As soon as the morning tea culture was launched, it has been well received by the guests. In addition to the delicious food, the price is also reasonable. You must know that in the past, when people mentioned Zuixianju, the first thing they thought of was "expensive", and the food was more expensive and the wine was more expensive.
The contrast has undoubtedly made Zuixianju's reputation skyrocket.
After a few days of getting acquainted, everyone began to come here with their families to share family happiness. Even some of the court officials, such as Gao Qiu, Li Bangyan and others also fell in love with this morning tea culture, as long as they were free
You must come to Zuixianju for breakfast. Especially Cai Jing, who brings his precious grandchildren and great-grandchildren to Zuixianju for breakfast every day. It is so happy.
Compared to Zuixianju, the business at Fan Tower seems to be better. After all, the place is larger and the scenery is better. In addition, Wang Fu and his party will not come to Zuixianju, so Fan Tower is packed almost every day.
Excited Fan Shaobai has been getting up before the fourth watch these days. He takes care of everything about breakfast, for fear of making any mistakes.
A few days later, another strange scene appeared in Bianjing, that is, in the morning, whether in Zuixianju or Fanlou, you could see a long queue of people. Because the guests began to bring their families to the restaurant for dinner
, so we can’t sit with others, and guests who come late have to queue up to buy something and take it home to eat.
This made other restaurants envious. They all launched breakfast one after another, all imitating Zuixianju's business model. But unfortunately, they could not imitate Zuixianju's dishes. Moreover, they prepared in a hurry and pushed away the breakfast.
The food didn't attract customers at all, and the tea was mediocre. Some idiots simply drank wine instead of tea, but who had nothing to do and went out to drink so early in the morning? Besides, they had to work later, so the guests would rather queue up at Zuixianju.
, and don’t want to go to other restaurants to eat.
The only thing that surprised Li Qi is that it has been a few days. The sales of egg tarts are still increasing. Sometimes some egg tart lovers buy a lot of them in the morning and want to save them for dinner at night, but in this way, the taste is not good.
Many, so they strongly demanded that Zuixianju serve egg tarts around the clock. With no other choice, Li Qi could only summon his chain stores to start selling egg tarts and milk tea. This relieved a lot of pressure on him, but it increased the pressure on other restaurants.
Everyone is eating egg tarts and having milk tea, so they can no longer sell the cooked meat and wine in their store.
Li Qi's unintentional move undoubtedly deeply hurt the already fragile hearts of those shopkeepers.
After several days of observation, Li Qi found that Lu Meimei and Zhang Run'er were completely independent, so he started his cake shop plan and spent money to sell a small restaurant in Xicheng to use it as a cake shop. Of course, this did not mean buying a cake shop.
It can be used as soon as it comes. It still needs to be renovated, so it will take a while. Here he has selected two loyal pastry chefs to focus on training, preparing to take over the positions of Lu Meimei and Zhang Runer in the future.
After being busy for a while, Li Qi began to focus on the opening of Taishi Academy. Fortunately, Bai Qiannuo, Ji Hongnu, Feng Yinu, Chen Dong and Ouyang Che helped him, which also relieved him of the heavy workload.
Less stress.
The only thing that made him regretful was that there had been no news from Zhongshidao, and Zhao Jingyan had not come to Zuixianju. He didn't know where Zhongshidao lived now, and he didn't dare to go to Zhao Jingyan's house to look for it, and he was worried in his heart.
Anxious and helpless.
Tomorrow is the first day of junior high school, which is also the first day of the Taishi Academy. Today, a general cleaning is carried out as usual. Li Qi doesn’t care whether you are a dragon or a phoenix. Except for Cai Jing, everyone in the Taishi Academy must grab a broom.
Doing rag work is the most basic job as a student and teacher.
But what Li Qi never expected was that most of the scholars, including Bai Qiannuo, couldn't even sweep the most basic floor. They spent a whole day cleaning an office, and they still hadn't cleaned it. They only did some reading and trivial things.
