Xuanjia is Yancheng's flagship product, so it naturally needs to be updated from time to time to maintain advanced competitiveness.
The first generation of Xuanjia was still very stupid and thick. It just used a spell to concentrate hundreds of kilograms of fine iron onto a piece of armor, so that the surface of the armor appeared black, so it was called Xuanjia.
At that time, the joints of Xuanjia were just like ordinary armor, and they were very inconvenient. But the advantage is that when worn on the body, the weight is the same as ordinary armor, and the thickness is also the same as ordinary armor.
At that time, anyone could imitate Xuanjia, and there was no great difficulty.
At that time, Yancheng mainly relied on a large amount of fine steel and a large number of Taoists, and they did not earn much, so there were not many imitators of Xuanjia at that time. If it can be imitated and mass-produced, the cost is higher than buying it from Yancheng. Over time, who will bother to produce it? Isn’t it enough to just buy the one from Yancheng?
But today, there are more and more secrets in Xuanjia.
The latest mass-produced version is the eighth-generation Xuanjia. This generation of Xuanjia is very light and has no impact on the joints at all. The Xuanjia has an innovative lightening technique attached to it, which only requires the input of Qi. The power of blood or mana can activate the light body technique, which is very effective whether it is escaping or chasing.
The market price of such an excellent eighth-generation black armor is only three million yuan. It is still the original price, but its performance is much better.
What the world doesn't know is that the ninth-generation Xuanjia has actually been finalized and is ready for large-scale mass production. However, it is not necessary to sell it to the outside world. For the time being, the eighth-generation Xuanjia is enough to occupy the armor market.
Even the tenth generation of Xuanjia has been produced in the laboratory and is just short of mass production. The eleventh generation of Xuanjia is also being researched and manufactured in the laboratory.
"My lord, this is Yancheng's conspiracy!"
"Yancheng is trying to use this method to keep other people who are doing research secretly behind and in a state of loss forever. In this way, over time, it will be a situation where it is better to buy directly than to work hard. However, what if one day we and What if a war breaks out in Yancheng? What if one day Yancheng is no longer for sale?"
"By that time, we will be completely choked by Yancheng."
"Let's talk about these fine seeds. The only one in the world that has the ability to produce fine seeds on a large scale is Yancheng. I heard that the Qi alchemists responsible for agriculture there, from the real people above to the alchemists underground, add up to almost tens of millions. Okay, with this kind of research speed, how can we compare?"
"Our Zhao family currently does not have the ability to mass produce high-quality seeds on a large scale, nor does it have the ability to manufacture Tubao (extraordinary version of fertilizer) on a large scale. We can only make those harvesters and seeders, but the cost is higher than those sold in Yancheng."
"If one day, Yancheng suddenly stops selling fine seeds and local treasures, will our grain output be cut in half? Will there be a famine? Will it affect the stability of the entire Zhao family?"
"In addition to high-quality seeds and local treasures, there is also this Xuanjia. The Eighth Generation Xuanjia is good everywhere, and it is also very cheap. But is this really a good thing? We have invested a lot of money and effort in Xuanjia. , but every time we are about to update, Yancheng will announce the next generation of Xuanjia, which we have worked hard to research, and it is no match at all!"
Five hundred billion dollars!
The total investment in manpower, material, land, etc. invested in the research of Xuanjia, including subsequent small-scale production and manufacturing, totaled approximately 500 billion.
"In addition, there are the famous Yancheng Cabbage, Yancheng Monkey Wine and other products, which are also very popular and very effective. Most of them are really useful and good things. You can't live without buying them."
The price for selling these things to the outside world in Yancheng is not expensive (compared to the past). In the past, the profits of these things were ten times higher. Now the profits are only about double. The politicians buy them back and sell them twice as much. The price is cheaper than before, and the quantity is large, which is suitable for large-scale cultivation of Taoist soldiers.
Now, with the vigorous popularization in Yancheng, the relevant technology of Huang-level Taoist soldiers has almost spread to the whole world.
In Yancheng today, as long as you give money, as long as you give enough money, you can sell anything!
The most typical one is the training technology of Huang-level Taoist soldiers. In the past, the training technology of Huang-level Taoist soldiers was firmly in the hands of the monarch, and not many nobles could master it.
But now, as long as nobles at the ministerial level are willing to pay, they can buy a training manual. It is said to be a manual, but it is actually one jade slip after another. The jade slips contain a large number of images and texts. If it were all converted into text, it would take at least several hundred million words.
Although there are many words, they are all told in vernacular.
Ordinary people can understand even if they study hard. Therefore, it is also called a fool's training manual.
