After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 1738

Capítulo 1738: Negotiation Continues

The high-quality restaurants in the system were from Holt City, and could not be compared to the trash food from the cheap restaurants at village level.

They owned plenty of properties already, so there was a chance the value of Blu in Holt had already lessened.

Even if it didn’t, the Glen Clan’s foresight was quite well-known. They simply didn’t have as much background and power when it started out, so it was taking a while to rise to the top.

However, it was definitely on its way there, especially with the current heir, who had always been praised for his wisdom since he was young.

Cauis looked at Otto. He remembered feeling respect for this guy when he met him back then, and that had not changed.

It didn’t mean he would make things easy, especially now that the guy’s known leverage was all but gone.

“You have some things we’d like to have some of.”

He didn’t even say what it was yet, but Cauis played along. “What can you still give that we can’t get directly from Alterra?”

Otto smiled. “What about the technology for Blu handling?” he said. “In exchange, we want a percentage of the harvest.”

This made everyone in the room flinch.

“…what?”

Otto maintained his smiling expression as he waited for them to absorb what he had just said.

Through the years, the Bleulle Lord’s party had always been dependent on the Golds in terms of handling the Blus. The Lords simply could not comprehend the technology, and the Golds refused to share it with other families. It was their condition for serving the main family, even after generations.

At the very least, while the ancestors really wronged them a lot, they weren’t completely idiotic.

This way, the Bleulle Lords couldn’t force them to release the ideas and methodologies, and also commit the entire bloodline at the same time.

However, after so many decades, several people and spies here and there had learned the methodologies—though definitely not as proficiently as they could—and this was why Bleumrick felt confident enough to get rid of them.

In their generation, the oaths were held through the entire bloodline simply because the oaths themselves were simple—they simply could not betray the Lord’s family.

If it were an oath like giving their entire lives to the other family, especially their descendants, then the ancestors’ oaths wouldn’t have gone through.

Similarly, there was no specification of the Blu technology either, because it was the Golds who figured it out, and the system did not allow the Lord to have a monopoly on knowledge that one did not develop, let alone one that was applicable in multiple generations.

The contract was never amended, even after so long, simply because there was nowhere else where Blu was found again. In normal cases, even if they shared the technology because they could, it was still useless because the raw materials weren’t there.

However, according to his brother’s intelligence network, it seemed like one of Holt’s very distant subsidiaries far west, had found a small mine of Blu.

After a bit more study (er, begging some old friends for some favors), they found out that this subsidiary was under the Glen Family’s management, as well.

It was not nearly as big as Bleulle’s, even after centuries of consumption, but it was not too small that people would ignore it. Rather, it was just big enough to invest in finding out how to handle it themselves.

Cauis’ eyebrows rose.

They had been wondering how to make deals with Bleumrick when they couldn’t stand him at all. The Elders in his family were dreading being the ones sent out to negotiate with that sad excuse for a Lord.

They even held a small in-family tournament, getting representative youngins from the youngest generation to compete. The winner’s family…would be the one to choose who to send to Bleulle.

Unexpectedly, things worked out like this?

He did hear people say they got lucky when they landed in Alterra. Was he experiencing it, too?

…

In the end, aside from Otto, Cauis also closed deals with the other two parties: the Farrols and Harold.

For the Farrols, they had agreed to franchise the cafe for a few hundred gold per branch, with a fraction of that per year, not yet including some of the royalties when it started doing operations.

They consented to train two personnel per branch (under oath, of course, and any other employees sent for training would have an additional cost).

They decided the franchise was renewable every five years, with an extra year added during the first cycle as leeway for a business that was just starting.

Further, the renewal would be subject to an investigation into whether or not the owners and the staff were negatively affecting the brand name.

For Harold, they agreed to sell the raw materials and even sold coffee seeds for them to grow on their own.

This was actually Miss Althea’s instruction. She was rarely stingy when it came to these things. She always saw what was ahead of everyone.

Besides, they did not dare own Coffee. It was a gift to humanity. Profiting off the seeds themselves was already very good.

Not to mention, the ‘intermediary fee’ for these blessings was also not small. That amount alone was way more profit than they deserved, considering they literally only had to grab a few bags or things in supermarkets back in Terran to get these seeds.

They also sent instructions on how to plant as well as how to process it. It was a sin to let precious seeds die when they could’ve prevented it. It was just within Althea’s principles as a plant lover to do what was best for them.

This caused the goodwill between the two parties to reach a new height, and their connections deepened.

To Cauis, such a graceful and generous partner must be kept at all cost!

This was important, especially since their industries had the potential to clash a lot. Er, no, not just potential—there already were.

They both handled food industries, sauces, condiments, and so on. How could there not be? Even if they were tens of thousands of kilometers apart—basically on the opposite sides of the world—their influences, especially in the future, were bound to clash at some point.

If deals like these were not established early, who knew what kind of conflicts would rise?

The only other cities they knew, Bleulle and Hassen, were both likely hostile to Alterra due to various reasons (mostly being the fact that they ‘kidnapped’ people from there). It’d be too difficult to make an enemy of another one.

Besides, from what they saw so far, Holt must be one of the very few cities with very reasonable leaders. They did not want to lose this ally.

And, as mentioned, Holt City was tens of thousands of kilometers away from Alterra. There were regions in between.

If one used the Terran map as a reference, they were on different continents on opposite sides of the globe, except the globe was a few times larger. There was simply no need to be too stingy.

They had plenty of customers in between.