Chapter 464

How many people are there in the golden regiment now?

Barol doesn't know. He is responsible for cultivating the inner line of mercury. The inner line develops the outer line alone. The outer line is the coachman, gangster, black market merchant, tavern owner, grocery store owner who rely on the golden regiment to support his family. During this time, Barol has been entangled with the masked brotherhood in Dengshi City, and the mercury inside line of Gambis has developed by itself. When he came back, he began to deal with the internal affairs of Gambis mercury. At present, the information he has learned is not comprehensive. He only knows a general situation: there are only 7000 or 8000 peripheral members.

Since barrol is only responsible to victor, Lilia doesn't know how many people there are in the golden regiment. What she mastered were smuggling caravans and strongholds. The total number of smuggled mercenaries and mountain people is close to 20000.

The channels, terminals and information of the golden group belong to each other, and Lilia and barrol do not know each other. The person who should know the details of the golden group is Victor, the founder. But Barol doesn't know the number of peripheral members now. What can Victor know?

All he knew was that the profits created by the gold group were far from meeting expectations.

It was thought that the three-and-a-half-year-old golden regiment was still a small cow and needed careful feeding... Unexpectedly, it has become a big fat cow!

But what about the agreed milk?

Viscount Randall decided to understand the two most critical issues:

Who shared my money? How are they divided?

Thus, Barol, the mercury leader, gave an example while wiping his sweat:

Baron Schultz is rich in mahogany, sedge candles and charcoal, and lacks herbs equipped with body strengthening drugs, such as red tendon grass, blue thorn fruit and Tieniu flower. The smuggling caravan of the gold regiment was led by Schultz. The mercury inner line developed an outer line merchant in mahogany town. He took preserves, soap and all kinds of mountain goods from the smuggling Caravan and sold them to the outside. Among them, including the herbs urgently needed by the Schultz family.

When the outside vendors made money, they bought carriages at the first time, rented two public transport lines, and donated money to the church regularly. He was therefore sheltered by the father.

With the public carriage line connected to Schultz collar, the volume of smuggled goods increased sharply, and bulk goods such as lard, bacon and oil canvas began to appear in the market of mahogany town. This attracted Baron Schultz's attention. However, due to the good relationship between the outside vendor and the priest, the goods he sold met the needs of Schultz. The Baron did not take violent measures against the merchant, but sent someone to investigate his details.

The conclusion of the investigation was that the free merchant had a relationship with the coachman in the neighboring territory and used the public carriage to smuggle yeliucheng's goods to Schultz for profit.

Vendors and Coachmans work together to resell goods and evade transit tax, which damages the interests of neighbors. On the contrary, Schultz collar has an additional trade channel, and the commodity price is relatively cheap. Baron Schultz turned a blind eye to the audacious free merchant and even secretly defended him.

Outside vendors have become popular, raising more than 20 thugs, selling several shops, hiring clerks and Coachmans, renting more public carriage routes, handing over offerings to the public security office and donating money to the church, which seems to have become the No. 1 figure in mahogany town.

However, things have changed interestingly. The villagers led by Schultz mixed cheap lard and butter to make a new sedge candle. It has strong taste, low brightness and is not resistant to burning, but the cost is only one fifth of that of butter green salsa candle. The villagers were originally for their own use, but outside vendors saw business opportunities. He purchased a large number of oil mixed candles at the price of 2 copper sols and 5, and then sold them to outside vendors in other territories at the price of 2 copper sols and 3. Since outside vendors began to ship goods in public carriages, of course, other specialties led by Schultz are indispensable. And his purchase price is much higher than that of the caravan.

There are many kinds of gold group outside line shipments, the price is cheap, and the price of purchased goods is reasonable. Baron Schultz could hardly laugh. He chose to turn a blind eye to the behavior of yeliucheng materials resold by outside vendors through public carriages.

Outside vendors have formed deep interests with gangs, village heads, police stations, priests and even Baron Schultz himself. It's easy to kill a peddler, and it's easy to replace him, but this refugee merchant spontaneously formed a trade channel that can't be cut off. Otherwise, the Schultz family's loss is far greater than the income from collecting transit tax.

Baron Schultz's oil mixed candle finally lit up the refugee shanty town of deepwater city at the price of 2 copper sols and 1 root.

Mercury's inner line is the same, and the outer line merchants of the golden regiment are now all over the major towns of the kingdom of Gambis.

Nelson, Barrett and Todd were amazed. A key word appeared in Victor's mind: Savage growth.

Mercury's inner line points out a way to make money, and the black market vendors on the outer line expand the gold group themselves. Black market vendors independently complete short-term transportation, warehousing, procurement, sales, security and other links. Each link needs manpower, and each person has his own family and friends behind him. In other words, the current members of the gold regiment include 20000 mountain people, more than 300 black merchants, more than 6000 thugs, the same number of guys, and tens of thousands of family members.

So many people eat on the plates of the golden group. How much more can the Randall family have left?

Of course, savage growth was in line with Victor's original vision. When the Randall family is short of money and few people, they must fully mobilize the enthusiasm of the refugees by transferring profits, so as to use their financial and human resources to expand the whole organization. Therefore, in just a few years, the golden group has become a behemoth.

However, savage growth means out of control.

