Chapter 456: Second Shipment
After attending Lona's coming-of-age ceremony, Chino didn't stay too long in the Cold Valley, and after saying goodbye, he left for Twilight.
More than half a month later, on the 20th of "Canghan", the Bao caravan arrived again.
Last time, Bao's caravan was robbed in the kingdom, and all the dart divisions were wiped out, and everyone and goods were lost.
Pensions for the families of the dart masters, the value of the valuable goods themselves, compensation for breach of contract... These losses add up to enough to directly crush a large caravan.
But for the huge economy of Bao's caravan, this loss is not fatal, at most it is a small bleeding, and it will be over after the pain.
Moreover, what is the truth about the robbery of the caravan, Chino needless to say, and Po also knows it.
However, in this matter, Po suffered a huge dumb loss.
The larger the caravan, the dirtier the means, and this is the principle that does not change everywhere.
Ah Bao used the contract to trap Paladin before, but it was just a small measure of many means.
It should even be said that it was precisely because Paladin was the caravan steward of the Archacy Mansion in Twilight that Po made him face this "small means".
If you play big, Po has a hundred ways to play him to death.
Paladin is not the first businessman to be harmed by Po, nor will he be the last, he is just one of the countless victims, and Po has never relied on honesty to do business.
What? You say that integrity is the foundation of business?
Bullshit! The monopoly of resources and channels is!
What you want, only I can buy here, if you are obedient, I will sell it to you, otherwise you won't even be able to drink the soup!
What if I harm you? The whole market is in my hands, and if you want to do business with me, you must be as obedient as a dog, but if you dare to come forward, I will let your business not be done.
If anyone dares to challenge my monopoly position, I will nip him in the bud, and then use physical means to make him disappear from the world.
That's what business is all about!
Po is this mentality when dealing with Paladin, I just want to you, what?
Not only do I have to cut a few pounds of flesh off you, but I also make you have nowhere to say about your suffering, and in the end you have to continue to do business with me with a shy face.
This is a declaration of one's own hegemony, and at the same time a process of reshuffling.
Those who can take a breath and are willing to admit being pitted are "high-quality customers" in Bao's eyes, these people can see the situation clearly and are willing to be dogs, so they can also give a little favor after the stick, and leave soup for each other while eating meat, and they will not be killed.
And those who are unwilling to accept their fate and die to the end have no value to Po and are unwilling to kneel? Then lie down.
When the time comes, whether it is a run on the open acquisition or a covert physical erasure, he will do whatever it takes to make this kind of caravan disappear.
Just shuffle the cards, keep washing, and wait until the vast majority of people in the market are "high-quality customers", then even if you are successful, then add another claw to the golden robe, and become a "four-clawed golden dragon" will be just around the corner.
But Ah Bao never expected that he thought he was already ruthless, but he actually ran into a wolf like Chino.
It's not like Po hasn't encountered tough people before, but these people have followed a little rule, and everyone is fighting in court.
Chino is a good guy, without saying a word, he directly let the dart team evaporate from the world, swallowing all the goods, leaving no traces, if you have to say that the Bao caravan lost the goods, you have to claim compensation from the caravan.
It's like two people playing chess, he finds that he can't play you, flips the chessboard with his backhand, rushes over to PK with you in real time, beats you violently, and finally has to tell the referee - referee! I report! He hit my fist in the face!
Originally, when Bao encountered this kind of thing, he could pay liquidated damages to terminate the contract.
Who knew that Chino used the power in his hands to implicate the matter in the military field, saying that the loss of this batch of goods would affect the military deployment against foreign visitors, and even make the city full of storms, known to the world, and escalate into a diplomatic incident.
Although Bao is the founder of Bao's caravan and the nominal "boss", it is impossible for a caravan of this scale to be run by an individual, and it must need a backer, that is, a "boss behind the scenes".
Ah Bao is doing things for the imperial court, and the boss behind the scenes is in the temple, and he is the supreme true dragon son.
Once this matter escalates into a diplomatic incident and stabs the Son of Heaven, how will things develop in the future... But it's not for Po to control.
If it is not handled well, there will really be a diplomatic crisis, and it is hard to say whether he can keep the position of "boss in front of the stage"...
He is the person of the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven will naturally protect him, but there is also a premise.
The game between the top management is the replacement of interests, and the guarantor will only be protected when the interests are greater than the loss, if the insured person does not get the due income at a high cost, then the insured person is an abandoned child, and he will lose it.
Po can't afford to risk being treated as an outcast, so this matter must not escalate into a diplomatic incident, and he doesn't dare to bet.
Therefore, Po suffered a huge dumb loss here, he knew that the goods were robbed by Lugo, and he also knew that Lugo was instructed by Chino, and the weapon that killed more than 200 dart masters without any ammunition left must have been hunted by the Death Legion from visitors from the sky.
The whole ins and outs, Po actually understands it very clearly.
But there is no way, who let the family grasp the initiative, the handle falls into the hands of the other party, and he can only smash his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, trying to meet Chino's requirements as much as possible, in order to suppress the incident in the commercial category.
The second shipment of goods shipped by Bao, as agreed in the new contract, Chino only paid 10% of the market price.
Tiancai Dibao is an out-and-out monopoly market, and the profits, as Chino said, can reach an appalling 100 times the profits.
Now selling to Chino at 10% of the market price, in addition to the transportation costs along the way, although Po said that he did not lose money or post backwards, he was too uncomfortable in his mentality.
Watching other people's blood earn is more uncomfortable than losing oneself.
Moreover, in order to prevent Chino from making any moths, such as letting people rob the goods without saying a word, and then throwing the blame on the caravan, Ah Bao was extremely cautious when transporting the second batch of goods.
Abaoga sent several times the dart divisions, all armed to the teeth, and many of them were masters invited from the imperial court.
The caravan's pathfinder directly covered fifty miles around the caravan, and they were on duty 24 hours a day and night, and they had to report to the dart head for any trouble, and even a rabbit had to be searched out when they passed by.
Moreover, Ah Bao also specially used his identity as a three-clawed golden dragon to ask for help from the local defenders of Doguland in the city of entry, asking them to send someone to accompany him.
Ah Bao didn't expect the military literacy of the defenders of these kingdom cities to be high, he only regarded them as talismans - the death of a group of dart masters, and the death of a group of regular army of the kingdom, those are two concepts.
There are friendly forces, if Chino dares to kill people indiscriminately, it will inevitably attract the kingdom's investigation team, and Po believes that he will not dare to take such a risk!