Especially now that his work is becoming more and more complicated, appropriate delegation of power is the only solution.
A serious look flashed across his face:
"No kidding, Mr. Rom, the business in Tunisia cannot do without you. The expansion of Meyer Home is the top priority of our Chamber of Commerce in the future."
Grandpa Rom nodded.
He certainly understood what Mr. Meyer meant.
Louis said: "I have discussed it with the prince, and we will increase our cooperation with the Williams family when the time comes."
"When I leave Tunisia, if you encounter any problems, you can consider asking Joseph Williams for help."
Grandpa Luo Mu asked curiously: "Who is he?"
"The next Duke Williams."
"Understood."
Uncle Rom did not expect that after this trip, Mr. Meyer would have established connections with so many top nobles again.
But what he didn't know was that Louis was thinking about something else.
"In today's environment, the IKEA model shouldn't have many competitors."
The IKEA model is not invincible.
In fact, in order to adapt to the current situation of the new continent, Louis has made a lot of changes to the IKEA model.
What is IKEA's biggest enemy in the new century? Some people think it is other home furnishing brands that have caught up.
But Louis believes that IKEA’s biggest enemy is a possible opponent with the ability to “attack by dimensionality reduction”.
Question: What are the competitors of low-priced ice cream with a very high cost performance ratio like Little Pudding? Is it other competing ice creams? No, the bigger enemy is summer-cooling drinks like Taro Milk Tea, Fruit Tea King Cup, and Sea Salt Ivory Green Mango.
This is different from Coca-Cola, which can squeeze out 99% of its competitors by constantly controlling costs.
Freezing point is a seasonal food and cannot be consumed in large quantities.
It is also rare for someone to simply stockpile large quantities of ice cream and store them in the freezer.
——The same is true for home furnishings.
The number of products that can be purchased per unit time is limited.
——The same applies to home use.
Even if you purchase on a large scale, once the purchase is completed, it will be difficult to repurchase in the medium or long term.
——The same applies to home use.
It is precisely because of this characteristic that in an era when more and more cooling products can replace low-priced ice cream, low-profit ice cream will be directly eliminated by offline stores. This is an irreversible trend.
There are only so many ice creams that can be sold, and the less profit a single item makes, the less money you make.
This is why the price of ice cream in stores is getting more and more expensive.
Similarly, if there is something in this world that can squeeze out the Qidian online literature market, it is most likely not other competing online literature websites.
——Most likely to be a short video.
The biggest challenge that IKEA needs to face in the new era comes from the completion of various home furnishings with gaps and deficiencies by e-commerce platforms led by PDD.
But this threat to the current Star Continent will take a long time to overcome.
Because the competitiveness of this platform-based large-scale shopping is extremely dependent on the popularization of smartphones and modern logistics.
And this is precisely the most difficult barrier to break through for the chambers of commerce in various countries in the Star Continent.
Excluding external influences, the traditional IKEA model is really suitable for the current expansion of the Meyer Chamber of Commerce.
—and it’s extremely difficult to replicate.
After all, the ability to integrate resources alone has already eliminated most of the chambers of commerce.
Louis took Uncle Rom aside and explained in detail the various concepts of Meyer Home Furnishings. The two chatted for the entire afternoon before leaving.
…
[Location: Adventurer's Guild, second floor private room]
"Caesar, here, here."
Alice leaned her head out and waved at Louis.
Louis walked straight over.
Not long after, when I walked in, I saw that Little Swan and Grace had been waiting inside for a long time.
Louis acted as Caesar this time because he wanted to communicate with everyone in the adventure group in advance about going to Ryan City.
Naturally, everyone readily agreed after hearing the news.
Grace's eyes kept wandering on Louis.
Louis looked at her strangely: "What's wrong, Grace."
"Mr. Caesar, some very troublesome things have happened recently..."
Grace said cautiously.
Louis frowned:
"Is someone harassing you at school?"
"Yes, ah, no, ah, you can also say yes..."
Grace stammered.
Louis: ??? "This is both right and wrong, what is going on?"
Grace lowered her head subconsciously.
Alice pushed him and said, "Don't scare her."
Louis didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "How did I scare him?"
