Published: March 12, 2025
Chapter 559: Booming Business
Some small merchants on the continent always believe that only expensive items can make money. However, they are unaware that the most profitable goods are not necessarily the expensive ones; sometimes, everyday necessities like this are the true money-makers.
The ordinary milk wine made by Zhao Hai using orc's milk wine may not have an exceptional taste, but its affordability and high alcohol content make it appealing. A common person might take several days to finish a pound of wine at home. Because it is cheap, it is bound to be popular among the ordinary folk.
Lando and his fellow big merchants have their own commercial networks, and their businesses are often related to people's livelihood. If they launched this wine, their sales would surely improve.
The most profitable businesses are always unique. While this milk wine might not be a unique business, it is undoubtedly exclusive for the common people.
Generally, common folks would gather fruits to brew some fruit wine, but the alcohol content of their brew is very low, and it doesn't taste good. Most importantly, common people do not have the time to spend making this fruit wine.
They are busy every day trying to make a living. If they go out of the city to gather fruits, it would take at least a day, and that day could be spent earning money. Plus, the fruits they gather can also be sold, so this homemade fruit wine isn't entirely without cost.
Lando and his team are much more professional than Zhao Hai. Zhao Hai's idea to collaborate with the orc tribe on milk wine was just a spur-of-the-moment thought, while Lando and his group needed to conduct market research and analysis before deciding whether to pursue the milk wine business.
After thorough calculations, they concluded that this milk wine indeed had a significant market, thus they gladly agreed to Zhao Hai's proposal.
At this moment, the first batch of milk wine from the Orc Prairie had already been collected and sent to Iron Mountain Fortress for processing. Meanwhile, the Eagle Clan brought back news that many of the orcs did not want grain. Right now, they were not short on food but were looking for some everyday supplies.
Zhao Hai understood this well. This suited him perfectly. Although he couldn't produce these everyday supplies himself, Lando and his team could. Zhao Hai exchanged the milk wine for everyday supplies at a low price from Lando, and then took these supplies to the orc tribe in exchange for more milk wine at a low price. Without doing anything else, just the price difference would yield him a significant profit. In summary, this transaction was beneficial for everyone involved.
With the first batch of milk wine hitting the market, the entire continent was stirred up. This was wine—so cheap and delicious; it was beyond people's expectations. Although the common folks found the taste of milk wine a bit strange at first, they soon got used to it as the aroma of both wine and milk filled their senses.
The first hundred thousand pounds of milk wine Zhao Hai released to the market was sold out in less than a day, and the positive market response boosted Lando's team's confidence immensely.
At this moment, Zhao Hai also brought the everyday supplies he had exchanged for milk wine to the Orc Prairie. Suddenly, the entire prairie erupted with excitement—not because these items were particularly valuable, but because the orc tribe now had a business opportunity to earn some change.
Brewing milk wine is incredibly simple for the orcs; almost every household brews it. However, milk wine cannot be preserved for long, so every year they would lose quite a bit of it. Now, they didn’t have to worry about waste; selling the milk wine to Zhao Hai solved everything. Not only would they prevent waste, but they would also gain some useful supplies in return.
After this success, Zhao Hai's milk wine production line and the network for procurement and sales were officially established and operating smoothly.