Utopia

"It's because we don't have much to sell here, so everyone puts all their money in the bank... I say, Manco, can't you talk to Sogen?"

"How can Sogen care about me? He, the guy in charge of statistics, is busy running around and doing statistics in various places."

Compared to Sogen who continued to hold meetings in the meeting hall, Manco was worried in the Chamber of Commerce. Since there were not many stores in the Chamber of Commerce, and there were not many goods to sell, it basically became a warehouse for various merchants to store things. In response to this, the president of the Chamber of Commerce opened a family workshop, specializing in the production of daily knives such as kitchen knives and sickles, and threw all the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce to Manco and other experts who had done business in foreign countries.

"Given the current situation in Marle City, what can he find out?"

"Miley, don't expect Sogen to help you. What is the purpose of our Chamber of Commerce? It is to provide a convenient place for commodity circulation and trade, so that merchants and customers can have good interactions. Therefore, if we want to run the Chamber of Commerce well, we have to increase the variety of commodities here."

"Then..."

"Start with agricultural products. Agricultural products are not just as simple as grain. Various foods and even drinks processed on the basis of grain are very valuable. Especially wine."

For some reason, whether in the East or the West, the importance of wine to human forces is no less than that of food. Especially those ignorant people in the West who have never thought of issuing paper money so far, and have recklessly issued metal currency, resulting in their own lack of metal mines. Wine, in their place, is a gift dedicated to the gods, and it is completely one of the expensive commodities.

However, in Marle City, because the food reserves are so abundant that all the residents of Marle City will not starve to death even if they do not farm for fifty years, most of the food is processed or purchased by the state and caravans and transported back to the United Kingdom of Eri, which still suffers from food disasters from time to time, to sell for money. Therefore, Manco reconsidered in his heart, instead of selling to Eri, what would happen if he sold it to the human kingdom, especially the human kingdom in the East?

It is said that some human kingdoms in the East have insufficient food output due to geographical reasons. Will they pay a high price or use something they think is worthless as money to buy food from outside?

It is possible.

But there is another problem here, transportation.

Transportation itself is a troublesome matter that can generate high costs, and Marle City is no different from other places. It is a refuge and a place for the Kingdom of Negan to avoid the political struggles and even military wars in the old continent. They cannot directly reach the destination by transporting directly from Marle City by transport ship. They must pass through a more suitable transit station-any Negan town on the Gem Island, before they can sell the goods.

Although doing so is a justifiable way for merchants to raise their product prices, it also means that it is very easy to drive away customers, making it difficult for merchants to do business.

Therefore, a qualified merchant is definitely not just thinking about how to raise the price of his products to a sky-high level at one go, but he must find a way to ensure his sales situation. To put it more specifically, it is to ensure that the merchant can have his own customer base anytime and anywhere, and these customers will not easily break off contact with the merchant.

Borrowing a saying from humans, a steady stream of water will not worry about food and clothing. Guys who always think about getting rich overnight are often so romantic, and in the end, they will be as ugly as they are. If you are a profiteer, there will be no future.

So he himself was also thinking, what is the way in the world to discount the transportation fee that can scare away customers, so that there will be no customers coming to do business.

"Manco?"

"Hiss... Miley, how can we get customers to buy our food? And it's best to use goods of considerable value to buy our food."

"Are you thinking too much? Food can't be sold at a high price. Unless it is in a war-torn area, where people are starving everywhere. But which lord or city lord in the world will completely ignore the lives of the people? Such a leader will be abandoned by the hungry people in a minute, or even killed for dinner."

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As Miley said, Yuli Manco has never heard of such a "failed leader". If the people under his rule can't even solve the problem of food and clothing, what else can he say?

You must know that the current Negan Kingdom lists granaries and reservoirs as the two basic agricultural buildings, and every town and even the villages under its rule must have them!

Especially the latter, on the one hand, guarantees water reserves for local residents, and on the other hand, is used to provide power generation.

As one of the things learned from the Eastern human kingdom, reservoirs have never appeared in the United Kingdom of Eri, and no engineering team has built them.

Some druid members even forbid non-druid members of Kalai to enter a certain river section or a large lake to prevent its holiness from being polluted.

Therefore, the Gem Island was not very brave, but the city of Ma Le started a large-scale river section water conservancy project without saying a word, trying to create more rice fields to ensure the food reserves of local residents.

"So, having too much food is a problem. Hmm? What...hiss...how about we promote the brewing industry? Anyway, as long as the wine is well preserved, there is no need to worry about it going bad or expiring. Even if the technology is not enough, vinegar will do."

Although the Kalai tribe is a vegetarian intelligent race, Manco said that they are also very interested in various fermented products.

"Vinegar? Wine? Hmm... Although the brewing process of these two things is actually not much different, the raw materials are basically the same... The remaining wine is also very useful..."

The 醩 in Miley's mouth refers to the dregs left over from brewing wine or vinegar. These two can be used to continue brewing wine and vinegar, and can even be used to make medicine for treatment, or directly made into food.

It can be seen that a brewing industry can actually promote the development of diet and medicine in the entire town.

So, it's time to stop thinking and go out to investigate to see if this idea can be realized. At the same time, if possible, it would be great if there is also a portal device here. At least the cost of transportation is greatly reduced, and it can even promote more types of commodity economic exchanges.

Even if such exchanges can only be carried out domestically, it is much better than the current ocean transportation...