In the operation mode of the golden group, the mercury inside line hides behind the scenes, contacts black market businessmen, and distributes Randall's goods layer by layer through the public transport network and local fairs. The Randall family made money. The smuggling caravan, small lords, FengChen village chiefs and black market businessmen all received profits. They also supported a large number of rickshaw drivers, gang thugs and shop assistants.

On the surface, everyone seems happy, but the total economic output of the gold group exceeds one million gold sols every year. Victor only shared a small part of the benefits. How could he be reconciled? Like Schultz's candle business, Victor also wanted to share a piece of meat, but he couldn't even drink a mouthful of soup.

Victor doesn't need to handle the candle business. Of course he can't get meat. In fact, the black market vendors do not know the name of the golden regiment, nor do they know any big boss behind the scenes. They just want to curry favor with the local lords and priests. Worst of all, after the black merchants and small lords joined hands to open up the public transportation network, they no longer rely on the mountain road channels opened by the smuggling caravan.

This will seriously weaken Victor's control over the golden mission.

The gold group is huge and bloated, with loose organizational structure, no unified pricing strategy, no cost control of all links, and no clear benefit distribution plan. If entrepreneurs on earth travel to this world and see the situation of the golden group, they will certainly say: this thing is not as good as bankruptcy and reorganization.

Victor said slowly, "I'm not satisfied with the current situation of the golden regiment!" After a pause, he added, "we get too little money."

Nelson was stunned and muttered, "Sir, I think it's ok... Last year, I got 3000 kinsol!"

The gold regiment has a dividend distribution scheme within Randall family. The money earned by each smuggling caravan is deducted from various costs, Victor takes half, and the rest is distributed according to shares. At present, the Randall family has 37 smuggling caravans. Last year, the net profit was 60000 gold sols, and Nelson accounted for 10% of the shares, so he divided 3000 gold sols. Victor also had 30000 more kinsol's private money. But I'm afraid this money is less than a fraction of the annual income of the gold league.

Victor sighed, shook his head and said, "would you be so happy if the total trading volume of the gold group exceeded one million gold sols last year?"

Nelson took a cold breath and exclaimed, "how can there be so many?"

"Isn't it incredible? I can't tell you clearly about things in the field of commodity circulation. As long as you know, there are nearly 100000 people who live on gold groups. This number is not surprising!"

Victor broke his fingers and said: "The gold regiment now has two trade channels, the mountain road for precious goods and the public carriage for reselling bulk goods. In fact, the wealth created by the public carriage channel is more than ten times more than the mountain road! Local lords, churches, village chiefs, black merchants, villain thugs, Coachmans and shop assistants make money through the two trade channels of the gold regiment at the same time. Our income only comes from smuggling The mountain road channel and public transport channel of the caravan have nothing to do with us! "

"I started the golden group, but they earn more than us! Why?"

Victor looked around, and his eyes finally fell on the old spy barrow.

"Because most outside vendors don't listen to us." Barol replied calmly.

"Don't listen to us... You're right!"

Victor smiled: "20000 mountain people in the mountain road stronghold listen to us. The smuggling caravan can easily recruit 1400 mountain people mercenaries. The peripheral members of the gold regiment have at least 70000 or 80000 people, but mercury can only dispatch dozens of reliable people... This is because we can't effectively control outside vendors."

Nelson looked contemptuously at barrow, who had just been subdued by the tone of the old spy.

Mingming can only dispatch dozens of people, but he wants to talk about more than 6000 thugs. No matter how many thugs don't listen to you, it's useless! Fortunately, your excellency is wise and sees through the old liar. It's still our bear mercenaries who are most useful to adults... Nelson thought complacently.

Victor took Nelson's expression into his eyes, waved and said, "the black merchant doesn't listen to the assignment. The responsibility lies with me. It has nothing to do with mercury."

"Your Excellency is wise." Barol bowed in a respectful manner.

"How can we make the black merchants obedient?" Victor knocked on the table and raised his chin at Nelson. "Tell me... Don't look left and right, I'm talking about you."

"Ah? Ask me?" Nelson pointed to his nose and saw Victor nodding. He touched the back of his head hard, pretending to be silent and said, "well... I think to make businessmen obedient, we must first find out why they are not obedient? I think... I'm thinking, why can they make millions of gold sol every year? This problem is very important!"

Victor was surprised that Nelson, a guy who knew nothing about business and trade, could ask the point directly. This was his natural wisdom.

Victor said kindly: "Reprocessing, reproduction and resale... Take Baron Schultz for example. We sell cheap lard. The coachman of the public carriage transports the lard to Schultz and only adds a freight in the middle. Baron Schultz produces candles with cheap lard and sells them to businessmen, who sell them to refugee families. Is this more profitable than reselling lard?"

"Oh, so it is." Nelson rubbed the stubble on his chin, shook his head and said, "the candle business has nothing to do with us. No wonder those businessmen don't listen to us."

"The truth is this truth, but they use the channel of the golden group." Victor said rudely, "I just want them to be obedient and give us a share of the candle business. What do you say?"

Nelson thought for a long time, shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands. "I don't know."

Victor shook his head and laughed. His eyes turned to Barol.

Barol showed a flattering and cunning smile: "Sir, you have arranged the means to restrict the vendors in advance."