Chapter 136: Export to Domestic Sales (extra chapter for the leader “Wei Zhijian” [26])
In fact, in the short term, the more intense the fighting in the northern border, the more beneficial it will be to the Idar leader.
Because the faster the Odin's offensive, the more people will be displaced, and the more people will flock to Idar territory.
This will be of great benefit in making up for the population shortcomings of Idar Territory.
However, the imperial soldiers' inaction made Bruno feel deeply chilled.
Today, the intention of the Norman royal family is obvious. They want to use the Odin people to mess with the nobles of the empire first...
After all... the power of the Regency Council can even compete with that of the Emperor. Such nonsense has never been heard of in history.
However, although Bruno could understand the royal family's behavior, it did not mean that he would support the royal family's actions.
This is almost putting the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians and serfs on the chessboard, becoming discarded pieces that can be thrown away at any time! To resist foreign aggression, we must first stabilize the country? What a familiar routine! However, the bald men in the previous life held the weapons provided by Hans Cat, the rabbits had an indomitable will and blood, and finally there were mushroom bombs dropped by Eagle Sauce and the support of the bear, so they finally drove the foot basin chicken out of the flower-growing family...
And can the Norman Empire really drive the Odins back with only its soldiers? Although the Norman Empire's comprehensive national strength is here, who can be 100% sure of this? After all...
At the beginning of this war, the Odins crossed the Forest of Monsters, which was regarded as a natural barrier by humans! Therefore, although Bruno was full of confidence in the Norman Empire, how the war situation would develop was still an unknown.
Moreover, if the Norman Empire could really drive the Odins back to the Plain of Armanches, would it really be in the best interests of the Idar Territory?
You know, Bruno in this life is also a member of the nobility! In order to suppress the power of the nobles, the imperial family can actually use such a method of killing one thousand enemies and injuring eight hundred of their own. So what happens after this?
What kind of threats will the nobles in the southern and eastern parts of the empire, like Bruno, who were not affected by the war, face? All of this is unknown!
And this... is an important reason why Bruno is eager to start making a lot of money! As long as the money is in place, the manpower is sufficient, and the Great Lighthouse is knocked out, then Idar Territory will enter the fast lane of rapid development! Because the two wonders of the Great Lighthouse are really good! Especially to increase the attractiveness of Idar Territory to tool people. Only with enough tool people can Idar Territory create more magic crystal bombs!
The persuasive power of the magic crystal bomb is much better than anything else! The truth is within the range of the cannon, this sentence is not just talk!
However, since Bruno had just started to let Wally Harlin plant tulips, it meant that the day of harvesting leeks was still a long way off! Before that, the treasury of Idar County had to rely on the support of the Idar Chamber of Commerce.
Since the establishment of the Idar Chamber of Commerce, the Idar Territory's sources of income have undergone certain structural adjustments.
The current Idar Chamber of Commerce is equivalent to a giant state-owned enterprise in later generations, monopolizing the sales of Idar's sea salt, white sugar and many other products.
These goods were produced in the workshop managed by Old Ford, and then sold to various places through the Idar Chamber of Commerce managed by Kalio.
In other words, old Ford is responsible for the production of products, while Cario is responsible for the sales channels of products!
As for other merchants who wanted to buy sea salt in Idar, they were all turned away by Bruno.
Because Bruno ordered Kallio to set up the Idar Chamber of Commerce, not only to have a reliable sales network belonging to the Idar territory, but also to allow the Idar people to extend their reach to further places.
In this way, when the first batch of personnel of the Idar Intelligence Agency completes their training, the Idar Chamber of Commerce will have already paved the way and built bridges for them in advance!
And now that the Idar Navy has now incorporated the Coral Island Pirates entrenched near the waters of the Kingdom of Basel, Bruno's long-prepared plan to export the otherworldly version to domestic sales is finally about to be officially launched.
Although before this, things like sea salt, sugar, liquor, and paper, which Bruno had originally planned to sell secretly to the Kingdom of Basel, have gradually appeared in front of the world.
But Bruno kept emphasizing that these products...especially paper and sugar, were goods from the Kingdom of Basel.
Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway. The Idar people, led by Bruno, have always insisted that these things are imported from the Kingdom of Basel! Although the Norman Empire is now in chaos, many nobles are busy with their own affairs, and no one cares where these things come from...
However, before the tulip bubble officially exploded, Bruno still wanted to focus on low-level development, as long as he could attract less attention from St. Lawrence.
After all, with the precedent of the northern border nobles, Bruno did not want to be targeted by the Emperor of Saint Lawrence so early.
Otherwise, who knows what other ideas he will come up with to torment me!
This so-called other-world version of export-to-domestic sales is actually not complicated. All Bruno has to bear is a small part of the transportation cost.
The Idar Chamber of Commerce first cooperated with the Idar Navy to transport a small number of goods from the sea to the territory of the Kingdom of Basel via three-masted warships, and then loaded these goods onto horse-drawn carriages and returned to the Idar Territory from Mann Fortress via the Idar Chamber of Commerce's convoy.
Of course, before returning to the Idar Territory, we must first take a leisurely tour around the Kingdom of Basel.
The purpose of doing this is to let as many people as possible see that this caravan transporting sugar and paper is passing through the Mann Fortress from south to north and entering the Idar Territory.
There is a saying that goes, what you hear is not as good as what you see.
Only when the traveling merchants saw with their own eyes the caravans carrying paper and sugar entering the Idar Territory, would they begin to believe that these products were truly produced somewhere in the Kingdom of Basel.
However, Bruno openly admitted that vodka was brewed in Idar !
After all, half-truth and half-falsehood will be more convincing.
If all the good things in Idar County were taken away, not only would the merchants, but even Bruno himself would not believe it! Instead, they would become suspicious of the true origin of paper and sugar!
Of course, in order to ensure sufficient profits and save transportation costs, every time a convoy transported these goods back to Idar through Mann Fortress, the Idar people would sell goods worth dozens of times more than these goods! After all... this so-called export-to-domestic sales is actually just a formality to divert attention from Idar...
Thanks to "Deshiqi who loves eating pears" for the reward of 100 points!
(End of this chapter)
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