The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 605 Eastern Ocean Trade Pattern
Although Yang Lu still doesn't know why Tian Daxiao insisted on facilitating the trade negotiations between the Lightsaber Sect and Haiyuan Island, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce is undoubtedly very suitable to be the middleman in this negotiation. After all, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce is the most important member of the Lightsaber Sect. External allies are also a key channel for the Han lightsaber faction to break through the trade ban on Abyss Island.

Every time the Haiya Chamber of Commerce encounters troubles, whether it is business or private, the Lightsaber Sect will send Jindan Qi masters from far away to support it, which shows the significance of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce to the Lightsaber Sect.

Without the help of the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce, the Han Lightsaber faction would be in trouble again.

In fact, the Light Sword Sect also knows that it is not a good thing to rely too much on the trade channel of the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce. Over the years, it is not that the Light Sword Sect has not considered finding a spare tire for the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce in order to get rid of its dependence on the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce. .

But so far, they still only have one partner, the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce, which is enough to explain the problem.

The reasons behind this are not difficult to understand.

There are only a handful of ocean-going trading giants in the Eastern Ocean. Except for the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, the other large chambers of commerce are either like Pan’s Firm, which are backed by the ancestors of the seven major factions, and do not need the support of the Hanguangsaber faction at all. ; or like the Huaishan faction, the headquarters is far away in Nanman State, and it is beyond the reach of the Arctic State's trade routes; or the scale is too small to have the ability to wrestle with Haiyuan Island. Just enough to meet all the needs of the lightsaber school.

It's not that the Han lightsaber faction didn't think about forming a chamber of commerce by themselves.

However, there are so many comprehension forces who are jealous of the profits of ocean trade, and it is impossible for the Hanguangsaber faction to take advantage of this advantage. If possible, the seven major factions also hope to have their own maritime trade power, and the Wuliang Sword faction does not want to interfere by themselves. In any outlying island situation, it is necessary to be forced to borrow the fleet and channels of the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce.

But after so many years, almost all the comprehension forces who wanted to get involved in the field of ocean trade have all failed. The current trade pattern in the Eastern Ocean has not changed for hundreds of years.

The reasons behind this phenomenon are of course multifaceted.

First of all, the political structure of Arctic State is not like Zhongzhou, which has a certain hegemony-level sect to open up the whole mainland market. On the contrary, although Arctic State has a large trade volume, the six major sects go their own way, and they all implement tough local protection in their respective territories. However, the strength of the Hanguangsaber Sect itself ranks last among the six extreme northern sects, and it is not qualified to negotiate terms with the other four large sects with Yuanying ancestors, and even the trade routes within the state cannot be established. Get through. .

Secondly, starting a chamber of commerce is a matter of extremely high threshold.

Relying on the strong background of his great-grandfather, Li Qingning wanted to open a Qingning chamber of commerce in the southeast corner of the Zhongzhou mainland, but he was almost played to death, let alone a giant chamber of commerce that could rival Haiyuan Island?
Leaving Haiyuan Island aside, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce alone owns tens of thousands of ocean-going merchant ships, directly employs nearly a million employees, and owns docks, warehouses, fleets, banks, factories, commodity exchanges, etc. There are more than ten different business sectors. If you count the large amount of miscellaneous work outsourced by the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, such as land logistics and upstream and downstream suppliers, it is not unreasonable to say that the Haiya Department affects the jobs of tens of millions of people. Pass.

And these people are not NPCs in real-time strategy games. They can be directly A'ed out by using the mouse to frame them. They are all real people, and everyone has their own small thoughts and interests. Thousands of NPCs are not something players can click on with just a mouse.

One can imagine the difficulty in balancing the interests of these people, making the Haiya Chamber of Commerce operate, and allowing them to maintain a sufficiently competitive operating efficiency after deducting internal friction.

Moreover, due to the stagnation of productivity, the degree of involution of the Chamber of Commerce in the Kyushu Cultivation World is also very terrifying. There is no such thing as Earth, where there are many companies with different profit levels in an industry. Only the Comprehension Chamber of Commerce with the highest competitiveness and efficiency, Only those chambers of commerce that are less able to operate have been eliminated in the long process of competition for thousands of years, or the scale will never be large, and they can only be forced to settle down in a corner.

The Eastern Ocean is already the busiest sea area in Kyushu. However, there are only a few maritime merchants that can make the scale of trade large enough and maintain sufficient competitiveness at the same time.
Finally, after thousands of years of natural evolution of these trading giants, the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce, the whole system has been running in for a very long time, and has accumulated a lot of know-how. The grass-top team is also a grass-top team that has passed the test of thousands of years, so it naturally has its own rationale and significance.

Anyone with experience in management may feel that many bureaucratic systems that seem meaningless, if removed at will, will have unexpected negative consequences.

And these know-hows in management also constitute the unbreakable moat of the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce.

Even if Yang Lu has a higher perspective than the Kyushu cultivators, he can only do some partial optimization. If he wants to manage this huge system like the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, he may not be able to do better than Su Yuanfeng and Jiang Huaan .

What even Yang Lu didn't fully understand was that behind the success of several ocean-going trade giants in the Eastern Ocean to their current status, there were secrets behind them:
For example, Tingheyu Pavilion was secretly operated by seven super ocean-going traders, including Zhongzhou Haiya Chamber of Commerce and Nanman Prefecture Huaishan Chamber of Commerce, and provided them with huge information benefits; It is a channel for laundering money overseas, while the Huaishan Chamber of Commerce operates the business of smuggling pure-blood monsters in Nanman Prefecture.

If there were no such secret gray profiteering channels, and it was just doing normal trade on the bright side, even the Haiya Chamber of Commerce and the Huaishan Chamber of Commerce would not be able to maintain the current situation.

The ocean-going trade can be developed on Abyss Island in the Arctic State mainly because of its superior geographical location.

Just like Haiya City is located at the estuary of Qinglan River, the largest river in Zhongzhou, Haiyuan Island is just on the only way from Arctic State to other continents. Being able to make a lot of money like Singapore on the Straits of Malacca, it has inherent advantages in wanting to develop trade.

In contrast, the Han lightsaber faction has a poor geographical location, is far away from other continents, and has no innate talent. If they want to intervene in overseas trade with deep waters behind them, they can only beat dogs with meat buns, and they will never return.

It is precisely because the Haiya Chamber of Commerce has an irreplaceable role in the Han Lightsaber Sect, it is undoubtedly very appropriate for the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce to stand up and coordinate the trade negotiations between the two parties. At least the Han Lightsaber Sect must attach great importance to it. It would be much better for Tian Daxiao or Shenhuozong to lobby in person.

Wanting to understand this, Yang Lu continued to ask: "The Haiya Chamber of Commerce is indeed capable of exerting pressure on your Hanguangsaber sect, but why did Haiyuan Island agree to negotiate with you?"

When this question was mentioned, Qu Jing showed hesitation on the spot.

(End of this chapter)