The price was about 1,000 less than the normal price, but he didn't care. After experiencing a series of successes, he began to become overconfident. He felt that it was his excellent eloquence that negotiated the price, so he was complacent. There were no problems with the entire transaction, everything was normal and there was nothing suspicious about it. For this transaction, Flanner immediately took out all his savings, borrowed a thousand gold coins at a high interest rate, and signed the ship purchase contract.
Flanner had a huge business plan in mind, and every detail in the plan was perfectly conceived. As soon as he got the ship, he immediately took the hired sailors and borrowed a batch of goods in Free Paradise and transported them to Seawind City. After selling them there, he bought the goods locally and shipped them to the north and shipped them back to Free Paradise. This process lasted only a few days, and the profit was at least three thousand gold coins, which was enough to pay for the gold coins borrowed and the high interest.
After completing this, Flanner can take the golden sea breeze-sunrise route without any worries. He runs it twice a month and earns more than half a million gold coins in a year. These gold coins will be used to purchase new merchant ships, and then the business will grow bigger and bigger. Maybe it won't take more than twenty years for him to win this competition.
Unfortunately, good wishes are always contrary to what they show. When Flanner took the contract and led the sailors to receive the merchant ship the next day, he was told by the head of the chamber of commerce that sold the ship that there was no Sami in the chamber. This person and the Chamber of Commerce would not be able to sell merchant ships during the Spring Festival, a prime time for shipping.
After spending nine thousand gold coins to buy only a scrap of paper, Flanner discovered that everything was a trap. Just like that, Flanner was bankrupt.
When Flanner realized that he had been deceived, he could no longer find the supervisor named Sammy, but the guys who lent him money could find him. Flanner had no choice but to hide. After suffering all the hardships, the scene at the beginning finally happened.
After ten full days of miserable life, Flanner had already figured out the whole story of this scam. He gradually recalled many inconspicuous aspects and found out the flaws. Unfortunately, everything was irreversible.
Flanner thought about it and speculated that all of this should be a trap set by one of his competitors through clever planning. Unfortunately, he was so stupid at the time that he just stepped in. Not only did he accumulate all the hard-earned A large sum of money was gone, and he owed a debt that he couldn't pay back in a short period of time. If it weren't for Ryan, he would have been sent to a gold mine to work as a coolie for the rest of his life.
After saying this, Flanner concluded leisurely: "This incident made me understand a truth, that is, when you are doing something, and the whole process is extremely smooth, so smooth that you find it incredible, thinking that When you are favored by the goddess of luck, that is when you have completely stepped into your opponent's trap and are about to receive a fatal blow from your opponent."
After hearing these words, Allen couldn't help but smile. It seemed that Flanner really felt it deeply. Ryan comforted Flanner softly and said: "There is no need to be so pessimistic, right? Sometimes, it is useful to believe in gods, such as a pious priest. Maybe the gods are too busy?"
Flanner rolled his eyes at Ryan and said disdainfully: "During the ten days of my suffering, I prayed to all the gods whose names I remembered, prayed for their coming, and swore to believe in the God who saved me for the rest of my life! But! What did I get? Indifference, betrayal, even betrayal. This tragic fate was not changed until I met you. Let the gods in the sky die! Now I no longer believe in any gods. Oh, no, if it must be If you want to believe in one person, I only believe in you now, the supreme magician, Mr. Lane!"
"puff!"
Flanner's words made Alando, who was drinking water, spit out all the water he had just drank. Ryan, who was sitting next to him, also had his mouth wide open and didn't know what to say. The two of you looked at me, and I looked at you, and the same thought appeared in my mind: "Poor Flanner, he must have suffered a lot these days. Is he crazy?"
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This is an ordinary secret room. The four walls of the room are empty, but there is a magic light source on each of the four walls, which illuminates the entire secret room like daylight. This kind of magic light source is actually a magic item that continuously releases "illumination". With the support of magic array and magic core, it can be used for a long time.
An old man about sixty years old was sitting in front of the only table in the center of the room. It was a dark table filled with stacks of information, and the old man was already processing the information intently. It's been a few hours. In the eyes of ordinary people, this is definitely a hard job, but the old man's eyebrows are obviously full of energy, as if this is a very enjoyable game.
