The food at Chunfenglou is among the best in Yinjing. This place of pleasure is different from ordinary restaurants that only serve food and drink.
The beauty services offered by Chunfeng Tower not only satisfy the physical needs of the young masters, but also, and perhaps more importantly, their psychological needs.
Imagine you set out a meal and invite two friends and a group of beautiful young women to dinner. During the meal, you only need to casually engage in some lively conversation to win the admiring glances of the beautiful women.
Such as admiration, curiosity, open affection, secret love, respect and a whole host of other beautiful gazes.
Even though he knew it might be acting, a normal man would be incredibly excited at that moment. Who cares if it's acting or not? It's all about the feeling of that moment.
Some seasoned players, familiar with the ways of the game, have even gone so far as to have all-night heart-to-heart talks with young women. They enjoy being admired by others all night, or they transform into moral saviors to persuade people to reform, with their physical appearance completely unimportant.
Chunfeng Tower is a high-end establishment, frequented by people with considerable financial means—He Yunxiao's ideal target audience. Furthermore, the tower's inherent social nature makes it perfect for promoting things like Yaohui's new porcelain, items that are suitable for showing off.
Besides, He Yunxiao is also relying on Sister Jiang's coattails. Getting Sister Jiang to help smooth things over within Chunfeng Tower and use the pretty young ladies to promote the gold and silver vouchers and porcelain is no problem at all.
He Yunxiao hadn't seen Sister Jiang for two days and missed her a little.
Now that he owns Daqi Bank, He Yunxiao has transformed from a lazy, dissolute playboy into an entrepreneur. With a stable job, He Yunxiao feels more confident in discussing marriage with the female leads. Given Daqi Bank's current financial situation, it shouldn't be a problem for the bank to provide the ransom money when he goes to redeem Sister Jiang tomorrow.
Even disregarding what you earn in the next two days, three people gave you over 10,000 taels of silver to the bank yesterday, which is more than enough to redeem you from your bondage.
Chunfenglou is open in the evening, but it's currently afternoon, so it's not busy. Feeling embarrassed to go to Sister Jiang empty-handed, He Yunxiao went to Yaohui New Porcelain and selected two pieces of porcelain to personally enjoy the special offer of custom-made items.
After buying the porcelain, we went to the jewelry store we had just agreed to cooperate with and used the gold and silver coupons to pick out a few pieces of jewelry for Sister Jiang.
He Yunxiao stood at the entrance of the jewelry store, holding a wooden box in his arms. Inside the box was a set of newly released celadon teapots from Yaohui New Porcelain. He had bought them with gold and silver coupons for six hundred taels of silver.
He was carrying a cloth bag containing small boxes of trinkets—hairpins, earrings, necklaces, and the like—all made of pure gold and jade. They were cheap; the whole bag cost only five hundred taels of silver, bought with gold and silver coupons.
He Yunxiao held it in his left hand and carried it in his right, his arms bulging with a stack of gold and silver notes issued by the Daqi Bank, each worth fifty taels, which he intended to use to bribe the girls at Chunfeng Tower.
Once inside the carriage, He Yunxiao casually tossed his five or six hundred taels of silver into the carriage and slumped against the wall in dejection.
No one understands gold and silver certificates better than He Yunxiao.
This thing is really just paper, but using this paper, one can directly buy exquisitely crafted and valuable porcelain, as well as jewelry made of pure gold and silver.
It feels incredibly good to get something for nothing.
If Daqi Bank continues to develop in this way, first it will secure most of the merchants on the northern commercial street, and then it will begin to expand throughout Yinjing. At that point, it will only need one—no, only half of Yinjing—and He Yunxiao will even dare to ask the imperial court to buy the entire palace!
Bold to sell, bold to buy!
But that's just wishful thinking.
Despite Tingfenglou's vast wealth accumulated over the years, its financial scale far surpasses that of Daqi Bank. Yet, it still has to obediently remain subservient to Yin Jing. Any sign of overstepping its bounds will be immediately annihilated by the Daqi court.
He Yunxiao reaffirmed his original intentions and stabilized his values, which had been eroded by the gold and silver vouchers and had led him to seek something for nothing.
His direct purpose in establishing Daqi Bank was to raise money to help Sister Jiang redeem herself, and then he would use it to build up his power and suppress the female protagonists' chaotic situation.
Don't get too carried away.
Playing with financial capital in the agricultural society of Daqi, which had insufficient productivity, could easily cause the entire society to collapse if the snowball got too big.
The Great Qi Bank had only two options: sell itself to Tingfeng Tower or sell itself to the imperial court.
But that's all for later; it's too early to think about that now.
The Hou family's carriage stopped next to Chunfeng Tower. He Yunxiao, carrying large and small bags, discreetly entered the building through the back door.
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Chunfeng Tower is different from restaurants and also different from ordinary brothels.
Behind the Spring Breeze Pavilion, there was a girls' academy located on the border between the states of Qi and Yan. This academy exclusively admitted gifted but poorly-fed girls. Once inside, they not only had enough to eat and wear, but also received a high-quality education. The female teachers at the academy taught everything from music, chess, calligraphy, and painting to various unusual skills and crafts.
The only downside is that entering the academy is like selling oneself into servitude; once you enter the academy, you are a member for life.
The academy spends a lot of money to train girls, so naturally they need them to do things. Sister Jiang was sent from here to become the top courtesan at Chunfeng Tower. On her way to Yinjing, she was notified by a secret letter from the Yan Emperor and became his special envoy without even realizing it.
With the academy providing financial support to Chunfeng Tower, Jiang Wuyou is naturally not the only courtesan in the tower. In fact, she is produced in batches; every year, one or two exceptionally talented girls are selected to join the tower and be trained as courtesans.
Aside from Sister Jiang, whose value is exceptionally high, the normal lifespan of a courtesan is two to three years, with a maximum of four to five years. In the later stages of a courtesan's life, her popularity often declines sharply due to the emergence of a new courtesan. At this point, it becomes difficult for both the courtesan herself and the Spring Breeze Pavilion and the Women's Academy to maintain their positions. They cannot keep her as a courtesan because her value as a courtesan has been lost.
The most common fates of the top courtesans of Chunfeng Tower were being redeemed by powerful and wealthy men in the capital. The best outcome was finding a poor young man just entering officialdom to serve as his concubine. With good fortune, she could become his wife; with bad fortune, she could become his concubine. If she remained devoted to her husband from the moment he fell on hard times, even if she was a former courtesan, her future would be much better.
Even after the courtesans leave Chunfeng Tower to marry, it doesn't mean they are free. On the contrary, they are subject to the academy and still have to provide intelligence to the Yan Emperor.
As a result, the courtesan's marriage partner had to be approved by the Spring Breeze Pavilion. Generally, those from the imperial court were given priority, followed by local officials and minor military officers, and then merchants and martial artists from gangs. Impoverished scholars who could not become officials were absolutely forbidden from marrying her.
I'd rather be a swallow in the halls of noble families than a golden phoenix in a humble courtyard.
The reason is simple: ordinary people have no intelligence value, but royalty and nobility do.
At this moment, in Sister Jiang's room, a beautiful girl was crying. Her pretty face, coupled with her tearful appearance, made it hard not to want to hold her in your arms and take care of her.
However, Jiang Wuyou kept a straight face and showed no sympathy for the girl.
Jiang Wuyou took a sip of tea to moisten her throat and said sternly, "Put away those tricks you use to deceive men."
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