A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 54
The hall in the front courtyard of Wuzhai in Huaiyuanfang.

Wu Junya looked at the eleven collars of gold on the table and the one hundred bolts of silk piled next to her, she couldn't close her mouth in shock, while Zhao Xin was looking at the medicinal materials that Huaiyu had written for him. .

"Sun Ji'an, the eldest son of Donggong Yaozanglang. I'm not familiar with it. I've never heard of it." It's normal for Yakuzoro to change people after cleaning.

But looking at the gold and silk in front of him, the fat man still believed that the other party was from the Yaozang Bureau.As for the lack of a contract, he felt that he belonged to the East Palace, and who would dare to blackmail the East Palace's money?

"It's not a loss to buy those [-] medicines with one hundred taels of gold, right?"

Huaiyu handed him a list, on which he listed the main medicinal materials needed for the ten kinds of medicines in detail, "None of the six kinds of hemostasis powder uses expensive medicinal materials, such a large amount, a cheap one of thirty or forty yuan is enough , the expensive ones will not exceed a hundred yuan. As for Wuwensan and Wanxu ointment, they can be cheaper, I estimate that the total cost of a thousand pieces of silk will be enough."

A thousand pieces of silk cost 360 guan, while a hundred taels of gold are worth [-] guan.

The fat man rolled his eyes, "Then what is the right price for us?" Knowing that the other party's deposit is sufficient, the fat man is not worried that there will be troubles at that time, and now he is thinking about how to make more money.Xin Zhao, the shopkeeper, told them that the prices of these medicines in the two cities were not cheap.

Even if the quantity is large and the price is good, it is no problem at all to charge [-] guan for [-] copies. It is not expensive to get [-] yuan for one piece.

The fat man took out a wad of gold, and pointed at the hundred pieces of silk, "Erlang, these are your consultation fees. You accept them alone, and you will not be admitted to the Qianjin Hall." They paid for the prescription and partnered with the pharmaceutical to sell the money, and the income from the consultation fee should belong to Huaiyu himself.

Just like Huaiyu prescribing medical consultations for Li Jing's family and Cheng Yaojin Qin Qiong's family before, the consultation fee belongs to him personally.

"For the remaining ten large yellow croakers, let's keep five in Qianjintang's account for buying medicine, processing and spares. Let's share the other five." The fat man suggested with a smile.

Huaiyu and Fatty are divided into [-]% and [-]% with the shopkeeper of Qianjintang. Fatty plans to directly share the bonus once to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm.

Five large yellow croakers are worth 100 guan, or more than [-] bolts of silk.

Seeing that Fatty and Xin Zhao were very excited, Huaiyu smiled and agreed.

In the end, they decided to take [-] pieces of silk as dividends, and distribute [-] pieces of silk to the employees of Qianjintang. As the shopkeeper, Zhao Xin got [-] pieces of silk, and the rest of the medicine workers and assistants shared the remaining [-] pieces of silk, and took out another [-] pieces of silk to reward the apprentices .

Huaiyu and Fatty will share the 630 horses, 270/[-], Huaiyu [-] horses and Fatty [-] horses.

Xin Zhao was very excited. After just a few days of work, he was able to share fifty bolts of silk as dividends. The pharmaceutical workers also got a few bolts of silk each, and they were also happy from ear to ear. , is also a surprise.

"I'll go to the West Market to buy meat later, I'll be the host for extra meals tonight." Xin Zhao shouted excitedly, fifty bolts of silk, eighteen strings.

"How can you pay for this money? In this way, Qianjintang pays money to buy meat and extra meals at night. During this time, everyone has worked hard." Huaiyu said with a smile.

Huaiyu shared 630 bolts of silk as dividends, so he simply gave the fat man the fifty guan money he had bought for the courtyard earlier.

The ten large yellow croakers were taken directly to the gold shop in the West Market and exchanged for copper coins and silk, which was also convenient for dividends and purchase of medicinal materials. He also took the large yellow croaker from Huaiyu, and they went straight to the West Market.

In the middle of the eastern part of Jiugongge in Xishi, facing the street to the north is the Gold Bank. There are many gold and silver shops here, which not only process gold and silver jewelry, but also do gold, silver and copper coin exchange business, and even operate some lending business. It can be regarded as the financial street of Datang.

Xin Zhao is familiar with the road, and he is very familiar with the credit of each store and the current exchange rate, but he still took them around a few big stores.

Those shopkeepers were very jealous when they saw their large yellow croakers. Chen Erlang, a goldsmith, is very famous in Chang'an.

A collar of gold is exchanged for [-] Kaiyuan Tongbao, but there are not so many good copper coins in each store. It is mainly exchanged for silk, and it can also be exchanged for other copper coins. The exchange ratio varies, but no one is willing to exchange gold for old money.

