Princess, he is rich enough to rival the country

Apart from Guiyuanju and Yaoyue Pavilion, Taoranju and Yuncizhai are the most talked about in Beijing these days.

Just five days after Guiyuanju and Yaoyue Pavilion reopened, Taoranju also reopened for business.

Familiar propaganda methods, familiar leaflets, it is difficult for the people in Beijing to ignore them.

Of course, the most important thing is the new flagship product launched by Taoranju after its opening——

Glass.

The famous name of glass has left an impression on the hearts of the people in central Beijing when Guiyuanju and Yaoyue Pavilion reopened.

Who in Beijing doesn't know the benefits of glass?

Good light transmission, crystal clear, and wide range of uses, whether it is made of tea sets or windows, are extremely beautiful.

Now that Tao Ran Juzhong actually sells glass, how can those people who have already succumbed to their appetites resist it?

On the first day of Tao Ranju's opening, the house was packed full of visitors.

Then these people were surprised to find that this glass can not only be used as glass windows and glass tea sets.

It can even be used as glass display cabinets, glass tableware, glass lampshades, and silver mirrors that illuminate people in detail.

The dazzling array of products almost didn't make people pick their eyes directly.

Someone with a lot of money and power, pointed at the glass products in the store, and ordered very proudly:

"Shopkeeper Tang, my young master takes care of everything in your store!"

Who knew that shopkeeper Tang's face was not the slightest surprise after hearing this, but he was also very embarrassed:

"This... Fourth Young Master Sun, I'm afraid this won't work."

"Why can't it work?" Sun Si narrowed his eyes, and looked at shopkeeper Tang unkindly.

That appearance, put it to say that if shopkeeper Tang can't give a reasonable explanation, he won't let it go.

"It's like this. Fourth Young Master Sun must be able to see that there are not many glass products in Tao Ran Residence now."

Shopkeeper Tang leaned over slightly, speaking slowly.

Sun Si glanced up and down Tao Ranju, nodded in agreement:

"Not many."

In the range visible to the naked eye, except for the glass tea sets, there are more, such as glass display cabinets, glass windows, and silver mirrors, etc., the number is pitifully small.

What's more, there is only one silver mirror of each pattern.

"This is because the output of Taoran Kiln Factory is limited now, and the palace has also ordered a batch of glass windows, so in the limited output of the kiln factory, we can only keep close to the palace first."

come in. "

Seeing that Sun Si is not an unreasonable person, shopkeeper Tang's tone is also extremely gentle:

"Because the current production is limited, the owner said that Tao Ranju's glass needs to be customized in advance and sold in limited quantities."

"Customized in advance, limited sale?" Sun Si repeated in a low voice, "What do you mean?"

Sun Si understands this ordering in advance. For example, the Sun Mansion replaces new porcelain every year, and because of the huge quantity and the need to burn the Sun Mansion's logo on the porcelain, it needs to be customized in advance.

But this is a limited edition...

"Returning to Fourth Young Master Sun, this limited sale means that there are currently stocks in the store, such as this glass tea set and lampshade, and each person can only buy one set."

Tang Zhanggu also knew that Sun Si's doubts were mainly above the limit, so he explained with a smile.

"How can one set be enough?"

"That's right! The elders in the family need more than seven or eight sets!"

"Isn't this embarrassing?"

……

Before Sun Si could speak, the other people in the shop couldn't help it, complaining loudly or softly.

Shopkeeper Tang was not only abstruse, he smiled and waited until everyone complained for a while, and the voice in the store gradually became quieter, before slowly opening his mouth again:

"Everyone has also seen that the number of finished products in the store is limited, and the kiln is really unable to keep up with the speed of making glass for the palace. If there is no limit, I believe that any one of these items present can buy them all."

"If the first person buys all these finished products, the other customers will not be able to buy any of them. The next batch of goods will have to wait for at least half a month. After all, this kiln factory can't be the first to make this shop. items from the palace, right?"

