To say that Zhao Hu has developed so far, he has become the leading vegetable merchant in Bianliang City. He basically controls the food supply of most of the restaurants in the inner city by himself. Of course, Zhao Hu can develop to this day, and he and he
Pan Yuanwu's cooperation is inseparable from the relationship. When Pan Yuanwu first started his business, it was Zhao Hu who provided Pan Yuanwu with enough food supply support. Of course, as Fan Lou became more and more popular, Zhao Hu's orders naturally became more and more popular.
They come more and more, so the two people have a complementary and interdependent relationship. This is why Pan Yuanwu gave this opportunity to Zhao Hu when he chose his opponent's team before.
Zhao Hu didn't think that the opportunity given to him was that important at first. In his opinion, he was just doing Pan Yuanwu a favor. It didn't matter whether he could win or not. He even felt that if the Tigers
Winning the Fanlou team in the first round was not a good thing. This is why Zhao Hu directly assigned Pan Wenlai to be the leader of the Tigers at the beginning.
Later, due to the emergence of the coaching position, Zhao Hu had to choose someone to serve as the coach. Finally, he found Yang Tao, a young man who was very interested in Cuju. However, even later, Zhao Hu
Hu met the emperor, and even now, when the official game is about to begin, Zhao Hu still has a natural attitude towards the Tigers' results. After all, as a vegetable merchant, he still has a lot of business every day. All the ingredients sent out every day, Zhao Hu
Hu and several confidants have to personally confirm the quality. Once they find vegetables or meat with poor quality, Zhao Hu will hold them accountable. Zhao Hu firmly believes that only by improving the quality of his products can his business develop.
Long-term, this is also the most important quality that a businessman should follow. If we put this in modern times, it can be said that there are fewer and fewer businessmen like Zhao Hu. They only covet immediate interests and never consider the long-term, and sometimes
To achieve the purpose of selling by harming the interests of others.
Because there is a large supply of ingredients every day, even though Zhao Hu has many people responsible for supervising the quality of the dishes, Zhao Hu still has to check some big customers himself, so he really can't spare time to manage the Tigers.
So everything about the Cuju competition fell on Yang Tao alone.
I have briefly introduced Yang Tao before. Originally, Pan Wen and Chen Chen wanted to absorb Yang Tao into their small group. However, after some operations, they found that Yang Tao was not essentially the same person as them. Some of them were
This is how people interact with each other. In daily communication and contact, you can find that this person is not a bad person, and he is also a very upright and idealistic peer. However, the two parties just can't become friends, and they are not on the same road at all.
people.
Yang Tao is such a misfit. Of course, this is in the eyes of Pan Wen and Chen Chen. In Yang Tao's view, he only needs to do his own thing well. As for becoming good friends with anyone, he is not interested. He feels that this competition
It was a competition, not about personal relationships. He never expected to make any friends through this competition, not to mention that he still had some resistance to Pan Wen. This resistance directly affected Yang Tao's impression of Lu Yao.
, but later Lu Yao showed his all-round abilities in front of Yang Tao, which made Yang Tao's impression of Lu Yao slightly changed, but it was not at all to the level of admiration or recognition.
Since Yang Tao took over the Tigers, although on the surface he promised Zhao Hu to let everything take its course, in his heart, he was still a little dissatisfied with Pan Wen. This may be a manifestation of a child from a poor family's resistance to his fate.
Well. Yang Tao thinks, how can an additional young man like Pan Wen lead a team well? His Fan Lou team should just be watching the show. When it comes to the official game, if his Tigers team doesn't show off, basically the Fan Lou team will be.
There is no possibility of winning. After Yang Tao took over the Tigers, everything was aimed at defeating the Fanlou team and strictly required the following players. As for the Tigers players, although they usually have a good personal relationship with Pan Wen, after all, they used to
Pan Wen is leading them, but because Yang Tao takes the lead every time and invests a lot of energy in the team, under his example, the team members also insist on training hard every day, and the overall ability of the Tigers has also increased rapidly.
In fact, before the first warm-up match started, Yang Tao was very confident that he could defeat the Fan Lou team in the first round of the official match, because he knew that he still had many tactics that he had not shown to Fan during training.
The building team watched it. However, the experience and results of this first warm-up match were somewhat unexpected by Yang Tao.
This Fan Lou team actually showed its strong strength in the first warm-up match. The two Tigers team members who watched the game also said that there is no 100% guarantee that the Tigers will win when they play against the Fan Lou team.
Guaranteed. Not only them, Yang Tao also had a new understanding of Pan Wen after watching the first warm-up match. It seems that this guy is not the kind of guy who has nothing to do all day and does not spend any time in this Cuju competition.
