Chapter 229 The Eternal Merchant Guild Is Established

Chapter 231 The Eternal Merchant Guild is established

Yan Xing looked at the reactions of the merchants in the audience and knew that the establishment of the Eternal Merchant Guild was reliable.

In the eyes of people in this world, merchants are businessmen who buy and resell. Because of the speculative nature of buying low and selling high, the reputation of Hongshang is not very good.

Everyone knows that they need Hongshang to move materials from various places, but there is always an unknown feeling of disgust towards Hongshang.

Especially when the prices of the things they buy increase, they secretly curse the merchants a lot.

Moreover, he has been running business all year round, which has exposed some bad habits to some extent in his body, and he himself often does things such as robbery.

Therefore, the social status of merchants is not high.

No one is willing to organize slick businessmen to form any kind of industry association.

In Yan Xing's eyes, doing business is very important.

To put it bluntly, Hongshang is actually logistics.

If the Eternal Territory wants to achieve industrialization, it will inevitably require a large amount of resources and frequent trade.

With the future expansion of business and the radiation of Eternal Food Investment Bank, a reliable logistics system will definitely be needed.

Eternal Territory builds a logistics network from scratch, which not only requires spending money and manpower, but also requires collecting local customs and customs.

And to make some connections...

It cannot be done in a short time.

Hongshang has personnel, a fleet of vehicles, and a network of relationships. If you gather them in your hands and integrate them a little, you can put them into operation immediately.

This is the main reason why Yan Xing wanted to form the Hongshang Guild.

By merging these merchants, if you want to use logistics in the future, you will have ready-made logistics. You don’t need to do it yourself, saving time, effort and money.

As for the formation of the merchant mercenary army, in addition to the benefits mentioned by Yan Xing, there are other reasons why it is urgent to form this army.

Earl Theodore openly admitted that Thunder Swamp was a force equivalent to the Silvermane Principality. In addition to bringing many benefits to Yan Xing, he also characterized Yan Xing and his circle of influence as outsiders.

The Eternal Territory's troops will be greatly restricted in their activities within the Silver Mane Principality, and his business in the Silver Mane Principality will only grow bigger in the future.

A military force with a principality background is needed to safeguard its interests within the principality.

The purpose of forming the mercenaries of the Eternal Merchant Guild is to protect the safety of the merchants' trade routes.

And whatever you want to do in the future, the excuse of "free passage" is very useful.

Therefore, Yan Xing proposed to form a guild mercenary army without any perfunctory ideas.

Instead, they attach great importance to this army that has not yet been formed.

Because of the special nature of this mercenary army, it is impossible to maintain a large scale.

This requires every member of this army to be very capable.

Yan Xing proposed that each merchant send his family members to join the mercenary army, and also asked these family members to run business with the caravans most of the time, just to allow these merchants to send out their best children.

Merchant is a family industry, and for the sake of the continuity of the caravan, Merchant spares no effort in cultivating the children of the family.

Through the information learned from Eden's mouth.

There is a selection system within the Xingshang family. When they meet a young man with potential, they will definitely find ways to get him to receive training from a certain lord and become a high-level warrior.

This is a very large capital investment, but it is money that all businessmen are willing to spend.

They value the cultivation of family children most.

If there is an opportunity to train the family's children, and the family's children serve the interests of the family, they will definitely send outstanding children to the mercenary army.

In this way, the guild mercenaries will have an excellent source of soldiers.

As for how to control this mercenary...

The first thing is common interests.

Eternal Tie allows everyone to make money together, and the loyalty of mercenaries is naturally guaranteed at the most basic level.

Then there is the logistics system to contain it.

After this period of testing, the flintlock gun developed by Fubuki has met the actual combat requirements.

The sources of mercenary soldiers are complex and they come and go, making it inconvenient to train them according to their respective ranks.

Therefore, Yan Xing decided that all soldiers below the seventh level should be issued with flintlock rifles.

The seventh level and above are cavalry and are issued separate weapons.

Flintlock muskets for infantry are already being produced in Eternity.

The final model of the flintlock gun was named: Type 21.

The gun body is 1.6 meters long, and the bayonet is 1.9 meters long.

Breech-loaded, using paper-cased black powder bullets.

After becoming proficient in using a flintlock rifle, you can fire six shots per minute.

After repeated trials, it can be determined that the marksmanship skill of the marksman unit can still affect the musket, and the accuracy is higher than that of the non-shooter unit.

Even if non-shooter units use this kind of musket, the lethality of dense line shooting is far higher than that of conventional crossbows.

Firearms rely heavily on logistics.

As long as we firmly grasp the logistics supply and strictly manage one gun and one person, the mercenaries will not cause big troubles.

As for the actual combat effect of this new type of firearm in this world?

Yan Xing did not dare to experiment easily on his own army.

Although in the real world, the large-scale use of firearms eventually eliminated cold weapons.

But there is magic in this world...

Without knowing how effective the firearms are, allowing the Eternal Territory's army to adapt their combat habits will be a big problem if something goes wrong.

Merchant guild mercenaries can be used as pilots for new weapons and new tactics.

Anyway, the mercenaries faced bandits and thugs in the early stage. The war has a high fault tolerance and can be adjusted in time when problems are discovered.

There are also many small-scale actual battles.

It just so happens that you can practice and fight at the same time, sum up your experience, and then apply it to the main force of the Eternal Territory.

Yan Xing was thinking about the idea of ​​creating an army of mercenaries from the Hong Merchant Guild.

The discussions among the merchants in the audience became more and more lively.

The more they discussed, the more the businessmen felt that once they had an army formed by their own disciples, the backbone of businessmen would be hardened in the future.

When the time comes...

It doesn’t matter who robs whom.

Moreover, after everyone gets together, they need people and soldiers, and it will not be easy to open up new trade routes.

How can other merchants have the guts to compete with us for business?

Finally, all the merchants expressed their willingness to join the Eternal Traders Guild to Yan Xing.

They jointly elected Mr. Yan Xing as the first president of the Eternal Trade Guild.

Yan Xing accepted the position of president without hesitation and appointed Eden as the vice president to handle the establishment of the guild.

As for the position of guild mercenary commander, no one dares to compete with Mr. Yan Xing.

After all, Master Yan Xing paid for the training of the army.

As a result, Master Yanxing was in the hands of the military and government, and the Eternal Trade Guild was formally established.

The business meeting is now over, and Yan Xing wasted a lot of time here. The banquet in front is still being held. As a host, it is not suitable to stay away from the party for too long.

Yanxing handed over the rest of the meeting to Abbot Eden and asked him to count the people sent by each family to join the guild mercenaries as soon as possible.

Form an army as soon as possible and train as soon as possible.

Use the free period of business running during the war to train guild mercenaries.

After the war is over and the merchants can leave, they can send mercenaries to open trade routes everywhere.

Eden is very grateful to be used so highly by Master Yanxing.

I promise that everything here will be done properly.

I broke my promise this time, and I will make up for what I owe.