In the seventh year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, in April, Beijing City. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Jingshi, who has just entered the early spring, is still cold in the wind. But the common people of Beijing have already been busy - all the little fat accumulated during the New Year has been consumed, and if they don't find some work to do and earn some subsidies to support their families, they will really starve to death.

Nowadays, if you want to say where the most famous and disturbing people are in the Jingshi, there is no doubt that everyone's hand will point to a place in the south of the city - Qiongshifang.

Can't buy something? Let's go to Qiongshifang. There is everything in that place, only what you can't think of, and there is nothing that Shorthair can't take.

Can't find a job to do? Also go to Qiongshifang. Shorthair will definitely give you a job to do. If you are willing to sign up for a reclamation group overseas in the south, you can also get a share of land! At least twenty acres per person!

Can't afford to eat? You can also go to Qiongshifang! In any case, there is always a bowl of gruel to drink a day, and a few pickles. And even if they refuse the solicitation of short-haired hair later, people will not hold grudges, and they can still rub their cheekiness to rub porridge and drink next time - this is what the street children in the capital know best. Now almost all the street children in the entire Jingshi regard the area around Qiongshifang as their base camp, wandering there all day long, waiting for the time of soup soup at noon.

On the other hand, the beggar gang leaders are not having a good time, and they have more than once secretly linked up to set a fire to the damn Qiongshifang and the people in it. And it did a few times - but unfortunately it didn't work. Although most of the warehouses in Nafang were made of straw mats and reeds, the firewalls between the warehouses were not ambiguous at all, and they were all solid rammed earth or brick walls at least half a foot thick, or they were far apart, with a walkway of at least twenty feet in between. The sandbag tanks were so tightly arranged that even one or two fires could not spread and would soon be extinguished by vigilant patrols.

And this kind of behavior has caused great harm to themselves - every act of sabotage that has been completed, attempted, or even just under discussion, will attract the joint purge of the Jinyi Guard and the Inner Palace Factory Guard! The Shuntian Mansion Yamen only has a submissive share in front of those wolf-like fans, not to mention a few low-level backers found by the beggar gang? At this time, I would have hid as far as I wanted, and I didn't even dare to inquire about the news.

Of course, the Jinyi guards don't need to pay attention to any procedures or evidence - the master said that you are the most suspicious, and that is what you did! You say you were wronged? Let's take a look at the house first...... I really didn't find any clues after copying it? That must be hidden, and then give you a "campaign", a whole set of "activities" to do or not to recruit? Well, that's probably innocent...... Want to go? No way, you have to confess to a suspect to come out, otherwise it is only natural for you to be in the tank!

-- It is conceivable that under this iron-clad method of handling cases, the innocent will still be wronged, and the real ones will be related to them...... If you want to escape, it's really an ancestral manifestation. And frankly speaking, Jin Yiwei's method of "setting a goal first and then finding evidence" may be used on others, but for those beggars who made a fortune by squeezing the flesh and blood of Hanako, it can only be said to be karma.

-- Regardless of whether it was related or not, the beggar group in the Nancheng area, where Qiongshifang was located, was quickly wiped out. Similar organizations in other places did not dare to come over, and the social order in Nancheng District was much better during this time.

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Noon, which is usually a quieter time in the city, is a tiring time in the morning, and both employees and customers need to take a break to accumulate energy for the afternoon to continue working.

However, there is an area in Qiongshifang that is particularly lively at this time of year - the dining area, or public canteen. This place is actually very simple, that is, there is an open space between the two rows of houses, which is slightly covered by a cloth curtain, and when the weather is fine, it is open air, and when there is wind and rain or the climate is too cold, it is pulled up to form a large shed, in short, it is the same as other places in the current Qiongshi Fang, and there is a taste of urgency everywhere.

However, it is extremely popular, with long tables and benches arranged under the shed. At this time, there were people sitting in every position. There are many people next to them who are actually squatting on the ground, but they are still holding the rice bowl and snoring and eating very happily. Occasionally, someone finishes eating, cleans up the dishes and chopsticks and leaves, and someone next to them immediately makes up for it, and there is almost no time to spare.

Diners eat in a very different way from the usual restaurants outside, instead of sitting down and ordering, they first pay at the window of the room next to the kitchen and food preparation - a dozen copper coins, or some kind of bamboo sign similar to a token, which is also the only place in Qiongshifang that does not require the use of silver coins, because it is too cheap - and then choose a few dishes from a number of large wooden barrels lined up next to it, a large bowl of white rice or two white flour steamed buns, and finally a soup, and then find a place to eat for yourself.

