For more than two months, Linji Inn remained unmoved, and its business declined to an appalling level.
The bosses of the top restaurants breathed a sigh of relief. If Lin Ji Inn really found a way, it would not be possible to just sit back and watch the number of regular customers dwindle.
?????????????????????????????????????????? If there is no solution, then we can only watch helplessly as business becomes deserted and regular customers are nowhere to be seen.
When they gathered together, the faces of the top restaurant owners all had bright smiles on their faces. Especially Liu Changman, the owner of Xinrong Restaurant, even suggested that they go to Linji Inn to sit there together.
Go to Lin Ji Inn and take a seat, and take a look at the bitter gourd face of shopkeeper Lin. You will undoubtedly feel happier and more comfortable, but everyone else shook their heads and opposed Liu Changman's proposal. It felt good, but the rabbit would bite people when it was anxious, not to mention Shopkeeper Lin, who had some friendship with King Qingliu.
When the situation gets tight, there¡¯s no guarantee that Shopkeeper Lin won¡¯t resort to some dirty tricks. Although everyone's backing can work together to resist the pressure of King Qingliu, but for this, he has to spend a lot of money. The picture just makes it feel better, but it¡¯s still not worth it.
Except for Ling Weifeng, no one could have expected that Lin Dong was reading comfortably in Yunlan's room at this moment.
With a rocking chair, a pot of good tea, a tray of snacks outside, watching strange things, and occasionally glancing at Yun Lan who was practicing, Lin Dong lived a very carefree life.
No one would have thought that the hotter the business in top restaurants, the happier Lin Dong would be. The reason, of course, is that these businesses are all attracted by giving away shares.
Originally, Lin Dong just wanted to force the major top restaurants to announce their accounts and the total amount of share certificates. After the major top restaurants sold a lot of share certificates, he would do something big in one fell swoop and let Emperor Qianwei come forward to turn things around. .
At that time, there will be rumors that the business of the top restaurants is getting worse and worse, and the bosses plan to donate money and escape from the capital. As evidenced by the fact that the business of major top restaurants is indeed getting worse, diners holding share certificates of major top restaurants must have come to ask for the restaurants to be sold, and then, along with all the cash, will be sold according to the number of share certificates. to allocate.
¡°As a result, the top restaurants not only have to spend money to take back the share certificates, but they also have to pay a high price.
Otherwise, it is just recovered according to the original price of the stock paper, and it will definitely take rumors that the top -level restaurants cannot operate.
A restaurant that is about to run out of business. There are fewer and fewer diners at Linji Inn because Emperor Qianwei advertises it. Naturally, no one will go there. Who knows, before this restaurant is about to close, it will make a profit by selling off the good ones, or even asking for high prices after eating and sending guards around to refuse to give money and prevent them from leaving?
With bankruptcy imminent, reputation is naturally of no use anymore. If you can make money, you can make money.
At that time, the only way for the top restaurants is to pretend to be fat and recycle the stock paper at a high price. Only in this way can they reject the rumors that there is insufficient cash and cannot support the Lin Ke Inn after its popularity ends.
¡° In this way, all the top restaurants will suffer a huge loss, which is in line with Lin Dong¡¯s plan.
What Lin Dong didn¡¯t expect was that in order to enhance the appeal of bonus shares, major top restaurants announced that each share paper would receive a dividend of one tael of silver every month for three years.
This is no less than giving Lin Dong a huge gift.
According to Lin Dong¡¯s predictions, in order to restore their reputation, major top restaurants will never pay less than 10% of their profit for recycling share certificates. In addition, to dispel rumors of poor management and imminent bankruptcy, they will have to pay at least fifteen taels of silver each. In this way, it is equivalent to losing five taels of silver for each share paper.
The more share certificates you give away, the more you lose.
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Coupled with the stimulation of various rumors, unless you don't want to continue running the business, it is simply wishful thinking if you don't have forty taels of silver.
Even if it was forty taels of silver, each share paper would result in a loss of thirty taels, which was six times what Lin Dong expected.
Originally, according to Lin Dong¡¯s plan, it was almost time to start counterattacking at this time. After all, if the delay continues, all the regular customers will be wiped out. He does not expect to defeat all the top restaurants in one breath. If all the regular customers are gone, it will be very detrimental to future competition.
As soon as the announcements from the top restaurants came out, he immediately changed his mind.
Regular customers are the foundation of a restaurant, but if you can knock down all the top restaurants in one go, the situation will be different.
Although there are countless large restaurants in the capital, they are simply unable to compete with Lin Ji Inn for the top diners. There are no major top restaurants as competitors.?, Linji Inn will be the only one in Beijing.
As a single family, we don¡¯t have to worry about the high-ranking officials not going to Lin Kee Inn.
Each piece of stock paper loses 30 taels of silver. If you wait a little longer, it will be enough to take out most of the silver deposits of major top restaurants. By taking advantage of the other advantages of the inn, Lin Dong believes that it will be enough to force the top restaurants to admit defeat and withdraw from the competition for the top diners.
Because of this, Lin Dong is still in a wait-and-see period. He is waiting, waiting for the major top restaurants to reach their limit, and take the initiative to cancel the discount of one tael of silver every month through share certificates.
