The Economics of Prophecy

"Well, is this Yookan?............... ummm, isn't that bad? You can eat a few times a year."

As soon as the tasting was over, I had been summoned to Euphilia. I can't refuse if the investor tells me to explain the status of the new business. Though I can't refuse to be called up for no reason.

The usual smaller reception room, Euphilia, who ate the lamb I brought with me, told me the best thing in a way.

"What can I do for you today, Grand Duke?"

I said as I turned away from the lamb.

"No, Alfie told me you were uncommonly depressed. We need to see that for once."

"That's pretty good. That delicacy was perfect for the great nobleman."

I felt half shitty. There is nothing wrong with Euphiria. Because the licensed sale of yellow sugar to Prla makes more profit than loss.

I did a bad thing to Sherry for letting him take off the prospect of increasing the demand for beans though.

"Just kidding. Actually, it has something to do with me."

Euphiria pointed to the lamb with a fork. I turned away again.

"Is this the Imperial Empress's welcome tea party?" "Bye."

Me and Euphilia made a grumpy face. It seems that before the princess officially attended the college, it was meant that the princess would all have a tea party to welcome the princess. Alfina, who usually doesn't have to be called, can't not not not participate because she will be a classmate in the college.

The venue appears to be the Duke's residence near Wangdu, where the First Princess was married. What is that enemy land-like place?

"The basic preparation is the two above. Dorisdia, the third princess of near her age, and Alfina's passion for bringing sweets. That's why we need something rare."

"Please serve the Plura Chamber of Commerce. I don't do that kind of work when I'm out of expertise."

I said. I got some yellow sugar. Plura should be able to make a beautiful and delicious treat, unlike me.

"Oh, can't you lend me wisdom?"

"Whatever my knowledge is, it's something of wisdom."

Leave it to Prla and Alfina will not be disgraced. No, what's the easier way out over there?

If I get my hands on it badly. Serve tea and lamb to the Royal Palace tea party and ruin the place, something could be done.

"We have two problems, so we want to make it as complete as possible. One is not about the wood. Some of the wood currently imported from the Empire, technically, is even more incremental. Negotiating to turn it around to Bertoldo. That seems to be the limit in a” neutral ”prime minister. Actually, he was worried about the ride. He said I could carry it here directly without going through Wang Du. I would have said that it would have been better if it had been as easy as possible to see where he was coming from. It doesn't taste right that this one doesn't welcome the princess at this time."

"Wood for Bertoldo's workshop expansion is not scheduled until experimental conditions are in place."

"The reputation of the improved carriage grew too much. The workshop can't keep up on its current scale. There are lots of other things that need to be built in the lodging. Yet Kurtheit complains. The craftsmen they drove to the king's capital, only a few of them, but the concubines took them, etc."

I want so much information about the timber and the empire that I can get my hands out of my throat. Coming in straight is better as an experimental sample. We have to find out where it was felled.

However, it is strange that they are passionate about flushing this wood. It wouldn't just be spreading the business partner and spreading the risk, can't solve it?

"The other thing is, the reputation of this hand's social community doesn't make me an out-of-the-box fool. You should think they're gonna set something up over there. We have a weapon."

Confectionery is the weapon. Well, that's the world. Even Earth, the Tea Party seems to have had a lot of political significance during the Warring States.

"I understand the circumstances.... if you come up with anything, so"

I can't shake my sleeve without it. That's what I said and cut to the chase.

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"I don't care if they call me a new confection."

Back at the Vinder Chamber of Commerce I snapped. I can hardly even see the numbers in the books that are open. It's not a good trend.

"Um, Ricardo. I need you to tell me one thing."

Alfina, who followed me from the Grand Duke's residence, spoke to me. It's awkward against her too. She has the ballpoint pen I gave her in one hand and a piece of paper in the other.

I know I'm overrated in her. I would have let you down a lot this time. Anyway, after that lecture.

Before me in a hurry. Alfina spread the paper. It's a much prettier word than I am, with many sentences lined up.

"I tried to organize the tastings using the methods I learned from Ricardo."

There, the opinions of the members of this previous tasting were written. Some things I didn't hear. Did Alfina ask around herself?

"I was going to think about it for me. It's harder than I thought I'd try. I understand why Ricardo said the pen was important."

