Reincarnated Bamboo Rat Starts Extreme Survival

Chapter 304 The lowest and simple business method
"Mayor Bell, what do you think about this matter?"

Mayor Eddie told Bell everything that happened during this period, and expressed his views on these things from different angles, waiting for Bell to express his opinion.

He is one of the few people in Chishui City who knows that Bell is out on business, and Bell cannot be contacted easily. He currently controls the development direction of Chishui City.

On such a major matter, Eddie did not make rash decisions. He mainly used the procrastination strategy, saying that this was a private behavior that was difficult to manage, and that management measures were being prepared. Please wait patiently...

Anyway, he will do whatever he can to delay time. The current situation will not be a loss for Chishui City.

But when Bell returned, he felt a bit dumbfounded and had a headache when he saw this situation.

The infrastructure construction of Chishui City affects the surrounding cities in all aspects, but the direct impact like now is still relatively small.

If the residents of Chishui City continue to do this, the surrounding cities will not only have their income cut, but also have a considerable unemployment crisis.

If there are people who specialize in regulating the political situation and are willing to join in to disrupt the situation, it will not be difficult to mass-build a mountain bandit-siege city like the old Huangtan City.

Cities with high-level people in charge can still slightly support the city's fundamentals in this kind of urban crisis. If the level of governance is not good enough, the city will collapse at an alarming rate.

This is something that can't be helped, after all, the power gap between cities is really too big.

Any external pressure exerted by Chishui City on these cities can make these cities seem to be suffering from a disaster. The current gold diggers in dangerous areas will be a serious blow to some small cities.

This blow does not mean that resources in dangerous areas have been transported away. The loss of resources in one or two years is nothing to a city that has stood for hundreds or thousands of years.

What is really scary are those super-large chambers of commerce that follow gold diggers and tourists from dangerous areas. Their every move is impacting the existing local market and economic structure. After this kind of thing that cannot be changed at will is impacted, the autonomy of the city will be affected. It will all pass away.

The Black Gold Chamber of Commerce is very low-key. As a large cross-city chamber of commerce, they will not be easily grasped by outsiders, and they will not engage in forceful suppression or hostile takeovers. Everything they do is within the bounds of legal common sense.

The size of the chamber of commerce is too large, allowing them to directly crush the self-employed within the rules.

In this dangerous gold rush, the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce's teams going to other cities will always need new fixed locations.

Establishing a branch chamber of commerce costs a lot of money.

In order to control costs, the people from the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce stayed in the wilderness for two more weeks, and used these two weeks to shock and collapse the price system in these small cities.

This group of merchants used the simplest and most direct method of increasing the price to purchase all the resources from the gold diggers in dangerous areas, and attracted a large number of local adventurers and the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce to trade.

For a small city, they only have one or two low-level dangerous places. Those with three low-level dangerous places are all top-notch wealthy small cities.

The price increase of the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce has created a near monopoly on goods.

No one has trouble with money. Originally, raw materials could only be sold for a maximum of five silver coins in the city. The Black Gold Chamber of Commerce can offer a purchase price of six silver coins. The price difference of this silver coin is the living expenses of a family for two weeks. .

A large amount of raw materials were bought by the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce the moment they left the dangerous area, and were continuously sent away from the small city.

Without raw materials, various life-related occupations related to these raw materials in small cities have been severely affected.

When the overall demand is relatively stable, the quantity of resources supplied decreases, and prices experience the first round of slight increases.

Each merchant in these small cities is relatively independent. Although those professionals in the lifestyle industry have professional guilds behind them, the speed of information exchange is quite limited, and there is a lack of unified scheduling among self-employed individuals.

A slight increase in prices means that it is time for the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce to take action.

Scattered people in the city are buying the products made by these life-related professionals. These buyers all said that they are outsiders and now want to enter dangerous places, and they come here specifically to buy some props and equipment for use in dangerous places.

Quietly, a shopping trend emerged.

Lifestyle professionals took advantage of this momentum and began to increase the scale of production. Prices in the raw material market have increased to a certain extent, but they are still purchasing raw materials to expand production.

Before the second round of material production was completed, there was another round of material selling in the market, which received a good response and strengthened the production confidence of these self-employed individuals.

This strong confidence and expectation of making money lasted until the goods actually appeared on the shelves, and finally fell to pieces.

No one came to buy things, and the outsiders who wanted to buy props to enter the dangerous area disappeared. The local adventurers also stopped purchasing supplies because it became extremely difficult to make a living in the dangerous area.

Even adventurers who needed to purchase some supplies purchased cheap substitute products of the same type before the completion of this round of supplies.

I don't know when, the circulating funds in the city suddenly shrank and turned into various goods that could not be traded. The effect that the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce wanted was achieved.

The Black Gold Chamber of Commerce did not engage in any outrageous business micro-manipulation. They simply raised the price of the goods, and before the second round of goods was put on the shelves, they sold some of the goods in their hands at a low price, and sold the goods in a city. Prices are a mess.

The most important thing in completing this operation is just a matter of timing.

There are many people in the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce, and there are also many people with higher education. They know the situation in dangerous areas and the city quite well, and at the overall level they know more than these self-employed locals.

With this information, the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce increased and reduced prices in a round, suffocating most self-employed people in the city.

Those self-employed individuals will never be able to complete operations like the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce. After all, the starting point of self-employed individuals buying and selling goods is just to make money. If the result of a round of transactions is determined to be a loss, they will definitely not do it.

Just like this round of operations conducted by the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce, after adjusting the prices, has this round of operations by the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce made money?

Judging from the books, the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce suffered a loss, and the amount of loss was quite large.

