'Damnit, how did he know it was the Roosevelt Merchant Alliance? That Black Devil Reynolds didn't let anyone from the Roosevelt Merchant Alliance appear, how did he know?
'Why is he so calm after knowing it's the Roosevelt Merchant Alliance? Is he doing it on purpose?
'Heavens, he is doing it on purpose, he is deliberately being silent, he is deliberately letting those who returned the cores return them at the original price, he isn't doing anything at all. Why is he doing this?
What benefit does it bring to the Gilded Rose?
In the past ten days, the sales of the Gilded Rose's universal use cores had plummeted by at least 60%, and with the returned universal use cores, the Gilded Rose might only have 10% of their original profits. Why wasn't he worried?
'If the reputation of the cores is completely ruined …
'What's his source of confidence?'
A lot of thoughts flashed in Dick's mind. He looked at Lin Yun's calm appearance and felt that it wasn't fake. It wasn't that he wasn't worried, he really wasn't worried at all.
"Sir Mafa, aren't you worried at all?"
Dick couldn't help asking after the original negotiation plan was scrapped.
Lin Yun was a bit doubtful.
"Why should I be worried? Since those people aren't prepared to buy the cores, then don't use them in the future.
"I believe that anyone with a bit of brain knows the truth. Everyone knows what the cores are like. If someone thinks that they can't be sold, then just wait.
"I don't care, the cores won't be sold publicly, I'll only give them to my collaborators. In any case, the production was very low to begin with, so the pressure to sell them publicly is huge."
Dick was at a loss, he looked like he was constipated. Not only was the original negotiation plan ruined, but the backup plan was also completely useless.
Those who had used the cores knew what they were like, and those who knew the benefits wouldn't be able to give up on them.
'Indeed, the Gilded Rose's production of the cores is very low and unstable, they simply don't accept orders. They're selling them publicly in order to distribute them. Even if they don't sell them publicly, there are still many people who want them.
They don't have to worry about not being able to sell them, they will always be in short supply.
'Damnit, that guy is so confident, how are we going to talk about cooperation? The other party did not care about the slander of the Universal Core by those idiots from the Roosevelt Merchant Alliance. At most, they would just not sell it …
If it wasn't publicly sold, the Gilded Rose's partners would go crazy with joy. Their supply would immediately increase and their profits would increase, while the Gilded Rose's profits wouldn't be affected at all.
Dick thought for half a minute, but he couldn't think of a way to use this matter to dig out a piece of meat from the Gilded Rose's mouth. His plan to take advantage of them had thoroughly failed, but he couldn't give up on the Universal Core.
"Sir Mafa, in fact, I came here on behalf of the Lincoln Merchant Alliance to discuss cooperation with the Gilded Rose regarding the Universal Core's cooperation in the Sten Kingdom."
After thinking about it, Dick decided to treat this negotiation as an ordinary one.
A smile flashed in Lin Yun's eyes. In this kind of negotiation, who was asking for a favor was very important. If Dick felt that the Gilded Rose urgently needed the Lincoln Merchant Alliance, then this negotiation wouldn't be able to continue. The other side might even ask for more and more harsh conditions.
But if the Gilded Rose didn't have any use for the Lincoln Merchant Alliance, and with the uniqueness of the Universal Core, then the Lincoln Merchant Alliance would need the Gilded Rose. With this prerequisite, the negotiation would continue and the Gilded Rose would be able to ask for more.
But what he said before was true, because the Universal Core truly didn't need to worry about not being able to sell. At worst, they wouldn't publicly sell it and would only satisfy their partners. This would be even more beneficial to the Gilded Rose. The reason they had chosen to publicly sell it was only to increase the Gilded Rose's reputation and establish their network in the Odin Kingdom as fast as possible.
But it now looked like this kind of short-sighted method had a lot of hidden dangers, so they might as well take the opportunity to clean up some unqualified partners.
