Chapter Eighty-Six: A Fragile Alliance
The sugar trade was negotiated in the lord's castle of Suren, and the stewards of the eight chambers of commerce came together the next morning.
Chrissy sat lazily on the sofa in the main seat, and her charming style made several chamber of commerce stewards stunned, and the performance of several caravan stewards was even more unbearable.
"Ahem!" Fernand, who was the first to recover, reminded with a dark face when he saw the ugliness of the others.
The faces of the people who came back to their senses were a little embarrassed, but as old fritters, their skin was thick enough, and they continued to talk as if nothing happened.
"Welcome all caravans to our town north fort, the conditions are simple, please bear with me. Chrissy said with a smile.
"We have 500 catties of sugar to sell this time..."
"Five hundred catties of sugar, a lot of money, what do you say about the transaction method and price?" Fernande nodded and said, without waiting for Chrissy to answer, he continued, "We can eat all these goods, and we can give you a high price after we have discussed the price." β
That expression seemed to have been eaten, and the other party could only accept it.
Chrissy took a sip of the teacup on the table, and did not say anything, this situation had been expected by Suren, and even the solution had been discussed a long time ago.
Seeing that Chrissy didn't say anything, Fernande felt that they had acquiesced, and then continued to say in that tone: "Your town is too far away from Carthusian City, and the cost of coming here every time is very high, so you need to make a profit on the price, of course, we will also give you some compensation, if you need any goods in this town, we can help you traffic them, and the price is negotiable." β
"Our eight chambers of commerce control sixty percent of Carthusian City's trade, and we have enough strength to meet your demands. β
"Oh, what do you think of the price of sugar?" Chrissy said with a hint of mockery on her lips.
Fernande glanced at each other, secretly proud in their hearts, sure enough, it was a small nobleman in the countryside, a hillbilly, as long as they showed their muscles, they would directly admit defeat.
"Ahem, we have discussed, the price of eighty-five kinnars for a pound of white sugar is very suitable. Owen next to him spoke.
Chrissy didn't answer, but looked at the other caravan masters, but none of them spoke.
"Very well, I see what you mean. Chrissy nodded and put the teacup down, "But we have a better way." β
Then he stood up and said with a smile, "This batch of 500 catties of sugar will be divided into five parts, and the stewards of all chambers of commerce can bid, but the bidding method we use this time is a secret bidding." β
"There's a sign on each of your tables, write your price on the sign, and give it to me, and we'll choose the five caravans with the highest price to trade. As for the last three caravans in terms of price, then I'm sorry to let you run for nothing. Chrissy said with a smile on her white fingers playing with a small leather whip.
"By the way, I only have one chance. After saying that, he winked mischievously, and then calmly returned to his seat.
"No way, we will never agree to trade in this way! Never!" As soon as Chrissy's voice fell, Fernand, who was still personable just now, couldn't help but exclaim.
As the head of the largest chamber of commerce in Carthusian City, he has always said whatever price he says, and no one else has ever dared to refute it. I didn't expect it to be planted in this poor and remote place today.
"Mr. Fernand, why are you not satisfied with our arrangement?" Chrissy said with a smile, but the tone of her voice seemed to be a cold wind from the Far North Wasteland, which sent chills down the spine.
Looking at Chrissy's pretty face, Fernand opened his mouth, but didn't say anything in the end.
"Who else has an opinion? You can leave now. Chrissy looked around, the whole person was full of oppression, the air on the faΓ§ade of the living room became extremely solemn, and no one got up to leave after waiting for a while.
"It seems that no one has any opinions, so let's get started, write your price on the sign, and we will have someone to collect it later. Seeing that no one was leaving, Chris chuckled and returned to his seat.
The eight caravan directors glanced at each other, and then picked up the pen and wrote their respective prices on the sign, but this price is really not easy to write, and it is written low, in case several other chambers of commerce write a high price, then he is likely to come for nothing this time, and the writing is high, and he is a little unwilling in his heart. So these people have been slow to put pen to paper.
Chrissy leisurely looked at the tangled expressions of these merchants, and admired the bidding method given by the master Su Lun in her heart.
The way of the secret mark makes these people have no chance to unite, and there is also an advantage that those chambers of commerce that were originally afraid of the power of the Flamingo Chamber of Commerce and did not dare to compete with them have no scruples at all this time.
After about fifteen minutes, several barbarian maidens came in and collected all the secret marks written by the merchants, and Chrissy picked them up and began to examine them.
Chrissy did not directly announce the results, but asked all the chamber of commerce directors to go back and wait for news, and then left the living room with the secret mark.
"Owen, how much have you written?" asked a caravan steward, pretending to be nonchalant.
"Eighty-five Kinnar, if you say that you can give them this price, you can't change it!" Owen said unusually stiffly.
"What about you, Robert?"
"Of course, I firmly support the price we agreed on! Robert said righteously, as if he was a knight at the knighthood ceremony, expressing his heart to the king.
"Yes, we should join forces and not let these hillbillies take advantage!" said another caravan steward.
Hearing the words of these people, Fernande nodded secretly, it seems that this time it is stable.
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After the caravan manager left, Chrissy began to check the secret bid they gave, and the one with the highest secret bid gave a price of eighty gold narls, and Chrissy took a look, and it was actually Owen from the Bauhinia Chamber of Commerce. In second place is Robert, one hundred and seventy-eight kinnars.
The lowest one also gave a price of one hundred and twenty kinnars, which was more than double the price of eighty-five kinnars they had said before.
The lowest price of the top five chambers of commerce is one hundred and seventy-three, and the average price is one hundred and seventy-five gold nars, and five hundred catties of white sugar will be sold at least one hundred thousand gold nars this time.