The chief priest asked Sanbao how she could calculate so quickly and so hard. Sanbao told him that it was because her mother taught her the addition and multiplication formulas, and also told her how to quickly divide them to successfully make tens or hundreds.
When the chief priest, the academician Jiang, and the doctor Zheng heard Sanbao's explanation, they were so shocked that they were speechless. They never thought that Li Yun was such a genius. They all wanted to kill Li Yun's head to see what was inside that could allow him to come up with such arithmetic.
If Li Yun knew what they were thinking, she would definitely say with disdain that even if she killed them ten times, they would not be able to find the reason, because it was not her idea at all, she just plagiarized others.
"Madam Li, how did you come up with this algorithm?" The chief priest couldn't help but ask.
"No comment!" Li Yun simply said four words, blocking the question of the chief priest.
"I won't ask, Madam Li, can you teach the students of the Imperial College?" Jijiu knew that Li Yun was unwilling to say, so he didn't ask. After all, this was her idea. He just hoped that Li Yun could teach the addition and multiplication formulas to the students of the Imperial College.
"It's okay to teach the formulas, but it's not me who will teach them. It's Dabao and Erbao. You have to ask them if they are willing to do so," said Li Yun.
"What about Dabao and Erbao?" the chief priest asked Li Yun.
"Yes, does the chief priest look down on them and think they are not good enough to teach?" Li Yun asked the chief priest. If the chief priest dared to say a word of "yes", she would definitely kick him out. He had already lost three treasures, and he still had the nerve to be picky.
"No, I'm just worried that they are too young and will be scared when they see the students." The chief priest explained quickly.
"Don't worry about the chief priests, they are not afraid of strangers." So this was the reason. She thought they disliked Dabao and the others.
"Dabao, Erbao, are you willing to go to the Imperial College and let the teacher teach you addition and multiplication formulas?" the chief priest asked Dabao and Erbao.
"We do!" Dabao and Erbao said in unison.
"Okay, wait until I go back and arrange the courses, and let Dabao notify Erbao." The chief priest said to Dabao and Erbao.
"Sister, we are here." Ouyang Mingxuan's voice interrupted the conversation between Dabao, Erbao and the chief priest.
"Brother, second brother, sister-in-law, sister, why did you come here just now?" Li Yun saw Ma Youcai coming in with Dingxiang and Ouyang Mingxuan coming in with Ouyang Minghui, and asked happily.
"I'm sorry I was delayed!" Ma Youcai said. When he and his wife were about to go out, his father and mother stopped him and asked him to come with them. However, his sister didn't invite his parents, so he couldn't take the initiative to bring them over, so he refused.
"It's okay, dinner will be served soon." Li Yun said.
"Your humble servant greets the prince, Lord Jiang, Lord Zheng, and the chief academician." Ma Youcai saluted Shangguan Feiyun, Secretary Jiang, Doctor Zheng, and the chief academician.
"Don't be polite here, Yun'er," said Shangguan Feiyun.
"Okay, everyone, let's go and have dinner." At this time, Manager Cui came over and told Li Yun that it was time to eat.
Li Yun took everyone to the dining hall for dinner. After everyone was seated, Zhang Daxueshi took the lead in giving Li Yun a blessing before starting to eat.
After the meal, Li Yun returned the gifts to everyone and gave each of them a string of glass bracelets, which the chief priest, Jiang Daxueshi and Zheng Dafu treasured very much.
The next day at the morning court, he brought it with him to show off, which made the emperor so angry that he was heartbroken. He then took out his anger on the Minister of Revenue and the Minister of History, asking them to complete the reward for the princess the day after tomorrow.
The innocent Minister of Revenue glared at Scholar Jiang and Doctor Zheng fiercely. "What's so great about that? Li Yun is his goddaughter. Wait until he and Li Yun are engaged, and then we'll see how you guys act so arrogantly."
Li Yun took Chen Mei to Jinxiufang to make arrangements and prepare for opening tomorrow.
On the day of Jinxiufang's opening, Li Yun asked Cui Guanshi to set off firecrackers and unveil the plaque. He then announced the Jinxiufang's discounts, which were similar to those in Qingshan County, except that the amounts had increased. The original offer of a purse for spending 100 taels was increased to 1,000 taels; the offer of a scarf for spending 1,000 taels was increased to 10,000 taels; the offer of a cloak for spending 10,000 taels was increased to 100,000 taels; the offer of a piece of silk for spending 100,000 taels was increased to 1,000,000 taels. However, the offer of a head flower for the first 50 customers who came into the store to spend remained unchanged.
When the people of the capital heard about the discount, they were all shocked and speechless. Is this a business? It's simply a robbery, okay?
While the people were considering whether to go into the store to take a look, many carriages came from both ends of the street, and many ladies and young ladies got off the carriages.
Among those who came down were Dingxiang with her bestie, Ouyang Minghui with her good friend, and even the wives of the chief priests of the Jiang and Zheng families brought people to patronize.
Li Yun asked Fang Xiaowei to come out and help greet the guests, while Chen Mei greeted the guests who came to order custom clothes in the custom-made room on the second floor.
"Sister-in-law, sister, we don't have enough manpower. Please help us greet people today." Li Yun was too busy and said to Ding Xiang and Ouyang Minghui.
"It's okay. We are glad to help my sister. Leave this to us. You can go ahead and do your work." Ding Xiang and Ouyang Minghui said.
"Okay, I won't be polite. I'll get busy." After saying that, Li Yun went up to the custom-made room on the second floor. She was afraid that Chen Mei couldn't handle it.
This time there are a total of ten sets of custom-made uniforms, each set costs 50,000 taels. These are all high-end custom-made, and both the fabrics and hand-made patterns are unique.
The people brought by Ouyang Minghui and Dingxiang were all here. Li Yun explained to them the meaning of each dress, and they chose a dress according to their temperament. Li Yun also gave them a piece of silk, which made them so happy that they kept saying good things.
After seeing them off, many ministers' families came, and Li Yun chose suitable skirts for them.
There were still four sets of custom-made uniforms. Li Yun asked Chen Mei to take care of them upstairs while she went downstairs to help.
There was a quarrel going on downstairs at the moment, and it turned out that they were arguing over a piece of silk.
"Sister-in-law, what's going on?" Li Yun came to Dingxiang and asked her.
"I was just about to send someone to fetch you. There's only one bolt of silk left, and both the Minister of Personnel's legitimate daughter and the Grand Marshal's legitimate daughter want it, and neither is willing to give it up," Ding Xiang said somewhat awkwardly. Although she was the eldest daughter-in-law of the Shangshu Mansion, her husband was a minor county magistrate, and her status was no match for the Minister of Personnel's legitimate daughter.
"All the silk is sold out?" Li Yun said to Ding Xiang in disbelief. A bolt of silk cost ten thousand taels, and there were twenty bolts in total, and they were already sold out before noon. Just how many wealthy people are there in the capital? If I had known this, I should have ordered a bolt of silk for twenty thousand taels.
"They're all sold out. You don't know, little aunt, but the ministers' daughters buy silk directly as soon as they come. It can be said that they buy it all out." Dingxiang is horrified when she thinks of that scene.
"In that case, I'll go into the warehouse and take out ten more horses. I won't sell any more after I sell them all." Li Yun originally wanted to use hunger marketing, but then he thought that there were too many rich people in Beijing, so he decided to make more money and then use hunger marketing.
"Aunt, you still have silk?" Dingxiang said in disbelief.
"Sometimes, but not much." After saying that, Li Yun went to the backyard, bought another batch of silk from Haoduoduo, and then asked someone to move ten pieces out.
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