Lacey could never have imagined that those seafaring merchants would pull ice from the North Sea to the East China Sea, and a mere 100-pound piece of ice would be worth 10,000 Baileys.

How much can a hundred-pound ice cube relieve the heat, put it in the room, it will melt in nearly twelve hours, which proves that nearly 10,000 Baileys Of course, a hundred-pound ice cube is only enough for a family to relieve the heat for a day.

That's 10,000 Baileys! Nearly two months' living funds for ordinary families are worth a hundred-pound ice cube, which is equivalent to a mother's expensive clothes that can be worn for several months.

Lacey remembered that his family used to buy ice from the North Sea brought in by seafaring merchants every summer.

And it's not just a day to buy only 100 catties, there are many people in the family, and Dad Becky treats domestic servants kindly, and often buys more for domestic servants.

Even if it is 300 catties a day, it is only 30,000 Bailey a day, and it is nearly 900,000 a month.

Moreover, a hot summer lasts for about four months, so it takes 3.6 million Baileys to relieve the heat every year just by buying ice cubes.

Thinking about that number, and thinking of the total amount of money Bailey spent in the last five years, Lacey was really shocked and speechless.

There is only one thought in my mind, the seafaring merchant really makes money, no wonder there are so many pirates who go to sea to be thieves, and no wonder that the always generous father Becky can't afford to buy ice.

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Holding Lacey, Betsge said to Gerson with a happy face: "Anyway, we already know this method of saltpeter ice making!" ”

"And even if you say the price of 100 catties and 10,000 Baileys, the family can also turn over!"

"The family is only caused by the disconnection of the huge capital chain, as long as the money earned by ice making in the past few months dredges up the relationship and makes up for the disconnection caused by the business, the family will soon be able to be the same as before!"

"Against the Seven Families again, the Beirut family is not such an easy target to bully!"

Becky's business is very calculated, don't those seafaring merchants sell ice? The Beirut family also sells ice.

Like the seafaring merchants who have completed the navigation of the four seas, they all have big ships under their banners, but no matter how big they are, they can't get big!

The passage to the sea, which is full of pirates, is escorted by at least a hundred sailors and equipped with muskets and knives.

Moreover, in order to prevent pirates from looting, all the seafaring merchants gathered together, ranging from three or four ships to dozens of ships.

In addition, it is impossible for a seafaring merchant to pull all the ice, and the ice can only account for half of the value of all commodities at most, so if a ship survives to death, he can pull twenty tons at most, so how much can it be sold for?

It's only two million Baileys, this is a profitable business, and the ice only needs to be pulled from the North Sea, without capital, so every seafaring merchant who enters the East China Sea from the North Sea will do this business.

However, there were so many rich nobles and rich people in the kingdom of Cogoa, and there were hundreds of nobles living in a single royal city, and each family had at least 100 servants and slaves.

Just looking at the strait of the huge port of the Goya Kingdom, and the huge sea ships that enter and exit the North Sea and the East China Sea every day, you can see the huge demand for ice consumed by the Goya Kingdom every day.

Now no one thought that there is a method of saltpeter to make ice, and there are countless saltpeter families in Beirut, and pure water is completely free of cost on the mainland.

This calculation is also a million profits, and the most important thing is that it can be sold directly in the Goya Kingdom to make ice, and in the hot summer of these months, there is no possibility of running out of stock.

Unlike those seafaring merchants who make money, in the past, in addition to selling at a reasonable price at the beginning, the more they went to the back, the less ice they had, the more they sat on the ground and raised the price, which disgusted all the nobles and rich people.

So much so that after the ice pulled from the North Sea is sold out, and it takes a long time to go to the North Sea to pull the ice again, except for the seafaring merchants who have a really good reputation, the nobles and rich people who have been slaughtered once again will not go back to buy it.

Not out of stock, pay attention to integrity, this is the most profitable place to do business with the Beirut family.

Viscount Betch set the rules for selling ice to Gerson: "As long as the family is not out of stock, and the price is set at a fixed price, don't be annoying like those seafaring merchants, the family's business will naturally come!" ”

"But the method of saltpeter ice making, is it only a few of us who know now?"

Becky looked around and asked affectionately to Lacey in his arms, several people present now are people that Becky absolutely trusts, so secrecy is not the same thing for them, but if others know, especially now that Viscount Becky suspects the loyal and treacherous Butler Hall, then they have to take other isolation and protection measures!

Fortunately, Lacey also knew the preciousness of the saltpeter ice-making method, coupled with Hall's housekeeper Grandpa's behavior today, so Lacey kept an eye on it and did not experiment directly in the dye workshop, so he nodded and said, "Yes, Dad, as far as we know." ”

"Hehe, that's good."

Becky smiled reassuringly, and then explained to Reis, and asked Reis to keep the matter of saltpeter ice making secret, and the sensible Reis naturally nodded and agreed.

