It was dark the next day.
Song Che got up early, defatted a large pot of fresh milk and put it into a bucket, then boiled a large pot of "pearls" with cowhide. He also sent his servants to find high-quality bamboo, and used bamboo joints to make cups of the same size, with bamboo branches used as straws. Son;
After transporting all the items to the store, set up two pots and stoves, heat the milk and tea, and brew them.
Next to the milk tea shop is Biden's silk shop, and customers who came to buy silk lined up early in the morning.
The weather was very cold in the early morning, and the noble families all brought heaters. Suddenly they noticed steam rising from the shop and the smell of milk. They couldn't help but come up and ask:
"What are you cooking? Can you sell us a cup to ward off the cold?"
Song Che walked down the slope and said to everyone with a smile: "This is a drink that we Liang people must drink in winter. It is called milk tea. Just drink a cup of it in the morning and you will be energetic all day long——
Today, all our guests have had a drink. Our store has just opened and is currently doing trial activities. Come on, dear guests, have a free drink first. I guarantee you will be full of praise! "
Tuya was responsible for blending the milk tea, the servant was responsible for filling it into small cups, and Song Che presented it to passers-by for tasting.
"Hey, this taste is really unique. Although it has a milky taste, it is not greasy at all, and it also has a light tea aroma."
"I can eat grapes, but what are these shiny, fish-roe-like particles? They are not only soft but also chewy!"
"It tastes really good! How do you sell it?"
Someone made an inquiry.
Song Che struck while the iron was hot, slowly pointed out three fingers, and said with a smile: "You only need thirty coins to get a full cup!"
"Thirty cents, so expensive..."
"Hey, you guests don't know. A cup of milk tea like this in Daliang costs at least 80 cents. It contains fresh milk, good green tea, high-quality raisins, and secret pearls. The taste is great. Pure, sweet but not greasy, nutritious and healthy, thirty cents a cup is already very cheap!”
Under Song Che's enthusiastic sales pitch, the customers were moved, but some were still hesitant.
Song Che hurriedly added: "The Japanese milk tea shop is opening today. In order to give you the best experience, if you buy one cup now, we will give you another cup as a gift. The limit is fifty cups, while supplies last!"
"Then give me a drink, and take one home for my man to try too!"
"Let me have a cup to warm my hands too!"
Customers paid for it one after another.
With the first batch of customers, passers-by were also attracted. Everyone was full of curiosity about this new drink and were willing to spend money to try it.
The main reason is that this milk tea is really delicious. The hot milk tea is packed in a bamboo tube. It is warm and considerate to hold in the palm of your hand in the winter.
After a while, the first fifty cups were sold out. At this time, the customer flow had reached its peak, and there were people who were willing to pay even thirty cents a cup.
In less than half an hour, all the 300 cups of milk tea prepared by Song Che were sold out, and a box full of more than 8,000 copper coins was filled.
"How come your milk tea is sold out so quickly? I also want to take two cups home for the children to try." Many customers who came to buy were still unsatisfied.
Song Che smiled and said: "Today's store is just a trial operation, so there are not many preparations, but please don't worry, I will research more milk tea flavors in the next few days and sell them all day long from morning to night, ensuring that everyone can drink it at any time Hot milk tea!”
Milk tea is just the key to opening the door to the market. As long as there is customer flow, even boiling a pot of eggs can increase profits.
In the next few days, Song Che sold bubble milk tea during the day and researched new flavors at night, such as fruit milk, yogurt, small cakes, cookies, etc.
They are all small things, so naturally they can't make much money. After deducting the cost, a milk tea shop's daily profit is about fifteen taels.
"Boss Song, you spend more than this amount of money, so why do you still work so hard from early to late at night?" Biden from the shop next door asked Song Che every time he saw him.
Indeed, in Song Che's eyes, this amount of income is really a drop in the bucket, but this is precisely his goal. If he makes too much money, it will inevitably arouse Arhan's suspicion, and then asking Biden to help deliver the letter will also be very dangerous - —
If the information about Hu State could be spread silently, this information would be worth tens of millions of taels of gold.
A far-sighted businessman never cares about small money. Real benefits are often invisible and intangible.
Since Song Che proposed to the Khan to proclaim himself emperor, there has been no news from within the Hu Kingdom. Arhan also seemed to have disappeared and never came to see Song Che again.
Song Che would never ask more questions, and he didn't even mention a word about Tuya beside his pillow. Now his daily life is to leave early and come back late to run the business of a milk tea shop.
The more prosaic you are, the better you can hide your ambitions, and the less likely you are to attract attention.
On the fifth day of the milk tea shop's opening, as new models continued to be put on the shelves, the business was booming. Everyone who came to buy milk tea had to bring a small cake.
In addition to retail sales, many restaurants and inns are interested in the quality of milk tea. They come to buy it wholesale every day, put it in their own stores, and sell it as drinks.
In just a few days, milk tea became popular in most cities.
As the business grew bigger and bigger, manpower became somewhat scarce, and even a small shop seemed unable to satisfy the appetites of these barbarians.
Song Che began to have the idea of expanding employees and opening a branch——
The servants in the mansion are Arhan's spies who monitor Song Che. Even if they want to make a fortune with Song Che, Song Che will never take them with him.
Recruiting?
It seems that in Hu State, there is no concept of "worker". As long as you spend money to buy a slave, you can treat him like a beast.
To the east of Dadu, there is a "slave market" that specializes in selling slaves. If a wealthy family is short of slaves, they can go there to choose from. It is said that there are all kinds of slaves.
Song Che also thought about going to the market to buy a batch of slaves of his own, but due to his Liang identity, the slave owner would definitely not sell them to him.
What should we do?
Song Che was lying on the counter of the milk tea shop, worrying about the lack of manpower, when he suddenly heard a curse coming from outside the shop:
"My brother drank your milk tea and suddenly frothy at the mouth and passed out. If you don't give me an explanation today, I will smash your shop!"
Someone is here to cause trouble.