After all, a large amount of materials must be purchased at a higher price and a false sense of prosperity must be given to the market in the city, which consumes a lot of manpower and material resources.

But if you look at it from another angle, from the perspective of extremely long-term market share, the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce has already made a lot of money.After a round of price fluctuations, many individual merchants have fallen into a disadvantageous situation of capital turnover. At this time, their own ability to resist risks has declined.

You know, the amount of cash owned by urban residents has become less, leaving more physical goods.

In an economic downturn, consumption will naturally decrease, and people's willingness to save will increase rapidly. Without consumption, the lives of self-employed individuals will be even more difficult.

At this time, the Black Gold Merchant Association appears in the city market with higher quality and cheaper goods of the same type, using strong prices to attract all customers, and these self-employed businesses will be doomed.

It is impossible to defeat all self-employed people in a week or two, but over time, self-employed people will definitely not be able to withstand it.

The resources produced by individual merchants must be profitable and cannot be sold at cost price. In that case, there is no guarantee for the food and clothing of a family.

However, the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce can sell materials at cost price, and even sell goods of the same quality at a price lower than cost price.

The sales scope and raw material sources of self-employed people are always limited to a small city.

However, the trade scope of the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce is extremely terrifying. With Chishui City as the center point, the cities in the entire area actually controlled by Chishui City are its backing. At the same time, the cities in the entire southwest region are its trade objects. The trade scope can even penetrate into the poor mountains and rivers. Within the special intelligent race.

The Black Gold Chamber of Commerce can use the profits earned in other areas to offset the losses here, forcing 90.00% of self-employed people to go bankrupt.

After the self-employed businessmen go bankrupt, the fangs of the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce will gradually be exposed.

The entire city's market will be controlled by foreign chambers of commerce like them, and will eventually be tamed into the system that the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce is most familiar with. At that time, people in the entire city and its surrounding areas will have no choice but to choose the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce.

That's how monopoly emerged.

Don't expect that after the monopoly is established, businessmen, a group that pursues maximizing profits, will sympathize with the poor.

They will knock on the bones and suck out the marrow, quantifying and absorbing all the value of a person, whether it is the value of labor force, spiritual and cultural value, including the soul, all resources will be clearly marked with a price.

When small cities face this kind of economic attack from the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce, they basically have no chance of making a comeback.

This behemoth chamber of commerce controls more resources than a small city. No matter how small cities struggle, they are just trying to block the flow.

Blockade the city, prevent the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce from entering, and set up trade barriers?

Yes, the power of the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce spreads throughout the southwest region. You can prevent me from doing business, but the city's economic operation must always be in contact with the outside world.

Once in contact, it is impossible to bypass the behemoth Black Gold Chamber of Commerce, even if it means joining other giant chambers of commerce in the southwest region to gain support from those giant chambers of commerce.

When the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce initiated reverse sanctions, the impact on small cities was ultimately unbearable.

Use force to suppress business groups?Using the city's military power to take over market changes and protect local industries seems to be the optimal solution.

But just shout this sentence as a slogan. If you really want to try it, then it will be gone after you try it.

In terms of force, small cities will most likely not be able to compete head-on with a behemoth like the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce. The Black Gold Chamber of Commerce's trade scope can expand to the entire southwest region, and they would have been dismembered and annexed by others long ago without anyone under their command.

There are basically no, or only one or two legendary powerhouses in small cities, and they are not some mysterious existence that ordinary people cannot see in the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce.

On the contrary, the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce has specially set up a guest meeting, and the guys who can discuss matters there are all legendary powerhouses.

The Black Gold Chamber of Commerce not only allows them to participate in most decisions, but also packages these legendary powerhouses like stars, figures that people admire and pursue. With the help of the social influence of these legendary powerhouses, they can boldly obtain more with confidence. Interests.

Legendary powerhouses in places like the City Guards are definitely well-known powerhouses in the industry, but they may be unknown to most people among the people.

Many of them have heard the name of this strong man, but they don't know what this strong man has done.

The star powerhouses of the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce have their own supporting storybooks and biographies, as well as tasks similar to charity commissions, allowing them to be active in places where legendary powerhouses will not appear at all.

The folk influence and connections accumulated by this legendary powerhouse will inadvertently bring great help to the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce.

The Black Gold Chamber of Commerce still has quite strong control over these legendary powerhouses, because many legendary powerhouses were specially trained by them. They raised them from childhood and eventually became legendary.

Among these legendary powerhouses, a few are able to do anything for the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce, and most of them are in a state of listening to orders but not propaganda.

But this is something that small cities cannot envy. At least their legendary powerhouses obey orders. Unlike the legendary powerhouses in many cities, they have basically only heard of this person, but when they want him to contribute, they can never find him. arrive.

As for the last measure to curb the business war, the city itself should come forward to ask the church for help to curb the malicious business war of the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce.

This measure is the most feasible, after all, the church has dealt with similar matters over the years.

However, the rules and dogma of the church are relatively rigid, and those old antiques will never interfere too much with the secular world until the situation reaches a certain limit.

The cities requesting support know this, and the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce that conducts business wars also knows it, and they know better than these small cities where the bottom line of the church lies. That is a lesson they have learned with blood and tears.

Although the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce is still a background in Chishui City, it is a good force in Bell's hands and has made considerable contributions to the development of Chishui City, and has never done anything to harm Chishui City.

But that's because Chishui City itself is large enough, there are enough strong men in Chishui City, and Bell's own existence can suppress this group of businessmen.

In a small city, the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce will truly demonstrate the power of the merchant group and let everyone know the true meaning of the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce.

Money is indeed the power that businessmen leverage in the world, but in front of the word 'gold' that represents money, there is also a huge and deep word 'black'.

(End of this chapter)