I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 10

Chapter 009

"Boss, the meal is ready!"

In fact, before the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were no cuisines in China, at least the concept of cuisines is different from the current cuisine.To be honest, there are probably only the current Luoyang water seats.Because before the appearance of stir-fried dishes, everyone just cooked them, that is, boiled, stewed and barbecued. Except for roasted dishes, most of them were all kinds of dishes with soup. If you have eaten Luoyang water banquet, you will know what it is like.

All the dishes made by Yang Yunniang are not stir-fried, but with soup, for example, a stewed mutton, a stewed hen, winter melon vermicelli soup, lotus root glutinous rice soup.

Every dish comes with soup.Yang Yunniang put it on the table Yiyi.

"Ming Yu, come and eat!"

"coming!"

Shen Mingyu sat on the basin stand outside the kitchen and began to wash his hands.

Yang Yunniang was stared at by Shen Mingyu a little unnaturally.

"Don't worry, I'm Yan, not a bandit!"

Yan is only using her looks to deceive people, and she will never use force. In fact, Yang Yunniang doesn't have much force. If she is asked to fight, she can only deliver food.

Shen Mingyu stared at Yang Yuniang terribly, cooking in her kitchen, let Yang Yuniang eat every dish first.

Although the dishes are not as complete as Liu Ji's cook, Cheng Shijie is also used to living a hard life, especially when Xiang Hui married him, he cooked dark dishes.After having a child, Cheng Shijie needs to travel frequently, and Xiang Huiman's cooking skills have gradually improved.

The dining room of the main house where three people sit around eats.

Yang Yunniang asked cautiously: "Boss, that broker hasn't come back yet!"

"no!"

"Those brokers are only bullying big families, but my boss, I'm afraid they won't be polite to newcomers!"

Yang Yunniang kindly reminded Cheng Shijie not to be deceived by Song Kangnian.

How could Cheng Shijie not know that the helpers on the street are unreliable?That's why he used heavy profits to attract Song Kangnian. This kind of weapon made by later generations, even if the quality is second, is also high-carbon steel, and what he buys are all mid-to-high-end products. Looking at the alloy composition in the manual, it is actually made of high-manganese steel.

Although the cost is not high, it can be sold in Daming, definitely more than 20 taels of silver. You must know that the iron blade knife made in Daming is worth [-] taels of silver.Even the common kitchen knives of later generations can be regarded as magical weapons in Daming.

This is the crushing of technology.

Cheng Shijie didn't care too much about this issue. Doing business will be risky, if you are cheated, you will be cheated.If Song Kangnian ran away with his two knives, there was nothing he could do. After all, he was a newcomer and had no one to follow.

However, now Cheng Shijie decided to go outside the city to see if he could travel outside the city every time. Cheng Shijie didn't feel the slightest sense of security inside the city.

"Yunniang... I'm going to put a sum of money with you. You are responsible for purchasing the ingredients yourself. You can show me the detailed account every month. As for the meals, there must be meat for each meal. Buy more fish, Eggs and meat, buy for four, not six people per meal!"

Cheng Shijie glanced at Shen Mingyu who was cooking in silence. This guy was a big belly man, and he could eat three servings like Cheng Shijie's alone.If there is no meat, the meal will be more.

"When the meal is ready, you don't have to bring it to my room alone, just call me. If you want, you can also eat with us!"

"Then how can it be, there are no rules at all!"

Yang Yunniang muttered to herself, Cheng Shijie is too careless, don't he need a confidant to manage the accounts?Although Caijin didn't have much money, a lot of money could be deducted from the deduction. Cheng Shijie would definitely not be able to find out how much money he had in a month.

Besides, it’s nothing for Cheng Shijie to eat meat every day, but Shen Mingyu is just a servant. A stone of rice only costs four qian in Dengzhou, and three qian for old rice. It didn't cost three renminbi, but a chicken cost twenty or thirty renminbi, enough for Shen Mingyu to eat five days of rice.

Yang Yunniang was thinking about how to remind Cheng Shijie that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive.

Of course Cheng Shijie knew that eating meat was more expensive than rice, and would cost more money, but the problem was that he didn't have a confidant yet, and he was counting on Shen Mingyu to work for him so that Shen Mingyu would eat meat every day. It's sure to be hard to find a second one.

For his own job, Shen Mingyu will definitely protect Cheng Shijie.

This point, Shen Mingyu really did it.

There was a liar by his side, but Yang Yunniang hadn't done anything yet, even if he told Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie might not believe him, but it would make Cheng Shijie no longer trust him.

Just then, someone knocked on the door.

Cheng Shijie didn't move, Shen Mingyu got up naturally and walked towards the door.

"Slow down, slow down, yes, be careful!"

Cheng Shijie looked in the direction of the gate, and saw that Song Kangnian commanded a dozen porters to push three carts into the Dongkua courtyard. Originally, the Dongkua courtyard was not big, but the three carts almost filled the courtyard.

Cheng Shijie put down his chopsticks: "This is..."

"Fortunately not humiliated!"

Song Kangnian was a little proud. He overfulfilled Cheng Shijie's task and sold Cheng Shijie's treasured sword priced at 20 taels of silver at a price of 500 taels of silver each.

