Chapter 13: Greed
The "Catfish Effect"
As time passed, the word became more and more popular in Chang'an City.
No one doubts that Merton is lying, because the story of the catfish effect is so true, although the people of Chang'an have not even heard of sardines, but it does not hinder people's understanding of the catfish effect at all.
There is no shortage of smart people in the Han people, especially some high-ranking people, who have repeatedly used the means of the catfish effect, but they have not summarized it in such detail before. Now when I hear the catfish effect, I suddenly realize.
In the Pan's restaurant, everyone is sitting around a middle-aged man who looks like a person.
"The catfish effect abounds around us, the fisherman is the superior, the one who controls the fate of everyone, and the sardine is the subordinate of our ordinary people, each performing his own duties and silently serving the fisherman, not seeking to be motivated, but not enterprising.
"And the catfish is the talent that the superior parachuted in, with ambition, means, and aggressiveness. If the superior is not satisfied with the subordinate, or wants the subordinate to do more work, but is unwilling to pay, he will put in a catfish, which is cruel to the subordinate and peeps at its position. Let these subordinates have to work for the fisherman with all their hearts, expecting themselves not to be eaten by this catfish, and the people who are higher than this catfish are even more conscientious, lest one accidentally be replaced by this catfish. "Raise people to talk broadly, and analyze the catfish effect inwardly.
"But if you want to be a catfish, you have to be careful, although the catfish can be on the throne, it is also possible to be besieged by everyone, and you must prevent the fisherman from unloading the mill and killing the donkey, killing the catfish to calm the anger of the people." A point-to-point analysis.
"What Sun Juren said is very true, but the fisherman should also guard against the catfish, in case the catfish grows by accident, it is likely to bite the fisherman."
"Inferior .................."
Soon, everyone in the restaurant participated in the analysis of the catfish effect, and the more they analyzed, the more they felt that the knowledge in it was profound, and the more they admired Mozi.
In this way, Merton's plan to make a name for himself was successfully implemented.
"By the way, has anyone studied the secret technique of live fish in Mojia Village?" Sun Juren said suddenly.
"No, it's not much use to put the catfish in there, and the fish caught will live for half an hour longer than usual." Someone shook his head and said.
"That's it, that's it, I also experimented, and I didn't make much progress at all, at most I lived for half an hour." Another person answered.
Sun Juren's eyes lit up and said: "That's right, I can live for half an hour, which means that the method is right, the catfish effect is really effective, but you don't know the method yet, and you may succeed if you try it a few more times." ”
The shopkeeper of the restaurant saw that he was talking about the catfish effect, and he didn't dare to come up, because he often did this, and now he heard the secret recipe of live fish, so he stepped forward to refill a pot of wine for everyone, and said with a smile: "You think so, everyone thinks so, now almost all the catfish in Chang'an City have been bought, and now the price of catfish has increased fivefold, and now the fish seller is more profitable than me opening a restaurant." ”
"Yes, yes, there must be secrets in Mojia Village that have not been said, and the secret technique of live fish will definitely not be so simple." The guy from the neighboring village of Mojia Village hurriedly echoed the shopkeeper and said.
The bachelor glanced at the guy and sneered: "Needless to say, Mojia Village said before that the secret technique of live fish was born from the catfish effect, if it can be easily cracked by us, how can Mojia Village say it in public." ”
The shopkeeper of the restaurant nodded approvingly, if someone asked him about the secret of the restaurant, he would not easily tell others. Not to mention this kind of live fish secret technique.
The guy suddenly gloated and said: "I see that the live fish secret technique in Mojia Village will not be kept secret for long, and the shopkeeper on the street has already placed a reward, and whoever can crack the live fish secret technique will be rewarded with five hundred yuan." ”
The shopkeeper of the restaurant was surprised: "I didn't expect Wang Tie's rooster to pluck its feathers, and it was able to produce five hundred pieces." ”
Suddenly, the whole restaurant burst into laughter, obviously the reputation of this Wang shopkeeper for being stingy was far and wide.
Someone shouted, "Isn't that right?" Before, Shopkeeper Wang was the largest fish merchant in Chang'an City, and if he obtained the secret technique of live fish, he would make far more than five hundred yuan. ”
The shopkeeper of the restaurant said, "I'll just say it!" How could this iron rooster make a loss-making deal. ”
"If you want me to say, this time the fool Chi Zhiyong of the city gate targeted Mojia Village, and it is very likely that it was instructed by the king's shopkeeper." Someone in the restaurant lowered his voice.
The shopkeeper of the restaurant hurriedly said, "This can't be nonsense. ”
The crowd in the restaurant sneered and didn't talk about it, obviously everyone set the object of suspicion on the shopkeeper Wang, but the shopkeeper Wang was usually very strong and had a background, and everyone didn't want to offend him in vain.
Wangjia Fish Shop.
The shopkeeper looked at the ten fish basins in front of him with a pale face, and each fish basin was densely packed with a layer of dead fish.
"Why didn't it succeed, didn't Mojia Village say before that releasing a catfish can stimulate the fish to survive?" The shopkeeper roared with an iron-clad face.
The guys lowered their heads one by one, not daring to anger the crazy shopkeeper at this time.
"Maybe it's the fish! Mojia Village is talking about sardines, and we put grass carp and bighead carp. The account room behind the shopkeeper Wang spoke out to comfort.
"Yes, Zhao Shufang is right, there must be a secret in Mojia Village, but we haven't discovered it yet." Another guy hastened to excuse himself.
The shopkeeper frowned, and roared angrily: "Of course there is a secret, otherwise what would I let you do?" We sell grass carp, and it's not a sardine that we haven't heard of, and of course we have to make it a way for grass carp to survive.
"I don't believe that the secret of Mojia Village can be kept for how long, and now there is no one in Chang'an City who has accepted the bounty and cracked the secret technique of live fish." The shopkeeper Wang was furious, and turned his head to Zhao Ledger
Zhao Shufang shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Others are the same as us, although the catfish can make the fish live for half an hour longer, it still inevitably dies." ”
Shopkeeper Wang was disappointed and said: "What about Mojia Village, how long can they let the fish live." ”
Zhao Shufang said solemnly: "As far as we know, the latest time Mojia Village sold fish was in the future, assuming that Mojia Village caught the fish at the right time, then Mojia Village can let the fish survive for at least five hours." ”
"Five hours." Shopkeeper Wang's face softened slightly.
"But!" Zhao Shufang didn't let the shopkeeper Wang rejoice for too long and said: "As far as we know, after the city gate incident in Mojia Village, it is now digging a large fish pond with a fresh fish shop, preparing to sell fish for a long time, according to my calculations, Mojia Village is very likely to let the fish not die in the pond."
"How is that possible?" The king's shopkeeper exclaimed.
"Quite possibly!" Zhao nodded heavily.
The entire Wangjia fish shop fell silent all of a sudden.
"Be sure to get the secret recipe for live fish."
After a long time, the king shopkeeper said, his voice with a hint of coldness.