After Chen Qun returned to the Tang Mansion, he washed up and fell asleep a little, but Chen Qun, who was lying on the bed, tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and he really couldn't let go of the task of maintaining the rule of the Han Dynasty. But after thinking about it, Chen Qun felt that it was useless to worry about it, and it was better to focus on expanding the restaurant's business. As for the tasks assigned by the Emperor's Divine Order, they can only watch while doing it, and respond at any time.

After Chen Qun made a decision in his heart, he put the task of the emperor's divine decree in the back of his mind, and began to think about how to expand the business of the restaurant as soon as possible.

After dawn the next day, Chen Qun came directly to Luoyang Restaurant to find Guan Thirteen: "Thirteen, how is the restaurant's recent business?" ”

Hearing this, Guan 13 respectfully took out an account book and showed it to Chen Qun: "Family master, this is the flow of the restaurant for most of the year, and all of it has been recorded on it." The average monthly profit of the restaurant is 160 gold, and the profit in the month of wax is slightly higher. Please take a look, the head of the house. ”

Chen Qun nodded: "Good job!" Thirteen, I will send someone to check the bill later. I have come to you today not for the sake of accounting, but for the sake of your own business. ”

Hearing this, Guan 13 hurriedly clenched his fists and said, "Please give the family an order!" Thirteen must do his best to complete it. ”

Chen Qun smiled slightly when he saw the sweat stains on Guan Thirteen's forehead: "You don't have to be so nervous, the thing is very simple, that is, you keep this month's profits, and you don't need to hand it over, but I want you to open the business of Chen Ji Restaurant in every county in the division a month after the year, do you have any difficulties?" You don't have to worry about manpower, the mountain city will give you full support. ”

Chen Qun said this is actually quite against his will, he really hopes that these housekeepers outside will ask him for more manpower, then his pressure will be reduced a lot.

Guan Thirteen thought for a moment when he heard this, then hugged his fists and said: "Family master, in addition to Luoyang, there are five counties in Sili, namely Pingyang, Hongnong, Wenxi, Huojia, and Xinzheng. The subordinates promised to complete the tasks assigned by the head of the family within a month, and the subordinates did not need manpower for the time being, and the 100 brothers who the head of the family had sent here to repair the house had already started a family. They are also taking turns to help in the restaurant now, and they are already good insiders, and they have enough manpower. If the head of the house has extra guards, he can send more. ”

Chen Qun thought for a while and shook his head and said, "No, there are a lot of guards here in Luoyang City, I'm afraid there are one hundred and thirty people, you can assign some to the other five restaurants." And I will come to Luoyang City often, and if there is something to do, I can directly transfer Chen Jiawei over. In terms of manpower, I almost forgot that I had sent you a hundred brothers to repair the house before. In this way, you will take the fifty pairs of novices that I sent to you years ago, and I will take the hundred pairs of veterans and the ten butlers with you. ”

Guan Thirteen hugged his fists when he heard this: "It's no problem, the head of the family." ”

Chen Qun then nodded and said, "Okay, you inform the relevant people to get ready, and come with me after breakfast." ”

"Obey the head of the house." Guan Thirteen clasped his fists at Chen Qun and left with the account book.

After Chen Qun and Wei Da and his entourage finished breakfast in the restaurant, they left Luoyang for Shaomu Mountain City with 100 Chen Kar-wai, 100 couples who were familiar with the restaurant's business, and the ten new housekeepers sent earlier.

After Chen Qun returned to Shaomu Mountain City, he directly took ten new housekeepers and the four of Wei Da to the restaurant in the mountain city: "Wei Da, the three of you go to spread the word that my master Zhao Yun and Xu Shu, Chen Dao, and my three righteous brothers are here, and say that I have something to discuss with them." ”

"Yes!" Wei Da, Wei Er, and Wei San received the order, and they hugged their fists and saluted Chen Qun and left quickly.

Chen Qun looked at the ten new housekeepers in front of him and smiled, "Are you familiar with the management of the restaurant these days?" ”

"Yes, the head of the house!" Ten people hugged their fists in unison.

Chen Qun nodded: "Okay!" It's good to be familiar with it, and then I'm going to expand my business to every state and county in the Han Dynasty, and I'm going to send ten of you to help me take care of restaurants in various states, and each of you will take care of one state, are you confident that you can do it well? ”

When the ten people heard this, they thought about it and hugged their fists and said, "Thank you for the trust of the family master!" ……”

Seeing this, Chen Qun smiled and said, "Okay! Just have faith! I will definitely equip you with a right-hand man, and you only need to ensure the normal operation of the restaurant and take care of the accounts. ”

"Subordinates obey!" The ten men replied with their fists clenched again.

Chen Qun thought for a while and nodded, "The ten of you are in charge of the fourteenth and the fifteenth according to the position you are standing in now, from left to right、...... Twenty-three, have you written down your identity number? ”

"Subordinates remember!" Ten people hugged their fists in unison.

At this time, Zhao Yun was the first to arrive, and when he saw Chen Qun, he smiled and said, "Changwen, didn't you say that you were celebrating the New Year in Yingchuan?" Why are you coming back now, the master plans to come back after the year to surprise you! ”

Chen Qun got up and looked at Zhao Yun and smiled: "Master, don't mention it, I went home in a hurry and was scolded by my father, don't worry about my business!" By the way, master, what surprise do you want to give to the apprentice? Tell the apprentice. ”

Zhao Yun looked at Chen Qun's excited appearance and smiled: "Actually, you kid must have guessed it!" You guessed it right, there are sixteen more guards to be out of the division, ten men and six women. ”

Hearing this, Chen Qun stepped forward and hugged Zhao Yun in surprise: "Master, you are really amazing!" Do you know that these sixteen are exactly what the disciples need right now? The apprentice was thinking about it, so you sent it to the apprentice! It's really great! ”

"Alright, alright! Let go, do you want to pass all sixteen of them over? Zhao Yun smiled.

