Lin Xiao transmigrates to the Zhenguan era of the Tang Dynasty with the Monthly Mystery Box System.
He opens a bizarre pop-up shop on Chang’an’s busiest street. The shop sells only one modern product each month, then closes right on schedule at month’s end. The following month, it reopens under a new sign with a different product!
In the first month, the new shop sells windproof lighters.
Cheng Yaojin is so excited to get one of the first that he accidentally sets his trademark bushy beard on fire.
In the second month, the shop changes its sign and starts selling glass mirrors and high-end perfume.
Empress Zhangsun leads the shopping frenzy, while the Tang Dynasty’s most powerful noblewomen get into a brawl outside the shop for a chance at VIP status.
In the third month, the shop unveils modern down jackets and self-heating hot pots.
A Turkic envoy offers a fortune to buy out the entire stock, but the Tang nobles gang up on him, throw a sack over his head, and beat him out of Chang’an.
As modern ice cream, high-powered flashlights, and anti-inflammatory medicine appear one after another, the Five Great Clans and Seven Noble Houses, who once dominated the markets, are hit so hard they teeter on the brink of bankruptcy.
Watching Li Shimin sneak out in disguise every day and lead the crowds outside the shop in clamoring for new products, Lin Xiao can only spread his hands in exasperation.
“Your Majesty, wasn’t the deal that we’d sell just one product a month? Why have you brought even the imperial treasury’s gold to wait in line?”
Li Shimin, red-eyed with impatience, snaps, “Enough talk! I’ll pledge Princess Changle to you. Next month, the Tang imperial family is buying the entire stock!”
Well, almost
What is this written about?
The writing was more or less too strenuous, and none of the nobles had an above-average IQ. 😂
It lowered Cheng Yaojin's IQ, making him look like a rogue in the market [awkward laugh]
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It is widely criticized that the merchants of the Tang Dynasty dared to confront the nobles