Chapter 145 The Chamber of Commerce was first established, the fan refrigerator... and the advent of the Beast Soul Pill
When You Chen finally settled down and firmly gained the strength after the seventh ring and the evolution of the martial soul, the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce did the same. It was set up as smoothly as originally planned.
At first, no one paid much attention to this new chamber of commerce, just treating it as another ordinary small chamber of commerce.
But when people knew that this chamber of commerce was founded by a titled Douluo - but it was not -, their attention instantly increased.
If the Soul King and his ilk are similar to town chiefs, mayors, or thirteenth-tier starlets to ordinary people, then Titled Douluo are basically those taboo figures, or at the level of kings and superstars. figure.
The advertising effect is naturally extraordinary.
Everyone is curious, what does this Chamber of Commerce that Titled Douluo created specially sell?
Although the Qibao Chamber of Commerce relies on the Qibao Glazed Sect, one of the three sects, it has been in business for such a long time that everyone has long lost its novelty.
But this new Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce is different.
Just like Keke, everyone has been using it and they don’t care too much about its updates. They just keep using it anyway.
But if Ali suddenly announced one day that he had developed a chat software and wanted to compete with Keke, then most people would be curious and want to take a look at what is going on.
But most people just want to take a look and stroll around.
From a civilian perspective, it is estimated that the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce is probably the same as the Qibao Chamber of Commerce. It sells extremely rare things and serves those soul masters.
Every gadget starts with gold soul coins, which ordinary players like them cannot afford.
(PS: The original work 1 gold soul coin = 10 silver soul coins = 100 copper soul coins is obviously a clerical error. Here we continue to use 1 gold = 100 silver = 10,000 copper. The purchasing power of 1 copper and 1 RMB is equivalent. The Qibao written here The items sold by the Chamber of Commerce start with gold soul coins, which are equivalent to tens of thousands of yuan for any jewelry. They only sell high-end market brands, so it is normal for ordinary people to not be able to afford them.
For the full PS content, see the author’s words. )
However, the facts soon exceeded their expectations.
Because the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce is very similar to those small chambers of commerce. Unlike the Qibao Chamber of Commerce, which focuses on high-end products, the cheapest products here can be bought with copper soul coins.
Although these cheap ones are mostly fantastic candies and snacks, those daily necessities are still relatively expensive, and they all start with Gintama coins, but ordinary people can afford such prices.
Leave aside the popping candies, spicy strips and the like. Although they are delicious and fun, the types are still too single, and they are more popular with children.
Common people are more concerned about the new products launched by the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce that they have never heard of before.
What "fan" can bring cool breeze in the hot summer, what "refrigerator" can refrigerate and preserve food, can replace candles and rare soul guides that ordinary people cannot afford for lighting function "Incandescent lamp"...
Just hearing the introduction from the waiter of the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce and hearing these magical functions, not to mention the common people, even the nobles became excited.
The most important thing is...it's cheap!
The most expensive refrigerator only costs 10 Gintama coins. It is not impossible for a common family to grit their teeth and buy it, and the convenience it brings needless to say. The most significant change brought to their lives is the storage problem of meat!
Usually, after the hunters finish hunting, there is a butcher shop to sell the food. If not, it is usually for their own use. Basically, it is impossible for the whole family to finish the food. They have to share it with the neighbors, build a good relationship, and then wait for the neighbors in the village. After returning from hunting, the meat is also divided and distributed to other families. Only a very small part of the meat is preserved through pickling and other methods, so as to avoid waste as much as possible.
This relatively primitive situation is an extreme situation that only exists in remote villages far away from the city.
But the problem of storing food has always been a big problem for people who have no money.
Let’s take storing meat as an example. Salt and oil were not cheap in ancient society, and it was impossible for most people to frequently use them to marinate and seal meat.
If there is no more convenient means, life can indeed be lived like this, even if it is more troublesome and tiring, but that is because they have no choice.
Being able to live more relaxedly, no one wants to live more tiringly.
Especially when they can afford the price.
"Excuse me, are the prices marked on these products correct? Is this a fan, really only 3 Gintama coins are enough?"
Someone quickly started asking impatiently , he had just experienced the power of the fan with the help of the waiter. Looking at his appearance, it was obvious that he was too hot in the summer.
