Fierce Consort: Refuse the Uxorious Tyrant - C188
The Dark Star said, “Empress Dowager misunderstands! This servant does not have any personal relationship with Princess Zhuo! “It’s even less helpful!”
The empress dowager said coldly, “Hmph! Don’t think that I doesn’t know, you often helped her in secret! ”
The Dark Star said, “Empress Dowager. Please listen to what this servant has to say! ”
The empress dowager said, “Tell me! If we cannot find a reason why, then I … ”
“If, after this servant finishes speaking, the empress dowager still believes the Dark Star to be guilty, the Dark Star is willing to accept the punishment!”
“Alright!”
“Just say it!”
“I, listen up.”
Her Majesty showed some patience.
After all, she had personally trained the Dark Star to be her confidant.
The Dark Star replied seriously, “Reporting to the empress dowager!”
“Princess Zhuo has indeed brought many people.”
“Causing trouble in the imperial garden.”
“In addition, there has indeed been a conflict with the Empress.”
“However, the Princess Zhuo did not injure him.”
“During the conflict, only one palace maid fell in front of their master and suffered a slight injury.”
“Other than that, no one else was injured.”
“And the incident in the imperial garden …”
“Actually, the Princess Zhuo didn’t want to tear down the imperial garden …”
“It was the Princess Zhuo who called the people of the Qing Ya Pavilion to the imperial garden to pluck the flowers …”
“It’s just that the commotion is too great and it has attracted the attention and displeasure of the other concubines.”
The dark star secretly looked down at the empress dowager’s gloomy face and said, “Calm down, empress dowager! Princess Zhuo did not know that it was the empress dowager who spent a lot of effort to produce these flowers as lush and abundant as they are today. ”
The empress dowager said coldly, “If she’s full and has nothing to do, then why did she pick the flowers in the I’s imperial garden?”
The Dark Star said, “Empress Dowager, the Dark Star has also come forward to ask.”
“Then what did she say?” the empress dowager asked.
The Dark Star said: “Princess Zhuo said that together with imperial physician, the pharmacists, doctors and others, we have developed a formula that will make the skin whiter and fairer. It’s just that within this recipe, there are still some missing aromatic medicinal formulas to enhance the medicinal efficacy and to add fragrance, so the fresh flowers are the best method.”
When the empress dowager heard this, she was shocked. “She really developed a beauty medicine?”
Dark Star nodded, “I heard that there are more than 20 formulas! It’s just that the Princess Zhuo is extremely secretive and refuses to divulge any details. ”
“Did she really say that?” the empress dowager asked.
The Dark Star nodded. “Empress Dowager is wise. “The Dark Star definitely wouldn’t dare lie to the empress dowager in the slightest.”
Her Majesty nodded and replied, “Yes. I naturally knows that you are sincere. But why don’t you let I go to the Royal Garden? ”
The Dark Star said, “This imperial garden is the work of the empress dowager. If the empress dowager personally went to see all of the flowers in the imperial garden being harvested, wouldn’t that make Feng Yan furious? I’m afraid that the empress dowager won’t be able to resist the urge to clash head-on with the Princess Zhuo at that time. ”
The empress dowager said sinisterly, “You mean the I can’t have conflicts with her? Could it be that I still wants to see her expression? ”
The dark star replied, “Please forgive this servant’s boldness. Right now, Princess Zhuo’s medicinal formula has already had its initial effect. The empress dowager should endure for a few more days.”
The empress dowager nodded and said thoughtfully, “You’re right too! “Just bear with her for a few days …”
“As long as she becomes young and beautiful for I, it would not be too late for I to kill her! Dark Star, you may leave! Princess Zhuo seems to trust you very much. Go and monitor her every move closely and report back to I at all times. ”
“Yes!” “Majesty!”
The Dark Star accepted the order.
Three or four days passed after the incident in the imperial garden …
The rumors in the palace became even more outrageous.
Fei Yan seemed to have become a common enemy in the palace.
She didn’t actually do anything to offend everyone.
If you were to talk about the Imperial Garden incident where he offended a few people’s concubines …
But for the majority of the people, they did not have any direct confrontation or direct confrontation of interest with Fei Yan …
Naturally, the incident in the imperial garden could not arouse the hatred of the entire imperial palace…
It was just that Fei Yan’s mysterious manner made it difficult for everyone to figure it out …
People are afraid of the unknown.
Fear makes people afraid.
Fear can make you lose your mind.
Soon…
An unprecedented and magnificent opening ceremony began in the palace!
Countless fireworks and firecrackers were heard, causing the lonely deep palace to become lively all of a sudden …
“You’re so beautiful!” The beauty salon officially opened!
The Qing Ya Pavilion which had been silent for nearly half a month, had finally opened!
At the same time…
The beauty salon also launched five major series, a total of twenty-six cosmetics.
Include whitening and freckling series, wrinkle removing series, tight skin series, sunscreen series, moisturizing series… There was also dew lotion, jasmine mask, rose foundation… There were a total of 26 cosmetics products!
Furthermore, Fei Yan even gave her a very pleasant name: You’re so beautiful!
In order to match these cosmetics, buy a series of cosmetics, send a small cosmetics kit.
The grand opening attracted countless harem beauties…
Just when Fei Yan had specially trained the eloquent Xiao Hong to introduce all the cosmetics shares, there were only a few people who wanted to buy them …
After an entire day.
Xiao Hong checked the accounts and found that it had only sold two bottles of makeup remover and three masks.
