Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

It was obvious that the prince attached great importance to this operation and sent three leaders. One of them was dressed as a scholar, about 30 or 40 years old, and claimed to be surnamed Xiang. He was the prince's adviser.

The second one was a warrior, in his twenties, with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, but he seemed to have a bad temper. His surname was Zhuo, and he was the commander of the guards of the Crown Princess's family.

The third person was an old man in his fifties named Ye, not much different in age from Mr. Su. He had an exquisite little abacus hanging around his waist and was obviously an accountant.

Because this matter was mainly related to Li Yu, after the few people greeted each other, Li Yu talked to them alone.

*

Everyone wants to get things done as quickly as possible, without beating around the bush and getting straight to the point.

Mr. Xiang first took out a folded paper and said, "Here are the names of the 163 people who came this time. They were all selected from various farms and families, and half of them are women.

Women are good at cutting vegetables and cooking. Some men can cook, but they are not good at knife skills. Others are strong, but they are not good at knife skills or cooking..."

Li Yu listened and unfolded the paper.

All I saw was a large piece of paper with people's names and ages written all over it.

After roughly reading it, Li Yu took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it to Mr. Xiang, "What you did is very useful, it will be convenient to call people later.

However, we have to sell several items at a time and have opened many stores. In order to better divide the work, I drew a few tables. Sir, please take a look and see if they are suitable. "

Mr. Xiang took it, opened it and found a table drawn on the paper.

The table has six columns, from right to left: store location, food type, store name, employee name, age, and family members.

Li Yu estimated that he had read it through and said, "What do you think, sir? If it doesn't work, you can bring it up and I'll make changes."

"No need to change it." Mr. Xiang raised his head and waved his hand. "You wrote it very well, it's comprehensive and clear. With this kind of table after the division of labor, we can manage it better."

*

After talking to Mr. Xiang, Commander Zhuo and Mr. Ye came next.

Commander Zhuo came here mainly to protect them.

Since they were sent by the prince, their abilities must be quite good. Li Yu asked about the distribution of guards in the entire manor and learned that they had arranged guards to patrol a hundred meters outside the manor. He felt relieved and turned to talk to Mr. Ye.

Mr. Ye came here mainly to do the accounting. Li Yu was here to teach people how to cook. The farm needed to purchase something, so he would record the prices of all the vegetables and meat bought, and by the way, ask Li Yu for business accounting skills.

These are long-term matters that cannot be explained in a short time, so after speaking to him briefly, Li Yu suggested going to the place where the cooking was done to take a look.

Mr. Xiang: "Don't you want to go check on the people first?"

Li Yu: "Let's go check out the place first. If there's anything inappropriate, we can change it in time."

Mr. Xiang: "Okay, just listen to Madam Li. The cooking area is in the back. Madam Li, follow me."

*

There are three cooking areas in the manor, located in different locations in the garden.

"It is said that this garden used to plant plum blossoms that Princess An liked. This time, they cut some of them to build the stove, and moved the rest somewhere else." Mr. Xiang pointed to the still slightly moist soil and said, "Madam Li, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is looking forward to seeing your achievements."

When Li Yu heard this, he knew that he had doubts about him.

Smiling, she said, "Don't worry, I won't let His Royal Highness down."

*

There are more than eighty stoves in the garden, with more than twenty in each area, and two people can share one stove.

But there is a problem. The several areas are not far from each other and the stoves are densely distributed. Once everyone starts cooking together, the smoke will be particularly large, which will easily attract attention.

Although Hujiazhuang is inconspicuous, it is better to be safe than sorry.

Apparently Mr. Xiang had thought of this problem in advance, and said, "Don't worry about the cigarette problem, Madam Li. I have already come up with a solution. Tell the public that the master has a poor appetite recently, and in order to eat more, I have asked the chef to compete in cooking. As long as the cooking is done well, there will be a reward."

Princess Jianing, the "master" with an incredibly good appetite: "......"

Li Yu: "Will the people in Zhuangzi believe it?"

"Even if they don't believe it, they won't talk nonsense to the outside world." Mr. Xiang said, "And they can't say it. Before we prepare everything and leave here, each family can only let one person go out every day, no more. If someone goes out and does something bad to us, his family in the village will be implicated."

"It's not that troublesome actually." Princess Jianing interrupted, "The indentures of all the people on this farm are in the hands of my mother, they dare not do anything reckless."

Li Yu: “…” Very good, she felt relieved.

*

After looking at the stove, look at the ingredients.

The farm had bought a lot of things in the past two days, and they were all piled up in the warehouse. There were all the seasonings that Li Yu could find on the market, not to mention rice, flour, grain and oil.

As for vegetables, since the plan that Li Yu showed to the prince mentioned that potato chips are made of potatoes, potatoes are the most common.

Fruits mainly include pears and oranges, as well as some hawthorns. In the Yu Dynasty, people mostly called hawthorns "shan guo guo".

In addition, there are chestnuts and some dried seafood.

"These were purchased from several places. If we buy too much at once in the capital, it will easily attract attention." Mr. Xiang said, "Madam Li also needs milk, but it is difficult to store, so we didn't get it. But there are a few cows on the farm. If Madam Li wants them, we can ask someone to get them later."

Li Yu nodded, "It's fine if there is one. Let's wait until the afternoon. Go and squeeze some in the afternoon. I'll make dessert for everyone."

*

After looking at the ingredients, the last thing to do was to meet the 163 people.

The housekeeper in the manor could read, so he called out to everyone, asking them to stand up. He asked a few questions in the Li language and then conducted a preliminary division.

According to the stores to be opened in the future, Li Yu divided the teams into three: a milk tea and snacks team, a private dish team, and another one for hot pot and barbecue.

Those who are not good at knife skills and cooking are in the milk tea and snack team, those who are good at knife skills are in the private dish team. Those who are not good at knife skills but are good at cooking are in the hot pot and barbecue team.

In the end, the number of people in each team was about the same.

Li Yu took another look and decided to do it this way first. She would check on everyone’s situation in the afternoon and make adjustments tomorrow if necessary.

*

After arranging the basic things, it was already noon and the housekeeper of the house invited everyone to have lunch.

Li Yu was tired, so he went back with Princess Jianing.

After lunch, we rested for half an hour. After noon, everyone stood in the yard.

Li Yu recognized the person again, then took out a piece of paper and handed it to Mr. Xiang, "This is the recipe for the spicy hot pot base. Please take the hot pot and barbecue team away, tell them what seasonings are needed to make hot pot, and let them memorize them one by one."