Chapter 140: Chai Wenshan’s envy, I didn’t get any tips…

In ancient times, Han Xin recruited soldiers and believed that the more the better. Today, Wang Jianye is recruiting disciples and also believes that the more the better.

For Wang Jianye, if every disciple practices diligently, he can get about 25 experience points every day. The more disciples he has, the more experience points they provide him every day.

The improvement of his cooking skills now depends on a large amount of experience points, and naturally the more the better.

Wang Jianye has currently arranged two apprentices, Chen Xiaoyang and Ma Hua, to be apprentices at Fengzeyuan. This is already enough. Among so many masters in the kitchen who are qualified to take apprentices, only Wang Jianye has two apprentices at the same time. Others will have at most one apprentice before they train an apprentice to become a master. If there are more, not only will they not be able to teach them all, but Fengzeyuan will not be willing to do so. After all, Fengzeyuan has to pay these apprentices wages, and these apprentices can't do much work, so these are all costs.

If Wang Jianye wants to take in a few more apprentices and arrange for them to be apprentices in Fengze Garden, he must get the boss's consent.

Originally Wang Jianye was thinking of raising this request to his boss in a few days, but unexpectedly his boss found him today and asked him if he had any requests. That was perfect, he could take this opportunity to raise this matter with him.

After Wang Jianye made this request, not only Jiang Rongqing did not understand, but manager Zheng Hao, Xu Youliang, and Zhou Qingde also couldn't figure out what Wang Jianye was after. Why didn't he think about getting more benefits for himself when he had such a good opportunity, but instead wanted to take in more apprentices?

Wang Jianye repeated to Jiang Rongqing and others the excuse he had used to trick Zhou Qingde into helping him find a disciple.

"So this is ah."

Jiang Rongqing nodded in understanding: "Since taking in more disciples will help you improve your level, then I will let you take in a few more disciples."

"thank you boss."

"But Master Wang, don't take too many. Our Fengze Garden kitchen is so small. If you take too many, I'm afraid there won't be enough space. How about this, you have two apprentices now, right... I'll give you a total of ten apprenticeships. After you take in apprentices, you can come in and become apprentices, but there can only be a maximum of ten."

Jiang Rongqing added, don't let Wang Jianye accept apprentices as he pleases, because if you do that, he won't be able to accommodate so many people in the kitchen of Fengze Garden. If he has to squeeze them in, he will have to ask other masters to stop accepting apprentices, and even have to lay off some apprentices.

If there were no limit on the number of apprentices, then in a while, one-third or even one-half of the people in the Fengze Garden kitchen might be Wang Jianye's apprentices. By that time... Wang Jianye, with so many disciples, would be a local lord. If he had more apprentices, then the kitchen might belong to Wang Jianye.

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After leaving the boss' office and heading back to the kitchen, Wang Jianye said to Zhou Qingde, "Master Zhou, I need to ask you a favor."

"Oh? Tell me what's going on."

Zhou Qingde asked.

"Look, our boss has allowed me to take in ten apprentices. I currently only have two apprentices, Chen Xiaoyang and Ma Hua, so I would like you to help me find a few more suitable apprentices. My requirements are not high. An apprentice like the one you found with me before, Ma Hua, will do."

Wang Jianye smiled and said.

Wang Jianye was quite satisfied with Ma Hua, who was found by Zhou Qingde to be his apprentice. It would be great if the remaining eight apprentices could be like him.

Zhou Qingde nodded and said, "I'll try my best to help you find one, but it's rare to find a disciple as good as Chen Xiaoyang. Not all of the ones you find will be like this. You have to be mentally prepared."

"Thank you, Master Zhou. Please come to my place in a couple of days. I will cook a delicious meal and treat you to a drink."

Seeing that the other party agreed, Wang Jianye said with a smile.

"Okay, it's a deal." Zhou Qingde was very happy. Even if Wang Jianye didn't invite him to dinner, he would do his best to help Wang Jianye find a suitable apprentice. After all, Wang Jianye had helped him a lot before, so it was only right for him to do something for Wang Jianye in return.

Wang Jianye returned to the kitchen, and Chai Wenshan came over curiously again, "Jianye, what does our boss want to see you about?"

"He wanted to give me a raise and asked for my opinion."

Hearing Wang Jianye's calm tone, Chai Wenshan couldn't help but take a breath and said in surprise: "The boss is going to give you a raise again? But didn't he just raise your salary not long ago?"

Chai Wenshan felt jealous. As a master, he had worked in Fengze Garden for so many years, but apart from being promoted, his salary had never been improved.

And his apprentice, who had only worked for a few years, was about to get a raise, and it was the boss who took the initiative to bring it up...

"It's like this, Master. One of my dishes has been listed as one of the signature dishes these days, and it has attracted a lot of customers. The restaurants outside have also known about this, so they want to give me better treatment and let me go to their place. In order to keep me, Fengzeyuan wants to improve my treatment and let me stay here."

Wang Jianye gave a simple explanation.

Chai Wenshan looked at him with great envy, "That's great, what kind of treatment would the boss like to give you?"

"My boss asked for my opinion, but I didn't ask for any compensation. Instead, I made a request."

"What request?"

Chai Wenshan asked curiously, you want to make a request without receiving the treatment... what could that be so important?

"I told the boss that I wanted to recruit a few more apprentices and have them come to Fengze Garden as apprentices, and the boss agreed."

After Wang Jianye finished explaining his request, as expected, Chai Wenshan was just as puzzled as Jiang Rongqing at the time: "You already have two disciples, why do you want to take in more? Can you teach them all?"

Wang Jianye repeated his previous reasons and tried to fool the person.

Chai Wenshan went to find Sun Qu to show off.

Before leaving get off work, Wang Jianye opened his personal panel.

[Experience value: 421]

【Recipe: 1】

【…】

"The day before yesterday, my total experience was 101 points. After these three days, my total experience reached 421 points, which means I have gained a total of 320 experience points in these few days. Not bad."

Wang Jianye was quite satisfied with the amount of experience points he had gained in the past two days. In addition to the experience points, he also received a commission. The money came from his signature spicy and sour potato shreds. He would get two cents for every customer who ordered this dish.

A total of seventy-eight customers ordered this dish in the past few days, so he earned 1.56 yuan. Two cents per dish may not seem like much, but when you add it all together, it's really not a small amount of money. If he can earn that much every day in the next month, it would be a considerable income.

(End of this chapter)