"Then what should we do? Is it possible that the food we transported thousands of miles away is just left here to rot? This is all my wealth. If it is all smashed here, my whole family will die together."
"Sir Copperfield, can't you think of a way? We believe in you and that's why we invest so much?"
"That is, if it weren't for you, how could we have taken such a big risk to transport food here? This is inconsistent with what you vowed before, and you must find a way to solve it!"
"Shut up." Sir Copperfield roared with red eyes and spittle, "A bunch of snobs, when did I trick you into transporting grain? Which of your ears heard it? Or which eye saw it?
Isn't it because you are so blinded by money that you follow me? Your money is not earned for me, so why should I share the losses with you? Is there any business in this world that does not take risks? Tell me and listen, I want to go too
Selling food for thousands of miles is basically a business with your head in your belt. Not to mention losing money, losing your head is a common thing. If you keep talking, believe it or not, I will cut out your tongue!"
Sir Copperfield was somewhat powerful. Seeing that he was offended, the others couldn't help but restrain their accusations.
"Everyone, please stop saying a few words. Sir, Sir, was also bewitched by Archduke Buck. You only saw that you had invested your entire family's wealth, but you didn't see that Sir had also increased his entire wealth. Who should he ask to reason with? Sir,
Calm down, they are also anxious and talk indiscriminately, and they do not necessarily put all the blame on you. Do we really have no other way to think of?" Someone tried to smooth things over.
"It's not impossible." Sir Copperfield replied after pondering for a while.
"What can I do? Tell me quickly."
"Yes, how long has this been happening? It's still hidden."
The grain merchants were delighted and asked questions one after another.
Sir Copperfield slapped the table and said, "Hey, Colin, give me another glass of dragon tongue."
"This is the twenty-eighth time. I have told you that the last glass of dragon tongue went into your stomach the night before yesterday, Sir." The bartender Colin spread his hands and said, "The news about the slow-selling food has been
When I got back to my hometown, I heard that no grain transport teams have come up recently, and naturally there is no accompanying wine, and now only rye beer is left."
"Why don't I remember? Are you sure you said that?" Sir Copperfield cursed with a black face, "That stuff is so soft, what does it taste like when you drink it?"
Damn it, you must be trying to trick them on purpose.
Revenge, this must be revenge for their previous harsh words.
Sir Copperfield's face turned dark, and so did the other grain merchants' faces.
But at this time, the method suggested by Sir Copperfield has become their last life-saving straw. Regardless of whether it is reliable or not, it is better than struggling with nothing.
But obviously you can't use force in this matter. If you completely piss him off and kick him out, who will you cry to?
For the sake of profit, this grievance is nothing.
With a smile on his face, a grain merchant took out a silver hip flask from his arms and said, "Sir, this is a spirit made from aged grains at home. The taste may be a little different from dragon tongue, but the taste is acceptable.
, if it really doesn’t work, use this instead?”
"You don't have to tell me if there is such a good thing." Sir Copperfield grabbed it and drank two sips without ceremony. "Good wine, more enjoyable than dragon tongue. Mr. Calorie doesn't want to be in the liquor business."
Pity."
"The spirits business is the pillar industry of the lord's family. It's not something we little shrimps can get involved in. That is, when there is too much old grain, we can brew some to reward our families." Calorie, the grain merchant, said with a smile, "It can suit Sir Sir's appetite.
, is my greatest honor. I still have three bottles left in my fleet, and I will give them to Lord Sir when the time comes."
"Then I'm not welcome." Copperfield looked around and said coldly, "For the sake of Mr. Calorie's strong drink, I will give you a clear path, but if it works, I will
I can’t guarantee it.”
"It's better to have a way to go than to have no clue."
"Whether it succeeds or not, we will remember His Excellency Sir's kindness."
The attitude of these grain merchants changed 180 degrees, and they looked at Sir Copperfield eagerly.
This time, Copperfield did not give in. He answered directly: "The Swamp of Despair has more than one army. If you can't sell this one, you won't be able to sell the other one."
The grain merchants on the Huayu Plateau looked at each other in confusion. After a while, the grain merchant named Calorie carefully guessed and asked, "What does Sir Sir mean, that we will sell the grain to the Yongye Army Leader and the Crocodile Tribe people?"
