Princess, he is rich enough to rival the country

The price war between Yuncizhai and Tao'anju has been fierce in the past two days, and there are naturally many people who are paying attention to the activities of these two shops.

Here, the fifth prince, Qin Hao, walked out of Yuncizhai.

Later, the news that Yuncizhai and the imperial palace had established a business has spread to every corner of the capital.

Undoubtedly, the news of Zhou Maoran's fainting naturally did not escape the eyes of the gossip crowd in Yanjing City.

And this news also cannot be hidden from the eyes and ears of Prince Li's residence.

"Did you faint?" Gu Yanshu frowned slightly, then chuckled, "It seems that you can't bear it this Tuesday."

"I thought that a pie fell from the sky, but after I ate it, I found that the pie was poisoned. It's normal that I can't accept it."

Qin Hao, who had just finished reporting his results today to Gu Yanshu, had a rare good word for Zhou Maoran, but the tone made people feel that he was gloating.

Perhaps because he felt that he had found a place here in Tao Ranju, Qin Sheng's expression when he saw Qin Hao in the past few days was a villain's success.

Qin Hao was so angry that his teeth itch. If it wasn't for Gu Yanshu's plan, Qin Hao would have ridiculed his elder brother.

God knows how happy Qin Hao felt in his heart when he just said the phrase "Thank you, Mr. Tuesday, for your generosity these days" to Zhou Maoran in Yuncizhai.

Qin Hao thought of the time when he was sent to report, saying that after Zhou Maoran fell into a coma, the Yun Ci Zhai closed the door to thank the guests, and his curiosity flourished for a while:

"How much did Yuncizhai lose this time? Can Zhou Maoran be made like this?"

Originally, Qin Hao just asked casually. After all, in Qin Hao's mind, no matter how powerful Gu Yanshu was, he couldn't possibly know the internal affairs of Yun Ci Zhai.

Who knew that Gu Yanshu's hand holding the tea paused, and then spit out a number in an understatement:

"Not counting your batch of porcelain today, about five or six million taels."

Qin Hao had just delivered a sip of tea to the end, but before he could swallow it, he choked when he heard the number:

"Puff cough cough...how much?"

"If you count the batch of porcelain you ordered today, it is conservatively estimated... at least 70 taels."

Gu Yanshu stroked his chin, and calmly recalculated a number.

The batch of porcelain that Qin Hao ordered in Yuncizhai today only used 5000 taels.

Normally, even if

Yuncizhai's order is a loss-making business, and the loss cannot be as high as 10 taels.

But the bad thing is that this batch of porcelain will be sent to the palace in the end.

All the items used in the palace are fine, even the slightest flaw is fine.

If the requirements are high, the acceptance criteria will naturally increase, and the pass rate of the items will naturally decrease.

If ten porcelain wares are sold to other people, nine may be left behind, but if ten porcelain wares are sold to the palace, only five may be left, or even lower.

In this way, the loss of 10 taels is not an exaggeration at all.

"There are so many?" Rao Qin Hao was shocked by this number, and then thought of another question, "Tao Ranju should have received a lot of orders these days, right?"

"It's quite a lot." Gu Yanshu nodded slightly.

"What about Tao Ranju? How much did you lose?"

When asked this question, Qin Hao's heart trembled, and he even dared not listen to Gu Yanshu's next answer.

After all, according to Qin Hao's observation, Yuncizhai is indeed crowded these days, but Tao Ranju's business is not bad either.

Not counting the business of the palace, Yuncizhai lost 60 taels, Tao Ranju shouldn't be too far behind, right?

However, what Qin Hao didn't expect was that Gu Yanshu's next answer was far beyond his expectation.

"Tao Ranju?" Gu Yanshu repeated with a smile, even with a hint of frivolity in his tone, "No loss, and even some small profits."

"What?" Qin Hao blinked his eyes, wondering if he heard it wrong.

"Oh?" Even Qin Lu couldn't help casting a puzzled look at Gu Yanshu at this time, "What did the princess do?"

"I don't like doing business at a loss," Gu Yanshu's lips curled up, his tone full of smiles, "Since Zhou Shao likes it so much, then I naturally want to fulfill him."

It is true that Tao Ranju has received a lot of orders these days, but Tao Ranju has never said that he will do these orders by himself.

Every time after receiving an order, Gu Yanshu would ask shopkeeper Tang to send a fresh face to Yuncizhai, and place the same order directly in Yuncizhai.

Who made Yuncizhai keep the price [-]% lower than Taoranju these days?

This kind of good thing that you can make money without opening a kiln and firing porcelain by yourself can be said to be a rare event in a hundred years. How could Gu Yanshu let it go?

"Clap clap clap!"

Qin Hao is not in love

I couldn't help clapping my hands.

