After Lou Xiao'e left and went back to his room to rest, Cao Zhiqiang did not leave immediately, but crossed Erlang's legs, sat on the sofa and began to review to see if there was anything wrong with what he had just said.

In fact, relying on the rewards given by the system, if Cao Zhiqiang simply wants to do hotel business, he doesn't need to cooperate with Lou Xiao'e at all, or even with He Yuzhu.

The reason is very simple, he has "Chinese Cuisine: Three Thousand Dishes for You", which contains detailed recipes for 3,000 dishes, which are extremely fine, not so much cooking as the application of physical chemistry.

With this secret technique, he can make a bunch of popular diet recipes by himself in a matter of minutes.

In the final analysis, the restaurant business is about delicious food, as long as the food is delicious, then the business will not worry.

Compared to the taste of the meal, everything else is empty.

For example, Cao Zhiqiang, he has the top knife skills of Chinese cuisine and the top spoon, these two skills can be regarded as the top in China, but can you say that Cao Zhiqiang is a good chef now?

No, because no matter how good Cao Zhiqiang's knife skills are, no matter how good the spoon is, if he doesn't have a sense of a top chef and doesn't understand the combination of sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty tastes, it will be in vain.

For example, when Cao Zhiqiang first got the skills of knife work and spooning, he excitedly made a green onion fried pork slice for his sister, but he forgot to put salt because he was too excited, which led to the failure of pretending.

At first glance, this thing seems to be overly excited and forgotten, but in the final analysis, Cao Zhiqiang has no consciousness of being a chef.

You have to change to a chef who has learned to cook seriously and has been cooking for a long time, and putting seasonings such as salt is a subconscious reaction, and you don't need to think about it at all, but Cao Zhiqiang has no such concept.

However, although Cao Zhiqiang has no sense of cooking, if he follows the extremely fine cooking secrets, goes to paint cats and tigers, and does chemistry experiments with high school students, I believe that the taste of the food will not be bad, it is nothing more than one time and not twice, just do it a few more times, and summarize the lessons.

With a complete cooking process and recipe, he never worries about the lack of specialties in the catering industry.

Not to mention anything else, there are more than a dozen secret recipes for various Malatang in the recipe alone, but these Malatang recipes are enough to start a food empire.

As for the hot pot base recipe and dipping recipe, there are also a lot of them, and with these, he can also create a hot pot alliance by himself, and he doesn't need to partner with others.

So, since Cao Zhiqiang has money and technology, why do you want to pull the stupid pillar and Lou Xiao'e and let them get a piece of the pie?

The answer is – the exchange of interests.

Cao Zhiqiang pulled He Yuzhu into the gang, the purpose is self-evident, it is for the big leadership relationship behind He Yuzhu and the relationship between Lou Xiao'e.

In addition, He Yuzhu himself is a high-level chef with a strong sense of chef, so making him a chef and chef teacher is also quite beneficial to Cao Zhiqiang's future catering industry.

After all, Cao Zhiqiang can't spend his mind on cooking all day long, and he can't be the principal of any chef training class, which is too much energy.

In this period, there is really a shortage of chefs, especially a lack of professional chef training institutions, so Cao Zhiqiang made this one step earlier, and the value is self-evident.

He Yuzhu's personality is also good, he belongs to the kind where you give him some face and benefits, and he works hard, without too many flowers.

As for bringing food home or something, you just need to factor it into the cost accounting, and that's fine, it's better than paying more for another unfamiliar chef.

As for Lou Xiao'e, she joined the gang in order to have a good relationship with her, let her taste the sweetness of cooperating with her, and then trust herself more.

Only by establishing a certain level of mutual trust can Cao Zhiqiang ask Lou Xiao'e to help and let Cao Zhiqiang's tentacles extend to Xiangjiang.

According to the character design in the TV series, although Lou Xiao'e is very shrewd in the shopping mall, she is kind in nature and attaches great importance to feelings.

For example, in the second half of the courtyard, He Yuzhu turned the courtyard into a nursing home, and almost all the funds came from the hotel opened by Lou Xiao'e.

