Chapter 111 Free Trial
"But if you want more after using this batch of things, you have to use gold to exchange it again."
If Zhao Weiji's words were heard by another modern person, he would definitely feel very familiar and very well-known.
That's right, this is just one of the most commonly used marketing methods in later generations, that is, free trials, or free tastings, and then purchase them after they are delicious.
Although Zhao Weiji has never learned marketing, this kind of nonsense method is almost understood by anyone who has visited supermarkets and shopping malls in later generations.
At this time, Zhao Weiji took out such a vulgar trick.
Although it is a vulgar trick in later generations, it is still very fresh at this moment, and it is also very suitable for the products that Zhao Weiji wants to sell.
In later generations, many products that use free trials as promotion have one of the biggest common features, that is, they are all fast consumables. Whether it is food or cosmetics, these things are consumables that are easily consumed in a short period of time.
These things often attract customers by free trials, whether they are giving you a small drink or a small can of eye cream trials.
These things will be used up in a short time, and when they are used up, customers will pay to buy them if they feel they are delicious or useful.
Therefore, if you try the marketing strategy of free trial on these products, you can get a return on investment in a short period of time.
This principle is also tried to apply to Zhao Weiji's current strategy. After all, cotton coats and iron weapons are not fast consumables. If you try it for free, you will not be able to recover the return on investment in the short term.
Seasonings are different from wine. These things can easily be consumed in the short term and you will soon see the return on investment.
Just after Snow translated Zhao Weiji's words to the chief, the chief fell into thinking. These salt and wine were fatal attraction to her, and she was also very happy that Zhao Weiji could give her free gifts.
However, if you want new ones after use, you have to exchange them for gold. This condition made her hesitate because after all, they migrated from afar. All the gold they use now was saved up in the past. Before new gold mines were discovered, those "deposits" were boundless water, and they could use a little less.
However, the chief soon figured out that because their clan had always had a tradition of finding gold with secret methods, she was very sure that she could quickly find gold after she settled in this land.
Besides, even if you can’t find gold, you can’t finish it if you don’t buy these salt and wine in the future. You have never missed the bitter days before, but what can you do if you go back to the past?
So she agreed to Zhao Weiji's request that the new ones must be exchanged for gold.
Just like that, at the dining table, the Chief and Zhao Weiji reached an agreement.
After reaching the agreement, the meal was almost done. By the time they left the restaurant, it was already dark, so the chief and others did not dare to stay any longer. They took their fruitful harvests today and left Xinhua City.
The day after they left, the new laws were implemented in Xinhua City, but the content of the laws did not cause any resistance to the people.
Because the new law strengthens the guards of all gold mines, and all miners must wear self-defense weapons.
Although such a decree would not cause any resistance to the people, they were a little confused about why they suddenly strengthened their guards on gold mines.
However, since it has no harm to itself, no one has raised any objections. It is nothing more than that there are more guards in the mine and they need to not have a knife on their waist when they are working, so everyone obeyed.
However, on the third day after the promulgation of this decree, workers at the mine suddenly realized that there were more people around the mine who had never seen before wandering there.
This group of people they had never met were naturally the Indians who had migrated to nearby people recently. I don’t know what abilities these Indians had, but they seemed to have a talent for looking for gold mines.
Not long after they moved to this nearby, they actually found all the gold mines that were being mined in Xinhua City, and no one was left behind.
However, when they discovered these gold mines, they also found that these gold mines had been mined, and the people who mined the gold mines were the people living in that kind of god-like city.
Faced with these people, Indians had no choice. First of all, because the people who had entered the city came back and promoted those people too magically, all Indians now had a sense of awe for the Han people in Xinhua City.
Also, the gold mine seems to be on strict guards, and those who are guarding with weapons seem not so easy to deal with. Of course, there are also brave people who have tried to attack the miners who carry gold, but they were knocked to the ground by the guards before they rushed to the front of the miners.
Even if the leaky fish that the guards did not catch in time, the miner who had been alert had pulled out the short knife from his waist and cut off the Indians' simple spear with one knife.
