Chapter 42: A Short Stay in the Age of Empires III
(Well, Chapter 2 is here to ask for collection and votes!)
After hearing Guterre's words, Liu Qi was also very worried. He did not expect that the things he sold were still targeted by these nobles. I think if he had not withdrawn from the Empire Age world early and went to solve his related problems, he would have probably been found by Guterre's family.
Fortunately, I left for a month, but fortunately the other party didn't find me...
Of course, Liu Qi didn't know that the Guterre family had searched for almost half a month before giving up. Of course Guterre knew this but didn't say it out. However, Liu Qi was not a fool. Of course, he understood that a family would definitely not end in one or two days. How could it end without ten or half a month (the guess was really accurate). Fortunately, Liu Qi would certainly not believe that the Romans would trade fairly with them when they found him. Maybe the other party was thinking of knowing the trade routes and the sources of those goods from him. This was not good news for Liu Qi at that time.
But now... Liu Qi doesn't care now!!
Liu Qi, who has a gun and strong personal strength, is not too afraid of enemies in the Cold Weapon Age. Uh, the premise is that the other party does not have the kind of long-range firepower support such as crossbows, beds and crossbows.
But Liu Qi was not complacent. When Liu Qi heard that Guterre was looking for him to buy some more white salt, he did not directly reveal that it would not be sold. Instead, he revealed in a vague way that this white salt production process was extremely complex and was produced far away from the Roman city-state, with very little output. Then Liu Qi looked like you took a big advantage, asking Guterre to explain how high he could pay?
Guterre was stunned. Where did he bring money? In the end, he could only beg Liu Qi and ask Liu Qi to go to his family with him to discuss it at night.
After thinking for a while, Liu Qi nodded in Guterre's expectant eyes and agreed.
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"Hmph, if you didn't need to find an agent, how could you do this trouble..."
Recalling every word and expression of Guterre just now, as well as his clothes and dress, Liu Qi affirmed his speculation. Guterre was probably unlucky in his family, so he urgently needed the influence of an outsider to restore his status in the family. Otherwise, would he beg that way? You know, when we met last time, Guterre looked approachable but still full of pride in his bones.
However, Guterre's visit was just right for Liu Qi.
After Liu Qi came back from the Dark World this time, he realized that he played the role of a hawker in the Age of Empires and the Dark World. Although the profit is high, he is not only very dangerous.
According to the experience of those predecessors (the protagonists of various time-travel transaction novels), Liu Qi should choose to act as a wholesaler, choose spokespersons or cooperative forces in various worlds, and hand over the goods to them for processing. He does not need to blindly find sales like a small vendor setting up a street stall. In this way, Liu Qi not only does not have to worry about how to sell goods, but his life can be much easier. Of course, the profit may be smaller, after all, as a spokesperson and cooperative force, the other party also needs to make money.
Well, but there is still a prerequisite to achieve the above conditions.
That is, Liu Qi has enough force or the ability to protect his own interests from infringement, otherwise it is not impossible to be eaten as a fat sheep. You must know that there is never a shortage of people who are not very long-term or greedy in the world (reality and game world). Liu Qi does not have enough force and has enough wealth to attract people... The consequence is that a child has lived through the downtown market with gold. Not only is he robbed, but even his life may not be guaranteed. Liu Qi has a deep understanding of this - otherwise why did he specialize in guns?
If Liu Qi dares not mess around in the modern-level gun shooting world or the dark world, then Liu Qi doesn't take the level of force in the Empire Age world seriously. Even if he fails, it doesn't matter - at worst, I'll find other movies, animations, and TV series. Anyway, after discovering the functions of his laptop, Liu Qi has more choices, and this attempt may not necessarily fail, right?
"Liu, how are you?"
Just as Liu Qi was thinking about how to show his force when he went to the Tumen family that Guterre said to be at the meeting in the evening, he suddenly felt a convex and convex female body hugging her waist from behind, and Nina's inquiry sound came. It was obvious that Nina had just come out of the house after seeing Guterre leave.
"Haha, Nina, it doesn't matter, it's just that someone is planning to talk to me about business."
Liu Qi felt the soft touch that could be felt even through her clothes and leather armor. In the dark world, Liu Qi, who had not looked for a woman for more than ten days because of her busyness and vigilance, suddenly responded. He smiled and hugged Nina, who was also watery with her eyes, and she walked into the room with a lewd and smiled.
