It is called Piaoxianglou, but in fact it only has one storey.
This term is often mentioned together by people, and it generally refers to various types of business establishments. In fact, this is the prescribed name of a certain industry.
Lou: Eat.
Tang: Medicine, medicine related.
Pub: A place for socializing, the most common ones are pubs and teahouses.
Place: a place to live.
Of course, Piaoxiang Building has more than one floor, and there is a lower half-floor upstairs where people live.
This structure of living in a hotel and staying in a hotel was very common until later generations.
As soon as the waiter saw Huang Xiaoshi entering the store, he quickly nodded and bowed to greet him. Who didn't know that Uncle Huang never looked at the price when eating.
Later, the waiter saw the smelly beggar following Huang Xiaoshi.
Well, restaurants hate beggars the most.
Once the dirty and smelly beggar enters the restaurant, he will not let the guests eat.
Normally, the waiter in the shop would just hold a stick to prevent thieves and call the beggar out with one blow.
However, this waiter was obviously not an ordinary one. At that moment, he could see from the expressions on the faces of Huang Xiaoshi and the beggar that they were both customers.
The question is, how can the waiter offend such a big benefactor as Huang Xiaoshi?
The second question came again. It was dinner time, and there were still three tables of customers eating in the restaurant. As soon as this stinky beggar sat down, all three tables of customers might be gone.
The clever waiter had an idea and said politely to Huang Xiaoshi: "Master Huang, please come inside. There is a private room upstairs."
Later, the waiter arranged Huang Xiaoshi and Xiao Yao into the shop owner's bedroom.
This room is not bad, clean and tidy, and it is spacious except for being a little low. There is just a bed in the corner next to the table, which makes it feel a bit strange.
"Master Huang, what do you want to eat?" the waiter asked, nodding and bowing to Huang Xiaoshi while flexibly throwing all the sundries on the table onto the bed.
"Brother Xiao, what do you want to eat?" Huang Xiaoshi asked Xiao Yao.
"Haha." Xiao Yao rolled up the book in his hand, clapped his hands and said with a smile, "Dongpo elbow, beggar's chicken, mapo tofu, braised pork, I want to eat every one of them!"
Huang Xiaoshi turned to the waiter and said: "Besides these four items, please give me some hot and cold meat and vegetables. Let's set the table first.
Bring me two jars of wine.
By the way, I like to be quiet when eating, so I knock on the door before coming in."
"Okay, Mr. Huang, sit down for a moment." The waiter hurriedly went downstairs after clearing the table.
Without the outsider, Xiao Yao's expression suddenly changed. His expression was extremely gloomy, and the free and easy smile on his face just now was just a shell.
"Brother Huang, our disciples of the Beggar Clan died so unjustly!!!"
After just one sentence, Xiao Yao burst into tears.
In the city of Hangzhou, dozens of beggars’ corpses are taken to mass graves and discarded every day, regardless of gender, age or child. They can’t even be described as covered in bruises.
Xiao Yao felt that his blood was poured onto the grave.
"Tell me, why is there such a court?" Xiao Yao sat on a stool, staring at the empty table and said absently: "I have been familiar with the books of Confucius and Mencius since I was a child, and after going through many twists and turns as an adult, I have fully understood the truth in the books.
Little inspiration.
Mencius said: 'The people are the most noble, the country is the second most important, and the king is the least important. Therefore, the people of Qiu are the emperor.'
The so-called emperor is the emperor who was promoted by the common people.
Mencius said: 'If a king treats his ministers like dirt, then his ministers will regard him as a bandit.'
Such a cruel king, he does not deserve to be the emperor!!"
When Xiao Yao couldn't help shouting something, he remembered that he was not very familiar with Huang Xiaoshi.
These words were enough to make Xiao Yao commit the crime of "disrespect".
You must know that since ancient times, there have been "heinous crimes". "Great disrespect" ranks sixth, even higher than "unfilial piety".
Xiao Yao, who realized that he had lost his temper again, raised his head, stood up and saluted Huang Xiaoshi, and said apologetically: "Master Huang, just pretend you didn't hear this. I'm sorry."
Among the ten evils, there are several sins that are listed together by default.
For example, if someone knows about these serious crimes, such as treason, treason, treason, and disrespect, they must report it. If not, they will also be counted as supporters.
After arriving in this dynasty, because Emperor Zu was extremely strict in supervising this area, as long as he did not report it on the spot, it would be equivalent to acquiescence, and acquiescence would be the same crime.
Huang Xiaoshi pressed his hand on Xiao Yao and asked him to sit down again.
Huang Xiaoshi could see that Xiao Yao's mood was not yet stable.
I'm afraid it will be difficult for anyone to be emotionally stable if this kind of thing happens to them.
Huang Xiaoshi said to Xiao Yao kindly: "What's the rush? I haven't eaten yet. I ordered so many dishes and you left. How can I finish it by myself?"
