If you need it, do it, and if you don't, you don't have to do it because everyone else is doing it.

- Sadhguru (Enlightened Being, Enlightened Yogi, Mystic, Visionary Humanitarian, Outstanding Spiritual Teacher)

After coming to Bai Feng and seeing the appearance of the person in front of him, Powell hurriedly bent down respectfully and saluted: "Powell, the head of overseas trade of the Green Chamber of Commerce, has seen His Excellency the Governor!"

"The merchant ships that can be leased from the Governor's Palace also have a special person in charge of overseas trade. Bai Feng, who had a faint smile on his face, said in a calm tone: "Mr. Powell, it seems that the scale of your Green Chamber of Commerce is indeed not small?"

"In front of Your Excellency the Governor, how dare our Green Chamber of Commerce be big!" Powell said with a wry smile on his face: "If Commander Darnell tells his identity in time, our Green Chamber of Commerce will definitely present this boatload of fruit to His Excellency the Governor to show his gratitude." ”

"To show your heart?" Bai Feng couldn't help but smile: "I don't know what your Green Chamber of Commerce means?"

"Naturally, our Green caravan is grateful to Your Excellency the Governor!" Powell explained solemnly: "If it weren't for the guidance and support of you and the Governor's Palace, where would we have been living a thriving and happy life today!"

"Powell, I called you here to hear you tell the truth, not some flattery, do you understand?"

"Your Excellency the Governor, you are the one who does not know the place of you and your Governor's Mansion in the hearts of each of us. Powell, whose face was flattering, said frankly: "If it weren't for you and the Governor's Palace, my parents, wife and children would still be hungry." ”

"It is you who have rescued us from our original poor life, so that we no longer have to worry about food and survival, and even our Green Chamber of Commerce has developed to such a scale little by little with the policy support of the Governor's Palace. ”

"Your Excellency, I had lived in our tribe for thirty-two years before I met you, and three years in our town after I met you, and the first thirty-two years and the last three years made us truly understand what a world of difference is. ”

After Powell's earnest words, his eyes became rosy; the frankness of the barbarians is like the barbarians are all soldiers, so Bai Feng naturally does not have any doubts about what Powell said.

Compared with the civilized people who are proficient in the art of 'acting', the barbarians have always been known for their sincerity, not to mention, there is the loyalty attribute of the Roman city system, and the loyalty of the people in the various towns directly under the rule of the Roman city, Bai Feng knows better than anyone else.

"Powell, I hope you can translate your gratitude to the Doge's Mansion into help to all your suffering fellow citizens. Bai Feng, who had a plan in his heart, Chunchun taught him: "If you can't earn endless gold coins, you should use them more valuable, isn't it?"

"Thank you for your teachings, Your Excellency!" Powell, who understood his heart, immediately said: "After I go back this time, I will persuade all the leaders of our Green Chamber of Commerce to let them take out a sum of money from the Chamber of Commerce to help those compatriots in need." ”

"No, it's not a long-term solution. Bai Feng shook his head and vetoed: "The money that your Green Chamber of Commerce has taken out can help your suffering compatriots for a while, but it can't help them for a lifetime; ”

"This ......" After a slight hesitation, Powell said decisively: "But by the orders of His Excellency the Governor!"

"It's not a command, it's just a suggestion to try. Bai Feng said his idea and said: "You can persuade the responsible people of your Green Chamber of Commerce that your Green Chamber of Commerce will call on other chambers of commerce to jointly fund the establishment of a support foundation." ”

"This support foundation will use the money contributed by your major chambers of commerce to fund those people who are living in difficulty; if there are people who do not have enough funds and want to do business, they can also come to the foundation to apply for financial support, but after the business is successful, the funds must be repaid. ”

Powell hesitated: "Your Excellency the Governor, the establishment of a support fund is certainly beneficial to our suffering compatriots and people who want to do business, but it is not of much benefit to the Investor Association;

"You don't have to worry about this, all the chambers of commerce that join the Foundation to support it, our Governor's Mansion will give them appropriate tax reductions and relax the conditions for participating in maritime trade;

"In this way, it can indeed attract more chambers of commerce to join the support foundation. Powell, who was in business, pointed out the biggest drawback of supporting the foundation: "But Your Excellency, it is not easy for businessmen to participate in supporting the foundation. ”

"The support foundation, which is entirely invested by businessmen, naturally cannot be managed by the businessmen themselves. Bai Feng gave his own reply: "The Governor's Office will assign a special person to be responsible for the operation and management of the foundation, and investment businessmen are not allowed to participate. ”

Hearing this, if Powell didn't understand Bai Feng's determination to establish a support foundation, then he would have been in vain for so many years, so he said without hesitation: "Your Excellency the Governor, our Green Chamber of Commerce will definitely fully support the establishment of the support foundation!"

"Okay!" Bai Feng smiled and nodded, then brought the topic back to the fruit and said, "Powell, now let's talk about the price of this Yamato fruit first, I want to know what the cost price of this ship of fruit is as high as 30,000 gold coins." ”

"Your Excellency the Governor, the purchase price of this 1,500 boxes of fruit in Mutsu is 1,500 gold coins, but the total cost of chartering a ship and hiring a crew, and hiring port workers to carry it requires at least 5,000 gold coins, which is the basic cost of a sea without wind or waves. ”

"If the ship we lease is caught in a storm or strong wind and waves at sea from time to time during the voyage, the cost of recuperation of injuries and the cost of repairing damaged ships are all included in the cost. ”

"Coupled with the taxes and fees we pay to the Yanhuang family and the Doge's Palace, the cost of purchasing and transporting a shipload of fruit is about 8,000 gold coins, but in the process of sales, our Chamber of Commerce needs to wholesale the fruit to various fruit stores in the city of Rome at a price lower than the selling price. ”

"Therefore, every time our Green Chamber of Commerce transports a shipload of fruit from Mutsu Aoguo, the actual profit is only three or four thousand gold coins, and the rest of the profits are distributed to those fruit shops, and the profit obtained by each fruit shop will not be less than fifty gold coins, but it will not be too much. ”

"With the total population of our city of Rome of nearly one million, the number of fruit shops must not be small, and the profit of each shop is at least fifty gold coins. Bai Feng spoke out and said, "Your Green Chamber of Commerce has indeed promoted the economic development of our Roman City. ”

"Without the support of the Governor's Palace, how could we be where we are today. Powell, who was difficult to change his true character as a businessman, said half-modestly and half-flatteringly: "Everything is the credit of the Governor's Palace, and our Green Chamber of Commerce just happened to meet it." ”