The Yao Cheng he brought with him this time was his apprentice and one of the chefs in the restaurant. In terms of cooking skills, he was considered top-notch among several apprentices, but not the best.
After all, he personally led the team this time. If he also takes away the top chef, then Shangui Restaurant in Nanxiang County may be in some trouble.
Some of the remaining people are apprentices of shopkeeper Liao, who are regarded as backup shopkeepers, and some are waiters.
You don't need to be familiar with it, especially if you go to a big place like a provincial capital. If you recruit a group of waiters, not to mention how long it takes to get familiar with the business, just the ability of eyesight and the level of cooperation will be much different.
After two days of long journey, Fang Xiaoyue and his party finally arrived in the provincial capital of Hedong Province.
Compared with Nanxiang County, the provincial capital of Hedong Province is much larger in terms of area and prosperity.
The tall city wall stands there, giving people an invisible pressure.
Two rows of guards were erected at the city gate. They were full of murderous intent. They looked like elites at first glance. They were definitely not comparable to the guards at the city gate in Nanxiang County.
After paying the city entry tax and the carriage entered the city, Fang Xiaoyue's mind changed.
The entry tax in this provincial city is much higher than that in Nanxiang County.
A large carriage actually costs 100 copper coins!
According to this collection method, the provincial capital and the county towns in various places together can provide Marshal Li with a large amount of military expenditures a year.
But the problem is that the city entry tax will invisibly block the flow of business, and those foreign companies undoubtedly have special privileges in the city entry tax.
Just before Fang Xiaoyue paid the city tax, she saw a carriage bearing the brand name of a certain foreign company and entered the city gate without even stopping. The guards guarding the gate didn't even bat an eyelid.
It is conceivable how much impact such exchanges will have on the economy of Hedong Province.
If this policy continues to be implemented, the economy of Hedong Province will gradually collapse and become a place for foreign companies to plunder at will.
Fang Xiaoyue wondered if she could do something big.
In that case, the impact on this plane should also be great.
Of course? This kind of thing cannot be done recklessly. It requires some preparation and planning.
After entering the city, Fang Xiaoyue took the lead in visiting several businessmen from Nanxiang County in the provincial capital.
One is the owner of a pawn shop? One is the owner of a bank? The other is the owner of a dental shop.
These three are considered outstanding businessmen from Nanxiang County. To put it simply, they are the best group in Nanxiang County in the provincial capital.
When fellow villagers meet fellow villagers, tears well up in their eyes.
As a visitor from her hometown, Fang Xiaoyue feels a little fatter when she receives banquets every day.
Through communication with fellow villagers, Fang Xiaoyue quickly grasped some situations in the provincial capital, and through the channels of the boss of Yahang, he bought a poorly managed restaurant and renamed it Shangui Restaurant.
In the next period of time, his main energy was spent on renovating the restaurant.
After all, apart from the cooking skills, this Shangui Restaurant ranks first in Nanxiang County, and its exquisite decoration is also one of the reasons.
However, he still focused part of his energy on keeping an eye on Huo Zhishan.
To this end, he specially made more than ten flea statues, activated them and placed them on Huo Zhishan.
After being activated, these flea statues can remain activated for more than one month? And they can move freely, making them perfect for stalking.
Huo Zhishan did have some resilience after leaving Nanxiang County. He actually insisted on exercising every day. Although he couldn't lose much fat, he at least attracted Xiao Cui to death.
Is it because of this? Under Xiaocui's pleading, Miss Li came forward to find a job for Huo Zhishan.
The position of Chief of Staff of the Guards of the Marshal's Mansion.
This is also a helpless matter. Although Miss Li is the only daughter of a handsome man, Huo Zhishan's relationship with her is limited to Xiaocui. Therefore, Miss Li cannot place Huo Zhishan in an important position for no reason.
The position of Chief of Staff of the Marshal's Guards was just right for him. He was a logistics officer. However, Huo Zhishan once worked in a restaurant. In Miss Li's mind, this was probably a similar job.
After Huo Zhishan became the Chief of the Guards of the Marshal's Mansion, he immediately started to tremble.
Once he put on the handsome military uniform, Huo Zhishan couldn't fit even the largest military uniform, so he had to have a few custom-made.
Anyway, after wearing this military uniform, Huo Zhishan lost some weight and still looked a bit more elegant, at least in Xiaocui's eyes. As for others, hehe, this is just a joke, okay?
Just when Huo Zhishan became the chief executive and started to climb up the ladder little by little, Fang Xiaoyue's provincial capital branch of Shangui Restaurant was officially opened.
There were gongs and drums as usual, but there were several times more firecrackers than when Nanxiang County opened.
A large number of copper coins were thrown out, which attracted a burst of applause from everyone.
With the launch of a series of discounts, the business of branches in provincial capitals boomed rapidly.
But trouble soon came to the door.
As the chief of staff, Huo Zhishan is in charge of the canteen of more than 200 people in the Marshal's Guards. He needs to take the orderlies out for shopping every day.
There is no doubt that you can get rebates for purchasing ingredients and other matters. If you over-report and under-pay, this is a bad job. Huo Zhishan cannot leave this matter to others and needs to do it himself.
As a result, Huo Zhishan visited vegetable markets and other places every day, and soon discovered that there was a Shangui Restaurant in the provincial capital!
Shangui Restaurant is an unforgettable memory for Huo Zhishan.
It contains the joy and happiness of my childhood as well as the apprehension and fear later on.
Of course, the main thing now is hatred.
He hated everything about Shangui Restaurant. If it hadn't been for Shangui Restaurant, he would not have grown so fat, nor would he have been unable to catch up with Cui Xiaoying and Miss Li, nor would the poisoning incident have been exposed.
Well, when he thought about this, he didn't even think about how happy he was when he was a food taster, and how good others were to him.
He wants revenge!
revenge!
The next day, as soon as Shangui Restaurant opened, a group of gangsters entered the restaurant with guns on their backs.
"Several military lords, please come here."
A waiter came forward and politely asked these people to sit aside.
But what he never expected was that those women ignored him at all and rushed straight into the kitchen.
It happened that Fang Xiaoyue was not in the restaurant at this time, and there was no one in the restaurant who could fight.
So the gangsters easily broke into the kitchen, then openly took out a few mice from their pockets and threw them into the pot that was being stir-fried, and then exclaimed in a fuss: "Your Shangui Restaurant is so disrespectful of human life."
There’s a mouse in the pot!”
While talking, they took a few mouthfuls out of the rat pot and put it in the open space outside the restaurant.