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Chapter 694 - 694 14 Selling Expectations_2

694: Chapter 14, Selling Expectations_2 694: Chapter 14, Selling Expectations_2 The offspring of the Giant Dragon, even if their mothers are First Order Magical Beasts, can grow to the Third Order.

A magical beast is like a loyal Senior Knight.

If you’re lucky and there’s a bloodline mutation, you might even be able to breed medium and high-order demon beasts.

That is to say, one beast can give birth for ten generations, and the beast will still exist even without the person.

For most nobles, going on an expedition to capture wild magical beasts is too dangerous.

The best choice is to buy artificially bred magical beasts.”

Hudson’s words gave a shock to Nelson.

The elevation of knight standards would indeed overthrow the existing order.

“Hudson, don’t frighten me!

If every knight is equipped with Magical Beast mounts, what about all the minor nobles in the kingdom?

What about the populous aristocratic houses?

The more knights they have, the more mounts they need, which might drive everyone crazy!”

Seeing this, Hudson immediately shook his head and said, somewhat irritated: “Nelson, why the panic?

Even if the sky falls down, you wouldn’t be the one to hold it up.

Even if the knight’s threshold is further raised, it won’t affect our interests.

Moreover, the King is not a fool, surely he will take countermeasures?

If he completely lets things go, I’m afraid that within twenty years, a third of the minor nobles in the kingdom will be ousted.

If the timeline is extended to fifty years, I’m afraid that more than half of the noble families will disappear from history.

The disappearance of large numbers of minor nobles will inevitably lead to a wave of land consolidation in the kingdom, ultimately forming an oligopoly model by Major Nobles.

If we can see the problem, wouldn’t His Majesty see it?

To avoid the worst outcome, many measures can be adopted, such as the kingdom providing knights with Magical Beast mounts.

For example, enlist minor nobles in the Kingdom’s standing army en masse, and directly equip the army with Magical Beast mounts as regular equipment with a set service life.

…

In short, there are many measures that can be taken.

Now all we need to do is to take advantage of everyone’s panic and make a small profit.”

“But Hudson, we don’t have magical beasts on hand either!

In the whole Koslow family, only you have a dragon and a bear, nobody else has even laid eyes on a magical beast.

Even if there are many female beasts mating later, most of the young beasts belong to major powers and the number we can keep is not many.

If we promise too much and can’t deliver it later, it can harm your reputation!”

Nelson seriously reminded.

Making money is important, but not as important as Hudson’s personal reputation.

As the only Koslow family member who could perform well in public at present, Hudson’s reputation absolutely couldn’t crumble.

“Don’t worry, I don’t plan to promise a specific time.

Essentially, we’re selling expectations now.

If we can’t pay off in three years, then five years, if not, ten years, twenty years, thirty years…

As long as the time period is stretched long enough, these aren’t problems.

Clarifying the issues upfront, I believe everyone would understand.

To reassure everyone, we can provide a refund at any time before delivery, without any fees during that time.”

Hudson said with calmness.

It seems like he’s selling magical beasts, but in fact, he’s selling future contracts.

From the moment of artificial breeding, it was destined that current magical beasts and future magical beasts wouldn’t be valued the same.

The only uncertain factor is – market monopoly by Major Nobles.

To maintain inevitability, setting a barrier to later entries is a natural sense of self-protection.

In order to maintain a monopoly advantage, the strategic resource of Magical Beast mounts is set with a sky-high transaction price, which is normal.

“Hudson, extending the time period is okay, but a refund at any time isn’t needed!

What if there’s a change midway, all the risks fall on us and that would be a huge loss.”

Seeing Nelson’s puzzled face, Hudson knew this kind of high-end play had refreshed his cognition again.

“Haha…”

“The risk is too high!

Nelson, you’re still too young!

Remember this: risk always belongs to those who are constrained by rules, not those who set them.

Refunds at any time have prerequisite conditions.

We can’t just refund them as soon as they pay.

Wouldn’t that be playing us?

We can set a refund deadline entirely, for example, an application a month in advance.

Or set a closure period of one or two years, during which refunds are not allowed.

As long as they meet the prerequisite conditions and want a refund, just give it to them.

Even if all customers ask for a refund at once, they have loaned us their money for a period of time.

If you compare with the interest on the kingdom’s bonds, you can see how much profit there is.

No matter whether these magical beast orders can be smoothly traded in the future, we have obtained a large amount of development funds.”

Originally, he could have gone even further, but Hudson, considering his reputation, didn’t want to go too far.

Particularly now, the nobles have taken too few societal beatings and their psychological resilience has not been toughened yet.

If the price of magical beasts is completely determined by future contracts, and the market dictates the rise and fall, people’s mentality might collapse quickly.

Hudson doesn’t want to be scolded as lacking ethics every day, so he decided to lock in the trading price of magical beasts according to the rules of the times.

At first glance, no matter whether the trade is successful or not, everyone’s gold coins don’t suffer any loss.