The reason why Cuihonglou’s business is bleak is not only because of Yanyulou, but also because it itself has big problems.
The main reason is that Lu Jinshuang is not good at business. She was sent to manage Cuihonglou because she was once an oiran in Jincheng. When she first took the position of the shopkeeper of Cuihonglou, many people came to support her.
But gradually, she retreated behind the scenes and stopped showing off her talents, so the guests naturally lost interest in coming.
Since Cuihonglou lost its customer base, it naturally couldn't recruit beautiful girls. Without beautiful girls, its business would naturally get worse and worse, falling into an endless cycle.
"Could I be sent here temporarily by the Su family? I heard that Cuihonglou is in a bad situation now?" Li Qi asked.
Lu Jinshuang's eyes flashed with helplessness: "May I ask what I call my boss?"
"Just call me Li Qi."
"If we go back to Li Dong's house, the current situation of Cuihonglou is indeed not good. The girls haven't received any money for several months. In addition, the snow is now freezing, and the business is also bleak..."
Before she could finish speaking, Li Qi asked, "Does Shopkeeper Lu usually accept customers?"
Lu Jinshuang didn't expect Li Qi to be so straightforward, and she felt a little confused on her face.
"Shopkeeper Lu, I'm a straightforward person, so don't be offended." Li Qi said with a smile.
"I am now responsible for managing the accounting room, and other matters are left to Sister Bai to take care of."
"Sister Bai? Is that the one just now?"
"Exactly."
After having a general understanding of Cuihonglou, Li Qi began to think deeply.
Seeing that he was silent, Tu Boshu thought that there was nothing he could do, so he said, "Has Brother Li thought of any way to improve Cuihong Building?"
"There are quite a few ways, but it's a bit troublesome to implement."
Tu Boshu was a little surprised: "Oh? Brother Li, why don't you tell me, maybe I can help?"
Li Qi put his eyes on her and looked at her: How can you help? Is it possible that you can return to your daughter's body and come here to work?
Thinking of him cheating, his eyes lit up: "Brother Tu, do you really want to help?"
Seeing his malicious look, Tu Boshu avoided his eyes: "I can only try my best..."
"I wonder if Brother Tu has many acquaintances in Jincheng? For example, do you know any talented people? Or any celebrities?"
Tu Boshu thought for a moment and said, "I know a few of them."
"How's your relationship with them?"
"fine."
"That'll be easy!" Li Qi slapped his thigh and said.
Lu Jinshuang and Tu Boshu were both puzzled.
"Brother Li, what's your idea?" Tu Boshu asked.
Li Qi stood up and walked around: "First, we have to create a celebrity effect."
"What is celebrity effect?"
"Just call some famous and talented people in Jincheng to come to Cuihong Mansion. As long as they come, all expenses will be free of charge."
Li Qi grinned and said: "Think about it, if the news about those people coming to Cuihong Building every day was known to others, what would they think? They would be curious about what they often go to Cuihong Building..."
As he spoke, he gestured with two fingers: "When the atmosphere is almost created, then move on to the second move, still holding the pipa to half-cover your face!"
This time, before Tu Boshu could speak, Lu Jinshuang couldn't help but ask: "Why are you still holding the pipa and half covering your face?"
"It means to select a few girls with good figures from Cuihonglou, and after a series of training, make them top stars."
"Isn't this possible?" Tu Bo wrote, "Forgive me for offending, but the people in Cuihonglou are all vulgar fans..."
"Don't interrupt me when I'm talking." Li Qi said, "Didn't I say that I could just cover up the faces of those girls while holding the pipa half-hiding them? As for what they look like, let the guests imagine for themselves.
.We just need to tell our clients that they are the most beautiful women in the world."
"Isn't this tantamount to cheating? What should I do if it is exposed?" Lu Jinshuang asked.
"Who said we were deceived? As the saying goes, everyone has his or her own preferences. What we think is beautiful or not is his business. Besides, these girls are not for drinking, but for performances."
"Performance?"
"Yes, we will set up a band then and let them play, play and sing, and they will do their jobs instead of selling themselves," Li Qi said.
Tu Boshu already understood his intention, but she thought of something else: "But this is not a long-term solution. If there are no good-looking girls in Cuihong Mansion, it will still decline back to its old state."
Li Qi said confidently: "Don't worry about this. Once these two steps are completed, I still have three, four, five, six, seven or nine tricks to ensure that Cuihonglou's business will be booming."
"While these two measures are being implemented, Shopkeeper Lu can also start poaching people from the Yanyu Building. When we have a certain amount of funds, we can redeem the girls over there and bring them all to Cuihong Building. Only in this way can the situation be stabilized first.
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Li Qi lamented that people in this era are still very backward in business thinking, unlike later generations who control all details as tightly as they did in later generations.
Take the e-commerce platform of Li Qi's era as an example. User thinking and user habits were all based on water.
When users open e-commerce platforms, what categories they habitually look at, and what kind of covers stimulate their desire to buy, have long been thoroughly studied.
Coupled with the emergence of big data later, it is even more tempting to empty all the money out of your pocket.
Tu Boshu slowly recalled Li Qi's three moves and rehearsed them in his mind. It was indeed a good method.
But he couldn't figure it out. This guy looked helpless just now, why did he come up with so many weird moves all at once?
He also said there are three, four, five, six, seven, eighty-nine moves?
What are those moves?
Tu Boshu was particularly curious.
Although Lu Jinshuang is not good at business, he roughly understands what Li Qi means. No wonder the Su family sent him here...
"Shopkeeper Lu, since we are going to make a major rectification of Cuihong Building, I must first look at the account books. Otherwise, if the funds cannot keep up in the middle of the process, we will be in trouble," Li Qi said.
Lu Jinshuang came to her senses and said, "Please wait a moment, boss."
After a while, Lu Jinshuang brought the account book over, and Li Qi sat on a chair and flipped through the densely packed account books, which were as big as two.
The ancient people's accounting was really simple, just "receive" and "pay", it was almost impossible to read.
After turning a few pages, Li Qi sighed: "Tell me, how much money is left in Cuihong Building now?"
Lu Jinshuang motioned to Li Qi to give her the account book, and then she took out an exquisite little abacus from her body, and started dialing on it with her slender fingers.
While she was calculating, she muttered: "Last month we lost 412 taels, made progress 315 taels, and bought groceries 21 taels..."
Li Qi looked on and sighed, Are you going to do the calculation again from last month?