As long as you learn to understand it thoroughly, you can train a yellow-level Taoist soldier.
Along with the training manual for Huang-level Taoist soldiers, there is also a three-piece set of Yancheng Lingmi, Lingquan, and Yancheng Cabbage.
Yancheng publicity states that eating Yancheng's spiritual rice, drinking Yancheng's spiritual spring, and eating Yancheng cabbage will help shorten the training time, improve the training success rate, and maintain the yellow-level Taoist soldiers.
Every time he helped a feudal lord successfully train a yellow-level Taoist soldier, there would be one more buyer for Yancheng's Lingmi, Lingquan, and Yancheng cabbage.
Many princes were dissatisfied with the large-scale sales of Huang-level Taoist related technologies in Yancheng.
Therefore, Yancheng simply sold the relevant technologies of Xuan-level Taoist soldiers to the great princes at low prices, and also sold Yancheng's Lingmi, Lingquan, Yancheng cabbage, and other training tools to them.
Just like Zhao Yang, he once purchased the Xuan-level Taoist training method provided by Yancheng, and then spent a lot of money to buy many training tools, and finally trained a Xuan-level Taoist soldier.
Although the combat effectiveness of this Xuan-level Taoist soldier is not ideal, and the maintenance cost is also very high. He has to purchase a large amount of various materials from Yancheng every year, but Zhao Yang is still willing, because this is a Xuan-level Taoist soldier who can hold him back. The first generation monarch and the Xuan-level Taoist soldier of Xian Tianren.
A Xuan-level Taoist weapon is equivalent to a spiritual treasure.
When two first-generation monarchs fight, whoever has the spiritual treasure will win, and whoever has the blessing of Taoist soldiers will win. In many cases, it's that simple.
"My lord, we can't go on like this."
"Many of our core technologies have been waiting for Yancheng to be announced passively. Especially for fundamental technologies like Lingmi, if we take the initiative to research it, it is likely that it will become worthless as Yancheng announces it. But if If you don’t study it, you will be controlled by others.”
Research it, it costs money, people, and time, and you may get nothing in the end.
Don't study it, Yancheng will punish you at the critical moment, which will make you feel happy immediately.
Zhao Yang thought for a while: "Now the Zhao family's total annual income is about 20 trillion yuan, and as Taoism becomes more and more integrated into life, the income continues to grow."
"We must also learn from Yancheng and establish an institution specifically responsible for research. We do not expect to be comparable to Yancheng, but at least we must be able to slowly catch up. If we only rely on our Zhao family, it will be really difficult. Next, I will ask the Han family Let’s discuss this matter with Mr. Wei.”
"When the time comes, the Han family will be responsible for one aspect, the Wei family will be responsible for another aspect, and our Zhao family will be responsible for another aspect. Then the results of the three families will be shared."
"The Zhao family allocates one trillion yuan to this department every year. The Han family and the Wei family will discuss it with them."
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Just when Zhao Yang made up his mind to find some old guys for cooperation, Jiang Hua was also visiting an experimental field, surrounded by his uncle Jiang Shi.
Today's old uncle looks stronger and stronger, and his energy is getting better.
After so many years, we are getting closer and closer to the 10,000 ten thousand year spiritual roots. Now we have almost come into contact with more than 3,000. The speed will definitely get faster and faster in the future. Maybe in the hundred years of Baijia, the old uncle’s body will be The bloodline can successfully break through and become a first-generation monarch with the blood of Emperor Yan flowing in his body.
At the station near Uncle Laozu, Lu Bo did not have a prominent background at the beginning. It was he who invented the local treasure.
At that time, he was still very immature, very young, his cultivation was not very good, and he looked ordinary. Today, he has changed a lot. In terms of cultivation, he is a Taoist priest, and his bloodline has long been that of a minister.
The most important thing is destiny!
If someone uses secret techniques such as the Sky Eye to look at him, they will find that everything above Lu Bo's head is favored by God.
It's just that God's will and God's will are different. Some God's favor is regional, some God's favor is nationwide, and some God's favor can even last through the past, present, and future.
This kind of God's favor on Lu Bo's head is a typical one that works all over the world. Anyone who knows this business will know just by looking at him that he won't mess with this kind of person.
As long as Lu Bo does not die in the future, it is almost inevitable that he will become a real person or the first generation monarch. This is God's feeding. God will find a way to give him a chance, give him an epiphany, and help him break through.
Lu Bo has been deeply involved in this field since he invented the first-generation Tubao.
