Chapter 684 The Coat and the Small Coat Fall on the Jade Plate
Everyone was talking a lot, all talking about Yan Shiyue's sewing machine and clothes. She was ignored by the thoroughly virtuous concubine, and her face sank slightly.
Compared with the virtuous concubine, the queen in the capital is very proud of herself.
Originally, the highlight of the Qiqiao Festival was at night, but because the sewing machine had to be used, the light had to be good, so the queen led people to dry the books, and after a formality, she started to demonstrate the sewing machine with others.
The fifth prince did a very thoughtful job in the etiquette department. There were blankets in the main hall and sewing machines were placed at random. Everyone could have someone watching next to them without being too crowded, and it wouldn't look as frivolous as a performance.
The queen selected several concubines, including the fifth prince's biological mother and concubine, as well as the crown prince and the fourth prince's concubine. They had already mastered their skills. She explained a few scenes with a smile and then started to demonstrate.
The queen is so beautiful. Her fine white fingers dyed with khaodan stick to the fabric, and when she bends over to cut, she feels particularly ingenious.
Yan Shiyue, the fourth prince, and the fifth prince stood far away. Yan Shiyue said intoxicatedly: "Look at this scene, there are so many beauties! I could recite a hundred poems!"
The fifth prince smiled and said: "Then you should sing a song."
Yan Shiyue immediately said: "The seams are so messy that the overcoats and small clothes fall off the jade plate."
The fifth prince laughed out loud.
The fourth prince asked her: "Why don't you go?"
Yan Shiyue shook his head: "A woman's affairs can be taken care of by my mother, you don't need me."
"Women's matters..." The fourth prince glared at her: "Then why did you ask me to do it?"
Yan Shiyue smiled and said: "I am saying that the Qiao Qiao Festival is a woman's business, but I am not saying that only women can use sewing machines! Don't worry, this is just the beginning. Men will definitely be used in the future, otherwise what would I do with those people?
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She stretched out her head and looked at it, then said: "Then I'll leave first, do you want to leave?"
The fifth prince couldn't leave, so he asked her: "You won't come to the palace banquet tonight?"
She said without hesitation, "I won't come!"
You know, during the palace's Qiqiao Festival, they actually had to catch spiders at night! She was really polite and insensitive.
Why catch spiders?
Because the palace concubines would worship stars and beg for luck at night, they would place fruits and melons in the courtyard. After the ceremony, they would catch a few spiders and put them on the melons and fruits, and then cover them up. The next day, they would see if there were many spider webs.
Dense or not, if there are many and dense, it is a coincidence.
So the delicate girls in the boudoir began to catch spiders with their bare hands.
Yan Shiyue was frightened after seeing it once and would never participate again! She is not afraid of anything but bed bugs and spiders!
She really left.
What she wore today was the same imitation flying fish suit as Huo Qijing's, except that Huo Qijing's was black with silver patterns, while hers was silver with black patterns, and the patterns echoed the two, so she thought she looked very handsome.
She went to the Ministry of Commerce.
Before Chinese Valentine's Day, they selected a store as the first store of the Ministry of Commerce. They had put up a sign and stocked the goods, but it had not yet opened.
Because the sewing machine is an extremely precise thing in this manual era. Although it has already started, the workshop manufacturing is not that fast, so it is impossible to fully distribute the goods at once.
Therefore, the initial policy is that the spot purchase is limited to ten units per day, and each household is limited to one unit.
No matter what your title or official position is, you will be treated equally on a first-come, first-served basis.
Why is this? For the sake of topicality.
Officials are a circle, aristocratic families are a circle, small rich people are a circle, and common people are a circle...Only by treating everyone equally can all circles have the desire to participate, just like the common people, even if they cannot afford it, they can still afford it.
If you know that you can enjoy the same rights as senior officials, you will be happy to spread the word.
But in fact, in this kind of imperial society, it is impossible to truly treat everyone equally.
Therefore, after the Qiqiao Festival, the queen will give a few sets to several families to give them face. After all, it really makes them the same as the common people, so that they will also have opinions.
This is one.
Secondly, as the same saying goes, if something is good at the top, it will be worse at the bottom. Only when something is brought up to a higher level can these people pursue it and snap up it, and only then will it have lasting sales.
These people who are not short of money are Yan Shiyue's main targets for making money. They can buy it back and watch it even if they don't use it.
At the same time, we should also cultivate in them the good habit of spending money to buy things from the commercial department, and stop thinking about the privileges they enjoy in this regard.
Yan Shiyue arrived at the ** store and went in through the back door to take a look.
The store is very large, and several sewing machines have been set up. This one is not exactly the same as the one used in the palace. It has slightly less decoration and looks more simple and practical. There are eight big characters on the main panel: "Made by order of the Ministry of Commerce, imitations will be investigated."
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Qu Sinian and Ren Zenan were talking, and when they saw her coming, they came up to meet her.
Ren Zenan asked: "Mr. Prime Minister, we are discussing whether the winding machine can be sold to some small workshops?"
The small machine that produces special spindles for sewing threads was named the winding machine by them. Yan Shiyue thought for a while: "Actually, it's possible. No matter how cheap the machine is, some people can't afford it. If someone buys it, it's okay to organize people to do it.
Good thing."
Ren Zenan said: "What if a large workshop wants to buy some winding machines while buying sewing machines?"
Yan Shiyue sighed: "Actually, it's possible. You can just discuss these small things. Some things we think about well may not be possible in practice. Let's explore slowly."
The three of them briefly bumped heads, and then Qu Sinian followed her out and said to her: "Mr. Xiang, I think the matter of the textile workshop can be placed in Xizhou or Jizhou. Let's send someone over first to see it on the spot.
Look, work with the people from the Ministry of Revenue to check the local situation and decide on the location first."
Yan Shiyue nodded, and Qu Sinian added: "We can arrange for your cousin to do this. I think he has a very calm mind. I asked him to go to the workshop and learn to repair the loom. He looked at
He also has no complaints and learns very quickly. If he is put in charge of the workshop, there should be no problems."
Yan Shiyue said: "Just wait and see if he succeeds, I'm not familiar with him either."
Qu Sinian added: "But every one of these things in our commercial department is new. It's the first time we do it. Yan Shilan's work can still make people feel at ease. I'm afraid something will go wrong. He
If we can’t handle it, it’s so far away that we can’t help.”
Yan Shiyue said: "Don't worry about problems all the time. What could go wrong! It's not like he can do it by himself... Besides, when you first started, you didn't know anything, so if you want to form an elite army, just
You have to work slowly with the same group of people, and you won't learn it. If you learn it day by day, you will be able to train into a good soldier and a strong general sooner or later."
Qu Sinian nodded with a smile, and added: "As for steelmaking, I have chosen a place. There is also a large mine in Qinzhou. The place is quite remote and will not disturb anyone. I just have to invite people first.
I took it over...then, I think we should send Lin Cheng over to do this?"
Yan Shiyue sighed: "That makes me seem to be nepotistic!"
Qu Sinian said with a smile: "The prime minister has a lot of right and wrong, and this one is not missing."
Yan Shiyue looked at him speechlessly: "You are really good at comforting people!"
Qu Sinian smiled and handed over his hand. (To be continued)