The illiterate life in the Northern Song Dynasty

"Lifting." Wei Shiyi was a little surprised, he slowed down his tone and said, "Can I trouble you to say it again?"

Lin Tiju stroked his beard, smiled and said kindly again: "If you need help, the academy will do its best to help you."

"Xingzhi said that you are now hiring idlers from outside to deliver food. He is worried that those idlers will not obey the management or do some bad things while delivering food, so he wants to ask the academy for help." Lin Tiju continued: "Are you What the students of the academy are doing is to provide convenience for the students, and it also solves the plight of some students from poor families who have no money, so the academy does not want your food delivery to have problems."

Wei Shiyi was very surprised, and Zheng Shuangcheng was also very surprised. They looked at each other in blank dismay, and then at the same time looked sideways at Assistant Wang.

Assistant Professor Wang smiled at them and said, "Brother Shi, I'm just a little worried that you won't be able to handle this situation. You can take a look, and if you need it, go find a lift. Of course, I hope you won't encounter any problems." unresolved situation."

Lin Tiju followed suit and said, "Don't put any pressure on you, these are just some of our thoughts."

Food delivery is their own business, and they are naturally happy that the academy can provide help. Isn't this equivalent to finding a backer for themselves.It's like in modern times, college students start their own businesses, and schools support them.

It’s just that, as Lin Tiju said, they will be under pressure, and the academy’s approach is not only to support entrepreneurship, but to try their best to let them do well in their careers.

The reason they first set up takeaway was that Zheng Shuangcheng didn't want to eat at home, but wanted to eat outside restaurants. Later, takeaway gradually developed, and it became this scale.

If the takeaway is only for the two of them, they can close it whenever they want, but once the takeaway has something to do with the academy, they can't do that.

Not only that, the two of them will graduate from the Imperial Medical Bureau in a few years and will not stay in the academy.But what about the takeaway at that time?Wei Shiyi believes that after several years of development, the scale will definitely be larger than the current scale.So can they just leave by then?

"Tiju, sir, can Zheng Shuangcheng and I go out and discuss it?" Wei Shiyi asked cautiously.

Lin Tiju and Assistant Professor Wang nodded, "Yes."

"Thank you."

Wei Shiyi nodded to them, and pulled Zheng Shuangcheng out of the room. There was no one in the corridor outside, and the two stopped when they reached the quietest place.

As soon as they stopped, Zheng Shuangcheng pulled Wei Shiyi and asked, "Brother Shi, what do you want to say?"

Wei Shiyi didn't say anything right away. He cleared his language before expressing his worries. Then he asked Zheng Shuangcheng, "Brother Cheng, what do you think?"

Zheng Shuangcheng's chubby face trembled, his big eyes blinked, and he replied in confusion, "Brother Shi, I don't know."

Zheng Shuangcheng really didn't know. After hearing what Lin Tiju said just now, he just felt that their takeaway business was supported, so he didn't have to worry about not being able to eat outside meals in the academy.After hearing what Wei Shiyi said, he didn't know what to do.

Wei Shiyi couldn't help touching his forehead and sighed, Zheng Shuangcheng really only had food on his mind.Before they discussed the shortage of takeaway manpower, he thought that Zheng Shuangcheng would still think about the takeaway business, but now that he thinks about it, this is not the case at all.

Squeezing between his eyebrows, Wei Shiyi said, "I think this is a very good opportunity."

Zheng Shuangcheng: "What opportunity?"

"In fact, I've always been thinking, if we leave the Imperial Medical Bureau in a few years, what should we do with the takeaway at that time? Now we are both in the academy, and we can still manage the takeaway business, but what if we leave? This should be Who should I hand it over to, or should we continue to do takeaways?"

"No way!" Zheng Shuangcheng howled out just after Wei Shiyi finished speaking, "My father didn't even know that I was doing takeout in the academy. He thought I was studying in the academy all the time."

Zheng Shuangcheng's family education is relatively strict. The Zheng family has been a doctor for generations like the Wei family. The Zheng family has always hoped that Zheng Shuangcheng will become an outstanding doctor in his youth and serve in the court.But now Zheng Shuangcheng is a young boy who is doing food delivery. It can be said that he has embarked on the road of doing business. If Zheng's family knows, they will definitely think that he is not doing his job properly.

