Chapter 62 Expansion
In a flash, three years later.
The free business alliance initiated by Glenling has become a behemoth.
Members are located in several kingdoms such as Voris, Iron Fort, Chulin, Arino, etc., and the total number of members is over 300.
Among these member leaders, the fastest-growing average development speed is the economic circle centered on Glen Territory and radiating to more than a dozen surrounding territories, becoming the most prosperous core area of the Free Trade Alliance. The dozens of industrial chains in these territories generate economic benefits every year exceeds millions of gold coins.
Nathan Harden produces a lot of grain, and there are many shallow coal resources buried underground, so grain processing and coal mining industries have been developed. For example, there is a baguette (soft taste and resistant to storage) with Nathan Harden's specialty. It is very popular in the entire Free Trade Union. With the increasing demand for coal, Baron Sean's territory's annual income is more than 100,000 gold coins.
There are many highlands in Yokengling, which are rich in cattle, sheep and a specialty nut. There is also a medium-sized silver mine with a reserve of over 1,000 tons in the eastern hills of Yokengling, so the canned food, nut snacks and silver mining industry has developed. Yokengling's specialty canned cattle, sheep and nut snacks are in short supply every year. With the production of silver mines, Baron Howard's territory's annual income is more than 150,000 gold coins.
Parton was always high and cold, with only a small number of high and cold horses produced. However, it also used the advantages of dense forests and numerous prey in the territory to develop logging and fur processing industries. In a depression west of Parton, there was a clay mine with a reserve of more than one billion tons. The ceramic industry developed by experts took advantage of the momentum and took advantage of the opportunity to develop the "Paton porcelain" quickly became a top class of the kingdom, making Parton's logging and fur processing industries, which were originally of considerable efficiency, soon became a useless industry to occupy manpower... Baron's territory's annual income exceeded 300,000 gold coins. The former shabby Baron's miserable Baron became the super rich among the "Yordians".
There are also the northern territories around the Parton Territory, which also leveraged their respective resource advantages. Some were engaged in forest mining and fur processing, some chose mineral development with greater profit margins, and some were near the ice field. Although there were a large amount of mineral deposits underground, they could not be mined (frost soil, small population, and a six-month ice age a year). After finding it was very profitable to capture wild people and sell them to the southern mines, the savage tribes were in trouble. They didn't mess with anyone. They sat at home forever and were captured in a nest... The sinful slave trade began with these poor savages.
Glentang, which is at the core of the Free Trade Union, is a place where countless adventurers and gold diggers dream of "every inch of land" dreamed of. More than ten industries such as furniture manufacturing, clothing production, paper, agricultural machinery, cement and lime, steel, etc. in this group have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain in recent years, and has quickly formed a scale effect in the short term. The furniture, fur clothing, paper, advanced agricultural machinery, cement and lime, ironware and other products produced in various workshops are the first choice and must-buy for the lords of the member lords of the merchant league every year, occupying the vast majority of the market share of these products.
Zhou Ming, who had only taken at least ten years to develop into such a situation in just under four years, only then did he truly realize that unlike those farmers who were very careful in calculating and had the habit of saving, the lords in this world who had more than 90% of the surplus resources in this world once they stimulated their potential consumption capacity, the economic vitality they burst out was simply unimaginable.
Especially after enjoying the infinite convenience brought by the developed commodity economy, the probability of completely getting rid of this convenience is almost zero.
Of course, the development of the Free Trade Union has not been smooth sailing in recent years. Among the more than 200 members who have joined in recent years, more than a dozen have been territories that have either forcibly levyed tolls, directly confiscated goods from other territories, or wantonly taxed on merchants, etc. These territories that violate the provisions of the Trade Union's provisions have been tried by the Chair of the Trade Union, and these more than a dozen have either suffered huge fines, were expelled from the Trade Union, or were collectively blocked... Under all the miserable punishment measures, these territories have to admit their mistakes, compensate for their losses, and ensure that they will never commit them again.
For example, Baron Garcia, who was led by Bodo, was such a guy who suffered a little. When Zhou Ming told him that Bodo had a gold mine with huge reserves, he didn't want to join the Free Merchant Alliance, but in order to know the specific location of the gold mine, he joined the Merchant Alliance happily. He was originally focused on hunting, and he stopped fighting prey and took people to mine all day long.
Later, according to Zhou Ming's instructions, Baron Garcia, who successfully dug up the gold mine, earned 100,000 gold coins every year and had no worries about food and drink. He actually hit the lord caravans who were leading by Bordo every day. Seeing these fat sheep passing by his mouth every day, he felt itchy and couldn't help but talk. He issued a 20% transit fee for each passing caravan, which directly undermined the second rule of the Free Trade Union: belonging to the lord caravan, and passing through each other's tax exemption.
Zhou Ming sent someone to persuade and warn him three times, but he still refused to change his mind. Seeing that his nature was so bad, the referee of the Commercial League passed a voting and issued a comprehensive blockade order: that is, all members' caravans stopped passing by Bodo, and surrounding territories prohibited all goods to Bodoor. All travelers who want to enter Bodoor's business will be levied with a huge commercial tax of up to 80%.
After only two or three months of implementation, Baron Garcia discovered that the originally very lively Bodolin had no caravan passed by his territory. The few travelers were pitiful. The territory was facing shortage of salt and began to increase prices wildly. Then there were the soft Nathan baguettes, delicious canned Yoken, Patton porcelain that I couldn't put down, as well as Glen's exquisite furniture, fashionable leather jackets, soft paper for wiping the butt, and easy-to-use farm tools and iron tools... These things can't be bought.
Even when he saw the announcement board of the announcement information that had been updated once a week in the Berto's territory, and no information was released for more than two consecutive months, Baron Garcia began to feel a little panicked. The fear of being on an isolated island in the world occupied his heart.
Especially when he asked his servants to take thousands of gold coins to the surrounding territories or even further away to purchase some essential daily necessities, he returned empty-handed. Under the tight seal of the surrounding territories, he would not be able to buy the merchant alliance products that he had long been unable to escape, even the cheapest apples.
"Bordoling is willing to accept all the punishments made by the referees in the Chamber of Commerce and is willing to double the compensation for the losses of the transit caravan, and make profound reflection and apologize for their ability to violate the regulations of the Chamber of Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce and Commerce will cancel all sanctions and give Bodoling a chance to correct his mistakes..."
In this way, Baron Garcia, who had never surrendered and compromised on the battlefield and never apologized for his mistakes in his life, was willing to be beaten and punished, and became a negative case in the Free Business League that educated members to abide by the rules.
Chapter completed!