Chapter 292: Thunder Explosion (Part 2)
Although setting the tone and guiding public opinion are traditional skills of the Idar CIA, flies don't bite seamless eggs, and the current chaos is not entirely the dirty water thrown by the Idar people.
In fact, the wine produced locally in the Kingdom of Basel does have significant quality problems.
Prior to this, in order to drive Moore Wine Company out of Basel, the wine merchants of the Kingdom of Basel united together. They designed and produced unified wooden box packaging and negotiated a consistent sales price.
but……
This loose alliance composed of many wine merchants has a problem that cannot be ignored - there is no effective binding code among wine merchants.
As long as you are a member of this business alliance, you can get exquisite wooden box packaging at a preferential price from the two leaders, Harley Santa Cruz and Ernie Mphela, and raise the price of wine through exquisite packaging.
However... there are no effective restrictions on merchants' sales behavior after they get the packaging.
The selling price is indeed agreed upon by everyone, but each merchant can manipulate the cost!
Merchants would of course claim that they had placed the best quality wine in the wooden boxes in accordance with previous agreements, but... even if someone replaced the wine in the wooden boxes with the most ordinary wine in order to make higher profits... no one would know.
Moreover, these Basel merchants could not reasonably regulate the circulation quantity of wooden wine boxes with different patterns like Moore Wine Company, which led to many extremely irregular behaviors in the actual sales process.
for example……
Although everyone’s prices are the same, it is difficult to buy wines with rare patterns in the shops of small and medium-sized wine merchants, which makes customers prefer to patronize the shops run by Harley Santa Cruz, Ernie Mfela and others.
So, in order to maintain their profits, more and more wine merchants are beginning to try to pass off inferior products as good ones.
Anyway, everyone’s packaging is the same. Just by looking at the outside packaging, who can tell what the wine inside is like?
Moreover, in order to prevent enemies from harming them, the nobles did not like to buy goods from the same store all the time, and the managers they sent out usually went around shopping, so in most cases, the nobles' warehouses would be piled with a lot of wine from different stores.
In this way, it would be even more difficult to tell whose wine is good and whose is bad.
Wines from different places of origin have different tastes and styles. Plus, there are bound to be unscrupulous merchants who sell inferior wines at the price of good wines, so...
One stone stirs up a thousand waves.
Although the rioting crowd fled in a hurry after seeing the patrol, rumors about southern wine began to spread in the city of Basel.
Oh! It's not just Basel City. As a close neighbor of Idar Territory, the Kingdom of Basel is naturally the focus of Idar CIA's surveillance and an important trial ground for training newcomers.
With Bruno's acquiescence and the request of Moore Wine Industry, a large number of atmosphere groups directed by the Idar CIA are active throughout the Kingdom of Basel, trying their best to spread rumors about Basel South Wine.
The quality is questionable and the price is reduced.
When the two things were linked together, the Basel noble lord who liked to be respectable naturally did not want to get involved in this mess.
And most importantly...
Moore Wines is great!
Not only is the quality excellent and the product guaranteed, but I am also regarded as a high-quality VIP customer and I am given a few toothpicks from time to time...
I heard that the toothpicks were thin, long, and very delicate, and they were all ordered from the Norman family at a high price! In today's Kingdom of Basel,
Normandy is synonymous with luxury, prestige, and awesomeness! I used to buy Basel wine out of necessity, but now...
Since there is a better choice in front of me, I will naturally choose the good one and buy it! Warcraft Wooden Box!
When the nobles of Basel thought of the wooden boxes of monsters produced by Moore Wine Industry, they were eager to try them out.
The Basel merchants didn't understand things like probability, nor did they know that Moore Wine Company always limited the number of rare wooden boxes.
Therefore, as more and more people collect complete sets of Basel wooden boxes, the value of those wooden boxes painted with Basel's scenic spots can be said to have plummeted.
On the other hand, things are valuable because they are rare.
Since Moore Wine Industry withdrew from Basel City in a short period of time, the value of Moore Wine Industry's Warcraft Wooden Box has skyrocketed.
It is true that Moore Wine has not returned to Basel yet, but this does not prevent the Basel nobles from sending their slaves to the surrounding areas of Basel to buy wine. After all... in this era, manpower is the least valuable thing.
…
"Damn it! Why is this happening!"
Ernie Mfela kicked the servant beside him and sent him flying.
The price reduction measure not only failed to achieve the expected effect, but also caused the sales of Basel wine to decline.
The rumors from outside made the sales of Basel South wine suffer a setback.
"This matter must be manipulated by Moore Wine Industry, but... I have also investigated and found that some merchants are indeed selling inferior wines at extremely high prices." Harley Santa Cruz's face was livid.
If Moore Wines was simply spreading rumors, that would be easy to explain, but the problem is that there was indeed a problem on their side.
However, the quality of Moore Wines' wines has always been praised by the nobles.
After all, this is not the south of the Kingdom of Basel. Even though the southern nobles have deep roots, they cannot turn black into white, and cannot directly use non-commercial means to suppress and expel Moore Wine Industry.
Moore Wines is obviously well aware of this. Although it has reached a cooperation with the powerful McCaughrean family, it has never sold this beautifully packaged wine to the southern part of the kingdom.
A small piece of land was left for the Basel merchants, and this was also to leave room for relaxation.
after all……
Bruno did not want to have a direct conflict with the Kingdom of Basel. The Odin Empire to the north of Idar and the Norman Empire to the west were the ones that Idar needed to focus on.
As for the Kingdom of Basel... it is just a copy for earning gold coins. As long as you don't hinder Idar from making money, it is not impossible to make some concessions.
The most important thing is to save money to build the wonder! "Otherwise... find a way to reconcile with them?" Harley Santa Cruz gritted his teeth and said.
"reconciliation……"
At this moment, someone kicked the door open.
Ernie Mfela looked up and his face turned pale: "Lord Larfu, why are you here?"
"The Marquis is very dissatisfied with your performance!" The man called Larfu walked in with a gloomy face.
"But... that Moore Wine Company..."
"Go back and explain to the Marquis yourself!"
After that,
Before Ernie Mfela could make any excuses, he waved his hand and several strong young men rushed out from behind him.
Cover your mouth skillfully.
He tied him up with a rope and dragged him out without hesitation.
He glanced at the dumbfounded Harley, then snorted coldly and said, "Your Earl is also very angry, so just wish him good luck!"
It wasn't until Ernie Mfela was kidnapped that Harley Santa Cruz came to his senses.
Cold sweat broke out on my back.
He knew Ralph, the steward of a southern marquis, and Ernie Mphela worked for the marquis.
Obviously, the huge losses in the wine market made the nobles in the south extremely angry.
And myself...
When he thought of what had just happened, his hands and feet couldn't help but tremble.
What to do? He knew clearly the methods of the nobles, and was even more aware of the huge losses that the southern nobles would suffer if the wine market was occupied by Moore Wine Industry, so...
He had long forgotten about things like reconciliation.
Nowadays, how to keep yourself alive is the most important thing!
besides……
(End of this chapter)
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