Chapter 457 [0452] Fosbury Socioeconomic Survey Report

Under Karya's guidance, Shyvana's conversation with the boss of the Chamber of Commerce could not be considered as a conversation between two people, but at least they were talking about their own things.

The boss of the Chamber of Commerce did not seem to fully believe that Shyvana was a merchant from Piltover, so he chose to use his limited knowledge of Piltover to test her - but Karya knew the other party's purpose, but asked Shyvana to "focus on Lingjiang and not actively respond to these tests."

Shyvana obviously did not understand why Karya asked her so much, but anyway, the current opportunity was created by Karya, so she simply followed Karya's words and just kept the topic firmly locked on Lingjiang.

You said that Piltover has an extraordinary appearance, and I said that Lingjiang, a spice, has a promising future.

You said that Piltover merchants generally look down on the remote and poor place of Fosbyro, and I said that the current scale of Lingjiang's industry is too small.

You said that you have never seen such a proactive Piltover person, and I said that there is a good port in the south of Fosbyro for water transportation.

Under Kalya's guidance, Shyvana did not respond to anything about Piltover, but she magically convinced the boss of the Chamber of Commerce that she was really from Piltover.

"What's going on?" Shyvana, who had been answering questions irrelevantly, looked at the increasingly enthusiastic boss of the Chamber of Commerce and wondered, "He was clearly testing me before, why is he talking about the local tax advantage of no lords now?"

"Because for him, what you want to buy is more important than where you come from." Kalya explained, "For us, your identity as a 'Piltover merchant' is mainly about being able to conduct investigations smoothly; and for him, your willingness to buy a large amount of lingjiang has little to do with whether you are from Piltover."

Shyvana thought expressionlessly, and it took a while for her to react - the other party was entangled in whether he was really from Piltover, and the essence was to confirm whether he really wanted to buy bulk commodities from Fosbyro.

In this case, answering irrelevant questions is the best response. Don't tell me these things, I just ask if you can buy a large amount of lingjiang!

Then, just after Shyvana understood a little, the other party finally sighed helplessly and brought the topic back to the ginger itself.

"I'm sorry, Miss Shyvana." The Chamber of Commerce boss seemed to be very sorry and finally spread his arms. "Although ginger is a specialty of Fosbyro, it is a seasonal product. It is now past the time to harvest and sell ginger."

"It doesn't matter." Shyvana waved her hand, "Seasonal products are not a problem. It is not difficult to store ginger. If there is no ginger this year, it is not a problem to buy it in large quantities next year."

"Next year... It's hard to say next year." Putting on a helpless look, the Chamber of Commerce boss shook his head slightly, "To be honest with Miss Shyvana, the ginger sold in Fosbyro is usually picked by ginger pickers in the wild. It's hard to say how much can be picked. Even if we are willing to accept large-scale orders, we may not be able to provide them."

"..."

The Chamber of Commerce boss's truthful words surprised Shyvana.

"However, in addition to Lingjiang, we have many other specialties in Fosbyro. Since Miss Shyvana is here, you might as well learn about them - they also have great business prospects..."

From the perspective of the Chamber of Commerce boss, the bulk Lingjiang trade was actually impossible to do from the beginning - the reason why he has been exploring Shyvana's identity, in addition to confirming the other party's purchase intention, is actually to measure the other party's business weight.

If possible, Lingjiang trade cannot be done, but the trade of other commodities may not be impossible.

From Shyvana's performance, she seems to be a very resourceful guy. She opens her mouth to buy a large number of Lingjiang, and she is also able to pay a deposit of at least 30% of the price - this is not a small number. According to the market price of Lingjiang, 30% of 100 kilograms of Lingjiang is more than 3,000 Demacia gold coins.

In this case, although the Lingjiang business cannot be done, since such a fat sheep has come, it is naturally impossible to let it go - although the other party seems to be too lazy to explain her identity as Mrs. Piltover, it seems that she has the ability and willingness to buy so many Lingjiang. As long as she is impressed, it is very likely to buy some other things, right?

