Struggle in the Steam Age

The entire hall is now quiet, only the sound of Lawrence writing and drawing on a temporary blackboard and his gentle but firm speech echoing in the hall built in the mountains.

And at the bottom of the stage, all the nobles listened attentively to Lawrence's speech without even coughing. You can only hear the rustling sound of writing and drawing with a pen on paper.

Through Lawrence's speech on the court, these people realized a lot of things that they had never realized before. The most important point is that according to the data calculated by Lawrence, it can be seen that the entire island has been changing.

At least compared with hundreds of years ago, there is a larger population here, and the larger market has an overall output that has doubled by more than ten times. The entire island has also changed from a desert-like barren area to a good place with some specialties and wealth.

It's just that in the past, because these lords lacked sufficient connections, when they only looked at the output on their own territory, they would naturally come to the conclusion that the island was as desolate as it was hundreds of years ago.

But after Lawrence took out the statistical report today, they suddenly realized the change of the times. That's why he listened so carefully to Lawrence's speech.

"——For everyone on the island, the most important thing now is to build a unified price alliance and gather all forces together to form an economically cooperative whole, so as to facilitate various economic and trade exchanges with the outside world .”

In fact, Lawrence was questioned by Seifel yesterday when he wrote this paragraph in his speech. Because she felt that Lawrence could completely obtain goods from the lords on the island at the lowest price through various methods of defeating them.

But after reading the content of these speeches, as long as those lords have a normal mind, they will unite and form a price alliance. In that case, Lawrence would not be able to defeat each of them and lower the price separately.

At the beginning, Lawrence also thought about whether he could buy cheap items by lowering prices, but he later abandoned this idea.

Because he realized that those nobles are not idiots, this method may be able to gain some benefits at the beginning, but as time goes by, these nobles will definitely find out what Lawrence has done here and have some very serious consequences for him. bad impression.

Lawrence considered that the business he wanted to do would be a long-term business rather than a short-term business, so it was better not to do this kind of practice that would leave a very bad impression on his trading partners.

According to his previous experience dealing with many people, ordinary businessmen may not be able to maintain trade for too long because of their interests.

But the nobles are just the opposite. Once the trade object is identified, as long as the transaction price between the two parties is not too different from the market price, they will not change the trade object.

And it's not just human nobles who have this habit, some immortal nobles are even more exaggerated in this regard. For example, Lawrence had heard stories about elves in this regard before.

According to the story, those elves are often willing to abide by the contract between the two families generations ago, and bring a turn for the descendants of those who may be in trouble now.

This is why Lawrence is now willing to share the know-how with these lords.

Compared with a short-term one-time benefit, he is more willing to sell a good deal to those present through this method. In order to obtain a large number of long-term and stable business partners, and at the same time establish some personal connections here.

More importantly, the price alliance formed by these people on Green Island obviously could not be aimed at Lawrence alone, but would target all the people who came to the island to trade later.

In this way, as the first person to come here to trade, Lawrence was able to lay some very good foundations in this region in advance through this act, and at the same time gain important points in the future competition with those who came to the island to trade later. The advantages.

It's just that what Lawrence didn't expect was that after telling the nobles on the island how to establish an economic alliance, the benefits he gained would come faster than he had imagined before, and at the same time, the benefits would be much greater.

Just after he finished the lecture and let the banquet officially begin, the Viscount Surrey found him and told him an unbelievably good news.

By this time the banquet had already begun. Lawrence and Safiel stayed at the side of the long table, tasting roasted venison while drinking a kind of liqueur made with berries from local shrubs.

On the other side of the banquet hall, Lawrence posted a form recording various goods originating in cold regions required by the tropics on a board, and the Briton nobles from Green Island were all surrounded This form was discussed.

"You said that everyone hopes that I can be the representative of this cooperative organization? This is not a joke." Looking at the nobles who seemed to have finished their discussion around the table in the distance, Lawrence looked at the Viscount Surrey in surprise and said .

"You know, this organization itself should be established for outsiders like me, and it is obviously not appropriate for me to join such an organization. Not to mention that I am neither the lord of Green Island nor the Briton nobleman, It can be said that the status is incompatible with everyone—”

"But it was decided after everyone's discussion. Even everyone here, including me, thinks this is a very good way." Viscount Surrey explained to Lawrence in a low voice.

"Let's talk about the first one first. Although you came from outside the island to do business with us, everyone thinks that you are very reliable in this regard. At the same time, you have always been based on the concept of mutual benefit and win-win, not the kind of profit-seeking Unscrupulous profiteer."

"After all, you are willing to tell us the truth about it, and what you say will obviously harm your interests. You are willing to reduce income to maintain fairness. From this point, it is already clear that you What kind of person is—”

"Actually, I am doing it for the greater benefit in the future. You know, cheating you can only make huge profits in a short period of time, but if you do business for mutual benefit, you should be able to establish a long-term relationship with you." trade."

Lawrence breathed a sigh of relief after Viscount Surrey said this. It seems that he was so cautious before and treated people kindly, which is obviously not wrong, so he can get good results now.

However, in order to avoid being regarded as the kind of moralist who is not easy to get close to, Lawrence still expressed the fact that he hoped to gain benefits in this matter after thinking about it for a while.

"Of course we know this, but it's a pity that too many people are only looking at the immediate interests, and don't think about what to do in the future."

Viscount Surrey said with a sigh. "Compared to those who rely on morality, contracts and other means to restrict, we believe that this common interest can actually constrain everyone to do something according to certain established rules."

"Well, I am very grateful for everyone's trust in me." Lawrence could hear the trust of these nobles in him from Viscount Surrey's words.

In addition, through what Viscount Surrey said just now. Lawrence also realized that although these nobles were all Briton nobles, it did not mean that these nobles could trust others without reservation.

It is even said that they are basically full of doubts about everyone present except themselves.

After all, this island is only so big, and the products that these nobles on the island can produce can be said to be similar with minor differences. And this naturally caused serious involution among the nobles on the island in this regard.

Therefore, they hoped to bring in Lawrence, a relatively reliable outsider, to avoid the kind of thing that everyone worked hard for a long time to produce the goods and then sold them at a lower price in order to sell them, resulting in a decrease in income, or even a loss of money.