Those who were still dissatisfied with Tao Ranju's limited sale regulations heard this, thought it over carefully, and found that it was indeed reasonable.

Most of Tao Ranjuzhong's displays are still porcelain, and there is only a dedicated area for glass products.

This number can be counted clearly at a glance.

Looking at these people in the store, everyone knows the basics, but it is true as Shopkeeper Tang said, anyone can buy all the glass products.

In the end, although everyone was dissatisfied with the "limited set for one person and one family", and the rules that "silver mirrors, glass windows, display cabinets" and other items need to be customized in advance, they still had to hold their noses to admit it.

At this time, everyone had time to ask about the price, and it turned out that the price of this glass product was much more expensive than everyone imagined.

A set of the most common tea set without any decoration or carving

There are even five taels and twelve taels of expensive ones.

The same goes for glass shades.

As for the silver mirror, it is priced according to its size, a palm-sized piece costs five taels of silver.

The biggest ones can be as big as your body, but this one is expensive, and it will cost you hundreds of taels a piece.

These are just the price of the lens, not the outside frame.

If you want?Then you have to pay more!Prices vary according to the preciousness of the wood and the complexity of the frame.

But no matter how many kinds of prices there are, they all have the same characteristic-expensive!

Even the Fourth Young Master Sun, who was so wealthy and powerful enough to say "wrap up all the glass in this store for my young master", now feels pain after seeing the specific price.

This should be put at the beginning, maybe someone will find it expensive.

But now these sons and brothers only have a series of words in the minds of the shopkeeper Tang just now: "Limited sale", "Limited production", and "The palace is waiting for it".

Looking at the price again, although it hurts, it also feels reasonable.

In the end, everyone settled a lot of things with Shopkeeper Tang.

The appearance of being rich and powerful, spending a lot of money, looks like all the money in the family is blown by the strong wind.

Just as Gu Yanshu thought, after withdrawing from the glass, Tao Ranju's original porcelain became instantly available.

The voices that said "your price a month ago was less than half of what it is now" gradually disappeared.

And after Tao Ranju started selling glass, many people have speculated about the mysterious owners behind the two teahouses of Guiyuanju and Yaoyue Pavilion——

Now that Tao Ran's glass is in such short supply, the owners of these two teahouses seem to have no limit to how much they can use in one go.

Besides, whether it is Guiyuanju, Yaoyuege, or Taoranju, the pre-opening publicity method can be seen as the work of a family.

Thinking about it, apart from having a common owner, there is no other possibility.

At this time, some people with good memory in Beijing finally remembered that the predecessor of the Yueyue Pavilion, the Juyou Tea House, was indeed the property of the Marquis of Cheng En, and it was in the hands of Mr. Gu.

Later, when Young Master Gu got married, he was given to Young Master Gu as a dowry by Eldest Master Gu, who is now Princess Li.

As we all know, Tao Ranju is the property of Princess Li!

In this way, it can be explained.

It's no wonder that Wang Jianbai was thrown out of Yaoyue Pavilion's shopkeepers when Yaoyue Pavilion opened a few days ago

, and even made such a big face, and finally nothing happened.

Who in Beijing doesn't know that the second son Wang Jianbai of the Ningyuan Hou Mansion is the most vengeful?

Being so humiliated in the middle, it would be considered light if he didn't smash the Yaoyue Pavilion afterwards, but now he will smash his teeth and swallow his blood.

Thinking about it, apart from Prince Li's Mansion, no one could make Wang Jianbai suffer such a big loss.

For a while, Prince Li's Mansion and Gu Yanshu were in the limelight in the capital. If you listened casually in the streets and alleys, you could hear people talking about Gu Yanshu.

For example, now—

"Why didn't we see before that Princess Li is so capable?"

"How to say?"

"Is there even a question? Take a look at the properties in Princess Li's hands, which one is not a money-making business?"

"That's right! Take Guiyuanju and Yaoyue Pavilion as examples. Now you have to make an appointment to get a seat. Otherwise, you can only sit in the lobby!"

