Chapter 476: Meet Your Excellency

"Ah, you've been asked this question before." Ace said. Because Saab asked the question, he was particularly impressed with the answer.

"Actually, it's not true." Ace replied, and he picked up a piece of fruit, a strangely shaped, devil-fruit-like fruit that was abundant here, a large basket, and it was probably only a thousandth of what the merchant had brought.

He smiled and asked the tall, burly merchant across from him, "How much?" ”

"Originally, it was twenty baileys, but the revolutionary army didn't need money to eat." The tall, burly, bearded merchant on the other side laughed and spoke.

"I want to buy your things, but you still want to hurt me, you guy is not a good person." Ace scolded with a smile, handed over a note in his pocket, lowered his head and nibbled on the fruit.

His face suddenly crumpled in the next second, and it directly turned into a mask of pain, which startled the Whitebeard Pirates.

"Hahahaha!" The merchant laughed as he searched for money, and his voice was so loud and hearty that it seemed that the others would not laugh at it, which is the kind of voice that a man on the sea must have, because the sea is so stormy that there is no way to order the sailors to hear the command without doing so.

These merchants are merchants and captains in peacetime, and they are warriors when they are in danger, and they don't mind making a cameo appearance as a pirate if they have the opportunity.

This is how the world is.

Under the strong deterrent power of the revolutionary army, they became law-abiding businessmen. Marco and the others were amazed, only to hear the merchant say: "This fruit is used for mixing, brewing, or mixing juice, if you eat it directly, it will be like this, hahahaha......"

He hadn't seen such a coke thing for a long time, and he didn't know what was wrong with the revolutionary army general in front of him, so he actually caught it and ate it, wasn't he afraid of being poisonous.

Ace's mask of pain lasted for a long time before he recovered, and he stared at the other party angrily as he asked, "Where are you from?" ”

"I'm from the West Sea." They have a large group of people gathered here, and there is no way to do business at all, and he is not in a hurry to sell things today, and he may be able to get military procurement by chatting with the revolutionary army brother in front of him.

"This thing is a good thing, don't look at it so sour, but it is rich in nutrients, only one is needed, and soaking it in a bucket is enough to solve the septicemia of a boatload of people for a week." He boasted of his fruit.

"And how much did they get it?" Ace asked strangely, tossing another intact fruit.

The bearded merchant smiled strangely: "If someone else asks, I am definitely afraid that they will not accept my asking price, and I dare not tell the truth, but I am not afraid to tell you bluntly when you ask, and I will only receive two hundred Baileys for such a basket of fruits." ”

The captains of the Whitebeard Pirates were shocked, they didn't take the fruit of twenty yuan a piece in their eyes, they looked at the more than 100 fruits in this box and calculated a little, and they knew that just this basket of fruits could be sold for more than 20,000 Baileys, which was ten times the profit at once!

"And what about your wholesale price?" Ace was not surprised and continued to ask.

"Naturally, the wholesale price is cheaper, and I am willing to sell eighteen to sixteen Baileys." Although he knows the truth, he knows that the other party is not a competitor, nor is he a person who can be sent by a competitor, but he knows everything and says everything, which makes everyone in the Whitebeard Pirates silent.

They couldn't help but think of how they had felt when they first saw the price tag for this fruit.

"These 20 Baileys are too expensive, right?"

The captain of the team couldn't help but ask, and their attitude changed.

"This guest, you are also a man who roams the sea," the bearded merchant said noncommittally, "You also have to speak of conscience, I have brought so many goods from the Western Sea with a lot of risks, any navy or pirate I have earned this batch of goods in vain, and I have to earn all the money from the next ten times on a great voyage, otherwise who will be willing to do this murderous business?" ”

The captains of the Whitebeard Pirates were silent, obviously they also understood this truth, but they just heard that his recycling price was a little unacceptable, in fact, if this fruit entered the second half of the Great Voyage, it could even be said that it would be sold for 2,000 pieces, and no one would say anything.

Everyone understands that the risk of long-distance transportation is directly proportional to the price.

"Don't listen to him." Ace is obviously not as easy to fool as the Whitebeard Pirates, he laughed and scolded: "Now there are few pirates in the entire West Sea, all the pirates have been swept away by the revolutionary army, except for the king was overthrown, and the price of this fruit was reduced and the price increased, he is now easy to earn at any price." ”

The bearded merchant smiled and didn't explain, apparently acquiescing to what he was right.

"But the 20 baileys are really not expensive, and they are suitable for the price of the city." Ace's words made the Whitebeard Pirates all nod, obviously if they hadn't heard his purchase price, they would have thought it was a normal price, and even a little cheaper.

"Why is this happening?" Marco asked humbly.

"Because of logistics, because of competition." Ace answered Marko's question in Leo's original words, causing the bearded merchants next to him to prick up their ears to hear what the Revolutionary Army had to say.

"We've cleared the threats and obstacles on the way for the merchants, they can get here very smoothly, they can even buy our steamboats, bring them in from the windless, their costs and risks are greatly reduced, so they can sell them very cheaply, that's one thing." Ace tried hard to recall Leo's words, "The second is that they don't have less risk, because selling things here, they can sell them no matter what, at most it's cheaper, although they merchants make less money and lose money, but in fact, their products are not marketable, and they can definitely be sold, so you can buy very cheap goods here." ”

"On the contrary, in the countryside, the consumption power is limited, and some things are backlogged and cannot be sold for a long time, so sometimes the things bought are more expensive than those in the city." Ace's theory made many captains of the Whitebeard Pirates suddenly realize, they finally knew why many things in small villages where birds don't poop are more expensive than what they sell in the city, not because the other party cheats them, but because the other party's purchase price is very expensive, otherwise the merchants simply don't have enough interests and motivation to buy things in their kind of small places!

Just as there was a thoughtful look on their faces, the people bowed down like a tidal wave and bowed in a certain direction.

They shouted, "Lord Leo." While bowing to him.

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