My Pokémon Player

Locke didn't continue to worry about Ryan's acting skills. The price had been negotiated anyway, and he wanted to confirm the cooperation as soon as possible.

"There's no need to eat. Let's discuss the specific content of the cooperation first."

Locke refused.

"There's no rush. Didn't I say that we can discuss it while eating? Why, is Director Locke in a hurry?"

Ryan asked, somewhat confused in his heart. Logically speaking, the main purpose of Guanhai City's visit this time was to reach cooperation with Yinghuo Town.

Now that the most important price aspect has been confirmed, and more than half of the purpose of cooperation has been achieved, why is Locke still so anxious?

"We're really in a hurry."

Locke hesitated for a moment, and finally told the reason for his anxiety.

"We are going out this time not only to cooperate with you on pharmaceuticals, but also to deliver support supplies to Tiezhan Town."

"Oh? Delivering supplies to Ironthorn Town? It seems they are about to attack Rose Town. I wonder what kind of supplies you have delivered to Ironthorn Town this time?"

Ryan raised his eyebrows and seemed to be very interested in the supplies.

"There are many types of supplies. Gold coins are the most basic, as well as supplies such as medicines and weapons. We even supported him with a powerful Pokémon."

Locke replied.

Ryan's heart sank when he heard this. This support material is really rich, and it is all useful for the war. If Ironthorn Town gets this batch of materials, its strength will definitely be greatly improved.

He has always regarded Tiethorn Town as a potential opponent, and he also knows that the two sides will have a battle in the future. Now that Tiethorn Town's strength has been enhanced, this is not good news for Yinghuo Town.

"As expected of Guanhai City, the action was so grand. I was a little moved when I heard it."

Ryan pretended to joke.

"If Mr. Ryan is interested, you can join the mutual aid association at any time. We promise to support you with more supplies."

Locke naturally hopes that Ryan will join the mutual aid association, but he doesn't seem to be really moved by Ryan.

Sure enough, Ryan shook his head and refused:

"Forget it, I'll just sell medicine honestly and save some money for your chamber of commerce."

"This money is nothing to the Yaojin Chamber of Commerce, and besides, the materials supported this time were not purchased by our Yaojin Chamber of Commerce."

"Your Chamber of Commerce didn't buy it? Who paid for it?"

"It's the Blue Ocean Chamber of Commerce, the largest chamber of commerce in Guanhai City. They also sent a director this time, so it's not convenient for me to leave him outside the city and dine alone with you. Please understand."

Locke explained.

Upon hearing this, Ryan glanced at Locke with interest.

The director of the Yaojin Chamber of Commerce has been continuously revealing information about this batch of supplies to Ryan since just now, and now he even bluntly states that this batch of supplies has nothing to do with the Yaojin Chamber of Commerce. It seems that there is a story in it.

Ryan tentatively asked Locke a few more questions, and the other party also told Locke everything he knew, as if he intended to let Ryan know the information.

Through inquiries, Ryan gradually understood the situation of this batch of supplies.

In fact, when Tieji Town expressed its willingness to cooperate with Guanhai City at the beginning, Guanhai City didn't believe it. There was no other way. They had been deceived by the nobles in recent years.

Since Guanhai City was defeated in World War I, they have become more and more eager for the power of the nobles, and they are looking for nobles everywhere to cooperate.

But how could the nobles look down on low-status businessmen? Naturally, they were unwilling to cooperate with them.

Therefore, Guanhai City encountered obstacles everywhere and worked hard for several years. In the end, no cooperation was reached.

At this time, a nobleman conveyed his willingness to cooperate to Guanhai City, which made Guanhai City extremely happy. After all the hardships, it was the end of the world, wasn't it?

So they rushed to the nobles to discuss cooperation, but they told them that if they wanted to discuss cooperation, they had to see the sincerity of Guanhai City first.

Of course, Guanhai City knew what sincerity meant. They invested a lot of money and materials in that nobleman, and then they were full of expectations to reach cooperation with this nobleman.

But when they asked the nobleman to cooperate, the nobleman regretted not wanting to cooperate.

This operation has directly confused Guanhai City. What do you mean? It was you who said you would cooperate with us at the beginning, but now you are the one who regrets and says you won't cooperate. You are here to cheat us of our money?

After Guanhai City realized that this nobleman did not really want to cooperate with them, they wanted to get their previous investment back.

But nobles are greedy, how could they spit out what they swallowed? Anyway, he just expressed his willingness to cooperate and did not sign any contract. Those investments were also voluntarily given by Guanhai City, so why did he Want to pay it back?

Guanhaicheng, who always valued credibility, didn't expect the nobles to be so shameless. He obviously talked about honor all day long, but he did such a thing. Aren't he afraid of damaging his reputation among the nobles?

However, that nobleman is really not afraid that his reputation will be affected. If he deceives other nobles, even if it is just verbal deception without signing a contract, his reputation will become worse and he will be denounced by the nobles.