"My wife works in the Marquis's Mansion. She was lucky enough to go to the Yueyue Pavilion with the master's house. She came back and told me that it's good to return to the garden. Because the Yaoyue Pavilion is full of female guests, there is no lobby at all. Even the first floor is a private room! I heard that Yaoyue Pavilion has already implemented a membership system!"

"Membership system? What is this? Let's hear it?"

"I know this, my family came back and told me! If you deposit 100 taels of silver in Yaoyue Pavilion, you can get a one-year membership. The 100 taels can only be deposited in and cannot be withdrawn. , it can only be used in Yueyue Pavilion!"

"That's right! In the second year, regardless of whether the money is used up or not, you must pay another 100 taels of renewal fee to maintain your membership status. Otherwise, Yaoyue Pavilion will return the remaining money to you, and at the same time Cancel the membership status, and you will no longer be able to spend in the Yueyue Pavilion in the future!"

"You don't know much! Not only that, I heard that there are different levels of membership in Yueyue Pavilion! What about silver card members, gold card members, diamond members, and black card members? Members of each level need to pay The membership fee is also different!"

"My mother-in-law said that if you recharge tens of thousands of taels a year, you can upgrade to a black card member. Not only can you give priority to booking private rooms, but you can also provide door-to-door services in Yaoyue Pavilion, and even Tao Ranju can compare Others buy an extra set of glass!"

"I'll be good, is there anyone going to join this member?"

"Yes! Why not? There are quite a few people who have joined! It is said that there are not enough places for this member now!"

"The membership quota is not enough? After that, others can no longer join?"

"It seems to be possible, but it is said that you can enter without paying. My mother-in-law didn't tell me what happened, and I don't know very well!"

"Mother, I thought Tao Ranju was the most profitable! I didn't expect that Yaoyue Pavilion would be so powerful!"

"Rather than saying that the Yueyue Pavilion is amazing, let's say that Princess Li is amazing!"

"It makes sense!"

"But wasn't Princess Li a well-known idiot beauty, a playboy?"

"That's right, why marrying into Prince Li's mansion is like a different person?"

"Do you think that all of this was planned by... and Princess Li is just a cover for the public?"

"It's also possible..."

"If you say that, it makes sense!"

"It's a fart! You really guess things without using your brains. That person is obviously good at fighting, but not good at business! Otherwise, you didn't make these things before the princess married in?"

"Yes!"

"Besides, there is one more thing that you definitely don't know!"

"what's up?"

"A few days ago, the owner of Yuncizhai was the Zhou family. Didn't they sell their silk business in order to keep Yuncizhai?"

"Yes, yes, I know this!"

"There was so much movement at the time, who didn't know?"

"Then do you know who bought this silk and satin business in the end?"

"By whom?"

"Isn't it Princess Li?"

"You guessed right! It's Princess Li!"

"Impossible! Concubine Li is messing with Tao Ranju and teahouse, where did you get the money?"

"You guys forgot, Princess Li just got a sum of money from Changle Casino just a few days after her wedding!"

"Hiss—so speaking of it, Princess Li is indeed a character!"

"Isn't it? And didn't Tao Ranju and Yuncizhai fight a few days ago? I heard that all the things in Tao Ranju were planned by Princess Li!"

"No way?"

……

Although ordinary people don't know what happened in the price war between Taoranju and Yuncizhai, and how much each lost, they can judge the winner or loser from the final result.

After the price war ended, Taoranju and Yuncizhai closed their doors one after another. It seemed that both parties were seriously injured, but they were not.

Because Taoranju is closed for renovation, upgrading and opening, and launching a new flagship product, glass.

The closure of Yuncizhai means that it is really closing.

There has been no change before, and it even started to go downhill.

The most intuitive point is that Concubine Li is still thinking about creating Guiyuanju and Yaoyue Pavilion.

However, Yuncizhai needs to sell the east wall to make up for the west wall, and the sold east wall, coincidentally, was bought by Princess Li.