In other words, He Yuzhu and Xiaodang Huaihua almost clearly used all the profits of the hotel to invest in the courtyard nursing home.

Does Lou Xiao'e know? Of course she knew, but she chose to forgive, or rather treat it as if the hotel was given to the stupid pillar for nothing.

Even, Lou Xiao'e opened that hotel for the purpose of being stupid, and she thought that after chasing the stupid pillar, she would give the hotel to Qin Huairu as compensation for her.

In addition, Lou Xiao'e also said before that she came to China before she took her son to meet Silly Zhu, and she already had other projects in China.

As for what the project, although the TV series did not say it clearly, it is likely to be the catering industry.

The reason is very simple, if Lou Xiao'e was not engaged in the catering industry, she would not know so much about the catering industry, and as soon as the restaurant opened for Silly Zhu, she immediately transferred her own people from the south as managers, and used more advanced management methods to fully manage the restaurant.

If she hadn't been involved in the catering industry a long time ago, Lou Xiao'e wouldn't have understood it so well, after all, Lou Xiao'e had never made a living in a hotel before she ran away to Xiangjiang.

So there is a high probability that after Lou Xiao'e's family ran away from Xiangjiang, they did the catering industry, or at least the catering industry, and let Lou Xiao'e control it.

This is also understandable, after all, after Lou Xiao'e's family ran away to Xiangjiang, they had nothing but money.

The catering industry was one of the best livelihoods for those people who ran away from Hong Kong.

In addition, Lou Xiao'e likes silly pillars, and may not have devoted herself to the catering industry because of silly pillars.

Of course, this is just Cao Zhiqiang's conjecture, what other projects Lou Xiao'e operates, it is not said in the TV series, and Cao Zhiqiang is not sure.

But at least, if Cao Zhiqiang pulls the restaurant business to a stupid pillar, Lou Xiao'e will definitely be tempted.

After all, one of the reasons why Lou Xiao'e returned to the mainland was to relive the old dream with He Yuzhu.

Because in the TV series, Lou Xiao'e once said to herself that after she divorced, she was once in a difficult situation, only to find that Silly Zhu was her favorite, so she wanted to come back and rebuild the old friendship.

For example, this time, she most likely also wants to take care of both public and private affairs, first find out if there is a suitable investment project, and go to see the stupid pillar by the way.

If Silly Zhu is not married, of course it is best, she can immediately launch an offensive without scruples.

If Silly Zhu gets married, she has to think of a way, such as not meeting each other first, and bringing her son back.

To put it bluntly, the current Lou Xiao'e is no longer the stupid Bai Tian of the past, and she also has her own little Jiujiu.

But even so, her kind and soft-hearted nature is difficult to change, even if she talks about principles in the mall, she will still be soft-hearted when she really encounters others crying with her.

For example, her later struggle with Qin Huairu was lost in soft-heartedness, of course, her good son, who looked kind, but was actually a powerful cunning mother, also played a big role.

In addition, Lou Xiao'e talks about principles and wants to transform the stupid pillar prematurely, which is also a major reason for Lou Xiao'e's failure.

If it weren't for Lou Xiao'e always wanting to change the stupid pillar, committing the taboo of the stupid pillar, and causing the stupid pillar to rebound, she would not have been defeated so completely in the end.

After all, from the bottom of his heart, Silly Zhu has really been shaken, and he really wants to live with Lou Xiao'e.

If it weren't for Qin Huairu's tea art level being too high, coupled with the various moral kidnappings of one, two, three uncles and others, as well as Xu Damao's reverse help, it would be really possible for Silly Zhu to divorce Qin Huairu and then live with Lou Xiao'e.

To put it bluntly, Lou Xiao'e's return to China, on the surface, is mainly for business, but in fact, the real purpose is to find the stupid pillar and then make the family complete, which is also what Lou Xiao'e's mother meant.

After all, when people are older, they don't pay so much attention to money, but they value family affection more, and they miss the beauty of the past more, and everyone is like this.

