The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

"Your Majesty, I think that this time the sales of ready-made clothes should be like Zhenbao Pavilion and Baoyue Pavilion, with two lines, the high-priced line first, and the low-priced line will sell better!"

Qin Jifu spoke very fast, and Song Qingyue could see that he was already impatient.

But this proposal went against Song Qingyue's original intention. She said: "Your suggestion is good, but most families who can afford servants will probably choose to buy fabrics and then make dresses at home. Regarding this garment business, I think We should still focus more on citizens.”

However, Qin Jifu cupped his hands towards Song Qingyue and said: "Mother, our current officials in the Zhou Dynasty are not all that rich. Many officials are from humble backgrounds, and now there are fewer people who donated land. The imperial court Their salary is not low, but the whole family has to live on that salary, and they may not be able to afford servants who specialize in needlework. Think about the official wives who live in the Communist Party’s official residence, can we get this business? Do it!"

Song Qingyue blinked, thinking about it, it was really true!

Nowadays, the scope of so-called "officials" is much larger than before. If we elaborate on it, it may be closer to the "establishment" that modern Chinese people were keen on in previous generations.

Becoming a civil servant is considered established, becoming a professor or associate professor in college is also considered established, and applying for a job as an employee of a public institution or a state-owned enterprise is barely considered established.

Taking Dazhou as an example, there are now more than 500 ninth-grade doctors in the School of Optical Science, the School of Gynecology, and Taiyuan Hospital. Including various professors and associate professors, there are more than [-] people.

The Arsenal, the Audit Department, the Communications Department under the nominal leadership of Song Qingyue, and the expanded Tianjin Port Shipping Department also gave the Beizhi area more than 120 high-level officials out of thin air.

There were so many that the former "Communist official residence" was full.

Fortunately, the monks and Taoists caused trouble last year, leaving several large temples and Taoist temples vacant in the capital. Nowadays, except for the Sanqing Temple, which enshrines the tablet of the late Empress Yuan, it still remains. However, the current Sanqing Temple is more like a large temple than a Taoist temple. welfare hospital.Today, the Sanqing Temple is headed by the National Preceptor Liu Daochang, who is responsible for teaching the "barefoot doctors" sent from villages, townships, towns and counties across the country.

Some of the remaining large temples were converted into schools, others were converted into "comprehensive shopping malls", and one temple was converted into the headquarters of the Royal Bank, and even the headquarters of Zhaoyue Bank was moved into it. In the main hall of a temple.

The clusters of monks' houses behind the temple were converted into new communist residences for young low-level officials to live in.

In addition, there are a large number of officials and employees of "state-owned enterprises", such as employees of shipyards, textile factories, bookstores, printing factories and even the royal sugar factory. They are also considered to be wealthier than ordinary citizens engaged in industry and commerce. class.

They have houses to live in, food to eat, warm clothes to wear, children to go to school, a stable income, and some savings on hand. The consumption power of this group of people can indeed be appropriately liberated.

Seeing that Song Qingyue was still thinking, Little Eunuch Qin continued to persuade: "Madam, it is not easy to make the dress you are wearing! Just talking about the cutting, it is different from our traditional cutting method. Besides, the production of the sleeves, you are wearing It's comfortable, but the sewing room put a lot of thought into trimming the edges. In addition, this skirt uses a total of five different fabrics. You see, the decoration on your waist only uses a little bit of this kind of fabric. People If you want to buy fabric and make it exactly the same when you go home, it would take a lot of effort just to buy the fabric. As long as we don’t sell some special fabrics, this ready-made garment will definitely sell!"

The shopkeeper of Longxing Cloth Shop also nodded in agreement at this time: "My father-in-law is right! As long as we withhold some of the fabrics and not sell them, we can ask the ladies to come to our store to make custom-made skirts!"

Song Qingyue was finally persuaded by these two people and agreed with them to try to produce high-end dresses, and also gave them the name "Advanced Customization".