"Isn't it possible?" Copperfield asked.
"We are transporting grain for the Kingsley family. Now we are turning around and selling grain to their enemies. Is this appropriate?" Some grain merchants could not change their minds for a while.
After all, they transported food all the way here because of the Kingsley family.
"Yeah, why didn't you think of it before? Transporting food for the Kingsley family? Who said we were transporting food for the Kingsley family? They didn't sign a contract with us, and it's not like we didn't sell food to them.
, but they don’t want it. If they don’t want it, why don’t they allow us to sell it to others? There is no such tyrannical reason in the world, and given their current situation, there is no way to stop us from doing anything.”
"The Kingsley family no longer cares about our life or death, so why should we care about theirs? If we really have any dissatisfaction then, they will also come to our lord, but they won't find us. If you don't sell it, I will."
"I sell it too!"
"Count me in."
"Why are you in a hurry? Just because you are willing to sell it does not mean that others are willing to take it. The Yongye Army Commander does not seem to be short of food. I heard that the Yongye Baron has a close relationship with Her Royal Highness the Regent Princess. They usually go directly to the Asia Minor Plain.
If we transport grain at a low price, will people buy our grain?"
"Is it possible that you still expect our grain to be sold at a high price like it was sold to the Kingsley family before? It is better to deal with it at a low price and recover a certain cost than to rot in our hands. As long as we make a certain profit, I believe Yong Ye
The military leaders should not care about our previous sales of military rations to the Kingsley family, after all, we are just a group of businessmen who support our families."
"But we have nothing to do with the Yongye Army Leader, and we don't know them well. If we transport the food there, and they destroy us as the Kingsley family's food transport team, wouldn't it be a loss of both human and financial resources?
?”
"Nonsense, of course this kind of thing must be communicated in advance. Let me tell you, for this kind of thing, we should work together. Only by working together can we better negotiate terms and prices, just like we negotiated with Archduke Buck before. After all, we are not
We are from Kingsley, but from Bryan. If the leader of the Yongye Army wants to touch us, he must take the Bryan family’s face into consideration.”
"That's the truth. Uniting is the only way to go. If we try to undermine each other, it will only make everyone suffer. But there is a problem with who can go to the Yongye Army to negotiate."
Sir Copperfield woke up the dreamer with a few words, which opened up the minds of these grain merchants. A flurry of discussions actually smoothed the matter over.
After going through the negotiation with Archduke Buck, these grain merchants in Huayu Plateau have already tasted the benefits of grouping. After this incident, the first thing that came to their mind was grouping.
Because only by uniting together and making their people and food seem to be numerous can they have the confidence to negotiate terms with such powerful forces as the Kingsley family and the Yongye Army leaders.
The question of whether to sell food to the Yong Ye army leader was reached without difficulty.
Just kidding, as long as someone is willing to take over their grain, even if the price is lower than the normal price, they will accept it. At least they can recover a certain amount of losses and not lose everything.
As for transporting it back to the Huayu Plateau, they didn't even consider it. That would only make the losses even greater.
The main question now is whether the Yongye Army leader is willing to take over their food.
When it comes to candidates for negotiation, everyone's eyes can't help but fall on Copperfield.
"What do you think I'm doing? Are you expecting me to come forward this time? There's no benefit if the thing is done, and if it's not done, you'll get a bad name. Only fools do it. Whoever wants to go will go, and I won't go anyway." Copperfield
Sir Er cursed.
This is typically referring to Sang and Huai, referring to this matter as the previous one.
"Sir Sir, please calm down. This is all in the past. They are just anxious, not against Sir's character, don't you think?" The grain merchant Calorie felt that he was invisibly related to Sir Copperfield because of half a bottle of wine.
They got a lot closer and took the initiative to smooth things over, while other grain merchants kept winking.
"Mr. Calorie is right. I just acted out of proportion and said something indiscriminately. My respect for Sir has never diminished in my heart. If I have hurt Sir Sir's feelings, I sincerely apologize here. I don't care about everyone's face.
For the sake of everyone having families and families, please Sir, please save us."
