Chapter 95

In some wine shops that specialize in selling alcoholic beverages, high-end wine often only has a few bottles. If customers need a lot, the shop owner will call the superior supplier for goods or transfer goods from other peers.

High-end wine has a higher price and occupies more funds. For merchants whose purpose is to make a profit, it is not the best choice.

The situation here in New Jincheng is the same. The mid-to-high-end wine market exists, but the sales are definitely not as fast as low-end wine.

For merchants, making funds roll quickly is their ultimate goal. Even if one roll only has a profit of five percent, as long as it rolls fast enough, a profit of five percent can double his principal in a short time.

But if the rolling of funds is difficult, that is, the change of the three forms of principal—commodity—sales is very slow, even if the profit is one hundred percent, the money they earn in the same cycle may not be as much as five percent.

This led to a very special situation. Before the implementation of the prohibition order, merchants who were qualified to know about this and began to hoard wine hoarded almost all mid-to-low-end wine. High-end wine was not hoarded by anyone at all!

Even if someone hoarded a little, maybe a few hundred bottles, a thousand bottles, and it wouldn't be cost-effective to hoard more!

The facts are indeed so. The mid-to-high-end wine of five or six dollars is now eleven dollars, doubling.

But the wine of fifty-nine cents is now two dollars, which is an increase of nearly three times. Even in the past two days, because low-end wine is not in short supply, the terminal sales price growth rate of low-end wine has begun to slow down, while high-end wine, because inventory is not much and sales are always stable, the price has begun to increase faster.

Mr. Pasreto hopes to use this batch of wine to open up the high-end wine market. The wine in Lanse's hand gives them such an opportunity.

Even if they get it, they won't sell it to the outside world in a short time.

If Lanse is feeling that the world is full of beauty because of the large wealth he just obtained, then there is another person who has the same idea and is even happier!

Arthur, this is the first time he has earned a large sum of money without doing evil, so he can't help but want to share his joy with his family, through showing off.

"I'm rich!"

At the dinner table, he couldn't help showing off this to his father and mother. Williams looked down on his appearance of having joy and anger on his face the most, without a bit of his own appearance.

This is also the reason why he wouldn't choose Arthur as his successor. Such a person would be eaten clean by others in the political arena, and then packed into an oil barrel and thrown into Angel Lake.

His knife and fork knocked against each other, looking at Arthur: "Now is meal time, you have to learn to keep quiet."

The young wife sitting opposite him interrupted him with a smile: "Arthur is very difficult to do one thing right. I don't think there is any problem with letting him be happy, and there is only our family at the dinner table, no one else."

For this beautiful and young wife he especially likes, Congressman Williams has more tolerance.

This is a very special mentality, sometimes getting along like a husband and wife, but sometimes making him feel that this is a daughter, and he will be extra indulgent and doting: "Okay, you have the final say here."

The woman turned to look at Arthur, equally happy: "Tell me, it's 'we' are rich."

Arthur froze for a moment. Only then did he remember that his mother occupied a large part of the second investment. Suddenly he became a little vigilant: "We agreed, give you thirty thousand."

The woman elegantly manipulated the knife and fork: "Is there?"

Arthur looked at her with an expression of disbelief, and then looked at his father, but Congressman Williams didn't intend to help him: "This is a matter between you mother and son. I don't know, and I won't intervene."

The woman gave her husband a flying kiss across the table, then looked at Arthur: "What we agreed on was half. Did you forget?"

Arthur didn't speak. She used that very sad tone and said: "I raised you from childhood to this big. Now for a little money, you are actually unwilling to talk to me."

"And, am I asking for too much?"

"If it weren't for my money, you wouldn't even earn a cent of this part of the income, let alone earn so much!"

Arthur felt his blood pressure rising. In fact, the income of this second investment wasn't as big as imagined.

He followed Mr. Jobav's suggestion and hoarded a large amount of cheap low-end wine. The price he got through some of Congressman Williams' relationships was only about one dollar and thirty-five cents.

So far, the profit brought to him by each bottle is only eighty-five cents, and the profit does not exceed sixteen thousand.

Originally, he only needed to give his mother five thousand out of sixteen thousand, but now he has to give eight thousand...

When his mind turned around, he immediately agreed. He originally thought he would have to give a lot more, but now thinking about it carefully, it seems he couldn't give much.

