Zhang Zijun married quickly and did not invite anyone to congratulate him. He hired a sedan chair, a group of drummers, Xing Kai's family, his uncle and his wife's family, and Yao Ying's entry into the sedan chair was just a formality. The next step was the worship ceremony.

, this means that Yao Ying officially became the mistress of the Zhang family. In the following days, Ma Ang's second son Ma Shu came and complained directly about why Zhang Zijun did not notify the Ma family about his marriage. Zhang Zijun had no choice but to speak tactfully and stop talking.

, I didn’t expect that Ma Shu was extremely smart, so he listened to the sound of the gong and told his father about the matter when he returned home. In addition, Ma Ang also heard the news in the court and immediately prepared for Ma Shu to marry Zhang Ziya.

Come on, the pre-wedding etiquette itself is too complicated. The Ma family doesn't care about what's best, and just like that, another wedding ceremony begins.

The Zhang family continuously welcomes daughters, and even though they keep a low profile, they still attract the attention of those who do good things. Why is this? Is the end of the world coming?

Mrs. Chen was jealous. She couldn't stand seeing this scene, so she decided to take Chen Shiyun and lazily stay in the yard where she originally lived again. In Mrs. Chen's heart, her daughter Chen Shiyun must marry into the Zhang family. The reason was that Emperor Zeng gave her a gift.

Marriage, even if my daughter remarries to another family, I don’t want her to be a widow. Although there is no marriage certificate, there is a promise from the current emperor.

Another reason is that living in Zhang's house is lively, but when I return to Chen's house, I feel lifeless and suffocated all day long. People like Mrs. Chen just love liveliness.

This makes the newly married Zhang Zijun very embarrassed. The backyard is now full of people. Yao Ying brought two maids, plus Zhang Zijun's personal maid Yaqin, there are four women, plus Mrs. Chen's family of three

, seven women, even though the backyard is very big, but from time to time they meet, Zhang Zijun's face still turns red.

Fortunately, Zhang Zizhe is currently studying at Jingjiang Academy and returns home once a month. In the past, Zhang Zhiya took care of Zizhe's clothes. This time, after Zhiya got married, Yao Ying will take care of Zhang Zizhe's life.

Chen Shiyun is a bookworm. She always keeps books in her hand and is indifferent to her mother's arrangements. She will follow her mother wherever she goes without asking why. In Chen Shiyun's eyes, it is destiny to marry Zhang Zijun. Regarding whether she can marry her, she is destined to marry her.

When it comes to success, it’s up to the mother to make the decision.

Currently, there are three families living in the front yard. The oldest one is the Du family. Du Zhuang has already married and married the daughter of a former drugstore owner in Shiban Hutong. After getting married, Zhang Zijun arranged a residence for him in Zuo'anmen in the outer city.

Occasionally, Du Zhuang and his wife came to Zhang Mansion to visit his parents. Zhang Zijun once told Du Zhuang that Mr. Du and Mrs. Du don't have to worry, as long as Du Zhuang can live a good life.

Du Maodan also said he was related. The girl's family was the daughter of the housekeeper of Desheng Trading Company. Although they were a small family, Du Maodan was ready to learn some business skills from this housekeeper. This was also thanks to the years he spent in the Zhang family.

The benefits of reading and writing. In this era, not many people can read and count.

At that time, the little girl Du Ling followed Ziya to marry and went to the Ma family, so she left a painting screen alone in the front yard, and sent some clothes and food to the young master Zhang Zizhe from time to time.

There is also the second brother Xu Jingnian's family in the front yard. They have a small courtyard to themselves. They have three sons and a daughter. They often dance with guns and sticks in the courtyard, and the chickens and dogs dance. It is very lively. In Zhang Zijun's opinion, this is life.

Otherwise, it would be bad if the house is lifeless.

In Zhang Zijun's eyes, Yao Ying is only eighteen years old. She is actually still a little girl, but ancient people matured precociously. However, Zhang Zijun is twenty years old, but his soul is that of an uncle who is almost forty years old.

In the eyes of outsiders, he became the editor of the Hanlin Academy at the age of twenty, and his future was limitless. Although he was young, he was calm and casual, and he was very flexible no matter what happened. Although he could live in these few years, he lived a very miserable life.

, mainly because ancient times were not rich in materials, so if you wanted to eat food, you had to make it yourself.

At present, Zhang Zijun’s income is not much. The reason is that his uncle Li Fukuan’s coal cake stove and coal cakes have long been imitated by others, and some of the imitations are relatively good. Therefore, Li Fukuan’s coal stove business is not as good as before. Regarding this, Zhang Zijun has long ago

I thought that this kind of technology content is too low, and imitation will be a matter of time.

In order to increase his income, and since Yao Ying has married back home, her daily expenses will be more in the future. Although Yao Ying's dowry is rich, Zhang Zijun does not want to use it. These days, he is looking for opportunities and wants to open a Ming Dynasty restaurant.

For a cake shop, the initial investment is not much. The main thing is to have a shop with a hand-cranked dough machine and a hand-cranked egg beater. The main task of making cakes is to beat the egg whites and make them into custards, so that they can be baked.

time, it expands.

Zhang Erbao is the best candidate. Zhang Erbao and Huaping also have to arrange their marriage. Huaping has learned how to make cakes a long time ago, and Huaping also likes to do it. If he opens a shop, he can just spend a little more on various styles. Anyway,

There was no such pastry in the Ming Dynasty, so it was probably possible to start a separate business and earn some money.