Alfina stroked the ballpoint pen with her fingers. After the gathering of information, there is a line of hypotheses that Alfina has tried to make. Writing is erased, writing is erased repeatedly. Her seriousness and trust in what I taught her was engraved there.

And I've made the same mistake over and over again, and I can clearly see why Alfina struggled.

"Oh, my God. Haven't you even forgotten how simple this is?"

I was stunned by myself.

"Actually, an empty rain umbrella flow is not a one-way street..."

"Not a one-way street?

If you can get the right answer by even following the set procedure, that's not a "problem”. If ordinary people can pull the right answer in one shot in the first place, it's magic, not technology.

I took out the empty rain umbrella of the filling project that I wrote myself first. At the time I was putting this behind my desk, it was crazy.

"When you do something new, you're far more likely to fail than you are to succeed."

"Ah, yes. Isn't that why you take these methods so you don't fail?

Alfina snapped her neck.

"Right. But even assuming you've made one to two out of ten chances of success in this way, there will be a lot more failures. So the true price of this method is after failure. Though it's a plan I made for success. If it fails, it becomes a material for analyzing the cause of the failure. Because of this, let me teach you the opposite of my failure."

I pulled out my pen. I arranged myself and Alfina's paper vertically. The information Alfina has gathered is an assessment of my plan this time. Use it to hang feedback. The sky umbrella grows by rotating it.

Alfina watches my pen tip go up and down on the paper. At what stage did I make a mistake, the answer was quickly found.

"Apparently, I was wrong to solve the problem."

My pen stopped at the top. There it says (to spread the filling to the kingdom).

"Um, is something wrong?

Alfina snapped her neck. No, it's not weird. I drew a double line and wrote a new sentence next to it.

"Laugh. The problem I was solving was this."

(Create the filling confectionery you want)

Reproduce the Japanese filling you want to eat, to be exact. So it fails.

When I take out another piece of paper, I write a new title.

(Spread a new sweetness called filling into the kingdom)

Assume failure. Principles for sorting out confused heads and analyzing failures. thereby slightly increasing learning efficiency from failure. It is not a magical method, but its effects accumulate more and more.

"This way of circulating increases the efficiency of learning from it when it fails. If you're trying a new plan that's much more likely to fail, this is more important."

In my previous life, I called it the compound effect of thought.

"Speaking of which, at the time of the first prophecy... Ricardo said that if the Warcraft Flood was wrong, you would consider the following hypothesis"

Alfina nodded. I see, at that time, I still had a pretty good idea. Not black history, white history.

"Thank you. Thanks to you, I remember."

"Fluffy! Ricardo?"

I held Alfina's hand. The sensation of a limp slippery finger is coming through my hand.

"... su, sorry"

"Oh, no, I'm glad that Ricardo got his motivation back"

I let go of my hand in a hurry. Alfina held her cheeks down with both hands.

"So, we're going to build a new policy based on this. Alfina has already collected information for us, so it's a policy decision."

Was the filling unacceptable because of the colour, the flavor of the beans or the cooking method? Or cost.

You have to change from the type of bean to make a white one. Unlike modern Japan, where various types of beans were in circulation, it is difficult. If you throw away the flavor of the filling, it's over. The conversation ends with eating sugar and yellow sugar.

I write my thoughts with a pen.

· Even though it is accepted by the kingdom, it also uses sensations other than taste to create flavored confectionery fused with filling seeds.

I have a new policy. You shouldn't compete with taste alone in order to get beyond the culture gap. We did the exact opposite last time.

If the policy is decided, what exactly is the cooking method "recipe" next?

"Normally when I think about it, it's a base made of flour, and it goes with butter and cream..."

It's not easy to take for granted. For example, Amman, for example, which bake. Was there also a roasted river? But it looks too plain. The texture is not new either.

Would you like a crepe? Crepe with raw cream and filling. It doesn't look bad if it's served with fruit.

No, in this case, you can't just replace it with a filling. It doesn't justify the price, and if it sucks, it becomes a degraded western treat. In general, it does not lead to the use of a sense that is a policy.

I've come up with a new policy before. The tip of the pen is on the paper. Mm-hmm. Hard.

That's when the door to the room opened and Meer turned up.

"Seniors. Shelly and Lilka are here. He said he found what he was asking for."

"The thing you were asking for?

I snapped my neck as I heard the two footsteps that were coming up.