Straight man of steel

Chapter 332
"Uncle, will we continue to eat in those restaurants today?"

After two or three days, going to restaurants every day, even children don't have much interest.

Zhang Yuan visited all the restaurants in Du County two days ago, and also wanted to see if the food was good.

If the dishes are all delicious, it means that the store wants to continue to make them. If they are similar to pig food, it is probably just to make a quick buck.

"No, let's go and see those inns today."

After Zhang Yuan said this, Sima Qian still didn't raise his interest. What's the difference between these inns and those restaurants.

Yan Yi on the other side didn't say anything, and now Yan Yi has also calmed down a lot over the years.

Sima Qian is like a hundred thousand whys, but it is probably his great curiosity that made him write this historian's swan song.

Leading the two young men, Zhang Yuan walked slowly to an inn less than 100 meters from the North City Gate.

If you want to say where the inn with the best location in Du County is, others may say the ones around Taixue, but Zhang Yuan thinks it is this one.

To put it bluntly, Du County is a satellite city of Chang'an. Now, on the surface, Shanglin Garden has not been opened. If people from Du County go to other cities, they can only detour through Chang'an City.

For example, if you go to Lantian County, you may go to the South Gate, but if you go directly to Lantian County from the south, what should you do if you encounter an army on the way?
It would be difficult to be treated as a savage and directly killed by those people.

The farmlands around Du County can be guaranteed to be absolutely safe, and the safest one is the road from Du County to Chang'an City.

It can be said that if people from outside want to come to Du County, or people from Du County want to go out, they must go out through the north gate. Of course, if someone is willing to come out through the south gate and walk around the city wall for half a circle, Zhang Yuan will also There is no way is it.

If this road becomes the main passage, the flow of people passing by this inn will increase greatly.

Some people who want to go out after opening the city gate early in the morning can save a lot of time by living here.

The excellent location makes this inn, no matter whether it is the enrollment period of Taixue in the future, or other major events happen in Du County, the business here will not be bad.

That's why Zhang Yuan decided to visit this family first. If the owner of this family wanted to make a quick buck and then closed the inn, Zhang Yuan's idea of ​​invigorating Du County's economy would be difficult to implement.

"There are still a lot of people."

Sima Qian looked at it with his head and then said directly.

"Tai Xue has not released its rankings yet, so many students are waiting in Du County, all the inns are basically overcrowded."

Yan Yi explained on the side, but Sima Qian didn't appreciate it, thinking in his heart that it's not that he didn't know, he just sighed.

There are no high-rise buildings in Du County. Except for Tianlu Pavilion, the others are all one-story, but there are high and low.

The front hall of Taixue is very high, that is because the foundation is high, and the roof is also high, but in fact it is only one floor.

These restaurants in Du County are what Zhang Yuan called them, but they are not actually buildings, they are all one-story private houses.

All the inns and restaurants in Du County are like this. Some people's private houses are too big, so they clean up the unusable places, and then open to welcome customers after making them look good.

These days, no one minds these things, as long as they can provide convenience for others.

"Where is the store owner?"

Zhang Yuan saw that there were people eating in the yard, and no one greeted him, so he raised his voice.

After a while, a half-sized boy came running.

"My nobleman, if you eat, we have no room here, and there are no vacancies in the hotel."

Zhang Yuan looked at this serious child and smiled.

This is the most traditional family workshop. No one consciously asks for a mistress or something. There are only a few people in the family who come up to help.

If there is no one, then one person will be the boss, one will be the cook, and the other will be the waiter.

"Where is your adult, I have something to ask him."

The adults here are talking about fathers, not elders, which is also one of the titles of fathers.

"Oh, he's cooking in the kitchen."

The child didn't have any vigilance either, so he led Zhang Yuan to the kitchen.

Both Sima Qian and Yan Yi knew that Zhang Yuan was good at cooking, and they didn't shy away from these things, so they went to cook together.

If it were any other official, he would definitely not go to such a lowly place like Zhang Yuan.

The child led Zhang Yuan and the others into the kitchen, which naturally attracted the attention of others.

The cook who was cooking with an iron pot couldn't help but trembled when he saw three strangers coming in.

"Are you the owner of this shop?"

Zhang Yuan asked with a smile.

The cook quickly put the iron pot on the stove aside and nodded dully.

He also met a lot of rich people these days, and those students must be much richer than ordinary people in Du County.

But none of the examinees dressed better than Zhang Yuan, and some things could not even be used by less than one class.

It's just like spring now, Zhang Yuan is still wearing a robe with many patterns, and he didn't deliberately wear some plain clothes.

"I just came here to ask, is your store going to stay open forever or do you have other plans."

The cook narrowed his eyes slightly, revealing confusion rather than shrewdness.

They still have land in their home. According to the law of the Han Dynasty, if they want to do business, they have to deal with the land first.

But now the population of Du County is not large, every family has land, who will take your land.

Those big households have money to collect, but no one to plant.