Which one is better and which one is worse, who loses and who wins, do we need to look at it again?

Thinking of the current situation of Yun Ci Zhai and the Zhou family, everyone couldn't help but shudder:

It seems that this Princess Li is indeed not to be provoked!

It's no wonder everyone reacted like this, it's really not a good end for the current Yun Ci Zhai.

After insisting on selling the silk and satin business, plus the money subsidized by the First Prince to appease people's hearts, the Zhou family finally made up for the loss of Yun Ci Zhai this time.

After making up the loss, Yuncizhai originally thought that they could breathe a sigh of relief, but they didn't expect that this was just the beginning of their nightmare.

The Zhou family, who planned to organize and start again, realized that it was very difficult to start again.

Before Taoranju reopened, Yuncizhai was also lively on weekdays, and guests would come to it from time to time.

It seems that the school is thriving, but in fact the real trading volume is frighteningly low.

Almost everyone who enters the store is not very satisfied after shopping around.

Either he left empty-handed, or he asked the anecdote and the two young masters of the Zhou family very bluntly:

"I remember a few days ago that the price of your porcelain was less than one-third of what it is now. Why is it so expensive now?"

No matter how the shopkeeper and the two sons of the Zhou family explained to the guests, the original price of Yuncizhai was like this, and it was a special situation a few days ago, so the price was reduced.

Unexpectedly, most of the customers turned their heads and left after hearing this, saying something like "In this case, I'm not going to buy in the Ruya Building next door".

Hearing that the shopkeeper and Thursday were almost so angry that they vomited blood.

They are also aware of porcelain shops such as Ru Ya Lou among these people.

Whether it is in terms of color, style or quality of porcelain, it is not as good as Yuncizhai.

To put it bluntly, these porcelain shops were not even worthy of carrying shoes for Yuncizhai.

As a result, most people now compare them with Yuncizhai, and even feel that Yuncizhai is not as good as these low-end porcelain shops.

As for the remaining small part, I will say the previous sentence:

"Well, can you still buy it at the price of the previous days?"

The price of the previous days!

The price of the previous days let rhyme

Cizhai lost nearly a million taels, and Thursday and the shopkeeper were not fools, so how could they sell at the price of the previous days?

However, this group of people almost left the shop directly after hearing the negative answer.

Some of the bad-mouthed ones would leave a sentence, "Why can't they be sold now when they were sold in the past?", which directly threw Thursday to the ground.

If it was just like this, the Zhou family would not feel hopeless.

After all, for such a situation, the Zhou family had some psychological preparations at the beginning. According to the Zhou family's prediction, the situation should be alleviated next year when the new porcelain is replaced.

And the Zhou family is also hurrying up their craftsmen to research some new products to improve the competitiveness of Yuncizhai.

Who knows that the new product has not been researched yet, but the bad news is one after another.

First, Taoranju reopened and launched glass products.

The guests who were not optimistic about Yuncizhai at first, turned their heads and went directly to Taoranju.

Immediately afterwards, the craftsmen of the kiln went on strike collectively.

It turned out that during the price war with Tao Ranju on Tuesday, in order to further reduce costs, the wages of the kiln craftsmen were directly deducted.

Like the craftsmen in the Taoran kiln, the craftsmen in the Zhou family's kiln are also waiting for the salary at the beginning and end of the year to celebrate the New Year!

Now that they can't get paid, who is willing to work hard for the Zhou family?

Now that Tao Ranju has launched glass, the Zhou family's voice of urging new products has become more and more urgent, and it has directly become the last straw that overwhelms the craftsmen.

In the end, the artisans collectively went on strike, bluntly saying that they would not resume work if they were not paid.

At this juncture, the Zhou family was already in a state of panic, and something went wrong on the craftsman's side, which added fuel to the fire.

After scolding Artisan and Tuesday in his heart on Thursday, he could only start to clean up the mess.

To put it bluntly, it was an apology and money on the spot that coaxed these craftsmen back.

