There is a saying that after all impossible situations are eliminated, the remaining one, no matter how unreasonable, is also the truth!

But he couldn't figure it out.

What's in it for them?

The market for the Magic Crystal Mine is so big, and the consumption capacity of the Silver City has never changed, and there is basically no hope for profit......

Why would he want to buy the Magic Crystal Mine?

Charles asked tentatively, "Father?" So we'll sell a few magic crystal mines to raise money? ”

“…… No! Don't sell it yet! I suspect Victor's intentions may be to get us to sell the Magic Crystal Mine! ”

Frank said coldly: "Although this possibility is very small, but excluding other factors, this is the most important choice we should make in the current situation - and this is probably the choice they want me to make, I just don't do it!" ”

When we don't know what to do, we only need to implement the most basic principle: we will not give what the enemy wants, and we will not do what the enemy wants us to do.

"But in that case......

Charles frowned slightly: "We won't be able to raise enough funds, once we fall into the quagmire of preparing for war, I'm afraid that our Kadir family's heritage will also be dragged down." ”

"Compared to us, the royal family is more worried about this situation."

Frank smiled tepidly and said, "The economic lifeline of the entire Illus Empire is controlled by our aristocratic faction, and less than one in ten falls into their hands. Why do they hold on to us? I'd love to see that happen – they're going to collapse first. ”

"Not only that," Frank continued, "even if we really can't bear it, let's not forget that we and the Spads are allies of the same interests. I don't think it's a problem to lend some money to them and give them some benefits in return. ”

Seeing that his father insisted on this, Charles had no choice but to agree to his plan.

It's not necessarily the right choice, but it's certainly not wrong, and that's enough for them.

Time is on their side.

Moulton was embarrassed next to him. He didn't understand what the eldest brother and his father were talking about......

Royal Palace of Illus.

"Frank, that old thing, standing still?"

Hearing Aubrey's return, Victor frowned, "Could it be that he saw through our intentions?" ”

"With all due respect, Your Majesty."

Adrien couldn't help but say, "This really isn't a conspiracy - our goal is very obvious. Frank is not a fool, he is bound to guess what we think. ”

"Guess what?"

Obery disagreed: "It wasn't intended to be a conspiracy from the start. ”

"Not bad."

Victor agreed: "Baron Don's plan is a conspiracy - what if they know what we are up to?" We've made it clear that what we want is the Magic Crystal Mine in your hands! Letting go or not letting go? Don't let go? The implementation of the proposed interim regulations will hit the Kadir family hard. Ruthless to let go? We will have a head start in the era that follows, and they will be eliminated as well. ”

If it is a different clause. Victor: They will also worry that they will not be able to implement it because they have touched too many interests. But what about the legal provisions related to mines...... Hehe, there are only two mining giants in the entire Illuth Empire, one is the Spad family, and the other is the Kadir family, and the other scattered small mines can't stand much influence at all.

As soon as the new policy is implemented, the fool will know that it is the royal faction that has begun to attack the leaders of the aristocratic faction.

Victor really didn't want to do that unless he had to—if it weren't for Donn's "identity", Victor wouldn't have had the courage to mess around with him like this. This one is not careful, but it is in danger of destroying the country and extinction......

Under the calm waters, the dark tide is turbulent. Many merchants with a keen sense of smell have already sensed the slightest smell of gunpowder, especially in the last few days, the Grand Duke of Aubury has been uncharacteristically inspecting the First Legion of the Empire every day, as well as several new temporary regulations issued by His Majesty Victor - although they have not yet been implemented, because of the fear of raising taxes, many sensitive merchants have quickly sold the magic crystals they have hoarded in their hands and rushed to sell them, as a result, the price of standard magic crystals in the market has dropped by one gold coin, and it is still falling rapidly.

In the black market, the price of smuggled standard magic crystals has dropped from 90 gold coins to 85 gold coins, but because no taxes are paid, the profit is still much higher than what is sold in the market.

The market for the magic crystals of the Illuth Empire is so big, in just a few days, the shipments are out of control, and the oversaturation of the market has caused the magic crystals to be completely unsold!

They can't export to Silver City if they want to, because the export tax has already begun.

Even if some speculative merchants wanted to take the opportunity to stock up on some magic crystals, they couldn't eat much of the huge amount in the market, and they couldn't make any waves at all, but instead made those merchants who were eager to get rid of them sell even more.

