Age of mythical princes

Chapter 231 Stand up and make money!

winter to spring
Time soon came to the spring of the fourth year of Baijia

Kuaiji County

Gou Jian personally came to a certain island, which was only a hundred miles away from Kuaiji County, and it was also the agreed trading place between Yancheng and Yue Kingdom.Looking at the large fleet slowly approaching 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, the big monster's meat, the rich merchants of the Chu State could lower the price to [-] yuan a catty. It is really not a son of man. This is bullying me. The Yue Kingdom can only sell it. to Chu State."

If you sell it to the state of Chu, you can get some money, but if you sell it to the state of Wu, you will be a pure enemy.

Wen Zhong's expression was solemn: "Your Majesty, the fleet from Yancheng has arrived. Should we notify the nobles in the country and let them participate together? Once the nobles find out about this kind of thing afterwards, they will be dissatisfied."

Hearing this, Goujian snorted coldly: "Those people don't need to talk to them. They are dissatisfied. When they found treasures in their territory, did they ever think about paying tribute to Gu? Have you thought about paying Gu Duo some taxes?"

"They are not benevolent, so the orphan is not unrighteous."

"Moreover, among the first batch of fleets, there are tens of thousands of sets of Xuanjia. These Xuanjias cost 300 million yuan a set, and the total is 300 billion yuan!"

"According to the list given by Yancheng, besides Xuanjia, this first batch of goods also has a large amount of Yancheng cabbage. I heard that this kind of cabbage is a kind of spiritual root, and it can grow anywhere with spiritual energy, and it is watery. It tastes better when eaten raw, wrapped in meat."

"The most important thing is that this kind of Yancheng cabbage can be eaten every day, and it won't be like a elixir, which will be useless after eating."

"In addition to these cabbage, there is also a large amount of Lingmi. These Lingmi and Yancheng cabbage are what Gu values ​​most."

"With these, you can train a Huang-level Taoist soldier who is absolutely loyal to Gu. The deterrent power of a Huang-level Taoist soldier is often stronger than that of a minister."

"More importantly, this is only the first batch of ships. The total value of the goods on it is about 1000 billion yuan. It's just to test the waters. Yancheng is really rich and powerful. So many materials were sent directly. The lonely goods I haven't given it yet, it's really broad-minded!"

Wen Zhong thought for a while and said, "Yancheng does have a lot of money, I think it's mainly because of a different way of thinking."

"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 Destruction Order was issued, Yancheng began to vigorously build the academy, allowing warlocks to take up positions in the academy, granting teaching positions, and hiring warlocks to work by issuing research tasks and combat missions."

"Up to now, the Taoist priests in Yancheng have no airs, and they are used to going to the academy to receive combat missions or research missions."

"After the contention among a hundred schools of thought began, Wei's son, Si, also began to issue tasks in the Yancheng Academy. Later, Han's son, Fei, even issued production and living tasks in Yancheng for a long time, and directly asked the Taoists in Yancheng to give the agriculture of Hexi County. It's round."

"The actions of the two sons have inspired many nobles."

"Since then, many nobles have quietly released various research tasks in the Yancheng Academy."

Speaking of this, Wen Zhong took out a jade slip and handed it to Gou Jian: "Your Majesty, this is some information collected by the minister."

"For example, a new minister of the state of Wu, who was already very old and a doctor who was about to age, made a breakthrough overnight. It was said to the public that he was reborn in ruins and found a new life in death. It regained its vitality and finally broke through smoothly."

"However, in fact, he spent a lot of money to release a research mission in Yancheng, and finally made a breakthrough with the help of the research results of the Taoists. Although he spent a full 20 ​​billion yuan plus half the corpse of the demon king, and even He sold all the ancestral property, but he succeeded, he is already a minister, and successfully unified the whole family!"

"There are not a few people like this new minister."

"In this jade slip, there are seven records. These seven are all from Wu State, Xu State, and our Yue State."

"In the past, the nobles didn't trust the Taoists, and the Taoists didn't trust the nobles. Both sides always felt that the other party would harm them. But now, with Yancheng as a guarantee, many nobles are willing to spend money to buy the research results of the Taoists."

