Don't mess with Shi Cunqi, the ingredients of Chen's Restaurant, no, to be precise, are the sauces that many dishes of Chen's Restaurant need to use, such as oyster sauce, scallop sauce, shrimp paste and fish sauce, etc., and they are about to run out.

I really never expected that since the opening of the Chen Family Restaurant, the business would be so booming, and the door would be full of customers every day.

If there are more diners, there will be more food to cook, and the seasonings used will naturally increase accordingly.

Even the large batch of sauces brought in from behind by Liu He couldn't withstand the consumption of the daily excess passenger flow.

Nowadays, many people know that the dishes of Chen’s restaurant have unique taste and first-class flavor. They use their own secret sauce, and many want to buy the sauce separately. Chen Nianguan sees that his own restaurant is not enough.Are the sauces sold separately?

Naturally, whenever someone asks, nonono shakes his head, and he has to laugh and say that it may be sold on the shelves later, please continue to support Chenjia Restaurant.

Then when returned to Xianggui Street, was still so anxious that didn't even dare to implement the plan of harvesting a big wave of money that just came up with.

After all, if the sauce is gone and the food can't be cooked, how can you attract today's diners to become regular customers?

Fortunately, when the last few jars of sauce were about to run out, good news came from the port: Uncle Xu and the others are coming to Beijing!

Uncle Xu and the others left after the Lantern Festival. At that time, the ice and snow had not yet melted, so they could only travel by land. It would take about a month at the fastest.Well, it happened to be possible to take the waterway, and entrusted them to escort the latest batch of sauces back to Beijing. Counting the time, wouldn't it arrive at Xiaowai Port at this time?

Chen Nianguan was overjoyed.

Taking Si Ya and Xiao You to the port to pick up Uncle Xu in person, and by the way, he also brought his own donkey cart to help carry the goods. When he saw the sauce brought by Uncle Xu, he was shocked.

The sauce alone can fill six wagons!

It's enough for the Chen Family Restaurant for half a year.

After exchanging greetings with Uncle Xu and his two apprentices, know that she has successfully opened a restaurant in Capital City, and after listening to Uncle Xu describe the size of the Chen Family Restaurant, Mrs. Liu, together with the eldest aunt and the fourth aunt, will have the restaurant on hand.The sauces that can be moved are given priority to her, because she is afraid that she will not have enough.

"Master Chen?"

Chen Nianguan heard a voice he had not seen for a long time, and looked at the old man who got out of the carriage, and couldn't help laughing: "Master Zeng?"

Master Zeng looked at Mrs. Chen, whom he had not seen for a long time, and after exchanging a few pleasantries, he immediately asked about Zeng Si's situation.

Master Zeng couldn't sit still after several years, and Zeng Si was about to leave the court in Chunwei. He was anxious to know how his son did in the exam, and happened to meet Uncle Shi and others who were helping Chen's wife escort her back to Beijing by boat, so they went on the road together.

A group of ten carriages marched into the inner city and stopped at the backyard of the Chen Family Restaurant on Suchuan Road.

Everyone helped to move all the sauce barrels down, and moved them into the freezer next to the Zhuangyuan building by category.

Looking at the full sauce, Chen Nianguan felt full of confidence. Looking at the master and apprentice Xu who had made this hard trip, he was full of gratitude.

Invite them to have a meal in the private room of Chen's restaurant, and then start to discuss the future work of Master Xu's master and apprentice.

Well, Uncle Xu has old arms and legs, so he is not suitable for hard work, so Chen Nianguan plans to let him live in the backyard of Chen's restaurant and be the leader of the hired guards.

As for Uncle Xu's eldest and younger apprentices, they usually work as restaurant guards with Uncle Xu, but every two months, they have to run a escort for Chen Nianguan.

That is to go back to Liujia Village, Funing County, and entrust the Kamikaze Escort to bring a batch of sauces back to Capital City.

"Here, Master Chen, the sauce we brought this time is not enough?" Uncle Xu and the two apprentices were stunned.

"It's only for the Chen's restaurant, so it's enough, but I plan to sell the sauce separately, isn't it enough!"

Chen Nianguan couldn't help rubbing his hands, thinking that he would open up another way of making money in the restaurant in the future, and bring income to the sauce workshop of his uncle's family in Liujia Village.

As long as they can maintain a steady supply of sauces every three months when the sea route is smooth, the fortune will be stable.

Moreover, her plan to harvest money can also be put on the agenda.

After discussing with the two apprentices for a while, Uncle Xu signed the employment contract without hesitation. Chen Nianwan then introduced the three newcomers to Shi Cunqi.I went back to Xianggui Street with Xiaoyou.

