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Spring is about to pass, and when the breath of summer is approaching, Merch, a wool merchant who came to the winter fair once again, appeared on the streets of Velvet.

He brought a large sum of cash, and brought the most skilled weavers in his workshop, and his ship was moored on the newly built wharf in Verville, and the greeters were already waiting for them on the shore.

Lawrence led the way, followed by an official from the civil construction department.In addition, there is an elder of the Hall tribe, who comes from the largest village of the Hall tribe.The elder Hall was tall and straight, with a neatly trimmed beard, and looked at Melch who got off the boat with a pair of cold and wise golden eyes.

Melch is here to continue to promote the commercial development of the characteristic woolen fabrics of the Hall people.

At the winter fair, the unique and gorgeous woolen cloaks of the Hall tribe attracted the attention of many businessmen. They shrewdly smelled the smell of profitable money. Bottom line, after a good deal of bargaining with the officials of the Velvet County government, the cooperation that caused Melchy to send back and forth nearly a hundred letters, and failed to finish the New Year's Eve, finally came to the final stage , You can bring the craftsmen to the field trip to prepare for the establishment of a production workshop.

Melch knew that many people were staring at this piece of cake, and also knew that in the bargaining with the lord, many colleagues who were also fighting for the cooperation with the woolen fabrics of the Hall family were squeezed out by him, and he also knew that he was not the only one who got it. The merchant who was allowed by the lord to build the workshop, and another Velveer's local chamber of commerce also got the right to cooperate, and it was even a little more favorable than him in terms of various policies.

The preferential range is not large, mainly in miscellaneous tax reduction and exemption, so as to help the local chamber of commerce reduce the financial pressure on investment workshops, thereby narrowing the gap between the local chamber of commerce and large commercial firms such as Melch, plus some other clauses in the contract between the two parties The restriction prevents foreign large-scale commercial firms from over-squeezing the living space of local chambers of commerce through capital and technological advantages.

Lucien personally called this protecting local businesses.

Lucien is very cautious about attracting foreign investment. The local chamber of commerce in Velvetre is all nouveau riche who just got rich this winter. Their network resources and even their vision and skills cannot be compared with investors from outside—— Those wealthy and courageous big businessmen who decided to invest immediately after visiting the trade fair and drinking afternoon tea with Lucien.Do not favor local chambers of commerce in terms of policy, and try to increase the competitiveness of local chambers of commerce. Foreign commercial firms can easily occupy the ecological niche of local chambers of commerce. After a few years, Velvet's market will be completely controlled by foreign capital. .

Although everyone is from the empire in name, there is no need to be as nervous as Lucien's previous life when his country's industry was vigilant against foreign capital invasion, but the lord of Viveld has limited restraint on foreign businessmen, and Lucien did not entrust his city construction to The broad-mindedness of others.

Among all the bidding firms, the Melch firm that he selected belongs to a woolen textile merchant association called [Kaisai]. The firms in the merchant association include a one-stop process from raw materials to processing to sales, and the distribution volume is not large. According to the high-level custom-made route, Lucien has seen noble ladies wearing shawls produced by their firm. The craftsmanship is exquisite, luxurious and gorgeous, and it is a high-end product that Velvet craftsmen cannot make.

Melch will attend the last fair, mainly because of Doton's face, and those who came to buy are all kinds of semi-finished materials of high-level monsters, and the meaning is a little bit of Velvet's soil. Special products go back as souvenirs.

Such a firm will not collide with the mass-produced public line of the local Chamber of Commerce in Velvet. When the local chamber of commerce builds a brand and occupies enough market, it will not be afraid of more capital entering the market, and imitation models and knockoffs will affect sales.

On the first day of Melch's arrival, Lawrence didn't entertain too many formalities, and took Melch directly to see a few more suitable options for building workshops, all of which were near the river and within a short distance from the Hall village Not far away, a good place with flat terrain, the only problem is the remote location, it is inconvenient to go to nearby towns and manors, and the supply of living materials for craftsmen will be more troublesome.

——For merchants, the problem of hired craftsmen is not a problem, and the problem that can be solved with money and negotiation is not a problem. Melch took the craftsmen to circle around the alternative construction site of the workshop for a few times. Knowing the situation, he calculated the income and expenditure in his mind, and quickly finalized a piece of land located in a tributary of the Baihe River, near the river called "Hongxi" by the Huor tribe.

After the site for the workshop was selected, it was already sunset time. Lawrence and the elders of the Hall clan sent Melch to the hotel, had another dinner together, and then they each said their goodbyes and went home.

Lawrence and the elders of the Hall tribe rode side by side on horseback. The newly built road was flat and spacious, and the two horses walked steadily. The coolness and the bright moonlight in the night sky are probably the most comfortable time of the year.

It is inevitable to drink a few glasses of wine when entertaining guests. Fortunately, Melch is not the kind of businessman who talks about business in wine glasses, and there are other plans tomorrow, so everyone only drank a few glasses, and the evening wind blew on his body. The smell of alcohol was blown away.