Several shops exchanged together, after a circle, they loaded several carts of silk and sent it directly to Huaiyuanfang. Because of the approaching war, the official price of one tael of gold was 22 copper coins, and a piece of silk was 240 copper coins. The two golds were exchanged for 640 more bolts of silk. Under Zhao Xin's presence, a collar of gold was exchanged for [-] bolts of silk, and one tael was exchanged for [-] coins.

These twelve large gold collars of perfect quality are now extremely popular in Chang'an City, and many high-ranking officials of noble families are secretly exchanging gold for collection.

There is nothing wrong with golden and prosperous antiques in troubled times. No one can be sure whether the Turkic people will break into Guanzhong. If they break in, it will be easier to pack up and run away.

You must know that Turkic Shibi Khan surrounded Yang Guang in Yanmen with hundreds of thousands of riders, and that was only a dozen years ago.

If you take a stroll around the West Market, you will find that there is an atmosphere of panic in the West Market. Many people are hoarding supplies, especially food, and the prices are still rising.

It used to be a bucket of rice and silk, but now it is a bucket of millet. You must know that the price of millet was only [-]% of the price of rice, which means that the grain has increased by several percent.

The West Market has also become a bit depressed. Now Heshuo, Longyou, and Hexi are basically closed to customs, and the atmosphere in Lianhe East has become tense.

Huaiyu originally wanted to change his collar of twelve taels of gold, but seeing the atmosphere, he decided not to change it at all. He originally wanted to change the gold collar and then buy grain for storage, but depending on the situation in the grain market, although the court also opened Grain storage in warehouses has stabilized food prices, but it is still out of control.

Even if you have money, you can’t buy grain. Every grain store is only open for a while in the morning and then closes, waiting for the price to rise. Now the more you sell, the more you will lose money.

"From now on, we will send a few guys over early every day to line up to buy food. No matter how the price of food rises, we will buy more when we can still buy it. Otherwise, our Qianjintang will have no food to eat." Huaiyu told Xin Zhao.

"Damn it, they're all Turkic wolf cubs in this smoldering day. They always make trouble with our Tang Dynasty. After all, the world is about to be unified and the world is about to live in peace. They always go south." Xin Zhao couldn't help cursing. "I hope Duke Yongkang and Consort Chai can withstand these woes at the border."

There is not much meat in the meat market, and the price has risen surprisingly.

Huaiyu originally thought about whether he was expensive or cheap, and bought some to reward everyone, but Xin Zhao felt that his flesh hurt, so he finally bought some offal, sheep heads, sheep skeletons, pig heads, and pig and sheep offal.

Those prices are much cheaper than meat. A large pig head with a dozen catties only costs two catties of meat, and a pair of sheep skeletons only costs two catties of mutton. Pork lungs, sheep livers and intestines are cheaper, especially pig lungs. It was supposed to be thrown away, but customers who bought a lot of meat gave it away as a gift.

Seeing this, Huaiyu simply swept through several meat stalls and rounded up the offal.

"If you buy these, you won't be able to eat them all. The weather is hot and they're all broken. Although they're cheap, they're also a waste if they break." Zhao said.

Fatty Wu also nodded, "These things are too unpalatable and smelly, just buy some."

"Don't worry, I'll make it myself in a while, it's guaranteed to be delicious."

"It's delicious, unless you add spices, but spices are as expensive as gold, and it's too wasteful to put them in water."

"Let's go, go back and let you see what it means to turn waste into treasure."

A group of people returned with a full load, several carts of silk, copper coins, and many medicinal materials, as well as offal of pigs and sheep.

When they returned to the small courtyard of Huaiyuanfang, the pharmacists, assistants, and apprentices all surrounded them, and everyone happily came to carry things.

Run Niang also looked at the cart in surprise.

Huaiyu handed her the gold collar, "I won't change it for now, you put it away first."

Ten collars of gold were exchanged for 180 bolts of silk, which was nearly 600 bolts more than expected. The extra silk was still included in the account, and it was still divided into 130 bolts. The [-] Guan Zhaizi money was converted into [-] nine pieces of silk, and there were nearly [-] pieces of silk left, and the fat man gave him [-] pieces of silk directly.

Along with the newly collected one hundred bolts of silk for consultation, Huaiyu gave Runniang six hundred bolts of silk plus ten taels of gold, and took them directly to the inner courtyard room, which was his own.

The rest of the silk, money, and medicines were put into the warehouse of the middle courtyard, handed over to the cashier, and the account was still run by Niang.

"How can you eat so many sheep's heads and pig's heads in the water?"

Huaiyu didn't dislike the stink of these things.

"Get a pot to boil water, and boil more water. Others take the pig's head and sheep's head to the fire to singe off the hair, then scrape and wash it, chop it up and soak it in boiling water. Remember to add some salt."

"Scrape and wash the intestines, liver, heart and lungs with water several times, and wash them clean."

"That skeleton, even though it doesn't have much meat, it's still delicious when it's stewed for a while. Chop it into big pieces and put it in clean water to soak the blood."

