Of course, the study in the villa is still extremely luxurious, but now it is more like a showroom than a job. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The row of expensive wooden bookshelves against the wall was empty, and there were no books, firstly, because the prices of books in this era were particularly expensive and could not be purchased in large quantities, and secondly, because it was not necessary - Ye Guyun, as the owner, had not yet learned the lingua franca, and even if he had a book in his hand, he could not understand it, since this was the case, it was better not to put it away.

However, the luxurious desk in the study was filled, filled with items that had followed Ye Guyun through the process. Worn-out sachets, dim jade pendants, bamboo Xiao, broken "Xuan" swords, and some other bits and pieces.

The tattered brocade robe was suspended from a pillar hanger.

It's only been two days since he moved into this villa, and Ye Guyun hasn't really experienced the study yet, to be honest, counting this time, it's only the second time he's stepped here, but he likes it all of a sudden.

A place where you can be quietly tormented by memories and remorse, who is not a good place?

Ye Guyun kept rubbing the inscription of the word "Xuan" on the broken sword, indulging in this morbid pleasure born of extreme pain.

It's been a long time, it's been a long time......

Then, someone came in.

Eve pushed the door open.

first glanced at Ye Guyun in the seat, then knocked on the door, stood up to a teacher's posture, and said confidently, arrogantly and seriously: "Hey, my dear student, it's 9 o'clock in the morning, and it's time for language class!"

Ye Guyun was stunned.

"What?" she raised an eyebrow, "Could the chief advisor of the Crescent City Dominion be a bad student who refuses to be classed?"

Ye Guyun was speechless, but beckoned.

"Oh, you want to take classes in the study? ”

Eve walked over, sat down, and sat opposite Ye Guyun. Without waiting for the other party to speak, he directly moved the things on the desk to both sides and cleared out an empty space.

Two books were placed on the table.

"It's a textbook. Borrowed from Frank. ”

Ye Guyun wanted to speak several times, but he was stopped.

Eve stared into the other party's eyes and said very resolutely, "Now, it's class time. ”

“...... Good. ”

The class began to be carried out in a serious and formal form, one teaching and one receiving, there were questions and answers, it was by no means quiet, but also solid, and the heart of Wushu settled down unconsciously, I don't know whether it is the power of the course or the power of people.

Time flew by, and the lesson quickly came to an end.

"That's it! That's it for today!"

"Thank you, and... I'm sorry. ”

"Maybe you should have said it to them. ”

"Yes. I know I made everyone worry yesterday. ”

"Figured it out?"

"No, it's not that easy. But I knew I needed to be positive. ”

"Need help?"

"......" hesitated for a long time, Ye Guyun finally spoke, "Would you like to listen to the story?"

"Of course. ”

The lips and teeth were bright, and the eyes were rolling, and it was an angelic smile.

——Divide-cut--

Lotchi has been tired lately, but he's happier than ever.

Within a few days, seeing that some people had gone from the arrogance of deliberately raising the price when they heard that he was going to buy all kinds of sugar in large quantities, to the groveling of people who wanted to get a small amount of sugar from him, and wanted to get a small amount of sugar from him, it was really—

Happy! Laugh and raise your eyebrows! Can't stop laughing~~!

Hey~!No!We're gentlemen, we can't be like this!We have to be humble, reserved, and polite~!Hmm, that's it!

"You may be seated!"

Therefore, the eldest prince of the Ashylon family, who sat on the soft seat, showed a gentlemanly smile of the most standard, and sincerely greeted another visitor.

Walking in was a middle-aged man with a chubby body and a round head and a round head, he was from Casticas, he was a businessman, his name was Smart. At the beginning of the door, his performance was perfect, respectful but moderate, neither humble nor arrogant, with a strong confidence on his face that I don't know if it was pretended, but after seeing Lotchi's face clearly, that strong confidence was replaced by a stronger stunned.

This His Royal Highness Roche, we've seen it!

At...... In the Verdant Vine Tavern!

One of the two entourages of that mysterious and eccentric black-clothed nobleman!

