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Chapter 144 Desire for New Markets

Cecil originally wanted to directly sell the recipes for wine and paper making, but the soap could not be sold due to the agreement with the Xiangqi family, but they could sell the management rights of the Yuecheng Soap Factory, set a profit every year and ignore the rest up.When he thought about soap, he suddenly realized that he could sell the brand management rights. Currently, Yuecheng’s products are monopolized in the market, forming a certain brand effect. Everyone knows that these things come from Yuecheng, so naturally they also think that Yuecheng Production is the best.

At present, most people have not formed the habit of cleaning every day. They only use soap when taking a bath. After all, the water resources in Yuecheng are not rich. After winter, fetching water has become a job that everyone is unwilling to do. Those who are so lazy at home simply don’t take a bath all winter, which saves money and doesn’t get cold, at most, they will be stared at by others when they go out to work.

"Everyone is a civilized person and a citizen. Don't you feel ashamed that you stink like a savage?" A "salary worker" waiting for a bus at the carriage station scolded a young man.

This young man was wearing a magic robe, holding a staff, and holding a paper book calmly without lifting the head.

"At least use a cleansing magic!" another mage roared.

Still useless, a group of people had to hold their noses and stay away from the young man, muttering indignantly.

Cecil, who had nothing to do, watched the whole process from the sidelines, rubbed his nose and felt a little embarrassed. He felt a little inexplicably guilty about creating the first batch of social animals in the local area so many centuries earlier and crossing two worlds.

That night, when Cecil told the story to others, Langdon said with a smile, "I guess it's because the magic slots are not enough. It's winter, and it's definitely not enough to keep warm with the magic clothes. One more magic slot is needed." Keep warm, so cleaning and so on will be backed up."

"I estimate that the price of the product will be further reduced after the auction." Cecil said enthusiastically, "I hope everyone can use the things from Moon City."

"Your idea of ​​selling a brand is no good," Langdon said.

"why?"

"Are you sure it is appropriate to emphasize that this is a product of a different civilization in another country?" Langdon asked.

Uh……

Cecil was dazzled by the smooth development, and forgot about the problem: "Then how about selling formulas and management rights?"

"The person who bought the formula is equivalent to buying the management right? What's the difference between the two?" Moyer said.

Cecil was a little puzzled: "No, the selling price of the formula is higher, and buying the formula doesn't mean it can be produced in Moon City."

"What's the point?" O'Casey asked. "People who bought the formula can sell it back."

"Oh, are you worried about this? It's okay, come on, let me tell you something called 'tariff'." Cecil smiled and popularized the relevant knowledge, "I'd be happier if they set up a factory locally , can collect commercial taxes and increase employment. If they produce in other places and then transport them, these are all things with small profits. Once the transportation fee is increased, the price alone will not be able to match the local production of Yuecheng. Cities and cities The mobility of people among the people is so poor, and the transportation and living conditions in the wild are poor, and the distance is the biggest tariff.”

A few people figured it out after thinking about it. O'Casey directly praised it, Moyer and Russell gave it a cheap nod, and Cecil's nose almost went up to the sky. It was not easy to show off his IQ in front of this group of natives.

"Get out those cotton coats as soon as possible, it's all money." Russell said hastily.

"No, it takes time for cotton to grow, at least this summer." Cecil sighed, "And the quantity is not enough. If you want to have enough cotton, you need at least two to three years of cultivation."

Russell frowned: "It's too slow."

"Unless you have a way to make cotton grow quickly." Cecil said.

"The Green Bank elves are the top masters of life magic." Langdon said, "We have a good relationship with the Highgarden elves."

Cecil said helplessly: "But we have nothing to do with the Green Bank elves...do we have one?" He was really looking forward to someone jumping up and saying "I know so and so". As a result, everyone was silent this time up.

"The Green Bank elves are different from the Highgarden elves." Langdon said helplessly, "What should I say about the Highgarden elves? They are more open-minded and have a lively personality. In addition, their special appearance and shaping magic are quite powerful. The living environment is relatively better. The green bank elves look better... well, they are very good-looking. Beauty is a sin. At the same time, the combat power of life magic is not good enough, and the surrounding environment of their civilization is not very good. Therefore, the green bank elves are very good-looking. The external environment is too vigilant, and it is really not easy to deal with."

After listening for a long time, Cecil came to a conclusion: "So it's not just you, even the Gay Knights failed to connect with the Green Bank elves?"

"Compared to beauty, the Green Bank Elves are not much better than the Gay Knights." Moyer raised his eyebrows, "If you want to get close by beauty, go to sleep."

Come on, self-reliance.

When Cecil was discussing with several others, Langdon kept frowning at the parchment used for communication within the Gay Knights. After a while, he closed the parchment and said, "Honey, have you ever thought about using the Damascus steel scroll?" Sell ​​it?"

