Chapter 22 Exploring the Path to Wealth

Back in the mansion, Zhao Yu immediately took out the two hundred taels of silver given by Yang Shufei and handed them to Cao Feiliang and Song Xing, and let them be responsible for 'recruiting troops'.

Of course, this recruitment is not really recruiting soldiers to buy war horses. Instead, we recruit craftsmen who specialize in distilling spirits. Because my own mansion is too big, and I have few families. Zhao Yusuo placed the recruited craftsmen in his own courtyard, which was better kept secret.

There were a total of eight craftsmen, and in addition to the craftsmen, Zhao Yu also spent eighty taels to hire twenty clever teenagers from the tooth shop. Although it is called hire, it is actually just evading the law, and it is actually buying. The employment is for a long time, but it is often ten or twenty years, and these juveniles sign a contract of 20 years, with a right of first refusal.

Zhao Yu was also forced to do this, what is the most famous in China? Naturally, it's a copycat! Even if the law is relatively sound in modern times, it is difficult to escape the copycat, and it is even more Zhao Yu's distilled spirit!

Some people may wonder that Zhao Yu is the emperor's younger brother, or the only one! Aren't they afraid of killing heads?

Don't look at Zhao Yu's noble status, the people below are copycats, but they will not be soft at all. Don't you see what was the largest cottage in the Song Dynasty? It's a copper coin! The Song Dynasty had a lot of private money, and one or two pieces of silver could be exchanged for a thousand yuan, but it could be exchanged for nearly two thousand dollars! Why is the gap so big? This is because the money exchanged for the former is official money, and the latter is exchanged for inferior money minted by private individuals.

The currency of a country is like this, and it is even more mentioned as the distilled liquor brewed by Zhao Yu.

To prevent commercial spies from coming in, Zhao Yu gritted his teeth and asked Zhao Yu for twenty forbidden guards. The income of the forbidden army in the Song Dynasty was very high, and ordinary soldiers of the forbidden army had two stone of grain and five hundred yuan a month. One stone of rice is 100 liters, and ordinary people in the Song Dynasty ate about one liter of rice a day. In other words, this rice grain is more than enough for a family of six. In addition, spring and winter sleeves, six pieces of silk, one or twelve taels of cotton, with 3,000 clothes.

According to the calculations of the imperial court, a forbidden soldier costs fifty (guan) thousand dollars a year, and Zhao Yu also gritted his teeth to ask for so many soldiers. Fortunately, although these soldiers asked Zhao Yu to cover all their Yulu and weapon replacement, Song Renzong, who was Yulu in the first month, secretly asked the third envoy to give Zhao Yu a branch there.

Ready, Zhao Yu began to distill the liquor. Although you know how it works, distilled spirits are not simply distilled. After distillation, different liquors have different tastes. The length of distillation, the heat and so on, all of these things need to be experimented, and it will take a while to make a liquor that meets the tastes of the people of this era.

Before the distilled spirits came out, the Zhao main store also opened. Although it was promoted to a main store, when it first started, Zhao's main store business was not very good.

Since it is a main store, the price is naturally impossible to continue to be the price of the original foot store, which will inevitably make some old customers shy away. The other is that the service can't keep up, this store was formerly a foot shop, and suddenly it was upgraded to a store, and the service and whatever, it is impossible to upgrade it all at once.

Zhao Yuanwai doesn't care, he has expected these, and what he values is to make money in the future. However, Zhao Yu couldn't wait for that time, and now Zhao Yu threw away the distilled liquor experiment, and now there are only forty taels of silver left! In the homes of ordinary people, forty taels of silver is enough for them to live a good life for two years.

Zhao Yu is different from them, Zhao Yu's family does not talk about those slaves, just twenty forbidden soldiers, a month needs Zhao Yu to pay ten yuan in cash and forty stone of grain, now in the time of green and yellow, the price of rice is relatively expensive, it needs four hundred wen one stone, forty stone grain is sixteen.

In fact, there is no way, Zhao Yu can go to Song Renzong to cry, Song Renzong will not always repel each other with the same surname, and the ten ** will still secretly stuff money to Zhao Yu. It's just that Zhao Yu is proud, just once, and Zhao Yu is unwilling to do it the second time.

In addition, it is okay to ask Zhao Yuanwai for money, but I am afraid that doing so will cause Zhao Yuanwai's loyalty to plummet.

The depressed Zhao Yu called Cao Feiliang and went outside to Zhao's store to drink to relieve his boredom.

Because he just wanted to relieve his boredom, Zhao Yu didn't ask for a box. In the lobby, you can listen to other people's chat, but there are only two people in the box, Zhao Yu and Cao Feiliang, is it interesting to stare at each other?

At this time, it was noon, and there were not too many people in Zhao's main store. At this time, there is no such thing as afternoon tea, especially when it has turned into summer, the weather is relatively hot, and most people are resting under the big trees at home.

After drinking a few sips of wine, the weather was already hot, and coupled with the rising smell of alcohol, Zhao Yu's little face was sweating for a moment. When he boarded, it was even more irritable, Cao Feiliang hurriedly called Xiao Er and replaced him with strong tea, first, to rescue, and secondly, it was naturally cool.

Xiao Er had just served tea here when he heard someone complaining at the table next door. "It's so hot, there's not even a place to be happy!"

The companion comforted: "In such a day, those servants of Wazi are sweating profusely for only a moment, how can they come out to perform at this hour?" Be patient, take a few sips of tea first, go to Director Li's place to do something, and then be happy at night at the Gooling! ”

Zhao Yu's heart moved, isn't this time the time to seize the market?

glanced at Cao Feiliang and quietly went to the private room on the second floor. The private room is not as good as the lobby, and each private room has a young and beautiful girl waiting for it, and I saw Zhao Yu and Cao Feiliang coming up. At that moment, a handsome maid greeted her, a thousand blessings, showing a sweet smile. "The two guests are well!"

Although Zhao Yu is the real owner of Zhao's store, it is not good for Zhao Yu to come out and show his face, so except for a certain level of people, ordinary people really don't know that Zhao's store has changed bosses, even if this maid works in Zhao's store.

Zhao Yu nodded slightly, and ordered: "I am an old acquaintance with your big shopkeeper, you go and invite him to meet!" ”

The maid welcomed Zhao Yu and them into a private room in some surprise, hesitated for a moment, and nodded in agreement.

Zhao Yu sat down, and took advantage of Zhao Yuan's foreign appearance to take a large number of private rooms. The private room was clearly newly renovated, with framed calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls. As a royal family, Zhao Yu, although he is not very superb in calligraphy and painting, there is no problem in appreciating them. Although these calligraphy and paintings are not all made by famous artists, they are also the works of famous masters.

The furniture in the private room is also quite expensive, either sandalwood or nanmu.

Cao Feiliang now really felt that Zhao Yu was worth the money for Zhao Yuanwai, and couldn't help but sigh: "The little prince should be a general!" The admiration of the lower officials is indescribable! ”

(General: Good at commanding generals.) From the dialogue between Liu Bang and Han Xin. ）