Seeing Xiao Yao crying with tears all over his face, Huang Xiaoshi saw a basin and towels next to him. Although the water in the basin and the towels on the shelf were not clean, they were still dirty no matter how dirty they were.
It couldn't be more dirty than Xiao Yao's face.
Huang Xiaoshi walked over and put the towel in the basin, then wring out a wet towel, turned around and handed it to Xiao Yao.
"Here, wipe your face."
Xiao Yao felt a little embarrassed. He wiped his face with a towel and wiped his hands. After wiping for a while, he felt that they were still not very clean, so he washed them with dirty water in the basin.
After Xiao Yao turned around, Huang Xiaoshi was a little shocked. He didn't expect Xiao Yao to look so white. Even if he was wearing a beggar's outfit, some people would believe him when he said he was a noble man in trouble.
Huang Xiaoshi was depressed.
You said that everyone has been a beggar, so why is there such a big gap?
After Xiao Yao sat down again, Huang Xiaoshi sighed to Xiao Yao and said: "Brother Xiao, what you said is not wrong, but what can be done about it?
That crazy emperor, can you rush into the palace and kill him?
Okay, even if you can kill him, who can replace him?
Can you guarantee that this person will be better than him?"
"Yes!" Xiao Yao suddenly said decisively: "King Cheng!"
As soon as Xiao Yao said this, the two of them fell into silence again. Fortunately, the waiter at the shop came with the food at this time.
After the food and drinks were served, the two of them dealt with each other without saying a word.
When Xiao Yao said that he had not eaten for three days and three nights, he was not lying.
Of course, it is too easy to get something with Xiao Yao's skills, but he is not suitable for begging.
With his bad behavior of shaking his head and reading a book while begging for food, it would be strange if he could get food.
After drinking and eating, Huang Xiaoshi said to Xiao Yao: "Brother Xiao Yao, I, Shennong Baicaomen, have a few buckets of leftover food every day. Just come and get it every afternoon."
When Xiao Yao heard this, he naturally thanked him profusely.
Here, after leaving the restaurant, the two of them parted ways.
In the afternoon, Xiao Yao came to the door of Shennong Baicao Gate and shouted loudly: "Uncles, please be kind and enjoy the leftovers!"
As soon as he shouted, the gatekeeper glanced at him and asked, "Are you Xiao Yao?"
Xiao Yao nodded.
The disciple said: "Master Huang has already given instructions. The leftovers have been prepared. Come and get them yourself."
Xiao Yao followed him in and saw two large wooden barrels behind the door. Inside the barrels were a clean bucket of white rice and a bucket of meat and vegetable soup.
Seeing these two buckets of leftovers, Xiao Yao burst into tears.
Huang Xiaoshi has always had a reputation for integrity and trustworthiness in the world, but today it seems that this reputation is not true.
Among all the martial arts disciples today, I, Xiao Yao, only obey Huang Xiaoshi.
Xiao Yao carried two large buckets of heavy food back to the beggar's den where he had lived for a few days. A group of beggars who were orphans (both parents died) crawled out of the shack.
"Come on, come on, let's eat, let's eat. Today there is white rice and meat!" Xiao Yao shouted loudly, and then he was surrounded by a group of happy little beggars.
Looking at the group of skinny little beggars in front of him, Xiao Yao felt powerless in his heart.
How long can I feed them if I beg for food every day?
Xiao Yao thought of what the man said to him.
"You are smart, talented, and ambitious, and more importantly, you know what is right and what is wrong.
After you figure it out, come find me.
If you are limited by reputation and disdain to be with me, you won’t force me.”
Xiao Yao fell into deep thought.
The Loyalty Beggars Gang has been passed down for hundreds of years.
However, what is "loyalty" and what is "righteousness"?
Should a loyal person die of hunger with peace of mind?
Where in the world can such nonsense exist!!
…
On this day, Huang Xiaoshi was looking at the production accounts for this period.
By looking at the accounts, you can learn a lot of things, such as the production situation that Huang Xiaoshi is very concerned about recently.
Since the implementation of the double-entry accounting method, Huang Xiaoshi has not had much control over the operations of Shennong Baicaomen. He only needs to take a random day to look at the latest accounts.
Double-entry accounting is a very powerful accounting method. To put it simply, it is not impossible to falsify accounts, but it requires extremely high skills.
With Huang Xiaoshi's level, there should be no fake accounts that he can't see through in this era.
It's not a bad thing if you don't look at it. Huang Xiaoshi immediately discovered that one of the accounts was inappropriate.
Based on his memory, Huang Xiaoshi opened another account book. Once the two account books matched, the problem was indeed exposed.
"Brother Zhang, this account is not correct." Huang Xiaoshi immediately stopped looking at the accounts, raised his head and said to Brother Zhang, who was in charge.
When Brother Zhang heard this, he was also a little surprised. These accounts were all done by himself, how could they be wrong?
