Villager of Daming

Chapter 1288: Treasure Presentation Security Consultant

A variety of snacks were served, including fried skewers, grilled meat skewers, and shabu-shabu skewers.

Iron plate type, fried type, glutinous rice type, oven type, steamed type...

There are more than 150 kinds of food in total, not even the staple food, not even big ones like roast duck and smoked chicken.

"How much is each of these? How many can ordinary people eat?"

Seeing the tables filled with snacks, Gegehaji began to consider the amount of money to be spent.

The four princes looked at each other, each taking charge of a part and then summing up the results.

The fifth brother Zhu Su reported the amount of money: "One hundred and fifty-three kinds, the expensive ones cost five coins each, and the cheap ones cost one coin in three, a total of one hundred and ninety-nine coins.

There are several of them for sale at a stall. After negotiation, they can give us a bowl of iced sour plum soup for an extra penny."

"So cheap?" Xie Qiaoer's eyes widened. She thought that five hundred coins were not enough for so many things. She never thought that for two hundred coins she could get iced sour plum soup.

“If it’s too expensive, no one will buy it. We need to make people who come here to eat develop a habit, otherwise some people will refuse to come and eat, affecting their normal life.

And there is a rule here. If the daily sales of a stall are lower than the average for a month in a row, the stall will be closed, the owner will be replaced, and compensation will be paid.

They directly lose the opportunity to make money in prosperous areas, and they will find ways to either lower prices or improve quality.

Only through this kind of competition can the local prosperity be maintained.

Especially for service, people pay for food, not beg for it. We will hire temporary inspectors to conduct inspections, and if we find anyone giving customers the cold shoulder, we will fine them half a month’s income.”

Zhu Gang told his future Princess Jin about the situation. The requirements for the snack bar were very strict and it was not easy to make money from others.

"Yes! It has been like this since the beginning." Xu Yihua said, "I know." She pointed at a set of pancakes and asked, "Why are there circles of colors?"

Zhu Di immediately responded: "It contains normal 80% flour, followed by a layer of mung bean flour, then sorghum rice flour, and finally millet flour.

None of the things today can be bought at the stalls in Xiaqiu Village. The things in Xiaqiu Village are expensive, and some may not be better than those at other stalls.

Xiaqiu Village will provide training on new research every once in a while. Anyone who wants to learn can just take the time to learn, it’s free.

Xiaqiu Village is the most famous in Yingtian Prefecture, Taiping Prefecture, and Ningguo Prefecture. Everyone calls Xiaqiu Village the Prince Village. "

He told the rest of his words to Xie Qiaoer and Gege Haji, and Xu Yihua knew about it.

"To attract public attention, aren't Xiaqiu Village afraid of punishing them for the crime of rebellion?"

Gege Haji looked at the people of Xiaqiu Village, meaning, "Do you really dare?"

"Help me to rebel?" Zhu Biao smiled. "If I rebel, my father will be very happy. He always says he is tired and wants me to be the emperor. I haven't learned it well yet! I have to wait."

Gege Haji was stunned: "It's great that the king and his subjects are in harmony!"

"The main reason is that Xiaqiu Village has no military power. They were told to command several thousand people, but they didn't want to do it, even if they died."

Lao Wu pointed out the essence of the problem. If you want to rebel, you need soldiers. Will anyone agree to a rebellion by just a few people in Xiaqiao Village?

He could only pull the prince into rebellion. The prince didn't need to rebel. If he wanted to become emperor, he just had to say a word.

"Sure enough, Xiaqiu Village has a way to protect itself. It is worthy of being a prince village. Hey? That person wants to speak."

Gege Haji understood that Xiaqiu Village did not want military power and did not want to have contact with other officials, so it would be useless even if they poisoned the emperor's family.

As she spoke, she saw several people hurrying over and standing there waiting.

"Speak!" A young man from Xiaqiu Village shouted to the other side. The other party was from the Prince's Palace. "Uh... a boat of swimming crabs came, and with them came a few villagers from the seaside village. They found a large piece of ambergris and wanted to present it to Your Highness."

The man glanced at the prince, and seeing that he was glaring at him, he hurried to report.

"Why are the swimming crabs here at this time? They should have been caught early in the morning, so it's normal for them to arrive by noon. Aren't they all dead? Bring up the ambergris."

The prince calculated the time and found that the crabs were delivered late. Since they were delivered by a steamship, the speed should not be slow.

The swimming crabs are caught at night, arrive at the beach in the early morning, and arrive in Nanjing before noon.

I have eaten it several times this year. I always steamed it. I only chopped it up and fried it when the meat was less or had just died.

"The boats that went to Japan to collect blood corals put out crab cages when they went there. When they came back, they collected some dead crabs and threw them all into the Yangtze River."

The person who reported the news seemed to know what problems he would encounter. If it were him, he would ask the same question: why are you here at this time?

He then presented a large piece of ambergris, along with the scale.

For a moment, everyone looked at him sideways, especially Zhu Wentian. Such a large piece of grayish-white ambergris must be of good quality!
"How much?" Zhu Biao didn't take the thing and asked directly about the weight.

"According to our new measurement method, four thousand and ninety-two grams." The visitor naturally weighed it.

"No wonder!" The Crown Princess said, "They don't dare to sell it. It's too expensive. They are even afraid to send a navy ship directly."

"Good stuff, I still have a small piece! It's not as white as this one, and weighs nine taels and two cents. I'll use this to burn incense."

Gege Haji knows, she still has it! In the past, his brother occupied a large area of ​​the Northeast, including the Liaodong Peninsula, and always encountered good things.

“It’s a waste to make incense. This is medicine. Of course, incense is also medicine, it can calm the mind.

In addition, the best perfume that Xiaqiu Village gives you uses ambergris as a fixative. Other fixatives are not as good as ambergris.

The things are presented to us, how should we deal with them? Giving too much or too little is not good!"

Xu Yihua knew that others would make ambergris into incense and burn it, but other people didn't know how to make perfume and didn't know how to use it for medicinal purposes.

The amount of contact is small, and a large amount of ambergris is needed to study the medicinal effects.

Incense made from ambergris smells good but is very expensive, so the doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau were unable to collect more to try.

The experts in Xiaqiu Village knew that the prescriptions they wrote contained ambergris, which was generally not given to ordinary people, and was not kept in the herbal medicine warehouse or the People's Pharmacy.

The current problem is what reward to give to the person who finds the ambergris. When they say it is a donation, don't really take it as if they don't want anything.

The man is innocent, but he is guilty of hiding the secret. The person who found the ambergris understands that it can only be given to the top people. It is not easy to give it to the emperor, but it is much easier to find Xiaqiu Village to give it to the prince.

"Ask how many people have been found, and move all their families to Yingtian Prefecture. Yingtian Prefecture has many wealthy people and is where the imperial city is located, so it is relatively safe.

Give them a good house, find them easy jobs, then deposit some money for them in the bank and earn the interest every year.

I just got some money, so I gave it all to them. I was afraid they wouldn't know how to spend it, and would go to brothels or something, or get cheated again.

Or someone sets up a trap for them to gamble, and no amount of money is enough to fill the gap. The world is dangerous and people’s hearts are unpredictable.

Since we have taken someone's things, we have to take care of their affairs. We are not ordinary businessmen."

Ling'er came up with a plan to move the person to Nanjing to live away from his hometown, which would be safer.

"How many people?" Zhu Biao asked his subordinates, meaning that he agreed with Ling'er's method.

(End of this chapter)