Why does the Grand Duke act so often?

There is going to be a war? A great chaos is about to arise? Is the way of the world about to change?

Everyone is pondering the meaning behind this series of changes. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, as a businessman, a purest interest animal, no matter when, where, and under what circumstances, he will never stop chasing profits. Smart and his friends, for example, would never give up on the idea of entering the sugar business, although they would also frown at the unpredictable changes in Crescent City.

In fact, all the merchants in Crescent City are like this, and one thing is almost 100% (unless you have a bad character, and you encounter such a force majeure event as a ship wreck, and people lose their money) can make money—and it is definitely a business that makes a lot of money, and who doesn't want a piece of the pie?

Thankfully, the visitors left with different expressions, some smiling contentedly, while others shook their heads and sighed disappointed.

Well, there are more of the latter.

Perhaps His Royal Highness Roche was so tired of the weak and self-aware petty merchants that the visitation system was soon abolished. A new set has been replaced, and now, if you want to negotiate the matter of sugar, you must first present a post, listing certain information such as identity, background, capital channels, etc., and submit it to a special person for preliminary review. After passing the preliminary review, the Thirteen Guilds will assign a corresponding level of character to negotiate with the visitor, and it is no longer an opportunity for anyone to talk to His Royal Highness Roche.

The implication is self-explanatory.

"Okay!"

"Happy!"

"It's long overdue!"

......

At the time, of course, there was a lot of cheering (many competitors were disqualified), but then everyone had to worry about how to improve their qualifications as much as possible (higher qualifications mean better treatment).

Smart and his friends are naturally among them, although their own strength is still considerable, and they are confident that they can get a decent treatment, but who doesn't want to raise the treatment they deserve to a higher level? What's more, at this time, they all have a fatal shortcoming, and there is not much liquidity in their hands.

So they chose to unite. They formed a joint-stock company, gathered the strength of everyone, cultivated a strong monomer, participated in the competition for the share of white sugar, and hoped to make a profit.

It was the best they could think of.

No supplier would care too much about a middle-level businessman who didn't have cash in his hands, and some arrogant didn't even bother to give him entry qualifications, and Thirteen Lines was clearly the kind of supplier with arrogant qualifications. But a few or a dozen of these middle-level businessmen are formed of a close-knit company with the same goal, its weight is much larger, at least it can no longer be rudely ignored, and falling in front of the thirteen lines means that you can negotiate with higher-level people to get better conditions.

At the same time, a company is clearly better able to meet the odd demands of the Thirteen Lines as the sole supplier than a single person (the slave trade is not something that any ordinary merchant can do), thus obtaining more sugar quotas, and even trying to get them to agree to the request for credit (they don't have the cash).

Moreover, when it comes to pitting each other with competitors, the company is also more capable.

Of course, all this is theoretical. I don't know. Anyway, Smart was apprehensive when Smart stood outside the thirteen lines to offer a prayer post.

He doesn't have confidence in himself!

Temporarily established companies, not yet integrated, with unclear rights and responsibilities, unclear assets, poor reputation, and lack of liquidity......

How do you look like a swindler.

Asking himself, Smart felt that if he received the same treatment as the most inferior chamber of commerce, that is, to be able to negotiate with a manager-level figure in the Thirteen Lines, it would be a great success.

Then, he learned that he would be able to meet with the eldest prince, Roche......

"What? Did you hear me right? Princess? I? Meeting? Is this meowing because the goddess of luck Tymorrah has taken a fancy to me?!"

With an inexplicable and elated mood, Smart finally met the legendary eldest prince Rochi under the guidance of the staff......

"Okay! It's because of an acquaintance, an acquaintance who didn't expect it and meowed! cough, why do you feel a little nervous?...

「... It's better to have acquaintances than to have none! Not to mention that they got along very well at the time, and they were friends anyway! Friends should be easy-going! Hmm! That's it!"

Cleaning up his mood and regaining his self-confidence, Smart calmly sat down in front of Roche and complained slightly: "Your Highness, this is really unexpected!"

"Haha! Smart, your Iris Chamber of Commerce also caught me by surprise!"

Smart was embarrassed, she never expected the other party to give such an answer, although it was full of ridicule. Ho, what an elegant, extravagant and beautiful name, it is the company that he and his friends set up temporarily, and there are not many people who can know the details better than him, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a grass platform team.

At the same time, Smart believed that Roche could also guess the scales and half-claws, because many of the company's shareholders were no strangers to Roche, and they had met the noble prince in the verdant vine tavern like him, drank, eaten, and bragged, and they were half acquaintances with each other, and some general backgrounds could not be concealed. (For example, the merchants knew that the two brothers were nobles, and the two brothers knew that they were from different places.)

So, if a group of people who were independent of each other more than half a month ago suddenly become the major shareholders of the same company, do you say, be there something strange about it? For example, an attempt to deceive collectively?

"No!

In order not to let the other party think that he was a treacherous businessman with bad intentions and deliberately defrauded, Smart hurriedly introduced to Luo Qi in detail a series of his own operation plans for white sugar, including how much to buy, how to transport, which markets to release, the expected digestion time, follow-up operations, and most importantly, how to meet the requirements of the Thirteen Lines.

Sprinkled, comprehensive, detailed, well-organized, and gushing, when it comes to saliva is dry, he meows just to prove one point: we are not liars! We are really very sincere! That ...... Can white sugar come out?

Roche just listened quietly.

Smart was very bold, and seeing that the other party did not show signs of loosening, he simply put aside his scruples and carried out his honesty to the end. He laid out everything he knew about the Iris Consortium, focusing on what he considered to be the most important purpose of the organization.

