Chapter 110 The viciously competitive Othello family
Pella conveyed two pieces of news to Sunan through the wolf pack effect. The first was that Baron Simon had recently received the support of the Othello family, the monopoly businessman of the Platinum Commercial Republic, for unknown reasons.
Baron Simon, who was originally very afraid of Sunan, immediately became frightened.
Baron Simon and the Othello family established a commercial town exactly like Maple Leaf Town in Simon's territory.
Moreover, the town they built called [Simon Town] ignored the high losses of dozens of gold coins every day and gave all merchants and customers huge cost subsidies.
In this way, nearby customers hardly need to spend money to buy things in that commercial town.
The merchants who enter Simon's Town do not suffer any loss. Although their goods are sold almost for free, they can go to the Othello family for subsidies.
On the contrary, it can sell faster, so it is also a very good thing for them.
After all, merchants are most afraid of having the goods in their own hands, so even just purchasing all the goods in their hands at an average price is a dream for them.
But this is a total loss-making business.
The Othello family is losing money at every turn.
This is not normal business at all.
Sunan immediately realized that this was a competitive method with characteristics of early capital.
Even monopoly capital feels that they have more money than others, so they don’t compete with others about whose technology is better or who provides better services. What if they can’t compete with others in terms of technology?
Compared with service, what should I do if I can’t compare?
Then just throw money at it!
Do business at a loss in the early stage, and forcefully use more money to kill your competitors.
Because of the low price, competitors cannot do business at a loss for a long time.
Then after monopolizing the industry, he will raise prices and sell goods at super high prices to recover the previous costs.
Even in the previous life, this was just a bad practice in the early days of capital.
Because this approach is not beneficial to anyone except the capital itself, not even to the customers.
It is a huge damage to the entire industry!
In previous lives, mature capital societies would have a series of laws to restrict and combat such bad behavior.
But in today's era, the Platinum Commercial Republic, as a maritime trading republic, uses trade to harvest the wealth of other countries, so there is no need to care about what is legal and illegal.
The country's main income comes from this.
Otherwise, it is an isolated island country.
In fact, the Platinum Commercial Republic is also a country that has been involved in the Kingdom of Storms for a long time. After all, the Storm Knights occupied the current land together with these merchants.
However, the Platinum Commercial Republic has been operating in the capital area of Stormcastle for a long time. There are even many islands there that are used for trade and have been snatched from other countries. However, I did not expect that they would actually intervene far away from the capital area of Stormcastle. and the southern Thrace region of the ducal city circle.
Sunan raised her eyebrows and told Pera to stay put and ignore Baron Simon and everyone in the Platinum Commercial Republic, even if the other party was currently provocative.
Pella told Sunan that Baron Simon and people from the Othello family actually entered their market directly and told merchants and customers that there were various benefits to entering their Simon Town.
However, Sunan still asked Pella to stay put for the time being.
First of all, most of his energy is now focused on digesting the Four Seasons Garden. Secondly, Maple Leaf Town has acquired a large number of ancient books for a long time and has established a relatively stable market for ancient book exchange channels. Sunan will not give up easily.
Baron Simon and the Othello family want to use commercial means to attack their Maple Leaf Town, but they forgot one thing...
I don’t have to worry about the business methods they use...
Just overturn the table and burn down the commercial town they built. Build it several times and burn it down several times. The reason why people in the Othello family are able to dominate many countries and regions, easily using money to destroy the normal local economy, and then using trade and economy to control the local area, is that the countries they come into contact with are relatively small and There is chaos.
For example, Kingdom of Storms is a typical example.
If the Kingdom of Storms was a centralized country like the Eastern Empire, or a powerful country like the United Western Empire, and every lord was difficult to mess with, then the Platinum Merchant Republic, which dominated the Eastern Mediterranean, would have been defeated long ago.
Therefore, Sunan was not prepared to pay attention to this matter for the time being, and let them work hard first. When he went back, he would finish the town they had established overnight.
Sunan muttered to himself. "Sure enough, we still need to set up a few puppet nobles around our territory, so that there won't be such stupid barons who dare to provoke me."
"But if that's the case, then just think of a way to get me a knighthood. To upgrade me to a knighthood, I have to either ask the Archbishop of the Church of Storms for help, or ask the royal family for help."
However, the royal family has just lost a king, and the territory here may also have lost a bishop.
It seems that both parties may not be in a good mood now.
But it doesn't matter. Their bad mood has nothing to do with him. Even if everyone is in a bad mood, it can't affect his ability to upgrade his territory and title.
Pella then told Sunan the second piece of information, which was that his cousin Julia Peter, who was closer to him and was the daughter of his father's brother, had recently fallen in love.
Su Nan originally thought it was strange that Julia was almost twenty years old and it was normal for her to want to get married. As a noble woman, of course she had to make arrangements in advance to marry a noble man with a deep enough background.
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In this era, aristocratic women without suitors would be doubted whether they were charming enough.
It is normal for a noble woman to be surrounded by several young men.
This is not the same as raising a spare tire in later generations. After all, aristocratic women have a noble status, and Julia also has the inheritance rights to a wine estate in other territories. Marrying her will mean that she will have a wine estate with relatively high economic value as a dowry. So even a young baron might be motivated to pursue her.
However, Perla said that the man who is now passionately pursuing Julia is a noble boy [Galen Othello] from the core family of the Othello family who recently arrived in Simon Territory on behalf of the Othello family.
Sunan suddenly narrowed his eyes. As a business aristocrat of the Platinum Merchant Republic, Galen Othello was a member of one of the five hundred aristocratic families behind the scenes that dominated that republic. His father's generation was probably a member of the Ten-person Committee, or a sixty-person Senate. member, then his purpose of pursuing his cousin Julia, who is not famous and seems very ordinary, seems very suspicious.
Sunan asked among the wolves: "So what's Julia's attitude?"
Su Nan immediately thought of many possibilities. If Julia had a love brain, he would send her directly back to her own manor.
Perla said: 'Miss Julia, I have refused many times, but as an outsider and a servant, it is difficult for me to dictate matters between masters. Young master, you are the head of the family, maybe you are the only one who can directly ask about this matter. ’
In this era, women's rights were still suppressed in many ways. For example, unmarried aristocratic girls needed to be accompanied by maids when they went out, and could not walk alone on the streets.
But this is actually a kind of protection.
After all, the world is not yet safe enough for a young aristocratic girl to walk around alone without any danger.
Su Nan said: "I understand. Keep an eye on her first. I have more important things at the moment."
"That's it for now."
"When I come back, I will handle this matter alone."
"Julia is usually a very smart girl. I don't think she is so stupid that she would be tempted after being chased a few times by teenagers from rival families. Tell my uncle Father Louis about this. He has Rights and qualifications govern this matter.”
"Don't contact me for the next half day, because I may need to stay highly focused for a while."
With his eyes, Su Nan signaled Lang Er to go up the wooden stairs first, enter the wizard tower, and test the sorceress who might be inside.
(End of chapter)