Chapter 1288
Damn it, how did he know it was from the Roosevelt Business Alliance? That nigger Reynolds didn't seem to let anyone from the Roosevelt Business Alliance show up at all. How did he know?
Knowing that it was the Roosevelt Business Alliance, why was he still so calm? Did he do it on purpose?
Oh my god, he did it on purpose, deliberately kept silent, and deliberately let those who returned the universal core return it at the original price without doing anything. What on earth did he do?
What good would it do the Gilded Rose to do so deliberately?
In the past ten days, the sales volume of Gold-plated Rose's universal core has plummeted by at least 60%. With the returned universal cores, the profit of Gold-plated Rose's universal core may only be 10% of the original profit. Why? Not worried at all?
If the reputation of the universal core is completely ruined...
What is his confidence?
A lot of thoughts flashed through Dick's mind. Looking at Lin Yun's indifferent look, it didn't seem fake at all. It wasn't that he wasn't worried, but that he really wasn't worried at all...
"Your Majesty Mafa, aren't you worried at all?"
The original negotiation plan was completely scrapped, and Dick couldn't help but ask.
Lin Yun was a little confused.
"Why should I worry? Since those people are not ready to ask for the universal core, then don't use it in the future.
What are the facts? I believe everyone with some brains knows what the universal core is like. Everyone also knows in their hearts. If some people think that the universal core cannot be sold, then just wait.
It doesn't matter to me. The universal core will not be sold to the public at most, and will only be provided to my collaborators. Anyway, the original production volume is very low, and the pressure of public sale itself is very high. Now is the time. "
Dick looked troubled and looked as if he was constipated. Not only was the original negotiation plan bankrupt, but the backup negotiation plan was completely useless...
Everyone who has used Universal Core knows what it is like and knows the benefits. Once you have it in your mouth, it is impossible to give up.
That's right, the production of Gilded Rose's universal core seems to be very low and unstable. They don't accept reservations at all, and they are sold to the public. The original purpose is to share it. Even if it is not sold to the public, there are many people who want it.
There is no need to worry about not being able to sell it.
Demand is always in short supply...
Damn, this guy is so confident, how can he talk about cooperation now? The other party doesn't care at all about the slander of Universal Core by those idiots from the Roosevelt Business Alliance. The worst thing is that they won't sell it...
If the sale is not open to the public, the collaborators of Gilded Rose will probably go crazy with joy. Their supply will immediately increase, and their profits will become even greater, while the profits of Gilded Rose will not be affected at all...
Dick thought for half a minute with a troubled expression. They didn't even think of how to use this incident to dig out a piece of meat from the mouth of the gold-plated rose. The plan to take advantage of it completely failed, but the universal core cannot give up...
"Your Excellency Mafa, I am actually here this time to discuss cooperation with Gilded Rose on behalf of the Lincoln Merchant Alliance, regarding the cooperation of Universal Core in the Kingdom of Stone."
After thinking about it, Dick decided to treat this negotiation as an ordinary negotiation.
A smile flashed in Lin Yun's eyes. In this kind of negotiation, who wants to ask for whom? This primary and secondary relationship is very important. If Dick feels that Gilded Rose urgently needs the Lincoln Merchant Alliance, then this negotiation will not be able to proceed, and the other party will even become more aggressive and the conditions will become more and more harsh.
But if it were a gold-plated rose, there would be no place for the Lincoln Merchant Alliance. Coupled with the uniqueness of the universal core, that is, the Lincoln Merchant Alliance now requires the Gilded Rose. Only with this prerequisite, the negotiation will proceed, and it will be the Gilded Rose Lion's turn to open his mouth.
But what I said before is all true. Because the universal core does not have to worry about being sold. At worst, if it is not sold publicly, it will only satisfy the collaborators. This is more beneficial to Gold-plated Rose. The reason why it chose to sell it publicly before was just to help Gold-plated Rose improve its reputation as quickly as possible. Speed builds up the relationship network of Gilded Rose in Odin Kingdom.
