Chapter 37: The Treasure Pavilion
After Empress Changsun's birthday, Li Kuan's glass mirror became completely famous in the circle of noblewomen.
Although it was not good for those noble ladies to visit Li Kuan in person, after all, there was not a single hostess in the Chu Palace.
But this did not prevent them from going to Li Kuan to ask for a mirror.
"Lord Wang, in the past few days, my subordinates have met with several noble housekeepers, and there are also several housekeepers who have asked me to go to Xiaoxing for two cups, and all of them want glass mirrors, you see......"
Laifu has lived a few days of ice and fire.
For a long time, as the housekeeper of the Chu Palace, because Li Kuan was always a demon outside, Laifu was in the circle of nobles' housekeepers, and his status was not very good.
At the beginning, he was very happy to have the prince and the housekeeper of the Guogong family visit him, and even ask him out for a drink.
However, there are more and more dinners, and I can't keep myself busy.
But what is going on with the glass mirror, I don't know very well.
It's a lot of pressure.
I had no choice but to come to Li Kuan for help.
"Yes. It seems that this wave of advertising is working well. ”
"Advertising?" Rifle looked confused, "What advertisement?" ”
"It's nothing, the porcelain workshop should be able to make some mirrors recently. You go and prepare a batch of beautiful sandalwood boxes, and send them to the workshop when the time comes. ”
Li Kuan gave a glass mirror on the birthday of Empress Changsun, and there were so many noble ladies at that time, it can be said that most of the top buying groups in Chang'an City were there.
At this time, if the Chu Wangfu wants to promote the mirror, it doesn't need to make any effort at all, just sell it at a high price.
Of course, with the epoch-making clarity of the glass mirror, even if there is no such "advertisement", it will explode sooner or later.
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West City of Chang'an.
A shop with a very special decoration style has quietly opened.
"Shopkeeper, it's really strange that you said that shop is right, it has been renovated a few days ago, and now it has suddenly opened."
"Yes, it's also called Treasure Pavilion, but in fact, I haven't seen their shop buy in the past few days, what are they selling when they open?"
Opposite the Treasure Pavilion is a famous shop in the West Market, specializing in selling rouge and other girls' things, the name of the store is called fat powder shop, and the business is very good.
A new shop suddenly opened opposite their house, and their shopkeeper's first instinct was to confirm whether they also sold rouge, powder, makeup powder, and the like.
If there is one more opponent, your own business may be worse, and you can't afford to pay attention to the shopkeeper.
However, it is obviously a false alarm.
"When you look through the door, it doesn't seem like there's anything on the shelves. Shopkeeper, why don't I go in and have a look? ”
"Forget it, if it's a peer, and you don't see it when you look up and look down, people think we have something to think, it's not good!"
The shopkeeper was sure that the Treasure Pavilion would not have any impact on his shop, so he pretended to be high.
In the Treasure Pavilion, Qing'er rarely left the Chu Palace.
"Xiang'er, this shop, the prince attaches great importance to it, this time you have to follow Uncle Shou to learn hard, if the prince wants to reuse you next time, you can't do it."
Qing'er is Li Kuan's personal maid, but she is a dignified Chu king, so it is naturally impossible to have only one maid by her side.
Outside of Qing'er, Xiang'er and Xing'er are the closest, and the other maids are really just maids, Li Kuan may not be able to call their names, and the personnel will change from time to time.
Only Qing'er and the three of them have been by Li Kuan's side for a long time, and even from time to time Xiang'er and Xing'er will replace Qing'er for a while.
"Sister Qing'er, don't worry, the prince has specially instructed, let me train these maids in the Treasure Pavilion first, don't I often do similar work in the palace."
Xiang'er hugged Qing'er's arm and said a little coquettishly.
There is not a single customer in the Treasure Pavilion, except for the big shopkeeper of Laishou, all the others are women.
That's right!
Although the Treasure Pavilion is not only a business for women, the waiters are all women.
This is also due to two considerations, one is that most of the customers in the Treasure Pavilion are women, and the other is that even if the customers are men, they will not delay the business.
Fortunately, in the Tang Dynasty, the status of women is relatively high, if it is in the Ming and Qing dynasties......
"The Treasure Pavilion opened today, Chang'an City didn't know that you could buy mirrors here, but soon the nobles of Chang'an City would know about such a place, and you must not lose the face of the palace when the time comes."
Qing'er was talking to Xiang'er while inspecting the Treasure Pavilion.
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The next day, the door of the Treasure Pavilion was still crowded.
"Shopkeeper, I paid attention to it yesterday, and not a single thing in this Treasure Pavilion has been sold. Seeing that the shop occupies a wide area, their owner should have spent a lot of money, but now that the business is so deserted, I don't know what they think. ”
The guy at the fat powder shop gossiped about the Treasure Pavilion with his shopkeeper early in the morning.
"I inquired yesterday, and I heard that the shopkeeper of the Treasure Pavilion is called Laishou, and he is the younger brother of the housekeeper of the Chu Palace, and I want to come to this shop is the property of the Chu Palace."
"The property of the Chu Palace?" Xiao Er was stunned for a moment, "If it's the property of the Chu Palace, this makes sense." ”
"Yes, the King of Chu has always been a loser, and the reputation is very bad, this kind of newly opened such a big shop, but it is empty and I don't know what to sell, so the King of Chu did such a thing."
"I heard that the Chu Wangfu has made a lot of money on honeycomb coal, and it seems that it will be defeated sooner or later."
Just as the shopkeeper of the fat powder shop was talking to Xiao Er, a carriage stopped at the door of the Treasure Pavilion, and two people got down from inside.
"Madam, this is the Treasure Pavilion!"
A maid helped the lady out of the carriage.
"Why is it so lonely? I know a lot of people who want to buy mirrors. ”
"Madam, yesterday Uncle Cheng bragged that he was the first person to come to the housekeeper from the Chu Palace's Mansion to know that the Treasure Pavilion could buy mirrors, looking at it like this, he may be telling the truth."
"It's true or not, just go in and see!"
The noble lady was obviously not an indecisive person either, and stepped directly into the Treasure Pavilion.
"Welcome!"
As soon as I entered the gate, I was startled by a neat welcome.
Two rows of eight women dressed in uniform bowed down and said "Welcome", something that had never happened to a noble lady.
"Madame, is there anything I can do to help you?"
This noble lady was the first customer of the Treasure Pavilion, and Xiang'er personally stepped forward to greet her.
"I heard you can buy mirrors here?"
The lady didn't speak, and the maid beside her asked for help.