Datang: Empress mother-in-law sent Li Er to test me

The value of silk is two hundred coins for a piece of silk.

Gold is six guan coins for one tael.

Of course, gold is not seen at all among ordinary people, and ordinary people buy and sell more by barter.

But now, Hu Guang actually told him that he lost money six times in business, and he still has 100 taels of gold in his hand!

Chang'an City was the capital of the Great Tang Dynasty, and housing prices were ridiculously high, with a house costing six hundred guan.

In other words, the money Hu Guang currently has is enough to buy a house in Chang'an City!

Seeing his shocked expression, Hu Guang said helplessly, "Brother Zhang, I'm out to do business. Can I do it without any money?"

"If I didn't lose money in the previous six transactions, I would have more than 100 taels of gold in my hand, at least 3000 taels of gold!"

"..." Zhang Dun was convinced, this is really rich.

"Brother Hu, do you want to not lose money this time?" Zhang Dun asked.

Hu Guang nodded hurriedly: "I definitely don't want to. Who do you think is doing business only thinking of losing money?"

Don't you!Zhang Dun complained in his heart, stared at him and said: "Then you listen to me, you give me all 100 taels of gold."

"You wait!" Hu Guang got up quickly, ran to the counter, took out a wooden box and put it on the copybook, and opened it for Zhang Dun.

Ten ingots of gold came into view.

Zhang Dun buckled the wooden box and weighed it in the palm of his hand. It was quite heavy.

In the Tang Dynasty, one catty was equivalent to 596.82 grams, one tael was equal to 37.30 grams, and a catty was converted into two, that is, one catty was equal to 16 taels.

100 taels of gold weighs six catties.

Zhang Dun looked at Hu Guang and said, "Give me the money."

Hu Guang said briskly, "Okay."

"..." Zhang Dun stared at him and was silent for a few seconds. Seeing that he did not speak, he asked, "Brother Hu, do you have anything to say? For example, what do I use the money for?"

Hu Guang was stunned, looked at him in confusion and said, "With this money, you must have come to help me Zuixianlou grab the business from Dingshenglou, otherwise you can still take the money and run away?"

Zhang Dun was speechless: "You trust me that much?"

Hu Guang said solemnly: "To tell the truth, Brother Zhang, I just listened to your words, and I regarded you as a brother from the bottom of my heart. What is a mere 100 taels of gold? Back then, I gave my dead brother 500 taels of gold!"

"..." Then all the money was wasted?Zhang Dun didn't say this in the end, stood up and embraced the wooden box and said:

"Thanks to Brother Hu for your trust, I will help you get popular with Zuixianlou's business."

"After the matter is completed, let's discuss the dividend. I will come again tomorrow morning."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Dun turned around holding the wooden box and left.

Hu Guang also got up and sent him to the door. Zhang Dun cupped his hands at him, telling him not to send him any more, and strode towards Yongyangfang.

"You can't get money from Dingsheng Tower, so go to Zuixian Tower to cheat money instead. Look at you, did you get money from that idiot in Zuixian Tower?" Suddenly, there was a mocking voice at the door of Dingsheng Tower .

Zhang Dun paused, looked back, and saw the shopkeeper in Dingshenglou, with his arms around his shoulders and his eyes looking at him playfully.

"Remember, three days." Zhang Dun raised three fingers at him with a smile on his face, "You still have three days."

"Three days later, if you still have business in the Dingsheng Building, I'm Zhang Dun incompetent."

After all, Zhang Dun stopped walking and walked away calmly.

The owner of the Dingshenglou store was breathless when he heard it, and when he came back to his senses, he was very embarrassed and annoyed, and laughed at his back: "Don't say it is three days, I will give you 30 days, if you can take away half of my Dingshenglou Business, I can call you daddy! Hahahahaha!"

However, Zhang Dunli ignored him, and quickly disappeared from his sight without looking back.

The young waiter standing beside the shopkeeper in the Dingsheng Building whispered, "Boss, what should I do?"

