Li Yin was somewhat glad that he was reborn in the Zhenguan period. If it was the Song Dynasty, a prince like him actually doing business would probably be scolded to death by those censors. Who knew what heinous crimes he might be accused of.
However, such a thing would not have happened in the Tang Dynasty. Although some scholars had their own complaints, they would not act too aggressively.
This was because almost every household of the Great Tang's nobles had their own businesses. Although they were only standing behind the scenes, they were still managing these businesses. For example, the Zhangsun Clan's iron-smelting business, the room's silk shop, and the Cheng Clan's grain shop. They had to do business. Who asked the Great Tang to have such a low salary? Without 'external wealth', how could a Duke feed a family of dozens of people with his salary alone? Or even hundreds of people?
Li Yin was just standing in front of the stage, so these people were more likely to accept it.
It wasn't until 11 o'clock that Li Shimin left with Empress Zhangsun and the others. The others also left within an hour.
On the whole, today's opening was very successful. Now, let's talk about the results after tomorrow's official opening.
Li asked the accountant to calculate the income and expenditure. It was easy to calculate the income. Only Li's couplet earned 240 taels. The rest was all free.
The expenditure was quite complicated. The labor expenditure was not a small part. Those performers, each performance cost 150 wen, and the pastries, ink, paper, and inkstone prepared for these people, as well as the wear and tear of the items. All in all, the cost was about 30 taels.
Today's situation was special. Tomorrow, they would officially open for business. If they calculated according to the number of customers today, the expenses could be reduced to about ten taels.
The next day, Li Yin did not come to the entertainment city. Instead, he called over the female workers who had previously helped the entertainment city make cheongsams and taught them how to make dolls.
The female workers '' sewing skills were at least advanced. After listening to Li Yin's explanation, they knew how to make this thing. Li Yin was thinking too much. In fact, dolls existed in the folk, but those dolls were relatively simple and small. They could be held with one hand. They were mainly made from the leftover bits and pieces of sewing clothes, so it was impossible to make them too big. As for using an entire piece of cloth to make this thing? Wasn't that squandering? A poor person's clothes were worn by several people. How could they have extra cloth to make dolls? Even the slightly larger strips of cloth were used to patch old clothes.
Li Yin took some time to design some dolls and let these female workers make them. Then, he let these female workers use their imagination to make other dolls according to these styles.
Then, Li Yin called over the chefs that Liu Yue had just found today. There were a total of five chefs. The oldest was eighteen or nineteen years old, and the youngest was about the same age as Liu Yue, sixteen or seventeen years old. In fact, this was the second batch. Liu Yue had found a batch of them before, and there were also five of them. However, the oldest was only 13 years old. Liu Yue had clearly misunderstood the age range that she was referring to when she said 'young'!
Fifteen years old was the legal age for women to get married in the Tang Empire. Once they reached sixteen years old and were still unmarried, the government would send people to rush them. Therefore, only women below the age of fifteen could be considered young. After Li Yin got Liu Yue to give them 30 copper coins each as compensation for their loss of work, he found these five.
Just like the female workers who worked in needlework, these five chefs were very good. Of course, Li Yin did not care if they were good or not. Otherwise, he would not have found 'young and beautiful'.
He wanted to sell fast food in the entertainment city, such as fried chicken legs, wings, and steak. As for French fries? This would only appear after his farm released potatoes.
As for the taste? Because the variety of seasonings could not be found, the taste was very ordinary, but this was only for Li Yin. However, for the people of the Tang Dynasty who had never eaten fried food, it was no different from a delicacy!
In the Tang Dynasty, most of the food was animal oil. The only vegetable oil was sesame oil and pockmarked oil. Sesame oil was very fragrant but expensive. Ordinary people could not see oil in their homes all year round, let alone fried food. Even rich people couldn't bear to use a large amount of oil to fry things.
However, the higher the cost, the higher the selling price. Those who could enter the entertainment city were all rich people. With good things, they were not afraid that they would not buy.
With food, there was naturally something to drink. He definitely had to prepare some good tea on the market. However, there was no stir-fried tea yet. Everyone added all kinds of seasonings to their drinks. Li Yin only took a sip and spat it all out. It was simply terrible. However, if he wanted to make his own tea, he had to wait until next year's new tea came out.
In addition to tea, the entertainment city also had to have its own characteristics. Li Yin was preparing to launch fruit juice. Orange juice, pear juice, grape juice, watermelon juice, and so on. Li Yin also had a 'magic weapon', which was to add a small amount of mutated carrot juice to these fruit juices. It could improve the taste of these fruit juices very well, and at the same time, it meant that he could add a large amount of water. Otherwise, the cost of making juice from fruits alone would be too high.
At night, Li Yin was pondering the ratio of juice to water when Liu Yue and Du Shiniang returned from the entertainment city.
"Young Master, guess how much money the entertainment city earned today?”
From Liu Yue's excited expression, he could tell that the business today must be very good.
Before Li Yin could guess, Liu Yue, who couldn't hold it in, said the answer herself,"Converted to silver, it's a total of 57 taels!”
"Oh?" This surprised even Li Yin. He had thought that 20 taels of silver would be good enough, but he did not expect it to double his expectations.# Daguan Review Passed: Daguan Time:011720194:50PM
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