Chapter 16

After bathing, naturally an attendant will bring clothes. Zhao Yu got dressed and walked towards the bedroom, at this time the sky was already bright, although it was bright, but it was enough to make people feel comfortable. Outside the dormitory, breakfast is ready.

However, looking at the breakfast on the dining table, Zhao Yu, who had just sat down, immediately frowned. A plate of mixed vegetables with only four or five dried radish, a bowl of white porridge, and a plate containing only a piece of pork belly the size of a child's palm.

"What's wrong? Actually this breakfast? Can King Mo Daoben be bullied? Zhao Yu was a little angry.

Zhao Yu's breakfast is naturally not bad in modern times. However, because Zhao Yu has to practice martial arts, the calorie intake requirements are very high every day, and it is normal to eat two or three catties of meat a day. At the same time, Zhao Yu said that most of the food he ate was mutton, not that Zhao Yu had any discrimination against pork, but that he had been a habit since childhood. The Song Dynasty valued sheep over pigs, and the rich and noble families all ate mutton, eating and eating, and Zhao Yu was also used to mutton.

What's more, there is a big gap between the social status of mutton and pork, which can be seen in the price. A boar of 100 catties is just a consistent money, and it costs more than 10 yuan to sell a pound of meat.

And what about the price of sheep? In the area of Beijing, a live sheep costs 130 wen for a catty, and after slaughtering, it is sold, and the fine meat is often 200 wen and a catty, and the almost parts are 100 wen a catty.

The maid who served breakfast was immediately frightened by Zhao Yu, and hurriedly knelt down and said: "How dare the slave and maid have such an idea, all the food consumption is arranged by Cao Changshi, and the slave and maid really don't know anything!" Please forgive the little prince! ”

Zhao Yu frowned, and also understood that what the servant girl said made sense, so he relaxed his tone a little and said, "Get up!" You go and call Cao Feiliang and ask him to get over to this king immediately! ”

"Slave and maid wait for this!" The maidservant girl hurriedly withdrew from the room and went to the compound to find Cao Feiliang.

Chapter 16 Ways to Make Money

didn't let Zhao Yu wait long, Cao Feiliang, who was wearing an ordinary cyan civilian clothes, had already crossed the threshold. It turned out that the maid who served Zhao Yu was afraid of Zhao Yu, and after receiving Cao Feiliang, she waited outside the door, not daring to enter.

Seeing Cao Feiliang, although Zhao Yu didn't care about the enemy's eyes when he saw him, he was also angry. Stretching out his hand and pointing to the breakfast on the small round table, Zhao Yu asked with suppressed anger in his tone, "Cao Feiliang, how did you arrange it?" How did you arrange for such food to be given to the king? ”

Cao Feiliang seemed to have been prepared, stretched out his hand, and said with an innocent face: "Little prince, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice!" In January, the imperial court did not support more than 20 times, and the lower officials also had to cut back on food and clothing. The little prince still has a piece of meat on the plate, and the lower official just has greens and dried radish! ”

After listening to Cao Feiliang's words, Zhao Yu remembered that he was punished by Liu E, and felt uncomfortable for a while. However, he also knew that Cao Feiliang did not eat it for no reason, and mutton in the Song Dynasty was expensive. Suppose Zhao Yu eats a pound of mutton every day, even if it is a slightly worse mutton, it costs 150 wen a day. Ten days is already the same as a half, and in a month, this mutton accounts for almost a quarter of the expenditure. And that's not counting the expenses on cooking, firewood, seasonings, etc.

The most important thing right now seems to be to make money, and so on! Zhao Yumeng's heart moved, and the first thing he thought of if he wanted to make money was naturally to do business, could it be that he still went to work and ploughed the fields? When it comes to making money, Zhao Yu inevitably thinks of officials. Business. Hook. Knot, no way, the word often appears in a certain dynasty. Among the previous dynasties, the most classic is the Ming Dynasty Jin Shang. In the Wanli period, it was even more prosperous, and Zhang Siwei, the first assistant after Zhang Juzheng, and Wang Jiaping were all from Shanxi, among which Zhang Siwei was a businessman's son.

The business model is not so profound, that is, to hire talented Confucians to teach their children and grandchildren with the wealth of business, and to subsidize talented poor scholars with money. After these people make a fortune, they will collude with officials and businessmen, and so on. Slowly, a huge chain of interests was formed, and merchants and scholars complemented each other.

Isn't this the path to power that I have been looking for?

"Little prince, how is it?" Seeing that Zhao Yu didn't speak, Cao Fei, who had always been confident, couldn't help but feel a little hairy in his conscience.

"Nothing more! Go down! Zhao Yu waved his hand.