Although Wei Shiyi didn't think there was a problem with this, the Zheng family didn't think so.

"So, if we leave the Imperial Medical Bureau, or before we leave the Imperial Medical Bureau, you can't do takeaway, right?" Wei Shiyi asked.

Zheng Shuangcheng nodded, "Yes."

"So now do you understand my worry?" Wei Shiyi asked.

Zheng Shuangcheng nodded, "Understood."

"The two of us can leave at any time, but what about the seniors who do food delivery. There are many students who eat food delivery, and there are also seniors who deliver food to make a living. One month has passed, and the number of people who deliver food has changed from the initial three. It has grown to seven or eight now, and after half a year or a year, there will be more people delivering food, and more people eating food, and by that time, food delivery will not just be our food delivery."

After a pause, Wei Shiyi continued: "If we have to shut down the takeaway sooner or later, then we should shut it down earlier." Shut it down when others are not so used to it, and when others are not used to the work of doing takeout Turn it off, and turn it off while they are still reluctant.

"Huh? Turn it off?"

Zheng Shuangcheng fully understood what Wei Shiyi meant. They should be responsible for the food delivery and shoulder their own responsibilities.When they made this takeaway in the first place, they should continue to manage it well. Even if the two of them quit, they couldn't just let the takeaway go down like this.

Takeaway is no longer just the business of the two of them.

"Brother Shi, I don't want to close the takeaway." Zheng Shuangcheng seems to have matured a lot as a young boy, "Do you have any other ideas?"

Wei Shiyi patted Zheng Shuangcheng on the shoulder and said, "I do have a solution here. We can choose to hand over the delivery to a person or organization that can manage it for a long time."

A long-term person or organization?

Zheng Shuangcheng blinked and seemed to understand something, "Brother Shi, what do you mean..."

Wei Shiyi nodded affirmatively, "That's right, it's exactly what you think."

What Wei Shiyi didn't finish was that the food delivery run by the two of them was like a play house, with immature theory and methods.It might be better if the takeaway can be handed over to a more mature organization or person who can guarantee the continued operation of the takeaway at this time.

It's not that they don't have a second choice. The second choice is to close the takeaway now as Wei Shiyi said, but neither Zheng Shuangcheng nor Wei Shiyi want to close it. Even if their takeaway is not profitable, it is the two of them officially first career.

Ten minutes later, Wei Shiyi and Zheng Shuangcheng returned to the promotion office again.

"Tiju, sir, the two of us have discussed it." Wei Shiyi said, he looked at Zheng Shuangcheng, smiled at Lin Tiju and Assistant Professor Wang who were a little confused, and said: "We two want to deliver the takeaway to the academy, you can ?"

What?Lin Tiju and Assistant Professor Wang were a little stunned. If they remembered correctly, they and Wei Shiyi didn't say that just now. What did Wei Shiyi and Zheng Shuangcheng discuss, and why did they decide to hand over the takeaway to the academy.

Lin Tiju stroked the beard on his chin and looked at Assistant Professor Wang, as if to see if Assistant Professor Wang knew what Wei Shiyi and the others meant. Assistant Professor Wang shook his head at Lin Tiju, and he didn't know who Wei Shiyi and Zheng Shuangcheng were. What do you think.

Wei Shiyi didn't play tricks, so he told Lin Tiju and Assistant Professor Wang about the discussion between Zheng Shuangcheng and Zheng Shuangcheng outside. How long does it take to do takeout.

Then Wei Shiyi said: "Tiju, sir, the people who deliver the food now are the students of our college. Those students from poor families can earn some money by delivering the food. If the food is gone, then they will have no one to make money." Methods."

"Besides, those idlers outside, even if the academy helps us make decisions, they still can't manage them well. After all, Brother Cheng and I are just two students. If those people want to move their minds, the two of us will not What ability can we rectify them. But if the management of takeout is the Academy, the Imperial Medical Bureau, then those people will not dare to touch the Academy’s mind.”

"So, Brother Cheng and I decided to deliver the food to the academy."

Is that so?

Lin Tiju and Assistant Professor Wang glanced at each other, Assistant Professor Wang spoke first, and he said: "Brother Shi, the academy may be able to manage takeaways, but it was done by you and Zheng Shuangcheng, which is equivalent to your business." , the academy cannot accept it."

