While drinking beer and chatting, there was a sudden commotion downstairs.

The German restaurant is not an ordinary tavern, although everyone usually eats lively, but it is not too noisy, but at this time, the sound from downstairs is too loud.

Liu Jun frowned.

Lina's cousin, Amelie, trotted upstairs and reluctantly reported to Lina. "That Chen official is here again, he just ordered several dishes, all of which are not available in our store, and he is making noise downstairs."

Amelie is eighteen or nineteen years old, with a small finch on her face, but she has long legs and amazing ****. She speaks Mandarin very ordinary, with a few German words interspersed from time to time. The waiters in the shop are basically immigrants from Germany, and the service in the front store are all young women, Lina has conducted uniform training for them, invited female gentlemen to teach them Chinese characters, and asked them to speak Chinese in the store.

"I'll send him away." Liu Jun put down the knife and fork. He is no stranger to this Chen Daguan, don't look at the German hotel seems ordinary, but since this has become a place where the emperor often comes, the proprietress has become the emperor's woman, and even this store has the emperor's investment, so naturally it can't be treated casually.

Dongchang, Jinyiwei, Guards and Guards, Jiumen Infantry Yamen, Wucheng Terracotta Division, Shuntian Police Department, etc., have taken special care of this place, it can be said that there are many shops and stalls in this vicinity, and it is not clear which is which of the yamen leaders sent by the henchmen to guard there, and it is impossible to say which passer-by, which store is the guest, which yamen's cadre.

Chen Mingxia often comes to German hotels, and he is still a new science and technology explorer, and he has revealed his admiration for the proprietress, so he has naturally been on the list of key concerns. If Liu Jun hadn't given instructions, as long as it wasn't too much, don't interfere. I'm afraid that Chen Mingxia has disappeared a long time ago, not to mention that he is a Tanhua or a Hanlin, and it is useless to be a scholar.

"Chen Daguan seems to be drunk." Amelie said.

Hearing this, Liu Jun became more and more unhappy, and pretended to be crazy with wine, which annoyed him the most.

Liu Jun got up and went downstairs. Lina and the Amelie sisters hurriedly followed. When I got downstairs, I saw Chen Mingxia shouting to eat rice cakes, and ordered lion's head, three sets of ducks, and boiled dried shreds.

Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu were both persuading on the side, but the more they persuaded Chen Mingxia, they became more and more energetic, and they shouted louder.

"Why, you have such a big shop, don't you even know how to fry rice cakes, so what else do you open!"

Liu Jun walked up to him and said coldly. "If you want to eat lion's head, you go to Yangzhou restaurant, only a hundred steps south of this door, there is a Yangzhou restaurant, where the master Huaiyang cuisine is authentic, the lion's head is also burned well, fried rice cakes, three sets of duck, boiled dried shreds are naturally no problem."

Chen Mingxia was slightly drunk at this time.

He also boasts of being a celebrity and a talented man. Although he was only promoted to the Jinshi last year, he was already famous all over the world as early as when he showed his talent. Where has it been in the past. That's also a lot of cravings. He fell in love with a woman, but he spent so much thought, but he couldn't even say a word.

What annoyed him the most was that Guo Wende, a liar who didn't know where he came from, but he made this boss lady so good, and even helped pay for a two-cent car. As soon as he entered the store, he dragged him upstairs again, and he didn't come down for half a day.

Thinking that he is a great talent who is famous all over the world, Tanhualang of the imperial examination last year, and now the editor in the Hanlin Academy, he is so neglected and despised by a foreign woman. For a while, Chen Mingxia couldn't help but drink a few more glasses. The beer was not strong, but it couldn't stand the heavy pouring, he drank it urgently, and the amount of alcohol he actually drank was not very good, so he hid something in his heart, so he lost his temper after drinking.

"Which one are you, and what does it have to do with you?"

Liu Jun sneered twice, "You don't care which one I am, but you don't forget your identity, you are crazy about drinking here, it's good-looking?" Don't think that you are a high school flower, the official Hanlin will get carried away for a while, if you let the official of the Taoist Dynasty know that you are in such a form, you can play it together, and you can return to your hometown to farm. ”

This was ruthless, Chen Mingxia was shocked, and he was a little sober. The Dahan Kedao official is very strong, not to mention, in addition to the six departments to the middle of the matter and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the factory guard also has the right to supervise, if they catch him rude, I am afraid that it will really have a great impact on his future.

Huang Zongxi hurriedly came out to save the scene at this time, "He didn't drink much, he was drunk for a while, please forgive Zeke, we will send him back immediately, and he will apologize when he goes down." ”

Chen Mingxia had the steps, so he honestly borrowed the ladder to go downstairs, and didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore. He originally wanted to lure this Guo Wende down and expose his identity as a liar, but he didn't know why, when he looked at Guo Wende just now, he was shocked by his eyes, and this person's eyes had a murderous aura.

