Hangzhou made a lot of money because Zhao Gou liked Kaifeng-style mutton, and soon after it became famous, Xichun Building, once famous in Hangzhou, was on the verge of bankruptcy because of poor management at that time.
Speaking of it, the bankruptcy of Xichun Building is also a good thing for Su Yonglin.
Because he let Sun Yuanqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, die in Xichun Building.
An official died in a private high-end restaurant. It was a very unlucky thing in the restaurant. Many officials felt that Xichun Building was ominous and were reluctant to come.
At one time, Xichun Building lost a large number of high-quality customers, while ordinary ordinary customers couldn’t afford it. With the strong rise of Beiguo Building, a large number of passengers were separated, and the situation of Xichun Building was even worse.
After several years of hard support, the old shopkeeper of Xichunlou finally couldn’t stay up and died of worry and foreign invasion.
After his death, his worthless son saw that his family property was becoming scarce and could not support his high expenses, so he looked for people everywhere to try to sell the negative assets of Xichunlou.
However, Hangzhou colleagues are well aware of this, and no one wants to dish this restaurant that is doomed to lose its guests. At this time, Pan Xichun Building is tantamount to charity.
These exquisite egoists won’t do charity.
Desperate, the price fell again and again, and finally it was almost desperate. Su Changsheng finally appeared
Of course, Su Changsheng didn’t come to do charity, so he slashed the price severely and took the whole Xichun Building at a very low price.
After Su Changsheng spent some money to choose the best materials from all over the country to renovate Xichun Building, and then coup d’ é tat frequently appeared.
In the Song Dynasty, the royal family believed in Taoism, and the people also preferred the famous Taoist priest Huangfutan, so he often went in and out of the court and the royal family, and the whole Hangzhou government had great fame.
Su Changsheng often gave Zhao Gou food delivery opportunities at that time. He met Huangfutan in the Hangzhou Palace and gave gifts and invited him to dinner for many times.
This time Su Changsheng moved himself to invite Huangfutan to Xichun Building and made two grand ceremonies.
First of all, a funeral ceremony was held to celebrate the death of the living side and the super-recommended spirit.
Let’s have another ceremony to pray for disasters and eliminate them.
The two ceremonies were huge for six consecutive days, mobilizing more manpower and material resources than the whole of Hangzhou.
After the ceremony, Su Changsheng beat gongs and drums to set off firecrackers, set off red flags, and attracted people’s attention. He untied the plaque of Xichun Building personally by Huangfutan and invited the first guest of Huangfutan’s Xinxichun Building to eat in Xichun Building.
Therefore, there is no doubt that Xichun Building has resumed its former business prosperity, which is even better than that of Xichun Building in its heyday in the past. A number of dignitaries have poured in to spend a lot of money to show their pursuit of Xichun Building.
Although the dignitaries also like the rough northern flavor of the North Tower because of Zhao Gou, Jiangnan people who have grown up in the south for decades are of course more suitable for the soft and delicious taste of the land of fish and rice
After the recovery of Xichunlou, many chefs of Jiangnan cuisine were recruited to cook many new dishes, which attracted dignitaries to enjoy food with their forefingers. Su Changsheng earned a lot of money.
After the turmoil of the Song War and the turmoil in Hangzhou several times, the Northland Building and Xichun Building both stood by the official face, and Su Changsheng secretly protected the restaurant base with the official face.
All this will be easier after Zhang Shi becomes a Tang Dynasty envoy.
He relied on Zhang Wei to protect the Northland Building and Xichun Building, which made the Northland Building and Xichun Building become their important contact points. While making money, the activities of the Second Action Group of Skynet Army and the Zhejiang Branch of Fuxing Association passed important information.
win-win
Lu You usually meets Su Changsheng in Yali on the third floor of Xichun Building.
When Lu You arrived this time, Su Changsheng had arranged his favorite dining tables and invited him to eat more.
Lu You also smiled and sat down to pick up chopsticks, and then he ate a lot. Then he talked about Zhang Wei’s hope that Su Changsheng could cooperate with him this time.
"That is to say, Comrade Jingfu needs us to play a play together for the people of Shen Gai and Zhou Lin to see?"
"Comrade Jingfu said that if this operation is successful, it will help him get the Hangzhou soldiers openly, so that when the army is south, he can help the army to control the whole of Hangzhou smoothly and end it."
Lu You swallowed a piece of mutton and laughed. "Jingfu has been waiting for this day for a long time. On the theory of immortal comrades, please help us to bend the rules and play this play so that comrades in the army don’t get angry."
"I’m not an army commander. I can’t handle military affairs."
Su Changsheng smiled and said, "But I can ask Chairman Kaifeng to make the Association rest assured that the whole process won’t take a long time to get a result in about ten days, and then … are you eating too much? Comrade Guan? "
It’s funny to watch Lu You munch on Xichunlou’s special dish-Jiangnan braised mutton Su Changsheng.