Alice said helplessly: "It's the matter of the Church of the God of Glory and Justice."
Louis' eyes lit up and his voice rose slightly:
"What's going on?"
The little swan looked at Louis with amusement.
Of course she knew that Grace was Louis' backup plan.
After her showdown with Louis, Louis made it clear that bringing Grace to St. Louis College for training was partly to train the future saints of society in advance.
On the other hand, after Louis's sinful identity was exposed, he hoped that the saint could make a proper evaluation of him from an objective perspective.
She and Louis basically share the same views on the future revolutionary army.
That is Grace and the Church of the City of Glory and Justice behind her. They should be here to control the situation.
As the Pope said.
If the Emperor loses his ability to control the great sins, the relationship between the Empire and the Church will transform directly from allies to enemies.
That's why the saint came out to lead the revolutionary army into the game.
certainly.
This refers to the revolutionary army under the control of the Saint.
She thought carefully about the situation in her previous life. There were many "revolutionary armies" causing great trouble inside Enser. Compared with the saint's army, they were more like a group of bandits who took the opportunity to cause trouble.
——It is very likely not “like”.
As for who is supporting them behind the scenes, or whether there are some ambitious people among them who intend to establish themselves as kings, with the rebirth of the two, there is no way to investigate.
Grace lowered her head and dared not look at Louis, and said in a low voice:
"The teachers at the academy want me to go to the Church of the God of Glory and Justice for further training."
Louis nodded and said, "This is a good thing for you. The training ability of the Glory Church is very good."
Of course, Louis did not say that he was neutral about the position of the Church of the God of Glory and Justice.
To be more precise, the Enther Empire and the Church of Glory should be two forces that trust each other but are wary of each other.
The Church recognizes the sacrifices made by the Emperor and is even willing to take the initiative to clean up the mess for the Emperor.
But he does not trust the Emperor and the Unther Empire he controls.
Because the emperor's sin is arrogance.
No, to be more precise, the Church of the God of Glory and Justice now has more reasons to hate the Unther Empire.
arrogant.
greedy.
Lazy.
The third of the seven deadly sins is in Eunse.
If it were a more extreme worldview, the Church of Glory would have labeled the Enther Empire a heretic long ago.
From the Church of Glory to the Church of Love, Louis was really shocked by their attitudes towards alien enemies.
If it were him, he would only choose to protect his family first.
If your lover and children are gone, who cares what your fucking world is like? He was kind enough not to drag those bastards down with him.
But...he had no reason to stop someone from sacrificing.
Because he knew that it was precisely because some people did things that extraordinary people should not do that they deserved to be called heroes.
The only thing he could do was to protect them without affecting himself.
Grace kept her head down.
She also knew that the training of the Church of the God of Glory and Justice would be good for her.
Although she didn't know why so many people had high hopes for her, she also wanted to give it a try.
Can……
But……
"If I join the Church of Glory, will I be unable to come to school or join the adventuring group?"
Louis was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing.
Grace felt as if she had said something very stupid, and shyly pulled Louis's clothes with her hand to stop him from laughing.
"Sorry, sorry."
Louis wiped away the tears from his laughter, snorted and said:
"Accepting the guidance of the Church of Glory has no direct relationship with whether you will leave St. Louis College, and it will not affect your adventure with our adventure group."
"If one day you don't come, it can only be that you chose to give up."
Grace's eyes widened slightly: "No, I won't be left in the church?"
Louis said: "You just need to think of the church as an extra tutoring class. After all, it is they who need to ask you for help, not you who need the church's approval."
"If they are ordinary pastors, the church will naturally have requirements when training them."
"But if it's you, you two will achieve each other."
“That’s the privilege of genius.”
Grace blushed: "Is this really okay?"
Louis patted his backpack calmly, "Have you seen Rimuru? He's been getting more and more plump lately, using all the resources of the Empire and the White Tower."
He said meaningfully: "As long as it does not violate the bottom line, this kind of thing that only you can do is your competitiveness, not plunder."
Grace nodded, a smile finally appearing on her face.
"Then, I'll go to the academy and reply to the teachers."
Grace didn't say anything more and just left.
Before leaving, Alice patted her on the butt and encouraged her to cheer up.