The Dingshenglou shopkeeper turned his head and glared at him, then raised his palm and slapped him on the head, angrily said:

"Do you really think that he can take away the business from our Dingsheng building? Looking at him like that, he is just a broken household. Do you still expect him to be able to do business? Does he know what business is?"

"In the future, don't bring this kind of person to our restaurant, and don't tell me what this kind of person says!"

After all, the Dingshenglou shopkeeper walked back to the restaurant angrily.

The young waiter scratched the place where he was beaten and let out an oh.

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Yongyangfang, Zhang family.

"This is the place?"

"That's right, the address given by the eldest grandson is here!"

"There seems to be no one in his house?"

Coming out of Changsun Chong's house, Fang Jun, Du He, and Yuchi Baoqi went straight to Yongyang Fang.

However, when they arrived at the place, the three of them knocked on the door only to find that Zhang Dun was not at home.

"Let's wait for him here."

Fang Jun sneered and said: "The monk can't run away from the temple if he can run away. He will come back sometime."

About half an hour later, the three of them saw a young figure in a green shirt, walking over with a wooden box in his arms.

Fang Jun, Du He, and Yuchi Baoqi's eyes lit up, and they quickly walked up to them.

"You are Zhang Dun?"

Zhang Dun lowered his head, thinking all the way how to help Zuixianlou win the business of Dingshenglou.

At first, he thought about selling a few cookbooks to Dingshenglou and making some money from his family. It would be best if he could get some dividends.

What he didn't expect was that the boss of Dingsheng Building picked up steamed cakes from the slop bucket and threw them at him.

Snob!

You don't want the recipe!

Not only the recipes, but you don’t want to do business anymore, and you don’t want to make money. If you can still get along in Chang’an City, count me as Zhang Dun’s fault!

Just as he was slandering, he suddenly heard someone calling his name in front of him, Zhang Dun raised his head, and met the cold eyes of Fang Jun, Du He, and Yuchi Baoqi.

Where did this come from again?Zhang Dun arched his hands and asked in confusion, "What do you call the three brothers?"

Fang Jun said indifferently: "My surname is Fang, and I am Li Changzhi's cousin!"

Du He said: "My surname is Du, and I am also Li Changzhi's cousin."

Yuchi Baoqi grinned and said, "My surname is Yuchi, like the two of them, he is also Li Changzhi's cousin."

Why does Chang Zhi's family have so many relatives!Zhang Dun looked at the three of them in astonishment. Her second uncle and aunt came on the front foot, and three cousins ​​came on the back foot. The family is prosperous enough!

Zhang Dun nodded and said, "So it's the three elder brothers, so let's go in and talk about it."

Fang Jun, Du He, and Yuchi Baoqi looked at each other, and then followed Zhang Dun into the house.

When they came to the courtyard, the three of them frowned as they saw how simple the house was.

Although I imagined that Zhang Dun's family was not rich before coming here, I never thought that it would be so rich.

The servants of their mansion live in a better house than his.

"Three elder brothers, please sit down." Zhang Dun brought three beard stools, handed them to them with a smile, "I just went to Pingkangfang today, and I made the three elder brothers wait outside the door for a long time."

Fang Jun, Du He, and Yuchi Baoqi sat down respectively. Hearing his words, Fang Jun frowned and said, "What are you going to do in Pingkangfang? The expenses in Pingkangfang are quite a lot a day."

Zhang Dun found another wooden stool, sat down and shook his head, "I'm not going to spend money, but to make money."

Who cares whether you make money or spend it!Fang Jun, Du He, and Yuchi Baoqi looked at each other and nodded indistinctly. It's time to start!

The purpose of their visit today is to persuade Zhang Dun to leave Princess Changle!

In that way, Princess Changle will be disheartened, brother eldest grandson will be avenged, and he can take this opportunity to embrace the beauty!

"I went to the Dingsheng Building in Pingkangfang. I wanted to be mutually beneficial and win-win, but the store in the Dingsheng Building was very disrespectful."

"Then I can only let him die."

The three of them were about to speak, when they heard this, they were shocked.

The words that rushed to the throat were swallowed back by the three of them.

