Crossing the famine, I am a poor fish, and my descendants have to work hard

Zhao Yuanzhen cleaned up two more shops, planning to open one as a snack shop and the other as a wine shop.

Now that the market is stable and customer flow is increasing, the dim sum shop should be able to make money.

【Zhang Huanghe Dim Sum Shop】.

The name is as simple and crude as ever.

The two cooks brought from home were assigned to work in the dim sum shop.

The dim sum shop mainly sells popular dim sum that is affordable and delicious, but it also has high-end products for the businessmen who pass by.

I picked out the delicious traditional pastries and chose 20 types, and also selected a few innovative pastries from later generations.

Traditional pastries: osmanthus cake, date cake, mung bean ice cream, peach cake, crabapple cake, radish cake, osmanthus cake, Ruyi cake, milk cake, Zhuangyuan cake, Dingsheng cake, sesame cake, eight-treasure cake, jade belt cake, pine nut cake, hundred flowers cake, eight-treasure lotus seed cake, Heyi cake, cloud cake, etc.

Innovative pastries: yam and red date cake, sesame purple potato balls, caramel pudding, cookies, coconut milk cake, and apple pie.

These innovative pastries are simple and easy to make, with simple ingredients. All you need to do is build a kiln to bake them.

The two cooks selected had been specially trained at home and were very skilled in making pastries. After cleaning up the shop and keeping the raw materials, the cooks started making pastries.

We are going to open tomorrow.

The tavern has also been cleaned up and will open tomorrow.

【Zhang Huanghe Tavern】.

The business model of the wine shop is very simple, which is to sell wine and not provide dine-in services. If you want to dine in, you can go to the cafeteria.

Wine vessels can be made of bamboo, wood, or ceramic.

Of course, there is a charge for everything. Bamboo is the cheapest, at one cent per pound.

There were no more trained shopkeepers, so Zhao Yuanzhen asked Lan Ying to be the shopkeeper of the winery temporarily and assigned her two servants, one of whom was trained as a shopkeeper in the future, and the other was a handyman.

He asked Zhang Yu to pick a few more servants and train a few new shopkeepers, as all the ones trained previously had been assigned.

Zhang Yu is very familiar with this business.

The accounts at the ferry had not been reconciled yet, so Zhao Yuanzhen notified all the shops to sort out their account books and hold a meeting after dinner to report the accounts.

They found an empty single room near the cafeteria, and the shop owners all came over and started to settle their bills.

The ferry crossing now makes profits from the bamboo raft team (including freight and people), canteen, inn, grocery store, bookstore, clinic, and drinking place.

The snack bar and wine shop have just opened, so there is no need to report the bill for now, but the shopkeeper has also come for a meeting.

The most profitable ones are grocery stores.

The main grocery stores have a wide variety of items and sell a large amount of instant noodles, so they make the most profit. From the opening in June to now, in more than two months, the total volume is 6 taels, and the profit is 2.2.

In the early days, the ferry was not well-known, and the items in the grocery store were all small items that were difficult to sell at a high price. This turnover was already very good.

In the later stage, the sales of the grocery store will gradually increase. The reason for the high profit is that many of the items are bought in the mall and put into the store, such as candles, toothbrushes, salt, sugar and so on.

These are all slightly more expensive daily necessities, which increase profits.

The canteen's turnover is 1800 taels, and many people eat 15 taels per serving. This is also related to the people coming and going at the ferry. As the ferry becomes more well-known, more big merchants will cross the river and pass by, which will increase the ordering rate.

The inn's turnover was only over 300 taels, and there were still not many people staying there.

The drink shop was supported by the large bowls of cold dishes and sold 280 taels of turnover, which was still not enough to cover the daily turnover of the dessert shop.

The bookstore had 220 taels, and Zhao Yuanzhen's clinic charged a low fee, so there were only 190 taels.

The bamboo raft team has 410 taels.

After deducting the costs, the net profit was 20%, which recovered the initial investment and the money spent on buying the land and hiring people.

We are in the early stages of our business, which is pretty good.

Everyone exchanged and checked the account books to prevent any mistakes.

"All the shopkeepers have done a great job. I have great trust in you and you are all my most capable assistants. With your efforts, I believe our ferry will be even more glorious."

Chicken soup is indispensable, bowl after bowl.

The shopkeepers were drunk and confused. The boss was too good. Was he praising them?

"It's all thanks to Madam's cultivation."

Everybody complimented each other, and the first accounting meeting of the ferry ended with laughter.

Zhao Yuanzhen got up early again and bought 30 piglets weighing about 80 kilograms and 30 piglets weighing more than 200 kilograms in the mall.

I bought 50 sheep, but no chickens or ducks. Those chickens or ducks will not survive the winter if I buy them now, so I will wait until next spring to buy them.

The market has been open for so long, but there has been no meat for sale. I guess it's because the distance is too far and the meat is difficult to transport.

Zhao Yuanzhen decided to have some meat at the market today.

He picked out the fattest pig and sheep and asked the servant to slaughter them directly.

After processing the pork and mutton, he opened a stall in the market and started selling the meat.

"Mutton, freshly slaughtered lamb. 24 cents a pound."

"Pork, fresh pork, 18 cents a pound."

The hawking sounds were heard one after another, and many people gathered around. Since the establishment of the market, buying and selling has become much more convenient, but pork and mutton were still the first ones to be sold.