"I would also like to ask Your Excellency Sir to pay a large amount and forgive us for our previous ignorance. In order to show sincerity, if the transaction can be successful, I am willing to use one-tenth of the food money to compensate for the previous harm to Sir Sir."
"This matter belongs to none other than Sir Sir. In such a situation, we rough guys will only spoil the matter with inappropriate words. Please Sir, please take action."
Those grain merchants talked a lot, some apologizing, some playing emotional cards, trying every means to get Sir Copperfield to take action again, and negotiating with the leader of the Evernight Army. In their eyes, Copperfield was, after all,
Those born into noble families are more likely to succeed.
"It's not impossible for me to go, but let's agree on one thing in advance." Sir Copperfield took the opportunity to make some conditions.
"If the Jazz needs our cooperation, just ask. As long as we can do it, we will go all out."
"Everyone is out to make a living. It's not easy. What happened before is in the past. I won't care about it anymore, and I don't want anyone's financial compensation. However, contacting the leader of the Yongye Army will inevitably involve price negotiations. I want to have full authority.
Once the deal is negotiated, no matter how high or low the price is, there must be no complaints." This time, Sir Copperfield learned the lesson and decided to be a villain before being a gentleman. It is best to have a clear relationship with these profit-seeking villains.
.
"Of course, Jazz's character is displayed here. No matter the outcome, we will be convinced. No one will have any objection to this."
"That's right, since we are here to recommend the Jazz, the Jazz will naturally handle it flexibly. If anyone is not convinced, they can withdraw."
"We have no objection."
Sir Copperfield drank all the strong wine in the silver pot, changed his previous decadence, and said impassionedly: "Okay, since everyone thinks so highly of me, I will lick my face and show my face again, can you?
I can’t guarantee success. The only thing I can guarantee is that I will do my best to fight for the best interests of you.”
His previous decadence was somewhat of a show.
He had already thought of the strategy of selling grain to Yong Ye's military leader, but he had yet to put it into practice.
On the one hand, I was hurt by the despicable temperament of these grain merchants;
On the other hand, it is to deliberately make them anxious for a period of time and take the initiative to send them to their door, so that it is easier for you to take the initiative.
If I had come to the door on my own initiative before this, I don’t know what these guys were thinking. If the price couldn’t go up, they would have thought that they were colluding with the leader of the Yongye Army to deliberately trap them.
The last incident has taught Sir Copperfield a vivid lesson. He has a deeper understanding of the importance of not having the intention to harm others and the indispensability of being defensive, even if he is doing what he thinks is a good deed.
Also keep a hand.
"We will never forget Sir's kindness."
"If we can really sell the food successfully, I will treat Sir to the strongest wine when we return to the plateau."
"Not only do you want the strongest wine, but you also want the plumpest woman."
"You can have the strongest wine and the plumpest woman. I don't have such strong tastes as you." Sir Copperfield's answer caused a burst of laughter. The gloominess of the past few days seemed to have dissipated a lot.
Sir Copperfield continued with a solemn expression: "In three days, I will set off for the Donau River to make preliminary contacts with the leader of the Yongye Army. Before that, our preparations are as ready as possible, and each family's
The quantity of food must be calculated and sorted out, and only when I know it well can I bargain with the leader of the Yongye Army."
"Please rest assured Sir, we will definitely give you an accurate number before you set off."
"The situation in the Swamp of Despair is now chaotic. In order to provide security, how about we gather together our best soldiers and form a temporary escort for the knights to command?"
"This is a good suggestion, I agree with it."
"I agree too."
"I understand your kindness. After all, we are doing business, not fighting. Bringing too many people will only cause unnecessary misunderstandings. Let's do this. I can dispatch three knights here, and you can help me.
If I gather seven together, I will take a small group of knights on the road, and that will be enough."
"Okay, let's listen to Jazz."
Soon these grain merchants from the Huayu Plateau reached an internal agreement and began to work hard for their own survival.
The reversal of the situation in the Swamp of Despair has had an impact on all aspects, not just one family.
The Kingsley family's eastern expedition is now in vain.
The moment there is a serious shortage of food, various problems will break out.
Anyone with some military knowledge would have predicted this situation.
General Akmesser has made preparations for the harsh situation he is about to face.
It is nothing more than starting from two aspects - increasing revenue and reducing expenditure.