1308: C1308 Dream on Doolittle

C1308 Dream on Doolittle

The reason why Baishui City was so close to starving people was because it was a cold border with enemies with bad weather and not enough fertile soil.

White Water City was rich because it was the border.

Every fall, Great Xia and the Northern Desert Tulip would open up a city for 40 days.

The merchants of Great Xia would transport salt, porcelain, silk, tea leaves and other goods. The people of Mobei would mostly sell iron ore, cow, sheep fur, and so on.

Apart from these 40 days, there would also be merchants transporting goods during the rest of the time. However, they needed to pass through a series of complicated procedures, and they also needed to pay an expensive tax.

Even so, merchants still came and went.

Because of this, White Water City was flourishing.

Every autumn, White Water City was even livelier. Customers and merchants often stayed at inns.

The Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion and Drunken Willow were both the best choices.

This year, the First-Class Restaurant became the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion. Yang Soong did not want to do the business of staying overnight, but he still needed to follow the local customs in the end.

"I'm only interested in cooking."

Managing the inn was a troublesome matter. Chen Ming and Meng Shihan were not around, and Yang Soong did not intend to manage it.

Du Lizhi was pushed out by his father. "Why don't we let this kid try?"

Yang Soong also had the same intention. Although Du Lizhi was a little young, he was a crafty person.

He could tell from how he tricked Li Daguang and the others last time.

Du Lizhi was able to talk and laugh with the rich and officials, and he was also like a gangster.

This child had a bright future.

Yang Soong did not take the initiative to say it. The main reason was that Du Lizhi was groomed by Manager Du as the heir, and the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion was inherited by Du Lizhi. Manager Du might want to retire that day.

The Hundred Phoenix Pavilion needed a long-term manager. Yang Soong did not plan to manage it from the beginning to the end. He even planned to leave White Water City.

He needed a reliable manager for a long time.

Manager Du thought Yang Soong was worried when he saw Yang Soong hesitating.

"I don't want the monthly silver. I'll do it for free. You can find a helper and ask him to come back at any time."

Yang Soong was speechless."

You really are my father, Du Lizhi said.

"No, no, that's not what I meant. I'm very happy that he came to help me, but I want to hire a long-term manager." Yang Soong hurriedly explained.

"It's fine. This kid is very busy. There are only two restaurants. Young people can't be too idle." Manager Du said with a smile.

When the future manager's father agreed, Yang Soong still needed to seek the opinion of the future manager.

"My father is right." Du Lizhi really wanted to run a restaurant on his own, an unfamiliar restaurant, and not the Fragrant Sky Restaurant that he had grown up in.

He wanted to know how much weight he had, and some of his ideas couldn't be realized under his father's watch.

Which young man didn't have plans for the future?

Yang Soong said, "Alright, from now on, you will be the manager of Hundred Phoenix Pavilion!"

He gave Du Lizhi the store key and even the store contract.

"Aren't you afraid that I will sell this store?"

"No need to doubt me, no need to doubt me." Yang Soong had a shopkeeper, so he quickly went into the kitchen to study the new dishes.

Du Lizhi renovated the Hundred Phoenix Pavilion.

"Chef Yang, a big restaurant like the Hundred Phoenix Pavilion cannot only cook breakfast. There must be lunch and dinner as well. Also, the accommodation of the guests must be renovated."

"Currently, I only have time to make breakfast. I can give lunch and dinner to Jiang Tao and the others, but I still need to wait for four more days. After four days, Jiang Tao's culinary skills will definitely make people look at him in a new light."

If Jiang Tao could move the Great Liang, then the Hundred Phoenix Pavilion would be able to operate for the whole day.

"You can go and do the renovations yourself, there's no need to ask me." Yang Soong added, "You can ask me about the cooking. You can decide for yourself about the other things. As long as the business in the restaurant doesn't make a loss, you can make a profit."

Yang Soong firmly believed that in the rules of a good boss, it was necessary to learn to give power to his subordinates and give them the freedom to do whatever they wanted.

Besides, Yang Soong was not interested in anything else.

He was the man who wanted to become the king of Master Chef. As long as he cooked the dishes, he would be fine. He did not intend to care about anything else.

It was important to not forget the beginning.

"Please rest assured." Du Lizhi took the money and renovated the house. Even the furnishings in the hall had been changed by more than half.

Apart from that, he also expanded the Hundred Phoenix Pavilion.

"I bought the entire street behind the Hundred Phoenix Pavilion. I also bought three shops on the left and right side of the street."

The current Hundred Phoenix Pavilion was more than six times bigger than before.

They had also spent a lot of money, and it was estimated that they would be able to pile up into a small hill.

Yang Soong said, This child is too good at spending money!

Du Lizhi was very excited. "Since we want to make it, of course we want to make the biggest and best restaurant in White Water City!"

He was going to destroy his own restaurant.

Sigh, everything was for the sake of dreams.

"The border cities don't only have White Water City. There are also five other big cities and nine small cities.

There were many businessmen coming and going, and it was not just White Water City's people who came and went.

It's just that there are too few inns in White Water City, so it can't accommodate so many people. More big businessmen were willing to go to Green Mountain City, Wei Yang City, and other small cities near White Water City. Some of the merchants even arrived late and could not enter the city at all. We can only set up camp by the city gates."

At the northern border, the city gates were like a border.

Inside the city gates, singing and dancing could be heard. Outside the city gates could be hell.

The weather was bitter and cold, but one could still barely endure it. It was filled with danger at all times.

The goods of the merchant group were very easy to steal, and even people could be robbed and killed or sold.

Every year between the end of September and the end of October, some caravans would make a lot of money, but some would never be able to return home.

If thieves were too rampant, merchants would cherish their lives and might not dare to come to Border City again.2

This way, it would be the end of the border cities.

The officials, thieves, and caravans had formed a tacit understanding with each other.

They were not allowed to kill or loot during the day, so entering the city was safe. When night fell outside the city, the fate of life and death depended entirely on the will of heaven.

Killing was not allowed on the surface, but at the end of the day, thieves were still thieves.

As long as a certain number of merchant caravans entered each city, no merchant caravans were allowed to enter without leaving the city.

White Water City was not the best place for business. There were not enough inns and restaurants, and there were even fewer rooms for merchant caravans to sleep in.

There were usually only a few merchant caravans coming and going, and they had already cleared the road with the government. Every year, they came to pay enough entrance fees, and White Water City guaranteed that they would be able to enter the city.

Du Lizhi said, "The merchant caravans will only be here in half a month. The houses are ready. Let the artisans hurry up and advertise at the caravans entering the border early. We can take in more trade caravans and feed their horses for free. It will definitely attract people. "

Du Lizhi had considered the details of how to attract caravans, how to stay after they arrived, and so on. He had also made arrangements.

Yang Soong said, "I now understand why you want to recruit so many people."

The opening of the Hundred Phoenix Pavilion required the expansion of talents. Yang Soong knew that Du Lizhi had recruited a lot of people, but he did not ask about it.

"Don't worry. I know how to take care of the caravan. Our Hundred Phoenix Pavilion will definitely be in the limelight this time." Du Lizhi was full of ambition.

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