Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 139

The 19th year of Yongtai, the first day of May.

It is written in the almanac: Suishabei, eight lands are broken, five rich people are born, avoid breaking the ground and burial, it is advisable to open the door and open the business.

Obviously, this is an auspicious day for starting a business.

Sun Yixie's "West Lake Elegant Seat" chose this day to officially open for business.

In those days, there were no TV commercials or online media. Apart from shouting, the best means of publicity was leaflets.

Of course... the cost of printing leaflets is not low.

Although the printing technology in Dazhao is quite prosperous, the efficiency of printing at that time is completely different from the efficiency of modern printing factories; not only was the paper expensive back then, but printing required a lot of manpower, and the speed of shipment... In our modern printing factory, as long as the order is placed on the assembly line, the quantity of tens of thousands will come out in a day or two.

Fortunately, Sun Yixie was well prepared, and had already made arrangements for this matter more than a month in advance. Therefore, the news of the "opening of the West Lake Lounge" had flown all over Hangzhou seven days ago, and even the surrounding counties It's all spread.

On the first day of May, the city of Hangzhou was full of gongs, drums, and firecrackers. Although there were no red flags, there were still a sea of ​​people.

The other owners of restaurants and brothels in the city, as well as bustards, also wisely chose to close their doors for a day today, and came to Sun Yixie's house with congratulatory gifts to pay homage to the pier.

If we say that before the incident caused by "Red Plum Sparrow", they still had some doubts about Sun Yixie's rumors in Jianghu, then after that incident, they have no other ideas except "recognize the big brother"— — After all, none of them wanted to be fucked to death.

As for Sun Yixie, he also knows how to be a man. Before he opened his business, he had already greeted this group of colleagues: I will eat this bowl of rice, but I will not smash your jobs.

How did he do it?

Mainly start from two aspects of business hours and market positioning.

The Sun Family's West Lake Seat is not open all year round like other high-end restaurants and brothels in Hangzhou, but adopts a business schedule of "one break every three days" and "one big break every seven days".

For example, if it opens on the first day of May, then the first and second day of the new year are normal business days.The so-called "normal business" means that the lunch market and the evening market are full: the lunch market is the two hours around noon, only the scattered seats on the two floors downstairs are open, the price is moderate, and it is open to the public. Yelling; the evening market starts at xu o'clock in the evening and ends at midnight at the latest. It only opens on the upper two floors and only provides private rooms, and the dishes on the menu are guaranteed to be invisible and uneatable in other stores...Pricing Well, it is also extremely high, that is, to earn money from those dignitaries.

Then, on the day of the third day of junior high school, they will rest for "half a day", that is, there will be no afternoon market on this day, only evening market.

On the fourth day, fifth day, and sixth day of the new year, it will operate normally for three days, and then on the seventh day, it will be closed for "a whole day", that is, it will be closed all day on the seventh day, and all the employees of the restaurant will also be on vacation.

From the beginning of the eighth day of the lunar new year, there will be another cycle like this.

Ladies and gentlemen, that's Matsuo, do you know how Matsuo went to work at that time?

At this time, Zhang said that the actor was about to return: "I don't know", then let me tell you.

Because Taizu himself was born in hardship and was a real working people, he was extremely strict with himself, let alone others; The emperor's birthday, the other 360 days are working days.

This way of doing things is obviously against humanity and science, so... After the death of Taizu, for a few years, the policy seriously "rebounded", and the new emperor announced that it could be released for more than a month before and after the Spring Festival, starting from the twelfth lunar month Twenty breaks to the 25th of the first month, but this is a bit overkill.

It wasn't until the middle and late stages of the Ming Dynasty that the allocation of holidays became stable. In addition to the fixed three-day holiday every month, various festivals could also be taken throughout the year... Anyway, the sum of zero and zero, there are also some holidays. About fifty days.

What is this concept?It is equivalent to doing a 996 job now, and you only take the prescribed day off every week, and you have to go to work on all national holidays.

Otherwise, how could people have such a short life span?You are too short for doing this.

However, to be more specific about the specific situation, most officials of the Chao Dynasty do not work twelve hours a day like the people in 996, especially the local officials, who do not have so many official duties for them to do, and their office hours are very limited. You can allocate it by yourself, and things that are not particularly urgent can be delayed for ten and a half days.

As for the ordinary people, there are those who stop talking for 360 days, dare not rest for a day, and do physical labor; ... But generally speaking, the working people are still in the majority.

Therefore, for those guys who work in the "West Lake Lounge", Sun Yixie's "one short rest every three days, one big rest every seven days" is simply an earth-shattering benefit.