"What do you think?" Lawrence asked the elder Hall next to him. According to the homework Lawrence had done on the Hall tribe in advance, this elder named Mimon had quite a say in the Hall tribe, only in the Hall tribe. The Great Elder, who is the priest of the goddess Muenna, has come forward to represent the entire tribe in the previous cooperation between the county government and the Hall tribe, and his attitude represents the attitude of the entire Hall tribe to a certain extent.

Elder Mimon stroked his beard and didn't answer Lawrence right away. He looked up at the increasingly bright and bright moon as the night fell, and opened his mouth with the flavor of the priest of the temple that Lawrence was very familiar with: "In our legend, when fate enters A fork in the mist, Muenna will guide her people."

The arc of Lawrence's mouth remained motionless, and he asked with a smile, "Then what did Goddess Muenna say tonight?"

Mimon was still staring at the moon, as if he could really see the revelation from the moon. After a while, he turned his gaze to Lawrence, blinked happily, "There is another saying in our tribe—don't go to Ask the moon, what is the moon? I won’t say anything.”

He clamped his legs lightly around the horse's belly and set his horse to a trot.

"What can the moon say? Well, she can only light our way home."

Lawrence was stunned for a moment before he realized the hidden meaning of "I think this is very good". He couldn't help but shook his head and sighed with a smile, urging his horse to keep up with Mimon who had already run away.

The moonlight and the evening wind entangled and drifted by, but nothing remained. This kind of wind made Mimoon very comfortable, and blown away some old and stubborn gossip from his heart.

In terms of the attitude of the tribe going out, he is quite consistent with Ned, whom he has never met. He believes that excessive self-protection and resistance to change will limit the development of the tribe. Seeing the lord who is willing to take them to play together extended an olive branch, there will be no second time if you miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Of course, there are risks. The excessive self-protection of the Hall tribe is a result of learning a lot of wisdom and upgrading on the road of constant stumbles. In the past, other alien tribes were completely wiped out due to gullibility, and they have completely become history. Lessons learned from a page in the book.

So in order to decide whether to accept the opportunity offered by the lord, their elders sat together and chatted for countless times. The elders who can really make a final decision rarely express their own inclinations, and only listen to them from arguing to arguing. The old diehards are forever babbling? Bullshit.

Really bullshit.

Mimon wanted to pry open the heads of those guys to see how their heads were different from his, so that he could come up with the "wonderful" idea of ​​"rejecting the lord who is new to the new official and takes up the three fires".

If you think about it with your brain, you can tell that they have no other choice at all, okay? The local nobles in Velvet have already been constantly compressing their living space, and offending another duke is because they think they don't die fast enough.

——Three or five generations back, when Grandpa Mimeng was the grandfather, the Huor family still had their own fields and forests and pastures at the foot of the mountain, and they didn’t need to go outside to buy food to be self-sufficient. At that time, they had more things and richer savings. At that time, only young people who had the pursuit of strength would become mercenaries in order to improve their strength, not to make a living.

Now the Hall family has neither their own fields nor their own wealth, and the young people who are too poor can't afford it even if they are talented.

Mimon is not a person who short-circuits his brain when he sees the benefits. He has carefully analyzed the current situation of Velvet, and it is different from the union and the main manor in the past. Due to the natural opposition to the aristocratic manor owner in this pool of water, even if they can use temporary common interests to obtain a short-term buffer time, there will inevitably be a day when they have to confront each other.

So the lord needs to woo Velveer's other forces to compete with the manor owner. The trade union is a part, and they are also a part of the Hall clan. As long as adequate preparations are made for the day when the lord turns his face and refuses to recognize anyone, Mimon feels that he can take the risk. the boat.

At the very least, they were put on the chessboard this time and were no longer background boards. The fields being cultivated and the shining gold coins were all real rewards that had already arrived in their hands.

The same is true of today's textile workshops. They originally expected that the cooperation of this workshop would be either a buyout type or a hired type, that is, either? The workshop gave them a sum of money, and they taught their textile technology to the workers. The craftsmen of the workshop, or? The workshop hired them to do the work of the textile craftsmen and paid them by the piece.

But in fact, the final negotiated cooperation is the shareholding system. The businessman provides the initial capital, raw materials, production equipment and craftsmen, occupying [-]% of the shares of the workshop, and the lord provides the land for building the workshop and the license to allow them to carry out production. Occupying [-]% ​​of the shares, and the Hall family used their unique weaving techniques and dyeing techniques as capital technology shares, enjoying [-]% of the workshop's shares.

When will it be divided? How will they be divided within the Hall tribe? No matter, in the Hall characteristic textile workshop built by the Melch Company and the local chamber of commerce, the Hall tribe will be allocated [-]% of the shares, and the merchants promise to give priority to hiring Halls are responsible for important internal work, and there is at least one Hall in the management position of the workshop.

This is more cost-effective and stable than a one-shot deal where you only get money, and it will be a good business that will make money in the long run.

Mi Meng listed the outstanding young people in the tribe one by one in his head, thinking that he had to look at the young children in the tribe when he went back, and pick a few calm and flexible ones.