"Net, net profit margin?" Feiyan blinked at the word she had never heard before.
"Well, take a look at this." Gu Chen said and handed over a piece of paper.
Feiyan took the page and saw a long list of ingredients for refining medicine written on the paper, and the price of each ingredient was written in yellow text——
It is worth mentioning that there was no invention similar to Arabic numerals in the Chenghuang Kingdoms, so prices were recorded with words like "One Thousand Two Hundred Thirty Four", and words were also used in actual calculations.
As a result, arithmetic, which was already difficult to master, became even more troublesome. Those who could use arithmetic to count proficiently were in the category of accounting clerks of trading companies.
Moreover, the handwriting used to write materials and prices on the paper are not the same.
Feiyan guessed that the directory of materials with glyphs scattered like a child's drawings was probably the work of his shop owner. And the amount of money at the back, which was slightly scrawled but at least legible, was undoubtedly the handiwork of a little white ape.
Feiyan knew that Gu Chen came from a foreign country, and she took it for granted that he couldn't write in yellow. But what caught her attention were some other strange symbols behind the amount of money. The symbols were either straight or curved, but they were
Feiyan has never seen it before.
In addition to the list of materials, there are similar symbols on other manuscript papers. These symbols are arranged and combined on the manuscript paper to form a series of formulas that seem to be related to each other but are mysterious and difficult to understand. Feiyan looked at the manuscript paper with a suspicious look, secretly
I wonder if this is Master Fang’s secret method?
It is said that powerful masters have their own unique secret methods for analyzing all things, and those secret methods are all the master's secrets. Could it be that he saw something that he shouldn't have seen? Feiyan looked at his house with fear.
The owner of the shop, but Gu Chen, who was being looked at, smiled slightly and gave him a watchful smile.
"Do you understand?"
"...I can't understand." Feiyan shook her head honestly.
"I use Arabic numerals for counting. It's no wonder if you don't recognize it, but the actual principle is actually simple. For example, the reward for each bottle of dust-cleansing water is six silver coins. As long as the material fee is calculated, after deducting it, it will be the net profit
'...Well, that means you can probably know how much money you earn from each bottle of dust-cleansing water."
"Calculate the cost of materials?"
"Each bottle of dust-cleansing water!?"
Feiyan and Xiaoyi couldn't help looking at each other after hearing this.
The earth's common sense is not common sense, so it is not their fault for having such a reaction.
For the Chenghuang Kingdoms where even the four arithmetic calculations are far from popular, it is a common practice to record income and expenditure in monthly or weekly units. For example, this time the order of Fang Zaosi, usually the refining medicine that receives the order
The shop has to wait until the elixir is refined and the money and goods are delivered before calculating the profit and loss in order to have a rough idea of how much money this "consignment" will make.
As for someone like Gu Chen, who relied on his epoch-making computing power to manage costs accurately down to every "bucket" of cleansing water, this is an unheard-of precedent in the Chenghuang Kingdoms. He already knew the outcome of the transaction from the very beginning.
It was like playing cards with a blindfolded opponent. If the shopkeeper Hu Ji were present, he would be so frightened that he would fall down.
Even though Feiyan Xiaoyi was not a businessman, he was still shocked by Gu Chen's understatement of saying such an unbelievable thing. Xiaoyi couldn't help but ask.
"Brother Gu Chen, is such a thing really possible?"
"Of course. It's not difficult, right? You see, to refine a pot of dust-cleansing water, you need two longevity fruits, five taels of astragalus, two taels of angelica root, and three taels of pork root... First, calculate the unit price of each ingredient according to the market price, and then add
It adds up to the total material cost of a pot of dust-cleaning water.”
"A pot of dust-cleansing water can be divided into twelve bamboo tubes. Divide the material cost by twelve to get the material cost of each tube of dust-cleansing water. Deduct the material cost from Liu Yintong's reward, and the remaining amount is the cost of each tube of dust-cleansing water.
If you want to know the total profit of two hundred bottles of dust-removing water, you only need to multiply by the quantity to get the result."
As Gu Chen spoke, he took a bone pen and wrote out the calculation formula on the manuscript paper. Mental arithmetic with three or four digits was not a problem for Gu Chen, but it once again put the two viewers into a state of confusion.
"Awesome, I can't understand it at all."
“Although I can’t understand it, I still think it’s amazing.”
If it were replaced by the earth, similar questions would probably be considered elementary school application questions. However, in the eyes of the female swordsman and others, it was a magical operation that far exceeded the description in words. Xiao Yi cast a look of fierce admiration towards Gu Chen,
Feiyan reconfirmed his two previous judgments——
One thing is that the owner of our shop is indeed a very powerful person.
The second point is that the reason why such a person is bullied by Bai Minghua is that he is too kind.
In order to protect her overly good boss from the oppression of the evil female business owner, the female swordsman longed to obtain a blade called "arithmetic". However, the more embarrassing fact is that the unparalleled blade in the world is not somewhere else, but...
Snow is hidden in someone's arms.
It's obvious that as long as he shows his true ability, he can defeat Ri Shengchang or something like that, but he still likes to hide his ability, which is really annoying. Feiyan glared at her boss, her eyes unknowingly melting into the necessity.
The above strength.
"...Uh, let me show you this."
Probably aware of the female swordsman's gaze, Gu Chen scratched his head in confusion and pushed the two pages of manuscript paper over. On those two pages of manuscript paper, besides the mysterious symbols called "Arabic numerals", there were also numbers written in yellow script.
, so Feiyan Xiaoyi could understand it, but showed an expression of confusion.
"The one on the left is the profit from purchasing materials from the pioneers, and the one on the right is the profit from collecting the materials yourself. Do you think the difference is quite big?" Gu Chen pointed to the column above and explained to the two of them.
"From the hands of the pioneers?" Feiyan blinked in confusion.
"Some materials cannot be bought in the market." Gu Chen shrugged.
This time we received an order for refining Zhengqi Water and Cleansing Water. Let’s leave aside Zhengqi Water, but Cleansing Water can be regarded as a middle-grade elixir. The few materials required for refining it are all in places that only pioneers can set foot on.
It can be found in Dangerous Outer Lands, so its price is also extremely expensive. I saw that the numbers on the two manuscript papers were even different by more than half, and even Gu Chen, who calculated the results, was shocked.
"It's really unexpected that the cost is so high..."
"Huh? Doesn't that mean that all our money has been stolen by the pioneers!?"
The little white ape who reacted first yelled, and the female swordsman next to him also showed an angry look - although Feiyan could theoretically be considered an ally of the pioneers, at this moment, the overwhelming majority was
I want to be able to smash the gold ingot on that short winter melon’s face.
"Gu Chen, isn't there any way to increase profits? Otherwise, how long will Gewufang continue to watch Ri Shengchang's face?" the female swordsman said angrily.
"Well, I'm actually thinking about this too." Gu Chen tapped the manuscript paper with his fingers and glanced at the material price list. "Although it's impossible to collect them all by yourself, at least if you can collect longevity fruits yourself, the profit should be
Much better. Just..."
Gu Chen glanced at the little white ape, then landed on the female swordsman, and carefully confirmed.
"Feiyan, do you think that with the strength of our team, we can go to the land of longevity fruit?"