The leaking fish was so scared that it collapsed on the ground.
The reason why Zhao Weiji asked the miners to bring their own knives was that many of these miners were soldiers who participated in peasant uprisings in the Central Plains. They all experienced wars. As long as they were given weapons, they had full self-defense ability.
These Indians who were unfortunately arrested did not lose their lives due to Zhao Weiji's order, but were all gathered and detained in Xinhua City.
Of course, not all of them were detained. Zhao Weiji picked one person out and asked Snow to tell him that he would go back and tell their chief that if he wanted to redeem people, he would come over with gold. If he didn't want to redeem people, he would also be fine. In five days, these people would automatically become slaves in Xinhua City.
At this time, Zhao Weiji did not mind restoring a certain amount of slavery in a small way, because as the people in the city became richer and richer, many dirty and tiring tasks began to gradually no one did it. Therefore, it would not be impossible if a large number of Indians could be captured as slaves to do these dirty and tiring tasks at this time.
After Snow explained these things to the man, he released him out of the city. The first time that the man left Xinhua City, he naturally ran back to his tribe to report everything to the chief.
His report made the chief angry. Not only did these people go out without getting back the gold, but they were arrested. Now they still use the gold to redeem them.
This made the chief very annoyed, but although the chief could choose not to redeem those tribe members, the salt and wine were almost consumed. If new gold could not be found, the chief believed that it would not last long just relying on his previous reserves.
At this time, the chief had no choice but to choose not to redeem people or buy new salt and wine. Everyone returned to the liberation and began to have a bitter day again.
However, if the chief had heard an old saying from China, he would not think so. It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.
When Indians were used to eating food with flavor and enjoying the wine, they would let them live a bitter life, and they would stop doing it.
After only three days of consumption of salt and wine, the chief had already noticed that the people below had a tendency to rebel, because the Indians below were not stupid. They knew that it was unlikely to rob these supplies from the people in Xinhua City, but it was still possible to kill the chief and take out the gold she had hidden in Xinhua City to exchange for these supplies.
So in the past few days, the chief felt that the tribe members looked at her a little differently.
In the end, the chief had no choice but to take out the gold and take people to Xinhua City, hoping to exchange gold for some salt and wine, and to discuss whether the prisoners would redeem them together.
After they arrived in Xinhua City for the second time, they were still warmly received by Zhao Weiji. The two sides were still having a friendly conversation, which gave the chief an illusion that Zhao Weiji was a very easy-to-talk person.
But unexpectedly, when it comes to the price of salt and wine, Zhao Weiji refused to give in. When the Indians wanted to buy the very cheap salt, the price increased tenfold.
The reason why Zhao Weiji dared to do this is entirely because this salt is a necessity for daily life, but it cannot be done. Although high prices among his own people will cause civil unrest.
But you Indians are foreigners, and your life and death are my business. I was going to quickly defraud your gold so that you can follow my plan.
Besides, I now have absolute monopoly on salt and I am not afraid of you not buying it. So I just set a high price. What should I do if you can do? I don’t believe you dare to rob it. As long as you dare to rob it, you will all be my slaves.
Although the chief did not know the price of salt in the city, she could vaguely feel that the price was a bit outrageous from the offer offered by Zhao Weiji.
But there is no way. People completely monopolize the supply of salt. If you don’t give this price, you won’t be able to buy salt and fine wine. In desperation, the chief had to take out the gold requested by Zhao Weiji and sell salt and fine wine.
After talking about this, the chief once asked Zhao Weiji if he could get cheaper and redeem all the imprisoned tribe members.
But what the chief did not expect was that Zhao Weiji actually said this: "Actually, you can take those who have become our slaves without paying, but the only condition is that they are willing to go with you. If they don't want to, I have no choice."
This sentence made the chief confused. What does it mean to be willing or not? I want to take my own tribe members away, but they dare to say they are unwilling?
However, when Zhao Weiji found all the slaves, the chief finally understood why Zhao Weiji said this.
Chapter completed!