fake prince

Chapter 598 Winning with Raw Materials

Su Ziji didn't answer the wild Taoist's question first, but just asked: "Mr. Lu, how much does my house need to spend?"

"My lord, in the first month, 23 households will spend 500 taels of household expenses, plus weapons, leather armor, carts, cattle, and coal, candles, and other items to buy in one lump sum, about 400 taels of silver. The total is 2000 taels."

"After this month, the monthly bills, clothing, food, and salary can be reduced to about 300 taels per month, but with the main family expenses, it may be 500 taels a month, not counting favors, rewards, and family sacrifices. "

"Every year, the Hou's Mansion needs at least 6000 taels of silver to operate." Having said this, Ye Taoist took a breath.

"So, we must open source." Su Ziji said with a smile, and when he saw that the wild Taoist had something to say, he waved his hand: "Now I only ask about the number of people, not about the cost. Are there siblings?"

"It's full of people." Ye Daoist said, he took over Juyuanlou, and renovated it, and changed the name, and the business is still good. It is a relatively stable and profitable business among the properties he currently owns.

The people who have practiced and learned from the operation of this restaurant can be continuously sent to the new restaurant. There is no shortage of shopkeepers and buddies.

"However, at most it will open three or five more."

"I know, I only need to open three or five." Su Ziji smiled slightly, expressing his understanding.

Many people think that chain stores are an invention of the era. In fact, this mode of opening stores has existed in ancient times.

There are only two points. In ancient times, due to the underdeveloped communication, it was impossible to manage across counties, so the branch stores cannot be chained outside the county. This is unsolvable.

If you insist on chaining, no matter how good the system is, it will be hollowed out and eaten clean.

Secondly, even if you open a store, it doesn't matter if it's small. If it's big, you must have a backstage and pay a part of the profits.

Zeng Nianzhen listened quietly and didn't speak, these things actually didn't have much to do with him, Zeng Nianzhen came here as a confidant to observe important decisions in the Daihou's Mansion, and secondly to pay part of the money from here.

While listening, there were several knocks on the door, and a woman said, "Master, someone in the house is looking for Mr. Zeng, Madam asked me to come and ask."

"Come in and answer." Su Ziji raised his voice as the voices in the room stopped.

As soon as the door opened, the mother-in-law came in and reported to Su Ziji about Axiu's search for someone in the mansion.

Zeng Nianzhen, who was listening, was both surprised and happy, and quickly turned his head to cover up.

"So it's your peach blossom debt? You said, you are an imposing man, and you want a woman to look for you from thousands of miles. This is not acceptable." Seeing this, Su Ziji immediately laughed at him.

After Su Ziji finished laughing, he stared at the snow outside with piercing eyes. He didn't speak for a while, he didn't speak, and the others naturally didn't speak, they all listened to the rustling snow outside the window.

After a long time, Su Ziji finally said: "Besides, if you do something for me, who said you will be a bachelor? If you have friendship with them, you can make arrangements later, and don't let them wait any longer, you understand?"

Then he said to the old lady: "Go back and tell Madam, arrange for that Miss Axiu to live in the mansion. Mr. Zeng will go back to see her when he finishes his work."

The mother-in-law led the order to go out, and then Su Ziji said to Zeng Nianzhen: "I will give you 3000 taels first, and you take it with you to leave. You don't have to worry about money. I will bear all the financial expenses, and the follow-up supply will not be interrupted."

At this time, the wild Taoist handed over a small box, and Su Ziji signaled Zeng Nianzhen to take it.

"There are some broken silver inside, and the rest are bank notes. You can exchange them slowly on the way."

Zeng Nianzhen immediately knelt down on one knee and kowtowed: "My lord trusts me so much, if I entrust this matter to my minister, I will definitely do my best to handle this matter well for my lord!"

"There's no rush for this matter. You go and settle down. Go ahead and meet that girl Axiu. It's not too late to leave Beijing."

"Yes!" Although Zeng Nianzhen was a little embarrassed, he still responded in a low voice. Obviously, Axiu came all the way to the capital to find him, so he couldn't refuse anymore.

When Zeng Nianzhen left with the banknotes, the wild Taoist stepped forward and said to Su Ziji: "My lord, 500 people, even according to the salary of the frontier army, 20 taels per person, 1 taels of silver a year. Food and clothing are not counted, and I’m afraid it will cost 3 taels in the first year.”

"Just to maintain the expenses of these 500 people, relying on one or two restaurants, I'm afraid it won't work."

"Of course it is impossible to directly recruit 500 people. I have already given him the charter."

"First recruit 50 people for training, and then recruit 200 people after they are familiar with it. The third batch recruits 500 people. It will take at least two years to complete, and the expenses will not be in place at one time."

Su Ziji was still unhurried: "How is the matter of buying a restaurant going? Have you found a suitable chef?"

Ye Taoist is a quick-witted person. He listened to him and felt that there was something deep in Su Ziji's words, but he couldn't figure it out for a while, and smiled: "The place is easy to talk about, because you didn't ask for it to be like Juyuanlou. Open one or two more, in fact, we can find a suitable address, but in addition to the shopkeeper and the assistants who can be trained, it is somewhat difficult for the cooks, and I am afraid that they will not be able to invite the first-class ones."

For a chef, it takes years of basic skills to become a teacher, and it is even more difficult to find a chef, a head chef, not an assistant chef.

The buddy and shopkeeper can also hire people from other places or train them by themselves. As soon as a talent like a first-class chef comes out, all restaurants will snatch it up, and it is impossible to fall into the hands of newcomers.

Su Ziji didn't have to be first-class either, he pondered: "A second-rate chef is fine. The business of this Juyuanlou has stabilized, so it's not easy to take risks, but the new restaurant can sell some unique food..."

Ye Taoist thought for a while, and said: "In the capital, it may not be easy to win by the taste of the dishes. In fact, this Juyuanlou is only able to operate because it has taken in the former chef and retained the old customers."

"The new restaurant needs to be opened, and it needs to be opened even better. Is the location good or not? The chef's skill is second. It's fine if you can sell a single one. Is the master planning to win with the raw materials?"

Su Ziji smiled: "The one who knows me is Lu Fengyun."

"I know you have a heavy burden, so you are worried, but these are not problems, and I will take you to solve them."

Speaking of getting up, he said to the wild Taoist: "We have almost eaten, and we are doing things very quickly. I have already contacted the boat. Now go to the pier to go to sea."

"The most powerful thing about Wei Shizu in the former dynasty is that on the basis of the canal, he opened up an entrance to the sea, which can directly reach the ocean at the pier, which is equivalent to three transportations by land, lake and sea."

"I am a clan. Although I can't go anywhere, I can move around within the Zhili area, and Zhili has the sea. The boat will arrive at the mouth of the sea overnight. Let's go, go to the pier first!"

As soon as he said he would leave, Su Ziji directly confessed to a family soldier and asked him to go back and tell Ye Bugui, while he took the wild Taoist and a few family soldiers to the pier in a bullock cart.

(End of this chapter)