Chen Qun nodded: "Of course, master, I just have a task assigned to them." ”

Zhao Yun then said something to a big boy behind him, and the boy ran away.

Then Xu Shu and others all arrived one after another, and everyone was curious about why Chen Qun rushed back at this point in time after seeing Chen Qun, and Chen Qun asked everyone to sit down after joking with everyone. At this time, all the sixteen guards who came out of the division also came, and with the addition of the four of them, it was twenty.

Chen Qun sat down and smiled at everyone: "I called everyone here because I need your help with something, if I do this alone, the speed is too slow, and I need to complete it quickly, so I want to ask you to help, after all, the only person I trust now is you." ”

"Changwen, hurry up and say something, right? You don't need to be so spittering. Xu Shu smiled when he heard this, and everyone nodded together.

Seeing this, Chen Qun smiled and said: "That's the case, I plan to expand Chen Ji Restaurant to every county in the thirteen states of Dahan after the year, I want to ask everyone to help me do this, everyone chooses a state, and take my people to help me complete the layout, what do you think?" ”

Hearing this, Xu Shu looked at Chen Qun and said hurriedly: "Changwen, wait, what are you doing with so many restaurants?" ”

Chen Qun smiled when he heard this: "Senior brother, do you still need me to explain this?" I have to feed so many people now, how can I do it without money? The daily consumption of these people is probably an astronomical amount. I don't know how much money I gave to my brother, how much is left of my brother? ”

Xu Shu blinked when he heard this: "This is also true, but you didn't ask before, and I didn't tell you, the three thousand gold you gave me has long been used up, after all, nearly 200,000 people had to eat before, and I had to buy food everywhere, fortunately, I was well prepared, otherwise these 370,000 people would have to starve to death now."

Now you don't have to worry about this, I have already purchased 2,000 gold of grain, and the grain stored in the mountain city will be used according to the current level, and there will be no problem in holding on to the wheat harvest next year. Later, the money used was sent by Guan Thirteen from the Luoyang Restaurant, otherwise I would have asked you for money a long time ago.

The business of Luoyang Restaurant is really good, I can pay 150 gold stably every month, and I have sent nearly 1,000 gold in the past half a year, so I can turn around and be your big housekeeper. But I don't have any money left, and I use it all to buy food. Changwen, you have to think of a way to produce food by yourself, so many people eat, and it is not a long-term solution to buy food. ”

While Xu Shu explained, Chen Qun also quickly calculated the account in his mind, indeed as Xu Shu said, there was no money around him, because it cost three thousand gold to buy slaves, he gave Xu Shu four thousand gold before and after, plus one thousand gold from Luoyang Wine Shop, it was only five thousand gold, Xu Shu received another two thousand gold of grain, and the money was indeed used up.

Chen Qun said with a smile after Xu Shu finished speaking: "Thank you, senior brother, for your dedication to me, junior brother wrote it down." ”

Xu Shu waved his hand and continued: "That's not what I said, I mean that although you have a lot of servants now, the business of Luoyang Restaurant is also good, the business of Luoyang Restaurant alone is almost enough for the expenses of the mountain city, you can open three or five restaurants at most to raise the mountain city, you don't need to open so much." ”

Chen Qun nodded: "It can't be calculated like this, in case there is any change, and I don't have any savings in my hand, then I will be passive!" I had to plan ahead, and I had to do the business of Chen Ji Restaurant in every county of the Han Dynasty, and I had other plans, not just to make money. ”

Xu Shu immediately smiled when he heard this: "I see, I understand!" The long article you have is not small! ”

Chen Qun smiled and said, "Senior brother has won the award, I just don't want to let myself be too isolated." ”

Xu Shu nodded and said no more.

Liu Bei continued: "Fourth brother, just say it directly, how do you need us to help you?" ”

Chen Qun nodded: "That's right, I have now made arrangements in the three states of Sili, Jizhou and Yuzhou, and there are still ten states left that need you to help me."

I arranged it like this, Senior Brother, Master, the three elder brothers and Chen Dao, as well as me, Wei Da, Wei Er, and Wei San, each of the ten of us chose a state to lay out Chen Ji Restaurant.

Each of you brought a hundred taels of gold, a housekeeper, one of my personal guards, five hundred mountain guards, ten couples who were familiar with the restaurant business, and two hundred couples from the mountain city went to the states to open restaurants. ”

After Chen Qun finished speaking, everyone fell into deep thought.

After a while, Zhao Yun said: "Changwen, this matter is not difficult, it's just that which state each of us goes to is still assigned by you, don't let us choose." ”

Everyone nodded when they heard this.

Seeing this, Chen Qun also nodded: "Okay, then I'll assign it." Big brother, you go to Yizhou, second brother, you go to Jingzhou, third brother, you go to Youzhou, uncle goes to Yangzhou, senior brother goes to Xuzhou, master goes to Liangzhou, Wei Da goes to Bingzhou, Wei Er goes to Yanzhou, Wei San goes to Qingzhou, and I go to Jiaozhou. ”

Zhao Yun waited for Chen Qun to finish speaking, and said: "Changwen, the master goes to Jiaozhou, you go to Liangzhou, don't fight anymore." ”

Chen Qun thought for a while and nodded, "It's okay, then the master will bring all the guards who need to practice martial arts." ”

Zhao Yun nodded: "Of course." ”