Wei Shiyi: "Sir, Brother Cheng and I have thought about it for a long time before deciding."

Zheng Shuangcheng: "Yes, Assistant Professor Wang, because this is the career of Brother Shi and I, so the two of us can't just watch it be shut down like this."

This is not the same thing. Assistant Professor Wang is gentle and pretends that he is a student other than anatomy. He can't just watch Wei Shiyi and Zheng Shuangcheng hand over the takeaway. It looks like Wei, who the academy is looking for when they want takeaway. Supplements are the same as Zheng Shuangcheng.

Assistant Professor Wang wanted to say something more, but he heard Lin Tiju say, "Yes."

Assistant Professor Wang turned his head abruptly, "Lifting?"

Lin Tiju raised his hand to stop Assistant Professor Wang, and he said to Wei Shiyi and Zheng Shuangcheng: "The college can receive your takeaway, and you can also give it to the college, but you two still have the right to manage the takeaway."

Wei Shiyi and Zheng Shuangcheng were a little surprised, "By mentioning you, do you mean that we manage the delivery with the academy?"

Lin Ti raised his head and said kindly: "Yes." Then he continued: "And I also have an idea. Now your takeaway is only done in the academy, but I think we can develop the takeaway to the outside, to other places. Ordinary people, but also allow more restaurants to participate.”

"The business of some restaurants is actually very good, but due to the small scale of the restaurants, some people can't go in and eat, which leads to the loss of some of their guests. In this case, we can find cooperation with these restaurants and let them also Participate in food delivery, so that their customers will not be lost, and then our students can also earn more money to live on."

"What do you guys think of that idea?"

After hearing this, Assistant Professor Wang said, "Tiju, I think your idea is feasible."

The young boy Zheng Shuangcheng heard it, and couldn't help but said: "I think it's okay to lift. When I was at home before, I thought that it would be great if my brother could deliver food to my home. If it's like you said, then I can also eat takeaway at home in the future.”

Lin Tiju looked at Wei Shiyi: "Wei Shiyi, what do you think?"

As the principal of the Imperial Medical Bureau, Lin Tiju has worked hard for the students to continue their studies.Wei Shiyi respected his behavior very much, but he was more amazed.

He never thought that Lin Tiju would come up with such an idea. If his idea was perfected, it could become a modern takeaway.

Wei Shiyi was thinking about this, when he heard Lin Tiju's words, he immediately came back to his senses and said, "Tiju, I think this method is feasible. It's just that it's more troublesome to operate."

"Oh?" It seemed that Wei Shiyi agreed, Lin Tiju's eyes brightened slightly, and said, "Tell me carefully."

Wei Shiyi said: "It's okay to deliver food to ordinary people, and it's okay to cooperate with those merchants, but we need to solve two very important problems, one is how to collect everyone's order slips, and the other is how those restaurants participate. Come in, do we need to charge some of their food delivery fees, and the third is how we use food delivery to make money and send monthly money to people.”

Collecting order slips is a problem. Everyone wants to eat in different restaurants, and the time they want to eat is also different. I can tell my brothers in the academy, but what about outside?

The delivery fee for takeaway is the same. The reason why takeaway is so successful now is because they don’t charge money, but once there are more restaurants participating, it’s impossible for all the money for takeaway to be paid by the customers who ordered the meal.Food delivery is good for sellers and buyers alike, and if customers just pay, those customers might have some ideas, too.

The last question is also more important, because managing takeaways is also a time-consuming job. If takeaways become bigger, it is impossible for them to be just the four of them. Then they have to hire people, and they have to pay monthly payments, which means Seeing that their food delivery platform cannot always be unprofitable, how to make a profit is a problem.

Modern food delivery platforms will charge commissions from merchants who advertise, but it is different in ancient times, and their food delivery is also different, so how to use food delivery to make money is a problem.

Assistant Professor Wang and Zheng Shuangcheng put away their smiles slightly, and looked a little serious, but they noticed that Lin Tiju's expression was a little different.

He stared at Wei Shiyi with a smile on his face, and said, "Wei Shiyi, please speak out your thoughts. Since you can think of these three points, then there must be a solution to him."

is really a little bit.

Wei Shiyi patted his head shyly, and said, "Tiju, I do have some ideas."