He can't do it either. He's not as capable as those seven or eight-year-old kids.
How shameful. If this continues, won’t each of them have to be assigned a nanny to take care of their food and daily life?
Li Qi was so angry that he almost postponed the opening day of Taishi Academy and gave them a labor training. After cleaning, he immediately held a temporary meeting and caught them and scolded them. It's okay that they can't cook.
He couldn't even sweep the floor, so what's the point of living in this world? His ability to curse was quite powerful, and he was never merciful in official matters. Those employees who were thick-skinned in later generations were scolded to tears by him.
However, not to mention these self-respecting scholars, several of them started sobbing when he scolded them, feeling that their lives were meaningless. Even Bai Qiannuo's eyes turned red when he scolded her, and she felt depressed.
After she died, she was the only one among the three women who didn't know how to sweep the floor. She couldn't feel anxious, but more importantly, she felt aggrieved.
Fortunately, Bai Qiannuo was not that unreasonable person, and she was a woman who wanted to do good deeds very strongly. After returning home, she immediately found some capable servants to teach her how to do some simple housework, but this matter was again ignored by Mrs. Bai.
After finding out, it was okay not to ask. When she found out that Li Qi actually asked her precious daughter to sweep the floor, she was very angry. She immediately rushed to the Qin Mansion and caught Li Qi and scolded her.
Li Qi was also aggrieved. He didn't go to Bai Qiannuo at that time, but he could be cruel to his subordinates, but when facing his future mother-in-law, he still had to be polite, lower his head and accept the punishment honestly, so
Tell me, you can do anything, but you can't be your own woman's boss. You're not a human being inside and out.
After Mrs. Bai finished training, he went to the Bai Mansion again, held Bai Qiannuo in his arms, and tried his best to make this girl happy. He was about to take the opportunity to spend the night here, but he was
Mrs. Bai, who had crossed the river and demolished the bridge, was driven out.
This mother-in-law was really too perverted, and Li Qi was also afraid, so he could only endure the bitterness and go back to the Qin Mansion alone.
The next day, shortly after the fifth watch.
"Dong dong dong."
"Master Li, Master Li."
When Li Qi was lingering with Bai Qiannuo and Ji Hongnu in his dream, he was woken up by Aunt Chen again, but now he was used to it. He had no temper at all and didn't open his eyes, saying: "What?
thing?"
"Master Liang is looking for you."
"Which Mr. Liang is this?"
"Shi Guan Yan, this is our family."
Another rooster-like voice sounded outside the door.
Mr. Liang who doesn’t have a penis? Li Qi got excited all over and jumped up from the bed. While dressing, he shouted: "Liang Taiwei, please wait a moment. The subordinate will be out soon." He knew that Liang Shicheng was coming soon.
They all read out imperial edicts or oral instructions from the emperor, so they didn't dare to neglect them.
After washing up, Li Qigang just knocked on the door. He didn't even see the situation clearly. Suddenly he felt a hand grabbing his wrist, and heard Liang Shicheng say: "Guan Yanshi, come with us quickly--come with us, Your Majesty."
can not wait anymore."
Li Qi was being pulled by a eunuch. Feeling sick, he quickly asked: "Eunuch, where are you taking me to?"
"Taishi Academy."
"Where is the Emperor going to the Taishi Academy?"
"Um."
"But it's still early to leave the graduation ceremony."
"Your Majesty, aren't you afraid of causing trouble to you?"
"clear."
Li Qi had actually known for a long time that Song Huizong would go to Taishi Academy to watch the opening ceremony today, but he didn't expect it would be so early, and he was secretly glad that he didn't spend the night in Baifu yesterday, otherwise he might not be able to wake him up even if there was thunder.
The two rushed to Taishi Academy as quickly as possible, and after searching for a long time, they found Song Huizong in the Academy of Sciences. They saw Cai Jing and his son, Gao Qiu, Bai Shizhong, Wang Zhongling, Zhang Zeduan, Li Bangyan, Wang Fu, and Zhao
Kai Jian was there, and there were also Song Moquan and other scholar-bureaucrats.
