Chapter 559 [Three Updates]

Liu Tan didn't know that he had accidentally hurt Zhao Pingjun, but the other party was in no condition to cooperate with him anymore. Liu Tan could only write a petition in anger, and added one more thing to Zhao Pingjun - a useless person who could do nothing.

It was obviously a good thing, and he could get a lot of dividends without doing anything, but he just had to mess things up himself.

Liu Tan was angry while writing the petition. As for why... it meant that he needed to understand the current people's livelihood.

It's not that he didn't understand people's livelihood before, but when it comes to pricing, you have to follow the mainstream. If the price is too high, people won't be willing to buy it. But if it is too cheap, people will think your product is not good enough and why it is so cheap.

These are all true stories.

Liu Tan really spent almost half a month to come up with the prices bit by bit.

From the membership fee required to join the club to the cost of each set of cosmetics, there is still one most important issue that needs to be resolved - that is the makeup artist and beautician.

In fact, it is easier to get a beautician, because the current beauty project is just a facial mask.

On the other hand, in the beauty sector, we need to develop a lot of makeup looks. Currently, we only have a few looks, and we don’t know if they are enough.

But if you think about it, the makeup of the ladies in Chang'an seems to be popular in waves. Every time a new makeup style becomes popular, everyone just makes slight changes at most, and the same goes for hairstyle.

Liu Tan touched his chin and thought that if the business developed rapidly in the future, he could also start a hairdressing project.

However, most people don't like washing their hair these days, so maybe there is no audience for hairdressing projects at all.

Since he wanted to train beauticians and makeup artists, Liu Tan went directly to the official slaves to find some.

These official slaves were basically the families of criminals.

Before leaving, Liu Tan went to Du Zhou's place first, and then took people to look at the files there for a long time, and finally selected a few.

Du Zhou Yi knew from the names that Liu Tan had chosen people whose crimes were not so serious, or some of them were simply the families of officials who had been wrongly accused.

Of course, even so, he couldn't pick everyone. After all, wrongful convictions were inevitable. In the end, Liu Tan could only choose the young ladies.

It is true that Du Zhou was a cruel official, but that does not mean they were inhumane. They were just strict in terms of laws, which made everyone who were accustomed to the Huang-Lao philosophy of inaction during the reign of Emperor Jing feel a little uncomfortable, so they were called cruel officials.

Du Zhou Yi looked at the list Liu Tan had copied and said with emotion, "Your Highness is truly a kind and beautiful person."

Liu Tan: ???

He was almost caught off guard and wanted to ask, "Are you also traveling through time?"

Fortunately, he refrained from asking, and just smiled and said, "Please help as much as you can."

In fact, it is generally miserable for the family members of officials to become official slaves, and the young ladies are especially miserable. They are reduced from being ladies of high-class families to commodities that can be given away at will. Apart from not being able to be bought and sold, they are no better than ordinary slaves.

Even ordinary slaves, if they were lucky, could be released by their masters and become good citizens. Of course, the probability of this happening was extremely rare, but it did exist.

But official slaves are... they can only be slaves for the rest of their lives until they die, and there is no such thing as being released and becoming free.

Although Xiao Langjun's words were also miserable, they had another way out - becoming a craftsman.

The status of craftsmen is low, but they are also an indispensable link.

What's more, the beauty salon is for wealthy ladies who need to have their faces touched and worked on. In the future, they may also develop beauty services for the body. How can we let a young man come here?

Liu Tan selected fifteen people at once. Not all of them could be beauticians and makeup artists. They needed to receive training. Those with talent could do the job, while those without talent could only do odd jobs.

Of course, I will definitely stay.

After the people Liu Tan sent to select the women returned, Miao Rui said with great emotion, "Those ladies are very grateful to Your Highness."

Liu Tan was stunned for a moment: "What? What are they grateful to me for?"

Isn't it disappointing and lost? After all, they may have a chance to escape from the suffering.

Miao Rui said, "Parents all over the world are so kind. Those mothers are so grateful."

Liu Tan understood. When a mother and her child fall into that state, as long as she doesn't meet a very bad person, most mothers would want their daughter to escape from the suffering, even if it means sacrificing her own life.

However, both Miao Rui and Liu Tan just sighed, and they really couldn't care less about the rest of the people no matter how pitiful they were.

The training of these slaves was carried out simultaneously with Liu Tan's planning and store decoration.

Liu Tan had to do so many things by himself, and he didn't even have anyone to help him - he really wanted to ask Wei Kang to come. Apart from anything else, Wei Kang was a local boss after all, and with him around, at least the decoration problem would be easy to solve.

What Liu Tan wanted was not complicated. He just wanted the first floor of the store to be entirely made of glass doors and glass walls so that the lobby could be seen at a glance. Liu Tan originally wanted to make the lobby two stories high, but in the end he gave up because the lights in that era could not illuminate that high.

Of course, as long as there are enough lights, it will definitely be able to illuminate.

But not to mention how much money that would cost, just lighting the lights every day would be very troublesome, and even work-related injuries might occur at that height.

So in the end Liu Tan had no choice but to give up this unrealistic plan, and then spent a lot of effort to customize a pure mahogany front desk. He placed some chairs for rest in the lobby, and also placed a row of workstations with partitions in the middle.

These workstations are used for consultation, and content can be customized for each person. There is a consultant sitting behind each workstation waiting.