“...... Everyone wants to be involved in the sugar business, and we are no exception, but unfortunately at this time we are running out of liquidity, we are not in our prime, we are all underpowered. However, no one will have mercy on us, and the merchants of the entire Crescent City will only be like angry porcupines who will raise their thorns and bared their sharp teeth to compete for sugar, many of whom we know will be full of fat and become upstarts. We want to be a part of it, and at least we have to get a piece of the feast of riches, but ......"

Shaking his head, Smart leaned back on the back of the soft seat, he was now completely let go, reached out and touched his round head, looked directly at Roch, and explained a fact in a straight tone: "Only by uniting, forming a strong monolith, can we have enough capital and enough ability to participate in this feast." So, I'm here to be. ”

He laughed very shyly, as if he were sitting on the side of the wine table in the verdant vine tavern.

"Your Highness, I've confessed everything, and there will probably be no business negotiations like mine, right? However, this is just to convince you that our Iris Chamber of Commerce is indeed here with sincerity, not with deception and coaxing. We really wanted to get a share of the white sugar commensurate with the strength of our group. ”

"Even if you don't have enough cash right now?" Rocchi asked with a smile.

"That ......" Smart was in a hurry, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, he was nimble, and immediately thought of a cheeky method, he stretched out his hand and gestured to himself, "Your Highness, as you can see, this is a good businessman, honest, trustworthy, fair, never cheating, and has a good reputation. As a person, he is also kind and generous enough, warm and generous, well, His Royal Highness has also experienced this firsthand. All in all, it's a good partner from every point of view. Then, I think that the wise you will definitely be willing to give this kind of good partner some special benefits! At least you won't let the powerful him lose his qualifications because of a temporary predicament, right?"

Heh, this guy even uses his personal charm and friendship, it's really shameless! But he looks very anxious with a round head and a round head, which looks quite funny. So—

Hahahaha~!

Lotchi laughed insolently—well, quite out of shape, not like a gentleman anymore, Smart stared at her nose and nose and looked at her heart in silence. After a while, Roche put away his laughter, but still the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and he said to Smart, "I am not going to let you participate in the sugar business because I know that you are a kind and generous fellow."

"Oh no! it can't be like this!" Smart shouted, and then, suddenly, there was a 180-degree turn, his face was salivating, his eyes were shining, "Huh?"

"Hey, hey~!" Rocchi smirked.

"Hey, hey~!" Smart also smirked.

Withdrawing his smile, Roch asked solemnly, "What do you think of our announced terms of priority delivery?"

The preferential supply clause refers to the statement that "partners who can provide labor input will receive a higher sugar quota under all other conditions", which has been circulated throughout the city.

"Ahem, I'll be blunt, perhaps, it's not just a literal massive input of labor......" Smart squeezed out a strange expression with high and low eyebrows, "The real purpose is probably to bring a large number of people to Crescent City, right? So, what is the Grand Duke going to do? Embark on new projects? Promote new industries? Or ...... Outward expansion of new settlements, or war?"

Roche nodded and shook his head, and replied, "Not exactly. ”

He learned from Ye Guyun's style, stretched out his hand and knocked rhythmically on the table, looking very stylish, he said in a condensed voice: "We are going to expand the city." ”

"Tuocheng?"

"Yes. Crescent City is indeed saturated now, but that's not its limit. Far from it. We want it to go one step further to greatness, so it's time to break the cage that has been holding it up, and it needs to get out of the mountains between the north and the south. It will continue to expand outward, and the large area on the west bank of the Horner River will be its future urban area. Our goal is to extend at least to the Seven Castles district on the west bank of the Horner River. ”

"That can't be!"

Smart's reaction to this message was exactly the same as the one he had heard about it for the first time at the meeting.

"In fact, the whole project is already underway. ”

"Wow~!Wow~!" Smart shook his head and exclaimed again and again, the "dreamy" plan made him unbelievable.

"If you're hungry for wealth, here's a great opportunity. ”

Hearing this, Smart immediately gathered his mind and listened carefully.

"In fact, once the expansion plan begins, there will be opportunities everywhere in Crescent City, and every one of them will look wonderful and feasible and not to be missed, won't it?" Rocchi smiled, like a devil, "but if you are willing to consider this next piece of advice, I think your dream of wealth will come to fruition sooner and easier." ”

Smart's throat swelled, and she swallowed hard.

"Set up a construction company..."

Clearly!

Smart's eyes lit up, but the man froze, and he was in a reverie.

The number of projects that would be staggered would be too great for the Dominion government, the Ashlons, to divide most of the work among the merchants. This means that an extraordinarily rich feast has begun! The infrastructure alone can give birth to a large number of huge wealth!

If he and his partners had recruited a group of architects, stonemasons, carpenters, and a larger group of basic workers from their respective hometowns to form a professional engineering team based in Crescent City to undertake various projects from the Dominion Government, everyone in his engineering team might have become rich by the time the XC District began to take shape! Of course, he must have become a millionaire that everyone envied by then......

Well, that's a lot better than Haimao! Haimao is hugely profitable, but it's so dangerous that no one knows when they're going to run into the damn storms, pirates, and sea monsters. Once you are unlucky, not only will you lose all your money, but you will even have to take your life!

Ouch~!I'm afraid!It's better to build a house and pave the road!

On second thought, Smart felt that he was particularly able to understand the practice of the Thirteen Lines (which was actually the Duke's Palace) in establishing the terms of priority supply. He's meowing! It's all a pot of manpower shortage! With such a grand plan to expand the city, even if the original manpower of Crescent City is doubled, it will be far from enough! Therefore, we can only rely on labor input! And no matter how much foreign labor is too little!

According to Smart's estimates, the vast majority of those who were brought in through this clause would be engaged in various constructions as soon as they arrived in Crescent City, and this Nima was the standard cow and horse......