I saw Huang Xiaoshi holding a blue-covered account book in his hand, which was a detailed account book of production expenditures.
Huang Xiaoshi pointed to one of the columns in the account book and said to Brother Zhang: "Look, this expenditure on buying salt is wrong."
Brother Zhang took the abacus and flipped it, and said, "That's right. One pound of salt sells for two cents and eight cents of silver. These three hundred pounds of salt are worth eight taels and four cents in total."
Huang Xiaoshi picked up another red-covered account book, which was a living expense account. He pointed at one place and said, "Look here, the cook in the kitchen bought five kilograms of salt, a total of one hundred and sixty Wen."
One tael of silver is exchanged for a thousand small coins. When buying bulk goods, for the convenience of settlement, silver is used for settlement.
Ordinary people usually use small amounts of money to buy things.
In the red ledger, five kilograms of salt were recorded, totaling one hundred and sixty cents. When broken down, one kilogram of salt was worth thirty-two cents.
The blue-covered account book records that a pound of salt is two cents and eight cents of silver, which is twenty-eight cents.
The price difference here is four cents.
It's not that Huang Xiaoshi thought that the chef paid too much for salt, so he took twenty coins from him.
Rather, the chef bought the salt the day before the three hundred pounds of salt.
The two sales were actually at different prices.
You know, when it comes to salt, there is no saying that the more you buy, the better the discount will be. Even if you buy too much, the price will increase. This is called evenly distributed freight.
Moreover, since the founding of this dynasty, which has been more than a hundred years, the price of salt has only gone up, but not gone down.
Isn't that right? Although the price of salt has not increased, the tax on salt has continued to increase.
Huang Xiaoshi checked the account book again. Before that, the price of salt was twenty-eight cents per pound. That is, the price only increased after the chef bought the salt.
Needless to say, this was because of the war and the increase in taxes.
So, here comes the question. The price of salt has increased. Where did this person buy 300 kilograms of cheap salt?
Huang Xiaoshi and Lao Zhang looked at each other, and they both knew that the problem was serious.
People who buy salt buy private salt.
Because I bought private salt, I didn’t notice the sudden price increase of official salt.
This account was reported very well. If Huang Xiaoshi hadn't carefully read several different account books and matched the prices, it would have been ignored.
"Call that man here, don't make any noise yet." Huang Xiaoshi ordered Lao Zhang.
Buying and selling illegal salt for a few kilograms is a capital offense.
This three hundred kilograms is enough to kill a lot of people.
…
After a while, Lao Zhang came over with his purchasing staff. Huang Xiaoshi saw that it was Xu Youcai.
Luoyang Shennong Baicaomen was built by Huang Xiaoshi. He recruited everyone by himself. He could call everyone by name and knew everyone's personality and family situation.
But when Huang Xiaoshi saw Xu Youcai, he was stunned for a moment.
Xu Youcai came from Shuzhong with Huang Xiaoshi. Because he was older than Huang Xiaoshi, Huang Xiaoshi always called him Lao Xu.
Lao Xu is a person who is responsible and down-to-earth in his work. He is the person Huang Xiaoshi likes more.
The last time he escorted goods to Wuhan, the first person Huang Xiaoshi ordered was Lao Xu.
Lao Xu came over excitedly, not knowing what happened until Lao Zhang closed the door. Huang Xiaoshi pointed to the floor and said directly to him: "Kneel down."
The sudden change made Lao Xu stunned for a moment, and then he knelt on the ground with a heavy expression on his face.
"Old Xu. I just don't understand." Huang Xiaoshi asked Lao Xu: "You are the person in my Shen Nong Baicao family who is second only to me in terms of dividend stocks. Why are you still greedy for that little money?"
"Master Shi, I was wrong." Lao Xu said with shame: "I was blinded by lard. When I saw that the money was easy to get, I couldn't help but take it.
There is no reason, I just want to take the money when I see it.”
As soon as he heard what Lao Xu said, Huang Xiaoshi was really angry. He kicked Lao Xu in the face and kicked Lao Xu a few meters away. After Lao Xu struggled to get up from the ground, he opened his mouth.
Vomiting a mouthful of blood.
Huang Xiaoshi had already used up most of his force with this kick, but at least Lao Xu was kicked out of a few teeth.
"What the hell are you doing with your money? Why are you buying private salt just to save money?" Huang Xiaoshi roared angrily at the top of his voice.
After Huang Xiaoshi roared at Lao Xu, Lao Xu was also stunned.
Lao Xu struggled to get up from the ground. After spitting out the blood in his mouth, he quickly said: "Master Shi, Master Shi! It's not me, it's not me!"
Not you?
It's not you, it's me!
Huang Xiaoshi wanted to get violent again, but was stopped by Lao Zhang.
"Master Shi, listen to him first. It's not too late to fight after he's finished."
"Okay." Huang Xiaoshi held back his anger and pointed at Lao Xu and said, "If you can't tell me one, two or three today, I'll skin you!"
