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The golden midday sunlight peeked in through the window and shone on the table, and the quill stopped rustling.

After returning from Regina's mansion, Solomon spent a day and a half thinking and writing about it before he could roughly sort out his thoughts on Regina's salon.

After reading through it, he thought about it and spent another hour writing something new to add to it, which was his judgment of the situation between the royal family and the great nobles.

After he had written it all, he ate something and handed it to Regina.

Then he didn't linger too long, and Regina was in a hurry to read what he handed in, so he didn't stay.

Instead of returning to the Academy, Solomon made his way to the Third Outer, and his destination was the Mercantile Exchange of St. Quentine.

When he saw the Mercantile Exchange in Saint-Quentin, he was slightly disappointed on his first impression.

Because compared to the Commodity Exchange of the City of Freedom, the Commodity Exchange of the Ciudad Saint-Quentin is not only old, but also extremely unplanned.

The main building of the exchange is the most central building, which is said to have been originally a tavern.

The merchants who came and went to St. Quentin liked to have a drink there, and over time it became a well-known settlement.

Later, intentionally or unintentionally, some appealing businessmen began to form a small circle.

They often rent out the tavern when discussing important matters, and then only let close merchants or merchants who are qualified to cooperate with them enter.

When Solomon and the others built a special commodity exchange in the free city, a simple membership system was also formed here, but the ideological shackles were not completely broken, and the commodity exchange was not built before the free city.

When a commodity exchange was established in the Free City, information spread quickly among merchants.

The merchants of St. Quentin went to observe the commodity exchange of the Free City, and many of them were already in the business of reselling the goods of the Free City, which was just a business trip for them.

Then, imitating the commodity exchange of the Free City, Saint-Quentin also began.

However, the formation of the Saint-Quentin Commodity Exchange is naturally different from that of the Free City.

The Commodity Exchange of the Free City was led by the city's administration, and at the beginning of its construction, Franklin took the initiative to spend money to build it for the merchants, and then slowly recouped the cost by the annual seat fees of the merchants who settled in the exchange.

It was a conscious act of guidance by the Free City in order to attract merchants and expand commercial trade.

The Commodity Exchange of St. Quentin borrowed from the Free City in the management of the clubhouse, but in some places it was far inferior.

For example, the hall where the merchants traded on the exchange, the city of Liberty was brand new, and the tavern was renovated by the merchants of St. Quentin here.

The exchanges in the Free City and the warehouses attached to the exchanges are all planned as a whole, including anticipating the need for additional warehouses, how to solve them in the new city in the future, and connecting them to the original exchanges as much as possible.

The warehouses here are scattered, and it is evident that the merchants are trying to keep their warehouses closer to the exchange, but they are not as fortunate as their counterparts in Liberty City, and have the full support of the municipality.

These scattered warehouses have been their best efforts, just like the trading hall that has become the main body, and it is also the tragedy that they have raised funds to buy and rebuild.

As Solomon approached the trading floor of the exchange, he was stopped by a small group of people who suddenly appeared.

It was a guard hired by a merchant, affiliated with a group of mercenaries who were originally known as vaulters.

This mercenary group was once quite famous, but later suffered too many losses in the battle with a strong enemy, and even the mercenary leader was killed.

After the establishment of the Exchange, the merchants hired the remaining members of the Vaulting Mercenary Group to defend it, and they were responsible for the security of the exchange, as well as to prevent non-members of the Exchange from prying eyes on the residences inside.

Solomon handed over his "business card" and named Derek.

The patrol captain of this exchange was a squad leader of the original vaulting mercenary group, and he accepted Solomon's business card suspiciously, and then asked the team to look at the residence of Romon, and went to Derek for truth.

Although this squad leader has a certain strength, he is only a warrior of seven or eight levels at most, which can reach the level of a formal swordsman, equivalent to the level of a third-order creature, even if he adds these dozens of people under him, he is not much of a threat to Solomon

However, since he was here to visit the exchange and Derek, of course there was no need to have a conflict, so he could only wait patiently.

Fortunately, he didn't have to wait long, and soon, Derek's figure appeared in front of Solomon with the patrol leader.

With Derek's confirmation, the patrol was relieved to let go of Solomon's surveillance.

"I'm so sorry they don't know you, Mr. Solomon. Derek habitually pulled out his handkerchief to wipe his sweat.

"It doesn't matter. Solomon smiled knowingly, and then, guided by Derek, began to enter the trading floor.

"But I must say, Mr. Solomon, you are late, and you promised to come yesterday. I was looking forward to it all day with a couple of important partners, and you lost your word. Derek complained, but of course he wasn't really blaming Solomon, but just showing his attention.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, it's all my fault. I had promised Sir Reginer to give him some of my observations, so I delayed for a whole day. Solomon replied casually as he began to survey the trading floor.

This trading floor is also not as orderly as the Liberty City, which is much noisier and narrower, making it feel like you are in it.

In the trading hall of Liberty City, almost every merchant representative has a seat, and the large writing board of the transaction is placed at the front, and the merchants' seats are fan-shaped, and the seating mode of the theater is borrowed, and the seats at the back of each level are a part higher than the previous one, which can not affect the line of sight as much as possible.

