Brilliant Years 1991

Chapter 37 Cao Yukun's Calculation Method
"Dad, you're looking for me? Hey, brother, why are you here?"

Song Yuhua is in a good mood today because her father just gave her a bonus of 10,000 yuan yesterday. He said that the factory made good profits last year, which was closely related to many of her opinions, so she wanted to reward her.

Although I knew that my dad was just looking for an excuse to give me money to shut me up and make it difficult for me to leave, I was still truly happy when I suddenly had such a large amount of pocket money.

When she saw her eldest brother coming over when she entered the room, she even had the mood to joke, "Have you rested enough? Are you ready to come to work?"

Song Yuhuai rolled his eyes and glared at her lovingly.

The old man on the sofa also raised his head with a smile and said, "Your brother brought something. Come, Yuhua, come and take a look! I'm sure you will be interested!"

Song Yuhua went over and sat down on the sofa. Seeing her father pushing a document over to her, she picked it up and took a look at it. She was stunned for a moment, "Going to Hongkong?" Then she remembered why her father said that she would definitely be interested!
At first, the factory was not operating well, and my father asked me to help with some ideas. My idea was that the per capita income in the country was too low, and the sour plum juice produced by the family's beverage factory would not sell well even at one yuan a bottle. It would be better to go to Hongkong to develop the market - the people there are rich, and the consumption level is high!
However... a few months later, my dad decided to stop the production of products such as sour plum juice, which had higher costs, and only kept the orange soda product, selling it for 50 cents a bottle.

It's understandable. Hongkong is such a developed place. How can our domestic products sell well if they are shipped there?

"Where is this file from?"

While she was talking, she actually didn't wait for her father and brother to answer. She flipped through the document. It was quite long, with four pages. When she turned to the end, she saw a familiar name, "Cao...Cao Yukun?"

"Ha ha……"

Song Hongxing laughed, "I didn't expect it! You didn't expect it either, did you? The prescription he gave to the beverage factory is almost exactly the same as your original suggestion! They are both to develop the Hongkong market!"

As he spoke, he stroked his hair and said, "This was sent to your brother by Xiao Liu from the finance department of the beverage factory. He said that Cao Yukun had held a special meeting and the factory is now pushing this matter with all its strength!... You can take a look at the content. It's well written and the information is solid. He should have done serious market research. His writing is quite good. Judging from his writing, he shouldn't have done so badly in the college entrance examination! - Yuhua? What's wrong with you?"

Song Yuhua took a deep breath and finally managed to suppress the anger in her heart.

He also thought of going to Hongkong to sell drinks?
Exactly the same idea as yours?
Why should he agree with me?
That little bastard...

No, I just feel angry. I just feel angry that someone like that would have the same views as me!

She really didn't want to read it, so she threw the document back on the coffee table, her face showing unhappiness that could not be suppressed. "It's an idea, but didn't you adopt it at that time? In fact, I think your initial consideration was right. There is nothing wrong with the idea of ​​selling beverages in Hong Kong, but it is not easy to sell them."

Song Hongxing nodded and sighed, "Yes! Yes! It's not easy!"

At this time, Song Yuhuai couldn't help but speak, "The key is that time is almost up! I was wondering before, and I am wondering now. The contract stipulates that he actually only has half a year! By the end of May, if he still can't come up with the money, we can directly force the repurchase! By that time, can he sell the drinks? Has he made back the money? Impossible, right? It's already good enough for him to get the goods through customs clearance!"

Hearing this, Song Hongxing laughed again, "Everything depends on human effort!"

"Maybe you can't do it, I can't do it, but he can?"

Upon hearing this, Song Yuhua couldn't help but cross her shoulders, looking unwilling to speak.

However, at this time, neither the brother nor the sister noticed the deep worry in their father's eyes - he wanted to find a prospective son-in-law, but didn't want to find someone with real ability!

However...after all, the beverage factory was built by myself and my son with my own hands. Not to mention the money invested, the emotional investment alone is really priceless. Therefore, even though I have already sold it, I still hope that it can survive and develop.

"Wait and see, wait and see!"

He smiled and said, "You guys, don't always be so critical of others. I think Yuqian gets along well with him! Yuqian even said he's very interesting! When we do things, we must not be blinded by one thing!"

