After reaching an oral agreement with Boss Zhou, Liu Xiahui immediately took action, contacted IDG Capital and Tiantu Capital, and then acquired their shares at a premium.

Under threats and temptations, Liu Xiahui spent nearly 300 million yuan to acquire all the shares of IDG Capital and Tiantu Capital in total.

Immediately, more than 100 million yuan was spent to acquire 16.5% of the shares from Boss Zhou and his wife, so that Lao Liu Catering's holdings reached 45% required by Liu Xiahui.

After completing these, it was already September.

Then, just like Haidilao, Laoliu Catering became Zhou Heiya's only ingredient and seasoning supplier.

As discussed by both parties before, after handing over the supply chain to Laoliu Catering, Zhou Hei Ya gained great benefits. On the one hand, it can streamline personnel and save labor costs. On the other hand, the prices of ingredients and seasonings have been reduced, and the quality has been improved.

Of course, there are also disadvantages, that is, handing over all the supply chain, which is actually very dangerous. Once there is any change, it will be controlled by others.

If it was another supplier, Boss Zhou would definitely not dare to do this, but Lao Liu Catering is different. It is now Zhou Hei Ya’s largest shareholder, so it is not afraid of being cheated if it cooperates with it.

After all, as the overlord of the catering industry, Lao Liu Catering, once the incident of cheating partners is spread, the reputation loss cannot be compensated by just Zhou Hei Ya.

Therefore, Boss Zhou is still very relieved about this.

Therefore, Zhou Hei Ya, who is at least several times stronger than before, began to accelerate its development with the strong support of the Liu Group. It originally planned to add 100 direct-operated stores a year, but now this goal has been set to 300.

It has increased by three times.

At the same time, Zhou Heiya also began to cooperate with WeChat and Lao Liu Takeout. Not only can you use WeChat Pay, but you also developed a mini program on WeChat that can directly order payment on WeChat.

While Liu Xiahui was busy building the Lao Liu catering industry, this year's Spring Festival Gala cooperation was unexpectedly taken down by Tencent, spending a full billion, making the Spring Festival Gala program team laugh so hard!

After winning the Spring Festival Gala, Tencent attached great importance to it and tried its best to do a good job in this cooperation? Not to be able to surpass WeChat? But the effect should not be too bad, otherwise it would be a big loss.

Nowadays? In the field of mobile payments? WeChat Pay accounts for 54% of the market share, Alipay accounts for 32% of the market share? Qxin Pay's market share is about 10%, and the remaining 4% is divided by the remaining payment software.

And financial products? We are also the dominant player in WeChat? The users of change bus have reached more than 30 million, and the total amount is as high as 100 billion. It has become a unicorn among financial products, and no one can compare with it.

Yu'ebao, ranked second? There are several million users? The total amount has reached 10 billion, which is very awesome.

As for Tenpay, Current Bonus, etc., they are all under one billion and are not worth mentioning.

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After successfully investing in Haidilao and Zhou Heiya, Liu Xiahui did not stop building Lao Liu's catering industry? He wanted to dominate the domestic catering market and prepare to invade various categories of catering? He became a catering master in each category.

This time, he took a fancy to a category with a large share in the catering market? This category is just two words - rice noodles!

As the saying goes, "north is the south". If the north is the world of pasta? Then the south is the world of rice noodles.

Speaking of rice noodles? There are two holy places for rice noodles in my country? One is Guizhou Province, and the other is Guizhou Province’s neighbor Hunan Province. The rice noodles in these two provinces have many schools and are very well-known.

Among the famous rice noodles in Hunan Province, Changdejin beef noodles, Changsha rice noodles, Chenzhou fish noodles, etc.

Compared with the Hunan Province, which follows the rules, the rice noodles in Guizhou Province are obviously more distinctive and more well-known.

For example, Guilin rice noodles that have been flooded across the country, Liuzhou snail noodles that are popular all over the country, and Nanning Laoyou noodles that are relatively low-key but comparable to the previous two are the three well-known noodles in Guizhou.

In addition, there are Yulin beef brisket powder, Binyang sour powder, and Baise mutton powder in the circle.

However, these are just relatively well-known, and there are more rice noodles with very good taste, which are not included.

However, the most regrettable thing is that although the rice noodles in Guizhou are famous, the quality is uneven.

