In the third year of Wuding, Yan Cheng did not just stay at home and study. Last year, he invented a loom that was ten times more efficient than any other loom on the market.
Of course, this thing was not something Yan Cheng made on a whim, but a counterattack in anger.
This matter has something to do with the Yan clan's dominance in Wuding Prefecture.
Linglong Pavilion is the most famous clothing store in Wuding Prefecture. It employs many embroiderers with superb embroidery skills. The clothes they make are extremely beautiful. The ladies in the imperial court all like to have their clothes customized from Linglong Pavilion.
June 24th is Yan Xi's birthday. The little girl loves beauty and has always liked gorgeous clothes and jewelry. Before Yan Xi's birthday last year, Chu Yuan had already tailored a set of gorgeous clothes for her at Linglong Pavilion.
As a result, the promised gorgeous dress had not been delivered when Yan Xi's birthday was approaching. When someone was sent to inquire, it was found that the dress was so beautiful that someone else had taken a fancy to it. That person paid more money to buy it.
After some inquiries, I found out that the person who stole the gorgeous clothes was a young girl from the main branch of the Yan family, about the same age as Yan Xi.
The old lady of the main lineage was living in Wuding Mansion in her old age. The little girl was a legitimate daughter and was raised by the old lady since she was a child. She was spoiled and had everything she wanted. She became willful, arrogant and unreasonable.
When Chu Yuan sent people to Linglong Pavilion to order clothes, he did not reveal his family's information. Linglong Pavilion did not know that the gorgeous clothes were ordered by their family, but instead knew the girl from the main lineage.
The person in charge thought about the influence of the Yan family in Wuding Prefecture, and after careful consideration, he sold the clothes that were fully made and only needed to be delivered to the young girl from the main branch.
As for the original buyer, I think he can't beat the Yan family, so he can just give more compensation when the time comes.
Upon learning that the clothes he had made had been stolen and Linglong Pavilion had not come to apologize or explain the situation, Chu Yuan was furious and sent his trusted confidant to the main branch to ask for an explanation.
The person sent out was also a strange person. He started out with some sarcasm, saying that the morals of the world were going downhill. Only then did he realize that the main branch was now so arrogant and domineering that it even blatantly stole other people's things. No wonder the most outstanding person in the main branch was only a fourth-rank official now.
He also said that their branch had not been successful in the early years, but was still on the rise now. Their master was a third-rank official in the court and had an reputation in front of the emperor, so not everyone could bully him.
Finally, when the old lady was so embarrassed that she apologized and expressed her willingness to compensate, she said that her wife was generous and kind and did not care about such a small amount of money. She just wanted you to know that this happened and that they should be more courteous. We are all family and should not hurt the harmony.
After saying this, he left the main house with a group of strong and sturdy old women as guards.
The old lady was so angry. What a waste of generosity and kindness.
How could they be so generous and kind to expose this matter? How could they send so many people to their house to mock and ridicule them?
That one is really not a good thing at all.
The trusted maid who was sent out came back and performed the old lady's distorted expression and reaction vividly to her own wife. Chu Yuan laughed three times on the spot and vented his anger.
Later, Linglong Pavilion learned that the dress was custom-made for the wife of Chu Yuan, a third-rank official, and urgently sent someone to apologize and presented an expensive apology gift.
But whenever he thought about his daughter's birthday approaching and the gorgeous dress she had promised him was gone, he felt angry again.
I think Linglong Pavilion is not a good thing.
Linglong Pavilion is the property of Huo Yifan, the chief minister of Daxia and the richest man who is known to everyone as being as wealthy as a country. There are Linglong Pavilions in all major prefectures, and one move can affect the entire body. The Linglong Pavilion in Wuding Prefecture is really not that easy to deal with.
Since I couldn't solve the problem of Linglong Pavilion, I decided not to give money to Linglong Pavilion anymore.
In addition to this, Chu Yuan was also worried about another thing.
The custom-made dress is gone, what should Yan Xi wear on her birthday?
Fortunately, Yan Cheng, who was unaware of his mother's plan, drew a design and asked someone to make a lavender dress for Yan Xi. After accidentally hearing about this, he asked someone to send the dress to Chu Yuan, solving her troubles.
Yan Xi wore a stunning dress on her birthday, and the little girls asked her who had made the dress.
The birthday party was over, but Yan Cheng was still furious. He had always treated his elder sister like a younger sister, so he decided to mess with the arrogant Linglong Pavilion.
In addition to selling ready-made clothes and custom-made exquisite clothes, Linglong Pavilion also sells various fabrics. Yan Cheng plans to make a precise move and open a shop of this type himself.
With his aesthetic taste, which has been refined by the tide of modern information, he didn't believe that he couldn't design clothes that were better looking than those in Linglong Pavilion.
This alone wasn't enough. Didn't Linglong Pavilion sell ordinary cloth at a fraction of the price of other shops? His shop sold even cheaper, more affordable cloth.
More efficient looms must be arranged.
Afterwards, Yan Cheng used the golden finger to search the history of looms while concentrating on researching looms suitable for today's era. Finally, he made a loom that was ten times more efficient.
After that, they recruited workers, taught, and decorated the shop. At the beginning of this year, a cloth shop named "Mingzhu Pavilion" emerged in Wuding Prefecture. Its business was similar to that of Linglong Pavilion, and it seemed like it was competing with Linglong Pavilion.
The clothes of Mingzhu Pavilion are very beautiful, not much inferior to those of Linglong Pavilion. Everyone has their own preferences. Some people like the clothes of Linglong Pavilion, while others like the clothes of Mingzhu Pavilion. There is not much difference between the two in this respect.
But in terms of selling ordinary cloth, Mingzhu Pavilion's performance far surpassed Linglong Pavilion within a few days of opening. The reason was that Mingzhu Pavilion's cloth was incredibly cheap, but the quality was no worse than Linglong Pavilion's.
People who are short of money, like to take advantage, and don't like to suffer losses like to go to Mingzhu Pavilion to buy low-priced cloth.
Mingzhu Pavilion not only has ordinary cloth at lower prices, but also high-end cloth, the quality of which is basically the same as Linglong Pavilion. It is collected from various places by the caravan formed by Yan Cheng.
Comparing the above items, people gradually prefer to go to Mingzhu Pavilion rather than Linglong Pavilion.
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