Cecil was stunned, and said: "I never thought about it, because it can't be sold. If you teach skills, you can't cultivate them without a year and a half of training. Even if you cultivate them, you may not be successful. Besides, I don't want to Force Helen or Cindy to go somewhere else."

"What about having someone else come to our place?" Langdon asked.

"...It's probably okay, but why do you want to do this." Cecil wondered, "What does Tanbunita think about Damascus steel?"

Langdon was a little embarrassed and a little shy. After a while, he waved to Cecil and walked outside the meeting room.

Cecil followed up inexplicably, and was blown away by the strong wind as soon as he went out. After shaking for a while, he approached Langdon without hesitation, hugged his warm body, and said, "Is there anything you can't say inside? .”

Langdon took Cecil into his arms before whispering, "I might not be able to handle it this time."

"What?" Cecil enjoyed rubbing against Langdon very much. The warm and soft touch was amazing. No wonder the furs were so expensive. However, living "furs" with constant temperature were better, even though Langdon was now in human form. But it didn't affect him to lust, "What can't be done?"

"Damascus steel." Langdon's voice was muffled. "The news from Burton is very bad. The Gay Knights are not willing to fight against Tambunita for this kind of steel. They want us to hand over the steel. Get out." His chest heaved deeply, and he seemed to sigh, "This is the result of the best efforts of the Gay Knights. Although Tambunita has no intention of starting the war lightly, you also understand that attacking Moon City has the potential There are many ways, the simplest is to block all our products."

So far, Tambunita is the largest and strongest consumer of Moon City's products. Suddenly losing this "exporting country", Moon City's trade will be in a dead end in an instant.

Cecil just felt touched, this big cat has been silently sheltering him from the wind and rain all this time, but he is not a flower in a greenhouse - not even a flower - if possible, he will grow into a beast, protecting all he has love everything.

"It's okay, I can hand over the Damascus steel." Cecil said, "Also, I think it's time to consider opening up new markets."

The feeling of kissing in the cold wind is very good, the cold on the skin and the heat of the lips form a vivid memory that will last a lifetime.

Langdon went to get the big map, Cecil returned to the meeting room, and greeted the other three royal knights with playful or gratified eyes.He cleared his throat pretendingly, sat back at the table and said solemnly: "You all shut up."

A presumptuous laugh sounded out.

The map that Langdon got back this time is very large, not only the North Continent, but also the South Continent is fully displayed, it seems that the whole world is in it.

"Let me make sure first, the world is a ball, right?" Cecil tentatively tried, for fear of destroying the world view of the natives, "Do you know?"

"Yes, the world is a planet." Langdon said amusedly, "Outside is a dark world without air."

"Oh, fine, it's enough to know this much." Cecil thought for a while, but still couldn't hold back his mouth, "Aren't you wondering why we didn't fall from a ball?"

"Tambunita's hanging garden can also leave people." Russell said angrily, "There must be some kind of force that attracts us to the surface of the sphere, and this sphere is too big, so the ground is flat to us. That’s because of the illusion caused by mountains and different terrains, as long as you reach the sea, you will find that the horizon is arc-shaped. What do you think, the geography class of the junior magic school will teach this.”

Cecil: "..."

"Hahahahaha, look at his expression, it's like seeing a ghost." Moye slapped the table and screamed, "Do you want to show your excellent knowledge? Do you want to tell us what this kind of power is called? "

It’s okay not to mention it, but when it comes to Cecil, he really doesn’t believe in evil: “It’s called gravity, do you know what it is?”

O'Casey: "Some force."

Cecil: "..."

Russell: "Did O'Casey get it right?"

Cecil was silent for a while, then looked at Langdon nonchalantly and asked, "Is this map recent?"

Giving a warning look to his snickering colleagues, Langdon replied, "Yes, the Gay Knights are distributed all over the world and are constantly updating their maps, and it's easier for us people in different places to get accurate terrain. "

Compared with the small map that Cecil had seen last time, this time the map has indeed updated the location of Moon City, and incorporated Ebo into the sphere of influence of Moon City. There are also several obvious avenues, Tambu Nita's path hasn't been updated yet, presumably made shortly after God's War.

The semicircle of Luoye Bay is like the circle in the middle of the Pikachuri Pokéball, with the North Continent at the top and the South Continent at the bottom. From the map, the Luofeng Mountains next to Ebo vertically cut off the North Continent from top to bottom. On the mainland, beyond the mountains to the west is a large continent with rich rivers and a warm climate. There are large forests, many small mountains, and quite a few lakes. Three large rivers pass through them and flow into the sea. This resource-rich area is full of ten magic powers. The country has eight remaining.

