Mr. Joseph was about to return to Castile and was about to leave his old friend's daughter, Natasha. Of course, it would be very lucky to meet the owner of this place, Marianne, the eldest daughter of the West family.

Businessmen, don't they just need to find profits in the details and win success in opportunities?

So Mr. Joseph's visit was very coincidentally timed to coincide with teatime, and he met Natasha and her friends in the well-lit parlor of Westmanor, and Marianne happened to be among them.

In the rare sunshine of late winter, everyone tasted refreshments together and chatted about the scenery of various parts of the empire.

Marianne also had a very good impression of Mr. Joseph, not everyone was able to honestly deliver the investor's share in time and in full, and Mr. Joseph did it twice, once for the widow Sandra, and once for Natasha, Fabian, and Alisia.

In this case, Marianne also put herself in her shoes and gave some suggestions: "Mr. Joseph, do you feel the trend of market changes in the past two years?"

Joseph took a sip of tea and said, "Actually, I felt it the year before last, and I almost went bankrupt because of it, if it weren't for the capital investment of Benson and Sandra, so that I could return to the empire with enough Alien Beast Spirit Plant materials, then I would have collapsed."

The year before last, I had come to the New World by selling cloth and porcelain from Castile, as was customary, but when I arrived, I found that apart from the high-end brocade and the profits, the market price of other goods in York City was lower than the price I had bought in Castia, and that all the things I had traveled all the way were at a loss.

So I gritted my teeth and shipped the goods inland, anyway, I was going to buy the materials of the Alien Beast Spirit Plant in the inland. But when I arrived at Athabas and found that the price had also dropped, I had to sell it back or I would continue to spend money on shipping. ”

Marianne nodded and said: "That's right, the year before last was the time when the local textile industry and Stuart textile products were fighting for the most price, and then it was because of the administrative price limit of the empire that those goods from the empire were saved." If you come back half a year later, you will still be profitable. ”

Joseph said: "Eat a trench and grow wise, this time I got green tea from the Bright Divine Kingdom, complete smuggled goods, you know, Musai Port is the most frequent place for trade with the Bright Divine Kingdom, it is still easy to get some smuggled goods." ”

Marianne poured another basin of cold water on Joseph: "Mr. Joseph, you have been out for half a year, there is a news that you may not know.

The grain trade between the Kingdom of Light and the Empire has stopped. I think your supply of green tea will definitely be affected. You'll have to prepare well for your trip this time. ”

"Trade with the Kingdom of Light has stopped!"

Many of the people here are from Port Mousse, so you can immediately tell how big the impact will be. More than half of the grain produced in the southern part of Castile will be supplied to the kingdom of light, which is said to be large in population and in small land. If the grain trade is stopped, the unsalable grain will surely seriously affect all aspects of the south.

If the grain is unsalable, will the peasants still farm the land? Will they leave the land to work in the factories? What will be the use of the vacant land?

Marianne continued: "In fact, Castile is not the most affected, but our royal family is the most painful. ”

Everyone listened carefully to Marianne's insights.

"You're from the Empire, have you noticed a big difference between the currency in circulation in the New World and the Empire?"

Natasha immediately said: "Yes, everyone in the New World likes to use silver coins, and in the Empire, ordinary people rarely use silver coins, and they mostly use paper money livre. ”

Marianne said, "Yes, we were deceived by the Empire once, so no one trusted River. They used to print livres like custom New Worlds, steal from us, and eventually devalue the currency, bankrupting many of the early pioneers of the New World.

Then we stopped trusting River, preferring to trade heavy silver coins.

Of course, the first pot of gold of the West family came from that currency devaluation, which was the achievement of my grandfather, and I won't say much about it here.

However, in the Empire, the royal family did not dare to print money indiscriminately, because there were still three principalities staring, so the amount of banknotes that could be put into the market every year was linked to the number of source stones received by the royal family in the grain trade of the Bright God Kingdom.

In other words, when the grain trade is terminated, it is the royal family that will be the first to suffer, and they will not be able to print money!"

"Why did the Kingdom of Light stop the grain trade?" Jacques asked.

Marianne replied, "I don't know, maybe their gods are not willing to exchange source stones for food, maybe they have other ways to feed the people." Who knows? We can't speculate about religion in the way of thinking of a market economy. ”

Joseph, who suddenly got the news, was a little gloomy and said: "In this case, I will probably only do unilateral trade next year, after all, there is still a huge market for the exotic beast spirit plant materials produced in the New World in the empire." ”

Marianne smiled and said, "If possible, I would like to cooperate with you and trouble Mr. Joseph to help me bring some goods over." ”

Joseph's eyes lit up: "I want to hear it!"

Marianne said unhurriedly: "Man! If Castile's economy were affected by the cessation of the grain trade, I think there would be a large influx of farmers into the factories, and the wages in the factories would be lower, and many people would be unemployed."

And I'm very short of people here, you know, every factory in the New World is short of people, we don't have a shortage of labor, but we don't have a shortage of labor with a basic education.

There were no free schools for children between the ages of six and twelve in the New World, and there were no grammar schools or technical schools.

Illiterate laborers can work on plantations, cotton fields, and grazing, but they are not up to the precision of the factory.

We also lack a large number of transcendents, the kind of ordinary awakened who can handle critical tasks in factories.

The transcendents of the New World prefer to go to the wilderness and jungle to hunt for resources, they are good at fighting, and they are all warriors who break through and grow in battle.

But the Empire has many transcendents who are not good at fighting, they break through the obelisk, they are able to earn silver coins in the factory without fighting, and we need such people now. ”

Marianne saw Joseph's suspicions, it was true that such a business was not something he had ever been exposed to, and it seemed to be more risky to say that it was more risky.

Marianne continued: "It's okay, Mr. Joseph, I can give you the funds and help you with your personnel. I need a collaborator who is familiar with the situation in Castile, and your character, I think would be a good collaborator.

I know that this will definitely be opposed by local forces, so we need to do it quietly and take advantage of the turmoil ahead to complete our plan. ”

What Jacques and the others never expected was that when Mr. Joseph left, he was supported by Marianne's thirty men and two million silver coins to establish a trading company. Start with the transcendent teenagers who have awakened by contract, then poach those ordinary transcendents whose contracts have expired, and then send transcendents and workers to the New World in the name of recruitment and labor dispatch.

After that, it is a matter of waiting for the crisis to erupt and then obtaining cheap labor from Castile in large quantities.

Marianne is said to have made the same arrangements in Stuart and the Northern Regions.

Marianne concluded: "The worker is the executor of labor, and labor is the source of wealth, so the worker is the supporter of the upper class like us."

Now that we want to go further, we need more supporters.

When I get my hands on the Baptiste family's technology through cooperation, plus our own industrial workers and factories, we will do better than the Empire. We already have our own cloth, wool and porcelain produced in the New World, and in the future we will have our own railroads, our own steam cars, and our own processing machinery. ”

Looking at Marianne with confidence, Jacques felt that he was underestimating this scheming eldest lady, and she was able to control most of the West family's property, and it was not for nothing.

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