"Boss Yu, come here, you came just right, we said just now that you ran away again, Lao Hu, fill him up quickly." Master Liao started to shout when Yu Qingze came in.
Yu Qingze smiled and sat down in the position he had just made, and said, "Go and say hello to the adults and the husbands. Seeing that everyone likes to eat, I'm relieved."
"This is the food you cook. Those who don't like to eat have become fond of it." Master Hu poured a glass of wine for Yu Qingze with a smile, and then said, "Old Liao has been waiting for you for a long time."
Yu Qingze picked up the wine glass with a smile, touched a glass with the head of Liao in the air, and drank it before sitting down again.
Seeing Mr. Liao drink his face without changing his face, Yu Qingze admired and was very fortunate. Fortunately, this is ancient times. There is only liquor and no beer. Otherwise, if you drink like Mr. Liao, something must happen.
After chatting casually with the heads of the family for a while, Yu Qingze began to talk to the head of Hu.
"Master Hu, you are familiar with shipping. I don't know much about it. I would like to ask you some questions."
Hu Dangjia peeled a shrimp, dipped it in the sauce and ate it, and said, "What's the problem, tell me."
"I want to get a boat specially for me to bring back some ingredients or new crops that Kiriyama doesn't have from all over the world, and they can also get me flour and raw materials. Do you think it is feasible? How much does it cost to raise a merchant ship? "Yu Qingze asked directly.
Boss Hu looked at Yu Qingze and asked, "Do you want to buy a boat yourself? Or rent a boat?"
Yu Qingze asked directly: "How much is a boat that can go to sea? How much is it to rent?"
Hu Dangjia said: "The boat is big or small, it depends on which one you buy. We generally have three sizes here. The ordinary boatman's fishing does not count. There are three kinds of boats that can go out to sea. How long, five feet, eight feet, and the price of the wood is different, fir, pine, nanmu, the price of each is different. The lowest is fifty or sixty taels of silver, and the more expensive is four or five hundred taels. , if you buy a boat and you want to go to sea, you must have crew members. It also costs a fortune to hire experienced helmsmen and crew members, and it costs a lot for a year. If you just buy raw materials to open a restaurant, there is absolutely no need to buy this. ferry."
"What about renting?" Yu Qingze asked.
Hu Dang's family replied: "If you rent it, it will be much cheaper. It's about the same as our shipping. It depends on the amount of the guests' goods and the distance they go, usually ranging from 122 to 100 taels. We all take the goods on the same line. , a ship may have several customers, and of course, if there is a lot of cargo, the whole ship may be packaged.”
"Is that so..." Yu Qingze fell into deep thought.
Dang Liao heard it and asked, "Why, Boss Yu wants to get a boat to play with?"
Hearing this, Yu Qingze returned to his senses, smiled, and said, "No, it wasn't because the prices of flour and seafood went up a while ago, so I thought about getting the raw materials myself, otherwise I would always be controlled by others, in case another King Li Xiaoren appeared one day. Filial piety is passive."
"Also, this year, a brother in our village was running a boat, and I asked him to bring me some fresh things from the places in the south and north where they went. The durian guava that was sold before, abalone and squid now are all He brought it back. The two pots of persimmons in my store, as well as the ground eggs that are now growing at home, are also brought back by him, and they are also very good things."
"In Tongshan City, only the Hongyun family deals in seafood, and most of them are fresh, and there are few dry goods. This market is still very big. This time, this brother brought back some dry seafood from the south. When I had the chance, I wanted to ask Mr. Hu about shipping. However, it seems that I still can't afford this merchant ship, it's too expensive and not worth it."
Yu Qingze smiled helplessly, then took a sip of tea and ate a squid whisker, then shook his head and said regretfully, "Like this squid, it tastes good, and it's good for people's health, but this abalone is even better. But we basically don't have it. There are many things we don't have here, what a pity."
A head of the family said: "A lot of food is not easy to keep, let alone transport it back, it will go bad after a few days. This is also impossible."
"Yeah, if you want to get it, you can only get something that is easy to keep." Another head of the family said.
Yu Qingze lifted his chin to the table and said with a smile: "Well, these are ok, there are dry goods, dried, and can be stored for a long time. It's just that luck has less, but unfortunately I can't get the fleet, otherwise I'll get more and come back. .But you can get it from Dang's Hu, your fleet often passes through various places."
Hu Dangjia shook his head and said: "You may not be clear, it's not that he has less luck, they have made it before, but no one bought it when they got it back, and it took a long time to sell it, so they only made a little bit each time. "
Yu Qingze had a vague guess in his heart, but he still asked in surprise, "Why?"
Hu Dangjia explained: "We are far from the sea, and everyone is used to eating fish and shrimp in the river. Many people are not used to the taste of fish and shrimp in the sea. Just come to eat it once and try something fresh. You can see that there are only a few seafood stalls in the whole city. If the business is good, there will definitely be more people selling it.”
