Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0439 Olive Branch
Nan Yi's decoration plan was finally fine-tuned, and the bamboo chairs were replaced with solid wood ones.
This is because Europe is not the origin of bamboo and moso bamboo. You can see bamboo, but it is carefully cultivated in front of and behind houses as a landscape. It is impossible to sell it to you easily. Besides, bamboo cannot be made into chairs.
Solid wood is much simpler. Just buy a batch of wooden boards and wooden planks, and some screws. Anyone with a little handiness can do it.
Nan Yi quite liked this kind of building block game for adults. As a result, in addition to hiring a bricklayer for the two toilets, he also personally took charge of the decoration of the "Longmen Zhen".
One day to paint the walls, one day to make tables, chairs and benches, and one day to do odd jobs. In three days, Nan Yi's work is almost done. He has to wait until the things are delivered from home to decorate the remaining walls.
It took three days to finish most of the toilet and the kitchen was not finished at all.
The kitchen is more troublesome. I have to wait until the chef arrives and work under his guidance. Also, regarding the issue of smoke exhaust, I have to make several trips to the relevant departments in London.
Cooking Chinese food produces a lot of smoke. Sichuan cuisine uses more oil than other cuisines, and the smoke emitted is greasy. The smoke exhaust duct is really not something that can be built casually.
After asking around in Juelu Street, he didn't hear of any reliable Sichuan chefs. Nan Yi could only turn his attention to the Ikeda trainees sent by the company and look for one among the labor export personnel who had already gone abroad.
As for domestic matters, forget it, you still have to find someone to help you go abroad, which is too cumbersome.
After a phone call with Men Saner, he quickly arranged for someone to come from the country of Xian. The business of dispatching Ikeda trainees has expanded to the country of Xian, sending farmers and truck drivers to the country of Xian.
Most of them are farmers, and there are very few truck drivers. Those who can drive trucks these days will not have a bad life in the mainland. Although they can earn two to three thousand US dollars a month in the United States, people are poor when they leave their hometowns, so not many drivers are willing to come out.
Besides, the requirements for trucks are not low, and the language barrier is enough to stump 99% of people.
When farmers arrive in China, they will first intern at Scarlett Grain Group for a period of time. Once they have learned how to operate farm machinery, they will be arranged to work on other farms. In this way, their starting salary can be higher.
According to Men Saner's feedback, the farmers who were sent to the country were very happy to work. They were provided with food and accommodation, and could save more than 400 US dollars a month. After working for a month, the money they sent back home was enough to build a two-story brick house.
As for the hardship, they didn't feel it was hard. It was all farm work, just with different ways of doing it. Once you get the hang of it, it becomes very easy. However, if they didn't have their wives to hug them at night, they would feel like their bodies were on fire and they would have to take a cold shower to calm down before they could fall asleep.
Nan Yi once again gave Men San'er some instructions on the phone, asking the company's people to tell the people who were exported for labor: "Save your money and send it back home to build a house or buy a house in the city. Don't gamble."
Nan Yi didn't intend to force anyone to do anything, he wasn't so noble as to kneel down to help others. Sending them abroad had already opened the door for them to enter the middle class , whether they could step in and whether they could stand firm depended on their own luck.
Before the shop was ready, the Sichuan chef sent by Men Saner arrived.
Luo Kun, who is in his thirties, raised pigs for two years in a logistics unit with a farm, and steamed buns in the kitchen for several years. Except for the double harvests, he rarely worked in the fields. After demobilization, he worked in a state-owned canteen, completing the transformation from an assistant to a second chef.
The master he followed was well aware of the saying "Teaching your apprentice will starve you to death", so he taught him everything else except the secret of being a chef, which he kept secret from everyone else. He would not allow anyone to watch him when he was adding seasonings.
Luo Kun saw this and thought, this won’t work. If you don’t teach me, I will just learn and practice secretly.
It's no wonder that Luo Kun is very talented in cooking. His cooking skills improved quickly. One day, he cooked a few dishes and wanted his chef to comment on them. But after eating his dishes, his chef immediately got angry and kicked him out of the kitchen, forcing him to work as a waiter outside.
Seeing that there was no hope for Luo Kun to learn skills, and just when he came across the opportunity to go abroad, he went abroad in a fit of anger.
"So, are you sure you can do it? If not, I will buy you a plane ticket and you can go back to the country to continue farming." Nan Yi said this after picking up Luo Kun from the airport and listening to his story.
"The Pao brothers will never be lazy." Luo Kun said firmly.
"Okay, you go to the kitchen first and see how it should be set up. I'll buy whatever you need. It's no different here than back home, except that the stove has to burn gas instead of a three-burner coal stove."
"OK."
Luo Kun agreed and walked in the direction Nan Yi pointed.
After a while, the person came back and told Nan Yi what he wanted to buy. Nan Yi told Luo Kun the location of Rong Yehang and asked him to go there to buy some ingredients and cook a few of his signature dishes in the evening.
When Luo Kun heard this, he understood that Nan Yi wanted to measure his level, so he nodded solemnly, took the topographic map that Nan Yi drew for him and went out.
