The fourth master was surprised: "What kind of pen is this, why is the handwriting so slender and hard?" ”

Guan Kunyu smiled and didn't answer, but said: "The fourth master still doesn't care about the handwriting, let's see what is written in it first." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The fourth master endured his doubts and continued to flip through, and then he didn't understand anymore, and looked at a group of "1234" like ghosts.

Although Arabic numerals have long been penetrated into China, they have not been promoted, and the fourth master has obviously never seen such a thing at all.

Guan Kunyu was helpless and could only explain. The fourth master's memory is good, Guan Kunyu only said it once and wrote it down, although he is still very unaccustomed to it, he can also watch it.

The more you look at this, the more wonderful the expression on the fourth master's face becomes.

Sometimes excited, sometimes frowning, but more often confused.

In the end, the fourth master really couldn't understand it at all, he knew all the words on it, but after combining them, it was completely incomprehensible!

"Little Tao Zhu Gong, the things in your booklet are interesting, but I am only a shallow learner, I really can't understand it, so I should ask Xiao Tao Zhu Gong to explain it."

Guan Kunyu said with a smile: "What about this booklet, I call it market research, it is something I wrote in the past two years of operating refined sugar trading!" ”

That's right, the booklet in Guan Kunyu's hand is a crude market research. From the perspective of future generations, this can only be regarded as a college student's practical project assignment at best, and it is the most elementary thing - with Guan Kunyu's half-baked level, it can only do this.

At the beginning, Guan Kunyu did such a market survey just to price his own refined sugar.

Because his refined white sugar is a unique and unique product of Daming, the pricing must be carefully considered. The higher the price, the smaller the consumer group, and the lower the price, the more people will buy. However, the relationship between price and the number of people buying is not linear, but rather curved.

When the pricing is the cost price, the number of buyers must be the largest, but the profit at this time must be zero; And the price is so high that when no one buys it, the profit is still zero, and there will be a profit point between these two prices, the price is not the highest, and the consumer group is not the largest, but it is true that Guan Kunyu's profit is the highest!

The math problems evolved from this kind of problem often appear on the high school test papers, thanks to the blessing of exam-oriented education, Guan Kunyu has a little impression of these, so he remembered to conduct a market survey to find out what the price that the people of the Ming Dynasty could accept for refined sugar, so as to find out the highest profit. Otherwise, you can make money by setting a price at will, but you will never be able to maximize profits!

Therefore, Guan Kunyu carefully selected a group of people who could speak well from the tun and conducted special training, that is, let them pull others to chat with others when selling sugar. In general, the effect is still good, if it were not for the help of these people, the Guan family's sugar workshop would definitely not be as profitable as it is now.

After explaining the truth to the fourth master, the fourth master's eyes when he looked at Guan Kunyu were completely different! It's like seeing a living immortal!

"It's incredible...... I've lived for so long, and today I realized that there is still so much knowledge in the original price! The fourth master swallowed his saliva and exclaimed, "Others call you Little Tao Zhu Gong, but I think even the real Tao Zhu Gong is nothing more than that!" ”

After a pause, the fourth master said uneasily: "Guan Gongzi, what you said just now is the unique craftsmanship of your Guan family, just say it to me...... Is it appropriate? ”

"What's wrong? Everyone knows that the top exam is the Four Books and Five Classics, but can you really memorize the Four Books and Five Classics to be the champion? What I just told the fourth master was just to tell you to read the Four Books and Five Classics, but the knowledge in it cannot be learned if no one teaches it. ”

The fourth master nodded silently: "Yes, Guan Gongzi, I can't understand this booklet even if it is placed in front of me, it is really a university question!" But...... What does this pricing have to do with guessing the identity of my owner? ”

Guan Kunyu said with a smile: "There is a lot of knowledge here, and what you can do after market research is not just about pricing!" ”

"Also guessing the identity of my master?"

"Well, that's incidental at best. I didn't want to leave my people idle after doing my research on the sugar market, so I did some other research, and luckily cotton and cotton cloth were also included. Guan Kunyu flipped the booklet to a page, pointed to the table on it and said, "Fourth master, look at this, this is not a lot of people who have counted the cotton cloth production and cotton production in Songjiang in recent years, and the data of previous years is only what those people said from memory, so it is not very accurate, but it can still explain a lot of problems after all." ”

The more the fourth master listened, the more dizzy he became, and when he saw the form, he finally couldn't help but turn his head away, people are old, and the speed of accepting new things can't keep up, and now Guan Kunyu doesn't care about the things that have been poured into him by his brain, which is obviously beyond his brain capacity!

waved his hand weakly, and the fourth master said, "Guan Gongzi, you go on, don't care about me." ”

Guan Kunyu shrugged his shoulders, he really didn't care about the fourth master at all.

"According to the situation reported by my people, in recent years, the output of cotton cloth has become larger and larger, not only has a lot of large-scale weaving workshops have been opened, but there are more and more looms in the hands of private households, which is understandable, after all, cotton cloth is too profitable! Profitable buying and selling is naturally enjoyed by everyone.

But the problem is that the production of cotton cloth has increased, but the production of local cotton has not increased much, and it is far from catching up with the increase in cotton production. Just by looking at last year's cotton prices, if they continue to grow according to the past situation, according to my calculations, the cotton cloth business will be unprofitable in four years and five years at most, and even now it can be regarded as a small profit.

What's worse is that cotton, which occupies a lot of land and is of low value, is not suitable for long-distance transportation, otherwise the price will be unacceptable. And it has to be fast, the scale has to be large, otherwise there is no way to solve the problem!

And it was at this time that a group of people suddenly jumped out, regardless of common sense, and did not hesitate to offend the vast number of small and medium-sized landlords, but also forcibly suppressed grain prices in order to buy land, and in the end the land they bought was all suitable for growing cotton. In this way, the time is right, and the means are also right, then please ask the fourth master to give me a reason not to suspect that your master is a cloth merchant! ”