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Chapter 128: Internal Reorganization of the Three Major Guilds of Maple Leaf Town

Overnight, all the lords in the South Ceres military district learned what had happened the previous night.

The Simon family, which attempted to challenge Peter's dominant position in the South Ceres military district, was almost uprooted overnight. Almost all family members were wiped out, leaving only an illegitimate daughter and some distant relatives.

From then on, the Simon family branch in the Stormwind Kingdom was almost completely destroyed.

Even Simon Town, which was invested in by the monopoly merchant family Othello, disappeared overnight.

This caused very serious problems.

Physical elimination may not solve all problems, but it can definitely solve most of them.

Simon Town was wiped out, but the funds and materials that the Simon family had borrowed from various parties were all stored in Simon Town, and now they are all gone.

The materials that merchants from various places stored in Simon Town are also gone now.

After last night, the Simon family's reputation has been completely ruined.

Countless merchants went bankrupt. The small and medium-sized merchants who rushed over excitedly after hearing the name of the Othello family were all affected and can now only try to recover compensation from Baron Simon.

On the contrary, those merchants who stayed in Maple Leaf Town did not suffer any losses. Moreover, the next day, they heard the good news that Su Nan was preparing to invest heavily in Maple Leaf Town again, expand the commercial scale of Maple Leaf Town, and give certain subsidies to those merchants.

As for where Su Nan suddenly got this batch of Stormwind gold coins, various parties had different thoughts and speculations.

Inside the guild buildings in Maple Leaf Town, such as the Carpenters' Guild and the Textile Guild, every household was decorated with lanterns and colored banners, celebrating their unexpected victory in this commercial competition with the Simon family and the Othello family.

Inside the Carpenters' Guild, Madam Isse, wearing the attire of a low-ranking male noble, even had a smile in the corners of her eyes. She said to the old carpenters who had registered with the Maple Leaf Town Carpenters' Guild, "Everyone, what did I say? I said that Lord Su Nan would definitely solve this matter."

"We just need to wait quietly. Some of you even complained that I didn't think of a solution sooner..."

Many old carpenters were a little ashamed.

More middle-aged carpenters and others spoke with excitement about their current benefits and income. "This morning, my shop received several times more large orders."

"But I directly increased the price by one-third. Those people nearby who buy furniture from our shop don't dare to say anything!"

"Who told them to be so snobbish in the past three months!"

A young carpenter also said, "This morning, Maple Leaf Town posted an announcement on the town bulletin board about expanding the infrastructure of Maple Leaf Town and welcoming more outsiders to settle in Maple Leaf Town. The more prosperous Maple Leaf Town is, the more prosperous our Carpenters' Guild will be."

"The more guests Maple Leaf Town has, the more money we carpenters will be able to earn, right?"

Guild Leader Isse thought for a while and said to them, "Regarding this, the presidents of our three major guilds discussed it and believe that we should let Lord Su Nan participate more deeply in the management of our guilds."

"This is good for everyone."

"All the things that have happened in the past have shown the extent of Lord Su Nan's protection and importance to our Maple Leaf Town."

"In addition, we may have made many wrong decisions and ideas in the past. Therefore, I propose that Lord Su Nan's subordinate, Lord Warwick, join our guild in making decisions on trade prices, issuing trade permits, training carpenters, and so on."

Guild Leader Isse's intention was to allow the originally very independent guild organizations, which existed like trade unions, to accept Su Nan's management and coordination.

Originally, the three major guilds of Maple Leaf Town—fur, carpentry, and textiles—could independently set the prices and trade quantities of the products they were responsible for producing, as well as the number of registered artisans.

In Maple Leaf Town, if you are not recognized by the Carpenters' Guild, you are not allowed to do carpentry work.

At most, you can make some furniture for yourself, but you cannot sell wooden furniture to others.

The medieval guilds of this era were basically self-governing organizations from the bottom up, which undertook the task of protecting the interests of the artisans within the guild and maintaining the interests of the industry organization personnel.

Basically, it will not make people rich.

If you earn a little more, you have to stop and limit your production quantity, so that other carpenters can produce more and earn a little more.

It belongs to the situation where everyone earns almost the same amount of money.

It will not let carpentry artisans starve to death, nor will it let carpentry artisans get rich or create large capital by hiring others.

This is restricted by the limited purchasing power under the manor (knight territory) economy, resulting in a special kind of guild.

At the same time, the power of the guild is very great. For example, if the guild sets the price of wooden furniture here, it will definitely be that price, and there will be no price fluctuations.

But now, Guild Leader Isse's intention is to let Su Nan's people directly control and manage the guild, so as to completely rely on Su Nan.

In fact, the reason why the three guild leaders made this decision was still Pigge the Rich Merchant's proposal.

Pigge the Rich Merchant told them that the things that happened before, Su Nan did not mention, does not mean that they do not exist.

Lord Su Nan definitely wants to develop Maple Leaf Town, but it does not mean that he will tolerate the continued independent development of the three guilds that accommodate all the artisan classes of Maple Leaf Town.

Unless... the guilds actively return part of their power to Su Nan, turning into a ruling institution controlled by Su Nan to control Maple Leaf Town.

In this way, the three major guilds will not be a malignant tumor, but will become a sharp weapon for Su Nan to accurately control Maple Leaf Town, prices, the number of workers, and even the relationship between supply and demand.

Moreover, this is also beneficial to the three major guilds. Lord Su Nan is making the cake bigger, and as long as they follow Lord Su Nan, they will be able to make money continuously.

Now is different from the past. In the past, everyone had so many resources, so they needed to compete and calculate each other, but now the cake is constantly getting bigger, so they no longer need to consume internally.

Therefore, the three major guilds had today's proposal.

To Guild Leader Isse's surprise, the carpenters of the Carpenters' Guild did not have much resistance to this, but directly supported it.

"Without Lord Su Nan, Maple Leaf Town would not have survived the Bulgar raid."

"Yes, and Lord Su Nan's decisions are always right. Letting him guide our guild may be even better. On the contrary, it will prevent the real foundation of our guilds—the carpenters—from being bullied by certain guild organizers."

"It would be best if the Baron directly managed us. There is no middleman."

Madam Isse then belatedly realized that even within the guild, there were serious conflicts between the artisans and the guild's management personnel.

Thus, on the second day after Su Nan destroyed Simon Town, the three major guilds of Maple Leaf Town directly handed over the management rights to Su Nan, allowing Su Nan to completely control Maple Leaf Town.

You need to know that in this era, lords often appear and raise commercial towns to prosperity, and the town councils of those commercial towns will try to become independent.

Unlike now, Su Nan can actually control Maple Leaf Town more precisely.

This is actually a good thing for the commercial environment of Maple Leaf Town itself, because Su Nan can make appropriate adjustments when certain prices in Maple Leaf Town are very high or very low, making the commercial mechanism of Maple Leaf Town more reasonable.

At the same time, on the third day after the Simon family's bad news, news came from Simon Territory that Baron Simon had suffered a stroke and was lying in bed unable to move.

He could no longer stand up.