After more than half a month of training at the Xinfei Merchant Guild, sixty-three of the eighty-seven small merchant guilds accepted into the Small Merchant Guild Support Plan ultimately chose to sign support agreements with the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
Under the agreements, they would acquire magic machine tools from the Xinfei Merchant Guild through installment payments to manufacture the various components it assigned them to produce. When selling those components to the Xinfei Merchant Guild, they would have to charge the prices it specified.
Although these terms seemed somewhat overbearing at first glance, a closer look at the numbers showed that the conditions the Xinfei Merchant Guild offered were actually quite reasonable.
First of all, the prices set by the Xinfei Merchant Guild left these sixty-three small merchant guilds ample room for profit. By a rough calculation, each could earn at least five hundred gold coins a month from the Xinfei Merchant Guild's component orders alone.
And if the Xinfei Merchant Guild increased its orders, the money these small merchant guilds earned would naturally increase as well.
What was more, the agreements were only valid for five years. In other words, after five years, these small merchant guilds would no longer have to sell their components to the Xinfei Merchant Guild at its specified prices. They could set their own prices instead.
Thus, in less than a month since the Xinfei Merchant Guild announced its Small Merchant Guild Support Plan at its Product Launch, Bunta City had suddenly gained a full sixty-three small merchant guilds specializing in manufacturing magic machinery components.
Unlike the Xinfei Merchant Guild's factory, which occupied over a hectare, most of these small merchant guilds' production workshops were really no more than tiny workshops.
Many of them simply rented a small warehouse, installed a few magic machine