123 Slap in the face (alliance leader plus more)
"That's right, every credit spent on Old Hawk won't be in vain. As a wholesale discount, Old Hawk sent a word of advice for free. You've got a good eye, Anhaka is the most trustworthy agent here, much better than those who have a trading spot. If you want to stay here, even if you don't sell him all the goods, you won't lose by asking him to help you check the gates. Okay, go inside, don't pout, I know what you're thinking. Once you've replaced 10 clones, you won't be disgusted with my survival pod anymore. ”
Sometimes people need to match their personalities, and in the age of the earth, this is called drinking a thousand cups of confidants and not speculating for more than half a sentence. Hong Tao and Hawke have never given anyone a good face since they met, and the conversation was aggressive and-for-tat.
But after a confrontation, Hong Tao was grateful to the old pervert, and the old pervert did not hesitate to teach Hong Tao, as if both of them were cheap bones, both lacked scolding, and the more they scolded, the more comfortable they became.
"Yes, the sericin solute in one cargo hold has been replaced by four stinky skin sacs, and in the end, I don't make as much money as you, the agent who holds the two families in one hand. Give me some advice, in addition to the sericin solute, what other ore do you have here that are more expensive, I have to change some travel expenses. After coming out of the old Hawk's space laboratory, Hong Tao's wallet had just gone from slave to general, and once returned to the pre-liberation period, with only 7 figures left.
These credits are obviously not enough to go to Gao'an District to buy clones, and Hong Tao doesn't want to go back to the hibernator wormhole to dig rare mines. It's very inappropriate to always sell that thing to one cargo hold to another, and sooner or later it has to attract the attention of those who are interested. If you want to stand out from the crowd, you have to live and work like an ordinary person, at least on the surface.
"That's a lot! Vanse, dry coke, black ochre, gneiss...... Oh, and your barge has roughing equipment, tri-titanium, crystalline gel, crystalline quartz core, supernova nockstone...... Does your barge have an air cloud collector? Oops, what a good mine ship...... That, along with the isotopes, liquefied ozone, and fullerenes can be collected, and I will collect them all, as many as I want! ”
Anhaka had just received twice the commission, and was lamenting that he was lucky to have found a big customer in the fighting arena, and when he heard that he actually had follow-up thoughts, he immediately cheered up and said that he was like the head of the ore space station of United Mining, although he was thin and small, his pride was ten thousand feet tall.
"Anhaka, don't get carried away just because old Hawk just praised you a few words, there should be no more temptation to see which of us has a lot of weight, is it still interesting to keep playing this trick? You know the bottom, I also have a number in my heart, rest assured, as long as the price is not too bad, I will keep what you can collect. Come on, talk about something practical, and I'll treat you to something enjoyable when you're done. ”
Although he was just cut by Old Hawke, he felt a little jealous in his heart, and it was not so low that anyone could fool him. Anhaka is a kind of color Hong Tao has almost touched, he is very much like his little uncle, he belongs to the kind of second-way dealer who is stitched around and has empty gloves and white wolves, at most he is a second-tier dealer with a bottom line.
This kind of person is easy to talk exaggeratedly, one is resolute to say two, to listen to them must be equipped with several dense screen in the ear, first filter and filter and then a five-fold discount.
"You don't believe it? Anhaka never deceives customers! Anhaka didn't listen to Hong Tao's advice, and was still trying to defend himself.
"How much money do you have? How is it possible to collect so much ore. Even if you can act as an agent for a big businessman with a trading seat, then you have to have a quota, right? This is not a professional ore space station, how can there be a large buyer here to buy all kinds of ore, are they all idle to do? ”
Hong Tao didn't want to deliberately go against Anhaka, nor did he have to pierce other people's cowhides, but was planning for the next step of cooperation. Proper bragging is fine, but you can't use bragging as a meal, let alone be too good-looking, such businessmen can't cooperate with themselves.