Man. It seems that Pan Wen is indeed heading for the winning team. In this way, Yang Tao will include Pan Wen among the ranks of respectable opponents. At the same time, he also knows that his Tigers team needs to strengthen training and cannot
There is no slack at all.
So, not long ago, Zhe Kexing brought everyone to the Bird's Nest Stadium for an on-the-spot investigation. Based on the changes in the size of the stadium, Yang Tao also came up with some tactics that were more suitable for the Tigers, and also met the Fanlou team in the first round.
targeted strategies that can be adopted.
After returning from the Bird's Nest Stadium, because Zhao Hu's mansion was actually quite big, Yang Tao simply summoned all the Tigers players to Zhao's mansion and used the backyard as the Tigers' training base during this period. Zhao Hu was originally
He thought that he could let the Tigers' players rest more before the official game started, but seeing Yang Tao's very serious eyes, Zhao Hu had no choice but to agree. So, after that, Yang Tao took the Tigers' players with him all day long.
The team members are training in the backyard of Zhao Mansion.
Regarding the players, Yang Tao still approves of Pan Wen, because Pan Wen selected the Tigers' players himself. It seems that he is not lacking in the number of team members and the physical fitness of the players. Meng
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The Tiger Team is definitely not inferior to the Fan Lou Team in terms of the physical fitness of its members, and it also consists of fifteen people from the beginning. Therefore, Yang Tao is very comfortable in leading them. Now, he only has one idea in his mind
, that is, in the first round of official competition, I have to defeat Pan Wen and prove my worth to him.
At this time, Yang Tao was training with his team members in the backyard of the Zhao Mansion. As for Zhao Hu, today's food inspection had just ended. He had just returned to the house a quarter of an hour ago and was drinking tea and resting in the main hall. As a vegetable seller,
, Zhao Hu was also very well informed. He knew that not long ago, Lu Yao went to see Pan Yuanwu, and then the two went to a relatively remote place in the inner city. They didn't know what they talked about. Zhao Hu didn't know much about this matter.
He thought that he knew that Lu Yao had some very rare ingredients, and he couldn't find any supply channels. Only Lu Yao had them. It seemed that Pan Yuanwu wanted to buy all these ingredients. Yes.
Zhao Hu didn't feel any crisis at all. After all, tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers, these three ingredients, with Pan Yuanwu's character, as long as he buys them, it must be a buyout. Except for Fan Lou, no one in Bianliang will buy them.
There are other vegetable merchants or restaurants using these ingredients, so in fact, it does not have much impact on Zhao Hu. After all, he is a vegetable merchant and butcher, not the owner of the restaurant. Moreover, based on his relationship with Pan Yuanwu,
If he wanted some potatoes or tomatoes then, he felt that Pan Yuanwu would not be merciless and would definitely give them to him.
"Master, we have a visitor." Just as Zhao Hu was thinking this, the housekeeper of the Zhao family, who was the former symbolic leader of the Tigers, walked into the main hall and said something.
Zhao Hu asked who they were, and the steward said, "It's Master Lu Yao, Chen Chen, and Lu Yao's steward Tang Xi."
When Zhao Hu heard this, he was a little surprised. He asked the butler to invite the three of them in, and then asked other servants to bring out good tea.
Zhao Hu thought to himself that he and Lu Yao had not met each other a few times. The last time they met was probably when he went into the palace to meet the saint as the leader. He and Lu Yao had nothing in common. What was he doing at his house today?
Woolen cloth?
This is the inertial thinking of businessmen, which can also be called an occupational disease. After Zhao Husi thought about it, he had some intersection with Pan Yuanwu of Fanlou, and Pan Yuanwu's son Pan Wen, and even Pan Yuanwu himself, had a very close relationship with Lu Yao. This was no longer a problem.
The secret can be said to be something everyone knows. Could it be that Lu Yao's visit this time has something to do with the Pan family? But among the two people Lu Yao brought today, there was not Pan Wen, but Chen Chen.
He came with Tang Xi, the housekeeper. Zhao Hu didn’t know much about Chen Chen. He only knew that he was the leader of the grassroots team among the eight teams. So, was Lu Yao here for the new Cuju competition? Or was he just the same as before?
Does his meeting with Pan Yuanwu have anything to do with it?
Zhao Hu was puzzled. He didn't know why Lu Yao came here this time. The main reason for this was because Zhao Hu and Lu Yao had relatively little interaction.
On Lu Yao's side, a group of three people went directly to the main hall under the leadership of the housekeeper and met Zhao Hu.
To say that Lu Yao's impression of Zhao Hu was not profound, he just knew that in the end, under his persuasion, Pan Yuanwu chose Zhao Hu as his opponent to form the Tigers team. In the final analysis,
Zhao Hu was able to participate in the new Cuju competition, and Lu Yao also played an important role in it.
