Chapter 429 Simple and extreme
Guo Huaili’s idea is simple and straightforward. He wants to buy perfume and exchange it with a tax voucher in the border city. If you pay a 100-liang tax ounce, you can buy a bottle of perfume, first come first served, and wait for the next year.
"Thirty thousand bottles of perfume are divided into the 28 countries in the Western Regions, and one country has only a few thousand bottles. These countries are big and small, and on average, there are more than two million people. This perfume is like pepper sprinkled in beef." Guo Huaili's chopsticks pointed at the large basin of beef and smiled.
Thirty thousand bottles of perfume can support three million commercial taxes. With the perfume’s own commercial tax and some scattered taxes, the annual commercial tax is at least more than four million taels. Jiang Anyi smiled and raised his glass and said, “Brother Guo is a talented person, I will solve my urgent needs and respect you.”
Putting down the glass, Guo Huaili said: "The perfume does not need to be promoted for it. I need to plan the golden jade wine I brought this time. I want to become famous in Huazhou and push it to the Western Regions countries. Their wine is so expensive. If the golden jade liquid is sold, I will be incompetent. "
Pingshan Town produces Dui wine, Shaodaozi and Jinyu Liquid, targeting different groups. Dui wine is a high-alcohol wine blended with low-alcohol wine in different proportions, mixing wines with different exports. It has opened up the market in Dazheng restaurants and has no worries about sales. Kui knife is best sold in the Northern Desert, and it also has retail in the East City, and gradually gains a reputation among the Western Regions merchants. Jinyu Liquid takes the high-end route, and Jiang Anyi positioned it at the same position as the four famous wines such as Biluochun, Huang Suzui, Qiongzhou Liquid, and Mingyuexiang.
However, the four famous wines have a long history and are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The Jinyu Liquid has been around for a short time, and not many people know it, so it is not easy to open the market. This time, Jinyu Liquid is launched in the border of Huazhou, and Guo Huaili has the intention to take the lead.
Guo Huaili said confidently: "Xiaojiang, don't worry, with me, Lao Guo, everything will be no problem. Lao Guo is the first person in the business world in the future. After I build the Huazhou border city, I will catch up with the east and west cities of the imperial capital. Maybe I can surpass it in the future. Everyone mentions Huazhou border city, and you should respectfully call it Northwest City."
Jiang Anyi saw a light called confidence flashing on his fat face. He had known Guo Huaili for more than ten years. The two of them went from classmates to friends to brothers. This relationship was no less than An Yong.
Brother Guo can find what he likes to do and work hard to achieve a career. This is a happy life. Jiang Anyi drank a sip of wine and was slightly drunk. This felt so good.
On September 25th, Huazhou Huiye Mansion was in a clear and refreshing autumn. The almanac was suitable for opening a market, rewarding gods, seeking wealth, meeting nobles, marrying, and having guests.
Qixianlou was once located on the west side of Huiye Mansion. It was once the most famous restaurant in Huiye Mansion. There were eighty tables on two floors at the same time. The cars and horses in front of the door were like dragons, and guests were endless in all seasons. However, that was the past three years ago. After the old boss died, he took away his good cooking skills. The young boss was not good at learning skills and was not good at management. He saw that the situation was getting worse and worse, and he was about to close the door.
A few days ago, a wealthy businessman from Texas bought a restaurant for 200 taels of silver. This was a big deal that Qixianlou had not had in more than two years. His boss Tang Jie urged his friend to clean the doors and windows, scrub the tables and chairs early in the morning, and hung big red lanterns in front of the door. Standing in front of his restaurant, Tang Jie felt so proud that the vermilion railings were mottled and the carved window lattices were a little damaged, and only the tip of the flying eaves was still imposing under the blue sky.
Two hundred taels of silver are now considered a big business for Qixianlou. Tang Jie thought that with the two hundred taels of silver, he could simply repair the restaurant, paint the door posts, replace some worn tables and chairs, and replace the silk yarn on the screens. Thinking of this, there are quite a lot of places to spend money, and two hundred taels of silver seems to be not enough to spend.
Boss Tang was a little unhappy. He ran a hotel for three generations and didn’t know how to receive guests and arrange tables and chairs. Boss Guo actually said he would bring people to dress and welcome guests in person, which clearly looked down on him. If he had to put it a few years ago, he would definitely ask him to invite Gao Ming, but now he has to lower his arrogant young master’s head.
Chen Shizheng, Boss Guo and a group of people appeared in front of the restaurant. More than fifty little girls in their teens were wearing pink dresses and stood in a row in four rows in front of the restaurant, pretty, energetic, neat and pleasing to the eye.
Tang Jie greeted the fat man who was looking forward to the forefront and smiled and said, "Boss Guo is so early. You are really a big deal. How can you buy such little girls?"
Since the governor of Dajiang confiscated the people's city, moved the Yaxing to a border city, established a Sasy Children's Orphanage in accordance with the order, strictly reviewed the population transactions, and was heard by Wuyun County, and rectified the Sasy Children's Orphanage in the county. Now Bai Zhiguang has lost his official position and searched his home. One of the charges is to withhold the assistance funds for Sasy Children's Orphanage.
