The Human Emperor (1-200)

C21: An Astonishing 90 000 Taels!

Having lived two lifetimes, no one was even more aware of how intense the fight over Hyderabad ores would become in the future. Hundred thousand gold taels for a jun or even higher than that, this was all a result of the struggle over limited resources.

Regardless of whether it was the East or the West, the Abbasid Caliphate which was just beside Sindhu or places further away than that, the struggle over the Hyderabad ores would reach an astonishing level.

The prices there were in no way cheaper than the prices in Great Tang!

That was why a single Wootz steel sword could sell for several hundreds of thousand gold taels. However, the Great Tang was unable to lay its hands on the Hyderabad ores.

That was because in the West, the Abbasid Caliphate was selling the ores at a price much more expensive than that in the Great Tang!

The Hyderabad ores were limited. It was when everyone realized this that the prices of the Hyderabad ores surged by countless folds.

However, the current market was just at the primary stage now. Even the Sindhu monks, who were in charge of selling it, only knew that it was extremely good metal for forging weapons!

300 gold taels per jun, this was a rare opportunity for the Great Tang. No matter what happened, Wang Chong was determined to maximize the benefits for Great Tang through this deal.

And serving as the distributor was the best way to maximize the benefits.

“Right to distribute? What’s that?”

The two Sindhu monks stared at each other in confusion. They had visited many different locations and seen many different things. They had lived in the Great Tang for a significant period of time, but this was the first time they had heard of ‘right to distribute’.

“The right to distribute means entrusting the right to sell Hyderabad ores in the Central Plains and the entire Eastern World to me. On the other hand, I would pay you all a fixed fee. Without selling a single ore, you will still receive a fixed amount of money from me every year, and the sum would be massive.”

“Of course, when you all sell this right to me, this means that you will not be allowed to sell the ores to anyone else. This includes you two as well; you won’t be allowed to dispatch anyone to sell the ores here.”

“On the other hand, as the price for wielding such right, we will guarantee you that we will buy a fixed amount of Hyderabad ores every year, and this guarantees your annual profits.”

Wang Chong smiled.

From the world he came from, right to distribute was a concept that couldn’t be anymore commonplace. For example, the ‘Southeast Distributor’, the ‘China Distributor’, the ‘Central China Distributor’… There were also multiple levels below which and they were terms that even the average person would have heard of.

In the vehicle industry, the one at the very top of the triangle is the ‘Main Distributor’ and below, there would be various branches, the ‘4S Shops’.

4S -> Sale, Spare parts, Service and Survey; A type of vehicle store in China

Although this term was something everyone was familiar with in another world, in this world, it was an unheard of novel concept.

Wang Chong could sense the interest and curiosity in the two monks’ gazes. Apparently, they had never encountered such a trading method.

“That is to say that… Even though our people will lose the right to sell our ores, but at the same time, we will be able to earn more money? Can we interpret it as such?”