Chapter 3331 The City Lord Is Angry

What is most needed to support a group?

One is connections and the other is financial resources.

The former finds the path, and the latter lays bricks. Only in this way can the road go smoothly.

Therefore, these two points are indispensable.

Let’s not mention connections for now.

The capital income of the aristocratic group generally comes from two aspects. One is internal seizure, that is, through operations at home, it intercepts or robs part of the money from the national treasury or the hands of the people. The amount of money is huge, but it cannot be done casually. Indiscriminate use, after all, the origin is not legitimate. Once used improperly, it is easy to attract special attention from the imperial power.

Second, external earning, that is, through transactions with merchants, in exchange for huge income.

Some people may wonder, since the goods of merchants can be exchanged for huge incomes, why not bypass the aristocratic group and sell them directly?

Could it be that they were afraid of malicious retaliation from the aristocratic group during the sale?

In fact, the aristocratic group generally does not maliciously retaliate against merchants. If the other party refuses to sell goods to them, they will actively give way and let the merchants enter the city.

But the situation in the city is not something that mere outside traders can control.

The first is the issue of stalls. If a foreign vendor wants to rent a temporary stall in Airei City or York City, it will cost a lot of money, and the owner of the stall is unwilling to rent the stall to a trader for a long time because the other party will not know how to do it for at least a week. When you come here, the stalls are often covered with dust, and cockroaches, ants, and mice may sneak in. What's even more disgusting to them is that once these 'uninvited guests' come, the merchants will either turn a blind eye, since they are only staying here for a short period of time. , and it will pass patiently, or if you see it, at most you can drive away these 'uninvited guests'. As long as you drive them away, the surface work will look comfortable.

In order to ensure that their shops are not wasted, these stall owners will only rent their shops to traders for short-term use.

If it were just a matter of rent, merchants might be able to ignore it.

In addition to the rent issue, there is also the tax issue. Regardless of whether you are a businessman who temporarily rents a stall, the tax you should pay is not less than a copper coin.

This consumes a lot of funds for Hongshang.

In addition, there are rogue adventurers who bully people. Although these people are not very good at killing monsters, they are good at bullying others. Especially when they run away after smashing, smashing and robbing, they put even the city guard to shame.

When these three items are added together, most merchants will lose all their money.

A businessman is just a walking businessman. A businessman is engaged in this industry just to make money. If he can't even make money, who will do it?

In order to ensure that the small amount of money in his pocket could get more and more, Hong Shang finally compromised and cooperated with the aristocratic group.

First of all, although the profits from selling goods to the aristocratic group are a little less, it is only an individual base, and the overall base will not change much.

Secondly, when you sell goods to aristocratic groups, you don’t need to pay any taxes and fees, which saves a lot of money.

Finally, there is no need to worry about doing business when selling goods to a noble group, because there is no contact with rogue adventurers at all, let alone being blackmailed.

Putting these points together, doing business for aristocratic groups is indeed the way to make the most money.

The aristocratic group can also make huge profits from it.

Again, take scarce wood as an example.

Moonlight City has a lot of this kind of wood that is scarce in all countries. It is roughly estimated that there are tens of millions of trees in the country, hundreds of thousands of trees are planted every year, and tens of thousands of trees are sold every year, and this does not include the Elf Forest.

This is because the soil of the Elf Forest is special. Even newly planted tree species can grow into mature trees that can be cut down within a week. After being cut down, as long as new tree species are continued to be planted, another tree species will grow within a week. A new adult tree grows.

As for the tree stumps that have been cut down, they will continue to grow, but the growth rate is far less rapid than that of newly planted tree species.

Regarding this issue, I asked Her Majesty the Fairy Queen for advice. Her Majesty said that this is because the energy in the soil must first heal the wound of the tree stump, and it will not grow again until the wound is completely healed.

That's too far.

Every year, tens of thousands of trees will be divided into five parts, four of which are used for international trade between Moonlight City and the other four countries, and the other part is distributed to the merchant families in Moonlight City, who sell them everywhere. to the other four countries.

The reason for doing this is, on the one hand, to allow others to taste the benefits, and on the other hand, to sell the wood at a high price with the help of the Hongshang family.

In this way, they can take a cut and collect taxes several times the prescribed amount, and the merchant family will naturally not have any conflicts with the state because of these taxes. After all, these timbers are publicly owned by the state, and selling them privately requires The one who was sentenced is now being taken out to make everyone rich together. Whoever complains is a fool.

It stands to reason that the price of timber sold by merchants is higher than the price of timber traded internationally, but why does the country still spend so much money to collect this timber?

The reason is very simple and very real, that is, these woods are necessities for industrial construction.

Regardless of countries with developed industrial development or countries with backward industrial development, the demand for this kind of wood is huge.

And building houses also requires this kind of wood.

Of course, those who can use this kind of wood to build houses are definitely not ordinary families. They are either rich families or nobles.

After construction, it needs to be renovated every year, and the renovation also requires this kind of wood.

One can imagine how much demand there is for this kind of wood.

The tens of thousands of wood raw materials allocated to the four countries every year are enough for the four countries to keep a little reserve while carrying out industrial construction.

Now that merchants are banned and the private timber imports are gone, a considerable part of industrial construction will be forced to do so due to lack of raw materials.

However, many industrial constructions cannot be terminated casually, because once terminated, it will cause greater losses.

As a last resort, Airei City and York City could only use the wood they had stored before, bit by bit.

However, without any input, the wood remaining in the warehouse cannot sustain it for too long.

The royal families of Airey City and York Han City couldn't help but fell into trouble. At the same time, the lord of York Han City, Simons Locke, was furious. First, he scolded the noble group in the main hall, and said in words that if the source of the wood could not be guaranteed, he would He doesn't mind taking action against the aristocratic group.

As soon as this statement came out, the aristocratic group in York and Seoul trembled.

Their fear of Simmons Locke was far greater than the fear of Carter Horton by the Ari City nobles.