The entire hall was now silent, with only the sound of Lawrence writing and drawing on a temporary blackboard and the gentle yet firm speech echoing in the hall built into the mountain.
Under the stage, the nobles were all listening to Lawrence's speech attentively, and not even a cough was heard. They could only hear the rustling of pens writing on paper.
Through Lawrence's speech on the field, these people realized many things that they had never realized before. The most important point is that based on the data compiled by Lawrence, it can be seen that the entire island has been changing.
At least compared to hundreds of years ago, there is a larger population here, and the larger market has increased the overall output more than ten times. The entire island has also changed from the original barren area like a desert to
A great place with some specialties that can generate wealth.
It's just that in the past, because these lords lacked sufficient contact with each other, when they only looked at the output of their own territories, they would naturally come to the conclusion that the island was as desolate as it was hundreds of years ago.
But after Lawrence took out the statistical report today, they suddenly realized the changes in the times. That's why they listened to Lawrence's speech so carefully.
"——So now for everyone on the island, the most important thing is to build a unified price alliance and bring all forces together to form an economically cooperative whole. Only in this way can we facilitate various economic and trade exchanges with the outside world.
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In fact, when Lawrence was writing this paragraph in her speech yesterday, she was questioned by Saifei. Because she felt that Lawrence could obtain goods at the lowest price from the lords on the island by defeating them one by one.
But after reading the content of these speeches, those lords would unite and form a price alliance as long as they were in their right mind. In that case, Lawrence would not be able to defeat each other and lower the prices separately.
At the beginning, Lawrence also thought about whether he could buy cheap items by lowering the price, but he later abandoned this idea.
Because he realizes that those nobles are not idiots, this method may gain some benefits at first, but as time goes by, these nobles will definitely discover Lawrence's tricks and have some very special feelings about him.
bad impression.
Lawrence considered that the business he was going to do would be a long-term business rather than a short-term one, so it was better not to do this which would leave a very bad impression on his trading partner.
According to his previous experience of dealing with many people, ordinary businessmen may not be able to maintain trade for too long due to profit reasons.
But the nobles are just the opposite. Once the trade partner is determined, as long as the transaction price between the two parties is not too different from the market price, they will not change the trade partner.
And it is not only human nobles who have this habit, some immortal nobles are even more exaggerated in this regard. For example, Lawrence has heard stories about elves before.
According to the story, those elves are often willing to abide by the contract between the two families a few generations ago and bring about a turn of events for the descendants of the contracted parties who may be in trouble now.
This is why Lawrence is now willing to share the secrets with these lords.
Instead of short-term one-time benefits, he is more willing to use this method to sell well to those present. In order to obtain a large number of long-term and stable trading partners, he can also establish some personal relationships here.
What's more important is that the price alliance finally formed by these people on Green Island obviously cannot be aimed at Lawrence alone, but will be aimed at all those who later come to the island for trade.
In this way, as the first person to come here to trade, Lawrence was able to lay some very good foundations in the region through this behavior, and at the same time, he gained an important position in the future competition with those who later came to the island to trade.
The advantages.
But what Lawrence didn't expect was that the benefits he would gain from telling the nobles on the island how to establish an economic alliance would come faster than he had imagined before, and the gains would be much greater.
Just after he finished the lecture and let the banquet officially begin, the Viscount of Surrey found him and told him some incredible news.
At this time, the banquet had already begun. Lawrence and Saphire stayed at the edge of the long table, tasting roasted venison, and at the same time drank a kind of sweet wine made from the berries of the local bush.
On the other side of the banquet hall, Lawrence pasted a table recording various goods originating from cold zones that were needed in the tropics on a board, and all the British nobles from the Green Island were surrounding the table.
This form was discussed.
"You said that everyone hopes that I can serve as the representative of this cooperative organization? Isn't this a joke?" Looking at the nobles who seemed to have ended the discussion around the form in the distance, Lawrence looked at the Viscount of Surrey in surprise and said
.
"You know, this organization itself should be established for outsiders like me. It is obviously not appropriate for me to join such an organization. Not to mention that I am neither the lord of Green Island nor the Briton noble.
It can be said that he is incompatible with everyone in terms of status——"
"But this was decided after everyone discussed it. Even everyone here, including me, thinks this is a very good idea." Viscount Surrey explained to Lawrence in a low voice.
"Let me talk about the first point first. Although you are someone who comes from outside the island to do business with us, everyone thinks that you are very reliable in this regard. At the same time, you have always been based on a certain concept of mutual benefit and win-win, not the kind of profit-seeking person.
The unjust profiteer."
"After all, you are willing to tell us the truth behind this, and telling us everything will obviously harm your interests. You can already see that you are willing to maintain fairness by reducing your income.
How on earth is this person alone——"
"Actually, I am doing it for greater interests in the future. You must know that deceiving you can only make huge profits in a short period of time, but if we do business with the purpose of mutual benefit, we should be able to establish a long-term relationship with you.
Trade.”
After Viscount Surrey said this, Lawrence breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that his previous cautious and kind approach was obviously not wrong, so he was able to obtain good results now.
However, in order to avoid being regarded as the kind of moralist who is not easy to approach, Lawrence thought for a while and expressed the fact that he hoped to gain benefits from this matter.
"Of course we know this, but it's a pity that too many people now only look at the immediate interests and don't think about what to do in the future."
Viscount Surrey sighed and said, "Compared to those who rely on morality, contracts and other means to restrict, we believe that this common interest can actually constrain everyone to do something according to certain established rules.
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"Well, I'm very grateful for everyone's trust in me." From Viscount Surrey's words, Lawrence could hear the trust these nobles had in him.
In addition, through what Viscount Surrey said just now, Lawrence also realized that although these nobles were all Britonian nobles, it did not mean that these nobles could trust others without reservation.
They even said that they were basically suspicious of everyone present except themselves.
After all, this island is so big, and the products that the nobles on the island can produce can be said to be similar. This naturally leads to serious involution among the nobles on the island in this regard.
Therefore, they hope to bring in Lawrence, a more reliable outsider, to avoid the situation where everyone works hard for a long time to produce goods and then sells them at a low price in order to make money. As a result, the income will be reduced, or even a loss will be made.