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Chapter 442 Ancient Business Manual 17

The last stop was the spice shop. In the process of frying the hot pot base, many kinds of spices were needed in addition to butter. Now that she had a financial sponsor by her side, she could finally spend lavishly.

Shang Jinhe was worthy of being the investor chosen by Chu Yuan. He followed her and paid the deposit for tables and chairs, the balance for cookware, and the money for spices without saying a word.

Where can you find an investor who can spend money without blinking an eye and buy a shop worth thousands of taels at a time?

Chu Yuan felt more and more that choosing Shang Jinhe as his partner was a very correct decision.

To express his gratitude, Chu Yuan went to the farmer's market and bought a lot of beef, mutton and vegetables. He then used the kitchen in the new store to cook a hotpot for Shang Jinhe.

As the aroma of the hot pot was so overbearing, she was unable to try the dish in the back kitchen of the beverage shop. For so many days, she had been using her sleep time at night to adjust the recipe in her own space.

Now that she has a new shop, she no longer has to cook the base ingredients in secret.

Chu Yuan seated Shang Jinhe at the new table and chairs delivered by the carpenter shop, and after asking him about the level of spiciness he could accept, he put on an apron and went to the kitchen to prepare the ingredients.

In order to alleviate the spicy and greasy taste of the hot pot, she specifically asked the driver at the door to go to the beverage shop and pack up a few cups of fruit tea and iced drinks.

The coachman glanced at his master, and after getting his tacit consent, he promptly followed Chu Yuan's instructions and went to do his job.

About a quarter of an hour later, Chu Yuan called out from the back kitchen: "Master Shang, come and help carry the pot. There are too many things for me to carry."

Shang Jinhe, who heard the voice, immediately appeared at the kitchen door. Seeing the fully loaded iron pot on the table, he immediately rolled up his sleeves and lifted it up: "Where should I put it?"

"Just put it in the groove in the middle of the table where you just sat."

As the facilities in the store are not yet complete, we should have placed charcoal fire in a specially reserved compartment, and then put the dishes on the table for people to eat and blanch at the same time. But unfortunately, we haven't bought charcoal fire yet, so we can only cook everything in the kitchen and then serve it.

Except for some dishes that require a certain amount of cooking time, the overall taste is good.

Looking at Shang Jinhe's performance at this time, we can tell that he was already eating from the small bowl of condiments prepared by Chu Yuan and couldn't even lift his head. From time to time, he would take a sip of iced fruit tea, which tasted so refreshing.

After a hearty meal, he looked at Chu Yuan with surprise in his eyes: "I really don't know what's wrong with your brain. How can you come up with so many strange and bizarre delicacies?"

"Sir, thank you for your praise. Without your help, even if I have many ideas, it will not be easy to realize them."

Shang Jinhe felt very comfortable after eating the hot pot, so he was no longer stingy with his money: "Tell me, what else do you want to do? I will take care of it for you today."

This was what Chu Yuan had been waiting for. He didn't bother to be polite with him. Anyway, he would have to share half of the money earned from the hot pot restaurant in the future. "I also want to hire a few more people. I can't run such a big store by myself."

"Okay, let's go to the slave market."

Appearing in the slave market as Shang Jinhe, the slaves brought by the brokers were not something a commoner like Chu Yuan would ever see. Among them were even criminal slaves exiled from the capital.

Chu Yuan picked out an accountant from a wealthy family and asked him to be in charge of the hot pot restaurant's accounts, and also picked out a former chef and asked him to be in charge of cooking the base ingredients in the future.

There was an old man who used to be a butler. He was a very smooth person and it was most appropriate to let him be responsible for entertaining the VIPs on the third floor, so Chu Yuan bought him.

He picked out a few skilled servants and asked them to do the washing and rinsing in the store, as well as a few older women and asked them to cut vegetables and prepare ingredients in the kitchen.

When Chu Yuan was selecting these people, Shang Jinhe didn't even blink. The most expensive one, the accountant and the housekeeper, both wanted 60 taels of silver. He just glanced at them and the broker readily circled their names with a pen, indicating that the person had been sold.

Seeing that she had almost finished picking, Shang Jinhe asked, "Are there any more?"

"This batch is currently sold out. Besides, I also want to buy a few waiters."

The broker was very tactful and brought another group of people. This time they were mostly young men, and there were also a few pretty maids.

Chu Yuan picked and chose more than 20 people, all of whom looked smart and could talk: "Let's take these."

Although ordinary maids and servants were not that expensive, their number was there after all. All of them would cost several hundred taels of silver. Fortunately, our Master Shang brought enough silver when he went out, and he paid all the money with a wave of his hand.

After buying people, I had to buy them some daily necessities and bedding. Fortunately, there were several rooms in the backyard of the hot pot restaurant, otherwise I wouldn't know where to accommodate so many people.

In ordinary shops, the shopkeeper, clerks, and cooks are all hired workers. They already have their own homes, and you just need to pay them wages every month.

But their store involves secret recipes after all, so it’s safer to employ our own people.

Moreover, with such a wealthy sponsor like Shang Jinhe supporting him behind the scenes, Chu Yuan certainly didn't need to be stingy with money, so he simply hired servants who had signed life contracts from top to bottom and from inside to outside.

A group of about 20 or 30 people returned to the hot pot restaurant in a mighty procession. This scene attracted passers-by to stop and look, but when they saw the word "Shang" in front of the carriage, everyone dispersed.

However, this scene still reached the ears of Master Shang, and that night he called Shang Jinhe to the front yard for questioning.

However, when Shang Rui heard that his son had finally come to his senses and wanted to start a business with others, he no longer cared about anything else. He directly took out a stack of banknotes from the cash box and stuffed them into Shang Jinhe's arms: "Son, work hard and don't embarrass me."

In his mind, loss or gain is secondary. What is important is that he, the eldest son who has always been idle, is finally going to inherit his father's business!

The next day after receiving the thick stack of banknotes, Shang Jinhe found Chu Yuan and said, "Do you want to buy anything else? My father gave me a lot of money again."

It’s a pity that it’s really out of stock this time. Almost everything needed to open a store has been prepared.

As for the charcoal used for cooking hot pot, she plans to go back to Zhujie Village and set up a workshop for burning bamboo charcoal there, and then she will pay for the bamboo charcoal at a low price.

Bamboo charcoal has high temperature, low ash content, long burning time, and a relatively stable flame, making it very suitable for use in hot pot restaurants.

After she told Chu's father and mother about this idea, they both agreed.