Transcendent Noble

How many people are there in the Golden Group now?

Barol can’t say clearly. He is responsible for cultivating Mercury’s inside line. The inside line develops outside lines independently. The outside line is the carriage husband, gangsters, black market merchants, tavern Boss, grocery Boss, etc. who rely on the Golden Group to support their families. Wait. During this period of time, Barol has been entangled with Masked Brotherhood in Stonetred City, and Gambis's mercury internal line has developed on its own. After he came back, he began to deal with the affairs of Gambis Mercury inside. The information he currently knows is not comprehensive, he only knows a general situation: seven to eight thousand Outer Members, but not much.

Since Barol is only responsible to Victor, Lilia does not know exactly how many people are in the Golden Group. What she knows are smuggling caravans and copycat strongholds. The total number of smuggled mercenaries plus mountain people is close to 20,000.

Golden Group’s channels, terminals, and information have their own respective branches, and Lilia and Barol have no knowledge of each other. The person who should know the details of Golden Group most is founder Victor. But Barol can't tell the number of Outer Members now. What can Victor know?

He only knows that the profits created by Golden Group are far from reaching expectations.

I thought the three and a half-year-old Golden Group was still a small cow and needed careful feeding...didn't expect, it has become a big fat cow!

But, what about milk?

The Viscount Randal decided to understand the two most critical questions:

Who divided my money? How are they divided?

So, Barol, the Mercury leader, wiped his sweat while giving an example:

Schultz Baron is rich in redwood, sedge candles and charcoal, and lacks potions for strengthening the body. Herbal medicine, red tendon, blue thorn fruit and iron oxflower. The smuggling caravan of the Golden Group passed through Schultz, and the mercury insider developed an outside seller in the town of Redwood. From the smuggling caravan, he received candied fruit, soap and all kinds of mountain products to sell. Among them, they include the herbs that Schultz's family urgently needs.

External vendors made money, so in accordance with the requirements of Mercury internal lines, they immediately purchased carriage, leased two public transportation lines, and regularly donated money to the church. He was therefore protected by the priest.

As the public carriage line was connected to the Schultz collar, the amount of smuggled goods soared, and bulk goods such as lard, bacon, and canvas began to appear on the market in the town of Redwood. This caught the attention of Schultz Baron. However, due to the good relationship between the outside vendor and the priest, the goods he sold met the needs of Schultz. Baron didn't resort to brutal measures against the vendors, but sent someone to investigate his details.

The conclusion of the investigation is that the freelance trader got in touch with the carriage husband in the territory and used the public carriage to smuggle Wild Willow City goods to Schultz for profit.

Vendors and carriage husbands joined forces to resell goods, and the behavior of evading the transit tax harms the interests of neighbors. On the contrary, Schultz has an additional trade channel, and the prices of goods are relatively cheap. Schultz Baron turned a blind eye to the bold freedman businessman, and even secretly defended him.

External vendors have been mixed up, raising more than 20 thugs, setting up several shops, hiring buddies and coachmen, renting more public carriage routes, and submitting offerings to the police station. The church donated money and became the number one person in the town of Redwood.

However, things have changed interestingly. Villagers led by Schultz used cheap lard and butter to make a new sedge candle. It has a big taste, low brightness, and is not tolerant of burning, but the cost is only one-fifth of the butter green salamander. The villagers originally used it for themselves, but outside vendors saw business opportunities. He purchased a large number of mixed oil candles at the price of 2 copper sols and 5 candles, and then sold them to outside vendors in other territories at the price of 2 copper sols and 3 candles. Now that outside vendors have begun to use public carriages to ship out, of course, other special products from Schultz are indispensable. And his purchase price is much higher than the caravan.

Golden Group has a wide range of external shipments at low prices, and the prices of purchased products are reasonable. Schultz Baron couldn't laugh, he chose to ignore the behavior of the Wild Willow City goods resold by outside vendors through the public carriage.

External vendors have formed a deep interest link with the gang, the village head, the police station, the priest, and even Schultz Baron himself. It's easy to kill a merchant, and it's easy to replace him, but this migrant merchant spontaneously forms a trade channel that can't be interrupted. Otherwise, the losses of the Schultz family are far greater than the gains from collecting transit taxes.

Schultz Baron's mixed oil candles finally lit up the slum areas of Deepwater City at the price of 2 copper sols and 1 stick.

Mercury’s internal lines follow the same pattern, and Golden Group’s external merchants are now all over the major cities and towns of Gambis Kingdom.

After listening to Nelson, Barritt and Todd, they were amazed. A key word appeared in Victor's mind: savage growth.

The inside line of Mercury pointed out a way to make money, and the black market vendors on the outside line made the Golden Group bigger. Black market vendors independently complete various links such as short-term transportation, warehousing, procurement, sales, and security. Every link needs manpower, and everyone has their own family and friends behind them. In other words, the current members of the Golden Group include: 20,000 mountain people, more than 300 black businessmen, more than 6,000 thugs, the same number of buddies, and tens of thousands of family members.

So many people eat on the plate of the Golden Group, how much can be left for the Randal Family?

Of course, the barbaric growth is in line with Victor's original vision. When the Randal Family is short of money and few people, it is necessary to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of the refugees through profit-making, so that they can use their financial and human resources to grow the entire organization. Therefore, the Golden Group has become a huge monster in just a few years.

However, savage growth means loss of control.

