You should drink more tea in winter because the weather is dry and there are very few vitamins in food. After all, there are not so many off-season vegetables in this era. Except for the emperor, few people can eat green leaves in winter.

A pot of tea is enough for Zhen Ping and Guo Yong to taste a lot of things. When they were invited to Huo Hai's dining table again, they once again forgot all the plans they had made before.

Six dishes and one soup, not to mention the color, fragrance and taste of the recipe! At least in terms of taste, Zhen Ping and Guo Yong, who were born in a wealthy family, were completely impressed. They once again revealed that their identity should not have ugly eating habits.

"Mr. Huo, every meal you treat us with such delicious food will make us reluctant to leave." Zhen Ping, who was about to start talking about things after he had enough wine and meals, joked.

"You have given me a gift worth millions of dollars! It is a matter of asking you to eat and drink for a few meals. If you don't want to leave, stay for a few more days! I still have a lot of delicious dishes that I haven't cooked for you!" Huo Hai smiled.

"We won't be in a hurry to leave if we can stay more, but Mr. Huo, we both came with a mission this time. Originally, we just wanted to buy the delicious spice recipe in your hand that can make the meat soup turn. Now it seems that that spice is just the tip of the iceberg you make the food delicious. What's really amazing is your kitchen skills.

I have a heartless invitation from Brother Zhen. I want to send some apprentices to my teacher to study. They serve you with disciples. You only need to teach them some of their skills to make food delicious, and they can become the worship of my two families. Even if the monthly salary is one million, our two families can afford it." Guo Yong said at a low price.

"Monthly salary is one million? It's really a lot. The two thousand stone officials in the court are probably not so high. However, you have bought more than a little cooking skill this month. I'm afraid that everything on this island that can bring you benefits, and even everything that I can bring you benefits will be your control in the future. Do you think I will agree?" Huo Hai smiled and looked at the two of them and said.

"The conditions are easy to negotiate. As long as you ask, sir, we can discuss it." Zhen Ping continued.

"The conditions for me to be awarded may be very high!" Huo Hai teased.

"Mr. Huo, please speak." Zhen Ping solemnly made a gesture of invitation.

"I am not very willing to work for others, and I tend to cooperate with others to do business. The resources are complementary, whether it is cooking, tea, food and drink, or these..." Huo Hai said, Baoer had already brought up a tray.

"What is this, snow?" Guo Yong said, looking at the salt jar that was getting closer to him.

After saying that, he quickly denied his statement and changed his words, "No, no, this is not snow, this is thinner than snow. Can I taste it?"

Huo Hai nodded with a smile, and gestured to Baoer to pour him a glass of water. As for Zhen Ping, he picked up a stack of neatly cut white paper from the plate. While stroking and watching carefully, he said thoughtfully, "Mr. Huo, is this paper?"

Huo Hai smiled and nodded and replied, "Yes, I called it a letter paper, there is a pen and ink next to it, you can try writing."

Upon hearing this, Zhen Ping couldn't wait to lift a brush on the plate, dipped it in some ink that Baoer had already ground before, and began to write on a piece of white paper. A smooth and comfortable feeling suddenly came from the tip of the pen, making him feel that his writing was much better than usual.

You know, before, he wrote letters on rough paper with color and ink-permeable silk. Most of the time, he wrote on bamboo slips with limited width and narrowness, but he did not write so clearly on such white and impermeable paper with clear black and white.

"Writing like this with distinct black and white is a kind of enjoyment, and the way to write a letter and an essay." Zhen Pingzan, who changed two or three fonts in succession and wrote several characters of different sizes.

At this time, Guo Yong, who tasted it three times in a row, determined that the pottery jar was as white as snow, and the finer than the particles of snow was salt, and the best salt with no astringency taste, stood up excitedly and grabbed Zhen Ping's arm and said, "Brother Zhen, it's salt, it's really salt, salt is better than green salt. There is no astringent feeling at all, only pure salty salt..."

When Zhen Ping heard this, he stretched out his index finger and dipped some salt particles in the salt jar. He put it in his mouth to taste it. His eyes lit up and he looked at Huo Hai in shock.

The taste of this salt is indeed as Guo Yong said, without any astringent feeling. As long as the pure salty taste is several levels higher than the coarse salt of 1,000 qian per stone, it is much better than the green salt worth 2,000 qian per stone.

"Without such good salt, I can't make so many delicious foods, and some small things, and their wonderful things, you will experience them when taking a shower. And these things, including warmers, kangs, etc., I can share the benefits with you in a cooperative way.

As for the specific way of cooperation! Maybe we are responsible for production, sales, and profits we earn, but we can only pay for the part of our profits with food."

Huo Hai's words made Zhen Ping and Guo Yong raise their eyebrows, and Guo Yong added, "Including these cooking skills? If you want to share the profits of Zuixianlou with us, we can't make the decision to agree to you."