Some thoughts flashed in Lin Yun 'mind, and a regretful expression appeared on his face.
"Sir Dick, regarding the cooperation with the Universal Core, I'm really sorry. The Gilded Rose simply doesn't have that much supply. The materials are too rare, and the extraction and extraction of the materials are too troublesome. The rejection rate is very high, and if the Universal Core is rejected once, the material can no longer be used.
"That's why we can't increase the quantity. We've been accumulating for a long time to have the current supply. Although many Universal Cores have been returned recently, they have all been bought by the Gilded Rose's partners.
"City in the Sky alone has already bought ten thousand, and they are preparing to buy all the returned Universal Cores. Unfortunately, there are too many partners, so we have to take care of them all. Thus, we still owe City in the Sky ten thousand. After all, they have the closest relationship with the Gilded Rose, so no matter what, I have to guarantee their needs first.
"As for selling the Universal Cores to the Sten Kingdom, I'm really sorry, Sir Dick, the Gilded Rose doesn't have that many.
"Maybe in a few years, when the Gilded Rose's technology improves again and their production increases, we might consider selling the Universal Cores to the Sten Kingdom.
"Naturally, at that time, I'll definitely give priority to Sir Dick's Lincoln Merchant Alliance."
Dick had a constipated expression. All his countermeasures were useless, and he had even taken a step back and changed his original plan, but he hadn't expected that this would be the result.
Lin Yun had said everything he needed to say, so what else could he say? Things that were in short supply were given priority to their partners, who could say anything? They couldn't find a single flaw. It could only be said that the Gilded Rose had a good reputation and was nostalgic. This kind of person was the most suitable partner. He would never have to worry about the other side kicking him away when they had greater benefits.
He hadn't expected to be rejected, and he hadn't expected to use the excuse of low production as an excuse. Dick's head was about to explode, and he couldn't think of a way to continue the negotiations. It was a perfect reason, an impeccable reason.
And it was a reason that everyone knew. Everyone knew that the Gilded Rose's production of Universal Cores was very low, they were always in short supply.
No one thought that the Gilded Rose could mass-produce a Universal Core. Even if they sold it to their partners and gave them the best price, it would still be fifty thousand purple golds, and the retail price in the shops would be eighty thousand purple golds.
Who could imagine how high the profits would be? In any case, it definitely wouldn't be low. With such high profits, the demand couldn't keep up with the supply. The Gilded Rose would naturally sell as many as they could get, and one would be worth a lot of purple golds.
"Sir Dick personally came here, I'm really sorry for making you come here in vain. I can make the decision and take out twenty All-Purpose Cores. Moreover, as long as Sir Dick follows the price of our Gilded Rose's collaborator and pays fifty thousand purple golds for one core.
"I hope Sir Dick won't mind, these twenty are already the limit I can take out at the moment …"
Dick squeezed out a smile. The Lincoln Merchant Alliance naturally bought the Universal Cores, but they only bought back ten at a high price. Every time the Gilded Rose sold Universal Cores, the Lincoln Merchant Alliance wouldn't be able to buy a single one.
At first, they didn't pay much attention, but by the time they did, something had already happened to the Universal Cores. Many people started returning their goods to the Gilded Rose, and there were naturally others who wanted to buy them. Unfortunately, too many things had happened recently.
Even if the price was high, it would be very difficult to gain the trust of those buyers. They would either get a refund from the Gilded Rose, or they would be snatched up by others.
Now that the Gilded Rose didn't continue selling Universal Cores, it was very difficult to buy even one. Being able to buy twenty of them at once was definitely the largest transaction available on the market.
Dick smiled and straightforwardly paid a million purple golds before leaving with the twenty Universal Cores.
After Dick left, Faleau doubtfully asked a question.
"Sir Merlin, according to the information I gathered, half of the Sten Kingdom is a desert, while the other half is covered in ice and snow. Most of the two races live in their respective half of the territory. Although the communication is better now, the competition is still very fierce.
