Many inns in Chang'an City and nearby states and counties want to do hot pot business, and they know the secret recipe, so naturally they don't have to ask Hualang anymore, but it is useless to have a secret recipe, because all the raw materials in the vicinity have been bought.

Just when everyone was worried about this matter, in Chang'an City, Ziqi Donglai Inn suddenly sold hot pot base raw materials at a high price.

Of course, although it is a high price, it is not very high, but it is only three or four times higher than when they bought it, but this is three or four times higher than boiling it into hot pot and selling it, it must be a little worse, so although the price of hot pot base is a little more expensive, there are still many people who come here to buy raw materials for hot pot base, and these people who come to buy raw materials are all innkeepers, and their inn is ready to add and sell hot pot.

In just two days, all the raw materials for the hot pot base that Hualang and their purchases were sold out, and later calculated, a total of several thousand taels of silver were earned, which was more than half of the profits they made for a year when they opened a branch with others.

With this money, it is enough to ask Mr. to build a private school in the spring, but to maintain it, the funds in their hands must continue to come and go, and if they want to sell the raw materials of the hot pot base, I am afraid it will not work, because after the beginning of the spring, the road is smooth, and those inns can go farther away to buy them by themselves, they just walk a few more days, and it is better than buying flowers at a high price.

It can be said that the money they made this time is a windfall, and although the windfall is large, it will not last long, which is not a good way.

Wen Meng glanced at Hua Lang and asked, "What should I do next?" ”

Hua Lang smiled: "Taking advantage of the harsh winter, let's make a lot of money with this hot pot first, and wait for the spring of next year, and then think of other ways, now every inn has a hot pot open, competing with each other, the price will definitely fall, and the people of Chang'an City want to eat hot pot, it is much easier, more affordable, now what we have to do is to make a mess of hot pot shabu." ”

"Shabu-shabu?" Wen Meng looked at Hua Lang with some puzzlement and asked.

Hua Lang nodded: "In the past, when we ate hot pot, most of the dishes we ate were relatively ploppy and could be bought on the street, but now, we have to sell some dishes that can't be bought in the vegetable market." ”

"What dish?"

"There are a lot of them, such as mutton rolls, dried tofu and the like, these are some reprocessed vegetables and meats, but after processing, if you put it in the hot pot base and eat it, it will taste more delicious."

Listening to Hanalang's words, everyone couldn't help but arouse their appetite and wanted to taste it as soon as possible.

After Hua Lang informed the master of the kitchen how to make these things, let them start making them immediately, and when doing this, they began to sell the hot pot base that had been boiled into a solid before, it was very convenient to use this hot pot base, if ordinary people wanted to eat hot pot, they didn't have to go to the inn at all, as long as they bought their hot pot base, they could make it at home, and all they needed was to buy some vegetables and meat, and these vegetables and meat were all available in the Purple Qi Donglai Inn.

For a while, the people of the entire Chang'an City came to the Ziqi Donglai Inn to buy that kind of solid hot pot base, and there were also things like mutton rolls that Hua Lang asked the kitchen master to make, after they bought these things, they could go home and eat them themselves.

In just a few days, Hualang and they made another profit, and while they made money, they also found the person who leaked the secret recipe of the hot pot base, that person was their former buddy here, first responsible for purchasing in the inn, and then responsible for boiling the hot pot base, and when he didn't do it home, he pondered these things, and finally he figured it out, at first, he didn't dare to open a hot pot restaurant, because as long as he opened a hot pot restaurant, he would inevitably find out that he had plagiarized Ziqi Donglai, If you don't make a good scene, you will have to eat a lawsuit, and what is the identity of Hua Lang, he couldn't be clearer.

Therefore, he can't afford to mess with Hualang, and in the end he can only buy a prescription, and after the prescription is sold, many people open a hot pot restaurant, then he can open it, and at that time, who can know that the secret recipe is what he figured out?

After learning about that person, Hua Lang did not punish that person in any way, after all, these things were all things that he figured out later, and he was able to figure this out, which shows that he is not very stupid, and Hua Lang likes smart people; What's more, the secret recipe for this hot pot base is not Hua Lang's, it was developed by him based on the experience of later generations, so he is embarrassed to punish that person.

Moreover, if this person hadn't leaked the secret recipe, they wouldn't have been able to accumulate a large amount of money so quickly.

Throughout the winter, Chang'an City is very calm, and there are no major cases, and Hualang they, in this winter made a lot of money, and after the weather gradually warmed up, with the support of Li Jing'an, Chang'an City began to build private schools, although the private school is not very big, just for some children to enlighten or some teenagers to learn more knowledge, but to build well, it also takes time, and Hualang They have more time, and there is no shortage of funds for the time being.

In the process of the establishment of the private school, Li Jingan ordered someone to post a notice, publicizing the importance of receiving education, and said again about the situation of this free schooling, as soon as the news came out, it immediately caused a big storm in Chang'an City, and some people who wanted to study and couldn't afford to read shouted Qingtian Lord, and admired Hualang and Li Jing'an for them.

It's just that in addition to some people thanking Hua Lang and Li Jing'an, some people are against it.

The people who oppose this matter are some scholars in Chang'an City, and the reason why they oppose the establishment of education is that the establishment of education touches their interests, originally, everyone knows that if a person wants to change his fate, the imperial examination is the most direct way, but the imperial examination is not for everyone to be able to take the examination, only those scholars and the children of the rich can afford to study, so that most of the students who are finally admitted are the children of their scholars, these people have become officials, and it is their interests to protect nature, But if all the teenagers in Chang'an City can study, won't the children of their rich families have fewer opportunities?

It can be said that it has changed even less, because these children from poor families know more about the preciousness of reading, and since they know the preciousness of reading, they naturally work hard, and they are better than the children of those rich families.

From ancient times to the present, involving the interests of everyone in the scholar clan, those scholars will all rise up and attack it, in the past, Ouyang Xiu and others presided over the reform in the capital, and now Hualang and others are setting up education, that is, in a few years, Wang Anshi will change the law, and it is also the same.