Traveling across the heavens starting from the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 31: This glazed mirror has spanned thousands of years. Isn’t it expensive to sell it to you?

All beginnings are hard.

What's more, shops like Liulice that sell colored glaze still take the high-end route.

It is impossible for Liulice to have a steady stream of customers every day like other ordinary shops in Chang'an City. It can rely on high quality and low prices to attract many customers to the shop.

high profile.

This is the concept of Liuli Pavilion.

but.

After Cui Yu and his wife, who were not patrons, visited the Liulic Pavilion, it seemed that it brought good luck to the Liulic Pavilion. Customers began to come and the Liulic Pavilion slowly began to open in Chang'an City. gained fame.

The remaining patrons, some ladies and ladies who came to Dongshi for a stroll, stumbled upon the newly opened Liuli Pavilion and wanted to come in and take a look because of its name.

And in the end, Liuli Pavilion won the love of these ladies and ladies in Chang'an City because of its unique services that were different from those in the Tang Dynasty world, as well as the furnishings in the shop and the protection of women's privacy.

The most important thing is that these ladies and noble ladies also like the jewelry from Liuli Pavilion.

The only thing that makes these ladies and ladies of Chang'an City dislike Liulice is that the price of the jewelry sold by Liulice displeases them because it is simply too expensive.

The cheapest piece of jewelry costs five taels of gold.

This really opened the eyes of these ladies and ladies of Chang'an City.

It's just like women in modern society are crazy about luxury goods.

Even though they clearly know that the cost is only a few hundred yuan, they will always give various reasons for purchasing, telling themselves in their hearts that for luxury goods worth tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of yuan, they are buying design, workmanship, and brand. .

same.

Datang World.

The same is true for these ladies and noble ladies in Chang'an City.

When faced with the pieces of glass jewelry that are so rare for them, their eyes immediately shine, unable to take their eyes away from the sparkling, crystal clear, different colors and shapes of the glass, and soon they will be in I kept thinking about myself in my heart. In fact, five taels of gold can buy a glass jewelry, which is really worth it.

Especially after encountering a glass mirror.

It also shows that women are crazy about beauty.

"Guardian Taohua, is this the new glass mirror launched by your Liuli Pavilion?"

On the second floor of Liuli Pavilion, in a gold-level private box, a lady was sitting on a soft imperial chair, looking at her own figure reflected in a full-length glass mirror carried by two female waiters, with a look of disbelief on her face. Surprised.

"Of course, Mrs. Wang, you are a gold-level guest of our Liuli Pavilion. There is a new good thing. As the steward of Liuli Pavilion, I will naturally pay close attention to you first, but I don't dare to let other patrons see it first. That’s Taohua’s sin.”

Taohua, the maid who accompanied him in the box, had a smile on her face.

Based on the current operating conditions of the Liulic Pavilion, patrons who can enter the gold-level private rooms of the Liulic Pavilion are already qualified for her to take care of them, accompany them, and introduce the items in the Liulic Pavilion.

Of course.

According to Li Huaian's setting of the customer level of Liuli Pavilion, customers who can enter the gold-level private box will have the right to check out the newly sold items in the shop as long as they come to Liuli Pavilion for the first time.

Only after all the patrons who can enter the gold-level private box have seen the new items sold in Liuli Pavilion, if the new items are not bought by the patrons of the gold-level private box, will the new items be downgraded to Patron display in Silver Private Box.

And then.

Only these new products will become currency, that is, they can be seen by new customers of Liulice and have the opportunity to purchase.

Of course.

The levels of private rooms in Liuli Pavilion are not just gold level and silver level.

There is another level above, which is the Jade level private box.

However, Liuli Pavilion has not yet produced Jade-level private box customers, and has only produced a very small number of Gold-level private box customers.

This Mrs. Wang is one of the customers of Liuli Pavilion’s gold-level private box members so far.

As the manager of Liuli Pavilion, this is why the maid Taohua now serves the gold-level private box.

Wait until the patrons of the jade-level private box appear.

The maid Taohua will only be responsible for the patrons in the Jade-level private box and the affairs of Liuli Pavilion.

And today.

If Mrs. Wang in the gold-level private box purchases successfully.

Liuli Pavilion will give birth to the first customer of a jade-level private box.

"The figure in this mirror is myself?"

The noble lady looked at the figure who was also sitting on the imperial concubine's soft chair in the full-length mirror. She moved a little and changed her posture. When she saw the synchronized movements in the mirror, she quickly raised her hand and said.

"Bring it closer so I can take a closer look."

Hearing this, the maid Taohua raised her hand to signal the two female waiters carrying the full-length glass mirror to come closer so that Mrs. Wang could see more clearly.

"Of course, Mrs. Wang, this full-body glazed mirror is a very rare glazed mirror. We currently have only one glazed mirror of this level in the Glazed Pavilion."

