Master of Thermodynamics

Renault put his elbows on the wooden table, propped his head with the palms of his hands, and watched the quill automatically extend into the ink bottle, stained with a little ink, and floated on the white paper again, and began to write.

"Dear Angela, to a certain extent, your point of view is correct. I did ignore the role of high-level abilities and put too much emphasis on the power of magical firearms."

"Today at the dock on the base island, we encountered an'Iron King Devil Crab' that accidentally climbed ashore. The battle to kill the Devil Crab proved that the combination of the extraordinary and the firearms did indeed undergo a qualitative change in combat power."

"This made me think about a question. Maybe we didn't fully play the role of'Awakeners'. There are currently more than 50 Awakeners in the Island Guard team. Using them as ordinary players seems to waste their individual strength. ..."

After considering the wording, Renault continued to "write":

"I think we should invest more resources and cultivate more capable people. In addition, it now seems that the military industry development route previously formulated has huge flaws and must be adjusted."

"I shouldn't make firearms first and then force soldiers to adapt to it. Instead, I should do the opposite, that is, take soldiers as the core and customize firearms for soldiers according to different individual strengths."

"For example, a set of equipment is customized for ordinary soldiers, and a set of stronger and better equipment is customized for the awakened. As for the extraordinary, their equipment is more troublesome. The attributes of mastering extraordinary power are different, and the requirements for equipment are also different. They make a personal order."

"Take the awakened as an example. They have stronger physique and carry heavier weight. They are fully able to use more powerful heavy firearms, such as magic air guns with a caliber of 16 mm or more. For the sake of distinction, this kind of large caliber air gun can be called ' Magic heavy air gun'."

"From this perspective, the caliber of the heavy machine gun can be increased to more than 20 mm, and the power of this new type of heavy machine gun will be even greater. I named it the'magic gun'."

"I propose to set up a special research institution, the'Weapons Research Institute', to select some rune magicians and start designing weapons and equipment for those with abilities."

"As for the person in charge of the research institute, Murphy will serve as the head of the institute for the time being..."

Renault checked the letter, and after confirming that it was correct, he nodded in satisfaction.

When he was about to put the letter into the envelope, he suddenly remembered something. He couldn't help showing a smirk at the corner of his mouth, and controlled the quill pen to add another sentence:

"By the way, the taste of the Iron King Devil Crab is very good, especially the crab roe. In that devil crab, we found the crab roe with a total weight of more than 10 kilograms."

"Unfortunately, after freezing, the cell volume of crab roe will increase, and the cell wall will be frozen and cracked. Once thawed, a large amount of juice in the cells will leak and lose, and the deliciousness will be greatly reduced. Otherwise, I will definitely give you a portion. "

At this point, Renault reached out and picked up a piece of crab cake from the silver plate on the table, took a beautiful bite, and the dense, delicate and delicious flavor suddenly broke out in his mouth.

Hey, as long as I find good food, I will think of Angela. After she knows it, she will be very moved...

Renault sighed comfortably, and said loudly without looking back:

"Vivienne, take this envelope well, and let'Faith Eagle' take it back to Odin Island tomorrow..."

"By the way, you go to the bathroom to prepare some bath water, and you will rub my back later..."

"...The salted fish boat of the Haichao Chamber of Commerce is here..."

"...The salted fish has arrived in port... Go grab the salted fish..."

The moment a merchant ship loaded with hundreds of tons of salted fish arrived at Copernicus Port, the entire wharf was a sensation.

In front of the exclusive Pier 16 of the Haichao Chamber of Commerce, it was immediately surrounded by water, but the crowd stayed in the designated area honestly, and no one dared to cross the line.

Especially the transportation channel on the wharf, which is the area specially marked out with lime by the Chamber of Commerce, is a channel exclusively for magic forklifts, and other people are not allowed to enter.

If you change any chamber of commerce, if you dare to do this, not many people take it seriously, but Haichao Chamber of Commerce is different. In Port Copernicus, it is an absolutely privileged class.

Who can afford the Chamber of Commerce under the crown of the Upright?

Didn’t you see that the Duke of Byron submissively gave Pier 16 to the Haichao Chamber of Commerce for free?

The Duke even asked the newly established Port Guard to send a team of people to maintain order for the Haichao Chamber of Commerce. Who dares to make trouble here?

Ten days ago, this incomparably majestic crown, waved the old port guard that dared to offend the crown and turned it into ashes. The civilians of the city were scared to pee. Which idiot is dead, dare to stay Mess here?

To put it bluntly, even if the Hai Chao Chamber of Commerce killed someone at the dock, the owner of the port, Duke Byron, would not dare to let go. Even if the King knew about it, he would just treat it as non-existent.

A movable wooden bridge was just put up on the deck, and an employee of the Haichao Chamber of Commerce in uniform quickly reached the pier through the wooden bridge and walked quickly to the front of the crowd.