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That night, Liu Qi, who looked refreshed, went to the Tumen family to make an appointment alone. He was sent back respectfully by a carriage at midnight. Well, I won’t talk about the process and topic. Anyway, it is said that half of the guards in the Tumen family were lying on the bed for ten to three months the next day, and most of the remaining half of the guards were slightly injured. And there were ordinary Bella citizens living next to the Tumen family who felt that they were awakened by the thunder last night. However, strangely, the thunder sounded only a few times and disappeared, and there was no drop of rain. It was really strange.
The Tumen family is said to be unknown in the past few days. It is said that a man named Guterre became the first heir of the Tumen family, which surprised and strangely surprised the senior management of Bella City.
However, the Tumen family's actions were no longer surprising. After the Tumen family established Guterre's heir status, they began to recommend a high-end salt called snow salt to the nobles and temple priests in Bella City. This salt called snow salt caused a sensation among the nobles as soon as it appeared. Although the Roman city-state is on the Mediterranean coast, they still saw snow. This salt, as white as snowflakes, was something they had never seen before. After tasting the authentic salt flavor of this snow salt, all kinds of nobles, large and small, paid for it and snatched 1,000 kilograms of snow salt per pound of 5 gold coins sold by the Tumen family.
However, facing the nobles and nobles waving gold coins, the Tumen family said that this kind of snow salt is not a product of the Roman city-state or other city-states. It was transported from a country outside the Roman city-state. The quantity was extremely rare. The first time it was only 1,000 kilograms of snow salt. The next time the second batch of snow salt was shipped, it could continue to be sold.
If a small businessman had such a way of wealth, the other nobles would have arrested him long ago and tried every means to let him speak. However, although the Tumen family was not the top wealthy family in the Roman city-state, they were also in the middle of the market. At least it was one of the top big families in Bella City, and it could not be easily shaken. The Tumen family did not eat alone, so they summoned the nobles who were close to the Tumen family to distribute their interests, formed a united front, formed a price alliance, and stipulated the sphere of influence of their respective families to carry out the sales share of this kind of snow salt.
In this way, the other small nobles and the big nobles could only watch the alliance formed by the Tumen family and some other nobles and could only watch and drool.
The Tumen family is also tactful. They are just selling high-end but sparsely-quantized snow salt, and they do not do anything to the coarse salt market consumed by ordinary citizens. You should know that the salt market consumed by these Roman city-state citizens is a big piece of fat meat. I don’t know how many Roman nobles, merchants and even temples are beneficial to it. If the Tumen family stepped in, they would probably not even know how they died.
Well, of course Liu Qi Tongshao didn't know this, but Liu Qi Tongshao didn't want to become a transportation coolie at that time, so he boasted that these modern wholesale prices of several hundred yuan per ton were extremely high-end. What are the steps required for this kind of snow salt (this is true), how much cost (this...), and transportation difficulties (speechless).
Anyway, after Liu Qi, who was full of words running a train, had a friendly and friendly "communication" with the leaders of the Tumen family before the two sides, the leaders of the Tumen family, who were due to Liu Qi's force, felt that it was quite reasonable after hearing Liu Qi's words running a train. If there were many active good things like Xueyan, it would be wrong.
Poor, how could these local rustic men in the Bronze Age know that they had passed the modernization production capacity after the three industrial revolutions? If Liu Qi was in a daze, he could even use modern low-priced iodized salt to kill everyone in Bella City.
However, it is obvious that Liu Qi has no such plan. Even in Liu Qi's mind, iodine salt can become a high-end necessity for rich nobles, merchants, and temple priests. However, for ordinary people who don't have much money in their pockets, it's better to eat black coarse salt, which is more beneficial to health, right?
Liu Qi, who had become a little unruly, thought in his mind, so the next day, he exchanged a large amount of gold, gems and other valuables from Tumen's house with a full ton of iodized salt and more than a dozen watches.
Of course, the Tumen family did not suffer any losses. They bought three gold coins per kilogram of snow salt (really black) from Liu Qi and one thousand gold coins per pound (Liu Qi's name for watches, this price...) and made a lot of money. As soon as the snow salt was obtained, the Tumen family sold 1,000 kilograms at the price of five gold coins per kilogram, and then the remaining half of the snow salt was divided up by the Tumen family. As for the dozens of personal timers, the Tumen family was regarded as a treasure. Except for using a few of them to win over allies, the rest of the watches were hidden tightly by the Tumen family, and they were not ready to show these incredible items at all.
Chapter completed!