Douluo's ice devil Yuhao

Chapter 568: Trade in Mingdou City
The Mingdou Academy, which has attracted much attention from the entire continent, is finally about to start school.

After more than half a year of construction, this academy, which was designed from the outset to match the top academy on the continent, has invested countless resources of the Sun-Moon Empire and all configurations are of the highest standards.

The Mingdou City next to it is also unprecedented in scale. Judging from the plan, it will be a city that is not inferior to Mingdu in the future.

Now there are already many chambers of commerce under the control of major forces moving in. Under their leadership, many small and medium-sized chambers of commerce have also come here, followed by a large number of ordinary people.

With the establishment of Mingdou City, communication between the borders of the three empires became increasingly convenient, and many civilians from villages and towns near the borders of Xingluo and Tianhun moved here.

The reason is very simple, you can make money by coming to Mingdou City.

Backed by the Sun-Moon Empire and relying on the high-profit soul guide and rare metal industries, which are passed down layer by layer, even if one does dirty and tiring work for those people, such as farming and mining, the income is much higher than before.

With official support, businesses, and the public, Mingdou City is now extremely lively, and several large markets have been formed in the city.

Who would have thought that less than a year ago, this place was just a mountainous area with almost no human habitation?
Huo Yuhao’s requirements for Mingdou City are very simple, everything must be in line with Mingdou.

Obviously, his management level is much better than Xu Tianran's family. The most direct manifestation is that there will never be any black market or underground forces in Mingdou City.

He didn't even need to clean up the place himself, because the entire Mingdou City's business territory had been divided up among all the major forces.

It is estimated that even if the largest underground forces of all countries are added together, they can barely bring themselves to contend with the affiliated sects of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.

Under the siege of these giant forces, there is no soil for evil forces to survive in the entire Mingdou City.

In other words, these major forces and the royal families of the Three Kingdoms are the biggest gangs.

The top leaders of these major forces can see that both Mingdou City and Mingdou Academy are challenging Shrek, and there is bound to be a war without gunpowder between the two.

Since the construction of Mingdou City, Shrek Chamber of Commerce has visited them many times and negotiated more cooperation on the original basis. Everything it has done is to consolidate its position.

But as long as there is profit, they don't care who they cooperate with. The name of Shrek alone is not enough for them to give up another big piece of cake.

Not long after the Sun-Moon Empire allowed the export of soul guides and rare metals, these chambers of commerce had already made a fortune.

When it comes to soul guides and soul guide devices of the same level, those of the Sun-Moon Empire are often stronger than those of other countries.

Due to export restrictions in the past, many soul guides of lower levels and less effective effects, even if they were only level four or five, could only be seen in auction houses outside the Sun-Moon Empire, and the prices were very high.

Now, more and more soul guides are constantly flowing into Xingluo and Tianhun. There is no need to go to the auction house anymore. They can be bought in some large markets, and the prices are much cheaper than before.

In Xingluo and Tianhun Empire, there is a trend that soul guides must be exported from the Sun and Moon as a way of showing off.

This trend gradually spread to the Douling Empire, but due to the long distance, the number of soul guides resold to the Douling Empire was small, and an additional price had to be added.

The Douling Empire, far away from the Three Kingdoms, sensed something fishy about the vigorous cooperation between the Tianhun Three Kingdoms.

I don’t know since when, but the term “Three Kingdoms” that people often talk about has gradually changed the Douling Empire to the Sun and Moon Empire.

Such a huge Douling Empire seemed to be isolated suddenly.

Why is this happening?
Weren't they an alliance against the invasion of the Sun-Moon Empire?
Unfortunately, no one seems to care about the feelings of the Douling Empire.

Not only Xingluo and Tianhun benefited from the trade, but Riyue also benefited greatly.

In fact, in the entire soul guide market of the Sun-Moon Empire, the vast majority of low- and medium-level soul guides do not come from major forces such as Mingde Hall, but from small private workshops.

These small workshops are like blacksmith shops in the countryside, and they can be run by a few low-level soul masters, or even one soul master. They accept commissions to make soul guides, and the level is usually not high, but the quantity is at least hundreds of thousands, or even millions.

The masters at Mingdetang would not condescend to do so, nor did they have the extra energy to make these toys, so this gap in the market was naturally filled.

These small workshops soon crushed Mingdetang in terms of quantity and became the main force of exports.

These low-level soul masters were ecstatic. The price of the same soul guide device, as long as it was exported to Xingluo and Tianhun, would be several times higher than that in Riyue.

In the past, there were export restrictions, so small workshops could not receive foreign orders, and official exports had to pay a considerable amount of tax.

If they smuggle secretly, most of the profits will be taken away by the underground smuggling forces, and they may even have to pay fines, which is not worth it.

Now, soul guides can be easily exported as long as they are transferred through the foreign chamber of commerce in Mingdou City, and the handling fee is much lower.

For a time, soul guide workshops all over the Sun-Moon Empire were full of enthusiasm, and transported a steady stream of soul guides to Mingdou City.

Soul guides have a high profit margin, but everyone is still drooling over one thing, and that is Mingdetang's soul guides.

The three words "Mingdetang" represent high-end and fine products. Only Mingdetang has the ability to sell soul guides above level eight, and the prices are sky-high.

However, only the Jiubao Liuli Sect has the qualifications to help Mingdetang resell soul guides.

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Other forces have no idea what the inside story is but are watching in secret, waiting for the opportunity to replace the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect.

The trade in the entire Mingdou City is running at a high speed, as if everyone is getting a piece of the pie.

The soul masters of Xingluo and Tianhun bought more cheap and practical soul guides, the soul guides of Riyue earned more gold soul coins, and the major chambers of commerce also made money from it.

It seems that everyone benefits, so who suffers?

"Hongchen Prime Minister, this is the trade data of Yueming Dou City. Please take a look."

In the cabinet, an official respectfully presented a stack of documents to Jing Hongchen.

Jing Hongchen took it and flipped through it briefly, then nodded casually and said, "It's doubled compared to last month."

A few months ago, he had no idea that Mingdou City had such great trade potential and was surprised.

The market for mid- and low-level soul guides is so huge that once export controls are lifted, the total revenue will even far exceed Mingdetang's income.

After all, there are only a few people in the entire Mingde Hall, and how many soul mentors are there in the entire Sun-Moon Empire.

"It's a pity that you don't even think about raising the tax rate for such a large industry."

Jing Hongchen looked at Huo Yuhao with some regret.

"I think it is entirely possible to raise the tax rate to at least 30%."

Huo Yuhao chuckled and said nonchalantly: “This is just the beginning of the crazy expansion period of trade. When everyone calms down, the situation will not be so crazy. It is not a good thing to drain the pond to catch all the fish.”

He smiled and looked into the distance, sighing.

“Hayek’s big hands.”

All gifts are marked with a price in fate. For Xingluo and Tianhun, are these seemingly advantageous gains really a good thing?