Master Zeng went to Xianggui Street first, and he was surprised and excited when he learned that his son had passed the Jinshi examination, and that Zhang Yulang was the champion of this year's Chunwei.

It is great news that his son has passed the Jinshi exam. Although it is a pity that he did not have a better ranking, but with Fan Shilang's planning, it is not difficult to fill in the vacancy. Moreover, Chen Nianjian is the same subject as his son in the same academy.A, it is said that he is currently waiting for the vacancy of the Sixth Department of the Ministry of Education. As for Zhang Yulang, he is the number one scholar, and he can directly enter the Imperial Academy to take office. In the future, these two fellow subjects will be the best help for his son in officialdom.In three to five years, we can rely on their help at that time.

Thinking of it this way, Master Zeng put aside the regrets in his heart, and instead dealt with Zhang Yulang well, and even secretly rejoiced that the choice of telling his son to follow Zhang Yulang and his wife was very wise.

In fact, the good news about Zhang Yulang and Zeng Si High School?????, Chen Nianwan and others have already sent a letter back to Funing County.

But because before the palace examination, in order to fully prepare for the palace examination and try to get a good ranking, many new Jinshi have no spare time to socialize. After the palace examination, the results have been settled, so they are busy paying homage to the masters and getting acquainted with the same department.

After all, people will be officials in the future, and being an official requires connections and connections, and the time when connections are the best and easiest to accumulate, is naturally the same subjects at this time.

Therefore, even if the future is uncertain, necessary communication is necessary.

Poetry parties, tea parties, and banquets are all places where these new scholars show their faces.

Especially some Jinshi who are waiting for the six vacancies to be released after the Spring Festival, and want to take the exam, let alone leave Capital City casually.

As for the top three in Chunwei, after the Qionglin Banquet, Zhang Yulang was appointed as an official in the Imperial Academy, and Su Ruitian and Jiang Yu were awarded the seventh rank editor. That is to say, Zhang Yulang is now aThe most noble official of the Imperial Academy.

If there is no accident, the top three Jinshi in the previous spring will all enter the Imperial Academy. The Imperial Academy can be said to be the talent reserve base of the imperial court.The emperor is close to his ministers, that's why Master Zeng hoped that Zhang Yulang would see his classmate friendship and pull his son a hand.

Before formally taking office, considering that many Jinshi masters are far away from home, sometimes it takes three or four months to go back and forth to Beijing. The imperial court usually takes one to two months of vacation, so that a first-class Jinshi has enough timeAfter arranging the family affairs and other general affairs, Zhang Yulang naturally wanted to return home with Chen Nianguan's fine clothes.

It's just that the Chen Family Restaurant has not opened for a long time now, and Chen Nianwan still needs to come forward to coordinate the kitchen team and the restaurant's female guests. Considering that the sea route is only open now, the waterway still needs to break the ice to sail smoothly.In less than a month, on the one hand, he waited for the port to enter into official operation and returned to his hometown by water, on the other hand, he waited for Chen Nianguan to handle the affairs of the restaurant, so Zhang Yulang took up his post at the Imperial Academy in advance, and asked for leave when Chen Nianguan was free.Mu returned home.

Zhang Yulang is now well-known, not only Jinshi of the same department, but also other supervisors who had dealt with Wen Xuan in the Imperial College and many people who wanted to make friends also visited Xianggui Street. Apart from being on duty every day, Zhang Yulang would meetCustomers are also very busy.

Zhang Yulang was busy, so Chen Nianguan was naturally busy too.

Especially after receiving the new batch of sauce from Uncle Xu, he discussed with Shi Cunqi the plan to sell the scallop sauce inside.

She counted the sauces that were delivered, and it is estimated that among these sauces, it is the easiest to make. The scallop sauce is the most, accounting for almost half, and Chen Nianguan can sell it on the shelves, that is, the scallop sauce.

Needless to say, oyster sauce, as for shrimp sauce and fish sauce, the output is low, and in order to maintain the uniqueness of the food in Chenjia Restaurant, these two sauces are not going to be sold separately.

When the end of spring is over and the seafood at the port is on the market, she also plans to buy two people to cook fresh scallop sauce on Xianggui Street.

The newly made scallop sauce will be sold at the counter area. However, the scallop sauce will not be sold immediately at first.As a gift, the sauce is given to distinguished VIP customers.

That's right, Chen Nianguan intends to make money from VIP customers.

Today's Chen's Restaurant has gained a great reputation in just one month with its signature dim sum and dishes, as well as the blessing of Zhuangyuan Building..