The woman saw him agree so readily, and her mood also improved a lot. She asked intentionally or unintentionally: "How much money did you earn in total?"

Arthur suddenly became vigilant: "What do you want to do?", he felt that saying it this way was not enough momentum, and increased his volume a little: "That's my money!"

The woman looked at Congressman Williams. Congressman Williams picked up the napkin and wiped the corner of his mouth: "Answer your mother's question."

Arthur looked at the two of them. He wanted not to answer, but Congressman Williams' gaze gave him great pressure, and he could only say in a low voice: "About fifty thousand."

Congressman Williams was also stunned: "So much?"

He thought that maybe twenty or thirty thousand would be the limit, but he didn't expect this youngest son to earn so much money. He soon realized the core problem: "Where did you get the principal?"

He explained it.

"Mom gave me twenty-five thousand, I borrowed twenty-five thousand from Jobav, and then I mortgaged some of my watches, cars, and so on to the bank, and got more than ten thousand."

"Before this, I took out all my money, twenty thousand, and hoarded a large batch of high-end wine."

"All these together, my principal is actually more than eighty thousand. Earning more than fifty thousand, I think it's not much at all."

Congressman Williams' expression was a little serious: "I hope you didn't abuse my name.", he paused: "I didn't expect you to do such a big thing. Dispose of these things in your hand as soon as possible."

Arthur didn't understand: "They said the price will rise higher in December. If I sell it now, I will earn a lot less!"

"I'm not discussing with you, Arthur, I'm ordering you to do as I say!", Congressman Williams' attitude was very firm.

The woman sitting opposite coughed: "Dear, why don't you explain the reason for doing this to your stupid son?"

He didn't want to explain: "I think he just needs to know what to do. As for why, for him, knowing and not knowing make no difference."

"But since you said so..."

He began to explain: "You have too much wine in your hand. We have just joined the Prohibition Alliance. In order to show our determination to prohibit alcohol to people in higher places, we must make some 'achievements'."

Arthur's mother added: "Catch some wine dealers."

Congressman Williams nodded: "Yes, dear, catch some wine dealers."

"If you were just playing around, I could let you play however you want, but you have more than a million worth of wine in your hand. Once those bastards who have been dissatisfied with me for a long time know about this and report you to the state government, I can't protect you either."

"So for your own safety, and for the safety of the family, you'd better dispose of all that wine in a week."

"You have already earned five or six hundred thousand. Be careful that greed will make you lose these!"

Arthur still wanted to struggle. By December, the profit he got would be at least seven or eight hundred thousand or even more!

But Congressman Williams' eyes made him feel afraid, and he finally lowered his head: "I know."

Congressman Williams thought for a while: "Let James help you dispose of this wine, and I will let him give you the money without moving a cent."

James is William's half-brother and also the eldest son of Congressman Williams, James Williams, a young political rising star in New Jincheng.

Although this batch of wine is a hot potato, if used well, it can also allow James to get the friendship of many people.

His friendship with these people is his own. Only the interpersonal relationships James builds himself are his own.

If he doesn't help him build his own interpersonal network and interest network while he still has the ability, the moment he closes his eyes is the moment the "Williams family" is served on the dinner table!

More than a million worth of wine is enough for James to become good friends with these big tycoons on the surface and in the dark.

Arthur wanted to say something, but in the end, he said nothing. It's like this in this family, no matter what, it belongs to James.

And he is just an dispensable "stupid son."

After lunch, Congressman Williams called James over: "Your brother has more than a million worth of wine in his hand. You help dispose of it as soon as possible. You understand what I mean."

James looked at Arthur with some surprise. In his impression, this idiot only knows how to cause trouble and add trouble to Congressman Williams. Besides these, he knows nothing.

"Hey, what kind of look is that?", Arthur was immediately a little dissatisfied: "Can't I earn some money?"

James couldn't help laughing: "Of course you can, just feel it's a bit incredible...", he smiled, the expression was like saying "the fool in our family has made progress."

Congressman Williams didn't care about the "interaction" between his sons, just urged: "Be fast."

"In order to get more attention, the Governor will definitely try to come up with some results that make people look sideways. Don't let us become a target!"

James also put away his smile: "I understand, I will contact people who need this wine this afternoon."

"By the way, what are they?"

"Is there any high-end wine?"