Chapter 32 Preparation
Two days later, Zhou Chongwen came back, looking quite excited. When he saw Su Luo, he said that he had already made arrangements. Master Zhong said that it was just a matter of words, and he could even ask the Magistrate of Qi to exempt Su Luo from the tax for opening a shop.
Su Luo was naturally happy, and looked at Zhou Si cautiously, "You don't object?" Although the tax exemption can be done if you have connections, a patriotic young man like Zhou Si obviously disdains to do it.
Zhou Si continued to be excited and said, "I promised Master Zhong to donate 500 taels of silver to the official school in the city so as to expand the scale of teaching and allow more children from poor families to afford to attend the official school."
Su Luo patted Zhou Chongwen's shoulder expressionlessly, "The private school teacher will hate you."
As the name suggests, official schools are schools run by the court, and are divided into central official schools and local official schools. Compared with private schools, official schools offer more subjects and the teachers are all officials of the current dynasty, which is of great benefit to the future development of official career. Of course, there are also disadvantages such as high tuition fees and students' love of random comparisons. But in general, for those students who have studied hard for ten years to seek fame, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
The joy on Zhou Si's face slowly faded, "Don't you think this is a good thing?"
“It’s a good thing.”
"I think you don't seem very happy."
"I'm glad you've learned to read people's expressions." Su Luo sighed depressedly, then went back to his room to recalculate the investment.
People say that if you have a million dollars, you can only do business worth 500,000 dollars. That's because doing business requires not only initial investment, but also later operations. If you want to make money, you have to be prepared to lose money first. Su Luo had already made this plan, but she didn't expect that before she took action, her capital would be reduced by one-sixth. Moreover, she had to keep some funds to invest in another historical business opportunity that she knew about.
During dinner that night, there was an unfriendly atmosphere of confrontation between Su Luo and Zhou Chongwen. Su was so anxious that she kept winking at Su Luo. Seeing her mother's anxious look, Su Luo went back to the room and got out some papers. It was the equity contract that she asked Su Yi to write for her. The contract stated that in future transactions, Su Luo would invest 800 taels, Zhou Chongwen would invest 600 taels, and Yun Lang would invest 400 taels. They were not allowed to withdraw their investment midway, and they had to accept the losses and gains as fate would have them. If there was any profit, they would share the dividends according to this ratio.
Yun Lang had a vague idea of numbers. The only thing he was dissatisfied with about the contract was that he was the third in command, not the first. After complaining for a while, he drew a circle around the signature. Su Luo spat out a mouthful of tea, "Can't you read?"
Yun Lang said disdainfully, "You are the one who can't read. Your whole family can't read!" This is a pictogram, a cloud, so unique.
Zhou Chongwen's brows were knitted together, and he pointed to the amount of his investment and said, "I don't have that much money now, but I won't break my promise to donate the money."
Su Luo said unwillingly, "I didn't ask you to go back on your word. I'll take half of the money you donated. I can't let you be the only one to be a good person."
Zhou Si was overjoyed, the gloomy expression on his face disappeared, and he said to Su Luo, "I was right about you. You are really a kind-hearted girl."
Su Luo's mouth was filled with sourness after hearing these words, but saying that my girl had been kind-hearted since she was a child. Su Luo held back from telling her mother that people usually praise the beauty of the soul because they can't find any external advantages.
Zhou Si stood up again and said, "I will immediately inform Master Zhong to increase the donation to 750 taels."
Before he vomited blood, Su Luo stopped him and said that we should also leave some opportunities for other philanthropists. Zhou Si thought about it, nodded in agreement, and then solemnly signed his name on the contract. After he signed, Su Luo said triumphantly: "In fact, the silver is yours. Even if you donate it all, I have no right to object."
Zhou Chongwen smiled warmly, "You didn't have to give me the money, but you did."
Su Luo thought about it, that's true, after all it's a question of care, people getting along with each other is not a clear and obvious thing. So the two shook hands and made peace, Yun Lang was very disdainful of this tone of renewing friendship, and announced loudly that I will go to the most popular brothel in Zhuxian Town, Taohuayuan, tonight, and asked Su Luo to prepare enough money for him, he was ready to devote himself to the investigation.
Su Luo slapped the place with a shovel, and the world became quiet.
In the following days, as Yunlang's investigation continued to deepen, Su Luo roughly figured out the ratio of spiritual enjoyment to physical enjoyment of brothel consumers. The probability of spiritual enjoyment was actually five percentage points higher than she expected. This made Su Luo more confident about her future. As soon as the investigation report was printed, she immediately arranged for poor students to conduct research in the streets and alleys.
Zhou Si and Yun Lang found it difficult to understand Su Luo's behavior. He would chase people around and ask if they liked listening to music, if they liked singing, and which songs they could sing. Those with good tempers would stop and answer perfunctorily, but those with bad tempers would get annoyed by the questions and would just punch them. As a result, there were students coming back with black eyes every day to claim reimbursement for medical expenses, and the research costs soared.
However, Su Luo has basically thrown aside the ridiculous law of invincibility in time travel. He has no psychological burden and firmly believes that nothing is impossible. He will face difficulties when encountering them, and will go ahead even if there are no difficulties!
Half a month passed like this, and 5,000 research reports mixed with blood and tears were handed back to Su Luo one after another. Su Luo made a comprehensive statistics. The 5,000 people surveyed covered all kinds of industries in Zhuxian Town. Among them, 45% said that they liked singing and would consider patronizing if there was such a place. 20% said they would wait and see. If it was a trend or someone invited them, they would be willing to go. Another 20% said that if there was a lady to accompany them, they would consider it. The last 15% was the proportion of people who scrapped the report and did not consider . There was also an unemployed private school teacher named Jia Shangbin who wrote a thousand-word letter to accuse Su Luo of ignoring Confucian education and setting up a place of entertainment. The words and expressions were very touching.
In any case, Su Luo was satisfied with this survey ratio. She selected the ten songs with the highest public recognition from the song columns filled out by different age groups, found the grandparents and grandchildren who sang for money last time, and asked them to help contact individual investors in the singing industry. Su Luo paid for them to sing for free every day on the main streets and restaurants with high pedestrian flow. She was determined to make these ten songs into popular golden songs that everyone in Zhuxian Town would sing.
