Claire was studying the key knowledge points copied from the Royal Capital Magic Academy in the room. At this time, the door was pushed open and Regan walked in.
"Master, people from the Lixis Merchant Guild are here to visit."
Claire closed the book, which was not surprising. He would have been surprised if the other party did not come.
Claire stood up and walked to the door. Regan followed closely behind and continued, "The person who came is the general person in charge of the Lixis Merchant Guild in the Kingdom South District: Lord Molton. He has been arranged to wait in the living room."
Claire nodded and said softly, "I understand, have the notices I wrote yesterday been posted?"
"We have already asked people to go to markets, city gates and other crowded places in the early morning to post them."
"Okay."
Regan helped Claire push open the door of the living room. Moulton inside also stood up after hearing the sound of pushing the door. When he saw Claire walking in, he bowed slightly and said respectfully, "Dear Viscount Griffin, on behalf of the Lixis Merchant Guild, I congratulate you on your victory in the war!"
Claire nodded slightly as a greeting, and his eyes scanned the other person's body.
The Moulton in front of him is a middle-aged man in his thirties. He is dressed as if he is attending some important parliament. Claire The first impression is that he is dressed like this on weekdays, very much like an old-school aristocrat. Of course, this does not mean that he is old-fashioned and stubborn, but he is dressed like the aristocrats in the impression of ordinary people. Ordinary aristocrats do not dress so seriously on weekdays. There is a pair of single-sided glasses hanging on the right eye, which is slightly shrewd.
"Hello." Claire walked to the edge of the sofa and extended his hand to invite the other party to sit down. "Please sit down."
Moulton immediately looked flattered and sat down after Claire sat down.
Claire has a good impression of this person. Although he knows that the other person is pretending, some people are too lazy to even pretend to be polite.
Claire crossed his hands together and asked, "Let's get straight to the point. You came to me about the four mines, right?"
Moulton nodded, "Yes, after the war between you and Count Grein, his four mines were transferred to your command, so I came here today to talk to you about cooperation."
With that said, he took out a stack of papers from Spatial Ring, placed them neatly on the table one by one, and then gently pushed them in front of Claire.
"This is the contract we negotiated with Count Grein before. We will recycle the mined ore at a price slightly lower than the market price. Of course, we are responsible for all matters related to mining and mines. You don't need to pay any costs, just collect the money."
"Of course this is just a contract between us and Count Grein. We have formulated a new contract for you. We will recycle the ores mined from your four ores at the same price as the market price..."
As Moulton spoke, he took out a stack of brand new drafted contracts from Spatial Ring and placed them neatly one by one.
"You can see that we, Lixis Merchant Guild, are very sincere in cooperating with you."
Claire randomly picked up the two contracts and compared them. As the other party said, his contract was different from the contract of Count Grein. Not only was the recycling price higher, but there were also certain discounts in other terms. Compared with the contract of Count Grein, it could be said to be very friendly.
After a few brief glances, Claire looked at Moulton and chuckled, "Are you investigating me?"
Moulton responded with a smile, "Where are you talking? Before we discuss cooperation with each customer, we will understand some information about the other party in advance in order to provide better cooperation."
The other party did not deny it, that is, he knew that he had a certain connection with Shane and Sophia, otherwise he would not have signed such a contract with him.
Claire put the contract in his hand back on the table, "Sorry, although your contract is very good, I still don't plan to sign it with you."
There was a hint of surprise on Moulton's expression, but he quickly hid it and returned to his original state.
"If you are dissatisfied with the contract, you can still modify it."
"No, no, no." Claire shook his head slightly, "I just said, the contract is very good. But I want to mine these four mines myself."
At this time, Moulton's expression finally couldn't remain unchanged, and he asked with a slightly surprised tone, "Viscount Griffin Maybe you don't know something, but I still want to remind you that the profit we make from mining ore is not very high. If you plan to mine it yourself, it may not be as high as the profit we give you."
Moulton was telling the truth. They, Lixis Merchant Guild, are experts in mining ores and can control costs and efficiency very well. If Claire were to organize the mining, the profits would indeed not be as high as what they gave them. This is one of the reasons why the lords in the territories are willing to mine the ores for them. They can get a sum of money without any effort, which is better than the little money they earn by working hard.
Claire nodded, "I know, I have my own way."
Moulton thought for a moment and sighed, "We at the Lixis Merchant Guild respect your ideas and hope to have the opportunity to cooperate with you in the future."
"Not later, just now."
"Huh?!"
"Sell me the mining tools and auxiliary magic machinery you have in those four mines. I will give you a satisfactory price, and you don't need to bother moving them around."
Lixis Merchant Guild does not simply rely on manpower to mine minerals. Some loading machines, screening machines, and conveyor belts are all realized through magical means.
Moulton hesitated for a moment. Indeed, as Claire said, it would cost a lot of manpower and material resources to move those large machines. Selling them to the other party was a good choice. It was not a commercial secret anyway.
"Okay, how much can you pay?"
"How much do you want?" Claire asked.
"The total cost of those things is more than 180,000 yuan. How about charging you 180,000 Gold Coins?"
Claire pointed at Moulton. At this time, he was a little lucky that Regan helped him cheat the other party's 200,000 Gold Coins, otherwise he would have suffered heavy bleeding again.
"Two hundred thousand Gold Coins?" Moulton thought there was something wrong with his vision.
"Yes, two hundred thousand Gold Coins, but I need you to leave a few talents in this field to help me familiarize myself with and operate the mine well..."
Moulton touched his nose and took a deep look at Claire. It seemed that the viscount Griffin was really determined to run these four minerals. He also wanted to wait for the other party to feel that they were losing money before he came to help them in times of need.
After pondering for a moment, Moulton thought of what the person in charge of the royal capital had told him when he came over, and then nodded. "Deal!"
Then he packed up the contracts on the table into two stacks and put them into Spatial Ring again. Finally, he said respectfully to Claire: "Tomorrow I will ask someone to send over the new contract that I have prepared. I hope I can have more cooperation opportunities with you in the future."
Claire raised his eyebrows and said inexplicably, "There will be."
Moulton didn't dig into it, so he thought it was Claire who just brushed off his words.
Claire personally delivered Moulton to the door. After saying goodbye to each other, they walked back to the Baronial Manor.
He pillowed his head and muttered to himself, "As expected of someone who came from a big chamber of commerce. Everything he does is so comfortable. When will I be able to create a chamber of commerce like this? I won't have to fight against Shane and Sophia."
As soon as he entered the house, Claire saw Regan who was about to walk out.
"Regan!"
"Master, I'm here. I was just planning to go out."
"No hurry, what happened to the notices posted this morning?"