Chapter 089 Business is More Than Just Business
The female elf mage named Evelyn, the elder disciple of Elder Gwendolyn, is a candidate for the Council of the Elders in Ananas.
Elves over three hundred years old can leave the tribe with the approval of the teacher. Evelyn, who is less than two hundred years old and still young, has not yet obtained this permission. In other words, Evelyn has not seen many foreigners. .
But this does not affect Evelyn's responsibility to sign a magic contract with the Snow Wolf tribe, because her teacher is Gwendolyn after all... Among the elves, Evelyn is already a "qualified" new generation. Such a Ms. Evelyn still felt ashamed when she passed the magic contract to the Snow Wolf cub... She had red face, knotted brows, and erratic eyes.
After passing the magic contract, she couldn't confront anyone. See, because-this is really embarrassing! The seasoning and spices that the elders are full of praise are bought from the Snow Wolf tribe at a price that is almost free, and to prevent the Snow Wolf tribe from waking up and repenting, forcing others to sign the magic contract-the object is still A cub! The goddess of the forest again... this kind of thing is really too embarrassing!
"Teacher Gwendolyn, doing things that are not in line with my heart for the benefit of the tribe... Although it is difficult, I will work hard!" Ms. Evelyn took a few deep breaths and forced herself to turn her face and face it firmly. Cruel life...
The cub was holding the contract in both hands, and looked at her eagerly.
"Um...how do I sign on it?" Xiao Yun was careful.
"...Woo!" Evelyn almost didn't control her face and turned her face away again. The lady who was targeting Elder Gwendolyn clenched her fists, slammed her gaze on the Snow Wolf clan. The cub's face gritted his teeth and said, "Please drop a drop of your blood on the surface of the roll."
"..." Xiao Yun stared at the fisheye, pierced his finger with his nail silently, and pressed on the roll .
The leather roll made of unknown leather suddenly bloomed with magnificent brilliance, and then disappeared out of thin air from the corners as if it were broken down by some kind of force——
"?!" Xiao Yun shook his hand and quickly threw the leather scroll away.
The leather scroll didn't touch the ground, it was still floating in the air, and it disappeared from the four sides inward. After a few seconds, it disappeared without a trace and ceased to exist.
Xiao Yun: "..." Damn it!
"After the magic contract is signed, it will become part of the 'rules', and it will not exist when no one breaches the contract." Evelyn stared at him firmly, the tone of explanation was rather soft.
"...I understood." Xiao Yun swallowed, what's the matter with this woman? "Uh...what are you going to do next?"
Evelyn clenched her fists, as if taking an oath before going to the battlefield, with a hard tone: "If your tribe doesn't mind, we hope to trade as soon as possible."
"...Of course. Don't mind." Xiao Yun couldn't help but leaned his upper body back. Evelyn stood up and spread her hands gracefully: "Please."
"Now?" Xiao Yun didn't react. Evelyn stared at him with bloodshot eyes, her beautiful face was a little distorted: "I brought gold coins for trading, and... a space bracelet for storing goods."
Xiao Yun: "..." Wouldn't it be too urgent! Evelyn turned to look at Kleist: "General, please arrange me an escort."
Kleist, who hasn't said a word, reacted now. This guy raised his head and looked upright... just not looking at Xiao Yun, his eyes only fell on Evelyn's body: "Since it should be, Ms. Evelyn, I will arrange the escort."
After speaking, he got up and strode out of the room... Xiao Yun's eyes were straight, this guy is really not a good person!
Evelyn clasped her hands in her abdomen, and seemed to nod slightly towards Xiao Yun with a dignified manner: "Snow werewolf Ayun, shall we convenient to leave immediately?"
"..." Xiao Yun swallowed, he instinctively felt... …If he say no, this nervous and pretentious female elf is likely to go crazy...
It should be a good thing for the business to be negotiated and to be on the right track of cooperation immediately, but being urged away so eagerly, At first glance, the attitude of the other party seemed dangerous. Xiao Yun just felt that something was wrong; he hurriedly recruited Mumu to escort him and set off with the elf warriors on the road. Xiao Yun silently figured out what was wrong with this business again. Needless to say, the production of honey garlic sauce is limited by honey, so trading it is just a supplement; the output of bean paste is higher than garlic sauce, but this thing...has a stronger taste and has a process of cultivating the market. Just add heads.
The raw materials of canned fruits cannot be guaranteed by the snow werewolf. They need the forest elves to provide the raw materials for the canned fruits, so Xiao Yun has to give the forest elves a profit.
