Sword Dao Alchemy

Lin Yun and Yun Qingqing entered the city and wandered in the streets among the bustling crowd.

Listening to people's complaints and grumblings, as well as their helpless sighs.

Looking at most of their frowning brows, you can tell how difficult their lives are.

More than 80% of the shops on both sides of the street have a common name.

"Li Xiaoxiao!"

These Li Xiaoxiao shops sell oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, rice, flour, fruits and vegetables, linen, cotton, coarse silk... and so on, covering all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation for most people.

As for the remaining shops, most of them are niche things, and the things in them are surprisingly expensive, which ordinary people cannot afford.

Therefore, from these shops, the people in the city have been divided into two extreme levels.

The niche shops are deserted, but a lady sits there for most of the day, and finally buys only one thing, but pays a high price.

The Li Xiaoxiao shops are lively, but the goods inside are cheap.

Low prices do not mean cheap and good quality.

That's what you think.

When will there be cheap and good quality?

Only when there is competition can there be cheap and good quality.

When the competitors disappear, only cheapness remains, and good quality has long disappeared.

But even so... facing those rotten fruits, rice mixed with sand and stones, and wine with water... people still want to buy them.

Lin Yun and the others stopped a middle-aged man.

"Uncle! This fruit obviously looks bad, why do you still buy it?"

"What you said... You are a full man who doesn't know the hunger of a bad man. I also want to buy good ones, but do I have money?"

"If there were no such low-priced things to buy here, I wouldn't even be able to eat rotten fruits."

The middle-aged man said unhappily, and was about to leave with his rotten fruits.

"Uncle, don't you have a job?" Lin Yun stopped him and asked again, handing over a dozen copper coins.

The middle-aged man grabbed the copper coins, and his expression eased a little.

"Alas! I used to run a shop on this street, but later I couldn't keep it going... I tried to find a job everywhere, but no one wanted me..." He sighed.

"Now... I can only make do with odd jobs to earn some money to buy these cheap things to support my family..."

"Oh! I see..." Lin Yun nodded and said to the middle-aged man: "Thank you."

"Thank me for what? I also want to thank you."

The middle-aged man was very grateful to Lin Yun and the others, not for anything else, but for a sentence that could be exchanged for more than a dozen copper coins.

Looking at the middle-aged man who hurried away, Yun Qingqing asked: "What did you understand?"

"I suddenly realized that some things are not the lower the price, the better." Lin Yun thought.

"For example, this uncle went bankrupt because of low prices..."

"Li Xiaoxiao buys goods directly from producers at the lowest price and sells them here at a small profit, which seems to benefit most people."

"In fact, for most people, it is just a small profit."

"The seemingly affordable price is exchanged for the loss of product quality."

"So, for most people...you just bought a bunch of garbage at a low price, which reduced the quality of life."

"As for the entire business process, first of all, it loses quality in exchange for low cost, and then further squeezes costs by reducing links."

"Missing one link means losing an opportunity to create social wealth. Many people lose their income, which causes the society to lose a lot of wealth value."

"People who lose their income can only be forced to buy this kind of junk..."

"In this cycle, the boss behind Li Xiaoxiao makes huge profits by harvesting the vast majority of people in a small way."

"But ordinary people are becoming poorer and poorer through this seemingly inconspicuous and quiet way of harvesting..."

"So... the micro-profit model only helps the rich."

Lin Yun said, pointing to a very niche store next to him, but the prices of the goods inside are extremely expensive.

"In a store like this, only rich people consume. Maybe he spends a fortune and sells a thousand or even ten thousand times more goods than ordinary people."

"But he doesn't feel any pain. Even if he pays millions or tens of millions, it seems huge, but how much will it be if these millions or tens of millions are distributed to each person who is harvested?"

"So... the expensive ones may not make more money, because their consumer groups are extremely limited."

"Small profits are the invisible knife that kills people."

"Of course, the premise is that you have to become bigger and stronger, and after you control most people, you will succeed."

Yun Qingqing listened, He nodded repeatedly, but asked again: "The population of Wuli City is probably billions, and the surrounding land controlled is also millions of miles."

"Such a country is not big if placed in our cultivation world, but it is definitely not small in this world. If all these industries are controlled by one hand, the funds required are probably not a small amount."

"So... how did this person get so much money in such a short time to create this monster Li Xiaoxiao?"

"Senior Sister Yun! The answer is in what we have seen and heard along the way." Lin Yun smiled.

"Heh! You already know?" Yun Qingqing asked.

"It should be almost certain. Now... we should go find Ma Qi..." Lin Yun nodded.

"How can we find him?" Yun Qingqing asked.

"Is he a person who can't afford to be early without any benefit?"

"As long as we have something for him to pay attention to, of course it will be fine." Lin Yun said with a smile.

"Ha! I see... Li Xiaoxiao's master Ma Qi is good at controlling the hearts of ordinary people, and you... can control their hearts." Yun Qingqing said with a smile.

As soon as Yun Qingqing finished speaking, she suddenly heard a loud crash.

When the two heard the sound and looked over, they saw that a man carrying goods from Li Xiaoxiao fell in front of the store. The high shelf he was carrying fell to the ground, leaving a mess.

"Liu Shun, what are you going to do? Do you want to do it?"

The shopkeeper rushed out angrily and yelled at the boy crawling on the ground, turning a blind eye to the blood seeping from the corner of the boy's mouth.

"Shopkeeper...I...I...have been working continuously for almost ten hours...actually...I really can't hold on any longer." Liu Shun begged miserably.

"Bah! You are tired...I am tired. If you feel tired...then pay for the damaged items and get out of here right away!" the shopkeeper yelled, not caring about Liu Shun's life or death.

"Ah~~~Ah, shopkeeper, don't fire me...I'll pay for any damage done to me, don't fire me...I have a whole family to support..."

Liu Shun shouted, struggled to get up, rushed over and hugged the shopkeeper's thigh.

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