178-Chapter 21
Chapter XXI
GG3
"So, you fundamentally have no conflict of interest, just a lack of communication."
At my instigation, the remaining merchants above the entire commercial street had a friendly conversation with a few of the upper echelons of the Black Wolf Gang.
Of course, as the two sides had been at loggerheads for a long time before, as the organizer of the event I ran out of words and almost didn't call all the merchants.
In the end, they came out reluctantly after I spent 3 silver coins in each shop.
d*mn, money is king for merchants after all, isn't it?
"My suggestion is that the few remaining merchants you have will continue to operate here, but depending on your merchandise, the location of some of the shops will have to be changed slightly. Of course, I'm personally responsible for the cost of your relocation, but it will be counted as my investment in your entire shopping street, and there is a return of dividends when you make money in the future. Understood?"
A little check of the nearby prices.
Since the Kingdom of Rosendale was located in a middle corridor, it was quite perfect in terms of transportation as well as manpower, which meant that the price of labor was lower.
There were also very few shops that needed to be relocated, so the problem could be solved within one gold coin.
Although it's already big money for the average person, it's not a problem for someone like me who has been stringing around the coffers of various kingdoms for a long time.
"En, we don't have a problem with this, but do you have any special suggestions for our development afterwards? Due to the prolonged blockade by these people, we've lost a lot of customers in our shops, which is a nightmare for our business."
The woman who spoke was the owner of a kimono shop, called Uekawa Yami.
The shop is located on the east side of the shopping street by the exit, and is a centuries-old shop.
Of course, the shop was also the largest in the entire shopping street, and other than the newly built headquarters of the Black Wolf Gang, there was no shop bigger than hers.
"Don't worry about that."
I nodded.
"I'll make up a new layout of the entire shopping street from scratch to make sure you all get the most out of it."
I then pulled up a large sheet of drawings, showing the sketch I'd spent ten minutes drawing up.
"As you can see, our location is actually in a self-constituted village to the east of the Rosend Kingdom, due to the uniqueness of the Rosend Kingdom's geographical location, there are mountains to the south, the sea to the north, and basically no forests and lakes in between, which is why there are no walls for villages like ours. But as a supply point for the middle corridor, we can connect both the east and west continents, and we're also close to the sea, and we can reach a port less than a 20-minute carriage ride north, which is also an advantage of our location."
When I finished, I stopped to look at all of you and saw them nodding and continued.
"But there are two other streets besides our street in this place, they form a [concave] structure with us, and now we not only want to take advantage of our advantage, but also take business from the other two streets, which is our ultimate goal. First of all, we need to confirm the kind of people who come back to our place. Zhang Ye, you tell us."
"Me! This..."
Hearing that he had suddenly been named, Zhang Ye looked a little overwhelmed.
"A hungry man?"
Most of the guys laughed at his words.
I laughed, the nod.
"What are you laughing at, he's absolutely right isn't he?"
I patted the map.
"Look for yourselves, the entire Rosend Kingdom is marked with so villages and cities on the map, there's nothing here except for one main city, two barrier cities and five towns including us. Looking to the west, those who came from the western continent, after passing the border towns, took the long way around except through us and then towards the eastern continent, and the same goes for those who came from the eastern main road. Those caravans that use wagons for transportation to save costs, would they choose two border cities, the kind of place where prices are high? Of course not, they will come to our middle town for dinner, so it is not at all wrong to say they are hungry."
Then only pointing to the map of our town again.
"You see, the other two streets don't have a single restaurant, they're all places that sell all kinds of high grade equipment, rare ores, porcelain, pottery and magic items, have you noticed that they're all setting up shops on the premise that the consumer will spend a lot of money? That's where they fail!"
I slammed the table!
"Tell me, do you think there are more upperclassmen passing through our place or those who are traveling? How could merchants buy goods in such an expensive place that cost more than what they were shipping! The other two streets sell stuff that's obviously for people who come to visit, right?"
"So we are going to set up our consumption to those merchants who are passing through and who want to be able to be supplied by us here. There's a saying that food is the most important thing for the people, so we'll set up the two most important shops, the restaurant and the blacksmith shop, at both ends of the shopping street, and then, through these shops, we'll refer the passing merchants to the shops in the middle of the shopping street, the more special restaurants, inns, casual drink shops and various places where we can supply medicines. Thus reaching maximum profit through mutual promotion."
