The people who were involved were none other than the Manu brothers who had settled down to be wealthy men in the new city.
As the first foreign businessmen to discover Phoenix City, the Manu brothers did not hold on to every penny like those who were born into a wealthy family. Compared with money, they were more worried about their younger brothers and sisters becoming homeless. , except for stealing, delivering letters, cracking firewood and other tasks.
In the past year or so, I have rarely left New Town. I occasionally go out to see how Brother Bron manages the coking coal plant.
Recently, an official letter suddenly arrived, asking the brothers for help in establishing oil refining capabilities in other places and shipping back several designated finished products. It also stated that local people should be used as much as possible.
The place name is quite familiar. Nitan City is located southeast of Pangxun City, less than fifty kilometers away from Pangxun City in kilometers.
The two brothers were very quiet and thought about something, but they had some ideas.
"Go ahead, I can't stand being asked by the teacher to talk every day." The younger brother expressed his stance first.
The younger brothers and sisters are between the ages of eight and fourteen, and most of them have missed the best opportunity to go to school. They were a bit naughty during the Pang Xuncheng period. They were okay in the first two or three months of school, but then they started to behave like monsters, although they didn't get out. Even if it’s a big deal, it’s a headache.
My brother was a little surprised: "Could someone else have gotten this letter?"
"No matter what, there are people who have paid for it anyway. If they can't buy it, they will tell them in advance."
Thinking about it, it's true. The purchase price has been marked on the letter, and people have probably been sent to look at it. There is no need to worry about the transaction, they only need to deal with the risks on the business road.
After living in the safe zone for a long time, the thought of going outside is a little exciting.
Although Blackwater City can be considered "outside", there is a railway station there, and you can call your own people if something goes wrong, but it is still not the same as the real outside.
After spending a little money and asking the neighbors of the Qingyan tribe to help watch over the children, the two brothers got on the bus to Heishui City empty-handed, and then hired mercenaries in Heishui City through the name of the coking coal factory.
In fact, mercenaries can also be hired within the territory. Now the name has been changed and they are called security personnel. However, the security companies are only located in Junkou City and Wind Valley City. It is quite troublesome to get off the bus halfway. It is better to handle it together in Blackwater City. It is not bad.
The brothers are now more valuable, and the level of security personnel has also improved sharply. They hired two third-ring magic swordsmen, plus some security personnel from the coking coal plant, to make up a dozen people.
Magic swordsmen also use ring numbers as level units, but they do not use magicians. Most magic swordsmen can only use one element type in the plastic magic system, and theoretically can be counted as the fighting spirit of the enchantment system. Anyway, all abilities are Combat service is generally better than that of mages of the same level, mainly because it does not involve so much knowledge, the threshold is relatively low, and the talent becomes faster.
After gathering the men and horses, the purchased ironware arrived via railway and was loaded onto the backs of animals to set off.
The brothers knew that Blackwater City now banned the transportation of iron ingots by railway, but it seemed like a failure.
The main reason is that outsiders are not very clear about the Phoenix Territory's production model. Due to the excess iron production capacity, the guys in Wind Valley Town are worried about the sales of iron all day long. The embargo of iron ingots in Blackwater has helped them a lot.
Not in a month, but in a day, more than 30 tons must be produced, all of which require 10,000 iron pots that are easy to pack.
Traders who rely on livestock such as camels and two-headed oxen simply cannot digest such production capacity. Even if a team of people can ask for a thousand pots, it will take a long time to go back and forth on the trade road. The machinery factory is producing crazily every day, and it only takes a few days. A lot of gaps will pile up.
In order to get rid of all these things, the shipping price of finished iron pots has been falling. Now a pot only costs 4.5 yuan. After deducting the raw material cost, the gross profit is 1.3 yuan, and then deducting labor costs, equipment maintenance, etc. Yes, it all depends on volume to make money.
To compare, if you ask a blacksmith to make a pot, it will take a whole day. The cost will be increased by three yuan based on the blacksmith salary in the Phoenix Territory, and the finished product will never be as round as stamping and casting.
This gap has also caused the blacksmiths in the Phoenix Territory to change careers and make kitchen knives and machetes. Only such things have different hardness requirements in different parts.
Only the blacksmith has room to perform.
A pot worth 4.5 yuan is only a dime more when it is shipped to Heishui City. When it goes to the south of Pangxun City, it is not too much to sell it for eight silver coins. If there are fewer people grabbing the business, it can be sold more expensively.
But the Manu brothers already have some experience with the Phoenix Territory's business system, and they don't know how to do retail business. If they have time to do retail, they might as well go back and transport more pots.
The brothers also saw strange sights on the road.
A group of bandits were collecting tolls from a caravan coming from the south, and the Manu brothers' caravan happened to be passing by.
The bandits only sent one person: "What's the luck?"
"Iron pot."
The bandit's expression changed on the spot: "Go, go, go!"
Maybe there was no place to sell the stolen pots they grabbed. The bandit reacted very strongly to the "iron pot" and seemed to be making nauseating movements.
Brother Manu just felt sad that he couldn't sell such a good pot, so he deserved to be a bandit for the rest of his life. If you learn how to sell pot, is it still interesting to be a bandit?
After walking for a while, they stopped in Pangxuncheng and waited for the goods to be loaded onto the boat to cross the river. The brothers went to the magic prop shop to check out. Liv's prop shop was closed, so they could only find some slightly more expensive magic items from other prop shops.
I stopped by the market to inquire about it, and it turned out that Pang Xuncheng was still too close. The wholesale price of iron pots here was only 3.5 silver coins. Excluding the traveling expenses, uu Kanshu could make a small profit of more than 20% based on the current gold coin exchange rate. The bigger the caravan, the more.
The queue for loading was very troublesome. The two returned to the dock area and stayed overnight. It was their turn to load the goods the next day, and they had to pay extra if they wanted to go together.
The Luna River is very wide. There is a small curve in the south of Pangxun City. The widest part is almost two kilometers, and the narrow part is about 1.2 kilometers. It is very troublesome to transport goods to the other side without a suitable boat, so this It is also a level for product price increases.
The place where cargo ships unloaded goods belonged to another lord, also known as Pang Xuncheng to the outside world. They maintained a tacit agreement with Bei'an to cross the river without disturbing each other.
Here you have to pay a commodity exit fee and walk for another day before arriving at your destination, Miquan City.
The quagmire in Quagmire City is not a real quagmire, it is the oil mentioned in the letter.
According to the supplementary information collected from the municipal government after receiving the letter, it was mentioned that the quality of brown and high-viscosity black oil is relatively poor. If no pre-processing steps are added, the device will soon break down. The use of corrosion-resistant steel can extend the service life.
Establishing oil refining capacity does not require them to build their own factories, as long as Quagmire City can output refined oil, and in this process, some things that only the Phoenix Territory can produce will be used. What the brothers have to do is to find a certain number of customers. By selling equipment and buying oil at the same time, we won’t lose money on both ends, and we also avoid competition with selling iron pots.
But now the brothers are afraid of trouble and don't even want to sell the equipment, so they might as well contact local people to purchase it.
First sell iron pots.
Because the cost of crossing the Luna River is very high, although it is not far away, the price difference is greater than the previous one hundred kilometers. The highest price paid by the family was 4.3 silver coins. The two brothers cleared the pot at once, holding several hundred gold coins in hand. He rented a house from a local wealthy family that usually contained debris to house his animals and people, and started to work on refining oil.
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