Chapter 303 Opening (two chapters in one)
That day, Chai Yan sent Yan Xuehuai back to Qingping Lane and sent Dong Wanqian home halfway. Yan Xuehuai asked nothing until the carriage drove out of Ping'an Lane where Dong's family lived. Chai Yan couldn't help but ask, "Sister Huai, aren't you curious why I sent Miss Dong back?"
"Mr. Lu Er is in business and meets someone he shouldn't have met. I think it's just a talk. If you have already entered the business, it's too late to remind you." When Yan Xuehuai was speaking, the fingers of his right hand inadvertently twisted a jade bead on his left wrist. The beads were stringed with red ropes and tied a beautiful knot.
Chai Yan also had a red rope on his wrist, but there was no jade beads, just a simple red rope. He accidentally got wet while taking a shower and faded a little, looking older than Yan Xuehuai's one.
"Well, don't mind. I'm not trying to check the people around you, but Dong Xiaobai and Haozi often play together. You know, if I don't need to check, there will be people watching them. So I happened to find the tea shop where I was talking about business with Mr. Lu. I found that there was some background. If I checked again, the person behind the tea shop was Chai Hui."
Yan Xuehuai was stunned, Chai Hui?
The grandson of King Fu, the one who sent him to the capital to be a proton?
"The Dong family is a bandit, and I have also found out that? The prince asked Chai Hao to play with him?" Yan Xuehuai felt a little confused. When the parents of a classmate in his previous life learned that she was an orphan, they told the child not to play with her. She was an orphan, and she was a wild child.
Chai Yan seemed not to hear the strangeness in her voice, and said with a smile: "You must not know what my elder brother said. He said that he would just send Haozi north. If Haozi recruited Qingyunling, this would be a great achievement. With Haozi's age, he might be able to keep his name in history. He also asked me if I envy this vain me."
Yan Xuehuai smiled: "Your brother is open-minded."
"Well, you will know when you meet my family. Our whole family has this kind of temperament and does not have those prejudices."
Chai Yan looked at Yan Xuehuai with a smile, suddenly changed his tone, and said softly: "Auntie doesn't object to us being together."
"I know." Yan Xuehuai knew of course that Chai Yan even wrote two words happy on his hair. If she still couldn't see it, she would be blind.
"Sister Huai, then I'll ask my father to give me a marriage. Do you think it's okay?"
Yan Xuehuai was stunned again, what? Give marriage?
This is too fast.
"Didn't I say, let's try together first?"
Chai Yan felt a little aggrieved: "We have tried for a long time. Besides, you have given me all... Sister Huai, you always have to be responsible for me, right?"
Yan Xuehuai rolled her eyes wide. Didn’t she just kiss him? Besides, she was not using force. As soon as she kissed her, he would obey. Why did the things that one was willing to beat and the other was willing to be beaten, but why did it change in his mouth?
Still have to be responsible?
Yan Xuehuai looked at Chai Yan, his eyes fell on Chai Yan's stomach, and he poked it out with a finger. He tied it hard through his clothes, and felt uncomfortable.
"It doesn't seem like I'm pregnant, why should I be responsible?"
Yan Xuehuai felt that her tone was like a scumbag. When she looked up, she saw Chai Yan's face blushing as if it was about to drip blood.
Yan Xuehuai suddenly realized that her actions seemed to have teased Chai Yan.
She couldn't help but laughed. Such pure and tender little grass actually made her meet the old cow.
She deliberately moved her body to Chai Yan's side, but she didn't expect that Chai Yan would avoid it for the first time and even sideways her body to an angle that she couldn't see.
"Sister Huai, sit there and don't move, don't come over."
Yan Xuehuai blinked, she did nothing, she really did nothing!
The car arrived at Qingping Lane, but Chai Yan did not get out of the car. He watched Cai Bo open the door and welcome Yan Xuehuai in. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and looked down. Fortunately, he was not allowed to see Coriander.
This little bad guy actually poked his stomach with his finger...
The weather is getting colder and many river sections are already frozen. Before the twelfth lunar month, the first batch of wine from Qingshui Town was delivered to the capital.
This batch of wine is no longer just produced in Lijia Wine Floor. It is the wine from the entire Qingshui Town. It is divided into more than a dozen varieties, and it also has a unified new name, Qinghe Banquet.
Li Baohuai represented the Li family and jointly invested with three other companies in Qinghe Town to establish the Qinghe Banquet Brewery. All four companies have shares. If the elders of the Li family want to point fingers at Li Baohuai and Qinghe Banquet, they must first see if the shareholders of the other three companies agree.
