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

After more than ten days of tasting, I summarized my experience.

The cooks began to cook southern dishes themselves, and after they were done everyone tasted them and then summarized their experiences.

Gradually, he was able to cook very delicious food, and even had the potential to surpass the chefs in big restaurants.

In fact, this is not difficult. Zhao Yuanzhen provides a lot of raw materials and a full range of seasonings. What's more, she is there to guide them, so the cooking skills of these cooks are soaring.

Zhao Yuanzhen nodded with satisfaction. Yes, they would be moving in a few days, and by then, the mansion would probably hold a banquet, and these cooks would be able to show off their skills.

The lands that were auctioned had not yet been cultivated, and only 50 farmers had come to his home. After much deliberation, he decided to recruit workers and posted notices in various villages near the capital to recruit workers.

Men received 1.5 taels of silver per month, without any food or drink. They worked from 2 am to pm every day, with a -hour break at noon to give them time to eat.

This salary is very high in the entire Yangzhou Prefecture, so many people signed up.

Soon, 1000 people were recruited.

The 1000 people are divided into groups of 5, 5 groups form a team, and each person brings his own people to lead a team, which is 25 people.

Responsible for the distribution and protection of farm tools, the teaching of planting techniques, the protection of oxen, and clocking in for work.

The remaining 10 people formed the farming office, which was responsible for various clocking in and out, wage settlement, farmland cost statistics, farm tool storage and repair, etc.

He selected a director and hired a construction team to build a large yard next to his own land to facilitate the drying and storage of grain.

It is already May, and she is thinking about what to plant.

It is completely possible to plant two crops here. If the time and crops are arranged reasonably, planting three crops will not be a problem.

She thought about planting rice first, and then planting wheat after the rice was harvested. She would decide what to plant based on the time.

When they came, Lan Ying brought a team of more than 40 carriages. Zhao Yuanzhen formed a transport team with these 40 carriages, temporarily borrowed the 20 people from the palace soldiers' squad, and dispatched 120 servants to form a temporary transport team.

After thinking about it, he transferred two servants to serve as managers. One was responsible for various daily registrations, entering and leaving the warehouse, etc., and the other was responsible for teaching the servants swordsmanship.

The transport team still needs to have martial arts skills, otherwise it will be difficult if they encounter robbers.

The transport team’s first order was to deliver various farm tools, cattle, and rice seedlings to the fields.

Zhao Yuanzhen also selected the most advanced, time-saving and labor-saving farm tools, which really opened the eyes of these young farmers.

Niu Zhaoyuanzhen bought 200 of them, one for each group.

The team is responsible for the safety and feeding of the cattle on a daily basis.

The seedlings selected were the highest-yielding rice seedlings, and the farmers organized themselves to plant them in a hurry.

After a few days of hard work, I finally finished planting the rice.

The farmers were also busy helping to build various cow sheds, drying yards, large warehouses, yards, etc.

If you focus on one thing, there will be endless work to do.

After finishing the work in the fields, Zhao Yuanzhen went to check on the billiard boy's learning progress, and found that it was basically fine.

The billiard shop started to open.

【Billiard Hall】

The business opens as soon as the firecrackers are set off.

This shop is very big, it is on the third floor and covers a total area of ​​more than 700 square meters.

The first floor is the lobby, which has 10 billiard tables, and the second and third floors each have 6 private rooms. The entire billiard shop has a total of 22 tables.

There are 20 servants, one in each private room, and the rest are in the lobby.

The shop is equipped with sanitary napkins and washbasins, and the whole shop is beautifully decorated.

In Zhao Yuanzhen's words, it means he has a very high B-level character.

Various soft furnishings, precious flowers and plants, and even the complimentary tea, are all of extremely good quality.

It still costs 2 taels of silver per hour, so we have to wave the banner of high-end consumption.

The rich young men who were tired of listening to music were very happy because they finally had something new to play with.

I’ve had enough of the same old things.

The restaurant was a huge hit on the opening day and the seats were packed on the first day. It was another profitable day.

Later, the dessert shop opened. The owner of the dessert shop was brought from Beijing. Zhao Yuanzhen changed the name to Zhang Yangtang.

Whether it is the servants or the shop owners in these shops, they all wear uniform work clothes, looking energetic and neat.

The dessert shop is a two-story shop covering an area of ​​more than 300 square meters, with a lobby and private rooms.

There is a shopkeeper, 4 cooks, 8 servants and 10 waiters.

Tangshui is the first recipe of the Tangshui shop in Beijing.

On the opening day, buy two and get one free.

She doesn't want to do the discount business anymore.

Because they serve fresh food, the sales on the opening day were very high.

Sure enough, it is right not to give discounts.

Moreover, Zhao Yuanzhen used only glass tableware, which shocked even the wealthy families.

This Zhang family is too rich.

Afterwards, storytelling shops, wine shops, grocery shops, and food and medicinal food shops opened one after another.

The food shop mainly sells high-end ingredients and fresh produce. Ordinary vegetables are not sold. In the south, there are plenty of vegetables, and it is difficult to grab the ingredients, so Zhao Yuanzhen simply gave up.

The first floor sells food ingredients, and the second floor is a private room for medicinal cuisine, which can be eaten in or taken away.

The grocery store is still the same, except that it has added instant noodles, chili sauce, toilet paper, fine salt, etc. compared to other grocery stores.

