Chapter 11 Instant Noodle Chain Store
Next door! Do you want to open a chain of instant noodle shops in another world?
The wholesale price of a large bucket of Master Li's braised beef noodles in Dadong Republic is only three or four yuan at most, while it is five yuan per bucket in ordinary stores and only 15 yuan at the airport.
One tael of silver can buy fifty or sixty buckets at the wholesale price, which is equivalent to twenty copper coins for a bucket of instant noodles.
Here you can get a penny of silver and make five or six times the profit, huge profits...
Gurgle!
Just as he was thinking, Zhan Dongwen made a strange sound, as if he was swallowing his saliva. Tang Wen was startled and asked with a smile, "Do you want to eat too?"
"No, no, no, I don't want to eat it. I don't want to eat it." Zhan Dongwen was obviously saying one thing and thinking another, because there was a lot of saliva in his mouth when he said this.
"There are five people in your family, so take five packs." Tang Wen took out five more packs.
"No, no." Zhan Dongwen refused with his mouth, but his hand took it very honestly.
"Haha, why are you being polite to me? Dong Wen, your sister is my personal servant. In fact, I don't treat her as a servant. I, Tang Wen, treat you as a brother." Tang Wen said with a smile.
"The master thinks highly of my sister, and it is her blessing to be able to serve the master. The master saved my father and provided us with clothes and food. You are the benefactor of my Zhan family." Zhan Dongwen said with gratitude.
“Okay, let’s not talk about this anymore.
Zhan Dong, send two or three more people to Yanling County to inquire about the war in the northwest.
I also need to inquire about the prices of horses and food in Yanling County, etc." Tang Wen said.
"Master, what do you want to know about this?" Zhan Dongwen asked in confusion.
"We need to keep abreast of useful information at all times. This will be useful to us. Just send someone to do it. Give him some silver to stay in the inn and make some friends." Tang Wen said.
"Isn't this a spy?" Zhan Dongwen blurted out.
"This is called a spy. Where does the spy come from? For example, why does the court have special spies? It's for this purpose." Tang Wen said.
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, hundreds of tree sections were brought back.
Tang Wen personally directed the sawing of the trees into five-meter-high pieces.
After peeling off the bark, pour cement into the dug hole and insert the tree into the cement.
These trees are as thick as washbasins and are sectioned every five meters.
We worked until the evening and all the trees were planted in the tree holes. Once the cement dries tomorrow, we can tie the barbed wire.
Zhan Dongwen and the others were a little anxious because they didn’t recruit a single worker today.
Tang Wen was not in a hurry at all. He was betting that the victims would not be able to hold on for a few days.
Tang Wen paid half of the temporary workers who came today their wages. However, they exchanged all their wages for rice and happily went home carrying the rice.
In the evening , Zhan Junru led Tang Wen into a tent with a smile.
When they looked inside, they were stunned.
There were more than twenty women inside who were busy making clothes, including my mother Liu Qingmei.
Zhan Junru's mother Li Lanyue was in charge of cutting and had already cut a large pile of fabrics, while other women were responsible for needlework.
"I didn't expect your mother is a tailor and her skills are very skilled." Tang Wen said with a smile.
“My mother used to be a tailor, and she was a master.
In addition, more than half of these twenty or so women can make clothes at home.
I will teach the remaining few who don’t know how to do it. I believe they will be able to learn the credits in a few days.” Zhan Junru said with a little pride.
"Master, the scissors you gave me are so useful. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to cut so much in a day." Li Yuelan said as she held up the large scissors given by Tang Wen. The casting level of the Great Chu Dynasty certainly could not produce such good scissors.
"Mom, stop working and don't get tired." Tang Wen walked over and said to his mother.
"Nonsense, they are all doing it, how can I not do it? Wen'er, you go and do your business. We women will take care of the clothes." Liu Qingmei said.
"Master, we didn't let the old lady do it, but she insisted on coming to help. However, the old lady also gave us a lot of suggestions, and the robes she suggested are much better looking." Zhan Junru said with a smile.
Of course, you don't even look at her origin, a noble lady...
Tang Wen was smug in his heart and said, "From now on, Junru will be in charge of making clothes.
We are going to set up a clothing workshop in the near future, not only making clothes for ourselves to wear.
She also wants to sell it to others to make money, so just listen to her."
