Maritime trade has narrowed the distance between cities on various continents, and even the popular tea culture in landlocked countries has gradually spread and developed, from high-ranking officials and dignitaries to ordinary people, they have slowly learned to taste the elegance and longevity of tea.

In a quiet tea room, the girl sat next to the small table, looking at the little smoke rising from the small tea cup in front of her, and casually raised her eyes to look at the young man who was already a little nervous opposite.

"-I have to say, you did a good job of analyzing."

"Knowing that our chamber of commerce's current power in the South China Sea is saturated, and it will not be able to make great progress in a short period of time - the old forces in the South Continent will never allow our further expansion." An Ning nodded, "Although I know all this, I still thank you, well, Carter for your reminder." ”

"But—how can I be sure that what you say is true?"

"You say—can you help us get out of the way we are now?"

"You can give me a try." Carter swallowed a somewhat dry throat, picked up the hot tea in front of him and drank it all, probably because his mood slowly calmed down, and his face gradually became confident.

"I'm just an ordinary civilian, although I can't be like those powerful people, with a wave of my hand, I can influence the power structure of this southern continent." He smiled, "But I have my own way. ”

"I can make the goods you sell a fashion item through my speech."

His words were full of confidence.

Trendy products, yes, if you can sell popular items in large quantities at the time of the season, merchants will gain a certain prestige and affection among consumers, and these are things of value that cannot be exchanged.

Because of this, the commercial shares of each city will also be given to the fleet merchants who sell popular goods.

There are a total of port towns in the South China Sea, which determines that the total commercial shares are certain. The old faction had already carved it up, and the new ones were just picking up what they had missed—including selling popular goods to gain favor with shopkeepers and gain a small amount of power—which was too small for their huge stake power to care about.

Moreover, these are extremely rare things, and the time for shipping goods by sea is often measured by months, and the popularity time of popular products is much smaller than the time of running at sea, so unless you are lucky enough, you really can't guarantee that your shipment will be popular in the local area.

Just like this time.

She was very unhappy in her heart—she had received news from Barlow two or three years ago, and she had decided to change her previous course and go to that remote and treacherous town, bringing with her the goods that were in demand, and hoping to get a share of these small shares. But who would have thought that Barlow had changed his mind again.

If Noah hadn't been around, she wouldn't have had a good face at that time.

Avis apparently learned about their defeat from Noah before, he raised his eyebrows, picked up the tea cup in his hand and took a sip, and said to Carter, "Every time? ”

Carter shook his head, "I can't tell...... Still, I can be sure that seven or eight times out of ten. ”

"That's a great statistic." Noah praised gently, and thoughtfully re-poured the tea for the tea cup in front of everyone.

"We're going to try." An Ning looked him straight in the eye.

"Yes."

"It's just this time, it's rare, so let's try the next one." She said.

"Okay." Carter replied cheerfully.

"So, next time we'll sell rum, is there a problem?"

Lime is not scarce, nor is it popular, and its greatest production is the distance from the harbor city of a bay, not too close, not too far. It's just a popular product, but it has to be a coincidence.

"No problem, that's all." Carter's face was not in the slightest embarrassment, but rather neat.

"Okay, then we will continue to sail in five days, and come back within half a month, the time is up to you, if you do, then we can talk about your conditions next time."

None of them expected this goodbye, but the result turned out to be unexpectedly good.

"Oh my God, Ann, you are my lucky star." Barlow excitedly even took off his gold-rimmed glasses, and held Noah's tightly with both hands—he originally wanted to hold An Ningning, but Noah was silently blocked from him.

"No one knows how rum is popular, but I heard that the women said that drinking some every day is good for the body and can prevent the plague."

"As you know—this particular time—I've heard that Heinrich on the eastern side of the continent has reached the border with our southern seas, and war always causes disease, but fortunately rum is not expensive, and both rich and common people can always buy some. Even my wife asked me to keep two bottles next time I bought them. ”

As he spoke, he couldn't help but glance at the purchase list again, "Such a large amount of rum, haha, my old Barlow is the only one again." ”

"Really? Congratulations in advance. Noah smiled.

"Oh, and of course, my friends, thank you so much." Barlow suddenly couldn't help but speak, "We are businessmen, so we naturally estimate that this epidemic is probably only a small period of time, whether it is to buy now, or those who buy by mistake, it is not as large as your batch." ”

"So—old Barlow will not forget his best friend." As he spoke, he turned and opened the locked drawer of his desk, and took out two bills, "This is the city's commercial shares, two percent." He shrugged his shoulders, his smile making the corners of his eyes wrinkle, but it looked very kind, "I hope that next time, we will work together so happily." ”

"Of course, Barlow."

She took it, smiling as well.

The market was quite lively, and there were many people gathered outside the windows of various shops. As they walked by, they could hear complaints about the rum being out of stock.

"It's really more surprising than gambling—" Ives sighed, lowering his voice and blinking, "and, it seems, it can be controlled." ”

"Carter is obviously not very good at cards, but he is very good at creating rumors and stirring up popular products, if only he could get on our boat."

"Maybe Carter has his own ideas." As he spoke, Noah gently greeted the young man who was in the crowd and quietly controlled the topic of the crowd.

"I'm sorry, I've got something going on right now—" Carter squeezed out of the crowd, he was almost no longer him,—— except for his countenance, his whole person had completely changed, whether it was his dress or temperament, as if he were the elite of some city.