However, Lu Yao's impression of Zhao Hu was only at the level of Pan Yuanwu's partner. But after all, Zhao Hu is also a businessman, and he has such a good relationship with Pan Yuanwu. Lu Yao has already had a feeling about Zhao Hu in his heart.
Halo effect. The so-called halo effect is that a person's first impression or idea of another person will become the basis for that person's judgment of everything that happens next to the other person. That is, the first impression determines
A lot of things.
This was the second time Lu Yao met Zhao Hu, but because he had not communicated much with Zhao Hu before, it was not much different from the first meeting. Zhao Hu immediately stood up from his seat when he saw Lu Yao and the other three people coming over.
, greeted him with a smile on his face.
In just one second, Lu Yao had already made a judgment about Zhao Hu. Like Pan Yuanwu, he was a businessman through and through. Moreover, even though his name was Zhao Hu, his appearance was domineering and he seemed to be a straight-tempered man.
But Lu Yao observed carefully, and just from the smile on Zhao Hu's face, Lu Yao was sure that Boss Zhao was no worse than Pan Yuanwu.
Pan Yuanwu's deep cooperation cannot be a simple single-cell businessman.
"Master Xiao Lu, why did you think of coming to my place today? You said you didn't say hello to me in advance. I'll prepare some good wine and food to entertain you." Zhao Hu walked up and was naturally polite at first.
Of course, Zhao Hu also sent greetings to Tangxi and Chen Chen. He even told Chen Chen that in this first round of warm-up matches, Chen Chen's grassroots team performed very well. Chen Chen was a little confused. He looked at Zhao Hu and was trying to remember.
I wondered if Boss Zhao had come to watch the first warm-up match. In the end, I couldn't remember and could only smile back.
As for Tangxi, Tangxi’s external identity is actually the housekeeper of the Lu family, so Zhao Hu later found out about Tangxi’s purchase of meat, but he didn’t take it seriously at the time. After all, the things Tangxi bought were also very strange.
Duck intestines, brains, etc., Zhao Hu didn't know what the Lu family's housekeeper was going to do when he bought these things. Because the amount Tangxi bought was not particularly large, Zhao Hu didn't pay too much attention.
Then, Zhao Hu arranged for Lu Yao and others to sit down. As soon as Chen Chen sat down, he heard some shouts coming from the backyard. Lu Yao naturally heard the sound, so he said: "Are the Tigers training in the backyard?
.”
Zhao Hu nodded and said: "As expected of Mr. Xiao Lu, yes, it's Yang Tao. He is leading the Tigers to practice in the backyard. Let me tell you, I actually want these players to rest before the official game. But Yang Tao
That kid insists on training..."
"It's good to train more so that you can show better strength during the official competition." Lu Yao said with a smile.
Before Zhao Hu could speak,
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Chen Chen seemed very interested in the training in the backyard. He looked at Zhao Hu and Lu Yao and said, "I want to go to the backyard and watch them train, is that okay?"
Lu Yao looked at Zhao Hu. After all, this was Zhao Hu's home. In fact, it was normal not to let others watch the training. Zhao Hu originally thought of directly agreeing to let Chen Chen go over to watch, but he thought of Yang Tao's
He had a bad temper, so he said that he still had to listen to Yang Tao’s ideas regarding training matters.
Therefore, Zhao Hu called the housekeeper and asked him to go to the backyard to ask Yang Tao if he could let Chen Chen go over and watch.
The arrival of Lu Yao and Chen Chen was completely unexpected by Yang Tao, but after listening to the butler's description, Yang Tao also knew that Lu Yao came to boss Zhao today, not to come to him. In addition, Chen Chen's grassroots team
In Yang Tao's view, there is no chance of defeating Wang Da's Huangtian team in the first round, and they are not his opponents in the first round, so it doesn't matter if he is allowed to see his training. Even if he will use his
Pan Wen was told about the training situation, but there is still a big gap between what he said orally and what he saw with his own eyes. Moreover, this is Zhao Mansion after all, and Lu Yao is also here. If he just refused Chen Chen's request, it would be a bit unkind. So.
, Yang Tao agreed to let Chen Chen watch.
After receiving the answer, Chen Chen immediately stood up and left the main hall, heading towards the backyard. Obviously, he was not interested in what Lu Yao was going to tell Zhao Hu. Originally, he followed Lu Yao out today because he had nothing to do. However,
Unexpectedly, when I came to Zhao Mansion, I could actually see the training situation of the Tigers. This trip was considered a worthwhile trip.