For example, Guilin rice noodles are particularly famous. Even if they leave Guizhou Province, Guilin rice noodles stores are everywhere. They are usually scattered on streets that are not very good in areas, with narrow space and compact tables and chairs.

The diners who came and went in a hurry, and looked like they would not stay for a long time. They took a few sips of the rice noodles and drank a few sips of the soup. A convenient and affordable lunch was solved.

Guilin rice noodles are affordable, but few people think that Guilin rice noodles are a delicacy worthy of careful taste and seriousness. To be honest, it is a bit awkward. The main thing is Guilin rice noodles that go north, from the classic way to the way of eating, are obviously different from the origin.

Even if you have eaten a lot of Guilin rice noodles, it does not necessarily mean that you have seen the real Guilin rice noodles.

For example, in the eyes of many people, especially those from other provinces, Guilin rice noodles = soup noodles, which is obviously an inexplicable mistake.

In fact, the way to eat authentic Guilin rice noodles is to "mix dry", that is, mix the flour and cannot add the soup. When you get the flour, add the soup. This is a layman's way to eat it. After you finish eating or have a little leftover powder, scoop a spoonful of bone soup and drink it, which is comfortable.

Also, the most classic Guilin rice noodles is braised vegetable noodles, rather than the soup noodles that are popular in big cities today.

The so-called braised vegetable powder is to heat the fresh powder in boiling water and put it in a bowl, and then the store adds "braised vegetables" such as pot and braised beef, and drizzle it with brine and sesame oil. Diners then add sour bamboo shoots, fried soybeans, fried peanuts, sour beans, scallions, coriander, chopped chili and other ingredients according to their taste. Some people also don’t add sour bamboo shoots and sour beans.

It is said that traditional braised vegetable powder does not contain sourness when eaten because "there is not enough brine, so use sourness to make up."

Brine is the soul of Guilin rice noodles.

Although fresh rice flour has a rice aroma and slightly fermented flavor, it still needs to be brine to enhance the flavor. Therefore, whether the rice flour tastes good or not depends on the brine formula.

Generally speaking, the way to make Guilin brine is to first add clean water to the pot, then add pepper, star anise, cinnamon, grass fruit, clove, tangerine peel, betel nut, licorice, rosen fruit and other spices and ingredients, first boil over high heat, then boil over low heat for a few hours, and finally filter off the residue to get the brine juice.

In addition, beef, beef bones, pork, pork bones, etc. are usually added during the cooking process. In order to give the brine a unique personality that makes diners feel fragrant, some shops will also add snakes and eels.

The brine formulas in each store are different, and the details are given in detail in terms of the amount, proportion, heat, and the length of boiling time.

Good brine should not be too salty or bitter, and it should have sweet and fragrant spices and ingredients. The amount of brine poured on rice noodles should be neither too much nor too much. After eating, you cannot be soup in the bowl. It is said that experts call this "brown hanging wall".

After leaving Guizhou Province, the one that can best identify the authentic or not of a Guilin rice noodle restaurant is "pot roast pork".

The meat is cooked or braised and then fryed in oil.

The raw materials for roasted pork are generally pork head (preferably chin meat), washed and cooked, then removed and dried.

Then put a few small holes in the skin and apply salt and other seasonings. After repeating this several times, put it in a pan. The best pan is golden and transparent in color, and the skin is crispy and soft.

There is also Guilin rice noodles, which must be delicious and chewy to taste.

Unlike the dry noodles used for snail noodles, authentic Guilin rice noodles are made of fresh noodles.

The production process of fresh powder is not complicated: the rice is ground into slurry, put into bags and filtered, kneaded into powder and cooked, pressed into round roots or sheets, and heated in boiling water. The fresh and wet rice flour product looks white and bright, smooth and flexible.

However, after Guilin rice noodles went north, for cost and dosage considerations, most of the rice noodles used in big cities can only be made of dry flour.

Therefore, although Guilin rice noodles are well known throughout the country, people who have eaten them don’t know how many of them are, but there are only ones that can be eaten in many places.

Not only Guilin rice noodles, but also snail noodles, old friends noodles, etc., are all the same. Authentic and fake ones are really far from each other, and it feels like they are not the same delicacy at all.

As a native of Guizhou Province, Liu Xiahui now has a bold idea, which is to promote many specialty rice noodles in Guizhou to the whole country so that diners across the country can taste authentic Guizhou rice noodles instead of those fake products.