As soon as Luo Kun left, Wu Zaisheng arrived.
"Ayi, not bad, it's done very well." Wu Zaisheng said after looking around the entire store.
"Okay, stop laughing at me. It's nothing compared to your Jinggexuan. Don't you have to go to work? It's only a few hours now. How do you have time to come here?"
"I came to see you because of work." Wu Zaisheng moved the debris on the chair and sat opposite Nan Yi. "Besides this restaurant, haven't you decided what to do yet?"
"Yeah, I haven't thought about it yet. What, do you have a good idea?"
"No, what I mean is, since you haven't made up your mind, why don't you go to Jardine Bank and help me? You can come and go freely. You can leave whenever you want, and the salary is negotiable."
After hearing Wu Zaisheng's words, Nan Yi's face darkened and he fell into deep thought.
This is the correct reaction he should have. "Nan Yi" is a high-end talent, and people like him cannot find a job casually. When he is unemployed, it is impossible for him to just find a job to make a transition. His position must become higher and higher, and his salary must become better and better. Otherwise, his golden body will be broken, and it will be difficult to ask for a higher price in the future.
If the annual salary of the first job is one million, and the second one is eight hundred thousand, then the third job may not even get half a million. Only if the first job makes one million and the second one exceeds one million, can the third job be asked for two million.
We can only move up to a higher level, not go downhill.
"If you are interested, the position of deputy manager of Jardine Matheson Bank is vacant. The starting salary is 250,000 pounds, plus project commissions and bonuses. If you are not satisfied with the salary, we can talk about it again," Wu Zaisheng said again.
"Ah Sheng, I can't make a decision right now. Show me the information about Jardine Matheson Bank and give me some time to think about it."
"Of course, I'll get the information to you tomorrow. You can take your time to think about it. Just let me know when you've made up your mind. I have something else to do, so I'll leave first." After Wu Zaisheng finished speaking, he patted his butt and left.
Nan Yi watched Wu Zaisheng leave, and continued to thread the dried red peppers with needle and thread. After stringing a few strings of dried red peppers, Nan Yi put on a five-layer mask on his face, three layers of medical gloves on his hands, and two layers of plastic gloves. Then he took out a plastic bag, grabbed a brown pepper like chocolate from it, and carefully threaded it with the needle.
This is the Seven Pots Dugra pepper, the hottest naturally grown pepper on earth, with a spiciness level of 185 SHU [Scoville, a unit of measurement for hot temperatures]. The "Seven Pots" in its name means that one Seven Pots Dugra pepper can be used to make seven dishes.
Let’s put it this way, even if Yunnan Province’s spicy shabu shabu is not the spiciest dish in the country, it should be ranked at the top. However, its spiciness is just over 400,000 SHU. If it exceeds 500,000 SHU, it is no longer bearable for humans.
If you swallow a seven-pot Dugla pepper raw, you will be half-dead if not dead.
Most people's subjective impression of Sichuan cuisine is "spicy". Nan Yi estimates that there will be customers who complain that the food here in Longmenzhen is not spicy enough. If anyone complains, just pick a Qiguo Dugla pepper and let him smell it. Don't eat it. If there is any problem with it, you will have to pay for it. Just smell it or touch it with your hand and it will be so spicy that he will die.
After stringing the peppers together, Nan Yi hung them on the wall. The string of seven Dugla peppers was hung relatively high, where even a two-meter tall person couldn't touch it, to prevent anyone from getting tempted.
As soon as the peppers are hung up, the shop immediately comes alive. When facial masks, Chinese paintings and the like are hung up, the shop will have its own local flavor and cultural heritage.
After standing there and looking at it for a while, Nan Yi took out the price list sent by Rong Yexing, and combined the expenses of rent, water, electricity, liquefied gas, employee salaries, taxes, etc., he began to calculate the prices of the dishes in the store.
Generally speaking, the price of restaurant dishes should be increased by 50%-120% based on the raw materials. Only with such a price increase can the restaurant's net profit be guaranteed to be above 30%.
If the hotel's net profit is less than 30%, then there is no point in running the business.
Soon, Nan Yi figured out the formula for calculating the prices of dishes, but he couldn't do the rest. He had to wait for Luo Kun to come back, taste his specialties, and predict which dishes would sell better. He then had to calculate the amounts of various main ingredients, auxiliary ingredients, and seasonings, and combine it with the marketing idea of small profits but quick turnover, before he could set the price of each dish.
In the evening, when Nan Yi and Ueto Masami were tasting the dishes made by Luo Kun, the Wu family, Wu Jingyuan and Wu Zaisheng were talking about Nan Yi again .
"Ah Sheng, do you think Nan Yi will agree to you?"
"He may not agree. My offer is not high enough. It is basically the same as his last job. But in addition to his salary, his previous job also brought him a higher income from project commissions. I will contact him again in a few days and raise the price."
"If you have talent, don't be afraid to spend money. You can pay more, but you can't pay it all at once. You have to leave room for price increases. People will never be satisfied. There is always someone better."
"Grandpa, I understand."
