It was used by the director of the Western Expeditionary Army...... Oh no, after inspecting the goods with a red face, Pasaño, who had been covered with a dazzling array of goods, simply accepted Eufael-Mondrich's invitation to stay and share lunch - although he was full of thoughts about how to send the ships of the Bilunar Church to send things back day and night, but the face of the host still had to be given.

It wasn't that his chamber of commerce hadn't used money to receive the wonderful items that Elta had seen, but there were only a few buyers.

Swapping a crate of gold for a crystal cup was a worthwhile deal for Passaño...... But in fact, the buyer asked to touch this thing with his own hands, not to mention, but also to advance and retreat in price. It is true that there is a profit, and the profit margin is really limited.

The gold coins were all the nobles, the landlords who exploited the value of the slave labor's labor - in exchange for grain or magic wood, and then the two moon churches bought the remaining pieces of meat. Compared to the large pieces of meat that have been taken from the bones, these riches seem like a lot, but in fact they are simply not enough to afford the large-scale consumption of luxuries......

Of course, Uffy Mondrich had the ability to get a large amount of Chinese goods, and even a large number of "strange strip food" (Weilong gluten), but he couldn't get even a single cook who could cook Chinese food. Otherwise, when this cook sees this table of dishes today, he will definitely laugh or scold: this is really a terrible thing!

Look at the leg of lamb that Passanio bites, except for seasoning it with sea salt, herbs, and onions, it is not technical at all...... It is necessary to know that the roast lamb leg in China, the three brothers of onion, garlic and ginger are indispensable, and black pepper can also be added when eating...... Heretics can also be served with ketchup.

This is the reason why Weilong gluten is sold at the price of gold from soybean raw materials, because the cooking standard of the bimonthly world is simply zero - especially in terms of production techniques and seasonings. And spicy, as a stimulating sensation that distinguishes it from other tastes, is amazing at least and addictive at worst...... That's not to mention.

So now Weilong's gluten is blatantly placed on the main course, and even the deep-sea fish that have to be caught with great effort from the sea of Xierqi do not dare to season it. It is placed on an aluminum plate alone - just like the aluminum plate of the spicy fried rice of a domestic university, which is exactly the same color, occupies the main dish position.

Of course, this food also made Passanio take a small box with him...... The two of them absolutely didn't know that these treasures were everywhere in the country, and they only needed the money of a good meal in Mendong City to take away two packets, and they could also get change.

The two who have made a lot of money with the advantage of information asymmetry, although they have some intuition, they definitely can't imagine that the portal that is still passing through the train day and night is the biggest reason for the information asymmetry.

For example, in the case of apples, there is usually a big businessman who comes to a certain village during the apple ripening season and wraps all the apples in round. If it was more advanced, the merchant could have made a pact with the village from the time he started growing apples. Pay a certain amount of apple fees in advance, and if the target village is not reached, the compensation will be doubled or even multiplied. He can choose to pass on these low-priced, prepaid apples to other big merchants, or he can send them to the Chamber of Commerce, as is traditional, and wait for the small merchants to pick them up - this can be understood as a precursor to futures.

However, no amount of improvement could be made in the form of means of payment, even in the form of debts borrowed by villages from merchants to collect interest...... Before an apple arrives at Hirzi's table from among the peaks in the southern region of Elta, it must first pass through at least first-hand buyers, chambers of commerce in nearby cities, traveling merchants from the chamber of commerce to the destination city (not Lawrence and Herlo, of course, the apples are eaten before they arrive), and finally the vendors of the destination market.

And it is impossible to expect that each of these tiers of merchants will not add value to apples. Thus what seems absurd to modern people has emerged. A regular apple costs two silver coins, one and a half of which is its logistics cost.

And simplifying even one link in the process will be subject to layers of resistance. Of course, small merchants also knew that the big merchants would inevitably increase the price of goods when they picked up goods from the villages and towns. It's just that it's cheaper than picking up apples himself, and even if it's cheaper, the local door won't be open to him. At the same time, if a big businessman wants to bypass the Chamber of Commerce, the administrative shelter and peer privileges that the Chamber of Commerce has been offering will interrupt his thoughts - or break his backbone, letting him know that he is still young and does not want to make big news.

The Chamber of Commerce is an important node in the Elta-style business system. All kinds of people meet here, selling or buying all kinds of things - including but not limited to goods.

