Chapter 009

"Boss, the meal is ready!"

In fact, before the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was no cuisine in China, at least it was different from the current concept of cuisine. If you really want to say it, there is probably only the current Luoyang water seat. Because before the advent of stir-frying, everyone was just cooking, that is, boiling, stewing and barbecue, in addition to roasting, most of them were various dishes with soup, and you would know what it was like after eating Luoyang water seats.

All the dishes made by Yang Yunniang are not stir-fried, but are all with soup, for example, a stewed mutton, a stewed hen, as well as winter melon vermicelli soup, lotus root glutinous rice soup.

Each dish comes with soup. Yang Yunniang snuggled up to the table.

"Mingyu, come over for dinner!"

"It's coming!"

Shen Mingyu was on the basin rack outside the kitchen and began to wash his hands.

Yang Yunniang was stared at by Shen Mingyu a little unnaturally.

"Don't worry, I'm Yan, not a bandit!"

Yan, just using her posture to deceive people, will never use force, in fact, Yang Yunniang has no force, let her fight, she can only deliver food.

Shen Mingyu stared at Yang Yunniang very deadly, her kitchen cooked, and every dish was eaten by Yang Yunniang first.

Although the dishes are not as good as Liu Ji's cook, Cheng Shijie is also used to living a hard life, especially when Xiang Hui married him, he made dark dishes. After having a child, Cheng Shijie needs to travel frequently, and Xiang Hui's cooking skills have slowly become almost complete.

Three people sat around the dining room of the main house to eat.

Yang Yunniang asked cautiously: "The owner, the broker hasn't come back yet!" ”

"Nope!"

"Those brokers are just bullying big families, but the owners, who are new to the house, I'm afraid they won't be polite!"

Yang Yunniang kindly reminded Cheng Shijie not to be deceived by Song Kangnian.

How could Cheng Shijie not know that the helpers on the street were unreliable? That's why he used heavy profits to attract Song Kangnian, this kind of blade built by later generations, even if the quality is again, is also high-carbon steel, and he buys mid-to-high-end products, looking at the alloy composition on the manual, it is actually made of high-manganese steel.

Although the cost is not high, it can be sold in Daming, definitely more than twenty taels of silver, you must know that the iron knife of the Ming Dynasty is still eight or nine taels of silver. Even if it is an ordinary kitchen knife in later generations, it can be regarded as a divine weapon in the Ming Dynasty.

That's the tech side of things.

Cheng Shijie didn't think too much about this issue, doing business will be risky, and if you are deceived, you will be deceived. If Song Kangnian ran away with his two knives, he would have no choice, after all, he was a newcomer, and he had nothing to follow.

However, now Cheng Shijie decided to go outside the city to see if he could cross outside the city every time, and Cheng Shijie did not have a sense of security in the city.

"Yun Niang...... I'm going to put a sum of money with you, and you are responsible for purchasing the ingredients yourself, and you can show me the detailed account every month. As for meals, you should have meat at every meal, buy more fish, eggs, and meat, and buy them at each meal in quantities of four, not six! ”

Cheng Shijie glanced at Shen Mingyu, who was silently cooking, this guy is a big-bellied man, and one person can eat three portions like Cheng Shijie. If there is no meat, the rice is eaten more.

"When the meal is ready, you don't have to bring me to the room alone, just call me. If you want, you can dine with us! ”

"How can that be, there are no rules at all!"

Yang Yunniang muttered secretly, Cheng Shijie is too careless, don't you have a henchman to manage the accounts? Although the money of Caijin is not much, a lot of money can be deducted by deductions, and Cheng Shijie will definitely not find out a few dollars of silver a month.

Besides, Cheng Shijie eats meat every day, but Shen Mingyu is just a subordinate, a stone of rice only needs four dollars of silver in Dengzhou, and Chen rice costs three dollars, even if Shen Mingyu eats one liter of polished rice every day, he will not need three dollars of silver a month, but a chicken needs twenty or thirty dollars, and Shen Mingyu eats rice for five days.

Yang Yunniang thought about how to remind Cheng Shijie that firewood, rice, oil, and salt were expensive.

Of course, Cheng Shijie knows that eating meat is more expensive than eating rice, and silver will cost a lot, but the problem is that he doesn't have a henchman now, and he still expects Shen Mingyu to work hard for him and let Shen Mingyu eat meat every day, such an owner, it will definitely be difficult for him to find a second one.

For the sake of his own job, Shen Mingyu will definitely protect Cheng Shijie.

Shen Mingyu did this.

is followed by a liar, but Yang Yunniang hasn't done it yet, even if he tells Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie may not believe it, but will make Cheng Shijie no longer trust him.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Cheng Shijie didn't move, Shen Mingyu naturally got up and walked towards the door.

"Slow, slow, yes, be careful!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the direction of the gate, and saw Song Kangnian commanding more than a dozen porters, pushing three carts into the East Cross Courtyard, the original area of the East Cross Courtyard was not large, and the three big cars almost filled the yard.

Cheng Shijie put down his chopsticks: "This is ......"

"Fortunately, I didn't lose my life!"

Song Kangnian was a little proud, he overfulfilled Cheng Shijie's task, and sold Cheng Shijie's treasure knife, which was priced at twenty taels of silver, at a price of five hundred taels of silver each.