Fang Jun, Du He, and Yuchi Baoqi sat in Hudeng, staring dumbfounded at Zhang Dun who said the cruel words with a calm face. There was only one thought left in his mind, maybe he was a lunatic?

Chapter 14 Erguotou, rock sugar, soap

But Zhang Dun's tone just now didn't seem like he was joking with them.

Fang Jun asked: "Zhang Dun, where do you have the confidence to let the Dingshenglou store die?"

Zhang Dun was stunned for a moment, knowing that they misunderstood what he meant, he hurriedly explained patiently: "The three brothers misunderstood."

"I don't want the owner of Dingshenglou to die, I just want him to be unable to survive in Chang'an City."

Doesn't that mean something?The three looked at each other.

They have seen a lot of young and frivolous ones, and the three of them are among them, but compared with Zhang Dun's frivolity, they seem to be nothing.

"Why do you want to make the Dingshenglou store unable to survive in Chang'an City?"

Du He was confused: "To be honest, many restaurants in Chang'an City have this idea."

"But today, the Dingsheng Building is still standing, and the money that should be made, the Dingsheng Building's store has not lost."

Zhang Dun said seriously: "That was in the past. Starting tomorrow, I will send Dingsheng Building to the grave."

Fang Jun frowned, "What are you going to do?"

Zhang Dun glanced at them, thought for a while and said, "You are elder brothers, and that is my elder brother. If the family doesn't talk about two families, I'll just say it."

"Opposite the Dingsheng Building, there is a Zuixian Building, have the three brothers heard of it?"

Yuchi Baoqi suddenly let out a muffled laugh, and said, "How come I haven't heard that Zuixianlou is in Pingkangfang, it's a wonderful flower."

Fang Jun and Du He couldn't help laughing either.

Zhang suddenly understood that Hu Guang's deeds probably had spread.

As far as his experience in doing business is concerned, it's strange that others don't laugh their ass off when they hear it.

Zhang Dun continued: "The location of the Zuixian Building is very good, it is just opposite the Dingsheng Building."

"My solution is to let Zuixianlou steal all the popularity of Dingshenglou."

"In the future, in the restaurant business of Pingkangfang, Zuixianlou will take the lead. As for Dingshenglou, let him close down."

"Difficult!" Fang Jun said decisively.

Zhang Dun glanced at him.

Fang Jun said solemnly: "The chef of the Dingsheng Building was the imperial chef of the Shangshi Bureau in the former Sui Dynasty, and his dishes are the most delicious in Chang'an."

"Furthermore, most of the officials in the dynasty went to the Dingsheng Building to eat, and there were countless people who came here because of the reputation."

"How can Zuixianlou be compared?"

"Of course I have a solution." Zhang Dun smiled, then walked into the room, and came out with a tray and a jug of wine.

On the tray, there was a small white cuboid and a bunch of small square objects.

"This is Erguotou." Zhang Dun handed the jug to Yuchi Baoqi, then pointed to the three things on the tray and said:

"This is soap."

"This is rock candy."

Seeing the surprised faces of the three, Zhang Dun looked at Yuchi Baoqi and said, "Brother Yuchi, take a sip of this wine and remember to drink it slowly. When my second uncle was drinking today, he didn't listen to my advice and took a big sip. , almost couldn’t go back.”

The second uncle you are talking about is not His Majesty, is it?The three of them were talking in silence, while secretly surprised, Yuchi Baoqi said suspiciously: "This wine is so strong? I'll try it."

Yuchi Baoqi opened the mouth of the pot, took a sip, opened her eyes wide, and shouted, "Good wine!"

"Give me a taste." Fang Jun hurriedly took the jug from his hand, took a sip, and a rosy color appeared on his face, and said, "It's really good wine!"

After finishing speaking, he handed the jug to Du He, Du He tasted it lightly, narrowed his eyes and said:

"It's the first time I've had such a strong drink. If it's placed in Chang'an City, it will be so popular that no one can stop it."

The three of them stared straight at the jug, and there was no strange expression on their faces, but in their hearts, they were already horrified.