Then the future Saint's face turned even redder.
After Grace left the guild, Louis looked at the little swan:
"Why do you have the leisure to come to the adventure group today?"
Little Swan did not reply to him immediately, but looked at Grace who had disappeared, and looked at Louis with ill intentions:
"You don't want to cheat on Sister Wang, do you?"
Louis: ??? Although she has white hair, red eyes and is a saint, she is very eligible for XP, but he swears that he did nothing!
"How dare you slander someone's innocence out of thin air!"
Olivia snorted and said, "You better be."
Alice knocked on the table and said, "I took on a mission on my own after I came back. We can complete it together when we have time."
She pushed the parchment of the mission in front of Louis.
Louis took a quick look and said, "An unknown ghost in the central square of Enser? An investigation mission?"
"What else? We should stop talking nonsense this month and take on the next investigation mission, otherwise our adventurer rating will drop."
Adventurer rating is an evaluation indicator set by the Adventurer's Guild for adventurers, and is also one of the most important bases for advancement in the Adventurer system.
Take the lowest grade of white porcelain as an example.
If you want to be promoted to Mountain Copper, you need to complete 10 low-level White Porcelain tasks, or 5 intermediate White Porcelain tasks, or 1 high-level White Porcelain task.
That is, if you choose Slime as the object to complete the task.
That time, you had to kill 20 slimes to complete a low-level white porcelain mission, which would count as 20 adventurer points.
200 points will get you promoted to Orichalcum.
2000 points to be promoted to Fine Steel.
This means that if you want to upgrade to Orichalcum, you have to kill 200 slimes.
Some people may say that if you calculate it this way, 2,000 points are enough to get you promoted to a Steel Adventurer, so doesn’t that mean you only need to kill 2,000 slimes?
Is the gold content of stainless steel too low? But this calculation method is wrong.
Because once you are promoted to Mountain Copper, the points for White Porcelain's low-level tasks will be reduced from 20 points to 2 points.
In other words, to get 2000 points, the number of slimes you need to kill is not 2000, but 200+1800*10=18200.
If the steel grade is upgraded to Mithril, the price will skyrocket to 18200+18000*10=198200 pieces.
If someone really has the ability to kill nearly 200,000 slimes, the Adventurer's Association will admit defeat and give him the title directly.
It can be said that it is not easy to increase adventurer points.
In addition, there is a deduction mechanism for these points.
If the corresponding level tasks are not completed for a long time, the points will drop.
This was the first time Louis knew about this.
Damn it.
What good things are there to learn? Learn a certain four-character game, and you will lose stars if you don't go online for a long time, right? However, he has indeed not carried out any adventure activities for a while.
After coming out of the outer city ruins, for quite a long time, he and Alice focused on training at St. Louis College.
In addition, this time they went to Tunisia for a bilateral meeting. In the nearly two months, Grace was the only one who stayed behind in the entire Moonlight Cat Group to take on the mission.
If this happened to an ordinary adventurer, he would have starved to death long ago.
He glanced at the mission content.
Then a look of confusion appeared on his face.
He pointed to the content above and said, "Are you sure this mission is not a joke?"
The central square of Enser is not far in front of the Royal Palace.
It was a super large square connecting the inner and outer circles of Enser.
Most importantly, this super-large square is very close to the Royal Guards.
Also close by are White Tower and Saint Louis College.
To put it bluntly, if there is any big commotion in the central square, all three parties will pay attention here first.
How could it be possible that it was still the adventurers' turn to deal with it?
Alice shook her head and said:
"This adventure mission is specifically assigned to the Moonlit Cat Group."
"ah?"
"Please read the description of the task carefully."
Louis lowered his head and continued reading.
To put it simply, some time ago, citizens of Tino frequently saw ghosts moving around in the central square late at night.
Many pedestrians returning home late at night were frightened.
The royal guards went to investigate, and the White Tower Wizard also sent people to check it out.
In the end, both sides chose to withdraw.
Because they found traces of the shadow plane's movement in the square.
To be more precise...
Louis looked up at her: "Fallen Shadow Underworld?"
The power outage was too long today, so the daily update will be a little late, but I can finish it. I will continue to write (end of this chapter)