Chapter 442: Diffusion
In a very casual, very incidental, very unserious way to distribute the cards that are actually very deliberate and very important to the princes present, the whole banquet is basically over, and the princes headed by the Duke of Chengguo and the Duke of England respectfully thanked the emperor for his reward, and then they also bid farewell to the emperor, left the palace, and embarked on the road home. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
On the way out of the palace, these princes all behaved as if they didn't take this "hardcover collector's edition" paper plate too seriously, as if it was really a gadget that the emperor gave him at will - no one wanted to show his ecstasy at getting the emperor's last card because of the pressure he received from his wife and daughter, because it would obviously make people doubt his authority in his own house, and then lose face in front of these old men who were about the same rank as themselves, In the future, there will be no way to be a man in front of them.
So each of them tried their best to restrain their mood and behaved like a light breeze, but after all, the emperor's reward today solved a big problem that had plagued them for many days, so they were still very grateful to the emperor in their hearts, and no one would "worry about the sky" to say something like "the emperor is so plaything, I'm afraid it's not a good thing for the Ming Dynasty", these princes still have some basic moral sentiments, and they will naturally not get cheap and sell well on the issue of the emperor.
Of course, if Xiao Mu, or any of Luo Yangxing or Cao Huachun, saw their performance at this time, they would immediately see through their disguise, after all, every move in their house, as well as their embarrassment in front of their wife and daughter these days, could not escape the eyes of the Ming factory guards, and then they could not escape the eyes of Xiao Mu, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
According to Xiao Mu and Lin Ye's previous plans and speculations, these people who can be qualified to get the banquet of the Ming Emperor and get the "hardcover collector's edition" cards, the top princes in the capital, as well as their wives and ladies, after getting the cards, out of the need to show off or find satisfaction, will also play the tricks that Xiao Mu and Lin Ye played on them before - of course, the objects this time are undoubtedly those who also have a high status in the capital, but some are not as good as them, This time, other marquises, earls and other figures who were not qualified to accept the emperor's banquet.
What Xiao Mu can foresee is that in two days, the princes or their wives who get the cards today will organize a salon event similar to the one that Lin Yi organized last time, and then take out the cards they got tonight during the event and show it off.
And this is exactly what Xiao Mu and Lin Yi want to see, because those who will be invited by today's princes and women to be guests are also rich people in the Ming Dynasty, and they will naturally have a demand for cards out of vanity after being a guest - in this way, Xiao Mu's business will come, because the princes who get the cards today have no other cards that can be used to give away, and those nobles of this level want to get cards, they can only go to Xiao Mu to buy them, in that way, the "hardcover edition" and "collector's edition" in Xiao Mu's hands"That's where the cards come in.
All in all, the purpose of Xiao Mu's banquet for the prince today and the reward of the "Hardcover Collector's Edition" solitaire was to hope that they would be able to repeat what he and Ringo had done to them, and use their hands to promote the solitaire. Naturally, there is no shortage of rich people in the capital, and it is impossible for Xiao Mu, so many rich people, can not go into battle in person, and all cats and dogs are invited to the palace, so these rich people who are not rich enough can only be promoted to them by these princes today instead of Xiao Mu.
It is foreseeable that these second-level princes, after happily buying the "hardcover" and "collector's" cards, will repeat this process, and they will obviously invite the next level of characters to their homes - the next level of characters are also wealthy, they are also the main force of card purchases, and they will undoubtedly continue the cycle again after they buy cards.
So the card in the Ming capital, in accordance with the top to the bottom, the status from the respect gradually to the humble order of publicity, after several rounds of circulation, the entire Ming rich people can basically all know the card such a symbol of identity, the appearance of the status of the commodity.
This propaganda model naturally reminded Xiao Mu of the feeling of "development downline" in his later modern society, but except for the top Xiao Mu, who is also the emperor, the other people involved in the "development downline" have no money to make, just purely to satisfy their vanity, and this is undoubtedly good news for Xiao Mu, because this is equivalent to a lot of people who are willing to advertise for him in disguise and do not want advertising fees.
The promotion of solitaire is basically not a problem, and as the fame of solitaire gradually spreads among the rich people of the Ming Dynasty along the high to the lowest, it will not be long before everyone knows about it. So Xiao Mu can already start the sales of solitaire.
According to the previous discussion between him and Lin Ye, he, the emperor, could never personally participate in the "cheap business" that only merchants would do, such as selling cards, and the last thing Xiao Mu lacked as an emperor was the people who worked for him - in addition to the civil ministers who could not also engage in the "cheap business" of merchants, Lin Ye also listed a lot of choices for Xiao Mu: factory guards, eunuchs, palace maids, etc.
But Xiao Mu always felt that whether it was a factory guard, a eunuch or a palace maid, it was equivalent to the emperor's domestic slave in the actual sense, which was a little inappropriate, because they were obviously the emperor's people, and letting them engage in selling cards was equivalent to doing it himself as the emperor himself, and engaging in such a businessman's "cheap business" would undoubtedly have a bad impact on Emperor Chongzhen's reputation.
And it may be because I have been listening to many rumors and legends about factory guards and eunuchs, it seems that among these two kinds of people, the proportion of people who are greedy for money is much higher than that of normal people, and Xiao Mu is also a little uneasy to do such a very lucrative business as selling cards, for fear that the money that should have been earned by himself will be filled by them.
So in the end, Xiao Mu didn't choose from the options offered to him by Lin Ye, but wanted to find someone who was not easily obvious to be closely related to him, the emperor, and was kind-hearted, and would not wantonly embezzle sales money to do the work.