September late autumn.

In a golden maple leaf forest in front of the castle, amid the blessings of many guests and friends, a new couple officially became husband and wife.

This new couple is naturally Zhou Ming and Fanny.

The newlyweds, perhaps out of the guilt left behind in the previous life, Zhou Ming temporarily threw away his worries, rode his horse, took his wife Fanny to spend a honeymoon outside for more than a month.

In the past month, the two of them went to see the snow-capped mountains in the east, the grasslands in the north, hunted in the forests, and traveled by the lakes. Whenever the stars in the night sky were high, they were covered with the sky and lingering, which wiped out the worries in their hearts and forgot the glory of the world.

This period of time was the happiest time in his wife Fanny's life.

...

Shortly after the honeymoon.

Zhou Ming, who had some clear thoughts in his mind, walked to his father Baron Conner's study with a roll of parchment paper full of words.

"Is this really OK?"

It took more than an hour to read hundreds of lines of text on the parchment paper, Baron Conner patted his somewhat swollen brain, and had not completely digested the huge amount of information on the parchment paper.

"Dad who will definitely do it! As long as there are three baron leaders who are willing to join this plan, within five years, our Glen Corps will become the richest territory in the entire Kingdom of Voris!"

Zhou Ming is full of confidence!

This "Free Business Alliance" plan, which he thought about and spent more than a month, will be launched to the public and received responses from three to five surrounding territories. After tasting a certain amount of sweetness, it will probably not take long. Even the greedy and stingy lord will involuntarily join the plan under the induced huge benefits.

In the "Free Business Alliance" drafted by Zhou Ming, the main plan is to lead the establishment of a commercial alliance, and then bring all the surrounding areas such as Bordo, Yoken, Nathan, and Parton (affiliated with the Northern Earl Merlin) into this business alliance!

For this business alliance, Zhou Ming also formulated several core rules that all members of the business alliance must strictly abide by. If these rules are violated, they will be subject to restrictions and severe punishment from the business alliance!

The core rules of "Free Business Alliance" are mainly five:

1. All commercial activities involving lords among all territories shall follow the principle of tax exemption.

(That is, Lord a sells all his goods to Lord b who lacks the goods. After Lord b buys these goods, he will not pay additional taxes to Lord a, and vice versa)

2. All commercial activities involving lords among all territories shall follow the principle of tax exemption.

(That is, when Lord A sells all his goods to Lord B who lacks the goods, if there is a lord c between the two territories of A, then the Lord C, as long as he joins the Free Trade Alliance, will not be taxed on these goods, and these goods should be allowed to pass through his territory for free. On the contrary, Lord C, when Lord C, passes through Lord A's territory, Lord A is not taxed.)

3. In each lord's territory, other lords should be allowed to establish a fully functional sales and warehousing center on their territory, and to conduct regular information updates and exchanges with commodity supply and demand information centers. If goods transactions occur here, the local lord can only collect a maximum of 20% of the trade tax. If the local lord conducts transactions here, the first tax exemption principle should be abide by.

4. Each lord's territorial territory should formulate a unified tax rate for travelers from all over the country. If a local territorial trader transports foreign goods into the Merchant Alliance area for sale, each lord can charge no more than 50% of the commercial tax. If a local territorial trader transports goods from the Merchant Alliance to the non-merchant Alliance area for sale, it will enjoy the second territorial tax exemption policy. If the Merchant Alliance goods are sold within the Merchant Alliance, the Merchant Alliance will enjoy the third policy preferential, that is, only a maximum of 20% of the commercial tax will be levied.

5. The lords of all territories shall abide by the agreements of the Merchant Alliance and shall not forcefully buy and sell, impose taxes and destroy regulations. If there is any violation, they will be subject to collective sanctions by all members of the Merchant Alliance until they change their course and accept their mistakes and are punished. The sanctions will be lifted.

Focusing on the five core points, Zhou Ming also formulated some additional clauses to ensure that under various circumstances, all members of the Free Trade Union can strictly abide by these five clauses and dare not exceed half a step.