"But in that case, what about my kimono shop?"
Yami-san frowned.
"While I think you're right about the way you run your business, the problem is that some of our shops aren't exactly thin-skinned items."
After saying that she looked at the people next to her.
That's right, in addition to Yami-san's kimono shop, our shopping street also has Mr. Wang's jewelry shop and Simi-san's sculpture house. You guys as the three major shops that can't be used as supplies, I thought about it and decided to solve the problem from the other side."
I said as I turned to the next page.
"I decided that it would be fine to acquire the goods of some merchants who didn't make detailed plans to buy your goods over here, and then have them vacate the space!"
"It's..."
They looked at each other, then asked.
"Can you make sure they'll buy our merchandise? After all, the two streets next door to us are selling all sorts of fancy goods too."
"Definitely."
I smiled.
"I've already sent the advertisements for your goods to the various chambers of commerce through the terminal, now, we have another thing to do, and this is something I'm sure Xiao Che will do well, right?"
"Yeah, annexing other people's stores and stuff! We're the best at it!"
"Hey, hey, hey! We're trying to make a 'legal acquisition', though."
"A legal acquisition? What the hell are you doing?"
Miss Yami asked strangely.
"It's simple, go to the origin of the goods they sell separately and buy them at a low price, then ship them here to sell them cheaply, suppress the entire market, depress their prices, and finally bankrupt them, then merge their stores."
"........"
The entire room quieted down, and after a moment they all said in unison.
"Traitor..."
The title... well, I'm just not going to deny it.
"But, how are you going to acquire all that high-grade equipment, gems, and porcelain?"
"You don't have to worry about that."
I laughed, then pointed to the large terminal by the wall.
"The world can do anything with advanced information. By the way, there are conditions..."
I pointed to the sky.
"And technologically advanced words!"
Slowly, the sound of magical engines came from the sky far away from the magic.
"Middle Corridor, I'm going to swallow you up from now on!"
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"So, you fundamentally have no conflict of interest, just a lack of communication."
At my instigation, the remaining merchants above the entire commercial street had a friendly conversation with a few of the upper echelons of the Black Wolf Gang.
Of course, as the two sides had been at loggerheads for a long time before, as the organizer of the event I ran out of words and almost didn't call all the merchants.
In the end, they came out reluctantly after I spent 3 silver coins in each shop.
d*mn, money is king for merchants after all, isn't it?
"My suggestion is that the few remaining merchants you have will continue to operate here, but depending on your merchandise, the location of some of the shops will have to be changed slightly. Of course, I'm personally responsible for the cost of your relocation, but it will be counted as my investment in your entire shopping street, and there is a return of dividends when you make money in the future. Understood?"
A little check of the nearby prices.
Since the Kingdom of Rosendale was located in a middle corridor, it was quite perfect in terms of transportation as well as manpower, which meant that the price of labor was lower.
There were also very few shops that needed to be relocated, so the problem could be solved within one gold coin.
Although it's already big money for the average person, it's not a problem for someone like me who has been stringing around the coffers of various kingdoms for a long time.
"En, we don't have a problem with this, but do you have any special suggestions for our development afterwards? Due to the prolonged blockade by these people, we've lost a lot of customers in our shops, which is a nightmare for our business."
The woman who spoke was the owner of a kimono shop, called Uekawa Yami.
The shop is located on the east side of the shopping street by the exit, and is a centuries-old shop.
Of course, the shop was also the largest in the entire shopping street, and other than the newly built headquarters of the Black Wolf Gang, there was no shop bigger than hers.
"Don't worry about that."
I nodded.
"I'll make up a new layout of the entire shopping street from scratch to make sure you all get the most out of it."
I then pulled up a large sheet of drawings, showing the sketch I'd spent ten minutes drawing up.
"As you can see, our location is actually in a self-constituted village to the east of the Rosend Kingdom, due to the uniqueness of the Rosend Kingdom's geographical location, there are mountains to the south, the sea to the north, and basically no forests and lakes in between, which is why there are no walls for villages like ours. But as a supply point for the middle corridor, we can connect both the east and west continents, and we're also close to the sea, and we can reach a port less than a 20-minute carriage ride north, which is also an advantage of our location."
When I finished, I stopped to look at all of you and saw them nodding and continued.
