Chapter 164: Chapter 164-miscellaneous matters (1)
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It was now September. In the past month or so, Casar city had completely calmed down. Not only did the grain price not increase, but the prices of some daily necessities had also become much cheaper than before.
The big trading companies had no choice. If they didn’t lower their prices, no one would go to their stores to buy things. However, when they lowered their prices, it caused a chain reaction, and the prices of all daily necessities dropped by a lot.
Of course, the red spider lily shop had also reduced its price, but when it came to buying food, most people still went to the red spider lily shop. It was not just because the red spider lily shop had helped them, but because the food at the red spider lily shop was really good.
At first, they didn’t think much of it when they were only selling it at the red spider lily store. When the prices of food in other stores dropped and they went to other stores to buy food, the civilians realized that food was also divided into three, six, and nine grades. If the food in the red spider lily store was grade one, then the food in other stores could only be grade nine.
The most important thing was that the food in the red spider lily shop was not only of good quality, but there was also an abundance of magical elements in it, just like the radishes they sold. This time, the commoners bought more food.
After hearing the news from Laura, Zhao Hai immediately made a decision. He decided to give his food a trademark. The trademark name would be “paradise.”
On the ark continent, no one knew what a paradise was. But in China, paradise was a place that everyone knew. In foreign terms, it was a Utopia.
Zhao Hai’s biggest wish now was to turn the black soil wasteland into a paradise in his heart, a Utopia that everyone yearned for.
It was because of this idea that Zhao Hai used the name ” Taoyuan “. Not only did Zhao Hai think of this name, but he also personally designed a logo. The logo was very simple. It was a simple picture of a small bridge and a house with flowing water. However, it was already a very new thing in this world.
In this world, a trademark was just a name. It wasn’t officially printed on the products. It was just something that was passed down by word of mouth. Zhao Hai had really created a trademark this time. He was one step ahead of the world.
Laura wasn’t stupid. As soon as she saw Zhao Hai’s trademark, she immediately made a decision. From now on, everything she brought from Zhao Hai would be called products of paradise. The rice would be packed in a large box with the picture of paradise engraved on the outside. The same was true for the radishes and even the fruit Oil. In the shortest time possible, she would sell the products of paradise separately from those produced in other places.
In order to open up the market, the prices of the products from the Paradise did not increase. Instead, they were sold at the normal price. This made the commoners extremely happy. The products from the Paradise were really too good, especially for those who had children who were studying in the Magic Academy. Their families even gave them bamboo rice produced by the Paradise every day, and occasionally, they would eat radishes.
Speaking of which, the reason why these parents recognized the products of paradise so much was because of Julie. Julie was the first woman who bought a radish from the red spider lily, and her son, Ross, learned dark after eating a radish for the first time, becoming an official magic apprentice and receiving subsidies from the Guild.
This way, her family’s living conditions were even better. Although Ross was only a mage apprentice now and could not receive much subsidies from the Guild, only one gold coin a month, it was already very good for a civilian family. One gold coin, if spent sparingly, was almost enough for them to spend for a month.
Zhu Li was a good housekeeper. She wasn’t afraid when the food crisis broke out this time because they had food at home. Zhu Li had a habit. Every time she cooked, she would take a small handful of rice from the rice she scooped out and put it in a rice jar at home. After a long time, she had unknowingly stored a large jar of rice, enough for her family to eat for a few months, so she wasn’t worried.
However, the price of food didn’t increase, and Julie didn’t touch the rice in the rice jar. She still bought rice from the red spider lily store. However, in order to deal with the upcoming famine, Julie began to save money. She sent food boxes to Ross and the others every day and no longer let them eat in the school cafeteria.
One day, Ross’s magic teacher saw Ross bringing food and couldn’t help but take a curious look. He felt that the food was full of magical elements and immediately asked Ross where the rice came from. Ross naturally didn’t dare to lie to his teacher, only saying that his mother bought the rice and that he didn’t know where it was bought.
Ross’s teacher dragged him to his house and asked him about the situation. Julie naturally told her teacher about it. At the same time, she also asked what was the difference between this rice and other rice.
Ross ‘teacher didn’t lie to them. He told them that the magical elements in the rice were abundant, and that eating it often was very good for practicing magic. This matter slowly spread.
However, at that time, the Duchy of Versailles was implementing food control. Even if they wanted to buy it, they couldn’t. Now that the food crisis had passed, the bamboo rice of paradise welcomed a wave of sales in Casa City.