The waiter smiled and responded: "Yes, but please note that fans, refrigerators and other products with special power requirements in our store require the 'soul battery' function specially produced by our store. Take fans as an example , a standard unit Soul Power battery can only provide power for continuous operation for 24 hours. When the battery runs out, you need to come over and buy a new battery in time. By the way, we can recharge the used battery at one tenth. The sale price will be recycled ”
When the man heard what kind of battery he wanted to buy, he immediately made a sound. Thinking that it would not be such a good thing, he still asked: "Then...how can I sell this battery?"
The waiter said : "Just take the smallest unit just mentioned, 1 The price of a standard soul power battery is only 10 copper coins."
"This..."
The man's eyes widened: "This is a completely acceptable price! ! ”
His eyes lit up.
It costs ten yuan to run a fan for a day. Any modern person would think this is like slaughtering a pig...it's so fucking deceptive.
But for these Douluo natives who have never touched a fan, 10 yuan to blow a fan 24 hours a day? This is too cheap!
After all, this is ancient times, and it is actually not that hot at night. The hottest and most unbearable hours are during the noon hours.
A minimum unit soul power battery can actually be used for several days!
Oscar’s sausage costs five yuan a piece, and ten yuan can keep the fan blowing for several days... It’s totally worth it!
Similar scenes were staged in various parts of Douluo Continent.
Tiandou City, Prince's Mansion, Prince Xuexing had just said goodbye to Dugu Bo, who had come to visit Dao Xi again. He looked a little dazed and murmured to himself: "It turns out that the heaven-level killer is really planning to Are you sincerely cooperating with me? "
The reputation of Jade Phosphorus Douluo, the high-quality and low-priced products, and the management and development of Prince Snow Star have allowed the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce to spread rapidly in the Tiandou Empire.
This process went smoothly beyond Prince Snow Star’s imagination.
When Dugu Bo came to visit him at first, he still had the idea that it would be okay even if he lost a little, but now, as the number one partner in the Tiandou area, he has made a lot of money.
Although soul masters and nobles do have huge wealth in this society, on average, the wealth of each soul master is probably more than a hundred times that of ordinary people.
But... how many soul masters, or official soul masters, are there? That's one or two hundred thousand people.
There are hundreds of millions of people in the entire continent, and soul masters only account for less than one ten thousandth. Compared with less than one percent of modern Tianlong people, the proportion of soul masters is still too small. It is impossible for one out of ten thousand people to occupy 99% of the wealth.
In this continent and this era, although the common people are completely inconspicuous and have nothing to do with the so-called storms on the continent, they are the mainstream.
The total assets of each civilian family may only amount to a few to a dozen gold soul coins, and the available liquidity may be less than one gold soul coin, but when the people in the entire continent are added together, the economy The total amount is still enough to exceed the total economic amount of the soul masters.
It's just that no one has ever thought of making money from them and providing them with services.
For Prince Snow Star, this is not the key.
The most important thing is...
The Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce does not just sell relatively cheap daily necessities that serve the public.
After attracting the attention of the soul masters through these very new things, the high-end products sold by the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce also opened up the sales market.
There are only so many soul masters in the entire continent, and the entire market is only that big. The Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce has a larger share, and the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce has a smaller share.
And attacking the Qibao Chamber of Commerce will obviously also hit the Qibao Glazed Sect.
One thing that is well known to the entire upper class of Tiandou is that the Qibao Glazed Sect is the strongest supporter of the current eldest prince Xue Qinghe.
"My good nephew, how will you respond to this?"
Prince Snow Star thought about it and raised the corners of his mouth.
How will Xue Qinghe or Qian Renxue respond?
The answer is... respond normally.
Contrary to what Prince Xuexing thought, Qian Renxue was very happy about the impact of the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce on the status of the Qibao Chamber of Commerce.
Because her handling of Bibi Dong's public opinion more than a year ago actually created a certain rift between her and the teacher Ning Fengzhi.
The competitive relationship between the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce and the Qibao Chamber of Commerce can be used to increase her importance to the Qibao Glazed Sect.
This brings the originally estranged relationship closer together. Qian Renxue doesn't care about the stability of the throne after she ascends the throne, doesn't care about the development of the Tiandou Empire, and doesn't care what happens to the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect.
All she wants is to take control of the Tiandou Empire as soon as possible and then lose the entire country to the Spirit Hall.
