My Empire

My Empire Chapter 4

2020-11-03

Chapter 4 4 Making Money

Happiness came so suddenly that Stryd felt unreal. After more than ten days of preparation, he even sat in the carpentry workshop, waiting for the first merchant to come to buy tables and chairs.

The smell of wet paint was everywhere, and for the first time Stryd found it relaxing and joyful.

"We're going to Duning. I heard that there are cheap furniture for sale here. Let's take a look..." Just when Stryd stood up for the third time to touch the exquisite looking furniture, A voice sounded behind him.

To Stryd, who was in a hurry to turn wood into gold, the sound was like a fairy sound.

He turned around, with a jumping smile on his face, rubbed his hands together and asked, "Yes, here's a newly developed chair! It's beautiful and cheap! What do you want? Have a look?"

Seeing it was must, the businessman nodded, and then his eyes fell on the chair behind Stryd, unable to move away.

There is no mass production of chairs in this world. It is actually more difficult to buy identical chairs than to buy different chairs: so many nobles like to use basically the same chairs in order to show their financial resources. Chair.

The problem is, there are just too many identical chairs—to the point of bewildering.

"100 identical chairs? The gods are on top, am I right?" The businessman took two steps forward, extending the hand to touch the neatly stacked chairs, but Cautiously stopped his impulse halfway through.

"A chair like this is expensive, right?" He turned his head and looked towards Stryd, who had a better smile on his face, and asked with a slight vibrato.

"Not expensive, about 25 Silver Coins." When Stryd said the price, he felt his heartbeat speed up.

He knew the production cost of this kind of chair, including the wages of the apprentice workers. It takes about 45 Copper Coins to produce a chair.

He could even sell such a cheap chair for the sky-high price of 25 Silver Coins.

Of course, he also knew that such a price would soon cease to exist, and a large number of chairs would flood the market. Maybe in a few days, he could only sell such a chair for 10 Silver Coins.

"Very good! I want 40 chairs like this..." The other party extended the hand happily and stroked the smooth legs of the chair, the unprecedented standard arc that made the businessman's bloodline Spray Zhang.

As long as these chairs are shipped to Arrant and dedicated to which noble to please the Imperial Family, at least they can get a Baron title?

Just thinking about it, I'm really a little excited. As if he had already sat in Baron's position, the merchant stood a little more upright than before.

10 gold coins fill a whole cloth pocket, which is quite heavy to carry. Stryd's smile grew even more exaggerated as he watched gold coin be put into the cash box by the guards he brought.

He who is in charge of Serris City's income, of course, has seen more money. When paying the taxes of the Arrant Empire, he watched 300gold coin be carried away by the carriage.

But even he has never seen him before, and he earned 10 gold coins in such a short period of time-you know, in the workshop not far away, the apprentices are still producing non-stop Such a chair.

In ten days, Serris City's castles, blacksmiths, barracks... will be full of chairs like this. By that time, someone would even be stepping on such a chair to saw wood or strike iron.

In the morning, about 10 merchants came to the warehouse of this woodshop and bought such chairs from Stryd.

The 70 gold coins came into the account, which made Stryd really start to seriously consider Chris's question: how to spend so much money?

"Excuse me... Excuse me, these chairs are all processed by a 'method'?" A youngster touched the smooth lines on the legs of the chair with his hand, without raising his head. 's mouth asked.

“en?” Stryd looked towards the youngster and looked at the other side curiously. This youngster was wearing a noble blouse, with a short sword slung around his waist.

The golden curly hair makes this youngster look very delicate and looks like a little girl from the side.

"This is not a person doing the same job repeatedly. I know such a woodworking master, and he can't do the same arc...so naturally." youngster lifts the head, with a look The desire to know: "It's not quite right to say it's natural...because this thing doesn't seem to have any artistic inspiration, they...they are beautiful, but I can't think of any adjectives to describe the feeling."

"Hello, sir. Do you want to buy these chairs? They are not expensive, only 25 Silver Coins per pair." Stryd was not in the mood to discuss craftsmanship with the youngster in front of him, because he knew this thing How is it produced.

