"Remember, who are our customers this time? It was the local tyrants, the officials, the aristocratic families, and the ambitious people.
Why should we sell things to them? Because only they should have these things, and they deserve to have them. Because only our things can highlight their identity and value. Only then can they show their nobility, and only then can they get what they want.
Whether it's for their own use, for their dream lover, or for their boss …
Doesn't he want to have it? It doesn't matter, let his opponent have it first … "
…
For the next few days, Ren Baqian would teach the disciples of the academy in the morning, practice boxing in the afternoon, or get beaten up by Tong Lan. At night, he would teach the two shopkeepers of the caravan whose heads were made of wood.
"What's sales?" Ren Baqian sat on a stone chair in Pingle Park. The two shopkeepers, who were in their 40s or 50s, were standing obediently like primary school students.
These few days had broadened their horizons.
"Solving the needs of our customers!" the two shopkeepers immediately answered.
"How do we do sales?"
"Create demand for our customers!"
Ren Baqian nodded slightly. These two wooden heads could finally understand some logic.
"What's our product?"
"It's our identity and value. People need to increase their value through external objects …" The two shopkeepers were full of jargon. If the empress were to see them, she would be shocked.
"Okay, remember, we aren't selling products, but identity! Self-expression! Love! High positions and generous salaries! The only thing we aren't selling is products, "Ren Baqian summarized for them.
"Yes, Sir!" The two nodded in unison with a look of conviction. They really didn't know where this man in front of them learned these things from.
The two of them felt that they had benefited a lot from these few days of lessons. Now, even if they were given a pile of feces, they would sell it for the price of gold.
"You may leave. Memorize today's lessons well and set off in two days." Ren Baqian waved his hand.
"Sir, we will record everything every day when we go back and compare it with each other," the two of them said respectfully.
"Well, when you do it, you will know what self-worth is." Ren Baqian waved his hand to get the guards to send them out of the palace.
After the two of them left, he felt a little regretful that the time was too short. Otherwise, he could have tried what a pyramid scheme was.
Right now, they could only rely on what they had learned over the past few days.
Fortunately, with his products, he didn't have any competitors, so he didn't have to worry. Even if there were some twists and turns, he believed that the two of them would give him a satisfactory answer.
The goods he had prepared were 2000 goblets, 2000 vintage cups, and 1000 silver mirrors.
However, it wasn't all at once. Instead, it was divided into four trips. The first time, the quantity was the least, and the second time, the quantity gradually increased.
Of course, the price was the highest for the first time, and then it gradually decreased.
His goal was to earn more than 30 million taels of silver from Dayao and the Yun Nation for this batch of goods.
This was a huge sum of money for Dayao.
Great Xia's annual treasury revenue was 100 million taels of silver, the Yun Nation's treasury revenue was 31 million taels of silver, and the Chen Nation's treasury revenue was 22 million taels of silver. As for Dayao, which was equivalent to the combined size of the Yun Nation and the Chen Nation, its annual treasury revenue was only 7 million taels of silver.
Half of the income came from the remnant citizens of the Hao Nation in the southern region.
Out of these seven million taels of silver, three million taels of silver would be spent on military expenses every year. For an army of one hundred thousand, excluding food and some basic armaments, each soldier would only receive twelve taels of silver a year, which was equivalent to one tael of silver a month.
One had to know that the weakest soldier in Dayao was at the Man Wheel level. In other countries, the same level of strength would receive at least six to ten times the salary.
It was no wonder that the protectorates of Dayao were reduced to relying on the income from brothels to supplement their income.
As for the remaining four million taels of silver, it was used for the salaries of all the officials in Dayao, the monthly salaries of the craftsmen and odd-job workers, city repairs, and so on. There was almost no surplus.
As a result, Dayao basically didn't have any spare energy to build infrastructure. Even the official roads were only flattened with dirt.
The imperial treasury had been buying weapons to replenish the army year after year, and basically didn't have much money left. The additional 8,000 taels of silver for cultivation had shrunk the empress's treasury by a large margin in three months. At most, it could only last for another three months.
