Chapter 288 Business

The reason why Ryan returned to Meereen in such a hurry is that the investment promotion conference is about to start. After all, after these four city-states no longer have slaves for sale, the existence of the city-states has become a problem. The dragon mother in the TV series abolished the slave trade but did not find a replacement, which led to a large-scale rebellion. And Lane is now eager to recommend new products as an alternative to slave exports.

Fortunately, with the support of industry and extraordinary strength, new products were quickly produced. When Ryan returned to Meereen, he could see that in the former slave manor that had become a collective farm, countless freed slaves were working hard in it, planting all kinds of magical plants from the world of Plants vs. Zombies.

In the city hall of Meereen, the reports of the officials also showed a thriving scene. Freed slaves found new jobs, and the magical plants brought enough food, vegetables and textiles. In this case, the city-state presented a thriving scene. But the officials also told Lane that most of the warehouses were filled with newly produced goods and that it was urgent to sell them.

The most popular product now produced in the areas under Lane's control is coinage, with the help of various metal-absorbing plants. Ryan obtained enough gold and copper in the copper mines near Meereen, and at the same time found a lot of silver mines in the mountains in the east, and extracted silver.

So Lane built a mint in Meereen, using a steam engine to drive a mechanical punch to produce currency. This industrially produced currency has a stable content of precious metals, and each currency has the same size, regular shape and clear lines. Much better than those hand-moulded coins, they were loved by merchants as soon as they were introduced.

After the currency was created, he established a bank for currency exchange and financial services. Every day, countless people can be seen heading to the bank to exchange their currency for new machine-made currency.

In order to avoid arousing hostility, Ryan also invited people from the Iron Vault to participate in the shares. As long as the Iron Vault has money, he doesn't mind Ryan's establishment of a bank. Taking advantage of this opportunity, local mechanical coinage has also become popular in the world.

Of course, this is just the reason why he is not strong enough now. It will be difficult to say what to say when the strength is strong in the future.

However, in addition to gold coins that everyone loves, other product recommendations need some publicity. So the next morning after returning to Meereen, I woke up Rose Crystal to go to work in the temple. After washing up, Ryan rode a broom and flew to the highest pyramid to prepare for the noon trade fair and lunch banquet.

The reason Ryan doesn't like living in this pyramid is because he really doesn't like this house with no elevator, no water and no electricity. Besides, as a person from modern society. Living at a high place did not give him any pleasant feeling. So after occupying the city, these Great Pyramids were used as exhibition halls and hotels for foreign investment.

After the exhibits were arranged, the merchants who were called in also climbed the Great Pyramid one after another out of breath. Lane expressed a sincere admiration for these businessmen who climbed the stairs to the height of the 50-story office building. But it seems that they are not dissatisfied because of this, and even many businessmen are very grateful to Ryan for inviting them to this magnificent building for a meeting.

When they came up, they had seen the products that Lane was going to exhibit on the lower floors, and now they came up to get the right to sell these products.

In order to avoid competition, Lane's products are all things that are simply not available in other regions. For example, soap, matches, bronzes, mirrors, refined salt, various spices, canned seafood and all kinds of fine jewelry produced by the four city-states in the east of Slave Bay. At the same time, there are also candles, lamp oil, mechanical clocks, lighters, porcelain, various civil iron products, spirits and sugar from the Raza area that were transported along the Skazardan River.

The only regret is that due to the high demand for livestock products in the two worlds, the livestock products that were originally specialties in the Raza region are now not enough for export.

These dazzling goods conquered the merchants who came here originally to purchase slaves,

Lured by money, they don't mind what's in their boat. They had previously complained about ending the slave trade. But now, each of them is praising Lane's cause of emancipation.

Soon these merchants began to subscribe for the share of the goods under the auspices of Ryan. Naturally, many merchants did not have enough money. At this time, people from Meereen Bank came forward to issue loans to them.

Although Lane felt that the 10% monthly interest rate is too dark, which is equivalent to 120% annual interest rate. But all the merchants were happy to borrow money from Lane. After listening to their discussion, I realized that these businessmen are not qualified to borrow money from the iron vault at all, and the high-rate loans from others are more expensive.

After negotiating all the business, the luncheon started. With the introduction of cooking methods from several worlds and the availability of plenty of spices. The food on the table was so delicious that the merchants almost swallowed their tongues.

There was a small episode in the banquet. Everyone showed up at the banquet from the temple after a few minutes of eating the rose crystal. After pulling Ryan's hair and complaining about not calling her during the big meal, sitting next to Ryan Start enjoying this lunch together on the table. Soon I saw the plates on the dining table flying towards the rose crystal, and after a good meal. She grabbed Ryan's napkin, wiped her hands and hummed a song and left happily.

After the Rose Crystal had left for a while, the merchants who had been suppressed by the divine power on their knees climbed up with pale faces and trembling. Before, they only heard that the Lazarin people had a new god and launched a war of vengeance and annexed four slave city-states, but they never expected that a god would really appear.

Now most businessmen are full of confidence in business. With the blessing of the gods, the Lazarin people will definitely be able to rule this land for a long time, and what businessmen like most is a stable society. And a few guys who didn't pay back the money they owed firmly dismissed the idea. After all, they have seen the close relationship between the new king of the Lazarin and the gods. In this case, the gods' door-to-door debt collection is much more terrifying than the faceless person's door-to-door debt collection.

On the second day after the end of the investment fair, the officials reported good news to Ryan, that is, because the circulation of goods that had been stagnant for several months in the war finally resumed, more merchant ships are expected to come here in the next quarter.

At the same time, under the shock of the rose crystal, these merchants are willing to lead their local caravans to other cities. On the one hand, you can set up shops in other cities, which is conducive to product sales, and on the other hand, it is also conducive to collecting more extraordinary information. At least after taking these slave city-states, Ryan obtained a lot of information about blood magic and shadow magic.

After dealing with government affairs for a few days, the time came to September of the 297th year of the Dragon Calendar. At this time, the autumn is high and the horses are fat, and it is also when the Dothraki people began to loot the south every year. According to tradition, they will definitely have large groups coming to Raza wilderness to rob. Ryan, on the other hand, planned to return to take advantage of the Dothraki concentration to kill several large troops.

After instructing the administrative officer and the commander of the garrison, Ryan took the rose crystal on his shoulders and boarded the steamboat returning to the Raza area with the farewell of a group of people.