Chapter 18 Houghton Chamber of Commerce
"The Horton Chamber of Commerce is an emerging chamber of commerce that has only risen in the past decades. The rise of the Horton family starts decades ago. The first generation of the Horton family was originally a gangster in the capital city. He was sent to a barren exile place because he violated the law. But he was very lucky. A few years after he arrived at the exile place, a silver mine was found in the exile place, so the exiles gathered together and occupied the silver mine. The Horton family was also one of them. The Horton family also relied on this silver mine to obtain the first pot of gold." Peter introduced slowly.
"In other words, the Holden family is a descendant of criminals." Phil said.
"If you don't say that in front of the Holden family, they are very taboo about this." Peter said quickly.
"I understand this, I can't reveal the shortcomings." Phil paused and continued, "Then talk about the current situation of the Holden family."
Peter picked up the cup and took a sip of water, and then introduced: "After the Holden family accumulated capital, they established the Holden Chamber of Commerce. The Holden Chamber of Commerce has a wide range of business. Although they are not the kind of large chamber of commerce, they have strongholds in various cities across the country, which can be regarded as the business being carried out across the country."
"What you mean by business is very wide, what exactly do you mean?" Phil asked.
"It's just about making money and it's often happening that people can get involved in other people's business. Therefore, many businessmen know that the Holden Chamber of Commerce is not very disciplined in doing business. For money, they secretly do a lot of illegal activities." Peter replied.
Phil frowned slightly: "Don't follow the rules? Then how did they survive until now? Although shopping malls are like battlefields, there are still basic business unspoken rules. Will other chambers of commerce indulge Holden Chambers in a way that will break the rules?"
"This is also the cunning thing of the Holden Chamber of Commerce. After they value a business, they will investigate. If the other party has a tough backstage, they will not intervene. On the contrary, if the other party does not have a backstage, they will intervene and even force the business to follow. Over the years, the Holden Chamber of Commerce has bullied opponents much weaker than them. They will never offend those powerful chambers of commerce, so the chamber of commerce is too lazy to care about them." Peter replied.
"It's like a snake, eating a little bit, slowly strengthening itself." Phil shook his head slightly: "But even so, those big chambers of commerce should not let the Horton Chamber of commerce become bigger. This is to cultivate competitors for themselves. The big chambers of commerce should be able to see that people like the Horton Chamber of commerce who are unruly are actually raising tigers. When the Horton Chamber of commerce is strong enough, they will bite them back."
"The main reason is that the Holden Chamber of Commerce has a powerful backstage. I heard that it is a great magician with a great magician supporting him. As long as the Holden Chamber of Commerce does not do anything too outrageously, the big Chamber of Commerce will not deal with the Holden Chamber of Commerce." Peter replied immediately.
Phil nodded suddenly and realized: "It turns out there is a great magician as the backstage."
In this world, a great magician is a symbol of strength. A great magician is enough to support a medium-sized family. In an unknown town like Luoye Town, a great magician is almost a legendary existence.
Behind those big chambers of commerce or great nobles, there must be great magicians, or even more than one, but as long as the Holden Chamber of Commerce does not do anything too outrageously, the Holden Chamber of Commerce is unwilling to be enemies with the magicians behind the Holden Chamber of Commerce. Therefore, even if the Holden Chamber of Commerce has been unruly and bullying the weak, it has not been punished.
And this time, the Holden Chamber of Commerce bullied Phil.
The Knight family is just a down-and-out nobleman. Maybe it was once powerful, but it was all the old history from many years ago. The Knight family now has no strong background, and no backstage to support them. They can only live in a small town like Luoye Town. For the Holden Chamber of Commerce, bullying such a down-and-out nobleman who has no power is easy to win.
President Horton ordered people to inquire about the origin of billiards and knew that Phil, who invented billiards, was a down-and-out nobleman who had no backing backing, so he immediately ordered someone to copy the billiards and the pool table, intending to grab the business.
Peter continued: "The Horton Chamber of Commerce is powerful and they have strongholds all over the country. As long as President Horton gives orders, the Horton Chamber of Commerce will be dispatched to sell their products all over the country, so they will soon be able to seize the market. Even if I break my legs alone, I can't compare to the Horton Chamber of Commerce."
"That's true. They are chambers of commerce with businesses all over the country. In terms of sales channels, we are far inferior to others." Phil admitted.
Peter advised: "Since you can't sell it, you might as well give up this business, anyway, I made a lot of money some time ago."
"Why should I give up this business?" Phil asked with a smile.
"Do you still have to grab the business from the Holden Chamber of Commerce? Not to mention whether you can do it, this is a tiger's snatching food. You have to think clearly that there is a great magician behind him!" Peter continued to persuade.
"Don't worry, I naturally have a solution." Phil said, picking up the box of colorful billiards samples and opening his mouth: "This is the secret weapon I prepared."
"Colorful billiards?" Peter picked up a billiards and looked at them carefully.
"I want to make some reforms to billiards, replacing the previous red billiards with colored billiards, and I also plan to launch a new six-hole pool table, which can increase the fun of billiards. Customers who have bought our pool tables before, as long as they are willing to pay the shipping fee, they can replace the old billiards and billiards with new billiards and billiards. As for the replaced old billiards, we can re-dye the old four-hole pool table, and we can dig two more holes to sell them."
Phil did not explain in detail the rules of American bag-taking balls, and did not even mention the flower balls. He simply introduced his plan.
"So you had a plan, so I'll be relieved." Peter breathed a sigh of relief, a hint of surprise appeared on his face.
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The capital of the capital, the Holden Chamber of Commerce.
President Horton stood in front of a magic crystal ball, and a figure was shaking inside the crystal ball.
This is a contact crystal ball. After being injected with magic, you can contact each other at a long distance, which is equivalent to a video call in this world. However, this contact crystal is a bit complicated to make, so it is very expensive and ordinary people cannot afford it. The business of the Holden Chamber of Commerce is spread all over the country, so naturally it is necessary to contact the crystal ball to contact various places.
"You are so anxious to find me, are you asking for new information?" President Horton asked to the figure in the crystal ball.
"Yes, Phil launched a new pool table. He dug two more holes on both sides of the table and turned into a six-ball pool table. He also dyed the billiards with color. I looked at it carefully. In addition to the white cue ball and the original red ball, there are yellow balls, basketballs, green balls, orange balls, brown balls, purple balls and black balls." The figure in the crystal ball replied.
"I get it." President Horton nodded.
"President Holden, don't forget what you promised me..." the figure in the crystal ball continued.
"Don't worry, as long as you do your best to do your best, I won't lose you if I have a copper coin." President Horton finished the call after saying that, and the figure in the crystal ball disappeared.
The servant walked over with a cup of hot coffee. President Holden took the coffee and asked, "You have heard all those words just now?"
"Yes, I heard it all." The servant nodded.
"Dig two more holes on the table and dye the ball with a new color. Haha, I thought that the young master of the down-and-out noble family would have a new trick to fight back, but it seems that I still overestimated him. You go and arrange it, we will also dig two more holes on the table and dye the billiards the same color." President Horton ordered.
"Yes, President, I'll do it right away." The old servant nodded.
President Horton continued: "Compared with that down-and-out nobleman, our advantage is sales channels. We have strongholds in various cities across the country and can quickly sell products to the country. So as long as he does, I will do whatever he does. We sell the same products, but we have a wider sales channel, so the market must be ours!"
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Chapter completed!