Chapter 28 New Fire Ceremony (3)
Baskets of glass were poured into the sea under the command of Pocht Cartel. Although Amy had never been a merchant, her head was still very smart. After looking at it for a while, she figured out the truth - all kinds of goods have basic prices in the market. Although there are fluctuations, they are basically determined based on rarity or the effort it takes to make it. A stone spear cannot sell the price of a house, because it is just a stone after all. Even if a stoner gets drunk and opens a sky-high price, customers can still buy it at other sober stoner at a low price.
But glazing is different. It is a goods that the Aztlans have never seen before and has not yet been priced on the market. Pocht Cartel did not hesitate to mortgage his own assets and bought all the glazings, in order to ensure that no one else could sell the goods at a low price. The destruction of most glazings was to increase the rarity of this kind of goods - the price of beautiful stones filled with several baskets of beautiful stones, and the "blood of the feathered snake god" with a total amount of only one small box, is naturally incomparable.
Ella transported several baskets of glass to Aztland for gold. Although the profit was amazing, it would take months of ocean voyage, and it would require mobilizing ships to allocate cabins to carry cargo. When Pocht cartel bought out, dumped it, and carried a box back, he could get the same or even higher profits.
"I knew at a glance that you were not professional businessmen." Pocht Cartel held the box and said with a laugh, "If I had only brought such a small box from the beginning, the remaining cabin could hold more other goods. But judging from your way, you should have made a lot of money by bringing these gold back. This is business, everyone makes their own profits, no one suffers, and no one is jealous of anyone."
"Then you should be a very wealthy luxury merchant in Aztlani." Amy said, "It is impossible for ordinary small merchants to be able to take out so much gold and buy all the glass at once."
"I don't have such a big asset." Pocht Cartel laughed again, "To tell you the truth, I am not a businessman, I am just a yamen runner who collects tribute to the Sun King."
"The tribute collector?"
"The empire has a very wide territory, and it is a time-consuming and laborious task to collect the tributes from each state. I am doing this for the Sun King. But this time, I temporarily exchanged the collected tributes in Nicaragua for gold, and then came here to visit."
The Pocht Cartel's words were light and implicit, and the implication was that the tributes handed over to the Sun King were misappropriated by the states.
"Will there be no problem with this...?"
"What's the problem? As long as you make money, you can buy back the tribute in full?"
"The Sun King discovered it, won't he be guilty?"
"What crime do you ask? Where did the trade information I gave you come from? Isn't it just the experience I have accumulated over the years? I used his tribute to trade, earning 50% more money, and paying 20% more tribute when paying it. Not only did he turn a blind eye, but he even had to reward me!"
"this……"
"If you collect 10% of the tributes and pay 80% of the tributes, that is a treacherous; if you collect 10% of the tributes and pay 10% of the tributes, that is a mediocre; if you collect 10% of the tributes and pay 120% of the tributes, that is a capable minister! I think you are also a minister. You should understand this principle, right?"
Carrying the small box containing glass beads and carrying the empty packers, Pocht Cartel left Movara Niga overnight by boat. Left Amy on the island thinking about his words.
"Speaking of this, His Majesty came to Aztland to prepare for trade... Does she remember?"
——There is a high probability that I forgot.
Sweden's finances were a little under the construction of Ella. Coupled with the previous military operations, many young and middle-aged soldiers missed the busy farming time. Sweden was in a slight war famine at this time. Ella made great efforts and came here to seek business opportunities to alleviate the situation in Sweden. As a result, she was tied up by Nesawar Koyotel and participated in the war between Aztland and the Pirate Kingdom.
Amy stared at the pile of gold jewelry in front of her. Just looking at this amount, it would be a waste of Aztland... But she always had a premonition that this little gold would be spent by Ella shortly after she brought it back.
"Your Majesty asked Alfred to send knights to help with training, and he must have plans to form a cavalry. After that, the war famine eased, Hestein returned to triumphantly, and they had to go back to compete for the throne of the Seven Hills Empire. And during this period, your Majesty would definitely not help but build some water diversion channels, paving some roads, etc., which would require a lot of money..."
She picked up a gold chain from the basket and pinched it back and forth for a while. Suddenly, she raised her head and said:
"Ulf, call the members of the staff to discuss something--when your Majesty is away, should we go out and make more money?"
The members of the staff team soon gathered. Estrard, the former general of Ragna, Yarmar, who was born in the guard, and Ulf, the apprentice of the academy. Except for Dust, who was brought by Ella, the rest of the people arrived.
"Get money out? Of course it's a good thing? Isn't it a waste of time when we stay here?"
Estrard, who is used to leading his army to charge, is the bravest of you in the staff team. After hearing Amy's words, he answered without thinking.
"We can divide our troops into four groups, fight each other, and cooperate with each other, just like two fists that cooperate with each other...
"Estrard, hear it clearly. It's going out to do business, not robbery." Ulf couldn't help but interrupt, "Just like you guys, you can't even calculate the arithmetic. When you go to do business, aren't that waiting to lose money?"
"We may not be good." Yarmar smiled on the side, "But aren't there people who are still locked in Lübeck under the boat? There should be better arithmetic among them, right?"
"I think so too!" Estrard patted Yarmal's shoulder, "Don't look at them now, there may be a few merchants hidden inside! Pull them out and help us, will they dare not help?"
"If we use these Lubeck people, we may not need to intervene." Ulf said while thinking, "Just give them the principal and set their turnover targets, so that they can go out and make money by themselves."
These three advisers discussed it in a word and made a decision to go out for trade.
Looking at the group of people left to her by Ella, Amy felt a sense of peace of mind: She was a maid and was a little nervous about the fact of making decisions. The first time Amy went to fight against Hafdan, she messed up the matter; the second time she started a war against Almani, she basically gave her full power to Glaheide to command, and in this way, she was almost forced to death by her own actions. These two failures led to her anxiety throughout the journey when she went to the island Republic and did not do anything. Now with these helpers, her courage finally became a little more.
Chapter completed!