Chapter 642: Happy Events
"Come less! You're so easy to deceive me! The customers who come to our medicinal food shop have no conflict with your Zhen Cuisine House at all. Most of the people who come to our medicinal food workshop are mainly to regulate the body, who is so tyrant, for the sake of appetite, often taste a dish of 100 taels of silver? Therefore, there are very few people who come to the medicinal food workshop for the purpose of eating and having dinners! It won't affect your business at all, okay? Yu Xiaocao is justified and does not accept Wednesday's miserable sale.
Wednesday Shao's plan to dig up some new recipes from Xiaocao through the strategy of mourning the soldiers was aborted. With his relationship with Xiaocao, he didn't beat around the bush anymore, and directly explained his intentions. Xiaocao also generously gave him a few more recipes for cooking. Anyway, she can now be regarded as a shareholder of Zhenyulou, with recipes as shares, and the annual dividends are also considerable!
The business of the medicinal food shop is becoming more and more prosperous, whether it is in-store or takeaway, the supply exceeds the demand. Those veterans and ministers who followed the emperor to fight the country, which one didn't have any old diseases or injuries on his body? I used to see a doctor, and the medicine prescribed was so bitter that it was difficult to swallow, not to mention, the effect was very small, and the symptoms were not cured.
Since the opening of the medicinal food workshop of "Yu Ji", at the beginning, those filial sons and grandsons who came to prepare medicinal food for the elderly at home with an attitude of trying, watched their grandfather's (father's) body become tougher and tougher day by day, even if the old diseases before the winter did not recur, they were happy and helped the medicinal food workshop to do free publicity.
One to ten, ten to hundred. At this time, filial piety is still more important, but as long as the conditions at home allow, they don't mind spending a lot of money to order a medicinal diet for their elders to regulate their bodies. Women in this era will more or less suffer from confinement diseases due to childbirth, or have problems with lack of qi and blood, or problems with menstrual periods. Therefore, Xiaocao's medicinal diet workshop is in short supply of medicinal diet for women's physique.
After the New Year, at the request of the majority of customers, the business of the medicinal food workshop expanded a lot. The takeaway service is separated, and the business is even better than in the store. The human resources that the small grassland had reserved first are now being used, and some of them are still in short supply. Yang Liu also began to train a group of medicinal dietitians to be used.
Because the salary is linked to the quantity and quality of the medicinal food, the business of the medicinal food workshop is so hot, although the medicinal dietetics are tired, but when they receive their salaries, they are all happy. At most, he received nearly eight hundred taels of silver a month, and he couldn't find a higher monthly salary than this in the capital. It is said that even the head chef Wang Fatzi, who has dedicated himself to Zhen Yulou for nearly ten years, only has a salary of 500 taels a month.
The medicinal dietitians of the medicinal diet workshop have only been working for half a year, and the salary is so high, and their enthusiasm for work is even higher.
Such a hot business will naturally make many people's eyes hot. But they are just hot-eyed and sour behind their backs. The backstage of "Yu Ji" is too hard, and it is not something that anyone can easily offend. Not to mention that the proprietor behind Yu Ji is the county lord of the emperor's own title, let's just say that her identity as the future daughter-in-law of the king of Yangjun, no matter how strong and mixed the background in Beijing is, she doesn't dare to provoke her, for fear that the king of Yangjun will come back to settle accounts with them!
Not to mention the backer of the king of Yangjun, from time to time he came to the medicinal kitchen to rub a meal of "Buddha jumping over the wall"; specially chartered an elegant room in the medicinal food workshop, and regarded the medicinal food workshop as the king of his own kitchen; From time to time, the emperor and queen who came to the medicinal food workshop to beat their teeth were ...... These are all heavyweights, stomp their feet, the Ming Dynasty trembles, with them supporting Yu Ji, no matter how jealous and hateful others are, they have to lie on their stomachs honestly.
Yu Xiaocao truly experienced the taste of "counting money and counting to hand cramps". In Beijing, Xiaocao is a little rich woman. The richest man doesn't dare to say that if there is a rich list in Beijing, she will definitely have no problem getting into the top ten. Other rich people have accumulated the foundation of many generations, but she has created the myth of business in Beijing by herself. Yu Xiaocao is famous, her big name in Jingzhong is from an eighty-year-old man to a five-year-old child, and there is no one who doesn't know her.
Before you know it, a year has passed in a hurry. The war at the Northwest Border Pass was also coming to an end, and the Ming army led by the King of Yangjun was driven to the vicinity of present-day Kazakhstan, and there was no longer the ability to argue with the Ming. For at least thirty years, there will be no major battles on the Northwest Frontier.
Now that the war is coming to an end, the day when the Yangjun Wang Banshi will return to the dynasty is not far away. In the past year or so, the Yu family has had many happy events. First of all, the youngest son of the Yu family, won the championship in the township test and won the title of Xie Yuan. This fifteen-year-old boy became the first master in the history of Dongshan Village, which is not only a happy event for the Yu family, but also a great joy for the entire village.
And then there is the family affair of Brother Xiaocao. In the spring when Yu Hang was nineteen years old, he married Liu Hang, who had been married for many years. Hui Fang. The family affairs were done in the ancestral house of the Yu family's Dongshan Village. This is the first happy event of the young generation of the Yu family, and it is very grand, and the officials, gentry, and wealthy businessmen of the entire Tanggu territory, as well as customers who have business dealings with the Yu family, all came to congratulate them.
