After the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger.←,

At this time in previous years, the yamen had almost chosen the day to seal the holiday, but this year, the end of the year was the busiest time. Not only could the holiday be sealed early, but the double break on Saturdays and Sundays was temporarily cancelled, and the yamen were working overtime.

Fortunately, the emperor has announced that in addition to having double salary this month, there will be an annual performance award based on assessment achievements. In addition, overtime work will be paid for weekends, and it will be double the salary.

I was just knocked on a big stick and many officials went to Jinyiwei to have tea. Therefore, the emperor now has to work overtime and give bonuses and overtime pay. No one dares to object, and they all work overtime honestly.

On Saturday, the various departments went to work as usual, but Liu Jun got up early in the morning and looked at the departure calendar. Seeing that it was already Saturday, he irresponsibly left the matters that were piling down in his hands.

The emperor did not allow all officials to rest, but he was ready to rest on both sides as usual.

There are always endless state affairs and government affairs, and even if you have a night of clothes and food, you can't finish it. Liu Jun has figured it out. He can't be the Emperor Chongzhen, and even if he works hard, he can't finish it.

The emperor has to make an outline and grasp the general direction. It cannot be done in every detail. In that way, even a smart person like Zhuge Liang will always be exhausted.

Being an emperor requires learning to delegate power. Liu Jun thinks that governing the country is like managing a company. Being an emperor should be the chairman rather than the general manager.

Daily government affairs should be handed over to the Cabinet for handling, and in terms of military affairs, the Privy Council and the Ministry of War. Judicial supervision affairs are managed by the three external courts and internal courts and factory guards. Financial and tax audits include civil affairs, finance, taxation and audit departments and departments.

Let the Tongzheng Department and the Lijian Supervisor screen all memorials and distinguish between priorities. The memorials of different categories are first submitted to different departments for processing, and the cabinet will finally provide opinions, and then the more important matters will be handed over to the emperor to make decisions. For general matters, the cabinet will handle them directly.

It was sunny outside, so Liu Jun simply changed into casual clothes, Taoist robe and raw scarf, and dressed in an ordinary scholar. Liu Jun greeted several imperial guards, and also changed into casual clothes, and left the palace.

There were long ago spies from Jinyiwei and Dongchang around, so there was no need to worry about safety issues.

Liu Jun walked on Qianmen Street and immediately became an ordinary scholar. Now, in the capital, there are more than ten thousand scholars like him. They are really like crucian carp people crossing the river. The students who participated in the examination, and those scholars who failed to pass the examination but who won the same title in the subsequent examinations, also arrived in the capital one after another.

Schools in the Beijing University of Science and Technology begin in the middle of the first lunar month, so they all arrived in the Beijing before the New Year and are preparing to start school next year.

In addition, there will be several universities in the Beijing Division next year, Beijing Imperial College and Beijing Normal University. Normal University is a school that specializes in training middle school teachers, and Imperial College has now become a junior college. There are colleges that specializes in recruiting children of Mongolian and other nobles, and there are also specialists in recruiting students from the children of officials who fail to pass the imperial examination and Jinshi. They will specially open classes to teach accounting and other classes for these officials who cannot pass the imperial examination. This is also a benefit for officials, so that their children can have the opportunity to learn a skill, get a high-level diploma, and have a way to get into it.

Liu Jun has been often out of the palace to visit the capital recently. He is quite familiar with the capital.

He did not ride a horse or take a car, and he walked leisurely on the sidewalk on the sidewalk of Qianmen Street in the capital. After walking for a while, he turned around a Hengjie Street on Qianmen Street. This street is also benefiting from the prosperity of Qianmen Street, and is now gradually being driven. Many businesses have begun to rent the storefront of Hengjie and opened many shops.

Various signs and guises are colorful.

Liu Jun walked straight to a shop with familiarity.

Pushing open the curtain, the bell on the door rang.

"Welcome!"

A nice sound sounded, with a little exotic flavor.

Blonde Lina smiled and stepped forward. "I haven't seen you for many days."

Liu Jun chose the position he often sat in, "Well, I'll be free on weekends."

"What do you want?" Lina asked.

"It's better to be the same."

"That's Bavarian charcoal grilled pork feet, white sausage and stout beer?"

