Chapter 37: Bruno's Struggle
In Benson's mind, among the people he admired, the ancestor who led them to Black Mountain City was the one he admired the most, and the second in line was his father Bruno.
Bruno was originally a member of the Norton family, --- largest mining giant in Montenegro, and was a member of his direct family. Direct members of the Norton family can take over a mineral as their starting capital when they become adults, but the quality of the mineral varies slightly according to the importance and love they receive at home.
Originally, as the favorite youngest son of the contemporary head of the family, Bruno should be able to get a good share of the property, and then as long as he waits for the money to be collected every day, and then plans to buy other minerals, he can have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life.
But to the surprise of the rest of the Norton family, Norton offered to give up his share of the mine, asking his father to completely separate the family's barely running carriage shop and hand it over to him. As long as he was given a carriage shop and a sum of money, he gave up the other inheritances that had been given to him in the family.
I don't know what Bruno said to his father, who was the old family owner at the time, and the other party actually agreed to his request. You must know that the wealth brought by a mineral is real, and it is simple. The main business of the Norton family is also all mineral mining, as long as they enter the mining industry, the members of the Norton family can basically sit and wait to collect money, because the Norton family has a large number of employees, servants and various channels and relationships to deal with other things. As long as they enter the complex mining industry, then their whole life will be smooth sailing, and they will collect money without any worries.
As for the poor carriage shop, no one even looked down on the side relatives.
In this way, in the eyes of everyone's bewilderment, doubt and sympathy, Bruno began his own business.
The young Bruno first changed the name of the carriage shop to "Bruno Transport Company", and then dismissed some unqualified employees in large numbers, while re-recruiting some young employees for training. After doing this, he began to use his family and his father's network to transport a large number of complex mines in Montenegro.
In the process of transporting complex ore, Bruno has gradually established a good and prominent image of fast and accurate delivery for his own transport line. Since then, Bruno has gradually expanded into additional transport operations by reaching customers in other cities through complex ore transport.
The most thing Benson saw his father do as a child was to follow caravans to other cities for business negotiations. My father's philosophy has always been to "go out", and he often said that if you want to express yourself, you must first set the stage on a higher place. He has always done this, he has been constantly exposed to new things outside, constantly keeping himself up with the pace of the times led by academic mages.
Later, just as they became the largest transporters of the complex mine in Montenegro, Bruno began to shift the focus of the transport line to the emerging magic airship and magic ship transportation. Bruno spent almost all of his savings to build the landing area and repair and maintenance system of the magic airship, you must know that nothing that touches magic is as cheap, and this kind of investment behavior that is close to gambling is very dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will lose nothing.
In fact, at the beginning, before the signing of the agreement with the magical aircraft transportation organizations in several major cities, the magic airship landing site built by Brudo has always been in a state of serious loss, and the mages who were hired to be responsible for the maintenance of the airship must take the money regardless of whether they have work or not. Bruno's money from transporting complex mines in Montenegro was basically used to make up for this funding gap.
Later, with the successful negotiation with aircraft transportation organizations in more and more cities, the situation gradually improved. Later, after Bruno contacted some of the cities where the mages lived, the profits from transporting magical vehicles began to exceed their profits from transporting complex ores in Montenegrin City. Since then, Bruno has continued to sell off the industry in the transportation industry for complex ore transportation, and has begun to fully shift to aircraft transportation.
In recent years, the complex mining in Black Mountain City has reached the point of exhaustion, and the small miners have basically gone bankrupt and closed down, only the big families like the Norton family are still struggling, but the defeat is now irreversible, just a few years earlier and a few years later.
In stark contrast, Bruno's transport line is full of vitality because they don't have to worry about the sudden closure of their place of work, the sudden loss of their job, because their future is visible.
Only those with a discerning eye can shine, and Bruno undoubtedly has such a discerning eye. While everyone was just staring at the complex mine in front of him, a cake that was destined to get smaller and smaller, he set his sights on another advantage of Black Mountain City.
The complex mine of Black Mountain City, this is a wealth that everyone can discover, and his other piece of wealth is far away from the city, so everyone does not notice, only a small village like Clea knows about this wealth, and is grateful for the wealth year after year. That's right, another inexhaustible treasure of Black Mountain is the Noras Forest, which is much larger than the entire Serge Kingdom.
The people of Montenegro can easily make money from the complex mine, so they look down on the group of mercenaries who earn hard-earned money from life to death, and the merchants who travel long distances to deliver goods for them, and these people also look down on the old men in Montenegro who know how to dig and dig and eat their old books. Therefore, there are very few mercenary groups and merchant groups that purchase magic materials stationed in Black Mountain City, most of them are scattered in villages and towns like Joseph Town below, and the people of Black Mountain City do not see them and ignore them.
Bruno, who has been fond of adventure stories since he was a child, is different, he noticed the Noras Forest early on, and once fantasized about going on an adventure in it as a mercenary, although he later let go of this ridiculous idea, but he did not forget the extremely vast Noras Forest with countless magical materials.
Therefore, after seeing the deteriorating condition of the complex mine, the adult Bruno personally talked to his father for a long time. Fortunately, Bruno's father is a sober man, and he knows very well that the future of the complex mine in Black Mountain City has no future at all, but he can't change the family, and this is not something he can say alone. But despite his surprise, he was very supportive of the idea of his favorite son. So he gave his youngest son the greatest help to himself, both openly and secretly.
In this way, Bruno first took over the family's carriage to transport the complex ore into the doxxing industry, and then just in time for the successful recovery of the magic flying machine, he took a lot of trouble to catch this car, and finally he excavated the treasure of Noras.
Black Mountain is the closest city to Noras Forest, and other cities are much farther away, so it's an important source of magic materials from Noras Forest. However, in the past, it was too far away from the magical cities that were mostly located in the south, so few people were willing to travel long distances to trade here. As a result, even if the price of materials here is much cheaper than other places outside, there are still many that cannot be sold, so the mercenaries here are very pitiful, even if they desperately exchange for things, they may not be able to sell them for money.
However, all of this began to change when Bruno's Magic Flying Machine landing ground was up and running.