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Chapter 110 The malicious competition of the Othello family
Through the wolf pack effect, Pella conveyed two pieces of news to Sunan. The first was that Baron Simon had recently gained the support of the Othello family, a monopoly merchant in the Platinum Commercial Republic, for some unknown reason.

Baron Simon, who was originally very afraid of Sunan, immediately stood up.

Baron Simon and the Othello family built a commercial town exactly like Maple Leaf Town in Simon's territory.

Moreover, the small town they built, called Simon Town, ignored the huge losses of dozens of gold coins every day and provided huge cost subsidies to all merchants and customers.

In this way, nearby customers would hardly have to spend any money to buy things in that commercial town.

The merchants who entered Simon's Town did not suffer any loss either. Although their goods were sold almost for free, they could ask the Othello family for subsidies.

On the contrary, it can sell faster, so it is also a very good thing for them.

After all, what merchants fear most is that the goods will be stuck in their hands, so even if they just buy all the goods in their hands at an average price, it is a dream come true for them.

But this is a total losing business.

The Othello family is losing money every moment.

This is not normal business at all.

Sunan immediately realized that this was a form of competition that was very characteristic of early-stage capital.

The monopoly capital thinks that it has more money than others, so it does not compete with others to see who has better technology or who provides better service. What if it cannot win in terms of technology?
What if we lose in service comparison?
Then just spend the money!

In the early stages of the business, they make a loss and use more money to crush their competitors.

Because of the low prices, competitors cannot run their business at a loss for a long time.

Then, after monopolizing the industry, they raise prices and sell goods at super high prices to recover the costs they paid before.

Even in previous lives, this was just a bad practice in the early days of capital.

Because this approach is not beneficial to anyone except capital itself, not even to customers.

It is a huge destruction to the entire industry!
In the past, in mature capitalist societies, there would be a series of laws to restrict and crack down on such bad behavior.

But in this era, the Platinum Commercial Republic, as a maritime trading republic, uses trade to reap the wealth of other countries, so there is no need to care about what is legal or illegal.

This is the main source of income for this country.

Otherwise it will be a broken island country.

In fact, the Platinum Commercial Republic is also a country that has been involved in the Storm Kingdom for a long time. After all, the Storm Knights occupied the current land together with these merchants.

However, the Platinum Commercial Republic has been active in the capital circle of Stormwind for a long time, and even has many islands there that are used for trade, which were snatched from other countries. But no one expected that they would intervene in the South Thrace region far away from the capital circle of Stormwind and the ducal city circle.

Sunan raised his eyebrows and told Pella to hold her ground and ignore Baron Simon and everyone from the Platinum Commercial Republic, even though they were making some provocative moves.

Pera told Sunan that Baron Simon and the Othello family actually went directly into their market and told the merchants and customers about the benefits of entering their Simon Town.

However, Sunan still asked Pera to keep his troops on hold for the time being.

First of all, he now has to focus most of his energy on digesting the Four Seasons Garden. Secondly, Maple Leaf Town has been a place where it has acquired a large number of ancient books over a long period of time, and has established a relatively stable market for the exchange of ancient books. Sunan will not give up easily.

Baron Simon and the Othello family wanted to use business means to attack their own Maple Leaf Town, but they forgot one thing...

I don't need to care about what business methods they use...

Just flip the table and burn down the commercial town they built. Build and burn down as many times as you want. The reason why the Othello family can be successful in many countries and regions, easily use money to kill the local normal economy, and then use trade and economy to control the local area is that the countries they come into contact with are relatively small and chaotic.

For example, Storm Kingdom is a typical example.

If the Storm Kingdom was a centralized country like the Eastern Empire, or a powerful country like the Western United Empire, with every lord being difficult to mess with, then the Platinum Commercial Republic, which was a powerful force in the eastern Mediterranean, would have been beaten silly long ago.

Therefore, Sunan is not going to deal with this matter for the time being. Let them work hard first. When he returns, he will destroy the town they have built overnight.

Sunan muttered to himself. "As expected, I still need to establish a few puppet nobles around my territory, so that there won't be such a stupid baron who dares to provoke me."

"But if that's the case, then I might as well find a way to get a promotion. To get a promotion, I can either ask the Archbishop of the Storm Church for help, or ask the royal family for help."

However, the royal family had just lost a king, and his territory might have also lost a bishop.

It seems that the mood of both sides may not be very good now.

But it doesn’t matter. Their bad mood has nothing to do with me. Even if everyone is in a bad mood, it will not affect the upgrading of my territory and title.

Pera then told Sunan the second piece of information, which was that his cousin Julia Peter, who was the daughter of his father's brother and who was closely related to him, had recently fallen in love.

Su Nan originally found it strange. Julia was almost twenty years old, so it was normal for her to want to get married. As a noble woman, she should of course plan ahead and marry a noble man with a strong enough background.

In this era, aristocratic women who have no suitors will be doubted as to whether they are charming enough.

It is also normal for a noble woman to be surrounded by several young boys.

This is different from the practice of keeping a backup wife in later generations. After all, aristocratic women have noble status, and Julia also has the inheritance right to a wine estate in another territory. Marrying her means having a wine estate with relatively high economic value as a dowry, so even a young baron may be motivated to pursue her.

However, Pera said that the man who is now pursuing Julia is none other than Galen Othello, a young nobleman from the Othello family's more central family who recently arrived in Simon's territory on behalf of the Othello family.

Sunan narrowed his eyes immediately. Galen Othello was a business aristocrat in the Platinum Commercial Republic and a member of one of the 500 aristocratic families behind the scenes that dominated the republic. His father was probably a member of the Ten-Man Committee or the Sixty-Man Senate. So his purpose of pursuing his little-known and ordinary cousin Julia seemed very suspicious.

Sunan asked among the wolves: "So what is Julia's attitude?"

Sunan immediately thought of many possibilities. If Julia fell in love, he would send her directly back to her own manor.

Pera said: "Miss Julia, I have refused many times, but as an outsider and a servant, it is difficult for me to interfere in the affairs between the master and the master. Young master, you are the head of the family, and perhaps only you can ask about this matter directly."

In this era, women's rights were still suppressed a lot. For example, unmarried noble girls needed to be accompanied by a maid when going out and could not walk on the street alone.

But this is actually a kind of protection.

After all, the world is not yet safe enough for a young noble girl to walk around alone without encountering any danger.

Su Nan said: "I understand. You keep an eye on her for now. I have more important things to do right now."

"That's it for now."

"I will deal with this matter alone when I return."

"Julia is usually a very smart girl. I don't think she would be so stupid as to be tempted by a boy from a rival family after being pursued by him several times. Tell my uncle, Father Louis, about this. He has the right and qualifications to manage this matter."

"Don't contact me for the next half day, because I may need to stay highly focused for a while."

Sunan signaled with his eyes that Lang Er should first walk up the wooden stairs and enter the wizard tower to test the sorceress who might be inside.

(End of this chapter)