Chapter 44: Let's open a hot pot restaurant
Dongping Chamber of Commerce worships the Shang Shengfan Li ceremony, which is held every year in February when the second dragon rises. At the time of the Great Song Dynasty, commerce was quite developed, and the imperial court also attached more importance to the power of the business community, so this annual sacrificial ceremony, Dongping Mansion Yin was the chief priest! Li Buyan has just taken up his post in Dongping Mansion and participated in the ceremonial ceremony for the first time, so he naturally attaches great importance to it!
After Li Buyan had breakfast, he dressed in official clothes and took Hua Zixu to the Dongping Chamber of Commerce to preside over the ceremony of worshiping the merchant saint Fan Li! After the rather lengthy sacrifice, the merchant representatives of Dongping Mansion naturally wanted to do their best to be the landlord and invited Li Buyan to participate in the luncheon banquet according to the custom.
According to Li Buyan's original intention, this matter of eating and drinking can naturally be avoided, but since he agreed to Hua Zixu, this chamber of commerce luncheon cannot be excused! Who made him have a very personal relationship with Hanako, and who made him value Wu Song Wujiro very much!
After three rounds of banquet wine and five flavors of dishes, Li Buyan said seemingly inadvertently, a steamed bun shop has recently opened on West Street, where the baked buns in the Western Regions taste extremely delicious. Today, the second dragon raised its head, and it coincided with the grand event of the Dongping Chamber of Commerce, the big guy invited himself to the banquet, and he didn't bring any gifts, so it was better to buy some baked buns, so that everyone could try it!
Lord Fu Yin paid out of his own pocket to invite everyone to eat baked buns, which undoubtedly gave the Chamber of Commerce great face! While praising Li Buyan for his approachability, these businessmen and wealthy men hurriedly sent people to West Street to find the Wu Dalang bun shop and buy the baked buns in the Western Regions that Li Buyan said!
As for letting the minister really pay for his own money, these representatives of the business community, as long as they are not stupid, they will not really be so ignorant. The hundreds of representatives of the Chamber of Commerce at the banquet, although they didn't know what this so-called baked bun was, but since Lord Fu Yin respected it so much, the taste must not be much worse!
After they ate it in their mouths, they found that such an ordinary, seemingly lowly food, was really as the Fu Yin Xianggong said, the taste was indeed extremely delicious, especially the crispy taste on the outside and tender on the inside, so that these businessmen who are used to eating expensive meals want to eat another one after eating one!
Such fresh and delicious food, selling for 20 wen each, although it is a little expensive, but for these businessmen and rich people, how can they care about these small money! These business representatives who are well versed in business even think of sending someone to find Wu Dalang and invest in him to open a few more stores!
On the day when the second dragon raised its head in February, at the luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce, the baked buns made by Wu Dalang in the Western Regions suddenly became famous in Dongping Mansion. There are also good people who make up a smooth sentence: If you don't eat Wuda baked buns, your family wealth will be in vain!
Yesterday for a whole day, Wu Dalang did not sell a single baked bun, today the mansion Yin Xianggong Li Buyan, seemingly casual remarks, let Wu Dalang's baked buns sold out, but also make this Western Regions baked buns famous throughout Dongping Mansion, become one of the delicacies that everyone wants to try!
Exactly the same baked buns, no one cared about them yesterday, but only one day later, but everyone praised and rushed to buy them, is there anything funnier than this in the whole world? Through a small baked bun, it has once again proved that if you want to get rich in the Great Song Dynasty, it is almost impossible not to have a good relationship with the government!
The baked buns in the Western Regions are so popular, Wu Dalang and his wife are naturally overjoyed, in the hearts of their couple, Hua Zixu is like a fairy figure at this time. Otherwise, why did he say that someone would come to buy a large number of them at ten o'clock for lunch tomorrow, otherwise why did he say that there would be a long queue in front of the bun shop, all of which were all in the words of Hua Zixuan!
Since the business is so hot, after Wu Song is busy with all the affairs of the government, he will also bring his subordinates back to help. Those officials who used to be powerful and prosperous, but now they are in front of Wu Dalang's bun shop, helping to maintain the order of the queue and helping guests collect money and change, all of which also shows that Wu Dalang's bun shop, the background behind it cannot be underestimated, and it also cuts off the sinister intentions of those merchants with bad intentions who want to take it by force!
On the second day of Wu Dalang's steamed bun shop, someone came to visit, wanting to learn from a teacher and learn how to make baked buns in the Western Regions with Wu Dalang! According to Wu Dalang's idea, this is a craft that makes money to support his family, and he has taught others, so he won't teach anything about it.