This dish was created by chef Jiangnan in Xichun Building and chef North in Beiguolou after the reopening of Xichun Building. The northern cuisine is rough and the southern cuisine is fine. The mutton is delicious to the extreme, and it has become the building dish of Xichunlou Town.
Hangzhou city dignitaries have hardly eaten this dish, and many dignitaries are very sought after and obsessed with it. Even if they don’t come to eat, they have to order takeout at Xichun Building several times a month.
Lu you is not a dignitary, but he was entertained by Su Changsheng and once ate it, he was deeply infatuated with this dish.
"Every time I eat this dish, I think it’s delicious. Mutton is really the most wonderful meat in the world … even if it’s too expensive, I can eat it once a month now, and then my family will drink northwest wind this month. Can’t I take this opportunity to eat more?"
"Are you? Your current salary is so low? "
Su Changsheng smiled and said, "Xichun Building and Northland Building are all independent income calculations to support Skynet Army and Fuxing Association activities. Although I am in charge, I can’t eat and drink this table with private funds. I have to pay for it. I’m going to ask you for food."
"Ah?"
Lu you was stuck with a piece of mutton chopsticks, and the lamb fell directly into the bowl.
Looking at him was stuck Su Changsheng in stitches.
"Come on, come on, I’ll treat you to dinner so many times. Which time is not my money? But you have to understand that I also live on my salary. "
"My dozens of acres of fertile land are all the same. After that, I want to go to Zhongdu to be an official. If my family goes there, they will also allocate land. I am not worried about this."
Lu you can rest assured to shake his head. "Besides, the big salary has always been very real. Will your position salary be low? Is it my fault that my salary is the worst or enough to spend? "
"I really can’t blame you."
Su Changsheng nodded with a smile
As far as he knows, after the collapse of the name of the Southern Song Dynasty, that is, after the end of the Second Song War, Hangzhou’s court finances faced great difficulties
On the one hand, the losses caused by the war need to be compensated, and on the other hand, the state-owned capital has greatly controlled the high-quality commercial resources in the south of the Yangtze River and controlled the maritime trade route, which is almost exhausted by the court finance in Hangzhou.
Struggling to support by selling salt money
I feel that it is not good to go to this day because the finances are almost exhausted. The Hangzhou court has to reduce the salary of officials to live, and the head of the government should start to pay all officials well.
However, this health is very characteristic of DaSong.
The decline of senior officials is relatively small. Shen and others have dropped by about 10%. The higher the official position, the less it is, while the lower the official position, the higher it is. It is said that the salary of Hangzhou city officials has generally dropped by about 60%
This is very deadly.
Chapter 1312 Borrowing money is to be repaid.
For senior bureaucrats, the salary drop is not a big deal.
Although the state-owned attack on the south of the Yangtze River almost occupies a dominant position, bureaucrats will not be short of money if they talk about it
Even without business money, they still have land income, and they are still very rich.
Moreover, in the face of a lot of blows from the national team, your nobles also resolutely chose to merge and incarnate the comprador to protect their own interests. Even if the court’s finances dried up, they would not be short of money. It is not important to get less salary.
However, only middle and senior bureaucrats are qualified. They can run many industries by their own strength and connections, and they are qualified as comprador. Middle and low-level officials and low-level petty officials do not have this qualification.
A considerable part of them live on their salaries, and when their salaries drop, their living standards plummet.
Even worse, even if the salary drops, the price in Hangzhou will go up, and the price of rice and grain will go up by several percent, and the price of salt will also soar. Many people can’t support themselves even if they work for the government, and they have resigned to make a living.
In Hangzhou, the court had to hire a group of social idlers to do things, reduce financial expenditure and maintain the minimum social security team.
However, this is tantamount to greatly reducing the average quality of the ranks of officials and making a lot of troubles.
The salary of Lu You’s position has dropped by almost half, which makes his family live a tight life. From time to time, he needs to run a farm and give some help, otherwise he will not have enough to eat.
Intermediate officials and officials are still so, let alone the people.
Naturally, farmers are all poor, and there is only one breath left when they are alive, or Zhang Wei is trying hard to keep it.
The poor man has been squeezed dry and can’t continue to squeeze, but what if the court can’t live?
Yeah, rich people
At present, in order to maintain the nominal rule of this imperial court, the exploitation of the citizen class and businessmen in Hangzhou can be said to have reached its peak
With the large-scale intervention of state capital, the bureaucrats in Hangzhou court not only failed to find ways to mediate and help the civil and commercial people tide over the difficulties, but also stabbed them in the back and set up various policy obstacles to torture them into bankruptcy and then eat them into the assets of the civil and commercial people at a low price.