Qianhu of Yantai Mountain, the left guard of Dengzhou. The original 1,000 households moved to a certain Wei in Laizhou, and the 1,000 households in Yantai Mountain were temporarily represented by Jiangfeng 100 households.

When the civil officials in Beijing go to the local government to be officials, they are generally a few grades higher than the grade in Beijing, and the more noble the position, the higher it is, for example, Bachelor Liu is just a bachelor from the fifth grade of Hanlin, but he went to Shandong but was directly promoted to participate in politics from the third rank of the political envoy, and he was promoted to the fourth level.

The same is true for military attachés, Jiang Feng was transferred from the fat difference of Jinyiwei in the capital to guard the thousand households in Yantaishan Town, Shandong, although everyone knew that according to the usual practice, Jiang Feng would be promoted to a thousand households in a short time, but no one thought that this was a promotion, but a disguised denunciation.

However, everyone also understands, after all, it is the backer who has fallen and offended too many people in the capital, so it is better to go to the place to go to the sky and the emperor is far away.

After Jiang Feng received the text, he was not in a hurry to go to his post, anyway, the time of the military department was just to ask him to arrive before the Spring Festival next year, and no one urged him.

The large and small restaurants in the Beijing are now doing the catering industry, and each is closely staring at the outside news, not daring to relax, and this year there are all kinds of unheard of tricks in the Beijing restaurant. What to taste, what morning tea, the restaurant is divided into a number of grades.

Anyway, many restaurants have made a lot of money in these new things, and in the past, there were several excellent restaurants in Beijing and nearby cities such as Baoding, Cangzhou, and Tianjinwei, and the consumption was carried out in their respective places.

Now it's different, there is already a saying that Jiangbei wine and food are all in Beijing, and rich people from all over the world are famous one after another, and now in Beijing, the profit that can be earned by opening a restaurant is no less than the profit of Qinglou Gambling House. This can also be regarded as Jiang Feng's coming to the Ming Dynasty as a butterfly flickering its wings caused by the violent wind.

The businessmen who do the restaurant are extremely sensitive to all kinds of news that can make a fortune, and there may be something outside that can make the restaurant famous overnight. Recently, some medium-sized restaurants have started to sell something called "fresh powder", a gray powder.

However, this thing is placed in the dish, it does have a very magical effect, and the taste of the dish is almost immediately on a higher level, of course, the old chefs of the upper grade basically know that this taste uses dried shrimp and crab powder with umami removed. Or the old soup can do it, but the price is not the same, the shrimp and crab are dried and ground into powder umami, but the umami is far inferior to this gray powder, and it is fishy.

After comparing the cost and taste, it is obvious that this fresh powder is easy to use, and the money needed for the old soup and shrimp and crab is not cheap. And the man who sold fresh flour still said mysteriously:

"Do you know Huifeng Building, that used to be a broken restaurant that was nothing, but now it is the twelfth floor of Jingshi, and it is making a fortune on fresh powder."

The restaurant that was found by the person who sold fresh noodles is well-known in Beijing, and it is a six-grade restaurant, and its name is Meimeizhai, which means that there are a few good dishes. The owner though is not ambitious.

But in the catering industry in Beijing, who doesn't know the development of Huifenglou and Jiangfeng, although Jiangfeng is indeed arrogant and fierce, but the food of Huifenglou is really delicious, even the home-cooked side dishes have a fresh and fragrant taste.

Now this person is selling it to the door, but the price of a pound of gray fresh powder is only five taels of silver, even if he is deceived, he will admit it, anyway, there will be no loss that hurts his muscles and bones. However, after buying it, the chef and shopkeeper of Meimeizhai were stunned when they tried the taste, it was indeed very different, and the spinach soup with little water was dipped in chopsticks and thrown into it, and it immediately tasted delicious.

The person who sells fresh noodles roughly said the amount of these things in the dishes, and the restaurant that bought this fresh noodles used up the fresh noodles according to this ratio, and it took nearly 20 days to use up the fresh noodles, but the business in the store was obviously much better.

But in the past 20 days, I have earned nearly one hundred and fifty taels of silver, which is amazing, the shopkeeper of Meimeizhai and the store are total, and they are ready to count the silver on the counter next time, and buy a hundred catties and put it in the store for standby, which is a good thing that fell from the sky, and these people have heard that the shopkeeper of Huifeng Lou does not know what is going out of Beijing, is it that the fresh powder has something to do with this,

I don't know why the news of this fresh powder spread, naturally all the restaurants in Beijing have heard of it, and presumably Huifeng Lou also knows about it. It was said that he saw their owner Jiang Feng in Huifeng Building and slapped his apprentice a few times, and smashed the table, chair and bench.