So she does not need to pursue long-term and stable control at all.
Of course, the reason why she did not choose to target the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce was naturally because Dugu Bo stood up for the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce.
It is a definite fact that You Chen and Dugu Bo are now together. Based on Qian Renxue's thoughts, of course she is not willing to have another conflict with the teacher.
In particular, she realized that her previous actions of suppressing public opinion for Bibi Dong not only set back her support for the ministers and nobles of Tiandou, but also seemed to have frustrated You Chen's plan...
The first capriciousness can be said to be ignorance, and the second mistake can be said to be an unintentional mistake. But this third time...
She was not sure if she ruined the teacher's plan again, whether the two of them would actually become hostile...
So Qian Renxue was not Intending to directly hinder the development of the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce, he only set his target on the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect, intending to use this to make the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect stand more firmly behind him.
As for whether the Qibao Glazed Sect and the Qibao Chamber of Commerce can defeat the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce? That is the Qibao Glazed Sect's own business.
Even if it fails, she has already provided support and is responsible for fighting against Prince Snow Star. If the Qibao Glazed Sect fails, she cannot be blamed.
Correspondingly, her real teacher probably wouldn't comment on this.
Qian Renxue believed that her beloved teacher would give her this level of tolerance.
Otherwise...if she really turns hostile, she has no other choice.
It is impossible for her to give up the career for which she has devoted more than ten years of her youth, right?
She has no way out, no room for regret. Even if she is the enemy of the teacher, she must follow this path...
With the support of both civilians and nobles, the rise of the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce It was too fast and unprecedented. No matter how efficient the Qibao Chamber of Commerce was, it would be difficult to respond immediately.
Just before they finished formulating their response strategy, the top management of the Qibao Chamber of Commerce quickly noticed another key piece of information.
The Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce not only opened in the Tiandou Empire, but also in the Star Luo Empire.
It is worth mentioning that the Qibao Chamber of Commerce also has branches in each of the two empires, but they obviously focus on the Tiandou Empire.
Especially after establishing an offensive and defensive alliance with the eldest prince Xue Qinghe, he increased his exploration and control of the Tiandou market.
Now, the question before them is, should they choose to start a head-on war with the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce, which has the support of Prince Snow Star, on their main battlefield? Or should we choose to start a war with the Star Luo Empire, which is weaker but also lacks support from other forces?
Tiandou is their basic game. No matter whether they can win or not, at least they can never lose!
As for Star Luo, if you choose to give up, in the absence of strong competitors, the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce is likely to rise directly and completely occupy the Star Luo market, thus forming the Heaven Dou Seven Treasures, Star Luo Beast The bipolar pattern of the soul.
And in the end, as the current head of Qibao Glazed Sect, Ning Fengzhi’s choice is...
“Do it with both hands, and be tough with both hands!”
Ning Fengzhi said to his subordinates seriously Said: "The Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce has just emerged after all. Although they have quickly occupied the civilian market,...their sources of funds, goods channels, etc. are far inferior to us! Their low-price daily commodities are used in too technical It is impossible for us to crack or reproduce in a short period of time. We have no competitive advantage in this sinking market, and the only thing we can do is to monopolize the upper market. From today on, the prices of all cultivation resources will be reduced! , Discount! Let’s take advantage of our abundant capital and fight a price war with them! Bring back all the Soul Master’s customers!”
Price war is something that only strong people with strong capital can use. Tactics!
Steal away customers through lower selling prices, and then let the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce’s inventory rot in their own hands!
Ning Fengzhi's idea is simple.
The sinking market cannot be conquered in a short time, so we must first snatch back all the high-end customers.
In response to their price offensive, if the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce chooses to similarly reduce prices, it will inevitably drag itself down due to insufficient capital flow.
But if the price is not lowered, the goods will not be sold, and if they cannot be sold, there will be no way to get more supply, which will lead to the supply of goods being gradually taken away by the Qibao Merchant Guild, and in the end... there will be no goods to sell.
After the period when the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce was just emerging, the soul master customers returned to the habit of purchasing Qibao Chamber of Commerce products, and the Qibao Chamber of Commerce gradually adjusted the prices.
However, it is difficult for the high-end customers that the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce has lost to come back.
It will take a long time to re-establish a complete sales chain of purchase and sale, and the cost is not something that the just-started Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce can afford.