Although it was inexplicable, Cao Feiliang still saluted and prepared to leave. I didn't want to just cross the threshold with one foot, Zhao Yu had already shouted: "Cao Changshi, do you know what is the most profitable private trade?" ”

Cao Fei's conscience was strange, but an idea immediately popped up. This little prince can't be poor and crazy and wants to be a businessman, right? Although the merchants of the Song Dynasty were not as lowly as those of the Ming Dynasty, they were definitely not a noble profession. If Zhao Yu dignified a prince went to be a businessman, even if they were not punished, they would be disgraced when they went out.

Cao Feiliang's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly persuaded him: "Little Wangye's money and silver matter, it has been in the past year!" But you can't do business! After letting others know, it's not just the impeachment of the imperial history that rains down! And it also greatly insulted the identity of the little prince, and the lower officials asked the little prince to think twice before acting! ”

Zhao Yu didn't hide his intention to do this, waved his hand and said, "What's the business?" Besides, is this king going to come forward? Ministers and ministers are like this, why can't this king imitate it! Just send someone to come forward in this matter, and this king will not show his face. And then again, if you don't do business, you won't have money, so don't you want this king to eat this meal every day for the whole year? ”

Feeling that Zhao Yu's words were not unreasonable, Cao Feiliang answered Zhao Yu's question just now with some scorn. "Xia Guan doesn't know much, but it's clear, since ancient times, most of the people who have been extremely rich have come from salt and iron."

Zhao Yu shook his head decisively and said, "This matter can't be touched!" ”

Needless to say, iron is the weapon of the country. Zhao Yu's identity went to buy and sell iron tools, isn't it a melon field and a plum, which makes people suspect that he wants to rebel? As for the salt, there is no need to think about it, now the salt is sold officially, and it is no longer the Song Dynasty already has, as early as the early Spring and Autumn Period, the famous virtuous minister Guan Zhong of the Qi State invented this method. Now, after thousands of years of historical precipitation, it is no longer so simple to exploit legal loopholes. In fact, the regular salt merchants do not get much money, and it is private salt that really makes money.

Those salt merchants bought official salt from the government, and then bought private salt from secret channels, and mixed it with official salt, so that the private salt was disguised as official salt, so as to increase profits. This method is the safest and the only way to make money. The problem is that Zhao Yu has no way, how to buy private salt!

Cao Feiliang is not from the market, and he really doesn't know much about trading. Seeing Zhao Yu shaking his head, he felt a headache. I almost couldn't help scratching my head in front of Zhao Yu. "Little prince, this is really difficult to hold the lower officials."

"Think about it and take your time!" Zhao Yu knew that if he wanted to hurry, he would not be able to reach it, so he was not too eager.

Cao Feiliang thought for a while, and said: "Xiaguan Ping said that he went back and forth, and I felt that there were more people coming and going from silk shops, jade shops, and grain and oil shops, by the way, so did restaurants!" Especially for wine, the lowest price of a pot of good wine is about 70 yuan, and the profit is extremely high! It is said that one pound of rice can make two or three pounds of wine, and one pound of good japonica rice is just seven or eight pounds! ”

When Zhao Yu heard the word wine, his eyes lit up. Even in later generations, wine was an extremely lucrative industry, standing side by side with cigarettes, and was always heavily taxed by the political axe. And Zhao Yu also happens to have a certain understanding of wine, and Zhao Yu's father started a small brewing workshop in the countryside to earn the first pot of gold.

Even if it is developed in the future, this small workshop is still operating. Ping said that when he returned to his hometown, Zhao Yu also returned to the small workshop to play, and he was more familiar with the situation inside.

Moreover, Zhao Yu is also familiar with the wine tasting of the Song Dynasty, after all, he lives in the palace, and he usually comes into contact with tribute wine. What is tribute wine? Naturally, it is the best wine, who dares to make up for it indiscriminately?

Although there were stills in the Song Dynasty, they were very simple, and a lot of gas was lost in the process of distillation, and there were not many so-called real spirits, and the cost was very expensive. It is likely that after ten catties of liquor are distilled, there is not a pound of weight. The best spirits are generally in their 40s. However, in the case of ordinary liquor is only about ten degrees, this kind of spirit is already very powerful.

And there are not many such spirits, even if it is soju and yakiniku knives, it is usually about 20 to 30 degrees. Moreover, the koji used at this time was basically Daqu and Maikoji, and there was no problem with this type of koji, but the problem was that later generations invented a kind of koji specially used for distilling spirits, called Dakoji.

Zhao Yu didn't know what the benefits of using him to make wine were compared to other koji, but since he had become a special distilled spirit, he naturally had his own uniqueness. With advanced stills and koji in hand, coupled with a strong background, Zhao Yu didn't believe that he couldn't get involved in the Tokyo restaurant.