Although there are not so many spices such as pepper, pepper, cinnamon and star anise, Huaiyu is still very confident.For those fellow apprentices who rarely eat meat, this is also a rare feast.

Everyone got busy under Huaiyu's command. This thing looks dirty, but in fact, it is important to clean it up patiently.

Burn, scrape, wash, soak.

Finally, put the water in the pot, add ginger slices, green onions, orange peel, and cornus officinalis, cook for a while, beat out the blood foam, then change the water and bring to a boil, then simmer slowly on low heat.

Stewed until dark, every pot is full of fragrance.

Everyone was drooling long ago. For this big meal, they even skipped lunch, leaving their stomachs for the night.

I baked some hu biscuits and waited to make them.

There are quite a few authentic stewed sheep's heads and pig's heads, which have been stewed in the pot until they are soft and rotten. Pick them up and peel them off from the bones, chop half of them directly and mix them with chopped green onions and eat them in pancakes, and add half of them Shredded ginger and green onion, fried in a pan, add some sauce.

As for the stewed intestines, heart, liver and lungs with some sheep tail oil, it is also rich and soft. Take it out and chop it, put it into a large pottery bowl, then sprinkle with salt, green onion, and shredded ginger, and then scoop half of the bowl with oil Flower Soup.

With the mutton cake sandwiched in one hand, a large bowl of haggis soup in the other hand, a mouthful of pancakes and a mouthful of soup, that's beautiful.

After several hours of long stewing, not only the meat is soft and rotten, but also the fishy smell is basically gone. Although it will be more delicious if you can add some pepper or something, but even if the clear soup is so original, a group of people can eat it Call me mother.

Even Chen Runniang, who came from such a famous family, nodded his head.

"These things are so delicious?"

"In fact, it has to be stewed for a long time, and then while it is hot, there will be no peculiar smell, but if it is cooled, it will become fishy."

Huaiyu grabbed a piece of sheep scorpion and gnawed it vigorously. The butcher who slaughtered the sheep had a good knife skill. The pork ribs were shaved very clean, but there was still some on the spine, especially the bone marrow inside, which was very fragrant.

It's a pity that there is no braised sauce, or it will be more delicious.

Everyone was nibbling on pancakes, but Huaiyu started to play tricks.

The noodles have already been reconciled with salted water, and oiled and covered with a basin to wake up for a long time, and the noodles have been reconstituted three times.

At this time the noodles were completely reconciled, Huaiyu began to pull the noodles, his movements were very skillful, gently pulling and pulling, the dough became long but continuous.

Pulling left and right like this, one after another, the sticky strips are put into the soup and boiled. The thick mutton soup is covered with a thick layer of sheep fat. The soup underneath sits on the fire, which is extremely hot. It floated up quickly.

"What is this?"

"Tiaozi!" Huaiyu scooped up a bowl for Runniang and asked her to taste it.The fat man eagerly took the spoon and scooped up a bowl for himself.

"Damn, it's delicious."

People in Guanzhong are fond of noodles, including Butuo, cold pottery, soup cakes, and all kinds of noodles, but it is the first time for him to eat this kind of round, long and chewy noodles. Especially it is very chewy, with the rich mutton soup, chopped green onion, it is a perfect match, and two cloves of garlic to chew, it is even more delicious.

Although the raw garlic was very spicy, the fat man couldn't stop eating it.

After finishing one bowl, I immediately went to grab the second bowl.

The meal lasted from dusk to willow shoots on the moon, and finally everyone had to stop when they were full.

I only ate half of the stewed meat and soup.

Huaiyu asked people to pick up all the meat and bones, put them into baskets, and then hang them into the well with ropes for storage. The remaining soup was boiled again and then stored at room temperature.

"Tomorrow morning, the door of the workshop will open. Everyone will share some meat and soup and send it back to the family to eat. You will also bring back the silk dividends that you gave out, which will also make the family happy."

"I'll give you an hour's vacation. Hurry up and go home after delivery. We've got a lot of orders, so we have to hurry up."

"Shopkeeper Zhao, you need to recruit more pharmacists, assistants, and apprentices. In addition, the Qianjintang shop in Dongshi City should also keep an eye on it, and remind you more."

A free meal didn't cost too much money, but it made the employees of Qianjintang, who had just joined, all of them were very grateful to the new owner. Work hard.

"Runniang, brother is on vacation tomorrow, shall we go back to Sanyuan together? I'll take you to see Aniang and the others. In addition, I plan to go to Sanyuan to recruit some local children to work here. I also want to bring my eldest sister back to Chang'an Come on, they work very hard in the countryside, but they can also help me with things in Chang'an, and it's easier."

Chen Runniang puffed out her belly, she was greedy for a while, she ate too many bowls, and hiccupped. She snuggled up to Huaiyu happily, "The concubine listens to Erlang's arrangements."

(End of this chapter)