As it was getting dark, Robert left the apartment in a bit of a dazed.

He didn't know how he got out of the house or how he got home safely, as if everything was done by muscle memory.

As for his brain, he has been thinking about a question along the way.

This woman ...... Where did it come from?

Specifically, who is this woman named Grace?

She was far more terrifying and difficult than Robert had expected...... It even made him desperate for a while......

As we all know, for a businessman, the key to whether he can make a profit, or whether the profit he makes is "violent", lies in the use of information asymmetry.

There are two parts to this.

The first part can be understood as a grasp of the rules, systems, regulations, etc.

This part comes from the accumulation of experience and knowledge, that is, the laws, regulations, contracts, etc., dense words and the twists and turns of the interest relationship between these words, ordinary people, or businessmen who are not proficient in learning and art, will be dizzy, unable to grasp the main body, and sign a contract in a daze, or think that they have benefited a lot, in fact, the big head is given to the opponent, these are common things.

is different from the villains who take advantage of loopholes and covet small gains, they are people who completely understand the rules and take advantage of them.

People always have a natural inertia to "use their brains", and they take advantage of it and enjoy it.

So smart people, or people who are more diligent in using their brains than them, can make money, and for the former it is a business practice, and as for businessmen and businessmen, it is a business game.

The second part is the asymmetry of market perception.

For example, a person has to buy vegetables and cook every day, buy fruits, buy clothes regularly, etc., he knows how much he spends each time, and knows whether the price is "reasonable", but not everyone really knows the changes in the price of vegetables, fruits, and clothing, as well as their costs.

It is true that he can know this from the person who sells it, and he can even act as a seller himself, but in the end he can only know the price of his own purchase. At the most basic level, the social labor cost corresponding to the commodity is in the hands of the businessman.

There are a large number of actuaries who have worked with numbers all their lives, and they are specifically responsible for doing this - regulating prices, manipulating markets, calculating returns layer by layer, setting prices, fees and tax rates, weaving a huge web out of numbers, involving production, transportation, retail, and so on, and making them deeply involved in it - not that insiders simply don't know about it.

This is also their floor - they can inflate the cost of 1 gold coin to 5, with a price tag of 10, and finally give in to 7 coins, making others mistakenly think that they only made 2 gold, but in fact it is three times as much.

This is also his confidence, he is familiar with the industry, familiar with these numbers, he can make up his own "bottom line", and put his heart to heart with the other party - just a young man, where does he know so much?

But it was all messed up by the woman who suddenly appeared......

The other party is like just coming out of the data room of Kane's Horn, and deduces their psychological price range from some clues......

What's even more terrifying is that she didn't even bargain, but spoke completely ostentatiously, without even mentioning half of the request...... It's like showing off!

Yes, that's right, it's just for showmanship!

It is not difficult to see from the doting eyes of the man next to her that these are two people, that is, she is just showing off something to her husband or fiancé......

She almost said in front of herself:

"Look, these fools thought it was a secret and carefully hid it in their bosoms, but I knew it all! Am I amazing! ”

Robert didn't even know if the other party was talking to herself, because she hadn't looked at herself from beginning to end......

But that aura overwhelmed him.

He can only bite the bullet to eat......

What a terrible woman!

It's not a good thing to be known by your opponent, which means that both sides are playing open. But for a ready bidder, this is the end of the game.

He has always been a person who is accustomed to operating in the dark, and he cannot afford to fight this kind of battle that must be lost, and he does not want to fight.

He had to go back and remake the plan, or say...... Calm down.

……

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In the apartment here, Gawain also admired Grace so much.

Having worked in the Cape of Kane for many years, he knew the twists and turns of it — but only clearly.

He didn't expect that the young lady in front of him was like those bald actuaries, progressing layer by layer, calculating Robert's psychological price, which reminded him of what Mu Yan said a few days ago, which seemed to be an oriental proverb, called "a soldier who surrenders without a fight".

Yes, that's the truth.

and the other party's lightweight appearance, which reminded him of the fat chef in the previous team...... The guy claimed to know the age of the pig and the time of pickling by smelling the ham......

This kind of experience often comes from a long period of accumulation, but the young lady in front of her looks less than 20 years old, how did she do it......

Grace herself didn't think much of Gawain's heart, after all, the opponent was too low-grade in her opinion.

As the eldest lady of the Jones Chamber of Commerce and the future heir, she has received an education that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve since she was a child.

In the early days, there was only one chamber of commerce in the plains of Muma, and that was the gold-encrusted rose.

The name comes from the ancient Rose family, whose crest is a golden rose.

The women of the Rose family have been in business for generations, and during the city-state, they owned a castle that symbolized freedom and wealth, and was dubbed the "Golden Rose".

Whenever someone covets this golden rose, there will be a steady stream of mercenaries who come to defend the city under the influence of money, so this free city has always been impregnable.

