The rise of the prince

Chapter 12

After a few days, the heavy snow stopped.The end of the new year is approaching, everything is bustling behind the faint calm, children frolicking on the street, aunts talking by the door, cocks crowing and dogs barking from nowhere, shouting and cursing from the depths of the courtyard without knowing the source, bit by bit, scattered Scattered and combined together sound very cordial and lively.

Li Ye brought Qiu'er Yue'er, and two nurses, who were also the lackeys who helped him in the crime department before, one named Yan Shen and the other named Ji Chunsheng, both of them were good fighters in the Xiao Wang army before, and ordinary people were not theirs at all. The opponent, Li Xingzhou's reputation is too bad, and he is still worried about going out alone.

The Jing Dynasty is like the Song Dynasty. Apart from the prosperity, the biggest feature is that bandits are rampant, and the people in the green forest are powerful. If any chivalrous person really can't stand Li Xingzhou's evil deeds, it is not impossible to sacrifice his life for righteousness and eliminate harm for the people, so you must be careful when you go out. .

At first he didn't understand what the word "Li Xingzhou" meant.The prince's mansion is surrounded by tall mansions, sparsely populated, and the servants rarely leave the mansion, and other people stay away from him when they leave the mansion.

Until he followed Qiu'er all the way into the bustling area of ​​Kyoto, and vaguely heard someone shouting in the distance, "Li Xingzhou is here!"

Then on the street by the river, pedestrians hurried, creaking and creaking under the heavy snow for a while, and then disappeared.A few children who hadn't reacted and were still playing were also dragged away by adults while crying. After a while, the street was clean, and some baskets were left behind.

Li Ye was stunned for a long time before Yue'er lowered her head and tugged at his sleeves, as if she was afraid that he would get angry: "Your Excellency, don't pay attention to them."

Li Ye didn't care, but he didn't expect Li Xingzhou to be so bad.Seeing the small things, if ordinary people are afraid to this extent, like a scourge, then there are nine out of ten chances that he has at least killed someone.

The crime is serious, Li Ye couldn't help thinking about it, but he couldn't say it, otherwise the two little girls would probably be worried to death, and rubbed the little girl's head: "It's okay, I don't really care."

He just wanted to visit the restaurant in the palace today, which is also the only source of income for the palace other than the royal offerings, and this is the only way out to make life better for the palace.

Although Yan Yan agreed verbally, it could be seen that he did not believe that Li Ye could make money, and that no one would believe him when he casually said that, in fact, Li Ye didn't have a solution in his heart. He just wanted more than 100 people in the palace to be cold for a winter, and there would be something wrong with the cold. .

As for how to make up for it in the future, I can only say that I will do my best. Li Ye believes in his ability, but he must look at it in light of the actual situation, otherwise it will be empty talk.Today he is going to visit the restaurant in the palace.

After walking for about half an hour, they finally arrived at the restaurant in the city. I have to say that the scenery is pretty good, with dark willows on the embankment and shaded trees. From here, you can faintly see the palace on the other side of the river.

Li Ye didn't go in, but first walked around the outside. In front of the restaurant was the river bank, and there was a row of tall weeping willows with knotted old branches. They had gone through vicissitudes and were not young.There is a pergola on the side, and there should be someone selling things there on weekdays, but it is snowing now, so no one is likely to come, and there is a cleared open space next to it.

The restaurant has three floors, the second and third floors have exposed balconies, you can see the river, and the trees behind are shady, because no one takes care of it, it looks a bit messy.

The location here is remote, very quiet, almost no people can be seen, all the guests are naturally sparse, not many people come here.

Qiu'er Hui was heart-warming, and probably understood that Li Ye wanted to do some tricks in the restaurant, but the more she looked at her, the more she frowned, and her small face was almost like a rag.

Li Ye laughed and asked, "Qiuer, what do you think of this place?"

Qiu'er shook her head: "The location and the city are remote, and there are no wealthy people nearby who can often come to the restaurant. When the prince was alive, he often came here, and it was only as a pastime. Other than that, no one came here. I'm afraid. "

Li Ye nodded, and praised: "That's right, you're very smart, girl." Qiu'er blushed for a while.