"But there are two other streets besides our street in this place, they form a [concave] structure with us, and now we not only want to take advantage of our advantage, but also take business from the other two streets, which is our ultimate goal. First of all, we need to confirm the kind of people who come back to our place. Zhang Ye, you tell us."
"Me! This..."
Hearing that he had suddenly been named, Zhang Ye looked a little overwhelmed.
"A hungry man?"
Most of the guys laughed at his words.
I laughed, the nod.
"What are you laughing at, he's absolutely right isn't he?"
I patted the map.
"Look for yourselves, the entire Rosend Kingdom is marked with so villages and cities on the map, there's nothing here except for one main city, two barrier cities and five towns including us. Looking to the west, those who came from the western continent, after passing the border towns, took the long way around except through us and then towards the eastern continent, and the same goes for those who came from the eastern main road. Those caravans that use wagons for transportation to save costs, would they choose two border cities, the kind of place where prices are high? Of course not, they will come to our middle town for dinner, so it is not at all wrong to say they are hungry."
Then only pointing to the map of our town again.
"You see, the other two streets don't have a single restaurant, they're all places that sell all kinds of high grade equipment, rare ores, porcelain, pottery and magic items, have you noticed that they're all setting up shops on the premise that the consumer will spend a lot of money? That's where they fail!"
I slammed the table!
"Tell me, do you think there are more upperclassmen passing through our place or those who are traveling? How could merchants buy goods in such an expensive place that cost more than what they were shipping! The other two streets sell stuff that's obviously for people who come to visit, right?"
"So we are going to set up our consumption to those merchants who are passing through and who want to be able to be supplied by us here. There's a saying that food is the most important thing for the people, so we'll set up the two most important shops, the restaurant and the blacksmith shop, at both ends of the shopping street, and then, through these shops, we'll refer the passing merchants to the shops in the middle of the shopping street, the more special restaurants, inns, casual drink shops and various places where we can supply medicines. Thus reaching maximum profit through mutual promotion."
"But in that case, what about my kimono shop?"
Yami-san frowned.
"While I think you're right about the way you run your business, the problem is that some of our shops aren't exactly thin-skinned items."
After saying that she looked at the people next to her.
That's right, in addition to Yami-san's kimono shop, our shopping street also has Mr. Wang's jewelry shop and Simi-san's sculpture house. You guys as the three major shops that can't be used as supplies, I thought about it and decided to solve the problem from the other side."
I said as I turned to the next page.
"I decided that it would be fine to acquire the goods of some merchants who didn't make detailed plans to buy your goods over here, and then have them vacate the space!"
"It's..."
They looked at each other, then asked.
"Can you make sure they'll buy our merchandise? After all, the two streets next door to us are selling all sorts of fancy goods too."
"Definitely."
I smiled.
"I've already sent the advertisements for your goods to the various chambers of commerce through the terminal, now, we have another thing to do, and this is something I'm sure Xiao Che will do well, right?"
"Yeah, annexing other people's stores and stuff! We're the best at it!"
"Hey, hey, hey! We're trying to make a 'legal acquisition', though."
"A legal acquisition? What the hell are you doing?"
Miss Yami asked strangely.
"It's simple, go to the origin of the goods they sell separately and buy them at a low price, then ship them here to sell them cheaply, suppress the entire market, depress their prices, and finally bankrupt them, then merge their stores."
"........"
The entire room quieted down, and after a moment they all said in unison.
"Traitor..."
The title... well, I'm just not going to deny it.
"But, how are you going to acquire all that high-grade equipment, gems, and porcelain?"
"You don't have to worry about that."
I laughed, then pointed to the large terminal by the wall.
"The world can do anything with advanced information. By the way, there are conditions..."
I pointed to the sky.
"And technologically advanced words!"
Slowly, the sound of magical engines came from the sky far away from the magic.
"Middle Corridor, I'm going to swallow you up from now on!"
--- Seven Nights' announcement ----.
Please go to the B site to support the Seven Nights Cat's live horror game commentary~!
Please don't forget to follow Seven Nights on Twitter u/2602254937 to get live updates~!
I'd like to ask a loved one to help me draw my own picture.
Please add the QQ group.
The title: Devilish Blackhearted Businessman
5 per cent increase in affinity with all trade associations
You can directly observe the local price of an item for which you have already seen the price.
For every 10W earned
Gold, local prestige down 1
Point.