glanced at Cheng Leopard's loyalty, and it was only eleven o'clock.

This value means that you may betray the inn at any time. It stands to reason that Cheng Leopard should not be released. Fortunately, he has already given him the mutated Golden Armor Snake Neidan, even if he wants to make it bad, he will definitely wait to improve his strength.

When Cheng Bao took the Mutant Golden Armor Snake Inner Pill, if the loyalty was increasing, it was not a big problem. If it doesn't increase, it's never too late to think about it.

In terms of loyalty, Lin Dong has long been expected, but Cheng Bao's various castes, especially creativity, are far higher than his expectations. In a good mood, looking at Cheng Leopard with a face full of flesh and a flickering fierce light, Lin Dong looked at it more and more pleasing to the eye, and couldn't help laughing: "Put the knife away, Ma Chun should know him, he is the steward of the inn, I will take you to find him to arrange a place to live." Then write out your recipe as soon as possible, and count the materials you need. Within three to five days, you will be able to take office. ”

Cheng Bao shook his head: "I can't buy the main material in Qiufeng City, I have saved some, but it is only one hundred and eighty catties, if the inn business is good, it will be out of stock in less than a day." ”

"What main material?" Lin Dong asked.

Cheng Bao explained: "Tianfeng pepper, a wild specialty of Wangshi County, Kwaitian County, is extremely spicy, if a Tianfeng pepper is stuffed directly into the stomach, it is enough to make a person spicy to death, even the locals dare not try it, only I can weaken the spiciness." Therefore, if you want to collect, you can only send someone to Wangshi County to pick. The journey to and fro, even if it is fast, should take two or three months. ”

Lin Dong frowned slightly, and was immediately relieved. As long as the Chamber of Commerce will not have much impact on the inn after its establishment, with the current strength of the Lin Ji Inn, there is no restaurant that can match it in Autumn Wind City, and two or three months late is nothing.

In two or three months, the Lin Kee Inn in Lingnan County was almost completed, and if the Chamber of Commerce would not waste too much energy, it would be just in time for the new inn to open.

Thinking about it, Lin Dong couldn't help but push open the door and turned his head to look at Cheng Bao: "In terms of salary, for the time being, ten taels of silver a month, and then slowly increase in the future, if it is not enough, you can pay it in advance, there is no upper limit on the amount, of course, it depends on the situation." Like other cooks, there are three days off per month. If you have any other questions, write them down, and hand them all over to Ma Chun, he will fully cooperate, and in the preparation stage, you can practice in the inn. ”

After a pause, Lin Dong continued: "Then there is the matter that I promised to help you enter the realm of the strong before the age of forty, after the Golden Armor Snake Inner Pill is completely refined, it should be enough for you to reach the end of the sixth stage of the Mind Stage." After that, I will see your performance and give you another spirit beast spirit material. The rest is your obligation, my requirements are not high, you don't make trouble. ”

Cheng Bao was silent, don't make trouble, for a mountain bandit leader, this is not a high requirement?

"Let's go!" Lin Dong waved his hand.

took Cheng Bao to the front yard to find Ma Chun, and after explaining a few words, Lin Dong returned to the backyard to practice.

The night was calm, and when a little silver-white light entered the room through the white paper window, Lin Dong opened his eyes, opened Cheng Bao's surname and looked at it, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Fifteen points of loyalty.

Four points were added overnight, which is not a small speed, and it is undoubtedly the credit of the Golden Armor Snake Neidan after being confirmed. For Lin Dong, what is more important is that loyalty is indeed increasing, and low loyalty only means that the person is easy to disagree, not that he has dissent, and when loyalty is in the rising stage, the possible surnames with dissenting hearts are almost negligible.

Opening the door, Lin Dong paced to the kitchen, and when the rich breakfast was brought out of the kitchen, Yun Lan came over.

For three days, Lin Dong waited for the day to come, and the president and vice president of the Chamber of Commerce were finally elected under the notarization of the new prefect Liu Xiu. The next day, the Chamber of Commerce also announced its official establishment and operation.

Recruit miscellaneous servants, coordinate the various advantages of the entire Autumn Wind Mansion, and arrange for people to go to other places to investigate prices...... The president of the Chamber of Commerce is over fifty years old, and has handed over the industry to the eldest son to take care of the former Changyun Money Village owner Wan Xu Liang, Changyun Money Village has a history of hundreds of years in Autumn Wind City, Wan Xu Liang This person is exquisite, extraordinary ability, plus the reputation is passable, but it is also expected. Under his arrangement, a series of things were carried out in an orderly manner.