Huo Hai smiled and said, "I remember what I said when I was having dinner with you in Zuixianlou for the first time? The dishes there are so bad. If you change them all into the dishes I made, even if it is a little worse, it will definitely make the business of Zuixianlou full. It will be more than several times more profitable than the current ones. You will also make a lot of more money than before. No one behind you should be able to get over money!"

Zhen Ping fantasized about what would happen if he could eat the dishes they had eaten today in Zuixianlou. After thinking about it, he felt amazing.

I'm afraid it will become a place where the rich people in the city linger. This is not just about making profits. If you drive the Zuixianlou to Luoyang, it will allow operators to grasp public opinion and socialize to a certain extent. The benefits of invisibility are very great.

"Mr. Huo said it well. The several owners behind us should not object to making more money. Let me explain this to them later and I can give Mr. Huo a reply. However, you said that we are responsible for sales and you are responsible for production. I don't understand what it means to be responsible for production." Zhen Ping asked Huo Hai.

"That is, we are responsible for making this kind of salt, making these paper, making everything needed to build a greenhouse, and providing installation workers. You only need to be responsible for negotiating prices with the buyer, we ship the goods to you, and doing the follow-up work for you. After deducting our production costs, we will make half of the remaining profit."

In later generations, I opened a factory and you became a dealer. Because the Zhen family and the Guo family had channels and brands, they naturally had sales advantages when they talked to the big gentry members who could afford these things.

Huo Hai is full of peasants who are suffering. He has no qualifications to climb the walls of the gentry. Instead of slowly developing the market by himself, it is better to give it to people with resources and markets directly and grow it quickly.

After all, the Yellow Turban Rebellion is about to break out, and millions of Black Mountain troops will soon gather, and Huo Hai may even face the problem of supporting millions of people.

However, he said it simply, but it took Zhen Ping and Guo Yong a long time to understand the meaning of this sentence. They looked at Huo Haidao in confusion, "Do you have so many people?"

"This is also the reason why I ask you to pay for my profit with food, because I want to gather all the refugees who fled to the Montenegro to work." Huo Hai replied.

"Catch all refugees into serfs? Mr. Huo wants to quickly form a force? In this case, I'm afraid the court will not tolerate it." Zhen Ping, who had not yet understood Huo Hai's meaning, said in surprise.

"I helped the court find food for the people who had no food, but I was not tolerated by the court? What is the reason?" Huo Hai said in confusion.

"The only one who can show kindness to the people is the emperor, especially to many people. In addition, those gentry will not sit idly by and watch their interests flow out. Simply put, they always need to spend money to buy your things. If they find that their family’s money is less, they will come to find your trouble. This is the current situation in our Central Plains." Zhen Ping explained to Huo Hai.

"Okay, the emperor and the gentry are not easy to mess with, so they bully the poor and poor people. However, they want to make trouble for us and ask them to come to find it themselves. You just need to care whether there is anything else to do. Just make as much money as possible when you can." Huo Hai explained to them with a little aggrieved.

As for the current social system, it is difficult for the people to survive. If they want to save more people, they may have to sit back and watch it be pushed down and started over again.

After all, time is tight, he cannot stop the upcoming Yellow Turban Rebellion, and even more so the situation of the princes fighting for hegemony that will occur later.

"I don't know, what aspect should we start first?" Guo Yong asked Huo Hai.

"You have given me nearly a hundred cars of gifts, so I will naturally give you some gifts. When the two of you go back, I will each give you ten cars of salt, ten cars of paper, two cars of toiletries, fifty workers in the greenhouse renovation and some equipment for the two to take them back.

You can go to the market to try the pricing, without too high, because my cost is only about 20% higher than the current cost of salt and paper.

Toiletries need to be sold at a high price and small amount, and are gradually promoted by various gentry in the form of valuable gifts, because these things are difficult to make, and the cost and price of spices and oils used are very high.

As for the workers and the renovation project of the greenhouse, it is simple. The craftsmen you brought back will want to renovate your mansion. At that time, you will have a banquet at the mansion and invite some gentry to come over. I believe that they have experienced the beauty of this warm house and will definitely ask you how to build it.

At that time, you only need to take over the renovation projects of their respective families and negotiate the price. We will have a steady stream of people going to various gentry houses to renovate the houses for them." Huo Hai explained to the two.

"That's great. As for the matter of Zuixianlou, we will give you an answer as soon as possible. If it is done, how should we prepare?" Zhen Ping asked Huo Hai.

"If it is successful, you must send five people to study according to the number of existing stores. We can also help you build the items and kitchen utensils in Zuixianlou before their training is over, and then calculate the operating costs according to the price." Huo Hai replied.
Chapter completed!