Chapter 2373 Doing Business
Zhou Wulang immediately decided to take a batch of vegetables, meat and eggs to see Xiao Yuanzheng tomorrow. He immediately handed the counter to Bai Shan and Bai Erlang and ran to the kitchen to pick things.
Many of the things in the restaurant are sent from Yongzhou. After all, home-grown products are free and save a lot of money compared to buying them outside.
Among them were eggs and a few chickens, but Zhou Liulang told him, "The chickens have all been killed and are almost ready to be cooked. Oh, and if you order chicken dishes from outside later, they'll be gone. We do have some eggs, though. What are you doing here?"
Wu Lang said: "Give me a gift."
He took a look at the eggs in the basket, and finally dug out a small basket and moved the eggs there. This way, the eggs were so numerous that they were sticking out, and it looked much more generous compared to the big basket that could not be filled.
After receiving a basket of eggs and a basket of vegetables early in the morning, Xiao Yuanzheng was stunned for a moment before he reacted. Then he smiled and assigned a servant to take Zhou Wulang to find the manager of the imperial farm.
Xiao Yuanzheng looked down at the eggs in the basket, took one and asked, "How are you going to sell this egg, Master Zhou Wu?"
Zhou Wulang had discussed this with Bai Shan before coming and said immediately, "Two cents each, no matter the size, but for every thousand eggs, we'll give you ten."
He smiled sheepishly and said, "It's just a small business. We only have eight or nine hundred eggs right now. It might take another ten days to get a thousand eggs."
So they don’t have a lot of eggs, and they can sell them all out even if they are sold individually.
Xiao Yuanzheng smiled, but the smile did not reach his eyes. He nodded and said, "This price is not bad."
Seeing that there were pumpkins and winter melons in his vegetable basket, I simply asked him the price.
Zhou Wulang knew that they had a large quantity, so he simply quoted them a price of 100 kilograms, which was slightly lower than the market price.
Xiao Yuanzheng's eyes became even colder, but he still had a smile on his face. He asked someone to take Zhou Wulang to the imperial farm, while he would go to the palace to report first before leaving.
The smile on his face fell as soon as he got on the carriage. The carriage started moving. He pursed his lips tightly and said nothing, but in the end he couldn't help but sweep the things on the table onto the carriage floor in anger.
The driver outside was startled and couldn't help but shout, "Master?"
Xiao Yuanzheng said with a sullen face: "It's okay, continue to enter the palace."
After entering the Imperial Hospital, the imperial doctors they met couldn't help but stop smiling, bowed their heads to greet Xiao Yuanzheng, then stepped aside and waited for a long time after he had passed before they started to move.
Doctor Liu, an older doctor with a lighter sleep, had arrived earlier than Xiao. He was drinking a freshly brewed cup of hot tea. Seeing Dean Xiao enter, he put down his cup and saluted. After Xiao waved, he picked up the hot tea again to warm his hands. He followed him into the office with a clatter and asked with a smile, "Who has angered Dean Xiao so early in the morning?"
Xiao Yuanzheng snorted coldly and said, "The purchases from the Imperial Farm are going too far."
Doctor Liu was surprised. "Didn't we check the bill and see that the price is pretty much the same as what we paid in the palace?"
Xiao Yuanzheng was stunned for a moment and then fell silent.
It took Doctor Liu a while to react. "It can't be as Zhou Man said... They just withheld some money, it shouldn't be much, right?"
Xiao Yuanzheng sneered, "Not much, just double."
Doctor Liu fell silent.
Dean Xiao tried his luck and said, "The price is almost the same as what we paid for the palace. If this gets out, it will offend more than one or two people. In the end, the people in the Imperial Hospital will suffer the most."
Doctor Liu took a sip of tea leisurely, feeling lucky that he had stopped being the acting director so early on. As expected, being the chief official was prone to premature death.
He waited for the tea to reach his stomach, and then, feeling a warmth rising, he asked, "The hospital is planning to..."
Dean Xiao then closed his eyes and said, "I don't have any plans. Let's just muddle through. What else can I do? Will the Imperial Medical Service get involved in the palace's procurement? I don't want to become enemies with the entire inner court any longer."
"However, the Imperial Medical Bureau's expenses are enormous. The Ministry of Revenue only contributes a portion of the money, while His Majesty pays the majority. As you know, if the expenses are too high and the inner treasury runs out of money, he will definitely push the blame onto the Ministry of Revenue. Trying to get money from the Ministry of Revenue is almost impossible." Xiao Yuanzheng said, "So we don't have the capital to spend so much. I want to leave most of the purchasing matters to Zhou Yu."
Doctor Liu: "Zhou Man's fifth brother?"
Xiao Yuanzheng nodded, "I've already sent someone to take him to the Imperial Manor. It all depends on what the steward there does. If he knows when to advance and when to retreat, then we'll all be happy. Otherwise..."
Xiao Yuanzheng sneered, "We in the Imperial Hospital are not so easy to bully."
Doctor Liu took another sip of tea and said after a while, "I was on duty last night. His Majesty didn't call anyone, but I heard back that His Majesty is much better."
Xiao Yuanzheng took a few deep breaths, forced a warm smile on his face, and said gently, "I understand. Today is a small court meeting, and His Majesty should be finishing soon. I'll go and check his pulse."
Xiao Yuanzheng stood up with a warm face and took the medical assistant to examine the emperor.
At this time, Zhou Wulang just started talking to the purchasing manager of the imperial farm. Zhou Wulang had been reminded by Bai Shan yesterday, and he was prepared to be embarrassed today. After all, the eggs he bought were five cents or even six cents each. In a sense, he was cutting off other people's source of income.
However, if he doesn't cut off other people's source of income, he will have no source of income, so he can only cut off other people's source of income, not to mention that this is not a very legitimate source of income.
But to Zhou Wulang's surprise, the other party was quite friendly to him. After looking at the eggs, he did not ask him the price. Instead, he set the price directly: "I think your eggs are average, so I can only give you five cents each. What do you think?"
Zhou Wulang's smile faltered, and he began to doubt his ears. "It's five cents each, not three five cents?"
The steward looked at him deeply and said with a kind smile, "Of course not. Look, we've even drafted the contract. You can take a look."
Zhou Wulang took it and saw a detailed description of the other party and he buying eggs. He would provide them with 300 eggs every day, and each egg would cost five cents...
Zhou Wulang was silent for a moment, then forced a smile and said, "I know the steward is kind-hearted. To show my sincerity, I am willing to lower the price a little and sell them to the Imperial Hospital for two cents each."
The manager's smile faded, and he said with a half-smile, "Master Zhou Wu is quite generous, but we are the government office, and we can't let the people suffer. Five cents each will do. Besides, the deed has already been drafted, and it would be troublesome to write another one. Just sign this one."
He glanced at the vegetables in his other basket and smiled, saying, "These vegetables are easy to negotiate. We'll take them all. Send us a hundred pounds a day. As for the pumpkins, how about two hundred coins for a hundred pounds? We can sign the contract for all of these."
The next chapter will be around 11pm, woohoo, we agreed on 10,000 a day
(End of this chapter)
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