Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Fruit Merchant

Lauren's auction house, the property of the mother of the fifth prince of the Shenlong Empire, has not developed well for decades, and has been wandering in medium-sized cities. I walked into the auction house, explained my intentions, and was quickly taken into the VIP room by the service lady, and the person in charge immediately followed up.

In this continent, the fruits that those adventurers pick from the island every year are nothing more than lychee, longan, pineapple, banana, coconut, lychee, longan peeled and edible, relatively simple, bananas must be ripe to be delicious, pineapple and coconut are more troublesome to eat, here there are not a few people who eat bananas with skin. When I handed the peeled bananas to the auction house to taste, they realized how stupid they used to be to eat raw bananas.

These five fruits are new varieties that have been improved and bred, and they naturally taste extraordinary, but they also need to be eaten in the right way. When the person in charge of the Lauren auction house watched me peel the pineapple with a small hook knife, soak it in light salt water for a few minutes, slice it and let him taste it, then he quickly asked me what the bag of white substance was in my hand?

"It's salt, don't you have it?" I said strangely.

"Salt?" He tasted it with his mouth, "My lord, our salt doesn't taste the same. He motioned for his men to go and fetch salt. After I tasted their salt, I suddenly realized that their salt was bitter and astringent, no wonder there was a bitter taste when eating vegetables, and my heart moved, this edible salt market is very large!

"What's the price of your salt?" I asked.

"Ten pounds of silver."

"What price do you think I can sell for this kind of salt?"

"This, I estimate that it can be sold for a pound of silver coins, and if the amount is small, the price will be higher."

"In this case, I'll send some first, you can try to sell it, if the quantity is good, I can supply it all year round. And what about the strength of the Heya Chamber of Commerce? I asked.

"The Heya Chamber of Commerce is one of the five major chambers of commerce in the empire, the Heya family has a history of more than a thousand years, it is a supplier of imperial weapons and food, and one of the founders of the warrior guild, no, the annual church warrior tryout is being held in the city, and the young people of the whole city are going to participate."

"Oh, it's time to see it." I thought to myself, talked about some details of the cooperation, and then got up and said goodbye.

Three days later, the auction was held, because the lychee, longan is not resistant to storage, I used ice cubes to keep fresh, this ice that has never appeared in the summer is amazing, and makes the lychee taste better, first let the nobles who participated in the auction taste one, the result is crazy, five kinds of fruits are sold one by one, and millions of gold coins are earned in one day. At the same time, it was announced that in the next two months, these five kinds of fruits will be supplied from time to time, and they can wait in this city.

After a few more days, I brought the mai siu, sugar and MSG to complete the transaction with the restaurant, although the transaction volume was not much, this was only the first step for me to explore the market. These things are very simple to make, MSG is extracted from grain, and the raw material of white sugar comes from wild fruits and sweet plants in the forest, but to supply it in large quantities, sugar cane needs to be grown, and labor becomes the primary problem. For this reason, I came to Laurentian again with a second shipment.

The person in charge, Lauren Parker, personally greeted me at the door because I brought him a good profit.

"My lord, the three branch managers of the Heya Chamber of Commerce have been waiting in the living room for a long time."

"Okay, take me to get to know you." I brought 10 pounds of rice and 10 pounds of flour this time.

In the Shenlong Empire, rice and flour were rare items, and there was only a thousand catties of supply in the palace every year, and some important ministers could only get a few catties from the emperor every year, and the processing of rice and flour was very primitive and backward. After waiting for the three stewards to finish the inspection, I asked my subordinates to take out a wooden barrel that was kept warm, and took out the processed knife-cut steamed buns and cooked rice, and let them taste them one by one.

"It's amazing, it's delicious, it's delicious!" The crowd was gobbling it up.

"Honorable lord, I wonder how much of these two things can be supplied?"

"How much does the Heya Chamber of Commerce need per year?"

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"Okay, then 20,000 catties of each, and it will be shipped at the end of this month."

After some bargaining, it was sold for fifty gold coins per catty, these two things are just an ordinary grain for me, and they are royal tribute, the quantity still has to be controlled, and it is worthless if there is more.

After the business was discussed, I asked them to accompany me to the slave market, and sold several hundred male and female slaves in one go, and sent them on the ship in the dark to do a good job of secrecy. Then the three of us headed to Lixing City, the second largest city in the Dragon Empire.

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In a primeval forest, a carrier pigeon flies into a castle in the jungle, which is the headquarters of the Heya Chamber of Commerce. After reading the secret letter, an elder said to the people seated, "Elders, there is a mysterious person who has recently sold a large number of immortal fruits, and will supply them non-stop for two months, what do you think?" ”

"Did he have the secret of the voyage? Or is it a new type of shipbuilding technology? ”

"If we get a new type of shipbuilding, then ······"

"Everyone, pay attention, this mysterious person and our Chamber of Commerce yesterday reviewed the agreement to supply 20,000 catties of rice and flour this year, and it arrived at the end of the month, and the three stewards also said that the quality of these two things is superb, and the taste is indescribable."

"I think I will send someone to investigate secretly, don't act rashly, this time he came to Star City, and ordered him to go down and receive him with VIP courtesy, and he must not be lazy."

I didn't know all this, and I was leisurely riding a two-horned horse to enjoy the scenery on the side of the road, and slowly rushed to Star City.