Those with similar conditions bought some, more or less.

The clinic was crowded with people all morning long. Many people knew that the female doctor had returned, so they came to see patients. By the time she finished her work, it was almost noon.

Go out for a walk and stretch your muscles.

There are still many people at the market who have not closed their stalls yet, so I decided to go for a walk.

The items sold at the market are quite common, mostly dried vegetables and wild vegetables.

"How much do you sell these dried mushrooms?"

"10 cents, 10 cents a pound and it's sold."

The guy setting up the stall was very enthusiastic.

"Okay, I'll take all of these, you can take them to the cafeteria."

"Hey! Okay. I'll send it over right away."

I have quite a lot here, at least more than 20 kilograms, which costs more than 200 coins.

These mushrooms come for free from the mountains, which is equivalent to picking up money.

"How do you sell these wild vegetables?"

"2 cents a pound, pick whatever you want."

"Then I'll take them all. You can take them to the cafeteria for me and ask the shopkeeper to pay."

"Yeah, okay, thank you, boss."

"How much do you sell this straw hat for?"

There was a man selling straw hats, each one was very sturdy.

"Eight cents each."

It’s quite cheap.

"How many do you have left?"

"I only brought 10, and I sold one. I still have a lot at home. Do you want some? I can send them to you tomorrow."

After setting up the stall for many days, he sold very little, but it didn't cost much, just his time, so he came to set up the stall every day.

"Okay, then give me 50."

It's September now. I didn't see it for sale in the summer, so I didn't think of buying it. Now I see it. Although the sun in the sky is not very hot, it is still very scorching at noon.

Give one to every boatman and porter.

"50? Are you serious? You want them all?"

"Yes, 50. You can give me these 9 first, and you can send the rest to me tomorrow. Just send them to the cafeteria and ask the shopkeeper to take them."

"Okay, okay, I'll go right away. I'll definitely bring the rest to you tomorrow. I'll come early."

"Don't worry, just send it over."

"Okay, okay."

The old man was so happy, these 50 pieces cost 400 Wen, my God, if he saved them, they would last him half a year.

I saw there were game for sale, including rabbits and pheasants.

Zhao Yuanzhen was also included.

The egg seller is here.

The fishmonger is in trouble.

Just walk around and shop.

I did a lot of shopping at the market.

Everyone at the market is very happy today. Goods that had not been sold for a long time came in and someone bought all the goods. After taking the money, the butchers were willing to weigh a pound of meat to take home and eat. With money in their pockets, they walked with confidence.

The slaughtered pig and sheep were not sold out, and there were still more than 30 kilograms of pork, some bones, pig offal, pig heads and pig trotters left.

All that was left of the sheep was its head and hooves.

Zhao Yuanzhen sent everyone to the canteen to have extra food and stewed meat.

The bones and the offal cooks can cook, but it is already noon, so the delicious food can only be prepared in the afternoon.

The cooks chopped the pork into stuffing and prepared to make dumplings with wild vegetables.

The pig's head, pig's trotters, sheep's trotters and sheep's head are all cleaned and ready to be braised.

The braised pig's trotters are fried with green peppers, which is delicious.

There are plenty of buns, so everyone can eat as much as they want.

The cooks also made kelp and bone soup. You could eat steamed buns and sip soup, and pair it with stir-fried pork head with green peppers. It was a heavenly day.

Zhao Yuanzhen also ate 4 buns. The cook’s cooking skills were impeccable and the soup was also very delicious.

Zhao Yuanzhen designates the 15th and 30th of every month as extra meal days. During these two days, the cafeteria will provide free chili sauce, wine, instant noodles, and large meat dishes.

Because she found that they really loved eating instant noodles, especially the instant noodle soup, which they drank with great relish, slurping it up.

To be a good boss, they just want to eat some instant noodles, which is easy to satisfy.

The daily tasks are to see patients, treat illnesses, write prescriptions, dispense medicines, train apprentices, and do handicrafts.

Go shopping at the market.

On the 10th, 20th and 30th of every month, a pig and a sheep are slaughtered. The leftovers are made into bacon or salted meat in the canteen or served as a snack.

The merchant who wanted to rent a shop came again.

"Divine Doctor, I want to rent a shop, how much do you think the rent is?"

"What kind of shop are you going to open when you rent it?"

“I plan to open a tea shop.”

"Our rent is 10% of your tea shop's profit, and we can ensure that you are the only tea shop."

Speaking of this, I forgot to calculate the profit share with the cloth shop owner. The cloth shop owner is not very proactive.

"Okay, we agree, let's sign the contract."

The tea shop owner had inquired and found out that the cloth shop also rented in the same way, so he agreed.

Although the rent is indeed a lot when converted, we can monopolize the market, so we can make a profit after calculation.

"Boss, if you're happy, then let's sign the contract."

Take out the contract that had been drafted earlier, make two copies, sign both copies, and put them away.

Zhao Yuanzhen took him to choose a shop next to the tavern.

My own shops and those I rent out are interspersed, which can better promote the flow of people on both sides.

The location of the ferry can be used for retail, but it is more for wholesale.

People in need on the Hebei side of the river can come directly to the ferry to purchase goods. After the goods are delivered, they will be sent over by bamboo rafts, and then taken away directly by the horse-drawn carriages parked there, which can save a lot of time and travel expenses.

This is the main route where the ferry really makes money.