Until Leorick's sword penant fluttered outside the city.

There are countless stories to describe that battle, but in any case, the process can be condensed into one sentence: Sword Saint Lancelot loves each other.

No one can stop such a coercive existence, even if countless mercenaries are gathered outside the city, they can only watch Lancelot come in the wind, but they dance, chop melons and vegetables, and after several heavy sums of money to invite masters, he lightly pointed his long sword on the shoulder of the city lord Lady Rose, picked off her veil and left a sentence of "I don't shoot at women", and then flew away.

Such a romantic and aesthetic process can become a poetry-like existence without any polishing, and it has been passed down to this day.

As for whether Lady Rose was trapped by love and finally opened the city gates...... This is unknown.

But in short, King Leorik's sword was planted in the city of freedom, and he entrusted these women with the task of tending to the scarred plains of the horses after the war, bringing a steady stream of gold coins to the treasury, and the gold-encrusted roses were born.

Later, when Jialan was separated, part of the people in the gold-inlaid rose magic laboratory were taken away by the mage, and the horn of Kane was born, and Turing's Jones Chamber of Commerce was not a "branch", but half of the Rose family.

Grateful for Queen Vigna's early care, and disgusted with Leoric's barbarism and desire to conquer, they left Morningstar with the Turing Swordsmen, abandoned their old surnames, joined the Jones family, and established the Jones Chamber of Commerce.

In other words, in Miss Grace's eyes, Kane's Horn is nothing at all, and if it weren't for the support of the Silver Candle Society and Jialan's national policy, they would not have any competitiveness in front of the Jones Chamber of Commerce and the Gold-encrusted Rose.

The reason why Grace thinks this way is not to look at people with old eyes, but to draw conclusions from observation and analysis over a long period of time.

In the education she received, "learning from history and learning from others" is a very important part, among which the history of the Horn of Kane is used as a typical negative teaching material.

Before Jialan's independence, the magic laboratory with gold roses attracted a large number of scholars interested in this field, who were not pure enough to join the Silver Candle Society, but because of this, they were better able to meet the market and make valuable products. When Jialan became independent, this group of people also left Morningstar.

So at the beginning of the establishment of Jialan, this group of people became the backbone of Kane's Horn. At that time, the relationship between Kane's Horn and this part of the group of scholars and small workshop owners was very close, and the two sides were more like friends than employment, in the first difficult years, one side provided high-quality products, and the other side assisted in production, promotion and sales in line with the principle of fairness and justice, and soon made a name for itself in Jialan, and even took root and grew tenaciously under the encroachment of the other two behemoths.

But over time, this harmonious relationship slowly deteriorated.

A chamber of commerce, in addition to people who make content and products, also needs talents who host, operate, and communicate with various links and departments. The weak Horn of Kane did not have this group of people in the first place, whether it was a small workshop owner or a scholar of the Silver Candle Society, they only knew how to research and make products, and were not very good at how to make a big deal.

But in that era that had just experienced the baptism of war and was full of opportunities, there was a flow of talents. As the market size of Jialan gradually expanded, people continued to take the initiative to join, not to mention that after Kane's Horn received the help of the Council of Six, it brandished gold coins that were nowhere to use to recruit troops and horses, and immediately recruited a group of elites who were proficient in this way.

But in fact, the so-called elite happened to be the people who were abandoned by the gold-encrusted roses and the Jones firm.

The reason why they are abandoned is not only ability, but also moral factors.

They lack a lower limit and humanity, which makes them only focus on short-term interests and do not think long-term.

The result is predictable that such a group of short-sighted, arrogant but skilled shavers joined Kane's Horn, along with a group of mild-mannered scholars and small workshop owners.

The development trajectory of the Silver Candle Society has been described before, and as for those small workshop owners, they gradually can't stand the oppression and exploitation from above, but they can't leave it. Because they relied too much on Kane's Horn in the early days, they did not leave a way out like those shrewd peers, and could only endure it all in silence, and in the end some of them were assimilated, and some of them were overwhelmed, and they changed careers and died one after another.

To this day, this part of the population has completely disappeared, and no one even remembers the light and heat they contributed at the beginning of development.

Of course, the people of Horn of Kane don't care.

After all, they are now generous, with their backs against Jialan, they can straighten their backs even in the face of opponents who did not dare to look directly at them in the past, and have completely mastered the Silver Candle Society, not to mention those small workshop owners?

After all these years, the same kind of people still control Kane's Horn, and their philosophy of oppressing and exploiting academics has never changed. Despicable tactics such as deception and threats are still regarded as classics.

No matter what the era, the essence of a businessman is not deception, but integrity. Whether it is the gold-encrusted roses or the Jones Chamber of Commerce, the games used by each other have always been impotence, not indiscriminate means, and until they learned this, Kane's Horn will always be a disabled person on crutches.