The billiards hall at four o'clock in the afternoon had been occupied by a group of teenagers aged 15 or 16.

These teenagers are all students of the Ashes City Magic Academy. The school has finished school early. After school, they came to the billiards hall in droves.

Looking at the young faces fighting fiercely at the billiards table, Phil couldn't help but think of the teenagers on the earth who skipped class and played billiards.

In that era without the Internet, middle school students who didn’t want to go to school skipped classes from school, and their destinations were just two, one was the arcade game hall, and the other was the roadside pool table. It was not until the number of Internet cafes that gradually replaced arcades and billiards.

There are no arcades in this magical world, and there are no Internet cafes, billiards will inevitably become the biggest entertainment event in young people's spare time.

At the counter, Old Harry held half a box of copper coins in his hand and muttered to himself: "I have earned a lot of copper coins, when will I see silver coins?"

"You will soon see a lot of silver coins." Phil replied with a smile.

Old Harry was a little pessimistic. He said, "Young Master, although there are customers, there are only ten copper coins in an hour. This is too few! If we sell a set of pool tables, we can earn dozens of silver coins. I think the business in this pool hall is not easy to do, so it is better for us to go back and sell pool tables."

"What's the hurry? Our business has just begun. I don't know how much it has been accumulated!" Phil waved his finger and continued, "I'll do some calculations for you. A ball table can earn ten copper coins in one hour. If it's open ten hours a day, it's one hundred copper coins and fifty ball tables, it's five thousand copper coins a day, which is equivalent to fifty silver coins. Thirty days a month, it's one thousand five hundred silver coins. These are fifteen gold coins!"

"But we make more money than this one. With a set of pool tables, we can sell thirty or forty silver coins!" Old Harry said.

"Selling billiards has costs. When we make billiards, we need to buy raw materials. We process the raw materials into billiards and pool tables, and we also need to pay workers. Although we can sell dozens of silver coins for a set of billiards, if we take the cost out, our profit is not that much.

But this pool hall is different. We only need one-time investment and don’t need to buy raw materials frequently. The waiter’s salary is not high. The rest is purely profitable. More importantly, in such a place, we can open many stores. Just imagine that a store can earn fifteen gold coins a month. If you open ten stores, it will be 150 gold coins a month. If you count it like this, it won’t take long to buy a new safe again!” Phil drew a big cake for Old Harry.

Old Harry was unmoved and retorted: "Young Master, we spent a lot of money on opening this billiard hall, and we didn't have that much money to open ten billiard halls."

"We can borrow chickens to lay eggs. Don't worry, I already have a complete expansion plan. We will soon have ten billiard halls. Come with me to the house exchange later to see what other places are more suitable for opening branches in this Ashes City!" Phil said confidently.

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A billboard was erected in front of the door of the billiard hall, with a few big words written in very conspicuous colors: "Great discounts and rewards for guests, members recharge for 100 hours for free!"

Tom, who had just gotten off work, passed by here. He didn't plan to go in and play billiards, but when he saw the billboard, he walked into the billiards hall. He saw that there were already several people queuing in front of the counter on the first floor of the billiards hall.

"So many people? What's going on today? Your pool hall is like a bar. Do you have to queue up to play?" Tom asked.

Phil walked over with a smile and replied, "These guests are queuing up to apply for membership cards."

"Membership card? What is that?" Tom asked in confusion.

Phil took out a sample of the membership card and continued: "This is our membership card, which has numbers on it. You can pre-recharge the money into the membership card. When you come to play billiards in the future, as long as you present the membership card, we will directly deduct the fee from it."

"That's so troublesome. Why not just give money!" Tom curled his lips.

"It's different, there are discounts for membership." Phil replied with a smile.

When Tom heard that there was a discount, he immediately came to nature and asked, "What are the discounts?"

"The discount project we have launched is the recharge time. If you recharge two silver coins at one time, you will get one hour. If it is normal, you can only play two silver coins for 20 hours, but after applying for a membership, you can play one more hour with the same two silver coins." Phil said.

"It sounds pretty good." Tom nodded.

"This is just the minimum discount. If you recharge five silver coins at one time, we will give you an extra 3 hours; if you recharge ten silver coins at one time, we will give you 10 hours; if you recharge twenty silver coins at one time, we will give you an extra 30 hours; and if you recharge fifty silver coins at one time, we will give you an extra 100 hours!" Phil continued to explain.

Tom was startled and said subconsciously: "Recharge fifty silver coins at one time, that's my two-month salary, so the madman would do this!"

"Sir, it is actually the most cost-effective to recharge fifty silver coins at one time. If you recharge two silver coins every time, you will only receive 25 hours of free money. But for the same amount, if you recharge fifty silver coins at one time, it will be 100 hours!" Phil said.

"Even if that's the case, there are too many fifty silver coins!" Tom shook his head.

Phil then promoted: "Then you can also choose to recharge twenty silver coins or ten silver coins. Although the discount is not as good as fifty silver coins, it is also more valuable than two silver coins. For example, you can give you ten silver coins at one time, which is equivalent to buying ten silver coins for free! This is also super cost-effective."

Phil said, handing the flyer for the member recharge discount to Tom.

Looking at the discount content on the flyer, the more recharges, the more time you give away and the greater the discount. But from the numbers, it is definitely the most cost-effective to get 50 silver coins, but Tom is not a rich man, so he is reluctant to take out 50 silver coins to apply for a membership card.

Phil next to him turned into a salesman and then advised: "Sir, if you come often, I think this one-time recharge of ten silver coins is more suitable for you. Including the 10 hours you give, you have a total of 110 hours. If you play for two hours a day, you can play for two months!"

Under Phil's trick, Tom unconsciously took out ten silver coins and joined the queue for applying for membership cards.

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Chapter completed!