Princess, he is rich enough to rival the country

"What happened?" Gu Yanshu looked at Bai Shu with a slight smile on his face.

"The shopkeeper Tang from Tao Ranju just sent someone over, saying that some porcelain shops headed by Yun Ci Zhai have somehow started to cut prices these two days, and they have taken all of Tao Ranju's business."

Bai Shu didn't play tricks, and directly shared the news he had just received.

Tao Ranju is a porcelain shop in Gu Yanshu's dowry. Because of its good location and a long history, it can almost be said to be one of the best among Gu Yanshu's dowry shops.

Gu Yanshu saw that Bai Shu looked nervous when he just entered the door, and thought that something serious had happened.

Now that I heard Bai Shu's report, I felt that Bai Shu was making a fuss out of a molehill, and at the same time, I was a little puzzled:

"Let's just drop the price. Do you need to talk about such a trivial matter?"

In Gu Yanshu's eyes, it is very common for competitors to lower prices occasionally to improve their competitiveness.

From the account books that Gu Yanli sent at the beginning, it can be seen that the Tang shopkeeper of Tao Ranju mentioned by Bai Shu has been managing Tao Ranju for more than ten years.

Gu Yanshu didn't believe it. In the past ten years, shopkeeper Tang has never encountered such a situation.

Could it be that in the past, every time such a trivial matter as a competitor's price reduction, the shopkeeper would come to the owner to report it?

Perhaps because of thinking that these properties will be given to his younger brother in the future, Gu Yanli is more concerned about these shops, and each shop is in a state of profit on the account books.

If he didn't even have the ability to deal with such a crisis, then the shopkeeper of Tao Ranju would have been replaced long ago.

Sure enough, Bai Shu's next words confirmed Gu Yanshu's conjecture:

"Tang shopkeeper said that he didn't want to bother the young master with such a small matter. It was because Yuncizhai was a little deceptive this time, and Tang shopkeeper was a little uncertain now, so he had no choice but to Come to disturb the young master."

As he spoke, Bai Shu told Gu Yanshu all the news he had just heard.

Here, I have to talk about some customs unique to Tianqi Kingdom.

In Tianqi, almost every household has to replace it with a batch of new porcelain during the Chinese New Year.

If the family is in difficulty, they will change some gadgets, such as changing a porcelain spoon or a porcelain bowl every now and then.

And home

If the environment is better, the porcelain bowls and plates at home will be replaced directly.

As for the big families with better families, they will replace all the porcelain in the house except antiques.

For example, the dishes in the kitchen, the teacups and teapots in the study, and the vases on the table...

In other words, regardless of whether the family has money or not, it is a very important step to replace porcelain during the Chinese New Year.

So every year from the beginning of the year to the end of the year is the best time for the porcelain shop's business.

Almost all the revenue of this porcelain shop throughout the year refers to the business at the end of the year.

Although there is still a month or two before the Chinese New Year, some wealthy families who are more particular have already started to find porcelain shops and place orders one after another.

After all, in this big family, everything needs to be unified, and this porcelain is no exception. Almost every family has to choose a custom style.

After the porcelain shop receives the order, it will take some time to open the kiln and fire the porcelain.

It is also because of this that at this time in previous years, the prices of all the famous porcelain shops in central Beijing will be about [-] to [-]% higher than before.

However, this year, Yuncizhai and several other porcelain stores did not know why the price did not rise but fell, which directly caught shopkeeper Tang by surprise.

When he learned that his peers had lowered their prices, shopkeeper Tang's first reaction was to lower the prices accordingly. After all, he couldn't let the business at the end of the year go unnoticed.

In the end, who knew that shopkeeper Tang's price would be lowered, and Yuncizhai's price would be lowered again.

After going back and forth twice, shopkeeper Tang finally realized something was wrong.

Now the price of this porcelain has dropped to about [-]% of the normal price, even shopkeeper Tang dared not make the decision to lower it.

In the words of shopkeeper Tang, if the price is lowered, let alone the wages of the workers in the kiln, even the cost will not be recovered!

Shopkeeper Tang originally wanted to go to Gu Yanli to find a solution according to his past habits.

But I also thought that before Gu Yanshu got married, Gu Yanli specially called the shopkeepers of these shops to have a small meeting.

The general content of this is that these shops were all used as dowry, and Gu Yanshu took them to Prince Li's mansion.

From now on, these shops will no longer be under the management of Marquis Cheng'en's Mansion and Gu Yanli, and if there is anything in the future, naturally there is no need to report it.

As a servant, the most taboo thing is to have one servant serve two masters. After careful consideration, shopkeeper Tang still sent someone to

He came to Prince Li's mansion and talked about it with Gu Yanshu.

After listening to Bai Shu's words, Gu Yanshu finally knew why shopkeeper Tang came to him in such a hurry.

After all, if the wave of business at the end of the year is not successful, this year's Tao Ranju will be equivalent to no harvest.

If this situation continues until next year, it may even cause the capital chain of Taoran House to break, and finally close down.

If a shop that had a booming business in the past was closed, the shopkeeper of the shop would have to bear the responsibility, and shopkeeper Tang couldn't bear the consequences.

Thinking about it, Gu Yanshu couldn't help but think of the store that started the price war first:

"Yuncizhai..."

"Bai Shu, go and find out the origin of this Yun Ci Zhai first."

Tao Ranju needs to open its doors to do business, and this Yun Ci Zhai also needs to open its doors to do business.