There were so many people there. Li Qi walked up and saluted and said: "The humble minister Li Qi is here to see the emperor."
Song Huizong smiled slightly and said: "You are here. Cai Aiqing just introduced us to the Taishi Academy. It is really interesting. There are actually people who specialize in teaching people cooking and business, haha. You kid
You are really unique in what you do.”
Song Moquan and other scholar-bureaucrats had disdain on their faces, with a hint of hostility in their eyes.
Li Qidu saw it and thought to himself, it seems that these guys are here to cause trouble. You have to stop their mouths first. He smiled and said: "Your Majesty, in fact, from the perspective of Wei Chen, all of this happened naturally.
."
Song Huizong raised his eyebrows and said, "What do you mean by this?"
Li Qi smiled and said: "As for our Song Dynasty culture, it has surpassed all previous dynasties. There are countless people studying, there is no doubt about this. But Wei Chen believes that reading and literacy can no longer be regarded as a certain profession. It should be promoted as a profession.
It is a basic skill for survival. If all the people in the mountains and the cooks and craftsmen of the Song Dynasty can read and write, this will reflect the prosperity of the Song Dynasty. Looking at the decline of the past dynasties, it is all because the people did not know much about literacy.
If you don't know how to distinguish right from wrong, you can easily be deceived by others - oh no, you can be easily deceived by others. If everyone in the Song Dynasty could read and distinguish between right and wrong, then they would not be deceived by those evil heretics."
Li Qi's start was a long speech, extending from the local to the overall situation, and then into the emperor's thoughts. This was a typical Li Qi's deception process, which made the other ministers dumbfounded.
Song Moquan and other scholar-bureaucrats had already prepared various reasons to attack Li Qi, but the words were still aborted before they were uttered. If you still object to this, doesn't it mean you are encouraging rebellion?
Nine lives are not enough to die.
Song Huizong was overjoyed and said: "Okay, what a good one. You and I have the same idea. I think that the Fang La traitor used such sweet words to deceive the people of Jiangnan, leading to such a catastrophe."
."
Damn it! I just said this, you still take it seriously, you really don’t know how to self-examine. Li Qi sighed in his heart, nodded and said: "Your Majesty is wise."
Song Moquan rolled his eyes and said: "There is indeed some truth in what the official Yanshi said. Teaching people to read and write is undoubtedly a meritorious deed. However, in my humble opinion, if it is a humble occupation such as cooking, business, or carpentry,
, putting it in a sacred place like the academy will probably cause dissatisfaction among scholars all over the world."
Lu Baixiao, who had lost all face at the hands of Li Qi last time, also stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I have recently heard that many scholars have criticized the Taishi Academy. This academy has not even opened yet, but it has already been treated like this.
Many people objected, so I thought there must be some reason for its shortcomings."
After hearing this, Cai Jing's face changed slightly. You must know that the reason why he was promoted to an official position was that these scholar-bureaucrats did a lot of help. A sneer appeared at the corner of Wang Fu's mouth.
Humble sister. Li Qi said with a smile: "I heard that Scholars of the Song Dynasty have always respected the teachings of Confucius and Mencius. I wonder if that is true?"
Song Moquan raised his head and said proudly: "Of course."
Li Qi's face changed and he said seriously: "Well, Mencius once said that the people are the most valuable, the country is second, and the king is the least. The cooks, businessmen, and carpenters you just mentioned are all the emperor's subjects. Since the emperor
Since he came to the throne, he has always governed the country with benevolence and loved the people as his sons. Nothing he has done is not for the country, the country, and the people of the Song Dynasty. But Scholar Song, you actually described the most lovable and respectable people of the Song Dynasty as humble.
Then I dare to ask Scholar Song, where do you put the emperor?" (To be continued.)
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