"Dear Edward, how can you guarantee that the terms you set will be strictly observed by other lords? Moreover, the lords from all over the world seem to have no goods and are worth trading with other lords. In most cases, the terms you wrote are useless, and these terms are so cumbersome and troublesome... I think there will be no baron who will join you, the Free Trade Alliance."

Baron Kang'an was not optimistic about Zhou Ming's plan. All territories in the world are basically self-sufficient and closed. Only gold, silver, copper, salt, iron cloth, and other items with attributes such as currency circulation, human body, and commonly used in wars have certain flow characteristics.

For example, food, cattle and sheep, wood, stone, and other territories are not short of food. Only in some special circumstances will it become in short supply, such as war, famine, etc.

Therefore, if Zhou Ming wants to make an idea on these goods, he will only feel disappointed.

Zhou Ming smiled mysteriously and said confidently: "Dad, it doesn't matter if it is useful to establish the Free Trade Alliance. You have to try it and know it after you try it. Dad, you give me all the 200,000 Taron grains accumulated in the castle granary and let Teacher Morris and others be my helpers. I am sure that within six months, use the power of the Free Trade Alliance to sell all the grains!"

200,000 Talun grains sold out in half a year?

Baron Connor shook his head and refused to believe it, and seriously questioned it.

Although he admitted that sometimes, this son was indeed a little smarter than him, he couldn't believe that he had sold all the grain of the castle granary in half a year and had accumulated more than 10 years of food and killed him.

Because it is Baron Connor himself who sells up to 20,000 taron's grain a year through countless channels of travelers.

But no matter what, since his son is so confident and seems to have never let him down since he was a child, let him try it out and sell out a large amount of food that is rotten every year, which can be regarded as a heart-wrenching problem in his heart.

...

So, in the next month, Zhou Ming carried out a series of "diplomatic" activities, trying his best to win over the surrounding lords and invite them to join the "Free Business Alliance" of Glen.

"What? Free Business Alliance, what the hell? Not interested, I'll send guests away." Baron Garcia, led by Berdo, was not interested in Zhou Ming and drove him away with a bad temper.

"Boy, can you really earn more than 10,000 gold coins in half a year after joining this free business alliance? Do you dare to make a promise? If there is no such number, you will make me a supply? Okay, I will participate, as long as I can get so much money!"

Baron Howard, who was in charge of the Jokan, has always been very concerned about the business of the territory. His Jokan possession is very large, but there are many barren lands. He is troubled by financial crises every year. Now he has a chance to make money on his doorstep, so he will naturally not let it go.

"Good son-in-law, just do whatever you want. Don't have to make a note for me, how much you can earn! Also, your own business alliance has a very good idea. I support you to try it!"

Baron Sean has nothing to say. His son-in-law wants to do something big, so he must support him as a father-in-law. Moreover, since he introduced some advanced agricultural technologies such as centralized manure and improving agricultural tools from Glen Leader a few years ago, Nathan Leader has also had the problem of unsalable food. Now Zhou Ming said that he could help him solve it together, that would be even better.

With the addition of two members, Zhou Ming's final goal was put on Parton's territory in Earl Merlin.

Parton was a northern neighbor adjacent to the border with the Gran Territory. However, due to the "North-South dispute" of the upper class of the kingdom, the relationship between the two territories was not very good, so they would not fight every year, but they also had little contact.

"Knight Edward, are you really willing to accept my son and let him be your knight attendant when he is 12 years old?"

The lord of Parton, Baron Romon, was very disgusted with all the "Southern Guys" and felt that they were even more annoying than the savages in the north. After hearing the purpose of Zhou Ming coming to visit, he wanted to knock him away, but before he could speak, he heard that Zhou Ming wanted to accept his 8-year-old son Eric as his attendant and would train him to become an excellent knight, Baron Romon immediately changed his mind and had a detailed interview with him.

Unlike the warm and prosperous south where the "Southerns" live, the cold and long winter north has always been synonymous with poverty and is often faced with the harassment of savages in the north. Therefore, the knights in the north are known for their bravery because they are too poor. Although most of the baron territories in the north are very large, there are few knights supported. Even aristocrats like Baron Romon do not need to consider the future of their eldest son, they often don’t know how to arrange for the second son.

