Winter goes and spring comes
Time soon came to the spring of Baijia’s fourth year
Kuaiji County
Gou Jian personally came to an island, which was only a hundred miles away from Kuaiji County. It was also the trading place agreed between Yancheng and Yue. Looking at the large fleet of ships arriving slowly in the distance, Gou Jian breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's finally here, and I don't know how much they can buy. In the past, wealthy merchants from the state of Chu could lower the price of the big demon's meat to fifty yuan a pound. They are really unworthy of a man. This is bullying me and the country of Yue can only sell it. To Chu State."
If you sell it to the Chu State, you can still make some money, but if you sell it to the Wu State, it will be pure capital for the enemy.
Wen Zhong looked solemn: "Your Majesty, the fleet from Yancheng has arrived. Should we notify the nobles in the country and let them participate too? Once the nobles find out about this kind of thing afterwards, they will be dissatisfied."
Hearing this, Gou Jian snorted coldly: "Don't pay attention to those people. They are dissatisfied when they are dissatisfied. When they discover the treasures of heaven and earth in their territory, have they ever thought about paying tribute to the orphans? When there is a great harvest in their territory, there are Have you ever thought about paying some taxes to Guduo?"
"They are unkind, so it can't be considered unjust."
"Moreover, there are tens of thousands of sets of mysterious armors in this first fleet. Each set of these mysterious armors costs three million, which adds up to thirty billion!"
"According to the list given by Yancheng, in addition to Xuanjia, this first batch of goods also contains a large amount of Yancheng cabbage. I heard that this kind of cabbage is a kind of spiritual root. It can grow wherever there is spiritual energy. It is also watery and can be Eat it raw, it tastes better when wrapped in meat.”
"The most important thing is that this kind of Yancheng cabbage can be eaten every day. It will not be of any use like elixirs."
"In addition to these cabbages, there are also a large number of spiritual rice. These spiritual rice and Yancheng cabbage are what I value most."
"With these, Gu Gu can instantly train a Huang-level Taoist soldier who is absolutely loyal to Gu. The deterrent effect of a Huang-level Taoist soldier is often stronger than that of a minister."
"What's more important is that this is only the first batch of fleet, and the total price of the goods on it is about 100 billion yuan. It's just here to test the waters. Yancheng is really rich. So many supplies were delivered directly, so lonely The goods haven’t been delivered yet, so you are so broad-minded!”
Wen Zhong thought for a while and said: "There is indeed a lot of money in Yancheng. I think the main reason is that the way of thinking is different."
"In Yancheng, it is normal for alchemists to work. Alchemists started working long before the Dao Extermination Order was issued. It's just that at that time, most of the alchemists worked for themselves."
"After the Dao Extermination Order was issued, Yancheng began to vigorously build an academy, allowing warlocks to take up posts in the academy, grant teaching positions, and hire warlocks to work by issuing research tasks and combat tasks."
"Now, the Taoist priests in Yancheng have no airs and are accustomed to going to the academy to receive combat missions or research missions."
"After the contention of a hundred schools of thought began, Young Master Si of the Wei family also began to issue tasks in the Yancheng Academy. Later, Young Master Fei of the Han family issued production and living tasks in Yancheng for a long time, directly asking the Taoists in Yancheng to give the agriculture of Hexi County to It’s rounded.”
"The actions of the two young masters have inspired many great nobles."
"Since then, many great nobles have quietly issued various research tasks in Yancheng Academy."
Having said this, Wen Zhong took out a jade slip and handed it to Gou Jian: "Your Majesty, this is some information I have collected."
"For example, a newly promoted prime minister of Wu State was already a long time ago and a doctor who was about to become old. However, he successfully made a breakthrough overnight. The public opinion was that he was reborn in ruins and found hope in death. He regained his vitality and finally made a successful breakthrough.”
"But, in fact, he spent a lot of money to launch a research mission in Yancheng, and finally made a successful breakthrough with the help of Taoist people's research results. Although he spent a full two billion yuan and half a demon king's corpse, and even Even his ancestral property was sold by him, but he succeeded, he is already the prime minister, and he successfully unified the entire family!"
"There are many people like this newly promoted prime minister."
"On this jade slip, there are seven people recorded. These seven people are from Wu State, Xu State and our Yue State."
"In the past, nobles did not trust Taoists, and Taoists did not trust nobles. Both sides always felt that the other would harm them. But now, with Yancheng as a guarantee, many nobles are willing to spend money to buy the research results of Taoists."