Upon hearing this, Song Yuhuai agreed obediently.

But Song Yuhua was too lazy to respond. Instead, she couldn't help but pick up the document on the coffee table again and took another look at the line of words - a feasibility report on selling orange soda in Hongkong!
Mad!
How could he have such an idea?

You shouldn’t!

Give him a map. Shouldn't someone like him not be able to find where Hongkong is?

…………Sunday, February 1992, 2.

Magic City, Ahong Tea Restaurant.

The place was already bustling with people early in the morning.

It was almost completely bought up by stock speculators, and almost everyone had a copy of the new Oriental Morning Post published this morning.

Cao Yukun was among them, holding a newspaper in his hand.

Today's Oriental Morning Post has specially published a special edition on the stock subscription certificate lottery. As the first stock to be listed in the new year, Shanghai Light Industry Machinery will issue a total of 80 shares to individuals in the society. There is no problem in live broadcasting the lottery technically, but the lottery of 80 shares takes a very long time, and live broadcast is absolutely unrealistic. Therefore, this method of publishing a special edition in the newspaper was adopted to announce the lottery results to the public.

Sixteen editions in total.

The font used is very small, so that a total of 800,000 winning numbers can be included.

But it is actually very easy to find, because although stocks are bearer and unnumbered, each subscription certificate has its own number. Just list the winning ones from the beginning to the end according to the numbers.

People who get the newspaper only need to search by number to easily find the page where their subscription certificate is located, and quickly find out how many numbers they have won.

Therefore, the tea restaurant was full of heated discussions. You won 13 numbers, he won 29 numbers, and people would come in with newspapers to find seats at any time. After ordering a drink, they would spread the newspaper on the table and start looking for their own number range. Then, from time to time, a loud shout would be heard in the restaurant -

“I won 18 numbers!”

"I got 9 numbers right! Damn, the winning rate is 45%, hahahaha!"

Cao Yukun's method of calculation was somewhat different from others. He had 30,000 consecutive numbers, so he couldn't count them one by one. Instead, he needed to check how many numbers were in a row first, and then slowly count how many rows there were in total. After sitting down for more than ten minutes, he finally counted and calculated clearly.

A total of 11842 shares were won!
Therefore, when the number is large, it will indeed approach the middle value infinitely.

But it is still slightly higher than the overall winning rate of 38%.

There were 3 subscription certificates in total, and 11842 shares were won, so it should be just under 40%.

Well, the listing price is 24 yuan per share. To buy these stocks, you need to pay a total of 28 yuan!

"How is it, brother? I see you've been checking the newspaper for a long time. Did you win less? Or..." After chatting with others for a while, Xu Delu came over and patted Cao Yukun on the shoulder. "No way? How many subscription certificates do you have? It's impossible that you won't win any of them! The probability is 38%!"

He has a thousand subscription certificates in his hand. He has just checked and found that he has won 362 of them. The winning rate is slightly lower than the median value of 38%, but he is still quite satisfied. At least among the people in this Ah Hong Tea Restaurant, he has the most winning numbers. For a normal old player, having two or three hundred subscription certificates in his hand is already a great achievement. As long as the winning rate of the subscription certificates in his hand is not far off the mark, it is basically impossible for anyone to have more than him.

Cao Yukun raised his head and smiled, "I... am OK, probably just under 39.5%!"

"That's great! How many shares did you win in total?"

"Uh... it's okay, not too much, not too much, hehe..."

"Hahaha, I understand!"

He laughed and said, "It's okay, brother. Even if you win a few shares, it's a good thing. You'll still make money! There's no need to be embarrassed!" After saying that, he patted Cao Yukun on the shoulder and walked away.

But half a minute later, he suddenly came back, his eyes wide open and a look of fear. He leaned closer and lowered his voice. He said, "That's not right, brother. You...what do you mean by 'almost less than 39.5%'?"

While he was talking, he subconsciously looked at the newspaper on the table in front of Cao Yukun. The next moment, he couldn't help but hold his breath - on the upper side of that page of the newspaper, there was still the calculation process of Cao Yukun's division! He wrote 11842 divided by 30000, and the result was 0.39473...

(End of this chapter)