"In their eyes, Tanbunita is a rural place, and the Glory Kingdom of Gretel is a place where a bunch of technical geeks live in seclusion." Russell said sarcastically, "I guess we are not as good as dust in their eyes."

"That shouldn't embarrass us, right?" Cecil asked.

"No, basically pretend you don't exist." Langdon said more bluntly, "Do you want to open up the market here?"

"Let me make sure, their development level is about the same as Tambunita's?" Cecil asked.

"Almost." Langdon said, "If you want to go to the Eight Great Kingdoms by land, you must detour through Highgarden. Due to the curse of the plateau and the cold, basically no one wants to take this road. Most people take the waterway, and there is a special route. It’s called the Falling Wind Route, Serling occupied more than [-]% of the ships on this route before it was destroyed, but now it’s down to less than [-]%.”

"Isn't their city finished yet?" Cecil frowned, "We've finished the second ring."

"Serling doesn't have that much money to hire people, and no one is willing to join them." Langdon smiled, "And the city they designed is twice as big as Moon City, and it's only about two-thirds built now. Winter When the time comes to stop work, many people go to other fleets as sailors, and the sailors in Surling are top-notch, and fishing in warm waters in winter can make some money."

Cecil always felt that something was wrong: "Wait a minute, aren't there magic gates on both sides of Luofeng Mountain?"

"It's set." Langdon rarely showed a gloating expression, "However, there is a very strange disturbance in the Windfall Mountains. Might and Magic can be used, but there are often deviations. For example, you set the magic of a certain city. I walked through the door, but found it was an inexplicable cave or swamp or something. I said that the magic door can be accessed by a magician. It doesn’t necessarily need the other side to be a magic door. It’s like someone in these places is using a guide Like magic. In short, the landing point of the Might and Magic Gate crossing the Luofeng Mountain Range is easily disturbed, and unless it is urgent, no one wants to use the Might and Magic Gate to cross the Luofeng Mountain Range."

"Can't we make a transit from the Southern Continent?" Cecil asked puzzled.

"The vertical axis of the Luofeng Mountains does not only affect the northern continent. It can be said that the entire planet is affected by this vertical axis. However, at least the southern continent has no mountains, so there is less interference, and the climate is better without mountains. It is also convenient to travel by land.”

Cecil looked at the vertical line on the map, the long mountain range traversed the land like a scar, and the more he looked at it, the more uncomfortable it became.

"Leave this alone. In short, there is a huge market on the other side of Luofeng Mountain, right?" Cecil took a deep breath and cheered up, "Then our task now is to open up Luofeng Mountain. So what, Luofeng There won’t be any problems if the mountains are excavated, right?”

"No, it's a normal mountain range. There may be monsters in some places, but that's not a special place, it's only unfriendly to magic." Speaking of this, Langdon's tone really couldn't hide the sarcasm.

Cecil looked around on the map and was a little surprised: "The Luofeng Mountains next to Ebo are the thinnest? What a coincidence?"

"No, it should be said that this area is the thickest. Imagine that Ebo was originally a mountain range, and then Ebo sank into it for some reason, just like a crater." Moyer poked the map casually, "Ebo is next to The mountains become the thinnest."

It makes sense.

Cecil said with satisfaction: "Then no matter what, we will have no problem choosing this place to build a tunnel!"

"What are you hitting with?" Moyer asked.

Cecil heheed twice, unconsciously squeezed the small MP3 player in his pocket, and said triumphantly, "The Mountain Man has his own tricks."

While the others were sneering at Cecil, Langdon meowed. He took out the parchment and glanced at it, and sighed, "Tambunita agrees to participate in the auction to openly bid for Damascus steel technology, but won't Pay magic coins, sorry, I..."

"Sorry!" Cecil slapped the table, "Good job! By the way, this is a great opportunity for the 'Banquet Etiquette Company' to showcase!" He looked at Moyer, "Get ready!"

Moye was touching O'Casey's hand, when he heard this, he said with a blank face, "What?"

"The banquet etiquette company's first order is to set up the auction room!"

It is very difficult to find flowers and the like in the twelfth lunar month of winter. Moyer directly said that there is no way to do it. Cecil is not willing to admit defeat. After standing outside the city gate all morning, after a lot of snot from the cold, his mind lit up. lamp.

The operation department of Might and Magic in Tanbunita suffered a lot of humiliation at this year's World Magic Expo - this is what they thought - some mages were bribed by mere businessmen, ignored the rules, and released them privately for small profits Come in, you must know that no matter which country the Might and Magic is in, only excellent mages can enter. You must be proficient in space and teleportation magic, at least graduate from an intermediate magic school!

"It's just a little magic coin, don't you want your face?" After executing the two "traitors", the Minister of Might and Magic cursed at the departmental meeting, "Where are your brains? They are all melted in a hot bath Yet?"