It is very difficult to do this, but once it succeeds, Guizhou rice noodles will truly become famous all over the world.

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People have different thinking. For example, when running Guilin rice noodles, some bosses already thought of opening a second and third branch when opening the first store. However, some bosses only stayed at one store for their entire lives. No matter how popular the business is, they did not have the idea of ​​opening a second branch.

Gao Dewang is the latter.

Gao Dewang, 48 years old this year, has been open in his Guilin rice noodle shop for 25 years.

Because the taste is authentic and delicious, and the price is relatively affordable, the business of Gaodewang rice noodle shop has always been very good. Every day, when the store door opens, there are many customers queuing up.

Rice noodles can be eaten in Guizhou Province as breakfast, Chinese food, dinner and midnight snacks. Gaodewang opens at 6:30 in the morning and closes at 7:00 in the evening. Unless there is any special situation, this time is extremely punctual.

Today, after the traffic peak at noon, Gao Dewang's son Gao Shijie took a sip of tea and said, "Dad, our rice noodle shop has such a good business. Do you really don't consider opening another branch?"

Gao Dewang looked at his son who was already old enough to marry his wife and said, "I used to be young, but I wanted to open a few more branches, but at that time there was no trustworthy man. I only mastered the core technology of this Mi Fan. Even if you teach your mother, there will be only two people.

At that time, your mother had to take care of you siblings, so how could she have so much time to open a branch?

Later, your siblings grew up slowly, and your mother could take time out, but she no longer had the energy she used to be.

Anyway, just this store is open, which is enough for our family to have enough food and clothing, so we are too lazy to make trouble."

Gao Shijie thought for a while, nodded and said, "Dad, what you said makes sense. Our rice noodles technology can only be mastered by our family. If it is passed on to others, it is really uneasy. But if it is not passed on, how many stores can our family open if they are exhausted?"

Gao Dewang smiled and said, "That's the reason!"

Just as the father and son were chatting, Liu Xiahui walked in and said, "Boss, three liang of Guilin rice noodles!"

Gao Shijie immediately responded: "Okay, please wait, it's all right away!"

Liu Xiahui looked at the small Guilin rice noodle shop and asked, "Boss, I came here because of my reputation. I heard that your Guilin rice noodle is the most authentic and tasted best in Guilin. I wonder if it is true?"

As soon as he heard this, Gao Dewang couldn't help but smile and said, "I dare not say whether the whole Guilin tastes the best, but if you want to talk about the most authentic Guilin rice noodles in Guilin, my rice noodles are really unpretentious!"

Liu Xiahui smiled and said, "The person who recommended told me that among the few old Guilin rice noodles restaurants, your Guilin rice noodles have the best reputation, so I came over from the provincial capital to eat it!"

Gao Dewang couldn't help but look at Liu Xiahui after hearing this. Although there were many repeat customers in his rice noodle shop and many customers would come to visit, most of the guests who came to visit Guilin and then came to his shop to eat a bowl of Guilin rice noodle.

But what the young man in front of him meant was that he was not coming to Guilin for a trip, but was rushing from the provincial capital to eat a bowl of Guilin rice noodles?

Just when Gao Dewang was surprised, his son Gao Shijie shouted: "Beautiful boy, your fans are already well!"

Liu Xiahui didn't say much, took the steaming steam, had already put it in a pan, braised beef, poured it with braised water and sesame oil, and then added sour bamboo shoots, fried soybeans, fried peanuts, sour beans, scallions, coriander, chopped chili and other ingredients according to his taste, and then stirred them evenly with chopsticks, and couldn't wait to whip them.

After a bite of braised beef and rice noodles, the unique aroma of the dry mix is ​​really the more fragrant it becomes, making people feel endless aftertaste.

This Guilin rice noodles have a characteristic. When eating rice noodles alone, the taste is already very good. If you can eat them together with those ingredients, the taste will be even more irresistible.

A bowl of three liang of dried-mixed Guilin rice noodles was almost solved in just over a minute.

When the last two bites of powder were left, Liu Xiahui asked the boss to scoop a spoonful of hot bone soup, and drink it while blowing it. When the bone soup is all eaten, it feels so comfortable all over his body!

After savoring for a full half minute, Liu Xiahui gave a thumbs up and said, "Boss, you Guilin rice noodles are really amazing. You are recognized as one of the best-known old stores. It is really well-deserved!"
Chapter completed!