Chapter 053: A Year's Plan Lies in Spring
The New Year passed quickly with the sound of firecrackers, and although Yefu did not have much New Year's flavor, fortunately there was no smell of gunsmoke. The relationship between Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Shu Yao and Ye Wanqing is gradually warming up, and the back house of Ye Mansion is also very quiet in the capital.
Spring is a good time for everything to recover, and the plans that were previously delayed by the cold winter are starting to kick in. There are still refugees outside the city who did not survive this winter, but fortunately, most of them are still lucky enough to see the spring blossoms.
Shu Yao has been wearing warm jade this winter, and her body cold has also improved a lot, even if the climate in early spring is still slightly cool, she is also in the mood to go to the suburbs to see the progress of the project.
The construction of the community is not yet halfway through, but because the land in the western suburbs has now been snapped up, outsiders who want to settle here have retreated to the residential area built by Shu Yao, and the part that has not yet been built has been booked early.
The progress of the teahouse is much faster, of course, it is also the reason why Shu Yao pays special attention to it, and the decoration of the private room has a combination of Chinese and Western charm, which I believe will give people a refreshing feeling. Now all that is needed is the books that act as a façade in the hall, but this matter is unexpectedly troublesome, Shu Yao never thought that books were more valuable than anything in ancient times.
With Shu Yao's existing money, it was impossible to fill the hall of the teahouse with books on the four walls, so she had to find a down-and-out scholar to copy the borrowed ancient books for her, in ten copies, and finally decorated the hall with great difficulty.
Before the opening of the teahouse, Shu Jiao also deliberately asked Ye Qichen to help write a plaque, called Mingmoju, Ye Qichen heard that this place can be borrowed and copied for free by the children of the poor family, so he was very happy to respond, and specially chose the day of rest to help cut the ribbon.
Before the opening of Mingmoju, Shu Jiao spent a lot of effort to publicize, and also borrowed her father's name to send invitations, due to the resettlement of refugees, Ye Qichen was famous among the scholars, so the opening day of Mingmoju can be described as extremely lively.
Teahouses and bookstores are not uncommon in the capital, the two can be combined, Mingmoju is the first, not to mention that only read books and do not sell books here, but also copy ancient books for free, many poor students learned about it, and they have publicized it for free for Shu Yao.
In the hall of Mingmoju, you only need to buy a cup of tea, you can sit quietly for half a day without disturbing, the environment in the private room is even quieter, Shu Yao spent a lot of money, the decoration style of each room is very different, many guests want to experience each room after learning about it.
Although she was well prepared in advance, she still underestimated the craze of reading and vassal elegance, and the 1,000 VIP gold cards she prepared were sold out on the first day of opening.
Even if the VIP gold card is popular, Shu Yao does not plan to continue to issue it, scarcity is expensive, there are too many cards on the market, which will make people feel that Mingmoju is not so mysterious. A few years later, Mingmoju's VIP card was really sold at a sky-high price, but Ye Shuyao at that time was already short of silver.
Because she was worried that there would be mistakes in book borrowing, Shu Yao also deliberately copied the rules and regulations of modern libraries, but she didn't expect that the attitude of ancient readers to books was extremely serious, but she seemed to be too worried.
If students from poor families want to borrow and copy books for free, they only need to copy one more copy for Mingmoju, and Mingmoju will also provide paper and ink for free. It not only takes care of the self-esteem of poor students, but also wins praise from the outside world, and many people are willing to take out the lonely book at home to enrich the memory of Mingmoju, but after half a month's effort, it has become the favorite place for readers.
The opening of Mingmoju coincides with a good time, the triennial spring festival is about to begin, and people from all over the country are now gathering in the capital, and when the palace examination is over, the students who have finished the examination have returned to their hometowns, and the reputation of Mingmoju must soon be spread to all parts of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and Ye Shuyao's plan to open branches everywhere can also be realized as soon as possible.
Not long after the opening of Mingmoju, Ye Qichen was appointed as the chief examiner of this year's Spring Festival, and the emperor also took into account the public opinion of the students in the world.
In recent days, Ye Qichen's whole person has been radiant, and his attitude towards Shu Yao has become more kind. Thousands of people in this session have to call him a teacher, and every cabinet minister has been the chief examiner of the examination, Ye Shuyao knows that her father is definitely ambitious about paying homage to the prime minister.
Listening to Ye Wanqing, in the previous life, it was indeed Master Wen who served as the chief examiner of Chunqiu, and her father was the deputy position. It seems that things are developing in a good direction, and if Ye Qichen can become the prime minister, of course it will be beneficial to Shu Jiao.
Li Weijin didn't expect that Ye Shujiao just opened a teahouse, and it would have such a big impact. It's just that I don't know which prince her father Ye Qichen's attitude is towards, and it would be a pity to give this result away.
Wu Shaohuai paid attention to the political impact of this matter, he was very prescient to buy a hundred VIP gold cards on the opening day, and after learning that Shu Yao would not continue to issue it, he even shared half of the profits to her, Shu Yao couldn't help but sigh that this person is too suitable to be a scalper, if outsiders know will he be killed?
When his business was very successful, Shu Yao did not forget the Yang family, and took advantage of the fact that students from all over the world gathered in the capital, and brought down the Yang family at this time, but I am afraid that they will never turn over.
Under the deliberate instigation of the second prince and Wu Shaohuai, the negative news about the Yang family's shop was like wings, and it quickly spread throughout the capital.
When the Yang family found out that something was wrong, there were already many stores under their name that began to lose money, and this trend was getting stronger and stronger, completely out of the control of the Yang family, even if they wanted to do something to make up for it, they had nowhere to start.
What's more, Wu Shaohuai secretly acquired several Yang family stores, and deliberately let these shops do a lot of profiteers, and now the public opinion in Beijing is even more one-sided crusade against the Yang family, and even students from other places know that the Yang family is unkind.
And it is not a secret that the Yang family supports the three princes, after all, they are the foreign family of the three princes, and the follow-up impact of this matter is only afraid that it will be greater, but these have nothing to do with Shu Yao, she is only responsible for making suggestions, and there is no sign that the matter is related to her, let alone anyone suspecting her.