Chapter 218 Malicious Commercial Competition
Hugo's disguise plan was successful to a certain extent.
At least these believers of the Church of Knowledge who arrived in Ceylon from Green Port were not discovered by the patrolling knights of the Church of Light on their way to the border.
All the knights who were checking kept their distance when they saw that the team was full of refugees emitting a foul smell.
Their focus was on those individuals or teams with unknown identities and erratic whereabouts.
With the arrival of the Hunting Month, the border area will be much busier. In addition to those professionals who are trying to get canonized and the merchants who are flocking in, there will definitely be guys who are trying to fish in troubled waters and try to make trouble.
A group of refugees who are temporarily hired to transport goods?
There is no threat at all.
Even if they want to make trouble, what can they do?
Gathering to beg at the border?
The patrolling knights of the Church of Light did not take Hugo's team seriously at all.
But there is another group of people.
Not only did they take Hugo's team seriously, but they also hated it so much that they hated it to the core!
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A few days ago.
In Ceylon City.
In a luxurious private room upstairs in a tavern.
“Malicious competition!”
“No doubt! This is definitely malicious commercial competition!”
A fat man with a full beard angrily slammed the table and roared.
Although the other people in the luxurious private room did not speak, their expressions showed similar meanings.
“Too much!”
“The rules of the trade are well agreed upon, this guy is here to disrupt the situation!”
“It’s simply too much!”
They have a common identity.
Weapons and equipment merchants near Ceylon Territory.
The main business is to sell weapons and armor made by various forgers.
In the past, when the hunting month came every year, it was the best time for them to make a lot of money.
Professionals from all over the Kingdom of Reyak went beyond the border to hunt and eliminate monsters for the king’s reward and enthronement.
If you want to fight monsters, you must have weapons and equipment at hand!
These equipment merchants will set up several border defense camps in Ceylon Territory in advance and transport the weapons and armor they have rushed to make.
Then they will mark a price slightly lower than the usual price as a discount.
The Hunting Month lasts throughout September. During this period, there will always be problems with the equipment of professionals in the battle with monsters in the Dark Forest. Whether it is repair or replacement, in order to save time, the border defense camp is their best choice.
Especially those descendants of nobles, who hope to obtain inheritance rights or canonization through the exploits of the Hunting Month, and buy these weapons and equipment without blinking an eye.
The equipment merchants near Ceylon Territory originally planned to let go and make a lot of money.
As a result, when they transported the equipment that was either overstocked or rushed to make in their stores, bad news came:
They can't sell it!
Because a batch of equipment known as "hand-made by the dwarf forging master Maren" appeared on the border defense line at some point.
Not to mention the excellent quality;
The most outrageous thing is that his price is simply screwing other equipment merchants to death.
A set of "fine iron standard light armor" is only 99 silver coins!
What's the difference between this and giving it away for free?
You know, in previous years, the prices of these equipment merchants were only a few silver coins lower than the normal price during the hunting month.
For example, the light armor that originally sold for 4 gold and 19 silver was sold for 4 gold and 10 silver after the discount.
Although their business is full of huge profits.
The purchase price of Stone Fort was more than 2 gold coins, and they dared to sell it to 4 gold coins or more in the Kingdom of Reyak.
But that can't lower the price to less than 1 gold coin!
They can't even recover the cost of purchasing the goods.
The equipment merchants quickly reached a consensus.
"This product of the dwarf forging master Maren, who came out of nowhere, must be here to engage in price wars and malicious competition!"
The bearded man made a decisive judgment.
Because they used this trick to torment their peers in the past.
In Ceylon, there are only a few blacksmiths with the qualification to sell dwarf equipment.
It's not that other people don't want to get a piece of the pie in this industry.
But those who tried to enter the industry were bullied by the "offensive and defensive alliance" of Bearded Beard and lost everything.
They would use all kinds of simple and bad business war means:
For example, price war.
They forced to mark a super low price that couldn't even make back the purchase cost despite the loss.
They forced their peers to follow suit and whoever lost all the money first would have to leave.
After driving away other ignorant peers, Bearded Beard and several other blacksmith shop owners formed a business alliance. In Ceylon Territory and its surrounding areas, the price of equipment was unified, and everyone raised prices together to harvest customers.
As a result, this year's Hunting Month encountered a disruptor.
Everyone went to Stone Fort to purchase goods, and the cost was more than 2 gold coins, and everyone was the same.
Dare to sell for 99 silver coins, this is not malicious business competition, what is it!
When Bearded Beard and his peers engaged in price wars to suppress their peers, at most they were a dozen silver coins lower than the cost, and they had to bear a lot of loss pressure.
Cutting the price in half is still lower, they dare not join the price war.
But it does not mean that they have no other way to "drive away their peers".
Bearded man and his team tried to find this troublemaker who suddenly appeared.
After investigating the area near Ceylon Territory for a long time, there was no clue at all!
The only thing that was linked to "Dwarf Forging Master Maren" was a small blacksmith shop called "Dwarf Precision" in Ceylon City, and it closed down some time ago.
These super low-priced weapons and equipment seemed to have popped out of thin air.
Unable to find the other party's store or warehouse, Bearded Man and his men could only settle for the next best thing, looking for the transportation channels of the goods or related personnel.
After an investigation, they finally locked on the goblin named Hugo Xiwei.
The first time the products of "Dwarf Forging Master Maren" were sold, it was he who hawked and peddled.
This clue is very clear, because the other party is a goblin, and he also admitted that he grew up in Ceylon Territory.
The only one who meets these two characteristics is Hugo Xiwei.
After confirming the target, Bearded Man began to have restless thoughts.
In addition to price wars, there is a more vicious and more useful business war method.
When the hunting month comes, everyone will transport the goods to the vicinity of the border defense line.
Ceylon Territory... it's not too much to have a few gangs of bandits and robbers occasionally appearing, right?
Bearded Man quickly asked a middleman to help him contact several stalkers who believed in the God of Shadow.
"Intelligence shows that Hugo Xiwei often travels between Ceylon City and the border defense line, and likes to hide during the day and come out at night."
"My request is very simple."
"In the wilderness, unfortunately encountered robbers, the target was killed on the spot, and the goods were also robbed by the robbers and all "lost", the kind that disappeared."
"Can you do it?"
Bearded Man's tone was fierce.
He must resolutely curb this unfair and malicious commercial competition.
The only people who can do equipment business around Ceylon Territory are his business allies!
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There will be 2 more later!
