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After listening to what Liu's father said, Shen Wanshan picked up another quarter of the salted duck egg. This time, there was a lot more egg yolk in the middle than the previous one.

"I see. If we can make it in large quantities and sell it to caravans, or even connect it with military supplies, this business will be big. But I don't have the ability to do so at the moment."

"Look at what you said. Wanshan, you don't have the ability, let alone our family. I haven't thought that far. I thought of opening a small workshop first and building up the business. Good wine needs no bush. Maybe these distinguished guests will come to us in the future!"

Shen Wanshan shook his head, sighed and said, "Brother Liu, after hearing what you said, I think you still need to think of a way out. We may not be able to keep the recipe. We still need to find a strong backer."

"Then we don't have any connections with anyone. Can we not do small business on our own?"

"It's fine to do small business, but we just talked about military supplies. This is no small matter. The court said it wants to requisition it to give you face. If you encounter unreasonable officials, they will find a trumped-up reason. You will not be able to keep this prescription, and your family may even be implicated."

Liu's father and the others had thought about it before, but they didn't expect that even if they asked Shen Wanshan to cooperate, it would not work. What about how to get the preserved eggs and some other things out?

"Wanshan, I think you know that I want to cooperate with you because we are unfamiliar with this place. That's why I want to find an experienced and well-connected businessman to do business together. It's no problem for us to make these recipes ourselves. Now that you say this, do I have to find a more powerful person to cooperate with?"

After saying this, Father Liu looked at Shen Wanshan with a smile, asking Shen Wanshan to give him some advice. After all, this business is profitable for Shen Wanshan. He really needs this business now.

Shen Wanshan also knew this truth. He thought for a moment and said, "Brother Liu, I am really grateful that you can take me with you. I definitely hope that our business can grow bigger and stronger. Let's renegotiate the cooperation method and profit-sharing method you proposed to me before."

"Oh...how do we renegotiate?"

"We'll find a more powerful backer, so we'll naturally give him a share of the profits!"

"Who are you looking for?"

"Looking for Prince Qing!"

Father Liu was stunned. He thought it would be good enough to just go find the prefect, but he didn't expect that the prefect had such courage.

"Do you have connections?"

"I have a way, but I don't know if it will work. Brother Liu, if we can reach a cooperation, we will go to the state capital together. If we can meet the person, there is hope. If not, we can only find another way."

"Who are you talking about?"

"I used to travel a lot, and by chance I met the steward of Prince Qing's mansion. Prince Qing does not need to pay any taxes to the court, and he also has control over a hundred thousand troops. We are currently developing in Zhongzhou, and it is enough for us to get close to Prince Qing. Even if we want to expand the store to the entire Dayuan Dynasty in the future, as long as we have the support of Prince Qing, it is also possible. But it will only require giving up some more interests at that time. After all, you need to make arrangements if you want to go to someone else's territory. This is the rule."

"Of course, rules are rules. We need to be given opportunities to follow the rules. Wanshan, let's not talk about the distant future. Let me talk about opening a shop first. Open the shops under your name first, and then talk about other things after they are well developed. At present, I don't want to start the salted duck egg business right away."

"Okay, Brother Liu, look, this is the storefront I decided to use to open a fast food restaurant."

Father Liu and Luo Hong watched together, and Shen Wanshan recorded the situation of each shop on a piece of paper. There were two shops in the city, and the others were in the surrounding counties.

There were twelve shops in total, not too many but not too few either, and within the acceptable range for Liu's father. If there were more shops, he was afraid that he would not be able to manage them at the beginning and there would be chaos.

"Yes, the locations of these shops are very good, very suitable for opening fast food shops, especially the shops in these counties are just in the market at the dock."

"I specifically picked these out. They are currently rented out to others for business, and the lease is about to expire, so I listed them. Taking them back and running them myself should yield higher returns than renting them out."

"Okay, you can arrange it. These twelve shops will be the beginning of our cooperation. Let's sign the cooperation contract today, and I will start preparing the menu and marinade. You can tidy up the shop and make the same plaque. Later I will ask Xiaolu to draw the design of the tables, chairs and benches in the shop for you. Then, go to the government office to register it, and it will be the name of our chain store in the future."

"I know about the plaque, but can't I just go to a carpenter's shop and buy the tables, chairs and benches? How else do I design it?"

"It's okay. You'll understand when I draw this."

"Okay, brother, what should we do with the chefs? We need so many chefs to open all the stores at the same time. I have trained a few chefs at home. They all have indentures and are more reliable. I will send them over to learn how to cook from you? Or should we go to the pharmacy tomorrow to buy a few talented cooks and start training them?"

"Don't worry, chef. We can hire people to come back to this kind of fast food shop. We will definitely not hand over the braised meat recipe. We discussed what to do yesterday! We will make the marinade into marinade packets. When the time comes, we can just put the marinade packets in the pot and add water to marinate."

"If someone opens this marinade bag and finds out the ingredients inside, won't it be leaked?"

"Don't worry, no one can steal the sauce packets we make. You don't have to worry about that. The same goes for the recipes. We will make a seasoning packet and put it in according to the proportion when cooking.

The dishes made in a shop like ours are not very complicated, and the seasoning packets can also unify the taste of the dishes. By then, the taste of all the shops will be similar, which can be regarded as one of our characteristics. Once we become proficient in making these things, it will be very convenient to expand the shop."

Shen Wanshan had not thought that this was possible. There was no such operation in the entire Dayuan. Some chain restaurants, even branches, learned cooking skills from the chef of the main restaurant.

As a result, the taste of some branches is often not as good as that of the main store.

It is also easy for apprentices to defect.

"Will the seasoning package not be stolen by others?"

"No, don't worry. Even if they know what's in it, they don't have it. Or if they're not sure about the amount, the taste of the dish will be much worse."

Shen Wanshan was impressed by Liu's father's cleverness. The sauce and seasoning packages were the core technology in the future. Without these things, the store would not be able to operate.

"Brother Liu, I would like to thank you again for taking a liking to me and taking me to do business together. Don't worry, I, Shen Wanshan, am not the kind of person who is ungrateful and treacherous. In the future, just let me drink some soup while you eat meat, but don't look down on me."

"Look at what you said. It's a mutually beneficial thing. Since we are partners in the future, we will naturally make money together."