But the middle class, such as rich peasants, small landlords, petty traders, etc., these people gritted their teeth and were ruthless, and they could still afford to eat.

Li Qiao doesn't want to turn noodles into a luxury item for the rich, he wants more people to feel the joy of noodles.

Pingcheng vermicelli does not increase in price, the happiest are naturally those traders from other places, Fang Shitong is from Hedong Prefecture, after knowing about vermicelli last year, he came to Pingcheng this summer.

After arriving in Pingcheng, he did not stay in a guest house, but rented a small courtyard to start a small business of reselling Li Qiao's dim sum.

Li Qiao's dim sum is only sold in the Moon Tower, he went to line up early, after buying the dim sum, he used saltpeter to make some ice cubes, and then put the dim sum into the ice cubes to freeze, with these frozen dim sum, he hurried to the city of Fucheng, put these snacks in the city to sell.

Li Qiao's dim sum is very marketable in Fucheng, and some people who didn't go to Pingcheng but wanted to eat his dim sum are willing to pay for his frozen dim sum.

In this way, he didn't earn much silver each time, but he could earn three or four taels of silver on a trip.

This money was enough to support him in Heijo.

This summer, he had a lot of experience in queuing up at Mochizuki Tower, so when Shopkeeper Wang started handing out number plates for vermicelli, his speed was not inferior to that of the local vendors in Pingcheng, and he grabbed the number eight.

That's a pretty high number.

The rule of the shopkeeper is that a number plate is allowed to buy vermicelli only once.

After buying this time, if you want to buy it again next time, you will have to queue up again.

With the popularity of vermicelli, there was almost no possibility of re-queuing up at the beginning of the year, that is, before the Chinese New Year, everyone only had one chance to buy vermicelli.

As a result, every time it is a person's turn, that person will spend the most financial resources to buy vermicelli.

The vermicelli on the side of Mochizuki Tower is from Sanliu Village and Zhujia Village, and there are about 23,000 catties a day, so many catties of vermicelli are enough to pile up into a mountain of vermicelli.

But in the eyes of big businessmen, it's nothing.

While the big merchants were waiting, they arranged all the men, carriages, and routes, and just waited to get the goods.

Therefore, the big businessmen in the front line can buy a ten-day amount of vermicelli in one go.

The people in the front buy more, and those in the back have to wait patiently.

But time is money, so the eighth-ranked number plate in his hand is really valuable.

Many big businessmen approached him and wanted to pay a high price for the number plate in his hand, and the highest bid was 2,300 taels of silver.

But he didn't sell.

This summer, in the process of reselling dim sum, he also arranged the manpower, carriage, and route.

took out all his family funds and bought 50,000 catties of vermicelli.

The 50,000 catties of vermicelli were not transported back to Hedong Mansion, but put them in the yard he had rented a long time ago.

He doesn't sell this batch of vermicelli for the time being.

After the New Year, the sweet potato factory was shut down, so he sold the noodles again.

He has few manpower, and he has never been out of Yuanhe Province, not to mention that he is competing with big businessmen from other provinces, he can't even compete with the merchants of Hexi Province.

That being the case, he might as well stay put.

Pingcheng has good public security under the governance of Jiangzhi County, and with such a large batch of vermicelli, he asked his family to come over to guard it, and he will definitely be able to keep it safe and secure until the sweet potato workshop stops working.

Moreover, before the sweet potato workshop is suspended, the shopkeeper Wang should issue the number plate again, so he doesn't have to go out to run, he just stays in Pingcheng.

The money he earned from reselling dim sum was enough to sustain his expenses in Heiseong, and he only had to continue to resell dim sum.

Li Qiao is really his God of Wealth.

……

Han Ning is a native of the capital and has already made a name for himself.

His Han family is a businessman, but his generation is the fourth generation, so he can take the imperial examination.

However, the Han family has had bad luck in recent years, and every time there is a big move, it will inevitably lose money.

The year before last, his father made a desperate bet and invested all the family's silver in silk, hoping to transport the silk to the surrounding small countries to earn silver.

As a result, a typhoon swept over, and several boats of silk sank into the sea, so his family was completely ruined, and he could not continue to study, so he could only earn silver in various ways.

This year, after reading Shengshang's article, he heard that there was such a thing as vermicelli in Hexi Province, so he asked his father to beg his grandfather to tell his grandmother to borrow money from relatives and friends.

After borrowing a circle of silver and pawning the ancestral property, he brought eight hundred taels of silver tickets and his two brothers all the way from the capital to Hexi Mansion.

He put his net worth and life on the noodles, and if he loses money again this time, then he will simply commit suicide.

Fortunately, after the three of them arrived in Pingcheng, they quickly figured out the bottom of Pingcheng, and when Jiang Zhixian and the shopkeeper Wang issued number plates, the three brothers all got the top numbers.

One is seventh, one is twelfth, and one is fifteenth.

The number plates of the seventh and twelfth were sold, and they were exchanged for a total of 5,000 taels of silver.

With these 5,000 taels of silver, the three of them increased their capital greatly, and he sent a letter to the capital asking the family to borrow some more silver and manpower, and then came to Hexi Mansion to escort this batch of vermicelli into Beijing.

If his Han family really relied on this batch of vermicelli to break the bad luck of salted fish this year, then he must ask Li Qiao for an immortal card at home and pray for Li Qiao every day!

……

Sanliu Village is full of vermicelli, and all those who have the ability to do this job will enter the sweet potato workshop to earn wages.

