Chapter Eighty-Six: The Price and Undercurrents of a Ballpoint Pen
"This honorable Mr. Captain? Are you asking me about the price of this aristocratic pen? Caterina smiled at the captain and said:
"Actually, when our Oriental aristocratic gentleman took it out and asked me to take it to Europe, I had already let this noble pen be conquered, and I felt that it would be an insult to me to put a price on it, so I gave you the right to set the price of this pen,
In my shop, this month, or rather, this month in the city, there are only a thousand boxes of ballpoint pens for sale, a box of ten, so I will divide this thousand boxes of ballpoint pens into ten parts, one hundred boxes each,
Tell me your prices now! I'll tell you how to choose, everyone think clearly, the thousand boxes here are the last thousand boxes this month, and I don't know if there will be one next month.
So, tell me your price, and if it reaches the price I have in mind, you'll get this and I'll get the gold! ”
"Christ is above, why don't you bring more, that's all? You know, we don't just have Casablancas here, there are enough Portuguese, but now there are Spaniards, French, even English robbers, Christ is above, how much is left of everyone? A nobleman shouted!
"Shouting is a loss of being a nobleman, sir, and you should now bid instead of complaining." Caterina asked the guys in the shop to help her get her things to the auction house, where there was a high platform with seats underneath, and a large group of captains and nobles were seated, but their eyes were fixed on the red-haired beauty Caterina on the high platform.
"Okay, it's ballpoint pen auction time, please start bidding, if no one bids, we will put the item in the next month's auction again, if you want it again, then you can only wait a month."
Caterina exclaimed, "Of course, if I'm not satisfied with your price, I'll probably put the item up for auction again in a month." ”
As soon as I heard that if no one offered a bid, it would be auctioned a month later, so someone quickly made a bid, "One gold coin for a box!" ”
"Oh! Christ is above, and this price is not within my tolerance Sir, you are offering too low! Is there a higher price? Caterina slapped her forehead, glanced at the bidder, and reluctantly said the above words.
"Forgive him! Beautiful lady, he is just a turtle from the Ottoman Empire, although they are powerful, but for business, they are still far behind, I give ten gold coins, a box, one is a hundred boxes, right? I want five servings, beautiful lady! A nobleman spoke, and although it seemed that this nobleman was only a small nobleman, he was very generous.
The fat man suddenly felt a little toothache, and a ballpoint pen of five dollars could be sold for a gold coin here, and maybe even more, oh my God! Is money really so easy to earn?
The fat man thinks that a gold coin and a ballpoint pen are already very expensive, but there are still people who are not too expensive, and they actually add fifteen gold coins to a box, oh my God!
The fat man was careful that his liver was fluttering, and then he found a chair and sat down, for he had to slow down, for he also saw that Caterina had brought something other than a ballpoint pen.
The first box of 100 ballpoint pens was auctioned off at a high price of fifteen gold coins per box, and then none of the rest were sold at a price lower than that, and even one was auctioned at a high price of twenty gold coins per box, because it was the last one, the last one of the month.
"That's it! I believe that the gentlemen who bought the ballpoint pen are quite satisfied, so let's take a look at the next item, our Oriental aristocracy called it Repertoire, I asked my aristocratic Mr., why is it called Rejoice, he said, Rejoicing shows a kind of beauty, when the breeze caresses the hair of the peerless beauty, the long flowing hair actually dances gently with the breeze, that kind of artistic conception, is Rejoicing, I believe everyone hears it, this is an item that makes your hair more beautiful from the East, I will show it to the gentlemen! ”
Caterina called a little Lori, this is Nina, now the little Lori Nina is wearing a princess dress brought by a fat man from modern times, the two big eyes on the delicate little face are sparkling and cute, and the gentle and smooth hair is scattered over the shoulders, showing the cleanliness and cuteness of the little Lori.
"I don't know if you've noticed, but our Miss Nina's hair is so clean and soft, which adds to her cuteness and beauty." Katerina says:
"This is the power of our Rejoicing, it's a shampoo, just a little bit, you can wash that long hair, think about the ladies of Europe, they have long hair, although they may wash it every day, but it is difficult to wash it, so their hair often has a terrible smell, and now, you don't have to suffer this kind of sin, because with Rejoice, it will wash off the smell of the ladies hair, and give them a hair that exudes fragrance!"