"The Lincoln Merchant Alliance is the main competitor of the Roosevelt Merchant Alliance. As long as the Lincoln Merchant Alliance is willing to help, the Roosevelt Merchant Alliance won't have the energy to deal with our Gilded Rose. Why are you …"
Lin Yun had a smile on his face.
"You want to ask why I refused to cooperate with Dick? Faleau, remember, the Sten Kingdom is different from Andalusia and the Odin Kingdom.
"The strongest force in the Andalusia Kingdom is the Mage Tower, they have the highest status. The royal family's status isn't that high, it is at most equivalent to a peak force in Andalusia.
"The Odin Kingdom's royal family is very powerful. It inherited some of the legacy of the 3rd Dynasty and its tentacles spread throughout the entire Odin Kingdom. The true royal family is definitely one of the most powerful forces in the Odin Kingdom.
"Next are the families with noble titles. These families are the mainstays of the Odin Kingdom. Those who only have noble titles or have appeared in the last millennium don't have good foundations. The power of the Mage Tower is rarely at the top of the Odin Kingdom.
"The Sten Kingdom's authority and everything is in the hands of these merchant alliances. None of the members of these merchant alliances are pure mages. They are the mages in Noscent who are the best at doing business, they only chase after benefits.
"If I had directly agreed to cooperate, then I would have been waiting for the other side to demand an exorbitant price. Moreover, if I hadn't agreed, these vampires who can smell purple golds from over ten thousand kilometers away might have done something else …"
Faleau nodded, but he still found it hard to understand.
Lin Yun didn't explain. As Noscent grew stronger and stronger, the Sten Kingdom's power would have caught up to the Odin Kingdom a few millennia later.
If it wasn't for the fact that the Odin Kingdom's most powerful forces had always been at the top, the Sten Kingdom wouldn't have had any bad intentions due to the deterrence of those human-shaped nuclear weapons.
By the time Noscent reached its peak, the ones whose tentacles extended to the endless planes weren't those mages or those powerful Mage Towers, but the Sten Kingdom's merchant alliances.
They gathered endless wealth, and when Noscent started building the Shelter Tower, more than half of the wealth was provided by the Sten Kingdom's merchant alliances.
Although these vampires wanted to squeeze every drop of blood out of everyone, in the future, the Sten Kingdom's merchant alliances enjoyed the reputation of being vampires in human skin in the endless planes.
They only relied on commercial means to conquer many planes. This kind of thing was a joke in this era.
Seven millennia later, the Lincoln Merchant Alliance discovered a plane controlled by the Beastmen. After a few dozen years, all the Beastmen were squeezed dry of their wealth. Everything the Beastmen used, ate, and learned was provided by the merchant alliance. The Beastmen could only crazily dig for resources and exchange for everything they wanted from the Lincoln Merchant Alliance.
Conquering a plane without shedding a drop of blood, and even reducing the development cost of the plane by a few times. This kind of case would become a textbook of the Sten Kingdom in the future.
Lin Yun didn't underestimate the power of these merchant alliances. When wealth gathered to a certain degree, it might be even more frightening than powerful spells.
Although the future Lincoln Merchant Alliance would be a typical vampiric merchant alliance, let alone ten thousand years later, even three thousand years later, the current Lincoln Merchant Alliance would still be a rookie merchant alliance that would be eliminated by their opponents sooner or later.
Cooperating with the Lincoln Merchant Alliance was the best choice. They could slowly infiltrate the Sten Kingdom and plant a seed for the Gilded Rose to invade the Sten Kingdom in the future.
After the Lincoln Merchant Alliance obtained the Universal Core, they would inevitably suppress their old rival, the Roosevelt Merchant Alliance. As long as one of the two merchant alliances had this kind of advantage, it would only be a matter of time before they overwhelmed the other.
If the Roosevelt Merchant Alliance's headquarters was about to be crushed by their opponents, they wouldn't have the energy to use a large amount of manpower, resources, and connections to deal with the Gilded Rose. They might even end up dead.
