Chapter 66: Let You Have No Way Out
Shelley woke up at the hotel, and it was close to noon the next day. When I was in Yongle City before, I always got up early and went to bed late. After coming out this time, I was relatively relaxed, and I had been sitting in the carriage for so long before I came here, so I overslept today.
"Your Highness Princess, you have finally woken up."
Seeing the maid's excited look, Shelley smiled, "Are they all here?" ”
"Uh-huh, I came here before dawn. Both of us stopped us on the grounds that you were resting, and you're still waiting in the tavern below. ”
"That's right, and they didn't dare to leave for a moment. Your Royal Highness, it's exactly what you said. ”
Shelley nodded: "One of you will go and fetch the dress I brought, and the other will go down and inform them to come up in half an hour." I'm going to wash myself up. ”
"Yes, Your Highness Princess."
Half an hour later, a group of businessmen, led by the maid, entered Shelley's room.
Each of them was dressed in precious animal skins, almost every one of them had broken precious rings and bracelets on his hands, and several of them had gold teeth on their hands. In short, this group of people stands together, and that is one word, rich!
But even they couldn't help but exclaim when they pushed the door and saw Shelley, who was sitting by the window waiting for them.
"Oh my God...... So beautiful. ”
Shelley squinted at the man who said this, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and his eyes were raised, almost missing his soul.
"Can you please come in quickly and close the door by the way? It's cold. ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone poured in, and the maid who walked at the end was able to close the door.
The reason why Shelley shouted cold was because she was wearing a close-fitting and beautiful black cheongsam at this time, and it was a short skirt that covered her hips, which meant that her two long white legs were exposed. Although there is no such clothes in this world, it does not affect the attraction of people to it at all.
Coupled with Shelley's peerless face, it is simply a critical blow to all men. Even the maid, who was a woman, was so amazed by her beauty that she blushed.
These businessmen can be regarded as having seen all the red faces, and they have never felt throbbing in their hearts like today. Originally, they were nodding their heads, but at this time, they showed a flattering appearance.
At this time, the first woman to speak was the only woman among them, and she was completely attracted by Shelley's clothes at this time, and asked with bright eyes: "Your Royal Highness, may I ask if this beautiful dress on your body is also the same thing as the magical scarf sent yesterday?" ”
Shelley didn't rush back to her, but tilted his head and asked, "Are you?" ”
"Oh, rude to Her Royal Highness the Princess, the contemptible person is Barbie, who is in charge of women's goods in the Chamber of Commerce. Yesterday you had that scarf delivered to you was amazing. Be sure to! Be sure to transfer it to us for the sale, we have negotiated it overnight, and we will definitely give you a satisfactory price, and we will send you a penny of the tour operator will not charge you a penny! ”
"Oh? Is this what your Chamber of Commerce collectively means? ”
Everyone nodded hurriedly, and their opinions were the same. Obviously, the silk cloth must have amazed them, and the other things made them very eager for it.
And this is what Shelley wants to see.
These people are the second batch of people she wants to pull into her command. Like Payne's army, they are a group of people who are tied to the lord, but not controlled by the lord. They are the World Chamber of Commerce.
As the name suggests, it is an organization formed by a group of wealthy businessmen who are not nobles. Although their organization has a low political status, they have money and goods! So no matter where it is placed, it is the object of intimacy among the local magnates.
Not to mention anything else, the good things that the magnates want have to buy from them, and the magnates want to sell their things, they have to go through them.
For example, Slightly Sweet's father, the salt governor, although he is in charge of salt, sugar, and spices. But he was nothing more than a transit point.
It doesn't matter if these things flow into his hands from above, or from his hands later. The people who really operate in it are the people of the Chamber of Commerce.
And no matter how much the Chamber of Commerce sets to sell it later, he can get fifty percent of the dividends from it, so he can earn a lot of money by lying down without doing anything.
And when the Chamber of Commerce itself redistributes and sells these things to various places through the traveling merchants under them, no matter how many links they go through, they can earn a considerable amount of price difference. 3a Reading Network
Of course, because of this, they generally don't go to a place like Wule Town, which is so poor that they can't even get a penny.
Unlike the military, businessmen are profit-seeking. If you want them to follow you willingly like Payne, you can't show force as you did in front of Payne, but let them see the benefits, and they will definitely not be able to compare.
