Chapter Ninety-Six: Making Fashion
The concept of popular products does not seem to exist in the wild continent, and Zhou Yu believes that this method is feasible mainly due to the analysis of human nature. Whether it is ancient times, slave societies, feudal societies or civilized societies, people have needs. This Maslow's hierarchy of needs is very clear, especially for the ruling class and the celebrities of the upper class.
The nobles and priests wanted to be superior to others, relying on blood, status, and interpersonal relationships, but people relied on clothes, horses, and saddles, and it was not possible to match them without some hardware. Take Xerxes, for example, although he lived a long life as a slave, once he regained his freedom, he could not stand every day when he combed his hair with flies flew up. Isn't the reason why Cleopatra is Cleopatra because of a famous brand, a one-in-a-million gemstone and a secret subcutaneous gold wire implant?
People have no self, laughing at poverty and not prostitution, is the theme they are used to. The common people don't have time to compare, they are all running around for a living; The nobles, priests, and lords of the city had a lot of money, and they compared them with valuables.
"Bolada, you're the protagonist of this plan!" Zhou Yu patted him on the shoulder meaningfully. Although this kid has broken a leg, it is his housekeeping ability to play tricks and make money, and whether he can sell it depends on the generation of "medicine king" Bolada.
Zhou Yu first asked Borada to take people to pick the necessary herbs and make a large number of psychedelic drugs, which are mixed with more than a dozen medicinal herbs and synthesized in three days. As a chronic medicine, it has the advantage of making people feel clear and energetic for the first few times they take it, just like drinking Red Bull; After taking it many times, I gradually became stupid and incoherent, which is similar to the symptoms of late rabies.
The Governor had a few pigs caught and eaten in pig food. Sure enough, the effect was obvious. In the later stage, those pigs basically didn't eat or drink, and sat in the pen stupidly, and Lazar didn't even know it.
"But how can people be willing to take this medicine? You know, you're dealing with five lords. Is the castle said that you can enter it? Are you the thatched house in your house? Nika spoke openly, why did the word thatched house sound so uncomfortable coming out of the woman's mouth? It's still easy for the old men to say it.
"Lover's tears!" The Metropolitan Governor said a word. So, under his leadership, a large number of lover's tears collection began. There is no doubt that this thing is delicious, but the main thing is that the production is small and the concealment is strong. According to Kezin, having lived in Ilek for fifty years, he has never heard of this plant and drink.
Well, everything is ready, only the east wind is owed. The five squads built by the Metropolitan Governor are ready to go, and success or failure is immediate. Himself, Borada, Kazik, Masha and Bambur each brought a few henchmen. Each team had a carriage, which was full of lover's grass and headed for the five cities. This grass has no effect of producing lover's tears when plucked, but the purpose is not to let them continue to "cry", but to serve as an instruction manual.
"I mean, how sure are you?" Nika, who was sitting in the carriage, asked him if there was the city of Puran not far ahead. Lehar should have been waiting there to cut off the head of his murderer.
"To be honest, not a single point."
"You!" Nika turned her head angrily and stopped looking at him, what annoyed her was that every time she talked to him, this guy was secretive and didn't tell the truth.
"Come on, buy it! Buy it! The best spices. Make tea and cook vegetables, bathe and wipe your body, strengthen your body, and cure all diseases! "In the city of Puran, an ugly man who didn't want to look at him stood in the carriage and shouted loudly. He entered the city early and found the most eye-catching place in the market to set up a stall.
"What kind of spice are you?" A couple of girls approached and asked.
"Lover's grass. Produced in the hinterland of the grassland, just this car, is there more. There is no such shop in this village! The boss and sister-in-law ran away, and the Jiangnan Leather Factory closed down! The Governor still shouted.
"Lover's Grass, have you heard of it?"
"No, what about you?"
"Neither do I."
"I say, big brother peddler, is this thing really as divine as you say?"
"If you don't have any evidence, you will know if you try it. Hey, I'll give you a bouquet to sniff! The Governor pulled out a tuft of lover's grass from the car, and this thing was two at once, and the male and female hugged each other, and they could not be separated unless they were torn off.
The girls took turns putting them under their noses and sniffing them. Sure enough, a refreshing aroma rushed to the nasal cavity, and it was very pleasant to smell.
"Chew and try?" The Grand Governor lifted his chin again.
Several people dismantled the lover's grass into small pieces, and each person put a leaf in their mouths, and the mouth was like eating a piece of honey, which was sweet.
"Well, it's delicious!"
"Yes, it tastes great!"
"Boss, how do you sell this lover grass?" Zhou Yu was suddenly upgraded from a big brother to a boss.
