In eight years, the 100,000 or so people in Maple Leaf Territory are no longer enough, and the earliest batch of pioneers can now all live a well-off life.
Those who did not participate in the pioneering team are now the main force of the major factories under Lin Xingchen Trading Company. Many people taught them how to do their jobs step by step. The good thing about assembly line work is that as long as you adapt to a certain point, you don't have to worry about the next thing.
I looked up at the sun and it was already June. In two months, Maple Leaf Territory would be the busiest. Now we had to start clearing out enough space to store the fruits that were about to be harvested.
Getting rid of the mess in his mind, Lin Xingchen walked into his own pharmacy. Daily magic training, potion preparation, and martial arts training were all Lin Xingchen's daily work. He could put it aside temporarily, but he could not put his strength improvement aside.
Today's potion is an advanced potion called Magic Boiling, which is a potion that assists magic and combat. After Lin Xingchen's improvement, its efficacy is now more than twice as great as those on the market, and the price is also twice as high.
But even at such a price, people are still snapping up each other. There are many examples like this. As the supplier of goods, Lin Xingchen does not have his own sales channels.
Relying entirely on those merchants to distribute their goods, this was the best way to develop when the capital and scale were small in the early stage. Now that Maple Leaf Territory has reached a certain scale, being a pure supplier will cause some damage to their own money.
Lin Xingchen has always wanted to find a manager who can support a business, but there are not many other idiots in Maple Leaf County, and those who can be considered capable basically have several positions.
Charles' request today made him see another way. It was too difficult to cultivate talents purely on his own, and Charles was a man who had some ability to make the slave trade a natural thing.
It was like a perfect match. Just by issuing a household registration, he could gain a talent. This was the reason why Lin Xingchen agreed to give him a chance despite Charles's negative information.
Although this world does not have the contempt chain of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans as in the other world, merchants, especially slave traders, will always be the lowest in the contempt chain.
Once someone was defined as a slave trader, the local lord or kingdom official would remove these people from the household registration, representing the local resistance to the slave trade.
These slave traders whose household registration was cancelled became a group of wandering ghosts. Although they were the favorite merchants of many nobles and wealthy and powerful people, what they liked were their goods rather than their people.
The situation of Charles' son is not the first and probably will not be the last. Since Charles has realized the embarrassment of his identity, he will use a household registration that can be revoked at any time to exchange for a talent he urgently needs. There is no possibility of refusing this deal.
As the herbs in the beaker were continuously boiled by the boiling water, Lin Xingchen calculated the time according to his own experience and added the subsequent herbs.
After all the herbs were put in, Lin Xingchen picked up the beaker and shook it gently, watching the color of the potion slowly change and finally take shape. Lin Xingchen smiled and filtered out the residue to get the potion that he had prepared this time.
After packing them one by one according to the quota, I started to prepare other medicines, and I enjoyed this the whole afternoon.
The original courses also included magic circles and inscription literature, but due to time constraints, Lin Xingchen has been reducing the time spent on these two subjects.
This busy work lasted for half the afternoon. When Lin Xingchen walked out of the pharmacy and was about to take a breath of fresh air, he unexpectedly saw the fat guy Charles.
"Good afternoon, young master," he said, and then performed the etiquette of a servant.
"Charles, didn't I ask you to come back to me after you have sorted out those things?" Lin Xingchen was a little puzzled. After all, this was a business worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins. How could it be handled so quickly?
"Master, you don't know that I was already dealing with something before you summoned me today. A big merchant had long been interested in my spot goods and supply, but we just couldn't reach an agreement on the price. Today, Master, you have kindly given me this great opportunity, and I will complete the transaction with him as quickly as possible."
"Now I don't have any slaves under my command except an old servant." Charles is also a capable person. He will seize the opportunity to cut off the deal quickly even if it means losing money.
"You must have lost a lot of money!" Lin Xingchen joked.
"Compared to your kindness, these dirty gold coins are nothing."
"You are so wise. You are lucky. Charles, you should thank the messenger who found you. Do you want to listen to me and tell me how to arrange your stay, or go and get your household registration done first?"
"You can handle household registration matters at any time. Your matter is more important than anything else. I want to serve you first before thinking about other things."
"It's good to be cunning, but don't overdo it. Wait for me, I'll go wash up."
