Chapter 492: The current business situation in the Cí world
This is Area 3, which is similar to a sparsely populated remote town in the secular world, except that there are too many races here, far more than just humans.
Seeing Gao Xingyu pause after walking out of the passage, a goblin in the stone shed took the initiative to greet him.
Gao Xingyu smiled slightly, raised his hand and took off the hood covering his head, revealing his true appearance.
After the goblin saw Gao Xingyu's appearance, he was discouraged. He casually raised his hand to Gao Xingyu and said angrily: "So we are friends from the human race. The stone building behind is your shop. However, you have to think
You can also come to us for transactions. We have different prices for some items from your human race, and the price may be higher if you sell them to us."
Gao Xingyu had learned about the black market situation before coming here, so he understood the current reaction of the goblins. Because even if the human monks needed to buy goblin products, they would go to the central floating island to conduct transactions, not his shop.
Humans, goblins, and the foxes, toads and other races among the beasts all have relatively complete business systems, and they have also opened their own shops in the black market.
When members of these races come to the black market, they will basically not trade in the rest area, but go straight to the free trading area on the central floating island. That is the main venue for black market transactions, and real treasures will only appear there, not
In the regular shops on the periphery.
For them, the transaction of regular items can be completed in the gathering place of their own race, and there is no need to go to the black market to do it.
Everyone comes to the black market to buy or sell some relatively rare or even unique treasures, rather than the bulk goods that can be purchased or reserved in shops.
Unlike the secular world, in the cultivation world such treasure transactions mostly occur between individuals. Even if commercial organizations participate, they will only play some supporting role.
Now that he knew that Gao Xingyu would not become his customer, the goblin naturally lost his energy. However, although the goblin and the human race had some business competition, the overall relationship was acceptable, so the goblin took the initiative to point out the location of the human shop to Gao Xingyu.
Gao Xingyu thanked the goblin, and then walked deeper into Area 3. When passing the human stone building, Gao Xingyu just looked inside and continued moving forward without entering.
He has already made a plan. After coming to the black market, he will first go to the central floating island to explore the way and understand the situation, and then go to the Human Race Inn in Area 4 to rest.
Although the Terrans have shops and other stores in the four rest areas except the water area, they only have inns in Areas 2 and 4.
Area 2 is larger, and most of the human monks are willing to go there. The official trading group of Qunyu City settled there. Gao Xingyu found it troublesome, so he simply decided to live in Area 4.
The central floating island was designed and built by goblins according to the standard black market model in the cultivation world. A total of one hundred temporary stalls were planned and there were no fixed shops.
The four areas outside the floating island, plus a piece of water at the entrance of the aquarium channel, are rest areas.
Normally, not many people come to the black market to trade, and several rest areas are basically idle.
Only during major trade fairs will this place become lively and truly function as a rest area. Most relatively simple, low-end transactions are actually completed in the rest area.
In addition to these shops specializing in trading, there are also many restaurants, wine shops, inns and other shops in the rest area. These shops are also only open during the big trade fair and are run by different races to meet the needs of different races.
Trading in the rest area is mainly for retail investors, that is, those small races that lack the support of the trading system, or individuals who are running orders.
These retail investors have a common characteristic, which is that they are usually self-sufficient and rarely engage in trading activities.
After they get valuable items, they will accumulate them, and when the time comes to trade, they will trade them all together.
Although they are retail investors, those who dare to come to the black market to participate in large trade fairs will have a rough mental valuation of the items they intend to trade.
Since the commodities that can be traded on the central floating island are limited after all, and a certain transaction cost must be paid for them, most of the low-value ordinary commodities in the hands of these retail investors will choose to trade in the rest area first.
Only those treasures of heaven and earth that they can confirm, or objects that they are not sure about but have certain special characteristics, will be traded on the central floating island.
In addition, black market transactions are mainly barter, and there is no unified currency or value object.
In many cases, the reason why the transaction cannot be completed is because the buyer cannot provide the items needed by the cargo owner, or the two parties cannot reach a consensus when making up the price difference.
Therefore, many traders who have black market trading experience and lack commercial support will sell some regular items to shops in advance, but only receive transaction vouchers without settlement.
When free transactions are carried out later, the required materials or goods can be exchanged from the shop according to the requirements of the transaction partner to complete the entire transaction.
Therefore, although the large trade fair in the Mistwa black market still follows the principle of free transactions between individuals, major forces are playing an increasingly important role in it.
Gao Xingyu felt that the trading model here was very different from the black market transactions in the Zuxing Realm, and seemed very primitive and troublesome. However, after careful study, he discovered that this was actually the most suitable for the current situation in the Miaoqi Realm.
There is no real ruler or ruling system in the world of Miao.
Although the beast race occupies an absolute advantage in the world of Miaochi, due to the suppression of the law of heaven in the End of Law, the beast race here can only evolve to the peak of wild beasts at best.
Although the vast majority of the orcs have activated their spiritual intelligence, they are far from being intelligent, let alone forming an effective whole.
There is no unified currency in the world.
The human race uses jade points anchored with spirit stones as currency; some intelligent races directly use spirit stones as currency; goblins and dwarves use energy stones as currency.
Most of the beasts have no concept of transaction at all, and therefore do not have currency. The aquatic (ocean) beasts are slightly better, and the more intelligent races use senbei as currency.
In this case, primitive barter has almost become the only option. Various business organizations with official ethnic or power backgrounds have also emerged.
Most of these commercial organizations appear in the form of shops, purchasing various valuable materials from outside and selling their own mid- to low-end products.
At the same time, these business organizations will also intervene in individual transactions to a limited extent, helping both parties to the transaction or providing resource replacement for the transaction. In addition to gaining certain benefits, they also expand their own influence.
However, because the major forces in the Miaojie world are more accustomed to self-development and are not very willing to strengthen mutual exchanges, the current overall business situation in the Miaojie world appears to be quite primitive and backward.
Therefore, the importance of the existence of the black market in Miwuwa has been clearly demonstrated.