Chapter 40: The Mighty Dragon and the Snake of the Earth
The joke was almost over, and Lancelot's face straightened. He smiled at the bewitching woman Bella, "You can't eat so many armors, so keep half of them for me." ”
He spoke in a consultative tone, but there was no doubt in his tone that anyone could hear.
Bella didn't react when he said this, but the group of merchants who didn't leave the door came with a sentence: "You two said that you would divide the share, and you look down on our local merchants too much, right?"
He suddenly said such a sentence out loud, and the local shop pseudo-bosses were all frightened. This is a lion and tiger fighting, what are you doing with a quail in front of you? Could it be that you really think that if you have more quails, you can be bigger than a tiger? It's useless to be big? People can eat you ten in one mouthful, how can you compare with others?
Oh?
The merchants of the local shops seem to be not planning to give up?
Lancelot and Bella raised their heads at the same time to look at the group of merchants, only to see that the merchants hurriedly dodged a way, revealing Olivier in the middle, for fear of being misunderstood for something to do with him.
Seeing that the merchants pushed themselves out, Olivier knew that there was no way to fish in troubled waters, so he simply stood up and stood in front of the merchants, with a righteous and awe-inspiring face, and asked loudly: "You all take the share, we will not agree." He took two steps forward and sat down in a chair, with a group of local merchants standing behind him.
If you hit it head-on, you don't dare to touch it, and the local businessmen know their size. But someone made a bird, and these shop bosses were still happy to shout and cheer. This kind of thing that benefits without cost, why not support it?
Olivier felt a sense of pride in his heart, he had come to Pike's house today, and he had not received an invitation at all, he had mixed in. Now, he saw an opportunity, and none of the local merchants dared to speak, but did not want to give up the Pike family's share of armor sales. They don't take care of it.
The Pikes don't have a good impression of them, they don't want to sell them at all, and the two dragons don't want to leave them a share. If you want to get a share, you have to do something extraordinary.
"Oh, what kind of chamber is this brother?" Seeing Olivier come out, Bella ignored him at all, Lancelot was good-tempered, and he didn't have any arrogance, so he asked directly.
"I'm Olivier Amerior!" Olivier proudly announced his name, and on such an occasion that required momentum, he had to take out Amerio's last name to fill the scene.
Sure enough, as soon as his name was announced, Lancelot and Bella's faces became solemn. The Amerio family of Sacrath is really a family that can't be bypassed. If this young man is from the Amerio family, then he is really qualified to sit here and negotiate terms with the two.
Seeing that his surname frightened the two of them, Olivier secretly rejoiced in his heart, as long as he could negotiate a share, all the businessmen present would accept his affection, and the future development would be just around the corner.
Before he could finish his thoughts, he heard the young man sitting in his chair who had just been talking nonsense laugh and asked, "I just don't know what the relationship between this gentleman and the Amerio family in Sagnas City is." ”
It was Bello who spoke, and the reason for the question was simple, he looked at this guy unpleasantly. From the very beginning, he hid behind the backs of many businessmen and sneered and sowed discord. At that time, many businessmen said things that were inconvenient for him to say, and the Pike family was enough to choke. When the merchants saw that they had a advantage to take advantage of, they were happy to cover for him.
Now these businessmen don't dare to come forward, this guy actually took out the banner of the Amerio family. Regardless of whether this guy is really from the Amerio family or not, here Bello just wants to ask such a sentence, for no other purpose, just to embarrass him.
If it was a native of Belparo, he would definitely not ask this sentence, and people like old Jeremy and others had vaguely heard of the reputation of this young man named Olivier. Young talents, people of the Amerio family, knowledgeable, skilled in martial arts, and so on. This kind of thing, after hearing about it a lot, basically believes it, and rarely suspects anything.
On the one hand, Bello wanted to disgust this guy, and on the other hand, he really hadn't heard much of this guy's reputation.
When he asked this, everyone thought that Olivier would take the opportunity to report his relationship with the Amerio family and make a big banner with tiger skin.
Unexpectedly, Olivier did not answer Bello, but said to Lancelot very reservedly: "I don't know if we businessmen have weight, share a share!"
Lancelot chuckled and asked, "Who are you merchants?" as he looked past Olivier to the pseudo-bigwigs of the shops behind him, his words somewhat disdainful.
The first thing he stared at was a younger shop leader, Lancelot stared at him and asked, "Is the 'Belparo Light' going to participate in the distribution?" This younger person in charge is officially the head of the "Belparo Light" Chamber of Commerce. Seeing Lancelot's gaze staring at him, he couldn't help but feel a little frightened, and said repeatedly: "Don't participate! Don't participate! You talk! You talk!"
