187: Chapter 187 The Wool Sweater Makes its Debut

Fan Zeng and Xiang Liang gathered to discuss the matter.

"Brother Fan..."

"What do you think about His Majesty the Head of State endorsing woolen sweaters?"

"From my understanding of this young Paramount Leader, he never does a deal that loses money."

"In other words, if he sells woolen sweaters for thirty coins each, he must be making a profit!"

Xiang Liang said with a look of concern, "Qin seems to be undergoing new changes again."

"Indeed!"

Fan Zeng also smiled bitterly. "The changes in Qin are too drastic; even this old man finds it hard to keep up."

Whether it was the overall transformation of Qin, the abolition of the corvée labor system, the drastic reduction in grain taxes, or the appearance of the Skyfire, Sky-Machine, and Sky-Palace series weapons—it was a great change unseen in a thousand years!

Even though Fan Zeng prided himself on having talent no less than Jiang Shang, who assisted King Wu of Zhou in defeating King Zhou of Shang, he felt powerless in the face of this unprecedented era of change.

Xiang Liang nodded, feeling the same way.

"Brother Xiang..."

Fan Zeng suggested, "Why don't we buy one of those woolen sweaters and see what kind of quality a thirty-coin sweater actually has?"

"Good."

Xiang Liang said, "I had the same intention."

He didn't know much about woolen sweaters, but as the head of the School of Military Strategy, he knew how much a set of military uniforms cost.

The raw materials for uniforms weren't expensive, but the manufacturing costs were extremely high. Xiang Liang didn't understand how Zhao Fusu could compress the cost of making clothes so low.

"Uncle!"

"Prime Minister Father!"

"Didn't you say that cheap goods aren't good?"

Xiang Yu walked over and said with a look of disdain, "Those woolen sweaters are sold at such a low price; they must be shoddy goods!"

Even though Xiang Liang thought the same in his heart, he still scolded, "What do you know?"

"His Majesty the Head of State dared to use his own reputation to endorse the woolen sweaters; how could he possibly sell shoddy goods?"

"Does he not want his prestige among the people anymore!"

"This!"

Xiang Yu scratched his head, thinking his uncle had a point.

But he still couldn't believe the price of those sweaters would be so low!

"Alright."

Fan Zeng said, "There's no point in us arguing like this. Why don't we go and line up now?"

"We'll buy a few sweaters then and see the quality for ourselves."

"Ah!"

Xiang Yu scratched his head again and said in confusion, "Why go line up now?"

"Don't sales start at ten o'clock tomorrow?"

Xiang Liang's gaze also turned toward his resourceful Brother Fan.

"Haha."

Fan Zeng laughed, stroking the goatee on his chin. "Too many people in Xianyang are rushing to buy the sweaters because of the Paramount Leader's endorsement."

"If we don't act early, I'm afraid we won't be able to buy any."

"Brother Fan is absolutely right!"

After hearing Fan Zeng's analysis, Xiang Liang deeply believed that Fan Zeng's view was correct.

Xiang Yu stopped speaking as well.

Xiang Liang immediately arranged for someone to go and wait outside the Mi Home Clothing Store to buy a few sweaters to check them out.

The person sent by Xiang Liang was named Long Que.

This man was from the Qi Territory and had decent martial prowess.

After following Xiang Liang, he became Xiang Liang's right-hand man.

Sending Long Que showed how much importance he attached to the woolen sweaters.

"No way!"

When Long Que arrived in front of the Mi Home Clothing Store, he was dumbfounded.

He clearly came early enough, yet there were already a dozen people lined up ahead of him.

These people were lying on the ground, and some had even set up tents, prepared to stay overnight.

Long Que also set up a tent.

Before coming, he had prepared himself to spend the night here.

Originally, he thought he would be the only one staying overnight.

What he didn't expect was that it wasn't just the dozen people in front of him accompanying him.

While he was setting up his tent, another dozen people arrived behind him.

They all set up tents as well.

Obviously, they had the same idea as Long Que and were going to stay the night.

This was fine too!

Long Que thought it was better than being here alone.

After everyone set up their tents, they began to converse.

Li Erwa said, "It's not that I really want to buy a thirty-coin sweater; I just want to support His Majesty the Head of State."

"Me too."

Yang Dali said, "In twenty-six years, it was His Majesty who let me know what it feels like to be full."

Long Que listened quietly, thinking to himself that the Paramount Leader's charm was truly immense!

He didn't want to dampen their spirits, but he still said, "Has everyone considered that since the price of these sweaters is so cheap, the quality might be very poor?"

"This!"

Long Que's question caused everyone present to frown deeply.

This was also the concern they had been harboring.

The price of thirty coins for a woolen sweater was somewhat ridiculously low.

Even if it were real, they couldn't quite believe it.

"Then let's check the quality before we buy."

"If the quality is too poor, we can choose not to buy it."

"What do you all think?"

The speaker was Wei Se.

Wei Changcheng and Madam Chen were getting on in years; they couldn't camp outside.

So the task of setting up a tent and lining up fell to Wei Se.

"Right!"

"Yes, that's right!"

Wei Se's words successfully gained the unanimous agreement of the crowd.

The October nights were quite chilly, so their families gradually brought them cotton-stuffed quilts.

The night passed without further incident.

When dawn broke, batch after batch of people gathered in front of the Mi Home Clothing Store.

They had all come early to line up and buy woolen sweaters.

By the time the sun came out, the queue had grown even longer.

By the hour of Sishi, it was a sea of people in front of the Mi Home Clothing Store.

Especially after the Mi Home Clothing Store opened its doors, those who had been waiting for a long time grew excited and kept squeezing into the store.

Seeing so many people wanting to buy sweaters, Zhao Fusu, while excited, quickly had Wang Li send a large number of public security officers to maintain order at the scene.

Even with the public security maintaining order, those desperate to buy sweaters kept squeezing into the Mi Home Clothing Store.

"Back up, back up!"

"Everyone, back up!"

"Don't push, form an orderly line!"

Drawing on his experience with nucleic acid testing, Zhao Fusu had the public security guard the entrance of the Mi Home Clothing Store, making the buyers line up and letting ten people into the store at a time.

Once those ten people successfully bought their sweaters and left, another ten would be let in.

Seeing how formal the scene had become, Long Que didn't know why, but he felt inexplicably nervous.