"This lover's grass is not easy to come by, do you know how much danger I have experienced in picking this? That guy was a chaser in front of him and then intercepted... ”
"Okay, okay, don't brag about it. Just tell me how to sell it, right? ”
"A pair of gold sand, refusing to make a counteroffer. Love to buy or not to buy! The belly-bellied eyelids drooped, squatting on the carriage and whistling.
"It's really expensive."
"But it's a good thing."
"Hey, there's something better!"
"Oh, what's it to take out?"
"That's not going to work, it's too precious. If it breaks, you can't afford to pay for it. ”
"Cut! Don't put up the Ecstasy Array, do you have it yet! ”
Zhou Yu seemed to be enraged, and he took out a delicate water bladder from the car. This bladder is only one-tenth the size of a normal bladder. Holding it with both hands and putting it on your chest, for fear of falling off or spilling.
"What's that, mysterious?"
"That's it, boss, you can really pretend to be a ghost."
"This is the essence of Lover's Grass, called Lover's Tears. It is a kind of wine, which can get rid of all diseases and rejuvenate after drinking. ”
"Oh, who believes! Don't talk about it! ”
"That is, what about rejuvenation? Then I won't retract back into my mother's womb after drinking it? ”
"Hahahaha!"
Some people don't believe it, but naturally some people believe it. Especially with that cart of lover's grass as an instruction manual, in less than half a day, the whole city of Pulan knew that there was a spice seller set up a stall in the market, and the spices sold were never seen before. Especially this kid also sells a kind of wine, which is so expensive that it flies, and he actually asks for a bottle of 100 grains of gold sand.
How can ordinary people afford such expensive consumption, so most ordinary people don't believe the rumors spread by falsehood, so they squeezed for an hour to get to Zhou Yu, and bought one or two lover's grass after asking the price. As for the wine, it didn't even sell a bottle for most of the day.
"Didn't you miss it? Why don't you try to lower the price? Nika, who was dressed as a man, didn't want to hit him, so she made a compromise proposal.
"Don't come down, we're here to work, not to make money." Zhou Yu whispered in her ear and continued to sell grass hard. That cart of lover's grass has already come out, and there are some bad ones left.
Suddenly, there was a noise in the distance, and dust flew up. Zhou Yu took a few mouthfuls of sand and wiped his eyes before he saw a vote of knights coming, all of whom were fully armed and looked at him fiercely.
"Who are you to dare to shout here?" The sergeant who took the lead pinched the leather whip in his hand and pointed at Zhou Yu and asked.
"Well, the small, the little one is a peddler."
"Trafficker, where are you in Puran City? A peddler is here to make a big splash, what a boldness! ”
Zhou Yu jumped down from the carriage and handed over a silk book with the seal of the Su Wei family, he had expected that as long as it was a profitable business, the black and white would arrive immediately, faster than the special car.
"Oh? It was actually the family coat of arms of Lord Electric. Who are you from the Lord of Suvay? The leading military Cao's tone softened slightly.
"The younger one is the distant cousin of a concubine of Master Su Wei, who happened to find some fairy grass on the grassland. So I asked the lord for a coat of arms, planning to earn some money to go home to build a house and marry a daughter-in-law! ”
"Hahaha!" Jun Cao laughed loudly, it turned out that he was also a rat who survived by blowing the wind on the pillow.
"My lord, there are some fairy grasses here, why don't you take them back and wipe them off for your sister-in-law?" Zhou Yu said, took some lover's grass from the car, rolled it in linen and handed it over. Jun Cao didn't think about it, and took it into his arms. He looked meaningfully at the few cavalrymen beside him.
"Oh, it's all, it's all there, a few adults." After saying that, Zhou Yu hurriedly glanced at Nika, and Nizi reluctantly packed a few more copies and handed them over. After a burst of hip-hop, the horses rode away.
"You're a really, sometimes you look upright, sometimes you're flattering and mean. Is it okay to be like this? There is no distinction between right and wrong? Nika muttered as she slammed her lover's grass hard.
"This is not called not distinguishing between right and wrong, it is precisely because you have to be very clear that you will choose a strategy to deal with it. Life is like a spring, you can't bend it when you should bend it, and you can't bend it when you should be straight. Learn to bow your head, learn to show weakness to the enemy, and you will take a lot less dead ends. He knew that Nika didn't necessarily understand that. This is all a lesson in exchange for blood and tears.
As the Governor had expected, near evening, some well-dressed and well-decorated women came to inquire about it. It was not Lover's Grass that was asked, but Lover's Tears mixed with drugs.
After some bargaining, Zhou Yu sold his first small bag of drink for 80 grains of gold sand. One after another, some domestic servants came to buy. But as soon as more than a dozen bags were sold, Zhou Yu shouted to close the stall, which made Nika very puzzled.
