The Bustling Sugar Refinery

After Victor left the Agricultural Technology Institute, he was greeted by Rabik from the Commerce Department, who was already waiting outside.

"My Marquis, shall we go to the Sugar Refinery or the beet garden first?"

Victor thought for a moment, "The sugar beet garden, I suppose. A lot of out-of-town merchants have been coming to the territory to buy White Sugar lately, and the Sugar Refinery is too crowded and noisy. I'd better not go there!"

Rabik nodded in agreement. "The Great Merchant Guilds throughout the Vela Region have gone crazy in order to buy White Sugar and our newly produced brown sugar. The Sugar Refinery in Iron Birch Territory haven't expanded their production capacity yet, so they can't meet their demand at all. Therefore, most of the merchant guilds have come to our Two Rivers Territory."

Every day, the entrance to the Sugar Refinery is surrounded by people from the foreign chamber of commerce. Whenever new goods come out, whether it's White Sugar or brown sugar, they scramble to buy them!

Victor: "We must prioritize supplying our previously signed orders; we can't do without commercial goodwill."

Victor valued these caravans that had come from afar, especially since a significant number of the merchant guilds had come because of his reputation.

After Victor conquered Blackwater City and took over the defense of Wright County, although it was only for half a year, he did business with many merchant guilds in Victor Vela Region and even the eastern part of the continent, thanks to this former commercial and transportation hub of the Grand Duchy. Although the two sides were only doing business, the cooperation was quite pleasant.

Thanks to this, during this period, Victor also took the initiative to promote the specialty products of his territory to these merchant guilds, especially White Sugar and related products, which were the most attractive. In addition, he was made Marquis, making him one of the most prominent nobles in the Vela Region.

Therefore, after the end of the Civil War, many merchant guilds wanted to come to the Two Rivers Territory to buy White Sugar and related products, and to make their acquaintance with the newly Marquis.

But back at the beginning of this year, when Veronica was celebrating her pregnancy, many nobles from the Three Provinces of Vela came to Victor to do business, and White Sugar became their first choice.

They buy goods from Two Rivers Territory at low prices and then sell them in other regions, making at least a 50% profit – a very lucrative business.

Therefore, the Sugar Refinery signed a large number of orders at that time. As early as last year when the Civil War was won, Victor knew that the White Sugar business should no longer be hindered, so he directly ordered the sugar production scale to be tripled this year. However, these orders also consumed 80% of the Sugar Refinery's output.

Victor asked Rabik to be mindful of his business reputation because he was worried that Rabik might misappropriate the goods from this low-priced order and sell them to merchant guilds waiting to buy White Sugar. Business reputation was one issue, but Victor also didn't want to offend so many nobles over it.

Rabik quickly explained, "Your Marquis, please rest assured, I always deliver on time, and there will never be any misappropriation of goods."

Moreover, the delivery time for that batch of orders was until the end of this year, so the Sugar Refinery could still take a portion of each batch of White Sugar produced to sell to foreign chambers of commerce, which is why these chambers of commerce were willing to wait at the Sugar Refinery gate.

During this period, many of the Telegraph Office orders were sent by these chambers of commerce.

After all, there have been many outsiders visiting Wood Fort Town recently, which has led to the Wood Fort Town's hotels being fully booked, room prices rising, and even the camping areas outside the town being almost full.

Therefore, many chamber of commerce leaders arranged for most of the caravan members to remain on the merchant ships at the Sea Song Town dock, only notifying the caravan to pick up the goods by telegram when they were purchased.

Victor: "That's good! But still, be careful and make sure nothing goes wrong. I trust you know what you're doing."

If there aren't enough hotels in Wood Fort Town, doesn't your Commerce Department have several chambers of commerce?

"Let them build some guesthouses or hotels in the small villages around Wood Fort Town to accommodate these outsiders; they can make some money that way!"

Rabik: "Yes, Marquis Excellency, I'll arrange it immediately!"

However, those places are still a bit far from Wood Fort Town, which is inconvenient for the members of the Chamber of Commerce. I see there is a piece of wasteland south of Wood Fort Town. Could we build there?"

Victor: "I remember that land was reserved for urban development. How about this, you go find Levant and ask him to help you find a plot of land, no more than 10 acres."

"OK!"