Qiu'er is very practical and smart, and she can immediately see the problem of this place, that is, there is no source of customers.A bad environment can be planned slowly, and loose management can be gradually changed, but lack of customers is a big problem, and it is difficult for a smart woman to cook without rice.

This is a very realistic problem, so the ancients often said that relying on the mountains depends on the mountains and the water, and that geography determines everything, which makes sense.In this day and age such problems are almost impossible to solve.

But Li Ye is not a person of this era. He has more experience and more knowledge, and knowledge is power.If he was still apprehensive at the beginning, then after he actually inspected this place, he wasn't worried at all.He is determined to make this restaurant prosperous and make a lot of money.

The theory of relativity says that nothing is eternal, and advantages and disadvantages can be changed. As long as there are corresponding conditions, Li Ye already has a rough plan in mind.

Without further ado, Li Ye said, "Let's go in." As he spoke, he led everyone into the large main entrance of the restaurant, on which there was a quaint plaque with the words "Tingyulou", which was written by King Xiao himself.

"Tingyulou, Tingyulou, what a name." Li Ye said silently in his heart.

After waiting in the hall for a while, Ji Chunsheng was asked to find the shopkeeper, while Li Ye looked around.The hall on the first floor is full of counters, tables and chairs, which are wiped clean, but are covered with grooves of sawdust that have begun to mottle and fall off. On the side are the stairs going upstairs and the kitchen at the back, and there is no one customer.

Li Ye then went upstairs. The second floor was smaller, with a corridor with railings. From the corridor, you could see the river outside, the river surface, and the looming high-rise compound on the opposite bank, but there was still no one there.

The highest one was the third floor. When I brought Qiu'er, Yue'er, and Yan Shen up to the third floor, I unexpectedly found that there were people on the third floor, but there were only two people, an old man and a young girl, who were closest to the corridor.

On the table is warm wine, peanuts, side dishes, mutton slices, a small table, the girl seems to be singing softly, and the old man is drinking alone.

It was illegal in the Jing Dynasty to kill farm cattle, because there were few farm cattle and it was an agricultural country, and pork was considered inferior meat, and the upper classes liked mutton.

Li Ye didn't expect to meet someone here, and the other party also found him. Li Ye bowed to him from a distance, and the other party's young and old were stunned for a moment, and then returned the salute, but the girl stopped singing and sat next to the old man, blocking Li Ye's sight.

Li Ye didn't pay much attention, probably the old man was from a wealthy family, and the girl was his maidservant or concubine, although the two seemed to be at least 50 or [-] years apart, but such things are not uncommon in this day and age .

After a while, Ji Chunsheng came with the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper was a fat middle-aged man with a mustache named Yan Kun. Most of the servants of the palace were given the surname "Yan" by King Xiao.In this era, many people have no names and surnames, and they choose a nickname for a lifetime, and stay inside and outside the palace, and those who do not have a surname are given the surname Yan.

If the surname is Yan, it means that it is the former Ministry of King Xiao, so it can be trusted to some extent.

Li Ye asked him a lot, a few about restaurants, but most of them casually inserted some digressions, such as living conditions, nearby geographies, and even anecdotes about Beijing and China.

Mixing [-]% of the information you want to obtain with [-]% of the irrelevant things is an important means of reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance.It's practical, it relaxes you, you get what you want without knowing it, and it increases the accuracy of the intelligence, because people are more willing to tell the truth when they are defenseless.

But this kind of conversation requires Li Ye to have a clear logic and focus, and not to confuse himself when he confuses others. This is the most common mistake novices make.

Li Ye basically knew everything he wanted to know in the very relaxed and non-trivial conversation for about half an hour, and he also felt that Yan Kun and Yan Yan were both from the former Ministry of King Xiao, but they were much more tactful than Yan Yan.

I carefully reviewed the information I obtained in my mind, only to find that the old man and the girl were still there, the food was cold, but the wine was still warm and steaming.Li Ye raised his hand to apologize: "Sorry, I didn't pay attention to disturbing the two of you just now. Shopkeeper Yan changed a new table for them, and I invited them."

The old man was obviously surprised, but before he had time to speak, Li Ye had already brought people downstairs.

(End of this chapter)