Everyone is a new resident of Du County. Although those big families lived in Du County before, after all, there was a blank period in the middle.

It will take some time for the landlords and gentry to plunder the resources of ordinary people, and there is basically no way like now.

What should I do if the good land is taken away?These ordinary people just opened restaurants and opened inns directly, and no one from those big families went to farm. Abandoned fields are a waste.

So in fact, these inns and restaurants are illegal, and the only one in Du County who can solve this problem is Zhang Yuan.

But the cook didn't know that the person in front of him was Zhang Yuan, so he subconsciously thought that someone from the government had come, and his business might not be able to continue in the future.

"Your nobleman, are you from the official family?"

Zhang Yuan couldn't guess what other people thought, and he didn't intend to cover up his identity, otherwise it would be difficult to give these ordinary people the confidence to continue to open a shop.

"I'm from the official family, do you still plan to open this store?"

The cook's face immediately changed, and he quickly knelt down on the ground.

"My noble man, we haven't made any money. If the government says it can't be opened, I will close the store after the Taixue releases the rankings. Do you think it's okay?
If the store is closed now, there are still many students living there, so it’s not a problem to drive them out, right? "

This time it was Zhang Yuan who was taken aback, and he didn't ask him to close the store himself, so why did he react so strongly.

"Are you a black shop?"

Zhang Yuan still remembers the black shop he met back then. Could it be that there are still people running black shops in this county?

Neither side knew what the other was thinking, and the misunderstanding continued.

"My lord, I have violated the law, please let my family live."

The cook was about to cry, knelt on the ground and dared not get up.

At this moment, Yan Yi stepped forward and said to Zhang Yuan.

"Teacher, it's not easy for us to deal with this matter. Let's tell the people in Duxian county government to let them handle it."

Yan Yi maintained his usual calmness, and quickly thought of a way to deal with it.

Zhang Yuan didn't know how to continue, so he had to follow what Yan Yi said.

Why did he just ask about opening a store, and found a black store.

It's not that Zhang Yuan didn't understand the situation of these stores clearly, it's that everyone hid it and didn't talk about it.

In fact, the inns and restaurants in Du County are in the same situation, because everyone knows this law because it involves their respective identities.

If it was replaced by other laws, the people really don't know.

The big man is particularly entangled with everyone's identity, that is, Zhang Yuan has lived too comfortably these years, and forgot that his first goal was to change his identity.

Yan Yi went to the government to call for help, and soon Mei Gao arrived with some county soldiers.

The main reason was because Zhang Yuan was here, otherwise he would have sent troops to arrest him.

"Tai Xue Ling."

Mei Gao bowed to Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan nodded and found a place to sit down.

The county soldiers have all come, and this movement is not small, not to mention that people in other places know about it, at least the candidates in this inn know that something is going to happen.

When Mei Gao saluted Zhang Yuan, almost everyone saw it.

Zhang Yuan may be the biggest stone on the hearts of students in the future. No matter how high-minded he is, he is now in this position. A well-known literati like Mei Gao is respectful and respectful. These people have not even entered the Imperial College. What qualifications does the student have to put on airs with Zhang Yuan.

As a result, nearly twenty students in a circle also bowed to Zhang Yuan one after another.

"Students pay homage to the Taixue Order."

Seeing this momentum, the cook's face became even paler, and he broke out in cold sweat uncontrollably.

The hostess of the inn pulled her child and stood beside the cook, who had already started to sob. They didn't know how to offend the biggest person in Du County.

"You said that you opened this inn in violation of the law, which means that your store is a black one.

What did you do to violate that law. "

Mei Gao didn't say anything about taking him away, and started interrogating him on the spot.

The examinees on the side heard that this shop was a black shop, and there was an uproar all of a sudden.

"The price of this store is not expensive. This is still a black store. Could it be that there is something wrong with the food we eat?"

"Yes, it seems that this is the only possibility now."

"What should I do? All I eat these days is the food from this inn. What if I get poisoned?"

The cook heard what the students said, no matter what Zhang Yuan and Mei Gao were, he boldly said loudly.

"Although we violated the law, there is absolutely no problem with eating and drinking in the store."

Mei Gao didn't know what was going on. During this period of time, so many candidates had poured into Du County, he was already a little bit battered, how could he notice these things.

"The price is fine, the food is fine, so how can you say you broke the law?

Have you ever done something criminal? "

The cook quickly shook his head.

"No, no, how dare the villain."

"Then murder and set fire?"

"I dare not."

Everyone is confused, and sometimes it is the simplest problem that cannot be solved.

The cook was also too nervous. After all, he had committed a crime, and the honest man didn't know how to explain it. He was only worried about whether he would be beheaded.

Yes.

The current law is a bit too simple and rude, or to put it another way, the common people know only a few consequences of breaking the law, either exile or beheaded.

Zhang Yuan still doesn't understand what everyone thinks. If he knows, he will probably sigh the importance of popularizing the law.

But now he is also involved. This is the reason why the authorities are confused by the bystanders.

(End of this chapter)