"Please be quiet, everyone. I am Gullit, the shipping specialist of the Haichao Chamber of Commerce. I will be responsible for all the shipments of this batch of salted fish..."

Gullit looked around and shouted.

"This merchant ship carried a total of 538 boxes of salted fish, each 500 kilograms of salted fish. As always, please use the'bill of lading' to withdraw it, but only accept the order but not the person."

"In addition, it is still the old rule that the goods are delivered on the spot at the terminal yard. After the transaction is completed, the Chamber of Commerce will not be responsible for the transportation of the goods. Please be responsible for the transportation of the goods."

"You can hire the magic forklift of the Chamber of Commerce for 2 silver coins/box, or you can hire coolies on the dock..."

Before he could finish his words, the crowd suddenly boiled. Hundreds of hands were raised high and desperately waving the pieces of paper printed with GM, shouting hoarsely.

"Mr. Gullit, I have 5 bills of lading, and I want to pick up 5 boxes of salted fish..."

"Mr. Gullit, I want to carry 3 boxes..."

"Mr. Gullit, I want 6 boxes..."

Seeing the chaotic scene in front of him, Gullit exclaimed angrily:

"All line up for me! If anyone dares to jump in the queue, he will immediately be disqualified for redemption..."

He turned his head to look at a group of guards standing next to him, and in a slightly commanding tone, he said to the guard leader:

"Mr. Rijkaard, please maintain order. If anyone jumps in the queue, just drive him away!"

Rijkaard quickly squeezed a pleasing smile on his face, nodded and replied:

"Okay, Mr. Gullit, leave it to me here. Serving the Haichao Chamber of Commerce is a task entrusted by the Duke..."

He turned around and waved to his men. A group of people rushed towards the merchants like tigers and wolves. After a while, a long line appeared.

The merchants in the front were all elated, and the merchants behind were sad, because the quantity of goods was limited, and the bill of lading in the hands of everyone at the scene added up to more than 1,000 boxes. This also means that the people behind are destined to be empty-handed and can only wait for the next one. Batch of salted fish.

Gullit beckoned to the first businessman. The bearded businessman walked over without hesitation, handed over a stack of bills of lading respectfully, and said:

"Dear Mr. Gullit, here are the 5 bills of lading that I bought."

Gullit raised his eyes and glanced at his beard before he took the bill of lading and checked it carefully. Then he opened a notepad full of numbers, found five numbers, and stroked them out with a pen.

They are consistent with the long number of the bill of lading, and once they are crossed out, it means that the bill of lading is used up and will be invalidated immediately.

This is a primitive anti-counterfeiting method.

Because each bill of lading has an independent serial number, if someone makes a fake bill of lading to claim the goods, at this time, there will be duplicate serial numbers, or no serial number can be found at all.

Either way, fools who dare to do this will cause disaster for themselves.

Although this method is simple, it is very effective. So far, there has not been any abnormal situation.

"There is no problem with the bill of lading. You can go to the goods yard over there and use these 5 number plates to receive 5 boxes of goods." Gullit handed the other five exquisite metal number plates, and then pointed to the one not far away. Large open space, said lightly.

At this time, three magic forklifts were running around on the transportation aisle, transporting the unloaded boxes of goods to the freight yard.

The beard bowed deeply and ran happily towards the cargo yard.

The price of “wholesale” salted fish by the Haichao Chamber of Commerce is only 10 copper nars/kg. The quality of these salted fish is so high that they are very popular among civilians. If they are sold to other regions, the price will be sold to 18 copper nars or even 20 copper nars are not a problem.

He bought 5 boxes of salted fish, a total of 2500 kg, which means that the gross profit will exceed 2 Kinnars. For a small businessman like him, this is definitely a huge profit.

As a number of merchants received the metal number plate, the cargo yard gradually became lively.

Regarding the salted fish trade, at the beginning, Goode, the director of the Department of Commerce, tended to sell all the goods to one or two large chambers of commerce, and they would sell them together.

For the Haichao Chamber of Commerce, this can save a lot of effort, so Good did the same. He chose two chambers of commerce that sold food and sold all the salted fish to them.

But not long after, Renault heard a news.

These two chambers of commerce actually started reselling. They gathered a large number of small merchants, added 5 copper nar/kg on the basis of the purchase price, and sold the salted fish to small merchants.

In other words, they only acted as information brokers once, did nothing, and made a lot of money in vain.

How can this make Renault tolerate?

Hastily, has the wool stalked on the head of Uncle Lei?

Dare to love the master who has worked so hard to make more money than you?

To Nima!

Renault quit.

He called Goode over, scolded him fiercely, and ordered Goode to leave the big chamber of commerce directly sold to small merchants, and added the two chambers of commerce to the blacklist and never cooperate.