Now, Tambunita is going to send people to participate in the auction in Moon City. Garcia, the top leader of the Might and Magic Division, volunteered to participate. This is not a fat job, and Moon City is not a magical city. He was willing to go to this kind of place to suffer, so he successfully got the job and became the team leader.

It is said to be an auction, but in fact, only Tambunita, Gretel, Tuhai, Elma Coast Alliance, Highgarden and an unknown small northern country participated. The layout is too small. Two hundred, but Garcia despises the amount of the firm.

None of the eight magical countries on the opposite side of the Luofeng Mountains came. What kind of auction is it, bah!

Although Gao Ting has a good status, he is notoriously unreliable and spends money indiscriminately, which is nothing at all.

With this in mind, Garcia embarked on the journey to Moon City. He was in "shock" all the way from the moment he left Porto Toto, and he experienced all the psychological activities experienced by Little Beers' friends.

By the way, Bills Jr. and his party are still waiting to be received by His Majesty the King, but they had a great time and discussed whether to buy something at the auction, completely forgetting about selling things, the cold weather , Closed and warm accommodation, constantly opening restaurants and restaurants, and all kinds of novel indoor entertainment activities really make them unable to stop.

Garcia has been working hard since entering Moon City, constantly finding faults, "too many people", "the quality is too poor", "there is no store selling magic food", "there is no magic gate", "the weather is too It’s cold.” At first, my colleagues would agree with me a few words, but then I gradually got bored and didn’t even pay attention to it perfunctorily.

These bastards who play poker and drink rice wine and watch beautiful women dance!

Garcia kept cursing his colleagues in his heart, and consciously stayed on the kang of the hotel every day to meditate, but there were too many distracting thoughts, and there was no way to calm down. After doing futile work, he finally couldn't bear the boring days of being alone, and decided to Go out and have a walk.

Wearing a chic magic robe and a colorful staff, Garcia consciously attracted the attention of all passers-by. He walked in the middle of the road with his head held high, completely ignoring the oncoming four-wheeled carriage... Then he was arrested by the police Live admonishment and fine.

Garcia was trembling with rage, wishing to roast all these non-magic civilians with a fireball on the spot, and then turn around and leave, but he couldn't, he must obey the law when going to other countries, this is the quality and dignity of a mage.As long as he walked to the middle of the road, it was obvious that this was a law that everyone obeyed, so he could only obediently pay the fine.

A kid licking a strange stick shouted loudly: "Mom, this man is walking in the middle of the road!"

"Don't point fingers! This is a country bumpkin from outside, he is not sensible! Be careful that he eats you!" The mother dragged the child away.

I am a dignified middle-level mage, the highest leader of the Tambonita Magic Department, when did I suffer such insults!

The angry Garcia stepped on the road a little harder. He wanted to secretly use magic to step on a few holes on the ground, but there were too many people, and there were eyes everywhere. In the process of looking for a remote place, he suddenly found that the little fart He bought a stick that was licked by a child, and bought one with the idea that "a mage must keep his curiosity". He was surprised to find that it was sweet!

If you look carefully, you will find that this "stick" is actually some kind of food stuck on a small wooden stick. This food has two colors and is made into various beautiful shapes. It turns into a sticky and soft slime in the mouth.

Garcia was stunned for a while, then turned back to the store and asked, "Are you sure this is selling for [-] copper coins?"

The store owner looked over as if he had written the word "Hillbilly" naked, Gayasi ran away without waiting for an answer, finished the stuff in three or two bites, and saw a shop selling it after walking a few steps. After hesitating again and again, he still bought it. This time he checked the menu and found that it was called "lollipop".

After walking for half an hour and killing ten lollipops, Garcia felt acid regurgitation in his stomach.

Ordinary food is easy to cause disease, no, I have to taste it carefully, lest my subordinates be deceived!

Garcia ate out all day, and even used magic to empty his stomach in order to eat different foods!

That night, when the Tambunita people asked the team leader if they wanted to go out to eat together, they got this answer: "Fuck you, the chrysanthemum｜flowers are finished! Rotten city! Rotten food!"

The Tambunita people didn't care, and went to eat lively. Anyway, the team leader hates Yuecheng.

Garcia, who had experienced the death of the chrysanthemum flower, became more disgusted with Yuecheng after seeing the auction site.

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It’s impossible to buy milk tea with 25 yuan. I’m reluctant to drink such expensive milk tea. Only coffee can accept milk tea with a price above this price. Maybe 13-15 yuan for milk tea, because I can’t accurately estimate how many words~(?˙▽˙ ?)

In addition, everyone should quit sugar, takeaway milk tea is really too high in sugar (*?????)...every time my aunt comes, I want to eat sweets like crazy...(?..?.`)