This is where commerce is different from agriculture, in agriculture, if the landlord has 1,000 acres of fertile land and another landlord has 100 acres of fertile land, then the landlord of 1000 acres of fertile land will basically not be afraid of the landlord of 1,000 acres of fertile land anywhere. The two are not subordinate to each other, and neither of them wants to threaten anyone.
Business is different, and large business giants can generally influence small business entities to a large extent. This is because of the liquidity of commerce, and commerce cannot close the door and do its own thing like agriculture. It requires that the commodity must be negotiable, otherwise it cannot be called commercial.
A person like Bella who can throw around with a Tianxin card is huge enough to crush all the local shops in his seat.
Seeing Lancelot and Bella on an equal footing, the background of Lancelot, the various shops have been overestimated to the extreme. Because of this, seeing Lancelot asking questions, the person in charge of the shop of "Belparo Light" was so out of shape.
"So has the 'Tamil' Chamber of Commerce decided to get involved and get a piece of the action?" Lancelot turned his gaze to the short-haired businessman. This one is not easy to get along with, his eyes are as sharp as an eagle, and the corners of his mouth and nose have deep nasolabial folds. Seeing Lancelot's gaze on him, the man was expressionless and didn't answer Lancelot's thoughts. He knew in his heart that Lancelot was breaking through each other, and if everyone was in such a hurry to clear themselves as the "Light of Belparo", then today would be a complete defeat. So he gave Lancelot a non-violent non-cooperation. No acknowledgment or denial. Such a statement is enough to express his attitude, but Lancelot can't find an excuse to target himself.
Lancelot waited for a long time, and saw that the boss of the "Tamil" Chamber of Commerce was silent, did not answer, and guessed the other party's thoughts, so he did not wait, and continued to ask the next one: "What about the 'Four Links' Chamber of Commerce?
The hook-nosed old man was hard-tempered, and when he heard Lancelot's question, he replied stiffly, "Yes!" and then stopped talking.
Seeing the other party's attitude, Lancelot was not angry, and said with a smile: "It seems that the local chamber of commerce in Belparo is really shameless, when we didn't come, we forced people to give up their interests, united, and forced people to death." Now here we are, with the face of a victim. It's not okay to be wronged, and it's not easy to be a person to this extent than to be despicable and shameless. It's just that I don't know why you think you're going to get a share. ”
"Of course, because they have big faces and ugly looks!"
The merchants didn't speak, but Bello answered. This made both Lancelot and Bella laugh. The pseudo-bosses of the local chamber of commerce were all angry and pale.
"It's not a big deal that we don't have a share, it's just that the Pike family wants to get the ingredients locally, I'm afraid it's not so convenient. "I don't know which shop said behind my back. When this is said on this occasion, it has a naked threatening meaning. This means that if they don't give a share, they, the merchants, will use the means of cutting off the raw materials to control the Pike family.
Unexpectedly, Lancelot laughed: "That's right! I don't have anything else here, but there are a lot of raw materials." If the Pikes don't mind, we'll offset some of the price with the raw materials, what do you think?" he asked old Jeremy at his last point.
From the moment Bella entered the living room, the joy in old Jeremi's heart never stopped.
That's right!
This is the treatment that armor should be.
This is the treatment of an exclusive monopoly.
How can there be an exclusive monopoly technology that still doesn't make money? This kind of high-spirited and proud feeling, this kind of feeling of extensive financial resources, is really TM cool!
As soon as old Jeremy wanted to nod his head in agreement, he heard someone in the crowd say in a strange voice: "The materials must be able to come in!"
Where are the materials coming in?
Do you want to use means to restrict others from sending materials over?
This is tearing the face, and it is purely unnecessary! It is necessary to use off-board tricks, to use non-commercial hands, to use black hands, to beat stuffy sticks, to collude between officials and businessmen, and to collude with black and white.
It's really shameless, and there are so many means that can be used.
These means are the unique advantages of the local people, and the so-called head snake is the meaning of the head. For example, people are familiar with government clerks, and a procedure can be completed in a day, but you will be stuck for a year and a half, or you will directly throw your formalities in the trash, telling you that you are accidentally lost and need to be redone. What should you do if another clerk accidentally stains your documents again and can't read them?
It is not easy to get things done, and it is not easy to do things badly, and this kind of non-official means can often work wonders.
Thousands of such little people constitute the relationship network of the head snake on the ground. This is the sphere of influence of the Terrestrial Snake. If these people really join forces to be shameless, then there is really no shame to say.
Although I don't know who said this behind it, it is indeed an effective means!