Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chen Jinlong is delicious, and naturally he also knows how to eat.

So much money spent over the years was not in vain.

If in future generations, there really is a chance to turn around, hold a mobile phone and start a food live broadcast, with his external image, face, and professional gourmet skills, maybe he can really become a big Internet celebrity.

But now, he is a down-and-out young man with almost no chance of turning around.

Chen Liaoyuan was impatient and continued to grind with him.

Chen Liaoyuan raised his hand and said, "Bring a bowl of chicken soup to Mr. Chen."

The waiter at the side immediately went down, and soon a bowl of chicken soup was served.

Chen Liaoyuan reached out to take it, placed it in front of Chen Jinlong himself, and said: "Master Chen, if you want to eat lotus leaf chicken, you can pay first. This bowl of chicken soup is given to you as a reminder of our past friendship."

The meaning behind his words was very clear, that is, he was going to send Chen Jinlong away with this bowl of chicken soup.

Chen Jinlong also knew that he might not be able to succeed today.

But at least there is a bowl of hot chicken soup to drink.

He smelled it first, frowned slightly, and said, "Your chicken soup doesn't have the fragrance of Yuelai Restaurant."

When Chen Liaoyuan, who was sitting nearby, heard this, he immediately became unhappy and said, "Take it over and pour it down."

Just when the waiter was about to get the bowl of chicken soup, Chen Jinlong quickly stretched out his hand to protect it, and at the same time said repeatedly: "No, no, no!"

As he spoke, his lips came together.

A mouthful of hot chicken soup.

"Mix it with water. This chicken soup doesn't taste rich enough."

Although Chen Jinlong drank the free chicken soup from Yangquan Restaurant, he did not speak for him unconscionably. Of course, the final result was that he was kicked out by the people from Yangquan Restaurant.

After cursing a few times at Yangquan Restaurant.

Chen Jinlong wandered aimlessly on the street alone. He failed to eat lotus leaf chicken, which made him feel itchy, scratching his heart like a cat.

At this moment, when he looked up, Chen Jinlong happened to see the Yuelai Restaurant, which had been closed before, suddenly open the door, and a waiter was tearing up the notice announcing the suspension of business at the door.

Chen Jinlong's originally cloudy eyes immediately shone with light.

He weighed the copper coins in his money bag with his hands. He couldn't afford the lotus leaf chicken for one or two silver, but he could still afford the lotus leaf chicken for 100 yuan.

Chen Jinlong said and walked straight towards Yuelai Restaurant.

Before he even entered the door, he smelled an alluring fragrance that made his mouth salivate wildly.

"Shopkeeper, here's a lotus leaf."

After entering the store, Chen Jinlong was about to buy lotus leaf chicken, but his eyes were quickly attracted by the things placed on the table in the center of the lobby and he couldn't take his eyes away.

What was placed on the table was Yangzhou roast duck!

"Hello, guest, this is our store's new signature dish, Yangzhou Roast Duck. Today is the day when our store reopens, and you can try it for free."

The shopkeeper smiled and introduced, then he started to roll up a roast duck roll, and then handed it to Chen Jinlong.

Chen Jinlong had long been attracted by the delicious food in front of him and was speechless. Just now, the shopkeeper had just put in the effort to make the roast duck rolls, and he secretly swallowed his saliva several times.

Seeing the delicious food handed over by the other party, Chen Jinlong immediately reached out to take it and took a bite.

The moment he ate the roast duck roll, Chen Jinlong had a look of extreme shock on his face, because he had never tasted this kind of taste.

Before he fell into despair, Chen Jinlong said without boasting that he had tasted all the delicacies in the world.

But whether it was the lotus leaf chicken or the Yangzhou roast duck in front of him, the taste was beyond his knowledge.

After swallowing a mouthful of roast duck roll, Chen Jinlong showed a happy expression on his face.

"Shopkeeper, how much does a Yangzhou roast duck cost?" Chen Jinlong asked.

"150 Wen." The owner of Yuelai Restaurant replied with a smile.

Although it is 50 cents more expensive than the lotus leaf chicken, you must know that Chen Jinlong and others have experienced the baptism of lotus leaf chicken in restaurants such as Yangquan Restaurant for 1 tael each, so the 150 cents of Yangzhou roast duck is not worth it at all in their eyes. expensive.

The main reason why Yuelai Restaurant prices Yangzhou roast duck 50 cents more than lotus leaf chicken is that the production process of Yangzhou roast duck is too cumbersome. The 50 cents is purely labor fee.