As for if there is no one, then there is no one. Anyway, Liu Tan does not need to pay these people too much monthly salary, and he doesn't even have to pay them in the first place.

After all, they are all official slaves. These people are not those ignorant low-level people who have been slaves since childhood. Once they have money, they might run away.

As long as they are not caught after escaping, they will definitely survive, and it will not be difficult to find a place to start over. Anyway, no matter how strict the household registration system is these days, there are always loopholes.

But Liu Tan felt uncomfortable if he didn't pay them, so he simply came up with a commission concept. Anyway, he paid them every month based on the number of people they served, but of course there was a cap.

The first floor is designed to be simple and elegant. After it is completed, Liu Tan will add some green plants to fill the gaps.

As for the second floor, it is simple, divided into a beauty room and a makeup room. The makeup room is separated by partitions with dressing tables. The area is not large, but it is not cramped either.

The dressing table will be filled with the main cosmetics of the season and the cosmetics used for makeup of these ladies.

The beauty salon is more difficult, after all, the beauty bed needs to be specially customized, so each room is relatively large and contains various necessary items.

After these two things are arranged, it’s time to deal with the cosmetics mentioned earlier.

Liu Tan said that the materials used in cosmetics and pearl masks vary depending on the season.

The color of eye shadow changes according to the seasons.

This is actually very easy to master, because jewelry is generally worn with jade in spring and summer, and with gold and silver in autumn and winter. As for pearls, they are suitable for all seasons.

So Liu Tan can completely match her clothes according to these jewelry. For example, in spring and summer, the eye shadow color will be light-colored, such as peach pink and light green, while in autumn and winter, it will be dark-colored, mainly red.

Earth tones are available all year round. No matter which cosmetics are used in any season, earth tones are present.

It's just a difference in shade. There's no way around it. Earth tones are the most versatile and solemn color scheme.

The wealthy and powerful have several occasions every month where they need to wear formal attire, not to mention major festivals like the summer solstice and the winter solstice, but also birthdays, childbirth, and weddings.

There are so many people in Chang'an City, and these things happen almost every day, so earth tones are necessary to match these occasions.

Liu Tan even carefully redesigned the packaging for each set of the Four Seasons series.

In spring, there are peach blossoms; in summer, there are lotus flowers; in autumn, there are chrysanthemums; and in winter, there are plum blossoms.

Peach blossoms are accompanied by green grass, lotus flowers are decorated with koi carps, fallen leaves are floating above the chrysanthemums, and the branches of plum blossoms are covered with snow.

These packages are also made of ceramic and gold, and the edges are all painted with gold.

After Liu Tan finished creating these packaging, even Chen Ajiao couldn't let it go. She immediately decided, "Let's make this into what you said... a limited edition."

Liu Tan thought about it and it made sense. Scarcity makes things valuable, and even now it is not easy to paint patterns on ceramics.

Because various accidents can easily occur during firing.

However, since it was made a limited edition, Liu Tan even had the bad intention to number each set of the Four Seasons series, and only make 100 sets of the Four Seasons series. After all 100 sets are sold out, it will be changed to another series. Each limited series has 100 sets.

How many people are there in Chang'an? Even after the beauty salon opens in the Northern Territory, how many customers will it attract?

One hundred sets are definitely rare among the rare ones. Liu Tan estimates that this thing may be able to be sold at a sky-high price.

Of course, he had originally priced these sets of cosmetics at sky-high prices, so high that they would have to fill a whole truck if they were traded for copper coins.

So at that time, the most convenient way might be to trade with silver and gold.

However, it is impossible that the limited edition is only one hundred sets, otherwise what will happen if more people unlock the purchasing qualifications?

So there are also ordinary limited edition sets and ordinary sets. The ordinary limited edition sets are simple. Liu Tan directly chose crabapple flowers as the pattern on the surface, and the most common wide set is smooth celadon with nothing on it.

Moreover, the ordinary limited edition set will have fewer pearlescent colors than the four-season set. As for the ordinary set, it is even simpler, with no four-season limited edition colors.

After these sets of designs were completed, people became aware of the Four Seasons series, and Liu Tan received hundreds of fragrant messages a day, all of which were from people wanting to purchase the Four Seasons series.

However, Liu Tan was completely unmoved. He waited for two months for the renovation and made sure that the beauticians and makeup artists were basically ready to take up their posts.

The beauty salon is finally open.

The plaque of the beauty salon is also very impressive - it was written by Chen Ajiao herself.

Guose Tianxiang Beauty Salon, well, as soon as you see the name you know it was started by Liu Tan, it is very simple and crude.

Fortunately, Chen Ajiao did not type the name back.

In the first few days after the opening, Liu Tan conducted a trial operation, offering discounts on membership fees and beauty products. Discounts were also offered on the qualification to unlock ordinary cosmetics, but the unlocking qualification would not be discounted, and the originally set amount would remain the same.

To be honest, even with such a discount, Liu Tan still made a profit, and the ladies all felt that they had made a profit.

However, Liu Tan’s main concern is not how much money can be made, but whether there is anything that needs improvement.

So he set up a suggestion book in the lobby so that all members could speak freely.

Then Liu Tan received a series of dissatisfied complaints, all of which were: Why don’t beauticians and makeup artists have handsome young men!