Start As a Lord In a Viscount

"Build a market here!" Claire pressed her index finger to a corner of the east side of the map of Nafu City.

The architect scratched his head, "That's fine, but what is the market? Lord Viscount."

Claire didn't find it surprising that Nafhu City was not privately owned because of the monopoly of the previous nobles. But this is not the case in other developed cities, where the market system is very perfect.

For example, if Yuna's father went fishing and caught a lot of fish, but when he came back, he could only sell it to a shop specializing in aquatic products in Nafu City, that is, the shop where Claire went to get a few squid yesterday. Of course, these were before. The shops belonged to those nobles, and now they are all owned by Claire.

If those fish are not sold to the aquatic products store, they will not be able to sell at all. If you dare to come out and set up a stall, you will definitely be caught within ten minutes. This is the current situation of Nafu City before Claire came. In the case of selling to aquatic product shops, the bargaining power is not in the hands of the fishermen, but by the owner of the shop.

Hey, if you think the price is low, don't sell it, go out and see where else in Nafu City can accept your things except me!

Not only fish, but other agricultural products such as wheat and other agricultural products, the fiefdoms in the viscount have to sell them to the shops under the nobles in Nafu City, which is why they can earn so much money.

Don't think that this kind of system is very unreasonable. You must know that in the 1990s, when the country opened up to the private sector, you will be arrested for setting up a stall before that.

Before that, Claire had too many things to do after taking back those noble shops, so she put this matter on hold for a while, and now she is free. Of course, this matter has to be resolved, otherwise It is impossible for Nafu City to develop.

"A place to buy and sell goods, a place where buyers and sellers of goods are formally organized to trade together, a place where all the territorial residents can trade freely, anyway, you can build it according to my blueprint." Claire will plan The drawings were handed over.

The architect picked it up and looked at it. It was not difficult. Compared with the sewer system, it was simply too simple.

"How many days can it be done?"

"Two days like this."

"Okay, go get busy."

After Claire sent the architect away, he called Reagan over and asked him to move all the shops under his hands to the east area of ​​Nafford City. The north area was an industrial area, so he wanted to turn the east area into a trade area. District, those shops are just right in the eastern district.

Although after the market is established, the profits of the shops under his control will be greatly reduced, but he, Claire, never scratches the money of the poor. His goal is the wealthy aristocrats. The money flowing out of the seam is more than the sum of all the money of the people in your own territory. Who will not scrape these people?

...

Just after noon, Reagan came to report: "Master, Your Excellency Xia En is here."

"Huh?" Claire was also a little surprised when she heard this, and stood up quickly, "His caravan has only left for a week, why did he come here?"

"Where is he now?"

"Already waiting in the parlour," Reagan replied.

"I'll go!" Claire put down the magic book in her hand and walked from the sixth floor to the living room.

Shane stood up as soon as he entered the door, "Lord Viscount, long time no see!"

Claire leaned over, stretched out her hand and said, "Please sit down." Then her body also sank into the sofa.

Shane sat down again with the same smile on his face, then took out seven sheets of paper from his arms and spread them out in front of Claire.

"This is?" Claire asked in confusion.

"This is the title deed for the shops in the royal capital and the other six big cities. As agreed before, you account for 70% and I account for 30%."

Claire raised her eyebrows and glanced at Xia En with some surprise. This man is very good at doing things. He only said that the profit from the iodized salt sold would account for 70% of the profit. However, they took the initiative to divide the shops into profit.

However, Claire did not refuse. After picking it up and looking at it, he put it into the space ring. He will also be a nobleman with property in the capital in the future.

Immediately after, Shane introduced another purple card, "This is the Amethyst Card from Temi Bank, and there are 320,000 gold coins in it. This is the profit of this time. You can use this Amethyst Card in any place in the kingdom. It can be used for consumption in the big cities, if the money is not too much, I will bring it back to you.”

Claire took the Amethyst Card and played it very well. He was no stranger to Temi Bank. Most of the Griffin family's money was deposited in this bank before, and the Amethyst Card was only worth more than one million gold coins. Only by depositing money can he own it. His 320,000 possessions should have been helped by Xia En with the help of the power in his family.

Now he doesn't need a lot of cash, and it's not bad to put it in the bank card. If he needs it in the future, he can have the people from Temi Bank send it directly, and he doesn't have to pick it up himself.

"Did it go well in the capital these days?" Claire asked.

"Of course, everything is as you expected. After the news spread, the great nobles in the capital came to buy our iodized salt like crazy, and finally even copied the price of a box of iodized salt to five hundred gold coins. The box has indeed exceeded my expectations. After the reputation of iodized salt was established in the capital, the shops in other places also opened very smoothly, and the ten tons of iodized salt that had been imported from here before were sold out quickly.”

"So you came here to buy more goods?" Claire asked while holding his chin, but he felt that things were not that simple, otherwise Shane wouldn't be able to make a trip.

Sure enough, Shane shook his head, "Something went wrong."

"Details."

"The same product as ours has appeared in the capital. It also sells iodized salt, and the price is dozens of times lower than mine, which has threatened our products."

Claire's pupils shrank, and she murmured, "So fast?"

Claire had imagined that her iodized salt would be cracked by the nobles who sold salt, but she didn't expect them to be so fast. The source of iodine was cracked within a month of the sale, but it's not surprising. Tens of thousands of times the profit is enough to make them jealous enough to kill their own hearts, plus this is a magical world, they can spend tens of thousands of gold coins to hire an archmage, or even hundreds of thousands to hire a magician Shilai specializes in researching what the iodized salt they sell is more than their salt, and then deduces what raw materials are needed.

"What's the meaning?"

"It's nothing, you didn't cut the price, did you?"

"That's not true." Xia En is a businessman who knows that he is selling luxury goods. Once the price of his goods drops and he wants to fight a price war with the other party, it will be very difficult to get the original price back again.

"It's just that after the iodized salt that came in later arrived, the 100 gold coins were reduced to about 80 gold coins, and it has been stable in this price range since then."

"How much are they selling for?"

"Three or four gold coins."

"They really dare to sell, and the cost of a pound is less than ten copper coins." Claire chuckled, "They will definitely lower the price in the future."

Claire estimates that the real price of iodized salt should be around 13 or 14 copper coins, and if it is higher, ordinary civilians cannot afford it.

"Then what should we do?" Shane was not in a hurry to see Claire, and his anxiety gradually eased.

"Simple, do you know anyone in the palace?"