The Dongjiang Army is very poor, it can be said to be a beggar-like army.In the eight years since Mao Wenlong opened the town, he received a total of more than 80 taels of silver from the imperial court in name, but actually received more than 29 taels of silver.

The average expenditure of the soldiers in Guanning was three or two or nine renminbi, but the average soldier in Dongjiang was less than four renminbi, an average of more than one penny a day. This amount of money was not enough for food, not to mention salt.No matter how poor the Dongjiang Army is, the generals are actually not poor.

For example, as early as Mao Wenlong's era, Geng Zhongming was the chief military officer of the Dongjiang Army, responsible for managing the money and food of the Dongjiang Army.

This position is high and powerful, and it is not granted to non-confidants.Geng Zhongming can do this job mainly because he is the adopted grandson of Mao Wenlong and Mao Chenglu. He, Kong Youde and Shang Kexi are both adopted grandsons of Mao Wenlong, and they were all given the surname Mao. Kong Youde is called Mao Yongshi, Geng Zhongming is called Mao Youjie, and Shang Kexi is called Mao Yongxi.

Geng Zhongming naturally didn’t dare to embezzle in Mao Wenlong’s era, but he didn’t really need embezzlement, because the Dongjiang army also had a way to get money, and slaves like to be buried generously, especially in the massacre of Liaodong, where the land was scraped three feet and they got a lot of property. The Dongjiang army often attacked Jiannu and captured many of them.

The coastal islands occupied by the Dongjiang Army have little arable land. If they had no money to buy food, they would have starved to death without fighting. Geng Zhongming could also use the Dongjiang Army Navy to rob the cargo ships smuggled by Daming and make a lot of profit.From Geng Zhongming's point of view, Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong might not have been due to his interests.

The gold master behind the Donglin Party is the Jiangnan gentry group. They control the smuggling channels from Jiangnan to North Korea and Japan, while the Dongjiang Army takes advantage of the geographical advantage to get a share of it.Although the Dongjiang Army did it very secretly, there is no need for evidence for this kind of thing, a suspicion is enough.

Geng Zhongming's very urgent question is that after Huanglong became the commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army, he bit Geng Zhongyu's mouth and did not let go, hoping to use Geng Zhongyu to open a gap in the Dongjiang Army Mao's group.He hoped that this magical weapon would be given to Huang Long, and Huang Long would accept it as soon as it was good.

What Geng Zhongming paid Song Kangnian was not all silver. Among them were 12 bolts of high-quality silk worth 150 taels of silver. Such silk could be sold for at least 100 taels of silver in Europa.

In ancient times, cloth itself could replace currency. Three carts pulled 150 bolts of silk, and [-] bolts of Songjiang cotton cloth worth a hundred taels of silver, followed by silver.

"You sold it?"

"sold!"

Song Kangnian saw that Cheng Shijie was eating, so he sat down directly, picked up the chopsticks Yang Yunniang had used, picked up a piece of mutton, and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Yes, delicious...Mr. Cheng can give them twenty knives."

"Great!"

Cheng Shijie opened the cabinet and asked Shen Mingyu to deliver the sword to the car in the yard.

Along with the three carts came a man in charge, who took out each sword and sword to inspect the goods. As Song Kangnian said, they were all magic weapons and high-quality goods.

Holding a chicken leg in one hand, Song Kangnian walked up to the steward and said, "Now that the money and the goods are cleared, you go back and tell General Geng that the old man has made a fortune for him. He recently had a minor catastrophe. It's not a big problem, so don't worry. You don’t need to do anything, and you can get through the difficulties naturally!”

"Thank you sir!"

The steward put the sword on the cart, then asked people to unload the cloth and silver, and left directly.

Cheng Shijie looked at the four huge boxes: "Twenty knives, how much did you sell for?"

"1 taels!"

Song Kangnian looked at Cheng Shijie with a half-smile: "Do you really take what Mr. Cheng said before?"

Cheng Shijie set the price at 20 taels, but Song Kangnian directly resold it for 500 taels, exceeding 480 taels of silver. Now that the delivery is complete, Song Kangnian also wants to see how Cheng Shijie, who he can't see through, makes a decision.

Although Cheng Shijie is not a businessman in later generations, he also knows the value of the goods and has a direct relationship with his contacts. By chance, he saw the logistics bill of Hangang Group. Hangang Group uses white thread gloves for employees. It costs less than one yuan a pair, but the purchase price of the purchasing department of Hansteel Group is 15 yuan per unit.

For example, Hangang Group needs to spend hundreds of thousands of pairs of white line gloves every month, and the purchase price will only be cheaper. However, in fact, it has doubled by fifteen or six times.

The most profitable ones are actually not manufacturers, but second-hand traffickers.Cheng Shijie's elder brother Xiang Zhi grows watermelons, and the loading price is only [-] cents a catty, but Cheng Shijie never buys watermelons for less than [-] yuan in the supermarket.Regardless of whether it is vegetables or meat, farmers and herdsmen earn only an insignificant part of the money, and the larger part is earned by second-hand traffickers.

Because people have channels and contacts, this is the most valuable resource.

After only thinking for a moment, Cheng Shijie said with a faint smile: "As a human being, only 400 taels belong to Mr. Cheng who is the most honest, and the rest is Mr. Song's!"

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