Among the things that Shelley had sent to him yesterday were not only small squares made of silk, but also pens and paper, which they had never seen before, but could know at a glance what they were doing.
These things are not available in this world, so there is no comparison at all, as long as you can win the right to sell them, then it will bring amazing profits.
Of course, Shelley's eyes can't be just that, she not only wants to sell her goods, but also makes the goods of those nobles unsellable. So she came up with more than many of the goods they were already selling, but the quality was countless times better than theirs.
Such as salt, sugar, spices. Yes, Shelley also made salt and sugar. Compared with the original coarse salt and sugar cubes in this world, Shelley took out all the snow-white and fine salt sugar, and the taste was not comparable to their shoddy production.
This is because not only the methods she uses are different, but also the raw materials. The raw material widely used to make sugar in the world is fruit, and the sugar produced is not only not perfectly sweet, but also has a sour taste.
But Shelley used sugar cane, which she had so hard to find and which had been improved over several generations. The sucrose made by multiple processes such as pressing and processing has no sour taste at all.
Needless to say, they use mineral salts. Shelley, on the other hand, found a salt lake.
It stands to reason that salt lakes are formed because of the abundance of mineral salts below, but in Shelley, salt mines were not mined, but the salt lake water was processed directly into salt as fine as in the previous life.
As for the spices, Shelley smiled, the old lady came out of the Chinese civilization, and she can't compare to you in this?
Because of the ability of the Scarlet Moon, the flavors of the spices that Shelley had tasted in his previous life were read, so that after remembering the smell, Onefang used his keen sense of smell to find it in the border forest.
In just two days, no less than ten spices that have not yet been discovered in this world have been found, and of course, these spice plants have not yet reached the level of the previous life.
So, with Nika's cooperation, the two of them improved the existing and newly found spice plants.
Because of the taste that Scarlet Moon has the ability to read as a reference, these varieties are quickly improved to the same level as in the previous life.
That night, the people tasted what it means to be a heavenly delicacy.
When these things are brought to these merchants, they who are sensitive to business can not see their value. Compared to these, the goods in the hands of the salt governor are very unsuccessful.
In the face of their eager gaze, Shelley said unhurriedly: "Since I took the initiative to let people deliver things to the door, it shows my sincerity in wanting to cooperate with you......"
Hearing this, everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but her next words frightened them to hold back their breath again.
"Since I have shown sincerity, then please show sincerity in the future, I have a lot of requirements, as long as one can not be satisfied, then please turn around and leave. First of all, I have more ways to go than you think, and you are not my only choice. ”
The crowd was not too surprised, and if Shelley had not been in a situation, they would have been surprised. So Barbie said: "Your Royal Highness, just say it, we will cooperate." ”
Shelley raised his eyebrows: "Are you serious? Then I'll just say it. First: If the content of the transaction between you and the nobles here is duplicated on my side, you must only choose my side and cancel the cooperation with them! ”
Everyone didn't expect that the first condition she put forward would be so vigorous, and it made them very embarrassed. If they do this, they will undoubtedly offend the nobles here, which is not a good thing for them.
But it would not be cost-effective to give up what Shelley had in his hands because of this. And Shelley had just told them that she had a way to go, and if the goods of the two sides clashed in the mall, whoever won or lost could imagine it now.
After their expressions were reflected in Shelley's eyes, she sneered, others don't understand, how can she not know, what can make businessmen hesitate is not that they can't make a decision, it's just that the interests are not enough.
"If you're just worried that the nobles here will be angry, there's no need at all. Because the more angry they are, the more concessions I will give you. I thought, oh, if you could just squeeze their business out of the market and never turn them over. So the corresponding goods on my side will give you seventy percent of the dividends, what do you think? ”
"Seventy!?"
Everyone exclaimed, what is the difference between this and giving it away for nothing for them? If they don't agree to this kind of good thing, they will really be businessmen in vain. So they all responded.
Of course, Barbie couldn't help but ask why she did this.
Shelley didn't hide it: "Your identity is not low, you should have heard more or less about me, right?" Those guys had humiliated me before, and now that I'm capable, why not get revenge? I'm just going to tread the way they go, so that they have no way out! ”