If Flanner were here, he would definitely shout out the old man's name: "Chilaviv!" Yes, this old man is the behind-the-scenes ruler of the mainland's first chamber of commerce, the Dolock Business Alliance, and is known as a genius businessman. Chilaviv. As an ordinary apprentice, he relied on his genius business talent to become the richest man in the entire continent in just a dozen years.
The warriors who saved mankind and the heroes who founded the empire may have their deeds make people excited in a short time, but as time goes by, these legendary figures are quickly lost in the long river of history. That annual "Victory Day" to commemorate them has long become synonymous with businessmen getting rich.
On the contrary, in recent decades, countless legends about Chilaviv have made people talk about it even more. If someone is really bored and comes to count who the people on the entire continent admire the most, I am afraid that even the founder of the empire Fernando I can only be ranked second.
The first person on the list is definitely the unremarkable-looking old man in front of him.
Becoming a hero, not to mention fighting to the death and risking one's life, is not certain whether one can survive. Even if one is really admired by thousands of people, what's the use? That life may not be more prosperous than that of a wealthy businessman. And if I had one percent of Chilaviv's wealth, tsk tsk, I guess not only myself, but also my grandson's grandson would be worried about how to spend so many gold coins.
Chiraviv picked up a piece of information with his left hand, which was the income of a caravan affiliated with the Dolock Chamber of Commerce last year. He looked through it roughly, and based on the situation described above, he estimated in his mind whether it was true and whether there was any more. Those places need to be verified...
When everything is completed, Chilaviv will sign his name at the end of the document, and sometimes write a few instructions. This is to give him guidance on the future development direction based on his own ideas, or Rewards and penalties for chamber of commerce executives. Then this information will be taken out by specialized personnel and processed strictly according to Chilaviv's wishes. Perhaps a simple sentence will change the fate of many people.
The information on Chilaviv's left hand side is getting less and less, while the information he has processed and placed on his right hand side is getting thicker and thicker. Finally, Chilaviv put down the quill in his hand, let out a long sigh, and showed a look of satisfaction on his face. For others, working for seven or eight hours in a row would definitely make people complain. But in Chilaviv's heart, it was an incomparable enjoyment.
The door to the secret room was gently pushed open, and a slender maid walked in lightly. On the plate she was holding was a steaming sauerkraut sausage and a large glass of water. Yes, Chilaviv hated drinking because it numbed his brain and made him unable to think.
Gently placing the sauerkraut sausage and water in front of Chilaviv, the maid respectfully exited the secret room. Chiraviv picked up the water glass and took a sip, then picked up the knife and fork, cut off a small piece of sausage, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly. Originally, this sauerkraut and meat sausage was not an expensive dish. It was not even allowed to be served at noble banquets and could only be sent to a side hall for the servants to enjoy.
But before Chilaviv made his fortune, he worked as a personal attendant for a rich man for a whole year. At that time, he was very satisfied to be able to eat delicious sausages. Later, even though Chilaviv became the richest man in the mainland and could enjoy delicious food from all over the mainland every day, in his heart, he still liked to eat this dish.
Of course, although the names of the dishes are the same, the ingredients and cooking processes are absolutely different. This sausage alone uses the tenderest meat from Talon cattle that are no less than 3 months old and no more than six months old. To make such a sausage, it takes at least ten cuts from Talon cattle. The meat and other spices used in cooking cost more than ten gold coins. As a result, the entire dish with an ordinary-sounding name definitely costs no less than seventy gold coins, which is enough to cover the living expenses of an ordinary family of three for three years.
Chilaviv eats quickly, which is also a habit he developed in his early years, because servants don't always know when their master will send them to do things. If they don't eat quickly, they may have to work hungry.
After enjoying the carefully prepared food in front of him, Chilaviv picked up the water glass and took a sip of water. Just when he put down the water glass, the door of the secret room was gently opened again, and a short young man walked in respectfully. In his hand, there was another thick stack of information.
The short young man put the information in Chiraviv's left hand, then quickly packed the food and walked out quickly. Chiraviv picked up the top piece of information on the pile and opened it to read.