Chapter 74 Jade White Jade Soup is upgraded to Jade White Jade Soup (please subscribe!!) Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly muttered again, "An ordinary horse is worth 20 taels, and eight horses are 160 taels. And a horse needs a bunch of grass a day, about fifteen kilograms, and three liters of beans, which is about one tael a month when converted into silver coins. , one horse costs 12 taels a year, and eight horses cost 96 taels. If you add in the groom’s salary and the loss of horses and carriages, it’s really not profitable!”
After doing the calculation, Zhu Yuanzhang was very confused and asked: "Is this guy Ouyang Lun still doing business at a loss?"
Empress Ma smiled and said, "Chongba, do you think Ouyang Lun just wants the people to live a better life? From this point of view, you and Ouyang Lun are quite similar."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he was stunned at first, and then his head shook like a rattle, "How can a corrupt official like Ouyang Lun devote himself to serving the people? It is even less possible for us to be like him, absolutely impossible!"
Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma came to a food shop while chatting.
The owner of the restaurant was busy at work. When he saw a guest coming, he immediately greeted him warmly, "Two distinguished guests, would you like to eat the emerald white jade soup? This is a good thing that our Emperor likes very much!"
Zhu Yuanzhang shouted directly: "Boss, bring me two bowls of jade white jade soup!"
"okay!"
"Sir, please sit down for a while and I'll do it for you guys right away!"
The food shop owner smiled and nodded, and then got busy again.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma found an empty seat and sat down. Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the lively scene around him and couldn't help but sigh: "When I was a beggar, I always dreamed of eating a bowl of emerald white jade soup. Even if I conquered the country, I would still always be there." I miss this bite."
As he said that, Zhu Yuanzhang saw the sesame cake shop next to him and said, "Sister, eating emerald white jade soup and adding a piece of sesame cake is the best combination. I will buy two more sesame cakes."
"Go." Queen Ma handed the money bag to Zhu Yuanzhang. She knew that Zhu Yuanzhang liked this, so she naturally wouldn't stop him.
After a while, Zhu Yuanzhang came back with two sesame cakes, but his face was a little ugly, and he sat back down depressedly.
"Heavchi, what's wrong with you?"
Empress Ma asked curiously.
"Sister, do you know how much these two sesame cakes cost us?" Zhu Yuanzhang said dullly.
"How much can the sesame cakes cost? The two together should cost less than ten cents." Queen Ma said with a smile.
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and raised the two sesame seed cakes in his hand, as if to accuse, "Not only ten coins, these two sesame cakes cost us a full thirty coins! What a profiteer!"
"Two sesame cakes cost thirty cents?!" Queen Ma was also surprised, "Is there any difference between these sesame cakes and the ones in the capital?"
"We also asked about this, and they said that this sesame seed cake has meat filling in it. Hmm, how much meat can he add to such a sesame seed cake? But the price has increased several times, what a profiteer." Zhu Yuanzhang still said depressedly.
At this time, the restaurant owner brought two bowls of Jade White Jade Soup to the two of them. Seeing the sesame cakes in their hands, he also smiled and said: "You two are really experts! Eat our Jade White Jade Soup before you eat it." Combined with the sesame cakes from next door, it’s a perfect match!”
Perhaps because he had just been tricked, Zhu Yuanzhang quickly asked: "Boss, how much does your bowl of jade white jade soup cost?"
The food shop owner smiled and said: "It's not expensive, only 35 yuan a bowl."
Hiss - Zhu Yuanzhang originally picked up the bowl and was about to start drying it, but when he heard the price, he immediately put it down.
Queen Ma also frowned.
"35 Wen!? Is your emerald white jade soup made of gold?" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily: "This is in a restaurant in the capital, and it only costs a few Wen!"
The so-called Pearl Jade White Jade Soup is actually a soup made with cabbage, spinach leaves (Jade), sour tofu (White Jade) and leftover rice crackers (Pearl).
Zhu Yuanzhang's family was poor when he was young. He never had enough to eat, and he often couldn't get a bite of food for a whole , he didn't ask for anything for three days in a row. He was hungry and faint, and passed out on the street. Later, he was rescued by an old woman passing by and took her home with the only piece of tofu and a handful of spinach. The red roots and green leaves were put together, poured over a bowl of leftover rice, cooked, and given to Zhu Zhu Yuanzhang ate, he felt very energetic and asked the old woman what she had just eaten. The old woman found joy in her suffering and joked that it was called "Pearl Jade White Jade Soup".
This matter became widely spread after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor. In order to attract customers, many shops also made this dish, and it became a folk snack. However, because of the cheap ingredients, the price is not expensive at all, and the normal price is only four It costs five cents for a bowl, but when we arrived at this food court, it suddenly doubled seven or eight times. It was even worse than the sesame seed cakes we just had! Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, the restaurant owner acted very calmly. He seemed to be used to it and said calmly: "At first glance, the two guests are not locals of Yong'an."
Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang became even more angry and slammed the table.
"What? If you're not a local, you can just raise the price?!"
"Under the sky, everything is the king's land; on the shore of the land, there are the king's ministers. No matter how well the Yong'an Mansion develops, it is still the territory of the Ming Dynasty. The people of Yong'an are also the people of the Ming Dynasty. Why should we treat them differently? Why don't you give me a treat today? In other words, I will definitely make you look good!"
Zhu Yuanzhang shouted.
The restaurant owner was quite helpless. Seeing that the customer in front of him was not easy to deal with, he quickly explained: "This guest officer really misunderstood me. The reason why he said you are not locals is because you don't understand our food street. Although things are a bit more expensive than other places, it’s expensive for a reason.”
After speaking, the restaurant owner used chopsticks to open the bowl of emerald white jade soup on the table, revealing the ingredients underneath, "Two guests, please take a look!"
Um! ?
Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma looked into the bowl and saw many ingredients underneath, which seemed to be meat cubes.
"Even if you put meat in it, the price would be outrageous if it increased seven to eight times!"
Zhu Yuanzhang muttered.
The restaurant owner smiled slightly, "If it's just ordinary meat, it's certainly not worth the price, but what if it contains pork, mutton, beef, fish, and abalone?"
"Although it is still called Jade White Jade Soup, some people call it Jade Jade Bairou Soup."
hiss--! Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised again. He took his chopsticks and took a closer look in the bowl. Just as the restaurant owner said, in addition to the most basic ones such as cabbage and tofu, there were also various small meatballs added to the bowl!There are five or six kinds! This time Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned.
There is not a lot of meat at the bottom of the bowl, accounting for less than half of it, and it is a bowl as big as your face. It costs 35 yuan. It seems really not expensive! As an emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang would not give in so easily. He coughed twice to relieve the embarrassment, and then said: "Boss, I am not telling you, what is the most important thing when opening a business? Of course it is to make money!"
"You put so much meat in a bowl of emerald white jade soup. The cost is too high. Although the price is fair, the people can't afford it, and you can't make any money!"
(End of this chapter)