Chapter 32: The Angel Comes
At that time in the palace, they only tasted a small piece, and they were not addicted to it at all. I bought the lotus leaf chicken at the moment, and in order to identify whether the taste was the same as the lotus leaf chicken they ate in the palace, they pried open the lotus leaf chicken on the spot and ate it immediately.
At this moment, the aroma wafted out, causing the people around to show their greed. Those who originally thought that this prince lotus leaf chicken was in the name of a prince to cheat money, and they couldn't help but pay for chickens.
Immediately afterwards, more and more people bought chicken, and some people ate it on the spot. I even packed several of them and gave them to others as gifts.
On the first day of opening, two or three hundred chickens were sold in each store, and many people came late and couldn't buy them at all. And Chu Mo informed each store that it was not allowed to make reservations in advance, and could only queue up to buy it on the same day, so those who didn't buy lotus leaf chicken could only take the money to queue up the next day.
Suddenly, the reputation of the prince's lotus leaf chicken suddenly started in Kyoto.
When Li Jin reported to him carefully about the day's income of each store, Chu Mo couldn't help but smile on his face.
On the first day of opening, more than 100 stores in the city sold a total of more than 30,000 lotus leaf chickens. The cost of this chicken is three taels, the price is fifty taels, and for every lotus leaf chicken sold, he can earn forty-seven taels of silver, and the net profit on the first day is nearly one and a half million taels.
"One and a half million taels, one and a half million taels!" Chu Mo forcibly held back the joy in his heart, and the hand holding the account book couldn't help but tremble.
Even Li Jin looked at him in surprise and said in admiration: "Your Highness has not only learned to be a blockbuster since he recovered from a serious illness, but also has such a talent in the way of business, and in one day, he earned nearly 1.5 million taels, I am afraid that even the famous businessman Lu Youwei of the Great Qin Empire in the previous dynasty will sigh to himself!"
"Gonggong Li said seriously, this business is just to make a little quick money. It won't be long before other fake lotus leaf chickens will appear in the city, and the people's enthusiasm for lotus leaf chickens will subside, and the business of this lotus leaf chicken will come to an end. Chu Mo smiled helplessly while calculating the accounts.
Even if you are rich, you can't take out fifty taels every day to buy chickens from him!
Therefore, these lotus leaf chicken stores can be opened for another ten days and half a month, and there can be so many incomes every day, Chu Mo is satisfied.
"Gonggong Li, you instruct to go down and have someone hang a plaque in front of each store, which says that for every lotus leaf chicken sold, the prince will donate five taels of silver to the affected people in Qingling and Qingling Prefectures, which is the so-called take from the people for the people!" Chu Mo instructed Li Jin again.
"Yes, the old slave will do it. ”
Li Jin responded, and then immediately retreated.
Now that the prince's mansion has hired a new cook, there is no need to cook in the snowfall. It's just that she follows Chu Mo every day, watching Chu Mo think about it, and she is dizzy, so she simply continues to be a maid who pours tea and water, and is too lazy to ask Chu Mo about it.
In a blink of an eye, the next day, the store of those lotus leaf chickens had not yet opened, and there was already a long queue at the door. Visually, today's sales can double compared to yesterday, mainly because of the good publicity done the day before, almost the entire Kyoto dignitaries know about the prince's lotus leaf chicken.
These others have eaten the lotus leaf chicken invented by the prince, and they naturally can't be left behind. If we talk about it in the future, the other dignitaries and nobles present have all eaten the prince's lotus leaf chicken, but they haven't eaten it themselves, wouldn't it be too faceless?
So the next day just started to open, and business was booming again. Fortunately, Chu Mo hurriedly dispatched additional manpower to various stores last night, which can be regarded as barely coping with this hot situation.
After breakfast, Chu Mo was going to go out with the snowfall for a walk, and by the way, he would inspect the sales of each store.
Unexpectedly, before they went out, Li Jin led an old eunuch in, Chu Mo took a look, and found that the old eunuch was Hong Sifeng, the chief eunuch who was serving with Emperor Chu.
"Gonggong Hong is not serving his father in the palace, why did he come to Lone?" Chu Mo glanced at Hong Sifeng and took the initiative to ask him.
Hong Sifeng bowed to him and said: "The old slave Hong Sifeng visited His Royal Highness the Prince, and if he returned to His Royal Highness, the old slave came to the Prince's Mansion this time on the orders of His Majesty and came to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to enter the palace with the old slave." ”
"Father called Lone into the palace?"
The expression on Chu Mo's face suddenly became serious, and he asked, "Gonggong Hong, what did my father say about summoning Gu into the palace?"
His Majesty didn't say it, and the old slave didn't dare to ask. After saying this, Hong Sifeng smiled at him again: "It's just that His Highness has been in the limelight for the past two days, and His Majesty summoned His Highness at this time, presumably something bad should happen." ”
Chu Mo nodded silently.
These days, they have indeed done a few big things, first of all, a song "Compassion for Nong" shocked Kyoto. Later, he fought the Confucianism in the court, took over the potato of Zhao for the Chu Emperor, and a few days ago, he unintentionally planted willows to help Queen Tang Lan raise 300,000 taels of disaster relief funds.
Counting these cases one by one, Emperor Chu only has the share of rewarding him, and he should not be called into the palace to accuse him.
What's more, he had a plaque hung in front of the prince's lotus leaf chicken store last night, and today he sold tens of thousands of lotus leaf chickens, and he donated more than 100,000 taels to the people in Qingling and Qingling Prefectures.
So Chu Mo immediately took Li Jin and followed Hong Sifeng into the palace. It's just that when they were just about to leave, Hong Sifeng secretly hinted at Chu Mo again, saying that this lotus leaf chicken had a great reputation and had spread to the palace.
Although he didn't directly pick it out, Chu Mo already understood the true meaning. Immediately sent someone to the nearest store, selected a dozen lotus leaf chickens, and then brought them into the palace.
This time, Emperor Chu did not summon Chu Mo in the main hall, but waited for him in the imperial garden. Chu Mo followed Hong Sifeng to the Imperial Garden, and before he walked in front of Emperor Chu, Chu Mo saw the figures of Emperor Chu and Empress in the crowd.
Chu Mo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, with Empress Tang Lan here, even if Emperor Chu was really angry, she would definitely stop Emperor Chu, after all, she was the biological mother of the stupid prince.
Chu Mo walked in front of them, bowed and saluted: "Sons and daughters pay tribute to their father and mother, may their father be in good health, and may their mother smile often!"
"When did the prince's mouth become so sweet?" Emperor Chu said with some surprise.
Queen Tang Lan also hurriedly waved her hand and said, "Mo'er doesn't have to be polite, come over and let the queen mother take a look." ”
Chu Mo walked over, Queen Tang Lan grabbed his hand, looked at it carefully, and then sighed: "My Mo'er has really grown up and started to become sensible!"