He—He's the eldest son of the Ehillon family?!

How could it be him?!

The gods go up again...... This joke is too big......

"Hello, Smart, meet again. Roche smiled meaningfully.

"Ahh

In fact, what has surprised Smart recently is not only Roche's true identity? The most excessive thing is the changes in Crescent Moon City in the past half a month, which almost made him kneel on the ground and salivate loudly with a dog's face: "I really can't guess you~!"

More than ten days ago, Smart successfully transferred all the goods brought by the ship, and prepared the return goods, and will leave for the return voyage in a few days. If the journey goes well, when he returns safely to Casticas before the New Year, and then sells the goods when the time comes, he estimates that he will eventually make a thousand gold coins, and he will have to share the profits with his partner—a good enough result for a businessman of his level!

Smart invites his friends to the Verdant Vine Tavern again that night, both to celebrate and to practice each other - of course, he is the host, but it has become a common practice, and it is this generosity that has kept him very popular.

That same night, Smart heard an unexpected news. The price of sugar in Crescent City has risen sharply, and it is rumored that a high roller in the city who does not ask the price but asks for spot is making unlimited purchases.

Smart was first reminded of the idea that someone was trying to hype up the price of sugar in Crescent City, but he quickly rejected the idea.

Sugar is not easy to speculate, although it is a bulk commodity related to people's livelihood, it is only a seasoning after all and does not have the necessary attributes that food naturally has. No one will be absolutely inseparable from it. To put it simply, people will die if they don't eat food, but they really won't die if they don't eat sugar. Therefore, even if the speculators succeed in speculating sugar to a sky-high price, the citizens will really not buy it if they can't afford it, and it won't be a big deal if it lasts for 10 days and a half -- can't they afford to eat sweet, salty, spicy, or even sour and bitter food?

Moreover, Crescent City, as a worldwide port, naturally gathers merchants from all over the world and attracts goods from all over the world, and if you want to control the price of certain goods in such a city, you have to face global competition. To win such a competition, you need to have strong capital that can bully at least several regions. And there is such a strong capital..... What the hell are you doing? You have to come and do this kind of nonsense that doesn't make any money and has no added effect? Idle and boring, right?

So, is there really a strong buyer in demand?

Neither the duties of a merchant nor his own keen instincts allowed Smart not to find out about this particular matter, so it was decided that he would postpone his return and continue to stay in Crescent City. He and his friends were asking around for some useful information, at least to know if the powerful buyer's demand had been strong, and if the answer was yes, he knew that he would need to load some more sugar on the merchant ship back to Crescent City.

However, it is at this critical moment that the limitations of a middle-level businessman like Smart who are more than superior to the lower are best reflected. There are connections in shopping malls, but they are not horizontal enough, official relationships are there, but they are not universal, and their own channels are there, but they are not strong enough. Everything is just right, and many things can be done, but there is absolutely no ability to do some things outside the boundary. As a result, under the tacit understanding of the major consortiums and wealthy clans, Smart and his friends only heard for a while that a large number of sugar purchases were made by a newly established strange trading house called "Thirteen Lines", and it is said that there is also the figure of the eldest son of the Ashilen family behind it.

It's just that before they could figure out the details, the entire Crescent City was stunned by a new product launched by the "Thirteen Lines"!

What kind of commodity is that? White as snow, fine as sand, crystal like a gemstone, without impurities, without bitterness or sweetness, pure in the mouth, fragrant in the mouth, and endless aftertaste! Oh, they call it white sugar. But it doesn't matter, what matters is - your uncle's! Is this candy that can be found in the world?

Once, with such doubts, Smart and his friends rushed to the façade of the Thirteen Lines to try to smash the field, and then they left with tears in their eyes......

Tears in my eyes? Yes, proper. First, they were moved to tears by the wonderful taste sensation, and on the other hand, they remembered that they did not have much money left to buy sugar..... No matter how stupid the businessman is, he knows that it is absolutely possible to make a lot of money by trafficking in unique high-grade bulk goods like sugar, but now they are standing in front of the source of goods, but he meows and finds that there is not enough capital to purchase the goods, and the big profit opportunity in his hand can only be watched being wasted, can he not cry?!