The Dongjiang Army was very poor, and it could be said that it was an army called Hanako. In the eight years since Mao Wenlong opened the town, he received a total of more than 800,000 taels of silver from the imperial court, but in fact he received more than 293,000 taels, and the household department and the military department ate more than 500,000 taels of silver.

The average expenditure of the Guanning soldiers was 329 yuan of silver, but the average per capita of the Dongjiang soldiers was less than 4 yuan of silver, and the average daily expenditure was more than 1 penny, not to mention the food and salt that was not enough. No matter how poor the Dongjiang Army is, the generals are actually not poor.

For example, as early as the Mao Wenlong era, Geng Zhongming was the military chief of the Dongjiang Army, responsible for managing the money and food of the Dongjiang Army.

This position is high and powerful, and it is not confidant. Geng Zhongming can do this position, mainly because he is Mao Wenlong's adopted grandson, Mao Chenglu's adopted son, he, Kong Youde, and Shang Kexi are all Mao Wenlong's adopted grandsons, and they are all given the surname Mao, Kong Youde is called Mao Yongshi, Geng Zhongming is called Mao Youjie, and Shang Kexi is called Mao Yongxi.

Geng Zhongming naturally did not dare to be corrupt in the era of Mao Wenlong, but he actually did not need to be corrupt, because the Dongjiang Army also had a way to get money, and Jiannu liked to be buried thickly, especially in the massacre of Liaodong, the land was scraped three feet, and there was a lot of property, and the Dongjiang Army often attacked Jiannu and captured a lot.

The coastal islands occupied by the Dongjiang Army have little arable land, and if there is no money to buy food, there is no need to fight, and they will starve to death long ago, and Geng Zhongming can also rob the cargo ships smuggled by the Ming Dynasty through the Dongjiang Army Naval Division, and make a lot of profits. In Geng Zhongming's view, Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong did not have the factor of interest charge.

The financiers behind the Donglin Party are the Jiangnan gentry clique, which controls the channels for smuggling from Jiangnan to Korea and Japan, while the Dongjiang Army takes advantage of its geographical advantages to get a piece of the pie. Although the Dongjiang Army is very secretive, there is no need for evidence for this kind of thing, and a suspicion is enough.

Geng Zhongming was very anxious about the problem that after Huang Long served as the commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army, he bit Geng Zhongyu and did not let go, hoping to use Geng Zhongyu to open a gap in the Mao group of the Dongjiang Army. He hoped that this kind of divine weapon would be given to Huang Long, and Huang Long could accept it when he saw it.

Geng Zhongming paid Song Kangnian not all silver, including 150 horses of fine silk worth 12 taels of silver, and such silk can be sold for at least more than 100 taels of silver when sold to Europa.

In ancient times, cloth itself could replace currency, and three carts carried one hundred and fifty horses of silk, and thirty horses of Songjiang cotton cloth worth one hundred taels of silver, followed by silver.

"You sold?"

"Sold!"

Song Kangnian saw that Cheng Shijie was eating, and he was not polite, he sat down directly, directly picked up the chopsticks used by Yang Yunniang, picked up a piece of mutton, and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Nice, delicious...... Mr. Cheng can give them twenty knives. ”

"Awesome!"

Cheng Shijie opened the cabinet and asked Shen Mingyu to send the sword to the car in the yard.

With the three carts coming over, there was a person who looked like a steward, and a sword was drawn out to inspect the goods, and sure enough, as Song Kangnian said, they were all divine weapons and high-quality products.

Song Kangnian held a chicken leg in one hand, walked up to the steward and said: "Now that the money and goods are cleared, you go back and tell General Geng that the old man has calculated a hexagram for him, he has had a small catastrophe recently, it is not a big problem, don't worry, you don't have to do anything, you can naturally get through the difficulties!" ”

"Thank you, sir!"

The steward put the sword on the cart, and then had the cloth and silver unloaded and departed.

Cheng Shijie looked at the four huge boxes: "Twenty knives, how much did you sell for?" ”

"Ten thousand taels!"

Song Kangnian looked at Cheng Shijie with a smile: "What Mr. Cheng said before, is it not serious?" ”

Cheng Shijie set a price of twenty taels, but Song Kangnian directly sold it for five hundred taels, more than four hundred and eighty taels of silver, and now that the delivery is complete, Song Kangnian also wants to see how Cheng Shijie, who he can't see, decides.

Although Cheng Shijie is not a businessman in later generations, he also knows the value of goods, and has a direct relationship with contacts, by chance, he saw the logistics bill of Hangang Group, Hangang Group uses white gloves for employees, and the average price of a pair of white gloves in a treasure is less than one yuan, but the purchase price of the purchasing department of Hangang Group is fifteen yuan per unit.

For example, Hangang Group needs to spend hundreds of thousands of pairs of white gloves every month, and the purchase price will only be cheaper, however, in fact, it has increased by fifteen or six times.

The most profitable is not the manufacturer, but the second-hand dealer. Cheng Shijie's eldest brother Xiang Zhi planted watermelons, and the loading price was only two cents a catty, but Cheng Shijie never bought watermelons in the supermarket for less than one dollar. Whether it is vegetables or meat, farmers and herdsmen make only a small part of the money, and a larger part is earned by second-hand dealers.

Because people have channels and connections, this is the most valuable resource.

After only thinking for a moment, Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "As a man, the most honest one belongs to Cheng Mou, and the extra part is Mr. Song's!" ”

PS: Now it's actually a stand-alone mode, Lao Cheng is panicking, asking for votes, asking for support!