Although he had known for a long time that his sister-in-law of the third emperor had more means than one, he never thought that Gu Yanshu could be shameless... No, it was so cunning:

"If Master Zhou knew this, he might be so angry that he would pass out again!"

Gu Yanshu just smiled and shook his head, without speaking.

Whether Zhou Maoran is angry or faint, what does it have to do with him?

After marveling, Qin Hao thought of another question:

"Then how can the Third Sister-in-law be sure that Zhou Maoran will not break the contract?"

Since it is a loss to sell this batch of porcelain, normal people should think of breaking the contract, right?

"Break the contract?"

Gu Yanshu seemed to have heard something funny, and chuckled lightly:

"Would the Zhou family be able to offend the aristocratic families in Beijing, or the eldest prince behind the Zhou family could offend the imperial palace?"

You must know that those who will place an order for custom-made porcelain must be a large family with a large population and some family background.

Where is Yanjing City?This is at the feet of the emperor!

To put it bluntly, the aristocrats are everywhere, and there are as many officials as dogs.

If the plaque of any shop falls and hits five people, I am afraid that three of them will be officials ordered by the imperial court.

The remaining two will more or less be with a few distant relatives who are officials in the court.

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, merchants are at the bottom of the stream, and the Zhou family is just a merchant family, so how dare they easily break the contracts of these big families?

Maybe the eldest prince behind the Zhou family dared.

But that was on the premise that Yuncizhai did not accept the order from the palace!

No matter what the eldest prince is, he is only a prince, so can he still fight against the emperor?

Besides, the eldest prince is not just a simple prince, he also holds the authority of the entire household department in his hands.

While controlling the household department, he has such a close relationship with a wealthy businessman, what does he want to do?

Is this trying to put money from the treasury into your own pocket?

If the emperor finds out, isn't this a dead end?

So now the eldest prince is helping the Zhou family to put pressure on those who ordered porcelain in Yuncizhai.

He even quickly disregarded his relationship with Yuncizhai.

"Brother Dahuang and Zhou Maoran are probably regretting their guts now..."

At this moment, Qin Hao finally understood why Gu Yanshu wanted to send this order to Yuncizhai when he had to buy porcelain from his father for a few years.

it was

Where is the eldest prince waiting here?

Thinking of this, Qin Hao couldn't help but sympathize with Qin Sheng in his heart:

Ever since he confronted the Third Emperor's Wife, his elder brother has never won!

After Gu Yanshu answered Qin Hao's confusion, he raised his eyes and saw his prince's eyes full of thought:

"What is your lord thinking?"

"I'm thinking that the shopkeeper of Yuncizhai is not a stunned young man. How did the princess manage to hide so many orders in Yuncizhai without his eyes?"

When he just heard Gu Yanshu's sentence "five or six million taels", Qin Hao already had such confusion in his heart.

Qin Luxin had doubts, so Gu Yanshu naturally would not hesitate to answer:

"Well... of course the frog is boiled in warm water."

"Boil the frog in warm water?" Suddenly, two voices rang out in unison in the room.

"It means that after catching a frog, if you throw it into a pot of warm water, the frog will jump out immediately, but if you put it in a pot of cold water, and then slowly boil the fire to lift the water, the frog will not It will be easy to detect, and when it finds out, the water temperature in the pot has already reached the point where it can burn him to death."

You must know that Gu Yanshu specially asked Qin Hao to wait for a few days before entering the palace, and these few days were the time when Gu Yanshu's water temperature in the pot was increased.

Shopkeeper Zhang is indeed not a fledgling young man, but during the period before the third round of price cuts, before Yuncizhai started a loss-making business, shopkeeper Zhang had already gotten used to the large new orders in Yuncizhai. .

After the third round of price cuts, shopkeeper Zhang and the Zhou family focused all their energies on how to snatch the order from the palace. How could they react in just three days?

Both Qin Lu and Qin Hao knew everything. At this time, they naturally understood the reason.

When Gu Yanshu saw the change in the expressions of the two, he knew that they had understood. After drinking a sip of tea to moisten his throat, he added another sentence:

"Besides, this Yuncizhai did a stupid thing... At the beginning, he actually united with several porcelain shops to suppress Tao Ranju."

Just the reduction of Yuncizhai's price will not have such a big impact on Tao Ranju.

So at the beginning, Yuncizhai united several porcelain shops in Beijing and central China to adjust prices to put pressure on Tao Ranju.

The price reduction of Yuncizhai was because the eldest prince wanted to cause trouble for Gu Yanshu and Prince Li's mansion, and the Zhou family had no choice but to rely on the eldest prince.

但京

The other porcelain shops in the store have nothing to do with the First Prince, and if they wanted to lower their prices together, Yuncizhai would naturally have to make a profit.