After coaxing the craftsmen, it was getting closer and closer to the Chinese New Year, and it was only on Thursday that I had a little breathing room to think about the next method.

In the end, under Zhou Da's suggestion, the publicity that "the new porcelain in the palace is replaced this year is from Yuncizhai" was published in advance.

It has to be said that the imperial palace is indeed a weather vane for ordinary people.

This publicity only took two or three days, and the business of Yuncizhai has already picked up, and there is even a gradual upward trend.

Watching more and more customers in the store, and increasing transactions

On Thursday, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and there was a rare smile on his face that had always been as cold as ice.

Now the mere publicity has been able to drive some business. What kind of grand occasion will it be when the porcelain produced by Yuncizhai becomes the royal palace next year?

On the contrary, Zhou Da, looking at the account books of the past few days, always felt a little uneasy.

These actions of Yuncizhai naturally did not escape the eyes of the fifth prince who has been paying attention to them.

As soon as he got the news, the fifth prince went straight to Prince Li's mansion.

It's called a tip-off, but in fact, both the servants of Prince Li's mansion and the people around the fifth prince know that the fifth prince has come to Prince Li's mansion again to warm the floor.

That's right, since the main courtyard of Prince Li's Mansion was repaired, the fifth prince has pestered the princess, wanting to get a set for his own mansion.

However, after hearing that the emperor also needed it, he could only hold back the urgency in his heart and said that he would move the fifth prince's mansion after the repairs in the palace were completed.

His mansion can't be moved for the time being, and the fifth prince is greedy for things like floor heating and glass windows, so why don't he come to Prince Li's mansion every now and then to use it?

If it wasn't for the lack of spare rooms in the main courtyard, the people in Prince Li's residence would have no doubt that the fifth prince would even live in Prince Li's residence directly.

So now everyone in Prince Li's mansion is not surprised by the arrival of the Fifth Prince.

When the fifth prince came, Gu Yanshu was still looking at the account books of these days.

Since the business of Guiyuanju and Yaoyue Pavilion has become more and more prosperous, and Taoranju has also opened, Gu Yanshu has become a little busier than before.

Listening to the fifth prince talking about Yuncizhai for a long time, Gu Yanshu's expression didn't change at all.

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law?" Seeing this, the fifth prince, who drank a sip of tea to moisten his throat, hurriedly called out, "Are you listening?"

"En." This time, Gu Yanshu finally responded.

"Then why didn't the sister-in-law react at all?" The fifth prince felt a little frustrated.

I have spoken impassionedly for a long time!

"What reaction do you need?" Gu Yanshu read the last page of accounts, put the account book aside, and looked at Qin Hao, "It's just asking for death."

"Huh...huh?" Qin Hao was stunned for a moment before realizing, "Sister-in-law, did you already know they would do this?"

This time Gu Yanshu did not speak, but only gave Qin Hao a look.

Of course he knew.

This is the last straw for the Zhou family and Yuncizhai, what if you don't grasp it?

Row?

"Then why are you still..."

Before Qin Hao could finish his sentence, he thought of the determination and coldness in Gu Yanshu's tone when he just said, "It's just asking for death".

In an instant, it seemed to understand something:

I am afraid……

This is also the hole dug by the sister-in-law for the Zhou family and Yuncizhai!

It has to be said that after getting along for so long, although Qin Hao is not like Qin Lu, who has met Gu Yanshu's eyes and can know the tacit understanding in Gu Yanshu's mind, but he also has a certain understanding of it.

The batch of porcelain in the palace is indeed the last hole that Gu Yanshu dug for the Zhou family.

It was also indeed the last straw for the Zhou family.

Unfortunately, it was not the life-saving straw in the eyes of the Zhou family, but the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Less than five days after Yuncizhai's business picked up, and the Zhou family's heart hadn't even let go, something happened to Yuncizhai again.

This time, it was because someone on the street casually said that the porcelain bowls used by the beggars living in the ruined temple in the south of the city seemed to come from Yuncizhai.