The man who sold fresh noodles had made an appointment with Meimeizhai to meet in a month, but when there were still five days before the second transaction, almost all the shopkeepers and shopkeepers on the twelfth floor except for Huifeng Lou appeared in this small delicious dining hall, and the saint of Chen Gou'er, the superintendent of Shangshan, was still heavy.

Therefore, Chen Bei's mellow and lou is naturally the leader of these people, and there are also a few people from the four-grade big restaurants sitting around in the eleven restaurants, and they all bring the cooks or the people with the most sensitive sense of taste in the store. There is still a little bit of fresh flour left, and at this time, it is evenly divided into many portions and placed in front of each restaurant.

The master who was in charge of tasting the dishes in Mellow and Lou took the chopsticks and gently dipped them in his mouth, closed his eyes, tasted carefully, and when he opened his eyes, he was already quite surprised, and said to Chen Bei beside him in a low voice:

"Owner, the taste of this thing is very fresh, if it is made of delicacies from the mountains and seas, it may not be of much use, but when it is used in ordinary materials, the effect is great."

Most of the people around him followed their own shopkeeper to say similar words, Chen Bei raised his eyebrows, and thought in his heart that it was no wonder that Huifeng Lou was so miraculous at the food conference, it turned out that there were these things at work, if these things were all owned by their own restaurant, wouldn't it be another sharp weapon.

Thinking of this, he stood up and shook his head, and said:

"The shopkeeper of Fang Cai Meizhai said that the person who sold this fresh powder still has stock in his hands, how can such a good thing be enjoyed by a family, why don't I sell it and distribute it to everyone?"

As soon as this sentence was said, there was a sound of discussion below

"If this thing is from Huifeng Building, it is Jiang Feng's thing from one hundred households, and the murderer is a bastard who dares to beat even if he is the son of the prince, what if he provokes him."

"Don't worry, Zhang Yongyi has a stroke, who else will he rely on. Otherwise, how could they be busy guarding the town! ”

Chen Bei listened to the following discussions, and while thinking about how to use these fresh noodles after getting them, he suddenly heard someone below saying in a weird manner:

"Does the meaning of the fair distribution of alcohol and building in the middle mean swallow it all?"

Chen Bei was told that he was angry, and he glared at the person who said this, but he was also the boss of Jude Loujiang on the twelfth floor, and he also had a strong backstage, and he didn't care too much about Chen Gou'er, who was still the food supervisor, and he was helpless against him. Thinking of this, Chen Bei swallowed his anger and said with a smile:

"I don't know what Boss Jiang thinks?"

……

Everyone made a distribution, and the twelfth floor ate a total of eighty percent, and the rest was shared by others. Unexpectedly, the person who sold fresh flour was even more well-informed, and after the distribution was over, the person who sold fresh flour actually found Mellow and Lou directly. Chen Bei was overjoyed, thinking that he could eat it all.

In order to avoid the other party's remorse, he directly raised the price of fresh powder to six taels per catty, but the seller obviously felt that the strange goods were required to be eight taels of silver a catty. And to make it clear: if you don't buy it here, someone else will buy it.

It's not that he doesn't want to be hard, but it turns out that there may be the shadow of the twelve regiments and battalions behind the other party, thinking that after Zhang Yong's stroke recently, the king of Huifeng Lou left, could it be that the regimental camp wanted to pit Huifeng Lou for some silver, so he simply bought it in a proper manner. Presumably, Huifeng Building, which is thriving, will definitely decay quickly if it is drawn from the bottom of such a kettle.

Chen Bei paid 5,000 taels and bought 600 catties, and the chef checked them bag by bag, and they were indeed fresh powder. And the person who sold the noodles swore that according to the news of a certain shopkeeper in Huifeng Building, there would be no more production of fresh noodles - this is natural, because Jiang Feng has almost dug up the sea intestines.

The same thing also appeared in the three largest houses on the twelfth floor, more than 2,500 catties of "fresh noodles" were sold for 21,000 taels of silver, and then the person who sold the noodles disappeared without a trace.

Ten days later, Jiang Feng was in the wine shop opposite Huifeng Building, holding a stack of scattered silver tickets and following Zhao Xiucai and said:

"Exchange the 21,000 taels of silver bills at the Huicai Money Village for a whole and exchange them for their exchange."

casually took out a few silver tickets from the iron cabinet on the edge of the table, handed them to Zhang Liang, who was smiling on the side, and said with a smile:

"Your cousins are doing well, take the four thousand taels to them."

