Chapter 51 Your Highness, open a barbecue restaurant!
"What's the business?"
Zhu Di asked curiously.
"Your Highness, the official's livelihood is to open a barbecue shop near Haizi Pier." Guo An said.
Zhu Di wondered again, "Can you make money?"
Guo An said: "Your Highness, if you sell a skewer like this for five cents, or cut it into smaller pieces and sell it for two cents, you can definitely earn back half of the money!"
Zhu Di's eyes widened and he said, "How dare you sell such a small skewer for five cents? What swindler would buy it from you?"
Guo An said to Zhu Liang, whose face stiffened at the side: "Your Highness, Zhu Baihu is willing to go!"
Zhu Di turned his head and glanced at Zhu Liang, sneered, with a look of disdain, "A skewer of meat is five cents. A military man like him can eat at least 20 skewers in one meal, and then drink some wine. Wouldn't it be a complete meal?"
You have to pay hundreds of dollars?
It’s so expensive, how many times can he eat it a year?”
Guo An smiled faintly, "Your Highness, it's not enough to just grill skewers for barbecue. It also needs to be paired with other dishes, such as roasted pig belly, pig intestines, roasted kidneys, roasted leeks, roasted eggplants, roasted lentils... Besides, it's okay.
Pair it with some stir-fried vegetables, so that people can feel full and happy!"
"So, how much does a meal cost?" Zhu Di was stunned.
Guo Andao: "Your Highness, the prices of food shops are clearly marked, so you can pay for whatever you eat."
Zhu Di asked: "How many people in the entire Beiping Mansion can afford to eat like this?"
Guo An said confidently: "Your Highness, Haizi Pier is the shipping terminal in Beiping Prefecture. Hundreds of wealthy Jiangnan businessmen come and go every day.
Your Highness should also know how much money these merchants have in their pockets. As long as you put such delicious barbecue at Haizi Pier, the fragrance will spread for ten miles, I believe these wealthy merchants will not be tempted!
In this way, these wealthy businessmen alone can make barbecue restaurants make a lot of money.
There are also many wealthy businessmen in Beiping Prefecture.
Even if they find the barbecue restaurant expensive at first, over time, they will be tempted by the delicious food and they won’t be able to resist it!
I believe that as long as they eat once, the official can let them eat a second time, a third time..."
Hearing this, Zhu Di couldn't help but look disgusted, "You are a thief official who really has an eye for money. You can think of making money even after eating.
Don’t you know that the emperor hates merchants the most and directly banishes merchants to a lowly status?”
Guo An sighed softly, "May I ask, Your Highness, if you hate merchants?"
Zhu Di snorted coldly, "The merchants colluded with the gentry, did not engage in production, and exploited the people. If the Ming Dynasty was not inseparable from the merchants, I could kill them all!"
Guo An asked: "Your Highness, these merchants came to Peiping and made enough money. Do you want your Highness to earn back all the money these merchants made?"
"Huh?"
Zhu Di was stunned for a moment, then his eyes lit up, "Can kebabs still be expensive?"
Guo An felt at ease, it was okay.
"Your Highness, meat skewers cannot be expensive, but wine, kidneys, and large intestines can be expensive!"
Zhu Di nodded slightly, "So, I agree to this shop! Tell me how much money I need to spend!"
Seeing that Zhu Di had some misunderstanding, Guo An quickly said: "Your Highness, you have misunderstood!
I don't have anyone I need, I don't have money, I don't have a shop yet, so this barbecue restaurant is for you. I will invest one hundred taels of silver in the stock, and add another two hundred taels of treasure banknotes, accounting for 20% of the share.
That’s it!”
"Huh?"
Zhu Di said: "After talking for a long time, you, a thief, want to persuade me to open a barbecue restaurant, and you just wait for the money?"