Total income: 45 taels of silver.
It was a good sign, but not a bad one.
It was somewhat outside of Fei Yan’s expectations.
During the past half month, she had worked with dozens of experts to research, analyze, and learn about various medicinal properties and practical effects …
Finally, under the unremitting efforts, successfully imitated the cosmetics of the 21st century, developed the natural cosmetics without side effects.
Although it wasn’t as miraculous as the cosmetics of the 21st century, but for this world that had never had cosmetics before …
But it was already a world-shocking innovation!
Moreover, the most important thing was that these products were all completely natural and harmless!
Why is it that no one wants to buy it?
The cheapest starting price was 5 taels of lotion, and the most expensive was a tight skin set of 420 taels. To the lonely rich ladies in the palace, such a price was completely affordable!
But why didn’t anyone buy it?
Fei Yan carefully thought about it…
First.
Certainly not the product itself. She had used the expensive cosmetics from the 21st century that she had brought from the secret service box to imitate and develop the natural herbs and flowers. The products themselves were definitely not a problem.
Article 2.
Of course, it wouldn’t be a question of price.
Fei Yan had always thought that a monetary policy with a small circulation of silver notes was the best policy that the Tian Song Dynasty had ever made.
There was no crazy bubble inflation like in the 21st century!
Silver was worth a lot!
2 taels of silver was enough for an ordinary farmer to live in for a month.
People earned less and were exploited more, but luckily there was no inflation, so the silver had a relatively rich purchasing power.
When Fei Yan was planning to make money, she had carefully compared the amount of money she had when she was printing small books for Zhuo Lei and when she opened her own bank to print silver notes.
Of course, printing silver notes is fast and good…
Furthermore, he could become rich overnight!
However, once the silver notes flooded …
The market will soon inflate!
Pork was now 5 copper coins per catty. If the price were to rise to 20 copper coins, ordinary people would no longer be able to eat meat …
Fei Yan would never be a righteous and moral guardian, but she would also never be a sinner who would hurt ordinary people!
She knew that these commoners were the hardest people to live!
In the 21st century, people needed to become house-slaves for several decades to pay off their debts in order to live in a house.
The strict monetary system of the Tian Song Dynasty allowed the citizens to live and work in peace.
Fei Yan rarely saw people who could not afford to buy a house.
Fei Yan carefully and carefully analyzed the price of cosmetics based on the value of the currency and the actual purchasing power.
The final price!
The women of the palace, the concubines, surely had the ability to consume several hundred taels of cosmetics.
And for those lower leveled palace maid, a few taels of silver worth of makeup remover was definitely something they could afford!
If it wasn’t the price itself, what was the problem?
Could it be …
Market demand?
Zhuo Qingyi, Xiao Hong, Madam Xiao and the others were also discussing with worried expressions.
Why are there so many people looking for it and so few buying it?
Could it be because Fei Yan offended someone?
Fei Yan was not good at communicating with others, but she had never taken the initiative to provoke anyone.
Maybe Fei Yan’s previous visit to the palace had caused the death of Concubine Ying, Concubine Mei and the other imperial concubines …
had the other concubines and palace maid become afraid of Fei Yan from the bottom of their hearts?
And the incident at the Imperial Garden a few days ago caused a barrier to form in the hearts of the beautiful ladies?
So the women in the harem no longer trusted Fei Yan?
The Zhuo Qingyi was weak and had been bullied by others for the better part of a year in the palace …
Madam Xiao had been a concubine for dozens of years, naturally her thoughts were narrow and narrow-minded …
Xiao Hong is a servant…
The thoughts of these three people were, in a rare moment, the same.
In the end, they all thought that it was because Fei Yan did not form a good relationship with her concubines, which was why no one came to buy cosmetics.
Fei Yan snickered: “These three silly women, they’re so silly that they’re cute. Where was the true love in the palace? Even if they had feelings of camaraderie, who could rely on them to do business? It’s not like they’re trying to sell it, they’re just trying to cheat their relatives and friends. ”
The real problem!
It was a requirement!
Market demand!
It just did not arouse the desire of the palace maid’s concubines to buy!
And the best way to arouse people’s desire to buy is to … Promotions and advertisements!
Advertising?
Fei Yan thought hard for a long time.
In this era where there were no newspapers, no TV, no computers, no phones…
What kind of advertising is the most effective?
And this was the palace!
The palace was not a market.
He couldn’t possibly print so many flyers and scatter them everywhere, right?
Besides, it would be useless to print the flyers.
The palace might not be big, but it was definitely not small.
Once something happened.
Not a day.
The news had spread throughout the entire imperial palace.
Fei Yan was sure that the entire palace knew about the beauty salon …
However, the most important thing was that nothing could stimulate their desire to buy …
What should he do?
Fei Yan was racking her brains for a plan that could solve this problem …
“Manager Li is here!”
A eunuch rushed in to report.
When Fei Yan raised her head, she had already walked in with large strides.
“This old servant greets Princess Zhuo.”
Li Liankang bowed in greeting.
Fei Yan replied: “Eunuch Li doesn’t need to be so courteous. “You’re the favorite and most trusted person in the emperor’s side. I know that even the empress has to be careful when she sees you, so there’s no need to be courteous to me.”
Li Liankang said: “Thank you, Empress.”
Fei Yan asked: What did the Emperor call you here for?
Li Liankang continued, “The Emperor has been busy these past few days dealing with the matters of the court and would often not sleep for a few days and nights.”
“No rest?”