These words immediately aroused Zhu Yijun's interest again, and he said thoughtfully: "Oh... how different it is, please tell me in detail!"
Shen Lie pretended to be mysterious and said: "Your Majesty, please let this villain get away with it."
Zhu Yijun was slightly surprised, but he was not angry. Instead, he patted Shen Lie on the shoulder with a smile, and his expectation was brimming on his face.
"Okay, I want to see what you are capable of!"
Shen Lie pretended to be hurt by his slap and grinned, and the young emperor also laughed in amusement.
Then the meaningful laughter of the two people rang out in the Xiyuan. They were talking and laughing happily, just like close friends who talked about everything.
not far away.
The Dongchang stall stalls who were on guard looked at the way the emperor and Mr. Shen were arm-in-arm, and couldn't help but secretly feel frightened. I don't know how many people this scene has fallen into.
After a while, Shen Lie smiled and said: "In that case... the common people will leave."
Zhu Yijun waved his hand casually, his expression seemed to be saying something.
OK!
Make some achievements and show me.
Shen Lie smiled slightly and bowed hurriedly: "The common people are here to thank you!"
Then he retreated from the cool and breezy Xiyuan.
Standing at the entrance of Xiyuan, Shen Lie looked back again, looked at the sparkling artificial lake, showed a knowing smile, and muttered silently in his heart.
"How good is this?"
The emperor, the grand master, and the cabinet, why do they have to stand up to each other? The cabinet first takes a step back, and then the emperor also takes a step back.
Doesn’t this make everyone happy?
With this thought in his mind, Shen Lie got on his horse and left slowly and leisurely under the admiring gaze of the guard.
As he walked, Shen Lie thought about the bright future. It would be great if the emperor, the grand master, and the cabinet could always live in peace and harmony.
But Shen Lie also knew that his idea was too naive.
June day.
Hot summer day.
The midsummer season has just arrived, the sun is shining brightly, a heat wave has swept across the entire capital, and the cicadas are screaming like crazy.
The smell of cooking came from the back kitchen, while Tian Hong, Zhang Jingxiu, Zhang Kui and others were sitting around under the big locust tree outside the store, drinking herbal tea to relieve the heat, and kept fanning themselves with cattail fans.
Tian Hong kept looking up at the sky and pouring herbal tea into his stomach.
Zhang Jingxiu, on the other hand, kept wiping his sweat.
The weather is too hot, and even business has deteriorated a lot. In this era without air conditioning and electric fans, summer is simply a torture.
Especially for women wearing skirts and hairpins, they have to wrap themselves up tightly on a hot day, and even walking a few steps becomes a painful task.
A pampered young lady like Zhang Jingxiu can still run under a big tree to enjoy the cool air. Those women who hide in the boudoir and are airtight are pitiful.
At this time, the huge advantage of Biafang's food delivery was revealed. Although the braised cooking business was less, the box lunch business was getting more and more prosperous!
In addition to a few yamen ordering boxed lunches, wealthy families nearby also came here to ask for home delivery of meals from Dianyifang.
The weather was really too hot, and large families, especially those of some officials, were really unwilling to cook together, so they cooked in silence.
Meal delivery and box lunches have become a fashion in the Chaoyangmen area.
As a result, the clerks and apprentices in the cheap shop, as well as the Jinyiwei assistants under Tian Hong, were busy every day without touching the ground.
Have fun doing it.
It's just that the process of making big pot dishes is a bit painful. Shen Lie and several young apprentices took turns, sweating all over his body.
Busy until the afternoon.
Shen Liecai walked out of the back kitchen sweating profusely and walked under the big locust tree.
He first snatched the cattail leaf fan from Tian Hong's hand, fanned it vigorously, then picked up the teapot on the ground and drank it down.
At this time, Shen Lie particularly missed the open-air shower room built by himself in Shenjiazhuang, so he planned to build one at home.
In the afternoon, when the heat had eased a bit, a few people got together and started talking about expanding their business.
Tian Hong frowned and said worriedly: "It's too hot today. There are even fewer people going to restaurants."
Zhang Jingxiu also nodded, frowned, and used his delicate hands to fan himself with wind, but even the wind was hot.
While shaking the cattail leaf fan, Shen Lie recalled the beautiful days in Sanlitun where he had air conditioning, ate skewers, and drank draft beer in the summer.
Those good days are gone forever.
However, Shen Lie had already made plans, so he pondered and expressed his thoughts to Zhang and Tian. He planned to learn from a certain group and expand his food delivery business.
Finished speaking.
Tian Hong nodded at first, but soon frowned again and said worriedly: "This is a good idea, but... manpower is a big problem."
His helpers are extremely busy trying to deliver food, but they are still too busy because the demand for food ordering and food delivery is so great!
Zhang Jingxiu also frowned slightly and questioned: "Firstly, there are insufficient manpower, and secondly, can you cook so many meals every day?"
Watching the two of them shaking their heads.
However, Shen Lie smiled slightly, with a wise look in his eyes, and said softly: "The methods are all thought up by people. If you are short of manpower, you can recruit people. For meals that our family cannot cook, we can find several more restaurants to jointly cook them."
Zhang and Tian thought for a while, then nodded in unison.
But Tian Hong pondered, and soon raised another question: "But why do other restaurants want to join forces with you...won't they deliver it themselves?
nowadays.
Many restaurants have begun to copy Shen Lie's ideas, and have also developed box lunches made of poplar wood, disposable chopsticks, and have also begun to provide lunch boxes for delivery.
This is the Ming Dynasty capital city where commerce is highly prosperous.
And it's not the first time this has happened.
Shen Lie smiled again and said confidently: "I can make money with them."
Everyone just didn't believe it, but Shen Lie was confident.
He naturally knew that it would not be easy to grow the food delivery business like a certain group in this era. There is no Internet and no mobile phone software here. The efficiency of ordering and delivering food is a big problem.
This is secondly, the main reason is that the public security in this era is very poor. Even in the capital, there are a lot of ruffians who have no food to eat.
It's not bad in the Chaoyangmen area. There are many yamen here, there are also many official bureaus, and there are few petty thieves and street robbers.
If we really leave the Chaoyangmen area and become a food delivery boy running around the streets with food boxes, I'm afraid I will be beaten up by the gangsters every day!
This matter is really difficult to handle.
So Shen Lie shook his cattail leaf fan and asked everyone a question: "In this place in the capital, I dare you to ask, which yamen has the power to spread all over the streets and alleys?"
Zhang Jingxiu, Tian Hong and others were a little confused and thought about it carefully.
Shen Lie then whispered: "Jin Yiwei!"
How powerful was the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty in this three-thirds of an acre of land in the capital? The number of Jinyiwei in the Yongle Dynasty was only over a thousand people.
But in the Jiajing Dynasty, it is said that at the time when there were the most people, including those inside and outside the establishment, there were a full 150,000 Jinyi Guards in the country!
