After Empress Changsun's birthday, Li Kuan's glass mirror became completely famous among the ladies.

Although it was difficult for those noble ladies to visit Li Kuan in person, after all, there was no mistress in the Chu Palace.

But this did not prevent them from going to Li Kuan to ask for a mirror.

"Your Majesty, in the past few days, I have met with several distinguished butlers, and several butlers have invited me to have a drink. They all talked about wanting a glass mirror. You see...

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Laifu has been living a life of ice and fire these past few days.

For a long time, as the steward of the Chu Palace, Laifu's status in the circle of noble stewards was not very good because Li Kuan was always acting like a monster outside.

At first, he was very happy when the prince and the butler of the Duke's family visited him, and even asked him to go out for a drink.

However, there are more and more dinner parties, and I am overwhelmed.

I still don’t know exactly what happened to the glass mirror I mentioned.

It's so stressful.

I had no choice but to come to Li Kuan for help.

"That's right. It seems that this wave of advertising is quite effective."

"Advertisement?" Laifu looked confused, "What advertisement?"

"It's nothing. The porcelain workshop should be able to make some mirrors recently. You go and prepare a batch of exquisite sandalwood boxes and send them to the workshop when the time comes."

Li Kuan presented a glass mirror to Empress Changsun on her birthday. There were so many noble women at that time, and it can be said that most of the top buying groups in Chang'an City were there.

At this time, if the Chu Palace wants to promote mirrors, it doesn't need to expend any effort at all, it can just sell them at a high price.

Of course, with the epoch-making clarity of glass mirrors, even without such an "advertisement", an outbreak would be a matter of time.

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Chang'an City West Market.

A shop with a very special decoration style opened quietly.

"Shopkeeper, you said it's really strange about that shop. It's been under renovation for the past few days, and now it's suddenly open for business."

"Yes, they even named it Zhenbao Pavilion, but in fact I haven't seen any goods coming into their store in the past few days. What will they sell when they open?"

Opposite the Zhenbao Pavilion is a famous shop in the West Market, which specializes in selling rouge and other girls' products. The name of the shop is the powder shop, and the business is very good.

Suddenly a new shop opened across from my house, and their shopkeeper's first reaction was to confirm whether they also sold rouge, makeup powder, etc.

If there is one more competitor, your business may be worse, and you cannot tolerate the shopkeeper not paying attention to it.

However, judging from the situation, it was obviously a false alarm.

"Looking in from the door, it seems that there is nothing on the shelves. Shopkeeper, how about I go in and take a look?"

"Forget it, what if we are traveling together and we don't look down when we look up, people will think we have something in mind, that's not good!"

The shopkeeper was sure that Zhenbao Pavilion would not have any impact on his shop, so he pretended to be aloof.

In the Zhenbao Pavilion, Qing'er rarely left the Prince of Chu's Mansion alone.

"Xiang'er, this shop is very important to the prince. You have to follow Uncle Shou and learn from it this time. If the prince wants to reuse you next time, you won't be able to do it."

Qing'er is Li Kuan's personal maid, but for a king of Chu, it is impossible to have only one maid by his side.

Apart from Qing'er, Xiang'er and Xing'er are the closest ones. The other maids are really just maids. Li Kuan may not even be able to call them by their names, and the staff changes from time to time.

Only Qing'er and the three of them stayed with Li Kuan for a long time, and Xiang'er and Xing'er would even replace Qing'er for a while from time to time.

"Sister Qing'er, don't worry. The prince has specifically asked me to train these maids in Zhenbao Pavilion. I often do similar work in the prince's palace."

Xiang'er hugged Qing'er's arm and said coquettishly.

There is not a single customer in the Zhenbao Pavilion. Except for Lai Shou, the big shopkeeper, all the others are women.

That’s right!

Although Zhenbao Pavilion is not a female-only business, all the waiters are female.

This is also due to two considerations. One is that most of the customers of Zhenbao Pavilion are women, and the other is that even if there are male customers, it will not delay the business.

Fortunately, in the Tang Dynasty, the status of women was relatively high. If it had been in the Ming and Qing Dynasties...

"The Treasure Pavilion opens today. Chang'an City doesn't know yet that you can buy mirrors here, but soon the nobles in Chang'an City will know about such a place. Then you must not lose the face of the palace."

Qing'er was talking to Xiang'er while inspecting the Treasure Pavilion.

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The next day, the entrance to Zhenbao Pavilion was still deserted.

"Shopkeeper, I noticed yesterday that not a single thing in Zhenbao Pavilion was sold. Seeing that the shop occupies a very large area, the owner must have spent a lot of money on it. The business is so deserted now. I don't know.

What do they think?"

The clerk at the powder shop was gossiping with his shopkeeper about the Treasure Pavilion early in the morning.

"I made inquiries yesterday and heard that the shopkeeper of Zhenbao Pavilion is called Lai Shou, and he is the younger brother of the Chu Palace's housekeeper. I think this shop is the property of the Chu Palace."

"The property of the Prince of Chu's Palace?" The waiter was stunned for a moment, "If it's the property of the Prince of Chu's Palace, this would make sense."

"Yes, the King of Chu has always been a prodigal, and his reputation is very bad. A newly opened shop of this size is empty, and he doesn't know what to sell. It's only the King of Chu who can do such a thing."

"I heard that the Chu Palace made a lot of money from briquettes. It seems that it will be ruined sooner or later."

While the shopkeeper of the powder shop was talking to the waiter, a carriage stopped at the entrance of Zhenbao Pavilion, and two people got out of it.

"Madam, this is the Treasure Pavilion!"

A maid helped the lady out of the carriage.

"Why is it so deserted? You must have gone to the wrong place. As far as I know, many people want to buy mirrors."

"Madam, yesterday Uncle Cheng boasted that he was the first person from Prince Chu's Mansion to come to the housekeeper to know that mirrors can be purchased in Zhenbao Pavilion. From the looks of it, he may be telling the truth."

"If it's true or false, just go in and take a look!"

The noble lady was obviously not an indecisive person, so she stepped directly into the Treasure Pavilion.

"welcome!"

As soon as I entered the door, I was startled by a neat welcome.

Two rows of eight women in uniforms bowed and said "Welcome". This was something that a lady had never encountered before.

"Madam, how can I help you?"

This lady was the first customer of Zhenbao Pavilion, and Xiang'er went up to greet her personally.

"I heard you can buy mirrors here?"
Chapter completed!