"Uh...... Actually, Zhao Gongzi, you are right, but if you are the shopkeeper of Yijia Goods, how much will you set the price of soap? ”

Just now I heard this fourth son of Zhao say that he wanted to cooperate with himself, and Yun Yi thought that he was interested in the profits here.

At this time, I heard him ask such a white question, and then I realized that this guy didn't know anything about business at all!

"I heard this shopkeeper Wan say just now that the cost of making soap for him is about 20 yuan, and the cost of coming to that Yijia goods store should be about the same."

"Since there was no soap on the market before, if I were the shopkeeper of Yijia Goods, I would have set the price of soap at about 40 yuan."

Seeing Yunyi ask, Zhao Zheng thought about it for a while, and then cautiously said his answer.

"If the Yijia Goods Store can set the price at forty Wen, why can't we?"

"You must know that the quality of the soap made with my formula is much better than those imitations of Yijia Goods!"

Yun Yi took a sip of the wine bowl, and then looked at Zhao Zheng with a shocked face with interest.

"But...... But ......"

Zhao Zheng was already stunned by Yunyi's pricing at this time, the cost of just two cents, Yunyi actually priced forty wen, this is simply a money grab!

"You mean, but our cost is only two pennies, right?"

Yun Yi put down the wine bowl and glanced at the fat man who was also shocked, and then continued:

"It's true that our production cost is only two pennies, but soap is now priceless."

"In fact, even if we sell a piece of soap for 80 yuan, those wealthy families will rush to it."

"After all, there is a lot of competition between the rich and the rich, and if we set the price of soap too low, it will attract their disdain and spurn."

"At that time, no matter how good the soap is, I'm afraid it will be difficult to attract them."

As the top rich second generation of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Zhao Zheng naturally knew that what Yun Yi said was true.

The trend of comparison between the wealthy and the wealthy prevailed, which was almost well known in the upper class of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

"You're right, but wouldn't those ordinary people not be able to afford such good things?"

Although Zhao Zheng agreed with Yun Yi's words, he was the prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty after all.

So after seeing the benefits of soap, the first thing that came to mind was how to make this good thing bless the world.

Yun Yi thought that after listening to his own story, this fourth prince of Zhao should be overjoyed.

But what he didn't expect was that this guy actually raised such a headache question.

stared at Zhao Zheng in confusion for a long time, and Yun Yi found that this son-in-law was not pretentious.

Although he didn't know why his thoughts were so strange, Yun Yi decided to explain it to him.

After all, he has offended Liu Gengnian, the county magistrate, and if he wants to do the soap business, it is safer to pull this boy into the gang.

"Actually, you don't have to worry about this problem at all, even if the price of soap is very high now, in the near future, it will quickly drop to a price that is acceptable to the common people."

"Every time a new invention is born, it will eventually promote the progress of human civilization to a greater or lesser extent."

"It's just that this process of popularization and promotion has long and short times, and it can't be achieved overnight."

"After many new gadgets are invented, the reason why they have to be supplied to those who are rich and wealthy has priority."

"In addition to the profit-seeking nature of businessmen, it is also because these things are often expensive to produce at the beginning of invention and creation."

"Since ordinary people generally can't afford to consume them, these goods have naturally become the exclusive property of the wealthy."

Zhao Zheng's question seems simple, but it involves professional knowledge from multiple disciplines.

Just the content of sociology and economics, if you want to explain it clearly in an easy-to-understand way, it has already made Yunyi feel quite a headache.

But when he saw Zhao Zheng's thirsty appearance, he hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to continue.

"Every invention and creation of new things actually bears the heavy responsibility of optimizing the distribution of social wealth."

"Let's take soap as an example, if the price of a piece of soap is 80 yuan, the only groups that can be consumed are those who are wealthy."

"For every bar of soap they buy, 80 cents come out of their pockets."

"After the money leaves the pockets of the rich, it will flow into our hands first, and this is the profit we make."

"But these profits don't stay in our hands forever, because we not only have to purchase raw materials, but also hire workers to produce and sell"

"When we buy lard, the money goes to the butchers, and then it goes from the butchers to the families who raise the livestock."

"When we hire artisans, the money goes into the hands of those artisans as wages."

"And when those artisans spend money on goods, that money goes elsewhere."

"Although this process happens imperceptibly, no matter which link, everyone can earn enough silver taels from this process to support their families."

"So we seem to be making huge profits through soap, but in fact, we are also invisibly redistributing the money in the hands of the rich."

"If we set the price of soap at three or five cents a piece, although it seems to benefit those poor people, it is actually invisibly interrupting their livelihoods."

"After all, once our profits are reduced, we will definitely start to reduce costs, and at that time, whether it is the treatment of workers or the price of raw material procurement, it will inevitably drop significantly."

"In this way, the rich people still have soap, but the money in their pockets does not go to the poor people."

Yun Yi finished speaking in one breath, and didn't care about the two people in the room who were already dumbfounded, picked up the wine bowl and tasted it carefully.

It's just that this ancient craft brew is too low, and the taste is bland and tasteless.

Regarding the social function positioning of luxury goods, not to mention the ancients, even in previous lives, in fact, few people paid attention to the meaning behind it.

Regarding Zhao Zheng's question, Wan Fatzi was dismissive at first.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, merchants were originally lowly people, and the purpose of merchants in business was to seek profits.

As for such noble feelings as blessing the world, as a lowly businessman, he will not consider it at all.

As a businessman with a good conscience, earning such a high profit all of a sudden, Wan Fatzi's heart is actually faintly uneasy.

But after he listened to Yun Yi's explanation, although he didn't understand it very clearly, the uneasiness in his heart had long been gone.

Since ancient times, robbing the rich and helping the poor will be regarded as a righteous act, which is naturally no exception in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Wan Fatzi never thought that setting the price of goods higher, he was still doing a good thing of robbing the rich and helping the poor.

At this time, he only felt that his heart was arrogant, and even he had a little more recognition of the identity of the businessman.

Although I have made a lot of money through business, I have also made many people eat with me!

"Wonderful!"

"Everyone in the world says that businessmen seek profit, but no one has ever analyzed the value of businessmen so thoroughly."

"If there were no merchants, then our Great Zhou Dynasty would be a pool of stagnant water, the poor will get poorer, the rich will get richer, and eventually the dynasty will inevitably overturn."

"Today, I have heard Brother Yun's teachings, and the younger brother is like an initiation, which is better than reading the books of sages for ten years."

"Brother Yun, please accept the worship of the younger brother!"

Zhao Zheng said, got up directly and saluted Yun Yi solemnly.

The reason why Yun Yi explained this problem to Zhao Zheng was that he just wanted to pull him into the gang at first.

Seeing him salute so solemnly at this moment, I couldn't help but be happy in my heart.

Could it be that this kid fully understands what he is saying?