According to Wei Qiangsheng, there are many commerce associations within Ziqiong City.

There are as many as five or six dozen with a certain scale, and including some small or individual shops, the number of stores with 'trade' nature throughout the city won't be less than two hundred.

Just like a large city back home, there are often many standard-scale commercial supermarkets, but the number of convenience stores is not small as well.

However, in the Damo Realm, the threshold for opening a shop that buys and sells beast materials is somewhat higher.

For example, it requires cultivation, funds, channels, or even backing, so the number of 'convenience stores' is not as many.

Among them, some commerce associations that have extensive channels might even sell materials to other cities several thousand miles away.

These associations conduct both purchasing and selling businesses, buying materials from Loose Cultivators or some beast-hunting groups when the market is closed, and they also stock up when the market opens.

So theoretically, there is a large amount of beast materials that haven't been cleared out in these commerce associations.

Of course, due to not being first-hand wholesale sources.

The prices of beast materials sold by these commerce associations are definitely going to be higher than the suppliers over at the Flying Ship.

Unfortunately, the Flying Ship suppliers have already been targeted by the Yang Family, and the rabbits' firepower... ahem, influence, doesn't cover Ziqiong City for the moment.

So it's temporarily impossible to reason with the Yang Family about monopoly.

Thus, we can only take the second-best and see if we can grab some inventory from these commerce associations.

According to the normal market economy rules of the Damo Realm.

Most commerce associations operate as family businesses, with low costs for rent and manpower, so these expenses rarely get shifted onto customers.

Therefore, the prices for selling various goods at these stores won't typically double as they might domestically.

In Ziqiong City.

The selling prices at commerce associations are generally 20%-30% higher than the first-hand supply price, and some small associations adopt a low-margin, high-volume strategy to attract customers, so their prices could be a bit cheaper.

Not to mention the discounts that come with bulk purchases.

Considering the premium on beast materials with recent growth is certainly included above the commerce association's selling prices, the only thing rabbits need to consider is competing with the Yang Family in terms of speed—after all, the Yang Family isn't foolish and would never ignore so many inventories in city's commerce associations.

Countless precedents tell us that capital... cannot be so benevolent.

At most, some closely-related commerce associations might cut less or not cut at all.

"The location of the Yang Family residence is in the north of Ziqiong City, which is consistent with the information we got from the Wei Mansion, seems like the 'facing south and back to north' say has some market in the Damo Realm."

In a hidden corner by the street, Lin Ziming was holding a map of Ziqiong City taken as a gift from a commerce association, saying to everyone:

"According to the information gathered by Comrade Wu Fan, the earliest Flying Ship that took off from Ziqiong City was three days ago.

And to notice the reduced number of merchant caravans this time, it takes at least passing through two relay stations to detect this anomaly.

Considering the time it takes to fly the Flying Ship, send back messages, reconfirm and come up with a response, the time Yang Family officially started sweeping goods in the city shouldn't be earlier than two days ago.

Moreover, affected by the time characteristics of the Damo Realm, the past two days in the Damo Realm have been nights, making material transportation efficiency low. After all, even our camp suffered work damage, and Yang Family can't maintain high efficiency.

According to reports from another group of scouts that infiltrated around the Yang Family Mansion earlier.

Occasionally, some goods were delivered to the west gate of the Yang Family in the past period.

According to the map.

There are only two avenues to the west of the Yang Family, just forming an over 80-degree fan shape. If it exceeds its bounds, it should not go to Yang Mansion via the west gate.

So through analysis by top experts from the headquarters, the headquarters ultimately believed that the East City District should have quite a few commerce associations with uncleaned inventory left."

After explaining this, Lin Ziming heavily circled the east side on the map with his forefinger:

"So our focus this time is to prioritize the East City District; according to the map, there are around sixty commerce associations of various scales in the East City District, among them, three commerce associations are the largest in scale:

Chu's Commerce Association, Shi's Commerce Association, and Ye's Commerce Association.

However, Shi's Commerce Association mainly sells animal milk, with almost no beast materials, so it can be excluded as a priority.

Director Mu, at this stage, everything depends on the performance of you four trade representatives. You should remember the prices of various main beast materials by now, right?"

This bottom-scraping action was a variable the command had not anticipated; the rabbits hadn't prepared anything related before setting off, so the bottom-scraping task could only be forcibly handed to Mu Ge and the others.

After all, among all members of the trade group, only the four of them have commercial awareness and experience above the standard line.

Fortunately,

the four of Mu Ge were all elite dispatched by the headquarters, with strong adaptability far beyond that of gilded amateurs.

Among them, Mu Ge, as the leader of the trade business, had even generously debated with the eagle's commerce representatives in a rabbit-eagle trade talk, holding the fort and eventually leaving the other party speechless. His business capability is highly trustworthy.

Facing Lin Ziming's inquiry, the four standing aside exchanged a glance, with Mu Ge nodding to express:

Perhaps knowing the importance of the burden on his shoulders, Mu Ge's tone was unprecedentedly firm:

"Colonel Lin, Xiaozou and I have remembered all ninety-six common beast material prices, please rest assured!"

Hearing this, Lin Ziming was silent for a while, exhaling a deep breath through his nose, and solemnly patted Mu Ge's shoulder.

Everything was conveyed without words.

Then Lin Ziming confirmed once again with the command headquarters through electronic equipment, setting the acceptable price for beast materials for the trade group at 35%.

He then said to Mu Ge:

"Director Mu, Chief of Staff Gu will send several associates to assist you in the bottom-scraping and material transportation; time is tight, which team of you will set off first now?"

In the plan formulated by headquarters,

The four trade representatives would be sent out in 2+2 teams to scrape the bottom, with Wei Niandong and Wu Fan acting as interpreters for the two teams respectively.

Previously, because the sale of fire veins was not too suitable for outsiders to witness, Wei Niandong did not follow the team.

He was arranged by Lin Ziming to arrive in Ziqiong City with Wang Qiang and others in the same batch, and shortly before, he sent a message via the device Lin Ziming gave him, informing that he is currently on standby at the city gate.

So one team has to return to the city gate to meet Wei Niandong first, and then go to the East City District for bottom-scraping.

Mu Ge thought for a while and said:

"Comrade Wu Fan should go with Mr. Zou and their team first, Officer Zhe Yi is the only female comrade among us, so let's not let her suffer to run around too much."

The three officers that came to Ziqiong City with Mu Ge this time are his old partners, named: Zou Xiaodong, Wang Zheyi, and Xun Ziyang.

Among them, Wang Zheyi is the only female, 26 years old this year.

Seeing this, Lin Ziming did not object, he glanced down at the timer:

"We've been here in Ziqiong City for over six hours now, so let's proceed with the arrangements and everyone move quickly!"

With Lin Ziming's order, the people present quickly divided into three parts:

Two teams of trade group members and accompanying warriors, plus Lin Ziming, Ma Ning, and those 'idlers'.

Then, Mr. Zou Xiaodong led Wu Fan and headed towards the east side of the city, while Lin Ziming and the others moved straight towards the Market Trading Area in the northern part of the city.

Afterward, Officer Zou Xiaodong took Wu Fan with him and went to the east city district to check the stock, while Colonel Lin led the other members straight to the northern market trading area in the city.

Upon arriving at their destination, Lin Ziming and his team found themselves in a large, enclosed area, bustling with people coming and going.

Among these people, some were from the caravan group they encountered outside Linyuan City with Wei Qiangsheng.

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