As soon as he turned the page, Lin Dong suddenly felt something. With his mind at ease, Ma Chun was walking quickly into the backyard.
Lin Dong stood up and opened the door.
"Shopkeeper, Jiang Qianchi is here. He said there are flies in the food and wine in our inn, and he wants the shopkeeper to give him an explanation." Ma Chun shouted from a distance.
Lin Dong said calmly: "I'll go take a look!"
This thousand feet of river is exactly what Yang Shun told him, the prefect of Lihuang Prefecture secretly recruited by Emperor Qianwei.
¡°Shopkeeper, I¡¯m on the second floor, shall I go get ready?¡± Ma Chun asked.
"Go!" Lin Dong nodded, and after Ma Chun climbed over the wall, he went to the lobby alone.
Going up to the second floor, Lin Dong took a look and saw that there were eight tables of diners.
At noon, there were only eight tables of diners. Before this, it was definitely an extremely rare thing. Nowadays, it is also an extremely rare thing. However, the reasons are different. In the past, there were only eight tables of diners on the second floor at noon, which was definitely less. But since major top restaurants posted notices, the second floor of Lin Kee Inn has never had more than five tables at any time.
There are eight tables, which is a bit surprising.
Lin Dong was secretly happy as he checked them one by one with his mind open. Emperor Qianwei actually arranged the plan very carefully.
Of all the diners, there is only one warrior, and the others are ordinary people. And the only martial artist has the strength of the second level of heart reversal. Obviously, Emperor Qianwei sent so many people here to put pressure on Lin Ji Inn, forcing Lin Ji Inn to use force against Jiang Qianchi in order to protect its reputation. Sending a strong man here is to ensure that Baolinji Inn will not kill people and silence them. Although it was unlikely that someone would kill someone because of an argument, Emperor Qianwei obviously considered this possibility.
"It's a pity that Emperor Qianwei didn't expect that Lin Dong would have Yang Shun as an informant.
Glancing again, Lin Dong's eyes were fixed on a middle-aged man wearing brocade clothes and a dignified face.
Seeing Lin Dong approaching, the middle-aged man tapped the table with his fingers a few times and said coldly: "Are you the manager of Lin Ji Inn?"
"That's me!" Lin Dong nodded and came to the table.
"What's going on with this half fly?" The middle-aged man, Jiang Qianchi, the prefect of Lihuang Prefecture, picked up his chopsticks and tapped a plate of braised beef.
"What fly?" Lin Dong asked knowingly.
"Look clearly!" The tip of Jiang Qianchi's chopsticks pointed at the black spots on a piece of beef. If you look carefully, you will definitely find that the black spots are indeed flies, and they are only half of them.
"My guest, are you here to blackmail me?" Lin Dong said coldly.
"Blackmail? You said I'm here to blackmail you?" Jiang Qianchi suddenly stood up, furious like thunder, stretched out one hand and grabbed Lin Dong.
Lin Dong quietly moved away, leaving Jiang Qianchi stunned.
"Don't touch me, lest you accuse me of tripping him up and ask me to pay for medical expenses." Lin Dong snorted.
"You're so brave, everyone, come and listen. I came here to eat and accidentally ate half a fly. I went to them to argue with them, but they actually said that I came to blackmail you." Jiang Qianchi shouted: "Let's comment, there are some Is this an inn? Is this still an inn? This is a black shop."
"Yes! Shopkeeper Lin, looking at him, he doesn't look like he is here to cause trouble."
"Well, I also saw it. There is indeed a fly. It's just a trivial matter. Who's kitchen can't have a few flies? Even if it's an imperial meal, there will probably be mistakes. Shopkeeper Lin, it's better to reduce the big things to the small ones."
The diners responded one after another. Although they were admonishing Lin Dong, their intention was to force Lin Dong to admit it.
Lin Kee Inn is not a small inn. If there are flies in the dishes, if rumors spread, it will have a huge impact on the reputation. This kind of thing would be impossible for any boss of a top restaurant to admit. At most, they would pay some money privately.
Lin Dong did exactly that. He took out a pair of chopsticks from the bamboo tube and picked out half of the fly. He looked at Jiang Qianchi and said, "Our Linji Inn has always been extremely clean. It's impossible that there aren't even flies in the food and drinks." Discover,If you don't believe me, sir, I can take you to the kitchen to have a look. If we can find a fly like this, Lin Kee Inn is willing to kill or punish it. "
"Go to the kitchen?" Jiang Qianchi was startled, then shook his head and shouted: "What? Do you still want to force me to surrender?"
"I said, if a fly like this one is found in the kitchen, I guarantee that Linji Inn will fight it. If the guest doesn't go, is he feeling guilty?" Lin Dong waved his hand gently, and several waiters gathered around. come over.
"Am I guilty? I'm afraid you might use some shady tricks in the kitchen." Jiang Qianchi cupped his hands toward everyone and said, "I don't know if there is any caring person who would be willing to accompany me. I will definitely be grateful."
"Real gold is not afraid of fire, Shopkeeper Lin, I believe you. I will go with him and let him see how clean the kitchen of Lin Ji Inn is." A diner stood up.