In the operating mode of the Golden Group, Mercury’s internal line hides behind the scenes, contacts black market merchants, and distributes Randal’s merchandise through public transportation networks and local markets. The Randal Family made money. The smuggling caravans, small lords, vassal village chiefs, and black market merchants all got the profits. They also supported a large number of carriage husbands, gangsters and shopkeepers.

Everyone looks happy on the surface, but the annual economic output of the Golden Group exceeds one million gold sols. Victor only shares a small part of the benefits, how can he be willing? Just like the candle business led by Schultz, Victor wanted to share a piece of meat, but he couldn't even drink the soup.

The candle business doesn't require Victor to pass, and he certainly can't share the meat. In fact, the black market vendors don’t even know the name of the Golden Group or the Big Boss behind the scenes. They just want to curry favor with the local lords and priests. The worst thing is that after the black merchants and the little lord have joined forces to open up the public transportation network, they will no longer rely on the mountain channels opened by the smuggling caravans.

This will severely weaken Victor's control of the Golden Group.

The Golden Group is huge and bloated, with a loose organizational structure, no unified pricing strategy, no cost control over each link, and no clear benefit distribution plan. If entrepreneurs on Earth travel to this world, they will see the status of the Golden Group, and they will definitely say: This thing is not as good as bankruptcy and reorganization.

Victor slowly said: "I am very dissatisfied with the status quo of the Golden Group!" Paused, and added: "We have too little money."

Nelson was stunned. He stopped, and grumbled: "My lord, I think it's okay... Last year, I was allocated 3000 goldsore!"

Golden Group has a bonus distribution plan within the Randal Family family, each smuggled The money earned by the caravan is first deducted from various costs, Victor takes another half, and the rest is distributed according to shares. The Randal Family currently has 37 smuggling caravans. Last year's net profit was 60,000 jinsols. Nelson took 10% of the shares, so 3,000 jinsols were divided. Victor also has an extra 30,000 Kingsall's private money. But this little money may not be a fraction of Golden Group's annual income.

Victor sighed, shook his head and said: "If Golden Group's total transactions last year exceeded one million goldsore, would you still be so happy?"

Nelson suck in a breath of cold air, cry out in surprise: "How could there be so many?"

"Is it unbelievable? I can't tell you about the commodity circulation field. As long as you know, there are nearly 10 Ten thousand people rely on the Golden Group to eat. This number is not surprising!"

Victor broke his fingers and said: "The Golden Group now has two trading channels, the mountain road for valuable goods and the public carriage for reselling bulk materials. In fact, the wealth created by public carriage channels is more than ten times that of mountain roads! Lords, churches, village chiefs, black merchants, thugs, carriage husbands, and shop folks all over the world make money using the two trading channels of Golden Group at the same time. And we The revenue only comes from the mountain road channel of the smuggling caravan, and the public transportation channel has nothing to do with us!"

"Golden Group was clearly created by me, but they made more than us. ! Why is this?"

Victor looked around, his eyes finally fell on the old spy Barol.

"Because, most outside vendors don't listen to us." Barroll replied calmly.

"Don't listen to us... it's right!"

Victor said with a smile: "The 20,000 mountain people in the mountain road base listened to us, smuggling caravans It is easy to recruit 1,400 mountain mercenaries. The Golden Group’s Outer Member has at least 70,80,000, while Mercury can only dispatch dozens of reliable personnel... This is because we have not been able to effectively control Outside dealers."

Nelson looked at Barol with contemptuous eyes, he had just been stunned by the old spy’s tone.

. Obviously only dozens of people can be dispatched, but I have to say more than 6,000 thugs. Those thugs who don't listen to you, no matter how many people there are, there is a shit! Fortunately, the wise adult saw through the old liar at a glance. It is still our war bear mercenaries that are most useful to adults... Nelson thought smugly.

Victor took Nelson’s expression into his eyes and waved his hand and said: "The black business does not listen to the dispatch. The responsibility lies with me. It has nothing to do with mercury."

"My lord is wise." Barrow Er bowed convincingly.

"Then how can the black business be obedient?" Victor tapped the table and lifted his chin at Nelson, "You come and tell me...Don't look around, I mean you."

"Huh? Ask me?" Nelson pointed to his nose and saw Victor nodded. He stroked the back of his head vigorously, and said pretentiously, "This...I think I want to let the businessman Obedient, first have to figure out, why are they not obedient? I think...I’m thinking, why do they make millions of goldsore every year? This question is very important!"

Victor startled, Gnar This guy Mori knows nothing about business and trade, but he can ask the point sharply. This is his innate talent wisdom.

Victor said happily: "Reprocessing, reproducing, reselling... Take Schultz Baron as an example, we sell cheap lard, and the public carriage driver transports the lard to Shure. Ciling, only a freight is added in the middle. Schultz Baron uses cheap lard to produce candles and sells them to merchants. The merchants sell candles to refugee families. Is this more profitable than reselling lard?"

"Oh, it turned out to be like this." Nelson rubbed the stubble on his chin, shook his head and said, "The candle business has nothing to do with us. No wonder those merchants don't listen to us."

"The truth is For this reason, they use Golden Group channels." Victor said unreasonably: "I want them to be obedient and share the candle business with us. What do you think?"

Nelson thought for a long time, shrugged, spread out both hands, "I don't know."

Victor shook his head and laughed, turning his eyes to Barol.

Baroel showed a flattering and cunning smile: "My lord, you have arranged the means to restrict vendors in advance."