109 Chapter 109: Discussion (1/2)

”That's all?” Steven and the others were shocked by Dylan's conditions. They confusedly​ looked at each other. They thought he was going to ask for outrageous demands but who would have thought he would only ask for the name of the joint establishment.

”Yes.” Dylan said while he drank a glass of wine. He smiled at their reactions. Only he knew that the deal appeared fair in the surface but in reality it was not.

The true amount of the bottles​ that Dylan could make in one sitting is 4! With the support of these four, Dylan could create 80 bottles a month and he would only need to give 60 that would mean he would have a stock of 20 bottles every month!

Storing these 20 bottles of Radiant Due per month would make the wine's quality increase over time. Dylan planned to store them for a minimum of 1 year before displaying half of it. The other half would be stored for further maturity! He would continue this cycle every month and every year until he would reach a collection of wine of different shelf life!

Dylan also researched how wine has increased or decreased price over the years within the Thunder Clouds City. He discovered that a wine with a fairly good reputation could rise in price 50% per year for the next five to ten years provided that it is publicly recognized as delectable.

One must know that wine would taste better over time. With the catalyst of the optimum combination of spirit herbs, the speed of fermentation will raise​ the speed by 30%. If for example he stored a bottle of wine for 10 years, then it would mean would have a 13 year old wine which would be 6.5x the original price!!

Imagine in just one year, Dylan would have a stock of 240 bottles with varying storage length! In 10 years, he would have 2400 mouthwatering wine of 13 years old! If he managed to sell just one of them, his profit with just one wine would of course increase not only by twofold or threefold but almost sevenfold!!

Dylan had long crafted a long-term plan for the business of winemaking. He also had organized an approach on what to do for each year in this business.

The next reason why Dylan only asked for the name because he desired for his brand to have exposure! With the exposure of his business and support of the four sects, his business would gain more attention!

'Making a joint establishment with this four is the same as them acknowledging me and with their acknowledgement, I will asking be introduced to the regular customers of their businesses. With that in mind, the Soaring Herbal Garden's popularity will rise tremendously.' Dylan smiled thinking of the benefits of his plans.

With his brand's name in the surface, people will tend to remember his business more instead of the four sects. Of course, Dylan knew that the four heads knew what it meant.

However, he knew that despite of them knowing his intent, they would overlook it if the deal was equally beneficial for all parties. That's why Dylan immediately spoke after this thought without​ waiting for any of the businessmen to reply.

”With regards to the allocation and budgeting, allow me to impart with all of you what I had in mind.” Dylan momentarily stopped and scanned the gazes of the four. After ensuring their attention was with him, he continued, ”The first on my agenda is that we will only allocate 40 bottles of wine to be sold every month and leave the other 20 unexposed so that they would still have the time to age. This would also increase the rarity of the product.”

”Mhm.” All four nodded with Dylan's arrangement.

”The second is that the 20 bottles will be equally divided into 4 every month as something similar to shares.” Dylan stated the next after receiving a response.

”For the ingredients, I would need 60 fruit-bearing spirit herbs such as Bubble Grapes, Tipsy Berries, Sweet Blood Due,...”

”For the equipment, I would need 10 large pots which are especially for winemaking that are about 1 meter in length, 15 fruit crusher hammers, 10 1.2 meter​-long steel laddles,...”

”For the location, the most ideal one is Lot#34 at the crossroad Road #12 and #3 of the Lightning Boulevard which is 40 meters wide, 30 meters long and 2.5 meters high because we are going to need a lot of space for the production of the wine. The second ideal lot is...”

”In total, the four of you would have to spend 102,000 gold coins. Each, you would have to spend upto 23 gold coins each. We could earn a total of 40,000 a month. In addition, we could also bring out 5 of the month-old wine within the first and the next batch's 5 for the next month. This 5 one month old wine every month would have a price raise of 3.33% which is 1003 gold coins. The following month, the half of the two-month old wine would also be displayed which has 6.67% increase in its price with the one month old wines of the second month. If we follow this trend, the profit we would have would be 3% more in the first month, 10% more in the thrid month, 23.34% in the sixth, 50% in the first year and finally 100.02% more in the second year! One year later, our sales would automatically increase by half fold.” Dylan finished the statements he had in mind.

Okemos and company were trembling in excitement as they heard of this. Although this amount would be small compared to their current income, however the potential that this winemaking business shows is awesome! Within just one year, they could already square off their capital! Imagine within a decade, they could already gain sevenfold of their capital!

”And, this is only based on the current production rate.” Dylan's​ statement woke them up to reality.

”That's right!” They suddenly felt enlightened.

”Let's say for example, we raise production rate by half every month, what do you think would happen?” Dylan asked them

” Then that would mean within just a year we would gain... sevenfold for every bottle!” Okemos' calculations almost made his colleagues nearly fall of their seats!