Hearing this, Shopkeeper Li sighed leisurely: "This matter is a long story, thanks to the new Lord Thorn Shi. ”

"Oh?" Hearing this, Zhu Su raised his eyebrows, and asked with curiosity on his face, "Why do you say this, could it be that something happened?" ”

"Exactly." Shopkeeper Li nodded, and told him that his son was robbed, persecuted, and Li Hao sent people to go to more than 200 miles to rescue his son, but Li Hao did not tell him that he was Cao Tian's doing, so when he told Zhu Sulao, he only said that he was a villain.

When Zhu Su heard this, he raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "Under Lang Lang Qiankun, there is such a thing!" Robbing your young son, coercing you to close your business, and creating panic are not ordinary people's actions! ”

Shopkeeper Li is also a living pan-person, nodded and said: "The younger generation guesses that it is very likely to be the work of the enemy country." ”

Zhu Su nodded his head: "It makes sense, if Tingzhou is in chaos, the enemy country will have a chance, huh?" In this way, there is an enemy country that wants to make a move on our Tingzhou? ”

Shopkeeper Li was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked: "How is this good, Old Su, do you want to tell Master Thorn Shi?" ”

Zhu Su thought about it when he heard this, and said: "Let's go and meet him, I heard that this new Li Tingshi made Cao Tian suffer a lot as soon as he took office, and he was really happy, so he rushed to this point, and Lao Yu wanted to meet him." ”

After pacifying the food problem, and by the way, he also rectified Cao Tian, Li Hao was very happy, but he was not proud, and continued to send Lu Yun to monitor Cao Tian's every move, and he really didn't feel at ease when he sent other people, after all, Cao Tian's power in Tingzhou was deep-rooted, and he was also under Cao Tian's surveillance, so he could only send a master like Lu Yun.

Li Hao was on the way back to the Shi Mansion, Peng Hai suddenly remembered something, walked quickly to Li Hao's side, and said in a low voice: "My lord, when I went to Kunyue Lake to get water last night, I asked about the growth of corn there. ”

Li Hao was suddenly shocked when he heard this, and stopped suddenly, he was busy dealing with the food crisis in the past few days, and almost forgot about the corn, carefully calculated, the corn has been sown for five days, it stands to reason that it should sprout, if it has not sprouted for so long, it is hopeless, listening to Peng Hai mention corn, he suddenly became nervous, his voice trembled a little, and asked: "How is it?" Did it bud? ”

"It's budding." Peng Hai nodded, "And it grows very fast, it is already more than three inches tall." ”

"How tall is three inches? So fast? Li Hao was surprised when he heard this, he remembered that when he planted corn in Lantian, the seeds were sown for five days, and the corn seedlings were more than two inches tall at most, but he didn't expect them to grow faster in Tingzhou, which is not scientific at all, after all, the soil here is too barren.

"Let's go! Check it out! Li Hao was a little excited, and on a whim, he must go and see the corn seedlings in person.

So they turned west and went to the Xicheng wasteland, bypassing Kunyue Lake, and came to the cornfield, where they could see dozens of acres of green land from a distance, full of corn sprouts, Li Hao was happy, squatting down to check one plant by one, excited, wanting to touch it, but afraid of touching it, that look a little funny.

After a long time, Li Hao got up excitedly and said to himself happily: "Okay! That's great! The first business chain can start to prepare! I also need a variety of corn, Tingzhou has a small population, and there is a lot of open land, which is just enough for me to grow corn......"

Li Hao returned to the Thorn Mansion with full excitement, and issued an approval document to reclaim the wasteland in the city and plant corn, and the children of those people who mortgaged to do long-term labor came in handy, and let them do farm work for the time being, and a small number of right guards also participated.

Dika's restaurant opened, named Tingzhou No. 1 Restaurant, the name is very arrogant, but the business is very bleak, there is no way, the people of Tingzhou are poor, and it is good to barely be able to eat enough, how can there be spare money to go to the restaurant. However, at noon that day, a caravan of 300 people arrived in Tingzhou, where they settled down, the caravan was the most important consumer force in Tingzhou, and Tingzhou wanted to get rich, all of which had to rely on the caravan.

Several people in the caravan entered the restaurant opened by Decca to eat, and Decca took the initiative to recommend to them the three signature dishes of the restaurant, which were the three recipes given to him by Li Hao, namely "Fried Lamb with Green Onions", "Big Plate Chicken", "Hanging Braised Pork", although the chef had just learned these three dishes for a short time, and the cooking was not exquisite enough, but if the heat and seasonings could be controlled well, the basic taste would not be too bad, and the cooking technology of the Tang Dynasty was too embarrassing, and those restaurants in Chang'an were nothing more than that, not to mention Tingzhou here.

These three dishes are really super popular, the people of the caravan hurriedly called friends and friends, came here to eat nonsense, and the restaurant was full for a while, which stunned Dika, he originally just wanted to cooperate with Li Hao to act, but suddenly found that the business opportunities here are limitless, and the idea of leaving his uncle Shi Najie and doing it alone came to his heart.

Decca's Tingzhou No. 1 Restaurant has a booming business, which makes some other merchants in the city red-eyed, and they have gone to Datang Qianzhuang to take loans to prepare to open a restaurant, they are not lending for money, but Li Hao's three magical recipes.

