Meeting at Merchant Guild

Chapter 7 Meeting at Merchant Guild

When I arrived at the square, I saw many people who visited it, there were several shows such as circus and magic tricks there. Around the square there are also several shops that look luxurious, such as restaurants, clothing stores and jewelry stores. Some luxury inns were also there, after looking around, I walked towards the merchant's guild which was not far from the square.

There is many traders are in the guilds, they gather and share information with each other, some are offering their merchandise to other traders.

I then entered the merchant's guild building and walked towards the counter.

"Hello, welcome to the Llyne Merchants Guild. Is there anything I can help you with. "A young woman served me from behind the counter.

"I want to ask, do I need permission to trade here." I asked the woman.

"That's right, you are required to have permission to sell your merchandise. You can make it here, but 100 silver coins are needed for administrative costs. "

"Make me a permits, please." I asked the employee for help.

"Okay. Wait a minute."

She then took some documents and returned to the counter.

"Can you show me your residence permit?" She asked.

I then gave a parchment containing residence permit that I had obtained from the previous gatekeeper. Then she copied some information to the documents that she brought.

"Can you give me informations about what are you going to sell? Are you carrying the goods right now? "He asked

"For now I will sell some spices and perfume." I replied.

While talking I pulled out a few packages of spices and unwrapped the cloth. The smell of the spices caught the attention of several traders who were around the counter.

"Woah, it's very rare for spice traders to come here. Usually spice traders only sell it in Port Town. "

"I will make a permit to sell luxury goods too then." She added

To attract more attention of other traders here, I put out the perfume that I had before. Some traders started to approach me, the most interesting was a woman in her 30s who could be said to be very attractive.

The woman walked towards me and started talking.

"You have very interesting goods there." She spoke with a smile.

"Well, I brought several samples of my merchandise and am looking for prospective buyers right now." I answered with a smile.

Looks like this woman has a big influence around here, seeing some people behind her being very polite.

"I'm very interested in your merchandise, can we talk about it in more detail?" She asked.

"It's my pleasure, but I have to finish my permission first."

"Of course, I can wait for that."

After that, the guild employee came and gave me my trade and residence permit.

"Mr. Nine, this is your trade permit. Please do an update every month." She explained with a sweet smile.

"Thank you very much." Then i take my permits.

"Adelia, can I rent a meeting room right now?"

The Lady who is interested in my merchandise asks the clerk at the counter.

"Of course Mrs. Siddon, please follow me."

She showed us the way.

It looks like the guild clerk is the same age as me and her name is Adelia. I might interact with her a lot in the future.

"Mr. Nine, please." The lady invited me.

I then put my merchandise back in the bag and walked behind her.

After being in a room, this beautiful lady began to introduce herself.

"Nice to meet you Mr Nine, my name is Dyana Siddon, from Siddon Trading Firm."

"Nice to meet you, my name is Nine, just a new trader from the south." I introduced myself.

"Mr. Nine, I am very interested in your merchandise. Can you show me everything you have? " she asked

"Okay wait a minute."

Then i took out all the goods from leather bag and placed it on the table.

"All of this weighs one kilogram per bag." I opened a cloth bag filled with spices.

Dyana checked every spice on the table.

"I know several of this spices, like black pepper, cinnamon, salt and sugar. But this is my first time seeing this. " Dyana separated several bags.

"This bag contains Clove. This spice is commonly used to give flavor to cooking and can be used to remove odors and add flavor to meat. You can mix it with cinnamon or black pepper as a seasoning, or you can aslo put it in red wine for flavour. "

I explained to Dyana how to use it.

"This is very interesting, this spice has a very unique and soft aroma." Dyana sniff a cloth bag containing vanilla.

"This is vanilla, the aroma is very attractive and smooth, many woman love this. Unfortunately this vanilla is very expensive. In my hometown, vanilla is usually used to give aroma to cakes, milk and perfume. "

"I also carry perfume that has the scent of jasmine, rose and vanilla." I showed the perfume that I had.

"This product will be very popular with noble women. I even want to use it. "

"Siddon Trading Firm is very interested in all these products, what price will you give?" Dyana asked me.

"After I calculated the cost of transportation and economic capacity of the people here. I can give prices for black pepper, cloves, and cinnamon 4 silver coins per 50 grams. While salt is 1 silver coin per 500 grams. "

"For sugar, after calculating the cost of transportation and production, the price is twice as high as 8 silver coins per 50 grams. While vanilla is much more expensive, which is 5 silver coins per 10 grams. Vanilla production is so small that the price is very expensive. " i explained.

"For vanilla perfume, one bottle is worth 2 gold coins, while for the parfume with scent of jasmine and rose only 1 gold coin."

I explained the price of my merchandise to Dyana. I deliberately gave a high price to vanilla and sugar because there is no vanilla here, and the main source of sweetness comes from honey.

"The price of sugar and vanilla is very expensive for ordinary citizens, while other spices can still be bought by ordinary citizens, even though they have to pay extra."

"Right, this is because of high transportation costs and not much production. That's why I chose the nobles as main buyers of my merchandise, and maybe some merchant families and business people, " i said

"I agreed with the price you requested, how much stock do you have at the moment?" Dyana asked me.

"Right now I only have about 100 kg of all these spices, except vanilla which only has 10 kg. Whereas my perfume has about 50 bottles. " I answered

"How much do you need??"