Sea intestine powder - Jiang Feng bought Zhao Xiucai and Tie Dan to share fifty taels, took a boat to Yantai for three taels of silver, purchased sea intestines and dried them into powder for three hundred and fifty taels, and transported them back to Tianjin Wei Institute to find Zhuangzi and store them for a total of one hundred and thirty taels, a total of six hundred taels, and sold four-fifths of the inventory this time to get 21,000 taels of silver, making a total profit of 20,000 taels and 400 taels.

This is the last pot of gold caught in the capital, and fifty percent of the shares were given to Lu Bing, who was quite happy, and he had already made it clear that he would not interfere with the operation of the entire restaurant, as long as the silver was divided at that time. However, Jiang Feng also knew that such a thing must not be sloppy.

So I still insisted that the other party sent a bookkeeper to Huifeng Building, and the two sides jointly managed the income and expenditure of the money, Jiang Feng calculated, if he was running this restaurant, nearly 6,000 taels of silver would be recorded every month, and the profit would be about 4,000 taels, but after taking over, Jiang Feng made it clear to the left-behind steward Wei and his own account manager that as long as 1,500 taels per month was considered to be a complete task.

After all, Lu Bing's power will only grow in the future, and it is also appropriate to spend money to buy a favor.

There are only more than 300 catties left in Huifeng Building, and when they were first taken out and sold to other restaurants, Zhao Xiucai changed the image of being cautious and didn't dare to talk more all year round, and argued with Jiang Feng, because in Zhao Xiucai's eyes, sea intestine powder is the foundation of Huifeng Building's start, and it is a treasure that turns stones into gold.

Jiang Feng smiled, he was still quite happy about Zhao Xiucai's anger in his heart, because Zhao Xiucai's argument was to let go of the previous knot and change back to his previous mentality, Jiang Feng explained leisurely:

"Didn't Lao Bao say that if you boil shrimp and crabs or big bones in the sea, there will be a similar umami, but in this way, the silver spent is much bigger, but now the twelfth floor of the Beijing Division is short of this money, everyone earns this environment, earns a few clean windows, earns the chic here of me, I am elegant here, now we don't care about the little money, we don't spare the materials, the heat is not bad, the level of the people who cook is there, how can the things be unpalatable, Instead of these sea intestine noodles being there to add umami to our dishes, it is better to go and make a fortune in front of us first. ”

These words made several people present nod their heads again and again, but after they all went out, Jiang Feng chuckled there and said to himself:

"Do you still think that we will open a restaurant in the future?"

There is also a small episode in the past few days, at noon a few days ago, Zhang Zhenbaihu came to the wine shop opposite Huifeng Building and had a conversation with Zhang Liang, Zhang Zhenbaihu asked his son directly in front of Jiang Feng, and said softly:

"Da Liang, your master is going to Yantai to guard, do you want to go with him?"

Zhang Liang nodded affirmatively, Zhang Zhen sighed, his expression became serious, but the second question shocked the people in the room, and asked:

"If you go to Shandong, my Zhang family will no longer recognize you as a son, are you still willing to go?"

When this sentence came out, Jiang Feng almost fell off the chair, thinking to himself how could he ask his son like this, Zhang Liang was shocked when he heard this, but he was not as excited as others expected. The young brocade guard rubbed his hand on his forehead a few times, obviously quite difficult to decide.

Jiang Feng was about to interject to say something, but Zhang Zhen over there turned his head and said a few words:

"I don't know what my son is doing with you, but I know that what you are sitting on is not good enough to make my Zhang family all over the house, you are too bold, I was really confused at the time, I actually asked him to learn boxing with you, and it is too late to regret it today."

The considerations over there have already come to fruition. Zhang Liang opened his mouth slowly but firmly and said:

"I want to go with the master, it's too boring to live in the capital for a lifetime, grandpa has a mediocre life, and you are also a mediocre life. The master told me that if a person who learns martial arts does not see blood, he will not live, and I will follow the master to break through. ”

As if he had expected such a result, Zhang Zhen took out a document from his arms and followed Zhang Liang and said:

"Put a handprint on this, and we will have nothing to do with each other from now on, and we will go our separate ways."

Zhang Liang didn't hesitate, bit his finger and pressed it on it, Jiang Feng looked at the two of them obviously severing the relationship between father and son, but the expressions of both parties were not so excited, and he couldn't help but wonder a little, thinking that it was a fraud or another purpose, and he would not perform so openly in front of him.

After pressing the handprint, Zhang Zhen over there returned to his fatherly appearance, reached out to pat Zhang Liang's shoulder, said a few words and walked out of the door.

