From a freeloader to a world leader

Chapter 16: Feelings are a bit complicated

Hengzhou, the capital of southern Hunan Prefecture, is not too far from Quanshan Town, probably less than 200 miles away.

But in this world where ox-drawn and horse-drawn carts move slowly and are not much faster than people walking, it took Sun Shan and his companions two days to arrive.

Along the way, Sun Shan learned a lot of business knowledge and skills from Zhang Yuliang's elder brother Zhang Yushan, who had been in business for many years.

He found that he had underestimated the people in this world.

For someone like Jacky Cheung, who was able to build a fortune of over 10,000 taels by running a restaurant as a student, he must have extraordinary abilities and calculations.

Zhang Yushan is 28 years old this year. Like his younger brother Zhang Yuliang, he has been studying since childhood.

Moreover, at the age of eighteen, he passed the examination and became a student.

However, his ambition is not in academics. He has a deep interest in business and has unique talents.

At present, his father, who is nearly 50 years old, has basically handed over the family business to him to manage.

The Zhang family's main business is running restaurants. At the same time, they opened several restaurants in Huayang County and Hengzhou Prefecture.

Like all businessmen of that era, the Zhang family used the money earned from running the restaurant to purchase nearly a thousand acres of land, making them a large farming, reading and business family in the entire Xiangnan Prefecture.

Now, Sun Shan's family has basically accepted him, and he is personally optimistic about Sun Shan's academic prospects.

He carefully explained his more than ten years of business experience to Sun Shan, who came from a thousand years later.

Unexpectedly, the more they communicated, the more frightened he became.

He originally thought that Sun Shan was just a young man with no experience, but some of Sun Shan's insights inspired him a lot.

In fact, Sun Shan still kept it secret and interpreted a few sentences of some common operating methods from a thousand years later.

For example, discounts, special dishes, and a membership points system. Sun Shan even gave him some advice, such as spending a little money to find some restaurant hosts to accumulate popularity when business is bad.

People always like to hang out in crowded places and follow the herd mentality.

This made Zhang Yushan, who always thought he had a broad vision, exclaim in amazement.

Of course, this also needs to be tested in reality to see if it works.

But since there is a way, why not give it a try?

The Zhang family's Jun Youlai Restaurant is located in the southern Hunan city. It is a medium-sized comprehensive restaurant that integrates catering, accommodation and entertainment.

Faced with the increasingly turbulent situation and the suppression from several large restaurants with deeper backgrounds.

Zhang Yushan is under a lot of pressure.

In fact, no matter which dynasty or world, no matter whether it is big business or small business, a certain background is required.

Otherwise, once you get a little fatter, you will become fat meat in the eyes of others.

This is also the reason why the Zhang family strongly supported Zhang Yuliang and Sun Shan in their pursuit of academic success.

If Zhang Yuliang fails to pass the examination to become a scholar this time, then the Zhang family will put all their hopes on Sun Shan, hoping that Sun Shan will pass the examination to become a juren to protect their family and increase their wealth.

In this world, scholars still don’t have much ability. Without a strong background, they can only barely protect themselves.

But it is different for Juren. Even if he does not pass the Jinshi examination, he can still become an official.

Even if he did not become an official, but was a wealthy scholar in the countryside, he would have classmates and friends who were officials.

"Brother, I don't know where you learned all this knowledge. You don't have any business experience, so how can you talk so much?"

After two days of long-distance chatting, Zhang Yushan finally couldn't help but ask curiously.

"I know a little bit. Maybe I like to read some miscellaneous books and I am interested in making money, so I think about it a lot."

As he spoke, Sun Shan pretended to be a little embarrassed and wiped the scarf on his head: "You know, my family is not well off. Before this exam, I thought that if I didn't pass, I would follow my uncle's example and start a business to support my family first."

"Really? Second brother."

Zhang Yushan asked his younger brother Zhang Yuliang, who was sitting in the carriage with him and looked uninterested, with some curiosity. He praised Sun Shan's idea and said, "Brother, you have such a brain. I believe that no matter what you do, you can make a name for yourself."

"Sun Shan told me so, so I told him before the exam that if he didn't pass, he would have to work as an accountant in our restaurant." Zhang Yuliang got excited and laughed, "I didn't expect that he would be assigned a toilet number and get caught in the rain. In the end, he actually passed the exam and was ranked last on the list, becoming the last scholar."

"very impressive!"