When it's time to make money, they don't want the money delivered to their door. Instead, they choose this method of hurting the enemy a thousand and hurting themselves eight hundred to run on Tao Ranju.

If there is no other meaning behind this, Gu Yanshu would never believe it.

"Yes." Bai Shu hurriedly bowed and saluted, and after a reply, she was ready to go out to find someone to investigate.

However, before Baishu started to move, Qin Hao who was sitting by the side had already given Gu Yanshu the answer:

"This Yuncizhai seems to have something to do with Brother Dahuang."

"Huh?" Upon hearing this, Gu Yanshu looked directly at Qin Hao who was sitting aside and remembering something, wanting to get more information.

"Yes, that's right, it does have something to do with Brother Dahuang!"

Qin Hao recalled for a while, then found the information he wanted from his mind, and clapped his hands directly:

"There is a concubine in the elder brother's house, surnamed Zhou, who is said to be the daughter of the Zhou family. This Yuncizhai is the property of the Zhou family!"

"So it is."

When Gu Yanshu heard this, his heart became clear.

Presumably, the eldest prince put this idea on his head a few days ago because Prince Li's mansion was devastated and he couldn't do anything to Qin Lu and Qin Hao.

After all, for this persimmon, it is natural to pick the soft ones to pinch.

Thinking of this, Gu Yanshu couldn't help but sneered.

Following Gu Yanshu's sneer, Qin Hao also noticed something was wrong:

"Okay, this Qin Sheng? We have let that Zhao Ergou go, and he dared to do such a messy thing?"

When he said this, Qin Hao didn't even want to call out to the eldest brother, he was obviously very angry.

After speaking,

Qin Hao couldn't care about anything else, and stood up directly from the stool:

"Sister-in-law Sanhuang, don't worry, you don't have to worry about this matter, my younger brother will help you to take care of it properly!"

"Okay," Gu Yanshu didn't speak, but Qin Lu who was on the side spoke, his tone seemed to be more stern than usual, "What are you talking about, what does it look like? Don't worry about it."

Qin Hao, who was originally planning to roll up his sleeves and rush to the First Prince's mansion to fight Qin Sheng, became limp like a deflated ball after hearing Qin Lu's voice. down:

"Ow, all right."

Since Qin Lu said that he didn't need to worry about this matter, Qin Hao naturally wouldn't intervene without authorization.

Then, seeing Qin Lu's expression that he wanted to say something to Gu Yanshu alone, Qin Hao quickly found an excuse, rubbed the soles of his feet with oil, and ran away.

When he left the study and stepped out of the gate of Prince Li's Mansion, Qin Hao seemed to have thought of something, and patted his head suddenly:

"I see!"

"Your Highness?" The servant who was following Qin Hao couldn't help casting a puzzled look when he saw His Highness's appearance.

Just now when Qin Hao was in the study, he was still thinking about why Brother Sanhuang wanted to prevent him from helping Sanhuang's wife find her place back. Now when he came out and the cold wind blew, Qin Hao finally understood why.

Since then, he has snatched Brother Sanhuang's work, and Brother Sanhuang will not be happy if he has no chance to express himself in front of Sister-in-law Sanhuang!

After thinking it through, Qin Hao smiled in a low voice, and hummed in a playful tone:

"I didn't see it, but my third brother is still a boring man."

Although the servant of the Fifth Prince didn't quite understand why His Royal Highness said those words, after seeing that the Fifth Prince didn't mean to continue, he didn't ask any more questions, and just quietly followed the Fifth Prince. make a sound.

At this time, in the study of Prince Li's Mansion, Gu Yanshu also happened to ask Qin Lu this question:

"Just now, the fifth emperor brother said that he would help me find the place, why didn't the prince let me go?"

However, the answer Qin Lu said was far from what Qin Hao had guessed in his heart:

"This little matter, the king believes that the princess can solve it by herself."

"Oh?" Gu Yanshu frowned slightly, looking at Qin Lu with a smile in his eyes.

"Besides, when I saw the look on the princess's face just now, I thought I had already made up my mind, so that the fifth emperor's younger brother would rashly intervene.

If you don't make it right, it will be self-defeating. "

Qin Lu thinks that after spending this period of time together, he already has a general understanding of Gu Yanshu.

It was Gu Yanshu's expression just now after learning about Yuncizhai's relationship with the eldest prince.

Qin Lu knew that his princess, who looked gentle and polite, and seemed very easy to bully, might have something bad in her belly.

Gu Yanshu neither denied nor admitted what Qin Lu said, but only asked another question:

"Is the prince so confident in me?"

Qin Lu remained silent for a moment before speaking again:

"The concubine is extremely intelligent, so this king is naturally very confident."

If Qin Hao was still in the study at this time, he would have been shocked by Qin Lu's words:

His family is taciturn, brother Sanhuang, who usually doesn't even bother to say a word, when did he start to learn how to flatter others?

However, Gu Yanshu himself, who was flattered, had no surprise on his face except for a more obvious smile than before:

"Then what if the prince guessed wrong?"

"What the fifth emperor brother can solve, this king can also solve." Qin Lu gave Gu Yanshu the answer without even thinking about it.

"Pfft..."

Gu Yanshu finally confirmed that it was not his illusion that Qin Lu seemed impatient when he looked at Qin Hao just now.

After laughing, Gu Yanshu did not forget to comfort Qin Lu along his hair:

"If I can't solve it by then, I will definitely come to the prince for help."

Sure enough, after hearing this, Qin Lu's expression immediately softened by two points, and even the corners of his lips showed a barely audible arc.