But he was cheating the merchants of Guanhai City. The other nobles had no time to enjoy it and would not stand up for these merchants at all.

In the eyes of the arrogant nobles, those businessmen being cheated only showed that they were stupid and did not even sign the most basic contract. Didn't they deserve to be cheated?

Therefore, not only was the reputation of this noble not affected, but this incident also became his daily bragging topic. He would bring it up at any time and vividly tell others how he played tricks on these merchants.

The merchants in Guanhai City could not do anything to this noble. They could not talk him down or fight him, so they could only swallow the bitter fruit silently.

They thought that this matter would just pass. Although they lost some money, this money was not even a drop in the bucket for Guanhai City, so they did not take it seriously.

But other nobles who were short of money saw that it was so easy to get money from Guanhai City, and their reputation would not be affected, so they began to follow suit one by one.

Guanhai City also knew that these nobles did not really want to cooperate with them, but they still had a fluke mentality. What if there were really nobles willing to cooperate with them? What if there were nobles corrupted by money?

Therefore, Guanhai City knew that it would be cheated, but it still invested in many nobles, but among so many nobles, none of them was willing to cooperate with them.

Guanhai City is very rich, but they don't want to throw money to those nobles in vain, so they decided not to show their sincerity anymore. Unless they sign a contract, they will not give money.

When the nobles saw that they couldn't get money, they no longer expressed their willingness to cooperate with Guanhai City, and the merchants in Guanhai City also completely recognized these nobles. They looked down on merchants from the bottom of their hearts and were even more unwilling to cooperate with them.

So when Tieji Town conveyed its willingness to cooperate to Guanhai City, Guanhai City still didn't believe that Tieji Town would sincerely cooperate with them, thinking that Tieji Town was still the same as the nobles before, just wanting to cheat them out of money.

So Guanhai City established the Business Association, and the meaning was very clear. Don't you nobles want to invest? No problem, as long as you join the Business Association, you can invest as much as you want.

Their original intention was to let Tieji Town know that Guanhai City would no longer invest in nobles casually like before, and they never thought that Tieji Town would really join the Business Association.

After all, nobles in the past were unwilling to sign cooperation agreements, let alone join any Business Association.

Therefore, Guanhai City did not have much hope for this matter, so they just wanted to find someone to deal with it. The president of the Yaojin Chamber of Commerce was trying to expand his influence in the alliance. He thought that it would not be a loss to try it anyway, so he took the initiative to take on this task and sent Director Locke.

Who would have thought that Tieji Town really wanted to cooperate with Guanhai City? Faced with Locke's request to join the Chamber of Commerce, Baron Bach agreed directly, which made Locke a little unbelievable.

It was not until the formal signing of the contract that Locke realized that he had made a great contribution and fulfilled Guanhai City's long-cherished wish.

He did not expect the negotiation process to be so smooth, and even thought that the attitudes of the nobles had all changed, so he came to Yinghuo Town again, wanting Yinghuo Town to join the Chamber of Commerce to make his achievements more, but was directly rejected by Ryan.

Although the business association was not negotiated, he and Ryan also reached a willingness to cooperate in medicine, which was also a great achievement.

So Locke returned to Guanhai City happily and reported the results to the Chamber of Commerce.

After learning the result, the members of the Chamber of Commerce could not believe it for a while, until Locke took out the contract, and everyone confirmed that Tieji Town had really joined the Chamber of Commerce.

To be honest, they established the Chamber of Commerce to absorb nobles, but in fact it was to strengthen the cohesion between the chambers of commerce. Even if there was no cooperation request from Tieji Town, they would have established the Chamber of Commerce. They never thought that nobles would really join.

But it was clearly written in the contract that Tieji Town had voluntarily joined the Chamber of Commerce, which was a big surprise for the Chamber of Commerce.

Of course, not all members of the Chamber of Commerce were happy about this. At least the members of the Blue Sea Chamber of Commerce were not very happy, especially the president of the Blue Sea Chamber of Commerce, who was both depressed and regretful.

Logically speaking, after receiving the cooperation request from Tieji Town, he should be the president of the Chamber of Commerce to send people to negotiate, and the people sent out were often people from the Blue Sea Chamber of Commerce.

But he was afraid of being cheated by the nobles, thinking that Tieji Town just wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to cheat money. In addition, after repeated requests from the Yaojin Chamber of Commerce, he handed the negotiation task to the Yaojin Chamber of Commerce and let them choose their own people to negotiate.

He thought that if the Yaojin Chamber of Commerce failed in the negotiation, he could still suppress the other party, but who knew that Tieji Town really joined the Chamber of Commerce.

The president of the Blue Sea Chamber of Commerce was stunned after hearing the news.

No, where is the honor and backbone of your nobles? You used it all to deal with me, right!

