It’s really not much.
However, the two of them only received half of the share, that is, 5%. Therefore, after Shopkeeper Jia left, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu went into the study room and began to calculate the income of the Royal Dim Sum Shop in the past few months. .
From the money they received, it can be seen that the net profits of the Royal Confectionery Shop in the past four months were 34,000 taels, 46,000 taels, 60,000 taels, and 72,000 taels respectively.
A dim sum shop can make a net profit of 70,000 taels of silver a month, and this number is still growing. In Li Qiao's opinion, this shop is great.
Moreover, Sheng Hong has been thinking of ways to expand production. There is too little milk from the Cattle and Sheep Division to meet demand, so he purchases milk from Quan Shengjing and plans to circle a piece of land outside Shengjing specifically for raising cattle.
There were no dairy cows at this time, and they relied solely on scalpers to supply milk, which obviously could not meet the needs of the entire Shengjing.
However, making old-fashioned chicken cake does not require milk, and old-fashioned chicken cake is the best-selling among the three types of bread, so the pressure on milk is not really great.
But the market is not infinite, because the total population of Shengjing is only more than three million. Most of these people are ordinary people, and the rich are in the minority.
Moreover, making old-fashioned chicken cakes requires beating eggs. At this time, there was no electric egg beater, and only manual beating was required. The number of old-fashioned chicken cakes made every day was limited.
Therefore, for various reasons, although the business of Royal Dim Sum Shop is booming, the sales volume is also limited.
According to Li Qiao's estimation, the maximum profit of the Royal Dessert Shop in a month should be around one hundred thousand taels.
One month is 100,000 taels, so one year is 1.2 million taels.
Discounting the half-percent share allocated to him, only more than 1.1 million taels entered the treasury.
This number is actually not that small.
Because according to the information Li Qiao recently obtained, Dasheng's annual fiscal revenue does not include food, but only silver. In the end, only more than 20 million taels of silver entered the Shengjing treasury.
Because after each tax collection, the local government must set aside some for daily expenses.
In addition, since Dasheng was established, it has followed the path of low taxes. At the beginning, the tax was one for thirty, and tax reductions and exemptions were made from time to time. Later, as the population increased, the taxes increased a bit, but overall the taxes were low.
Therefore, the tax revenue in recent years has finally flowed into the Shengjing treasury, less than 30 million silver per year.
Nowadays, one dim sum shop can account for one-twentieth of the national treasury revenue, which is really great.
Furthermore, this is just the main store in Shengjing.
Shenghong will definitely open branches in other provinces.
It doesn’t matter if there is no milk in the branch, because the old-fashioned chicken cake does not require milk, but only eggs, flour, sugar, and oil. Therefore, this branch can also be opened in remote areas.
There are more than 300 prefectures in Dasheng. The combined income of these more than 300 prefectures will definitely exceed that of the Shengjing main store, because the prosperous areas in Jiangnan alone are almost as good as Shengjing.
Therefore, if this snack shop develops well, its annual income can account for one-tenth of the national treasury income.
this……
It’s not like I didn’t know this, but I was shocked when I calculated it!
When Li Qiao originally wrote this method on the test paper, he thought that if the imperial court came forward to establish a monopoly and open a cake shop, it would be really fun, and the profit would definitely be greater than that of vermicelli.
But in fact, due to various restrictions, cake shops are not as profitable as vermicelli. Last year, half of the vermicelli share was just over 200,000 taels. In other words, relying only on the five counties of Hexi Prefecture and Tongli County, the pure vermicelli for a year can only be made. The profit was more than four million taels of silver.
But it was really exciting. He could earn one-tenth of the national treasury's income by relying on this alone, which was even more exciting than he imagined.
Tao Zhu put one arm on the desk to support his face. He looked at the numbers on the paper, and the more he looked at them, the more incredible they became.
Relying on small snacks, how can you have such great magic power?
But it's true.
He sat up straight, looked at Li Qiao, and sighed sincerely: "Li Qiao, you are so awesome."
