Teach my brother-in-law

The popularity of hot-boiled lamb is inevitable, and Qibei Town has set off a trend of hot-boiled lamb in copper pots.In the winter, the frozen mutton slices are put into the hot copper, rinsed and then taken out, dipped in sauce, and delivered to the mouth. It's very comfortable to sweat all over your body.

This trend began to spread from Qibei Town to nearby towns, and then to Ningzhou City. The whole city was cooking mutton. Fortunately, the most indispensable thing in the northwest was sheep.Not to mention those large households stocking dozens or hundreds of them, even small households will have two or three heads. The price of mutton is cheap, so I feel at ease when I cook mutton. The hearty hot-boiled mutton has become a scene in Ningzhou.

As a result, there was a shortage of copper pots in Ningzhou City. First, the copper pots in major utensil stores were robbed, and then the copper pots in nearby cities were also sold out.It has become a living habit and a status symbol to use a copper pot to boil mutton.If you use an iron pot to serve the soup, you will definitely lose your face, you will be ridiculed, and it will make the guests feel rude.

Bai He didn't expect her actions to cause such a big commotion. It's not that Ningzhou didn't use to eat boiled mutton before, it's just that this way of eating mutton was rare among the common people, basically only among some big households or officials. This way of eating, and Ho Kee's soup base, seasonings, sauces, etc. are more refined, and because of the free trial, it immediately opened up the market.

Now in Qibei and even Ningzhou, Heji hot-boiled mutton is the most authentic, and because Mr. Xuetangwen attracted several great scholars in the city to come and taste it, the literati lamented it as a heavenly delicacy.

The heated discussion among the common people, the dissemination of literati, and the fact that Heji rewarded husbands in the army on weekdays left a lot of praise, and the business was booming.

Now Heji is expanding. The lady who sells tofu next door has transferred her tofu shop to Baihe. The two parties have invited people from the dentist to sign and make a deposit. The tofu shop has been transferred to Heji, and the renovation is already in progress. middle.

The decoration was completely carried out according to Bai He's ideas. First, some sundries in the tofu shop were cleaned up, leaving usable things, and the walls were painted with white ash.The mining industry in the Ming Dynasty was quite developed, and construction materials such as cement and lime had been sold all over the country.

I also hired a painter to paint on the walls, nothing more than some paintings of Qingzhu, Aomei, and Xiwa. The room was divided into sixteen small rooms, of course they were not completely enclosed, but only symbolically made three feet apart. There is a screen, or some bamboo slices sandwiched between them, one table in each private room, either round or square, and five to ten chairs.There is a hole in the middle of the table, just to place a stove, and the side is tightly wrapped with iron sheets. There is a round plate on top of the stove. If there is no one to eat, the stove can be taken out, and the round plate is covered to form a table.

This is also a solution that Bai He can think of. Make a hole in the middle of the table, put the stove into the hole in the eating pot, and put a wooden frame on the bottom, and put the copper pot on top, which is very convenient.If no one is eating, take out the stove, put the round cover on and it becomes an ordinary table.

Nearly one month before the New Year's Eve, the renovations were all completed.

Looking at the newly renovated shop, Lu'er supported Bai He, Lin Zicai was waiting for his younger siblings, and a little further outside were Wang Ma, Hua'er and others.

"Sister-in-law, is this still our He Ji?" Lin Ziqian asked as he gently stroked the table and chairs. Since the second eldest Lin Zizhong left, Lin Ziqian has grown up very fast, and now his younger siblings follow his example.Of course, Lin Ziqian has more wit than Lin Zizhong, even Bai He has to admire him, he can ask a question once and do it well, and draw inferences from one instance, next time he encounters the same kind of thing, he won't need it anymore Let's ask Bai He.

Watching her brother-in-law grow up, Bai He is like eating honey, maybe it's like watching her own child grow up, it's all like a mother's love.

"Third Brother, why do you ask such a question? Your eldest brother owns the land and house deeds of the tofu shop. The red seal of the government, the stamp of the tooth bank, and Mr. Wen's testimony, this is the expanded VIP room of our He Ji." Bai He said triumphantly. .

After coming to the Ming Dynasty, I really longed for a place to make money, or a profitable career. The word "poor" deeply weighed on Bai He and he couldn't breathe, but it's different now. If we work harder, we might be able to open the semicolon to Ningzhou City next year.

Bai He has this plan, but the conditions are not yet ripe.

Lin Zicai just smiled and said nothing, this is a family business of the Lin family, the business tax in the Ming Dynasty was not heavy, on the contrary, it was easier than the agricultural tax, but when it comes to making money, it is obvious that doing business is more profitable than farming.

Of course, Baihe didn't intend to go down the road of business all the time. In the Ming Dynasty, which was based on agriculture and focused on farming and reading, it was still necessary to buy land, and the way to harvest more grain was the kingly way.Besides, the Ming Dynasty’s army, scientific research, and official selection all put agriculture first, but these do not mean that merchants have no status. On the contrary, the status of merchants is unimaginable. It is just that the dynasty gave merchants a lower status in order to protect their own rule. After all, the foundation of the country is still the largest number of farmers.

But who would say that being a businessman is bad.

Ho Kee is going to develop, and it has to take an extraordinary road.

But the Lin family is still based on farming, so buying the land that the Lin family sold before has become Bai He's latest concern.I just asked the dental practitioner, and I couldn't help but feel a little anxious. I still don't have enough money on hand. After a rough calculation, after excluding decoration, buying new tables and chairs, tea sets, and the principal of the bank, there is only less than ten taels of silver in the account .

That is to say, Baihe wanted to buy back the land that the Lin family had sold before, but with the money in his hands, it was impossible. When the Lin family had a big business, the family had more than 300 mu of fertile land and more than 500 mu of dry land. A typical landlord's house.

As for the purchase of these fields, according to the ordinary price mentioned by Ya Xingren, good land costs at least three taels of silver per mu, and dry land is probably not less than one tael, so it costs thousands of taels of silver.

Thinking about it this way, Bai He must have given up the idea of ​​buying back all the land of the Lin family, and he should wait until next year when the hand is loose before buying a little bit.

If you want to live a better life, you may have to spend some hard work and money to buy dozens or even hundreds of acres of land.

For the people of the Ming Dynasty, the land was the sky and the earth. Having a field in hand means having food, and having food means that there is no hunger. It is true that "there is food at home, and there is no panic in the heart".

In the Ming Dynasty, when food was the most important thing for the people, the desire for food exceeded any era. Having food represented the prosperity of the country and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.

money money!Make more money.

The New Year is approaching, money is needed, New Year's ceremony needs money, the two acres of dry land at home after the spring also needs money, and the third brother needs money to go to school.

Bai He was about to go crazy in her heart, and she was even more eager to make money.

When Bai He woke up, the pot had already been placed on the new table, the golden chicken soup was bubbling, the sliced ​​mutton next to it was being placed on the plate in rolls, and the table was covered with radishes and cabbages.

Regardless of men, women or children, everyone gathered around the largest table in the store and started eating.

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