At the entrance to the dining area, several large characters flutter high on a sign:

"Ten Wen is full, Twenty Wen is good!"

If you are a person in later generations, you must feel very familiar when you come to see this scene - yes, it is a fast food restaurant system here, everything is simple, fast, and cheap. Customers can get a simple fast meal including hot dishes and soup for only 10 cents here, and if they are willing to spend an extra 10 cents, they can add a large meat dish similar to braised pork.

Compared with the average price of Beijing in this era, this price is not too low, but it is definitely not expensive, an ordinary civilian in the capital works for a day, earns twenty or thirty Wen, and can just eat two meals here.

Originally, this was just a place for internal staff to rest and eat in Qiongshi Fang, but every time it opens, a large number of customers will ask for a meal here, and people are also justified - we don't don't give money. It's just that it's convenient and fast for you, and the dishes are really good.

So later, it was simply open to the public, and the business immediately became extremely hot. There were originally a lot of large and small restaurants around Qiongshifang, but now except for those that are high-grade and do not constitute direct competition with fast food restaurants, other small restaurants that were originally thriving have all lost their business at once.

However, this situation did not last long, because it soon became clear that they could not provide so many meals - there was no shortage of staple and non-staple food seasonings, but there were not so many people to make them. So they changed their business ideas, introduced the surrounding snack shops together, and adopted the commission and chain model, so that they could finally withstand the flow of people in the fast food area that was full every day.

But it is only able to withstand it at this stage, and in their internal business analysis and forecast reports, the growth trend of this part of the flow of people and transaction volume is so obvious that even Chen Dalei, the general manager who does not understand the business theories of shorthair, can see that he must expand the scale of operation, otherwise he will soon fall into the dilemma of having too many customers and unable to support it.

"At present, there are two main parts that are more urgent: one is the site, and the other is the fuel...... Rice and white flour are fine, anyway, there is a southern support, which can be transported by water from Tianjin; Vegetables, fruits, dried vegetables, etc., we transport good things from the south by ourselves, and spend some money on the big road goods to buy them from various villages outside the city, and they can also be worthy, but it is impossible to go this way to burn things, and it is too expensive to rely on external transportation. ”

"The other is a food shop, which is full of oil smoke all day long, and the smell is very strong. The farther away from other shops is definitely the better. It was now on the very edge of the city, but it was still too close, and the cloth and silk departments had protested several times. If the scale is expanded, it is estimated that the department managers over there will rise up and rebel. ”

-- At the regular internal meeting, Chen Dalei was holding a comprehensive plan to report to several of his immediate superiors, or to several "ministers of the Imperial Mission" from the headquarters of Qiongdao. These "chamen" were all women—Anna had a power of attorney from Julie, and she had come to inspect the northern branch of the trading company as the plenipotentiary representative of the domineering female president who was busy giving birth. And Zhu Yueyue came to check the accounts and check the finances as the chief financial officer. In addition, Hu Wen, Wang Jiaojiao and Su Weixue, as the major shareholders of the trading company, also have signs such as directors and supervisors on their bodies, and it is really justifiable to sit here and listen to his report.

It's just that although the name is right, it depends on the actual ability to really deal with affairs. Among these "Qin Cha", Anna knows more about the actual business operation of the trading company, but she was only a big lady before, and the business knowledge she learned was the so-called "modern economic and trade theory" taught by Julie.

And Hu Wen and others are not this material, and they didn't come to Beijing to do this. At this time, sitting here is more to help Anna strengthen her momentum, hearing that Chen Dalei actually came out to consult them with specific questions, Hu Wen frowned slightly, and then asked:

"Do you have to scale up? Isn't it good to keep the current situation? ”

"If that's the case, it's either a price increase – and the biggest advantage of fast food is gone. Either it can only meet the needs of some people, but then it will inevitably offend many customers. And the main purpose of our fast food business is not to make money, but to win a good reputation, and for this reason, we have been giving free porridge to the poor, and it will be more than worth the loss if we are scolded by others. ”

Chen Dalei responded calmly with a smile on his face, so Hu Wen nodded:

"Okay, I see, let's leave it here for now, let's discuss it and give you an answer."