"I ...... It seems that you really passed by by accident, and you are not a professional miner, so you don't know why so many miners are gathered in the space station? They weren't regular visitors to the Agasso space station, and it was only because of the arrival of a new mining company that a large number of purchase contracts were issued by the miners' shipyard that miners from nearby systems came. I am an old man in the space station, with a small capital but a good reputation, so I was picked by a mining company to collect goods for them. Your sericin solute was also sold to them, otherwise how could anyone in such a small space station eat the entire ship of rare ore at once. ”
Listening to Hong Tao's barrage of questions, Anhaka's expression became a little similar to that of Old Hawke, as if he had discovered something. But he was not as straightforward as old Hawke, and spoke more tactfully.
“…… Why would a mining company do this? "If the skin can be ten times thinner, Hong Tao's face is guaranteed to have become a monkey's butt. impersonated a professional twice in a row, but the result was unsuccessful, and it was exposed in person, how embarrassing.
But who is Hong Tao? Not only does the thickness of the skin not decrease, but the thief's eyes are also difficult to be suppressed, as long as there are doubts that he can't figure out, even if the experts of the United Mining Group stand in front of him, the question has to be questioned, who to love.
Although he is not a professional miner, and he has not even had even one independent mining experience, he can't help but ask questions and study. When he was mining near the Moonlight Space Station, he asked Claire a lot of similar questions, and he planned to pave more roads for the future, even if he couldn't mix up with any fame to be a miner, he wouldn't be a mallet, but he didn't think he would use it now.
Mining companies like Anhaka said are very suspicious, the purchase price they give is already higher than the market price, if it is just for the purchase of ore, this price can go to the professional space station of the United Mining Group to purchase in large quantities, and the quality is still higher, maybe even the delivery.
If it was to compete with the United Mining Group, it would not be nonsense, if the ore industry was so easy to mix, the United Mining Group would have been squeezed down long ago, and it would not be the turn of this company to make a move.
The reason why they can become the industry leaders in the new Eden world is that in addition to relying on the early start, sufficient mining sites, and the large number of mining teams, the key is to firmly control the pricing power of refined ore.
After any kind of ore is collected, it must go through two steps: roughing and refining before it can be smelted and processed. Roughing equipment is not available on ordinary mining ships, and only more advanced mining barges are available. Refining equipment is more complex, not found in all mine ships or even in most manufacturing space stations, only professional space stations will be equipped.
More than half of this space station belongs to the United Mining Group or its affiliated companies, and more than half of the production of refined ore raw materials also accounts for more than half. Since the production volume is so large, the pricing power is naturally available.
If you fight a price war with someone, it's useless. When the ore collected at a high price reaches the level of refining raw materials, it not only cannot be sold at the price, but also has to be sold at the price of the United Mining Group, and both ends lose money.
Even a half-person like himself knows how much money it takes to be able to leverage the foundation of the United Mining Group, and people who have the ability to invest in an ore company will be stupider than themselves? So there is a fatal logical flaw in Anhaka's words, either he is lying or the mining company is deceiving.
“…… I said you haven't been back to the Gao'an galaxy for a long time, why don't you even know this news? In the face of Hong Tao's questioning, Anhaka did not panic, stared at his two eyes with different speeds and asked back.
"Uh, about 10 months......" Hong Tao was also stunned, how did the other party know that he hadn't entered the Gao'an Galaxy for a long time? Is there something big that you don't know that you should know?
"No wonder you don't know, coincidentally, the buyers and mining teams of the mining company have been here for about 10 months...... Shouldn't we go have some fun? Anhaka finally smiled, more than a profiteer, and that smile usually appears when the profiteer succeeds.
"You lead the way, I'm not familiar with it!" Knowing that the other party is taking the opportunity to blackmail Hong Tao, he also has to admit it, compared with a few bottles of nerve synergist drinks that have been diluted I don't know how many times, the major events that happened in the world of New Eden are also what I urgently need to know, so I should pay for it.