At this time, he couldn't question Guo Wende's Hanlin identity at all.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Gu Yanwu also apologized on the side, and then took the initiative to meet the banknotes, and gave two more silver dollars, which was regarded as compensation, and then pulled Chen Mingxia and left with Huang Zongxi.

Lina finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the people were gone.

"They're all officials of the Hanlin Academy, so they won't cause you trouble, right?"

"It's okay, count them as acquaintances." Liu Jun snorted.

If Chen Mingxia continues to make trouble, Liu Jun doesn't need to reveal his identity, and there are countless ways to make this guy leave in disgrace.

Liu Jun was in no mood to continue upstairs, so he simply went to the backyard.

"The supply of ingredients is still keeping up, right?" Liu Jun asked.

This restaurant is not only the first German restaurant, but also the head office of the entire chain, and many of the ingredients from the five Gyeonggi stores are processed and then distributed here. For example, the making of sausages, the brewing of beer, etc.

For a restaurant to open well, it must not only choose a good location, a good target positioning, a good food, and most importantly, a good source of ingredients.

At present, the scale of German restaurants is expanding rapidly, the brewing volume of various white beers and dark beers has increased a lot, and the production volume of sausages has also increased, and their signature dishes such as pork knuckles and sausages require a lot of pork feet and beef.

The supply of high-quality solid materials is very important, especially for meat solid materials.

"We're going to have hamburgers next, and the demand for beef is definitely going to be a lot higher. To make a popular hamburger, you have to have good beef. ”

There are no refrigerators in this era, so the best way to have good quality beef is to slaughter and kill it.

The original amount must have been insufficient.

"We now have five stores, and I don't think we need to get meat from the slaughterhouse. Instead, they directly ask livestock traders to buy live cattle and pigs and slaughter them themselves, so that the meat is fresher and more guaranteed. Slaughtered and slaughtered every day, served on the same day. ”

It's a bit more cumbersome, but it's more secure.

Fortunately, the Mongolian steppe has become a part of the Han Dynasty, and countless livestock are now continuously imported into the Central Plains from the grassland herdsmen.

"Pig's feet can continue to be ordered from the slaughterhouse. Beef can be slaughtered by itself, and with our current volume, I estimate that if we slaughter five stores by ourselves, even five cows will be sold in one day. ”

Lina is completely obedient to Liu Jun.

The two called a Han guy from the backyard kitchen to the livestock market, and soon several cows came over.

In the end, Liu Jun chose one of them, but he was a Mongolian.

"My cattle are all free-range in my tribe, and they are the strongest bulls." Bai Yin, who had a big pie face and a pair of incongruous small eyes, patted his chest and said.

Through chatting, Liu Jun learned. Baiyin is a native of Chahar, and his brother is a knight of Chahar who has a territory and pasture, and raises a lot of cattle. Originally, their family mainly raised sheep, but now there is a great demand for beef in the Central Plains, and it is also cost-effective to raise cattle, so they switched to raising cattle.

The family raised cattle, and then Bai Yin, who used to run some business outside, was responsible for driving the cattle to Beijing to sell. The cattle of the Bai Yin family are indeed very good. Even if I rushed to Beijing from outside the mouth, I took good care of it all the way. It is very popular and does not lose fat and is sick.

Although many workshops in Mongolia are now slaughtering and processing Mongolian cattle and sheep into smoked dried meat floss or canned meat, and the price is also cheap.

However, freshly slaughtered beef is still very popular, occupying the high-end segment of the beef market. The profits are substantial. Bai Yin was already well-known in the cattle market of Jingshi's livestock market, and he had to transport at least 500 cattle to Beijing every month.

The demand for five cows a day in German restaurants is not small, five a day, and one hundred and fifty a month. In particular, Bayin inquired clearly and knew that the owner of the German restaurant was actually a master of the Hanlin Academy. And the speed of expansion of German restaurants is also quite amazing, and in just a few months, five restaurants have been opened from scratch.

At this rate, they will certainly be even larger in the future, and if they can sell two or three hundred cattle in a month, they will be two or three thousand in a year. Such a big customer, of course, Bayin has to go all out, not to mention that this boss is still a bachelor of Hanlin.

In order to win this list, Bayin gave a very favorable supply price.

Liu Jun was chatting with him about business and business, and at the same time, he also chatted with him and asked some questions from time to time. Through these conversations and questions, Liu Jun has already had a more appropriate perception of Bai Yin's business and the situation of their family's ranch breeding.

In Bai Yin's words, everyone's life is indeed much better now.