However, this time Li Hao only gave three places, which made those merchants very unhappy, why only three places, more than a dozen merchants quarreled with Qin Wei in Qianzhuang, and asked them to give a reason, Qin Wei really couldn't resist, so he went to ask Li Hao, Li Hao invited this group of merchants to drink tea in the Thorn Shi Mansion, and first popularized with them what is called market saturation, and let them know that Tingzhou can only open five restaurants at most, which is just enough to digest the passing caravan, and if it is too much, everyone will have no money to make.

This group of merchants still has a bit of brains, and they agree with Li Hao's statement, so they began to compete for the three places, Li Hao asked them to draw lots to decide, and the last three merchants who won the places were surnamed Qian, Hua, and Niu.

Other merchants were very frustrated because they didn't get a quota, but then, Li Hao asked them not to be depressed, because he had other businesses for them to invest, and then he told them some of his plans, the most important of which was the chicken wishbone franchise store, the chicken wishbone franchise store is a more decent business, and the chicken wishbone consumer group is relatively wide, as long as a little money can buy it for a tooth sacrifice, the business is definitely better than the restaurant. There are also 20,000 people in Tingzhou, plus passing caravans, and there is no problem in opening five or six chicken wishbone franchise stores. In order to increase his persuasiveness, Li Hao also prepared a chicken wishbone for the merchants present to taste, when had the merchants eaten such a delicacy, chewed the chicken bones to a pulp, and then rushed to join excitedly.

Li Hao told them not to worry, and launched a farm and a winery and other businesses, which finally satisfied all the merchants, and everyone was happy, and they were even happier than prostituting a peerless beauty.

After solving this group of larger merchants, Li Hao next thought about how to make that group of small merchants also make money, and just thinking about this problem, Li Yuanzhong suddenly walked in and arched his hand: "My lord, there is an old man named Zhu Ziqian who wants to see you." ”

"Zhu Ziqian?" Li Hao frowned and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Li Yuanzhong said: "It is said that this old man is quite famous in Tingzhou City, very learned, and is also the only teacher in Tingzhou. ”

"This person is very famous in Tingzhou?" Li Hao didn't care much about the others, as soon as he heard that this old man was very famous, he suddenly became interested, he first arrived, the people still don't trust him very much, if he can find a famous person to help him say good things, many things will be much easier.

"Yes, prestigious." Li Yuanzhong said, "The people of Tingzhou respectfully call him Zhu Sulao. ”

"Okay." Li Hao got up and stepped down from his official position, straightened his clothes, and said, "I will personally go to greet this old man Zhusu." ”

Li Hao came to the outside of the Thorn Mansion, and saw an old man with a white beard standing outside the door, his body was slightly rickety, and there were many old age spots on his face, and he looked very old.

Li Hao hurriedly stepped forward and arched his hand: "Li Hao, the junior of the junior school, Li Shimad, visited Zhu Sulao. ”

Zhu Su Lao was flattered when he saw this, and hurriedly bowed down and returned the salute: "Don't dare, don't dare, the old man is tormented, and the old man will meet Master Thorn Shi." ”

Li Hao stretched out his hand to stop him, and said with a smile on his face: "Zhu Su is old, and his body is not very flexible, so don't make any big gifts, come, the younger generation will help Su Su Lao enter the mansion." ”

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." Li Hao's enthusiasm made him a little at a loss, although he has a high reputation, but at the same time he is a knowledgeable person, and naturally he also knows how to respect and humility, Li Hao is a state pastor, a feudal official, how respectful his status is, how can he be compared with this teaching gentleman, and now he treats himself so politely, he is really a little unbearable.

Li Hao ignored his objections, took his arm into the Assassin's Mansion, sat down in the inner office, and let a maid serve tea.

When Zhu Su saw the little maid serving tea, he was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Isn't this the daughter of the Tang family?" ”

Li Hao explained with a smile: "Su Lao, this is indeed the daughter of the Tang family, called Tang Xiu'er, her father wants to borrow money from my money village to set up an inn, and there is no mortgage, so he can only mortgage his daughter to me, I saw that the little girl was well-behaved, so I asked her to do some work of serving tea and pouring water, and gave Baiwen a monthly salary, which was enough for her to subsidize some households." ”

Hearing this, Zhu Su squinted his eyes and said: "The matter of Qianzhuang, the old man has heard about it for a long time, and he thought that using his children as a mortgage would violate the teachings of the sage, but the Lord of the Assassin Shi was very good, not only did not embarrass them, but also paid the wages, which is really commendable." ”

"The old man has won the prize." Li Hao said seriously, "As a parent official in Tingzhou, the younger generation must find a way to get the people of Tingzhou out of hunger and poverty, so that it will not be in vain for me to come to Tingzhou, nor will I be an official in vain." ”

Hearing this, Elder Zhu Su stood up solemnly, shook his head at Li Hao, and said solemnly: "Lord Assassin Shi can think for the people of Tingzhou everywhere, it is really a rare good official, the old man is deeply grateful, and I thank Lord Assassin Shi for the people of Tingzhou first." ”

"Zhu Su's old words are serious." Li Hao stretched out his hands to let him sit down, and said slowly, "Su Lao, I am new to Tingzhou, and I am not very familiar with Tingzhou, and it is difficult for the people to fully trust me, so there may be many places in the future that need to be helped by Su Lao." ”

Zhu Su arched his hand and said: "Lord Assassin Shi is serious, as long as it is for the good of the people of Tingzhou, no matter what happens, the old man will never refuse." ”

"With the words of the old man, I am relieved." Li Hao smiled heartily and said, "I have something I want to ask Elder Zhu Su for now." ”

Zhu Su spread his hands and said, "My lord, please speak." ”