Throne of the North.

Chapter 419: Interview with the Chamber of Commerce, the Emperor Selector and Meyers
There are iron mines in the Frozen Territory, but Ryan chose not to send people to mine them, which meant that he was deprived of the greatest source of wealth for the nobles of the Northern Province.

The mine owner sells the mines, and an ordinary baron can earn two to three thousand gold coins a year. But for Ryan, who does not sell the mines, the source of his wealth is to accumulate small amounts into large ones.

In the past few years, including now, the business has been supported by large-scale transactions time and time again.

For now, these transactions can still be maintained because the threat of orcs still exists, causing a sense of tension in both the two eastern kingdoms and other parts of the empire. The weapons produced in the Frozen Territory are naturally high-end brands.

Not only were the weapons sold in large quantities in the Imperial Capital City, but the Chambers of Commerce in Lingdu City would also ask Butler Beard every month if he had any extra weapons that could be sold to them.

The bard's story and a discussion in the Imperial City made the weapons engraved with the Rhinohorn Mountain mark a best-seller.

This is a very important source of income, accounting for 40% of the total income of the Frozen Territory.

The rest are occupied by collectibles from other worlds, as well as high-end foods such as fruits.

Firewood, ice cellars, crops brought by craftsmen's skills, various unconventional resources such as production in the mountains and forests, and war horses occupy scattered parts.

In general, the resources produced in the Frozen Territory are actually used more for self-use.

It is not possible to produce and sell by oneself. Even now, when the quantity of self-production and self-sales seems insufficient, Ryan has used various means to subtly allow the resources and wealth of the nobles to circulate in the market. There is no reason why he cannot do this himself.

After the chambers of commerce in Lingdu City delivered a large amount of supplies to the three villages and towns, Ryan happily asked his butler Beard to hand over the gold coins to the chambers of commerce that brought stones to exchange for gold coins.

Next, we will discuss more with these chambers of commerce.

He said that he would help those people build villages and towns, and during this process, all these newcomers needed to do was to reclaim the wasteland.

All Ryan could do was to use the Chamber of Commerce to spend money to build these three villages and towns. The construction team of the Frozen Territory would carry out the preliminary planning, but the subsequent construction of the wasteland actually belonged to these people themselves.

"I will pay you enough gold coins to transport food and warm clothes from the south, and transport stones, wood and other materials from the interior of the North Wind Province."

"We will also arrange for people to help survey the land around the three villages and towns for soil areas suitable for growing food next spring."

Ryan took out some of the money that the Chamber of Commerce had given him.

After reaching this deal with half of them, Ryan continued to keep this half of the Chamber of Commerce and there were new deals.

This made those chambers of commerce that did not agree to Ryan regret it. When they wanted to hear what the deal was about, they were sent away by the servants of the castle.

Looking at the five or six people still standing in front of him, Ryan put down the towel for wiping his hands and asked the maid to bring the fruit to the heads of these chambers of commerce.

"You all more or less know my story, especially the war in the Andara Kingdom."

"You may also know that after that war, I got a city. The Dawn City can still bring me a lot of wealth and authority, but in addition to this, King Andara also gave me many manors."

"My plan is to grow extraordinary crops in those places and use them for transactions between extraordinary people."

Compared with transactions between ordinary people, trade between extraordinary people is the real wealth maker. Magicians use gold and mithril as common trading units. The wealth gained between ordinary people is sustainable and accumulated in large quantities.

But between the extraordinary people, it is direct.

"Not only in the Kingdom, but also in some places in Beifeng Province, Leiyun County, and Tieshan County, there are lands that I have marked. Those lands can be used to grow suitable extraordinary crops."

"But I don't know what kind of magic materials are suitable. I think you will know what kind of crops are more suitable for those lands. The deal this time is that I want to invite some people behind your Chamber of Commerce to help me explore and then give me a list."

"After this, I will purchase the seeds of these crops from you, and I promise you that I will sell you a share of these crops."

The six people were all lost in thought. Although the things Baron Ryan said did not seem to be difficult for them, on the contrary, they were very beneficial and their relationship with Baron Ryan would be even closer.