Clear-eyed people know that His Majesty Victor has released his long-standing anger, and the target is the Kadir family - as for the Spad family, if a war against these two families is launched at one time, I am afraid that the economy of the entire Illus Empire will completely collapse, and Victor does not dare to take this risk, so the Sparder family is temporarily sitting firmly in the Diaoyutai - they don't do magic crystal business, so they just watch the show.

The most unfortunate thing is the business alliance.

As a closed circle, they can't find their next home when they want to get rid of it.

"Good afternoon, President Neander, I have a batch of inexpensive magic crystals here, would you like to take a look? A large amount is preferred. ”

"President Ryan, you're really joking, I also have a batch of magic crystals here that I'm going to deal with, I don't know if you're interested?"

“……”

“……”

"Why don't we go to Leander?"

"yes, he should be interested......"

The big chambers of commerce that make up the Illus Business Alliance are basically the top chambers of commerce in the Illus Empire, and the goods they hoard are not a little bit, except for their internal chambers of commerce, those miscellaneous chambers of commerce outside really don't have the ability to take over their resources.

This also led to a gloomy cloud within the business alliance at the moment, each of them had more or less hoarded some magic crystals on hand, after all, this thing is not expensive, it is not cheap, it is not cheap, and when it is low, it can be transported to the Silver City with other goods and can make a lot of money when it is bought, so they are all happy to hoard magic crystals.

But now that the policy has come down, they are all panicking.

The excise tax on luxury goods is as high as 50%!

The standard magic crystal, which originally cost 70 gold coins and sold for 100 gold coins, will be taxed at 50 gold coins! Even without counting the storage costs, there is a net loss of twenty gold coins!

Unless the price rises to one hundred and fifty gold coins, then each standard mana crystal will only earn five gold coins - not to mention that the big consumers of mana crystals, that is, those mages and masters, will not tolerate the price increase so much.

What to do?

"The first priority now is to find a way to get rid of the hoarded mana crystals."

Sidney's mood has not been good since he lost the Deep Sea Orb: "Secondly, it is to find a way to launch a joint protest and ask His Majesty Victor to retract this idea. ”

"Viscount Sidney, don't forget that His Majesty Victor no longer represents the interests of the nobles now, he is on our side."

A person next to him reminded: "It can make us lose a lot of wealth, and it can make him collect huge taxes, of course he is willing to do it, how can he change it." ”

It is strange to say that the merchants and the aristocracy are two incompatible classes, but the merchant alliance, these merchants dressed in aristocratic skin, joined the aristocratic faction to fight against the royal faction, which may be the contradiction between the vested interests and the reformers.

"Now the only hope is to count on Grand Duke Frank, Victor is doing this, but cutting flesh on him, how long can he endure it......"

Sidney muttered to himself, "Besides, I'm afraid it's ...... to get rid of the magic crystal."

"That's right! What about the Datang Chamber of Commerce? ”

One person suddenly said, "If you remember correctly, those products sold by the Datang Chamber of Commerce require the consumption of magic crystals, right?" At this time, they should take advantage of the low price to absorb the magic crystal, other chambers of commerce are not capable, and the Datang Chamber of Commerce should have the ability to absorb some of them. ”

Everyone in the business alliance knows how strong the Datang Chamber of Commerce is to attract money, even though the business alliance has launched a joint blockade against them, but the embarrassing thing is that the Datang Chamber of Commerce does not need any supply of raw materials at all, nor does it need any sales channels - its goods are produced in Ellington, and the sales are direct sales models.

It completely ignores the blockade of the business alliance, and sells things that should be sold, and I am afraid that the only trouble that this so-called blockade will cause to the Datang merchant is that his employees will have a little trouble when they eat out, because the tavern that sells food nearby is the property of the business alliance.

This makes the blockade sanctions of the business alliance a joke.

"That's right!"

The man's eyes lit up: "I heard that the Datang Chamber of Commerce has been absorbing magic crystals in the market recently, although the price is very low, but now it can at least protect the capital without losing money!" I have nearly 100,000 magic crystals piled up in my warehouse, and if I don't get rid of them as soon as possible before the tax increase, I will lose money in this wave. ”

"But we're locking down the Datang Chamber of Commerce right now, wouldn't we be slapping ourselves in the face if we sell things to them......?"

As soon as this person's voice fell, a group of people changed their faces together, embarrassed and embarrassed.

President Sidney, in particular, had a flushed and white face, and he didn't know how to face the eyes of the members.

never expected that the sanctions against the Datang Chamber of Commerce would eventually turn into sanctions against themselves...... (To be continued.) )