Three Qinghe Banquet and Liquor Stores in the capital are open at the same time. The main store is next to Li Shiji. The other two are in the outer city and the other are in the west of the inner city.
The shopkeepers of the three shops took some effort to find them. One was introduced by Qian Wangshi, the other was introduced by chefs, and the other was recommended by Zhongbo.
There were shops and villages in the Duke's Mansion. There was no mistress in the house. Qi Wei was away all year round. The property passed down from his ancestors was handed over to Zhong Bo and two other old men. The person Zhong Bo helped introduce, named Song, went to the shop as an apprentice at the age of twelve, and became a shopkeeper at the age of 25. At the age of 35, Qi Wei led his troops to the border. The weather was cold and there was no clothes or medicine. Manager Song raised a large amount of medicinal materials and sent them to the border in person. After arriving at the border, he happened to encounter a sneak attack by Tartars. Manager Song died and broke one of his legs. After he came back, he handed over the job of the shopkeeper to his apprentice. He usually raised flowers at home and teased birds, and lived a life of a farmer.
I don’t know how Zhong Bo convinced him. In short, Shopkeeper Song was the big shopkeeper for Yan Xuehuai, and every day he was carrying it, going to the dock and the shop, and he was very busy.
On the day of opening, almost all the restaurants in the capital were sent. There was no way, the restaurants could not be without wine, otherwise it would be called a restaurant. Now there are only two wines that can be sold.
Yes, there are only two companies.
Why? The Chen family is an official wine, whether it is a jade pot or other ones, it is an official wine. Official wine is sold in the wine yard opened by the yamen. In various places, especially in the north where the fields are deserted and grains are not harvested due to the war, it is the most restrictive area for banning wine. The official wine meter in these places was the first to be established. No matter how much the Chen family wine meter is produced, it is only enough for the official wine meter. Therefore, the Chen family’s official wine is only sold in the wine meter. The wine meter is a limited quantity, and the amount of distribution is as much as it is. Want to store more? Sorry, do you want to smuggle? Smuggling wine is similar to salt and iron. Besides, the Chen family is an official wine, and people don’t look down on this little bit of small business.
Another Ouyang winery was divided from the Chen family's official wine. They only serve the army and borders. Similarly, Ouyang winery did not do business in the capital. They were not looking down on it, but they didn't care about it. They had always been dependent on the Chen family, but now they suddenly operated it themselves and took big orders for the army. The Ouyang family was so busy that they were not at all concerned about it. Although the profits in the capital were high, they couldn't care about it.
Another one is the Lu family in Shaoxing. The Lu family makes rice wine and Huadiao wine, and the Qinghe Banquet is white wine, which has nothing to do with each other.
Therefore, the only wine that ordinary people in the capital can drink is Qingheyan and the Lu family’s Yellow Wine and Huadiao wine.
On the first day of the opening of the Sanjia Liquor Store, Yan Xuehuai only allowed a portion of the wine brought by Li Baohuai from Qingshui Town. Even so, there were still endless mule, donkey carts to purchase goods.
Even Li Qiniang was stunned. She had never bought wine with money since she could remember.
Each winery will say all the good things and put the wine in restaurants and restaurants for sale. After selling it, you can’t sell it or it’s hard to sell it, and you can just pick it up.
Like now, Li Qiniang has seen people who run restaurants and buy wine with real money.
She thought, if Mr. Li knew that he had to buy wine with silver for opening a restaurant, he might be so angry that he would jump out of the coffin and say that the business could not be done.
Yan Xuehuai's eyes were constantly rolling around, and she was guarding against the people in the government.
The ban on alcohol was the first time in the Wei Dynasty. She asked Chai Yan that there was a ban on alcohol in the previous dynasty. There was a dynasty that banned alcohol for hundreds of years. If you want to drink, you can only buy it in official wine, and it is expensive and taxable.
Now the Great Wei Dynasty can open a few wine brands to the public. In addition to official wine, it can also open a wine shop and sell wine by itself. The court must be watching. If the officials and officials feel that they are selling too much wine and are also wasting food, and a bunch of notes are handed over, the court may change its existing policies.
So Yan Xuehuai was careful and asked someone to write a big red paper to post it in the morning, limited quantity!
Restaurants have limited quantities, and retail stores have limited quantities.
More purchases?
Yes, pay the deposit and the first batch of wine first, take one batch away, and get the rest later.
Sure enough, at the court meeting the next day, someone talked about the Qinghe Banquet.