Therefore, the Chamber of Commerce boss quickly changed his attitude and began to actively promote various special products of Fosbyro to Shyvana.

Fosbyro did not have such a thing as an expo, so he simply brought Shyvana to the warehouse of his own Chamber of Commerce and displayed various special products purchased here one by one.

From spices to dyes, from minerals to furs.

And Shyvana seemed to be uninterested, asking about the information of these things in a casual manner, and then said that she needed to "learn more".

Her attitude made the Chamber of Commerce boss a little anxious - it seemed that the lady from Piltover had a very sharp eye, and seemed to have identified Lingjiang from the beginning, and was not very interested in the backlog of products in his warehouse.

But the problem is that he really did not lie about Lingjiang. There is really no guarantee for the bulk Lingjiang trade. Picking Lingjiang in spring is risky, and the yield is not guaranteed. The Chamber of Commerce boss does not want to cheat a deposit and leave.

After all, he is the "general agent of special products" of Fosbiero. He is also a well-known and respectable person in the local area. If possible, he also hopes that Fosbiero's business can prosper.

In this case, he could only call a clerk and ask him to follow Shyvana "for consultation", and he called other people in the trade house and began to look for ways to keep this God of Wealth girl.

On the surface, Shyvana looked very reluctant, but in her heart she breathed a sigh of relief.

This behavior of "knowing that Lingjiang trade is not feasible, but insisting on Lingjiang trade, and then obtaining the right to market research by indirect means" is quite awkward for Shyvana. On the one hand, it is because she is not good at lying; on the other hand, she always feels that there is something strange about doing this.

But fortunately, the result is always good. Now, with the clerk of the Fosbyro Chamber of Commerce around to testify, if she wants to conduct some economic investigations next - especially the investigation of market prices, everything will go smoothly.

……………………

Although "Ms. Shyvana from Piltover" did not "reach a large Lingjiang trade order" in the end, she used this as an opportunity and breakthrough to conduct a rough investigation of the city's economic situation with the help of the Fosbyro Chamber of Commerce.

In addition, Ino, who was familiar with the investigation on the other side, when Lux led a group of soldiers, pulled the Justice Colossus and brought a large number of demon-tainted people to Fosbyro, a first draft of the "Fosbyro Social and Economic Survey Report" with detailed data and rich content was finally officially completed.

According to Karya's requirements, the "Fosbyro Social and Economic Survey Report" should include the entire Fosbyro area and even the northwest of Demacia-however, due to limited conditions, in the current first draft, Ino and Shyvana only conducted investigations on Fosbyro and a small area around it.

However, this small-scale socio-economic survey also has considerable statistical and guiding significance.

The survey report shows that within the 100-mile radius of Fosbyro City and its surroundings, there are four large-scale settlements in Demacia, of which Fosbyro is a city, and the other three are located in the east, southeast and south of Fosbyro, all of which are relatively small villages.

The population of the entire Fosbyro region is obviously insufficient compared to other areas of Demacia - although due to insufficient authority, a complete population census cannot be carried out, but even in Fosbyro City, which has the largest population, the low housing prices are very telling.

According to the data obtained by Shyvana's investigation, in Fosbyro, most "technical workers" such as ginger pickers have unstable incomes, but the annual income of young laborers should be roughly 12 Demacia gold coins as the median.

In Fosbyro City, most old houses that can accommodate a family are often priced at less than 30 gold coins - in contrast, the cost of maintaining a family's daily food, clothing, housing and transportation is often close to 10 Demacia gold coins a year.

High prices, low housing prices, and unstable income are the family economic characteristics of most families in Fosbyro. Unlike most areas of Demacia where "taxes from nobles are the biggest unstable factor in farmers' income", the people of Fosbyro have a clear sense of relying on the weather for food.

The people of Fosbyro who rely on the weather for food want to have enough food, and their food depends largely on foreign trade purchases.

However, Fosbyro is also quite difficult in trade.

In Fosbyro and its surrounding areas, roads are underdeveloped and waterways are unstable. Although Fosbyro City has small roads connecting other villages, if you want to transport goods and engage in trade on a large scale, caravans and pedestrians can only walk on the "riverbed" left by glacier crushing.