The biggest profit of snow werewolf lies in vinegar and soy sauce, both of which are daily necessities, and are suitable for the elves with relatively light taste, and are easy to promot and it suitable for wholesale.
At any rate, the forest elves have a population of more than one million,the population size of this city is equivalent to one of the 18th-tier city in China. If only one non-staple food factory supplies the daily soy sauce and vinegar in this city, this factory will make a big profit...
The most profitable first is vinegar. The raw materials for this thing can be made up of soybeans, wheat bran, and rice bran. A hundred catties of raw materials can produce 300 catties of vinegar, which is similar to soy sauce. The taste of people in this world is sour and sweet after "research" by Xiao Yun, so Xiao Yun set the price at 100 catties per gram of gold-the purchasing power of coins in this world is very strong. One gram of gold can be exchanged for 500 coins with the smallest face value of two grams. One copper coin is in the kingdom of mankind. You can buy a piece of black bread or a catty of soybeans. If you are on the orc empire, because the orc empire is relatively large and sparsely populated, you can buy two catties...
In other words, selling vinegar can make fifteen times the gross profit. The manufacturer of transportation, this is really a big profit, and Xiao Yun feels bad for himself if he refuses to make a small profit...
The raw material of soy sauce is more expensive than vinegar. 300 catties of soy sauce needs to consume 100 catties of raw soybeans 20 It is reasonable to say that Xiao Yun should set the price of soy sauce more expensive than vinegar for about a kilogram of salt, but why did Xiao Yun lower the price of soy sauce?
This involves an ulterior motive...Xiao Yun wants to offend the Lamian Merchant Group.
Soy sauce cannot replace salt, but soy sauce can reduce salt consumption.
On the Bloomfield Mainland, the largest salt merchant is the Lamian Merchant Group.
Xiao Yun only made a little hard work on soy sauce, and sold soy sauce to the elves at the price of cabbage. When the market for elves became saturated, the problem came... The forest elves, who could buy a lot of soy sauce at the price of cabbage, would not Will the soy sauce be sold to other regions?
The elves earn three times profit as much in the process of changing hands, and the price of bulk soy sauce will not exceed a catty and five copper coins, which is cheaper than the salt sold by the black merchant Lamia. In this way, a large amount of it will enter the human race. Will the soy sauce in the daily necessities market of the Kingdom impact on the sales of salt, the main commodity of the Lamia Business Group?
The snow werewolf kept their mouths shut. The forest elves who were second dealers would certainly not go everywhere to advertise where the soy sauce they sold came from. The Lamian merchant group wanted to suppress their counterparts, and it was facing the behemoth of the elven tribe...Xiao Yunbi They are even more looking forward to whether they dare to trouble the elves!
Ha ha ha ha...
Make trouble for competitors in advance, spend five, ten or even twenty years to build a bottomless trap to fill the opponents in, this kind of thing Xiao Yun sees a lot from the leaders of the country! Don't learn how to be worthy of being a Chinese once!
After thinking about it, Xiao Yun didn't think what magical posture the Snow Wolf Clan had to use in this business to lose money, because this clearly meant the matter of how much it was sold and how much money it made... and troubled the Lamia Merchant Group. It's impossible for the opponent to fail. In order to urge the elves to quickly "open up", Xiao Yun knew exactly how many times their profits could be earned by changing hands as Erdao dealers—wait!
Xiao Yun, who was riding on a wooden back and following the elven warriors galloping forward, suddenly showed a strange expression, tilted his head, and looked at the female elf Evelyn who was riding a big bird in the air.
Wouldn't they...they also saw the profit in the process of soy sauce changing hands, and felt that the snow werewolf tribe was actively giving them money, so they felt embarrassed?
Xiao Yun shuddered immediately. This thought really thundered him... not that, no, no, no, no matter how honest and honest the forest elves are, they can't reach this level. They feel embarrassed to look directly at him because they feel that they are taking advantage of him. The snow werewolf—.
You have only heard of a race that decays carelessly. You have never heard of a race that becomes strong if you carelessly. How do you say that the forest elves also have a queen second only to the elf king, and a large tribe with a population of more than one million. Enough to confront the human kingdom head-on, such a behemoth Xiao Yun feels that he should not treat others as a stupid, and he can easily turn himself into a stupid...
"Either the Ananas sent by the Elf Queen to build the harbor is relatively naive and kind." Xiao Yun glanced over the female elf riding the big bird in the air again, and Xiao Yun touched her chin, deeply agreeing, "That's fine, and those with a higher moral limit are always easier to deal with, and stupid is better."
