CHAPTER 25
Bob smiled as he sat opposite Fred. Fred smiled and said, "I heard that you became an IB. Never expected you to enter the system."
Bob smiled and said, "I am a lone man without a rich family behind me. I have to find a backing for me."
Fred smiled and said, "That is not the truth. The group of companies under you s going beyond the common methodology of conducting business. But let us not get into it. We need 10 million tons of sausages."
Bob smiled. 4 months had passed since the day he had sold the sausages. He made 1 billion per day just by selling milk. He had sent the order to expand the milk production by getting more cows and had sold more than 200 million liters since that day making 10 billion per day since that day. After all the milk he produced was filled with aura and was of the highest quality in terms of nutrition and taste. How could it not take over the market.
As for 1 million ton of sausage, it was only enough to feed 30 million people for 100 days if 1kg was fed to 3 people. So 10 million should be enough to feed 300 million but that was not much compared to the nations population of 1 billion. But that was not how to calculate the market as not all were non-vegetarians and not all vegetarians liked such sausages. The only reason why such sausage would be welcomed should be due to the aura in it, making it more attractive to any life as aura strengthened the body and any and all living being crave aura. He had seen it more when life was attracted to him and even the pigs that he had tortured were attracted to him when he released aura.
But 10 million was indeed a good amount of food. He had more than enough money and he had a good method to make more than enough money. He had no need to work too hard to make much money. Even if he just sold 2 million tons of sausages per year and with the amount of milk sold and with the possible amount of 1 million tons of black rice sold, he could make about 5 trillion rubbles per year. This was just about 72 billion drachma. Compared to the GDP of Circe of about 4 trillion drachma per year or the GDP of Athens of 27 trillion drachma, his money is not of the same rank. But he makes this amount of money every year without needing to spent money on salary or input to make such money. Unlike the GDP of a nation, this money was his alone which he could use to do whatever he wanted to do.
But this order of 10 million tons of sausages alone would get him 5 trillion rubbles if he was to sell it for a lower cost of 500 instead of the market price of the cheapest sausage of 700 rubble per kg.
So he had to think, should he sell it for higher amount of money. So he asked, "Why do you need that much money?"
Fred smiled and said, "I got an order from Corvalon. They are going to war against Resoland."
Bob smiled and said, "Corvalon is indeed our strategic ally but it is still another nation. Since they are going to import meat from outside, they should have paid much higher cost for it. This is not the normal purchase where I had to sell it at lower cost to let my products make an impact on the market. I am not going on a price war too. So, do not expect me to sell it to you for 500 rubbles per kg."
Fred smiled and said, "So that does mean that you have 10 million tons of sausages of highest quality which you can export out of the nation without causing any lack of supply of meat market of Circe. What are you? I expected you to provide a few hundred thousand tons but never expected you could provide 10 million tons. Are you sure that you can provide high quality sausage?"
Bob smiled and said, "I can provide you with high quality sausage of the highest quality but it will not contain any aura. Aura filled food shall only be sold in Circe at a lower cost. If you dare sell it to outsiders, I as a bureaucrat shall take action against your conglomerate even if you have political support. Do you understand?"
Fred nodded. For people of their level they knew what aura was. Before aura was present, they might not have cared for it. But since aura became available, they looked through records and found what aura was. As for businessman supporting other nations, they are not foolish enough to do it openly. So Fred asked, "Sure. As long as the sausages are of the highest quality."
Bob nodded and said, "Now onwards, except for the aura filled milk which shall be sold for 50 rubbles per liter, the meat with aura and black rice with aura shall be sold for 4 times the cost. So sausages with aura shall be sold for 2800 per kg and black rice shall be sold for 1600 per kg. As for sausages, I will be selling it for the uniform price of 600 per kg and the black rice of highest quality from my side shall be sold to wholesalers for 380 per kg. You can decide how much you want."
Fred thought for some time. The man in front of him had become an IB with actual power unlike those IBs who just got the position as the government wanted to show their support. Even their family who had a huge stake in the conglomerate had to work hard to send his elder brother to be an IB without any power. He had got information that Bob had level 3 authority while his brother did not have any authority but just had level 7 clearance.
This was by not considering the fact that he could provide a lot of food without affecting the market. He had just come to this second-tier city for training as he could not be simply promoted without showing his ability. He does not need to make merits but he should show that he can work well in the position given to him before he is promoted. So he was happy to have personal connection with Bob. Bob only knew him and did not know the group behind him. So he said, "I am willing to pay 1000 rubbles per kg of sausage without aura."
Fred knew that he could not make much money in this manner but the fact remained that international trade, more than money, connections mattered as anyone who could perform international trade, will gain enough status, especially the ones making deals with nations. He was approached by the procurement officer from Corvalon. The group does not enough sausage or other kind of food. So the only option was this man in front of him. He would still get 200 rubbles profit for the sale of each kg of sausage but he would still need to use this profit in arranging transportation. But this was better than nothing.
As for buying it at 600 per kg, he was not a fool to think of Bob as a fool. He will know it one day and then their friendship will drop. If it someone with a narrow heart, he will even consider Fred an enemy. So even if this deal would not get him much profit, the very fact that he could perform this transaction that was near impossible was more than enough to let him rise higher in the group and be noted by government officials at both sides.
Bob smiled and said, "Deal. Tell me the location and I shall send it there."
Ever since his aura rings had reached 8, he could stores 100 million tons of items in his personal space. He still kept producing sausages and bags of black rice as he had no plan to stop producing. He still kept a lot of food in his personal space as things in his personal space would not rot as time does not pass in such space.
So he who already had about 30 million tons of sausage and black rice in his personal space just wanted the location and he could sent the needed food.
Fred asked, "Don't you need to prepare?"
Bob smiled and said, "It is already prepared. You just need to ensure that the location you can give has enough space to store the sausages."
Fred asked, "How?"
Bob smiled and said, "I have power to store items in my space. A warrior should have some abilities, right? Just send me the location and you will get your purchase. I will be expecting the money to arrive in my bank account soon otherwise with my level 3 authority, I can close down your group."
Fred smiled and said, "No need to worry. I am not a fool to betray you.'
Bob and Fred smiled and both of them clinked the glasses. Fred was happy as he would not need to spent about a month before getting the product and Bob was happy as he would soon get the money as Corvalon pays the money before the purchase. He was happy as he was going to get about 10 trillion rubbles for this deal alone.