Gu Yanshu had asked someone to inquire about it secretly.

For those porcelain shops that were united by Yuncizhai, almost all of the orders below the cost price were signed in the name of Yuncizhai.

So Gu Yanshu not only placed an order at a shop in Yuncizhai.

Gu Yanshu is a vengeful person.

One of the first batch of porcelain shops that voluntarily lowered prices received orders from Tao Ranju.

In the end, these porcelain shops handed over the orders to Yuncizhai, and then aggregated them. It was difficult to get a small quantity.

After hearing these words, Qin Hao was completely convinced by Gu Yanshu, and the way he looked at him changed slightly:

Just this scheming and brain, can normal people really develop it?

"I don't know if the big emperor will regret it or not," Qin Lu sighed softly at this time, "I'm afraid the imperial concubine will regret it."

Several people in the study knew why Qin Lu said such words.

It can be said that the marriage between Gu Yanshu and Qin Lu was facilitated by the imperial concubine.

If the imperial concubine had known that Qin Sheng's actions would provoke such a strong enemy for Qin Sheng, she might not have done such a thing even if a knife was placed on her neck.

Just when Qin Hao wrote the concubine's name next to Qin Sheng in his heart, and was about to sympathize together, he heard Gu Yanshu's voice full of smiles:

"Can I understand the prince's words as a compliment?"

"Princess is humble. Concubine is extremely intelligent, so how could she misunderstand?" Qin Lu's voice also carried a hint of a smile.

"My lord, thank you." Gu Yanshu said modest words, but there was no hint of modesty in his tone.

Looking at Qin Lu's eyes, it even said "I love to listen, please say a few more words" very bluntly.

For such a simple request from Gu Yanshu, Qin Lu naturally responded to it, even if he said a few more words of praise to Gu Yanshu.

Qin Hao, who was sitting on the side, only felt that the current appearance of his brother Sanhuang was simply insignificant.

But fortunately, after so many days of tempering, Qin Hao has long been used to the love show between Gu Yanshu and Qin Lu after they finished talking about their business.

After watching for a while, he directly raised a new question, interrupting the couple's inappropriate behavior:

"Now Yuncizhai has no prestige.

Threat, what is Tao Ranju going to do next?Will the original price be restored tomorrow? "

It's just that the Yuncizhai closed its doors, and Tao Ranju returned to its original price. I'm afraid it won't be so good in terms of reputation.

Just when Qin Hao was worried, Gu Yanshu gave him another answer that surprised him:

"Restore the original price? No, Tao Ranju will also be closed tomorrow."

Now Qin Hao really can't understand, Yuncizhai is gone, Tao Ranju is the only one, no matter what the reason is, Taoranju has no reason to close at this time:

"Closed too? Why?"

"After this price reduction, it is not easy for Tao Ranju to return to its previous position. Naturally, it needs to close its doors for rectification and upgrade the store by the way."

Gu Yanshu gently put down the teacup in his hand, and replied calmly.

At this time, Qin Hao suddenly thought of the "brand positioning" theory that he heard from shopkeeper Tang that it was said to be taught by Gu Yanshu.

When Gu Yanshu lowered the price in the second round, Qin Hao was still puzzled.

Since Sister-in-law Sanhuang wants to stick to the "brand positioning" of Tao Ranju, but later cut the price, isn't this contradictory?

Now Qin Hao understands that the Third Emperor's Sister-in-law still has a back hand.

But Tao Ranju is just a porcelain shop, no matter how it is upgraded, where can it be upgraded?

With such confusion in his heart, Qin Hao naturally asked directly:

"How does Three Emperor's Sister-in-Law plan to upgrade?"

"Introducing new products," Gu Yanshu didn't hide from Qin Hao, "From now on, Tao Ranju will no longer be mainly engaged in porcelain."

"What? Don't sell porcelain anymore?" Question marks suddenly appeared on Qin Hao's head, "Then what are you selling?"

As soon as Qin Hao finished speaking, Xingren walked in from the door, holding a square brocade box in his hand.

After briefly saluting to several people in the room, Xingren put the brocade box in front of Gu Yanshu:

"Princess, this is just sent by Taoran Kiln Factory."

"Put it on the table." Gu Yanshu raised his chin towards the desk in front of him.

"Yes."

Xingren took a step forward, thinking of the words that the people from Taoran Kiln Factory had repeatedly told him to be careful when they brought the brocade box over, he couldn't help slowing down his movements by two minutes.

Xingren's overly cautious movements aroused Qin Hao's curiosity about this brocade box, and he asked in a hurry:

"what is this?"

Gu Yanshu got up, and while reaching out to open the brocade box in front of him, he gave Qin Hao an answer:

"Tao Ranju will sell things in the future."