Chapter 20: Wealth
Restraining the joy in her heart, Jessica put away the tattered canvas with trembling hands and carefully put it back on the carriage.
"I know there must be water in this estimate, but after all, you have worked hard, and these things will be sold to you for three hundred and fifty thousand. β
"This ......" The old man with monocles looked bitter, took out a silk handkerchief and wiped his sweat continuously.
"What?" Jessica's eyes widened. "Don't think that the new nobles are all fools who can only fight and kill! I know your set very well, even if you give the real price, but after you eat this thing, you can still make a lot of money by auctioning it in batches, people must know how to be content, be careful that if you are greedy, you will lose!"
"Miss Jessica, how dare you falsely report the price to you, 350,000 gold gold is definitely a real market price. β
"So what are you doing with all the!"
"But the total price of this batch of things is too high! Not to mention our Chamber of Commerce, even if all the chambers of commerce stationed in the royal capital work together, they can't eat it." β
Jessica snorted coldly. "Don't tell me these useless words, don't you know how big your chamber of commerce is in terms of appetite? In the past few years, you have taken more than 50,000 Jingold orders from our Farrell family alone, and now you tell me that you can't eat it?"
The old man had a bitter face, and the silk handkerchief in his hand seemed to be fished out of a bucket, and the sweat on his face was wiping more and more.
"Miss Jessica, the order of 50,000 yuan took three years to complete, and we earned it at cost price, and the profit was very meager. β
"Hehe, a set of worn-out bust armor can cost twelve goldgold, and you still have the face to tell me that the profit is meager?"
The old man rubbed his hands together and smiled: "The price is higher than the market price, that's not Her Majesty the Queen...... Avril Avril, that woman is embargoing you~ It costs us money to deal with the surrounding lords along the way, and most of the heads are eaten by those lords, so we will make some hard-earned money. β
"Hmph, okay, I still have important things to do, I'm too lazy to talk to you, you can make a price!"
"Hey, hey, that's it, I'll have the courage to give you a number - 150,000 goldheads. β
"Bastard!" Jessica was furious, and bounced off her throne, reaching for the whip on her waist.
"You might as well grab 150,000 yuan! This is the accumulation of hundreds of years of the French royal family, and you can eat 150,000 if you want to?"
The old man took a half step back, as if startled by her. "Miss Jessica, the accumulation of hundreds of years in the French Empire is indeed a lot, but it has also been spent. One king could spend more money than the next, and the palace was added three times during Peter's reign alone, and now occupies half of the royal capital.
And a few years ago, in order to help the Grand Duke of the North raise military expenses, that woman sold a lot of good things. I also mortgaged a lot of things to repair the houses of the untouchables in the city, and the money for the canal to repair the royal capital was also from here, and many of the things in front of you still nominally belong to our Chamber of Commerce......"
"Those have nothing to do with me!" Jessica flicked her whip and let out a pop out of thin air.
"These are my trophies! Not the collateral of the French royal family! You go to that woman and ask for this money, I won't pay for a copper capper!"
"I'm not interested in continuing with you, you old thing is afraid that I am short of military funds, and I urgently need a sum of money to appease the nobles, but it is absolutely impossible to discount the price by more than sixty percent. β
The old man didn't know when he straightened up, his rickety body also stood up, and the sweat-soaked handkerchief was long gone, only to see him smile and groan:
"It turns out that Miss Jessica, you are in a hurry to use the money, and the old man knows that there is such a thing, in this way, do you want to use these things as collateral first, our Jinsaroluo Chamber of Commerce is willing to give you an advance first, and then buy it at the market price at that time when you have collected the money." β
"Less nonsense, hurry up and make an offer!"
"Okay, Miss Jessica, how about you look at the price of these thingsβ180,000?"
"Old thing, are you kidding me?" Jessica narrowed her eyes, staring at the old man with a gaze as cold as a knife, revealing Senhan's killing intent.
"There must also be a limit to robbery while the fire is hot, aren't you afraid that you can get the money but you can't spend it?"
The old man sighed, took out the silk handkerchief and wiped the monocle, his face full of helplessness.
"Alas, if it had been put two years ago when Queen Avril was here, the old man would have been willing to spend a lot of money to buy these things, but hadn't the noble Farrell family already overthrown the royal family of Fran? You don't want to mortgage these things, and you probably know that these antiques will depreciate.
Unless you wait for three or five or seven years to be completely wiped out by your family, the price of these things will only get lower and lower. Our chamber of commerce just wants to make a long-term investment, accept this batch of things first, and wait for ten or eight years before the situation is stable. If all the money is thrown on this, the old chamber of commerce will be sad for the next few years. β
Seeing Jessica frowning and silent, the old man lifted his monocle, as if he had made up his mind, and stretched out his hand to make a yes.
"Two hundred thousand! We are willing to pay 200,000 jingold to eat everything, and if you are willing to give us this palace, then 350,000......!
"Two hundred and fifty thousand!" Jessica gritted her teeth and glared at the kind-looking old man.
"Give me 250,000 gold gold, these things are yours, otherwise I would rather use these things directly to appease those nobles, as for the gap in military spending, be careful when your chamber of commerce passes the card in the future!"
Seeing that this short-tempered long-legged beauty had the intention of flipping the table, the old man hurriedly recovered his humble appearance, agreed with a smile, and then beckoned his entourage to draw up a contract immediately.
"Don't be angry, no, no. Our Jinsaro Chamber of Commerce is optimistic about the future of the Farrell family, this business is not to make money, just to make you a friend, we will make a deal of 250,000 yuan. If one day you are short of money, please feel free to contact us, even if you give up this life, you will be satisfied. β
"Hmph, don't tell me these scenes, what I want to see is Kingor!"
The old man smiled and handed over a contract. "No problem, we will deliver as promised within three months. β
"Don't go too far!" Jessica was furious, and with a whip of her hand, she whipped the contract into a cloud of confetti.
"You're out of breath, it's really okay this time. After all, it was 250,000 goldgold, which weighed nearly three tons, and it would take more than 100 horse-drawn carriages to pull it over if it was replaced with copper capper.
Although our chamber of commerce is strong, it is very difficult to take out so much cash at once, and it takes time to sell some industries and mobilize inventory from local chapters. β
The old man's smile grew brighter and brighter, and his small eyes were almost buried in his wrinkled eyelids. "If you can't wait, you can also tell the old man what you want to do with the money. Food, ordnance, horses, whatever, the old decay will give you the internal price, and when the time comes, how about directly exchanging it for the corresponding goods and delivering them to your door?"