And you should know that a Yangzhou roast duck also comes with pancakes, roast duck sauce and shredded green onions.

It can be said that it is completely worth the money and there will be no problem in feeding a family of three.

After learning the price, Chen Jinlong immediately ordered a duck without saying a word, then found a good seat in the lobby to sit down and quietly waited for the duck to be served.

While Chen Jinlong was waiting for the duck, one after another people discovered that Yuelai Restaurant had reopened and entered the store.

These people were also immediately impressed by the Yangzhou roast duck they tried.

"Sir, your Yangzhou roast duck is here!" The waiter came out with a sliced ​​Yangzhou roast duck, a few small stacks of pancakes, roast duck sauce, and shredded green onions on a tray.

It immediately attracted the attention of everyone present.

In the eyes of everyone, Chen Jinlong started directly. He had only seen the restaurant owner do it once, and he had already learned the correct way to eat it.

I saw him holding the pancake, smearing some dipping sauce with chopsticks, then adding shredded green onions and roast duck one by one, and finally slowly rolled it up and put it directly into his mouth.

When you enter the pancake, you first feel the crispy tenderness of the duck skin and shredded green onions.

Then I ate the thick and plump duck meat. The delicious taste that exploded in my mouth at that moment was really wonderful.

In a short time, Chen Jinlong had eaten half of the roast duck and shouted loudly: "It's so refreshing!"

Chen Jinlong poured himself a cup of tea to relieve his tiredness, thinking that it would be better if he had wine, but his budget was not enough to support him to buy wine, so he might as well drink the free tea.

After several cups of tea, Chen Jinlong began to eat Yangzhou roast duck again.

It's so delicious.

In less than half a quarter of an hour, an entire roast duck was completely wiped out.

Chen Jinlong picked up the last pancake on the table and wiped the duck fat on his mouth, wiped it dry, and finally ate it happily.

After all, the roast duck is eaten with pancakes, so to be honest, it's quite filling.

Chen Jinlong couldn't help but burp after eating so much food in one go.

It had been a long time since he had eaten so well.

Seeing Chen Jinlong like this, the other diners began to rush to buy Yangzhou roast duck.

In a short time, fifty ducks roasted in a hanging oven were quickly sold out.

The reputation of Yangzhou Roast Duck has now been fully established.

Diners from all over Jiangnan have been suffering for a long time. Now that Yuelai Restaurant has reopened, they feel like they have seen a savior.

The emergence of Yangzhou roast duck has directly replaced the status of lotus leaf chicken.

If the prices were comparable, we might still be able to see the famous scene of chicken and duck competing for supremacy. But with such a huge price gap between the two sides, how could the lotus leaf chicken in Chen Liaoyuan's hands be a rival to Yuelai Restaurant's Yangzhou roast duck. The lotus leaf chicken, which was originally crowded and hard to find, fell to the point where no one cared about it within a few days.

Now, Chen Liaoyuan and the others were in dire straits.

You must know that there are still a lot of farm chickens in their respective warehouses that have not been consumed.

Once the lotus leaf chicken becomes unsalable, it will cause an extremely serious blow to them.

What Chen Liaoyuan and the others did not expect was that their nightmare had just begun.

Within a few days, they suddenly received a summons from the local government, saying that they were involved in a lawsuit.

Chen Liaoyuan and the others were confused about this. It wasn't until they came to the Yamen and understood the whole story that they found out that they had cracked the formula for using Yuelai Restaurant's Lotus Leaf Chicken.

Since the day the Patent Office was established, relevant patent laws have been announced nationwide through the Ming Dynasty Daily.

The announcement also comes with a catalog that details inventions that have been applied for patents in the patent office, and this catalog will be updated every five days.

Although Chen Liaoyuan saw lotus leaf chicken in the catalog at that time, he did not take it seriously.

Because according to the past rules of the mall, if someone cracks a secret recipe, he can only blame him for his own incompetence.

The one who cracks the secret recipe can use it as a matter of course.

Therefore, Chen Liaoyuan and the others did not expect that they would be involved in a lawsuit because of such a thing.

Due to sufficient evidence, the lawsuit was quickly decided and ended with a group of Jiangnan businessmen headed by Chen Liaoyuan being compensated with 15% of the profit from lotus leaf chicken.

The patent office calculated this profit based on data provided by Yuelai Restaurant.

Chen Liaoyuan and the others were naturally dissatisfied, but their arguments were regarded as sophistry by the patent office officials and were not accepted at all.

