Why are merchants reluctant to come to Brittany?

Is it because of the risk?

No, no, no, it has already been made clear that 'risk is not proportional to profit'. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The risk is too great, the profit is too small, the investment rate is too low, and this world is not a place where there is no business except Brittany, so why hang yourself on this tree!

-- If Magnus is so lucrative that it is like the Age of Discovery, where a pile of rags can be exchanged for a shipload of gold, then even if Brittany is a tiger's lair in Longtan and the lair of Satan, the demon king, there is nothing in this world that can stop these merchants - after all, are there fewer merchants who sell their souls to the devil?

In this case, the profit is not enough, Magnus makes a profit for it.

By forcibly inflating the price of food.

Food is an irreducible hard consumption, a person, he can do nothing, buy a house, not marry a wife, not wear clothes, but he cannot go without food.

Therefore, it is definitely profitable for these businessmen to raise the price of grain.

On the other hand, it is not so friendly to the average farmer.

Peasants are also human beings, and it is impossible for peasants not to eat, and raising the price of grain is a great burden on them in the first place; Moreover, agriculture is the foundation of everything, and in the era when agriculture was not yet developed, the prices of daily necessities were changing with the price of grain, and the price of grain increased, and it was inevitable that other necessities of life, such as salt, would all rise.

The average peasant family in Brittany has just lost its strong labor force, and now it is facing the soaring prices of food and daily necessities.

This is contrary to Magnus's original intention.

He attracts businessmen to make a fortune, not to bankrupt himself!

So Magnus came up with a way to divide the price of grain into two parts: the official purchase price and the guide selling price.

The official purchase price, as the name suggests, is the price at which people sell grain to Magnus - not just merchants, farmers, or others; The guide selling price is simply the price at which the merchants sell their grain to the peasants.

Both prices are set to death.

The guide selling price always follows the market price, and the official purchase price is 10% higher than the market price.

In this way, the merchants made much more money by selling grain to Magnus than if they had worked hard and sold it door to door to the peasants, not to mention that Magnus had enough credit here to avoid arrears and the like, so why not?

And Magnus, after buying a large amount of grain, could store it all in case of a disaster year, or he could sell it again - at market price.

On the surface, Magnus was at a loss, losing 10% of the overpaid price of grain, but Magnus gained far more than he lost.

For example, the stability of the market.

By hoarding grain in large quantities, when there is a shortage of grain in the market and the price of grain rises, Magnus can open a warehouse to release grain to calm the price of grain; Or in a bumper harvest year, when the price of grain plummeted, Magnus bought grain from the peasants at a price 10% higher than the market price, raising the price of grain and preventing a large outflow of grain.

Smart people know how important a stable market is to the economy.

What's more, to be honest, Magnus is not really at a loss, merchants have to pay taxes when they trade with him, poll tax and transaction tax, these two are the big heads, which are enough to make up for Magnus's losses.

The plan was good, but right away, Magnus had another headache.

Because no one can carry out his plan.

It was only at this moment that Magnus truly realized how lacking the talent around him was.

Father Adolphus can only chant the scriptures, Odegar is a general and knows nothing about economics, Alphonse is the same, and Lefèvre will soon be gone......

And then there was no one.

There were only a few useful people around Magnus, who could count them on his fingers, and after counting, he was stunned to find that none of them could lead the economic work!

A little understanding of economic principles, able to understand people's hearts, eloquent, and understand the importance of collecting information...... Magnus is not very demanding, but there is just no, no!

-- As for loyalty, it's not too important. Whoever puts anyone in this position, just taking bribes will make him soft and have common interests, and in less than two days, this person will definitely become Magnus's most loyal supporter.

But no.

Magnus himself could have done it, but he was now busy instructing the serfs in the implementation of the three-garden system on the estate; Agriculture is the foundation, and without developed agriculture, no matter how prosperous commerce is, it is only a flash in the pan, and Magnus will not lose a big thing because of a small thing.

In the situation of waste waiting to be rebuilt, every step is so difficult.

I can only put it first.

Magnus thought so, from the time Lefèvre spread the news to the time when the merchants heard about it, there should be at least a time lag of three or four days, and he only hoped that in the middle of it would be a wise man to come and take refuge; If it really doesn't work, then he will do it himself.

The big deal is to learn from Prime Minister Zhuge and bow down in person, and he will die of exhaustion early.

It should be for the benefit of future generations.

Although he has no descendants so far, he has no plans to get married.

But Odegar couldn't wait.

Because by April of this year, Magnus will be sixteen years old, and by medieval standards, he will be considered an adult.

As an adult, Magnus must take on the responsibility of reviving the family.

To put it simply, it is to get married early, have more children, and strive to carry forward the Godwin family as soon as possible.

-- As a matter of fact, the most important thing for Westerners is the family, and the so-called aristocracy, to put it bluntly, is the family inheritance, and the current Bush, Rockefeller, and these hidden consortia also exist in the background of the family.

And when the first king Harold was alive, he did set a marriage for Magnus.

A political marriage.

The marriage was made to a Welsh nobleman, the daughter of Llewellyn Apu Jolworth, the Duke of Wales.

This lady, Magnus had neither heard her name, nor seen her; I heard that the first king Harold was the same, probably, in Harold's heart, he could pocket the whole of Wales through a marriage, what is there to be dissatisfied with!

Even if this lady is a pig, she should still be married! If it weren't for his age, maybe Magnus would have had one more stepmother.

If only that were the case.

Magnus had not heard of this marriage before, because Saxon England had already perished, and Magnus naturally lost the value of the marriage; And the Welsh villagers, the main body of Wales is the Picts, but Magnus is the Saxons, there is a feud between the two, and after losing their value, it would be good if the Welsh people did not fall into the ground.

But now it's different.

Magnus laid down Brittany - although Brittany was not big and not at all comparable to England, but at least it was a foothold and a testament to Magnus's talent.

This gives Magnus value again.

What's more, the Welsh are brave and fierce and natural warriors, and once married, Llewellyn became Magnus's father-in-law, and with his family connections, Magnus could have asked for Llewellyn's support in times of war.

For him, who is just starting a business and is still working hard, this is a big benefit.

Therefore, Magnus hesitated in response to Odegar's daily urging......