Urban Sims

Chapter 60 Industry Chain

Golden autumn in October.

After the harvest of barley in the field and apples in the orchard.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the "First Congress of the Free Trade Union" to be held in Grandland, Zhou Ming personally took a messenger and traveled all over the 72 member territories of the Free Trade Union, sending the barons and earls of these territories They are all invited (the lord will send an important representative if he does not come), to participate in this significant congress.

Prior to this, Zhou Ming took the servants to tidy up the inside and outside of the castle after drawing the design.

First of all, after scraping off many moss and gray spots on the outer wall of the castle, the outer wall was painted with lime mixed with pigments, and the whole body was painted in a soft and warm yellow; After scraping a layer of white, the indoor light suddenly became brighter; the masonry floor in the corridor bedroom was covered with a layer of mahogany floor, and then a layer of non-slip carpet was laid.

Then, the real highlight came. In addition to the living room and bedroom where he lived, in the hundreds of guest rooms prepared for the representatives of the business alliance conference, Zhou Ming had people replace them with dozens of new types of furniture produced by the furniture workshop, etc. The representatives of the business alliance lived in these rooms, and he dared to guarantee that they only needed to stay for one night. These representatives who participated in the conference would not be willing to leave without buying a few sets of furniture to go back.

At the end of October, the agreed meeting date arrived.

The lords and lords, members of the Free Trade Union, came to Granland one after another.

The ones who arrived a few days earlier were naturally the three barons from Youcan, Nathan, and Patton who joined the business alliance first.

As soon as these three barons stepped into the newly decorated castle, no matter whether they were of good or poor mental quality, no matter whether they were broad-minded or poor in knowledge, the three barons were like bumpkins deep in the mountains, suddenly came to the center of the bustling city The commercial street seemed to have traveled through time and space, and was completely shocked by the layout of the living room in front of him.

Flat and flawless white walls, mahogany floors with glossy textures, white and soft square wool blankets, sofa chairs with weird shapes and low heels that make people want to lie on them, coffee tables with simple structures and practical functions, and lattice-shaped cabinets beside the walls The high-end utensils placed, the silver-plated candlesticks hanging from the top of the ceiling... In the living room, except for the fireplace, no changes were made, and other layouts have undergone earth-shaking changes.

The three barons, if they want to enter the living room, they have to take off their smelly shoes and boots with the help of servants, put on slippers, and change the armor that shakes off iron filings at any time, go to the bathroom on the third floor of the castle, where the servants After taking a comfortable hot bath under the company's service, he changed into loose and comfortable home clothes and walked around the castle.

For three consecutive days, the three barons who had moved into the castle in advance maintained a consistent silence on the various facilities of the castle, without expressing any opinions.

This made Zhou Ming very strange. Originally, he was expecting their expressions of amazement... He had to ask the three barons at the sumptuous dinner on the third day if they had any comments on the castle's living facilities.

"No comments, very good, all good!"

Baron Howard immersed himself in eating the steak on the silver dinner plate, thinking in his heart, after returning to his territory, he must come out of the whole living environment that is more comfortable than this!

"Dear Edward, you've done a great job here, I'm not used to it, the chairs you sit on are too soft, your back hurts after sitting for a long time, and the bed is too flat when you sleep at night, and there's nothing under it Sleeping, it’s not very comfortable to fall asleep, and it’s too clean. If you want to go to the toilet, you have to go to a toilet far away, and what’s the name of the toilet, yes! On the toilet, you have to pull down the rope Flushing... trouble, really trouble."

Baron Sean, who was telling the truth, began to complain. He felt that the various living facilities in the castle could not be said to be bad, but it was too troublesome to use.

"Edward Knight, I don't have any objections. I have to say that the bathhouse on the third floor of the castle is really nice. I will go there every day to take a bath. When I go back, I will also repair one in my castle."

Baron Romon gave a thumbs up and said, living in the cold north, it is rare for him to take a big bath twice a year. It was the first time he came to Grandland as a guest, so he soaked in the bath for a long time and scrubbed it off with a bristle brush. After getting rid of the dirt on his body, he found that he was floating when he walked, and gradually became obsessed with this feeling of taking a bath.

Zhou Ming, who didn't hear the answer he wanted to hear, was very disappointed, and stopped beating around the bush, and asked them directly: "What do you think of the various furniture in the castle? If I take out these styles of furniture and sell them , do you think it can be sold?"

As soon as the words fell.