What Lin Dong paid the most attention to was undoubtedly pricing.

The ending gave Lin Dong a bit of a headache, whether it was in terms of wine and food or accommodation, as he had guessed before, all of them had a great impact on Lin Ji Inn.

In terms of the price of wine and food, the Chamber of Commerce has counted the recipes of hundreds of wine and food and the cost of materials, labor and other costs of these wine and food. According to the vote of shop owners from all walks of life, the price set, ordinary wine and food, the profit is about 20% to 40% of the self-adjustment. As for the spirit beast spirit material, the profit is adjusted by itself in about thirty to sixty percent.

This alone is enough to give the big restaurant a headache and make the tavern ecstatic. Especially in restaurants like Lin Ji Inn, which also have VIP cards and other preferential measures, they want to cry without tears, because these things are not included in the cost at all. If you want not to lose money, you can only increase the conditions for obtaining these preferential measures.

Then there is the pricing of the specialties of major restaurants, because it takes time to investigate, and it cannot be priced in a short time.

Regarding the pricing of specialties, the result of the vote of all merchants is that the major restaurants can try to give the cost on the premise of concealing their own specialties. For example, the production method can hide one or two processes, and in terms of material ingredients, one or two can also be hidden. Then, according to the confirmation of the investigators, the cost is calculated. This means that hidden processes or ingredients cannot be included in the cost.

In terms of profits, the result of the vote is that the profit of specialty dishes can only fluctuate between 20% and 40%, just like ordinary alcoholic dishes.

As soon as these restrictions came out, not only Lin Dongtou was as big as a cow, but also the major restaurants. Whose specialty's profit is not doubled or even multiplied? It's only between two percent and forty percent, and the cost is lower than the actual cost because the process and ingredients are hidden, how much money can be earned?

In Lin Dong's view, the upper limit of profits is voted on by everyone for each specialty, and it is easy to suppress the active surnames of each company that studies specialties. Helplessly, the Chamber of Commerce is still in the development stage, and all kinds of immature terms and branches and leaves that are not applicable are powerless to adjust in a short period of time.

Fortunately, you have a good plan, I have a wall ladder, and the biggest feature of the specialty dish is that no one knows how the specialty is made. The best thing to do is undoubtedly to try to find a way to increase the cost of specialties.

There are many specialties at Lin Kee Inn, which are high-priced and almost only two must be ordered at each table, stewed soft-shelled turtle with maple leaves and vitality beef balls.

Maple leaves, soft-shelled turtle, ingredients...... The cost adds up to one or two hundred dollars, and the selling price is two taels of silver.

If you want to increase the cost, you undoubtedly have to increase the materials, pick a few high-grade spiritual materials that are colorless and tasteless after steaming, and then mix the soup of these high-level spiritual materials into the stewed soft-shelled turtle with maple leaves, and everything will be fine. As for the stewed soft-shelled turtle with maple leaves sold in the future, it is still the original stewed soft-shelled turtle with maple leaves.

The same is true for vitality beef balls, although the cost is only a dozen yuan, but with a process of brewing high-grade spiritual material soup, the cost will go up.

Lin Lin finally summed it up, although the special dishes were not affected, in terms of ordinary wine and food, the original price of Lin Kee Inn was not high. But just the spirit beast spirit material has already greatly reduced the profit of Lin Ji Inn.

Lin Ji Inn is taking the high-end route, and almost all of the profits of the spirit beast spirit materials are more than twice as high, and the profits of those third- and fourth-order spirit beast spirit materials have even reached five or six times. This breath drops to between 30% and 60%, and even if it is 60%, the monthly profit is enough to drop sharply from 30,000 taels to about 10,000 taels. This indirectly means that the price of food and beverages remains at about 5% off.

Coupled with the losses of other branches and the potential losses such as the inability of the branches to quickly grab diners, the Lam Kee Inn can be said to have suffered a heavy blow.