But it's not that simple.

The circle for ordinary commodities, such as food, metal weapons, tools, antique collections, etc., is very large. The huge iron weapons brought by the iron mines in the Northern Province will not affect the sale of similar weapons in other parts of the empire.

However, the extraordinary circle seems very small, just like a mountain. Ordinary people live at the bottom like dust and will never see what the stones on the other side of the mountain look like in their entire lives.

The most dazzling ones are the magicians. Ordinary magicians are adventurers who travel everywhere. They need to witness whether their practice is correct and explore the truth of this world. The truth exists in every corner of the world, even in other worlds.

Moreover, there are not many extraordinary people.

For example, in the war in the Borean Province, the troops on the mortal battlefield were all from the Borean Province, but in the extraordinary realm, there were powerful legends like Lady Rosalind who came from the heart of the empire and were famous throughout the empire. His sphere of activity was not a small province, or even just the empire.

So why are these two things related to each other?
The reason is that the crops of the extraordinary will eventually be circulated among the extraordinary people in the form of products such as magic potions, and the extraordinary people are very fond of repeat customers.

A magician trusts a guild and under the same conditions, it is impossible for him to go to another guild to buy the same magic potion.

Because he couldn't be sure whether the magic potion of the other Chamber of Commerce was the same as what he knew, and he didn't know whether the magic potion contained subtle changes in magic factors. Even magic potions made by different magicians had subtle differences.

This small difference could cause their years of hard work to go down the drain.

Therefore, caution and trust are very important.

Baron Ryan wants to break into the extraordinary circle and allow the Chamber of Commerce to do business with the extraordinary. There are only two possible outcomes.

One is failure. Baron Ryan did not gain the trust of a large number of extraordinary people because they were not sure about the extraordinary potions and other things produced by his men and chose to reject them.

If you want to cultivate, produce and sell extraordinary crops sustainably, you need huge wealth to support it. Throwing in a few million gold coins is just a preliminary plan.

If he fails, Baron Ryan will lose millions or even more gold coins.

And if at that time, he blames the incident on the seeds and crop choices provided to him by these chambers of commerce, that would be troublesome.

This was not a suspicion towards Ryan, but a cautiousness towards the millions of gold coins. No one could remain calm when facing the number of millions of gold coins. The Imperial Capital City's previous support of one million gold coins per year to the North Wind Province was the result of discussions that lasted for several months.

An investment of several million gold coins ended in failure... someone has to bear the wrath of Baron Ryan, right?
They also have to demonstrate their abilities to the great nobles behind them in Lingdu City, a gold-mining place, so as to enhance their status within the Chamber of Commerce and in the territories of the great nobles.

Therefore, this matter is of great importance. It concerns the future of these Chamber of Commerce leaders stationed in Beifeng Province and determines whether they can make further progress.

It's risky.

This is the ending of failure, and there is a second ending, which is success.

Baron Ryan succeeded and successfully entered the extraordinary market. The magic potions of the Frozen Territory were as popular as the metal weapons here, and thus a large number of extraordinary people trusted and chose them.

Then we returned to that topic again.

The circle of extraordinary people is not large. The extraordinary people in the North Wind Province and the extraordinary people in the Thousand Lakes Province in the south of the empire may all be friends.

The number of extraordinary people is not that large compared to that of ordinary people.

Since supernatural crops can be grown sustainably and on a large scale, it means that these supernatural crops and supernatural products such as magic potions related to them are not exclusive.

In other words, there is no uniqueness.

Rage potion, a magic potion used for knights' outbursts. It is the most common potion but not the lowest grade. Every major chamber of commerce in the empire has this potion.

The raw materials come from different places and from different magicians.

Every company has them, but the knights choose a chamber of commerce they trust to make the purchase.

Trust has its limits. If you trust one company, can you trust another one?

impossible.

In other words, once Baron Ryan succeeds, a large number of extraordinary people will purchase the extraordinary products under Baron Ryan.

Does it have anything to do with them? Of course.