It is still a busy scene in the Huoyan tribe. The elves who visited again did not arouse much attention from everyone. The engineering team is still working hard to dig the river. The recent flood of rain has kept the work team busy with drainage in the field. Qingyan's second-level labor team also serves the livestock waiting to be produced. So busy, Bark wanted to avoid the forest elves again. That is to say, the grassroots patriarch put down his work and hurried to greet him. After meeting and greeting, the grassroots patriarch threw the reception of the guests to Xiao Yun, She is busy working on her own--earthworms raised in the open air are affected by the increase in rainfall, and patriarch Caogen is overwhelmed and she no time to chat with people here.
The female elf Evelyn and the four elf warriors looked at the snow wolf tribe, which was empty in the daytime and there were no idlers, and understood why this tribe was so different from the snow wolf tribe in their impression... It's weird if you can work hard at the same job. Xiao Yun took the five elves to the brewing warehouse and moved the door panel: "The warehouse here is full of soy sauce, and the warehouse next door is filled with vinegar."
"Oh..." The five elves exclaimed in unison. They were more than one meter tall. There are so many large stoneware tanks that they have to be stacked and stored, and they look really spectacular.
"How many catties of soy sauce are there in such a jar?" Evelyn asked.
"The body of this tank is thicker, and one tank can only hold two thousand catties of vinegar." Xiao Yun said sincerely, "Our tribe has a small population and labor force is relatively tight. The soy sauce we used to make soybeans in winter last year is only It's brewed about 600,000 catties. Our tribe doesn't have a suitable weighing machine. We calculate the total amount based on the number of cylinders. I calculated it. The error of each cylinder is about a few catties. Should this be okay?"
Evelyn & the four elven warriors: "..."
"Uh... it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter a few kilograms of error." Evelyn swallowed.
"There will only be more but not less." Xiao Yun smiled honestly, "The vinegar in the warehouse over there is a little less than soy sauce, because brewing is more troublesome, only 300,000 catties, 150 cylinders, plus 300 cylinders of soy sauce, you can bring it ?"
"No problem, what I brought is my teacher Gwendolyn's space bracelet, which can fit the entire lake." Evelyn nodded quickly.
"Um...that..." Xiao Yun pretended to be embarrassed, "We are also very troublesome to build the tank, because our tribe is short of manpower...So after you ship the things back, can you return the tank to us? "Burning a 500-mouth large tank quickly vomited Xiao Yun tired, and it was specified that it should not be given away for nothing...I originally considered providing a service of bottling by catty, but since you are so impatient, you should do it yourself.
"No problem." Evelyn nodded again, and promised to be particularly refreshing-pottery can be burned at a temperature of 900 degrees or more. The craftsmanship is simple, and the forest elves don't lack pottery at all.
Xiao Yun also had to give some feedback to such a good buyer. He immediately said with a smile, "Honey garlic paste and bean paste are packed separately in smaller pots. You can take the pots away." It's expensive to sell. It's right to give away the package.
"Okay." Evelyn had nothing to say except nodding.
Both parties are happy, business is easy, and there is no rule in this world that pays half and owes half. Evelyn is afraid that the Snow Wolf clan will regret it, and can't wait to put the gold she brought into Xiao Yun's pocket immediately. The process of this transaction is smooth.
The vinegar and soy sauce brewed from 300,000 catties of soybeans are exchanged for five kilograms of gold. The forest elves' metallurgical craftsmanship has a purity of up to 0.999. It is also carefully pressed into ten grams of gold coins, plus the addition of honey garlic paste and bean paste. Xiao Yun bought 5.5 kilograms of gold all at once, and this business is simply making a lot of money-in Hyundai, the seller would have to laugh when the transaction price was cut down to one-third.
Why do it say that? Because the soy sauce vinegar that we buy for a few dollars a bottle in modern times, most of the money is actually used to buy brand quality. Unlicensed inferior soy sauce vinegar is charged at more than ten dollars or dozens of dollars. A ton of calculation...Of course, this is all blended, and safety is not guaranteed.
Paying the money with one hand and delivering the goods with one hand, the transaction was completed and both parties were smiling so hard that they could not see their teeth; Xiao Yun hurriedly struck the iron while it was hot and took them to see the bottled canned fruit-a bottle of canned food weighs three kilograms, and the content is not less than 50%. A canned food was exchanged for ten catties of fruit, and the elves were transported back and forth without picking out any kind of fruit. When this condition came up, Xiao Yun and Evelyn were also happy, and both felt that they had taken a big advantage.