For example, information. Some people do not carry goods between the major branches of the Chamber of Commerce, they sell the price of a certain commodity in a certain place, and in order to sell the information that can be obtained at the touch of a mobile phone in the other world, they do not hesitate to travel day and night, changing horses on the way without getting out of the car - there are even cases of brothers and husbands and wives changing shifts.

What the trader earns is the profit he makes in the game by relying on this information asymmetry. If you want to know the price of something in place B from place A, it must not be instantaneous - even if there is a messenger, the price of the item is still not instantaneous. After all, this little thing that can fly cannot be compared with the limited telegraph office, satellite telephone, and even the global cellular network. Think about it, now that you know the price of something at hand, how do you do it? Naturally, you pick up your phone and scan the barcode -- yes, you don't even have to spend time remembering what it's called or how it's organized, you can find out how much it was on a supermarket shelf in a certain second, and of course, the difference is already within 10 percent.

However, in Elta, or magnified to the whole bi-moon world, the price of cheap Weilong gluten that is selling well in Mendong City, even if someone reveals it to the outside world, so as to buy it in a big way, etc., this is provided that he can send a complete manifest, and the other party in Hilqi also knows what Chinese goods are selling in demand and profitable on this bill. How long does it take to come and go? Can it be compared with the early 20th century, which relied on the real-time quotation futures trading platform of the telegraph office?

And it is obviously impossible to make such a manifest. Even with a camera, can you afford to go into the supermarket and take pictures of everything? I'm afraid that the shelf has been updated again......

Clearly, there is a demand between growers and customers who want apples to sell higher, and "I want apples that are cheaper." When the magistrate saw this, he might have to ask, why didn't the fruit grower get in touch with the housewives in the towns directly?

Sorry, Elta doesn't have a nationally unified radio program yet. Even if there were, growers would need to pay for the advertised telegram directly at the local telegraph office in advance, and then wait for the logistics to pick up the goods? I'm really sorry (a bow), Elta's postman can't do such a big errand. Do you expect them to deliver letters slowly enough to be worthy of the salary they received from the magistrates, or do you expect them to work part-time in logistics? This kind of errand for a small amount of money to deliver goods is really not going to be able to do it - not that the postman is deflated, but that the postman will most likely take these goods as his first pot of gold (free of charge) as a small merchant, and run away.

Radio is a one-way medium that can't provide two-way feedback. The audience can only hear the selected news, let alone "ask" what they want to know from the media, and the media will "speak" to answer what you want to know. In this regard, newspapers, magazines and TV stations are also deflated, and even websites in the Web 1.0 era that only update their content by administrators have such drawbacks. And the myth that we see manufacturers opening online stores to sell products directly to the outside world is already in the Web 2.0 era - that is, after the bursting of the Internet bubble in the early 21st century.

In fact, the situation between Elta's workers and customers can also be greatly improved. Fresh supermarkets are now located around the districts and buy produce directly from farmers. This big ass directly squeezed away the previously prosperous "fruit and vegetable wholesale market", and even killed the oldest commercial place of mankind - the farmers' market. It looks beautiful, so why can't anyone think of Elta?

The answer is as simple as the Internet versus the little guy who sends messages. Can a wooden cart towed by cattle and horses be compared with a van truck with a full cold chain? Wyverns may not lose to the road logistics network in terms of speed, but which rider is willing to use Wyverns to deliver food? Fresh supermarkets can set up their own logistics fleets or subcontract transportation tasks to third-party logistics companies, which is not a problem. The question is whether Elta's transportation and means of transportation can support this capacity?

In other words, why didn't the "flagship store" opened by a cat and dog owner build the store on the website, and then still deliver it to the customer as soon as the logistics change hands? First of all, there must be a logistics network and communication network to solve such a problem.

That's why this side of the portal is desperately trying to build infrastructure, even if it's a ravine, at least a secondary road must be built. Otherwise, there will be no pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural machinery, and a large number of apples rotting in the mountain village - what else can you do but pray that Helo will suddenly come out and eat all the apples?

On the premise that the portal is only controlled by a specific agency, for Elta on the portal's side, they have never known the original price of any goods on the portal's side. In other words, this group of yellow-skinned "angels" can also be devils for a time, repackaging Weilong gluten and selling it for 200 yuan a pack, as long as they do some educational work on the personnel sent to Mendong City, no one will know about it......

Compared to the problem of information asymmetry caused by the degree of social progress, this is a situation that cannot be solved at all...... Unless the Elta settle the ownership of the portal by force, is this possible?