In order to improve sales efficiency (quick money), Renault also came up with an idea-bill of lading.

Haichao Chamber of Commerce no longer sells salted fish in accordance with the conventional "one-handed payment and one-handed delivery" method. It introduces the concept of "futures" and directly sells "sales contracts", that is, anonymous bill of lading.

Merchants purchase the bill of lading and then go to the dock to pick up the goods by themselves. If the merchants do not want to pick up the goods, they can also resell it to other merchants, or get a 10% discount from Haichao Chamber of Commerce.

As for why the original price is not recovered, Renault’s reason is very good: there are so many people under the master and so much time was wasted. This is the management cost. Isn't it money?

Want to prostitute?

There are no doors.

Using this method, in just one week, with the signboard of the Upaniers and the goodwill cultivated by the Chamber of Commerce for a long time, the Chamber of Commerce actually sold more than 8,000 bills of lading, totaling more than 4,000 Kinnars.

Converted into salted fish, it is more than 4,000 tons of salted fish. With the total population of several nearby cities, it will take at least one month to consume so many salted fish. With the efficiency of the fishing fleet on the base island, it will take more than half a month to complete the contract.

This kind of clever gameplay is admired by everyone in the Chamber of Commerce.

You really deserve to be Lord Lord, you can easily make so much money with just a stack of paper...

Some people with gloomy hearts can't help but think like this. If the chamber of commerce supplies at an extremely slow rate, such as only 10 tons a week, and the merchant with the bill of lading cannot pick up the salted fish for a long time, will they pick up the goods? Return the order?

Probably!

If such a thing happens, the Chamber of Commerce can earn 300 Kinnars for nothing, even if there is only an 80% chargeback rate.

Although 300 jinnars are not worth mentioning to the wealthy Haichao Chamber of Commerce, this is completely a waste of money, and it is easier than grabbing money.

What if the number of bills of lading doubles 10 times to 80,000, or 100 times to an astonishing 800,000?

At this time, how much profit will the chargeback bring?

At 80,000 sheets, the profit will be 3000 kinnals, and at 800,000 sheets, the profit will be as high as 30,000 kinnals, which is a number that no one can ignore.

If we were more vicious, we simply rolled the money and made 800,000 bills of lading all invalidated, how much money would the chamber of commerce make?

400,000 Kinnars! !

Just thinking about this astronomical figure in your mind is enough to make many people blush and their hearts beat faster.

Of course, Renault is a good lord who is kind-hearted and law-abiding. He would never do such a thing.

However, just this kind of futures model, the "various possibilities" behind it, make people sweat and panic.

In this regard, Miss Archon commented:

"This (the bill of lading) is the devil's idea. Only the most genius mind can think of such an idea. It is a honey that exudes infinite temptation. It is also an extremely dangerous poison. It can make you rich overnight. Make people fall into **** in an instant."

"Nevertheless, I still think that this is a brilliant idea, and we should use it as much as possible, and when appropriate, promote it to other fields."

As the supreme consul in control of all matters in the territory, Angela saw it at a glance, whoever controls it, who controls the wealth.

And wealth is power!

Renault was standing on the deck, watching all the creatures on the dock in a leisurely manner, watching the merchants complete the delivery of the bill of lading with excitement, watching them full of longing for the boxes exuding a strong smell of salted fish. The wooden box is transported away.

Xixi under heaven, all for Lilai...

At this moment, Moose suddenly hurried over and said in a low voice:

"My lord, there is a message from the Duke of Byron. He said that His Majesty the King intends to make you a baron of the Thousand Lakes Kingdom and reward the corresponding fief."

"Baron?" Renault stunned, "In what name?"

"Canal!" Moose said with a smile, "You once suggested to the late Duke Thunderhawk that a canal should be built between the Loeb River and the Nassau River to increase the water flow of the Nassau River and expand the area of ​​the Nassau Wetlands. , To stop the Black Orcs."

"It is said that His Majesty the Kingdom believes that this is a great plan to save the kingdom and you should be rewarded, so he intends to make you a baron."

Renault curled his lips and said mockingly:

"Four months ago, I proposed the canal plan. This majesty has been indifferent before. I thought the Thousand Lakes Kingdom was going to fall back on the bill. I didn't expect that he would only want to grant a reward now..."

Moose nodded and smiled:

"This majesty should be trying to subdue to you, and then he will pass the message to you through the Duke of Byron."

As for the reason for the softness, the two are tacit understanding.

There is no doubt that the death of Prince El Fallon completely frightened the king, and he knew it with his butt, that Renault could kill the Prince, and of course he could also kill him.

On the other hand, the death of "Wings of Frost" Mussolini made the king deeply understand that the opponent's force is far superior to ordinary Profounders, and there is no way he can take the opponent.

In this case, the king has no second way except to choose compromise.