Zhang Yushan patted Sun Shan's shoulder vigorously, and then raised his thumb and said, "Brother, you are amazing. You even passed the exam. If it were someone else, they would have died or lost a layer of skin. But you actually passed the exam."

"What can I do? If you don't fight hard, how can you know where your bottom line is? I am just lucky. After all the hardship, I have finally achieved happiness."

Sun Shan smiled bitterly. Although he had traveled from a thousand years later, the memory of this world was still preserved.

He still could not forget those three days and two nights, when he had to let his clothes get wet in the cold rain in order to keep writing the test paper, facing the stinking smell of feces and urine.

As a result, the soul died, allowing the soul of a special forces soldier from another world to take over the body.

Strangely enough, there are two memories existing in Sun Bing's body at the same time.

Sometimes they overlap, and sometimes they each have their own consciousness.

This caused Sun Shan to occasionally fall into a split mental state.

It’s just that Sun Shan from a thousand years later crushed the scholar Sun Shan in every aspect, so no major abnormalities occurred.

Otherwise, outsiders would think that this is a schizophrenic.

"It's true that children from poor families grow up early!"

Zhang Yushan responded approvingly, then looked at his own brother, who was two years older than Sun Shan. Although he had started a family this year, he was still like a child and was heartless all day long.

He shook his head and said, "Look at Yuliang, he is two years older than you, but he can do nothing except reading a few books."

Zhang Yuliang, who had been hit hard by his father since Sun Shan's comparison, suddenly lost his face. "Brother, you guys are talking about your own things, why are you dragging me into this? Sun Shan can't do anything about it."

As he spoke, Zhang Yuliang laughed somewhat complacently: "I just have a capable father and a capable elder brother. This is fate!"

"What are you talking about? How can you talk like that?"

While blaming his brother, Zhang Yushan looked at Sun Shan's expression.

I found that Sun Shan still had a faint smile on his face, as if these were just some meaningless gossip.

This made Zhang Yushan even more frightened.

It felt like Sun Shan was a little unfathomable. For a man of his age, sixteen or seventeen, he should have had a bad temper, but he didn't react much.

This either means that he is very scheming.

Or maybe it could be said that he had a broad mind, big dreams and a strong will, and didn't care about the small difficulties at all.

This idea made him feel that he should pay more attention to Sun Shan.

Or, make him your brother-in-law.

Or, drive him out of your home.

People like this who have such a state of mind or scheming at such a young age are not ordinary people and cannot control themselves.

"Brother, don't be angry. Yuliang is a man with no lock on his lips."

"Haha, Brother Yushan, why should I be angry? People are born different. If you blame this and that all day long, what achievements can you make? If you really want to compare, then if you compare each one with the princes and grandchildren of the emperor, won't everyone want to die?"

Sun Shan replied with a nonchalant smile, and at the same time, felt a little weird about Zhang Yushan's sudden politeness.

He is not just the Sun Shan of this world. If he were the scholar Sun Shan of this world, he might really be angry and care.

After all, the more introverted and quiet a person is, the more sensitive he or she is; the poorer a person's family background is, the more inferior he or she is, and the more he or she cares about how others look at them.

The reason why Sun Shan in this world has a good relationship with Zhang Yuliang is mainly because he wants to curry favor with the wealthy Zhang family.

Moreover, ever since Sun Shan saw Zhang Yuliang's beautiful sister, he had some ideas.

However, due to his poor family background, he had to keep it to himself and could only achieve his goal in a roundabout way by making friends with Zhang Yuliang.

This was also one of the reasons why Sun Shan agreed to work as an accountant at Zhang's Restaurant.

"What is the relationship between me and Brother Yuliang? We have been classmates for six or seven years, eating and sleeping together. If I take it seriously if he says a few words to me, I will die." As he said this, Sun Shan proudly put his arms around Zhang Yuliang's neck.

"Yuliang, do you think we are the best brothers in the world? We will be the best brothers for the rest of our lives, and we will never be separated or betrayed?"

Zhang Yuliang was a little dazed when he suddenly heard Sun Shan's bold statement.

However, he recalled the six or seven years he and Sun Shan had been classmates, and added that he might very well have become his brother-in-law.

He couldn't help but shout loudly: "Of course, we are definitely the best brothers in the world and will never separate and abandon each other!"

Zhang Yushan, who was sitting opposite, felt a bit complicated when he saw the two young scholars who had just reached adulthood and were full of vigor and vitality, with a heroic look of loyalty and solidarity.