9. Feng Pavilion
As soon as the 15th day of Qingming was over, Luan Yi, Guo Jia, Shan Fu, Xi Zhicai, and Mao Jue had to take a break from their busyness and go to the college on time. After finishing the homework in the afternoon, I will return to the tavern in Fengqi Town, supervise the decoration of the craftsmen, continue to improve the decoration details, and at the same time complete the homework handed over by Master Cen. I have to stay up late every day.
The cost of staying up late is obvious. In the classroom, Luan Yi, Guo Jia, Shan Fu, Xi Zhicai, and Mao Jue yawned and fell asleep. For this reason, Old Man Cen reprimanded a few of them, but after the reprimand, when they asked what they talked about in class, several of them were always able to deal with it freely, and the answers were not leaky. made the old man Cen wonder, secretly thinking that it would be possible for a few apprentices to listen to the lecture while asleep?
In fact, he didn't know that Luan Yi had already anticipated this situation and made corresponding arrangements. Every day, the three of them stay up late to work, and the two of them go to bed early and get up early, maintain sufficient energy, memorize the knowledge taught by the master in class, and then return to the wine shop after school to work while teaching to others. The five of them worked in shifts, and the cycle continued, so the old man Cen naturally couldn't ask them. After a long time, Old Man Cen thought that a few of them were studying too hard and stayed up all day to make them distracted during the day, so he stopped scolding them, and often told them that it was the time to grow their bodies, and not to read too late.
Time flies in the midst of busyness. Two months have passed in the blink of an eye, and the main decoration of the tavern has been completed, and only the carved and beautified part is still some time. The craftsmen on the side were busy, and Luan Yi and they began to work on the details. It can be said that everything is done in detail, from the greening of the courtyard to the construction of latrines, and strive for perfection. For this reason, Luan Yi did not move the things of later generations to the Eastern Han Dynasty, just take the thatched toilet as an example! There were no toilets in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the toilets were all in the pits, which were not comfortable enough. So, Luan Yi moved the toilet out. Of course, the toilet he made was not made of ceramic, but a wooden toilet, a small chair with a large oval hole in the middle for the buttocks. A wooden barrel is provided directly underneath the chair to ...... Uh, pretend to be that and that...... Thin and thick.
At the same time, Luan Yi began to shift the focus of his work to furniture manufacturing. Before, Xi Zhicai had already rented a house in Qifeng Town to open a carpentry workshop, and the carpenter master invited by Guo Jia moved in one after another, and there were as many as five people. Luan Yi named the woodworking workshop Yimufang.
With all the personnel and facilities, the carpentry workshop began.
I have to admit that the five craftsmen found in Guo Jia are quite good, and with the exquisite design drawings drawn by Mao Jue, the polished furniture is beautiful. Luan Yi even felt that it was more beautiful than the carved furniture made by machines in later generations, and it also contained a strong sense of antiquity.
The only downside is that the craftsmen are so slow to make a chair that takes more than three days per person and five days for two people to work together to make a table. Luan Yi couldn't wait so long, repeatedly thought about ways to improve the efficiency of craftsmen, and finally came to his senses after thinking about it all night.
He ran to the workshop early the next morning, woke up the sleeping workers, and told them what he had worked hard to do.
In fact, the answer is very simple, that is - assembly line.
As we all know, the degree of division of labor is a criterion for measuring the process of civilization, that is to say, the more detailed the social division of labor, the more civilized the society is, and the relationship between the two is proportional. According to this method, Luan Yi told the craftsmen to let them separate the tables and chairs, one person is responsible for the back of the chair, one person is responsible for the sitting board, one person is responsible for the four legs, one person is responsible for carving, and the last person is responsible for assembling, so that everyone performs their own duties, and with the increase in the number of productions, they will become more proficient and the speed will increase a lot.
In addition, in order to avoid craftsmen being lazy and slippery, Luan Yi also tailored a set of incentive systems for them. Promise them, in addition to the basic salary, will also give them bonuses according to the number of accessories they make, more work, less work, and no work to drink the northwest wind.
When the craftsmen heard that there was more work and money to get, their eyes glowed green, so they worked harder and harder, and with the role of the assembly line, the efficiency of making tables and chairs doubled.
Getting this result, Luan Yi didn't feel anything wrong. Guo Jia, Shan Fu, Xi Zhicai, and Mao Jue were shocked inexplicably, and kept sighing in private that Yi Ge'er was really a genius in the world, and the ideas he came up with in a single thought could double the output of craftsmen. If this kind of flowing water is applied to the production of soldiers...... Mao Jue felt more and more that doing business was indeed not simple, and it was really like governing the country.
In the past few days, Luan Yi has not let Guo Jia and the others be idle. Mao Jue is good at calligraphy and painting. Luan Yi bought a bunch of scarves and let him splash ink, and if he didn't splash it, he had to splash it, three a day, and one could not be missing. The straight painting of Mao Jue's back aches and complains.
The masterpieces painted, Luan Yi selected the best ones and framed them, put scrolls on both ends, and hung them in the private room.
Guo Jia's side has recruited all the servants and shopkeepers. Luan Yi handed over the task of training to Guo Jia and Shan Fu.