"Thank you, sir." Zhan Junru immediately smiled and bowed. This was equivalent to Tang Wen giving her an official title.
"Junru, your most important task is to serve the master comfortably.
Mom will take care of things here, you don't have to stay here all day.
If the cloth is not enough, I will come back to ask you for more. Come with me, Master. " Li Lanyue said.
"Yes, Junru, you should just follow the master. You don't have to worry about your mother, she is here, just come and visit occasionally." Liu Qingmei said.
"Madam, I know I will make the master comfortable." Zhan Junru blurted out.
Suddenly, many women looked over here with strange eyes.
When Zhan Junru saw it, she immediately realized what was going on and her face turned red.
Damn it, stop messing around, I didn't do anything. Tang Wen saw that he couldn't stay here for long, so he slipped away quickly.
"Dinner is almost ready. I'll go serve the master." Zhan Junru's face was burning with panic and she quickly slipped away.
Tang Wen was in a good mood that evening and drank half a pound of Erguotou.
A little drunk, he called Zhan Dongwen, Zhao Du and others to take a walk along the lakeside.
"Dongwen, look, how big is the original scope of Wolong Lake?" Tang Wen said, pointing to the lake which was only about one mile in size.
"The place where there are traces of water is the original range, which is about seven or eight miles, and the maximum will not exceed ten miles." Zhan Dongwen said after taking a look.
"What do you think? If we raise the dam below a little bit, will the scope of this lake be much larger?" Tang Wen said.
"Of course. The Tang family compound is still eight or nine meters away from the highest water mark of the lake. The embankment can be raised by five or six meters. By then, the lake surface will be about fifteen or sixteen miles." Zhan Dongwen nodded.
“No, no, no, add more.
By then, the height difference between the Tang family compound and the lake surface will only be about one meter.
After the construction, Wolong Lake is nearly twenty miles long, and we live by the lake.
Raise fish in the lake, look at the clear water every day and watch the fish swimming.
Plant some lotus roots and watch the swaying lotus flowers. That would be so relaxing." Tang Wen said.
"If we raise it another ten meters, the height of the dam will be about twenty meters.
It’s not easy to build with stones at such a high altitude.
If you’re not careful it might collapse, and it’s prone to leaking, which makes it too difficult.
It would cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, so where can you get so much money?" Zhao Du interrupted.
"These are not problems. Let's take it slow. Once we have enough manpower, we will start building the dam. This is the largest project on our Samui Island." Tang Wen said with a smile.
As he was talking, Sun Ping came over quietly and said, "Master, I have heard some more news."
"What did you hear?" Tang Ling asked.
"A disaster victim named Liu Mu told some stories, saying that the mistress was called 'Gu Hanyan', and that she came from nowhere, and brought 30 or 40 people with her.
After choosing a good location, we hired people to dig up the abandoned land and start farming again.
She has been here for nearly a year, and later someone saw that she was nice to people and joined the Gu family.
This brings the number to nearly two hundred.
However, they were also attacked by pirates.
People got injured from time to time, and more than thirty people died in half a year.
Recently, Gu Hanyan fell seriously ill and seemed to be dying.
The Gu family was in chaos for a while, and the people below were also in panic.
Recently I heard that a Mr. Tang was coming, and many people wanted to join him.
However, some people spoke ill of Mr. Tang.
They said that Master Tang wanted them to sell themselves, and that from now on their wives and daughters would be taken over by Master Tang. They also said that Master Tang was buying people's hearts.
I'll give you some sweet treats at first, but then it will get worse and worse, and you'll be living a life worse than death...
For a moment, the people brought by the Gu family were at a loss and didn't know what to do. "Sun Ping said.
" There are more of them than us, so it's a bit difficult to deal with." Zhan Dongwen frowned.
"What are you afraid of? Leave it to me. I will lead people to wipe out the Gu family." Zhao Du said with a domineering look on his face.
"Wait a little longer, give out porridge for a few more days, and add meat to the porridge tomorrow!
Once our barbed wire is put up and we have a camp, we will be safe.
We live happily, I want to see how long the people taken away by the Gu family can last?" Tang Wen sneered.
"Well, when the time comes, as long as there are people willing to come over, there will be two.
When more people from the Gu family came, there would naturally be fewer people on her side.
Then we can go and find them to solve the farm problem." Zhan Dongwen nodded.
At 8:30 in the evening, Tang Wen returned to the tent drunk.
