I embarrassedly drew circles on the table with my fingers, and then gloriously tested the old degree of this table, and the grease twisted off by my fingers was full of fingers, and the black was amazing: "Do you know what is the most precious thing in this era?" ”

"Money!" The old liar replied aloud, his eyes shining like a hungry wolf.

"Eat!" The bull is very realistic.

"Power!" Hans, the little deflated man, thought that he had stepped into the aristocratic circle with half a foot, and his mind was full of thoughts about how to climb up.

"Sausage!" The old man looked at me cautiously, and said his real name tremblingly, and the most important thing in the world is sausages.

"None of them are right!"

I shook my head, skeptical of the IQ of the henchmen in front of me, everyone was only staring at what they were interested in, and there was no innovative thinking at all, which really made people feel unconfident.

"The most precious thing in this day and age is creativity, you know? Groundbreaking creativity, don't they think that as long as you and I are stuck, there will be no way to make money, do you want to trap me in this way, I will tell them what creativity is, this road does not work, we will find another way, there is always a way to succeed. ”

I was hunched up, looking like a MLM brainwashing officer, and the expressions of the people below were dull, very much like ignorant people who had just been brainwashed.

"Ahh

The four of them nodded their heads ignorantly, like a group of ducklings shaking their heads, stupidly and neatly.

"Do you know what it means to have two fists and four hands? The power of unity is great, and as long as it is guided, the businessmen may not be able to do something great together. ”

I guided Isaac step by step, helping him jump out of the current thinking dilemma and broaden his horizons.

Because I know that in the history of Germany, there was a very powerful commercial alliance called the Hanseatic League, which was originally just a group of merchants who pursued commercial interests, and then gradually developed into an alliance between commercial cities, and in its heyday, it defeated Denmark and monopolized the trade of the Baltic Sea and part of the North Sea, and was a very successful middleman in the Middle Ages.

In the beginning, I was a little tempted to prop up Isaac as my business agent, and then gradually build a unified market behind me as my power grew, so that I could control the channels of trade to make money.

But now it seems that my idea is a little naïve, I think the plan is perfect but someone else chokes my life, just when I am looking for a good solution, this idea of the Hanseatic League then surfaced, taking advantage of the promotion of my title to take the opportunity to do this great thing, in the future will more or less help my own development, at least I will not worry about money anymore.

I made up my mind, although I don't have a system idea yet, but I can talk about it and discuss it with the old liar first, cross the river by feeling the stones, get on the horse and take a look first, anyway, it's already a poor bastard, let's go out and play with a big ticket!

"My idea is that you go to some familiar merchants, and I will organize you into a unified chamber of commerce, and auction off some of the items in my territory for the purchase of property or the supply of materials, and obtain the exclusive right to operate as you did at that time, and then dump them in other places, and I will also contact some of my friends to give you such power in their territories, and cancel your taxes."

"Let's try to do it together, and look far away, since you boast that you have been to such big places as Byzantium and Egypt, why are you only staring at the small market of Germany, I will provide you with protection, and you go to a farther place to do business, such as France or Normandy."

I was foaming at the stars, sketching a blueprint for the old liar's future, and he listened quietly and digested it slowly, which was contrary to the usual noisy normal.

"My lord, I understand your thoughts a little, but now we are facing the rejection of the entire German market, just your fiefdom cannot provide us with enough goods, what we need most is to go to various places to collect the goods we need, and we need to trade with other merchants, like you said, those cross-border trade or overseas trade, it is too unrealistic for us small merchants and traders to earn some money to support our families."

Isaac seemed uninterested in my proposal, and quickly pointed out to me some of the things I had in mind that were unrealistic.

I banged uneasily on the table with my hand, the old liar said the reality, now those big nobles have joined forces to bully me, some influential big businessmen, through the merchants they control, squeezing Isaac's business, his purchase channel can be said to be broken, relying only on the agricultural products collected from my territory, it is not enough to shake the big market, and now even the agricultural products are unsalable, and they cannot be sold everywhere, let alone someone who is willing to cooperate.

"So be it! Now that the slack season has begun, the farmers have nothing to do, and the winter wheat will be sown safely. I will open up some of my lord's private property, such as forests and ponds, you can hire my lords to help you cut wood or hunt and fish, I don't charge you for the things you collect, you only need to contract the projects you are interested in before, and the future operation and management will depend on your own strength, including replanting after felling, re-feeding fish after pond fishing, stocking livestock in the mountains and forests, in my words, it is an exclusive contract for multiple operations. ”

"In addition, I am still in the castle, providing you with a free place to store goods, safety can be guaranteed, and the bodyguards you need to go out to trade must also be hired from my people, this is called mutual benefit and win-win, understand?" Since there is no market for agricultural products, let's look at the by-products, this thing is very profitable.

Isaac crossed his fingers and counted the profits he might get, and he didn't answer me for the time being, but Hans on the side excitedly objected: "Master, don't do this, those territories are your private property, how can you give them to those inferior merchants who are covered in copper smell?" Besides, they were the lowest Jews, and God would not have loved such depravity! ”

Hans waved his fist up and down as he spoke, as if it was his own territory that had been opened, and Wangcai shook his head slightly as he stood behind him, indicating that he did not approve of my approach.

O children who have been poisoned by hierarchy and aristocratic honor! I am about to lose my food, and I still care about what etiquette and shame, doing business also requires brains and pay, there is no shame in relying on my own ability to earn money to support myself, I really have to do this thing, realize the ideal of the Hanseatic League planned in my mind, use the economic levers to seek the greatest interests for myself, learn from the ancestor Fan Li, the officialdom can not play and retire, transform into Tao Zhu to continue to fight in the shopping mall, and eventually become a rich man.

Isaac stretched out his ugly wrinkled face, and seriously stretched out two fingers in front of me and asked me, "For God's sake, can I contract two projects, sir?" ”

This fishy and smelly profiteer!