Now that it has established a firm foothold, the customers have also become familiar with the dining environment of Chen's Restaurant after more than a month, and just strike while the iron is hot, and introduce the VIP membership system to diners.

All VIP membership cards have a period of one year. According to the amount charged in advance, members are divided into five grades of VIP members:

Black Gold Card: Recharge 400 taels in advance, and get a 40% discount on each purchase

Zijin Card: Recharge 200 taels in advance, get a 30% discount on each purchase

Gold card: recharge one hundred taels in advance, and get a 20% discount for each consumption

Silver card: Recharge fifty taels in advance, and you can get a 10% discount for each consumption

Bronze card: recharge 22 taels in advance, and you can get 5% off every time you spend

Customers who purchase gold cards and purple gold cards can each receive a can of scallop sauce with their cards, and customers with black gold cards can receive two cans of scallop sauce.

It was the first time for Shi Cunqi to engage in this kind of membership activity, but when Chen Nianguan said it, his eyes lit up.

This kind of membership system, on the one hand, can increase the income of the restaurant in advance, and on the other hand, it can stabilize the customer flow. As long as the diners who bought the membership card will definitely consider giving priority to dining in the Chen's restaurant.

At the moment when the Chen Family Restaurant has attracted so many diners, and with the blessing of the Zhuangyuan Building not long ago, the introduction of this system naturally has just the effect.

Everyone in Capital City is very interested in the food at Chen's Restaurant. heard that it uses the ingredients of the four seasons and can eat new dim sum one after another, which is very rare.

Sure enough, when Shi Cunqi and Chen Nianguan were selling membership cards to male and female customers respectively, there were many responses, especially those female relatives, who spent a lot of money. They bought a purple gold card and a black gold card for three or four consecutive days., The silver taels for the membership card alone cost more than 8,000 taels, and almost 300 cans of scallop sauce were also given away, which made the partners of the Chen Family Restaurant gasp and were delighted.

God, who would have thought that just buying a membership card would earn so much money in advance?

The Chen family restaurant really deserves to be a golden nest that is getting richer day by day!

And Chen Nianguan was also beaming with joy, but what he thought was, the ladies and girls in Capital City have so much money!

Seeing Master Chen's gold-absorbing skills emerging one after another, Shi Cunqi and other partners had to admire him, especially Mr. Na Cang. Now every time he talks about business with people, he takes them to Chen's restaurant. I heard thatThe membership card was launched, and I immediately bought three, one for myself, and the other two as gifts, so that in the future, when Master Chen has a profitable business, he can get a share—now the grandparents and grandchildren look at the Chen family.There are unlimited business opportunities in the restaurant, and I was deeply regretful that when I bought the shares, it was too little to buy 10%!

On this day, Shi Cunqi hesitated for a long time, and formally put forward his suggestion to Chen Nianguan: it is better to continue to maintain the previous stall in Hongying Lane.

These days, he has heard from brothers Liu Feng Liu He how Chen Nianguan recruited partners to open a pho branch in Funing County. The place where you can eat pho in Capital City is Chenjia Restaurant, One is Yueman Building, which used to exist in Hongying Lane, but now all the people selling the stalls have become cooks in Chen’s Restaurant, so no one sells rice noodles in Hongying Lane anymore.

"If you want to set up a stall in Hongying Lane, it's not impossible, but the problem is, we don't have anyone on hand now!"

Do have to go to a dental store to find someone who can cook?

"No, Master Chen, I have a better candidate."

According to Shi Cunqi's meaning, although the business of the Chen Family Restaurant is booming now, the money earned from the stall is not even a fraction, but the stall can test people, and it can also be used as a small stronghold to promote the Chen Family Restaurant.

Although the back kitchen team is stable now, it is always necessary to consider the reserve cooks. Therefore, the newly trained reserve cooks can start with learning rice noodles. First, they can hone their cooking skills.Come on, if you train a cook, you can try to open a pho shop and a foot shop by yourself.

To put it more clearly, Shi Cunqi is already considering the necessary chef team for opening a second Chen's restaurant.

Chen Nianguan, who understands the idea of shopkeeper Shi Da, is tsk tsk in his heart. He is indeed the second owner of Yueman Building, and he is indeed the shopkeeper he fancy. Now he thinks of opening a branch. This is very good!

After the proposal to set up a stall is approved, it is time to recruit cooks.

And one of the people recommended by Shi Cunqi was Shi Yanliang.

Who is Shi Yanliang?

The eldest son of Shi Cunqi.

Shi Cunqi has two sons and a daughter. The one who usually takes Fang's side is a young son and a daughter. Shi Yanliang is the son who usually boards in an academy outside the city. He is now sixteen years old.