No amount of talk could have been so shocking as it was for people to try it, so Caterina asked a nobleman to go up and call a sailor to help him wash his hair with shampoo, and in a few minutes he washed his hair cleanly, and after drying the water, the nobleman felt that although his hair was still wet, he felt that his whole body was relaxed.
He smelled the scented hair and was excited, this was a good business opportunity, a business opportunity that could make a fortune.
"Five gold coins! I'll give out five gold coins a bottle! The nobleman exclaimed, "How many you have, I've got it all!" ”
Caterina said to him apologetically, "I'm sorry! Sir, our Rejoice has a reserve price, the reserve price is ten gold coins, we only have one batch now, that is, a thousand bottles, in order to avoid trouble, a thousand bottles we sell it as a batch, the highest price gets. ”
The nobleman looked at the hair on his shoulder, felt his relaxed scalp again, and then changed his words: "Ten gold coins are ten gold coins, I want them all!" ”
"Twenty gold coins, man, your ten gold coins are just people's reserve price, sir, have you ever seen a precedent in the auction house where you can win the auction item at the reserve price?" Another noble-looking man also made a bid.
"Alright! Boys, I'll give you thirty gold coins......" This was the voice of the old man Auston, but the fat man couldn't hear what he said later, because he had been pulled out of the auction hall by O'Neill.
"Lord Viscount......" O'Neill interrupted the fat man as soon as he spoke.
"Call me Chen! Don't call me a viscount, it's so raw, and now my title is no longer a viscount, but an earl. The fat man said.
O'Neill is very dedicated, since he was given a knighthood and made him the governor of the city, whether it is the construction of the city wall or the planning of the city, he is very attentive, but this time he came to the fat man in such a hurry and didn't know what was the matter!
"Yes, Lord Count!" O'Neill anxiously pulled the fat man aside, "Just now I saw several ship's first mates with people into the city to check around, it seems to be very interesting to our city!" ”
The fat man's pupils shrank: "You mean they want to have something about this city that they shouldn't have?" ”
"Yes, Lord Earl, you must know that none of the current expeditions can be called good men, they may be noble nobles in their own country, but if they go out to sea, if they come across a place where they can take advantage, they will pounce on them like flies that smell stinky meat.
Wasn't the territory of Spain, the island nations of the archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Casablanca, destroyed at the hands of their navy and adventurers? Now it has become their territory. O'Neill let out a sigh of relief when he saw that the fat man was listening intently.
"Although our city has been built, we have too few people, and these sailors are all from Casablanca, and many of them may not be of the same mind as us, and they can be trusted, that is, those who have returned to Casablanca to bring their families, because most of them are people who can't survive in Casablanca."
Listening to O'Neill's words, the fat man noticed that there were so few people here, and there were about 100 sailors in the original place, and now among the fifty ships that came, each ship was larger than the fat man's three-masted merchant ship, and brought more sailors.
The fat man's ship used to be able to carry up to ten sailors, but now in these ships, each boat can easily carry a hundred and two hundred people, so that even if a ship has a hundred people, it is five thousand, and here, such a big city, only a hundred sailors guard, one hundred to five thousand?
The fat man suddenly felt a lot of pressure!
After thinking about it, he explained to O'Neill: "You go and bring all the sailors, and those big black men, I will now choose some people to be my guard, some loyal people." ”
As the saying goes, it is difficult to draw the skin and bones of a tiger, and it is difficult to know the face but not the heart, but all this is nothing to the fat man, there are more than 100 sailors here, who have already followed themselves through the deep sea, and then brought them back one by one.
There are also five or six hundred blacks here, and they are all blacks who can work, tall and strong are synonymous with them, and blacks are honest, as long as you give him money or give them food, then they will work for you, very realistic, and they work very hard.
So from the first day they came, the fat man had already told O'Neill to be kind to them, not to ask you to be merciful, but to be fair.
It is common for the big black men to go hungry and full in the tribe, and there are also people who are starved to death, and this situation has been until modern times, and there are still more, so the elders of the tribe cherish this opportunity to feed the tribe after they can live here, and they are not stingy with their loyalty to the fat man, the most noble person, because in their conversation with Nina, they got the fat man's order for O'Neill to treat them and the sailors equally.