บท 41: Alexandre's crusade (5)

Furthermore, the merchandise sold by Virtya was also being sold in Azuhai kingdom by the local merchants who manufactured their own products to sell locally but their products were fake, of low quality and not durable, but even so, they were also giving Virtya a tough competition.

It came a time when the furnitures, carriages and the clothes made by Virtya just stalled at the warehouses, Virtya was not making any sale as the people rejected his products and bought the merchandise from Litkesh when he was the one who invented them in the first place.

After all, the denizens especially those from Polkok district didn't have money to buy a luxury item like a suit or a sofa set, they preferred buying food over anything else.

Virtya was seated at the meeting room with his palm supporting his chin. He had slept at his chair in this meeting room for hours as he tried to think of a way in which he would raise more than 20 million gold coins but he couldn't just get how he would go about it.

His head was throbbing like hell and his veins were popping out of his head, he didn't knew what to do.

"Just give up this whole thing. You are not going to make it. My father hasn't yet made a move, you can decide right now and ask for his forgiveness and then maybe, he could allow you to rule over one of the provinces as a duke." Catalina who sat on a chair that was closer to Virtya's advised. She looked at Virtya with a concerned look and caressed his hair but Virtya grabbed her little hand and placed it at the table.

To Virtya, Catalina was just a small child that didn't realized how big the world she was living in was and he could not take her words seriously. Her words were simply like the whining of a toddler.

"I will consider your advice. Thank you for your concern." Virtya said before he buried his head between his palms and leaned forward so that his glabella could touch the table and then he closed his eyes not caring about Catalina's presence.

"Your majesty, I heard that you want to see me, is everything alright?" A voice was heard before its owner entered into the meeting room.

It was Alexandre who came in, he sat down opposite Catalina and stared at her before he asked,

"I am happy to see you Catalina. Nowadays you are not always around... Is it because Virtya is not giving you company or what?"

"I am learning the new knowledge that Virtya gave me... It's interesting you know." After Catalina answered Virtya, she stood up and shook Virtya's head before she walked out of the meeting room without taking a peek behind her.

"Aarrgggg! My head hurts... Do you have any painkiller pills? Maybe paracetamol will do, do we have that?" Virtya asked as he stretched himself. He was tired and devastated in that he looked like someone who had lost a few pounds of his weight."

"What's paracetamol? Is it a project that we are going to talk about?" Alexandre asked seriously.

"Ooh... Forget it. I just wanted to ask you for an advise. What do you think we should do... Our merchandise are not selling that well, if this continues, we will remain stunted and we would not be able to do a thing." Virtya took a scroll by his side and handed it to Alexandre.

On the scroll, it was the amount of the sales recorded since the beginning of the selling of the furnitures, clothes, farming tools, carriages and the pottery wares.

Alexandre could see that there was a time when the demand curve for the farming tools and the clothes rose to an abnormal height before it plunged quickly until it reached to zero demand but the production of the pottery wares was the most stupid idea as there was no demand for those items. Alexandre could see that the sales were stupid, this was because, Virtya didn't look at the market before he started the production of the pottery wares. After all, pottery held a competitive market that was unfare which made the price of the wares to shift each time, not to mention that anyone out there could easily make a pottery ware for themselves.