Li Qiao was also filled with disbelief at this moment. When he heard this, he turned to look at Tao Zhu.
Seeing the undisguised expressions of admiration, admiration, fascination, and admiration on Tao Zhu's face, he suddenly felt guilty.
Hey, the making of these snacks was not his idea.
But in this time and space, since he made it, it can only be his invention.
He smiled and said: "I just have some talent in the pastry business, and I just have an idea. You are the one who really does it, and you are also very good."
"How can I compare to you." Tao Zhu shook his head. He stared at Li Qiao. The more he looked at it, the more he liked it. He couldn't help but reached out to hold Li Qiao's cheek and kissed him hard on the lips.
He originally only wanted to kiss her, but after the kiss, he stepped away less than a foot. When he saw Li Qiao's smiling eyes, he couldn't help but kiss her again.
This time, he lightly licked Li Qiao's lips with the tip of his tongue.
This lick caused trouble.
Li Qiao turned his back on the guest. When the kiss ended, most of his strength was taken away from him. He could only sit on Li Qiao's lap and lay weakly in Li Qiao's arms.
Li Qiao's back was wider than his, just enough to hug him. The chair in the study room was a spacious Taishi chair. Li Qiao leaned against the back of the chair, with one hand around his waist and the other gently stroking his back. He felt comfortable. He narrowed his eyes and couldn't help but rub his cheek into Li Qiao's neck.
He really likes Li Qiao.
Moreover, what made him couldn't help but be amused was that Li Qiao also liked him so much!
"Brother Zhu, Mr. Xin asked when our dim sum shop will open? The two adults in my room also asked me today."
Li Qiao gently pinched Tao Zhu's earlobe and said.
The Mid-Autumn Festival was not a legal holiday and was not a holiday. When he went to work at the Hanlin Academy, Tao Zhu prepared a box of mooncakes for him and asked him to save them for lunch.
Considering that Mr. Li and Mr. Duan were in the same room, Tao Zhu put more than 20 mooncakes in the food box.
As a result, Xin Zhi went to see him again at noon, so he shared the mooncakes with Xin Zhi.
Xin Zhi didn't like snacks very much, but Tao Zhu's mooncakes were really delicious. He ate three pieces in one go and took two pieces home.
He had a lot of women at home, and two mooncakes were definitely not enough to share, so he went to work the day after the Mid-Autumn Festival and ran to ask him when the Li family snack shop would open before noon.
Master Li and Master Duan were both there at that time. After listening to Xin Zhi's words, they followed Xin Zhi and asked him when the snack shop would open.
"Hmm... I don't know." Tao Zhu thought for a moment and answered truthfully.
In the past few days, besides cooking, doing housework, and taking care of Li Xiaorui, he and Zheng Qianqian also struggled with the fifty sets of clothes with Shen Hua.
He hadn't thought about the pastry shop yet.
"We're not in a hurry. If you don't want to do it, it's okay if the shop doesn't open." Li Qiao said and pinched his earlobe again.
Although his colleagues like to eat, his brother Zhu can do whatever he wants. The most important thing is that Tao Zhu is happy.
"I'm going out to have a look in the next few days to see if there is a suitable shop. Brother Hua only has four or five sets of clothes left before he is finished."
Tao Zhu thought for a while and said again.
"Then let's go find Han Ning after I get off duty tomorrow," Li Qiao said.
"Okay!" Tao Zhu agreed.
Even if this snack shop were to open, it would only be in the north of the city. As a native of this area, Han Ning was the best person to approach him if he had anything to do.
Now it's the season to harvest sweet potatoes for making vermicelli, and it's also the season when autumn pears are about to mature. However, because autumn pear paste doesn't have to be made with autumn pears, Han Ning didn't go to Pingcheng this year and stayed in the capital.
The next day, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu came to the door. After hearing their husband and wife explain their intention, Han Ning immediately patted his heart and said that it was no problem, leaving everything to him. He was already familiar with this area in the north of the city.
