"Brother Cui!"
"Brother Arash!"
Arash made an appointment with the wealthy businessman to meet in front of Xihe Building in the evening. Through the conversation in the afternoon, he also learned that the other person's surname was Cui Yingbo.
"This is a brother of my family!" Cui Yingbo introduced a young man next to him.
Arash didn't care about this, he was already full of expectations for Xihelou.
So he just nodded and said hello, and pulled Cui Yingbo to go in together.
The two of them checked their membership cards at the door and were invited in.
As soon as they entered the door, the two of them were shocked by the two big light bulbs hanging on the counter.
This restaurant is not visible during the day, but it is different at night.
Tang Ping covered the roof with solar panels.
Then, a sun-shaped decoration was made in the middle of each floor, and a ceiling lamp was placed in it, making it look like the sun during the day.
"This Xihe Restaurant is indeed worthy of its name!" The young man named Cui next to them was not very surprised, but nodded approvingly.
Then the two of them were taken upstairs by the waiter. The journey was like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden.
Each floor of Xihe Building uses a different decoration style.
The first floor is just ordinary, but a little more luxurious.
But when you get to the second floor, you have a more primitive feeling. When you go up the stairs to the second floor, you can see a huge reindeer antler.
Several people have never seen this thing before.
You must know that reindeer basically only live in the northern part of Eurasia and the northern part of North America. There are at most some in the north of the Greater Khingan Mountains in China.
But in this era, even the Yan Kingdom in the north has not yet reached the Daxinganling Mountains, so naturally this is the only one in Chang'an.
Of course, this was actually made of resin, and Tang Ping didn't dare to break the law and buy the real thing.
But the people who saw it didn’t know it, especially the artificial one, which was even more exaggerated. The big antlers made the three people unable to take their eyes away.
Looking at the entire second floor, the style tends to be rough. Cui Yingbo may not like it too much, but for Arash, a businessman from the Western Regions, it is too friendly. He even feels like he is going home.
But today's party was on the fourth floor, so he just took a quick look and made up his mind to book a place on the second floor next time.
On the third floor, the style changes again, and the tone of the entire floor turns blue.
This place was made into a marine style by Tang Ping. If the reindeer head just now was shocking, the huge whale skeleton hanging on the entire third floor is also frightening.
However, Tang Ping also asked someone to draw some seabed scenes on the wall on one side, along with a sentence: There is a fish in the North Ming Dynasty, its name is Kun, and the Kun is so big that it cannot be stewed in a pot!
At first glance, this place is a bit scary, but upon further inspection, several people became interested.
Human beings have not evolved for tens of millions of years to be vegetarians. Especially as Chinese people, eating has been engraved deep in our DNA. If Xi Helou can really get Kun, many people will not mind picking it up. Of chopsticks.
If the primitive and rough style on the second floor gave Arash a sense of intimacy, the third floor gave the three of them a sense of conquest.
Yes, what is Kun? So what if it’s big? It's not like he was eaten into a skeleton.
In addition to some tall red coral trees used as decoration on the third floor, and the pearl-like light bulbs in the huge scallops, people who come here feel like they are in the underwater world.
Finally, we arrived at the fourth floor, which was also the highest floor that could be built in Chang'an according to regulations.
So the business here is excellent. Compared with the two floors downstairs, the decoration seems to be much simpler.
But after careful observation, Arash discovered that it might just look simple, like the exquisite jade carving decorations.
Even a businessman from the Western Regions like him wouldn't be able to tell that it was just a handicraft that Tang Ping bought from modern times without getting his hands on it, and he would think that it was real.
However, with the financial resources Xihelou showed, no one doubted that these decorations were all fake.
Those who can go up to the fourth floor today are all diamond members. Those who can spend a hundred dollars in cash to apply for a card cannot be ordinary people.
Many of us know each other, and now that the master has not arrived, many people have begun to get together and chat about business.
Cui Yingbo said hello to a few people nearby, then found a place to sit down with Arash, and then asked casually: "I wonder what brother Arash does in Chang'an for a living?"
"That's a joke to Brother Cui. I'm just selling some wool blankets and other specialties from my hometown to East Vietnam to earn some hard money!"
This statement is obviously modest. Does Cui Yingbo still know the value of wool blankets from the Western Regions in the eyes of the wealthy people in East Vietnam?
Suddenly his eyes lit up and he asked: "As far as I know, there is a chamber of commerce in East Vietnam, the Anxinsa Chamber of Commerce, which specializes in specialties from the Western Regions. I wonder what it has to do with Brother Arash?"
"Hahaha, Brother Cui also knows about my Chamber of Commerce!" Arash laughed.
His chamber of commerce is indeed famous in East Vietnam, but he didn't expect that people in Chang'an would also know about it, which made him very proud.
"I wonder if Brother Arash is willing to do business." Cui Yingbo's words stunned Arash, but he still asked: "What kind of business?"
"Brother Alash transports things from the Western Regions to Chang'an, and then to East Vietnam. The long distance increases the cost and takes a lot of time. How about selling part of it to me directly in Chang'an?"
"Sell it to you?" Arash smiled: "Then what's in it for me?"
"Didn't I just mention all the benefits?" Cui Yingbo said with a smile: "How much does it cost to transport from Chang'an to East Vietnam? If Brother Alash is willing to use the selling price of East Vietnam to subtract the cost of the journey from Chang'an to East Vietnam, Sell it to me at this price.”
"Then Brother Alash can only make three trips back and forth to East Vietnam in a year, but if you make the move in Chang'an, your profit will not change, but you can make four trips back and forth in a year. Isn't this a huge benefit?"
Arash didn't expect to encounter such a thing when he came to have a meal. This is actually the role of some high-end hotels in later generations. Didn't many bosses just conclude business at such a dinner?
What Tang Ping provides is actually a circle, and once these wealthy people in Chang'an get used to coming to such a circle, it will be difficult for Xihe Restaurant's high-end customers to be snatched away.
"But if Brother Cui does this, what good will it do to Brother Cui?" Arash doesn't believe that Brother Cui, whom he just met today, is a philanthropist.
"Because our Cui family is engaged in the salt business between Dongyue and Datang. Using our freight channel is cheaper than yours to go to Dongyue. What's more, we also have the road to Dayan. You must know that the north of Dayan It’s a bitter cold place, and the nobles there prefer your woolen blankets.”
Before Arash could agree, a voice suddenly came from behind: "Second Young Master Cui, long time no see!"