Three days have passed since the incident, Jiang Feng is still wondering what is the problem behind the severance of the relationship between father and son, Zhao Xiucai has already gone to the money bank to exchange silver tickets, Zhang Liang just took four thousand taels of silver tickets out to his cousins, it is said that although Zhang Liang has broken off the relationship with his own family, he is still closely connected, and he does not shy away from himself, which is really inexplicable.

Wang Qinian's stay in the capital to operate has already opened four or five "little profits", which is also given to Lu Bing 20% of the shares, "a little profit" is no longer used to record conversations, because as soon as Jiang Feng leaves, there are no trivial matters in the market that need to be paid attention to. However, Lu Dutang is greedy for money, and the meals of each yamen of Jinyiwei are covered with a little profit, Jiang Feng is quite impressed by this, and the profit must be indispensable, of course, it can be seen from the fact that the people in the canteens of those contracting units in modern times are so fat that they are oily.

There were already three carriages parked outside, and Jiang Feng himself had nothing to do in the Beijing Division, only Zhang Liang and Zhao Xiucai still had something to take away. Since Jiang Feng had solved the previous crisis, for the sake of his own safety, it was naturally impossible for him to continue to live in the city.

Now including all the Tieding, including more than a dozen families in the fifth floor village, all live in a manor near Tianjin Wei, and the Su sisters also live there, so after Jiang Feng himself made the last money here, he left with Zhang Liang and Zhao Xiucai.

Before leaving, most of the silver deposits at each counter were taken away by Jiang Feng, leaving only the amount that could be operated, and now there were 200,000 taels of silver in the leather pocket on Jiang Feng's chest, not including the 16,000 taels that Zhao Xiucai immediately exchanged back.

Zhang Liang had already rushed back on horseback, Jiang Feng saw his apprentice coming back, closed the door of the wine shop, and then stepped on the horse, Zhao Xiucai had already appeared at the corner of the street. Zhang Liang was just about to say hello, but found that Jiang Feng was looking at Huifeng Tower and the surrounding houses with great nostalgia.

His eyes were full of nostalgia, Zhang Liang didn't make a sound in his interest, at this time the door of Huifeng Building opened, Bowen didn't say anything on his face, just knelt down on the steps, kowtowed heavily and didn't get up, Jiang Feng looked down, laughed a few times, and scolded with a smile:

"Uncle, it's not like I'm not coming back, what are you doing like this girl, get up, you have to do business today!"

Behind Bowen, Steward Wei and the guys in the store also bent down and knelt down with excited faces, the corners of Jiang Feng's mouth twitched, took the silver ticket handed over by Zhao Xiucai, and then shouted at the cart:

"Gone!!"

The convoy began to walk towards the street with a few shouts from the grooms. When he saw Wang Qinian, who was also kneeling there, at the corner of the street, Jiang Feng scolded in a low voice, and then quietly wiped the corners of his eyes with his hand. If the convoy in the south city did not want to swagger, it was to leave the city at the southwest gate.

The convoy was not going fast, and when it was about to leave the city gate, a horse chased after him, Jiang Feng looked back and was a little stunned, it turned out to be Zhang Liang's father, Zhang Zhen, a hundred households in brocade. The cart and the horses stopped, and Zhang Zhen chased after him and slapped Zhang Liang's back of the head.

He scolded in his mouth:

"What are you doing with the stinky boy walking so fast!"

Then he took off a burden on his back and stuffed it to Zhang Liang, and said:

"This is the clothes your mother gave you, but you have to bring it, the sea breeze in Yantai, Shandong is heavy in salt, you have to practice your legs and feet more."

After saying it quickly, he greeted Jiang Feng and turned the horse's head to leave, Jiang Feng was a little stunned, and finally couldn't help but ask Zhang Liang and said:

"Didn't your father cut off relations with you, how can you ......?"

"Master, don't you know, the Jinyi Wei in Beijing is raiding the house every day, often a family with different masters, no one can tell when there will be a time in the future, if there is a father and son brother swords and soldiers meet on the day, set up a document earlier to break off contact, it can be regarded as early preparation, didn't I follow the master you?"

Jiang Feng coughed dryly a few times, this question made him seem quite ignorant, it was better not to be ugly, the convoy continued to move forward slowly, Zhang Liang over there groped a few times in the baggage, controlled the horse to approach Jiang Feng, and handed a paper ball to Jiang Feng, Jiang Feng took the paper ball and carefully unfolded it, and found that there were more than a dozen words neatly written on it:

"Liu Shunhua left Beijing on the sixth day of November to go to Shandong to take up a ......"