"Taohua doesn't know how long it will take for the next glazed mirror of this level to be obtained from overseas. It will probably take a month or three months to obtain it."

"Our Glazed Pavilion also spent a lot of money overseas to obtain a Glazed Mirror of this level."

"As soon as our Liulic Pavilion got this rare glazed mirror, we immediately thought of Mrs. Wang's peerless appearance. We immediately sealed up this glazed mirror and waited for Mrs. Wang to come to Liulic Pavilion."

While Mrs. Wang was sitting on the imperial concubine's soft chair and carefully observing herself in the mirror, the maid Taohua was also trying her best to introduce the rarity and rareness of the full-length glass mirror in front of her.

Even if she knew that there were not hundreds of full-length glass mirrors like this in Lang Jun's study, but there would be more than 100 full-length mirrors without inlaid wooden frames, just placed casually in Lang Jun's study, without any trace of them. Protective measures for treasures.

Even in the lady and her bedroom, as well as the husband's bedroom, there are more than one glass mirror.

Without delay, the maidservant told Mrs. Wang how rare this glazed mirror was without blushing and her heart not beating. In order to reflect the rarity of this glazed mirror, she made up a bizarre overseas story.

For this reason, Liuli Pavilion paid a huge price in money and life to bring this rare glass mirror back to the Tang Dynasty, back to Liuli Pavilion in Chang'an City, and deliver it to you, Mrs. Wang.

If not so self-hypnotic.

The maid Taohua was afraid of waiting for a while. When it came time to talk about the price of this glass mirror, she would not be able to tell Mrs. Wang the price.

She always feels a little guilty on her conscience.

There is an illusion that all the madams in Hualou are kinder than her.

Fortunately.

As Taohua, the maidservant who was born in Wanhua Tower, these regrets on her conscience are only fleeting and cannot be compared with her obedience to her husband.

Mrs. Wang looked at herself in the mirror. Even the hair on the temples could be clearly defined. Even the black eyebrows that were newly painted today could be seen clearly. Through the glass mirror in front of her, she looked even more... You can see the skin under the dress.

This is a full-length glass mirror.

Let her like it more and more.

He opened his mouth and asked the maid Taohua beside him.

"Peach Blossom Manager, I like this glazed mirror. I want it for as much silver as I want."

How can you miss such a rare thing.

No matter how much money you have, you still have to buy it.

If you don’t buy it.

I'm afraid I'll have to live a melancholy life in the future where I don't think about food or tea.

From now on, all I can think about is the appearance of the glass mirror in front of me.

It will be the same in dreams.

heard.

The maid Taohua smiled slightly and told the price Li Huaian set for the full-length glass mirror.

"So that Mrs. Wang can know that the full-length glazed mirror in our Liulic Pavilion is priced at 10 taels of gold. I don't know if Peach Blossom will have someone pack it up for Mrs. Wang and send it to the house, or if Mrs. Wang personally arranges for the housekeeper to come to Liuli Pavilion to pick it up. Walk?"

Is 10 taels of gold expensive?
When Li Huaian set the price, he didn't feel it was expensive at all. He felt it was cheap.

It’s not like doing charity and popularizing glass in the Tang Dynasty world.

A full-length glass mirror worth 10 taels of gold is already very conscientious.

To know.Judging from the historical process, it took countless years of hard work from the time humans developed glass materials such as colored glaze to being able to make large pieces of glass into flat and smooth glass.

It was not until modern times that due to the development of industrial technology, glass began to be flattened on a large scale, and people really used large, flat and smooth glass.

From the Tang Dynasty to modern times, there is a span of more than 1000 years.

Li Huaian showed great mercy and allowed the nobles in Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty to enjoy a large piece of glass that could only be created in modern society more than 1000 years in advance.

It is simply the reincarnation of a living Bodhisattva.

The technology of this full-length glass mirror is more difficult than that of a glass ornament. The glass ornament is at most unique in shape, and the rest is just a product of stacking materials.

Theoretically, as long as the material is enough and can maintain temperature at all times, you can pile up a large ornament at will.

So, is a mirror made of a large piece of flat smooth glass expensive to sell for 10 taels of gold in the Tang Dynasty?

average.

Less than 100 taels of gold a year.

Even if some people think it is expensive.

but.

Li Huaian didn't care either.

As a monopoly business.

It can be said that in the Tang Dynasty world, no one except him could hold a second glass mirror.

This is the benefit of monopoly business.

Not buying.

There is no place to buy it.

And for the rich.

sometimes.

For this type of people, money is not a problem. The problem is to achieve what others don’t have, what they have, and what they have, and what they have is a refined style.

and so.

After determining the price.

Li Huaian is not worried that no one will buy it.

Anyway, if this mirror is not sold, there will not be a second glass mirror of the same specifications in Liuli Pavilion, and there will be no possibility of any price reduction.