"So, slowly, many anonymous missions appeared in the academy in Yancheng."

"For some tasks, not only the publisher is anonymous, but the Taoist who connects to the task must also be anonymous, and a contract needs to be signed to prevent leaks. The content of the task is kept secret from the beginning to the end."

"Nowadays, there are so many tasks in Yancheng every day, only about [-]% are issued by Yancheng locals and Yanjun Junfu, and the remaining [-]% are all issued by outsiders."

"The most common tasks are to help find money and help dig wealth."

Hearing this, Gou Jian couldn't help but widen his eyes: "What did you say?"

"For example, there is a Xu family who is a minister of the state of Xu. His ancestor was a certain Xu Hou, and he was also from the public family. However, the age is too long, and now he has little contact with the Xu state's public family, and the relationship is not great."

"Xu's fiefdom happens to be a pivotal place. Of course, Chu State will not let it go. The land has already been occupied. Now that the war between Xu State and Chu State has ended, there are only more than 120 counties left in Xu State. The rest of the counties have been taken by Chu."

"For the Xu family, the fiefdom can't be returned at all. 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 family members."

"The Xu family used to bury a lot of treasures in and around the fiefdom. They were originally reserved for use when the family declined and came back. But now the entire fiefdom has become the territory of the Chu State. These treasures, with the ability of the young master Xu , it is very difficult to go back. Even if it is really dug out, once it is exposed, it is very likely that even people and treasures will be taken away by Chu State."

"So he simply issued a mission and asked Taoists to help him dig out the treasure."

"At the beginning of this mission, it was an anonymous and confidential mission."

"Afterwards, all the treasures of the Xu family were dug up. It is said that they contained a large amount of gold sand, a large amount of blood essence of the second-generation minister, three corpses of the demon king, a large amount of natural materials and earthly treasures, and one of the ten thousand-year spiritual roots."

"Later, the young master of the Xu family took the ten-thousand-year spiritual root as a gift, and found a school sacrificial wine as a master for his youngest daughter with the best qualifications. It can be regarded as taking root."

"Later, this incident spread. Then slowly, there were all kinds of weird tasks."

"Some people entrust Taoists to save people, because many fathers participated in the rebellion, and the rebellion failed in the end, but the father asked his sons to bring money in advance, so the sons entrusted Taoists to save those marginalized people, brothers and sisters."

As for parents, it is too difficult, and most people don't take this kind of task.

"Another example is that some nobles, although they have fallen and have nothing when they come to Yancheng, but they have a lot of secrets hidden in their minds. They sell 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 sense of all things competing."

After thinking for a long time, Gou Jian said: "Doctor Wen, what you said, I want to see it."

"Unfortunately, as the Marquis of Yue alone, I can only stay in Kuaiji County, at most I can only wander around the country, and I can't leave the country of Yue at all."

Wen Zhong smiled and said: "This is simple. There are many secret methods in Yancheng, just like Lord Yan. Now he is seriously injured. He doesn't know where to hide his body to recover from his injuries, but he used the secret method to create a projection. This projection is not in Dongning every day. Wandering around the island means receiving ministers from all walks of life in Yancheng, or wandering around the four counties in the south and six counties in the north."

"Every time he travels, he sits on a rocking chair and is carried by his personal guards. He does not hide his serious injuries, but also lets everyone know that he is alive and well. This move also made many nobles and ordinary people, Many Taoists have seen his appearance, it can be said that he is quite close to the people.""

"Your Majesty, you can refine a magic weapon, make an incarnation of the magic weapon, and let this incarnation go to Yancheng to observe and emulate instead of you."

"I feel that it is still necessary to observe Yancheng in person."

"Whether it is the various Taoisms there or the many novel ideas, it is necessary to have a close look at it."

"Especially the [-] counties occupied by Taoists and nobles. Almost every county has its own characteristics. If we want to reform the Yue Kingdom in the future, we must have a reference."

Gou Jian nodded slowly, and said to Wen Zhong: "The guests are coming soon, how are our goods prepared?"

"This time, we have prepared various goods with a total value of one trillion yuan."