The Republic of China stipulated that those who were officials in the imperial court could not engage in business. In order to avoid their official status, Ming Dynasty officials often operated behind the scenes, while those in front of the curtain were their relatives and servants. The most common business that Ming Dynasty officials did was

Salt business. Some Ming Dynasty officials even went to the emperor to ask for salt mines. Some officials even withheld the salt directly without the emperor's consent. In the hands of ordinary salt merchants, the price of salt was either ridiculously high.

, or there is not much left. These officials enjoyed most of the money they earned without turning it over to the court. A large number of officials and businessmen also posed a threat to the Ming Dynasty, drinking the blood of the people and emptying the country's treasury. For the Ming Dynasty

The rule of the Ming Dynasty was also very unfavorable. Taxes could not come in, the court had no money, and the soldiers did not have enough to eat. This was also an important reason for the financial constraints in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

If you open a small shop like Zhang Zijun, as long as you don't come forward, you can circumvent the restriction that officials cannot do business. The main thing is to let Zhang Erbao set up his own business and do business on his behalf. Most officials in the Ming Dynasty did not do business.

Yes, because an official’s salary and salary could never support a family. In the Ming Dynasty, a family was not what Zhang Zijun thought of as a family member, but included bearers, servants, maids, etc. For example

A Qipinzhengtang county magistrate’s monthly salary is seven dan and a half of grain. Yes, it’s not silver, but grain. If one shi is equal to 120 jins, that’s 900 jins of grain per month. First, this grain is the entire income.

No more clothes? No more food? No more buying anything else?

Second, unless you are a single person, you have elders above you and younger ones below, and you still have to support your family. Moreover, the families of officials in the Ming Dynasty were not allowed to engage in business, so they could only rely on your dead wages, and they also had to rely on you.

This nine hundred kilograms of grain makes a living.

Third, as an official in ancient times, it was impossible to do everything by yourself. You had to maintain some followers, such as masters, guards, minor officials, horsemen and sedan bearers, etc.

Soon with the help of Li Fukuan, he found a single-room courtyard shop in Paizifang outside Zhengyangmen. Shops in the Ming Dynasty all had backyard door shops for business, backyard storage or production rooms. There were various sizes in the backyard.

There is an open-air courtyard, surrounded by a small courtyard, with wing rooms for people to live in. There is a well in the middle of the open-air yard, and a tree next to the well. This is a typical layout of small merchants and small households in Beijing in the Ming Dynasty. Like this one, there is only one shop.

Street houses, with very cheap rent, can generally only be rented to some small traders for use, such as opening restaurants, inns, teahouses, silk shops, etc. It is too small. Zhang Zijun looked at it and found that it was suitable for a cake shop. In addition to making cakes,

Of course, we can also make other snacks, such as traditional pastries. We will hire several Ming Dynasty masters to make them, or sell them on behalf of others.

The representative snacks of the Ming Dynasty today include jujube paste cakes, pine nut and lily cakes, honey honeycomb cakes, smooth sesame cakes, fire antler cakes, etc. Zhang Zijun has studied them all, and they are nothing more than using various nuts and sugars combined with rice flour.

, made from flour. It's either sweet and greasy after one bite, or soft and sticky to the teeth. Even the most popular sesame oil cake is simply made of pork fat cut into small cubes, mixed with batter, and sesame oil.

After deep-frying, sesame seeds are stuck on one side. Sweet, oily and crispy are the mainstream snacks in the Ming Dynasty. This is also related to the lack of sugar and oil in today's common life.

When buying meat, you need fat. The fatter the better. In addition to eating fat meat, you can boil it into oil for cooking, so fat meat is more expensive than lean meat.

Simple folk pastries, such as cloud cakes, sesame cakes, and five-nut cakes, have little technical content. They are made by adding icing sugar to rice flour and mixing them. For variety, various fruit supplements, dried dates, peanuts, etc. are added to them.

It is steamed and shaped in a cage, and finally sliced ​​or molded.

For this small shop, the whole family mobilized, and the entire backyard of the shop was turned into a production room. Several stoves and an oven were built, and three apprentices were hired. A master who made jujube cakes was painted in the main room in the backyard to make cakes.

, Zhang Erbao is responsible for purchasing various raw materials. Two little girls are hired in the shop to sell out cakes. They wear tulle, red turbans, white blouses and pink skirts.

The surrounding shops all have black and gold signboards, or an apricot yellow waving flag. The wine seller has the word "wine" on it, and the book seller has the word "book" on it. But here is a whole banner, with white letters on a red background embroidered with "Da Ming Dynasty".

"The first one". In Zhang Zijun's words, if someone finds fault, they can search the whole city to see if this cake is unique to the first one in the Ming Dynasty. If they can find the second one, they can come out and accept the punishment.

The finished cake was placed in a shop and covered with mesh. Zhang Zijun had a hard time pricing it. The price was too low and it didn’t look classy. The price was too high and ordinary people couldn’t afford it. This is what happened in the Ming Dynasty market now.

The purchasing power of silver price increased. In the first year of Zhengtong (1436), Zhu Qizhen, who had just ascended the throne, announced the abolition of the ancestral law-the ban on silver. From then on, silver became the mainstay in the market.

Coins, copper coins, and banknotes were reduced to auxiliary coins.

Silver, used as currency, was mainly cast into "yuanbao". The ancients did not use money bags, and the boat-shaped ingots were easy to wrap around their waists. This is how the "waist wrapped around ten thousand guan" came about. If you really had 10,000 guan copper coins wrapped around your waist, a rich man would die from exhaustion.
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