In the past, I sent people to discuss cooperation with you, and you were all so arrogant that you didn’t even want to sign a contract. Why did you agree to join the Chamber of Commerce so readily when the Yaojin Chamber of Commerce sent people? Are you targeting me?

If he had known that Tieji Town would join the Chamber of Commerce, he would definitely send his own people. Now, all the credit goes to the Yaojin Chamber of Commerce.

Not only did it greatly increase the influence of the Yaojin Chamber of Commerce in the Chamber of Commerce, but Tieji Town would definitely favor the Yaojin Chamber of Commerce in the Chamber of Commerce.

When the Yaojin Chamber of Commerce has the support of the nobles, it might really squeeze him out of the position of president.

Thinking of this, he could not sit still, and immediately sent someone to contact Baron Bach of Tieji Town, promising him higher benefits to make him favor himself, and at the same time used means to delay the time for the Yaojin Chamber of Commerce to support Tieji Town.

The Yaojin Chamber of Commerce was in a state of joy at the time and was also discussing the potion, so it did not notice the actions of the Blue Ocean Chamber of Commerce.

By the time they reacted, it was already too late. Baron Bach would naturally favor whoever could give him more benefits. Anyway, whether it was the Yaojin Chamber of Commerce or the Blue Ocean Chamber of Commerce, they were both part of the Chamber of Commerce, so he could do this. Not considered a breach of contract.

Therefore, Baron Bach conveyed his new request to Guanhai City, requiring that the team transporting support supplies must include people from the Blue Sea Chamber of Commerce, and they wanted to discuss the details of cooperation.

The Blue Ocean Chamber of Commerce also took advantage of the situation and sent out its own directors, and also took over support supplies, clearly intending to compete with the Yaojin Chamber of Commerce for people.

If Locke hadn't contributed to the negotiation and relied on him to introduce people from the Blue Ocean Chamber of Commerce, I'm afraid the Blue Ocean Chamber of Commerce wouldn't have let him join the team.

After Ryan learned about the situation, he understood in his heart that the Yaojin Chamber of Commerce was being plucked.

They worked hard to bring Tiezhen Town into the Chamber of Commerce, but they turned their attention to the Blue Ocean Chamber of Commerce. No wonder Locke exposed so much information, it had nothing to do with them anyway.

It seems that the factional struggle within this Chamber of Commerce is very fierce. It seems that it is strange that a group of shrewd businessmen gather together and do not scheming with each other.

"I see. In that case, why don't we invite the director of the Blue Ocean Chamber of Commerce to have dinner with us? It's not good to leave him outside the city all the time. What's more, everyone is already at the city gate. It's not appropriate for me not to see him. Others will say I don’t understand etiquette.”

Ryan spoke.

"This isn't appropriate. He still has to guard supplies outside the city."

Of course Locke doesn't want Ryan to have contact with that director. The Blue Ocean Chamber of Commerce still doesn't know about the potion in Yinghuo Town. If they find out, they will definitely get involved, and then something else will happen.

The Yaojin Chamber of Commerce has already been picked once, and they don't want to be picked a second time.

Ryan also understood what Locke was thinking. He smiled and said:

"Don't worry, I won't do business with other chambers of commerce for the time being. I just want to get to know the director, take a look at the support materials, and see the generosity of your chamber of commerce."

Seeing that Ryan had said such things, Locke had no reason to refuse, so he had no choice but to convey the invitation to the director on behalf of Ryan.

The director of the Blue Sea Chamber of Commerce was also curious about why Locke visited the lord of Firefly Town alone, so he agreed to Ryan's invitation and came outside the castle with supplies.

Ryan saw these supplies outside the castle. Good guy, the Blue Ocean Chamber of Commerce is really willing to invest. There are more than a dozen trucks alone, all pulled by dumb camels.

The most eye-catching ones are the two iron cages. These two iron cages are covered tightly with black cloth. It seems that the Pokémon Locke mentioned are inside. But didn't Locke say there is only one Pokémon? Why are there two iron cages?

Before Ryan could think about it, the director of the Blue Ocean Chamber of Commerce took the initiative to say hello to Ryan.

"Hello, Lord Baron, I am Gavin, the director of Guanhai City Business Mutual Aid Association. Thank you very much for letting us enter the territory to rest."

"Hello, I am the lord of Firefly Town, Baron Ryan. It is just a simple matter to let you come in to rest. You are welcome, Director Gavin. It is almost meal time. Everyone can have lunch together."

Ryan invited with a smile.

Gavin was naturally willing to dine with Ryan, and he also wanted to take the opportunity to inquire for information.

The two exchanged some polite words. Gavin saw that Ryan was very interested in the Pokémon in the iron cage, so he wanted to introduce them to Ryan.

He ordered someone to pull the truck carrying the iron cage in front of Ryan, and then lifted up the black cloth.

Only then did Ryan see the Pokémon in the iron cage. His eyes widened slightly, and he couldn't help shouting the Pokémon's name.

"Is this Gardevoir?" (End of Chapter)