Finally, there is the pastry workshop, which is used to provide various complementary foods and waist meals for the Imperial Teahouse and the Imperial Kitchen.

Teahouses sell tea, accompanied by pastries. If a few more kinds of pastry snacks were added, the variety would be richer.

The Imperial Kitchen mainly sells medicinal food, and also sells noodles and pastries. Its business status is between a restaurant and a teahouse.

No food or wine.

The pastry workshop was handed over to another clan leader.

It turned out that what Yuntang and Marquis Yong'an had discussed was to open an imperial teahouse and an imperial restaurant in each of the four corners of the capital, which means a total of eight shops.

In addition to the shops themselves being equipped with kitchens and tea rooms, the cakes and pastries are outsourced to clan members and supplied exclusively to these eight shops at wholesale prices.

In order to keep them fresh, cakes are easy to handle, while noodles are made into semi-finished products and delivered in bulk for subsequent processing and heat preservation.

After discussing the details of the process, Yuntang gave Yong'an Hou 200,000 taels of silver notes to buy eight shops and two courtyards to use as workshops.

If we are unable to cope with the supply in the future, we can use the profits to add two more workshops and increase the number of staff.

But there is definitely no need for it when the shop is first opened, and the focus is still on the shop floor, so all the necessary manpower is handed over to Marquis Yong'an to take care of.

Of course, the two brothers who have just taken over the task of the general accounting office will also help with recruiting staff.

After Marquis Yong'an knew Yuntang, he had been in Yunshang Temple for the next fifty days. Even if he could return to Beijing, he must have other things to do and would not have the energy to take care of the shop.

In addition to accompanying the emperor to Yunshang Temple with other officials to participate in the first day of the Luotian Grand Ceremony to offer sacrifices to heaven and the first ritual.

From now on, it will be impossible for all officials to stay in Yunshangguan all the time. The court and various government offices must operate normally.

Therefore, he had time to help Yuntang run the Imperial Teahouse and the Imperial Kitchen.

Even if someone is assigned to be in charge later, he still needs to keep an eye on it.

His daughter trusts him, and he cannot let her down.

After discussing and arranging these matters, Marquis Yong'an was about to leave with his clansmen. Yuntang asked them to stay for lunch before leaving.

Yong'an Hou said, "The money has been deposited into the account. We should go meet the middleman, find a shop, and recruit some staff while there is still time."

"It's not enough to have people from the clan alone. We also need managers and servants. Only when we have the right people can we get the job done." Marquis Yong'an explained with a smile.

After hearing this, Yuntang said nothing more.

However, she also asked her cousin Jiang Minggang to find housekeeper Zheng and ask for a yard like the one in the accounting office and get the existing land.

Continuing to buy land is a matter for the future, now he can officially take up the post.

Butler Zheng was counting the gifts in the front yard and arranging people to deliver them to the various mansions.

Yuntang arranged clan members to take charge of business matters and manage the land. As the housekeeper, he naturally knew this, so he had already arranged a yard next to the accounting office.

The accountants and managers who manage the shops outside do not need to set up separate courtyards in the mansion, but... the chief accountant is directly responsible for the accounts of multiple shops and reports directly to Yuntang.

Therefore, after consulting Yuntang, Butler Zheng arranged a small courtyard with three rooms and a small corner pavilion for the two accountants.

The business has not yet been fully developed, and having only two general accounting offices is obviously not enough.

But if the business is officially started in the future, it will be much more convenient for each shop's accountant and manager to report business status, calculate accounts and submit accounts. Having an exclusive courtyard will be much more convenient.

Yuntang has the ability to make money, but has never run any business of her own. Her experience is advanced, but she cannot talk about it casually in this life.

Therefore, with her father taking care of things, her uncles and brothers in the clan managing the matter, and housekeeper Zheng giving advice, she just listened to their advice, and things went smoothly.

After solving these problems, she remembered that she had not discussed the salary, and she didn't know how to arrange the salary benefits. She thought about asking the eighth or seventh senior brother later.

Seeing that Senior Brother Nine had not returned from the Qinglong Guard yet, she had nothing to do so she played the piano in Zhufengzhai.

She was playing the Taoist Qingfeng Tune, which has the effect of soothing the soul and calming the mind. It can make others feel quiet in the midst of noise and have a sudden enlightenment. It is also very helpful for those who practice martial arts or Taoism in their spiritual practice.

It is even more beneficial to her, as it helps her to condense her Dao rhythm, just like cultivating her mind, consolidating her Dao heart, and strengthening her spiritual essence over and over again...

To ordinary people, the sound of the piano sounds like divine music, while to those who practice cultivation, it feels like an epiphany.

Everyone in the Princess Protector's Mansion, whether busy or idle, felt happy physically and mentally, secretly thinking that it was great to have the young Taoist master in the mansion. Even they felt that they were living a god's life now.

The sound of the piano would naturally spread to the next yard, and the next yard next door, all the way to the residents and pedestrians on the entire Qingyang Street, where they could hear it.

Being able to transmit the music of the piano so far is also a reflection of strength, just like a strong man can lift a thousand-pound tripod, while a weak man cannot even hold a knife.

Yun Tang stopped playing the piano after half an hour. She picked up a copy of the Taoist Canon "The Miraculous Scriptures of the Heavenly Spiritual Books to Save Lives" and started reading.

At about the same time, gifts of thanks were delivered to various mansions one after another; Yong'an Hou and his entourage were being led by someone from the official pawnbroker in the capital to look around at shops and houses.

Marquis Yong'an did not tell anyone that it was the Princess Protector of the Country who wanted to buy a shop or a house, he only said that the marquis's mansion wanted to purchase some small properties.

Although the Marquis' Mansion is not an ordinary family or a merchant's home, its deterrent power and reputation are still milder than those of the Princess' Mansion.

Even if everyone knows that the shop is the business of the Princess Protector of the Nation after it opens, it cannot be exposed at this time when it is still in the stage of looking for a shop and attract too much attention from others.

At Prince Cheng's Mansion, after Princess Cheng received the filial gift from Yuntang, she also remembered what Yuntang had mentioned yesterday about Princess Kangning's sudden serious illness.

Thinking back on it, he felt that it was odd, so he consulted Prince Cheng and his two sons.

Originally, on such an important day as yesterday when the Princess Protector of the Nation’s Mansion was hosting a grand banquet, it was unacceptable that Princess Kang Yi did not show up, and she would inevitably be criticized.

But Princess Kangning was indeed ill, and the imperial physician had visited her house several times to treat her. This was no secret, and the fact that she had two daughters-in-law taking care of her during her illness prevented Princess Kangning from being scolded too badly.

However, while her mother was seriously ill, she was holding a grand banquet. Even though it was a well-known fact in the capital that the mother and daughter had a bad relationship, a lot of gossip still spread behind the scenes.

The voice accusing Yuntang of being unfilial first slowly spread.

It is unknown whether the people in Beijing are really confused, questioning, and disagreeing, or whether someone is deliberately spreading the rumor and misleading others.

They knew yesterday that no matter what the news outside spread, Princess Yu Kangning and Yuntang would both suffer losses and neither of them would get a good result.

It's only been one day and the wind direction has changed again, which is not very favorable for Yuntang.

After discussion, Princess Cheng brought her two daughters-in-law and a group of maids and servants to the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion. Under the pretext of visiting a patient, she decided to interrogate the servants of Jinhua Hall.

There are many servants in Jinhua Hall, but many of them are no longer the maids who came as a dowry when Princess Kangning married into the Marquis's Mansion.

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