"Boss, you're too dark, aren't you!! the cheapest is $6 a piece, how many people are willing to buy it?" Wei Sunan couldn't help but exclaim.

Wen Deji smiled kindly and said, "Hehe, of course not everyone can afford it. Because our globe brand ballpoint pen is positioned as a high-end export product, facing the foreign rich class, I am a monopoly industry, and it is normal for the price to be a little more expensive......"

"Even if it's a high-end export product, the price is too much! It's almost the same as a direct robbery!" Wei Sunan wiped his sweat, he suspected that this article was always not of Jewish blood. It's too dark, a pen costs $6, you might as well grab it.

Wen Desi had a natural expression: "Don't say that, Chief Engineer Wei." I'm mainly making money from foreigners. Anyway, the foreigners have money, and they have scraped so many reparations and resources from China, and now they should be allowed to shed some blood, don't you say? Besides, compared to the current Parker fountain pen, my price is a conscience. It didn't work as well as my ballpoint pen, and it cost $8 a piece. ”

"But, but...... Even in the United States, this price is too high...... This pen is easy to use, but can it be sold at this price?"

Wen Desi smiled: "Hehe, for the average American worker, this price must be high." Because their annual salary is only 2oo~5oo US dollars, and at this price, the average worker is usually reluctant to buy. But this is not the case with government officials, writers, teachers, lawyers, journalists, and other high-paid people, whose purchasing power is much higher than that of workers, and for whom this price is only a day's or two salaries. ”

“…… We started selling for $6 and we were selling to these people on the high-priced boutique route. Then, after a period of market acceptance, a new affordable version will be released for the working class to accept. In this way, everyone eats and rejoices. Anyway, foreigners have money, we don't make money in vain, but we do some carvings on the pen barrel, and we can increase the price to 1o times by taking the boutique route, and we don't have to be polite to them. ”

Wen Deji smiled happily.

In 19o6, the population of the United States was about 100 million, and their government officials, writers, teachers, lawyers, journalists, clerical workers, and all other wealthy classes made up about 5 percent of the population, or about five million. The average salary of this class is 6 times that of the average worker, and the annual salary is about 12oo~3ooo dollars, so they can afford to use ballpoint pens, and they will all have the motivation to buy.

After all, this is not a day or two to run out, according to the test a few days ago, a pen can write for about 6 months with normal use, so the average consumption is two per year for a total of 12 dollars. And the raw materials and manufacturing cost of a ballpoint pen are only o. $3.

If the market is counted as 50% of the wealthy population of 25o people, and assuming that one can be sold to each person, two per person per year, a total of 5oo million pieces a year. This is an annual sales of 3ooo US dollars, and after deducting raw materials, wages, transportation, store pù, advertising and other expenses, the annual net profit is about 2700000 US dollars. At this point, the ratio of the U.S. dollar to the silver dollar is 1:1. $96,27oo is converted into silver dollars, which is 52.92 million silver dollars.

Of course, at the beginning, when the market has not been rolled out, it will definitely not be able to make so much money, and it will take a while to open the market, but after the production and sales are stable, then this is the stable income of the iron fight.

And that's not all, according to Wende's plan. After a few years, when everyone is familiar with the ballpoint pen, a lite-pack and affordable version will be introduced, and the price will be reduced to $3, or even less than $2. It may seem like a small amount, but the price is very attractive. That's the price of a few packs of cigarettes in the United States, and American workers buy about four or five packs of cigarettes a month.

And how many workers are there in the United States? It should be between 15oo~2ooo now. They consume less and may only use one a year. So for them, the annual consumption is 3 US dollars, 1~2 days of salary. In this case, it is completely possible to have one per person. The profit is another 45oo~6ooo million. Of course, because the price is relatively low, the net profit will be smaller, but the victory is large.

And that's just counting the U.S. market and monochrome ballpoint pens, which at least double when you add the markets in Europe and Asia, Africa and Latin America, as well as the more expensive two-, three- and four-color ballpoint pens.

In the end, Chief Engineer Wei walked out of the conference room in a trance, and he was frightened by this astonishing number.

In fact, this price is not Wende's words, in the original time and space, the first commercial ballpoint pen was patented in 1943, when the ballpoint pen was launched in the United States in 1945, the price of each was 1o dollars, or monochrome. A batch of 10,000 ballpoint pens was sold out in a few days. In the 5o years, it was still more expensive than a fountain pen. The $6 in 19o6 was equivalent to $1o in 1945, and Mr. Wen still respected history very much.

And most importantly, the fountain pen was still very primitive at this time. In 19o5, Parker produced the "Black Giant", which was the prototype of Parker's famous "Century Series". This kind of fountain pen has an absorbent capsule for the first time, and it has the appearance of a modern fountain pen, but the performance is still very pitted, often leaking, clogging, etc., but such a pit is still sold for about 8-1o dollars.