A few days later, when the price of the chairs is too low to make a profit, Serris City will sell those woodworking machines - when the time comes people will understand the greatness of Serris City.

"I know, I heard. 25 Silver Coins..." youngster smiled and took his hand from the chair: "My name is Dez! Lontate · Dez..."

The smile on his face gradually faded, and Stryd was silent for a few seconds before he said, "You... belong to the Lontate family..."

"Yes." , can see such an interesting thing in Serris City! Can you take me to see it?"

"When, of course..." Stryd looked towards a guard beside him, and said: "Go Call Sir City Lord."

"This way, please!" Stryd turned slightly to the side, and Stryd gave up half of his body, made a gesture of leading the way, and said respectfully.

Dez returned a standard aristocratic courtesy, and then, without giving in, stepped forward, passed Stryd, and walked towards the small door on the other side of the warehouse.

Chris, who was diligently drawing the blueprint of the parts, was once again interrupted by Deans who came to report.

He put down the quill in dissatisfaction, rubbed his astringent neck, and asked, "I hope you interrupt me, it's really important, Deans."

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Deans said with a solemn expression, "Sir, I don't know if our luck is too good or too bad... Anyway, the people of the Lontate family want to see you."

"The Lontate family? What are you doing?" Chris naturally didn't know what family this suddenly appeared, and asked with a puzzled face, "Is it amazing?"

"My lord, the Lontate family belongs to the mortal kingdom. One of the biggest business families, they run everything, and arguably one of the richest and oldest families,” Deans said in an all-knowing report.

He even used a lot of honorifics when introducing, which made Chris realize the terrifying of this family: "This family is very large, controlling metal smelting, grain and other valuable item businesses, and even some The country's gold coin minting is in their hands."

"Oh! That's interesting." Chris finally felt that he didn't waste his time this time, and noded said: "Let's go! Let's meet, the Lontate family dignitary!"

By the time Chris arrives at the carpentry, Stryd has already shown Dez the fancy machinery.

Like Grandma Liu who entered the Grand View Garden, Dez carefully observed the movements of the apprentices operating the machinery, and even went up to try it out and scrapped a piece of wood.

Stryd is not at all worried that Dez will steal the mechanical design here: on the one hand, just looking at the external structure may not fully penetrate the complex parts inside; on the other hand, it is the great history of the Lontate family.

This family has an ancestral motto that resounds throughout the continent, "The Lontate family only does business, not robbers." From the day it was born, this family was a pure business family, never going beyond its own rules.

What they like, they will cooperate with strong financial resources and conditions that the other party can't refuse. They have never heard of them taking anything from anyone. This thing is sometimes real, especially when those who hold it cherish it.

"It's a great invention, it's really great." Dez lifts the head, praising Stryd beside him with a face full of surprise.

Then he saw a short, well-proportioned, black-haired man with a very handsome appearance walking in with a long-haired middle age person.

"You must be Chris City Lord, it's a pleasure to meet you. Introduce myself, I'm Dez from the Lontate family, the third child of the family." Dez didn't mean to be contemptuous at all, and greeted him politely.

Chris was not arrogant, of course, and immediately returned the salute: "Welcome to Serris City, Mr. Dez."

"I'm sorry to bother you." Dez greeted with a smile: "Actually, I just passed through Serris City today, but I found something interesting, so I decided to come here and have a look."

He pointed to the machine beside him, and said with admiration: "It's really not. I've found something amazing here."

"It's really something amazing." Chris nodded with a smile, not at all modest.

As a soul from modern industrial civilization, of course he knows how powerful industrial civilization is, and what kind of progress these seemingly uncomplicated machines in front of him represent.

"I'm wondering if this model is universal, applicable...for...other, other jobs." Dez laughed awkwardly, then explained, "I'm not stuttering. , but... Please understand that it is not easy to describe the changes your technology has brought to production."

"I understand." Chris replied: "You are right, this technology can be applied Any kind of complicated work - it can replace many machines, such as those backward looms."

(end of this chapter)