Xiao Yun's happyness is about thing is that the forest elves will always provide fresh fruit in the future. The extra part of the canned food is pure profit. Evelyn's happyness is that the forest elves have so many fruits in spring, summer and autumn, and they are replaced with sweet and sour canned fruits that are easy to store. It's simply exchange your own trash for other people's goods... This is a win-win situation!
Since the forest elves are so good as Party A, Xiao Yun specified that he hoped to get some more wool from them, so he took Evelyn to see the sauerkraut and pickles produced by the Xuelang tribe with the same long shelf life and woolen fabrics. Yarn from the factory.
Regrettably, this female elf doesn't appreciate her face so much this time... The forest elf with sun cloth doesn't like woolen goods at all, and pickles don't suit the elves' appetite very much, but sauerkraut they are willing to give face and set a gram. The transaction price of two hundred jin of gold has installed 20 large cylinders of sauerkraut and promised to increase the purchase if the Council of Elders is interested in sauerkraut.
Xiao Yun counted the twenty gold coins he had exchanged for sauerkraut, and suddenly discovered that this business is also very good-the raw materials of sauerkraut are green vegetables and vinegar.
Since everyone loves sour and sweet taste, they can sell it on the ship. Anyway, the vegetable production of the tribe can be increased at any time.
So he sent away the gang of God of Wealth and forest elves, Xiao Yun asked the worriors transporting goods to send the remaining cylinders of vinegar, a dozen cylinders of sauerkraut, and pickles that the elves didn't like to the port. Take a look at St. Bridge's market does accept these products or not.
"The manpower is still too tight. I have to organize a few tribes this winter anyway!"
The warriors of the snow werewolves ran back and forth four times, transporting a large number of sorted and selected furs, Warcraft parts, and 900 heads to the port. After cattle and sheep, canned fruits, wool, vinegar jars and pickled vegetables jars, St. Bridge's merchant ship finally returned.
"Teacher Ayun!" Prince Carlisle saw Xiao Yun and was so excited that he jumped from the deck several meters high, rushed forward, and hugged Xiao Yun.
Carli...huh! Hey hey hey!" Xiao Yun was knocked back into his chest with one breath, and had to tear Carlisle off with his hands. "It's okay, but I haven't seen it in more than a year. Don't be so excited, to be focused."
"I'm sorry, I'm so excited." Prince Carlisle endured his excitement, "Master Ayun, I have a lot to say to you."
"If you have a chance, don't worry, come and let me show you a baby. ..."
Xiao Yun winked at the pure Prince Carlisle and drew him to his own room...
...Evil scenes won't appear. In Xiao Yun's room, there are already two big guys sitting in this room... one is big Darren the sword warrior, one is Tim the alchemist.
The two of them stayed in the Elf Harbor by Prince Carlisle. During this period, they thought that the Elves and the Adventurers' Association were in the name of a matchmaking bridge. They stayed in Ananas most of the time. It was only two days before the fleet returned, they came back with the research officer of the Adventurers Association, and then was brainwashed by Xiao Yun...No, economics class.
"Carlisle!"
Darren and Tim came forward to hug His Royal Highness and beat each other's shoulders and arms. The three little friends were excited for a while before they calmed down and listened to Teacher Ayun's class.
Xiao Yun put the prepared samples on the table, solemnly: "Carlisle, the last sea trade proved that you have the ability to open up new trade routes for St. Bridges, and bind some nobles willingly to yours with common interests. The ship supports you, and then you have to think about it for yourself."
"Teacher Ayun!" Prince Carlisle saw Xiao Yun and was so excited that he jumped from the deck several meters high, rushed forward, and hugged Xiao Yun.
Carli...huh! Hey hey hey!" Xiao Yun was knocked back into his chest with one breath, and had to tear Carlisle off with his hands. "It's okay, but I haven't seen it in more than a year. Don't be so excited, to be focused."
"I'm sorry, I'm so excited." Prince Carlisle endured his excitement, "Master Ayun, I have a lot to say to you."
"If you have a chance, don't worry, come and let me show you a baby. ..."
Xiao Yun winked at the pure Prince Carlisle and drew him to his own room...
...Evil scenes won't appear. In Xiao Yun's room, there are already two big guys sitting in this room... one is big Darren the sword warrior, one is Tim the alchemist.
The two of them stayed in the Elf Harbor by Prince Carlisle. During this period, they thought that the Elves and the Adventurers' Association were in the name of a matchmaking bridge. They stayed in Ananas most of the time. It was only two days before the fleet returned, they came back with the research officer of the Adventurers Association, and then was brainwashed by Xiao Yun...No, economics class.
"Carlisle!"