Therefore, Mr. Wen's ballpoint pen sells for 6 US dollars, which is a conscience product, not to mention that the ballpoint pen is much more convenient and easy to use than a fountain pen, and it can be said that it is currently the best and most convenient writing instrument in the world.

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Wen Deji was about to leave when the communicator on his wrist vibrate.

He picked it up and looked at it, but it was Du Baochun, who had been sent to the northwest, who had come to request a communication.

"What's the matter?"

Du Baochun said: "Mr. Wen, the Dunhuang operation ended smoothly, and our people have taken control of the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes as the new Taoist priests, and closed all the caves. The original caretaker Wang Yuanji's master and apprentice, and the scripture copyist Yang San's family, a total of 7 people, have been brought back by us. At the same time, there are also some cultural relics that were brought back by Wang Yuanqi in advance......"

He paused, and then said with a strange expression: "...... Mr. Wen, we met a few unplanned people on the way, their means of transportation is an airship, we are now, has crashed in Dasha Mountain in the south of Dunhuang County, most of these people fell into a semi-coma, the awake person appeared to us who was evacuating, and called for help to me...... In order to prevent leaks, they were also brought back together. ”

After Du Baochun finished speaking, he came to a set of photos of the crashed airship: "...... Mr. Wen, it's this airship. ”

It is a medium-sized rigid airship, about 8o meters long. As you can see from the photos, the interior is quite luxuriously decorated, this is not an airship as a passenger transporter, but more like a yacht.

"Unplanned person?airship?" Wen Deji touched his chin, and a little curiosity rose in his heart. So he said, "Put them all on the memory reader and dig up their ......."

"Yes, Mr. Wen. ”

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Xingke Company, Special Detention Cell.

At this time, there were a few people sitting in a panic, including an old man and a young man dressed as a Taoist priest, and a few who seemed to be a family. Outside the iron gate stood several heavily armed guards.

Du Baochun said: "Mr. Wen, this is the former Dunhuang caretaker Taoist Wang Yuanqi and others, they were all sent back by spaceship after being anesthetized, and they only woke up half an hour ago......

Wen Deji nodded and walked in.

"Salute!" the guards saluted in unison.

"Are you Wang Yuanji?" Wen Desi looked at the old Taoist priest and asked casually.

Daoist Wang hurriedly stood up and saluted, and asked with a frightened face, "It's the poor Dao." Dare to ask Master Jun, what did we do?"

Wen Deji shook his head and said, "You haven't done anything, the only problem is that you have something amazing." In order to prevent these things from being stolen by foreigners, I have to grieve you to stay here for a few years. As long as I take control of the Dunhuang area, you will be free, and you can go wherever you want......"

After speaking, he said to Du Baochun: "They will be handed over to you." Give them a seat and warn them to keep the matter a secret...... Of course, they are not prisoners and can move within the Neijiang range, but they cannot leave the ......"

"Yes, Mr. Wen, I will arrange it......"

After walking out of the special detention room, Wen Deji smiled proudly: "Hehe, the regret in history has been redeemed by me again......"

In this operation, Wen Desi sent out all the small spaceships that had just been repaired, in order to protect the monuments of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.

In 19oo, when Wang Daoist and Yang San, a scribe, were working in the Mogao Grottoes, there was a grotto to preserve ancient books. After the Tibetan scripture was revealed, Daoist Wang did his best and did what he should have done. He first walked 5o miles on foot, rushed to the county seat to find Yan Ze, the commander of Dunhuang County, and presented two volumes of scriptures taken from the Tibetan scripture cave.

Daoist Wang's purpose is very clear, that is, to attract the attention of this official master. It's a pity that this magistrate surnamed Yan doesn't know how to learn, and just treats these two volumes of scriptures as two yellow pieces of waste paper. Wang Daoist had no choice but to run into a wall and return.

After that, he reported to several officials and wrote a secret letter to Lafayette of the Qing Palace. However, it didn't work out.

In 19o7, the Englishman Stein arrived in Dunhuang during the second expedition to Central Asia, and with the assistance of the translator Jiang Xiaowan, he took advantage of the ignorance and devotion of the Taoist priest Wang to deceive 24 boxes of Dunhuang suicide notes and transport them back to England. Stein's "harvest" caused an immediate shock in the West, with treasure thieves flocking in under the guise of "explorers". Later, France, Japan, Russia and some Qing court officials also participated in the robbery, and a large number of Dunhuang suicide notes were scattered all over the world, and finally not one of the ten remained.

However, now that history has changed, it is very troublesome to excavate the ruins of Dunhuang, and it is better to block the news before there is no control of the local area. Therefore, Wen Deji is just asking the cyborgs to guard the place for now, and we will talk about it later.

In the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, there were countless cultural relics that were snatched and stolen by foreign countries. The only radical cure is to unify China as much as possible and establish a strong regime.

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(Praise the pheasant mulberry, the great ballpoint pen!^o^)

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