Chapter 426: Puppet Society
The business district is the most prosperous area in each main city, and in the snow capital, the Danfeng Bailu Palace is located in the south of the Snow Place, and the business district is facing the Royal Palace in the north of the Snow Square, which shows the importance of the royal family to the commercial economy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Incidentally, in real-world history, business has always been an unrecognized livelihood, partly because of the inconvenience of a mobile population, and partly because the Bible and other big names explicitly state that the rich will go to hell. However, in such a world where demons and monsters are in the company every day, the teachings of the Cult of Light are not so poor.
When the Bronze Knight's horse team walked in front of a shop called the Puppet Society, one of the leading knights turned over and dismounted to help Su Xiao hold the reins of the wooden ox and the horse, which was regarded as stepping on the brakes, "We have arrived, please let the brave go in by yourself, we still have official business, so we will not accompany us." ”
After a team of bronze knights walked away, Su Xiao turned to look at the bustling commercial street, and then looked at the cold and slightly miserable puppet society, and walked in hesitantly.
"Why don't you even have a figure, aren't you afraid that others will rush in and steal something?" Su Xiao looked curiously at the goods displayed in the puppet society's store, not only the various models of sparring puppets and wooden cows and horses, but also many weapons and equipment that had never been seen before, and all of them looked jeweled without exception, no matter how you look at it, how do you think it is worth a lot.
Just as Su Xiao was about to take a cross from the shelf to take a closer look, a clean and clear voice suddenly came from the depths of the store: "Don't touch it, it's not the staff of the store, if you touch the goods, it will trigger the alarm." ”
"Huh? Alert? It turns out that there are anti-theft measures......" Su Xiao withdrew his hand stupidly, and asked curiously: "Although this store is not big, it shouldn't be without a clerk, right?" ”
After a while, the boy wearing a plaid shirt and a beret walked up to Su Xiao, smiled brightly, and said, "The brave man is right, I am the only clerk in the puppet society, and I am also the only assistant to the puppeteer Mr. Sam Richard. My name is LefGatling, you can call me Lef. ”
"Levou? Gatling? You're an unemployed, and your name is quite dangerous. Su Xiao said a cold joke that made the other party look confused, and then asked: "I see that the street outside is full of courts, and no one cares about your puppet society, aren't you afraid that you can't pay the rent?" ”
"Brave man, please come with me." Lefu Gatling led Su Xiao to the deepest part of the store, and replied generously: "Our puppet society is different from ordinary stores, our products are mainly refined equipment and various puppets, and there is little retail demand in normal times, so our trading partners are generally some famous nobles." If those big families want to order something, of course, they will not buy and pick it up, they can look at the things in the store casually, and then hand the demand list to the mailbox at the door the next morning. ”
"Hey, you guys have a bit of an online store feel, it's very fashionable." After a few days of mixing with Kekeli in the business world, Su Xiao also casually found the loophole in the business model of the puppet society, and asked curiously: "According to what you say, you actually don't have any positive communication with customers at all, so what if they are not satisfied with your products, or your production exceeds the construction period?" If a large order is returned in batches, the loss can be greater than that of retail. ”
"Hehe, everybody with some business acumen would ask this question." Lefgartling's smile really looked better and better, "The biggest difference between the puppet society and other stores is not the products, but that we have no competitors. If you want to buy things from the puppet society, you can only come to the puppet society to order, and there is no other branch here. So, while the customer has the right to make a request, whatever we make, they have to take it, and no matter when we finish it, they have to wait. This is the Puppet Society, in your otherworldly parlance, it's called ...... It's called ...... Oh, it's called a commercial monopoly! ”
Walking to the end of the storefront, there was a wooden door that looked tattered, but it was this door that attracted Su Xiao's great attention - the houses in this world generally only have wooden doors, and the hinges of those wooden doors are often made of wooden shafts that match the male and female, and the hinges of the wooden door in front of him are actually iron hinges that are the same as those in the real world, and this object makes Su Xiao feel like a dance in an instant.
However, the startling picture is just beginning to unfold. When the wooden door was opened by Lefgartling, it was not a room behind the door, but a spiral staircase that led to the ground? What is even more surprising to Su Xiao is that this staircase is not made of stone bricks at all, but is made of pieces of iron sheet steel inlaid and patchwork, and as you go deeper, you can even see that the iron walls on both sides of the staircase are also inlaid with big rivets?
Such a modern sense of déjà vu made Su Xiao wonder if he could travel back to the real world by walking to the end of the stairs?
"Smiling? Why are you caught too? As soon as he walked out of the stairs, before Su Xiao could adapt to the suddenly stronger light, he heard Lin Yafeng's voice.
"Crazy?" Su Xiao squinted her eyes and finally saw Lin Yafeng in front of her, and asked in surprise, "Why are you here?" ”
"My hen!" Lin Yafeng said humbly: "I cleaned up in other stores before, and you also know that my true gift is a fifty-fold discount, so if you have a rare opportunity, of course you have to buy it well." As a result, I had just found a good and cheap pharmacy, and before I could ask if there were any special potions for the pharmacy Shih Tzu, I was put here by two bronze knights, and I was so scared that I thought they had found out that I had evaded taxes. ”
True gifts are God-permissible rules, and a 50% discount will naturally not violate the so-called economic law. Su Xiao and Lin Yafeng themselves have an unusual relationship, the two appeared in this basement at the same time, to be honest, it really makes people's minds full of question marks.
"Leeford, did Mr. Sam Richard get us here?" At this moment, Su Xiao could only ask him.
"Sir is still in the laboratory, the two brave men are not impatient." Lefu Gatling nodded and smiled, "Don't worry, Sir told me a long time ago, so I will go to the upstairs store to pick you up." My husband rarely interacts with outsiders, and according to him, he came to you this time because you are both the only gold diggers who have successfully advanced in the Snow Capital, that is, Monopoly. ”
Su Xiao was puzzled, "Crazy people don't mention it for the time being, I just arrived in the Snow Capital yesterday, and everything that happened in the arena yesterday afternoon was blocked by the news, how do you know that I am also a Monopoly?" ”
"If you want to know the profession of the brave, you don't need to go through the court, just go to the church and ask Miss Amanda." As soon as Lefu Gatlin finished speaking, he gave himself a divine twist, "But the relationship between the gentleman and the church is not very good, so we do know the professions of the two through the court. ”
"Ah~" Su Xiao suddenly realized, "Most of your customers are princes and nobles, and it is normal to have connections in this area." ”
"Hehe, the brave is wrong, in fact, the relationship between Mr. and the court is even worse. In fact, it is not difficult to understand that who will have a good relationship with us as a profiteer who does business like us? After laughing, Lefu Gatling answered Su Xiao's doubts: "Although there are no connections in the court, the puppets of our shop are all over the palace!" Mr. installed a sound transmission device in each puppet, that is, as long as there were puppets, Mr. could get all the information he needed, of course, including Su Xiaoyong leading the Ten Cities Fog-Breaking Army to make trouble or something. ”