Late autumn in September. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In a golden maple forest in front of the castle, in the blessings of a group of guests, after solemnly swearing in front of Brother Robert, the newlyweds were officially married.

This pair of newcomers is naturally Zhou Ming and Fanny.

The newlywed Yan'er, perhaps out of regret left over from the previous life, Zhou Ming temporarily threw away the troubles in his heart, rode a horse, took his wife Fanny, and went outside for more than a month for his honeymoon.

For more than a month, the two went to see the snow-capped mountains in the east together, went to see the grasslands in the north together, hunted in the forests together, and went to the lake to play together.

This time was the happiest time in his wife Fanny's life.

……

Shortly after the honeymoon.

Zhou Ming, who had some clear ideas in his mind, took a roll of parchment full of words and walked to his father, Baron Connor's study.

"This ...... Can this really work?"

It took more than an hour to read the hundreds of lines of text densely packed on the parchment, and Baron Connor patted his somewhat swollen brain, but he had not yet fully digested the huge amount of information on the parchment.

As long as there are three baronies willing to join this plan, within five years, our Grand Territory will become the richest territory in the entire Warris Kingdom!"

Zhou Ming is full of confidence!

This "Free Business Alliance" plan, which he thought about and spent more than a month tossing, as long as it is launched externally, as long as it gets the response of the surrounding three to five territories to join, after tasting a certain sweetness, it is estimated that it will not be long before even the greedy and stingy lords will involuntarily join this plan under the inducement of huge interests.

In the "Free Business Alliance" drafted by Zhou Ming, the main plan is to set up a business alliance led by the Gran Leader, and then pull the surrounding territories such as the Berdo, Joken, Nathan, and Paton (subordinate to the Northern Merlin Count) into this business alliance!

For this business alliance, Zhou Ming also formulated several core rules that all members of the business alliance must strictly abide by, and these rules, if violated, will be bound and severely punished by the business alliance!

There are five core rules of the "Free Business Alliance":

1. The principle of tax exemption shall be followed in all commercial activities involving the lords of each territory.

(i.e. Lord A sells all his goods to Lord B, who lacks the goods, and Lord B will not pay additional taxes to Lord A after purchasing these goods, and vice versa)

2. Between the territories, all commercial activities in which the lords participate shall follow the principle of tax exemption.

(That is, when a lord sells all his goods to a lord B who lacks the goods, if there is a lord C between the two territories of A, then the lord of C, as long as he joins the free trade union, will not be taxed on these goods, and shall let these goods pass through his territory free of charge.) Conversely, the goods of Lord C shall not be taxed when they pass through the territory of Lord AB. ）

3. Each lord's territory shall allow other lords to establish a well-functioning sales and warehousing center in their territory, and a commodity supply and demand information exchange center to carry out regular information update and exchange, if goods are traded here, the local lord can only levy a maximum of 20% of the commercial tax, and if the local lord trades here, he shall abide by the first principle of tax exemption.

4. The territory of each lord shall formulate a uniform tax rate for the traveling merchants in various places, such as the traveling merchants from all over the country when transporting foreign goods into the area of the business alliance for sale, the lords can levy no more than 50% of the commercial tax, such as the traveling merchants in various places, the goods in the business alliance will be transported to the non-business alliance area for sale, and they will enjoy the second territorial customs tax exemption policy. If the goods of the business alliance are sold within the business alliance, the traveling merchant will enjoy the third policy preference, that is, the maximum commercial tax will only be levied at 20%.

5. The lords of each territory shall abide by the provisions of the business alliance, and shall not force the purchase and sale, arbitrarily collect taxes, or break the regulations.

Focusing on the five core articles, Zhou Ming also formulated some supplementary provisions to ensure that under various circumstances, all members of the Free Business Alliance can strictly abide by the five core articles and dare not go beyond half a step.

"Dear Edward, how can you guarantee that these terms and conditions you have formulated will be strictly observed by the other lords? Moreover, the lords everywhere do not seem to have any goods worthy of trading with other lords, and these terms you have written are not of use in most cases, and these terms are so cumbersome and cumbersome...... I don't think there will be that baron who will join your free trade alliance. ”

Baron Kang'an is not optimistic about Zhou Ming's plan, all the territories in this world are basically self-sufficient and closed, only gold, silver, copper, salt and iron cloth, these items with the attributes of currency circulation, human necessities, and war use, have certain flow characteristics.