"So, slowly, many anonymous tasks appeared in Yancheng Academy."
"For some tasks, not only the publisher is anonymous, but also the person who connects to the task must be anonymous. They also need to sign a contract to prevent leaks. The content of the task is kept secret from the beginning to the end."
"Today, there are so many tasks in Yancheng every day, only about 10% are issued by Yancheng locals and Yanjunjun Mansion, and the remaining 90% are all issued by outsiders."
"The most common tasks are to help find money and help mine wealth."
Hearing this, Gou Jian couldn't help but widen his eyes: "What did you say?"
"For example, there is the Xu family, a prime minister of Xu State, whose ancestor was a certain Xu Hou, and he is also from a noble family. However, it is too old, and now he has little contact with the public family of Xu State, and the relationship is not big."
"The Xu family's fiefdom happens to be a pivotal place. Of course, the Chu State will not let it go. The land has been occupied. Now that the war between the Xu State and the Chu State has initially ended, there are only more than 120 people left in the Xu State. county, and all other counties were occupied by the Chu State."
"For the Xu family, it is completely impossible to return to the fiefdom. In addition, the old head of the Xu family died in the war. The young head of the family simply came to Yancheng with a small number of his family members."
"The Xu family buried a lot of treasures in and near the fiefdom in the past. They were originally reserved for use when the family declined and made a comeback. But now the entire fiefdom has become the territory of the Chu State. These treasures, with the ability of the Xu family's young master , it will be difficult to go back. Even if it is really dug out, once it is exposed, it is very likely that both the people and the treasures will be taken away by the Chu State. "
"So he simply issued a mission and asked the Taoists to help him dig out the treasure."
"At the beginning of this mission, it was an anonymous and confidential mission."
"Later, all the Xu family's treasures were dug out. It is said that they contain a large amount of gold sand, a large amount of the essence and blood of the second-generation prime minister, three corpses of the demon king, a large number of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and one ten thousand-year spiritual root."
"Later, Young Master Xu took the Ten Thousand Years Spiritual Root as a gift and found a school for his most qualified youngest daughter to serve as a master. This can be regarded as taking root."
"Later, this matter spread. Then slowly, there were all kinds of strange and weird tasks."
"Some people entrust Taoists to save people, because many people's fathers participated in the rebellion, and the rebellion failed in the end, but the fathers asked their sons to bring money in advance, and the sons entrusted Taoists to save those marginalized people, brothers and sisters."
As for parents, it’s too difficult and most people don’t accept this kind of task.
"Also for example, some nobles have declined and had nothing when they came to Yancheng, but they have many secrets hidden in their minds. They sell the secrets, or simply hire Taoists, or even cooperate with Taoists to explore a certain secret together. land."
"Today's Yancheng is indeed full of vitality, giving people a feeling that everything is competing."
After thinking for a long time, Gou Jian said: "Doctor Wen, you said, I want to see it."
"It's a pity that as a Marquis of Yue alone, I can only stay in Kuaiji County. At most, I can only wander around the country. I can't leave the Yue Kingdom at all."
Wen Zhong smiled and said: "This is simple. There are many secret methods in Yancheng. Just like Mr. Yan, he is seriously injured now. He doesn't know where he hides his body to recuperate, but he uses the secret method to create a projection. This projection is not in Dongning every day. Wandering around the island means meeting various ministers in Yancheng, or wandering around the four counties in the south and the six counties in the north."
"Every time he travels, he sits in a rocking chair and is carried by his guards. He does not hide that he is seriously injured, but also lets everyone know that he is still alive and well. This move has also made many nobles and many common people, Many Taoists have seen his appearance, and he can be said to be quite friendly to the people."
"Your Majesty, you can refine a magic weapon and create an incarnation of the magic weapon. Let this incarnation go to Yancheng to observe and observe on your behalf."
"I feel that it is still necessary to observe Yancheng in person today."
"Whether it's the various Taoisms or the many novel ideas there, it's necessary to get a closer look."
"Especially the twenty counties occupied by Taoists and nobles. Almost every county has its own characteristics. If our country of Yue wants to reform in the future, we must have a reference."
Gou Jian nodded slowly and said to Wenzhong: "The guests are coming soon. How are our goods prepared?"
"This time, we have prepared various goods with a total value of one trillion."
"Among them, there are as many as twenty corpses of the Demon King."