Darren and Tim came forward to hug His Royal Highness and beat each other's shoulders and arms. The three little friends were excited for a while before they calmed down and listened to Teacher Ayun's class.
Xiao Yun put the prepared samples on the table, solemnly: "Carlisle, the last sea trade proved that you have the ability to open up new trade routes for St. Bridges, and bind some nobles willingly to yours with common interests. The ship supports you, and then you have to think about it for yourself."
"Of course, Teacher Ayun." Prince Carlisle was emotionally excited. It was precisely because of this realization that he took off his prince's dress and walked out of the royal city and ventured out to sea!
Xiao Yun smiled slightly: "In addition to money, you need to have human minds. I believe you know how reliable the nobles are. As the heirs of the kingdom, when the majority of the low-level citizens are on your side, No one can shake your position... The people are weak and weak because they are scattered sand. When the people firmly support you, Carlisle, imagine that, let alone other things, the total number of nobles in the royal city adds up to How much does the total number of ordinary citizens add up?"
"The people themselves cannot unite because they are short-sighted, stupid, have not received a decent education, do not understand or understand what they should do is right, so they You can't unite and have power alone; and when you, as a prince, become the core of uniting the people, how much power can the 99% of the people burst out, Carlisle, have you imagined?"
Carlisle's eyes widened. The chin fell down, and the goose bumps on the back of the neck and the north came one after another... In fact, he has been vaguely aware of this for many years, so he selected the young people he believed to be reliable and worthy of training from the families of the knights at the bottom of the knighthood. People, he thought that he was already broad-minded enough; but compared with Teacher A Yun, he felt that he was so short-sighted--compared to the number of ordinary citizens, what are the nobles in the royal city!
Darren and Tim are even more emotional. They are from the bottom. If the royal family is willing to look away from the aristocratic group and look to the bottom people...the ceiling above their heads will no longer exist.
"Teacher Ayun, what should I do?" Prince Carlisle quickly recovered and asked eagerly. Xiao Yun smiled mysteriously: "As your teacher, I can't help you too much. I can only do my best to provide you with some feasible methods...so that you can slowly accumulate people's hearts and popularity while accumulating economic strength. "
"This is wool. This is a sweater and trousers hand-knitted with wool. It can be knitted by ordinary housewives. It keeps warmer than cotton and is far cheaper than sun cloth and magic cloth."
"Winter in St. Bridge is not too cold. Most of the time, people only need to wear a set of long-sleeved white cotton underwear to keep out the cold, but after all, it will cool down in winter. There can be a few light snows in the coldest time... I heard Tim and Da Lun mentioned that during the few days of snow every year, the citizens in the city with only thin shirts could not go out, and the homeless would even freeze to death on the streets, right?"
"Yes, teacher." Carlisle looked at the table. The woolen yarn and sweaters and pants on the top made her voice excited.
"The wool produced by our tribe, I only sell it to you at the lowest price. A catty of wool only costs five copper coins. For the wool shipped back, I suggest that you set up a special department to operate it. Organizing the knitting of low-level women who have difficulty in families in the city, the processing cost of each sweater is two to three copper coins. A sweater knitted by a catty of wool is thick enough to withstand the cold winter wind in St. Bridge, and you will have a set of clothes The price is set at forty to fifty copper coins, and people who are more difficult can also afford it—"
In a society with low productivity, clothing is also an important symbol of wealth. The timeline on the earth has been pushed forward for 30 years. Many backward areas are so poor that a family has only one pair of pants; if you push it forward for a hundred years, the hungry people have to pay back. It's considered as a time when complete torn clothes were taken to the pawnshop and replaced by a few older men for food to satisfy their hunger...The era when there were so many clothes that were flooded, and so many people had to throw away a lot of old clothes to make room in the closet. On the earth, there are only two or thirty years!
St. Bridge's Kingdom produces white cotton cloth, but many people at the bottom can't even wear a set of white cotton long-sleeved clothing... The ancient Chinese song "I entered the city yesterday and returned with tears. It's not like that. Silkworm breeders." Song poetry is universal in any feudal society with low productivity.
The purchase price of five copper coins of wool, including the transportation cost, excluding the cost of hiring poor women to knit, can make at least double the profit by selling it for 20 copper coins, and while making money, it is so cheap to keep out the cold. The clothing benefited not only the civilians without thick clothing, but also the families of those women-Prince Carlisle, thinking about it a little bit, would know that this was simply the most fame and fortune, and he stood up. Stretched his arms across the table to hold Xiao Yun's neck, and was so excited that he lost his voice: "Teacher! I, I--"
"Hell you bastard, can you still speak well!"