"It seems you haven't forgotten."

"You are an old customer in our store, how could I forget it?" Lina said with a smile. Lina always felt very friendly to Liu Jun, a regular customer, because although this customer is a Han Chinese, he can speak very standard German, which is quite rare. In particular, the other party is a tall and handsome master of the Han Empire.

Lina is a woman from Germany and a young woman. Her family is in Bavaria. She was just engaged to her fiancé three years ago, but her fiancé was summoned to the army. Later, her fiancé returned from the army, but she followed her comrades to become a mercenary. He hoped to make more money while she was young. Especially she hoped to save some money and move to the New World to stay away from the war-torn Germany.

The fiancé first went to the Netherlands, then to the Americas, and then to the East Indies.

A year ago, his fiancé sent her a letter saying that they had fought with the Ming Empire in the East and were defeated and captured, but they were blessed in disguise. He joined the army of the Eastern Empire and followed the son of the Emperor of the Eastern Empire. The marquis was very generous and they were treated very well.

He also talked about the wealth of the Eastern Empire in his letter. He sent some gold with the letter, hoping that she could come to the Ming Empire in the East by merchant ship and reunite with him.

After several considerations, Lina finally sailed to the east with her luggage and a Dutch merchant ship.

She first arrived in Batavia, East India, and then took a boat to Singapore. It is said that this small island was the fief of the marquis of the Ming Empire. From there, she boarded a merchant ship from the Ming Empire, headed north, first arrived in Macau, and then transferred to Guangzhou.

But when she came to this Eastern country through great difficulty, she learned that her fiancé had been killed in a battle.

The Ming Empire had already changed its master at this time. The marquis whom his fiancé once served has now created a new dynasty called the Holy Han Empire.

When she learned the news, she almost fainted.

The fiancé died, and she had no relatives in this strange country. When she learned that her fiancé was buried in Beijing, she took a boat north to meet him for the last time.

The deeds of this German woman who was looking for her husband for thousands of miles was spread by some European soldiers in the army. After Liu Jun accidentally learned the news, he took the initiative to send someone to pick her up into Beijing.

She finally saw her fiancé's cemetery and learned that her fiancé's spiritual position was still in the Yinglie Temple. The emperor of the Han Dynasty not only sent someone to take her to the capital, but also handed over her fiancé's pension and remaining property to her.

Lina finally stayed with the big man and had no choice but to return to Europe.

She was placed in the Han army's military service club. After working there for more than half a year, she was smart and quickly learned Chinese and settled down in Beijing.

Later she discovered that there were many Europeans in the capital, including a large number of Germans, including former German mercenaries who joined the Han army, many missionaries, and many craftsmen.

Especially in Beijing, there are many Western barbarians with golden eyes and blue eyes.

Later, a German fellow countryman who opened a shop in Beijing was about to sell the shop. He was about to do other business, and Lina used her fiancé's inheritance and pension to buy the shop.

She changed the store into a restaurant specializing in German cuisine. After making it slowly, the business was actually good.

Liu Jun also happened to find out about this store and then learned about the boss's experience. The dishes in this store are indeed good, especially the German pork trotters, sausages and beer, which are even more signature.

The boss's wife Lina personally prepared the dishes for Liu Jun.

The German pig's feet are naturally not imported from Germany, but made by the boss Lina in Germany. The pig's feet are made with thicker fat pig's calves. They are marinated with salt and roasted with charcoal and served with sauerkraut, which is quite delicious.

This is also one of the signature dishes in the store. In addition to charcoal grilling, it can also be boiled in water. Generally speaking, in Germany, pork feet are cooked in south and north. However, in this store, there are charcoal grilling and boiled in water. Just like their sausages, there are white sausages made of chopped veal and tobacco pork, as well as minced meat sausages, as well as curry sausages, Frankfurt sausages, etc.

Liu Jun once provided Lina with a suggestion, which now has another dish of sausage and hot dog in their store.

German pork trotters, German sausages, German sauerkraut, German bread, German beer, German hot dogs. With these authentic German flavors, although this store is not open on the most prosperous main street of Qianmen Street, the wine is not afraid of deep alleys. It is still full of guests, the reputation is getting better and better, and there are more and more repeat customers. This place has even become a favorite store for many European barbarians.

