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Chapter 289 The end of the wine merchant (two-in-one! Please subscribe!)

However, while looking at the prosperous Idar Territory, there was one thing that Earl Dale couldn't figure out.

The improvement in the living standards and consumption power of the people of Idar means that the Stuart family, as the rulers, has to spend a lot of money for a long time.

But... where did the Stuart family get so much money?

It is simply incredible that a small county located in the eastern part of the empire could erect such wonders as the Hanging Gardens, the Fortress of Namur, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Baths of Caracalla and many more.

What's more, the Idar Territory also maintains a huge army with a total number of people that far exceeds that of the average noble collar!

Build wonders and maintain an army, plus Idarland's investment and expenditures on education (Two Point Academy) and medical care (Idar Temporary Maternity Hospital).

As a nobleman, Earl Dale knew very well what a huge expenditure these various expenses would add up to!

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would rather believe that pigs can go to heaven!

Therefore... he became increasingly confused about the Idar Territory.

In fact, Idar Territory is indeed "rich".

Or in other words, make money fast and spend money fast.

Since Bruno Stuart came to power, the per capita salary of Idar people has nearly doubled, suddenly changing the living conditions of the vast majority of people from "starving to death" to "well-fed".

The construction of a large number of public infrastructure and great projects has provided a large number of jobs for the people of Idar, and it has also made the treasury of Idar land like a floodgate, with gold coins flowing out continuously.

But... the speed at which Idarling makes money is unambiguous!

The eastern part of the empire, which is located near Merlin Bay, has the advantage of salt fields. The widespread use of seawater sun salt in Idar Territory has directly caused the salt production of Idar Territory to skyrocket, and its income has skyrocketed.

Of course, it is still difficult to make up for the huge expenses incurred by Idar Land just by making profits from selling sea salt.

Therefore, the various skills from the earth that Bruno exchanged from the system mall, such as high-strength liquor and rose essential oil, can be said to be selling well in the Kingdom of Basel.

The revenue from Moore Wine Industry alone to Viscount Conte in the second half of the year was worth thousands of gold coins, not to mention other hugely profitable industries that were completely controlled by the Stuart family.

Every day, a large number of caravans and horses belonging to the Idar Territory, carrying large amounts of gold coins, enter the land of the Idar Territory through the Mann Fortress.

The sales of wine, rose essential oil and other Idar commodities in the Kingdom of Basel have created a huge trade balance between the Idar territory and the Kingdom of Basel.

Massive gold coins quietly flowed from the pockets of the Basel nobles into the Stuart family's treasury, making Bruno almost regard the neighbor of the Kingdom of Basel as his own cash machine.

For example, during this period, the threat from the Odins forced the Idar Territory to invest more money in military expenditures, which resulted in an obvious shortage of money investment in other areas of the Idar Territory.

In order to make up for the tight financial situation of Idarland, Bruno had to produce a lot more rose essential oil, and then...

Just as expected,

The noble men of the Kingdom of Basel once again snatched up all the rose essential oil, causing Bruno to have more money in his hands instantly.

After all...

Compared to exploiting the poor people at the bottom, Bruno still prefers to squeeze money from the nobles.

Because whether it is a noble lord of the Norman Empire or a noble lord of the Kingdom of Basel, as long as they reveal something from their fingers, they can get more money than squeezing hundreds or thousands of people.

and,

The leeks in the Kingdom of Basel are growing one after another. No matter how much Bruno harvests, he can never finish them.

Although in the past few days, the wine merchants in the southern Kingdom of Basel have joined forces to suppress and exclude the wines of Idarling, hoping to regain the occupied market by copying the sales methods of Moore Wine Industry, but...

Is it not an easy thing to ask the Idar people to vomit out what they have eaten in their stomachs?

…

Kingdom of Basel.

Since the Norman family "forced" pressure to remove all the wines from Moore Winery, the wines with Warcraft wooden boxes, which were originally loved by noble gentlemen, suddenly disappeared in the city of Basel.

Unlike the Norman family, which has always been under the protection of Queen Alanna, Moore Winery, as an outsider from the earldom of the Norman Empire, was jointly suppressed by the southern nobles of Basel. Idar low-alcohol wine Sales in Basel are difficult to come by.

No store dared to sell its storefront to Moore Wines, which made Basel's local wines, whose sales had been shrinking, finally come to everyone's attention again.

Brand new packaging, higher pricing.

Thanks to the joint efforts of Harley Santa Cruz and Ernie Mfila, these wines produced in the southern part of the Kingdom of Basel finally have a completely new look.

Although these wines are almost all copied from the model of Moore Winery, but... this does not prevent these wines from the south of Basel from retaking the market of Basel City with lightning speed. wine market.

Seeing a large amount of gold coins flowing into his pocket, Harley Santa Cruz, who had been worried before, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The weather was clear and cloudless.

Harley Santa Cruz stood at the door of the store, greeting customers warmly.

"My lord, the earl, is going to hold a banquet tomorrow, and you need to prepare thirty bottles of wine!" The person who spoke was a steward of a noble family.

"Don't worry! I'll let someone arrange it right now!" Harley quickly agreed.

There is a constant flow of merchants at the door of the store. As the favorite drink of the nobles, wine has long become a necessity in the lives of all Basel nobles.

Not just the stores run by Harley Santa Cruz, almost all wine merchants are doing surprisingly well after Moore Wines was forced to leave.

Especially after they copied Moore Wine's product marketing strategy intact, their monthly wine sales revenue reached a new level.

only……

This joyful mood disappeared when he saw the accounts from other places in the Kingdom of Basel.

"Can anyone tell me why! Why, except Basel City, wine sales have dropped by more than 80% everywhere!"

Harley stared at the messenger from another place with eyes wide open.

