Chapter 723： Business and enterprising (2/2)

Some craftsmen are busy on the platform on one side of the castle, and install a strange magic device that can't be seen on the platform. The magic device has a metal base and a large crystal.

It’s an old castle, and it feels almost as old as this land.

But she is faintly aware that there is something young that is growing on this land.

From the far east, the goods on the other side of the mainland... It’s really a long road.

......

Berdwin Franklin stood in front of the window of the living room and watched the guests of the Ogure tribe take their own carriage and gradually disappeared into the corner of the road in the distance.

A young man wearing a royal blue jacket and a golden brooch on his chest walked into the room and stood behind Bai Dewen, shouting respectfully: "Father."

"Ilevin," the Duke of Berdwin turned and showed a gentle smile to his eldest son. "You should be very clear in the next room - from the expression, you seem to have doubts."

The young man named Elavin stood up straight. He was used to obeying every instruction of his father just now, but he already had a lot of his own thoughts and doubts: "Yes, father - why do you want to For a time to confess that the fabrics are from Tifeng?"

Bai Dewen quietly looked at his eldest son: "Why not confess?"

"...you have taught me that in the case of being able to monopolize the supply of goods, the confidential supply channel is one of the important means to maintain the monopoly and ensure the profit. We import the textiles from Tifeng and sell it to the Ogure tribe, which is essentially Resell, but if we don't say it, the Ogure tribe will not know this, and we can raise the price a bit more – but now, the Grey Elfs already know the source of those textiles, and they will confirm Titan sooner or later. The approximate price of the textiles exported by the empire, cost transparency is the biggest taboo for doing business..."

Paterson waited patiently and waited for the young man to finish his head and shook his head: "You can think of this, indicating that you are really learning what I teach you, but you can only think of it, indicating that you are only learning fur.

"The first point, we have to do long-term business, and it is a country-to-country business. This business needs stability, not temporary profit. The gray elves are not an occluded group, they will someday know the textiles. The source, although from a commercial point of view, our behavior of confidential supply channels is not deceptive, but if we use this to move the price too much, then we will sooner or later damage the feelings of trading partners, it will damage the future. Business.

"The second point, even if I disclose the source of goods, we don't have to worry that this business will fall by, because Cecil is the only way to maintain the east-west trade in the northern part of the mainland. We are just dumping the wasteland in the south and the wasteland and mountains in the north. In the cold winter, the trade goods of the Titan empire are to be transported to the Ogure tribe, and we can only follow our route - unless the Grey Elves or the spirits find a way to break through the ocean blockade and restart the northern route.

“The third and most important point: Do you think that our Emperor’s Majesty has allowed me to sell those things to the Ogure tribe at a near-zero profit price, really just to sell textiles?”

The young Duke's son stunned for a moment, and then he showed his thoughts.

Berdwin Franklin laughed and shook his head: "What we really want to sell is the railway."

Eleven widened his eyes.

Berdwin’s gaze was removed from the eldest son and landed on a shelf not far away, on the shelf, with a gift given to him by Govin Cecil before he left St. Sunil’s city. .

The model of the first cargo magic train.

Exquisite and ingenious, vividly, from the "hand" of the chief empire of the empire, St. Nicholas Egg.

However, this model is too strange, can not see the purpose and can not see the "art value", so that the attention of the gray elf Wenna is all attracted by the magical magic, did not notice that this really symbolizes Items of the Age of Empires.

But he believes that it will not take long for the kings of the Ogure tribe to notice it.

"Ilivin, maybe I am too persistent to train you into a person like me, I have neglected your true expertise and interest."

"Father?" The young Duke's son was a little surprised, and then there was some fear. "Father, I am not..."

"Don't be nervous, boy," Bai Dewen shook his head. "You still make me proud, but now you need to be more refined to keep up with the era created by your majesty. Magic technology, train, magic net broadcast, alchemy industry... ... There are too many new things in the new era, and these things, the teachers in the castle and the scholars on the territory do not understand themselves, and can't teach you.

“The West is far from the center of the empire, away from new technologies and knowledge, and away from the real ‘civilized society’.

"We can't wait for the civilized society to come at home, and we must take the initiative to contact.

"Your Majesty is building more educational facilities and building a new Imperial College in the city of Cesar. I have ordered that 500 young people from all over the West should be selected to study, and you should go as a leader of the school. People, go to the South together. The old aristocratic era is over, the Franklin family is no longer the direct ruler of this land, but you still shoulder the responsibility of fighting for the interests of the people on this land and land.

"I believe that the Duke of Ice and Snow in the North is doing the same thing - we are never behind people."

Elavin quietly greeted the eyes of the Duke of the West, and for a long time he bowed his head deeply: "Yes, father."

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