Chapter 274 Trading Center
Seaweed, kelp, dried shrimps and other seafood were all Zhao Liya asked Zhong Jing to buy from Guangzhan fishermen's homes, and then sent someone to deliver them.
It is a good thing to use in a simple way, or to use it for soup seasoning.
Originally worthless seaweed and kelp were rarely eaten by fishermen, and most of them were used to feed pigs and chickens and ducks. However, according to Zhao Liya's dictation and through Shu Yan's skillful hands, they turned into many delicious dishes, such as seaweed Shrimp egg drop soup, seaweed shrimp ball soup, seaweed cake, roasted seaweed crisp, seaweed minced meat rolls, cold seaweed shreds, hot and sour seaweed knots, pork ribs stewed seaweed, seaweed tofu stew, etc. The umami taste is very popular , and even many other restaurants followed suit. For a while, kelp and seaweed gradually increased in the market in the provincial capital.
Zhao Liya looked at the account book and was in a happy mood. She was even more satisfied to be able to enjoy Sister Shuyan's handicrafts while it was hot after a meal at noon.
On the second day, Zhao Liya asked the driver to drive the car, and went for a stroll by herself, looking for a suitable place to build a trading center in and outside the city, Lin Mo accompanied Shu Yan to a restaurant early in the morning to teach Gu how to cook.
The dishes to be taught were discussed by Zhao Liya and her before coming here. Shu Yan tried it at home, and now she can teach it with ease.
This time, I will teach six dishes, and let Chef Gu roll them out in batches one by one, just in time for the end of the year and should be able to attract a lot of customers.
Chef Gu is very energetic and savvy in studying and researching, not to mention how fast he learns, and he can also ask a lot of questions accordingly. It can be seen that his talent in this area is indeed much stronger than many people.
Shu Yan was also lucky, as soon as she taught her apprentice, she met someone with extraordinary talent.
Zhao Liya wandered around the city for two days, went to several teahouses, inquired everywhere, looked at three or four places, but was not very satisfied.
The business of the trading center will definitely be linked to maritime trade in the future, and it will definitely be able to attract countless big merchants. The place required for bulk commodity transactions is not usually spacious.
If the place is too small, the future development will be limited. At that time, it will be too late to think about expansion.
Rao is a vast land and sparsely populated in the south of the Lingnan area, but places like the provincial capital are still prosperous, and the houses in the city are densely packed. Even the poor areas are full of high and low shacks.
It would not be impossible to demolish such a place, but the cost would be too high.
Besides, products like nail households may not exist in this era.
There will never be a shortage of smart people in any era.
Even though it is more convenient in the city, after careful consideration, I have no choice but to give up.
Fortunately, I was mentally prepared and knew that it was not easy to find a suitable place in the city, so I didn't feel too disappointed.
The spacious place is easy to find outside the city.
Two days later, Zhao Liya took a fancy to a wasteland five or six miles south of the city.
The reason why this piece of land has not been reclaimed into fields is mainly because there are several muddy ponds with potholes, and the land on the side is embedded with large and small stones, which is not suitable for reclamation. Therefore, even if it is not far from the city, it is still empty.
Zhao Liya took a general look, and silently calculated in her heart that she planned to buy all the scattered vegetable fields not far away. Vegetable fields should be more expensive, but it should be worth it.
It is estimated that there are thousands of acres in total.
After confirming the location, Lin Mo accompanied him to find the middleman and asked him to help find the owners of those vegetable fields.
People in the middle didn't understand why they bought such a piece of waste land, and expressed very enthusiastically that they had a lot of land in their hands, and it was not a loss to get it.
Zhao Liya and Lin Mo had no choice but to politely decline.
Besides, whether it is Gaolian County or Suixi next door, there are fewer people, more land, countless wilderness, and it is cheap! How much do you want to buy but can't? Why go all the way here to buy?
People in the middle complained that they were stupid, so they didn't say much when they saw this. Anyway, a lot of his errand money will be enough.
After three days of grinding with the owners of several vegetable fields, they finally got it all done. The Shangguan government issued the land deeds. Calculated as a total of 1,100 mu, there is actually a fraction of 10 to 20 mu as a gift.
Although it is an abandoned place where there is no way to reclaim the fields, who knows that the location of the family is good, and the price is not cheap. Six taels of silver per mu is 6,600 taels in total.
Zhao Liya tried to haggle but failed, and finally the deal was made.
The place is not in use for the time being, but she still hired people to set up stone tablets on all sides, and piled up some piles of stones.
He also made an agreement with the owners of those vegetable fields that they would not plant any more crops in the vegetable fields after they were harvested.
And told the shopkeeper of Chunxi Restaurant to help him come over from time to time to have a look and walk around, and he was not allowed to plant any more, and he was not allowed to build shacks here.
This is all for less trouble in the future.
If someone builds a shack here, gradually attracting many people to set up a shack to live here, it will inevitably lead to conflicts in the future when people are driven away.
At that time, those farming families might also take the opportunity to join forces and make a fuss.
People in this era don't have much legal awareness. When there are too many people making trouble, even the government has to be careful. My family is not a local gentry and local tyrant here, let alone no one is jealous.
It's better to cut off from the source and control it.
After finishing the two tasks, Zhao Liya and the three returned home.
Although the three of them have never been to the prefect's home, the prefect has always sent people to follow them secretly.
His son's savior, he always needs to know a little more.
He was a little surprised to find out that they were the owners of the famous Chunxi Restaurant in the city, but he thought that these people had some skills!
Zhao Liya bought the land outside the city, he also learned afterwards that the price was thousands of taels of silver, which can be said to be a big deal.
What's even more surprising is that they bought such a useless land, and they don't know what their intentions are.
They bought so many lands, but they didn't come to follow their own way, which shows that they have an idea. It may also be that the intention is too big, and the favor is intended to be used in a larger place.
Prefect Min shook his head, he couldn't think too much for a while, so he didn't think about it anymore.
The favor he owed anyway, he would not deny it. And the Chunxi Restaurant, he told someone to take care of it.
Hearing that they left the provincial capital just like that, Mrs. Min, who has recovered a lot, was also a little surprised, and said with a smile, "I wanted to see Miss Zhao and Mrs. Lin, but I left just now!"
At first, she was a little worried that they would ask for a favor, but now that they left just like that, she felt a little empty in her heart.
Min Yanqi was even more disappointed: "I still want to visit the two older sisters, they are back home!"
Mrs. Min laughed: "They have a restaurant in the provincial capital and bought a lot of land. They will naturally come back in the future. See you then!"
Min Yanqi finally became happy, "En!"
(end of this chapter)