A rough calculation shows that they have at least 12 more days of "official vacation" than others in a year, and they can also take a "half-day vacation" every week; don't underestimate this half-day, which is similar to our modern "half-day vacation". "It's completely two concepts. At that time, people didn't have to get up an hour and a half earlier to go to work, and then squeeze the subway, bus, or drive on the road for about an hour, and they didn't have to spend another time when they got off work... ancient times People are really "going to work nearby", and the commuting time is no more than half an hour at most, and the dinner market in the restaurant does not start until 52 pm, which is equivalent to arriving in the same day for people at that time. Let it go until dinner.After a year, there are [-] days of this kind of "snack"... With the same salary, those capable guys in the city must be rushing to come here to work.

Such business hours, coupled with the fact that people only do business in the afternoon market, and the number of Kaizi that can be received at night is also limited, will not form a monopoly; the most is to scrape some Sha from the business of other restaurants during the afternoon market , the evening market only competed for a small number of high-end customers.

Besides, Sun Yixie's restaurant doesn't provide accommodation and brothel business, so generally speaking, it doesn't have that much impact on the business of colleagues.

Brother Sun made the calculations clear and clear. When he told the bosses and bustards, those people made up their minds and felt at ease—since the young master of the Sun family is willing to leave a way for everyone to survive, everyone will come today To give a gift, you should be polite and courteous.

Besides these "capitalists", "officials" must be indispensable in today's scene.

No, the new prefect of Hangzhou, Mr. Lu Wenlu, who was just transferred over after the year, also "condescends to come here".

Speaking of Mr. Lu, we need to elaborate a few more words.

Lu Wen, courtesy name Yancheng, is forty-eight this year, the number one scholar hand-picked by the late emperor, and was a Beijing official three years ago, what a pity...he was unlucky, just when he was flourishing in the officialdom , his father suddenly fell ill and died.

No way, according to the filial piety system of the Ming Dynasty, Lu Wen had to go back to his hometown immediately to observe filial piety for three years (actually, 27 months to be precise).

The matter of "keeping filial piety" is similar to the current military service system in South Korea. No one who is an official can escape. For them, it is equivalent to "crossing the catastrophe". To get to the center of that political scene...just a matter of luck.

Some people with bad fate, when their official fortune was prosperous, just caught up with the observance of filial piety, but for various reasons they were not reinstated as soon as possible, and instead were demoted; It was early, and slowly boiled, and he was promoted all the way without stopping.

Lu Wen undoubtedly belongs to the former...

The officialdom in the capital is so dangerous. After he finished his filial piety, his original position was already occupied; fortunately, he had a good relationship with the officials in the official department. After some turnover and management, he was arranged Come to this Hangzhou mansion.

Although the official position was demoted and he only became the magistrate of a certain place, but in this land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, there is a lot of oil and water. Lu Wen reckoned that he would spend a full term here, and then use the oil and water he got to "walk around" and kill people. It is not difficult to return to the capital.

However, he was still on his way to take office when he heard something that made him very uncomfortable-"Red Plum Bird" was arrested in Hangzhou.

The news made him slap his thighs in anger, Master Lu said in his heart: "Who did this? You said you would do it three or five days later? You will take care of this Jiangyang thief after I take office. What a feat!" Isn't it mine? It's good now, let my ex pick up a big deal for nothing."

How do they know when you will take office?What's more, if it really takes three to five days, even if Hong Wei hasn't run away, how many good women will he harm?

But from Lu Wen's point of view, he didn't think so. Therefore, after he took office, he understood the cause and effect of the matter, and he felt a lump in his heart towards Sun Yixie.

In fact, Lu Wen had heard of Sun Yixie's name before he came here—just recently, a Mr. Zhang who was transferred from Zhoukou to the capital told people everywhere that he had met two "young girls" when he was in office. "Hero", one is Sun Yixie, and the other is Huang Donglai. Those methods, those virtues... amazing!Especially that young hero surnamed Huang, who is the master of the cesspit murder, who can afford it?

In addition, there are some rumors that these two people are also related to Jin Yiwei, but I don't know if it is true or not...

As an ambitious person in the officialdom, Lu Wen is very diligent in inquiring about all kinds of news. He has heard about these things. Therefore, even if he is slightly dissatisfied with Sun Yixie in his heart, he is trying to find out what the other party is. He didn't dare to turn his back on the other party openly.

Today, Lu Wen came to the West Lake Yaza, just to meet this Sun Yixie in person, and for the time being, to show off his official authority with this kid, come and shake the mountain...

(End of this chapter)