Chapter 730: Wine hits the market
For the next week, Sam is extremely busy. But no matter how busy he was, he didn't assign any tasks to the trio.
He traveled to the nearest town and dealt with the procedures of the new brewery. Even though the sugar industry and wine industry are under the two faction's control, it is not like the weapon industry which is completely regulated by the government.
They just used the business practices to suppress the rest.
They really do have the best wine in their possession and they used that wine to just suppress the rest of the business that tried to breakthrough.
In fact, there are some small wine brands that are stationed on other planets and they do have some business, but they couldn't even get ten percent of the market even on those planets.
Sam entering this industry is not exactly opposed by the government officials, but the faction 2 members get notified by their members in the administration.
At least the officials didn't trouble him too much as he had the recommendation of Raunak who is the senior officer.
But the main reason is that many officials didn't take him seriously. They know many people who started businesses and got stumped because of the pressure and their inability to catch the attention of people.
It can only be said that they underestimated Sam too much.
After this week, the procedures are already complete.
The orchards are also bought. The orchards recently came to harvest and now they are waiting for the next harvest. So, the ten people took the opportunity to buy the orchards at a sky-high price. One orchard is even one of the largest in the towns. That guy always wanted to settle down in Planet 1. So, now that there is someone who can give three times the original price, he immediately got tempted and sold it.
One must wonder how he would have felt that if he came to know that he could have sold it at five times the price.
After the purchases and the leases are completed, the next thing they have to do is remove the previously planted fruit trees. They removed half of the trees from the orchards and started planting the new tree saplings Sam gave them.
All the new merchants and even the fruit buyers from the winery all learned about the new fruit orchards that appeared in different places along with the owners of the orchards that opened the new bars in the town.
Most of the bars on the planet only sell the brews from the winery of faction 2. The system is extremely similar to the modern earth's system. Where the liquor is made in the factory and packed there, to be shipped to different selling points.
Sam is doing the same thing.
His first target is the fruits wines and he would stay at that for the time being.
The taxes that come from these towns in the next four months is around fifty to sixty million. Raunak's job is to increase the taxes.
So, in the target amount all that was calculated is the excess taxes he brought, and this time, he has to bring around four hundred million spirit stones to get the promotion.
Actually, it shouldn't be that much but from the discussion he had with Raunak Sam learned that someone pulled some larger strings and increased the target as he promoted faster than he should have and he would be lacking in experience.
In the words of the superior officer, this is all for his own good.
Sam didn't care much. He already increased cleared a few dozen million in this target with the land purchase deal.
And now, he has to wait for another month to clear more of the target.
The wine brand is called Dusk and it is packed in glass bottles of different colors based on the fruit flavors.
On the tenth day of the plan, the bars opened with the new wines. They used the same tactic as before, supplying the wine for free in the first few days to attract the consumers.
The wine is actually expensive than the wine from faction 2. But they are still buying.
After three days of the free supply. The bars are still packed. They are many people who are buying the wine. There are even some rich scion elves that just stayed in the bar with some of their companions burning their fathers' money.
The word soon reached faction 2 and their superiors. But nobody dared to take any drastic measures. They just went on to buy the wines and conduct some tests.
Due to Raunak's supports, they are stumped in bureaucratic ways. They didn't dare to make false accusations.
Faction 1 is happy about this though. They are already sick of faction 2 hoarding the wine industry. They are thinking of contacting the owners behind the brand. When faction 2 got wind of the news, they also tried to track Sam back and the next week passed like that.
On the fifteenth day of Sam's arrival to the city, Ragad who took a beating from Sam entered the city to get into contact with Sam.
He got the information from the administrative office and learned that Sam is currently staying in the town brewing.
When he saw the name, he is a bit hesitant and when he reached the town which is only a few hours away and met with Sam. His blood ran cold. He wanted to kill Sam right away, but when he thought of what is going to happen if he risked anything, he controlled his urge and had a talk with him as if they met for the first time.
But the talks are not extremely successful. Sam clearly didn't show any interest in selling the whole brand, he rejected him and sent him back.
"I hope you will contact us before anyone else when you decide to sell it. Or you might not be able to sell anything at all"
Ragad left a veiled threat.
"You are so sure, that I would sell it?"
"You would have to sell it one day."
"If that day really comes, I will conduct another auction, and don't worry since the deal between us regarding the molasses and the bagasse is on, I would give you a five percent discount if you really outbid the competitors."
"It seems like you are really planning to sell it in the auction. You are really good at taking advantage of the situation."
Sam chuckled without any reply and Ragad also left to inform the superiors.
The same thing happened with Faction 2 but they didn't get any form of reassurances or discounts. Now the superiors in the city are also interested in Sam and the way he did things was investigated.
His sudden rise in the Cane's town was investigated and all they could find out is that he followed Raunak out of the town along with his promotion.
Apart from that, everyone also learned about the assassin sent to kill him but mysteriously dying with his whole body burned, along with the envoy burning in the same way almost dying.
This made them feel a bit more cautious and didn't let them make any rash moves.
For all they know, there might be someone supporting him from behind the scenes.
But the faction 2 is not willing to take this lying down. In the winery of the city, there is a special meeting held between the faction members that call the shots in this planet. The city head is only a Transcendent realm and he is also in charge of the whole planet which is a bit surprising, but that things worked.
From what Raunak said, all the working people and leaders are Transcendent stage cultivators in all three planets.
Except for Planet 1 where the initial stage Consummate realm cultivators take the jobs. The higher level cultivators take some more serious talks that are related to the business and settlements in the neighboring realms while the elders are all late-stage Consummate realm cultivators and beyond and that includes the King or Queen that is going to be elected.
Anyway, back to the meeting in the Winery, the person in charge of the Winery is yelling at the top of his lungs for the past week. The stock for the bars is sent on a weekly basis and since elves like living in vanity, they drink a lot.
But in the past week, their orders are dropped by a lot and their income reduced drastically.
So the current meeting atmosphere is extremely sullen.
"We were informed that we shouldn't take any direct action that can be punishable by law against him. Neither should we target him by using underhanded methods. The superiors ordered us to battle his business in purely business methods, so I would like you guys to tell your views and ideas."
The person in charge of the factor, who happened to be a mature lady asked all the subordinates that are in managerial positions sitting in front of her.
Seeing their silence, her gloomy mood only worsened and she said.
"I don't care whether you want to say it or not. But if the sales don't get back to what it was in the next week, you can forget about your salary for the month." She gave a cold warning before leaving the room.