Like grain, cattle and sheep, wood, stones, other territories are not very short, only in some special circumstances, will become scarce, such as war, famine and so on.

Therefore, if Zhou Ming wants to make up his mind on these goods, he will only touch a nose of dust.

Zhou Ming smiled mysteriously, and said confidently: "Dad, whether it is useful to set up the Free Business Alliance or not, no one counts, you have to try it to know, so Dad, you give me all the 200,000 Tarun grain backlogged in the castle granary, and let Teacher Morris and them be my helpers, I am sure that within six months, I will use the power of the Free Business Alliance to sell all this grain!"

200,000 Tarun grains, sold out in half a year?

Baron Connor shook his head in disbelief and questioned it severely.

Although he admitted that sometimes, this son was indeed a little smarter than him, but he couldn't believe it when he sold out the grain accumulated in the castle granary for more than 10 years in half a year and killed him.

Because even Baron Connor himself, through the channels of countless traveling merchants, can sell up to 20,000 talons of grain a year.

But no matter what, since his son is so confident, he doesn't seem to have disappointed him since he was a child, so let him try, and sell out a large amount of grain that will rot every year, which can be regarded as a piece of heart disease in his heart.

……

So, in the next nearly month, Zhou Ming carried out a series of "diplomatic" activities, trying his best to win over the surrounding lords and invite them to join the "Free Business Alliance" of the Grand Territory.

"What? Free Business Alliance, what the hell? Not interested, send off. "Baron Garcia, who was led by Petero, was very unimpressed with Zhou Ming and drove him away in a short temper.

"Boy, if you join this free business alliance, within half a year, you can really earn more than 10,000 gold coins? You dare to pack tickets, if you don't have this number, you can make it up to me? Okay, I'll participate, as long as I can get so much money!"

Baron Howard, who is in the Yoken Territory, has always been very concerned about running the territory, his Yoken Collar is very large, but there are many barren lands, and he is plagued by financial crises every year, and now there is a money-making opportunity sent to the door, and he will naturally not let it go.

"Good son-in-law, you can do whatever you say, you don't need to give me a ticket, you can earn as much as you want! Also, your idea of the self-business alliance is very good, I support you to try it!"

Baron Sean has nothing to say, his son-in-law wants to do something big, he, as a father-in-law, has to support it, and since the introduction of some advanced agricultural technologies such as centralized manure processing and improved farm tools from Gran Ling a few years ago, Nathan Collar has also had the problem of unsalable grain, and now Zhou Ming said that he can help him solve it together, then it would be better.

With the addition of two members, Zhou Ming's final target was placed on the Paton Territory in the Earldom of Merlin.

The Paton Territory is a northern neighbor adjacent to the border of the Grand Territory, but because of the problem of the "North-South Dispute" in the upper echelons of the kingdom, the relationship between the two territories is not very good, and it does not dry up every year, but there is little contact.

"Knight Edward, are you really willing to take my son and let him be your knight's squire when he is 12 years old?"

The lord of the Parton Lord, Baron Romon, was very disgusted with all the "Nankees", and felt that they were more annoying than the wild people in the north, and after listening to the intention of Zhou Ming, who came to visit, he wanted to blow him away, but before he could speak, he heard that Zhou Ming wanted to accept his 8-year-old son Eric as an attendant and train him to be a good knight, Baron Romon immediately changed his mind and interviewed him in detail.

Unlike the warm and rich south where the "Nanyans" live, the north has always been synonymous with poverty in cold and long winters, and often faces the attacks of the northern savages, so the knights of the north are known for their bravery, because they are too poor, and most of the barony territories in the north, although the territory is very large, there are few knights to support. Even a nobleman like Baron Romon does not have to think about the future of the eldest son, but for the second son, he often does not know how to arrange it.

With the economic situation of the northern lands, if you want to buy a set of knights' equipment, it will take at least several generations of accumulation, and a family can provide more than two knights, which is something that the earl is only qualified to do.

