Saving 80,000 Gold in an Another World for Retirement

A word of warning: This chapter is short and just a wall of text, but hang in there because the action will come soon… maybe… eventually… ANYWAY, just bear with it for now.

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Retribution 2

Enova Trading Company is a large company with its head office in the royal capital and branches in major cities in the country.

So, naturally, they are also doing transactions with neighboring countries.

One by one, we began to receive notices from our business partners in those neighboring countries.

The contents were almost the same as what we had already received from major stores in this country.

Yes, of course, they have also been notified by the new merchants, members of the <International Network of Women Business Owners>, who are selling Viscount Yamano’s products exclusively in their respective countries. >We will not do any business with any merchants who are doing business with the Enova Chamber of Commerce>……

Of course, under normal circumstances, the loss of business with a single, small, emerging merchant would not be a big problem. Instead, it would be much better to continue doing business with the large stores in the neighboring countries.

However, that was not the case this time.

Nobles, royalty, and other influential people, who are our important customers, place orders in large quantities for products from Viscount Yamano’s domain, which is currently enjoying a great reputation. We couldn’t say that it wasn’t available.

The moment we say such a thing, we would be cut off from our position as the appointed merchant and our business partners would move to other merchant families.

……There was no other choice.

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[Damn it, what’s going on…] Owner

One of the watchmen, who had finally gotten the information, reported the situation to the owner of the Enova Trading Company, who scratched his head.

The stores in this country and other countries have taken this attitude after being notified by a certain merchant.

[What the hell? This must be the work of the little girl from the Larushia trade!…… No, why would a little girl like that have such power……] Owner

The owner of Enova Trading had completely beaten the Larushia trade.

She’s just the daughter of a medium-sized merchant family, a novice shopkeeper, and has no backing other than her father.

I heard that even her father did not have a good relationship with her, as she left the house as if she had a quarrel with her father and went out on her own. And her father’s store would be easily destroyed if he made an enemy of the Enova Trading Company.

……In other words, there’s no one to help her. That was the way it was supposed to be

So, if I threaten them a little, they should easily do as I say.

Then, we can get the exclusive right to sell Viscount Yamano’s products in this country, make that little girl a decorative manager of one of the branches, and use her as a mistress.

So I approached her to offer an absorption-type merger, but she refused.

Well, she’s still a young girl, unaware of the realities of life and pursuing the reckless dreams of youth.

The business owner, who nostalgically remembers a little when he was young and thinks that it’s okay to let her dream come true for a second, was kind and uncharacteristic, and at first, he should make a normal deal with her.

Of course, he has to make sure that he will benefit greatly from it.

He then approached Larushia Trading to offer a deal…….

The offer was to sell the product to them at a discount of two, or eight times less than the wholesale price offered by Larushia Trading.

She immediately refused.

Mitsuha did not allow stores that were members of the <International Network of Women Business Owners> to change the wholesale prices of products from the Viscount Yamano’s domain.

This was partly because Mitsuha disliked that kind of approach, but also because she knew that as a young woman was the owner of the business, there would definitely be someone who would try to bargain aggressively, almost threateningly.

Therefore, in order to make it easier for them to reject such things, they decided that <the wholesale price is strictly specified by the distributor>.

However, even if Mitsuha hadn’t instructed her to do so, Larushia would have refused on her own…

If you include the purchase price, personnel costs such as clerks and security guards, store rent, maintenance and management costs, utilities, entertainment costs, supplies, taxes, and various other expenses, the net profit after taxes is less than 20% of the sales. (However, this excludes General Trade Mitsuha.)

So, if the price was cut by 20%, they will be in the red.

Mitsuha is the only one who is raking in the profits from the outrageous profit margins, while the member stores of the <International Network of Women Business Owners> are purchasing the products at a reasonable price.

Still, not a single person complained about the price, as it was an excellent product, to begin with, and had been transported from a distant country by ship for months.

Even so, it’s still quite a lot of money, and it’s definitely a huge advantage over other stores since they also buy other general merchandise on top of prioritizing the goods produced in Viscount Yamano’s territory, it was Larushia’s pride and joy……

Anyway, despite the fact that there are a lot of steps to take, what’s so sad was that they had to sell them at a loss.

……Since the Larushia Trade is an emerging store, and the owner is a young woman, they could have taken advantage of her and taken over the business from her.

Of course, Larushia knew that much.

If Larushia Trade doesn’t do what he wants, he will try to crush them and take away their purchasing routes……

But he thought he could go through by commercial means, like selling at a discount.

And now, because of the unexpected and apparently unacceptable illegal and vicious attack on the Larushia trade, they bared their fangs and fought back.

The letter that was sent to each of the merchants simply stated that “We would not do any business with the six merchants or any other merchants or individuals doing business with them”. No one was saying that those six were the culprit behind the attack on the Larushia Trade.

Moreover, it is up to the merchants to decide with whom and under what conditions they want to do business. There’s no reason for anyone to complain about it.

So there’s nothing that the Enova Chamber of Commerce can do for the Larushia Trade in this matter.

……Except for illegal acts.

However, many people in the country and the surrounding countries knew about the notice from the Larushia Trade. If something happened to the Larushia Trade now, it was obvious who would be suspected, so they could not do anything crazy.

The owner of the Enova Chamber of Commerce was also a successful merchant in his younger days and was once known as the <Golden Tiger>.

However, now that I had the power, I could buy what I wanted to buy, and I could manipulate prices at will. And it was impossible for other stores to ignore my requests.

Therefore, it did not occur to him how much other small and medium-sized merchants feared losing their connection to the Larushia Trade, and that they would prioritize this over some minor displeasure from the Enova Chamber of Commerce.

When a tiger gets old, gets used to a peaceful life, gets fat, and loses its fangs, it is no better than a house dog.

And now, a pack of ferocious she-wolves was about to attack the old tiger.

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