Howard "Huo" raised his head and said, "Why can't it be sold? Give me a set of all the furniture in this castle! But, don't sell it too expensive, at most 100 gold coins a set, sold by traveling merchants The furniture is about the same price, so don't kill me."

Hearing this, Baron Sean became anxious, and immediately said: "Mr. Howard, how can the furniture sold by the merchants compare with the furniture here? The furniture sold by the merchants is made of ordinary oak. The furniture here , the worst ones are made of red pine wood, and some of them are made of precious wood. No matter in terms of materials, craftsmanship, and quality, they are much better! The sofa chairs wrapped in thick fur on the outside are the ones we sat on. fur, not only 1000 gold coins, 100 gold coins, at most a small wooden chair."

"Edward Knight, how much do you sell for a piece of furniture here? My Parton collar was robbed by savages a few months ago, and it took a lot of money to rebuild the territory. If the furniture here is too expensive, I can only buy a little."

Baron Romon said, originally he wanted to buy two sets of furniture to decorate the castle, but he was taken aback by Baron Sean's price of a thousand gold coins for a set. After thinking about it, he gave up this idea and bought a few for a cheaper Order a comfortable chair and go back.

Hahaha.

Zhou Ming laughed heartily.

He was still worried about the problem of furniture sales just now, but now he is not worried at all, and said to them with a smile: "Don't worry, I will give you a discounted price, a set of fur sofas, the price will not exceed 500 gold coins, A large carved bed will not exceed 300 gold coins, and a set of tables and chairs will not exceed 100 gold coins. However, you are the first to join the business alliance. I can give you a [-]% discount on top of this preferential price. You should be able to afford it now, right?"

In fact, excluding the salaries of the craftsmen, the furs exchanged for food and the wood cut from around the territory, the cost is at most manpower consumption, and the actual cost of these furniture, after entering the mass production , generally dropped to 10-50 gold coins (there are many gold and silver mines in this world, 1 gold coin = 50 silver coins, an ordinary farmer’s family will not spend more than 10 gold coins a year), and the selling price must be above the cost, of course. , multiplied by at least ten.

"I can afford it! It's so cheap, there will definitely be many people buying it, so sell me a few sets of furniture first, so don't be snatched up by other lords!"

"Dear son-in-law, except for the bed that I'm really not used to sleeping on, sell me a set of other furniture. My wife Ailian should like these furniture..."

"Edward Knight, besides the furniture, you need to arrange a mason to go to Parton to help me design a bathhouse. The kind with constant hot water in winter, I need this very much..."

"All right, all right, all right."

Zhou Ming nodded again and again, seeing the three barons so enthusiastically, he was relieved, there is something going on, now there should be something going on!
……

a few days later.

The first Chamber of Commerce Congress was successfully held.

Sure enough, after the more than 70 lords or lord representatives who came to Grandland lived in the high-end and luxurious castle, they were deeply shocked at first, and then they were very impressed with the various living facilities and furniture in the castle. I became very interested and learned that the furniture workshop of Granling now has a large number of furniture of the same style as the castle for sale, and they are selling one after another. You have placed ten sets of furniture, and his twenty sets have placed thousands of furniture orders. The total number of orders is The amount exceeds 15 gold coins.

Not just furniture, during the first session of the Chamber of Commerce Congress, at a large open-air celebration banquet held on the lawn in front of the castle, Zhou Ming asked people to build a large runway, allowing dozens of male and female models with outstanding figures to wear stylish clothes. All kinds of fashionable fur coats, furs, leather shoes, leather boots, belts and other clothing products produced by Lanling Garment Factory staged an unprecedented show on the runway for the representatives of the business alliance who can see straight. gorgeous fashion show.

On the same day, the representatives who came to Grand Collar changed all their outfits from inside to outside, from head to toe. Thousands of finished garments from Lanling Garment Factory were snapped up. After paying more than 6 gold coins in cash, they also placed an order for more than 10 gold coins and 2000 pieces of fur clothing. These orders are enough for the garment makers in the garment workshop. , production at full capacity for a month!

Furniture, fur clothing, these two types of commodities are currently only the two lowest-end commodities in the industrial chain planned by Zhou Ming, and his large-scale workshop industrial base has only taken a prototype.

When there are enough various resources (such as grain, meat, coal, iron ore, gold and silver, etc.) in hand, a large number of workshops built around these resources will produce a large number of secondary and tertiary resources after deep processing of raw materials. High value-added products are sold to the interior of the business alliance and the surrounding territories, and after making huge profits, they then purchase a large amount of primary raw materials from the interior of the business alliance or the surrounding territories, thus constructing a complete consumption cycle...

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