This was a beneficial cooperation for the Gilded Rose and the Lincoln Merchant Alliance. For now, Lin Yun would ignore the Lincoln Merchant Alliance, mainly because he had other ideas.
When he saw Dick, Lin Yun thought of many things. Besides confirming that the Roosevelt Merchant Alliance was behind the Gilded Rose's discrediting, he also thought of something else.
As Noscent's mana started flowing, the Sten Kingdom's Vampires had no choice but to bleed and take out a large amount of wealth to help build the Shelter Tower.
Being able to take out so much wealth was the accumulation of the Sten Kingdom's merchant alliance over the years. One of the materials that Noscent didn't produce came from the Lincoln Merchant Alliance.
That was a new fusion material that was created 18,000 years later. The Lincoln Merchant Alliance held onto that new material for over a thousand years, and it was only after over a thousand years that the new material was created by someone else.
Because the raw material of that new fusion material was a newly discovered material, and that material was discovered in a plane controlled by the Lincoln Merchant Alliance. That was a Bone Plane, a plane whose power was far inferior to the Undead Plane. The strongest Undead lifeform there barely reached level 40.
The other minerals in that Bone Plane were of very high quality, but that new material called Black Sand was like Magic Iron to the Puppet Plane.
The Black Sand produced there was used as a material to fuse with the new fusion material. With the demand of the Shelter Tower, even if a hundred Shelter Towers were built, the Black Sand wouldn't be used up.
And now, that plane still hadn't been discovered by the Lincoln Merchant Alliance. In fact, that Planar Path had been discovered by the Lincoln Merchant Alliance for a few millennia before being used. It was usually used as a hidden warehouse.
The location of the Planar Path was in the territory controlled by the Lincoln Merchant Alliance, but Lin Yun didn't know where it was, because the records only had a rough location. Moreover, that location wasn't too valuable to the current Lincoln Merchant Alliance.
After all, this wasn't the future era where the population was exploding. Apart from the cities, most of Noscent's land was in the wilderness, and the land utilization rate was too low. It wasn't like a few dozen millennia later, where they would have to run to another plane to hunt a magic beast.
Lin Yun took out a piece of paper and combined it with the information collected by Faleau. He calculated the approximate location of the Planar Path on the map, and combined it with the detailed information of the Lincoln Merchant Alliance, he quickly calculated its approximate location.
Looking at the rough location, a smile appeared at the corner of Lin Yun's mouth.
Searching for the Planar Path was a very time-consuming task. Moreover, the location of the Planar Path wasn't too far from the city. If they went just like that, they might be discovered by others. At that time, it would be impossible to monopolize it.
Even if it was a Bone Plane that wasn't too valuable to the current people.
Thus, he had to have a legitimate reason to appear in the Stop Kingdom, and he had to have enough reason to secretly search for the location of the Planar Path.
Lin Yun stayed in the Gilded Rose and calmly waited. Lin Yun no longer paid attention to the rumors spreading outside about the Gilded Rose's universal core. Some people came to return the goods, and the Gilded Rose also straightforwardly returned the goods. Even the universal core was no longer publicly sold, it was only provided to a few loyal collaborators.
Even the Gilded Rose's employees that resigned were also straightforwardly released. Lin Yun wasn't afraid of those alchemists leaking anything. They had signed a contract with Lord Shawn himself. It would be strange if they leaked some of the Gilded Rose's secrets.
'Someone in this era can break Lord Shawn's contract? What a joke, there wouldn't be such a technique in the next twenty thousand years. '
Cleaning up the hidden dangers, cleaning up the restless collaborators and employees, everything was carried out in secret. No one knew what the Gilded Rose's goal was. Those who could clearly see this matter felt that something was wrong, while those who couldn't see clearly kept shouting that the Gilded Rose wouldn't be able to hold on any longer.
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