Chapter 599
"What's going on?"
At the end of a long table, the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Roger Yold, with a sinking face With elbows on the table, fingers crossed, cold eyes through the shadow between the fingers, looking at the members of Chamber of Commerce who are trembling with fear in front of him.
This is an emergency meeting convened temporarily. The members of Chamber of Commerce and the cadres of each branch did not even have one third, but it was held successfully under the will of Old Luojie himself.
The reason is very simple, there is only one reason...Eboden has started.
For a whole month in the past, that Loren Torino took control of the wizard association, Governor Gaspar became more and more close to the Chamber of Commerce, and a month after the reputation of the Torino family was restored... Eboden finally did it.
According to the guesses of Old Luojie and the entire Chamber of Commerce, although the appearance of Miss Ariel Corona, the Scarlet Castle is a little turbulent, but the whole Byrne Still firmly controlled by the Chamber of Commerce, and has a strong influence everywhere, the large and small trade routes can also ensure that the erosion of the other party can be wiped out at any time.
This idea is correct, but he miscalculated one point, that is, the opponent's offensive did not start from the Scarlet Blood Fort, but in the north; at the same time, the opponent's speed is much faster than he imagined. quick!
The speed of development is beyond his imagination. Within ten days, under the pressure of the Chamber of Commerce in Yoder, several small Eboden Chambers of Commerce in the north of Bayern were on the verge of bankruptcy. Suddenly unite with local suppliers and unions.
At the same time, they reached a monopoly agreement with the local Lord Knight, encouraging the purchase of local vineyards and farms to break with the Chamber of Commerce, allowing them to sell them the next harvest in advance.
It’s still midsummer now, and it’s far from the harvest time of the grapes, and the control of the wine cellars everywhere is in the hands of Lord Knight. For a while, a few yoders who have already invested a lot of money Chamber of Commerce suffered a serious loss for a while.
But this is not the most troublesome...As the Chamber of Commerce with the largest scale of Byrne, the losses or even bankruptcies of several branches are not enough to hurt your muscles and bones, and you can even lose money when necessary. Rivals compete; but there is one thing that is absolutely impossible to avoid, and that is the inventory ceiling of each division.
Limited to the current road and traffic conditions, large quantities of transshipment materials are unrealistic and at a loss. Therefore, Chamber of Commerce has its own inventory of goods and funds to cope with changes in prices and circulation of goods.
This time, the opponent seems to be very aware of the amount of goods stored on the books of each division. After some deliberate acquisition and price reduction, several Chamber of Commerce that was still able to spare was even emptied of inventory!
Even this is not the most terrifying...Since it’s a business, the flow of funds on the book is also very important-as everyone knows, a businessman with a wealth of tens of millions, he may be able to take out the cash immediately It's only about 100,000, and the rest are fixed assets and goods...and bonds.
It is also limited to transportation and trade networks. Most business transactions do not rely entirely on real gold, white silver, and can only be maintained by mutual credit and promissory notes and mortgaged bonds... In short, one As long as the merchants still have funds in their accounts and have a good reputation, they can obtain goods on credit from others, and the business can continue.
This kind of trading system that relies on bonds and bookkeeping is what the Chamber of Commerce strives to maintain. The "golden bonds" they issue are the backbone of it.
For today's Chamber of Commerce, profitability has long been of secondary importance. The real key is to control Byrne's trade transactions under their control.
But on the other hand, this kind of trading system is also highly dependent on credibility and integrity, especially the gold bonds of the Chamber of Commerce. Once run on, it would be unthinkable... 100,000 gold coins No matter how good the operations of these branches are, it is impossible to raise so much money immediately!
Due to the deliberate promotion of Eboden’s joint merchants, the local Lord Knight demanded that the bonds in his hands be exchanged for cash, and then the local branch manager unexpectedly borrowed from his local counterparts and was arrested by Eboden. Stopped the handle and released the news, which finally triggered a vigorous run.
First the supply was cut off, then the inventory was emptied, and finally a run...Under repeated blows, several of the Chamber of Commerce branches in the northern part of Byrne went bankrupt!
The other party’s methods are very spicy, the direction is cleared and a critical strike-most importantly, it seems that they also know the accounts of each branch of the Chamber of Commerce well before letting the Chamber of Commerce in the north. Commerce can't even fight back.
I was deceived by playing from the very beginning... The little girl named Ariel Corona just threw it out to frighten her with the pretense and blindfolds, in order to cover up their real hands. Goals and time points.
I was so foolish as to be fooled, and wasted a month to wait and missed the opportunity to fight back!
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"Because of the run, several branches in the north have been completely bankrupt. The local salt, food and even wine monopoly The rights have all fallen into the hands of the newly established Chamber of Commerce. They even opened their own money lending office. The principal is the gold stolen from the branch..."
trembling with fear The clerk, looking towards the sinking Old Luo Jie while speaking with trepidation, swallowed subconsciously: "As for their next actions, we still don't know."
"That's all. "
"Uh...Yes." The clerk quickly lowered his head: "For now...only these."
"For now..." Old Luojie sneered, then sighed again: "Forget it... Since the chassis on the north side has been lost, does the Chamber of Commerce have any plans to retake it?"
The voice fell, and the Conference Hall was completely silent; members and cadres of the Chamber of Commerce swallowed saliva and said, looked at each other in blank dismay.
"Isn’t there even one... who has the courage to speak?"
Old Luo Jie’s cold voice echoed in the Conference Hall, and his fierce eyes changed from one to another. Sweeping his face, the person being stared at immediately lowered his head, wishing the whole person would shrink under the table.
"All of you present here are members of the Chamber of Commerce, and many others hold an important figure of taxation. The wealth under their names is at least one hundred thousand... Now Eboden’s The Chamber of Commerce has come to the door, and it has begun to encroach on our territory. Tell me... just sit here and wait for death?!"
Old Luo Jie, furious, almost roared in the last sentence After speaking, the angry roar pierced everyone's eardrums.
Roger Yod’s complexion is extremely ugly-it turns out that he can still go to Gaspar to find a way to use the name and power of Governor Byrne to drive these ants out of his own. Chassis.
But right now, I have already had a fight with him. Going to ask for help now will definitely be his lion's big mouth... or even completely become Gaspar's vassal!
From the alliance of in-laws to the acknowledge allegiance to the other’s subordinates, the gap between them is simply too big; Old Luojie doesn’t mind supporting Gaspar, the Governor of Byrne, but he is absolutely unwilling to let himself and the whole The family has become each other's lackeys.
He can sell the Warlord Nilton who is loyal to him, who knows if he will sell himself to keep his position one day?
This risk must not be taken!
"This...Originally, Chamber of Commerce had enough reserves to deal with the run, but..."
The clerk of trembling with fear raised his hand and was A group of eyes forcibly pushed in front of Old Luo Jie, twitching his throat fiercely: "Because your'road repair' plan has already begun to operate, most of the resources of Chamber of Commerce are spent on this, so it is impossible to mention it for a while. Spend the money..."
Roger Yoder's expression is getting more and more ugly.
"In addition, the Lord Yod went north, and the money he lost in Imperial Capital was willing to accept gold bonds, but... the indemnity of each Chamber of Commerce still requires cash, a few gold in the south Before the mine came out, the Chamber of Commerce did not have much water on the books..."
Perceiving Old Luo Jie’s darker and darker complexion, the clerk hesitated for a while, but still took it tremblingly. A beautifully packaged invitation came out:
"So we thought, should we reconcile with each other temporarily? Today is the day when the Red Blood Castle and Chamber of Commerce officially opened, and the other party also sent the invitation. Now, do you think..."
"Go————!!!"