The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 206 The Gan Family Tradition
After a big meal, the whole family was unable to move, their bellies looking like they were five months pregnant.

While they were digesting their food, the group talked about their family business.

Head chef Yang was confident in his culinary skills:
"This is perfect! I'm absolutely confident that our restaurant's name will be known throughout the entire Northwest in the near future."

"Mother, our delicious mutton soup is really worth selling for 100 coins a bowl, isn't it? You were worried that we would lose money before."

His mother almost beat him up because of the purchase price of the sheep, and Gan Mingshou started bringing up his old grievances.

"Get lost! I've never tasted such delicious food before! The lamb in the Northwest is really different from the lamb in our Daming Prefecture! If you ask me, lamb is even more fragrant than pork and chicken!"

The key is that we have a top-secret herbal root for enhancing flavor and aroma. All you need to do is throw large pieces of lamb bones into water and cook them for the designated time! Anyone can do it!

"If only we could slaughter our sixty sheep tomorrow. Without any income, Mother feels uneasy."

This is clearly a business that can make a lot of money as soon as it opens!

I can't wait, I simply can't wait!
Gan Mingshou was stunned by his mother's ambition to make her name known throughout Northwest China, and the more he thought about it, the more wonderful it seemed.

The dire shortage of raw materials left him in a state of panic, scratching his head in frustration.
"Oh dear, the lambs in Huyan County won't be ready for market until after autumn. Our sixty sheep aren't enough to last even a few days! We can't keep up, we can't keep up!"

The two courtyards are now only missing the custom-made tables and chairs in the private rooms; the stoves and the main hall are ready for use.

With the spring mornings and evenings still chilly, the business of mutton and offal soup is sure to be booming.

In short, everything is ready except for the sheep!

Gan Minglan noticed that her family members still didn't understand the point of eating meat today.

She pointed to a pile of bones on the table and asked everyone, "What do you think of the grassland sheep?"

"Delicious! Creamy and sweet!"

Who could resist this?

"In the words of the people of the border town, it's ruthless and vicious!"

"Before the sheep at home grow to adulthood, I can supply the mutton restaurant with ten grassland sheep every day, and the meat quality is even better than that of the sheep we have today!"

Gan Minglan was not blindly confident.

If those grassland sheep eat dog-rice grass for ten or fifteen days, their meat will taste bad, and she would dare to reverse her surname.

"very?"

A surprise fell from the sky.

The three members of the Gan family all thought they had misheard.

"What do you think I was busy with last night? The Tatar army came to fight with their cattle, sheep and horses! If they can come to our territory to plunder gold, silver and grain, why can't I turn around and take their livestock?"

"Wow! Sis, you're amazing! You did something so big without making a sound! I just want to know, how many cattle, horses, and sheep did you steal? Is it enough to keep our restaurant going until autumn?"

"Not many, just about two hundred cows and a little over twenty thousand sheep!"

"Ah? Ah!"

Gan Mingshou performed a triple jump in place.

This news also startled Gan Hongzhen and his wife, making their hearts pound. How could they have done that in one night?

Gan Minglan's explanation is:
"Besides cattle and sheep, I also stole more than 10,000 warhorses. The wild horse herd that I brought back from the grassland last time played a big role last night!"

However, warhorses cannot be bought and sold privately in the border town!
I plan to send these warhorses to General Zhao's cavalry battalion later and exchange them for a large ranch on the western slope of Junma Mountain!
More than 20,000 sheep, even if our restaurant slaughters them all by the end of the year, we still won't be able to finish.

I want to use last year's sheep prices to sell most of them to these military households who suffered at the hands of the Tatars!

Are these plans good or bad?
Gan Hongzhen thought about it carefully and realized it couldn't be better!

The warhorse was a hot potato if it remained in the daughter's hands.

Trading so many horses for a pasture that doesn't occupy the mountainous resources of the border town, any general who isn't a fool would be willing.

More than 10,000 warhorses equals more than 10,000 cavalrymen.

In chaotic times, what's the most reliable thing? Military strength, of course!

The entire Northwest region couldn't gather more than 20,000 sheep.

If people find out, who knows how many people will covet it.

Sell ​​them to the families of soldiers who have suffered at the hands of the Tatars at last year's sheep price.

Firstly, it's in line with the normal market price, and secondly, it avoids making people feel ripped off.

The reduced price will only make the military families remember their daughter's kindness even more.

They gained both substance and prestige.

Most importantly, the daughter owns a ranch.

The family's mutton restaurant will no longer be subject to anyone's control.

Thinking of this, Gan Hongzhen felt happy for his daughter and his heart was warmed.

He explained these principles to the three members of his family for a while.

If he had a tail, Gan Mingshou would be wagging it like a fan at his sister right now.

While happy, Yang couldn't help but worry about her daughter: "Your ranch isn't even built yet, is it? Where are you going to keep all those cattle, horses, and sheep?"

Half-grown lambs can be sold for two or three taels of silver!
If hundreds of them were stolen, you wouldn't even have a place to cry.

Besides, there are so many cows and horses.

It's just too eye-catching.

Gan Minglan pointed in the direction of Junma Mountain:

"I've specially found a very secluded canyon, with huge rocks blocking the entrance. Ordinary people can't find it at all, and you can't get in without my guidance! If you're worried, have Dad and my brother come with me to take a look tomorrow morning?"

"There really is such a valley? Mother wants to go and see it!"

"If you want to go, let's go together!"

"Good! Good! Good!" Gan Hongzhen wished it were dawn right now.

Any man with even a modicum of adventurous spirit would find it hard to believe that a hideout is described as "hidden" or "untraceable by ordinary people."

How big must the valley be to hide so many livestock?

I can't imagine it, I simply can't imagine it!
It seems his mutton soup restaurant will open in seven or eight days.

One sheep can make about two hundred bowls of mutton soup.

One bowl costs one hundred coins.

Ten sheep, that's two hundred taels of silver!

"hiss!"

Gan Hongzhen was quite startled after doing such a rough calculation.

Those bandits who robbed along the way couldn't make as much money as his family selling mutton soup, could they?

Don't dare to think, don't dare to think!
He'll go home tonight and discuss it with his two sons.

In the future, will the family restaurant buy sheep from our daughter's ranch at the highest market price, or will we directly give 70% of the profits to our daughter?

Following her daughter's suggestion, these grassland sheep are a business with no upfront costs. She can sell them to the military families at a fair price, so naturally she should sell them to her family at the same price.

His daughter has done so much for the family, so how could he, as her father, be so shameless?

It's time to set these rules before my two sons get married.

As long as he lives, he will never allow his children to have any rifts over money.

Good family traditions should be passed down from generation to generation.
(End of this chapter)