Black Dragon Code

The Northland ushered in the lingering rainy season, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and the rain fell from the sky, splashing on the corridors and window sills, making a crackling sound. Mobile terminal

Logically speaking, even in the rainy season, the amount of rainfall in the Northland over the years is very small, and people can only rely on rivers and canals to irrigate the fields. become warm and humid.

"Your Majesty, the merchants from the trading city-state have arrived and are waiting for your reception outside the royal court."

A merchant from a trading city-state?

Caesar thought for a while before he remembered this. In order to develop trade with the city-states and push the elegy cards to the mainland market, he did agree to a businessman's audience. After all, the city-states are very suitable for commercial development. , and because of the nature of the country, people there are also willing to accept new things, and Caesar's needs are met.

When the black dragon twisted its body and entered the living room, the merchant was just led into the room by the troglodyte. He took off his wet cloak and top hat, and bowed to the dragon lord: "I am Sotana from the trading city-state. Salute to you, Tillman, great Targaryen."

"sit."

Caesar shook his tail, retracted his body into the exaggerated iron chair, and lowered his head: "You have dealt with dragons, right?"

"Why do you ask that?" Sotana lowered his head.

"You are not afraid of me, human."

"Your eyes see everything. I have indeed had contacts with gold and silver dragons. True dragons like trading city-states. In my hometown, many big merchants have had contact with dragons."

He paused, and then continued: "But this is the first time for me to meet such a powerful and majestic real dragon, and I feel very honored to be summoned by you."

Sure enough, successful businessmen have always been very good at talking, even though they knew that the other party was flattering and making friends, Heilong still felt very useful and let out a humming laugh.

"Okay merchant, now we should discuss business." Caesar cut to the point.

"Of course, Your Majesty, that's why I'm here."

Sotana nodded: "The Kreid Merchant Group hopes to get your support to help you promote elegy cards in the trading city-state. If you need anything about this, please feel free to ask."

"Before that, you have to tell me.

"

Heilong adjusted his position, stared at him and said, "As a merchant of the trading city-state, what is your main business in the department?"

"A lot, Your Majesty Targaryen."

With a formulaic smile on his face, Sotana mentioned it seemingly casually: "From gems to cloth, from casinos to taverns, including weapons, armor, food and vegetables, they are all among the industries of the Clyde Merchant Group."

Caesar thought for a while, and not only sold all kinds of commodities, but also engaged in the service industry and arms industry. If human beings are telling the truth, it proves that this guy has a lot of background. You must know that large-scale trade such as food and armaments is equivalent to a country Half of the lifeline of a person is not something that can only be achieved with money.

The black dragon shook its tail, and its tail paws lightly tapped the armrest of the black iron seat. He had read the information about the trading city-state. When the trading city-state was just established, some merchants from the south immigrated to settle here. They were very adventurous. Spirit and keen sense of smell, good at capturing business opportunities, making the business bigger and bigger, and the wealth accumulated in the end is unimaginable.

After many people made their fortunes, they were sheared by the local rulers as wool, and a few managed to gain a foothold after going through hardships, bought local relationships, formed relatively stable interest groups, and even formed factions and families.

Considering the possible energy behind the opponent, Caesar decided to make a straightforward request: "I need copper, iron and saltpeter, the more the better."

Are you sure it's not gold and silver?

Sotana had a little doubt. Normal dragons would not be interested in those things, but since the black dragon put forward the conditions, he could only follow the other party's wishes and say: "The Creed Merchant Group can fully satisfy Your condition, Your Majesty Targaryen, we are willing to send copper and iron ore to the empire at 80% of the market price."

"As for saltpeter, it's not too hot in the region, so the market demand is not high. We only have six nitrate plants, which is enough to supply ice for all the nobles in the city-state in summer."

Caesar was a little surprised. He did not expect to catch a big fish. Behind this unassuming businessman stood a big guy hiding in the dark. Cooperation, but I want all these things."

"Since you said so."

Sotana said with a smile: "We can organize a caravan for you, only responsible for the Black Wing Empire, and transport all the things you need to the Northland, and only charge you 80% of the market price. As long as you want, we will Available, but..."

"But what?"

"I stayed in the Northland for a while, and I understood how you operate the Elegy card, and I was overwhelmed by it. I have to say that you are a model of business significance."

The businessman said: "If possible, the Clyde Merchant Group hopes to obtain your exclusive authorization in the opposite area, including sales, pricing and other operation rights around the surrounding area. We are willing to buy the elegy card itself in batches from the royal court at the market price. purchase."

Regional monopoly.

Logically speaking, such a concept should not have appeared in this world. Sotana should have been inspired by the operation method and profit means of Elegy before proposing such a brand new business model.

It can be seen that these merchants do have their own uniqueness. Although these authorizations seem to be only verbal guarantees, they are actually of great significance. Even King Wing's Court itself was unable to intervene.

Owning pricing power means owning everything.

"interesting."

Caesar smiled slightly, and asked nicely: "I want to know, even if you get the authorization from the royal court, the empire itself does not enter into the development of a trading city-state, how can you guarantee that there will be no competitors, and no other caravans will buy cards from the Northland?" How about going to the Ministry for sales?"

"You don't have to worry about that."

Sotana smiled slightly: "As long as you agree to our request, within the city-state, the Creed Merchant Group is capable of safeguarding our own rights."

Obviously, the other party is very interested in the Elegy card and full of confidence.

Caesar is very clear about how staggering the profit of the Elegy brand is, especially the ace product like the Collector’s Edition.

However, due to regional differences, Caesar cannot finely control the development of Elegy cards in other regions, and if he wants to do so, the investment in personnel, funds, and energy in the early stage will not be small. Cost-effective.

"The royal court agrees to your request, but the exclusive license is limited in number of years. You need to pay a fee to buy it from the empire to sign the contract. Its one-year agreement price is..."

Caesar thought for a while: "One hundred thousand gold."

This price is a bit exaggerated, almost equivalent to half a year's income of the entire Kaji City. It is unimaginable for others to spend such a price just to sign a buyout agreement, but it is necessary to bargain for a sale .

"Then it's a deal! Please prepare us a ten-year agreement!"

"..."

Caesar was stunned for a moment, ten years is one million gold coins, which is almost equivalent to the entire net income of the empire's assembly line industry in recent years, and there is no bargaining. Is this how these businessmen do business?

Heilong cleared his throat: "The price of the Dirge card will be adjusted at any time according to the market."

"We know that very well."

"Wang Ting will send a working group to the Ministry to guide and supervise your operation of the Elegy project."

"no problem."

"You can't interfere with the release time of the core rules, card data, and expansion packs of the Elegy card, and you must cooperate with the holding of large-scale events in the Northland."

"make a deal!"

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