Jiang Anyi deliberately wanted to build the Sassy orphanage in Huazhou into a model for learning in various states. In the official document issued, he clearly pointed out that the situation of Sassy orphanage in the year-end examination was listed as one of the assessments. With Bai Zhiguang's current lessons, how dare the county magistrates of each county take this as a joke, and take sheltering orphans as a major event to arrest orphans.
The originally prosperous market transactions in Huazhou have shrunk quietly, and it is difficult to buy a cheap and obedient little girl. Tang Jie was very surprised to see Boss Guo appear with more than 50 little girls.
"I rented these little girls from the Sagittarius Orphanage, fifty cents a day." Guo Huaili bowed and replied with a smile, "How is it? You can see it well."
Tang Jie praised repeatedly: "Yes, it looks quite energetic. Boss Guo is going to let these little girls come to entertain guests?"
In order to allow the children adopted by the Sagittarius orphanage to support themselves, Jiang Anyi arranged for people to teach girls to raise silkworms, textiles, needlework, and housework, etc. The boy learned to be a mate, carpenter, blacksmith, farming, etc. The widowed elderly also do something according to their ability, take care of the children, teach them, help cook, etc.
Three days ago, Jiang Anyi and Guo Huaili decided to promote Jinyu Liquid at restaurants. Jiang Anyi suggested that Guo Huaili ask the children in the Salesian orphanage for help, which can increase the children's experience and their income. Secondly, they advertise the children in the Salesian orphanage for the children in the Salesian orphanage for the future. In the future, shops or rich families are willing to invite them to do things.
Two months ago, Jiang Anyi asked the children in the Sasy Children's orphanage to make honey fruits and asked them to work. He also set a wage of five cents per can for them. The first time these children earned a lot of money, more than three thousand more, and less than one thousand more. The more money they earned, almost as much as the farmers earned for a year in the fields. This made the children full of hope for the future and grateful to the governor Jiang.
Guo Huaili asked them to come to the restaurant to help, and conducted simple etiquette training in advance, how to ceremonies, how to walk, how to stand, how to speak, etc. Children from poor families were sensible early. These orphans knew that this knowledge would be helpful to their future livelihoods, and they all learned it very seriously. It was late at night, and there were still many children in the orphans in the Sasy orphans who practiced hard under the moonlight.
The pink clothes worn by the child were given by Siyu. The eldest sister often brought the lucky ones she chose to visit the girls in the Sagittarius orphanage. The girls were fascinated by the beautiful clothes on their personal guards. Who wouldn't want girls to dress up beautifully? Although they earned some money from work, no one of these girls was willing to spend money on new clothes, and they were reluctant to throw away the patches of old clothes on their bodies.
Xinfei and Siyu were actually orphans. Although I don’t remember the past, the same experience made Siyu feel sympathetic. The rich woman asked someone to buy two sets of clothes for everyone in the yard without hesitation. After Jiang Anyi learned about it, he suggested to make the same style, which was the smell of uniforms in the memory of the demon master, so naturally the cost was transferred to him.
The large piece of pink is like lotus blooming in summer, causing pedestrians on the street to stop and watch. The shop saw a group of watery little girls, slowing down their work, and looking back from time to time.
Guo Huaili smiled and said, "Boss Tang, I asked these children to help with some work, wipe the doors and windows, and set up the dishes and chopsticks."
Of course it’s good to not have money to help, Tang Jie smiled and asked everyone to enter the store.
Qixianlou is a typical Zheng-style restaurant. The wide lobby is covered with wooden boards and has been cleaned. Dozens of black square tables and chairs are placed around the high platform in the center. The high platform is used for singing and dancing performances. There are stairs on both sides leading to the second floor. The second floor is a "back"-shaped corridor connecting twenty-eight private rooms. Guo Huaili stood on the platform and looked around, and nodded to Boss Tang next to him with satisfaction.
Tang Jie breathed a sigh of relief and said with a little complacent: "Boss Guo, it's not me that the Tang family runs a restaurant for three generations. Tang grew up in a restaurant since childhood. If the cleaning, decoration, and welcome guests are not done well, then Qixianlou should be closed."
Guo Huaili smiled slightly and said to the girls standing below the stage: "Girls, get busy as you practice in advance."
The girls in pink dress were like willows in the wind, moving their light steps, making people busy with pleasure. In Tang Jie's surprised gaze, the girl took out long ropes, pulled them up in the lobby like weaving a net, and constantly adjusting the positions of the tables and chairs on the floor.
At first, Tang Jie disagreed, and gradually he put away the smile on the corner of his mouth and watched the girls working in a blink of an eye. After the tables and chairs were placed, under the little girl's skillful hands, the bowls and plates were like blooming flowers, and the chopsticks were placed in a fixed position. The chopsticks of different lengths were picked out and replaced, and the chopsticks in the barrel were neatly tilted in one direction.
Tang Jie's eyes widened and he muttered unconsciously, "It's so neat," "No, it looks so beautiful to put it like this." "Oh, it could have been put like this, how can you eat it?"
"Doing simple things to the extreme will make them exquisite." A profound and exquisite word came out from Guo Huaili's mouth. Tang Jie looked at him with respect, wishing he could take out his notes and put them on the paper immediately.
Chapter completed!