Lin Tiju said interestingly: "Tell me."

"The first question, because we are not sure how effective takeaway is, so we can first go to a street to promote and persuade them to try takeaway. Then find a place on that street to build an iron box, and stipulate that people who want to eat takeaway Put the takeaway note in before a certain time, and no more orders can be placed after that time."

"Then, let the delivery person go to the box to pick up the note and send it to the designated restaurant. The box is locked with an iron lock, and only the person who picks up the note has the key to open it. In this way, there is no need to worry about the note. not see."

Ancient times are different from modern times. There is no Internet, no mobile phones, no software APPs. In the era of inconvenient transportation and communication, it is impossible to place food delivery orders anytime and anywhere.Therefore, it is stipulated to place the order before a certain time, and then take the order at a unified time, so that there is no need to worry about missing someone's takeaway order.

This method is like a mailbox, the difference is that the boxes contain letters, and their boxes contain takeaway orders.

Lin Tiju: "In this way, the problem of taking the note is completed, so what about the second one?"

Assistant Professor Wang and Zheng Shuangcheng also looked at Wei Shiyi, this is money, it should not be so easy for those restaurants to agree.

"The second question is a little bit more difficult, and I don't know if it will be successful." Wei Shiyi said in a deep voice, "The restaurant is open for business to make money, and usually the guests come to eat. If you want them to spend money to deliver meals to the guests , many people will not agree, but there is another situation."

Wei Shiyi looked at Lin Tiju and said, "That's what Tiju said before. Some restaurants lose customers because of their small size. If they have takeaways, they won't lose so many customers."

Lin Ti nodded.

"We can cooperate with those large-scale restaurants and ask them if they need takeaway. If those restaurants don't want to lose customers and make money, then there is a high possibility that they will agree to our proposal. People who open restaurants are not fools. They I will not give up more opportunities to make money for such a small delivery fee."

After Wei Shiyi finished speaking, he took a sip of water from his cup and asked, "Tiju, sir, brother Cheng, what do you think?"

Zheng Shuangcheng frowned, and said after thinking for a long time: "Brother Shi, I don't know if the other people who run the restaurant are idiots, but I know you are not."

Wei Shiyi, who is opening a restaurant with Uncle Li: "..."

Lin Tiju and Wang Assistant, who were thinking about Wei Shiyi's words, spouted the tea out of their mouths with a puff.

"Cough, cough, cough." Lin Tiju coughed again and again. After a long time, he calmed down and said, "I think what Wei Shiyi said makes sense."

Assistant Professor Wang also wiped the tea from the corner of his mouth and said, "It makes sense."

After being silent for a while, Wei Shiyi pretended not to hear what Zheng Shuangcheng said, and said, "This is what I think. Small restaurants may not lose customers, but big restaurants will definitely have them. If we really want to implement takeaway Go into ordinary people's homes and make the takeout bigger, we can find a big restaurant to try the situation."

Lin Tiju agrees with Wei Shiyi's statement, but he also has his own doubts, "It's okay. If so, will they only be able to order dishes from those restaurants? Will the guests have any objections? "

"There should be some opinions." Wei Shiyi nodded, "So let's go to a street first, and then find a few restaurants to cooperate and try to see if it can be implemented."

It turned out to be the case.

After Wei Shiyi finished speaking, the room was quiet for a while, then Lin Tiju and Assistant Professor Wang said at the same time: "You can try."

Then, Lin Tiju continued to ask: "Then what about the third question?"

The third question... Wei Shiyi was silent for a while, and said: "Tiju, I can't decide on the third question here, but I think we can make some restaurant set meals when our takeaway business grows bigger." , to recommend to the guests which restaurants have delicious food, so that we may be able to receive some advertising fees."

"Advertising fee?" Assistant Professor Wang was slightly puzzled.

Wei Shiyi coughed twice, and briefly explained what advertising fees are.

Then, Assistant Professor Wang, who knew the meaning of the advertising fee, was a little silent, and Lin Tiju and Zheng Shuangcheng were also a little silent.

Assistant Professor Wang and Lin Tiju are okay, but Zheng Shuangcheng directly doubted: "Brother Shi, you can think of so many things so quickly, it must be because you have always wanted to use this takeaway to make money."