If the cost of lotus leaf chicken is really as high as what Chen Liaoyuan and others said, then could it be that Yuelai Restaurant is offering porridge in a charity hall?

Do you sell lotus leaf chicken at a loss every day?

This is obviously counterintuitive.

The data provided by Yuelai Restaurant is more logical and consistent with officials' inherent impression of businessmen being profit-seeking.

Because it was the first patent case since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, this incident even alarmed Prince Zhu Biao.

In the end, there was no suspense and it was turned into a solid case.

Even at Yang Xian's suggestion, this case was publicized nationwide through Daming Daily.

While popularizing patent laws to the people of the Ming Dynasty, we encouraged them to innovate and invent, and also encouraged them to share their secret recipes.

It can be said that this case has epoch-making significance.

But as the parties involved, the Jiangnan businessmen headed by Chen Liaoyuan were in dire straits.

According to the profit calculation provided by Yuelai Restaurant, the amount of compensation they need to pay far exceeds the profit itself.

In addition to many restaurants, the balance of the transaction with Ai Kun has not yet been paid.

At this time, Ai Kun also started to collect debts from them.

Originally, if the restaurant could still operate normally, it would still be supported.

However, due to the emergence of Yangzhou Roast Duck in Yuelai Restaurant, their restaurant's business was getting worse day by day, and they were unable to make ends meet every day.

These three things broke out at the same time, and the huge financial pressure instantly engulfed these Jiangnan businessmen.

Almost within a few days after the penalty in the patent case was implemented, some restaurants were the first to fail and began to go bankrupt.

Because the price of his lotus leaf chicken is more than one tael!

Like dominoes, when the first restaurant fails, there will soon be a second and a third.

Seeing that well-known time-honored restaurants across Jiangnan are closing down one after another, Yangquan Restaurant, known as the No. 1 restaurant in Hangzhou, is finally unable to hold on.

"master."

The originally splendid restaurant lobby is now a mess.

Chen Liaoyuan sat alone in the empty restaurant lobby, his face full of sadness.

After the restaurant went bankrupt, because they could not pay their wages, the staff and chefs in the restaurant took away valuable items from the restaurant to pay for their wages.

Chen Liaoyuan secretly lamented in his heart that the world was in a cold state and people's hearts were not as old as they used to be.

In times of crisis, no one is willing to stay.

It wasn't until this "Master" that a glimmer of light appeared in Chen Liaoyuan's originally cloudy eyes. He raised his head in confusion, looked at the gray-haired second shopkeeper behind him, and couldn't help but feel filled with emotion.

In the past, he had been taking care of this restaurant for him.

Thinking of every moment of these years, tears kept rolling in Chen Liaoyuan's eyes.

Thousands of words came to my heart, and besides being moved, I didn’t know what to say for a moment.

"Afu."

"Sir, can I take the chair you are sitting on with you?"

"Uh-huh?!"

Before Chen Liaoyuan could respond, his most trusted deputy, the second shopkeeper of Yangquan Restaurant, took away the huanghuali chair he was sitting on.

Then he ran straight out without looking back.

Chen Liaoyuan was left alone, sitting on the ground in the restaurant hall.

When the disaster came, they all flew away. When the second shopkeeper was carrying the huanghuali wood chair out of the restaurant door, the chair collided hard with the door.

The violent collision caused the plaque with the four characters "Yangquan Restaurant" on the top of the door to teeter, as if it was about to fall at any moment.

Squeak.

Squeak, squeak.

When these well-known restaurants across Jiangnan went bankrupt, Yang Xian had already had people prepare capital to acquire their assets.

Just like the previous plot against the Shen family, many things were interconnected. Yang Xian had already started the plan from early in the morning, and outsiders had no way of noticing.

At this point, after the textile industry in the Jiangnan area, the catering and restaurant industry also fell into the hands of Yang Xian.

As the person involved, Yang Xian is currently in the research institute of Yangzhou University, studying food for sailing.

Nowadays, the Ming Navy is sailing on long voyages, and the most important ingredients prepared on the warships are of course rice and wheat.

And some vegetables will be stored in advance, but the amount will not be too large. The vegetables that can be stored for a long time are salted vegetables, that is, pickles.

As for meat, it’s cured bacon.

As Xu Da said before, eating fresh fruits at sea is simply a luxury.

The two words Yang Xian represent a power that can turn the impossible into possible, and turn decay into magic.

The first thing Yang Xian thought of was canned food. (End of chapter)