NOVEL NEXT Chapter 177: Fang Yu's Strategy, The Eve of Battle
Soon, Fang Yu dispatched a crew member alone, traveling on a military ship, returning to Qiyun Port.
Afterward, he sent another crew member to the Lighthouse Association.
The role of these two crew members is...
Telephone!
Information cannot be transmitted over long distances on the sea, and at most, it can only spread between nearby islands.
Fang Yu came up with a solution to directly send non-core crew members to the areas he wanted to contact and maintain information transmission with these two crew members using the private chat function in the forum.
Then have these two crew members communicate with the military, Ji Clan Trading Association, and Lighthouse Association.
Even the vast and boundless ocean cannot hinder the transmission of information on the panel forum; this thing completely transcends maritime rules.
With the two crew members dispatched to different places and stationed there, Fang Yu tried to keep in touch with them using the private chat feature, and he quickly opened up the communication channels with the Lighthouse Association and Qiyun Port.
Comfortable!
With smooth communication channels, there's finally a sense of openness and mutual understanding.
Subsequently, Fang Yu launched his plan to attack Ijima Island:
On the first day, Ji Clan Trading Association purchased all the stock of living copper ore from Qiyun Port and nearby mineral merchants.
Purchase price: 40 silver coins/ton
Market price of the day: 50 silver coins/ton
Meanwhile, as the Ji Clan Trading Association acquired all the living copper ore, the military and Ocean Court jointly announced.
The living copper ore on Fur Island was banned from mining due to special circumstances during the war, and the re-opening date is pending.
The mining contractors on Fur Island were stunned and tried to protest.
But the military and Ocean Court's attitude on this matter was very firm.
Mining is forbidden, and only after the special period ends will mining be allowed.
As for the miners...
Well, we'll give you some subsidies.
The miners were helpless, but with living copper ore order contracts on their shoulders, if the copper ore wasn't delivered on time, the severe penalties for breach of contract would make the miners suffer great losses.
They must think of a solution, right?
On one hand, the miners began contacting Ji Clan Trading Association to prepare for repurchasing the living copper ore.
On the other hand, they started taking crooked routes to see if there was any stock in the gray business chain.
But soon, the miners discovered helplessly that Ji Clan Trading Association did not intend to sell the living copper ore, rejecting the miners' acquisitions.
As for the gray industry chain...
"We'll try to think of a way, but you're in such a rush, and need so much, it might be difficult to get it in a short time."
As the largest information broker in the gray area, the Lighthouse Association naturally had many people coming to them, seeking to leverage their intermediary channel to do business with certain gray industry chains.
In fact, the Lighthouse Association, being an information broker, did take on part of the intermediary channel's role.
For example, if a pirate illegally acquired some goods and wanted to immediately turn them into cash, they would typically seek out the Lighthouse Association as the middle channel to sell the goods.
Including the previous vice president's weapons business, it used the Lighthouse Association's intermediary channel to connect to the marine warlords.
However, later both parties started bypassing the Lighthouse Association and directly conducted trades themselves.
That's also why the leader of the Black Snake Gang resolutely sided with Fang Yu.
Damn it, I introduced customers to you, and you skip over me, leaving me with no profits?
No honor.
Well then, don't blame me for standing opposite you.
Things happening in the world are just marvelous; at this moment, the Lighthouse Association saw a group of mining merchants came knocking, wanting to use their channel to buy the living copper ore, but they pretended it was difficult and things weren't easy to manage.
"Try to get hold of them, it's okay, in this special period, I'm willing to pay more money to buy living copper ore."
"As long as you can help us get through this period, money isn't a problem."
Currently, demand exceeding supply will inevitably lead to...
The price of living copper ore starts to rise sharply!
The normal market price is 50 silver coins/ton.
But as the market's living copper ore stock drastically decreases, this stuff becomes a scarce commodity, and batches of miners are watching it, wanting to pay higher prices to purchase living copper ore.
3 hours passed.
The market price of living copper ore rose to 60 silver coins/ton.
7 hours later, it surged again, and astonishingly rose to 80 silver coins/ton.
Price without market, the miners facing breach pressure, went ahead and raised the price again.
100 silver coins/ton!
...
Finally, after a day passed, the price of living copper ore gradually stabilized.
Market price...150 silver coins per ton!
In just one day, the price soared to three times the original!
Some suspect there's manipulation behind this, but there's no choice, as the current stock of living copper ore is indeed worrying, and miners, in order to acquire living copper ore and overcome the breach crisis, desperately started grabbing every batch of living copper ore that hit the market.
150 silver coins per ton...
This price is enough to stir the inner desires of many pirates.
If the benefits are great enough, if the profits are substantial, there will definitely be people willing to take risks.
Especially these pirates who have long been licking the blood from the edge, right?
At 150 silver coins per ton, if they manage to seize a ship transporting living copper ore, they could sell thousands of tons of living copper ore at an immensely high price.
In one go, they could at least resale for tens of thousands of silver coins.