Although the advantages of the inn have been suppressed a lot by the pricing, the advantages of the inn are obvious, and it is still enough to attract a large number of super and large households to spend an hour or two away to come to Lin Ji Inn for a banquet. Later, when I arrived in Lingnan City, with the addition of Cheng Bao, the No. 2 chef, I also had a strong competitiveness. In terms of silver, the monthly profit has plummeted by more than sixty percent, and although the amount is not small, it can still support the large-scale expansion of the inn. In terms of purchasing spirit stones, while the consumption increases, as long as the expansion speed can keep up, there should be enough silver to support it, and even if there is a gap, it can be filled from the Lam Kee Winery and the Lam Kee Factory that is in preparation.

What makes Lin Dong really depressed is the restrictions on accommodation, the advantages of Lin Kee Inn in accommodation, one is the colorful bed, and the other is the good service and low price.

The advantage of the colorful bed is that it attracts large residents, and now it is only 74% of the second level, and it is the fastest time to upgrade to all rooms. The service is considerate and the price is good, and there is no secret to the cost in terms of pricing. Relying only on the thoughtful service, the accommodation building, which has less obvious advantages, has undoubtedly been greatly weakened in attracting merchants from other three city gates.

In Autumn Wind City, although even if someone wants to open a new inn, it will take more than half a year to buy land and prepare for opening. In addition, Lin Dong has bought all the inns, and in a short period of time, the impact is not great.

But Lin Ji Inn will not always nest in Autumn Wind City, according to Lin Dong's prediction, it will leave for Lingnan City in two months. When you arrive in Lingnan City, what does Lin Kee Inn do to attract guests?

Compared to Autumn Wind City, Lingnan City is several times larger, and in Autumn Wind City, if you take a carriage, it takes about two hours to get from Dongcheng to the city. Lingnan City, on the other hand, takes more than a dozen hours. This also means that Lin Kee Inn is built in the city, even if you buy all the inns in the city at a high price, if you don't have an advantage, it will be difficult to attract enough guests. After all, it is not an inn to live in, more than a dozen hours away to stay, it is better to find a nearby family to stay, although the conditions are not better than the inn, but it is better than entering the city early in the morning, and finding the inn early the next morning is countless times.

As soon as the price comes out, let alone attracting the merchants of the whole city, even if it is built at the gate of the city, the advantage of the Lin Ji Inn is not obvious, and if other inns send men to the city gate to solicit customers, they may not be able to compete with the nearby inns.

It can be said that the price of the accommodation building, the profit of Lin Kee Inn in terms of accommodation has increased by a few taels of silver every month. But the guests ...... If it weren't for the fact that all the inns in Autumn Wind City were bought, plus three or five hours from any city gate to the Lin Ji Inn, and the Lin Ji Inn sent a carriage to transport it for free, it would be enough to reduce it by six or seven percent.

In addition to the headache, it is still a headache. The only thing that Lin Dong is thankful for is that the influence of the Chamber of Commerce on the inn has not yet reached the worst level. As long as the matter of the guests can be solved, the emergence of the Chamber of Commerce, the loss suffered by the Lin Kee Inn will also have a significant decline in profits, and the expansion rate may be delayed. There was no fatal blow to the inn's potential for expansion.

After a day of hard research, Lin Dong had no way to increase the number of guests, so he had no choice but to learn how to deal with Fenglin Restaurant last time, and gather all the cooks and guys in the inn to brainstorm, but after one night, there were a lot of good suggestions, but none of them had the effect of turning the tide.

After waiting for another five days, Lin Shuang came to Autumn Wind City to play on vacation, and Lin Dong cheekily told the business genius about it. As a result, I can barely be relieved a little. According to Lin Shuang's idea, if you want to have a distance that can attract guests for more than ten hours in a short period of time to come to Lin Kee Inn to stay, you can't do it by relying on your strength, and you can only target the residents in the city.

The idea was unexpected enough, but in order to keep the residents of the city at home, Lin Shuang's proposal was to organize some activities in the vicinity, such as the vitality ball game calligraphy competition, and try to delay the important games until the evening, so that the residents who were a little farther away could only stay nearby.

The method is good and indeed feasible, the only thing that worries Lin Dong is that the cost is ...... May be a little high. After all, if you want residents to come all the way to watch the game, the contestants must be the best, so the prize money must be raised to the point that they cannot refuse.

These things will not be added to the cost of accommodation. However, the system boss of Lin Kee Inn will be included in the cost.