Therefore, once the eldest son inherited the title and the domain, the second son who was exiled often had a very tragic fate, either becoming mercenaries, or becoming a farmer who cut wood or a horseman.

Baron Romon was very fond of his 8-year-old son, Eric, and was worried about his future, not knowing what to do with him in the future.

But he didn't expect that there was a chance to send it to the door today, and he was still a knight's squire, and he also helped solve the cost of equipment purchase, and he was a little moved.

Not only that, after listening to the purpose of coming to Paton Collar said by this "Nanyan", Baron Romon, who was burly and had a lot of people on his face who was pulled open by the cold wind, couldn't help but change his face and shouted:

"Knight Edward, you said that you would build a trading post in Paton to sell grain from the south? How could you have thought of doing this? Didn't you Nankees always die when we encountered a famine to the north? You even thought of selling us grain?"

Surprised, Baron Romon uttered the contemptuous term 'Nanyan'.

Zhou Ming didn't care, but said indifferently: "We can't eat enough grain in the granary, rather than rotting in the granary, it is better to take it to the north and sell it for some money...... I heard that the climate in the north has been bad in the past two years, and there have been several white plagues in the hottest summer, and many tribes in the northern savage kingdom seem to be about to start eating people, and they have recently increased their troops on the border, if His Majesty the King doesn't give them some food, I'm afraid they will really invade on a big scale, right?"

In the memory left by the previous life, Zhou Ming remembered very clearly, because of the white plague for two consecutive years, the Savage Kingdom will invade the Warris Kingdom after the spring in March next year, and the scale of the army is so large that it even penetrated the seven counties in the north and directly entered the seven counties in the south to burn and loot, and even the Gran Territory was robbed of seven villages.

Hearing the words "can't eat" and "rot", Baron Romong, who has had a very bad life in the past two years, wanted to strangle the hateful guy in front of him in front of him, but when he thought of the current financial situation of the territory, he frowned and said: "Knight Edward, I am very grateful for your help and bring some food that is in short supply, but what do you need? You should know that the Northland is very poor, and there are no gold coins to buy those grains, so ......"

"It doesn't matter if you don't have gold, as long as you have it in your territory, whether it's fox skin, mink skin, wolf skin, black bear skin, white bear skin, snow sheep skin, or birch, iron pine, and cold shirt wood...... These things can be exchanged for food, of course, if you have some natural ores that are better, we will also collect these things......"

In the northern forests and snow fields, all kinds of animal furs with excellent cold-proof effect have always been fashionable and rare for the upper-class nobles of wealthy countries in the south such as the Iron Castle Kingdom, a rare pure white fox fur, worth thousands of gold coins, and a white bear skin spread on the king's throne can also be sold for tens of thousands of gold coins.

Not only precious furs, but also all kinds of high-quality wood resources are not lacking in the northern forests, seas and snow fields, such as century-old birch wood with fine texture, fire-resistant and moisture-proof suitable for making high-end furniture, iron pine wood with hardness comparable to steel, and cold fir wood with a faint fragrance after burning...... All of them are precious resources that can only be grown in the extremely harsh alpine environment of the north.

In addition, Zhou Ming also heard that the wildlings in the wildling kingdom further north, because of their backward smelting technology, used many of the weapons in their hands were actually made of huge high-grade iron ore, copper ore and other hard metal ores, which could be slashed with the knight's sword.

Even, some savages who pursue beauty, the ore axe used in their hands is shining with golden light, and it is a piece of axe-shaped dog-headed gold.

Zhou Ming knew that the various savage tribes in the savage kingdom were also extremely short of food, if possible, he also wanted to transport a batch of grain to the savage tribes further north, and there was no food growing in the frozen soil.

"The world is full of business opportunities, no matter what kind of goods they are, when it comes to those who lack these goods, they are all treasures worth paying generously. Zhou Ming once sighed.

Hearing that he could exchange Zhou Ming's scarce food for the furs in the castle that he didn't know where to put and the endless mountains that he didn't bother to cut down, Baron Romon readily agreed to his plan and joined the "Free Business Alliance" initiated by him.

At this point, including the four territories of Gran Collar, Yoken Collar, Nathan Collar, and Paton Collar, the prototype of a primitive free business alliance was formally established through Zhou Ming's persuasion and inducement this month.