Hearing Shi Cunqi's suggestion at first, Chen Nianguan was stunned.

"Shi Dong's family, are you sure?"

Shi Cunqi smiled wryly and nodded.

The Shi family is a merchant, and the Great Zhou Dynasty stipulated that the sons of merchants are not allowed to take scientific examinations.

That is to say, as Shi Cunqi's son, he will only go into business in the future, and after Shi Yanliang heard about the Zhuangyuan Building, he was very excited and took the initiative to end his studies, planning to return to the restaurant to help his father.

Shi Cunqi asked his son Shi Yanliang to come out of the stall, in fact, he didn't want his son to be a cook, but he hoped that his son would have more exposure to the restaurant industry. As an old man, he was in the restaurant business, and Shi Yanliang would naturally inherit his father's business in the future.

And Master Chen started from the stall, Shi Cunqi also wanted his son to start from a low level and get familiar with Master Chen's business model. After two or three months, he would be transferred to a restaurant to do work, and he would be familiar with the overall business.After that, let him take over important positions.

Chen Nianguan understood Shi Cunqi's good intentions as a father, so he naturally nodded in agreement.

Now that there is a stall, it is not only Hongying Lane that can set up a pho stall, but also a stall at the pier, and one more stall can train two more people.

So Shi Cunqi went to look for apprentice candidates, while Chen Nianguan went to He Carpenter to build another stall car.

Carpenter He and his two apprentices have been living in Xianggui Street since the completion of the restaurant. When Carpenter Tan has work on the other side, he often goes to Tan's house to pick up some odd jobs.Seeing the unique decoration and handy carts in the restaurant, people asked about the master carpenter one after another.

Regardless of whether it is Chen Nianguan, Shi Cunqi, or other people in the restaurant, they will warmly recommend He Carpenter and Tan Carpenter. In this way, people in Capital City who have carpentry work are naturally slow.Slowly came to the door.

Not only Carpenter He and Carpenter Tan, but also the team of masons and other craftsmen who built the Zhuangyuan Building also took advantage of the rise of the Chen Family Restaurant to promote their own craftsmanship, and more or less received a lot of work.

Chen Nianguan has to wait for Carpenter He to come back from Tan's house to find Carpenter He.

When Carpenter He came back and heard that Chen Nianguan was going to build a booth, he readily accepted it, and then told Chen Nianguan with a smile that he planned to move to Carpenter Tan with his two apprentices.

"Why? Is it uncomfortable to live here?"

Carpenter He waved his hands again and again and said no, in fact, he and Carpenter Tan got along quite well, so the two planned to jointly open a carpentry shop.

"Carpenter's? A big shop like Qiaomu's?"

Carpenter He smiled and nodded.

Now Carpenter He and Carpenter Tan are well-known in Capital City, and more and more people who have seen their handicraft skills in Chen’s Restaurant are coming to their door. The two old carpenters got together and thought about it.I plan to start a carpentry business together.

"The Qiaomuxing was just a small workshop at the beginning, and then it gradually grew bigger. I partnered with Lao Tan, and we can learn from each other's strengths and get more jobs."

So once the two of them came together, they asked Carpenter He and his three masters and apprentices to move there so that they could take care of each other and go to work at any time.

"Since you, Uncle He, have planned for a long time, I will naturally support you strongly."

Chen Nianguan sincerely wished Carpenter He and Carpenter Tan a happy cooperation.

Carpenter He accepted Chen Nianwan's kindness, and moved out of Xianggui Street with two apprentices within two days. Before leaving, he asked Chen Nianguan to go to Carpenter Tan to find him for work if he had carpentry work.As soon as he promised to give her the most affordable price, Chen Nianwan naturally accepted with a smile.

Not long after Carpenter He left, the four cooks Shi Cunqi had found plus Shi Yanliang moved in.

The job of being a back-up cook who makes rice noodles is naturally handed over to Liu Feng: Although Liu Feng doesn't admit it, as a partner, he is the one with the easiest job now, and he is also a master chef who has worked in stalls before.Yes, after coming to Beijing, in order to cook for Master Ming Hai, I also learned how to cook a lot of delicacies from Chen Nianguan, so I am naturally qualified for the guidance work.

Liu Feng yelled that he was very busy—first of all, he would go to the restaurant to help greet people from time to time, second, he would go to the Grand Buddhist Temple from time to time, third, he had to go to the farm in the suburbs of Beijing to see the situation, of course, the last pointHe dared not reveal it to everyone.