Today's earth treasures are mainly divided into two categories. The lower ones are also called earth treasures. They are mainly applicable to various common crops, such as rice, wheat and so on. The higher ones act on various spiritual roots, mainly spiritual rice. At this time, it is called a local treasure, which is not conducive to improving the brand value and image promotion.
Otherwise, once it is revealed that my spiritual rice is today only because of local treasures, it will immediately pull down the spiritual rice and affect the price. Therefore, high-end local treasures no longer have such ordinary names. , had many elegant names, but these elegant names were eventually replaced by another popular name: Jin Kaila.
It is said that in the beginning, he was an alchemist who planted spiritual rice. He discovered that the high-grade local treasure was golden in color, and he casually gave it such a nickname. In the end, the various elegant names given by the relevant departments did not spread throughout the world. Instead, a simple name like Jin Kaila became famous all over the world.
As time goes by, everyone will no longer struggle. Just let Jin Kaila be Jin Kaola. It is easy to understand at least.
"These spiritual rice in front of you are exclusive spiritual rice. After eating ordinary spiritual rice every day, it mainly increases the essence of essence. The essence of essence is one of the three treasures of essence, energy and spirit, and mana is formed by the accumulation of the three treasures of essence, energy and spirit. "Uncle Jiang Shi, an old man, introduced slowly.
"So, when the essence increases, it will be converted into mana, and then the mana will be converted into the Three Treasures of Essence, Qi, and God, which will slowly increase one's own vitality and soul. Therefore, if you take spiritual rice for a long time, even an alchemist, It can also increase your cultivation level very quickly. If you eat spiritual rice every day, you can become a warlock with just one epiphany."
"But alchemists are actually just yellow-level Taoist soldiers, with warlocks as the main body, which are Xuan-level Taoist soldiers."
"The growth of Jingyuan alone can no longer meet the needs of warlocks and Taoist priests, so there is this new rice in front of us."
"The essence content of this kind of rice is a hundred times that of ordinary spiritual rice. Ordinary people only need to eat one grain of rice to avoid eating for a day. The effect is also very significant when warlocks eat it. It is specially provided for ordinary Xuan-level Taoist soldiers. of."
Jiang Hua looked at the super spiritual rice in front of him, which was specially prepared for Xuan-level Taoist soldiers. These spiritual rice looked very big. Ordinary rice can be taller or lower depending on the variety, but it is difficult for one person to be taller. But these super rice plants in front of us are about one foot and five feet tall on average, and they look like trees from a distance.
Moreover, the spiritual rice produced by Super Rice is also very large, each one is as big as a peanut.
"And that experimental field in the distance..."
Taking one step forward, a few people came to the experimental field that Uncle Laozu mentioned. At first glance, the rice grains were all red. When viewed from a distance, they looked like they were on fire. When viewed from a close distance, the rice grains themselves were all red. Overflowing with fiery red aura.
Farming in such an environment for a long time is conducive to understanding the true meaning of the element of fire.
Seemingly understanding Jiang Hua's thoughts, the old man immediately said: "The people who take care of these spiritual rice are mainly alchemists and warlocks who have not understood the true meaning of the fire element. Many alchemists and warlocks took care of them, and they broke through, which is quite good."
"This is the so-called Five Elements Spirit Rice. It is also specially prepared for Xuan-level Taoist soldiers. The cost is higher, but the value is also higher."
"Super Spirit Rice is prepared for Xuan-level Taoist soldiers, but Super Spirit Rice can only increase a large amount of essence. In addition to increasing essence, Five Elements Spirit Rice also contains a large amount of Five Elements spiritual energy."
"Take our Xuanming Dao soldiers from Yancheng as an example. The five elements belong to water. If you take this water element rice for a long time, the effect will definitely be much better."
"The countries in the Central Plains have a large number of earth- and fire-level Taoist soldiers. Our spiritual rice will definitely be very popular and can be sold at a good price."
"At that time, we can prepare to develop more powerful spiritual rice specifically for prefecture-level Taoist soldiers. Only by eating well can we train better Taoist soldiers."
Jiang Hua nodded affirmatively: "Food is the foundation of everything."
"For Yancheng to be what it is today, many people have overlooked agriculture. Our agriculture in Yancheng has long been ranked first in the world!"
Hearing this, the old uncle smiled happily and said: "This is why you are willing to invest, Lord. One-tenth of your income every year is invested in agriculture. Every year, Qi practitioners who are directly and indirectly engaged in agricultural production and agricultural research, As many as tens of millions. Without the support and investment of the Lord, and without the hard work of these tens of millions of Qi practitioners, how would there be today's achievements?"
(End of chapter)