Luan Yi first taught Guo Jia and Shan Fu the service methods of the waiters in the Houshi Hotel, telling them how to go, where to put the dishes, and how to greet Yunyun when they see people......
Guo Jia and Shan Fu learned to teach the miscellaneous servants.
Guo Jia and Shan Fu didn't know that because they had such a training history, more than 100 years later, the catering service industry actually set up the two of them as their ancestors, worshipping and burning incense every year. Of course, this is a later story, so I won't mention it here.
The first training session was completed by Luan Yi himself. He first gave a brief introduction to his tavern and told them that his tavern sells not only dishes, but also good service at home. He also explained to the servants what service is: it boils down to serving customers like a father and mother. He then added, "Don't worry, I won't let you serve in vain." After serving a table of patrons in the restaurant, one-tenth of the money paid by the patron at the checkout is a reward in addition to your basic salary, a tenth-tenth of the counter manager, and a one-tenth of the back kitchen.
The little girl's eyes lit up when he heard this. This year's first table banquet is a lot of money! According to this approach, the income is definitely much more than farming.
At the end of the training, Luan Yi also drew a huge pie for everyone. Tell them that the Luan family's industry is big, and there are many of them! As long as they perform well, have high moral qualities, and are shrewd enough, he will recommend them to serve as principals in other shops, and when the time comes, the income can go up to a higher level.
When the little girl heard this, they all smiled, and the corners of their mouths went straight to the base of their ears. Until the end of the first training session, I didn't slow down for a few days, and I savored it all day long: how did such a good pie fall on my head. After tasting it, they vaguely felt that the seven-year-old young owner they met was not simple, and the things they taught them were unique. The partners around him are also extraordinary.
Over there, Shan Fu Guo Jia trained the little guy. Here Luan Yi started to ** cook.
This chef was poached by Guo Jia with a lot of money from a restaurant in Yangzhai that had just closed down. Through a short exchange, Luan Yi saw that this cook didn't talk much, was very honest, and was exactly the character he needed. Let him try to make a few dishes and taste them, and it tastes really good. It made Luan Yi wonder how the restaurant could still go out of business with such a good chef.
Anyway, Luan Yi can be regarded as having picked up a treasure. Every day after school, there is another task - training the cook.
In fact, Luan Yi can't cook at all, and he can't talk about training cooks. But he had eaten a lot of 21st century restaurants in his previous life, and he still can't forget the taste of China on the tip of his tongue.
Among the many post-Chinese cuisines, Luan Yi decided to set Lu cuisine as the keynote of his wine shop. As the oldest cuisine in China, it originated from the Qi Palace and was carried forward from the Confucian family banquet to be more suitable for the taste of people in this era. As for Sichuan cuisine, Luan Yi wanted to try it, but chili peppers, which originated in South America, were not introduced to China until the Ming Dynasty, and there was no one in the Eastern Han Dynasty at all. Without chili peppers, Sichuan cuisine loses half of its charm.
Luan Yi described to Chef Zhao the appearance and taste of many delicacies such as Kung Pao Chicken, stir-fried kidney flower, milk soup and pu cabbage, fried loose pork, sweet and sour carp, etc., according to the memory in his head, and asked Chef Zhao to try to make them. I didn't expect that Master Zhao was experienced and self-taught, and after trying it a few times, he actually did a decent job. Although the taste is not as authentic as in later generations, it is definitely more delicious than the dishes in most restaurants in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In this way, the restaurant can be regarded as having a signature dish.
The signature dish is there, but the wine shop still lacks a signboard. What's it called? The name must be high-end, atmospheric and high-grade. Luan Yi and the others racked their brains, and thought about a bunch of "good again", "Juxianju", and "Zhenyuju", but none of them caught their eyes. simply named after the town where the liquor store is located and called it "Qifeng Pavilion".
In the fourth year of Xiping in the Eastern Han Dynasty, June 15, 175 AD. On this day with a full moon, the decoration project of Qifeng Pavilion was officially completed. Luan Yi, Guo Jia, Shan Fu, Xi Zhicai, and Mao Jue stood in the courtyard, admiring their masterpieces after 3 months of hard work, with a look of relief. Each of them poured a lot into this luxurious and luxurious wine shop, and their sweat remained in every inch of it.
To celebrate. Luan Yi asked Master Zhao to prepare a table of wine and food in advance to reward the brothers and guys who had been busy for a long time. A group of people eat and drink, and they are in full swing.
"Brother Yi'er, do you think that our Fengge business can be popular? What if there are no guests? Seeing that the opening was imminent, Guo Jia felt a little bottomless in his heart, and so did Shan Fu, Xi Zhicai, and Mao Jue, looking nervous, staring at Luan Yi with an inquiring gaze.
Luan Yi smiled and asked Guo Jialai, "Who is popular if such a good restaurant is not popular?" Even if there aren't many customers, I have a way to make him popular. It's up to people! ”
After listening to Luan Yi's words, the hesitant expression on Guo Jia's face disappeared, and he suddenly regained his confidence. He said: "Brother Yi said that it can be fired, but it must not be wrong." The rest of Shan Fu and the others also regained their confidence and didn't smile.
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