The abundant snow-capped mountain meltwater resources did not bring the people of Fosbyro the abundant water resources like the City of Silver. In the absence of water storage capacity and low winter temperatures, the snow-capped mountain meltwater can only mean extremely bad spring glaciers and ice floods for Fosbyro.

In this case, the way of trade that the Fosbyro people usually prefer is for the local Chamber of Commerce to come forward and purchase specialty products from Fosbyro and surrounding villages in the spring, and then sell them to the Demacia capital in exchange for gold coins.

Then, the Chamber of Commerce will purchase a large amount of food from some cities in the southeast after the autumn harvest in other places and before the winter in Fosbyro, and then resell it to the Fosbyro people.

According to the survey results of Fosbyro, their main sales commodities are roughly divided into three types.

The first type is specialty plant resources, which mainly include spice plants headed by Lingjiang and medicinal plants headed by Chalu. Most of these plants are cold-resistant and adapt to high-latitude and high-altitude climates. Fosbyro has a large number of people who specialize in picking and processing these plants. They will pick them in spring or autumn, and then spend a lot of time processing them into primary processed products, and then sell them to caravans for unified sales.

The trade volume of spice plants such as Lingjiang, Fuwucao, and Cassidoros has been growing year by year in recent years, while the market for medicinal plants is shrinking. The people of Fosbairo are not very clear about the reason for this. They can only roughly think that "herbs with similar functions grown in other places have squeezed out Fosbairo's market share", but even the guys in Fosbairo's Chamber of Commerce cannot explain the specific situation.

The second specialty is Fosbairo's minerals, specifically blue ochre, which is mainly used as a dye mineral.

Blue ochre is a magical ore filled with ice elemental power. According to the people of Fosbyro, it is also the best source of civilian dyes in Demacia, except for the royal blue dye that is in short supply.

In the village of Vero in the east near Fosbyro, the entire village is built on the mining of blue ochre. Here, the old and young in the village have been engaged in the mining and work of blue ochre for generations. This village was developed from a small mine.

Unlike the primary processing of plant specialties, Fosbyro is only a raw material production area for blue ochre, and no processing is carried out. The mined blue ochre will be directly transported to the town of Seka dozens of miles away in the southeast without even the simplest washing, where it will be further processed.

Due to time constraints, Ino and Shivana did not have the opportunity to go to Seka Town to investigate the processing of blue ochre in detail, but according to the miners in Willow Village, the washing, crushing and grinding of blue ochre requires a large number of manpower. Fosbyro is located in a remote area and the prices are too high, so there is a shortage of manpower. It is impossible to build a blue dye processing plant or a blue fabric printing and dyeing plant here, so they can only "tearfully" hand over the biggest profit to the people in Seka Town.

In addition to plants and minerals, the third specialty product of Fosbyro is fur.

Due to the high latitude and high altitude, and the population is not dense at all, the number of wild animals around Fosbyro is quite amazing.

Although there are no large-scale groups of dangerous animals that can threaten villages and towns because of the initial development of Demacia and the regular cleaning of the local garrison, the number of animals with thick fur, including northern snow sheep, Juvask wild boars, and large snow ferrets, is amazing.

In this case, the hunting industry in Fosbyro is also quite developed. Local hunters will capture these beasts by training hounds to besiege and set traps, trying not to damage the fur quality.

According to the old hunter, Fosbyro is a "land with remnant wildness". Some people have tried to domesticate these beasts, but they did not succeed in the end.

Through this investigation, Shivana and Ino have a basic impression of the social and economic structure of Fosbyro, and Lux, who got the report, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Kalya's small classroom·Satellite village of Fosbyro City:

To the east of Fosbyro is the village of Vero, which mainly mines blue ochre, and 40 miles to the southeast is the village of Kabru, which is the main trade distribution center and fur receiving place.

The third village is called Permala, which is the largest one and can almost be regarded as a town-from the scale of the three villages, the further north you go, the fewer people there are.