System, help me be an empress

Chapter 17
As soon as Xu Youxi came back, he saw Bao Youjin beckoning to him mysteriously. He didn't know when this kid took the initiative to sit near the two of them.

"Li Si, come and discuss this assignment together."

Compared with Bao Youjin's enthusiasm, Pei Yao is much more indifferent, her gaze falls on the scroll in her hand, as if no matter how noisy the outside world is, it has nothing to do with her.

Holding a pen, He Muqing carefully sketched on the paper, with curiosity in her eyes: "Li Si, did you go to see Teacher Rong just now? You seem to have a good relationship?"

"Actually, I don't know each other well, but after the elders in the family let me enter the Imperial Academy, they must personally thank Teacher Rong for giving me this opportunity." Xu Youxi drew a line between herself and Rong Yingran in a few words.

"If you just plan to talk about family affairs, I don't have the time to accompany you here." Pei Yao closed the scroll and put it on the table.

He Muqing looked at Pei Yao helplessly, and was not angry: "That's right, the eighth day is only four days away, let's discuss how to finish the homework."

"Shangyuan Festival Lantern Festival, shall we also sell lanterns?" Bao Youjin was the first to suggest.

"Where do the lanterns come from? It's too late to make them yourself, so I can only buy them from vendors in advance. How much should I buy? How much does it cost? Will we be able to sell them all in the end? Even if they are sold out, how much profit can we make?" He Muqing Sharply raised a number of questions, "We don't have previous experience for reference. If we want to do it, we need to invest a lot of time in non-governmental interviews. Of course, no matter which way we choose to make a living, we will face many problems."

"Why don't we go to street performers? This requires no cost and is pure income."

This time, even Pei Yao's cold face can be seen obviously speechless: "Then tomorrow you will hear that the streets and alleys are full of criticism. The only son of Bao Changnian, the chief minister of the cabinet, is performing in the street. Is it madness or the inner house father and son?" An unspeakable secret affair between them."

"I'm just trying to ease the atmosphere." Bao Youjin smiled awkwardly, "But this year's Guozijian's assessment questions are really meaningless. In previous years, practical courses were either to uphold justice for the people or to coordinate cases. It's too tacky to hang on the hook."

"The prosperity of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit. Why don't you say that the "Historical Records" that records this is too vulgar." Pei Yao said the most vicious words with the coldest face, and it sounded like It's actually quite interesting.

"Reliable news, this assignment was first proposed by Teacher Rong himself." He Muqing added without hesitation.

"..."

Pei Yao looked at He Muqing faintly, seeing that she was already planning how to hold the other party's funeral.

Xu Youxi didn't take the initiative to intervene, she even felt that watching the three people in front of them fight each other was much more interesting than completing the homework.

"Okay, let's think about how to make money." He Muqing hurriedly smoothed things over.

Pei Yao picked up the scroll again: "There is a famous saying in the business book, people have what I don't have, people have what I have, and people have what I'm inferior. Of these three sentences, the one in the middle that we have the best chance of doing is the middle sentence, people have I am excellent."

"Can you be more specific?" He Muqing became interested.

"Suppose everyone is selling lanterns, we will also sell them, but our lanterns must be different. There are only those kinds of lanterns in Beijing. We can buy some basic lanterns without special decorations, decorate them with poems, or let customers write their own inscriptions. Sell ​​it to be different." Pei Yao finished slowly, "Similarly, this method can be applied to masks, folding fans and other items."

"Then what if other people follow our example? The lantern festival lasts for ten days, and it is difficult for us to be different every day." He Muqing has always been able to grasp the core issues.

"Then word of mouth." Pei Yao affirmed.

"I think it's feasible." After He Muqing thought about it, "Li Si, do you have any other ideas?"

Xu Youxi was called out suddenly, completely unaware that these people were calling him, until he was stared at by several people for a long time, and then he realized: "...I have been thinking just now, if the coursework is just to hope that we To make money, the level of the Guozijian is really not good."

"How should I say this?"

"I think the core of this class is not to make money, but to let students experience how difficult it is for ordinary people to make a living. I don't know if you noticed just now, but Teacher Rong said that in principle, in addition to paying taxes, we also need to deal with all the problems that ordinary people may have. Encountered emergencies. The problem lies in the words 'pay taxes' and 'emergencies'."

"Li Si, don't you think things are too complicated, don't we just set up a stall to sell goods? What emergencies will happen?" Bao Youjin asked strangely.

"The purpose of the Imperial College to educate students is to 'help the world and cross the people', but what the teachers are giving us now is to make us stand on the opposite side of ordinary people in the market and compete with them for business. In other words, it is to condone the students to steal a lot of money. The way ordinary people make a living!"

Xu Youxi paused, and continued: "If each of us earns less, then this assessment is just a small episode on the Shangyuan Festival. But if someone is a top bird and successfully amasses a lot of money during the Shangyuan Festival , what will stink among the people is not only the reputation of oneself and the family, but even the scolding of the Guozijian will be bloody."

"really."

Now, even Pei Yao nodded.

"I can think of this. I don't believe that those great Confucians in the Imperial College couldn't think of it. In order to protect the interests of ordinary merchants during the Shangyuan Festival, I think they will definitely attack ordinary students." As soon as Xu Youxi said these words, the other three looked at her. There was a faint change in her eyes, and she didn't know when she became the backbone of the three of them.

"Then how will it be black handed?"

"The obvious means: increase taxes. There are taxes to be paid for large-scale construction projects in the palace, taxes for the construction of official roads and bridges, and taxes for royal conscripts to raise soldiers and horses." Xu Youxi has encountered such things in Jiangnan.

"There are more things that can be done in private. Find someone in official uniform to come over and question, saying that someone has reported that your things come from unknown sources. It is not a big problem to arrest you in the yamen for two or three days; or in the house of a high-ranking official If your relative is drunk, it depends on your displeasure and smashes your stall. You go to the yamen to ask for an explanation, but the yamen will ask you to grit your teeth and admit the loss on the grounds that the Lantern Festival is off and suspending the case. Of course, there are other ways. For example, go to bribe officials to accept it in advance, as long as you can do such a thing as a disciple of the Imperial College."

Xu Youxi sighed: "You may think that this is just a difficult class, but for the common people, this is their most ordinary life."

"Then what should we do next? If we can't get ahead, should we just follow the golden mean?"

"Do you still want to win?"

Several people hesitated.

To be honest, they want to win, but they really don't want to compete with the people for business.

"I have a plan, and I can win 'Breeze in Sleeves'."

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