Chapter 2533 Empty Bid and Regret
The 100 million gold coins and ten-year operating rights, which Master Dewey determined to be the most appropriate price, seemed to John Davis to be not only crazy, but also not worth the price.
It is true that for John Davis, who has a wealth of money, 100 million gold coins is just a relatively painful and large amount of money, but it is not breaking his muscles and bones.
He could have invested, but he didn't want to cause any trouble for himself, especially from Dewey.
So John Davis decided not to bid.
He wanted to turn this bidding into a joke to warn Master Dewey: Airy City is the world of my John Davis. You, an outsider, had better behave yourself and do things honestly. As long as If you are obedient, I will give you soup to drink. If you are disobedient and always make trouble, I will make you unable to even drink the soup!
After the quotation of 100 million gold coins came out, the entire venue was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
No one bids is the biggest insult to the organizer of the bid.
Since the days of legendary heroes, very few business bids have been left unanswered.
After all, a cold show means enmity. No one wants to enmity with others unless they have to, especially if the other party is a big businessman who has the ability to organize a bidding conference.
But John Davis didn't care, as long as he didn't suffer any losses, it would be fine. As for whether he had an enemy or not, Master Dewey was just a businessman from Fort Vicky. Whether he had an enemy with him or not, his income would not be delayed at all.
That's what John Davis thought, and that's what he did.
If this matter were left to other people, perhaps as John Davis said, it would not affect his business at all.
It's a pity that he met Master Dewey.
Master Dewey's vision and judgment of the future are not comparable to those of John Davis.
The bidding conference ended with an empty bid. Master Dewey did not waste any more time in Airui City. He boarded the magic airship and flew directly out of Airui City and headed for York and Han Dynasty.
The Lord of York and Seoul at that time was the current Lord of York and Seoul, Simons Locke. He was young and strong and at his most courageous period.
He worked hard and made it his primary goal to build York Hancheng into the most powerful country in the Zephyr Continent, and he worked hard for it.
After listening to Master Dewey's talk about the uses of magic airships, the monarch was immediately moved. He immediately decided to open magic airship bases in the five most important commercial towns. If the results were satisfactory, he would continue to add at least twenty more. A stronghold.
As for the operating fee of 100 million gold coins for a stronghold for ten years, Simmons Locke didn't even bother to pay back the price and directly agreed.
This feat can be said to be full of boldness, courage, and courage, and it also took great risks.
Just like the Fairy Queen said of him: Simmons Locke is a guy who loves adventure and is extremely difficult to deal with.
Someone may ask, can being adventurous and difficult to deal with coexist?
I want to say, yes.
It is Simmons Locke's nature to love adventure, and it is also another nature of Simmons Locke to be extremely difficult to deal with.
As we all know, adventurous people are often careful, meticulous, and very cunning, because if he is not careful and cunning, he is likely to die during the adventure.
Therefore, adventurous people who live longer tend to have more delicate minds than ordinary people and are far more cunning than other people.
The thoughtful Simmons Locke had already determined the potential value of the magic airship from Master Dewey's introduction to the airship, and analyzed the value that the airship could create in one year.
Later, when Master Dewey gave the price for the management rights, Simmons Locke quickly calculated in his mind and determined that he would make a lot of money. Then he calmly agreed to all the capital requirements of Master Dewey and quickly signed a contract with him.
When Master Dewey returned to the airship and thought about it carefully, he realized that the price he asked seemed to be too low, but the contract had been signed and could not be changed.
It can be seen from this that Simmons Locke is really cunning.
Back to business.
After Master Dewey's lobbying, other towns except Airui City bought the operating rights of the magic airship and began trial operations.
Since the magic airship is a new gadget, and its flight speed and safety are much higher than that of a vehicle cruise ship, the vehicle industry and the maritime sailing industry have been severely impacted as never before.
For a time, countless people competed to ride the magic airship. Most of them were trying to catch up with the fashion, while a small number were wealthy businessmen who were out doing business.
The wealthy businessmen also want to know whether the magic airship is really as safe as the rumors say.
After they took it several times, they were instantly conquered by this simple, convenient, and absolutely safe aerial manned vehicle.
In order to ensure the timeliness of business, and even more to ensure personal safety, merchants gradually gave up communicating with Airey City, and invisibly formed a business network, namely, York Hancheng, Dasay City, Chandni City and Witchburgh. Composed of four major countries.
The formation of this commercial network greatly promoted the economic circulation of the four major countries, but it caused great harm to Airui City.
The sharp decline in merchants and the scarcity of goods have directly led to the financial collapse of some small and medium-sized towns in Airui City.
The financial collapse immediately caused the rupture of some economic chains, resulting in abnormal prices, currency chaos, and people's livelihood was in dire straits.
After learning all this, the city lord of Airui City was very angry and immediately held a meeting to analyze and investigate the matter.
As the saying goes, Skynet is great and meticulous. Soon, they traced the bidding meeting a year ago and found the initiator of all this.
Although the royal nobles looked down upon officials and ordinary people, when faced with the angry city lord, they became as pitiful as frightened lambs.
Under questioning from the city lord, this group of people revealed the name of John Davis without hesitation.
The Lord of Airy City at that time had naturally heard of John Davis's name and knew his status in Airy City. Although killing a wealthy businessman like this was as easy as crushing an ant, But this kind of person is still useful after all, and it is not appropriate to kill him now, so he sent someone to bring him over.
John Davis knew that he had caused a big disaster, so he had already written a suicide note. When the city lord's guards came to the manor, he put the suicide note in a place where it could be easily found. He only waited for his death and his family to bury him according to the suicide note.
The first time Davis saw the city lord, he knelt down and kowtowed, eager to be forgiven by the city lord. If possible, he hoped that he would only be punished and that his family and descendants would not be harmed.
However, the city lord did not kill him. Instead, he called him close and ordered him to give him an extremely confidential task. He promised that as long as the task was done well, Airui City would be his strongest backing.