Now it seems that this kind of quick success method does have many hidden dangers, so we simply take the opportunity to clean up some unqualified collaborators.
Some thoughts flashed through his mind, and Lin Yun showed a look of regret on his face.
"Sir Dick, I'm really sorry about the cooperation with the universal core. There are not that many supplies of gold-plated roses at all. The materials are too rare. The refining and mining of the materials are too troublesome. The scrap rate is very high. Making universal cores is very difficult. When it comes to the core, if it is scrapped once, the material will be completely unusable.
Therefore, the quantity has not been able to increase, and it took a long time to accumulate before we can reach the current supply volume. Although many universal cores have been returned recently, all of those universal cores have been bought by the partners of Gold Plated Rose.
Sky City alone has bought another 10,000 pieces, and is planning to buy all the returned universal cores. Unfortunately, there are many collaborators, and we must take care of them all. Therefore, we still owe Sky City. After all, they have the closest relationship with the gilded rose. No matter what, I have to ensure their needs first...
As for selling universal cores to the Kingdom of Stone, I'm really sorry, Mr. Dick, Gilded Rose doesn't have that many universal cores.
Maybe in a few years, the technology of the gold-plated rose will be improved again, and after the production is increased, the universal core will be considered to be sold to the Kingdom of Stone.
Of course, at that time, I would definitely give priority to the Lincoln Merchant Alliance, where Mr. Dick belongs. "
Dick looked constipated. All his countermeasures were useless. He even changed his original plan again and again. He didn't expect that in the end, he would get such a result.
Lin Yun had said everything he should say. What else could he say? Things in short supply should be supplied to their partners first. Who else could say anything? No one could find a thorn. They could only say that Gilded Rose had a good reputation and was nostalgic. Such people were the most suitable to be partners. They never had to worry about the other party kicking away their partners when they had greater interests...
Dick didn't expect to be rejected, let alone use the excuse of too low production to refuse. Dick's head was about to explode. He didn't think of how to continue the negotiation. Perfect reason, impeccable reason...
And everyone knew the reason. Everyone knew that the production of Gilded Rose's universal core was very low and always in short supply.
No one thought that Gilded Rose could produce in large quantities. Even if it was a large transaction to a partner, the best price was 50,000 purple gold coins. The retail price in the store was 80,000 purple gold coins.
Everyone can imagine how high the profit is. It is definitely not low. With such high profit, the supply cannot meet the demand. Gilded Rose will naturally sell as many as it can. Selling one will bring a lot of purple gold coins.
"Sir Dick, you came here in person and made you go for nothing. I am really sorry. I can make the decision and take out 20 universal cores. As long as Sir Dick follows the price of our Gilded Rose's partner, 50,000 purple gold coins per core.
I hope Sir Dick will not think it is too little. These 20 are the limit of what I can take out at present..."
Dick squeezed out a smile on his face, and Lincoln Business Alliance naturally bought universal cores. However, he only bought back 10 at a high price. Every time Gilded Rose sold universal cores, people from Lincoln Business Alliance could not buy any.
At first, they did not pay attention to it, but when they paid attention to it, the universal cores had already had problems. Many people began to return the goods to Gilded Rose, and naturally there were other people who wanted to buy them at this time. Unfortunately, there were too many messy things that happened recently.
It was difficult to get the trust of those buyers if the bid was high, or they would get the goods returned by Gilded Rose. Or they were snatched up by others early.
Now the Gilded Rose is no longer selling the universal core. It has become very difficult to buy one. Buying twenty at a time is definitely the largest transaction available on the market.
Dick smiled. He readily paid one million purple gold coins and left with twenty universal cores.
After Dick left, Farrow asked with some doubts.
"Lord Merlin, according to the information I collected, half of the Stone Kingdom is desert and half is ice and snow, and most of the two nations live on their respective half of the territory. Although the communication and integration are better now, the competition is very fierce.