Because they will lose a group of loyal customers. The Violence Potion originally had one hundred knights buying their products, but now there are only fifty left, and the income has been reduced by half.

The income brought by fifty extraordinary people and fifty civilians is very different. Civilians use copper coins to trade, while extraordinary people use gold coins.

The reduction in the Chamber of Commerce's income is in gold coins, which will eventually appear on the desk of the great nobles.

If Baron Ryan fails, someone will have to bear Ryan's wrath.

But Baron Ryan succeeded, and those positions with reduced incomes will have to bear the wrath of the great nobles who discovered their own wealth loss.

For example, the countess behind Blade Rose, and the royal family behind the Imperial Chamber of Commerce.

The great nobles would not directly argue with those in charge, but their anger was never expressed openly.

They only need to frown, and they will move their bodies like a stone on the top of the mountain, moving a piece of gravel under them to the outside, falling to the top of the mountain and smashing on the ground.

In the process, trees may be broken, bushes may collapse, and rivers may change direction... Those chamber of commerce leaders who are directly involved in Ryan's success or failure are either the rubble or the trees and bushes in the process.

As long as you participate, there will be risks.

They were already standing on the edge of a risky cliff, but this incident was still too thrilling.

If they are not careful, they will die miserably. Why are these Chamber of Commerce managers so smart? Because the fate of those "former managers" who were not smart and could not bring wealth to the nobles but instead reduced the wealth of the nobles was very vague, bloody and blurred.

It was precisely because of this shrewdness that these people did not respond immediately after hearing Ryan's words, even Irina, the new head of the Blade Rose Chamber of Commerce who had the best relationship with Ryan.

Ordinary people might get carried away and believe Baron Ryan, so they agreed and earned the immediate rewards.

But businessmen with a long-term vision see the risks involved and what they need to face.

So three people immediately chose to retreat. They were already satisfied with what Lingdu City had brought them, and they were able to exchange the future of themselves and their families in front of the great nobles behind them.

But if you take one more step forward, you will really walk off the cliff.

Her heart was pounding, and Irina couldn't help but want to pounce on Ryan to ask more questions, but at this moment she was sweating profusely, because she came to Ryan's castle, she took off her outer cloak, and the thin clothes now revealed her inner clothes.

She was nervous, firstly because she knew that if she refused, all her previous efforts would be in vain, and she would need to compete with other chambers of commerce for business opportunities in the North Wind Province.

But if she agreed, she didn't know whether the two pounds of meat on her body would be enough. It was very likely that it would not be enough, because the nobleman behind her was a woman, and he would not hesitate to butcher her because of her two pounds of meat.

"me…"

Irina hesitated for a long time, and suddenly saw Avril walking outside. It seemed that the Baroness came to the Baron's study for something, it couldn't be for excitement.

Irina suddenly reacted and the words of rejection that were about to come out of her mouth turned into acceptance.

"The Blade Rose Chamber of Commerce will agree to trade with you and follow your wishes, Lord Ryan."

After saying this, Irina felt a little weak and wanted to fall in front of Ryan, but fortunately she stood firm in the end.

On the other side, Frank from the Lantern Chamber of Commerce looked at the woman in surprise. His eyes were firm, as if he didn't see Irina's coquettishness at the moment.

He is not afraid because he is a member of a noble family and is more special than other chambers of commerce.

"The Lantern Chamber of Commerce also agrees to your transaction, but some resources that are unique to the Lantern Chamber of Commerce will be removed from the final list. Of course, if you are willing to trade all the resources in those plantations to the Lantern Chamber of Commerce, it can be considered."

Ryan looked at the last person, who gritted his teeth and decided to take a gamble.

He was alone.

"Well, the three of you can go back and prepare for the construction of a few villages and towns."

Ryan said to the three people who refused, and everyone looked at him in shock. They were actually facing the same situation as the first group of people who had just left.

The first deal, the second deal, and now the third deal, but there are only three people left who are qualified to listen to Ryan talk about the details of the deal.

"Lord Ryan, no wonder Viscount Miles said you are a devil who controls people's hearts."

