How to recover?

Of course, it is necessary to produce enough data to prove that Zhao Ce's theory is correct and is currently the most effective method.

As long as everyone can see irrefutable data, they will naturally have nothing to say.

Then there is nothing wrong with Zhao Ce's policy theory.

After listening to Zhu Houzhao's words, Zhao Ce felt that they did make sense.

He nodded and said, "This can be done."

"It's just that if we check it rashly like this, other stores must be unwilling to tell the real data."

After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao's excitement solidified on his face.

Too......

Without an official order from the emperor, who would be stupid enough to directly tell you how much money his shop earns in a month?

If he used his identity as the prince to come to the house to check, the authenticity of the data found would not matter.

I'm afraid his father will have to wait for him to return with the cane tomorrow.

Zhu Houzhao was also in trouble for a while.

Why did he say: "Then..."

"Then what can be done?"

Zhao Ce touched his chin and suddenly thought of the form he made for Su Cai'er earlier.

"I have a way to roughly estimate sales!"

Zhu Houzhao suddenly became energetic.

"What can I do? Please tell me!"

Zhao Ce asked Zhu Houzhao to wait, and he got up and returned to the study.

Su Cai'er had made good friends with Mrs. Yang before and said that Mrs. Yang's family would choose one of several under-performing shops to sell other goods.

But for some reason, Mrs. Yang did not use this method.

These forms just make things easier for them.

Zhao Ce quickly found these forms that were well kept by Su Cai'er.

"Address, store name, products sold, flow of people outside the store, customer flow, number of transactions..."

"...Monthly income, annual income..."

Zhao Ce searched through the tables and found one that was more suitable.

After a few casual glances, I took the form and returned to the front hall.

Zhu Houzhao looked at the form with a confused look on his face.

"This is?"

Zhao Ce explained: "This is a form I made."

"We will never get the information we want if we rush to the door to check."

"But as long as you find someone to squat outside those stores and record them for about a month and a half, you can basically estimate the approximate turnover later."

Zhu Houzhao held a white paper full of grids in his hand and said in disbelief: "Is this really possible?"

Zhao Ce nodded: "It will definitely work."

"But these grids must be filled in with the simplified numbers in my arithmetic book."

Zhu Houzhao said happily: "That's no problem."

"Now that your arithmetic book has been published, even the village chiefs have a copy."

"I will ask people to go to the bookstore to buy a few books and find a group of people to simply teach them some numbers."

The more I talked about it, the more I thought it could be done.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't wait anymore.

"In that case, I will go back and ask people to make a few more forms, and then send people to guard outside those stores."

Zhao Ce warned: "Don't go too far, and try not to make too much noise."

Zhu Houzhao patted his chest and assured: "Don't worry, I still have many people under my command."

Zhu Houzhao took the form and left happily.

There are still ten days left until the list is posted.

As long as he produces similar data in the past few days, he is basically not afraid of affecting Zhao Ce's results.

...

After Zhu Houzhao returned, he asked Liu Jin to quickly find a group of people.

Purchased another batch of Zhao Ce's arithmetic books.

After simply spending a little time and teaching these people, who could probably read, how to recognize these numbers, they distributed the tables for people to draw.

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and ordered: "Each of you go to four shops, fill in all the data, and hand it over to me!"

When the people below got these forms, they all looked at each other.

They had never seen anything like this before and didn't know what it was for.

One by one, they took the forms and read Zhu Houzhao's instructions and left.

"Hey, what is the prince doing? What is this form? We have never seen it before!"

"Who knows? His Highness has always liked to play with all these things."

"I heard that His Majesty asked me to go back to the East Palace to think about my mistakes. I'm afraid that I am bored and thinking of ways to torment those of us below, right?"

"Hey, we people are not good at reading, let alone this is a number we have never seen before."

"But this is something I have told you, so let's do it honestly."

"Not necessarily..."

Someone rolled their eyes and said softly: "The Crown Prince often lives in the East Palace, and he doesn't know much about things outside the palace."

"What's more, this monthly income and annual income are just approximate valuations."

"How about we take a look and fill in some random numbers?"

When this person said this, many people thought it made sense.

The content on this form must be filled in by themselves.

How true it is, unless Zhu Houzhao goes to the store owner in person to find out.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to tell whether they were cheating.

When these people thought about this, they suddenly came up with the idea of ​​deception.

On the second night, Zhu Houzhao received these forms.

He hurriedly opened the form and read it.

"Zhang Ji Silk and Satin Shop has a daily flow of 150 people outside the door, a passenger volume of 30, and dozens of transactions, including ten pieces of brocade and twenty pieces of silk... The daily income is about three hundred and seventy taels...

..”

"Songji Winery has a daily flow of 100 people outside the door, a passenger volume of 70, a transaction volume of 65, and a hundred jars of liquor...the daily income is about 930 taels..."

"..."

Looking at it one by one, Zhu Houzhao always felt that something was wrong.

He frowned and asked Liu Jin next to him: "Liu Banban, what do you think of these data?"

Liu Jin was called out unexpectedly and quickly replied: "Young Master, I really don't know much about this business matter."

Are you kidding me?

It wasn't him who was guarding the shop outside, so how could he know?

Zhu Houzhao frowned and said, "I always feel that something is wrong..."

Liu Jin probed: "Do you think this income is too little or too much?"

Zhu Houzhao shook his head: "I don't know either."

Liu Jin tentatively said: "Sir, if you invest in Yong Xibo's dessert shop, you will get 6,000 taels in dividends a month."

"If you add in items such as costs, your monthly income is estimated to be 20,000 taels."

"It seems that the income of these shops is comparable to that of your shop?"

Zhu Houzhao listened to what he said and looked at the form in his hand.

"This winery earns 900 taels a day and 30,000 taels a month. After deducting costs, it makes 20,000 taels..."
Chapter completed!