In June 159, after the potion was harvested, the trading market in the middle of the seaweed was officially completed, with the help of the crape myrtle firm, and all kinds of trading materials were successively transported to Connors as early as a month ago, and then transported to various shops one by one.

Of course, Connors is only supervising it, ensuring that all items are at normal prices, and the materials are transported from the Sea Crape Myrtle Firm to his hands, and then from his hands to the shops, which does not make a penny, and the only thing he collects is the rent of each store, as for the materials to the hands of the merchants, the slight fluctuations in them all depend on the contractor's own plans, and it is up to him to earn more and less.

Only when the general price collapse will Connors intervene in regulation, and the knowledge of his previous life told him that the market economy under macroeconomic regulation and control is the most reasonable economic system, active and will not collapse.

But before that, all these shops had to be rented out, and the mermaids were called to post notices calling merchants in the trading area in prominent positions in several districts.

......

Mandel was lying on the table, his chin propped up on the back of his hand, he was the second batch of homeless people to join the middle of the seaweed, and now he was an official resident of the middle of the seaweed, every time he thought about it, he was extremely proud, and at the same time, extremely glad, glad that he had joined the seaweed tribe in the first place, if not, then he might now be an inferior person in some unknown small tribe, a slave for generations, or a homeless person, very likely to die tomorrow.

Not every tribe is as merciful as the chief, and in the Seaweed Tribe, even the inferior are treated far better than the official inhabitants of other tribes.

Of course, Mandel was not without his troubles after becoming an official resident.

Just two months ago he found out that his wife was pregnant, and the long life created a high reproductive ability of the Khatam people, this is his third child, when he and his wife were still homeless people, every day for tomorrow's bite to eat, so both children died in the womb.

When the second child died, an old mermaid told him that his wife was likely to have no children for the rest of her life, and in the next five or six years, as the old mermaid said, his wife did not get pregnant again, and lost a child in the womb and injured her body, but just when he and his wife were about to give up this thought, his wife became pregnant.

So he wants this child to grow up healthy no matter what!

Perhaps it was the root of the disease that fell in the past, the wife was in poor health after pregnancy, and the doctor in the tribe said that the wife could not work during this period of pregnancy, but also had to supplement a lot of nutrition.

In other words, the best sea rice, fish meat, etc., these are all money, and the money he earns from working in a fishbone tool shop is no longer enough for him to spend.

The little savings that he had earned by relying on the husband and wife had almost bottomed out, and he had to change during this time.

However, the new income is not easy to get, he will not have many things, if he knows how to read, he can go to the administrative department to apply, there are six silver scales every month, twice as much as he is now, but he can't even write his own name, as for the fisherman, he is too old, the Central Theater still accepts mermaids, but when he thinks of standing in the middle of a large group of mermaids, Mandel feels that the tail fin is trembling, and he can't speak.

The others are either full or about the same as his current salary, and after thinking about it, it seems that there is no way, so he is very distressed.

"Hey, Mandel, long time no see. ”

The mermaid suddenly sprang out from behind him, interrupting Mandel's thoughts, and he scolded angrily when he saw the comer

"Joseph, you guy, I haven't seen you for a long time, we only met yesterday, tell me what's going on, he came to me if he has something to do these days, he said in advance, now I'm in dire need of money, don't ask me to borrow money." ”

"Of course not. The bearded Joseph shook his head violently.

"What the hell is going on then, you hurry up and say, I'm thinking about things!"

"Mandel, you know, the chief's trading area is renting out shops. ”

"You don't want to open a shop, do you?" said Mandel, his mouth wide open, startled by the idea of his best friend.

"Well, it's a good opportunity!"

"The rent is very expensive, do you have so much money? And opening a store is not so simple, whether it is from the purchase or sale, the middle account management is very difficult, if you are not careful, you will lose money!"

Mandel had been working in the shop for almost a year, and he had a lot of things under his eyes, and the shop was not so easy to open.

"Mandel, I also know that this shop is not very easy to open, but I am not alone in doing this, in addition to me, there are Theodore and Barton, they partnered with me to open this shop, I still have some money on me, the first batch of goods the chief said that it can be given to us on credit, so that my money is enough to pay two months' rent, Theodore, you remember, he studied in school, he can write and count, he was supposed to enter the administration, but he is not yet an adult, but we don't care about anything here, as for Barton, that guy used to open a small shop before every homeless。 "Joseph is very confident.

"Theodore is very good, I heard that the school run by the chief can learn a lot of things, but Barton forget it, that old fellow knows all day long to brag, it must be all fake. Mandel said disdainfully, apparently not optimistic about this Barton.

"Hehe, Mandel, this time you are wrong, Barton did open a shop before, this old Casey can prove, he also bought things in Barton's shop before" Joseph has already investigated it clearly, this time he invested all his net worth, and also borrowed a little, if there is no income, it will really be over, how can you not be cautious.

"Really, the last time I saw Barton couldn't even do simple arithmetic. Mandel was still skeptical.

"Forget it, it's good to find an experienced one, the really good ones have been invited by the chief to work, but Mandel, I'd like to ask you to join in. Joseph said what he meant.

"I, what can I do? I can't do anything but polish fish bones, hey, wait, you don't want to open a shop that specializes in fish bone tools, do you?" Mandel opened his mouth.

"Yes, like sea rice, the fish clothing business has long been robbed, I investigated, there are not many dried fish bone grinding businesses in the trading area, and I was thinking, we don't grind things first and then sell them, but let the mermaids come over and say the size and appearance of the fish bone tools they want, and we can also unite with a few tailor shops and ask them to help us color, which will definitely make the mermaids like it and make a lot of money!"

Speaking of emotion, Joseph closed his eyes, as if he saw countless copper scales falling from the sky.

After listening to Joseph's words, Mandel was a little moved, he spent a lot of time in the fishbone tool shop, such as some fishbone kitchen knives, fishbone needles, fishbone scalers, all made in advance and then let the guests choose, there must be no customers themselves to put forward more like.

If it were you, you would definitely be willing to buy it at such a store!

"As long as you come over without paying a penny, I'll give you four silver scales every month!" Joseph also knew about Mandel's wife, gritted his teeth and spoke, dispelling Mandel's last scruples, and finally he nodded.

"Good!"

Early the next morning, Joseph rushed to the administration with Mandel and the other mermaids, where he had to pay a month's rent, then get the 'title deed' and the key, and then go to the store to tidy up, and when it was ready, he could go to the logistics department to collect the supplies.

"When we get the keys to the store, Barton and Theodore will go to tidy up the store, and Mandel and I will go see how the bones are...... Did you hear that?"

Even though he had swam into the administrative chamber, Joseph kept talking, but he didn't hear the recovery for a long time, and turned his head to see Barton and the other mermaids staring ahead like ghosts, Joseph followed his gaze, but saw an extremely young mermaid just swimming out of the administrative hall, gray-black uniform embroidered with golden patterns, and a smile on his pale face.

"Chief!"

Joseph was stunned for a moment and immediately spoke respectfully, and at the same time quickly got out of the way.

"Are you here to rent a shop?"

Connors stopped his tail fin and asked, he was also very much looking forward to the upcoming opening of the trading market, this would be his first head-to-head battle with the middle of the kelp, there were so many resources, and the middle part of the kelp was so powerful, if the tribe wanted to develop, it was only to grab it with a stick.

And the trading market is his stick!

As for what the conflict with the middle of the kelp will intensify, Connors doesn't care, it's a big deal, he's not afraid now.