Of course not!Wei Shiyi almost immediately denied it in his heart, but he couldn't say it out of his mouth, who let him come up with a relatively better solution so quickly.

However, in Lin Tiju's opinion, Wei Shiyi's original intention has changed somewhat, but it is undeniable that Wei Shiyi's method is good.

To avoid further embarrassment for Wei Shiyi, Lin Tiju coughed twice and said, "Leave it to me on the street side, and I will take care of it, and the restaurant side..."

"Leave the restaurant to me and Brother Cheng. We are quite familiar with the restaurants outside, and we also know some of the restaurants when we go out on weekdays." Wei Shiyi also hurried down the pole and said, "Tomorrow at noon I will Just write a plan and submit it, and then we can start.”

Lin Tiju smiled and said, "Okay."

Next, Wei Shiyi began to write the plan. Compared with when he first started doing takeout, he was more emotional.

The young Zheng Shuangcheng was equally excited, and he didn't care whether Wei Shiyi had any plans to make money long ago. He was very happy that the takeaway didn't have to be closed, and it could continue, and it was hanging on the head of the academy, so he didn't have to worry about his family members stopping him .

Working efficiently in a state of excitement, Wei Shiyi handed over the plan to Lin Tiju at noon the next day, and then he and Zheng Shuangcheng left the academy to find a restaurant to cooperate with.It just so happened that today was their rest day, so Wei Shiyi and Zheng Shuangcheng didn't have to worry about delaying their studies.

"Brother Shi, isn't this the way to Li's Restaurant?" Zheng Shuangcheng asked Wei Shiyi as they walked along the road.

"Yes, this is the way to the Li's restaurant." Wei Shiyi nodded, and then he said with a smile: "The business of the third uncle's house is very good now, maybe there are not enough restaurants and the guests can't eat, so We can also ask Uncle San if he needs takeaway."

What Wei Shiyi didn't say was that it might be more convenient to discuss business with acquaintances, and they couldn't let them fail to open a business.If the Li Family Restaurant agrees, the other restaurants might agree if they see it.

After hearing this, Zheng Shuangcheng was dumbfounded and said, "Are you attacking an acquaintance?"

Wei Shiyi: "..."

Wei Shiyi was speechless for a moment, and said with a serious face: "I don't count it as an acquaintance, this is called a resource network, and I am also thinking about doing more business for the restaurant."

It sounds reasonable, but it doesn't seem to be so reasonable. The young Zheng Shuangcheng was stunned for a moment, but he couldn't think of what was wrong.

It happened that Li's Restaurant arrived, so Zheng Shuangcheng stopped worrying about it.

Wei Shiyi entered the restaurant, but he didn't see Uncle Li. It was noon, when there were the most customers. Uncle Li wasn't here. Where did he go?

Wei Shiyi looked around at the restaurant but didn't see anyone. He saw Xiao Chen was delivering food, so he walked over and grabbed Xiao Chen and asked, "Xiao Chen, where's the third uncle? I have something to do with him, why not?" see him?"

Xiao Chen was still thinking about who held him back. When he saw Wei Shiyi, he immediately smiled and said enthusiastically: "Brother Shi, you are here!" Then he immediately replied: "The shopkeeper is upstairs. Go up, go up quickly."

"Okay, then you continue to work."

Wei Shiyi patted Xiao Chen on the shoulder and said, and then he took Zheng Shuangcheng upstairs, and when they got upstairs, they saw Li Sanshu, who was writing something on the table. He frowned, as if he had encountered something wrong solve the matter.

"Third Uncle." Wei Shiyi shouted.

Uncle Li raised his head when he heard the sound, and seeing that it was Wei Shiyi, he immediately smiled and said, "Brother Shi, come in quickly." Then he also saw Zheng Shuangcheng behind him, and greeted him, "Brother Cheng, hurry up too!" Come in."

Wei Shiyi and Zheng Shuangcheng went in, and Li Sanshu brought them two cups of tea and said, "Brother Shi, don't you have class today? Why are you here at the restaurant?"

"The academy is closed today, so we came out." Wei Shiyi said, and Zheng Shuangcheng joked beside him, "Well, that's it. You don't know, third uncle, that studying in the academy is not free at all. Now that we have time, we must It's out."