The method of saltpeter ice making made both Viscount Betsge and Gerson let go of their family's existential worries, and Gerson nodded to the two servants to signal out of the study door, and motioned to look at the staircase on the third floor to prevent anyone from coming up to hear their next speech.

sat back on the sofa with a big grin, no longer pretending to be a domestic servant, anyway, no one else pretended to be a domestic servant, and no one looked at it.

Viscount Betch also sat on the sofa with Reis, who had made great achievements, and said with relief: "It is estimated that the seven major families did not expect that there would be a method of saltpeter ice making, and that the Beirut family, which was about to be destroyed, could be reborn, even I didn't expect it, it was really thanks to the well-behaved and sensible Reis." ”

Looking at Reis, who was becoming more and more pleasing in his arms, Betsy still couldn't hold back, and kept "gnawing" Lacey's face a few times, making Reis wipe the saliva on his face with disgust.

"Actually, Becky, you don't know, now in the city of the Goya Kingdom, there is news everywhere that the Beirut family is about to perish, not only in the mouths of nobles and rich people, but even the ordinary people in the royal city are also under the news spread by the seven major families, and they all know the news that our Beirut family is about to perish!"

"He also threatened that this would be the end of offending their seven major families, saying that if we want to destroy the broken family, we will destroy the broken family!"

"These seven families are really capable! Is it true that our Beirut family is a soft egg, and we can pinch it as much as we want? After a month, who laughs and who cries! ”

"! Relying on the joint efforts of the seven major families, I really have the ability, I am really angry! ”

Gerson still couldn't hold back, and after saying angrily to Becky, he quickly took out a box of cigars from the coffee table in front of the sofa, and under Lacey's angry gaze, he threw a cigar to one of the two domestic servants guarding the door outside the study, and by the way, he also threw one to Becky, and then lit the fire and smoked it, so that Lacey, who was full of anger and ignored, smoked second-hand smoke.

Lacey now doesn't care who is crying or laughing a month later, now Lacey just wants his father Becky, who is ignoring the fact that he is smoking with Uncle Gerson, to immediately throw away the cigar in his hand.

It's not just cigar cigarettes that are harmful, it's really choking to sit in the middle of two people and watch them smoke their cigars and exhale the smoke!

Lacey only felt that the originally clear study was immediately blurred by the smoke, and his nose was about to start itching again, and he couldn't help sneezing!

Struggling to leave his father's arms, Lacey angrily glanced at Uncle Gerson, who was grimacing at him, and said harsh things to his father Betsy and Uncle Gerson, and asked his mother Lena to clean them up, and left the study with a huff.

Since he can't stop his father Betsy and Uncle Gerson from smoking, he can't be out of mind and go to his naughty and cute sister Ellie to take her to play at home, at least the sister still listens to her brother's words.

looked at Lacey who left the study in a huff, and waited for Lacey to disappear.

Viscount Becky, who was sitting on the sofa with a big grin like Gerson, with a cigar in his mouth and a smile on his face, immediately sank his face, took the cigar from his mouth and said gloomily: "The Seven Great Families, they really have the ability, is it really our temporary forbearance as weakness?" ”

"They don't want to think about it, in the past, when the seven families didn't have a lot of power, they didn't let our Beirut family handle it, and now the family business is just a broken capital chain and a traitor inside, so proud, it's really a villain!"

Looking at the gloomy Becky, Gerson inhaled hard with a cigar in his mouth, and a puff of white smoke erupted from his nose, leaning on the soft sofa and lying on his stomach and saying, "It's not that the brothers haven't done it for too long!" Besides, you have been a nobleman for a long time now, so naturally you don't have the same ruthlessness as the eagle vulture name before, but you have an extra squeamishness! ”

When Gerson said this, Becky carefully recalled the eight years he had been a nobleman, and indeed seemed to laugh at himself as Gerson said: "Hehe! It's as you say! It seems that the days of fine clothes and food have passed, and there is indeed a sense of pampering. It really makes people think that the Beirut family is easy to bully! ”

"But this trend can't make him rise like this!"

Betsy dropped the cigar in his hand and said with a grim face: "It seems that forbearance alone is not enough, what this Goya Kingdom is most afraid of is gossip, because gossip often makes the world forget the essence of this matter, since the seven major families say that we are weak and easy to bully, those small families who see the wind and rudder and the powerful people who have offended in the past will naturally think that the Beirut family is easy to bully and weak!" ”

"It seems that it is indeed time for the brothers to make a move, so that the people in the royal city can see the secret power of the Beirut family!"

"Gerson, you plan to take your brethren with you!"

Becky pointed to the gloomy study and said fiercely: "Choose the happiest one among them, let the seven families and the owners in the royal city know that the Beirut family's forbearance for a while does not mean weakness!" ”