Here, it is divided into two floors, and most of the people in the trading hall at the bottom are standing, although there are some seats, but because most of the people are standing, those who are sitting actually have to stand up, otherwise when the market is fierce and many people move forward, it will block their view.

And the people standing are also very casual around the big writing board, and the people who can't squeeze in the distance in the ground floor hall can only listen to the changes in the market.

Every morning, the commodity exchange will write yesterday's commodity market on a large writing board, and then whenever there is a businessman or news from the outside world that makes the supply, demand and price of a certain commodity change, it is usually the businessman who guides the change to write the new market and read it out loud.

This kind of somewhat messy trading floor is easy to guide many people to not be able to see the complete market from time to time, but can only reconstruct a "big writing board" in their hearts based on the sound they hear, and those who have an amazing memory will naturally have an advantage.

However, Solomon also noticed that the people who watched upstairs were supposed to be the privileged class of the exchange, because those who sat or stood in the corridor of the floor were condescending, and as long as their eyesight was normal, they could clearly see the contents of the large writing board.

"You're seeing more than a hundred members as I said. Derek said with some pride, "Our exchange started with only more than fifty members, and then expanded to one hundred and forty-four full members, and now there are nearly twice as many temporary members, but the latecomers are not so easy to join, and they need to be examined for a period of time before they are eligible to officially enter the transaction, and they must pay a fee." ”

He triumphantly pulled Solomon around the hall of the exchange, "Look, what does this place look like? Like a battlefield, I go to the Free City, I know that it is more orderly than here." But I tell you that the energy and opportunities there are not as good as here, and we are here at the forefront. ”

In the face of Derek's impassionedness, Solomon was a little unimpressed, but as soon as he thought about it, he suddenly condensed and said, "You have opponents?"

Derek paused for a moment and said, "Yes, it's the guild. ”

It dawned on Solomon that Derek's opponent turned out to be the Merchants' Guild.

Guilds are another force to be reckoned with, holding firmly on the oldest power in a particular trade among nations, making and overseeing the rules of the trade, distributing the source of raw materials, determining the inheritance of craftsmanship, and new entrants often need their recognition in order to enjoy fame and exhibition.

The Mage's Guild is actually a type of guild organization, but like some other special guilds, they are guild organizations with ordinary abilities compared to ordinary guilds.

The leaders of secular guilds are basically not from the great aristocracy, but the position of the leaders is often passed on to descendants or disciples, so as to monopolize the unique skills of the industry and inherit the customary right to speak.

However, the merchants' guilds are more special, because they do not rely on their skills to pass on the lineage, and the measure of value compared with each other is wealth, business and connections.

As far as Solomon knew, the merchant guilds of the nations, although not large nobles, could easily have close ties with the great nobles, who were usually the wealthiest customers.

If the leader of the merchant guild cooperates well with the wealthiest group of customers, it will be easier for him to maintain his position and deter other merchants, and then use his position and fame to make profits flow to him, taking away some opportunities that originally belonged to other merchants.

The core members of the merchant guild are not real nobles, but they have the opportunity to marry the side branches of the great nobles, and their status in the guild is like that of nobles, but they lack the status of being truly recognized by the kingdom.

From Derek's admission, Solomon had roughly guessed the contradiction between the Merchant's Exchange and the Asturian Merchant's Guild in a few thoughts.

The old guilds, of course, wanted to continue to monopolize vested interests, and they were traditional business partners in cooperation with the great nobles.

Derek represents a new generation of merchants, who are eager for wealth, so they are not willing to be divided all the benefits by the old rules, and are more inclined to break the original rules, eager for completely free competition and trade.

They may have challenged the rules of the guild, and such people gathered together, starting with the original tavern gatherings, passing messages and supporting each other in the gatherings again and again, and slowly gathered new business groups to compete with the original guilds, seeking to further break free from the shackles of the guild influence.

At this time, the appearance of the Free City Commodity Exchange opened a door in front of them.

Maybe it's not just them, it's going on in other countries like Derek and them.

This gave them the inspiration to unite and raise funds to buy the place where they had met as a starting point for the exchange.

From the initial more than fifty original members, to the later one hundred and forty-four regular members, and then to the number of temporary members that have surged several times in front of us.

Solomon must admit that Derek is right when he says that it's noisy and messy, but it's more vibrant than Liberty City.

This is because the background of the two is naturally different, and the Free City has always been just a new city located on the border, and if it were not for the advantage of trading with the orcs, it would be very difficult to get to where it is today.

Sant'Quentin is different, this is the capital of Asturias, the center of the country's merchants, and there are more opportunities here, even if the goods of the free city have to transit through Guò.

"Let's go, go upstairs, we have offices upstairs for the earliest members, and some of my old friends have been waiting for you for the past two days. Derek guided Solomon up the diagonal staircase.

Solomon nodded, stopped looking at the trading floor and thinking about it in his heart, and followed Derek upstairs.