Some people once learned that Lina was just a foreign woman alone in Han and wanted to bully her. She happened to meet Liu Junzai, and Liu Jun came forward to help her settle it. Later, she took special care of several government offices in the capital, and the guys who came to make trouble several times were taught a lesson, and no one dared to make trouble again.

The treatment of being able to get the boss's wife to cook and serve the dishes personally made many customers envious. However, most of them were regular customers, and they knew that this young Han man had a great background and great ability. A drunk German man once asked Liu Jun for trouble, but he was knocked down by him.

Lina has a very good craftsmanship. The charcoal-grilled pork feet she brought with her was soaked in garlic and caraway, and the skin was crispy. She brought mustard sauce and put the chili on the table.

"Is the business good recently?" Liu Jun picked up the pig and ate a few bites. The roasted pork feet had fragrant skin and thick flesh. The crisp but not dry skin was very chewy and very delicious.

After the pig's feet are cooked, they are processed in charcoal smoked, and the flavor of traditional German seasonings is completely sealed in the pig's feet with the aroma of charcoal. They look smooth and shiny, with soft and chewy skin, which is extremely delicious.

However, this kind of charcoal-grilled pork feet is also very troublesome to cook. It requires more than ten spices and smoked with wood chips and charcoal. After the smoke is finished, cut into thin slices and enjoy it, and then served with a glass of dark beer or rye sauce. It is a rare enjoyment.

This dish is delicious, but not cheap either, but Liu Jun cares about the taste, not the price. He dines here, and he always gives a lot of tips to the shopkeepers every time.

"Drag your fortune, the business in the store is good." Lina sat opposite Liu Jun and replied with a smile. When she looked at the young juren opposite, she had a light look in her eyes.

In a foreign country, she was always orphan and lonely. When she first took over the business of this store, she invested all her money and was in a desperate situation. At that time, people often came to make trouble, and even officials came to collect all kinds of money, and the store was once unable to make ends meet.

Every day after the store is closed, she can't help but want to cry.

It seemed that since he appeared, her luck had improved. Not only did he help him drive away those troublemakers, he could even chat with her and talk to her heart every time.

Moreover, his help was not rewarded, and she even refused to accept it. He never showed any intention of her, just like a friend, coming once or twice a week, eating and chatting.

Lina found that she fell in love with this Han man, and even every weekend, she couldn't help thinking about him. When the bell at the store door rang, she couldn't help looking up, hoping that he would come in.

"The dishes in your store taste good, I'll give you a trick. You can change the decoration of the store a little." Liu Jun said with a smile.

"How to change?" Lina asked hurriedly. He could always make some useful suggestions, such as the hot dog he had proposed before, and for example, he once proposed to recruit several European waitresses in the store, which were very useful. Especially when she recruited some European soldiers from Beijing to be waiters, the business in the store was obviously better.

"The store can show more German flavors. You can decorate them according to German restaurants and make them into an authentic German restaurant, which should be full of exotic style, and even the tables, chairs, cups and plates are replaced with German style. In this way, when Germans come to the store, they will feel like they are going home, while when the big husbands come to the store, they will experience a completely different exotic style."

Lina nodded quickly, thinking it made sense.

"There is another point. In fact, your store can be expanded and opened a chain store. Compared with the style of this store, it is okay to open a few more stores in Beijing. You can also open them to Tongzhou, Tianjin, Yangzhou and other cities."

Lina never thought about those things. When opening so many stores, where can she get the capital, and she can't manage it herself.

Liu Jun smiled, "If you are interested in giving it a try, then I am willing to provide financial assistance. There are two options to choose from. First, I invest in shares, you provide technology, provide recipes for dishes, and I am paying funds. Second, I will lend you money directly and you can manage it yourself."

Lina didn't expect Liu Jun to propose a partnership, so she was stunned for a moment, but then became happy.

"You really want to work with me?"

"Of course, I'm very optimistic about this German hotel, which is a good investment project."

At a table next to it, several casual imperial guards kept listening to the emperor and the foreign woman chatting. When they heard that the emperor was actually preparing to open a German hotel with the foreign woman, they all looked wonderful.
Chapter completed!