Werewolf wizard

Chapter 110: The Othello Family's Malicious Competition

Through the wolf pack effect, Pella conveyed two messages to Su Nan.

The first was that Baron Simon had recently, for some unknown reason, gained the support of the Othello family, a monopoly merchant from the Platinum Commercial Republic.

Originally very afraid of Su Nan, Baron Simon immediately perked up.

Baron Simon and the Othello family established a commercial town exactly like Maple Leaf Town within Simon's territory.

Furthermore, the town they established, named [Simon Town], disregarded the high losses of tens of gold coins every day, providing huge cost subsidies to all merchants and customers.

As a result, when buying things in that commercial town, nearby customers hardly needed to spend any money.

And the merchants who entered Simon Town did not suffer losses either.

Although their goods were sold almost for free, they could seek subsidies from the Othello family.

On the contrary, they could sell even faster, so it was also a very good thing for them.

After all, merchants are most afraid of having goods stuck in their hands, so even if they were to be acquired at an average price, all the goods in their hands, would be a dream come true for them.

But this was completely a losing business.

The Othello family was losing money every moment.

This was not normal business at all.

Su Nan immediately realized that this was a competitive method with very early capitalist characteristics.

It was that the monopoly capital felt they had more money than others, so they didn't compete with others on who had better technology or who had better service.

What if they couldn't compete in technology?

What if they couldn't compete in service?

Then just throw money directly!

Make a loss in the early stage, forcibly using more money to crush the competitors to death.

Because of the low prices, competitors cannot afford to do business at a loss for a long time.

Then, after monopolizing the industry, increase prices and sell goods at ultra-high prices to recover the costs previously paid.

Even in his previous life, this was just a bad practice in the early days of capitalism.

Because this approach, in addition to benefiting the capital itself, does not have any benefits for anyone, even for customers.

It is a huge destruction to the entire industry!

In his previous life, mature capitalist societies would have a series of laws to restrict and combat this bad behavior.

But in this era, the Platinum Commercial Republic, as a maritime trade republic, reaps the wealth of other countries through trade, so there is no need to care about what is legal or illegal.

The main income of this country comes from this.

Otherwise, it would be a broken isolated island nation.

In fact, the Platinum Commercial Republic is also a country that has long been involved in the Storm Kingdom, after all, the Storm Knights initially occupied the current land together with these merchants.

However, the Platinum Commercial Republic has long been active in the capital circle of Stormkeep, and even has many islands there, seized from other countries for trade, but he did not expect that they would intervene in the Southern Ceres region, far away from the capital circle of Stormkeep and the duchy city circle.

Su Nan raised his eyebrows and told Pella to stand still and ignore Baron Simon and everyone from the Platinum Commercial Republic, even if the other party was currently provoking them.

Pella told Su Nan that Baron Simon and the people of the Othello family had directly entered their market, telling merchants and customers that there were many benefits to entering their Simon Town.

However, Su Nan still told Pella to stand still for the time being.

First of all, he now had to put most of his energy on digesting the Four Seasons Garden, and secondly, Maple Leaf Town, as his long-term source of a large number of ancient books, had established a relatively stable market for ancient book exchange, and Su Nan would not easily give up.

Baron Simon and the Othello family wanted to use commercial means to attack his Maple Leaf Town, but they forgot one thing…

He didn't need to care what commercial means they used at all…

Just overturn the table directly and burn down the commercial town they built, burn it down every time it's built.

The reason why the people of the Othello family can be invincible in many countries and regions, easily crushing the local normal economy with money, and then controlling the local area through trade and economy, is only because the countries they come into contact with are relatively small and chaotically ordered.

For example, the Storm Kingdom is a typical example.

If the Storm Kingdom were a centralized country like the Eastern Empire, or a powerful military force like the Western United Empire, where every lord was not easy to provoke, then the Platinum Commercial Republic, which was a force in the Eastern Mediterranean, would have been beaten silly long ago.

Therefore, Su Nan temporarily did not plan to pay attention to this matter, and let them work hard first.

When he went back, he would destroy the town they had built overnight.

Su Nan murmured to himself.

"Sure enough, I still need to establish a few puppet nobles around my territory, so that this kind of silly baron will not dare to take the initiative to provoke me."

"But if that's the case, then I might as well find a way to get myself promoted to a noble title.

To get a noble title, I either need to find the archbishop of the Storm Church for help, or I need to find the royal family for help."

It's just that the royal family just lost a king, and his territory may have also lost a bishop.

It seems that both sides may not be in a good mood now.

But it doesn't matter, their bad mood has nothing to do with him, even if everyone is in a bad mood, it can't affect his upgrading of the territory and title.

Pella then told Su Nan the second piece of information, which was that Julia Peter, who was relatively close to him in terms of kinship, being the cousin of his father's brother's daughter, was recently in love.

Su Nan originally found it strange, Julia was almost twenty years old, it was normal to want to get married, as a noble woman, of course, she had to plan ahead and marry a noble man with a deep background.

In this era, noble women without suitors would be suspected of not having enough charm.

It was also normal for a noble woman to be surrounded by several young teenagers.

This was not the same as keeping spare tires in later generations, after all, noble women had high status, and Julia also had the inheritance right to a wine estate in another territory, marrying her was equivalent to having a wine estate with a relatively high economic value as a dowry, so even young barons might be motivated to pursue her.

However, Pella said that the man who was currently pursuing Julia passionately was Galen Othello, a noble young man from a relatively core family of the Othello family, who recently arrived in Simon's territory representing the Othello family.

Su Nan narrowed his eyes instantly, Galen Othello, as a commercial noble of the Platinum Commercial Republic, a member of one of the five hundred noble families behind the scenes who dominated that republic, whose fathers were likely members of the Ten-Member Committee or the Sixty-Member Senate, then his purpose in pursuing his cousin Julia, who had no fame and seemed very ordinary, seemed very suspicious.

Su Nan asked among the wolves: "So what is Julia's attitude?"

Su Nan immediately thought of many possibilities, if Julia showed signs of being blinded by love, then he would send her directly back to her own manor.

Pella said: 'Miss Julia, has refused many times, but as an outsider and a servant, it is difficult for me to interfere in the affairs between masters.

Young master, you are the head of the family, perhaps only you can directly inquire about this matter.'

In this era, women's rights were still subject to a lot of suppression, for example, unmarried noble girls needed to be accompanied by maids when going out, and could not walk alone on the streets.

But this was actually a kind of protection.

After all, the world was not yet safe enough for a beautiful noble girl to walk around alone without any danger occurring.

Su Nan said: "I know.

Keep an eye on her some more for now.

I currently have more important things to do."

"Let's leave it at that for now."

"After I come back, I will handle this matter separately."

"Julia is usually a very smart girl, I think she shouldn't be stupid enough to be moved after being pursued a few times by a young man from a hostile family.

Tell my uncle Father Louis about this matter, he has the right and qualification to manage this matter."

"Don't contact me for the next half day, because I may need to remain highly focused for a period of time."

Su Nan used his eyes to signal Wolf Two to first walk up the wooden stairs and enter the interior of the wizard tower to test the female warlock who might be inside.