"Where do you get freedom from reading?" Uncle Li said pretending to be angry, and then he asked Wei Shiyi and Zheng Shuangcheng with concern, "You two haven't eaten yet, I'll go down and ask Laofang to cook two dishes for you. "

"Third Uncle, no need, in fact, we came today to discuss something with you, and then we have to go elsewhere." Wei Shiyi held Li Sanshu's hand and said hastily.

Zheng Shuangcheng nodded, "Third Uncle, it's like this."

Well, Uncle Li can only give up the idea of ​​going down to feed Wei Shiyi.But he didn't want Wei Shiyi and Zheng Shuangcheng to go hungry, so he pushed the snacks on the table in front of them, and said, "Then you guys eat some snacks first."

"Okay." Zheng Shuangcheng picked up the snack and started eating.

Wei Shiyi also went to get some snacks, but his movements froze the next moment. He picked up the paper that Uncle Li had written on the table just now, and asked with some doubts, "Uncle San, what is written on it?"

When he came in, he noticed that Uncle San was writing, but he didn't pay attention to what he wrote, so he didn't ask.But he saw it when he was eating snacks just now, so he was a little curious.

Hearing what Wei Shiyi said, Uncle Li put away the smile on his face, sighed, and said, "Brother Shi, the business of the restaurant has become very good in the past month, but there are also some problems, that is, we found that the restaurant is too small. As a result, some guests could not come in to eat, so they chose other restaurants."

Wei Shiyi pondered slightly, "And then?"

"Then I've been thinking for the past few days whether we should re-rent a store, but after thinking about it for a long time, I found that the re-rented store is a bit big, and the empty space is not full, so there will be a lot of people. What a waste." Li Sanshu said, "Not only that, but as the restaurant grows bigger, we need more staff. This will lead to a huge increase in our costs, and we will not be able to make money."

Uncle Li was very troubled. He used to be troubled when the restaurant's business was average, but he didn't expect that when the restaurant's business was good, he would be so troubled.

Not only that, the third sister gave birth to a child, and more money was needed to raise the child, so he had to plan the use of every penny, wishing to break one copper plate into two copper coins.

The combination of various reasons caused Uncle Li to think for several days but couldn't make a decision.

Uncle Li felt much better after speaking out his distress. He couldn't tell Li Sanniang and Li Sanjie about this. He was the head of the family at home and he had to make them feel at ease. Only in front of Wei Shiyi could he let go of his emotions a little.

But after Li Sanshu finished speaking, he found that Wei Shiyi didn't give any feedback.Not only that, but the room was also very quiet.

He raised his head to look at Wei Shiyi, and saw that Wei Shiyi's expression was a bit subtle, while Zheng Shuangcheng beside him was smiling all over his face, and he asked puzzledly, "Brother Shi, what are you..."

Before Wei Shiyi could answer, Zheng Shuangcheng said excitedly, "Third Uncle, we can solve your problem."

Uncle Li: "???"

Wei Shiyi was also a little excited. He suppressed his emotions and said, "Third Uncle, yes, we should be able to solve your problem."

Uncle Li was even more puzzled, "How to solve it?"

Wei Shiyi said with a smile: "Come and join the takeaway, and deliver the meals that cannot be sold because of the small scale of the restaurant to the customers."

Half an hour later, Wei Shiyi and Zheng Shuangcheng left Li's restaurant and went to another restaurant.

Those restaurants didn't know what Wei Shiyi meant at first, but after he explained his purpose, they invited him to the shopkeeper's place.

Wei Shiyi: "Let's send out the food in the form of takeaway, so that those who can't eat the food because they don't have a place can also eat it... It only takes two copper coins to deliver the food to the guests..."

One family, two families... Wei Shiyi and Zheng Shuangcheng went to many restaurants this afternoon, and there were more than 20 in total. However, except for Li's restaurant, those restaurants did not give Wei Shiyi a positive reply.

Anjia restaurant, the shopkeeper is having a meeting with the family members of the restaurant. They discussed for a long time, and then the chef said: "Shopkeeper, I actually think the method that the boy said is feasible. The delivery only needs two copper coins, and the meals are at least Dozens of copper plates, compared to those dozens of copper plates, two copper plates are very few."

The shopkeeper of Anjia Restaurant pondered for a while, then nodded and said: "Okay, let's try."