After the first meeting, Song Qingyue wanted to officially name his entertainment tabloid "Da Zhou Taobao", but Li Zhao suggested removing the small characters, but Song Qingyue felt that a name like "Da Zhou Bao" or "Da Zhou Post" was too confusing. It seems too serious. She wants to write down the gossip of the courtiers' back house in the future!
Eventually, the newspaper was named "Dazhou Life Daily".The top priority of the first issue is to report on the large-scale human traffickers gang operating between Beizhi and Henan. This has been determined to become the headline content of the first issue.

Before the case was solved, three "reporters" who were first-class maids from Wufangzhai took the lead in going to Tianjin to investigate the living conditions of prostitutes near Tianjin Port. Manuscripts in this regard could be written before the case was solved.

After that came the editing work of Fashion Edition.There must be pictures in this area. Since you want to promote a new group of styles, how can you do it without pictures?The cost of color printing was too high for the time being, but Song Qingyue still decided to try a new engraving technology - this time, she decided not to engrave wood board paintings, but decided to let the engraving masters try engraving on copper plates.

The benefits of engraving copper plates are obvious, as they can make the picture more complex and delicate.

Naturally, this is inseparable from high-quality carving tools. Song Qingyue made a special trip to the arsenal and asked the craftsmen to make a batch of carving knives for herself using new high-hardness high-manganese steel heads.The first batch of engraving knives only had twenty, and it took more than ten years of work to complete them. After the engraving masters got these engraving knives produced by the arsenal, they tried them on copper plates. Each one felt like they had found a treasure, and they couldn't wait to hold the engraving in their hands. The knife was offered.

While the engraving craftsmen were studying the engraving of copper plates, Song Qingyue led Qin Jifu and several maids from the sewing room of the Prince's Mansion to design several dresses of different colors and styles based on the imperial dress style, among which the current one is used. The puff sleeve design is not available in China.

The puffs on the sleeves can be placed on the shoulders, elbows, or close to the cuffs. There are hundreds of designs and colors for the skirt.

Song Qingyue even wanted to try to see if she could make lace, so she asked an embroidery master named Liu in the sewing room if she could embroider repetitive and regular patterns on the relatively transparent gauze material. She flipped through the flower-shaped picture albums, pointed to one of them and said, "This kind of butterfly branch pattern is very beautiful. I want to sew the semi-transparent embroidery gauze material on the cuffs or neckline and cut it into the shape of petals." , stacked three layers, it will definitely look very good!”

After hearing Song Qingyue's idea, Master Liu's eyes lit up and he immediately nodded and said that he could give it a try, but he would need a few days to think about it.

The lace sample was delivered to Song Qingyue three days later. Song Qingyue made a new suggestion: "It is best for these patterns to be connected to each other. In this way, cut off the gauze material in the middle, leaving only the hollow embroidery."

Master Liu said with a smile: "My queen is always able to come up with new tricks! With this kind of hollow embroidery fabric, little Eunuch Qin won't have to worry about running out of business!"

Song Qingyue was busy all day long, and time flew by.

Before we knew it, it was mid-June, and the cicadas on the trees and the frogs by the pond began to take turns making noise, and the weather gradually became hotter.

Ou Nanguan was sitting in a garden on Prince's Mansion East Road wearing last year's old clothes, fanning himself and complaining to Shen Weige and Liang Tongyue that the servants in the mansion were lazy and lacked eyesight.

"How could my sister lose such a temper when she's so good?" Shen Weige asked casually, fanning herself.

"It stands to reason that April should be the time to tailor-make our summer clothes for this year, but it's already June! By the time they finish it, summer will be over! It's true that the princess never cheated on us in food and clothing before. Nowadays, they don’t even make new clothes! In the past, Concubine Ning had already started to make trouble, and now she stays in the palace all day long to serve her aunt the queen..."

She glanced at Liang Tongyue and said with a strange look: "Originally, a certain person with evil intentions could still be somewhat of a cousin to the princess without drugging His Highness. Now he doesn't even dare to go to the middle road, and no one can help him." Let’s talk to the princess!” (End of Chapter)