Chapter 374 - Chapter 374: 135. Cross-Boundary Cooperation_4 (1/2)

Chapter 374: 135. Cross-Boundary Cooperation_4

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“After deducting the production and trading costs, the remaining profit out of the 3 billion is 2.5 billion. Out of the 2.5 billion net profit, more than 2 billion ends up in the pockets of the local sales company’s staff, or more precisely, into the pockets of the Alchemist Faction behind these staff members. I have outlined the factions benefitting from this activity in the document. You can look them up in the index,” she explained.

Noland Lee had a quick look at the document, extracting a bunch of papers bound together with a stapler.

He glanced over the list of factions and raised an eyebrow, noticing something potentially coincidental.

A few days ago, during spray powder day, Fars Scott had used an Alchemical Mechanical Spider to penetrate through to the third underground level, intending to test its combat capabilities.

The spider was ambushed and dismantled into mechanical parts, with the vital Alchemical Cube being taken away by the attacker.

Fars had suspected that a competitor who had got the same research task had secretly planned this attack to eliminate him from the competition.

Lee followed Fars’s clues and conducted an investigation into the competitors who had taken the same research task as him.

At first, Lee selected eight suspects.

After extensive discussion with Betty Davis, the list of suspects was narrowed down to five.

All five individuals were backed by the same faction, the Razor Gang.

The Razor Gang had control of No.11, making them the best mid-level Alchemist Faction in their locality and backed by the Life Essence Society’s Stone Mining Society.

The faction had one Fifth-order Alchemist, four Fourth-rank Alchemists, and not less than thirty Alchemists ranging from the first to third order.

As a gang that thrived on thrill and bloodshed, the Razor Gang had a notorious reputation.

Due to their fearless and combative nature, they stood out amongst all the small factions.

However, they had offended numerous individuals and factions in the process and remained stuck at the mid-level alchemist hierarchy.

Now, this mid-level faction known as the Razor Gang had appeared on the list provided by Cindy. They topped the list, taking away 50% of the net profit of the Blackwater Winery Sales Company for the year.

Lee thought about the operations of the Blackwater Winery Company, exporting local wine to Tatis in large quantities, and smelled the faint scent of conspiracy.

There are no long-distance instant communication means in this world.

In Noland Lee’s world before crossing, to transfer funds on a large scale through international trade, one cannot do without fictitious trade scenarios, false trade goods, legal trade backgrounds, and the most crucial thing—the means of payment.

With developed communication and rapid currency circulation in the world before crossing, fund payment can be completed using telegraphic transfer.

However, in this world, an export company must first get the money paid by the trade object, bring it to the local area and exchange it to local currency to account for it.

Meaning, the local Blackwater Winery Sales Company would have to accomplish the following steps:

Sail to the empire, sell their wine, exchange it for New Solon Currency, take them back to Union City, convert them to Union Coin and distribute it to the company staff.

But here comes the problem.