"Among them, there are as many as twenty demon king corpses."

"The corpses of these demon kings, even if they are purely selling monster meat, start at a thousand dollars per catty. There is a demon king who is a big whale in the sea, weighing tens of millions of catties alone. Although this whale demon king There are no extra features, but the flesh body is the heaviest, and considering the demon king's blood and other things, the corpse of the demon king alone can be sold for 200 billion yuan. However, such demon kings are very few after all."

"Most corpses of demon kings, even if they are well preserved, cannot be so heavy. The total value is between one billion yuan and three billion yuan. The exact amount depends on whether the other party needs it or not."

"In the past, in order to preserve the corpse of the demon king, we paid a lot of money every year. Those formations need money to operate, and the manpower needed to maintain the operation of the formation is also money."

"In the past, it was very difficult to meet people who just needed the corpse of the demon king. It was difficult to meet both parties who were suitable by bartering. They were reluctant to buy it cheaply. In the end, many corpses of the demon king became tasteless."

"Together, these twenty demon king corpses can be sold for at least 400 billion yuan, and 500 billion yuan is also possible."

Things like Tiancaidibao are valuable, but if they fall into the hands of an alchemist, their value can easily be multiplied by ten times.In the past, the natural treasures of the Yue Kingdom were cattle chewing peonies, and they ate them immediately when they encountered them. As for refining medicine and alchemy, there are too few people who know such advanced techniques.

There is a mine at home, but there is no pioneering technology. This is the status quo of Yue.

When this batch of demon king corpses were transported to Yancheng, after being processed by the Taoists, they were sold for trillions of dollars.

"In addition, there are thousands of corpses of big monsters. As for the little monsters, it's the first transaction, so I didn't get them."

If the little demon also sets up a seal or a formation to save it, then the price is a bit too high, and it is usually eaten directly.

"In addition, our Yue country has a vast land and abundant resources, and has accumulated a large number of spiritual fruits. This time, we can also sell them on a large scale."

"In short, I have prepared a total of 2000 billion to 3000 billion worth of goods."

Hearing this, Goujian thought for a while: "Our Kuaiji County is [-] 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 could not buy too many resources.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, a few years ago, Yancheng came up with a series of Dao methods to reclaim land from the sea."

"This series of Taoism can continuously absorb the aura of water in the depths of the sea, and through the principle of the five elements (water generates wood, wood generates fire, and fire generates soil), a large amount of soil can be produced, which 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 halfway. In this way, warlocks can drive sea ships, go through the islands along the way, and finally bring a ship of goods to sell."

"And this first batch of fleets is actually moving the island and adding a large number of sea ships. When the warlocks on the sea ships are tired, they go to the island to rest. , let the fleet go forward."

"Therefore, the number of the first batch of fleets was small, and a total of about 1000 billion of various commodities were shipped."

"After the floating islands are built in the [-]-mile sea area along the way, there will be a transfer station in the middle. At that time, warlocks can participate in shipping, and our scholars from Yue can also participate in national transportation. Isn't it the water attribute Taoism? We There is no shortage of water attribute scholars in Yue, they are all from the south, who knows how to use water?"

"Even if there is no such perfect Taoism at the moment, we can learn it. When we learn it, we can let our scholars drive sea boats and sell it to Yancheng."

"Like now, the 2000 billion to 3000 billion goods we have prepared, if they arrive in Yancheng, they can sell at least 5000 billion to 8000 billion."

Hearing this, Gou Jian took a breath, his heart ached!

"Doesn't this mean that we worked so hard to slay demons, killed so many warriors, spent so much effort, and finally got only [-]% of the profit?" Gou Jian slapped his thigh violently!
"It's only [-]%, it depends on the person's face!"

"Only this [-]% was given by Mr. Yan because he wanted to make friends with us!"

Hearing this, Gou Jian gritted his teeth and said, "We must stand up and make money!"

"We don't have a large-scale fleet now, nor have we mastered the sea transportation method in batches, but we can learn it!"

"After we have learned it, and after these floating islands are built, we will also organize a fleet. The money will not be earned by these middlemen, we will earn it ourselves!"

(End of this chapter)