Now there is only one beauty salon left that is not open.

The technicians are fine, they are all being trained, but there are fewer musicians. The ones I bought myself are not yet mature, so I have to buy a batch of mature ones.

Zhao Yuanzhen had no choice but to go to the pleasure boat again to see if she could find a few girls.

There are many pleasure boats and small buildings along the Qinhuai River. The larger ones may have dozens of boats of all sizes, while the smaller ones only have a few. Naturally, some businesses are good while others are bad.

She wanted to take over the bad ones and send them to her beauty salon to sing songs.

Walking around the streets every day, she actually found a few businesses that were not doing well and whose owners wanted to sell.

In the end, he bought out several businesses, including the people and their shops.

There were more than 40 people singing.

Not bad.

Send them to a large rented yard, learn the rules, learn new songs, and receive a few days of training. Once the beauty salon is renovated, it can open for business.

As the auspicious time for moving was approaching, Zhao Yuanzhen discussed with Zhang Xinshu whether they should hold a big celebration.

"Xin Shu, we will move to the new residence in three days. Do you want to invite the noble families, the gentry, and the county magistrates to a banquet?"

"Mom, please come in. After all, I am an outsider. I have to show my face and get to know the local people."

"Well, it's just as I thought. Let's host a banquet. I'll take care of the banquet. You don't have to worry about it. Just come when the guests arrive."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, mother."

"Why are you so polite?"

Zhao Yuanzhen selected the best silk and made the invitations. The content was printed and she only needed to fill in the names. She was not stupid enough to write them one by one.

The master of ceremonies at the door was staffed by 16 servants and 8 maids.

There were also many servants and maids stationed in the backyard and the hall.

The banquet is divided into ritual music and food.

First there is a performance, and then the meal begins.

The show lasts for two hours, starting at 9:11am and ending at 12:am. The dinner will start at pm.

For the performance, we chose traditional musical instruments and the music she gave us.

There were also some dance performances, sword dancing, and even Zhao Yuanzhen performed two crosstalks.

Zhao Yuanzhen estimated the number of people and estimated that it would not be small, at least several hundred people, so he prepared 50 tables, each table for 10 people, and built a stage on the north side.

There is a dressing room behind the stage for storing props and changing clothes.

While listening to the music, there were 8 fruit plates, two pots of tea and a bowl of sweet soup for each person on each table.

The meal consists of 16 dishes, including a whole roasted lamb for each table and 15 additional dishes.

The dishes selected included baked swimming crab with egg yolk, drunken shrimp with Huadiao wine, salted goose, braised puffer fish, squirrel fish, lotus leaf rice noodle meat, braised beef, smoked crispy chicken, sweet and sour spare ribs, crystal braised pork, braised wild rice stem, sweet osmanthus lotus root, pepper and salt pork knuckle, boiled dried shredded pork, and Wensi tofu.

The soup is a bowl of Yangzhou crab roe and lion head soup for each person.

The staple food is Yangzhou fried rice.

There was no Yangzhou fried rice in Yangzhou Prefecture during the Daliang Dynasty. Zhao Yuanzhen said, let me promote this Yangzhou fried rice.

The ingredients are all of the best quality, and Zhao Yuanzhen has already purchased them through the system.

Chickens, ducks, fish, cattle, sheep, and pigs are all raised and slaughtered in the space.

Zhao Yuanzhen directly bought enough tables, chairs, benches and tableware for 50 tables.

They found a yard to put it and asked a transport team to take it away and deliver it to the mansion.

The house in the capital was called Chengyuan, and this mansion in Yangzhou was simply named [Nanchengyuan].

Don't ask, asking is just laziness.

Zhao Yuanzhen changed the name of the housekeeper in the inner house to Zhang Sangbai.

She was told to arrange more maids to take good care of the various female relatives who came to the house to prevent any accidents.

Female family members must follow closely when leaving the table, and nothing should happen in the mansion.

Zhang Sangbai said she understood and didn't worry, she would make arrangements.

The housekeeper of the outer courtyard was called Zhang Cancong.

He also instructed the steward of the outer courtyard to take good care of the young masters.

Banquets have always been a high-incidence area for various incidents, so special attention must be paid.

The day before the banquet, Zhao Yuanzhen asked the dessert shop to prepare 1000 desserts.

We selected 10 types and made 100 dishes of each.

All the finished products have been put into the space and can be taken out directly tomorrow.

Otherwise, the pressure on the cook would be too much.

The invitations were also delivered one by one by the servants.

Invitations were sent to all the famous and prestigious families, aristocratic clans, business tycoons, etc., and those who received the invitations were mostly at a loss.

Those who have attempted assassinations and have not been exposed are all terrified, fearing that this is a Hongmen Banquet and there will be no return.

Those who had thought about assassination but then backed down all secretly sighed in their hearts that it was fortunate that they did not do anything stupid.

Various businessmen were secretly happy that they could actually receive invitations from the prefect.

They didn't know that, but later, when there was a flood, Zhang Xinshu almost took all their money.

Zhao Yuanzhen's invitation clearly stated that no gifts would be accepted.

Anyone who comes is a guest, and the Zhang family is willing to entertain them, but those who bring gifts are not allowed to enter.

Otherwise, this is clearly a bribe under the pretext of relocation.