Originally, he thought that his re-occupation of the wine market in Basel City would make the noble lord behind him look down upon him, but now...

Looking at the sales revenue collected from all over the Basel Kingdom, he felt that his little heart couldn't bear the number in front of him.

It had been fine before, but this month...

Wine sales across Basel have plummeted, even making Harley Santa Cruz wonder whether all the nobles of the Kingdom of Basel have given up drinking.

At this moment, Ernie Mphela pushed the door in with a gloomy face.

"Have you seen the accounts compiled from all over the kingdom?" he asked in a deep voice.

"Is there also a problem with your wine sales?" Harley Santa Cruz said quickly.

Although the two reached an agreement on the issue of suppressing the Moore Wine Industry, they represented the interests of different nobles after all, so they didn't have much interaction on weekdays.

Therefore, the sudden arrival of Ernie Mphela made Harley fully aware of the seriousness of the problem.

Ernie Mfela nodded affirmatively and said:

"We were careless, this is all the work of Moore Winery!"

"What?!" Harley Santa Cruz was extremely surprised: "After the sales were cut off, didn't they all completely leave the Kingdom of Basel?"

"No! They contacted the Mecoxlin family and the Goethe Chamber of Commerce!" Ernie Mfela gritted his teeth.

Hearing this, Harley Santa Cruz suddenly understood.

That’s right!

Except for the southern part of the Kingdom of Basel, the rest of the Kingdom of Basel is not suitable for the growth of grapes.

Therefore, before this, the entire wine sales in the Kingdom of Basel were controlled by the interest groups formed by the southern nobles. Although other nobles knew that there were high profits, they were unable to intervene at all.

But……

The existence of the Moore Wine Industry has provided these Basel nobles, who are eager for the huge profits in the wine market, with an excellent opportunity to get involved in the wine market!

"You mean... the Goethe Chamber of Commerce has started selling wine for Moore Winery?" Harley said solemnly.

"Not only the Goethe Chamber of Commerce and the McCallion Family, Moore Wine Industry has also contacted a large number of small and medium-sized nobles scattered throughout the Kingdom of Basel to help them sell wine!"

"Damn it!" Harley pondered for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "How about...just like how we dealt with the Norman Family, give up a small portion of the profits, and try to get them to stop selling the wines of Moore Winery and switch to selling ours?"

"Impossible..." Ernie Mfela sighed.

"Why?!"

"I have already tried this method you are thinking of, but...as soon as those local businessmen heard about our identity and the conditions we gave, they coaxed and cursed me and drove my people outside! Even if I No matter how much we improve the conditions, they still turn a deaf ear.”,

"How is this possible?!" Harley said in surprise.

"Those Idars from the Norman Empire are very smart. The more they purchase, the lower the price. As a result, the nobles have a lot of wine inventory in their hands, so..."

"So this makes those nobles tightly bound to the Idar chariot, and even regard our wine as a scourge..."

Thinking of this, Harley Santa Cruz, who had always been conceited, took another breath of air.

Instead of selling in Basel City, we established a sales network covering most of the Basel Kingdom through nobles scattered throughout the country. We also tied the interests of local nobles to the Moore Wine Industry through extremely simple inventory pressure. Together……

The interest group formed by the southern nobles can force the Norman family to make compromises, but it cannot make the vast majority of the nobles of the Kingdom of Basel, headed by the McCallion family, make compromises!

What's more... at this moment, Moore Winery has obviously built an extremely large wine sales network!

I don’t know what other methods the man behind the Moore Wine Industry will use...

…

Khalid Fort.

Since officially establishing a cooperative relationship with the Goethe Chamber of Commerce and completing a complete separation from the Norman family, Julian Heaton, the head of Moore Wines, has made Khalidburg the center of Moore Wines in Basel. The base camp of the kingdom.

Every day, a large number of carriages and horses travel between Khalid Fort and Idar Territory, transporting money and wine.

"If the prediction is correct, those wine merchants in the Kingdom of Basel will most likely start a price war with us by cutting prices!"

In the room, Julian Heaton said in a deep voice.

Standing in front of him were Idar's "sales managers" who were responsible for the specific operations of Moore Winery in various regions.

Since Julian Heaton passed away with Bruno Stuart, Earl of Idar, he is now full of confidence.

When the wine merchants of the Kingdom of Basel realized that they could not force the Moorish wine industry to make concessions through the political pressure of the nobles behind them,

price war,

It seems that it will become the only means available to local businessmen in Basel.

only……

With both parties relying on exquisite packaging and wooden boxes of various styles to raise prices, how could Moore Wine lose?

The packaging and wooden boxes of Basel merchants all rely on manpower to produce. Although they can hire child labor and forced labor like Eagle Sauce,... Moore Wine Industry's Warcraft Wooden Box has entered the stage of mechanized production. .

The industrialization of magic has brought more than just an increase in steel production and the mass production of weapons and equipment to Idar. UU Reading www.uukanshu.net The production of simple primary labor products like Warcraft wooden boxes can now rely on machinery. accomplish.

Although this involves extremely complex magic circle structures and magical knowledge, under the stimulation of the industrialization of magic, the mage apprentices in the Idar Territory have already invested themselves in the research of magic circles as if they had been given blood. , improvement and application.

The output is large and the cost is low, so...if there is really a price war with the wine merchants of the Kingdom of Basel, Julian Heaton is not worried about the final outcome at all.

No matter what, the Idar people will be the ultimate winners.

Furthermore……

From the moment the wine merchants of the Kingdom of Basel began to move towards unity, a bomb was planted around them that could be detonated at any time.

so……

He is confident enough that the wines of Moore Winery will firmly occupy the top trading position in the wine market of the Kingdom of Basel!

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