Seeing that Li Jin was a little hesitant, Chu Mo immediately grabbed his hand and said seriously: "Gonggong Li, Gu is really doing serious things now, not using this money to spend all day and wine." Even if his father really knew, he would never blame Gu. ”

In addition, Gu also thought about it, and among the money obtained from the mortgage, Gu donated a part of it for disaster relief in Qingling and Qingling Prefectures. In this way, even if it is known that Gu took the things rewarded by his father to mortgage for money, the civil and military officials and the people of Chu State will only praise Gu as a good prince who loves the people like a son. ”

"So Gonggong Li, you must help Gu Gu, Gu really needs money and your help now. ”

Chu Mo looked at Li Jin sincerely and said.

In fact, these days, Li Jin is indeed very sure that this prince is very different from before. He even suspected that Chu Mo had been dropped, but seeing that he had not done anything to endanger the Chu State, he gradually let down his guard against him.

I thought to myself, maybe it was really God's mercy, so that the stupid prince had an epiphany and opened his spiritual wisdom, which was like a different person. But as long as he is diligent and loves the people, why should he care whether he is a stupid prince or a smart prince?

Thinking of this, Li Jin nodded silently and said: "Okay, Your Highness's status is noble, and this matter will be handled by the old slave! If Your Majesty is really angry because of this matter, Your Highness will be said to be completely ignorant, and it is the old slave who stole the things in the house and mortgaged them, and this matter has nothing to do with Your Highness." ”

Chu Mo nodded, and said with a grateful face: "Gonggong Li, don't worry, we will definitely be fine." ”

The Emperor and the Empress of Chu have always loved this silly prince, and just today, Chu Mo gave Queen Tang Lan two lotus leaf chickens, and unintentionally planted willows to help her raise 300,000 taels of disaster relief funds.

This matter can be regarded as a great achievement, even if the queen does not publicize it to the outside world and directly praises Chu Mo's achievements, she will definitely inform Emperor Chu of this matter and praise Chu Mo in front of Emperor Chu.

In addition, he left a back hand for himself, and from the money obtained from the mortgage, he donated a part of the silver money as disaster relief funds, which completely blocked everyone's mouths and gave Emperor Chu a step down.

Even if this matter is really exposed, he can establish a good image for himself. Li Jin also listened to his plan, so he decided to help him, so as not to let him come forward in person and fall into the hands of others.

On the same day, Li Jin selected more than a dozen treasures from the treasury of the Prince's Mansion. Then after dressing up, he sneaked out of the back door of the prince's mansion at night.

Chu Mo took out a detailed map of Kyoto, and made a mark on each lively street, and the place marked was the store he was going to open in the future, a specialty store selling lotus leaf chicken.

That night, Li Jin returned to the mansion and handed over 300,000 taels of silver tickets to Chu Mo. Each of the rare treasures selected by Li Jin was worth a lot of money, but this time they were in a hurry to use the money, and they mortgaged it privately, so the price was naturally lowered a lot.

This item, which was originally worth 350,000 taels, could only be mortgaged for more than 10,000 taels in the end, but fortunately, 300,000 taels were raised, and for Chu Mo, it could be regarded as the first entrepreneurial fund.

He took out 30,000 taels from the 300,000 taels and asked Li Jin to donate them privately in the name of Mo Chu to the yamen in Kyoto who was responsible for raising donations for disaster relief.

Subsequently, Chu Mo arranged manpower again, and the soldiers were divided into three routes.

The first way, go to the major lotus ponds around Kyoto to collect lotus leaves, whether dry lotus leaves or wet lotus leaves, all of them are all collected into the prince's mansion, which cost nearly 50,000 taels, but the lotus leaves within a radius of 100 miles in Kyoto are almost all taken away by Chu Mo.

This second way is to let people buy chickens, street by street sweeping, as long as they see that there are live chickens for sale, they will all buy them, and some vendors still have surplus goods, they will also let people buy them, this item cost Chu Mo 150,000 taels.

As for the third road, it is for people to go to the places he marked before, and choose a suitable store for each street. It's best to be able to find a restaurant that doesn't do well and lease these outlets with the chef.

This rented hundreds of stores, and cost Chu Mo nearly 10,000 taels, and the rent in this store is cheap, and the chef's salary can be settled after a month, which also saves Chu Mo some money.

After everything was ready, Chu Mo called all the more than 100 chefs to the Prince's Mansion and gave them a two-day professional training.

Later, more than 100 shops called "Prince Lotus Leaf Chicken" suddenly opened in the main streets of Kyoto.

In Kyoto, the state of Chu, there are millions of people living there.

A large part of them are ordinary people, but Chu Mo roughly calculated that there are two or three hundred thousand people living in them, and they are still very rich.

The so-called wealth here refers to the total value of his family property exceeding 10,000 taels, and Chu Mo refers to these people as 10,000 taels, which is the main sales group of his unique lotus leaf chickens.

Before planning to do this, Chu Mo had carefully calculated that the purchase price of a live chicken was one or two silver, plus lotus leaves, spices, labor, store rent, etc., all kinds of miscellaneous items added up, and the cost of a lotus leaf chicken was about three taels.

If this is in an ordinary restaurant, it will be sold for at least ten or twenty taels.

But this lotus leaf chicken is Chu Mo's exclusive secret recipe, and the people of Chu have never eaten it. Moreover, his store has the resounding name of the prince, so he has a unified price of fifty taels of lotus leaf chicken for all stores.

For those who are really rich, this is nothing at all, like in a place like Tianren Pavilion, even if it is an ordinary roast chicken, it can be sold for a high price of thirty or forty taels, so his prince lotus leaf chicken sells for fifty taels, which is not too high.

Moreover, Chu Mo didn't think about it for a long time at the beginning, this was to take advantage of the fact that the people of Kyoto had never eaten lotus leaf chicken, and they were full of curiosity about the fragrant lotus leaf chicken wrapped in mud, so he hurriedly made a lot of money.

When these people in Kyoto have eaten lotus leaf chicken, there will definitely be a lot fewer people who are willing to say fifty taels to buy his lotus leaf chicken, and no matter how rich people are, they can't make it every day.

Of course, if the price is one hundred taels, Chu Mo believes that there will still be many rich people who will buy it. But those ordinary people are likely to hesitate and discourage in the face of high prices.

So this price of fifty taels is the best result he got after several rounds of calculations. Selling at this price, he can make the most profit from it.

On the opening day, those officials and wives who had been lucky enough to taste lotus leaf chicken in the palace immediately drove a carriage and brought silver to the market as soon as they heard that there was a prince lotus leaf chicken sold on the street.