In Beijing, even the prince of King Jing's Mansion also came to Tanggu in person to make faces for his future in-laws. There are also many people who have a good relationship with Yu Xiaocao, and they have also sent people to bring valuable gifts to congratulate the future head of the Yu family on their wedding gift.
The wedding banquet was held in the Zhen Cuisine House of Tanggu. Zhenyulou is now the largest family in Tanggu, and the scale has expanded a lot, and there are many guests from the Yu family, which will be able to accommodate it.
Yu Hang's wedding banquet caused quite a stir in the entire Tanggu, and no one dared to see the Yu family from the "mud legs". Whether it is the Yu family's connections, financial resources, and material resources, they can be counted in Tanggu. Many old families who originally looked down on the Yu family and thought that they were just nouveau riche gradually showed favor to the Yu family and regarded them as worthy of befriending.
The relatives of the Yu family also came to Dongshan Village early to help Zhang Luo the first happy event of the younger generation of the Yu family. Xiaocao's grandparents' body, with Xiaocao's health * to eat, is almost seventy years old, the body is more tough than the more than fifty in the village, there is no problem, and he can walk from home to Dongshan Village in one breath without rest.
The three brothers of the Liu family traveled back and forth between Fucheng and nearby prefectures and counties, delivering goods to various vegetable and fruit shops. Early ripening vegetables in early spring, watermelon and melon in late spring and early summer, various fruits in autumn, and out-of-season vegetables and fruits in winter...... Throughout the year, there are very few idle times.
At the beginning, the uncle of the Liu family ran transportation, the second uncle who farmed at home occasionally helped, and the third uncle did the work of port construction. Later, when the uncle of the Liu family made a lot of money and gradually became too busy, the second uncle saw that the delivery and sale of goods was more profitable than his farming at home. He also ran a few times, opened up a new route, and took a few carriages with him.
Later, when the port was built, the third uncle could only take on some odd jobs, which became the least earned in the family. The uncle invited him to run the business of Fucheng and the surrounding states and counties together. In fact, what they did was similar to the wholesale buying and selling of fruits and vegetables in later generations.
Yu's vegetables and fruits and out-of-season vegetables are of high quality and have an excellent taste, so they have naturally become sought-after goods! It's not just anyone who wants to buy it! The three brothers of the Liu family took advantage of their unrestricted access to goods, and the vegetable and fruit shops in Fucheng and surrounding states and counties wanted to save worry, so they let them deliver the goods. Although it is more than taking goods from the Yu family to add 20% of the travel expenses, there is still a lot of money.
Xiaocao's aunt, in order to attend the wedding of her eldest nephew, handed over several lo-mei and pickle shops in Fucheng to her shopkeeper, and returned to Dongshan Village early to help. Although the name of the braised vegetable shop has always been "Yu Ji", it has now become the industry of the Yu family's aunt. The business of the pickled vegetables and pickles shop is too good, and several branches have been opened in Fucheng, and the business is very prosperous.
On the day of the wedding, there was an unexpected relative and friend, that is, Yu Hang's uncle Yu Bo. Since moving to Fucheng, Yu Bo has changed his previous impetuousness, and after studying hard for three years, he was finally admitted to Xiucai as he wished. The Zhang family relied on wholesale pickled vegetables from Yuji to support a large family, and even had spare money to buy more than ten acres of land in the suburbs of Fucheng and tenant it to landless farmers.
Yu Bo clearly realized that with his talent, he had already reached the top of the exam, so he didn't think about it, so he opened a small private school in the south of the city to enlighten the children and earn a meager income.
Yu Bo and the Zhang family have not appeared in the sight of the Yu family for a long time. At this time, he came to Yu Hang's wedding with gifts, which surprised the Yu family and warmly entertained him. Yu Bo was a little selfish at the beginning, but he didn't do anything to hurt Yu Hai's family. His biggest mistake was to have a mother like Zhang.
Not long after Yu Hang's family affair, Zhuang Xiaomo prepared a heavy gift and solemnly asked the Yu family to marry Yu Xiaolian, a little green plum. Yu Xiaolian and Zhuang Xiaomo's family affair was scheduled in early winter. At this time, Zhuang Xiaomo no longer sold vegetables and fruits in greenhouses, but took over the sale of seafood supply from major restaurants in Beijing.
At the beginning, it was because of the hot sale of the signature "Buddha Jumping Over the Wall" in the "Yu Ji Medicinal Kitchen", there was a need for a large supply of seafood, and it was better to hand it over to Zhuang Xiaomo, the future son-in-law of the Yu family.
Zhuang Xiaomo has been doing business in Tanggu for several years, knows a lot of people, and has accumulated a certain number of contacts. In addition, when I went to the sea to fish for seafood in the past, I also made a few friends in the sea market, and the road is relatively wide. Therefore, the seafood he purchased is the freshest and best in the whole market.
Wednesday Shao accidentally learned about this, and also handed over the supply of seafood in the Zhenyu Mansion to him. Gradually, Zhuang Xiaomo's seafood business reputation came out, and many restaurants in Beijing contacted him and were willing to cooperate with him. A year and a half later, Zhuang Xiaomo, who is in his early twenties, has become the largest seafood supplier in Beijing.