Richest Man: Divine-Grade Reconstruct System Chapter 1231 - 1127: A Different Strategy

Unexpectedly, after the words were spoken, Lin Yi’s expression became even more surprised.

Originally, he was already quite shocked by the day’s income, but he never imagined that so many silver taels were just the deposit.

With such a large deposit collected, it’s hard to fathom how much money they could gather.

Of course, one thing he was certain of was that in the future, he would never worry about the silver taels from the court, as long as Xiao Zihan was around, money wouldn’t be an issue.

That truly saves him from considerable worries.

"Moreover, I have a plan to reduce the price of the soap."

Just as Lin Yi was in shock, Xiao Zihan suddenly spoke these words.

After saying this, Lin Yi looked at Xiao Zihan with some confusion, not understanding why he would say such a thing:

"What do you mean? Why lower the price when it’s fine as it is? Is it that the current price is too high for them to accept?"

According to Lin Yi’s thinking, since Dayou did not have soap, it’s reasonable for the soap to be sold at a higher price.

Furthermore, and more importantly, the soap could be considered a luxury good in the present day.

It’s not impossible to design it to be something akin to the future’s LV, and in doing so, they could earn a lot of silver.

However, Xiao Zihan simply chuckled and shook his head:

"It’s not that they think it’s expensive, after all, we have the only supply and others cannot produce it, so even if it’s sold more costly, there will likely be many willing to buy it."

Hearing this, Lin Yi was even more puzzled; since Xiao Zihan said this, why would he still want to lower the price?

Why indeed?

With no competitive market, why lower the price instead of raising it?

At this moment, it’s clearly a seller’s market, not a buyer’s market.

It seems, Xiao Zihan understood what Lin Yi was thinking, and he explained directly:

"Indeed, it is a seller’s market now, and whatever price we set is reasonable, but that’s not how I think."

At the very least, if the price is set too high, ordinary people won’t be able to afford it.

This would mean these goods would flow into the upper circles, becoming akin to luxury goods.

Though that might be considered a sales strategy, in my view, soap should be an everyday product affordable to anyone, as it is in the future, hence there’s no need to price it too high.

If we were to do this, it means we would be making soap just for profit, not for serving people."

In this way, Lin Yi truly agreed.

He nodded, indeed, as Xiao Zihan said, if the soap is priced so high, as a luxury, common people wouldn’t be able to use it or afford it.

Thus, the soap wouldn’t benefit the lower class.

Moreover, Xiao Zihan’s words were indeed true.

In the future, soap is something anyone can afford, considered one of the cheapest items.

However, Xiao Zihan wasn’t finished speaking. Seeing Lin Yi nod, she continued:

"Additionally, although others can’t produce this soap nor know its recipe now,

because the manufacturing process is too simple with little technical difficulty, as long as someone is determined to study it or someone inside our factory is bribed, they could easily obtain the manufacturing method.

Eventually, the production costs for soap are inexpensive.

Therefore, many will certainly set eyes on this lucrative opportunity."

After a brief pause, she continued:

"Once they enter the industry, we will lose this ’seller is king’ market.

Should they offer it at the same or lower price than us, we’d essentially be providing an advantage to others.

If large amounts of silver coins end up in the hands of tycoons, they could threaten the Dayou country.

Even if we then lower our prices, many would lose confidence in us.

Given that we have consistently sold at high prices, suddenly lowering them would make others think of us as greedy, believing we’ve previously profited immensely off them.

At that point, not only will we lose our market, but we’ll offend many people."

It must be said, Xiao Zihan’s mind is indeed sharp.

After his analysis, Lin Yi immediately nodded in agreement, indeed, as Xiao Zihan said, this matter truly has more harms than benefits.

Perhaps now there’s a significant profit to see, but surely within half a year, it will completely disappear.

It might not even take half a year for this to happen.

"However, at this moment, the price is already set. Changing it now may cause some dissatisfaction, right?"