Master Zhao also nodded and said: "That's right, I just can't do it, I can't do it well. Usually my cook buys it back. People who like to eat it like me think it tastes bad, not to mention those who are good at seafood. No more."
The other heads also nodded.
The head of Liao suddenly said, "Isn't there Boss Yu now? Boss Yu can do it. Lao Hu has a boat, so you can work together."
Hu Dangjia shook his head and said: "It's useless to get it back. How much can Jufulou sell? People don't like to eat, but they still won't buy it; if they like to eat, they can't cook, and they won't buy them often. Moreover, not every family can come to Jufulou to eat."
Master Liao paused for a while, this question is also very practical. When you get it back, it's always going to be sold.
Yu Qingze thought for a while and said, "I may have a solution to this problem."
Several people looked at him and asked, "What can I do?"
Yu Qingze said: "If he doesn't like it, I will let him like it; if he doesn't know how to cook it, I can openly teach them a simple recipe or two so that they can cook it at home. Is it possible to solve it?"
Master Zhao immediately clapped his hands and said, "This is fine. When will you teach me, I will ask my cook to come over and learn immediately."
Yu Qingze smiled and said, "Young Master Zhao, you are too impatient."
The head of Liao said: "Then this will be solved. When everyone can make it and love it, you won't have to worry about no one buying it when you get it back."
Dang Hu thought about it seriously and asked Yu Qingze, "What method are you going to use to make everyone fall in love with seafood?"
Yu Qingze smiled and said: "This seafood, there are many ways to eat it. We Tongshan people like to eat spicy food. There is one kind of food that is particularly suitable, and it is popularized very quickly. It is called Teppanyaki. This thing is like squid, scallops and shrimp. You can make all kinds of things, you can also make chicken legs, chicken wings, chicken breasts, you can also make vegetables, mushrooms, green peppers, onions, coriander, etc., oh, sizzling tofu is also delicious, this is also considered One of the snacks."
After speaking, Yu Qingze sighed again, and said, "Oh, I wanted to open it before, but there were no squid at that time, and I didn't have enough energy and capital, so I didn't do it."
You can do so much, and Young Master Zhao feels that he is very powerful just by listening to it. "You can open a store like this now."
Yu Qingze shook his head and said, "I don't have enough energy. I have trained the guy who is in charge of the snack bar for a long time now, and I can trust it. At the restaurant, I haven't been able to train apprentices, so I really don't have enough energy to open a store. Anyway, I have one myself. People can't take care of it unless they find someone to cooperate with."
"Doing that, that, teppanyaki, is it complicated?" Master Zhao asked.
Yu Qingze said: "It's not complicated. It's very easy to learn, and you can basically learn it after two days of teaching, but the problem is, I don't have enough people here, so I have to have someone I can trust to take care of it."
"And, let me tell you, this food is definitely profitable, and the main reason is that the price is not expensive, and ordinary people can afford it. If there are more people who eat it, it will soon be possible to push out squid, scallops, shrimps, etc. ?"
When a few people heard it, they were immediately moved.
Yu Qingze took a sip of tea, looked at the expressions of the heads of the family, and felt that he needed to add a fire, so he put down the teacup, and said, "This kind of food is not affected by the season, and those foods can be eaten directly with bamboo skewers. It doesn’t matter if there are tables and chairs, it’s no problem to eat while walking. We have so many merchants in Tongshan, so many people, so many guests.”
Master Liao said, "Oh, what you said made me a little moved."
The other two heads also nodded.
Yu Qingze took a look, his eyes lit up, and he asked, "How many are interested?"
One of the masters said, "You say it's so lucrative, and those things sound delicious, can you not be tempted?"
"That's right. Boss Yu, just say you did it on purpose, right?"
Yu Qingze laughed and said: "Where is it? From the beginning, I wanted to ask Dang Hu about the boat, and I wanted to come back with flour and seafood by myself. This conversation reminded me that I wanted to open a boat like this at the beginning. A snack bar."
Yikouxian specializes in all kinds of dim sum. Jufulou is a restaurant, which is open for people with decent family background. In Tongshan, there are many ordinary people. The market space in this area is so large that it needs to be developed well. a bit.
And after the previous price increase incident, Yu Qingze also deeply felt how important it is for him to master the source of raw materials. He could never afford to support a merchant ship himself. He knew this for a long time, but the Hu family had it. It would be convenient if they could cooperate with the Hu family.
Furthermore, if he and the Hu family, Zhao family and other big families form a community of interests, then if he encounters things like Jia Xiaoren in the future, then he can ask them for help, and even if he doesn't say it, maybe they will take the initiative to come. helped him.
"However, to be honest, I really want to open a store like this, and I don't actually have a lot of money invested in it. I'm just worried that there is no seafood and no one to help manage the store, otherwise I would have opened it long ago. If you are interested, you can partner up and have a shop together, that will really make my idea come true." Yu Qingze sighed and said.
Dang Hu thought about it and said, "You can try it."
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