"You scared me so much that my heart is about to jump out of my chest."

"Shall I help you press it?"

The one who answered her was Avril who walked in. Irina's face turned pale, wondering how could she have forgotten again? She lowered her head and didn't dare to say anything.

Ryan smiled and pulled Avril to sit next to him, and said to the heads of the three chambers of commerce:

"This time I'm going to say the same thing."

"In the Kingdom of Sera, I can't persuade too many people. After all, their king is the powerful 'Wind Emperor'."

"But on the Andara Kingdom side, after the war ended, it was confirmed that there would be some nobles who would help me cultivate extraordinary crops."

"So what I just said was not a few pieces of land, but most of the Andara Kingdom."

When Ryan finished speaking, the three of them widened their eyes and breathed rapidly.

If there was a huge risk in the previous transaction, then now, huge profits are in front of them in advance.

Regardless of whether Baron Ryan's foray into the supernatural realm is successful or unsuccessful in the end, and what the consequences are, at least now, they have gained a market of the entire kingdom for their chamber of commerce.

This is a kingdom. No matter what the situation is with the Andara Kingdom, it is one of the nine kingdoms of the empire on the Norris Road. A huge amount of wealth has been thrown down on it.

"The war brought great damage to the Kingdom of Andara. The nobles there also need to restore their territory and wealth, and use more means to strengthen their own strength to fight against the orcs in the north."

"They promised me, but I can't send the right people to explore in this case."

"You can trade with them, but the transaction volume cannot exceed 50%."

"Because at least half of them belong to the Northern Chamber of Commerce."

Policies determine the market economy, and Ryan, as a noble, is the policy of this land.

After waving his hand and letting the three people leave, Ryan looked at Avril.

"How did you come?"

Avril said with some concern:

"My father wrote to me, saying that the eldest son of Grand Duke Meyers in the Imperial Capital proposed to the Emperor to mine large areas of iron ore in the Northern Wind Province to rebuild the fleet that the Empire had lost in the Gulf of the Thousand Lakes Province and the Western Sea."

"The emperor agreed."

Ryan looked at the door. The butler Beard was also standing there without coming in. This letter was written to Avril, but it would also be given to the Frozen Territory Territory.

"What's the big deal? If the emperor wants the iron ore in Beifeng Province, he has to pay for it..."

Ryan was halfway through his words when he suddenly reacted.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with some surprise but uncertainty:

"The Emperor Chosen?"

"Yes, the Emperor has asked His Highness Volvo, one of the electors, to be responsible for rebuilding the fleet in the West Sea. This is the first test for the electors."

Ryan suddenly laughed.

“This isn’t the first time.”

"The Emperor Elect's appearance in the Andara Kingdom to mourn the old king may have something to do with this matter. His Highness was personally investigating the iron ore resources in the North Wind Province. As someone who wants to become an emperor, he is eager to know what is buried under every piece of land on his land."

"Moreover, your father told us that the key to this matter is not the iron ore, but the fact that it is related to Meyers?"

If we say that among the four grand dukes of the empire now, Grand Duke Fleming has the best relationship with the current Emperor Columbus III, it has led to this group of nobles always being able to eat the most in this era.

Then it is obvious that the other three grand dukes will have to compete for the next era.

Even if this era is a hundred or two hundred years later, they must start fighting for it now.

There are three electors and four grand dukes in the empire. This number suddenly makes the politics fit.

So that's how it is.

Why would Viscount Melendez tell Ryan this? Because Ryan was his son-in-law, the other half of this political marriage?

No, it’s because Melendez has just joined Grand Duke Fleming’s group that is reaping the policy dividends of this era, and Ryan is also a member of this group, but he has the closest relationship with him.

If Ryan is the policy for this land in the North, then the Emperor is the policy for the entire Empire, and for half of the entire Norris.

If the policy goes smoothly, everything will go smoothly.

Although it is still far away, since the emperor has given the elector a test, it is natural that he should give the elector the right after successfully passing the test.

Power and interests.

(End of this chapter)