As far as the profit of the accommodation building is concerned, even if it is full every day, it will only cost one or two taels of silver a day. Compared to the bonus of a few hundred taels of silver a day, it is not worth mentioning at all.

Of course, this method is not without any chance of success. If you can build a gymnasium or something near the inn, and then collect tickets, if the ticket revenue can be profitable, the inn system will automatically exclude this matter from the accommodation area.

Lin Dong didn't completely put his mind at ease, because he was worried that the ticket revenue would not be profitable or break even. After all, even in the previous world, stadiums were not guaranteed to be profitable. And in this world, the standard of living is already low, everyone is used to making and resting, busy supporting their families all day long, and it is difficult to surprise those who are willing to spend money to watch various games at night. If the object of the ticket is positioned as a large household and a super large household, there will be great limitations in terms of the number of people, not only will the profit not go up, but there may be very few people staying at the Lin Kee Inn.

There is no other way but to try.

On the same day, Lin Dong asked Wang Liuxi to go to Lingnan City with a silver ticket and a part of his manpower, and the same as the site of the inn, buy a piece of land at the gate of the city and the north of the city, and then build two Lin Ji Gymnasiums, and then decide which one to choose depending on the situation.

The hidden dangers brought about by the Chamber of Commerce and the new prefect have finally been dealt with, although they are somewhat unsatisfactory, but they are still within the scope of Lin Dong's acceptance.

Said, slowly and leisurely. The price of wine and food is only a certain range and cannot be adjusted at will, if it is a newly opened restaurant or has not yet opened the situation, or a large restaurant that cannot be included in the cost of attracting diners with the biggest features such as top-brand singing and dancing in the wind building, it will be subject to a lot of restrictions. And a restaurant like Lin Ji Inn has established an absolute advantage in Autumn Wind City, and the suppression is not too serious, not only will the number of diners not be damaged, but there will be a certain increase.

Of course, the profitability of the increased number of diners is still far from compensating for the loss of pricing.

Ding: Congratulations on reaching the full XP of the inn, and you have obtained the upgrade task 'Help the first guest of the inn solve their troubles'.

The sudden system prompt made Lin Dong, who was cultivating, suddenly open his eyes.

Lin Ji Inn has finally reached the upgrade conditions again.

I couldn't wait to open the inn system, call up the upgrade task, and after studying it carefully, Lin Dong immediately opened the door.

The night moon was swirling, Lin Dong roughly estimated that it should not be midnight, and then stepped on the moonlight and came all the way to the lobby.

When I entered the lobby, I glanced at the counter, and on the counter, an oil lamp flickered on and off, flickering with a faint yellow light. Under the counter, there is a cover, judging from the head exposed by the thick, half-used quilt, it is Liu Hua who is in charge of the vigil today.

Lin Dong immediately stepped forward and gently patted the quilt.

"Is it dawn......

Liu Hua woke up quietly, opened his worried eyes, and hurriedly sat up after realizing that it was Lin Dong.

"Shopkeeper, why did you come here in the middle of the night?"

"On a whim, I want to try the vigil." Lin Dong said with a smile.

"The shopkeeper wants to keep vigil?" Liu Hua was stunned, this whim was weird enough.

Lin Dong nodded.

"Then I'm ......" Liu Hua was a little puzzled.

"Going back is sure to wake people up." Lin Dong smiled: "Let you enjoy it for a while, see if there is any vacant room A, if there is, you will live there tonight." If you don't have one, look for a B-shaped room. ”

"Huh!" Liu Hua nodded, hesitated, and asked, "The futon is left here for the shopkeeper?" Or do I go to the room for the shopkeeper to get the futon? ”

"Just stay here!" Lin Dong shook his head.

The vigil was just sleeping with clothes, Liu Hua got up from the warm quilt, shivered, looked at Lin Dong, took out a large set of keys and handed it over: "Does the shopkeeper have any other instructions, if not, I'll go over?" ”

After taking the key, Lin Dong said, "First tell me about the empty rooms in the accommodation building." ”

"Hmmm! Tianzifang has always been decided, and it has been postponed until half a month later. There are still five rooms available in the A-shaped room, and another seven will be checked out tomorrow. There are also four vacant rooms in the B room......"

Lin Dong nodded, remembered the situation in the accommodation building, and waited until Liu Hua left, and immediately sat cross-legged on the bunk.

(To be continued)