In this way, there will eventually be a situation where the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce occupies the lower market and the Qibao Chamber of Commerce occupies the upper market.
Although the Qibao Chamber of Commerce lost a lot of money, it has stabilized its position, while the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce has opened up a new competition area. It seems that both of them are making money and can live in peace. ...
But Ning Fengzhi obviously didn’t think so.
No matter how advanced the technology is, as long as it is already available, it will eventually be cracked.
As for the daily commodities that the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce has withdrawn from, there are two cracking directions.
One is to directly crack the structure of fans and refrigerators, and the other is to ignore these daily products and directly attack their energy source, which is the "soul battery"!
Ning Fengzhi naturally thought of the latter.
As a businessman, with his keen sense of smell, he quickly realized that the selling price of daily necessities was just a supplement. What really made money was the power energy that needed to be continuously consumed and replenished!
As long as this energy source is cracked, Qibao Chamber of Commerce can also mass-produce it.
There is no need to sell or research new technological products, just sell energy directly, and you can steal a huge piece of cake from the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce!
In a sense, this is a race against time.
The sooner it is cracked, the less pressure the Qibao Chamber of Commerce will have.
However, the first step taken by the Qibao Chamber of Commerce to suppress the high-end market of the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce... was not completed.
The Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce has launched a new cultivation resource that directly crushes all their products - Beast Soul Pill.
The so-called Beast Soul Pill is the so-called low-level experience pill.
This is one of the latest achievements of the Beast Soul Alliance Research Institute.
Of course, its effect is still a little worse than the system's experience pill. It cannot be refined instantly, and the increased soul power is also reduced. It is more resistant to drug resistance. At the same time, it also has the ability to only target the soul. The restriction only takes effect for soul masters and below.
But even so, as soon as this low-level beast soul pill was born, it still shook up the entire Douluo Continent.
Without him, pills that can directly improve one's cultivation level are definitely in short supply no matter which cultivation system one looks at.
The improvement of cultivation means the reduction of cultivation time, the increase of life span, more time to break through bottlenecks, and higher realms...
Think about it, For first-level soul masters with the same qualifications, the time it takes to finally break through to the soul sect may be three or even five years different if they take the beast soul pill or not. If it were you, would you be able to accept it?
At least those noble soul masters who have formed a family inheritance will never want their children to lose at the starting line.
It can be said that every freshly baked beast soul pill will be snapped up by people as soon as it is put on the shelves.
It even directly gave birth to the profession of Beast Soul Pill Scalper in Douluo Continent.
If the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce had not been backed by a Titled Douluo, many nobles might have just started to rob it...
In the original work, Tang San was sweeping the floors of Notting City and earning 10 copper souls every day. Coins, Oscar is 5 copper coins for a sausage. He also said that a golden soul coin was equivalent to several months of expenses for a family of three, and it was also equivalent to Tang San's income from sweeping floors for three years. So 1 gold soul coin = 10 silver soul coins = 100 copper soul coins is obviously a clerical error. What he wanted to write was 1 gold = 100 silver = 10,000 copper. This is also more in line with the price of goods in Douluo World, and there are several months of expenses for a family of three.
However, I don’t know if it was a clerical error that he didn’t react to or if he just made a mistake. The tens of thousands of gold soul coins that were auctioned later are equivalent to hundreds of millions, which is barely acceptable as a top cultivation resource. But something that costs millions of gold soul coins often appears in auctions, and something is obviously wrong. It is equivalent to an auction, and Alibaba auctioned it off... As far as our country is concerned, the economic aggregate in ancient times is not even one percent compared to modern times, it is hard to say whether it is one ten thousandth. With Douluo's population, technology, and economy at that time, it was hard to say whether it could support such an auction. Anyway, we can’t go into details.
Thinking that Third Young Master made a mistake, if the gold soul coins used in the auction were actually only 1%, although it still cannot be investigated in detail, at least it is not that outrageous. In this book, everyone has lowered the prices of the original expensive auction items.
In short, 1 gold = 10,000 copper is used here, and 1 copper and 1 RMB have the same purchasing power. The items sold by the Qibao Chamber of Commerce mentioned here start with gold soul coins, which is equivalent to tens of thousands of yuan for any jewelry. They only go to the high-end market, and it is normal for ordinary people to not be able to afford them.
(End of this chapter)