This is quite a clear feeling, the Mongolian tribes are subordinated to the Han Dynasty, and the eastern Mongolia is no longer divided into the south and the north, and it is no longer a situation where dozens of tribes are scattered and do not belong to each other.

After the chaos ended, the territorial boundaries were clear, especially after becoming the people of the Han Dynasty, the Mongolian tribes could finally fully open up trade with the Central Plains, and all kinds of daily necessities poured into the steppe in large quantities, with good quality and low prices, and the living standards of Mongolian herdsmen improved a lot at once.

Moreover, they did not suffer a loss in these transactions, whether it was selling furs or dairy products to Han merchants, or selling hunted game skins to Han merchants, or even directly selling livestock to Han merchants, they could get a good price. Their trade with the Han merchants was basically a surplus.

This allowed them to buy more Han Chinese goods and their living standards improved.

And there is no war, there is no need to fight directly if there is a contradiction between the various departments, if there is a contradiction, you can find the lords, the lords can't solve it, you can also find the chiefs of the Han Dynasty, they will help mediate the referee.

For the current state, Bai Yin is very satisfied.

In the past few decades, their Chahar people can be said to be quite unhappy, first driven to Liaodong by the right-wing Tumut, and then driven westward by the Jurchens, and even forced to flee to Qinghai, and finally almost exterminated by the Jurchens, and then forced to move to Liaodong, and then moved to Datong not long after.

For decades, there was a constant rush between east and west, and the population continued to decline. The Baiyin family is also very weak, and now they can finally settle down, and the brother also has a knighthood, and their family has their own fixed pasture, and the herd of cattle they raise is also very popular in Jingshi.

Every time he returned to Chahar, he could bring back a cart of goods, tea, cloth, iron pots, wooden bowls, and even rice and flour, etc., and their family even built a knight's castle with dozens of rooms on the grassland, and the women of the family could also wear silk and satin, and the knight's castle hall had just been placed with a self-striking bell, and his own house was also equipped with glass windows and large dressing mirrors.

Who would be dissatisfied with such a life.

"We Mongolians will never forget the kindness of His Majesty the Holy Emperor." When Bai Yin said this, his tone was very sincere.

Liu Jun nodded from time to time when he listened, the life of the Mongols was better than before, he knew. However, not everyone is like the Baiyin family, and there has been such a big change all of a sudden. The Baiyin family mainly benefits from their location, their home is outside Zhangjiakou, very close to Beijing, Zhangjiakou is an important passage between Mongolia and Beijing, and it is natural to benefit the most from such a trade intersection.

Liu Jun believes that Mongolians like Bai Yin definitely don't want to live like before. From simplicity to luxury, from luxury to simplicity, when they finally live a good life that they have never lived before, who wants to go back to the past?

Maybe this is what the sages said about those who have constant production and perseverance, and Liu Jun also believes that Mongolians like Bai Yin, their hearts must be slowly inclined to the side of the imperial court.

"I promise to bring you the five strongest cows every day." Bai Yin attaches great importance to this business, he assures in the not very smooth Beijing dialect, and even offers that after they send the cattle over in the early hours of the morning, they will be responsible for helping the German restaurant slaughter and divide, and the slaughter is free.

Naturally, this is what Lina wants, otherwise, the restaurant will have to let the chefs be responsible for slaughtering, which will undoubtedly increase the workload of the chefs.

After everything was negotiated, Liu Jun personally drafted a cattle purchase contract in triplicate. After Bai Yin read it, he said that there was no problem. They went to the nearby yamen together and formally signed the contract.

The officials of the official office testified and stamped the official seal, and now this contract is a red deed, notarized by the government. Because of this official seal, the hotel has to pay a handling fee and pay taxes such as livestock transaction tax.

During the whole process of handling the formalities in the yamen, Liu Jun was carefully observing the process of the relevant officials of the yamen, and no one deliberately made it difficult for anyone, nor did anyone ask for benefits, or even delay.

When Liu Jun deliberately hinted that he wanted to give a gift, the clerk didn't even give him a good face, and even refused to eat.

After a careful look at the front and back, Liu Jun found that the efficiency of the officials of Shuntian Mansion was not bad, and their ethics were also very good. He didn't know if this was a unique situation at the feet of the Son of Heaven. However, compared with last winter, when the officials of the Communications Department took the initiative to ask for bribes, the lion opened his mouth, and now the atmosphere of the officials of the Beijing Yamen has changed greatly.

Since the officials of the capital can change, the local officials can also change. The most important thing is the guidance and supervision of the imperial court, as long as there is a sword hanging over the heads of all officials, they will be afraid and dare not stretch out their hands indiscriminately. (To be continued.) )