Because Lou Xiao'e said that if she wants to make money and want to go the way, she doesn't need to be stupid at all, she is now a Hong Kong businessman, and there are people everywhere begging her to cooperate, and business is not worried at all.

In addition, Lou Xiao'e is in the mainland, does she really have nothing to do with herself? Not necessarily!

You must know that Lou Xiao'e is not a native of Xiangjiang, but grew up in the capital and is very familiar with the capital.

Her father was still a big capitalist and a major shareholder of the Red Star Rolling Mill.

Thinking of a character like her father, how could it be said that she didn't have any connections back then.

If she didn't have connections, her father wouldn't have been able to leave secretly back then.

It's just that these connections may not add up to the big leaders that Silly Zhu knows, so when something really happened, the relationships between Lou Xiao'e and her father didn't work, and it was only by relying on the big leader behind He Yuzhu that they were able to break the siege.

If it weren't for the help of the big leader, Lou Xiao'e's parents and relatives would not have had a chance to run away at all, so it is not an exaggeration to say that He Yuzhu is the benefactor of the Lou family.

Judging from the later plot, Lou Xiao'e's father should have died a long time ago, and then Lou Xiao'e's brothers and sisters are estimated to be different from Lou Xiao'e, and they have already separated.

Think about it, Lou Xiao'e's mother is a concubine after all, Lou Xiao'e is her mother's child, but Lou Xiao'e's brothers and sisters are not the same mother.

Originally, it was okay in China, but once something happened and you fled to Xiangjiang, you still expect to continue to be harmonious?

This also explains very well why Lou Xiao'e's wife always wanted to go back to the capital to live, and even wanted to live in a courtyard house for the elderly, instead of staying in the bustling Xiangjiang.

The biggest possibility, in addition to the elderly nostalgic for the past and want to return to their roots, it is also possible that Lou Tan's family doesn't like Xiangjiang because it makes her sad.

Don't say anything about Lou Tan's heart is moved, he fell in love with He Yuzhu and his father, that really didn't, at least it wasn't shown in the TV series.

All in all, He Yuzhu and Lou Xiao'e have that kind of friendship, no need to say anything or do anything, Lou Xiao'e can do her best to help.

But Cao Zhiqiang is different.

Even if Cao Zhiqiang was born in a courtyard, this friendship was of little use to Lou Xiao'e, but it was still minus.

After all, that courtyard, in Lou Xiao'e's mind at this time, there are more bad impressions than good impressions.

Maybe I have to say, why did Cao Zhiqiang have to hang a Lou Xiao'e?

Nowadays, there are so many Hong Kong businessmen in China, can't they find others to cooperate?

That's right, there are a lot of Hong Kong businessmen in China at this time, but there are not many reliable ones.

As for Lou Xiao'e, Cao Zhiqiang took advantage of being familiar with the plot, so he knew the roots, and knew that this person was affectionate and principled, and he was the best business partner.

And her son is still a typical rotten good person with soft ears, Lou Xiao'e has only one son, usually the baby is like something, as long as he controls He Xiao in the future, it is equivalent to controlling Lou Xiao'e.

In other words, cooperating with Lou Xiao'e, Cao Zhiqiang is at ease.

In addition, Cao Zhiqiang's choice to cooperate with Lou Xiao'e has one of the most critical factors - policy factors.

You must know that the kind of chef training class that Cao Zhiqiang wants to engage in sounds very similar to that, but at present, it is actually a franchise chain catering group, or a catering company.

However, in the current country, because the private economy is not allowed to be set up in the country, the current domestic companies are either state-owned, collective, or foreign-funded and joint ventures, and there are no private companies belonging to the Chinese people.

Individuals can only use self-employed licenses to open restaurants, except for contracting public canteens, and self-employed people have many restrictions, such as employing no more than eight people.

Eight people is enough for a small restaurant, but it is far from enough for the franchise chain group that Cao Zhiqiang wants to open.

That's why Cao Zhiqiang played a sideline and held a chef training class.