But after Chen Nianguan assigned this job to him, he no longer needs to go to the restaurant to help greet the guests, and now Master Ming Hai is not busy, and he goes to the restaurant every now and then to make tooth offerings, and he does not need to go to the Grand Buddhist Temple too often, in the eyes of everyone, isn't he just very idle?

Liu Feng couldn't say anything, so naturally he could only agree.

The apprentices Shi Cunqi sent over actually all had cooking skills. Among the four apprentices, one was the assistant cook in Shi Cunqi's family, the other was the female assistant of the head cook in Fang's family, one was the cook Shi Yanliang knew, and the otherHe is an apprentice scouted from a dental shop, and it is said that he can also cook well.

These four apprentices are reserve cooks who signed a ten-year employment contract with Chen's restaurant after Chen Nianguan's observation.

Although the salary of a stall is not higher than that of a cook in a restaurant, the monthly salary is also very considerable, just like the two stalls selling rice noodles in Funing County, which have not been cancelled.

It is not easy for the poor to find a way to make money. Since the profit from selling rice noodles at the stall is much higher than that of rough labor, the stall has been open all the time, which is not only a source of stability for the family, but also provides four jobs.Position.

Now what Chen Nianguan means is that the overall planning of these two booths is managed by Shi Yanliang.

Didn't Shi Cunqi want to train his son to be a shopkeeper?

Shi Yanliang has also studied for so many years, so he would not be able to trouble him in accounting and planning. What he lacks is practical experience, so let's start by managing the money of the two stalls!

After the four cooks come back from the stall every day, they will be responsible for cooking for everyone on Xianggui Street. At the same time, Chen Nianguan will slowly teach other dishes-after passing the long-term test, he can take them to the restaurant to learn on time. After all, restaurantsThe back kitchen is an important place, and those who can't be trusted can't just let people in.

Shi Yanliang looks very similar to Shi Cunqi, like a younger version of Master Shi, because he has just finished his study career, and he still has a strong bookish atmosphere. The first thing he did when he moved to Xianggui Street was to talk to Zhuangyuan LangZhang Yulang got close and admired him very much. After knowing that there was another Jinshi Zeng Si living here, he became even happier.

When he usually cooks with Liu Fengxue, he either pulls Zhang Yulang to ask for advice, or asks Zeng Si for advice. He is very devout.

Equally devout was Cang Monan.

At the beginning, he and Master Cang thought that even if Zhang Yulang and Zeng Si could pass the exam, they would be nothing more than petty officials. Unexpectedly, Zhang Yulang won the first prize.Everyone knew that this compilation had a very bright future, so the Cang family walked more diligently to and from Xianggui Street, and almost called Zhang Erlang brother and Chen Nianguan sister-in-law.

On Xianggui Street, because of the existence of this number one scholar, the value of the lot has suddenly increased.

Many people who have heard the sound of reading in the yard now know that there are two Jinshi in this house, one of them is the number one scholar, and they want to send their Erlang to this place to be enlightened, so as to be happy with the number one scholar.

Naturally, Zhang Yulang couldn't do such things as teaching and educating people, but Liu Qing was free!

Liu Qing is also a scholar with a reputation.

Besides, the previous students in the house: the cooks, the two beasts, etc., have all left. Liu Qing usually teaches Liu Feng, and Liu Yun only comes to ask for advice after closing time, so it is very lonely.

Now heard that someone wants to send Erlang to study, Liu Qing, Chen Nianguan and Zhang Yulang together, let's set up a small school!

The children of many families in the capital, before the age of seven, either hired their own wives or studied ethnology. They would only go to famous academies when they were seven years old. After passing the examination, they would enter the school.It is absolutely more than enough for us to open the door.

Witnessing the audition list in person, and seeing the number one scholar parading the streets, Liu Qing's heart was agitated, and her determination for the scientific examination became more and more firm.

He is definitely going to participate in the next Chunwei, even if he can't win the first prize, he still has to take the Jinshi exam like Zeng Si, and in the past three years, he plans to live in Capital City, where the study atmosphere is good and the bookstoreThere are many books to be found in it, and there are also many scholars. Zhang Yulang and Zeng Siping usually participate in social poetry gatherings with scholars, and he also met many like-minded people because of this.

It is not impossible for him to improve his studies while teaching, and he can earn a little money!

Besides, there is a number one scholar by his side who can consult and discuss at any time, there is no better place than this study environment.

Knowing Liu Qing's plan, Chen Nianguan and Zhang Yulang naturally supported it.

Thus, Liu Qing's private school was officially opened, and six young men were accepted as students at one go. Du Juan and Ding Xiang were transferred to take care of these young men.