This Lincoln Business Alliance is the main competitor of the Roosevelt Business Alliance. As long as the Lincoln Business Alliance is willing to help, then the Roosevelt Business Alliance will not have the energy to deal with our Gilded Rose. How can you..."
Lin Yun smiled.
"You want to ask why I rejected Dick's cooperation, right? Faro, remember, the Kingdom of Stone is different from Andalusia and Odin.
The strongest force in the Kingdom of Andalusia is the Mage's Tower, which has the highest status. The status of the royal family is not that strong. At most, it is equivalent to the top power in Andalusia.
The royal family of the Kingdom of Odin is very powerful. The royal family inherited some of the legacy of the Third Dynasty and its tentacles spread throughout the Kingdom of Odin. The real royal family is definitely one of the most powerful forces in the Kingdom of Odin.
The next are the families with noble titles. The strength of these families is the backbone of the Kingdom of Odin. Those who are only noble are the backbone of the Kingdom of Odin. Individuals with clan titles, or noble families that have appeared in the last thousand years, have poor foundations, and the power of the Mage Tower rarely stands in the first order of the Kingdom of Odin.
The rights of the Kingdom of Stone, everything, are controlled by these business alliances. None of the members of these business alliances are pure mages. They are the most business-savvy mages in the world of Northrend, and they only pursue profits.
If you agree to cooperate directly just now, then wait for the other party to open a big mouth, and if you don’t agree, I’m afraid these vampires who can smell the smell of purple gold coins from tens of thousands of kilometers away may do something else...”
Faro nodded, but it was still a little difficult to understand.
Lin Yun didn’t explain anymore. As the world of Northrend became stronger and stronger, after thousands of years, the strength of the Kingdom of Stone has already caught up with the Kingdom of Odin.
If it weren’t for the strongest top-level combat power, which has always been the strongest in the Kingdom of Odin, with the deterrence of those guys who can be called humanoid self-propelled nuclear weapons, the Kingdom of Stone has never had any bad thoughts.
When the world of Northrend discovered its peak, it was not the mages or the powerful mages' towers that extended their tentacles to the endless planes, but the merchants of the Kingdom of Stone.
They gathered endless wealth. When the world of Northrend began to build the shelter tower in the future, more than half of the wealth was provided by the merchants of the Kingdom of Stone.
Although these vampires wanted to squeeze every drop of blood from everyone, in the future, the merchants of the Kingdom of Stone would enjoy the reputation of vampires in human skin in the endless planes.
Relying solely on business means, they conquered many planes. This kind of thing is a joke in this era.
More than seven thousand years later, the Lincoln Merchant Alliance discovered a plane controlled by orcs. For decades, all the orcs were squeezed dry of every drop of wealth. Everything the orcs used, ate, and learned was provided by the Merchant Alliance. The orcs could only frantically dig for resources and exchange everything they wanted from the Lincoln Merchant Alliance.
Conquering a plane without bloodshed, and even reducing the development cost of the plane by several times, this case will be put in the textbooks of the Stone Kingdom in the future.
Lin Yun did not underestimate the strength of these merchant alliances. When wealth gathers to a certain extent, it may be more terrifying than a powerful spell.
Although the future Lincoln Merchant Alliance is a typical vampire merchant alliance, the current Lincoln Merchant Alliance, let alone 10,000 or 20,000 years later. Even if it is put in 3,000 years later, it will sooner or later be killed by the opponent. Rookie Merchant Alliance...
Cooperating with the Lincoln Merchant Alliance is the best choice. It is just right to slowly infiltrate the Stone Kingdom first and plant a seed for the Gilded Rose to enter the Stone Kingdom in the future.
After Lincoln Merchant Alliance gets the universal core, it will definitely suppress their old rival Roosevelt Merchant Alliance. As long as one of the two merchant alliances specializing in magic weapon management has this advantage, it will only take time for the other to be overwhelmed.