However, it's not just dim sum that he's thinking about, but also duck products.
"Sir, when will this duck shop open?" Li Qiao became an official. His name for Li Qiao changed, but his casual, relaxed and natural attitude remained the same.
"Wait a minute, let's build the dessert shop first."
There is no buyer yet, and with only Tao Zhuli Dashan and a few others, he will definitely not be able to take care of two shops.
"Then when are you going to find someone to buy him?" Han Ning asked again.
Li Qiao smiled when he heard this: "There's no rush, it depends on your mood."
Now he and Tao Zhu are not short of money. Tao Zhu has a lot to do recently, so he is naturally not in a hurry to open a shop.
Besides, he and Tao Zhu were used to the current life. If they bought a strange servant and had completely unfamiliar strangers living in their home, then he, Tao Zhu, and everyone in Li Dashan would definitely not be used to it.
Therefore, buying someone was on the plan before returning to my hometown, but half a year has passed and no action has been taken.
"Oh, sir, your husband and wife's little life is beautiful." Han Ning couldn't help but sigh.
"No." Li Qiao nodded generously.
With a husband, money, and an official job, everyone who sees it will say it's beautiful.
During their second bathing break, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu went to see several shops owned by Han Ningxun. After looking at them for a whole day, they finally chose a shop less than a hundred meters away from Han's Braised Restaurant.
This shop is not the most suitable, but because it is close to Han's Braised Restaurant, Li Qiao decided to stay here. If anything happens, there will be someone at the Braised Restaurant to take care of him.
This shop is a two-entry courtyard, which is a bit narrow. There are only four rooms in the backyard including the kitchen. But even so, it cost a full 1,800 taels, which is more expensive than the three-entry courtyard where Li Qiao Taozhu lived at this time. One hundred taels.
Because this shop faces the street.
After buying the shop, it was time to find a blacksmith shop to prepare the corresponding tools and buy people.
Now that Li Qiao is an official, there is no need to look for Ya Zi when buying people. The Han family found Ya Zi, a familiar person, and told Li Qiao's request. After Li Qiao got off work, the Ya Zi came immediately with the people.
There are a total of twenty people, the oldest is fifteen years old and the youngest is eleven years old. There are boys, girls and younger brothers. The genders are very complete.
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu stood in front of these people, scanning their faces one by one, asking questions one by one, and assessed them on the spot, and finally bought four people.
There was a fifteen-year-old boy who was a bit stout and worked very hard to get along with him. Li Qiao changed his name on the spot and from now on he was called Li Shun.
A thirteen-year-old man who was not as strong as Li Shun, spoke softly and looked a little dull, so Li Qiao also changed his name to Li Li.
A twelve-year-old boy, this boy was thin and small, looking malnourished, but he was good at needlework, so Li Qiao kept him and called him Li He from now on.
One was a ten-year-old girl who was good at needlework. She made a purse in less than ten minutes. Li Qiao changed her name to Li Le.
These four people all live over there in the shop, not at home.
In the next few days, after Tao Zhu sent Li Qiao to work, he went to the shop to train four newly purchased servants.
Shen Hua imparted some experience to him. For newly bought servants, he must first have a straight face and not be too kind, lest these servants don't know what to do and make fun of them.
Tao Zhu felt that it was reasonable and he would be bullied if he was too kind, so when facing these four people, he always had a serious face and strict requirements.
His facial features were already sharp, and when he kept a straight face, he looked very untouchable. These four newcomers were quite afraid of him.
Li Qiao accidentally knew that he looked like this when facing the four Shun Shun and Le, so he had to see it with his own eyes.
After seeing her, I really fell in love with him so much that I kissed him until I was out of breath while sitting on the bullock cart going back.
In Li Qiao's view, Tao Zhu was not only not ugly, but also had the appearance of a noble prince.
It's just that due to the limitations of his horizons and family background, the nobility in him was not reflected.