Although I opened three shops at a time, the limited quantity is precisely because of the limited quantity. Even if I sell more, it is different from the previous situation where there are many wineries. With less sales, less output, and of course less food is consumed.
The capital is the most prosperous place in the world. Even the capital is like this, let alone other places.
Several officials who were qualified to participate in the court nodded and praised the emperor's saintness.
After this, the prohibition order and the four wine brands were truly implemented.
After the court discussion, the prince returned to the East Palace and asked someone to call Chai Yan. As soon as he met, the prince smiled and said, "I heard that the one who cooperated with Li to open a shop is not Li, but Miss Yan?"
Chai Yan nodded: "Aunt Li's family is busy with the restaurant, so he handed over the wine business to Miss Yan."
The prince smiled: "This girl is very good at doing things, and even Zhang Cifu didn't find any fault. You know, the matter of ban on alcohol was put on the agenda, so Zhang Cifu had the most opinions."
Although Ye Di is still in the seat of the first shop, Ye Di has suffered a lot of impact because of Jia Shijun's affairs, and he was promoted by the Empress Dowager. Therefore, many people are now staring at his seat.
Fortunately, Ye Di is a square person and a filthy person. Currently, Jia Shijun is the one who can be a filthy person.
Zhang Cifu was persecuted by the Empress Dowager in his early years and was demoted three times. He entered the cabinet after the emperor ascended the throne. Now he is the chief servant, and he is the oldest among several cabinet masters.
This man was born as a censor and had a stubborn personality. His biggest disadvantage was that he was greedy for drinking. It is conceivable that when he learned that the emperor was going to implement the ban on alcohol, he was almost the only famous minister in history who fought desperately to drink.
In addition to Zhang Cifu, there are also people from the Ministry of Revenue. The ban on alcohol was not thought of by the emperor himself, but was proposed by the Ministry of Revenue. The Ministry of Revenue was short of money and food. In contrast to Zhang Cifu, Zhang Cifu refused to ban alcohol, but the Ministry of Revenue tried his best to ban alcohol.
The Qinghe Banquet Wine Shop opened, Zhang Cifu asked someone to buy wine, and the Ministry of Revenue also sent someone there.
Zhang Cifu was satisfied. The people from the Ministry of Revenue also thought it was OK today, which was enough.
Chai Yan was very happy to hear the prince’s praise, even happier than praising him himself.
Seeing that his younger brother was as happy as a silly boy, the prince touched his forehead and asked, "Are you ready to book your marriage?"
Chai Yan suddenly seemed to be deflated Pi Juzi and said listlessly: "Brother, you are so much older than me, so can't you give your brother a little face?"
The prince laughed and drove him away. After seeing the princess, he said, "Xiao Qi has encountered a tough guy, it's so funny."
The Crown Princess frowned, is this really a brother?
"Miss Yan is the niece of Zhou Dacheng. I think she is a bit chivalrous, so she is naturally incomparable to ordinary girls."
The prince smiled again: "I don't know whether I'm chivalrous or not, but it's true that I eat Xiaoqi tightly."
The Crown Princess complained: "Don't always say that word, it's not good."
The prince took her to her side: "I will speak without any restraint when talking to you. Do you want me to be stern in front of you? "
The Crown Princess felt warm and put her face on the crown prince's chest.
They are childhood sweethearts, and the princess is the princess's companion. When they were six or seven years old, the eight or nine-year-old prince got married in the garden. The princess and the current princess are witnesses. At that time, the adults of the two families knew about this, but they just laughed at it and did not take it seriously.
But no one expected that it was originally just a child's game, but later it became real.
After the crown prince was enthroned, there were often memorials to ask the crown prince Duona Liangdi and beauty to add another male to the royal family. The crown prince ignored them all, but was more considerate to the crown prince's concubine than before.
On the fourth day after the three shops opened, Duke Dingguo comforted him and entered Beijing!
King Duan and the Seventh Prince led dozens of civil and military officials out of the city to greet each other. The people in the capital ran to the city gate early in the morning to watch the fun as if they were celebrating the festival.
Li Qiniang was in a good mood. She heard the guys talking about this yesterday, so she simply took half a day off today and asked the guys to go to the street to watch the fun.
Dong Wanqian also wanted to go out. When she came to Qingping Lane, Yan Xuehuai did not get up. Dong Wanqiansheng was forced to do so, and the two almost turned against each other. In the end, Yan Xuehuai followed her on the street.
Those who went out with them were Lu Ying'er, Tang's siblings, Aguo, Dazhuang and Daniu were not interested in going out on the streets, and they went out every day.
Chapter completed!