If the Roosevelt Merchant Alliance's base camp is about to be crushed by the opponent, they still have the energy to use a lot of manpower, material resources and relationships to deal with the Gilded Rose. It is not certain whether they will be killed...
This is a beneficial cooperation for both the Gilded Rose and the Lincoln Merchant Alliance. Now let the Lincoln Merchant Alliance hang out. The main reason is that Lin Yun has other ideas.
When he saw Dick just now, Lin Yun thought of many things. In addition to directly confirming that the mastermind behind the smear of the Gilded Rose this time was the Roosevelt Merchant Alliance, he also remembered another thing.
In the future, the magic power of the Northrend world will begin to fade, and the vampires of the Stone Kingdom will have to bleed heavily and take out a lot of wealth to help build the shelter tower.
They can take out so much wealth. All of them are the accumulation of the merchants in the Stone Kingdom for many years. One of the materials that the Northrend world has no output at all is taken out by the Lincoln Merchant Alliance.
It was a new fusion material that was created 18,000 years later. The Lincoln Business Alliance had mastered this new material for more than a thousand years. After more than a thousand years, the new material was made by others.
Because the raw materials of this new fusion material are all newly discovered substances, and the place where this substance was discovered is in a plane controlled by the Lincoln Business Alliance. It is a skeleton plane, and the power level is far lower than the undead plane. The strongest undead creature in it is barely level 40.
The other minerals in that skeleton plane are of very high quality, but this new material called black sand is equivalent to the status of magic iron in the puppet plane for this skeleton plane...
The black sand produced in it is used as a material to fuse into new fusion materials. With the demand for shelter towers, even if one hundred shelter towers are built, the black sand inside cannot be used up...
And now, this plane seems to have not been discovered by the Lincoln Merchant Alliance. In fact, the plane road was not used until thousands of years after it was discovered by the Lincoln Merchant Alliance. It is usually used as a secret warehouse plane...
The location of the plane road is in the territory currently controlled by the Lincoln Merchant Alliance, but it has Lin Yun was not sure where the body was, because there was only an approximate location in the records, and this location was not of much value to the current Lincoln Merchant Alliance...
After all, this is not the era of future population explosion and magician explosion. Most of the places in Northrend, except for towns, are wilderness, and the land utilization rate is too low. Now it is not like tens of thousands of years later, hunting a monster requires running to other planes...
Lin Yun took out the manuscript paper, combined with the information collected by Farrow, and calculated the approximate location of the plane road on the map. Combined with the detailed information of the Lincoln Merchant Alliance in this era, he quickly calculated the approximate location.
Looking at the approximate location, Lin Yun smiled...
Searching for the plane road is a very time-consuming task, and the location is not too far from the town. If you go there, you may be discovered by others, and then you will not be able to monopolize it.
Even if it is just a skeleton plane that is not of much value to people now...
Then, it is necessary to have a legitimate reason to appear in the Stone Kingdom, and there must be enough reason to secretly search for the location of the plane road there.
Lin Yun stayed at the Gilded Rose and waited quietly. He no longer paid attention to the smear campaign against the Gilded Rose Universal Core. When someone came to return the product, the Gilded Rose readily accepted the return. The Universal Core was no longer sold publicly, and was only available to a few loyal partners.
Even among the Gilded Rose employees, the Gilded Rose readily released them. Lin Yun was not afraid that the alchemists who left would leak anything. The contract they signed was a contract made by Lord Sean himself. If they could leak some secrets of the Gilded Rose, that would be a miracle...
Is there anyone in this era who can crack Lord Sean's contract? Don't be ridiculous. There won't be such technology in 20,000 years...
Clean up hidden dangers, clean up those restless partners or employees, everything is going on in secret, no one knows what the purpose of the Gilded Rose is, those who can see clearly feel that something is wrong, and those who can't see clearly and make trouble have been shouting that the Gilded Rose is not good enough... (To be continued.)
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