But Hua Zi shook his head when he heard it, not only asked Wu Dalang to accept these people who learned art, but even posted a notice that if someone came to learn art, Wu Dalang's steamed bun shop would treat everyone equally. However, if you want to learn art, you naturally have to pay silver, and the price is clearly marked, ten taels of silver per person per day, and the price will never be discounted!
As soon as this notice was posted, except for a very few people who admitted death, they bought a few baked buns and hid at home behind closed doors. Most of the merchants who want to do this business come to Wu Dalang Bun Shop, called Xueyi, which is actually a door-to-door tutor for helpers, of course, the tuition fee of ten taels of silver per person per day, anyone is indispensable!
In this way, in just ten days, Wu Dalang's steamed bun shop, selling baked buns in the Western Regions, earned three or four hundred taels of silver, and the training fee collected was as much as six hundred taels. After all, baked buns are such a novelty, and you want to do the trick of it all day, it's a fool's dream!
If these people knew that they spent dozens of taels of snowflake silver and learned the baking bun stunt, in a few days, the price would fall all the way, and I don't know if they would jump to scold their mother, but these trivial things are not something that Hua Zixu has to consider!
Wu Dalang's steamed bun shop, in less than 20 days, the investment principal is only a hundred taels, and the profit has reached a thousand gold, Wu Dalang is full of energy every day, and he can wake up with a smile when he sleeps, Pan Jinlian has also become extremely harmonious, and no longer reprimands Wu Dalang for being useless, of course, Hua Zixu, the mastermind behind all this, has become a godfather of the business world in the eyes of Wu Dalang and his wife!
At the same time, dozens of steamed bun shops popped up in Dongping Mansion all at once, and the signboard naturally focused on baked steamed buns in the Western Regions. As for this price, as Hua Zixu expected, from the price of 20 Wen each, it slowly fell to 15 Wen, and then 10 Wen, 8 Wen, 6 Wen, and a few merchants, in order to make small profits and quick turnover, even started to sell 5 Wen!
And Wu Dalang Bun Shop, under the guidance of Hua Zixu, continues to innovate, and successively launches a series of products such as fried buns, soup dumplings, xiaolongbao, barbecued pork buns, custard buns, thousand zhang buns and so on!
Every time Wu Dalang Bun Shop launches a new product, the price is naturally very expensive, and it also attracts Dongping Mansion dignitaries to scramble to buy. Those who want to come to learn art and want to get a piece of the pie naturally hold the silver, pay the tuition fee, and then do the things of the handymen in the Wudalang bun shop, and slowly learn how to make various buns!
In less than half a year, Wu Dalang and his wife have earned tens of thousands of taels of silver. Wu Dalang Bun Shop has also become the leading restaurant in Dongping Mansion, and even other state capitals, as well as merchants in Kaifeng Mansion in the capital, have come thousands of miles to find Wu Dalang to learn from him!
Wu Dalang also joined the Dongping Chamber of Commerce and became one of the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, and his name changed from Wu Dalang to the Wu Daguan in the mouth of everyone! But in the minds of discerning people, Hua Zixu behind Wu Dalang is the real business star! Those business tycoons have also befriended Hua Zixu, and Hua Zixu, who has a transcendent identity, has also faintly become the most powerful business giant in Dongping Mansion!
Everything that happened in the past six months made Wu Dalang fall into the clouds, and sometimes he even felt that he was in a dream. Wu Dalang has always had no ambitions, but now he has tens of thousands of furniture, and he is naturally complacent. But it is normal for people to look at Shu in Long, Wu Dalang is satisfied, and Pan Jinlian, whose heart is higher than the sky, doesn't think so!
On this day, when Wu Dalang and his wife, Wu Song and Hua Zi were drinking, Pan Jinlian looked at Hua Zi and said with a smile: "Childe, you won't let us sell steamed buns for the rest of our lives, right?" ”
What did Pan Jinlian think in his heart, Hua Zixu could probably guess eight or nine points, he saw Pan Jinlian say this, thought about it and smiled slightly: "How much money can you make selling steamed buns?" If you want to be truly rich, you naturally have to dabble in many ways, such as winemaking, silk, salt and iron trading, of course, the more the merrier! ”
Speaking of this, Hua Zixu drank a glass of water and wine, looked at Pan Jinlian and said meaningfully: "But the rice must be eaten one bite at a time, and the silver must be earned by one or two!" The next step is to open a hot pot restaurant first! ”