The peach blossom bamboo rice was now quite famous in Casa City, but Julie and the others did not buy too much. They had heard that if those magical vegetables were left for a long time without eating, the magical elements in them would dissipate. They were afraid that if they bought too much peach blossom bamboo rice, it would become ordinary rice after being left at home for a long time. Wouldn’t that be a loss?
Then, there was also news that there were sufficient magic elements in the Paradise Fruit Oil, which made the Paradise Fruit Oil even more popular. Now, when people buy food, they would recognize the Paradise brand.
Zhao Hai did not think much of the situation. If he continued to plant bamboo rice every day, he would not be able to sell them. After all, the price of food in the entire Versailles Duchy had dropped. Not everyone would eat the rice he produced.
However, what Zhao Hai did not expect was that The Magic School and the nobles of Casar city had placed an order for Lao. Just them alone would require hundreds of thousands of catties of bamboo rice every month. Moreover, this order was for a year. This brought Zhao Hai a stable source of income.
However, Laura thought of something else. Zhao Hai asked her to find a buyer for the blue-eyed rabbit, but Laura wanted to cooperate with Zhao Hai. After obtaining Zhao Hai’s consent, Laura started to sell paradise brand blue-eyed rabbit meat in the Paramita flower store. The price was not expensive, and the magical elements contained in the meat were higher than bamboo rice and carrots. Ordinary civilians could still afford to eat it, so it became even more popular this time.
Needless to say, Laura had received orders from the big nobles this time, but they didn’t need as many blue-eyed rabbits as before. All in all, they only needed 3000 blue-eyed rabbits a month, and the rest had to be sold in bulk.
Right now, in the Versailles Duchy, if you had never heard of Paradise Products, you must have come from outside. Everyone in the Versailles Duchy knew about Paradise Products. Right now, the red spider lily shop sold four types of Paradise Products, and business was booming.
It wasn’t that no one had thought of impersonating Tao Yuan’s brand, but the quality of Tao Yuan’s products was different from those produced in other places. After people bought them and ate them, they would find something wrong and immediately come to find them. This would instead ruin their own brand.
Laura also discovered this situation and immediately took measures. She directly asked the sales service staff to tell the people who came to buy Tao Yuan brand products that as long as the red spider lily shop sold them exclusively, they would only be able to buy fake goods from other places.
Borrowing the popularity of Paradise’s products, the red spider lily shop’s business was booming. Laura opened many more branches, and in a short time, the red spider lily shop could be seen everywhere in the entire Versailles Duchy. This greatly increased the demand for Paradise’s products.
Zhao Hai was happy to see this happen. After all, the realm couldn’t plant anything too high-level, but the output was amazing. It was enough to meet the demand of the red spider lily shop and earn him a lot of gold coins. He couldn’t be happier.
Laura also sent a lot of processed blue-eyed rabbits to Zhao Hai. They sold the rabbit meat, processed the rabbit skin, and sent it back to Zhao Hai.
Zhao Hai had also told Laura that they would pay for the processing of the rabbit furs according to their previous agreement. They would use the rabbit furs as compensation. Zhao Hai even gave a few pieces of rabbit furs to Laura. Although she had plenty of good furs, Zhao Hai still did it. He believed that human relationships were like this. What others had belonged to others. It was up to him to give them or not.
Lola did not reject him, but she felt sorry for Zhao Hai. She had been busy with the red spider lily shop’s branch opening and had not prepared the magical plants and monsters that Zhao Hai needed.
Zhao Hai didn’t care about that. As the red spider lily shop had a great demand for grains and fruit Oil and he had to plant radishes, he didn’t have much time to plant other things. Additionally, Zhao Hai was busy with Iron Mountain fortress. Therefore, he just waited there.
The iron Mountain fortress had been settled down. There was a lot of firewood, such as cornstalks, oil trees, and rice bamboos. As long as they were dried, they could be used as firewood, especially oil trees. Not only did he love them very much, but he also needed to burn them for a long time. A 50-centimeter-long oil tree could be burned for an entire day. Zhao Hai kept a lot of oil trees, which were very useful in winter. He just needed to put a section of the oil tree into the brazier. The house would not be cold that night.
At the same time, Zhao Hai would improve the soil every day and let the slaves grow vegetables. These vegetables were reserved for winter. Zhao Hai also wanted to see the soil quality through the growth of these vegetables.