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Velvet's business stat broke through [-] gratifyingly.

Thirty is a milestone number, which means that the system exchange interface has finally unlocked a small part of the most basic commodities to Lucien.

The commodities on the exchange page corresponding to the commercial value are all related to the commercial economy. There are macro theories such as "Das Kapital", "The Wealth of Nations" and "Principles of Economics", which Lucien has never read in his previous life. There are also classic works such as "10 Read Financial Reports in Minutes", "Detailed Explanation of Double-Entry Bookkeeping", "Essentials for Fine Design of Performance Appraisal and Salary Incentives", "Internal Sales Training Manual" and other more functional reference books. "Monkeys Can Understand Economics", "Monkeys Can Learn Management" and other theoretical learning content represented by [Monkeys Can Series].

In a word, it was all books.

Not only the commercial section, but also the agricultural and industrial sections are all in the form of exchange of books and materials. Real objects such as steam engines are also given blueprints and detailed explanations of principles, perfectly showing Lucien what it means to have a thousand bells in a book. The millet book has its own golden house, as long as you are willing to study it, you can find everything in it.

So Lucien has never been very enthusiastic about cheating on this system. Although he does not reject reading, reading leisurely books for entertainment and thoroughly understanding a book are two concepts of learning intensity. Starting to feel tired.

But since they are all unlocked, you still have to take a look. After all, the system value will not only rise but also fall.Lucien deduced from the various chain reactions caused by the last time that the Nongshang Industrial and Commercial Bank fell to the limit. Once the value fell below the critical value, the unlocked exchange list would be locked again and could not be exchanged, but the things he had already exchanged should not affect the normal use.

There are still a lot of must-buy books in his shopping list for the time being-buy them if you have the opportunity, and study carefully when you buy them.

Lucien knows very well that the current business value is entirely based on the false prosperity piled up by the external investment of the fair and the government borrowing. Once this wave of business boom passes, it will fall back quickly, and whether it can continue to rise depends on the county. The policy direction of the government and his lord, as well as the investment strategy and cooperation between local businessmen and foreign chambers of commerce.

But no matter what, if he missed this wave, he would have to wait for a long time before he could unlock the redemption page again.

In fact, Lucien's operation can be regarded as taking advantage of the system's loopholes - by creating bubbles and prosperity, raising the value to unlock the exchange list, quickly chopping hands and scooping up the things you need into your own bowl, and waiting for the bubble to burst The value dropped, and the system couldn't take back the things that had already reached Lucien's hands.

And this kind of false prosperity is completely under control. The investment introduced from outside is real money. The relationship established by relying on the exhibition is also a high-quality channel that can be used in cooperation in the future. The bubble burst will not completely fall to the bottom and return The original shape, but actually piled up the platform under the foreshadowing of capital and contacts, laying a good foundation for better development in the future.

Lucien studied the unlocked items in the exchange list, focusing on the price to be paid for the exchange.

At present, what he unlocks are all primary commodities of the commercial category, mainly reference books and basic theories. The exchange unit of these commodities is gold—not gold coins, but gold with grams and purity as the unit of value calculation, which is perfectly blocked. This gave Lucien a way to use gold coins from other countries to make money from exchange rate differences.

The price of primary commodities ranges from [-] grams to [-] grams of gold, and the prices vary greatly and the choices are wide. There are also many books whose contents are similar from the similarity of their names. Lucien needs to Think carefully and choose the one that is more cost-effective and more practical.

Fortunately, for Lucien, it is more convenient to exchange directly with gold than gold coins.

If he used gold coins, he would have to think of some reason to fool Anna. The money that didn't buy anything for no reason would be gone. It would be very troublesome to explain, and it would easily arouse unnecessary suspicion.

But gold is different. In order to support Lucien, the interior officer stuffed an unknown number of gold products in his luggage, such as gold cups and bowls, and various gold ornaments. If there are more or less, they will not be too eye-catching. , leaving a huge room for Lucien to operate.

Lucien's eyes wandered around the room and stopped on the large vase half a person's height beside the bed.

The vase is painted with complicated patterns of curly grass, and it is colored with various colored spar crushed and blended toners. The craftsmanship is complex and gorgeous, and it is a boutique made by royal craftsmen.

However, what Lucien looked at was the stroked gold thread that outlines the texture of the curly grass. It would definitely not be a cheap product covered with gold on brass. High purity gold.

Such a large vase is painted with gold, at least a few hundred grams of materials are used.

Very well, it's you.

Lucien put one hand on the vase's undulating stroked gold line, and with the other hand, he clicked on the product he selected on the system's exchange page, and made the first transaction with the system.

……

"Bangdang-!"

"Dangdang, clang, clatter—!"

Suddenly there was a loud noise in Lucien's bedroom. The attendant outside the door was startled, and hurriedly knocked on the door and asked, "Master, do you need us to come in?"

"Come in." Inside Lucien said, the attendant said "yes", opened the door a crack and paused to confirm that Lucien really let him in, and then pushed the door and walked into the bedroom.

There were large and small fragments and pebbles scattered on the ground, and it could be vaguely seen that they were the vases that were decorated by the bed. Lucien stood aside, with a little frightened expression on his face, and explained to him: " I just lost my footing and bumped into the vase, I didn't expect the vase to fall down and hit the corner of the table..."

The attendant heard the whole process in his head - Lucien didn't know why he didn't stand still, and in order to stabilize his figure, he gave a hand and pushed the vase down. It was a coincidence that the vase fell down and hit the corner of the table.This kind of vase is not made very thick in order to look transparent and beautiful. Usually, some pebbles are placed inside to stabilize the center of gravity. However, when Lucien pushed the vase and smashed it heavily on the corner of the table, it would be a thud. The ground is broken all over the ground.