But the villagers of Sanliu Village not only planted sweet potatoes, they also planted a lot of miscellaneous grains, and now they are working in the sweet potato workshop, and they cannot collect these miscellaneous grains only by relying on the elderly and children at home, so the villagers hire people from other villages or find relatives to come and help.

The villagers work in the sweet potato workshop and can get 300 yuan a day.

They hired others to collect miscellaneous grains, thirty wen per person, and three hundred wen for ten people.

Therefore, although they are reluctant to make this money, in order to make more money in the sweet potato workshop, the people of Sanliu Village and Zhujia Village basically hire people or ask relatives to come and help.

Tao Zhu observed the situation and observed it for a few days, and that night, after being happy with Li Qiao, he lay in Li Qiao's arms and slowly talked to Li Qiao about this phenomenon.

"In the past, it was really difficult for the villagers to find a job to earn money when they were not working, but now, the villagers have become the owners of the families who hire people with money."

When he was in the Tao family, in the winter, he had to go to the town to find work.

But the town is so big, and there are so many nearby villages, he can't rob the others, so he can only go back to the village.

If he can't earn money, he will definitely be lost, and he can only work harder to satisfy his family.

……

The miserable scenes in the past, looking back now, are the same as in the previous life.

He was in a trance for a moment, and when he came back to his senses, he couldn't help but stretch out his hands and feet to wrap them tightly around Li Qiao's body.

He squeezed into Li Qiao's arms, trying to squeeze himself into Li Qiao's body.

If it weren't for this person, not only would he still be miserable now, but the life of the villagers would not be easy.

This year's lack of rain has reduced not only the yield of sweet potatoes, but also the output of other miscellaneous grains, but the villagers have to pay taxes, fill their stomachs, and save money for life events......

Moreover, it was not the worst year, the worst year was a lack of harvest, and he had experienced that tragedy before, and he still did not want to think about it.

So, he likes this guy too much.

I like Li Qiao, I like it, I like it.

He was one size smaller than Li Qiao, Li Qiao's arms just could accommodate him, his heart was next to Li Qiao's heart, he buried his face in Li Qiao's neck socket and rubbed it a few times, feeling the familiar body temperature, he said softly: "You are really amazing, Li Qiao." ”

Li Qiao's heart hurt a little by Tao Zhule, and he couldn't move because of Tao Zhu's entanglement, but he just lowered his head and laughed softly: "Then kiss me." ”

When these four words came out, Tao Zhu immediately raised his head and kissed him on the lips.

The two exchanged a soft kiss.

When this kiss ended, most of Li Qiao's body was pressed on Tao Zhu's body, he was lying on his side, gently rubbing Tao Zhu's back with one hand, pinching Tao Zhu's earlobe with the other hand, pinching Tao Zhu's cheek, and pinching Tao Zhu's cheek, anyway, he couldn't be idle.

Tao Zhu's comfortable eyes narrowed, he liked this kind of touch, his body was full of this person's breath, it was so good.

He said softly: "I'll release the news of recruiting workers tomorrow." ”

"Okay." Li Qiao responded.

"Build a workshop first, it doesn't need to be too big, more than ten rooms are enough......"

Tao Zhu slowly talked about his plan.

If you want to start a duck business, you must first have a space, and his family's big yard is used to make snacks, and the duck business has to build another house.

Take advantage of the fact that the sky is not snowing and the land is not freezing, hurry up and repair the house, otherwise, this duck business will be postponed until the end of the year.

Li Qiao is very supportive of the business, and when the workers start building the house, he has to check the progress with Tao Zhu every day, as he did before.

The duck goods workshop was built on the northwest side of Baiyu and Li Dazhong's yard, near the river, because there were many workers, so the progress was very fast, and it was built in less than ten days.

After the construction is completed, it is the workers of the duck goods workshop.

Like the requirements of the sweet potato workshop, the first is hygiene, doing food business, especially the customers are rich and noble, hygiene is the most important item.

The taste may not be outstanding, but the hygiene must not be a problem.

The second is to be honest, diligent, and meticulous.

Braised duck neck, duck wings, and duck intestines all need to be kept secret, so when working in the workshop, don't look at what you shouldn't see, and don't ask what you shouldn't ask.

You have to be diligent, Tao Zhu doesn't like lazy people.

It should also be meticulous, Tao Zhu does not like rework.

Tao Zhu had already made the recruitment requirements clear when he built the workshop, which was a bit too much, but there were also a lot of people who asked him to sign up.

This is the first time his family has recruited outsiders to do food business.

In the dim sum business, Li Qiao only uses his own family, and outsiders can't squeeze in.

In the sweet potato workshop, Li Qiao only uses people from Sanliu Village and Zhujia Village, and people from other villages can't squeeze in.

But the duck goods workshop, the scope of recruitment is finally not limited to the Li family and the small scope of Zhujia Village in Sanliu Village-

In fact, the long-term workers of the Li Qiao family do not limit their status, but the work that the long-term workers are responsible for is farming, which is too hard, even if the wages are higher than those of other landlords, it is also manual work in the final analysis.

But the duck business is different, the duck business is similar to the dim sum business, you only need to slaughter and clean the ducks every day.

Compared to farming, this job is too easy.

The people of the surrounding villages were overjoyed.

After looking forward to it for so long, they finally have a chance, not only can they get close to Li Qiao, but this is a long-term job, which can be done all year round, seriously, this is more stable than the sweet potato workshop!

So, the people who came to Tao Zhu to sign up for it had not a hundred but eighty a day.