The words of the merchant who stood up said the crux of the problem, and the others all nodded in agreement, expressing their approval of what he said, but at the same time, there was also a helpless expression in their eyes, there was almost no solution to this kind of problem, unless there was a relationship that could pull the city gate officials and other nobles over, otherwise they would not be able to win the garrison merchants at all, and even if they were pulled over, it would only be to obtain the privilege of an advanced city, and barely narrow the gap between themselves and the garrison to four or six points, yes, the local merchants were four, and the garrison was six。

Price, product quality, these two things are the most important factors that determine consumption, before the emergence of monopoly, under the competition of conventional means who has cheaper price and better quality, who can win, of course, there are methods such as speculation, but that is the ranks of virtual economy and finance.

After the merchant finished speaking, he chose to sit down again, and one of the elders of the Chamber of Commerce above stood up with a smile:

"Since everyone knows so well, then I don't need to say more, at the moment, we don't have a long-term solution, but the short-term solution still exists!"

The elder's confident smile made the merchants below suddenly warm up, and they were curious about what kind of solution the elders of the Chamber of Commerce would bring to themselves, and when they saw the elder, they coughed and said:

"After unremitting efforts, our Council of Elders has finally found a way to meet the nobles who are in charge of the distribution of the city gate officials, and we have negotiated the price, as long as we can scrape together this money, then we can at least guarantee the privilege of entering the city first. ”

After the elder's words were finished, the merchants cooled down, if in terms of solutions alone, this is indeed a solution, although it will not allow them to return to the peak state in one fell swoop, but at least they have the ability to compete with the garrison caravan, not to mention, you can't transport fresh vegetables and fruits from the garrison!?

"And how much do we need?"

Speaking of the most crucial issues, another elder stood up and said:

"Everyone also knows that the garrison has given a lot of benefits, so which nobleman we want to impress, at least more than the garrison, we have to calculate it, at least 100,000 silver coins!"

When the number of 100,000 silver coins was said, the merchants present gasped, what is the concept of 100,000 silver coins, this has been said in the previous place, 10,000 gold coins are enough to form a team of 100 knights, and these 100,000 gold coins are 1,000 knights, so it is no wonder that the merchants gasped.

The elders may also think that the price is too high, so they hurriedly said:

"Actually, you don't need to worry too much, we said that we will pay in three installments, and everyone will work together to get the priority right to enter the city, and you can still earn it back!"

Although there were many reluctances, the merchants still chose to accept after talking to each other, because in fact, up to now, they have no way out, after the agreement to go home to withdraw the money, tomorrow morning after the unified handover to the presbyterian church, this meeting is even if it is over, Orson followed his father on the way home, towards the five hundred silver coins that his family needs, and he can't help but be a little worried, if the five hundred silver coins are paid, the family will really have no liquidity at all.

"Orson, let's go to the garrison!"

"Huh?!"

Does the Council of Elders really have a way to find the nobles in charge of the city gates? Of course, but can they really convince the nobles to give priority to the local nobles with 100,000 silver coins? There is a certain possibility! However, what if the money is given and the nobles quit again? They are just local merchants who have no backing, but the merchants of the garrison have a big backer behind them, and it is impossible for the Delhi nobles to offend the garrison for such a small profit if they have money.

The defeat of the alliance army of the Three Realms, especially the mutiny-style defeat of the whole army, severely shocked all the nobles, and the nobles of Baicheng did not dare to talk about the war lightly, how dare they, the Delhi nobles in the south, be able to vigorously suppress and eliminate the influence of Lu Luxiu's active expansion in their own territory, and if they further deal with the caravan, they will really hit the stone with an egg.

Lao Aosen knows very well that the merchants in the garrison are really powerful, and when the 'official businessman' is created by Lu Luxiu, all the private merchants will have no room to survive, unless they themselves become official businessmen.

When Orson saw the choice given by the Elders, he suddenly lost his last expectation, and resolutely decided to leave his hometown, they were merchants, and the merchants did not have too strong rural plots, so they chose to leave.

That night, there were many merchants who made the same choice as Orsin, and none of the merchants were fools, if they were, they would not have been able to survive in the business world until now, they might have gone to other regions, but one thing is certain, that is, after this meeting, the power of the local merchants in Delhi is not far from completely collapsing.

The change of the merchants of Delhi is only an episode of the change between the merchants of the whole God-given land, and in a place that the nobles never pay attention to, Lelouch launched a one-sided battle, which is completely out of all the battles that the contemporary Middle-earthites can imagine, and this battle takes place in a situation that the people of the God-given land have no knowledge of, and as for the situation of the battle~

Perhaps the one-sided slaughter can be described as one-sided.

The nobles may be able to restrict the movement of commoners, but there is nothing they can do about the merchants, they themselves need to run around, and besides, money can make the devil grind, even if the top is really not allowed to go, is there no way to accommodate the bottom?

Almost every day, countless small merchants migrated to the garrison, which now had enough kulak class to have a very developed purchasing power of their own, but who needed a large number of merchants to satisfy their buying desires, and at the same time to give Lelouch a tax collector.

Lelouch plans to successfully cultivate a large-scale small merchant class in the next three years, and at the same time further expand the rich peasant class, as long as this is completed, the business of industry and commerce, Lelouch will be regarded as a preliminary construction, and as for industry, it can be regarded as a small achievement now, at least Lelouch can now be the mobilization of his entire garrison, with a refined steel armor in his hands, and this perverted production capacity is about to catch up with the dwarf clan of blacksmiths of the whole people.

And the war that Lelouch has been waiting for for a long time has finally come!