Regan noticed it and quickly flipped through the report in his hand, scanning it quickly.
"Did you see anything?" Claire asked.
"You are thinking the same thing, Master. Our 2.8 million Silver Dragon Coins is used to buy goods from other countries, and the only exports we export are grain and some ores." Regan replied. Regan estimated in his heart that those grains, ores, etc. were probably taken with him when he returned. Those foreign businessmen may have the mentality of earning less.
Things like grain and ore are available everywhere, and the profits are pitifully low. There is no trade advantage at all. It is impossible to increase prices and obtain more profits from them.
"How much money do you make from exporting?" Claire asked.
"Thirty thousand Silver Dragon Coins." Regan was too embarrassed to reveal this amount of money. Compared with the previous 2.8 million, it was as if he had earned nothing.
Claire also pursed his lips, this was really difficult to handle.
"Master, let me try to get those people to sell Nakin Town's handicrafts to those foreign businessmen." Regan suggested, because Nakin Town's handicrafts are very popular in Kingdom of Arcanum, so he naturally thought that this could impress those foreign businessmen.
"This is not feasible." Claire immediately denied that he had just thought about this idea.
"The reason why Nakin Town's handicrafts sell well is because of Eve. After leaving our kingdom, no one in other places knows the story of the mermaid, and they will not pay a high premium for it."
As Claire said, those statues have cultural attributes attached to them. For example, those figures from previous lives would be just a bunch of plastic without the blessing of two-dimensional characters. The same goes for the statues of Nafu City. There are no mermaid stories in other kingdoms. In the eyes of those people, they are just a bunch of iron lumps with better craftsmanship. It is simply impossible to sell them at a high price.
But if Claire goes to other countries to experience this story, the cost will be too high. At the beginning, he was also in Kingdom of Arcanum, asking Sophia to help Wendy to tour the country, and then asked his own people to do marketing and communication, and those tourists saw the "Mermaid" with their own eyes. This benefit was only achieved due to various factors.
If he is asked to go to a country where he has no foundation and do it again now, the cost in terms of time and other aspects will be too high. And the cultures of other countries are different. Who knows if this mermaid story will continue to be popular there? If after working hard for so long, we find that people are not interested in this culture at all, then we will lose my wife and lose the army.
"What about Master Iodized Salt?" Regan asked again.
"No way." Claire shook his head. The reason is similar to the previous one. He had no foundation in other countries. What Shane could do at the time, such as making it exclusive for the royal family, he couldn't do it there, or he could do it, but the cost was too high and it was not worth it.
However, Regan reminded Claire that he still had something in his hand - MSG.
The effect of putting this thing in food is so obvious that anyone who is not a fool can taste it. When Claire took MSG to persuade Sophia, it only took less than a minute.
"Try to trade with MSG next time." Claire said.
Regan After thinking for a moment, his eyes lit up, "I understand! Master."
However, Claire did not look relieved after solving the problem. He had solved it, but not completely.
First of all, the variety MSG is too single, and it is still impossible to maintain the stability of foreign trade by relying on this alone.
Secondly, MSG is not difficult to develop. Less than two weeks after the original Iodized Salt appeared, imitations appeared in the royal capital. MSG is expected to be the same. When MSG becomes popular in other kingdoms, imitations will definitely appear one after another in their countries.
In fact, these two points are the same. The reason why MSG continues to maintain high profits in the country is because Iodized Salt is in the front, playing out the brand benefits and turning it into something similar to luxury goods, so these two things can always maintain high profits.
In other countries, there is no previous brand benefit. Not to mention that MSG cannot maintain high prices. After they develop domestic imitations, their own MSG will have no competitive advantage at all there and will be easily defeated. Then their own trade will become weak again. This is also the first point Claire said. The variety is too single and cannot be maintained stably.
But this is all we can do now. We must stabilize foreign trade first and stop losing money abroad.
I'll think of a way later. If it doesn't work, I can make a long-term plan and import my own culture to several neighboring countries. Then I will use the added value of culture to increase their leeks and make up for all my losses.
"Dong dong dong." Claire knocked on the door symbolically, then pushed the door directly and walked into Rona's courtyard.
Because Mermaid City is developing rapidly now, Eve needs to show up a few more times to gain some popularity.
But there is a rapid development there, and the number of people coming and going is unstable. In order to attract some blind people to get Eve's idea, Claire will go there together these few times, just to relax and see the sea.
After passing through the long corridor, Claire walked into the inner courtyard of Rona.
As soon as he opened the door, a water arrow hit him in the face, and was blocked by Claire's passive shield.
Claire didn't blink during the whole process. He was used to being hit like this every time he came in. Now he began to wonder if Eve had some archerfish genes in his body.
After seeing Claire looking at him, a big innocent smile appeared on Eve's face, and then he slowly put his head into the water and blew bubbles.
"Be careful, I'll hit you." Claire waved his fist, and Eve looked completely unafraid, sticking out his tongue at Claire in a cute and provocative way.
After Claire smiled softly, he didn't care about her anymore, and then looked at Rona who was sitting on a chair basking in the sun, "When are you leaving?"
"Wait a moment, now is the time for fishermen to go out to sea, we may be discovered if we appear suddenly."
After listening, Claire also walked to the chair and sat down. Claire felt a little guilty. He, a lord, did not know as much as Rona about when his subjects would go to sea.
After Eve saw that Claire ignored her, he dived into the water again and started playing by himself.
After a while, Claire saw Eve holding a pearl the size of her fist on top of her head, like a seal holding a balloon.
After watching it for a while, Claire also found it interesting and asked casually, "Did you spend all your money to buy this thing for her?"
Rona doesn't spend much money and has no concept of money. The money he earns often goes into the drawer and forgets to take it out, so it's not strange to spend a lot of money to buy this orb for Eve.
In the words of Rona: As long as she likes it.
"What are you buying?" Rona asked in confusion as he took away the newspaper covering his face.
"Didn't you buy the pearl for her?" Claire pointed at it.
Rona shook her head, "No, maybe she picked it up from the sea herself."
"Picked them up?" Claire looked back again. Those fist-sized pearls cost a lot, at least more than a hundred Gold Coins. Can you pick them up?
As soon as he finished speaking, Claire saw Eve take out two pearls of the same size from his waist, put three stacked ones together, and continued to hold them on his head to maintain balance.
When Claire looked at her in surprise, Eve also showed a little pride on his face.