"These monster king corpses, even if they are purely sold as monster meat, start at one thousand yuan per kilogram. One demon king is a big whale in the sea, weighing tens of millions of kilograms. Although this whale demon king There are no additional features, but the body is the heaviest. Taking into account the demon king's essence and blood and other items, this demon king's corpse alone can be sold for 20 billion yuan. However, there are very few demon kings like this after all. "
"Most demon king corpses, even if they are well preserved, cannot weigh that much. Their total value is between one billion and three billion yuan. The exact amount depends on whether the other party needs it and whether it is in urgent need. "
"In the past, we paid a lot of money every year to preserve the corpse of the Demon King. The operation of those formations requires money, and the manpower needed to maintain the operation of the formations also requires money."
"In the past, it was difficult to find someone who just needed the corpse of the Demon King. It was difficult to barter, and it was difficult to find someone who was suitable for both parties. It was difficult to buy it at a cheap price and was reluctant to part with it. In the end, many of the Demon King's corpses became useless."
"Today, these twenty corpses of the Demon King can be sold for at least 40 billion, and possibly 50 billion."
Things like heavenly materials and earthly treasures must be valuable if they are valuable, but if they fall into the hands of an alchemist, their value can easily increase tenfold. In the past, the natural treasure of the Yue Kingdom was cow-chewed peonies, which they would eat immediately when they encountered them. As for refining medicine and elixirs, there were really too few people who knew such advanced technologies.
There are mines at home, but there is no pioneering technology. This is the current situation of Yue country.
When this batch of demon king corpses were transported to Yancheng, and after being processed by Taoists, they were resold for trillions of dollars.
"In addition, there are thousands of corpses of the big demon. As for the little demon, it was the first time to trade, so I didn't do it."
If the little demon also sets up a seal or formation to save it, the price will be too high, and it will usually be eaten directly.
"In addition, our country is vast and rich in resources, and we have accumulated a large amount of spiritual fruits, which can be sold on a large scale this time."
"In short, I have prepared a total of 200 billion to 300 billion yuan worth of goods."
After hearing this, Gou Jian thought for a moment: "Our Kuaiji County is 20,000 miles away from Dongning Island, and it takes three months to go back and forth. Doesn't it mean that we can do business up to four times this year?"
Wen Zhong knew that Gou Jian was worried that there were too few caravans and he would not be able to buy too many resources.
"Your Majesty, don't worry. A few years ago, Yancheng came up with a series of Taoist methods for land reclamation."
“This series of Taoist techniques can continuously absorb the aura of water in the depths of the sea, and create a large amount of soil through the principle of the five elements (water produces wood, wood produces fire, and fire produces earth), and can create floating islands floating on the surface of the sea. "
"These floating islands are not deep enough, but their surface area is not small. They look like islands."
"With these movable islands, a large number of sea ships can stop on the way. In this way, the warlocks can drive the sea ships, pass through the islands along the way, and finally bring a ship of goods to sell."
"And this first fleet is actually a mobile island plus a large number of sea ships. When the warlocks on the sea ships get tired, they go to the island to rest. The warlocks who have already repaired on the island take the opportunity to get on the ship and continue to cast spells. , let the fleet move forward."
"Therefore, the first batch of fleets was small in number and only transported a total of about 100 billion in various commodities."
"After floating islands are built along the 20,000-mile sea, there will be transfer stations along the way. At that time, the warlocks can participate in shipping, and we, the scholars of the Yue Kingdom, can also participate in the national destiny. Isn't it water-based Taoism? We There is no shortage of scholars with water attributes in the Yue Kingdom. They are all from the south, so who doesn’t know how to use water?”
"Even if we don't have such perfect Taoism now, we can learn it. When we learn it, we can let our scholars drive ships to Yancheng to sell it."
"Like now, if the two hundred to three hundred billion of goods we have prepared arrive in Yancheng, they can be sold for at least five hundred to eight hundred billion."
Hearing this, Gou Jian took a deep breath. He felt so distressed!
"Doesn't this mean that we worked so hard to slay demons, killed so many warriors, spent so much effort, and finally got only 30% of the profit?" Gou Jian slapped his thigh fiercely!
"It's only 30%, but it still depends on the person's face!"
"Just this 30%, Mr. Yan gave it to us because he wanted to make good friends with us!"
Hearing this, Gou Jian gritted his teeth and said, "We must stand and earn the money!"
"We don't have a large fleet now, nor do we have mass mastery of shipping methods, but we can learn!"
"After we learn how to do it, and after these floating islands are built, we will also organize a fleet. This money will not be earned by these middlemen, we will earn it ourselves!"
(End of chapter)
