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After the harvest of barley in the fields and apples in the orchards.

Taking the opportunity of the "First Congress of the Free Business Alliance" to be held in the Grand Territory, Zhou Ming personally took the herald messenger and ran through the 72 member territories of the Free Business Alliance, and invited the barons and counts of these territories to basically come over (the lord will also send an important representative if he can't come) to participate in this significant congress.

Before that, after Zhou Ming drew the design drawings, he took the servants to clean up the inside and outside of the castle.

First of all, after scraping off the many moss and gray spots that grew on the outer walls of the castle, the exterior walls were painted with lime mixed with pigments and painted with a warm yellow color that emitted soft light; the uneven walls of the interior were smoothed with cement and scraped with a layer of white, and the interior light was brightened; and the masonry floor of the corridor bedroom was covered with a layer of mahogany floors and a layer of non-slip carpet.

Then, the real highlight came, in addition to the living room and bedroom where he lived, in the hundreds of guest rooms prepared for the delegates who came to participate in the business alliance conference, Zhou Ming let all the people change into dozens of new furniture produced by the furniture workshop, and so the representatives of the business alliance lived in these rooms, just one night, he dared to pack tickets, these delegates, do not buy a few sets of furniture to go back, destined to be reluctant to go.

At the end of October, the agreed date for the meeting arrived.

The member lords of the Free Business Alliance have come to the Gran Territory.

Those who arrived a few days in advance were naturally the three barons who were the first to participate in the business alliance, such as Joken Collar, Nathan Collar, and Paton Collar.

As soon as these three barons stepped into the newly decorated castle, whether they had good or bad psychological quality, whether they had extensive knowledge or poor cognition, the three barons were like dirt buns in the depths of the mountains, and suddenly came to the central commercial street of the bustling city, as if they had traveled through time and space, and were completely shocked by the layout of the living room in front of them.

The smooth white walls, the mahogany floors with glossy textures, the white and soft square wool blankets, the sofa chairs with strange shapes and low feet that make people want to lie down, the simple and functional coffee table, the high-end utensils in the lattice cabinets on the walls, and the silver-plated candlesticks hanging from the ceiling...... In the living room, except for the fireplace, there have been no changes, and the other layouts have undergone earth-shaking changes.

The three barons, in order to enter the living room, had to take off their stinking shoes and boots with the help of the servants, put on slippers, and change out of the armor that shook off the iron filings on their bodies at any time, went to the bathroom on the third floor of the castle, and after a comfortable hot bath under the service of the servants, they changed into loose and comfortable home clothes and walked around the castle.

For three consecutive days, the three barons who had moved into the castle in advance were unanimously silent about the castle's facilities and did not express any opinions.

This made Zhou Ming very strange, and he was expecting their amazing performance...... On the third day, at a sumptuous dinner, the three barons had to be asked what they thought of the living facilities of the castle.

"No opinion, it's good, it's all good!"

Baron Howard buried his head in eating the steak on the silver plate, thinking to himself that when he returned to his territory, he must come out in a more comfortable living environment than this!

"Dear Edward, you're doing so well here, I'm not used to it, the chairs you sit on are too soft, your back hurts after sitting for a long time, and the bed you sleep on at night is too flat, and there is nothing to rest underneath, it's not too comfortable to sleep, and it's too clean, if you want to go to make it convenient, you have to run to a toilet far away, and sit on that one, ......yes! Trouble, what a hassle. ”

Baron Sean, who told the truth, began to vomit, he felt that the various living facilities of this castle could not be said to be bad, but it was too troublesome to use.

"Knight Edward, I don't have any opinion, I have to say, the bathhouse on the third floor of the castle is really good, I have to go over every day to take a dip, and when I go back, I will also build one in my castle. ”

Baron Romon gave a thumbs up and said, living in the cold north, he rarely takes a big bath twice a year, the first time he came to the Grand Collar as a guest, he soaked in the bathhouse for a long time, brushed off the dirt on his body with a stiff brush, and found that he was floating up when he walked, and gradually became obsessed with the feeling of bathing.

Zhou Ming, who didn't hear a sentence he wanted to hear the answer, was very disappointed, and stopped beating around the bush, and asked them directly: "What do you think of all kinds of furniture in the castle? If I take out these styles of furniture and sell them to the outside world, do you think they can be sold?"

As soon as the words fell.