Only after this glass mirror is sold.

Liuli Pavilion will take out the second full-length colored glass mirror for sale after more than a month.

Playing with scarcity.

"It's not expensive."

After hearing the price.

Mrs. Wang only hesitated for a moment before giving the answer.

The price of 10 taels of gold was still a little shocking to her.

However, these little surprises only made her hesitate for a moment. After touching the smooth surface of the glass mirror, and seeing that the fingerprints on her fingers could be clearly seen through the mirror, she immediately felt, 10 It's only ten thousand taels of gold. It's well worth the money to buy this glass mirror.

"Then I will ask the people below to put this full-length glazed mirror into a box for Mrs. Wang, so that it can be taken away when Mrs. Wang leaves later."

Full-length glazed mirrors sold.

The maid Taohua waved her hand lightly and asked the two female waiters who had been carrying the full-length glazed mirror to take the full-length glazed mirror out of the box and go down to put the full-length glazed mirror into a box.

And she continued to stay in the box to see if she could sell other items in Liuli Pavilion to Mrs. Wang.

Although I was very happy just now to be able to sell this full-length glazed mirror, I earned 10 taels of gold in one go.

But in order to make more money for Lang Jun.

She felt that she could still try harder.

"Mrs. Wang, because you are the first customer to have a single purchase of 10 taels of gold in our Liulic Pavilion, you will become the first member of our Liulic Pavilion to have a jade-level private box."

"This is the Liuli Pavilion jade plaque of your Jade-level private box member."

The maid Taohua was not in a hurry to sell other items to Mrs. Wang. Instead, she first informed Mrs. Wang that she could be promoted to a member of the Jade-level private box in Liuli Pavilion, and took out a jade plaque symbolizing the status of a member of the Jade-level private box.

"Oh."

Mrs. Wang took the jade token from the maid Taohua and looked at it in her hand. She saw that it was a jade token made of colored glaze and asked curiously.

"Steward Peach Blossom, how can this Jade-level private box member compare to your Gold-level private box member?"

very curious.

Before that, she had just experienced the privileges of a gold-level private box in Liuli Pavilion.

Now he has become a member of the Jade-level private box.

I guess it should be better than her previous gold-level private box members.

Mrs. Wang was not kept waiting for too long.

The maid Taohua explained: "Mrs. Wang, this Jade level not only retains all the rights of the Gold level, but also has additional price discounts on the basis of the Gold level."

"In the future, you can enjoy a 10% discount when you come to Liulice Pavilion to buy something. Just like the full-length colored glass mirror just now, it costs 9 taels of gold. If you buy it now, it will only cost [-] taels of gold. For the price, you can buy it.”

"This is not bad. You can save some money in the future."

Mrs. Wang looked at the glazed jade token in her hand and felt a little happy, as if she had picked up money.

By neutral.

The maid Taohua added: "And Mrs. Wang, because you are the first customer in our Liulic Pavilion to buy a full-length colored glass mirror, we can give you a dressing mirror worth 1 taels of gold for free."

"Mirror?"

Mrs. Wang was surprised. She didn't expect that as the first customer to buy a glass mirror, Liuli Pavilion would actually prepare a gift.

So he asked quickly.

"Is it the same mirror as the glazed mirror just now?"

"Bring it to me and see."

"Ok."

The maid Taohua clapped her hands and asked the female waiter outside the box to bring in the dressing mirror prepared in advance.

Wait until the female waiter brings the dressing mirror into the box.

The maid Taohua pointed at the dressing mirror and introduced: "Mrs. Wang, this is the dressing mirror that our Liulic Pavilion has given to you. This mirror can be a good replacement for your original bronze mirror when you are dressing up."

"This dressing mirror is also a rare item in Liuli Pavilion. Now Liuli Pavilion only has a few of them."

"I hope Mrs. Wang will like the gift that our Liulic Pavilion has given you."

"Yes, I like it very much."

When Mrs. Wang heard that it was also a rare item, she liked it even more. She thought that since there were dressing mirrors, would there be other mirrors, so she quickly asked.

"Manager Taohua, besides these two kinds of mirrors, do you have any other mirrors in Liuli Pavilion?"

When the maid Taohua heard this, she smiled in her heart and finally entered the topic again.

"Mrs. Wang's guess is accurate. We also have several half-length mirrors in Liuli Pavilion, and more than a dozen hand mirrors prepared for nobles like Mrs. Wang who often attend banquets and need to always pay attention to their manners. Each of the hand mirrors is very convenient. carry."

"And each of these glazed mirrors are items that our glazed pavilion is reluctant to sell."

"If you want to see it, please follow me to the jade-level private box."

"Okay, take me there quickly."

She was even more delighted when she heard that there were two types of glass mirrors, including an easy-to-carry palm mirror. She wanted to hold it in her hand right away to see what the palm mirror looked like.

(End of this chapter)