Chapter 66: An Attempt to Change the World (Part II)
In this world, tree fruit is a food with a long history, from primitive people to modern people, they are inseparable from tree fruit, but the tree fruit is made into crepes, but it began more than 10 years ago.
When it comes to tree fruit crepes, one has to mention the Merchant Alliance. This is a very peculiar organization, unlike Team Rocket and the League of Non-Trainers, the Merchant Alliance has no armed forces, and their managers don't have the idea of changing the world, they are really just a bunch of ordinary businessmen.
It's just that what they do is not ordinary.
It may be hard for you to imagine that the Merchant Alliance has no armed force to protect it, and it has annoyed the Pokémon Alliance by reselling food, but the Alliance has not been able to rid this vulnerable force; On the contrary, after the Merchant Alliance found the Tree Fruit Pizza, the Alliance also thanked them, and from then on, whenever other forces were fighting, the Merchant Alliance could get 10% of the food they needed by sending only one representative per week.
But the merchant alliance would not appreciate it, and on the one hand, they planted tree fruit in large quantities, replacing the staple food with tree fruit crepes and moo milk; While using the leftover food to steal and sell and raise the price. Da Duck once saw Pokéball vendors in the bazaar, they were holding bags, wearing masks, looking secretive, and when they saw the right person, they would come to the front, open the bag slightly, reveal the Pokéballs inside, and quote a price.
Before, Da Duck thought that they were really selling Pokéballs, and they were afraid of attracting attention from the Alliance, so they dressed up like this, but it turned out that it was clear that those Pokéballs were full of food. After all, in this world, Pokéball balls are very easy to make, cheap and less profitable, but food is different, if there are really rich people who want to hoard food, those vendors can make a lot of money and don't have to work for a few years, which is why they take risks.
Of course, this is also the idea of the merchant alliance, but they are wholesalers, and those merchants are retailers, and the merchant alliance can obtain benefits without risk, which is really the envy of other forces.
And among them are not only shrewd businessmen, but also researchers. Unlike the League of Non-Trainers, who study robots, and Team Rocket, who studies anti-humans, the researchers of the Alliance of Merchants only study two things, the tree fruit and the big milk pot.
The study of tree fruit is not a simple matter, the soil in which it is planted, the temperature at which it is grown, and how to maximize the yield are all issues to consider. On the basis of these problems, they also considered how to treat the tree fruit to make a thin cake, and how to mix the tree fruit to make the right taste while ensuring nutrition. After all, tree fruits are not a substitute for a wide variety of human foods, and they have struggled to meet the demands of their customers.
And this act also saved the economy of the Pokémon Alliance.
21 years ago, when Daoba and Sakaki left the Pokémon Alliance and established their own forces, the merchants who had been suppressed by the alliance also became ready to move. They hate the conservative performance of the alliance and the fact that they limit commodity prices in order to maintain stability. As a result, they also formed a group, the "Merchants' Rights Society", to rebel against the Alliance, which later grew and became the current Merchant Alliance.
But at the beginning, their development was extremely difficult, because they did not have the skills of the sword tyrant, they did not have the ability of Sakaki, and they also had internal divisions, and they could not fight against other forces at all.
But businessmen also have their own specialty, that is, a keen sense of business opportunities.
After realizing the peculiarities of food, they set out on their own path to prosperity. They buy a lot of food, then hoard it, and then raise the price when the food is scarce, and make a lot of money. After making money, they still remained sober, they knew that their strength was weak, so they used the earned elf coins to make a deal with Team Rocket and the Non-Trainer Alliance, with the robots of the Non-Trainer Alliance protecting their location, and Team Rocket providing information about the Alliance. Because of this, several attempts by the alliance to exterminate them were unsuccessful, and they also successfully gained a foothold.
After that, the Pokémon Alliance restricted the buying and selling of food, dealing a heavy blow to the alliance of merchants who made their fortune by reselling food, but fortunately, they had infiltrated the craft and real estate industries before they were not wiped out.
But in the same way, the Pokémon Alliance, which finally defeated its rivals, was also hit hard, because the value of the Pokémon Coin had depreciated significantly.
To measure the value of a commodity, you need a benchmark. On Earth, this reference is gold; But in this world, the benchmark becomes food, because in the event of a famine, if the elf coins can't buy food, then it will be as meaningless as the dust on the ground.
Although the Coalition has blocked information about the source of food, the population can still sense the unusual food, and they have a natural sense of crisis and want to accumulate enough food to avoid famine. Of course, now that food has become a limit, it can only meet the needs of life, and even if you have a lot of elf coins, you can't buy a little food, which makes the people lose interest in elf coins, and some people even change back to bartering transactions.
Savvy merchants realized this, and in order to increase the number of self-tree fruits, they planted them in large quantities, and continued to study and improve them, and finally they made tree fruit pancakes, a commodity that could be stored in place of food, and at the same time, it became the new benchmark.
As a result, people have bought tree fruit pancakes for storage, which not only promotes the development of the merchant alliance, but also ensures the value of elf coins, which is the salvation of tree fruit pancakes to the alliance economy.
In Duck's view, if getting food is a road, then it is a road surrounded by mountains, winding, narrow, and crowded with people, among them, the Pokémon Alliance, which occupies the source of food, and the Merchant Alliance, who find substitutes, crowd here, and Duck can only walk behind them.
To put it simply, if Nazi's assistants and Team Rocket's captives don't starve to death, they'll either compete with the Alliance for food, or they'll buy the Merchant Alliance's Tree Fruit Pizzas and Moo Moo Milk.
But with their strength, they can't compete with other forces, let alone participate in the snatching of food; On the other hand, they don't have that many elf coins to buy tree fruit crepes and moo milk, so to speak, neither of these paths will work.
Thinking of this, Da Duck had already made a decision in his heart, it looked at Nazi, who was still confused, and said confidently:
"As long as you can get a machine to make playing cards, I'll take care of the rest."
Nazi shook her head, "Do you want to make money by fighting landlords?" No one has ever done this kind of thing, and I don't think it's going to be successful, especially because it can have a negative impact on society. ”
Da Duck felt that it was necessary to make a vivid analogy to Nazi, "What we have to solve is the problem of feeding nearly 100 people, which is not an easy task. It's like walking along a narrow and winding path surrounded by mountains on all sides, and the road is so crowded with people that every step of us is extremely difficult, what if it were you? ”
Da Duck felt that his analogy was quite successful. Thinking of such a scene, anyone will understand that the only way to solve the problem is to break the routine and create a new road, and fighting the landlord is this new road.
But when Da Duck looked at Nazi expectantly, he heard this answer:
"I should fly away in a flying-type Pokémon."
Da Duck: "......"
It was hit, but not discouraged, and continued to ask:
"The mountains here are so high that Pokémon can't fly over them, so what should you choose?"
Nazi thought for a moment, then replied:
"Then use superpowers, so far, there is no mountain that I can't climb."
Da Duck was shocked by Nazi's confident speech, its eyes were blank, and its heart was at a loss:
What's so ...... The script is wrong!