Chapter 198: Shocking
The hot weather in June did not affect Lin Sen's good mood, the hotter the day, the better the ice cubes and mosquito repellent products at home, and there is no shortage of ice cubes at home, there is a hand-cranked fan with salted ice cubes, the house is similar to an air-conditioned room, very cool.
Speaking of which, this hand-cranked fan was unexpectedly popular, and at that time, Lin Sen thought that Li Shimin had specially asked someone to carry away all his own things, which showed that this thing was relatively novel, although Li Shimin had a little revenge, so Lin Sen asked the carpenters on the Zhuangzi to do more together, and he himself had to use it.
I didn't expect this thing to become the darling of Chang'an residents as soon as it came out, although because of the slightly higher price and too many follow-up counterfeiters, it did not become a stable entry like an ice cube, but it can be regarded as an unexpected joy.
With such a good mood, Lin Sen began to take stock of his income during this period. June 6 is half a year, it's time to figure out your family background, so you can know how much you can do to give the Cheng family a dowry, and what is missing.
Originally, Lin Sen relied on several projects as a pillar industry, and the mountain goods and medicinal materials traded with the mountain people, and now they are still bringing stable income, but relatively speaking, this income is no longer too much in Lin Sen's eyes, but only exists as a link with the mountain people.
Of course, you can also subsidize some household expenses for your own farmers, and the croppers are always idle, and they may go to the mountains to find something by the way.
Lin Sen relied on the wood carving, has been doing it, now with the existence of the transformation system, such as red sandalwood has always been a good wood, naturally to do more beautiful themes, put in the Qin family, the Cheng family's shop to consign, is always a lot of money.
Lin Sen didn't plan to let go of this wood carving skill, just practice it on weekdays, but there were relatively few themes, and most of them chose to control the trees to grow easily, without him bothering to refine. Except for the ghost ball made for Cheng Huaiyu, which is a breakthrough, he rarely comes up with new tricks on weekdays.
Of course, he is also brewing a large wood carving, which can also be used as part of the dowry at that time, but it takes more time to design the drawing, and it has not been made yet, but when it is really taken out, it should be able to gain a piece of praise.
Picking the day when Cheng Huaiyu didn't come, Lin Sen also went to Chang'an City to take stock of the projects that he cooperated with others.
Drugs such as Huoxiang Zhengqi Water can still catch up with the sales of this day, and they have already become a standing medicine for the residents of Chang'an City, but the profit of this piece is nothing compared to several other projects.
The soju shop is naturally one of the most profitable industries, although Lin Sen only accounts for 30% of the shares, but he can't stand the large sales and high profits of this thing.
The liquor used by the Datang military, especially the alcohol used for disinfection, is designated to be purchased in this winery, and its own shipping channels are gradually spreading, and now it is the world's famous liquor that markets the entire Datang. The overall sales growth is quite gratifying.
However, if you talk about Chang'an alone, the sales of soju have dropped slightly, after all, the weather is warmer, and he will definitely be affected by the hot drinking of soju.
Fortunately, Lin Sen's wine cultivation skills are becoming more and more superb, and the supply of bamboo leaf green wine is gradually increasing, and this wine has always been in short supply, so on the whole, the total sales volume of Chang'an City is still stable and rising.
In fact, Lin Sen also thinks that drinking soju in summer is really not too comfortable, drinking draft beer and skewers is a perfect match in summer. It's just a pity that there is no beer now.
But Lin Sen thought about it again, no, we can transform plants now, we couldn't brew beer before, it was nothing more than the lack of the most important raw material, that is, hops, but this thing is not a thing for me now.
I just don't know how well people accept beer, and even if they don't approve of it, wouldn't it be nice to make it yourself and drink it?
It's a pity that Lin Sen lacks some understanding of the process of beer brewing, and he just went to Qingdao to visit the green brewery, and it seems that he has to experiment slowly, and he will definitely not see the finished product for a while.
But when Lin Sen saw Du Zikuan, after calculating the income of the Duyi Restaurant during this time, he couldn't believe his eyes, this income actually changed from the previous steady rise and began to decrease.
After Lin Sen carefully flipped through the account book, he first ruled out the possibility of Du Zikuan manipulating the accounts.
Since he taught Du Zikuan the method of loan accounting, this account book is strictly in accordance with the double-entry bookkeeping method, every income and expenditure is remembered very clearly, and the possibility of making false accounts is also greatly reduced.
And Du Zikuan himself doesn't look like this kind of person who eats inside and outside, Lin Sen believes that Du Zikuan himself will not defy the law, after all, since this loan accounting method was secretly spread under Lin Sen's instructions, there have been some people who have been unlucky in it.
But in all industries related to Lin Sen, this method is naturally used, and there seems to be no problems so far.
However, after this method was rolled out in the army after Lin Sen contributed to the military, many guys in charge of logistics in the army were unlucky.
As for why those unlucky guys are all from the family? Or will it be Lin Sen's personal vendetta? That's all incidental, no, that's not there.
I heard that Li Shimin now admires this method very much, and has found some competent people to start sorting out the accounts of the household department. As the department in charge of the Imperial Money Bag, if someone is involved in it, it will be a big case.
Didn't you just start investigating, and you got rid of a household servant from the Cui family, and the amount of money involved in the case is simply jaw-dropping, and the madness of the behavior is also shocking.
This matter is still the focus of heated discussions on the streets of Chang'an City, and Li Shimin is extremely angry about this, and the prestige of the Cui family has dropped a bit.
You said that the family usually has fine clothes and food, and it is just enough to exploit the tenants under their own command, this idea hits the treasury, harms the public and private, even ordinary citizens can't stand this, so naturally they have to spit on this gang of moths.
As for Lin Sen, who contributed this good method, he has always done good deeds without leaving a name, yes, he is such a good person who is indifferent to fame and fortune!
There is such a precedent in the past, Du Zikuan is the old man of the Cheng family again, he has never made any mistakes, and he has always been very good at business before, and the possibility of bringing the only one to the ditch is not very large, this income has decreased, there must be external factors.
"There's a new and more luxurious restaurant over there, their decoration is better, and the guests who come and go are either rich or expensive, and the price is about the same as ours.
But there is no shortage of all kinds of fine wine in the Tang Dynasty, and our wine category is more monotonous in comparison, only the soju produced by the winery and bamboo leaf green, and those few kinds of wine are not sold to us at all.
In addition, their cooking skills are also very good, because they poached our chef. With such a peer, our business here will be a little worse. Du Zikuan was both annoyed and a little ashamed to tell Lin Sen the answer.
"Who's behind them?" The investment in such a luxury restaurant is not low, and it can cut off its own wine supply and poach its own cook, which will definitely not be something that ordinary people can afford.
Even ordinary Guogong didn't dare to play such a ruthless way, you must know that Cheng Biting Jin and their gang of Zi Wuxun are definitely not easy to mess with, and they can't resist such a group of ruthless people when they start a fire.
"I only know that I am from the family." Du Zikuan gritted his teeth and said.
"Rub, it looks like I'm going to have to give them some color." Lin Sen also said unhappily.
But for the time being, I can't think of other ways to hit the family, and it won't be effective for a while, the top priority at the moment is to deal with the challenge of this peer, this unique restaurant is one of Lin Sen's big gains, and he will definitely not watch it decline.