38 Burnt Pocket
Bonus Chapter(?)
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'20 percents!? Is Zhu Xiao Wan crazy?' Although he didn't know much about business, he could still understand a little. No nobles would pay their shopkeepers with a percentage of their shop's profit as wages. His father would only pay their family's shopkeepers 10,000 gold coins per month, and that was his father, the Master of Thousand Rain Sect.
"How much is your income?"
"Because clothing shops don't have a constant rate of profit, this month, I earned 75,655.328 gold coins." Miss Sui smiled at him.
'So specific!' But 76,000 gold coins was not a small quantity. Now it was only 500,000 something, if in the future when the shop earned one million gold coins - she would have an income of 200,000! [After altering to $700 = 20 silvers]His own monthly allowance was not even 900 silver coins(only 860).
After leaving Fragrant Rose, Zhuang Yang went to the Capital's new first restaurant - Sea Atoll. Inside the restaurant, almost every table had been taken by guests; but there weren't many tables, to begin with.
"So Young Master Huan is Miss Xiao's friend," Mister Pao grinned. "Please, excuse me for a moment. Oh, would you like some food while you wait?"
"Anything is fine."
He left and ordered some people came in with food plates in their hands. "Enjoy, Young Master Huan!" And they left, too.
Mister Pao believed Zhuang Yang's words almost immediately when he said that he was here to fetch money. Hence, he was relieved that he didn't go through hell-bent on persuading him. Staring at the foods, Zhuang Yang wanted to eat them very much; the aroma made it unbearable for him not to have a taste. Placing a few into his mouth, he chewed it down to his tummy.
So good!
Mister Pao went back into the room and sat down, he handed Zhuang Yang two thin stacks of papers. "Please give this to Miss Xiao for me."
As Zhuang Yang assumed that the amount would be lower than the former place, he skimmed through the two packets. His face got even darker than when he saw Miss Sui's report.
Packet number one:
'Monthly Revenue: 7,500 silver coins
Annual Revenue: 90,000 silver coins (estimated)[1]
Correlation of Revenue(in Statistic): 0.744[2]
Employees monthly payment: 500 silver coins
Pao Min: 20%(1,400 silvers) of the remaining profit[3]
Miss Xiao: 80%(5,600 silvers) of the remaining profit[3]
...'
Fragrant Rose didn't have a stable monthly revenue, but this!
Zhuang Yang wanted to complain to his father so badly.
Packet number two were things that he did not need to know so he didn't look through it; since it said: 'Private'
Zhuang Yang continued on eating the foods, he failed to notice that Pao Min's smile was deepening and that he didn't touch a single thing on the table. After Zhuang Yang finished eating the world's best lunch, he stood up ready to leave. But...
"Young Master Huan, you can't go just like that."
"What do you mean?" Zhuang Yang turned to look at him.
Pao Min also rose up to his feet and said, "You cannot eat without paying."
Zhuang Yang froze, "This is not free?" He thought that this meal was free since he was Zhu Xiao Wan's friend... If this super tasty meal was not free, how much would it cost? He was afraid to know.
"Of course not."
"But you said..." He didn't say it was free...or anything like 'this is a treat for Miss Xiao's friend'...
"I did ask if you want foods while waiting. But, Young Master Huan, I didn't say it was free. It was you who wished to eat."
He gulped down his saliva, "How much?"
"310 silver coins."
"Why so expensive!?"
"These were some of our restaurant's best meals."
Reluctantly handing Pao Min his money, Zhuang Yang looked at the money that was left. 2 gold coins...His pocket was so nigh to being burned completely.
'Zhu Xiao Wan! Why does this Pao guy of your seem like he's purposely tricking me!?' Or was he(Zhuang Yang) just stupid? 'Why am I degrading myself!?'
When Zhuang Yang got back to Prince Shen's Manor, he slumped into bed and determined to sleep until the sun set down and moon arrived after handing the stacks of papers to Zhu Xiao Wan.
She held the packets of papers with a complicated expression. How was she supposed to read these? And these papers would get blown away if she didn't keep them in her hands.
Zhu Xiao Wan was currently sitting on the grass holding a bunch of papers. Song Hui Yao was not there because he needed to go out for some business and would not return until dusk. There were no servants walking around the grass plain, too; as they needed to make sure the grass was clean and not dirtied by footsteps. And yes, Song Hui Yao walked on these grasses with bare feet while Zhu Xiao Wan didn't need shoes.
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PLEASE READ THIS (IMPORTANT!)
I must thank SometimesITalk(WN author) for this. SometimesITalk's contribution to my money system is a lot. Thank You very much! *bow*
(There were also other WN authors on Discord pointing out the biggest flaw by saying:
"You can go build every building out of gold."
"Name(of some rich person) earns only .01% of the world's golds...Pure gold."
"Pao Min can fill the sea with gold if that revenue is 1,000,000 gold coins/year."
etc...)
I didn't think much through my money system...and it got so many flaws...(500,000 gold coins/month...I should build a gold lake instead.)
The currency will still be the same.
100 copper coins = 1 silver coin
10 silver coins = 1 gold coin
700 USD = 20 silver coins
Please don't go too deep into things of the living expenses...though commoners(in Qianyu Kingdom) should spend around 9-10 copper coins per day.
Remember, MC is currently in Penurious Region(Penurious means Poor/Poverty) and not Palatial Region(Palatial means Luxurious/Wealthy).
Please disregard Fragrant Rose's revenue in the last chapter...just see it as slightly higher than Sea Atoll's monthly revenue(excluding private clothing orders.) Fragrant Rose had only opened for a few months...Oh, medicines are expensive but disregard the time when Zhu Xiao Wan pay slightly over 1k gold coins for the medicine/herbs/plants in chapter 12, too. That's way too expensive, should be around 1-3 silver coins, unless it's a very rare treasure...This is my world...I need to do math now, too.
*sigh*