In this way, those chef trainees who come to the restaurant to learn the craft are apprentices, apprentices who come to learn the craft, not hotel employees who are hired to work.

Since you are not an employee, you do not need to follow the eight-person limit for self-employed people.

As for the apprentices, they are also involved in cooking and serving food during their studies......

Well, if people are voluntary, we can't stop it.

As long as you don't pay a salary, you're just an apprentice, not an employee!

You see, in this way, Cao Zhiqiang can circumvent the limit on the number of employees of the self-employed.

The franchise model is that the franchisee pays money, and Cao Zhiqiang's hotel produces people and technology, and the two sides work together to avoid the investment scale restrictions.

If people really want to ask, you can say that someone else opened a restaurant, and then I learned the technique from me, and I recommended it to him as a cook, and we are a kind of cooperation and mutual assistance between friends.

As long as it is not a direct relationship between the upper and lower levels and is not a business license, you can circumvent the restrictions on the scale of business of self-employed individuals.

As for this period, the name of the restaurant opened by others is the same as mine, and the decoration is the same, which can be said to be that people think my signboard is good, and with my consent, they want to use it directly.

At this time, there is no patent law in this area in China, and other people's restaurants have the same name as you, and the decoration and dishes are almost the same, so there is no problem at all.

As for the franchise fee and management fee, you can say that it is a private thank you fee, or a sincerity fee, anyway, as long as it is voluntary, it is easy to say.

In other words, Cao Zhiqiang's franchise chain can avoid various business scale problems of self-employed individuals, and can also start the brand and expand the influence.

As long as Cao Zhiqiang is here, he has always mastered the secret recipe of special dishes and the loyalty of those chef apprentices, that is, he has mastered the core technology of this franchised chain hotel, so he will naturally not worry about the franchise not cooperating.

This point, look at the original plot, Yu Li drove He Yuzhu away and let He Yuzhu's apprentice fat man be the chef, but the business plummeted.

The key to the taste of many dishes is the recipe for cooking, as long as these recipes are not handed over, and only fixed to the finished seasoning of the following franchise stores, then they are not afraid of others stealing to learn.

Just like Coca-Cola, it only gives the puree to various places, and the local branches only dilute the puree and sell it.

The same is true for franchise chain stores, as long as the seasoning of all specialty dishes is provided by the headquarters, it will be the lifeblood of the franchise store.

If the franchise store is not satisfied with the management, it will not give the secret seasoning and materials, and you will not be able to make special dishes.

Without specialty, you're just an ordinary restaurant, and if you have the same name, you'll just be treated as a parody and you'll never go there again.

In addition, people in this era still pay more attention to the inheritance of master and apprentice, if the apprentice betrays the master in private for the sake of profit, everyone will look down on you, even the guests will look down on you, you will stink in this circle, and no one will use you again.

In the original plot, after the fat man betrayed He Yuzhu, he was insulted and excluded by He Yuzhu and others, which was a typical portrayal at that time.

In other words, the chef training course project that Cao Zhiqiang wants to engage in is essentially to use the traditional master-apprentice relationship, and of course, the interests of the regular salary of the headquarters to maintain a close small group of chefs.

In this way, together with the secret recipe that is not passed on to the public, to control other franchisees, so as to circumvent the state's self-employed policy.

But this kind of thing, after all, is a side game, there is still a certain danger, after all, this model has no background, once you make money, it is easy to be targeted.

Originally, Cao Zhiqiang had an alternative plan, that is, once he was in trouble, he would go to the Hongguang Machinery Factory and use the Hongguang Machinery Factory to scare off the ghosts and snakes.

But now, since I met Lou Xiao'e so early, I can have a new mode of operation.

If Cao Zhiqiang can get Lou Xiao'e to agree to investment and cooperation, he can take Lou Xiao'e's plan to cooperate with him to open a catering company, plus a letter of introduction from Uncle Wang, and go to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce to negotiate.