This sentence is like hot water falling into a boiling oil pan, and it exploded immediately!

You must know that these Tianyun Porcelain Studios have followed the wind of the imperial palace and sold a lot of porcelain.

Not only has the previous decline been swept away, but there is even a faint trend of rising prices.

The Chinese New Year will be in a few days, and the new porcelain that should be replaced at home this year has already been replaced.

Buying porcelain at this time is nothing more than wanting to be a part of the glory of the palace, so that the coming year will be smoother.

But now some people say that beggars are also using the porcelain bowls of Yuncizhai?

This makes these people who bought porcelain for a good omen, how can they agree?

Dang even sent someone to check the situation in the ruined temple in the south of the city, who knew that the people below Dang even reported that the beggars in the south of the city were indeed using porcelain from Yuncizhai.

And it's not just in the south of the city, most of the beggars in Beijing now use porcelain from Yuncizhai!

Some people asked the reason, and those beggars honestly gave high praise, because the porcelain in Yuncizhai was cheap.

These bowls were sold to them by others for ten fen and three. Although they were beggars, they wanted to get a chance to exchange for new porcelain.

Porcelain bowls that cost less than four fen apiece were rare, so almost all the beggars in the city bought them.

Not only beggars, some low-income coolie families, and traffickers also bought it!

At this time, another news came.

It is said that Yuncizhai did sell porcelain to the palace this year, but that batch of porcelain was not

It is used by the nobles in the palace, but for the servants in the palace!

Hearing these news, these geniuses who bought Yuncizhai porcelain were almost overwhelmed with anger!

The lottery in the palace was not stained, but the low-ranking people used the same porcelain as them.

The most irritating thing is that those people spend less than four Wen for a porcelain bowl, but they paid a lot of money to buy it back home!

How can people accept these truths and this gap?

Even if there was someone with a bad temper, he directly sent someone to transport the porcelain from Yuncizhai back, and smashed it to pieces at the entrance of Yuncizhai.

He even said:

"My master said that although my family is not a wealthy family with bells and lanterns, it is by no means a first-class beggar and pawn! This time, my master is blind and blind, and the money for buying porcelain is for you. Do a good deed!"

This kind of action seems to be a demonstration for other people who have suffered from this boring loss.

Immediately afterwards, one after another, someone brought the porcelain to the door of Yuncizhai, smashed it, and said the same thing.

One or two is fine, ten or twenty, this matter can't be stopped in an instant.

In just a day's work, the signboard of Yuncizhai has been equated with "beggars and pawns".

The business, which had picked up slightly, suddenly plummeted, and there was no hope of recovery.

After all, ordinary people are not willing to share the same porcelain with beggars, let alone nobles in the palace?

Yuncizhai is completely over!

At this time, Zhou Da finally understood what was causing the uneasiness in his heart a few days ago!

When Princess Li wanted to buy the Zhou family's silk business, Zhou Da also had such a premonition, but he spoke lightly to the Zhou family, and he never persuaded the elders in the family to sell the silk business.

With no silk and satin business in hand, Yuncizhai has no hope, and the Zhou family is over.

Yuncizhai didn't last until the Chinese New Year, so it closed its doors again.

Afterwards, the Zhou family listed their business for sale again, this time, it was the porcelain business.

But after these days of farce, anyone with a discerning eye can see that whoever is in trouble in this Yuncizhai is unlucky.

After the listing of Yuncizhai, no one in the whole capital dared to step forward to take the offer.

The Zhou family also knew that in the case of Yuncizhai, the price would drop by one point every day it was delayed.

In the end, the Zhou family had no choice but to split up the porcelain business, sell the shop and the kiln separately, and lower the price by [-]%, just to sell it as soon as possible.

This time, someone is finally willing to take over this part of the Zhou family's property.

What surprised everyone was that this time, the person who took over the Zhou family's porcelain business was still Princess Li, Gu Yanshu.