"It's gone, it's gone, it's going to be bought tomorrow early. It's still here! Zhou Yu said to the people in line behind him with a broken gong.
"What, this is out of stock?"
"It's too little, isn't it?"
"Isn't it possible that you kid is ready to raise the price when he sees a strange commodity to live in?"
In a burst of questioning and criticism, the Metropolitan Governor drooped his old eyelids, tied the frame with a black face, pushed away the crowd of blockers, and drove away without looking back. Leaving behind a large number of housekeepers, housekeepers, and slaves who jumped and cursed.
For three days in a row, Zhou Yu sold more than 100 small bags of lover's tears in batches, harvesting nearly 10,000 grains of gold sand. Nika also asked him the night before why he was shipping in batches. This kid said something that you don't understand, and fell asleep on all fours. What this person thinks is that you have to leave some time and space for popular production, and whether the steamed buns sell well depends entirely on how well your noodles are fermented.
The other four groups of men and horses also went well, and at first the five cities were calm, except for some regular military movements. But ten days later, the changes gradually appeared, and it should be the onset of the drug's effect.
Because, the Metropolitan Governor obviously felt that the law and order had deteriorated, the streets and alleys had changed from orderly to chaotic, and groups of beggars and hooligans who appeared out of nowhere were causing trouble all day long, and there was no city defense army to deal with it.
"Let's go, get out of the city." Zhou Yu tightened his scarf and drove out of the city with Nika and two slave soldiers, and there were two thousand people in ambush outside the city. Just wait for the big fish to take the bait and take the city of Puran in one fell swoop.
In the palace of Pulan City, a group of housekeepers and maids and old mothers are hurrying. In the past few days, I don't know why, the city lord of Lehar and a few nobles didn't eat or drink, they shook their heads and gathered together, and they were stunned in a circle. It is rumored that the city defense chief soldier is even more outrageous, and he actually walked to his own well at night and drowned. In this way, there is neither a successor nor a management to appoint and control the overall situation, can Puran City not be chaotic?
The soldiers are not stupid, the chief soldier and several commanders are in a state of confusion, who will command the daily work, who will give work orders, and more importantly, who will pay the military salary? So there was the scene that Zhou Yu saw, what bubbles are there under us if the leader doesn't go to work? The emperor is not in a hurry, and there is no need for eunuchs to be in a hurry. For a time, the entire city-state was in a mess and anxious from the maintenance of public security and stability to economic order, from the implementation of orders to the circulation of documents.
Zhou Yu folded a silk handkerchief printed with irises and put it on his chest. With a wave of his hand, two thousand elite horsemen roared out and galloped towards the city of Puran.
"Who's down there?" The few soldiers who defended the city yawned so hard that they couldn't hold their knives steadily. Only these guards who are still a little dedicated are sticking to their posts, and no one comes to change shifts, and I don't know how many days I can last.
"Princess Philena was shocked to hear that there was a change in Pulan City, and sent a special officer to investigate." Zhou Yu held up the silk handkerchief in his hand, the iris was the princess's unique coat of arms, which Nika specially asked for when she sent the princess out of the Bone Eclipse Forest according to Zhou Yu's instructions.
As soon as I heard that it was the envoy, how could the guards dare to slack off. A handsome, well-mannered teenager quickly climbed down from the city defense. Although he is four or five meters tall, this kid is as nimble as a loach, and he lands smoothly with a single rope, and he is an expert at the end.
"Sure enough, it's a royal coat of arms, so please come in, your Excellency." After the boy checked that the coat of arms was not fake, he respectfully took the reins of the horse and led Zhou Yu into the inner city.
"What's the name of the little brother?" Zhou Yu asked condescendingly. At this time, the envoy was wearing a helmet and a sackcloth, and the city defense boy could not tell whether he was happy or angry.
"The younger one's name is Zhan Suo, and he is the chief of the city guard."
"This huge Pulan City, is it only you who is the chief to take over?" The envoy on the head spoke with a slight displeasure.
"The envoy is Mingjian, I don't know why the city lord in Pulan City and the commander of the thousand commanders, one by one, as if they have fallen into the demon law, do not eat or sleep, and do not recognize their six relatives, let alone lead troops to fight. The small one held on to the city defense for three days and three nights, and no one came to ask. ”
"Oh? So, you're still a meritorious person? ”
"Don't dare!" Hearing what the envoy said, Zhan Suo hurriedly knelt on one knee with a look of grievance. What the hell is going on? Those who stick to their posts and carry all the work on their shoulders are scolded and take risks here, and those who go home and sleep with their heads covered and in the dark are ignored.
"Get up, and lead the way to the royal city." Zhou Yu pointed forward and went first.