Chapter 17 (1/2)
”In this way, suppose you are a mercenary businessman whose purpose is to make money and reduce losses. So I ask you, what would you do if the manufacturing method of glass was made public? ”
The premise of the ice emperor was very clear. Without much thinking, Tang Chen replied, ”if I were a businessman, I would produce glass in large quantities.” He is also an intelligent person. He will not bring his own ideas into the deduction. He just plays a mercenary businessman.
”So, do you think there are many businessmen who are mercenary, or there are many businessmen with the world in mind?”
”Nature is the former.”
”In this way, we have come to a conclusion that after the glass manufacturing process is made public, a large number of businessmen will begin to produce glass on a large scale. Do you agree with that?” In the past year, ice emperor often played similar deduction games with the undertaker when he was bored, so the idea was very clear.
Tang Chen nodded. There's nothing to refute. People can see the huge profits here.
”Well, the problem is that so many businessmen produce glass, and the glass making process is not complicated. A large number of glass will inevitably flow into the market. What do you think will happen?”
”Since there are more people selling glass, it will naturally reduce the price because of competition, and the glass will become cheaper. Isn't this beneficial to ordinary people?” Tang Chen seized this opportunity and launched an offensive.
The ice emperor smiled in his heart. The filmmaker had already told her similar stories. He was inexplicably happy when he watched Tang Chen being lured into his trap step by step.
”Do you think the price of glass will be reduced to a level that ordinary people can afford?”
”Naturally, since I have produced a lot of glass and others have also produced a lot of glass, I can only reduce the price if I want to sell it.” Tang Chen didn't experience the economic crisis, so he didn't realize the problems.
”However, you have overlooked a problem. It takes a cost to send glass to the market from your workshop, and glass is fragile. The cost must be very high in the process of transportation. If you reduce the selling price to a level that ordinary people can afford, your transportation cost is likely to exceed the selling price.”
The ice emperor said that he didn't look at Tang Chen, but looked at the background film. I learned to apply what I learned. I'm not ready to praise my expression.
The filmmaker rubbed the ice emperor's little brain to show encouragement: ”what will you do when you face the problems that ice said?” Chengying smiled at Tang Chen and asked for the next lines of the ice emperor.
”I......” Tang Chen's sweat had already appeared on his forehead. A voice in his heart was telling him a fantastic answer, but he didn't want to believe it: ”I... I will choose to sell glass in my workshop at a low price and let the buyer pick up the goods himself to reduce the loss, or...”
”No, you won't.” The ice emperor denied: ”your current identity is a mercenary businessman, not a kind-hearted philanthropist.”
”I...” Tang Chen was stunned. The voice in his heart told him that if he was a mercenary businessman, he would do something that would collapse his world outlook, and the reason was so full!
”In order to stabilize the price of glass and keep yourself from losing money in the future, you will pick up the hammer in your hand and smash your inventory in front of everyone. You'd rather turn them into glass slag like sand and stone than sell them to ordinary people at a low price.” The ice emperor exposed the truth to the point.
Unconsciously, a drop of sweat dropped from Tang Chen's cheek and fell on the glass tea table, splashing out colorful spray. The light reflected by the sweat was like glass fragments flying under a hammer, gorgeous but evil.