No one would blame the lord for this kind of thing, and they had to take the initiative to take the responsibility. It was all because of their wrong placement of the vase. Lucien was not injured because of this, thank God.

Lucien didn't linger in the messy room, ordered his attendants to clean up the floor, and then went to the study by himself, and sent a letter to Lawrence Dalton and William, informing them that they still had The people below can start writing the year-end summary and work plan for the coming year.

After the fair is over and the investors (yes, Lucien has already started to call it that) are sent away, Lucien will pick a time before the New Year’s Eve to sit together for a year-end summary meeting, take turns to speak and ask each other, and show the past One year's work results, looking forward to the work plan for the coming year, so as to draw a successful conclusion to this year.

……

Half a month later, the investors returned to Velvet with a full load.

They stayed here for more than half a month, bought almost all the goods in the processing factory, and signed pre-orders and deposits with local businessmen, establishing a good cooperative relationship.

In addition, they also dug up the extremely profitable gold mine of the Hall tribe, and before leaving, they insinuated with Duke Velvet and communicated the initial cooperation intention in a cryptic manner.

Lucien is generally positive about their development of the commercial value of the Hall family, but as they said before, the Duke is still young and has a lot of twists and turns, and he wants to really take this matter to the next level. After the matter is finalized, their current friendship and trust are far from enough.

It seems that there will be two more trips to Velvet after that.

With this mentality, and under the ardent hospitality of the Wilvelde County Government, the investors had a very pleasant shopping time.What they took away was a large amount of goods, and what they left behind were hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

That's right, the hundreds of thousands of dollars that were several times the money Lucien lent, and even a few million gold coins with taxes, fed the impoverished Vilvid to the point where he couldn't breathe.

Local businessmen can not only easily repay the money borrowed from the county government, but also make a lot of money.While the county government successfully recovered the loan, it also relied on commercial tax, freight tax, wharf tax, storage tax, etc. to collect a small five-figure tax. It is true that Velvet's tax rate is low and he gave an additional commercial tax discount this time, but it can't hold the deal. With a large base, no matter how low the tax rate is, it can also scrape out oil and water.

The county government recovered the loan, but the money was not returned to Lucien——the county government used the corpse of the monster as collateral for the loan, and Lucien processed the corpse of the monster into a commodity and sold it, which was equivalent to taking up the collateral of the loan. For its own sake, the county government naturally does not have to repay the arrears again.

And Lucien didn't lose at all. In terms of city construction, he was the one who made the most money from this business.

Although it is said that this wave of his operation is to put the money in the left hand back into the right hand and then put it back in the left hand. He borrowed money to let people buy his own things. If he just took it out, he would be rewarded for deceptive behavior——

Lucien lent a sum of money to the county government, and the main raw material of the processing factory was the corpse of a monster, which was the loan mortgage given to him by the county government, that is, the loan repaid to him by the county government.

Then the county government lent the money to local businessmen. Why did those businessmen borrow money from the county government?

- In order to purchase products from processing plants.

So whose industry is the processing plant?

— Lucien's.

So, whose pocket did the money end up going to?

Of course it returned to Lucien's pocket.

To sum it up, Lucien lent a sum of money, and added some food for the artisans and the cost of processing accessories, so that the money went back and forth between the county government, merchants, and processing factories.

Although it can also be said that Lucien also set up the corpse of the monster from the county government, which is equivalent to receiving two repayments for one sum of money, but it only depends on the amount of money that returned to him in the end, and the profits brought by investors are not The public account of the county government is in the pocket of the local businessman, and he has no more or less money in one operation, which is tantamount to borrowing loneliness.

But money is not the point. In this matter, Lucien has fully achieved his goal—using the flow of his money among all parties, he has successfully driven the industrial chain of raw materials-processing-sales to rotate, Like a waterwheel drawing water, a large sum of money was introduced to Velveer from the external river, giving merchants more capital to do bigger business.

If Lucien wanted to make money, he would have done business with an outside chamber of commerce by himself, and Vilveer is just his processing factory, whoever does monopoly will know how cool it is.

But Lucien is very clear that his processing factory is now operating on the basis of identity oppression and forced recruitment of craftsmen, and his identity problem can easily become a local monopoly, so it is difficult to operate for a long time. It can be used as a short-term template for businessmen to refer to. As long as the businessmen can realize the superiority of factory production, the desired effect of Lucien will be achieved.

Building a factory requires a lot of money and a lot of manpower. The operation of the factory requires the close cooperation of various industries. The businessmen want to make some big moves with the capital in their hands, which will inevitably affect the entire Velvet. If the policy keeps up with the strict regulatory system, Velvet's economy will be basically revitalized.

However, these are things for later.Right now, the businessmen and their buddies who have been overloaded for more than half a month just want to lie down and sleep in the dark. After the crazy busyness, their brains are empty and completely shut down.

During this time, they were almost crazy busy, and the high profits recorded also meant that they completed an unimaginably terrible order volume.With their original manpower, they couldn't cope with the surging work intensity. They couldn't recall how they went around looking for connections and catching temporary workers to work. The wife and children in the family would support him if they were alone. On, day and night, there are only orders and orders.

And they were so busy that they didn't even have time to keep accounts properly. It is conceivable that their accounts must be a mess. Thinking about the terrible workload of accounting...

Ah, let them just sleep on it.