After changing his clothes, Lin Xingchen led Charles to his office, pointed to the table in front of him and told him to sit down first and listen to me slowly.
"Master, I'll just stand here and listen." Some of Lin Xingchen's practices were different from those of other nobles on the mainland, which made it difficult for Charles to adapt all of a sudden.
"Just sit down when I told you to. Why are you talking so much?" While searching for the documents he needed, Lin Xingchen was too lazy to scold him. This was not the first time he had encountered such a thing.
After seeing Charles sit down, Lin Xingchen handed him a piece of information.
"You can go back and look at the information. First, let me tell you the main points."
Ignoring the fat man who was sitting upright, Lin Xingchen started talking about some details.
"I have been supplying goods for the past eight years. As a businessman, you naturally know that although the supplier makes money, it is only hard-earned money. The real big money is earned by the seller.
It’s not that I didn’t want to be a salesperson before, but firstly, I didn’t have the time or energy, and secondly, I didn’t have any talented people. Now that you plan to work with me, you can help me with this part of the work.
Now all the goods sold in Maple Leaf Territory are sourced through the Maple Leaf Chamber of Commerce that I founded, so I plan to create a chamber of commerce called the Star Chamber of Commerce, and you will be the first president of this chamber of commerce."
Wait for me to finish speaking before you continue. Lin Xingchen rudely interrupted the fat guy and continued his story.
Today, Maple Leaf Territory's supply of goods is mainly divided into several parts: one is food, one is fruits and vegetables, and another is wine, cooking oil, sugar, and medicine.
Let’s not talk about the medicines for now. The main things are these three sources of goods. Among them, grain has always been a difficult problem because of its variety and planting scale.
I hope you can find a way to figure out an optimal mix for me and provide the best information for grain growers next year.
In fact, there is no problem with sales of fruits and vegetables. The biggest problem has always been storage and transportation. I have already thought of a way to solve the problem of fruit, so you don’t have to worry about it, so you can focus on vegetables.
As for the most profitable alcoholic beverages, cooking oil, and sugar, please help me think about whether we should sell them ourselves or continue distributing them to other chambers of commerce as we do now."
As for the medicine, I plan to sell it in another way, so I will stick to the current model for now. Do you understand what I mean?" Lin Xingchen said a lot, fearing that the fat man would not understand.
"Master, I will inquire about the sales of food ratios. As for fruits and vegetables, although I eat them every day, I have never had any contact with them. But these are not big problems. It's just a matter of time.
As for the wine, cooking oil and sugar that you care about most, I can tell you my opinion on this later." Charles spoke very carefully, thinking carefully about every word.
"Master, you may not know that a bottle of five-year-old Maple Leaf red wine only costs three silver coins in our Maple Leaf Territory, and those of one year only cost one silver coin for two bottles.
Many people from the Chamber of Commerce buy a year's worth of wine, and then follow Professor Young Master's method to keep it for four years and then take it out, and they can earn back six silver coins. Although there are certain risks such as breakage or other problems, they can still make a profit.
But what the young master may not know is that a bottle of one year old wine can be sold for one gold coin in our capital, and it must be reserved in advance, otherwise it will not be available. As for five-year old or earlier red wine, it has only appeared on the market once, and that was when a bottle of five-year old wine was bought by an earl for ten gold coins.
Those who didn't buy it all said that he made a profit. Master, do you know the reason behind this? "When the fat man said that he understood things, he immediately became proud.
"Someone has hoarded a large amount of maple wine, and is manipulating the price." Lin Xingchen knew the general idea as soon as he heard it. Information was not circulated intensively, so naturally someone could seize this opportunity to hoard the wine and then engage in hunger marketing.
Take out low-year wine, and use the high-quality taste and flavor of maple wine to let those who have drunk it know that this wine is good. Then spread the word and praise the older wines, and naturally those who are not short of money will try it.
As long as someone takes the lead, those who come after will naturally know that every year is an experience. For the nobles and those who are not short of money, the best is what they need. I think it is correct to say that.
"Master, you are not only kind but also a wise man. That's pretty much what you mean.
My suggestion is to make alcoholic beverages and cooking oil the main commodities of the new chamber of commerce, and then establish a branch in each city and provide the supply ourselves. "