Howard raised his head and said, "Why can't you sell it?" All the furniture in this castle, give me a set! However, don't sell it too expensive, at most 100 gold coins a set, and the furniture sold by the traveling merchants is about the same price, don't kill me." ”

Hearing this, Baron Sean became anxious, and immediately said in a loud voice: "Mr. Howard, how can the furniture sold by the traveling merchants be compared with the furniture here? The furniture of the traveling merchants is made of ordinary oak, and the furniture here is made of red pine wood at the worst, and some of them are made of precious wood, whether it is material, craftsmanship, or quality, they are all much better! As for the sofa chairs that we are sitting on with thick fur wrapped on the outside, the fur on them is not only 1,000 gold coins, 100 gold coins, and at most we can buy a small wooden chair. ”

"Knight Edward, how much will your furniture sell for here? My Parton Collar was robbed by the wildlings a few months ago, and it cost a lot of money to rebuild the territory, and if your furniture here is too expensive, I can only buy a little bit. ”

Baron Romon said, originally he also wanted to buy two sets of furniture to go back to decorate the castle, but he was taken aback by Baron Sean's opening of the price of a set of thousands of gold coins, and after thinking about it, he still dispelled this idea and bought a few comfortable chairs to sit on cheaper.

Hahaha.

Zhou Ming laughed in his heart.

He was still worried that the sales of furniture would be a problem just now, but he was not worried at all at this time, and said to them with a smile: "Don't worry, I will give you a preferential price, a set of fur sofas, the price will not exceed 500 gold coins, a carved bed, will not exceed 300 gold coins, a set of tables and chairs, will not exceed 100 gold coins, but you are the first to join the business alliance, I can give you a 5% discount on the basis of this preferential price, you should be able to afford it, right?"

In fact, excluding the salary expenses of craftsmen, those furs exchanged for grain, and wood cut from the periphery of the territory, the cost is at most some manpower consumption, and the actual cost of these furniture, after entering mass production, generally dropped to 10-50 gold coins (there are more gold and silver minerals in this world, 1 gold coin = 50 silver coins, an ordinary farmer's family, the annual expenditure will not exceed 10 gold coins), the external selling price, of course, should be on top of the cost, at least multiplied by ten.

"You can afford it, you can afford it! It's so cheap, there will definitely be a lot of people who will buy it, sell me a few sets of furniture first, don't be robbed by other lords!"

"My dear son-in-law, sell me all the furniture except for the bed that I am really not used to, my wife Ailian, I will love the furniture......"

"Knight Edward, in addition to the furniture, you can arrange for a mason to go to Paton Collar to help me design a bathhouse, the kind of hot water in winter, I need this ...... very much"

"Okay, yes, yes. ”

Zhou Ming nodded again and again, looking at the three barons who were so enthusiastic, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, there is a play, there should be a play now!

……

A few days later.

The first congress of the Chamber of Commerce was successfully held.

Sure enough, more than 70 lords or lords' representatives who came to the Grand Collar lived in the high-end atmosphere and extremely luxurious castle, and were first deeply shocked, and then they had an extremely strong interest in all kinds of living facilities and furniture in the castle, and learned that the furniture workshop of the Grand Collar has a large number of furniture of the same style in the castle for sale, and they have made a move, you have ten sets, he has twenty sets, and has placed thousands of furniture orders, with a total order amount of more than 150,000 gold coins.

Not only furniture, during the first congress of the business alliance, at a large open-air celebration banquet held on the lawn in front of the castle, Zhou Ming asked people to build a large catwalk, so that dozens of outstanding male and female models wore all kinds of fashionable fur coats, furs, leather shoes, leather boots, belts and other clothing products produced by the Grand Collar Garment Workshop.

On the same day, these representatives who came to the Grand Collar not only snapped up thousands of finished clothing products from the Grand Collar Garment Workshop, but also placed an order of 100,000 gold coins and more than 2,000 pieces of fur clothing after paying more than 60,000 gold coins in cash, so many orders were enough for the garment makers of the garment workshop to produce at full speed for a month!

Furniture, fur clothing, these two types of commodities, at present, are only the two types of goods at the lowest end of the industrial chain planned by Zhou Ming, and his large-scale workshop industrial base is only a prototype.

After the various resources in hand (such as grain, meat, coal, iron ore, gold and silver, etc.) are enough, a large number of workshops established around these resources produce a large number of secondary and tertiary high value-added products after deep processing of raw materials, and then sell them to the inner and surrounding territories of the business alliance to earn huge profits, and then buy a large number of primary raw materials from the inner or surrounding territories of the business alliance, thus building a complete consumption cycle......