章節 121: Chapter 119 Turning Passive into Active

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Bordeaux, as France's most important export location for grape wine, is the soul of the city with its wine trade.

The Royal Square, which adjoins Bordeaux's core transportation waterway—the Garonne River, was once the residence of Louis XV, but now the King no longer comes here. Consequently, the vast square and the adjacent palace have become a trading place for wine merchants and cellar owners.

So people prefer to call it Exchange Square.

Here, massive amounts of wine are traded every day, then sent all over Europe and even across to the Americas.

At this moment, in the grand palace's main conference hall in front of Exchange Square, there were gathered fifty to sixty noblemen or their representatives.

These noblemen all share another identity, that of grape plantation owners.

They own the vast majority of vineyards in the Bordeaux region and also operate winemaking workshops, controlling nearly sixty percent of France's grape wine production industry.