Cao Zhiqiang remembers that in his previous life, the first private company in China was also because of the company's boss Jiang who wanted to cooperate with a Hong Kong businessman, but he was originally only a self-employed person, and self-employed people were not qualified to engage in a joint venture company.

In the end, after many efforts, he finally obtained special approval and established the first private company.

It was also from that moment that private enterprises began to loosen, and various private companies sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, so that year is also known as the first year of domestic enterprises.

Cao Zhiqiang decided to copy the story of Boss Jiang, and also made a cooperation plan with Lou Xiao'e, and then took the plan of this joint venture catering company, plus Uncle Wang's letter of introduction, and went to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce to negotiate.

At that time, the other party will most likely agree to let him set up a private catering company.

As long as he agrees to set up a private catering company, he can happily engage in a joint venture with Lou Xiao'e.

Once it becomes a joint venture catering company, there will be more benefits, at least three years of tax exemption, right?

Moreover, even if a joint venture pays taxes, it is much less than that of state-owned enterprises, which can be said to be quite cost-effective.

In addition, the joint venture can be more convenient for import and export trade, and if the internal employees of the joint venture want to travel between the inland and the Xiangjiang, the review of the relevant departments is also more relaxed and easier to pass.

This means that once Cao Zhiqiang and Lou Xiao'e really partner to establish a joint venture, then if Cao Zhiqiang wants to go to Xiangjiang to do business in the future, at least the approval of the inland side will be more convenient.

It is equivalent to using this joint venture company, Cao Zhiqiang has an identity and pedal that is convenient for going to Xiangjiang from the mainland.

Moreover, if this incident tears open the mouth of domestic private enterprises, there will be more hidden benefits for yourself.

For example, the title of the first person in a private enterprise is estimated to have to be worn on himself.

At that time, you can register several companies.

For example, register a hot pot chain company, or a Malatang chain company, I can do these things alone.

All in all, the advantages of wooing Lou Xiao'e to join the gang and engage in a joint venture company outweigh the disadvantages.

This is still a benefit that Cao Zhiqiang can think of, and more benefits may have to be known slowly in the future.

"Oh, that's not easy."

Thinking of this, Cao Zhiqiang pinched the bridge of his nose.

"There's no way, who made me in the initial stage now, I have to carry people in a sedan chair, and there is no future for eating alone!"

As soon as I thought of this, a shadow suddenly appeared in front of my eyes.

Cao Zhiqiang looked up, but it was Shen Zhenhua who came.

"Boss, are you done?" Shen Zhenhua nodded and asked with a smile.

"Hmm." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, no longer sitting, but stood up directly, "It's done for the time being, Huazi, you did a good job, I'll give you a bonus when I go back." ”

"Can I go back?" Shen Zhenhua smiled, "I'm hungry and want to go back to eat." ”

As soon as he said this, his stomach suddenly gurgled and barked.

Cao Zhiqiang was stunned, and then suddenly laughed: "What are you going to eat when you go back, let's go, I'll take you to eat Western food, just eat here!" ”

"Huh?" Shen Zhenhua was also stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly waved his hand, "I can't help it, the Western food here is precious, I can't afford to eat it." ”

Cao Zhiqiang smiled and patted Shen Zhenhua's shoulder directly: "Okay, don't pretend, I'll treat you, I don't need you to spend money!" ”

"Really?" Shen Zhenhua's eyes lit up.

"Really!" Cao Zhiqiang smiled and nodded, "You have helped me so much, why do you want to have a Western meal?"

Besides, I'm hungry too, so let's just eat with me, and you can eat with me. ”

"Hey, hey, hey." Shen Zhenhua scratched his head, "That relationship is good, and I don't dare to ask for it." ”

"Hey, hey." Cao Zhiqiang shook his head, "You are much more slippery than Old Yang." ”

Shen Zhenhua hurriedly smiled and said, "No, boss, I'm just slippery, and I never do things slippery!" ”

"Okay, okay, I know you're reliable." Cao Zhiqiang shook his head, "Let's go, eat Western food!" Let's try what this Western food tastes like! ”

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