Envy, jealousy, hatred...... Smart and the others, who were ruled by all kinds of careful thoughts, were about to cry, and in the next few days, in addition to begging grandpa and grandmother to beg the supplier to return some ordered goods in exchange for funds to purchase sugar, they spent the rest of the time in a curse, and the thirteen lines that were killed that day of the curse were quickly defeated and liquidated and carved up-

Hey, that's not unusual!

How can a newly established small business house that has no roots, no roots, no backers, but has mastered a super financial resource that can make money every day and reach all over the world, and can not attract the covetousness of the big conglomerates, the big lords, and the big nobles, who are as greedy and ruthless as jackals? Moreover, the latter has too many means to deal with such an incomparably palatable and incomparably weak opponent as the former! Coercion and inducement, monopolizing the source of raw materials, blocking sales, stealing technology, forcibly poaching employees, and even forcibly liquidating by force......

There is no most vicious and spicy, only more vicious and spicy~! As long as you can eat the delicious food, there is nothing that jackals dare not do! And similar things, I don't know how many cases will happen in the middle of the year......

It's strange that it didn't happen this time!

Even a few days later, Thirteen Lines launched an even more eye-catching and ultra-lucrative product - rock candy that resembles ice cubes, is like crystals, and is "full of physical beauty", which makes people fascinated by it, can't put it down, and can't bear to taste it!

As if having changed their sex, the wolves mercifully let go of the fat meat that dared to lie under their noses, almost in ignorance and arrogance, provoking "There is a kind of you come to eat me!" and turned ...... Instead, he dragged his saliva like a family dog, wagged his tail, wrinkled his eyebrows, and begged for mercy on the piece of meat. Attentive visits one after another, generous banquets and walks, scrambling to deliver orders, safe and secure, rules and regulations, no one can be more like a serious merchant than the group of jackals at that time!

When it comes to this, everyone knows that there must be something else in it. And Smart and the others only made a slight effort to probe, and then found out the details. (In fact, no one deliberately covered it up from beginning to end, except for the group at the top who tacitly remained silent and delayed the exposure time to a certain extent.) In fact, this is also to reduce the time left by competitors as much as possible to win more sugar share, after all, the initial stage of a new product on the market, the lack of production capacity can be expected. Roche, who was in charge of sugar affairs, was inexperienced, and he did not publicize it on a large scale, but only informed the most powerful chambers of commerce in a propaganda manner, and he believed that the merchants would communicate with each other. ）

It turned out that this business belonged to the Grand Duke from beginning to end! The workshop was in the castle, the workers were all the duke's domestic servants, the technology came from the newly appointed chief adviser, the thirteen lines were the waistcoats of the duke's palace, and the chief prince Roche was in charge of the sugar affairs......

No wonder!

No wonder no one dares to play hooligan on the Thirteen Elements! Dxxn! The biggest hooligan in Crescent City is his family! Who can play hooligan against him? Playing horizontally and vertically, Brown sports and sports, no one has ever been afraid of meowing!

Before the small and medium-sized businessmen had time to digest this old news that stirred their hearts, a series of extremely important new news was released one after another.

There are still many quotas for white sugar, and interested merchants may wish to come to inquire and discuss cooperation, but in any case, a major premise is confirmed, and the thirteen banks are more welcome to pay with cash and "labor input", and partners who use this payment method will receive higher quotas under other conditions.

Well, it is to send people to Crescent City, which can be slaves, can be free people, regardless of occupation, skill level, race, men and women, as long as they are not too old to move. Of course, for various merchants, this large paragraph of elaboration can actually be simplified into a noun, hehe, you know, the slave trade~!

At the same time, the most powerful armed force of the Crescent City Dominion, the Knights of the Crescent, completed the assembly with an unspecified goal.

In addition, the Grand Duke also invested heavily and issued a large number of bounty orders to recruit brave adventurers to eliminate all kinds of monsters in all directions and areas outside Crescent City!

For a time, the wind surged.