Chapter 293： Port bena (1/2)
a few days later
The early morning sun lightly spilled on the sea, dangling stars.
”Ou---”
Accompanied by loud humming, more than a dozen seagulls hovered over a fleet of 13 ships and four small chambers of commerce, and refused to leave for a long time.
On the deck of a large ship in the center of the fleet.
At this time, there is a square table here, and the table is full of wine and vegetables, and four middle-aged people with luxurious clothes and kind faces are sitting on one side of the table, drinking and chatting together!
These four people are the masters of this mixed fleet and the presidents of four different small chambers of commerce!
”Three, the four of us haven't seen each other for half a year, I miss you so much!” one of the tall and thin middle-aged men said with a smile.
”Ande, do you miss us, or do you miss the gold and animal skins on Bena Island?” a middle-aged man with a fat body and a kind face joked.
That's right, the ship led by four people is going to Bena Island!
And if you want to talk about the reason why the four of them gathered to go to Bena Island, you have to talk about the situation in the South China Sea!
Compared with the mafia everywhere in the West Sea, the Chamber of Commerce in the South China Sea is the most!
Why are there so many chambers of commerce?
The reason is that the commercial trade in the South China Sea is very developed. Therefore, various chambers of commerce have emerged in an endless stream!
For the Chamber of Commerce, of course, the most important thing is profit!
In Xihai, all walks of life, including every small island, as long as there are places of interest, there will be more or less various chambers of commerce!
Some of them occupies a place, and they have a business link to the world, but no matter what, they only benefit from one thing!
And the small gold mines and animal skins on Bena Island are benefits!
Therefore, Bena Island naturally attracted some chambers of commerce.
But because Pena Island is remote, transportation, supplies, etc. are all troublesome. The cost of obtaining gold mines and animal skins on Pena Island remains high, and the benefits that can be obtained are very small. Therefore, China People in large chambers of commerce don't like this place.
Can't look down on the medium and large scale, but the small chamber of commerce.
For small chambers of commerce, in the environment where there are so many chambers of commerce like Xihai, if you want to survive, you must not let go of any profit. Therefore, Bena Island at the beginning also attracted a lot of small chambers.
But here comes the problem!
Bena Island’s benefits are low, and there are many small chambers of commerce. Everyone will share the benefits. As a result, not only did they not make money, but they lost a little!
If it is a large chamber of commerce, even if it is a loss, it will not care!
But all the small chambers of commerce who come here are their lives if they lose a little bit!
Therefore, after the first transaction, the second time, fewer people came, the third time, the fourth time, and fewer and fewer people. Finally, the four of Ender united to combine the remaining small ones. After the chambers of commerce were crowded out, they monopolized the resources of the entire Pena Island!
Of course, even if it is a monopoly, they dare not do too much, such as selling tribal things on Pena Island at super high prices, or buying things on Pena Island at super low prices, none of these!
Because the tribes on Bena Island are not stupid, let alone the one without resistance!
When the gold mine was discovered before, the fate of several chambers of commerce that united to try to seize the gold mine, they still remembered their purpose!
So their transaction prices are relatively normal!
Because of this, they didn't make much every time they traded, and four people had one point, even less!
So, they finally thought of a way!
That is once in half a year!
If you do this, there are three most intuitive benefits!
First of all, their interests will not decrease, because gold mines and fur are the kind that can be saved and will be accumulated, so they trade once a month, and the profit they obtain is the same as the profit obtained by trading once every six months!
Secondly, their costs will also drop a lot. Originally, they came once a month, but now they come once every six months. I don’t know how much they saved in transportation costs.
The third thing is to save time. Originally, once a month, but now once every six months, this is a few more months!