Ren Baqian's monthly cultivation expenses were about 50,000 taels of silver. In other words, other than those rare and precious items, the empress's treasury only had 300,000 taels of silver. This included the gold, silver, and jewelry that were sent by people from other countries for this year's birthday celebration.
Ren Baqian carefully calculated the accounts and felt that it wasn't easy for the empress to be an empress.
Fortunately, the empress was willing to do this and didn't feel that there was anything wrong with it.
The empress was probably the poorest among all the civilized countries on Earth and in this world, with the exception of the African brothers.
Even the empress was like this, let alone the ministers.
Ren Baqian pondered about the situation in Dayao for a while. Earning a sum of money would only solve the urgent situation. Dayao still had a long way to go.
He put aside his thoughts and decided to take it step by step.
Lying on the bed, he entered a spacious and empty space. In the entire space, there was only a towering tree in the middle. It was unknown how tall it was. The crown of the tree covered a radius of more than ten kilometers and there were countless green vines twining around the trunk.
This was the second visualization after breaking through the [Visualization of Water], the [Visualization of Wood].
Water was related to wood. Therefore, after completing the [Visualization of Water], he didn't need to visualize anything else and directly entered the [Visualization of Wood].
The five elements corresponded to the five internal organs. The [Visualization of Water] corresponded to the kidneys and the [Visualization of Wood] corresponded to the liver.
Ren Baqian's current practice was to climb up the tree trunk and vines. However, as long as he was more than three meters above the ground, the surrounding wind would blow like a storm from all directions, making it difficult for him to even breathe. His entire body had to cling to the tree trunk and vines with difficulty. While resisting the strong wind to stabilize his body, he climbed up bit by bit. When his strength was exhausted, he would be blown down and directly exit the [Visualization of Wood].
After a while, Ren Baqian was blown down from a height of five meters. When he woke up, he was already back on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning, Ren Baqian first took a medicinal bath and then went to Yangxin Palace Hall.
Today was the school's day off. Ren Baqian had brought the big week from Earth over.
Previously, when the students had a break, Ren Baqian took the opportunity to return to Earth to order some things. Today, he and the empress returned to Earth to collect them.
These included the teaching materials that the students needed. Elementary school mathematics from grade one to grade six, junior high school physics and chemistry materials, a volume of the Three Character Classic, and some experimental materials.
Originally, Ren Baqian had considered the "Rules for Disciples" and "The Analects of Confucius". However, after thinking about it, he gave up. This world was different from Earth, and the aboriginals were different from ordinary people.
The biggest difference was that the importance of martial arts in this world was much greater than that on Earth.
Mechanically applying the words of Confucius might not necessarily be good.
When Ren Baqian walked into Yangxin Palace Hall, he saw a red shadow flashing and moving in the hall. At the same time, it was as if there was a strong wind blowing in the hall. Following every movement of the empress, he could feel the strong wind blowing in the hall.
Ren Baqian took a closer look and realized that the empress was practicing a set of boxing techniques that he didn't know the name of. Every time her fists struck out, there would be a loud sound of breaking the air.
Ren Baqian quietly watched from the side. Rather than saying that he was watching the empress practice, it would be better to say that he was watching that figure.
In any case, he couldn't understand the movements of the empress. In fact, he couldn't even see them clearly.
After a while, the empress suddenly stopped moving. She slowly lowered both her hands. It was as though water vapor was spurting out from her palms and directly smashed onto the green tiles below. It was unknown what material the floor tiles of Yangxin Palace Hall were made of, but they actually didn't break.
"How much do you understand?" the empress turned and asked him.
"You are indeed worthy of being called Your Majesty. I can't even see your movements clearly. However, I will try my best to keep up with Your Majesty's footsteps. In time, I might be able to see the mystery of Your Majesty's boxing technique. "Ren Baqian immediately gave her a thumbs up.
The empress stared at him and subconsciously gritted her teeth.
Just now, she had deliberately slowed down her movements, but this bastard actually didn't see it at all.
"There is no need to wait for time. From today onwards, you will practice this boxing technique with me!" the empress snorted.
"Your Majesty, we have changed our departure today. Previously, we said that we are going to the amusement park!" Ren Baqian said with a smile.
Ever since the empress watched "Final Destination 3," she couldn't forget about the amusement park.
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