After Chen Chen left, Lu Yao also began to talk about business with Zhao Hu. Lu Yao had already guessed that Tangxi actually went to Zhao's shop last time to buy something, because Tangxi now buys things as Lu Yao's housekeeper.
Even if the owner of the butcher shop did not recognize Tang Xi at that time, Zhao Hu would definitely know about it. Therefore, Lu Yao did not intend to hide it and talk to businessmen like Zhao Hu and Pan Yuanwu.
The way is to put everything out there, which is better for both parties.
So, Lu Yao asked: "Boss Zhao, not long ago, Tangxi went to your butcher shop to buy meat. Do you know about this?"
Zhao Huxin said that Lu Yao really came here for this matter, so he said: "Yes, in addition to meat, I also bought some offal, duck intestines, brains and other things."
Tang Xi said at this time: "I haven't had time to thank Boss Zhao, but I didn't charge any money for those things."
Zhao Hu quickly waved his hand and said: "Brother Tangxi, you are out of touch when you say this. No one buys those things that go into the water on weekdays. Basically, I get rid of them. You asked for that thing directly at that time, and I
My subordinates will definitely give them to you for free, but I don’t know, Mr. Xiao Lu, now that I’ve mentioned this, I’m very curious as to why you bought these things.”
Lu Yao nodded and said: "That's what I'm here for today. I plan to establish a long-term and stable cooperative relationship with Boss Zhao, because I will soon open a new store in the outer city, and that store needs it most.
It’s meat, including tripe, duck intestines and brains.”
Zhao Hu was confused when he heard this, because he really couldn't figure out what kind of business required these things, so he asked: "I wonder what business you want to do, Mr. Xiao Lu?"
Lu Yao was about to speak, then looked around. Zhao Hu naturally understood what Lu Yao meant, so he asked the servants serving in the main hall to leave. Then only Lu Yao, Tangxi and Zhao Hu were left in the main hall. Tangxi
Of course, there is no need to worry. He is Lu Yao's butler, so naturally he and Lu Yao have the same thoughts.
Lu Yao said: "Boss Zhao, please forgive me. The reason why I have to withdraw is because I don't want other people to know about this business. Moreover, you have to promise me not to let anyone know about this business before I open the business."
People know.”
Zhao Hu nodded, and then Lu Yao told Zhao Hu about the hot pot project he was going to do in the outer city. Lu Yao said that if he wanted to start this hot pot industry, he needed Zhao Hu's strong support, and the meat and vegetables were naturally
Needless to say, Zhao Hu is completely responsible for the supply of food ingredients. Although the overall demand should not be as high as that of Fan Lou, after all, this hot pot restaurant is located in the outer city, and there is no competition with Fan Lou.
Zhao Hu also knew about the economic conditions. Because he knew it very well, he admired Lu Yao's courage to open a catering business in the outer city. Zhao Hu thought to himself that the reason why Lu Yao chose the location of his restaurant in the outer city was probably because he didn't want to
After a conflict with Fan Lou, Lu Yao did not want to tell Zhao Hu that he was in the hot pot industry to reduce the gap between inner and outer cities and benefit the people. Zhao Hu is a businessman. If Lu Yao said so, Zhao Hu would
Hu would think that he was playing the emotional card to bargain with him, not to mention that it was not like he couldn't afford the money to buy the ingredients now.
Although the supply is not as good as that of Fan Lou, after listening to Lu Yao's ideas, this income is still very considerable for Zhao Hu, at least more than what ordinary hotels in the inner city bring to Zhao Hu.
.In addition, Lu Yao also pointed out that the hot pot industry needs water-based ingredients. Zhao Hu did not know much about hot pot at this time. In his opinion, things like hairy belly duck intestines and brains should either be thrown away or dumped.
It is better to sell it to Lu Yao to save face and supply it to Lu Yao for free. Lu Yao expressed his gratitude for this, but Lu Yao also made some requirements for these ingredients, such as the need to clean them, and the quality still needs to be guaranteed. For this reason, they must
There are two or three people responsible for cleaning, processing, and transporting these ingredients every day. The ingredients are free, but Lu Yao said that the processing fees and labor fees will be paid to Zhao Hu as normal.
So, the two then discussed the specific price. Zhao Hu was quite aware of Lu Yao's wealth. He had heard Pan Yuanwu talk about it before, saying that Lu Yao now had his own private treasury in the inner city.
, there must be no problem with money, but considering the relationship between the two, Zhao Hu didn't ask for much.
After the price was determined, Lu Yao once again made his last request, and it was also the most important request. That is, he also needs two masters with very superb knife skills, who will be responsible for cutting meat for his hot pot restaurant in the future.
The wages of these two people were all paid to Lu Yao himself.