In the economic situation of the north, if you want to buy a set of knight equipment, it will take at least several generations to accumulate. In a family, you can provide more than two knights, which is something that the Count has the conditions to do.

Therefore, once the eldest son inherits the title and territory, the exiled second sons often have a very miserable fate. They either become mercenaries, or become loggerheads or horse-raising grooms.

Baron Romon likes his 8-year-old son Eric very much, and is also worried about his future, not knowing how to arrange him in the future.

However, he didn't expect that he had the opportunity to come here today. It was a knight attendant and helped to solve the equipment purchase cost. He was a little moved.

Not only that, after hearing the purpose of coming to Parton's Collar, Baron Romon, who was burly and had many barons on his face, couldn't help but change his face and scream:

"Knight Edward, you said you were building a trading station in Parton to sell food transported from the south? How did you think of doing this? Didn't you, the southerners, always be in danger of death when they encountered famine in the north of us? You actually thought of selling food to us?"

In addition to being surprised, Baron Romon said the despicable name of "Southern Man".

Zhou Ming did not care, but said calmly: "We Gran received a lot of food and couldn't eat it. Instead of rotting it in the granary, it would be better to sell it to the north for some money... I heard that the climate in the north was not good in the past two years, and the hottest summers have caused several white disasters. Many tribes in the northern savage kingdom seem to be about to start eating people, and recently they have added troops on the border. If His Majesty the King does not provide some food for them, I'm afraid they will really make a big attack, right?"

In the memories left by the previous life, Zhou Ming remembers it very clearly. Because he suffered a white disaster for two consecutive years, the Savage Kingdom will invade the Kingdom of Warris after the spring of March next year. The scale of troops is so large that it even penetrates the seven Counts in the north and goes directly to the seven Counts in the south to burn, kill and loot. Even the Glen Corps were robbed of seven villages.

Hearing the words "can't finish eating" and "rotten", Baron Romon, who had been having a hard time in the past two years, wanted to strangle the abominable guy in front of him to death, but when he thought of the current financial situation of the territory, he frowned and said, "Knight Edward, you can help me. I am very grateful to you for transporting some scarce food, but what do you need? You should know that the Northland is very poor and there are no gold coins to buy those foods, so..."

"It doesn't matter if there is no gold coins. As long as you have it in your territory, whether it is fox skin, marten skin, wolf skin, black bear skin, white bear skin, snow sheep skin, or birch wood, iron pine wood, cold shirt wood... these things can be exchanged for food. Of course, if some natural ore are better, we will also collect these things..."

In the snowy fields of the north, various animal furs with excellent cold protection effects have always been a fashionable and rare item for the upper nobles of the wealthy countries in the south such as the Iron Fort Kingdom. A rare pure white fox fur is worth thousands of gold coins, and a white bear skin placed on the throne of the king can also be sold for tens of thousands of gold coins.

Not only precious fur, but also the most in the snowy fields of the north, there are also various high-quality wood resources, such as century-old birch wood with fine texture, fire-resistant and moisture-resistant suitable for making high-end furniture, iron pine wood with hardness comparable to steel, and cold fir trees with a faint fragrance after burning... They are all precious resources that can only grow in extremely harsh high-altitude environments in the north.

In addition, Zhou Ming also heard that many of the weapons used by savages in the savage kingdom further north were made of large, high-grade iron ore, copper ore and other hard metal ore, which could be cut with the knight's sword.

Even some savages who pursue beauty use the ore axe in their hands shines with golden light, and are axe-shaped dog-headed gold.

Zhou Ming knew that the various savage tribes in the Savage Kingdom were extremely short of food. If possible, he also wanted to transport a batch of grain to the savage tribes further north. No matter how disasters or good the year, these savage tribes could transport some of their daily "weapons" they used, including the golden axe.

"There are business opportunities everywhere in this world. No matter what kind of product it is, when it comes to people who lack these products, they are treasures worth paying for generously." Zhou Ming once sighed.

Hearing that he could use the many furs that were not known to be put into the castle and the trees that were too lazy to cut down in the mountains to exchange for the scarce food from Zhou Ming, Baron Romon readily agreed to his plan and joined the "Free Business Alliance" initiated by him.
Chapter completed!