Abandoned Phoenix

Trading war

As the sun rises the three of them make haste towards the plaza,
And what they found there made the two boys stunned.,

There are more merchants who sided with them and are currently displaying their goods.,

"Woah! We don't even have to spend a single silver to buy supplies." Gin

He was amazed at how many merchants are here right now, while Li Cheng still can't shake the feeling that Kim Li somewhat change.

While Kim Li smirk at the sight.,
"Listen up you two, when you first stocking up a business you generally have to come up with plenty of money to operate. However the the one thing you need more than money is trust."- Kim Li

"Trust in what?"- Li Cheng

"Trust in the profit your going to make, In this case the main reason the suppliers trust us is cause we acquired the business permit from that stubborn General.,"-Kim Li

"So we're just generating profit, since the suppliers are obliged to pay the hosting fee"- Li Cheng

"You got half right, Gin would you tell me the reason why I lowered the hosting fee from twenty to ten percent..?"- Kim Li

"Well... you said that they have to man our shop."- Gin

"Right. And that allow us to be flexible., our trading market can expand far greater than the Xin's"- Kim Li

She said as she smiled viciously as she knew that this war was now played by her little fingers.

After getting to know the rest of the merchants, they also started to display their bamboo mugs, flute and dresses which is somewhat similar to this...

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And to a couple of bamboo heels to Match the dress.,

Kim Li looked proud at their hard work.,

But minutes later none were even looking at their items though the crowed have started to gather..

"Now what? They are just staring at us."- Li Cheng

She glared at him and said " just prepare yourself for a busy day." She said as she smirk at his direction.

As she step out of their stall and shout at the top of her lungs "Come Now! Come Now! Ladies and Gents And Take A Glance At Our Goods! It Might Not Be as Costly as the Xin's But I Can Assure You That The Quality Is Just as Good!"- Kim Li

Li Cheng felt ashamed to know her by now but, he didn't expect the people to flock and look at their goods after she invited them to do so.

He began to demonstrate, and explain the goods for the customers.,
While Gin is in charge of the silvers that kept coming in.,

As for Kim Li she did her very best to sales talk the dresses she made., saying that it is a limited edition., and was made by a foresighted modernist designer and is from another country.,

And with that the young girls who got swayed bought the dresses.,

with that Kim Li saw her short comings at that point., as she tried to sell something that is so far fetched in this era.,

But good thing that the rest of the bamboo products that they've work so hard for was sold in a fast pace.

People come and go as they pick the things that caught their eye., and till dusk everyone is contented at their own earnings.,

The merchants also willingly give the ten percent agreement  of today's sale.,

At the end of the day everyone has worked hard and was happy of the result.,

"This is a fortune! This crates full of silvers can last us for years! Ven and the kids would be really happy with this!"-Gin

Kim Li flicked his head and asked both of them to buy some eggs, lemon juice, salt, oil and a lot of small jars

And she explained that they're changing tactics, since if they kept cutting bamboos, it will affect Nature somehow.,

She decided to make an easy home made Mayo, since she haven't seen some in this era and it give more kick to the taste buds specially pared with vegetables.,

They made huge batch after batch that night, with Kim Li's instructions. And they fill thousand and thousands little jars before morning came.

She let Gin and Li Cheng sleep more, and decided to sell their products alone.,

And for the second day of their trade market went really well., since she put up a taste test and sales talk them to buying more jars than they needed.,

And she earn a lot more silver crates for just half a day than yesterday.,

And that made her felt relieved., though inside she's complaining about a week's worth of sleep.,

During the afternoon when the customers died down, she talked to some overseas vessels and strike a deal, with her Mayo recipe., 

And they ended up with a 60-40 ratio share of the net income., which she's glad of, taking a 40% overseas profit is not a losing end at her part, for that recipe.,

She also talked to some small overseas  merchants, that are willing to cooperate in her trading market and decided to leave the Xin's as they are not profiting from them.,

While the Xin's are now having some  problems, regarding their local suppliers., but just let it go cause of their pride to ask for those small business supplier to re-think their action and also they are not willing to give a higher value to their goods.,

But the next day was a big shock to them., cause even their big overseas suppliers decided to withdraw the trade with the Xin's., the small overseas suppliers follow suit.

And now they're devastated at what to do next.,

"That damn bitch!"- Old Man Xin

"Father! Maybe sister empress can help us.. I'll ask for her assistance right away!"- Xin Ye

"Yes.. seek for help I know that child won't abandon us.," Old Man Xin

And with that Xin Ye wrote a letter to the said sister empress.,

The letter reach the palace quickly since they use a messenger eagle ., and after she read it, her face showed concern and immediately set her way to the far away land to aid her sister's family..

She used the fastest horse carriage available in the palace and traveled for three days straight to reach Nebula city.

With out knowing the situation, she decided to be the middle man.